dnd-discussion

[remote wadi]

I'm asking because Skulker can reduce the requirements to light obscurement

[burnt valley]

Why?

[wanton sorrel]

idk let me check

[primal wolf]

personally i'd skip skulker and instead plan to grab a bottle of smoke

[empty thicket]

Yep, that is why again "if the Dm let it happen" was said.
Giving a chance to a player to make his own spotlight moment is something nice. A sacrifice, a lucky strike, etc. etc.

[still bolt]

i did not realise how much of a brainstorming mood i was in before i started writing 😭

[remote wadi]

I just want to know how common light obscurement is. That is all

[primal wolf]

but the player isn't making their own spotlight if the DM has to give you everything you needed in that moment

[hidden spindle]

Can't rely on magic items being around

[primal wolf]

it's extreamly uncommon and harder to produce than heavy obscurement

[tall forge]

Dnd as a TTRP cannot make rules for every situation, only broad rules. And a DM should be able to break those rules in order to tell their story, as well as help the players tell theirs

[glass granite]

Depends wheee you are. Dim light, patchy fog, foliage, all can provide some cover

[remote wadi]

So, in a CoS setting, I'd imagine that there is at least plenty of fog and dim light, yeah?

[glass granite]

Mhm!

[tall forge]

And dnd already has plenty of absolute rules, which are the entire combat mechanics

[halcyon bison]

Ultimately we're playing a game to have fun. I don't think it's a bad thing for a DM to ignore a few rules to allow for a cool moment

[glass granite]

But it won’t be the easiest, say, indoors if the lights are working

[halcyon bison]

It's not chess, it's a ttrpg

[empty thicket]

Yep.

[primal wolf]

yeah but the DM shouldn't have to ignore and/or make up rules in order for your PC to feel cool.

[remote wadi]

What would be stopping me from putting them out as I go?

[wanton sorrel]

actrully i don't know what animals i can pick...

[burnt valley]

Nor should the DMs be able to abuse their power

[hidden spindle]

That's okay. Take your time

I just go for my favorites. Frog, Toad, Giant Frog, Giant Toad. 🐸 🐸 🐸 🐸

[primal wolf]

this one's a bit harder to moderate but yeah

[tall forge]

Thats not something absolute rules would fix

Thats not a system issue, thats a real life person issue

[halcyon bison]

Well I guess that's just an issue with the system, not with the DM who allows it

[glass granite]

Not much

[tall forge]

And frankly, whats stopping a dm who abuses their power…. From just doing it anyway?

[primal wolf]

yeah i'd like to see the system improve is all

[empty thicket]

True, they shouldnt, they do sometimes and sometimes it create such moments to remember.
That is the beauty of DnD, its felxibility.

[remote wadi]

Even better, team has dark vision and Paladin has Light

So thoughts on that being a good way to make both sides happy?

[glass granite]

Could work. Depends on the party.

Just be stealthy in putting out the lights

Don’t knock a plate over or something

[empty thicket]

Can cast silence over an area with guards and kill them fast

if needed

or just knock them out

[halcyon bison]

How does Silence work, like, physics-wise?

[hushed mason]

It's magic. Magic defies physics.

That's why it's magical.

[remote wadi]

The silver lining to it is that I and the Wizard are quite passable at stealth

And I don't mind burning a PWT to keep quiet

[hushed mason]

Nugget! I need to find a new player. 🙁

[halcyon bison]

Yeah but it's fun to speculate :>
Does it just stop vibrations?

[empty thicket]

Make a whole area without sound, that is why in fact counter Thunderclap

[hushed mason]

That is how I imagine it.

[empty thicket]

either make a bubble and no sound from inside get outside
Or you can literally not make any sound inside of it.

[halcyon bison]

Hmmm
I was going to suggest that it could disrupt things that rely on vibrations, but I can't actually think of anything that does that
so nevermind I suppose
It might work against tremorsense???

[tall forge]

Technically it might not?

Spells dont go through solid objects raw

So technically the ground would still make vibrations

Line of effect and all that

[empty thicket]

it stop sound, that is why Thunderwave is countered by it. But beside that, its uses are either cut the spellcasting of some enemies, silence an area and take down enemies or other many things

i dont know if "power word" could be countered by it because at the end of the day, there wont be any "word" if you are under it

[tall forge]

If you subtle spell power word kill, it would still work in silence

[empty thicket]

yeah, but that would be an Exception of it.

[tall forge]

I mean, you cant cast verbal spells in silence period

[empty thicket]

You can with a cantrip bait an Absorb element, call it some raidant damage cantrip and then use hastened spell for cast a whole spell in the bonus action.

or some other element damage, not sure now if it can absorb radiant, but that is the idea

[tall forge]

Gotta be acid, cold, fire, lightning, or thunder

[halcyon bison]

If you don't use a word, is it Power Thought Kill?

[tall forge]

Power think kills you

[woven flint]

You

[halcyon bison]

D:

[tall forge]

Me

[woven flint]

Friend :3

[tall forge]

I revive for a short period palio, but i will be dead once more soon

Got covid

[tall forge]

Now your 23 rats instead of 2 dozen

[woven flint]

Awh no, feel better soon :<

[halcyon bison]

Nooooooooooooo
Why would you do this 😔

[tall forge]

I taste nothing, it is hell

[tall forge]

For the love of the game

[halcyon bison]

I, for one, don't love this game

[tall forge]

That sounds like someone whose about to only have 22 rats instead of 23

[hushed mason]

22 rats will soon turn into 2200

[halcyon bison]

-# okey sorry

[tall forge]

Do they pay taxes?

How many rats would it take to slay a dragon?

[woven flint]

I've got to play my depressed Bugbear Ranger today :>

[tall forge]

Ooo fun

[woven flint]

We're level 2 now

[tall forge]

Obligatory ranger hate (i long for what it could be) but they really did make paladin their first halfcaster, which is the inbetween of fighter and cleric

And then decided to do the same for ranger, an inbetween of druid and rogue

[hushed mason]

I suspect that could be figured out. It would, of course, depend on the kind of dragon and its age.

[wanton sorrel]

i decided to be a giant space hamster

[tall forge]

But forgot to give it ANY sauce

[hushed mason]

Adolescent radioactive blackbelt hamster?

[heady ivy]

just one carrying a dragon plague

[ancient dew]

Most metal thing I’ve heard all day holy shit 🔥

[woven flint]

I love him for him

He's gonna be a Gloomstalker at level 3

[wanton sorrel]

yes because i can choose it. for the 2024 extra on D&Dbeyond since i have the spelljammers book.

[hushed mason]

This was a comic book at one point.

[tall forge]

🫡 youre a hero tokii. Go out and be free of powergaming

[woven flint]

He's also got a Wood Elf wife named Thalia who loves him very much... she even made shampoo for the silly bugbear boi

Can't wait for him to inevitably die and his wife be widowed 🌝

[halcyon bison]

I am extremely invested in this bugbear's well being for no reason
Do not let him die >:(

[woven flint]

It's because I told you he was depressed, huh?

[halcyon bison]

possibly
I also like bugbears

And his name :>

[hidden spindle]

is John Cena! 🖐️

[fossil hollow]

pam panam paaaam 🎺

[halcyon bison]

No it's Bogey

It is very late for me
So goodnight peoples

[hushed mason]

Bonne nuit!

[wanton sorrel]

it took me a while to figure out how D&D beyond Vtt works.. now i know. kind of... >.>

[quiet mist]

Heya quick question. If I cast telekinesis on myself could I fly?

[fossil hollow]

youre just restrained and locked 30 feet above the ground

[quiet mist]

Hmmm

I mean couldn’t I move myself 30ft higher each turn?

[fossil hollow]

Creature. You can try to move a Huge or smaller creature. The target must succeed on a Strength saving throw, or you move it up to 30 feet in any direction within the spell's range. Until the end of your next turn, the creature has the Restrained condition, and if you lift it into the air, it is suspended there. It falls at the end of your next turn unless you use this option on it again and it fails the save.

[quiet mist]

Ohhhhhh. Dang.

Thanks 🙏

[chrome rune]

crazy

[quiet mist]

Rip that idea

Oh but I mean actually.
It says “unless you use this option again”

Therefore it could work

[coral lake]

Suggestions for arcane trickster spells, feats, magic items for lvl 8 rogue?

[glass granite]

Personal preference: metamagic adept

Booming blade/true strike as a bonus action and Ready Action as your action

Should hopefully let you sneak attack twice per round

If you’re fighting at range, I like skulker

[patent marsh]

hey guys who wants do start a campaign (have 2 ppl more people is ok and need a dm)

[gilded mural]

Post in looking for dm

#looking-for-dm

[remote wadi]

Okay, so I convinced Paladin to start helping me with Bless spells

[hoary totem]

Edgy looking, slightly traumatised, canonically sailor mouthed undead warlock. Actually very determined and usually pacifistic, and she has an equally wholesome adoptive ghost mom*. ||Previously, not so wholesome.||

[remote wadi]

All it took was her telling me that she wanted to save spell slots for emergency healing

And me reminding her she is an Aasimar Paladin and playfully teasing her for trying to hold out for emergencies she is more than capable of handling

I mean, come on. Healing Hands, Lay On Hands, and a Druid with CotS Unicorn Totem + Healing Word + Cure Wounds

[fickle heart]

You had me, and you lost me.

[remote wadi]

I asked her to help with casting Bless for upcoming fights

She said that she was mostly saving up healing for emergencies

I showed her we have plenty of healing on the party from herself and Druid, and that a 1st level spell is a small cost for good boosts to accuracy and saves

[fickle heart]

I'm saying that you had me because it seemed like you approached it maturely and positively in a social way, but saying "come on" is something that could be seen as reductive to someone choosing to play how they want.

Just try to leave out the negativity. Be happy that you worked with your group, and try not to ruin that by turning it into a complaint about what it was prior, even if you disliked that prior circumstance.

I realize I didn't ping you about this, so I'm guessing you missed it.

I'm truly not trying to rag on you, as it'd literally be easier on me to not bother trying to help, but every issue you are having it largely avoidable or at least something that can be mitigated by communication. Even if the result isn't what you want, you can at least approach it in a method that has a higher chance to succeed.

[past finch]

yall why are there nio classes in dnd beyond

[remote wadi]

I getcha. I didn't say that verbatim

I just have a habit of communicating the idea, not the words, of things

The actual conversation was more explaining 2 good points. Those being that we already have plenty of healing
And that trying to save things for emergencies is great, but can turn into hoarding resources that end up never getting used

For that last one, people will recognize it as the "Master Ball Syndrome"

[hoary totem]

As a Pokemonian, I have used a Master Ball ONE time. The free ball in the Crown Tundra, used to catch Shadow Rider Calyrex.

When I play my undead warlock and inadvertently ritual cast phantom steed, I'll flavour it as a Spectrier

[remote wadi]

So you get the idea, hopefully. Saving up resources for emergencies is a great thing to do

The problem is, the more you keep saving up, the easier it gets to fall into the trap of saving items for emergencies that never happen

[hoary totem]

In Legends ZA, I spent 50+ dusk balls on Mewtwo instead of just using the damn master ball

In my defence, the dusk ball sending-out effect is metal

[empty thicket]

Remember guys, you all can eat something with your bonus action and if its a food made by a chef feat, you get temporal HP.
You can in fact do a Skyrim move.

[woven flint]

I can't shove 500 wheels of cheese down my throat in a turn
Not Skyrim enough

[remote wadi]

I think I found a new favorite trope in games

"OST that is played in a bad situation, but is catchy enough to stop and listen"

[storm onyx]

Someone should rate my backstory

Lysander is a dog-folk bard who grew up in the town and city of HobbleStone after being adopted by Kevin and Nancy In HobbleStone, music is forbidden. It is not allowed. But Lysander wants music to be part of his life. When he hears music, he feels like a better person like there is something more inside him that the world refuses to let out. Every single day, Lysander would go with his longtime friend and secret crush, Milly, to practice music and listen to it in the underground ruins beneath the town. It was the only place they felt free, even for a little while.

Eventually, a group of teenage wolves (Tyler, Scarlet and David) found out about Lysander and Milly and reported them to the city council leader (Alexander similar name hmm? Lysander was sent to prison, along with Milly. They were taken away together but separated once inside.

During his time in prison, Lysander spent his days thinking about what he would do and how he would ever play again. All of his instruments and all the music he had ever made were destroyed in a large bonfire, meant to erase everything he loved.

He didn’t know where Milly was being held in the prison, or what had happened to her. That uncertainty never left his mind.

It was at that moment that Lysander knew he wanted to escape. He couldn’t stay there and let everything end in silence. He came up with a plan, pulled it off, and escaped. Since then, he has been on the run, always hiding and always listening.

But he will never let it go. He knows he hopes, he prays that one day he will see his true best friend again, and that together they will perform the best music they ever have.

[pseudo oriole]

That’s pretty good

[heady ivy]

Orcs and Elves should be able to procreate, change my mind

[timid current]

"change my mind" is the least inviting way to start a conversation tbh. why not elaborate

[heady ivy]

well, is there a good reason beyond the gods don't want it to happen? gods are constantly being defied

[fossil hollow]

also, nothing is stopping you from making a orc-elf kid

[hot reef]

I believe there’s a name for them (in at least one setting)

[timid current]

yeah I dunno which seting you're even asking about

[fossil hollow]

in the first place, i dont think theres anything stopping it

[heady ivy]

exandria has them

[fossil hollow]

there ya go

[heady ivy]

dnd 5e

[fossil hollow]

not a setting, thats a ruleset

[cosmic roost]

No pings, please :pray:

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[fossil hollow]

but in any case... nothing is stopping you from making an elf-orc kid

[timid current]

5e is a rule set. there are a bunch of different official settings and also unnumbered homebrew settings

[glass granite]

Indeed. Though there just isn’t an official species for it.

Which makes sense imo

[timid current]

I think you'll find outside of eberron there are no official mixed heritage species - and the ones that are there are there because there's a long cultural story for them

[cinder timber]

An erc

[heady ivy]

Olf

[cinder timber]

Orf

[hot reef]

There isn’t extensive official documentation on which races are compatible or how genetics works between races afaik

[humble cairn]

3/10 Somewhat interesting, but too long for how little usable material there is, also feels ai generated.

[cinder timber]

Ai generated is crazy, Ophid 😭

[humble cairn]

It genuinely feels that way to me. I could certainly be wrong.

[stone mango]

Idk why that just makes me think of an orc obsessed with orchids

[stuck shuttle]

If your character is on the run, why would they risk their life to become an adventurer?

[hot reef]

One concern is a lack of drive for adventure. Why would they go retrieve an artifact when all they want to do is sneak into their hometown and free Milly?

Characters and motivations should ideally be tailored to the campaign (or able to be tailored).

[stuck shuttle]

I agree, if your goal is to meet Milly again and play more music, it seems that’s the end of your adventuring career with the party.

But also, why not just wait out your sentence and/or Milly’s sentence? I couldn’t imagine the crime of “playing music” could carry a significant sentence

[heady ivy]

also, it begs the question, why was music banned?

feel like there's some juicy lore there

maybe the first arc helps free the town from whatever made them ban music all together

[sick summit]

what is the most damage a PC/NPC can do?

[fossil hollow]

potentially unlimited

[sick summit]

how tho?

[fossil hollow]

wish

[sick summit]

wish?

(I'm new to the game, I don't know much)

[fossil hollow]

most powerful spell in the game that lets you do almost anything (with the right wording and dm)

if youre new to the hobby, i suggest checking out #dnd-newcomers

[misty vault]

music was banned? Sounds like the plot from Footloose.

[knotty pasture]

A level 9 spell, commonly known as the best spell in the game

[frank bane]

Spellcasters become insanely strong at higher levels (exponential power scaling)

Meanwhile martial classes stay mostly linear

Even in non-combat modes, Spellcasters have huge advantages over Martial class due to a wide utility of spells. They have a bigger toolbox for solving problems

[devout plume]

i posted a one shot on sunday the 25th its currently thursday the 29th is posting a campaign allowed now? im needing to fill one spot

it hasnt been 7 days but it is a different week

[prime imp]

Orlf

[frank bane]

It's D&D, it's fantasy, you can make it whatever you want. This system endorses that you homebrew it anyway

[still plover]

You only get one post a week here. You could try putting a reply in your own thread and hoping folk see it. Alternatively, hit up Roll20 or the LFG areas on the D&D Beyond forums and Reddit.

[reef tundra]

Does anyone know if there’s an alternate cover to the Heroes of Faerun book?

Just searched it up, yes it does

Good. Time to go on the hunt at the library

[rain holly]

Why is it so hard to find one shots to play online

[idle oar]

You checked any of the #looking-for-community servers? Sometimes they have a range of D&D games and campaigns you can join.

Westmarches in particular is a style of play where there is no set DM or group of players

I'd also look at other places like Roll20, Demiplane, etc. as they have game finding services.

[rain holly]

Ok thanks

[remote wadi]

Honestly, I kind of wish 2024 kept things like Assassin, Sharpshooter, and GWM

I get they were really strong, but I've always been a big believer that buffing is much better than nerfing

[glass granite]

They kept them, just changed them

And I personally liked the change to Assassin

Surprised was just too annoying for me

[remote wadi]

Isn't the main one just that instead of crits, it's rogue level damage?

[glass granite]

But it no longer requires surprised, is the main thing for me

Just that you move before the opponent you strike

[remote wadi]

Fair

[glass granite]

As for GWM and sharpshooter…I’m more divided. I will say that I do like the GWM change more than sharpshooter

[remote wadi]

Both of them aren't terrible per se

But they definitely are not noteworthy in my honest and probably very uninformed opinion

[glass granite]

Oh GWM is still a staple

Sharpshooter is nice, but not needed

And assassin is a decent subclass

[remote wadi]

I just like crit builds. Nuff said

By the way, which would you say is more balanced: chunky crits or exploding dice?

[glass granite]

Explain exploding dice to me plz

[remote wadi]

Roll and add new number on a dice if it's the max possible number. No limit to length

[glass granite]

Hm…
From the sounds of it, chunky

Granted, I prefer base crits

[remote wadi]

I like knowing my big hits will be guaranteed good damage

I already worked hard enough for that 20

[pliant sapphire]

I like the crit version of: Max damage plus normal damage rolls and modifiers

[remote wadi]

That is what Chunky crits are

[hoary totem]

Undead warlock players, who is your patron and what does your form of dread look like (compared to your normal character)?

[reef tundra]

Lord Soth, and the form of dread is a poor mimicry of him

[lean hill]

Hello

[hoary totem]

Howdy

[idle otter]

Hi-hi
Is there a channel here for questions on character creation?
I'm not sure if character discussion channel is the right one

[jovial badger]

i play crits like if you crit you get maxiumum damage without your modifier + double your normal dice + ability modifier

[fossil wigeon]

Hey guys 👋

[loud tendon]

#character-discussion would be the right one.. unless you want to make the most numbers powerful character then somewhere like #optimization is an option.

[worn lagoon]

I wonder if we will progress in CoS fast enough to get Raise Dead to save this one dead person in time

lv3 rn, so six levels to go

[fossil wigeon]

Can I ask a question? Is pirate able as an background? Because my character is basically an rouge but an ex pirate

[severe rampart]

there are a lot of pirate subclasses

[fair summit]

Sailor is a background at the very least, not sure if a pirate was a specific one though

[fossil wigeon]

How many?

[fair summit]

And yeah Pirate is a variant of a Sailor background 😎

[severe rampart]

Swashbuckler

I thought there'd be more, but hey, Swashbuckler

[misty vault]

arr you too can be a pirate.

[severe rampart]

but really anything can be a pirate if you put your mind to it

[misty vault]

just gotta know the lingo and that pirate codes are just guidelines

[fossil wigeon]

True tho.

[severe rampart]

Be an artillerist artificer and be a smart pirate

[misty vault]

wooden peg leg that shoots fire.

[severe rampart]

be a warlock pirate and pray to Cthulu

[fair summit]

I mean, any subclass you could pretty easily reflavor as pirate, so you're not exactly limited there
For example one of my pirate character plans is a Barbarian with Ancestral Guardians subclass, with her summoning her dead crew's ghosts to help her 😎

[fossil wigeon]

He is a human,so...

[severe rampart]

You can also be a sea druid and lure sailors into the sea or whatever sea druids do

[fossil wigeon]

I dunno,I am just gonna keep it as "pirate" as the background

[misty vault]

they collect sea junk per the Little Mermaid.

[fair summit]

But also do note that "Background" and "Subclass" are two completely separate things

[severe rampart]

LMAO Sea Druid cosplaying as Ariel

gonna have a musical number mid-campaign

[misty vault]

this fork? butt scratcher

[fossil wigeon]

Yeah,know that one. My friends are so confused and don't want to play with me 🥲

[misty vault]

the best kind of pirates have a musical number mid-campaign

[meager fractal]

We just reached the boss fight at the end of last night's session and BOTH monks are out of ki points.

[fossil wigeon]

Is it wrong to have an AI as an DM? Grok.

[severe rampart]

Yes, without a doubt.

[misty vault]

yes

[meager fractal]

Not wrong but I doubt it would be much fun

[severe rampart]

even if hell froze over? still yes

[fossil wigeon]

Oh, suckish. Well,then I have no one to play with

[severe rampart]

#looking-for-players

[cosmic roost]

Ready to play Dungeons & Dragons?

Visit #find-a-game for everything you need to start your search, including:

• Instructions for finding a game here on the server (including how to post in our #looking-for channels).
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[fossil wigeon]

Yeah,but,the problem is with my schedule. I have a LOT to do,such as go to tutoring,school problems, friends are too busy to play with you etc.

[humble cairn]

Objectionable to many, for many reasons.

[meager fractal]

It might be worth your time to find a good play by post game tbh

[severe rampart]

No time to commit? well here's the revolutionary tech in DnD called oneshots! for a ONE TIME session, you can play DnD for your desired time!

[humble cairn]

Play Baldur's Gate 3 or another D&D video game.

[fossil wigeon]

I mean,Grok is kinda decent as DM. Not trash but maybe you right

[humble cairn]

AI make terrible DMs. Please don't train yourself to start accepting machine hallucinations as quality storytelling.

[fossil wigeon]

I mean,I am in eastern Europe.

[fossil wigeon]

Oh,ok

[humble cairn]

And I'm in Southeast Asia, playing with a group in North America.

[severe rampart]

it lacks immersion

[meager fractal]

You gotta pay for grok otherwise it cuts you off early and at that point you'd get a better experience finding a paid dm

[severe rampart]

also in Southeast Asia playing with Europeans, Africans, and Americans, definitely making it work

[humble cairn]

Or play a D&D video game, you get great story in BG3.

[fossil wigeon]

I mean. Yeah,I dunno. Having strict parents who don't know about discord and stuff like meet. L

Just want to play DnD but my life is dragging me down

From it

But I guess I will try at least. But probably won't work

[severe rampart]

if you come in with that attitude, it won't work, you've got to try and be confident

[fossil wigeon]

Sorry? Did I say something wrong? My bad

But I guess you right. Probably I do lack a bit of confidence

I will try to see what I can do

[jolly oyster]

It sounds like you might still be in school.. could you talk to someone about starting a D&D club?

[loud tendon]

I think they may have been referring to the fact you said "it probably won't work".
A statement like that puts you in a negative mindset about whatever you are doing because you've already told yourself you will fail.

Its like starting a journey where the map says turn right and you decide you'll probably never make it in time and turn left immediately.

[fossil wigeon]

I am in 8th grade but my school won't start clubs,only sport clubs

[fossil wigeon]

Oh,I see.

[jolly oyster]

That’s tough.. maybe there are other classmates you can connect with, outside of your normal friend group, that might be interested in playing?

[fossil wigeon]

I just love this gameboard. Maybe because I love creativity and actions but also strategy. So, couple of months ago I bought my first D&D and now I just need people to play with

[fossil wigeon]

My friends are the only ones who want but they are busy. Rest of the class are basically jerks to me (except for the girls,they are nice to me but they have no idea about D&D)

[jolly oyster]

Or maybe there is a teacher in your building that could help facilitate something?

[loud tendon]

Any libraries or local game stores that might run games?
Shame that school doesn't run any other club types at all.. not even a loosely "boardgame club" that d&d could fall under?

[jolly oyster]

You’re at a tough age where you want the freedom to play, but you and your friends have to go by your parents rules and expectations.. maybe talk to mom and dad about checking out a local library or game store?

[hollow thicket]

chat what's the ruling for using shillelagh-club + other light weapon for TWF bonus action

[fossil wigeon]

I mean,local library there is none. But yeah, means your parents will give you less freedom. Seriously my mom is very strict when it comes about talking to people online and stuff like that.

[jolly oyster]

Your mom is very wise to be strict about talking to strangers online

[loud tendon]

@fossil wigeon please edit your posts so they dont include your exact age. Its against our rules to share or ask for exact ages. Ty

Otherwise i will have to delete the posts.

[minor cargo]

I used to play a bit of D&D over my lunch break with friends in school.

Yeah it’s really unfortunate your school won’t host a board game or D&D club. I know it’s asking a lot but maybe if you had a teacher you knew and trusted, they could “sponsor” it?

[fossil wigeon]

I don't know. My parents only care about my school work. All about grades and scholarship

But I will try to find if I can do an club of D&D at my school

[loud tendon]

If it helps when you talk to teachers, there are educator essentials to help teacher run clubs like this https://globalphilanthropy.hasbro.com/en-us/educators

Though the kits are us and Canada only

[brazen sparrow]

I’m confused - is the “Exploring Eberron” book only digital and an official d&d release? or is it homebrew that can be bought on d&d beyond?

[karmic pendant]

I think it's 3rd party

[small heath]

Question: what does "railroady" mean in context of a dnd campaign?

[karmic pendant]

I guess it's probably not giving players a choice and making them progress the story

[buoyant oar]

You can buy the physical version on the DMs Guild.

You can also get it in a PDF format there

[brazen sparrow]

wicked, thank you!

[buoyant oar]

Exploring Eberron was made by Visionary Production Design it is a third-party company, that was created to make products for the DMs Guild which allows third-party individuals to make material using Wizards of the coast IP. It is the first product that uses such IP that has been able to be sold on another platform such as D&D Beyond.

VPD, has made several Eberron books, all of which are made for print on demand on the guild. And all of them were done hand in hand with the setting Creator Keith Baker.

VPD just recently released a new book set in the Forgotten Realms with writer Rhys York and Ed Greenwood. That is part sourcebook and part novella, called Souls for the Taking: Return of Larloch Book 1

[umbral girder]

It’s Third party that’s now being added to D&D Beyond.

Many settings in DnD don’t every thing officially part of D&D.

Dragonlance and Eberron being the examples.

[buoyant oar]

Websites like the DMs, Guild and drive-thru RPG have been a great boon to this industry.

Allowing authors and teams to create quality content and get it in front of users, without having to shoulder The upfront cost of supply chains and international logistics to get physically printed books on shelves. It has done wonders to lower the barrier of entry into the industry. And even Wizards of the coast is taken notice. Many of their recent hires got their start on the guild.

[minor cargo]

+1 to that!

Also shoutout to things like GM Binder and Homebrewery that give people the (free) tools to make layouts that look professional and consistent.

You can even use Google Docs to make professional looking documents tbqh.

[buoyant oar]

And while 50% is very high as a royalty share to lose on the guild, it makes sense when you use Wizards of the Coast IP without having to pay for it. If you want a smaller 30% take which is what popular stores like steam take regular drive-thru RPG doesn't have that additional 20%

[small heath]

gm chat

[delicate owl]

Morning everyone. Hope yall have a safe day.

[misty vault]

other tools (for art editing that is free online) is sites like Lunapics. I often use it for textures and filters, or resizing images. I also use Word Doc alot. It works.

[minor cargo]

Yup! I've also used Kleki (like an online, free photoshop) for D&D content.

There are so many tools out there for content creators. It's actually so great.

[misty vault]

you can also just make your content for free or give all the money to a charity of your choice.

and if you're gonna give to certain charities (I believe Extra Life is one of them) then DMsGuild will back you up with the charity.

[gray garden]

Down came the claw

[small heath]

Ok Mr. Disney Villain

[spring light]

wasn't the claw from inspector gadget?

[small heath]

Jokes on you: I used barrelmancy

[gray garden]

That’s a dnd villain what are you talking about

[small heath]

Oh

[knotty pasture]

Its a bg3 thing

Man what a great bgm fr fr, I'd punch the guy just to jam to his bgm

[spring light]

who

[gray garden]

Rafael

Raphael

[spring light]

oh, my mildly favorite character from the game.

[small heath]

I asked my DM if we can recreate Raphael for our next campaign, as I think it'll be funny (and it'll actually fit the lore/story he has planned), but add in his own twist/flavor.

[umbral girder]

He is kinda just a modified Pit fiend from what I’ve seen

[gray garden]

One of my friends tried to convince me that Raphael ran hell

[spring light]

it depends

[gray garden]

On what exactly

[spring light]

depending on your actions in game it may impact his outcome

[umbral girder]

The way Asmodeus deletes him super easily if he tried

[severe rampart]

Baphomet solos

[small heath]

I also asked him if we can implement a Withers system, since his campaign is planning on 2 teams of parties up against one another for some bigger mission/quest. Like a contest almost.

[umbral girder]

Even that ending where he “takes” over he is sooo dead. Zariel solos.

Big scary item couldn’t stop 4 level 12 adventurers.

[severe rampart]

Raphael is just a half-fiend right?

[small heath]

xD

[gray garden]

Yeah but he doesn’t “run hell”

[small heath]

He's basically just a business man when you think about it

[umbral girder]

Yes he is a Cambion

[severe rampart]

Aren't most devils?

[umbral girder]

Also yes

[gray garden]

Literally all devils are

[spring light]

fair enough, i suppose it's an over simplification

[gray garden]

Hes also the son of Mephistopheles

[worn lagoon]

yup, cambion. also he's a pushover:

you would think 666 hp would make him less of a punching bag

alas, get hold monster'd idiot

[umbral girder]

Bro gets out-action economied but this is leaning way into spoilers

[gray garden]

down came the claw

[small heath]

Barrelmancy + Hold Monster + Rogue & Barbarian wailing on him = dead in 1 turn

[worn lagoon]

down came 16 arrows and 14k dpr from the eldritch knight archer

wait, my bad

19 arrows

[small heath]

That's crazy

[worn lagoon]

EK archer's the best build in that game for damage

and it gets truly ridiculous

[small heath]

Do you have a link for that? I've been starting a new playthrough as a Durge ranger

so I'm wondering what are some good ranger builds.

[severe rampart]

I've learned not to diss on Rangers anymore after my DM decimated the final boss of a oneshot I made for him

[worn lagoon]

I think it's on gamestegy

[small heath]

Alr. Anyways is ranger worth in 2024?

[severe rampart]

(he still only used melee weapons, rangers still suck at ranged fighting)

[worn lagoon]

but it's an 11/12 level fighter build, for ranger you would go for gloomstalker assassin usually

which is slightly worse in direct combat but still overpowered, and it's better at stealth archery

[woven flint]

Rangers have never been a bad class lol

Rangers are just..
Bland, not bad

[worn lagoon]

you can finish any combat in the game easily without rolling initiative

[small heath]

For a new potential campaign I might be joining, I'm thinking of being a lizardfolk ranger

[worn lagoon]

well, nearly any. some combat is forced.

[gray garden]

They try to do too much at once which makes them fall at most things

[severe rampart]

no, he straight up evicerated the manticore up front

[woven flint]

... What?

[gray garden]

For example old ranger got that “you cannot he lost by magical means”

[woven flint]

That doesn't mean they're bad? Lol

Rangers are good at a big variety of things still.

[gray garden]

Like what

Just cause your good at doing very few things when another class can do even better doesn’t make you good imo

Ranger compared to all other classes just keeps getting the short end of the stick

[woven flint]

Doing damage, being a survival expert, being a scout, being a healer
They don't lack in any apartment, they're varied which makes them good

[small heath]

Bro sorcerers are literally stuck at doing basically 1 spell per turn without expending very limited sorcerer points

and can't do anything else useful

[worn lagoon]

dnd or bg3?
in bg3 they are the best spellcaster by a long shot

[karmic pendant]

2024 ranger looks pretty good only issue is the over reliance on hunter's mark but it's still good

[gray garden]

They can give themselves advantage on every spell they cast and a +1 to there DC save wdym

[small heath]

dnd

[woven flint]

You see, that's bad logic.
Other classes COULD do something because it's their main thing
But,
Artificer, Bard, Rogue and Ranger are all Jack of All Trades master of none.

[gray garden]

Gang is smoking something

[worn lagoon]

metamagic is pretty alright, but 2014 sorcerer's honestly much worse than wizard
2024 is cool though

it's good that they gave more subclasses of sorcerer free spells because knowing like 3 spells at lower levels feels awful

[gray garden]

Rouge sneak attack bard BUFF AND NERF Artificer my beloved

[small heath]

More spells really doesn't mean anything when you can only do like, 1 per turn unless you expend resources to do more

[woven flint]

They can do a bit of everything, being well-rounded isn't a bad thing even if they're not the best at it, they're a utility class.

[worn lagoon]

What's wrong with expending resources to do more?

[small heath]

like cool, I know over 25 spells, but I'm really only to ever use like, 4 of them

[karmic pendant]

I mean the same applies to monks both of them have their own resource as their main mechanic

[gray garden]

That sounds like a you issue as a sorcerer especially since sorcerer gets some of the most busted subclasses in the game besides wizard

[worn lagoon]

what sort of sorc knows over 25 spells

[gray garden]

Again being able to get advantage on every spell you cast for 10 rounds is still insane

[karmic pendant]

True

[worn lagoon]

any complaints about 14 sorc are valid though, there's a reason they got a mountain of buffs compared to wizard

[gray garden]

Wizard hardly got anything cause it’s wizard

[karmic pendant]

They don't really need it honestly

[worn lagoon]

if you asked me which i'd rather have in my party between wizard and sorcerer in a 14 campaign, i would say wizard without thinking

[gray garden]

True

[worn lagoon]

now i'll sit there and give it some actual thought

[gray garden]

Yeah but again sorcerer can get access to hold person and cure wounds and basically any cleric spell in the game

[woven flint]

The only thing that needed Buffs for Wizard were the subclasses

I'm super hyped for new Transmutation Wizard whenever it'll be coming out

[gray garden]

Divine soul sorcerer was a work of art

[worn lagoon]

divine soul has the worst case of decision paralysis possible. you still learn very few spells, but now your choices are split between two massive spell lists.

[woven flint]

^^^

[gray garden]

That’s changed in 2024

[worn lagoon]

is 24 divine soul even out yet?

[gray garden]

Since all casters are prepared casters

[karmic pendant]

I really hope it gets updated at some point along with other Tasha and xanathar subclasses

[woven flint]

No they're not?

Not everyone can swap out spells on a long rest.

[worn lagoon]

they only changed the wording. all spellcasters work almost exactly the same way they did before.

[woven flint]

There are still classes that do it on level up

[worn lagoon]

also there's no 24 divine soul

[gray garden]

Draconic is still pretty good as well

[worn lagoon]

draconic is way, way better than 14

[delicate owl]

They're all prepared casters but only a few still switch out every long rest. Weird change for sure.

[gray garden]

Very

[worn lagoon]

they miraculously made it not boring

[gray garden]

Warlock got a few buffs

[woven flint]

I understand why Bards aren't because at level 10 and beyond they'd just be the strongest caster hands down

[gray garden]

Hex blade isn’t as worth it anymore since you can get pact blade at level 1

2024 feels way to combat focused in my opinion

[karmic pendant]

It does make up a chunk of the game

[fallow arch]

In D&D I’d love to play a gritty campaign with dark themes but I want a focus on disease and realism rather than what those “people” want

[delicate owl]

Truuue

[worn lagoon]

the necromancer UA is so exciting

[gray garden]

Yeah but so much flavor got removed from the game to make combat more “simple”

[worn lagoon]

I can't believe necro might get features that don't lower my blood pressure enough to induce an instant coma soon

[fallow arch]

Every time I mention this i always hear the most disgusting vile things in the universe

[humble cairn]

People .. like players?

[woven flint]

I can't wait to play my Warforged Forge Druid soon 👀

[severe rampart]

So, there's this movie...

[silk hare]

I mean with how much stuff people "get wrong" in that simplified state already and how long it takes new folks to get into this simplified combat, having it be more complex (even if that adds better flavor) is just not feasable realistically (at least if u want to attract a new playerbase too)

[humble cairn]

Also, realism? Gross. No thank you, not for my fantasy games.

[woven flint]

His name is Sentry and he's gonna be a bit inspired by Ramattras dismay towards humanity

[silk hare]

give him the sentry feat for flavor also

[severe rampart]

How we feel about Warforged Monk?

[gray garden]

It takes like two seconds to look up a rule

[humble cairn]

S'pretty neat

[worn lagoon]

i would appreciate a little bit of realism, why is wet wood effortlessly catching fire

[karmic pendant]

I think it's cool

[gray garden]

Real steel beat you to the idea

[fallow arch]

Players with indecent minds every time I mention wanting a gritty dark campaign

[severe rampart]

Bad Echo, go and play your sorcerer

[woven flint]

They're cool, many Warforged would probably pick such paths as Clerics, Monks and Druids imo

[gray garden]

REAL STEEL

[worn lagoon]

i am banning you from playing bard or sorcerer

[severe rampart]

No.

[wet monolith]

hey everyone

[silk hare]

all I see is the "karakuri barrelMDL 96"

[severe rampart]

Counterspell

[humble cairn]

I sincerely have no idea what you're talking about, but I am also not interested in gritty or dark.

[worn lagoon]

into the lava pit you go then!

[tribal mesa]

I just started a circle of the shepherd warforged Druid that was slightly inspired by big foot and the other players say it is just wild robot and I’m like “no it’s different I swear”

[woven flint]

YES! I get the reference!

[gray garden]

I’m sad echo knight isn’t in 2024 : (

[silk hare]

yes, but with the amount of rules already in place, different interpretations potentially (that differ from RAW), RAI, arguments and also, people that dont have the DMG e.g. not being able to look everything up constantly its already fairly complex

[silk hare]

lets goooo

[severe rampart]

Crap, can't cast polymorph on myself because I'm a shapechanger, oh the horror!

[gray garden]

Oh the misery

[worn lagoon]

can't you consciously fail the saving throw?

[gray garden]

Technically no

[severe rampart]

"This spell transforms a creature that you can see within range into a new form. An unwilling creature must make a Wisdom saving throw to avoid the effect. The spell has no effect on a shapechanger or a creature with 0 hit points."

[wet monolith]

yall i know this isnt the place for it but my friend and i are about to run a oneshot(im the DM) and i need like 2 people

[woven flint]

He's gonna be in an Eberron campaign after the events if Cyre being destroyed
Therefore, main House Cannith having been destroyed and warforged probably not being produced anymore and discriminated or killed.

[gray garden]

You cannot willing fail a saving throw in dnd

[silk hare]

oh I thought it was tied to the saving throw lol

[small heath]

I am dying on a hill that a warforged druid wildshaping is basically just Transformers

[severe rampart]

it literally cannot affect shapechangers, at all

[silk hare]

for certain spells you can

[worn lagoon]

you can in the description of many, MANY spells

[karmic pendant]

I recommend going to #find-a-game

[silk hare]

/forgo the ST

[severe rampart]

probably so I can't transform into something with more or less limbs

[gray garden]

Certain spells not all tho

[karmic pendant]

Especially forge druid

[worn lagoon]

so a lv10 transmutation wizard changeling effectively has no lv10 feature except learning polymorph for free

[tribal mesa]

Mine is for curse of strahd and is an innocent guy, basically a stereotypical Druid cause although Druids are my most played class I have not done a stereotypical Druid.

[small heath]

Just imagine you're a hunter looking for food and you see a metallic robot deer in the middle of the forest

[severe rampart]

I think so?

[silk hare]

yes, and exactly that is an example of the whole "rules" thing and being "too simple", in theory yes

but the proclamation that "you cannot intentionally fail a ST" is wrong, due to certain aspects of the game saying otherwise, or certain areas differing in mechanical function

[gray garden]

In a world like dnd id ask my self is that a war forged

[severe rampart]

I mean, let me see what true polymorph can do

[woven flint]

Mine is Circle of Forge, so.. yeah, he turns into construct versions of animals lmao

[gray garden]

Yeah but for spells like polymorph you cannot willing fail the saving throw

[karmic pendant]

Circle of the forge is basically the transformers druid subclass honestly and that's why I like it so much

[gray garden]

It’s so peak

[severe rampart]

nope, This spell has no effect on a shapechanger or a creature with 0 hit points.

[silk hare]

sure, but that doesnt take away from my argument and is not really relevant

[woven flint]

The reason I chose Warforged is not only because it's fitting, but new Warforged count as Constructs so less things effect me in wildshape because I keep my creature type 🧐

[small heath]

I have a Warforged Fighter who's backstory is that he swindles and steals from "meatbags" around him.

[gray garden]

But for a vast majority of spells you can’t just choose to fail the saving throw

[silk hare]

wait isnt there a stupid interaction with certain healing spells?

[gray garden]

So again it’s a loud percentage vs a very few

[small heath]

I intentionally geared him with Dex and thievery

[gray garden]

Dead weight

[woven flint]

Nope, no rules against Constructs and healing spells in 2024 rules

[silk hare]

ah 2024, carry on then xD

[woven flint]

Old Warforged didn't count as a Construct, I'm glad they changed it lol

[gray garden]

Yeah they were humanoid but now there constructs

[halcyon bison]

Good morning mortals

[severe rampart]

I never knew Changelings were immune to Polymorph and true polymorph, another Changeling upscale yum

[frank cedar]

I wish I had a campaign but all of them are to far from me

[reef tundra]

The new books being very free with what creature types playable species can be has really made me go wild with homebrew species

[woven flint]

Pardon? You dare speak to me in such a tone?

[karmic pendant]

You could always play online

[gray garden]

Yeah cause they are shape changers duh

[frank cedar]

Also I feel like most of these dnd campaigns don't except people like me who are furrys

[halcyon bison]

yeah :>

[reef tundra]

I am absolutely in love with Kalashtars from the new eberron book

[gray garden]

They do have disadvantage on saving throws against moonbeam spell

[karmic pendant]

Yeah I don't think that's true

[gray garden]

You

[woven flint]

I can say with confidence, a good part of the D&D community is FURRY lol

[gray garden]

do werewolves count as shape changers in dnd

[gray garden]

Tabaxi

[crimson gulch]

Yes

[woven flint]

Yes, actually

[frank cedar]

Probobly

[reef tundra]

There’s a reason there are so many species of them after all

[gray garden]

I’m about to cook

[severe rampart]

Yeah, that sounds pretty accurate

[reef tundra]

-# Where’s my wolf species, wizards of the coast!

[frank cedar]

Idk ware to find a campaign tho and all of them have entered fees its like looking for awfual Medicare.

[reef tundra]

Thankfully this server has its own looking for game hub

[karmic pendant]

#find-a-game

[gray garden]

A shapechanger makes its saving throw with disadvantage. If it fails, it also instantly reverts to its original form and can't assume a different form until it leaves the spell's light

[cosmic roost]

Ready to play Dungeons & Dragons?

Visit #find-a-game for everything you need to start your search, including:

• Instructions for finding a game here on the server (including how to post in our #looking-for channels).
• Suggestions for finding a game outside of this server.
• Basic advice to help you in your hunt.

[flint estuary]

It would make since for them to be counted as a Shape Changer, under the condition they go back and forth between the werewolf form and current species

[frank cedar]

Is thare a fee filter?

[gray garden]

I’m gonna krill some wolves

[woven flint]

Like, my characters right now:
Tabaxi Thief Rogue
Tortle Knowledge Cleric
Bugbear Gloomstalker Ranger
Dragonborn Cavalier Fighter
Harengon Bladesinger Wizard
Yuan-Ti Alchemist Artificer

I think that's pretty furry coded, though unintentionally on my behalf lol

[harsh hinge]

All of the games posted in #looking-for-players are free. We have a separate #paid-looking-for-game channel if there are any costs for players.

[severe rampart]

It already is the filter, #looking-for-players is different than #paid-looking-for-game

[karmic pendant]

Only if you're looking through the paid games channel

[frank cedar]

What about a location filter im from LA

[severe rampart]

no location filter, just check the "time" of the campaign

both for privacy reasons, and better scheduling

[frank cedar]

Ok sweet

[karmic pendant]

All the games on the lfg channels are online anyway

[idle oar]

Nope - for safety reasons we don’t allow folks to share too specific info - see user safety section of the server rules.

So no location filters

Also most of the games posted here are online

[frank cedar]

Well also im looking for irl

[small heath]

My species (with what I have and what I hope to have in the future:)

• Kobold Draconic Sorcerer
• Warforged Defensive Fighter
• Drow Druid Circle of the Underdark
• Hombrew Species Warlock-Homebrew Class (I have a DM helping me out for this to make it balanced)
• Lizardfolk Ranger (idk what subclass yet)

[frank cedar]

That's another thing

[idle oar]

If you want local, check Facebook or local game and book stores

[worn lagoon]

You could probably share rough timezones though

[severe rampart]

for irl. try irl locations

[frank cedar]

I do but they are always booked

[idle oar]

Even local public libraries may host D&D groups

[woven flint]

I also have
A Drow Celestial Warlock
And
A Starfinder 2e Character!
A Ysoki (Ratfolk) Mechanic

[frank cedar]

I only ever tried one and it was some boring horse rodeoh for people to bet on in adventures leuge

[severe rampart]

I have always been 13 hours ahead, the lowest/closest is 8 hours ahead

[frank cedar]

I wish I whent to waterdeep instead

I whent to the maze at universal and it was awsome

[worn lagoon]

one of my characters is incapable of entering waterdeep

[frank cedar]

I cant whait till I turn 21 tho so I could pound it with like some kinda dragons blood drink

@worn lagoon No offense

Lol

[gray garden]

Here we are now ENTERTAIN US

[frank cedar]

I just wish they had like a website like bayblade

[idle oar]

Let’s keep things in n topic folks

Topic is D&D

[frank cedar]

Or magic the gathering

[gray garden]

Kill him via turning him into a chicken and throwing him off a cliff

[severe rampart]

Polymorph a horse into an ant and feed it to him.

[gray garden]

I’ve.. never thought of such a thing…

[severe rampart]

Your mind is locked beyond possibilities

[umbral girder]

Happened in a Drizzt novel fun fact.

[severe rampart]

if you wanna inconvenience someone use grease, get all the oil into it, and replace all of their cooking oil

[umbral girder]

Except it was a dude turned into a mouse and fed to a cat.

[severe rampart]

That's a good idea, have a cat as a familiar, turn someone into a mouse and make them chase

[umbral girder]

I should note he fed the guy to his own house cat.

Wizard said “you think your cat loves you? And is loyal to you? Let’s stress test it.” Or something to that effect

[severe rampart]

Fun idea! perfect for the whole family!

[karmic pendant]

Rip the cat though

[severe rampart]

My cats don't swallow mice, they just rough them up and bully them

[umbral girder]

I love how the book sells how evil and powerful the bad guys are.

Until they foolishly intersect with the main characters or bigger bad guys.

[severe rampart]

there's always bigger fish to fry

or... bigger mice to catch 😉

[umbral girder]

It was one of the only times we saw Jarlaxle go from silly to angry. Bro stood no chance.

Turns out an Archmage isn’t strong against a dozen guys with Counter spell

[naive cedar]

I love jarlaxle

[umbral girder]

I like Jarlaxle’s 5e stat block lets him get Sneak attack up to 5 times a round

[naive cedar]

omg really?

[umbral girder]

“Sorry I didn’t hear you over 35d6+7d8+63 damage this round.” Jarlaxle probably

[naive cedar]

jarlaxle being the coolest drow as usual

[umbral girder]

Its so fun that he is the same CR as Strahd but hits wildly harder.

[naive cedar]

well yeah, strahd’s a bloodsucking nerd

[silk hare]

bohoooo, running water, now Im traaaaapped

[naive cedar]

omg someone cast daylight!!!!!! haaaalp!!!! 😭

[silk hare]

ahhhh a splinter, well now I cant move bc its on a specific area of my bodyyyy uhhhh

[naive cedar]

strahd isn’t even the coolest vampire in dnd smh

[naive cedar]

aww that girl I’m in love with rejected me for the 1000000th time and now I have to sit here for twenty years or something again 😐

[glossy otter]

I love that nowadays its become something of a gag

[marble lion]

The coolest vampire is the ivory prince

[naive cedar]

nah it’s Astarion

[glossy otter]

The coolest one is that one vampire at the end of the hallway

he shows up, threatens to drink blood, leaves and refuses to elaborate

[umbral girder]

Well Strahd did make sure to remove the sun and big sources of running water for a reason I suppose.

[naive cedar]

hmmm. you’re not wrong. second coolest

[umbral girder]

Probably why he is a wizard too to dispel/counter any attempts too

[karmic pendant]

That is pretty cool

[naive cedar]

I do respect that he just sits there on his butt for twenty years or something every time. he’s dedicated

[umbral girder]

Immortality does that

[naive cedar]

you know what that makes a lot of sense

[umbral girder]

The reason why adventurers show up is because he is bored I think.

[naive cedar]

strahd should play minecraft or something

[umbral girder]

Too busy with League of Legends /jk

[naive cedar]

omg

[empty thicket]

"Force Strahd to play league of legends and get challenger", lvl 10 Spell. Sealed and prohibited

[naive cedar]

Strahd would own at league tbh

[umbral girder]

"The spell is casted. It changes nothing surprisingly."

[naive cedar]

Force strahd to play Minecraft instead of trying to get some chick who isn’t interested: level 10 spell

[umbral girder]

Also yeah eternal youth and immortality and 20 Int helps him a lot

[empty thicket]

Forcing strahd to survive with a low latin america budget (He casted PW kill on himself)

[lusty kelp]

Strahd should just start teaching a bunch of warlocks. Being a patron is a full time gig and extremely rewarding when you can pick your own students

I'm not biased or anything towards warlocks and you can't prove it

[umbral girder]

Bold to assume he cares about improving other people

[woven flint]

Strahd would be a Patron just to watch someone fail

[empty thicket]

true, he would start doing a pyramid scam

[hollow stone]

Strahd single handedly prevented Warlocks from having more than one spell slot until level 3

[worn lagoon]

how

[final sage]

Hey im new can someone help understand the basic

[small heath]

You can find a lot of help in the #dnd-newcomers channel.

[worn lagoon]

strahd seems oddly weak

[small heath]

Also we have #learn-to-play with a lot of resources.

[final sage]

Ok thx u

[fossil hollow]

yeah if youre just looking at his statblock, hes stronger in his home plane of barovia, especially within his castle

[worn lagoon]

seems tempting to grab resillient:wis

or, yeah wait calm emotions is a thing

[fossil hollow]

only works on humies

unless you mean on yourself?

[worn lagoon]

to avoid being charmed by him

[final sage]

How do u join a dnd group

[cosmic roost]

Ready to play Dungeons & Dragons?

Visit #find-a-game for everything you need to start your search, including:

• Instructions for finding a game here on the server (including how to post in our #looking-for channels).
• Suggestions for finding a game outside of this server.
• Basic advice to help you in your hunt.

[jovial shadow]

Compared to what? Or who?

[worn lagoon]

for something i'm assuming a party of lv10 pc's will face

[severe rampart]

I mean, Strahd can kick our party's 🫏 even if we were all level 14

[worn lagoon]

i don't think you guys could take down an adult black dragon at lv20

[severe rampart]

Oh, I can beat a dragon alright

[worn lagoon]

one more bard joke and you're going in the lava pit

[severe rampart]

time to get water walk

[halcyon bison]

I don't think that'll save you

[severe rampart]

This spell grants the ability to move across any liquid surface – such as water, acid, mud, snow, quicksand, or lava – as if it were harmless solid ground

[naive cedar]

Are there any stereotypical cleric jokes

[valid geyser]

idk if my DM just makes bad choices when we fight his NPCs or if he's just being really easy on us
we got the pyramid from a bag of beans and fought a mummy lord with our level 6 party
I know it's a frail creature in the 2014 version, but he didn't use any legendary actions, resistances or anything, and spent his first turn using animate dead to make a single skeleton. Also he might not have used the rotting hand attack or he just didnt get a hit off on anyone i don't really remember

[severe rampart]

note, creatures crossing molten lava can still take damage from the heat

[hollow stone]

usually the same as "exhausted medic who is unfortunately bound by the hippocratic oath" jokes

[halcyon bison]

huhhhhhhhhh???
First of all, snow and quicksand aren't liquid
Second, the heat from the lava would still burn you which is what I was talking about

[naive cedar]

So the same as the mmo healer role joke. got it

[halcyon bison]

Third it's called water walk not lava walk
Why does it let you do that

[severe rampart]

that's what it says right here in the spell book baby

[halcyon bison]

Yeah and I'm saying it makes no sense

[severe rampart]

I assume it's so we don't have like 5 different "walk" spells

[severe rampart]

Realism? in my fantasy game? no thank you

sorry, I'm just echoing someone else who said the same thing earlier

[halcyon bison]

They should call it "liquid and also some powders walk"

[hollow stone]

well, why is it called Thaumaturgy when thaumaturgy isn't a word but if it were it wouldn't mean any of those things?

[feral fulcrum]

It's because Liquid Walk sounds stupid, and because you don't need 10 spells with ten slightly different names

[hollow stone]

they could call it Buoyancy which would be a little funny

[blissful ibex]

On rezzing the cleric; "Now you've truely turned undead."

[severe rampart]

hey, give an apology to Smite, Searing Smite, Thunderous Smite, Wrathful Smite, Branding Smite, Blinding Smite, Staggering Smite, and Banishing Smite

[humble cairn]

Thaumaturgy is very much a word and was so before D&D.

[halcyon bison]

I'm still mad at it >:(
Also, wall spells

[hollow stone]

oh am i thinking of prestidigitation then?

[humble cairn]

Also a preexisting word.

[severe rampart]

Also existed

[blissful ibex]

Wall of stone is 💜 though :c

[hollow stone]

why do neither come up when i google them 😭

[feral fulcrum]

It turns out that Lanugage Is Big And Old And Has Many Words You Do Not Know

[hollow stone]

ok tumblr

[feral fulcrum]

Because Google is a dumpster fire ruined by AI algorithms.

[hollow stone]

this is true

[feral fulcrum]

Search Engines have gone Massively downhill.

[humble cairn]

You can put "-ai" after your search to not bring up ai generated answers.

[blissful ibex]

early 2000s google was the shit
it's basically useless by comparison now

[severe rampart]

only the tagged ones, but less AI is better than more

[halcyon bison]

No I like wall spells they're good :>
Except for the walls that aren't actually walls like wind wall
Like, why are you making a wall of air???? Huh???????

[blissful ibex]

would rather Warding Wind

[severe rampart]

Are you able to change what type of air?

[halcyon bison]

Would wind-related spells fill up a vacuum?

[feral fulcrum]

I can't hear you over the sound of your wind. Could you say that again?

[blissful ibex]

jokes on you, Awakened Mind and also Common Sign Language proficiency

[lusty kelp]

No, it'd just turn into an Orb of Annihilation, free of charge. Start eating more air. /jk

[hot marlin]

Assuming you mean Wind Wall, its main use is to protect from arrows, flyers and gases. Extremely circumstancial but I have used it once when we got ambushed by about twenty archers.

Don't prepare it. A single scroll is probably all you'll ever need

[blissful ibex]

Lots of spells honnestly are just better as a scroll in your handy scroll case

[hot marlin]

Indeed. It is a feature, not a bug.

The circumstancial spells, the ones that exist as a counter to extremely specific situations that you are unlikely to anticipate, are the ones best kept in scroll form

[blissful ibex]

lets you have extra virtual spell slots and prepared spells for a bit of gold

[vagrant monolith]

After joining 2 paid campaign i still crave for more dnd. Is this a curse?

[feral fulcrum]

The problem is that realistically you're only buying Scrolls, because the process to make them is stupidly time intensive.

[blissful ibex]

Mine caries a few scrolls of fog cloud and a scroll of remove curse

[hot marlin]

I like thinking of it that way:
Imagine a child, finally gets its own teeth. It eats a burger, it's the first time it's eaten something that's not milk. So it craves more burgers. What should the child do to stop craving more burgers?

The answer I think is that it should eat other things. The child craves burgers because the child has very limited knowledge of what's food.

[vagrant monolith]

Find something different?

[hot marlin]

Exactly

[vagrant monolith]

So you telling me to find other stuff then dnd?

[hot marlin]

So, my advice: Feed the child other things, let the kid develop its own tastes. To leave the metaphor behind: Yes, try other TTRPGs, see if that does something to the craving

[feral fulcrum]

ANd prefferably not more paid games. Do not hemoraghe all your cash for a hobby.

[severe rampart]

oh my lord this is a metaphor, I thought you were actually giving advice on someone on how to deal with their child in DnD

[hot marlin]

I have little to no experience with toddlers so I wouldn't know

But I do think that giving kids more than one type of food is probably good for their development.

Don't quote me on this.

[undone rain]

Can aasimar become mindflayers?

[severe rampart]

Ah damn, you mean feeding my elven child pizza everyday is bad for them? oh no

[hot marlin]

Yes. They are humanoids.

[feral fulcrum]

Mild celestial heritage doesn't do much again the brain squids

[hot marlin]

Although I do have to say: The host does not become a mind flayer. The host is killed and its body is used by the parasitic tadpole as the casing for its metamorphosis into a mind flayer

[iron herald]

Two clerics are standing on the side of the road with a sign that says, "It's not too late, turn your life around."

A man rides by on his horse, laughing at them. "What loons!"

Moments later they hear a scream. They look to each other and say, ||"Perhaps we should have written 'Bridge Out'."||

[feral fulcrum]

Even being non-humanoid isn't really enough to dodge Ceramphosis. It just typically means weird and nasty things happen. See all the horrible abominations, like that two headed Mindflayer Ogre thing I forget the name of.

[crimson gulch]

ettin cenomorph

[undone rain]

Or the tiiiiiny little gnome mindflayers

Those are somewhat adorable

[hot marlin]

My favourite cleric joke is from Order of the Stick where two high level clerics meet and it goes like this:
"Oh the life of an adventuring cleric. I remember it well. A perpetual struggle to maintain the hit point totals of four or five nigh-suicidal tomb robbers determined to deplete them at all costs. Like bailing out a sinking ship with a thimble most days."
"Exactly! It's like... Can't they manage to go ten minutes without perforating their aorta? Just once?"

[blissful ibex]

loove me some order of the stick

need to catch back up with it

[severe rampart]

Friends... I don't think I have a high enough INT to get this joke

[hot marlin]

The joke is that clerics are trying to keep the adventuring party alive, and the party are morons with no sense of self-preservation.

[severe rampart]

I thought it was a pun

"Perforating their Aorta" (Outperforming their quota), but that makes sense

[feral fulcrum]

Puns are short.

[iron herald]

The flow is a bit odd, like it's a commentary more than a joke.

[severe rampart]

I've met some pretty tall puns

[hot marlin]

Yes, it's more of a commentary, but it made me laugh the first time I read it. When that particular strip came out.

... In 2012. Oh god, that story arc was published 14 years ago.

[undone rain]

Being a paladin means your the parties healer, crowd clearer and heavy armored fella

[hot marlin]

I'm going to buy my coffin now, goodbye

[severe rampart]

There are members on this server younger than that comic strip, holy hell

[undone rain]

By the gods are there that many young dnd players

[blissful ibex]

yep

[hot marlin]

Go ahead, make me feel even older.

[severe rampart]

probably came here from Stranger Things

[hot marlin]

Oh this is hitting me right in the mortality.

[iron herald]

Thankfully I just have to be the heavily armored wall who can lay hands on the actual healer if he goes down.

[severe rampart]

also 2016 was 10 years ago

[undone rain]

Maybe. Altough some of the older could too. People in their late teens to young adulthood love stranger things too

[undone rain]

Im lucky because our whole party is basically spellcasters.

[hot marlin]

I liked the first season, but after I watched the second one I figured the show wouldn't be worth the effort.

[hollow stone]

2024 will eventually be 2 years old

[hot marlin]

I'm told it got increasingly worse, leading up to a very poorly received finale, which vindicates me. I am an oracle.

[severe rampart]

technically already is

[undone rain]

The show was...alright ig. Last season was just boring

[hollow stone]

the edition of DND is?

[severe rampart]

The finale sucked, or so I've heard

[undone rain]

Show was nothing special

[hollow stone]

honestly i didn't even watch it, i figured it was overhyped and would wait until the next season and then they took too long and i was unwilling to acknowledge it

[severe rampart]

Quite frankly I've been more interested in dumb stories my 3 year old cousin tells me that he certainly made up

[iron herald]

I'm not very familiar with Stranger Things, but everything I've seen about it disinterested me. Not my kind of thing, it feels too... meta, perhaps is one way of putting it.

[fossil hollow]

impossible

[worn lagoon]

i tihnk i'll homebrew new rules for spell scribing for my table

[undone rain]

Ive read better fairy tales

[severe rampart]

Bad DM, focus on your Finals

[worn lagoon]

oh come on, 3d printing for surgical applications isn't THAT hard

[fossil hollow]

note to self, dont get surgery tools from this man /j

[worn lagoon]

irl artificer but i print spines

[fossil hollow]

reminder to never get a spine from you

[deep raptor]

Hello everyone

[hot marlin]

I am mortal, you know.

[deep raptor]

How are all of y'all doing?

[undone rain]

Now hold on my back might need some fixing

[fossil hollow]

... in the hells maybe

[deep raptor]

WAIT

WHO CHANGED MY NAME

[worn lagoon]

3d printing in the dnd universes would go so hard, imagine not needing to supply your bones

[fossil hollow]

thats called fabricate

[worn lagoon]

true

[blissful ibex]

That's what fabricate's for

[deep raptor]

I was Dvaj the prince of wales!

[undone rain]

Wouldnt you have plastic bones then lol

[severe rampart]

No you aren't

[loud tendon]

I did. We sent a reminder about it, but also in #1133105454495580290 message

[severe rampart]

Guys, obviously Incubus is a lich king who has stockpiled knowledge for many eons

[deep raptor]

The entire thing was in the English language

[haughty nimbus]

hey dumb qiestion

for my druid with magic initiate (spores) which blade spell should i get

[hot marlin]

Now, certainly, no true immortals exist. Immortality is only a word. All that exists can stop existing, all that lives can die. Every living thing has a weapon against which it has no defense. Time. Disease. Iron. Guilt.

[severe rampart]

hello smart answer!

[fossil hollow]

nah, even worse, a fiend

[severe rampart]

What about a waffle house? I heard those things are strong

[hot marlin]

Study the thing, get to know it, and then you may even slaughter gods and sup on their flesh. Break their bones and suck the marrow. Drink the succulent nightmares born from their decay.

[worn lagoon]

i've heard you can get true immortality from claire's, but i've never been to america so i'm not sure

[halcyon bison]

I misread this as "even worse, a friend" and I was like awwww that's wholesome. but no :(

[hot marlin]

I am not a fiend, sir!

[fossil hollow]

look at your name

[blissful ibex]

Shillelagh + True Strike (via MI: Wizard) for 2d6+mod force + 3d6 Radiant damage in tier 4

[haughty nimbus]

Cause Green flame blade is good for multipletargets while booming blade is just one target

[hot marlin]

Coincidence.

[fossil hollow]

not only are you named incubus

[worn lagoon]

isnt booming blade potentially a lot of st damage

[fossil hollow]

but you call yourself a corypheus??

[hot marlin]

Meaning someone who conducts a choir, sir.

[fossil hollow]

suuure

[hot marlin]

This is literally what a corypheus is.

[haughty nimbus]

true strike just kiges advantage on attack though

[undone rain]

Can a mindflayer return to their old form. Yk before they became a mindflayer

[fossil hollow]

and do they not conduct a choir of beaucracy in the hells?

[blissful ibex]

2024 truestirke is built different
you need to specify if 2014

[haughty nimbus]

if the target willingly moves

[severe rampart]

You know... I think you know more stuff like "Polymorph a horse into an ant and feed it to somebody"

[worn lagoon]

nothing short of a wish spell afaik

[haughty nimbus]

my fault, yeah its 2014

[fossil hollow]

that would end the polymorph. inside you

[hot marlin]

No, because it is not "their" old form. It is the form of the thing they killed in order to transform from tadpole state to illithid state.

[undone rain]

When you wish upon a staaaaar

[severe rampart]

Exactly.

[fossil hollow]

... ooooh

[worn lagoon]

you can wish someone erased by an illithid parasite back into existence iirc

[undone rain]

Awwww shame

[hot marlin]

Now, certainly, any disguise spell may work. Same as shapeshifting.

[blissful ibex]

Then probs Green Flame Blade for the multi hit

[haughty nimbus]

got it

[hot marlin]

But it is important to repeat: Illithids are not people who are transformed. The illithid is the tadpole who has fed and killed the host.

[fossil hollow]

they simply retain the memories of the old host

[severe rampart]

The Summer Hikaru Died character possible...

[hot marlin]

In the same way that a wasp emerging from a caterpillar is not the caterpillar transformed.

[severe rampart]

Hey... so can I be an Illithid good guy...

[hot marlin]

Define "good guy".

[fossil hollow]

good, debatable

[haughty nimbus]

does anything change on which class i chose as the MI for Green Flame Blad

[severe rampart]

HAH! not falling for that bait Incubus!

[undone rain]

That explains in bg3 how a certain character has all their memories as a mindflayer

[fossil hollow]

but there are illithids whose goals arent world domination

[undone rain]

I mean if their cut off from the hivemind

Mine is

[worn lagoon]

omeluum was chill

[severe rampart]

Can I play a character who was taken by a tadpole and became an ilithid, now that the ilithid is now "someone" they love being human and experiencing things

[hot marlin]

Yeah but that character is also a pathological liar. Simply put: If he is talking, he's lying

[lavish flame]

within some amount of reason, yeah. You still need to like... kill Humanoids to eat, but you can still accomplish good deeds otherwise!

[blissful ibex]

It changes which ability mod it uses for 2014 version
sorcerer and warlock would be CHA wizard or artificer would be INT

[hot marlin]

Again: You would be playing the tadpole.

[worn lagoon]

it would be a good excuse to play a sorcerer

[undone rain]

Oh no no not him not him, im talking ||about if karlach becomes a mindflayer||

[hot marlin]

Apologies.

[severe rampart]

Yes yes, that's what I meant

[worn lagoon]

i think bg3 has sort of retconned and the host's soul lingers for a while

[undone rain]

No its okay, hard to understand. So many mindflayers to keep track off lol

[worn lagoon]

and then apparently it's gone

[haughty nimbus]

I figured but Green flame blade says make a melee attack

[blissful ibex]

the weapon attack will still use your Str, Dex, or WIs
andthe damage roll of the weapon as well
but the damage of GFB is based on the spellcasting ability mod of the class you pick

[naive cedar]

Okay this js funny ngl

[halcyon bison]

I get mind flayers. Thoughts are tasty :>

[severe rampart]

the party, overcome with grief, accepts the monster as their "friend", clinging to the idea that they did survive. "Though it looks and sounds just like Hikaru, what came back down the mountain was not Yoshiki's best friend."

[hot marlin]

BG3 did not retcon that. BG3 introduced deviant tadpoles that do not follow the normal rules of Illithid tadpoles. Mutants, pitiful creatures.

[worn lagoon]

you mean the netherese magic-afflicted parasites

[naive cedar]

Watch out the fans of that character are gonna get mad

[haughty nimbus]

Also, dumb question, but for the druid, what stats should i have higher?

[undone rain]

They scare me

[worn lagoon]

wisdom and dex are universally good

[naive cedar]

Yeah I don’t think people realise this; while BG3 retcons a few things the tadpoles follow a completely different logic than the regular tadpoles

[naive cedar]

I’m a Astarion fangirl (I’m sorry) and even I think they’re odd

[blissful ibex]

Wisdom, Constitution, and possibly Dexterity; in that order

[naive cedar]

Constitution is the most important stat in general imo

[haughty nimbus]

So if i just get wisdom high, i can go Shillelagh, Green flame Blade, symbiotic entity

[feral fulcrum]

Eh, not really. Dexterity outranks it by quite a bit.

[wet lynx]

Hello

[undone rain]

Yeah i getcha

[naive cedar]

There are some builds/characters that can dump dex, but dumping constitution is universally a bad idea. I do agree that dexterity is important though

[feral fulcrum]

My point was more that Constitution is fine as a secondary stat. Because Dex can be both your Offensive and Defensive stat and does triple duty by also being the most common save.

[undone rain]

Do wish bg3 had more races buuuut theres way too many to add

[naive cedar]

That is fair! I meant that constitution is the most important in that it’s pretty much always one of your higher stats, although it’s never the “main” stat

[blissful ibex]

My Druid/Lock takes 10 dex (though she could have 12, but she eventually goes for a Barrier Tattoo (large), has Absorb Elements prepared, and sticks to the backline; so not terribly missed

[naive cedar]

I was kind of disappointed aasimar wasn’t an option

[undone rain]

Yeah same. Had to use a wing mod to make a ripoff aasimar

[naive cedar]

I just made a human and pretended the tadpole deleted her wings or something

[undone rain]

That works too

[haughty nimbus]

should i take mage armor with Magic initiate or is there a better feat-

i mean spell (2014)

[naive cedar]

She looks pretty human like anyways (her hair is a bit redder than is naturally possible and her eyes are yellowish green but that’s about it)

Oh question: what stat is the “least” important overall

[feral fulcrum]

Really depnds on your class. Becuase if you've got armor proffiency's, you really don't need nor want Mage Armor.

[haughty nimbus]

circle of spores druid, I'm going for a melee build

[feral fulcrum]

Strength, sadly.

[naive cedar]

ehhhh. I was thinking intelligence but that’s important for a lot of skill checks

[buoyant oar]

Which stat benefits the least number of classes.

[fossil hollow]

str?

[hot marlin]

Either intelligence or strength.

[buoyant oar]

For me it's Int. Sure there are skill checks. But int only benefits two classes otherwise it's the common dump.

[fossil hollow]

wait, no int. only two classes need it

[severe rampart]

STR, Strength is ALWAYS my dump stat

[naive cedar]

To be fair, int is important for Eldritch knight ajd arcane trickster as well

[fossil hollow]

some subclasses might need int though

[naive cedar]

And arcane archer

[severe rampart]

Why need strength if you have Finesse weapons?

[fossil hollow]

we dont talk about arcane archer

[hot marlin]

Carrying capacity

[fossil hollow]

psi warrior and mastermind are there

[naive cedar]

I like arcane archer 😭

[hot marlin]

Dumping strength may result in your character simply not able to wear their armour and backpack

[feral fulcrum]

Hey the UA Update in 2024 isn't bad.

[fossil hollow]

remind me, carrying capacity is on for avernus?

[severe rampart]

ooh, I don't use encumbrance

[naive cedar]

I’ll say it’s probably strength though yeah

[hot marlin]

You did say it was

[fossil hollow]

perfect

[hot marlin]

You monster

[fossil hollow]

and yall dumped it. bad of holding should help a little bit

[hollow stone]

my favorite thing is making a martial and dumping STR, taking Eldritch Adept for the 2024 Pact Blade, and forcibly converting it into a CHA class

[naive cedar]

Ngl it’s hard for me to enjoy martials without playing a gish subclass or something

[buoyant oar]

Not using certain rules is really strange to me. I get that it can bog down action. But one loses imo a lot of authority over things like balance if you come to the game while not playing the whole game.

[severe rampart]

a fish subclass? sounds... fishy

[hollow stone]

paladin benefits massively from my negligent feat distribution

[naive cedar]

Circle of fish druid

[fossil hollow]

are dragons fish

[severe rampart]

No, dragons are chickens

[buoyant oar]

If you look at old art dragons are traced horses.

[fossil hollow]

are chickens fish

[haughty nimbus]

I had a WILD idea

[severe rampart]

Yes

[fossil hollow]

so, dragons are fish

[feral fulcrum]

Personally, it's Fine to ignore parts of the game. People have been Ignoring disseases and whatnot for the entirety of 5E's lifespan for example

[naive cedar]

Dragon mythology likely stems from older cultures finding dinosaur bones. Dinosaurs are birds

[severe rampart]

No

[naive cedar]

So dragons are birds

[haughty nimbus]

If i ever wildshape with my druid. the wild shape form has mushroom sticking out of it like minecraft mooshrooms

[fossil hollow]

if dragons are chickens and chickens are fish, why are dragons not fish

[feral fulcrum]

Because Dragons came first.

[hollow stone]

technically all life came from the sea, so all life is fish

[severe rampart]

warm-blooded, egg-laying vertebrates (class Aves) characterized by feathers, beaks, lightweight skeletons, and wings

so... yes?

[fossil hollow]

so... fish are dragons

[undone rain]

Arcane archer? What arcane archer

[sand geyser]

Can someone rate my blender monster drink photo?

[severe rampart]

yes, that's correct

[naive cedar]

Exactly. Dragons are fancy dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are big birds. Dragons are big fancy birds

[fossil hollow]

ic. so the stories of carp becoming dragons are true

[buoyant oar]

Yes. It is fine to ignore whatever you want.

What I mean is if you have a balance complaint like about rangers or players having too much money. Etc. Those common things.

99% the reason for those complaints is that you aren't using the whole game. Encumbrance, ammo tracking. Exploration, downtime, etc.

[valid geyser]

Yeah I think so too, as long as the DM knows what they’re doing
Not meaning to be mean to anyone, but sometimes people will make rules decisions without knowing what that’s gonna do to the game

[severe rampart]

Everything is a fish

[buoyant oar]

"Why are my casters novaing everything!"

"How many combats do you have a day?"

"One!"

[halcyon bison]

Wyverns are featherless bipeds, therefore they are men

[naive cedar]

My dad calls literally every flying unit in Warcraft “birds”

so maybe he’s onto something

[severe rampart]

He's not wrong now is he

[naive cedar]

“Hey I’ve got 5 birds over here” has five Frost Wyrms

[severe rampart]

Ah yes! I remember when Diogene went to Plato's class on a flying wyvern and did a kickflip

[undone rain]

Huh i was wondering why i grew wings

[hollow stone]

but Aaracokra are feathered bipeds, so are they like, not men? do we quantify them as animals? or are all aaracokra just female?

[fossil hollow]

what

... wait a second

[halcyon bison]

Waiting

[severe rampart]

They obviously have to be plucked first

[fossil hollow]

gimme a minute then

[severe rampart]

when they are feathered they exist in a separate reality of non-existence

[hollow stone]

like once? is it like a rite of passage before they're entitled to human rights or do they have to maintain that?

[hot marlin]

Aaracokra are not men, indeed. Male aaracokras are male aaracokras, not men.

[naive cedar]

Who said that beholders are a metaphor for modern audiences again

[severe rampart]

But... they're feathered bipeds... and when they're featherless... they're man

[hot marlin]

That would be me

[naive cedar]

If beholders are modern audiences, what does dragons being giant fancy birds indicate?

[fossil hollow]

really? paranoid, xenophobic, megalomaniac, eyes everywhe- ooooh

[hot marlin]

Easy: Dragons are the economy. Specifically the top 1%

[naive cedar]

Average Twitter user

[naive cedar]

Oh my god….because they hoard wealth,,,,,,

[fossil hollow]

so if i eat a dragon. im ating the rich

[severe rampart]

It's... genius

[naive cedar]

And they have all that power but even the “good” ones just sit there on their giant piles of treasure……

[severe rampart]

We're treading on dangerous territory now

[naive cedar]

Wait oops

You’re right

[fossil hollow]

clearly none of you met sardior

[buoyant oar]

Do you want to eat the rich? Come to the city of Hlodeth in the Vilhon Reach. Our Yuan-Ti citizens can secure any cuisine you want

[naive cedar]

So what are tressyms then