dnd-discussion

[burnt valley]

i will cast an epic level spell that will censor all mentions of Mystra

[marble lion]

May i become your apprentice? I want all mentions of mystra to myself

[buoyant oar]

They let Cyric in.

Cyric was better at the god game than Karsus.

Cyric the Faerûn equivalent to an edge Lord from reddit.

[eager marsh]

Karsus is still ‘alive’ 3,000 years later as a petrified wild magic radiating statue in one of the forests

[marble lion]

What forest

[eager marsh]

They didn’t let him so much as cryptic abused the worship thing and then Ao turned that off after he pulled a funny

[burnt valley]

don't forget to mention that Cyric is a hero

[marble lion]

I need to know this

[burnt valley]

Mystryl thought he could lecture my goat

[marble lion]

I dont like cyric because he killed bhaal

[buoyant oar]

Karsus is in the High Forest

[marble lion]

Bhaal has way more style than cyric

[burnt valley]

I like cyric cause he mogged mystra

[eager marsh]

No. She literally didn’t do anything until he casts it targeting her. She died for like 20 seconds

Self Revived as the cities fell

[buoyant oar]

He is in the ruins of Karse.

[eager marsh]

Then she turned the weave back on like an IT guy and added a no level 10+ role

[marble lion]

I wonder why hes there

[burnt valley]

if i were to use Karsus' Avatar on Io, would that kill both Tiamat and Bahamut

[eager marsh]

That’s just where he fell to

[burnt valley]

she then proceeds to become an admin abusing shcum

[eager marsh]

Netheril was all floating cities. They all dropped out of the sky

[buoyant oar]

Because of his actions, no God would accept him, not even Jergal who was the God of the Dead at the time.

[eager marsh]

She had to. The ‘lazzé faire’ policy on magic was a bad thing after Karsus cast that spell so she had to lay down some better ground rules

[marble lion]

Hold on so were the mystra people all smarter than karsus, or were they not needed to be smarter because their way of becoming god of magic was assisted?

[marble lion]

You just gave me the heaviest fodder ever for my campaign

[eager marsh]

There were no Mystra people unless you mean the Chosen?

[buoyant oar]

No, they were not smarter, however, intelligence is not the only thing needed to be a god. You need wisdom as well and that is something that the arch Mage had very little of

[marble lion]

Wow thats an incredible loredrop i can work in
Though none of my players will get the significance of it

[jolly agate]

It's people's fault; if you think you can safely live on a rock floating above the sea, maybe you deserve to sink with the city.

[marble lion]

I think he just got unlucky personally. Should have worked

[jolly agate]

I mean cmon

[marble lion]

They could though
Until one guy messed it all up

It was perfectly fine

Thats why the one that was in shars personal weave didnt fall

[buoyant oar]

Not really, the goddess sacrificed herself to stop him. All of the other people who ascended to godhood were chosen, offered, or there was an opening they capitalized on.

[marble lion]

Just kidding. I like to stan karsus but my man tripped up big there

[jolly agate]

No way his bloody name was Stan

[buoyant oar]

There is a reason though that he casts the spell. He didn't do it because it would be funny

[marble lion]

I hope one day i get to be in a campaign where you save him

I would love being a group travelling with a reforming karsus

[burnt valley]

I tell Karsus that Mystra is not the strongest god/goddess and have him choose Zeus or any other Greater Deity to deal with the phaerimm

[buoyant oar]

He was told by a seer that the goddess of magic would face her greatest challenge and she would not survive the Fall out. And so, he believed that he could create a spell that could take over the powers of that goddess before she fell and use the power to unite his people and to defeat the ultimate enemy of his entire civilization, the phaerimm

[marble lion]

For the first third you wouldnt even know its him, just a jaded guiltridden genius

[still plover]

Tony Stark?

[marble lion]

I need this campaign now. Hit me

This is the one. I can feel it

[buoyant oar]

What the momentary Lord did not anticipate in his lack of wisdom, was that his spell was the challenge.

[marble lion]

I will use my magicmissile obsessed wizard as a contrast to karsus super ambitious mind, teaching him to appreciate less

[buoyant oar]

Good ole self-fulfilling prophecy.

[marble lion]

Gotta love it

Though i dont because it ended karsus

[burnt valley]

It was out of desperation

[buoyant oar]

His admiration for Karsus, is what makes me never ever help Gale Dekarios

If you are a follower of a goddess of magic and you idolize that person at the same time, you're a special kind of stupid

[knotty pasture]

Tbh you're also ruining him by going down that route

Gotta put your foot down and not nod along to every idea

[atomic kayak]

To be fair, being a special kind of stupid is something that describes most wizards in one way or another

[eager marsh]

Is Gale even fully aware of Netherese atrocities and morality? I mean he might have glossed that over for the pure arcane study and such but also I thought he was less a follower by choice and more a chosen because he was smart/talented

[jolly agate]

he smart but he aint that smart

[fathom gate]

I just finished a wild magic table from scratch for my player

[eager marsh]

I mean he’s also a victim we should cut him some slack. Being told you’re suddenly a chosen of Mystra is like finding out you have Magic cancer suddenly

[rough basalt]

I mean he probably has some base level awareness from his research into Karsus's "wahhh mommy, the gods wont give me a turn on the god console" spell

[buoyant oar]

Being The fact that he was alive when elminster brought down the city of shade on myth Drannor as it only happened 5 years ago by the events of bg3. And that the empire of shade have been terrorizing the sword coast for most of his life. That's a yeah

[blissful dragon]

I think the idea with gale is he struggles to contain the “for science” side of him and forgets to fully think of the should I do this part

[rough basalt]

That poor city, the victim of an old man with too much power and not knowing where he was /j

Gale is an FR Wizard, iirc it's common enough that theres a general belief that most are selfish jerks, and thats in societies that aren't inherently hostile

He's just a little nicer than the average wizard

[blissful dragon]

The player is meant to be the decider between him letting his ambition and drive overwhelm him or him managing to temper it into something more productive

[buoyant oar]

Netheril is an active threat to Faerûn from 1372 DR through 1487. It conquered whole Nations displaced thousands of people and murdered many many more.

[eager marsh]

Netheril is still an active threat if you count the fact that Thay is the modern remnants

[buoyant oar]

The nation returned in 1372 and was a geopolitical asset on its own through the 1400s

[rough basalt]

Ye he's a rare case where he actually has some good in him to be drawn out

[blissful dragon]

Like his story is learning he doesn’t need to constantly do big gestures to impress people he cares for l just being himself is enough

[rough basalt]

All problems in dnd worlds can be traced to 1 of 3 things
Dragons
Gods
Spellcasters, primarily arcane ones

[eager marsh]

Trauma*

[blissful dragon]

His big issue is never feeling like he is good enough

[minor cargo]

real.

[eager marsh]

Considering he was casting fireball as a child how crappy were his parents to make him feel not good enough still?

[rough basalt]

Ye an understandable issue to have when you're preyed on by a Goddess of your kind of people at a young age.

[rough basalt]

probably very crappy

[eager marsh]

Auntie Mystra is also prolly at fault here

[buoyant oar]

Mystra is one of the worst people in the realms tbf no matter the incarnation

[rough basalt]

After all he was one of them spellcasters

[burnt valley]

there are better candidates but Ao is Ao

[rough basalt]

With how much pain and suffering wizards have caused Toril it wouldn't surprise me if the common folk would shun their own child for being one, other hand would be using them to get a lot of money

[blissful dragon]

Doesn’t he mention the whole orb thing was him feel he needed to prove himself as worthy of her

[burnt valley]

Not pursuing magic is tantamount to choosing not to evolve

[eager marsh]

Mystryl’s only crime was inaction by choosing not to impose rules over mortals

[rough basalt]

Yep

[jolly agate]

Coolest god?

[rough basalt]

Depends

Personally, for me the coolest gods are ones that practice what they preach.

[blissful dragon]

Wasn’t it mentioned this mystra is the third one that hadn’t been around that long at that point

[rough basalt]

Ye, she's the third one

[blissful dragon]

I feel I heard she came to be around the same time as gale

[rough basalt]

Technically 4th incarnation I'd say but 3rd being to be called Mystra

[buoyant oar]

There is some lore things there. The current Mystra did not return until the 1480s. So the whole getting preyed on as a child. Has some stretchiness to it

[blissful dragon]

Yeah that what I heard at least

[eager marsh]

Fearun suffers from a lot of loose handwashing here and there because most people writing anything haven’t read everything for timelines

[buoyant oar]

She did not return until 1487 completely so the whole Gale was preyed on as a child. Gale was probably 20 when she actually came back to life.

The video games are notorious for breaking everything all of the time. Up to a point where back in the TSR and early Wizards days. They were automatically doomed non-canonical until the events of the game were codified in either a novel or source book

[eager marsh]

Iirc BG3 has a plot that relies on ‘mind flayers don’t have souls’ but lore beforehand disproved that

[merry pine]

Seriously. What the F is going on in 2026. Not even a hint of anything

[rough basalt]

Coolest god for me is probably Selune. Cause she thinks her purpose is based and doesn't constantly try to skirt around it like other deites

[rough basalt]

No books ever

Only MTG cards

[buoyant oar]

The reason that we know the name of the first BG character Abdel Adrian. Is because the events of the first two games were canonized in three very terrible novels.

[merry pine]

Like I was patient and I figured they were saving up for something big but almost march an nothing.

[rough basalt]

They usually announce in march iirc

[blissful dragon]

Jergal and kelemvor are cool they just want to do their job

[buoyant oar]

I went back and did some research on their announcements March is the normal time

[rough basalt]

like last announcements were all the way up to Eberron and FR last year

[buoyant oar]

It just feels weird because their last release was very very thin and we are now 2 years into the addition refresh with no campaign

[blissful dragon]

Their is a big humble of dnd novels if that what you mean like 28 book for I think 19 dollars

[merry pine]

Yeah a campaign is needed.

[rough basalt]

Prob not gonna happen imo

An anthology sure

Probably a Giant one

[merry pine]

I like the anthologies but I feel like everyone (kobold press) has done too many lately and not any big campaigns

[rough basalt]

Its cause anthologies sell better usually and are received better

[buoyant oar]

I'm okay with no giant campaign. They take a lot of effort to make actually palatable for me, especially after the last several ones

[rough basalt]

Im thinking Giant cause its 2026

and Storm Kings Thunder was 2016

[merry pine]

Ideally I would like a source book paired with a campaign or anthology. I'd like to start seeing that

[rough basalt]

So time for Storm Kings Thunders'

[buoyant oar]

One thing that I think I would love from the official D&D team on D&D Beyond would be guidance and clearance around adventurers League. The current method of coming to this server to go to some of the most cluttered and unorganized channels to learn about organized play is maddening

[rough basalt]

Well if UA stands, we're getting a Ravenloft expansion and Dark Sun setting guide sometime in the next couple years

[merry pine]

Yeah I read about the Dark Sun one

[rough basalt]

Ravenloft will happen, but the Dark Sun one is debatable

[merry pine]

I'll be honest though. I love Ravenloft btu I'm ready for a break from it

[buoyant oar]

Curse of Strahd 2. Re-strahsening

[rough basalt]

Cause it goes against the "comfy nothing bad happens in dnd" public image hasbro wants. (Even tho all settings are absolute hellholes, Dark Sun is just the worst)

[merry pine]

I'd love to see them go back and do Mystara, the BECMI setting but it might be too quirky for them

[rough basalt]

There's also the matter of how the current 5e designers would handle Dark Sun

[buoyant oar]

Doubtful on that one there was a guy who made a complete campaign setting for that setting for 5e. He tried to get on the DMs Guild but Wizards of the Coast said no. So he made the whole thing for free. Look up Mr. Welch, 5e Mystars

[severe rampart]

Part two?? I haven't even gotten to the first part!

[merry pine]

I remember that. Thanks for the reminder

[buoyant oar]

There's even a printer ready version

[rough basalt]

Cause theres 3 options
1: They remove all the bad stuff in it, making the only people that'd buy it not buy it
2: They screw up again, making only certain people buy it
3: They do it right
All 3 scenarios they get bad PR from internet screamers but those should be ignored a lot of the time.

[buoyant oar]

The thing about dark sun is, in my opinion, it's a setting that will require the deftest of hands and while there is a bunch of new blood at Wizards of the Coast, they haven't cut their teeth enough in my opinion on dark topics to get within a 10-ft pole radius of that thing

[rough basalt]

Reason it is happening is cause of the new blood i imagine

the old guys wanted DnD to be pure Forgotten Realms, other settings are for adventure books /j

[buoyant oar]

Can I get that but they need to drop the whole PG-13 thing that's going on in D&D around that setting. That's what 90% of their marketing is about and they cannot do that with dark Sun

[rough basalt]

Yep

You can PG-13 a lot of stuff but not what's in dark sun without making it feel like you're downplaying the atrocities

[merry pine]

If they dont want to do it right just license it to like goodman games or kobold press to do

[buoyant oar]

Like they can try, but that will immediately start to alienate people who love the setting for its dark themes and tones

[rough basalt]

And people who are gonna cry online about dark themes in their dnd aren't gonna buy the setting if they sanitize it anyways

[buoyant oar]

I'm interested and hope they do it right, I just don't see how the family-friendly image the company wants to throw up there, and that setting as a whole.

To be completely honest though, I was 100% surprised on some of the dark things that were in bg3. I'm surprised Wizards allowed half of that stuff

[merry pine]

There have been more gritty 3rd party settings in recent years that have done well so they might have noticed that

[lyric viper]

I feel like the idea D&D is "comfy nothing bad happens" is a little hyperbolic. We have descent into avernus, out of the abyss, ravenloft and so on. Wanting to handle things properly is not the same as pretending nothing bad happens ever.

[rough basalt]

What I mean is that marketing likes doing that, when the reality isn't the case

[buoyant oar]

Especially considering the long trend in the game's history, of making things family friendly. Feasthalls in the Realms, were just brothels. Feasthalls, were created as a name because they were afraid of the adult connotation.

[lyric viper]

And settings have always been a gamble. Settings in some ways were what sank 2e as it split the market base too much. So it's not unusual to favour a setting for a while and FR has been a favourite since late 2e

[buoyant oar]

Fr has staying power because it's actually hold true to its own ethos, it's a setting for a thousand stories. It's a setting you can do anything in.

[rough basalt]

So if they market dark sun as a "hot spot for vacations!" like DiA and someone buys a book and first thing they see is
CW: Genocide, Slavery
Theyre gonna go "what"

[feral fulcrum]

And sometimes they pretend to touch a setting, while not actually toucing the setting at all. Looks at Spelljammer being a Monster Splatbook pretending to be a setting book

[merry pine]

I dont mind this but I wish they would release a setting then a campaign or two in it. They jump from setting to setting and never really make content for it beyond the one release

[rough basalt]

Course in DiA's case its the same. Markets Avernus as a tourist spot when its Mad Max

Tho on the other hand, those ads are probably meant to be jokes

[buoyant oar]

To be fair in this day and age of poor media literacy, I know people who thinks that everywhere is whimsy and fun

[merry pine]

I'd love to see a proper campaign setting for the Feywild

[rough basalt]

Ye part of why I've been afraid to use darker themes in my games is i dont wanna deal with getting yelled at for bad things happening in a dice clacking game

[feral fulcrum]

I don't have high hopes for it. Even when WOTC remembers it exists it still...gets half ignored. And going by Witchlight...gets treated in a rather childish manner.

[rough basalt]

I remember hearing somewhere they wanted to release more setting guides

Like the FR ones

[merry pine]

I liked the Witchlight campaign though

[rough basalt]

With a bunch of minor adventures for inspiration or quick reference

[buoyant oar]

Take the current fascination with Karlach Cliffgate.

Such a beam of positivity. The golden retriever GF. One of the coolest and sweetest people to be introduced to the setting in decades.

There is a deep and dark trauma surrounding that character that you could explore without spoilers to the main narrative of BG3. I do not see Wizards of the Coast ever doing that. She's just awesome girl who is awesome!

[rough basalt]

Cause it's easier than trying to make a whole campaign that appeals to enough people

[buoyant oar]

Now I will say emphatically the new FR books was a step in the right direction. I think that should be the way they handle settings going forward instead of trying to do one book that satisfies all ports

[burnt valley]

Managing to turn a campaign with the Dark Sun setting into a comedy would be a funny feat

[rough basalt]

And their dedicated adventure books have always been hit or miss while their setting guides have mostly been decent on average

[feral fulcrum]

And it still took them 10 years to get to it, and it was treated as an Expiremental "Everything can be resolved in a fun, kid friendly, peaceful manner." Adventure book.

[merry pine]

Yeah I liked them. And Ed Greenwood is supposed to do a bunch of regional FR followups on DMs Guild

[rough basalt]

Thats the part i liked the most

The new people acknowledging Ed again

[feral fulcrum]

Taking 10 years to poke an entire plane and then treating it as a child-friendly experiment is....not a good sign for the future of Feywild adventures.

[merry pine]

I mean the thing has Ray Bradbury vibes I didnt think it was that child friendly

[buoyant oar]

There was a lot of bad blood between the people who recently left WotC and Ed Greenwood Mostly because of Spellplague stuff.

[merry pine]

I think thats what I like about the Feywild is that on the surface it can look like a place of whimsy but there's something dark underneath like Alice in Wonderland

[atomic kayak]

Witchlight wasnt really child friendly. It just didnt go full "dark fey" or whatever. It was a mix of things

[hot marlin]

There's bad blood between everyone who likes the Forgotten Realms and those people due to Spellplague stuff, to be fair

Child-friendly isn't the best term. I would say "whimsy" is the better one.

It's a slight nuance. Witchlight embraces whimsy in a way that does not, I think, serve its narrative and purposes

[atomic kayak]

There definitely were parts that were whimsical yes, there were also parts that were dark

The only area part that I would describe as particularly whimsical throughout (without spoilers) is the first part, which is just the carnival

[merry pine]

And a carnival is always just a few clowns away from being scary

[atomic kayak]

Funnily enough, despite the carnival itself not being scary, there was a dark undertone to at least some of the pretenses the adventure gave to sending the PCs there

[rough basalt]

Yeah I feel like the 4e Forgotten Realms Guide was probably the worst point in the IPs history

Disrespected and drove off a bunch of creators, including the settings creator and almost made its longest running novel series end from making the writer angry.

[merry pine]

I wish in the digital space they would do a Neverwinter Nights game. It covered so many things:Classic CCRPG, custom made content...there were servers that even tried to be an MMO, and a 3d dungeon platform with a DM being able to control it like an early day VTT.

[dim wasp]

DnD 10.0 by 2050 trust/j

[buoyant oar]

It made the best author according to Ed Greenwood completely quit writing fantasy for DnD. Elaine Cunningham canceled her last book and left her long running series with fan favorite Arylin Moonblade unfinished.

[uncut zenith]

I feel like the rest of the adventure definitely has an interesting blend of “dark whimsy”, if that makes sense. When I played through it, it gave me a very similar tone/vibe that Jim Henson’s Labyrinth did

[atomic kayak]

Its a good descriptor for Witchlight at large

[lyric viper]

I'd love to see another full supported digital game / VTT like NwN1. Some of those servers are still thriving.

[rough basalt]

All cause "we know whats best, points of light the forgotten realms, 100 year timeskip"

[atomic kayak]

I think somewhat fittingly (again without spoilers) the darker elements become more obvious (not necessarily saying they are not present elsewhere) the further you get into it.

Which is something I would call pretty classic fey themed

[merry pine]

Yeah and BG3 already supports mods. All you have to do is expand it to have a tile creation system and the ability for a DM to take control.

[rough basalt]

It'd be interesting if Solasta 2 did something like that

Since it'll use the RAW 2024 ruleset as best as it can be adapted to video game format. Like Solasta 1 did with 2014

[atomic kayak]

Ill be honest, with very clear acknowledgement of the difference between a video game and a virtual tabletop, trying to directly translate the 5e system (well, most editions of dnd really) into a video game is a bad idea

(Part of why I think its a good thing bg3 made a lot of the changes it did)

[rough basalt]

True, I meant from a trying to make a VTT mode pov

[uncut zenith]

Yeah BG3 made the decisions they needed to translate 5E into a video game while understanding that it’s not gonna translate perfectly 1:1

[rough basalt]

having jumps and shoves being bonus actions for an actual table could get annoying imo

[uncut zenith]

Definitely. Especially considering how many things in 5E consume a bonus action already

[rough basalt]

Also bg3 shove not causing prone unless they're knocked off a high enough area to be proned

[uncut zenith]

Yeah BG3 shove is basically just a disengage that doesn’t require movement

[atomic kayak]

I think the biggest examples for me are honestly moreso the things that bg3 chose to not include (with changes being a separate thing) A lot of spells and roleplay abilities for example

[rough basalt]

ye thats prob was the point cause if you could prone as usual, you'd just annihilate people

[atomic kayak]

Like not including dispel magic and things like that was a good decision (despite people complaining about it)

[crimson gulch]

i remember watching the interveiw when they said they did not include dispel magic because that be came the solution to half the game

[uncut zenith]

Yep. It’s so easy to lose track of or accidentally use movements you didn’t intend to in BG3 that having an option to “disengage” without relying on moving away is nice

[tall forge]

Imo they did real good in making it feel like dnd

[merry pine]

I loved it. But I would also get into a game that was completely faithful to the rules. I just dont think most people would and it wouldnt sell as well

[undone rain]

Goliaths are only considered medium size?

If thats medium then what the hell is tall

[stone tundra]

Yes but in 2024 I’m pretty sure they have a feature that lets them temporarily become large

[feral fulcrum]

5E doesn't do Large PCs

Even Centaurs, which are Large as Monsters/NPCS, are Medium as PC's.

Because WOTC thought, despite all previous examples, that Large PC's were Somehow Impossible To Handle for maps.

[hot marlin]

Large starts with ogres, who you'll notice make goliaths look like dwarves

[feral fulcrum]

Horses are Large, and are not nearly as big as Ogres.

Size is just treated in a very...stupid manner in 5E in General.

[atomic kayak]

Not a 5e thing

Size category is about control of an area

[feral fulcrum]

90% of the time it's pretty meaningless, and yet WOTC Treats it like it's Mission Critical. And the Difference between Small And Medium in 2024 rules since they cut out the stupid "Screw small Creatures trying to weild big weapons despite Sized Weapons not existing as a thing anymore." Stuff, is what they can Grapple.

[atomic kayak]

And mount, among other things

The thing with Large is moreso how it affects other things, like auras and aoes

[feral fulcrum]

The only time being Medium or Large matter, is when it comes to Auras, and Reach, otherwise, it's a pretty meaningless thingi n 5E that does precisely Nothing but saying what you can, and can't Grapple. And, I suppose, what you can and can't mount.

[atomic kayak]

Where it does create a pretty dramatic difference which from a design perspective, I can understand wanting to avoid

[humble cairn]

Have there been dev talks about PC size where they said it was highly important that there not be Large PCs?

Because "Mission Critical" is a lot if they haven't said anything about it.

[feral fulcrum]

I know there have been quotes/explanations from devs on Why they don't do Large PC's, and that it boiled down to "Hallways."

[atomic kayak]

In short there's a lot of stuff that size affects, both explicitly and implicitly (aforementioned abilities, features, stuff like monster ability targeting, etc) that isn't listed in the size entries

[atomic kayak]

Honestly? Its a fair way to shrink down all the reasons.

Hallways being shorthand for "it creates a very large (badum) incongruity of play for these PCs"

The differences between small and medium, or other creature types, are all much more parallel with one another than tiny or large stuff

[marble lion]

Large is honestly not that bad imo

It would come up sometimes if you want it to as DM, but so can small

Tiny and huge are more comparable in my head

[atomic kayak]

Being Large affects more things implicitly in a manner that creates exceptions (in comparison to Medium) far more often than Small

[marble lion]

The big thing with large is the 4x4 actually so in combat it definitely matters

I was kinda focussed on narrative stuff there

[atomic kayak]

Size doesn't really matter for narrative (generally speaking) regardless

[still plover]

-# 2x2.

[atomic kayak]

Mostly because size is a game mechanic and narrative isn't mechanical

[marble lion]

Mr Oops

[marble lion]

Tiny and huge definitely start having repercussions even outside combat though

[feral fulcrum]

Tiny, not so much.

[marble lion]

Tiny lets you do tons while also making many things completely immersionbreaking to perform

[feral fulcrum]

At least not 5e.

[marble lion]

Huge bars your movement way too much and would allow for a lot of physical feats

[marble lion]

A tiny creature would be kinda unable to interact with objects that rely on a medium height, and also carrying certain things

Id probably be up for it as a dm

But i understand why its something considered a bother

Huge is trickier because of dungeon design having to change way more

[stone tundra]

At this point I’m confused if you’re for or against having tiny/large

[marble lion]

Im for it as homegame content if the DM is currently willing to put in the extra effort and it doesnt clash with the campaigns feel

But im not for official material making this a thing

Large, i am actually just all for, even in official content
I think there should be a large race

[stone tundra]

You can partially have that with 2024 Goliath

[marble lion]

Partially indeed

I like the semilarges but do think it would be fun for many people to just straight up be large

[atomic kayak]

Its permanent large that causes the issues

[marble lion]

Id love playing a goliath that is actually large
My players runeknight is now large by default

Never caused issues, just some narrative flavour that felt good

[wooden ginkgo]

I lost my dnd campaign a couple months ago because of a mistake i did
now i think i know how those people feels like when they break up with their ex

[undone rain]

How the heeeeeeell

[marble lion]

Regretting it?

[hot marlin]

How the hell what?

[wooden ginkgo]

regretted it the first day

[tall forge]

Theres plenty of fish in the sea-

or uh, tables on the web

[undone rain]

Idk it just feels weird but i guess it makes sense why the ogres make goliaths seem tiny. How talls an ogre usually

[marble lion]

Well unlike relationships, getting back together is always a valid strategy
Why not play with them again?

[tall forge]

Disagree, its def not always valid

[wooden ginkgo]

WELL i mean, i think i can't do that

[marble lion]

True

[wooden ginkgo]

it is a valid strategy except
i can't do that

[hot marlin]

10 feet tall on average. And on the large side

[marble lion]

Then its not a valid strategy. Youll get over it though so chin up

[undone rain]

Daaamn, a goliaths usually 7-8 feet. 9 at best

[hot marlin]

Don't forget that size categories are not about how tall you are, they're about your volume.

[wooden ginkgo]

that's what i told myself but i'm over here venting in a dnd server after MONTHS of the drama

pretty sure they moved on already too

[wooden ginkgo]

except for the "valid strategy" part

[wooden ginkgo]

so.... a really wide goblin can be large sized?

[undone rain]

Also a goliath usually dosent have a beard i found out but i still want mine to have one. Any good reason as to why he would have one

[hot marlin]

It would be dead from morbid obesity before it reached that point. But yes

[wooden ginkgo]

great
i'm gonna make the "Malnourished Glut" Who is a goblin that is really fat, and is considered huge sized
but he still survives from the obesity because a random deity hated him and cursed him to survive that

[wooden ginkgo]

could do vox machina stylised belt

[undone rain]

I got another idea for my cleric goliath. When he fought one powerful devil that he lost to, he got his eyes gouged by it. But from help of his deity, ilmater he was given new eyes, but have no pupils.

[atomic kayak]

Not even volume. They are entirely about area of control.

A horse, a lion, and an anaconda are all large despite being massively different heights and volumes from each other

[undone rain]

I havent seen vox machina

[wooden ginkgo]

so you're saying
someone with really long arms can be huge sized?

[wooden ginkgo]

search up belt vox machina on youtube or tiktok or google

[atomic kayak]

The only creatures that have their size category dimensions be their literal size are, fittingly, cubes

The ooze kinds

[wooden ginkgo]

that make sense

[undone rain]

Ah i see now, yeah that could kind of work

Altough ill make it just simply give him a beard for balancing

[wooden ginkgo]

to justify it more
if your goliath has a family or village (which i'm pretty sure your goliath has a 50% chance of parentless backstory)
you could probably make that belt a heritage thing

for whatever reason you wanna do

[undone rain]

Yeah could work

[wooden ginkgo]

Damn
so basically just genetics mutation

[wooden ginkgo]

feels the exact same thing as those people with exes saying "it's not the same, i don't wanna be in a relationship anymore"

[wooden ginkgo]

man if only i can send pics right now
there'd be tables on a spiderweb

[rotund wyvern]

français ?

[wooden ginkgo]

who or what is francais

with a little key under the c

[woven flint]

The language French

[wooden ginkgo]

does it translate to exactly that, actually don't answer, it definitely does

[blissful ibex]

franch

[tall forge]

Je ne peux francais

[humble cairn]

Sorry, this server is English only and as a rule, the moderators regretfully have to enforce that as they cannot moderate in other languages.

[rotund wyvern]

thanks

[wooden ginkgo]

wait like a decade and there'd be AI auto translator for chatting

[still plover]

This might help: https://media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-images/srd/5.2/FR_SRD_CC_v5.2.1.pdf

[rotund wyvern]

can you help me im a new ( french ) and i try to do a character cart

[blissful ibex]

And it will still horribly mangle turns of phrase and a hundred other things

[still plover]

Take a look at this post: #dnd-newcomers message

And do feel free to ask questions if you need further help!

[rotund wyvern]

thanks

[feral fulcrum]

There's more the one way to Flesh a Felis Catus

[wooden ginkgo]

"F### your loving mother"
"Sorry, i meant to say (llama)"
(pls don't take this seriously, i dont know if they spell it the same in chinese)

[blissful ibex]

basically XD

[woven flint]

Oh boy, I just realized
Tonight is the night I get to play more of my Bogeyman, Bogey! (Bugbear Ranger fellow) :>
I'm gonna ascend!!!!

[feral fulcrum]

Ascend ascend with Gooooorb

[wooden ginkgo]

a bugbear being a ranger
seems very accurate (if you try not to think about bows)

[blissful ibex]

if you think about it, they should really get a thrown weapon range increase too; more leverage

[tall forge]

Go bogey

[woven flint]

My Bugbear Fellow is gonna be a Gloomstalker :>

He's also going to hell!
As the campaign is Descent into Avernus

[tall forge]

Ascend…

[knotty vine]

dude i wanna play in the avernus campagin someday

[blissful ibex]

finally maybe managed a gestalt campaign that starts in a few weeks

[tall forge]

Im interested in the idea of gestalt campaigns

Im terrified of actually ever running one

[wooden ginkgo]

this inspired me to make a mechanic where you can double your range for specific ranged weapon if you take a turn to charge it

but then i forgot i lost my dnd group and campaign

[feral fulcrum]

Bugbear Rune Knight with a Reach Weapon would be something. Reach out and poke someone with a really long pointy stick.

[knotty vine]

i still think its funny that some subclass give you more languages only for them to come up every so often

[woven flint]

Bugbear Elemental Warrior Monk with a 20 foot reach

[blissful ibex]

put together the most reasonable and low powered interpretation of the ruleset to make gestalt as close to the base game power level wise as possible and one of the DMs I play with wanted to try running it

[lime pagoda]

I got like 9 official D&D coloring books that included a really cool 15 3/4 x 9 3/4 full color poster inside, at dollar tree or general (i forget) for $0.01 each!!!!

[lime pagoda]

They look sick af

[woven flint]

Pog
Now Color >:]

[wooden ginkgo]

they should add an alternative feat to replace the languages in case the campaign that players do doesn't use languages as much

[polar ember]

Why does it feel like an eternity waiting for to play the next DnD session 😭 😭 I WANNA PLAAAAAY

[wooden ginkgo]

there's a colouring book??? and it's 0.01 usd????

[wooden ginkgo]

how often do you play dnd per week/month

[feral fulcrum]

I don't see how any Gestalt could Possibly be close to base game power level wise. Given it's basically doubling your effective level and giving you So many options.

[blissful ibex]

should presumably only have to max HP until like tier 3 and then maybe add like 1~2 virtual players to CR calcs if that

[west grail]

not enough, obviously

[knotty vine]

most creatures can just learn common is the issue or just know it by deafult

[woven flint]

I find that languages don't often matter in a campaign because most folks that are important that you'll encounter will speak common

[lime pagoda]

yeah i think they do penny sales for things that are getting discontinued

[blissful ibex]

You're still limited by action/ba/reaction
it gives you more kit but your HP and saves are still fairly close to vanilla

[rough basalt]

I had a game last night but was so wiped out from the day I was kinda lost.
Looking forward to Monday for my next game session.

[polar ember]

Once a week😭 I wish we all just quit our jobs honestly

[wooden ginkgo]

damn, i do twice a week (i'm the dm) but i don't have the dnd group anymore

[buoyant oar]

I do about 3x a week

[feral fulcrum]

Yes, but It still does things like being a Full Wizard while being a Full Fighter as well, which does all Sorts of nasty things to combat balance.

[buoyant oar]

2 paid games and one West Marches I Run

[polar ember]

Super excited for this fresh campaign (also a DM)

[rough basalt]

I have two gonna be 3 a week
Monday Tuesday then Wednesday starting next week.

[woven flint]

Let's see
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday (every two weeks), Thursday, Saturday, Sunday (every two weeks)

[wooden ginkgo]

donate it to a random pre-school and make a random kid have hyperfixations for DND for the rest of thier life

[rough basalt]

My players did this very definitely planned and awesome thing this week.

[wooden ginkgo]

i'm extremely
and very viciously envious of you

[blissful ibex]

Ye, we're trying out just over maxing Enemy HP while in tier 1 and if we need to can start adding Virtual Players to the CR calc

[rough basalt]

Where they completely intentionally had life comes first events at the same time so they wouldn't do it in succession so we could keep running sessions

[woven flint]

I'm in campaigns very often :>

[wooden ginkgo]

not even weekend wth

[lime pagoda]

I have friends to give it to but I’ll keep a bunch

[rough basalt]

Saturdays I keep open for family

Sundays I've been trying but no dice.

[lime pagoda]

There isn’t anyone to donate to really

[blissful ibex]

I have like 18 hours of recurring sessions on a weekly basis atm

[wooden ginkgo]

oh damn, that's for multiple campaign?

[polar ember]

Would I be evil if I drop a false hydra side quest in this campaign, contemplating life decisions

[limber trail]

I run 1 and play 1 a week, and the more I think about it the more I've decided it's enough

[rough basalt]

My plans to run another campaign on Fridays

[lime pagoda]

Do you guys allow regular guns in your campaigns? (Besides for artificers)

[woven flint]

Yes
I have sessions every
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday

And Wednesday and Sunday are Bi-weekly

All different campaigns

[blissful ibex]

Also, not saying it is close; just running a more reasonable interpretation where you're not getting like 4 saving throw profs and double feats and double spell slots or other insanity

[rough basalt]

Yes

Tokii is John DnD player.

[wooden ginkgo]

would be peak if you know how to manage false hydra
maybe even keep mentioning a random person's name and drop fun facts about them or "they'd love this" and make it blend in into your player's things "player 1 would love this right?" and turn blatantly ignorant when they ask about the names (although that'd be too obvious if they had false hydras or know of false hydras before)

[polar ember]

I wish I can play that much

[wooden ginkgo]

yes, and no to the evil question

[woven flint]

Urzit may be John DM
But, I'm John Player

[rough basalt]

You might think you have someone else at your table, but it's just Tokii with a costume store mustache with a monocle

[limber trail]

tokii has yet to play at my table

[blissful ibex]

I have 2 on saturday, 2 on sunday, and 1 on monday q_q

my tuesday game died and my thursday game swapped to saturday so they're all bunched up now

[polar ember]

Oh I have it planned out since I plan to make this campaign horror themed

[limber trail]

(that I know of)

[wooden ginkgo]

that explains the random skeleton in my player's party that everyone glazes for being such a peak guy

[limber trail]

although come to think of it....

[tall forge]

I only dm once per week but big session

[woven flint]

Or have I?

[wooden ginkgo]

oh damn, nice
i'm very envious

[woven flint]

I've Secretly been at ALL of your tables at least once, trust (silly)

[tall forge]

Solid 5-7 hours per session

[rough basalt]

my goal is 4 dmed sessions, 1 player session a week

[tall forge]

Enough to keep me sated

[wooden ginkgo]

DAMN

[woven flint]

I've played in a game with 8 hour Sessions every Friday
It was fun

[tall forge]

But i crave playing… i crave it….

[polar ember]

Honestly I do join CM Games Saturday Oneshots to scratch my itch for DnD

[limber trail]

I wish I could DM 2 and play 1, but I don't think I can run 2 a week

[tall forge]

I def couldnt

[wooden ginkgo]

that's... 5 sessions a week, exactly the amount of workdays....
is your job to play dnd or something???

[blissful ibex]

Need a new tuesday and a new thrusday game

[rough basalt]

Nah my jobs to lay around and do whatever

[tall forge]

I would get stuff mixed up

[lime pagoda]

If you were to run a game that would go on for just one year, weekly 3 hr sessions, and the players wanted to get as powerful as possible, how often would you let them level up? (assuming they don’t waste their time doing nothing)

[blissful ibex]

so I don't go tuesday to friday having no game to tide me over to saturday q_q

[wooden ginkgo]

be a note taker
and be the most reliable person in the party
in contrast to your old self

[limber trail]

I just wouldn't have enough ideas for the both of them week by week I don't think, Or maybe I could, but I feel like different games would get more or less attention

[woven flint]

I work virtually, so I have plenty of time for D&D

[polar ember]

I can do campaign on Tuesday if anyone wanna start one🤣

[rough basalt]

DM 3 games is probably a more realistic goal

[tall forge]

For me its the latter

[rough basalt]

Monday Wednesday and Friday, that way i rarely go without tabletop games

[tall forge]

I put so much into my campaign already

[rough basalt]

My current campaign I just let ride off random encounters and players actions

[woven flint]

Imma get you /silly

[wooden ginkgo]

oh my gosh, i mistook it
the job was actually just laying down and let 8 different tabletop games play itself

[rough basalt]

indeed

my goal is monday and wednesday dnd, then fridays for experimenting

[blissful ibex]

Could make friday an AL table

[rough basalt]

I mean other systems

[wooden ginkgo]

shoot, just read your past messages
immediately forgot you were the DM @tall forge

[limber trail]

I put 97.82% of my weekly dnd brainpower into my thursday games and then put the other 1% into my friday game

[rough basalt]

Pathfinder and Fallout are tied for the Friday spot

[tall forge]

Yeah no, playing would be easy

[wooden ginkgo]

none of yall here do saturdays?

[rough basalt]

Fallout Friday has a good ring to it

[lime pagoda]

you guys don’t play sunday?

[blissful ibex]

I have a 3-4 hour and a possible 5 hour on saturdays O_o

[rough basalt]

I try, but Sundays can be murky for a long term game for me

[limber trail]

My "thursday" game is actually just run whenever we're free. That's thursdays for the next few weeks. Saturdays I sometimes do but I have other stuff going on. That's weekend time. Saturday nights are for life

[wooden ginkgo]

playing sundays right before monday is crazy work

[tall forge]

I work monday- friday

[wooden ginkgo]

or you just do it earlier in the day instead of evening/night

[polar ember]

I have another another campaign where I’ll be playing as a player but idk when that one is gonna start and I already dropped 200 bucks to commission my OC AND HE’S BEAUTIFUL

[tall forge]

It’s my only limiter…

[humble cairn]

I moved to the other side of the globe so my regular 3pm Sunday game became a 4am Monday game.

[tall forge]

Insane

[limber trail]

yeesh, that's rough

[lime pagoda]

Yeah i have a sunday 11:30-3:00 game but I used to have a saturday ~3-5 game

[humble cairn]

I enjoy it a lot, or else I wouldn't be be doing it.

[polar ember]

Might as well use him as my pfp hehehe

[tall forge]

I mean, i would do it too

[limber trail]

I played a 9am game for four sessions which imploded and I'm ngl I'm a little glad it imploded because it was not fun enough for a 9am start

[tall forge]

But i really wouldn’t want to lmao

[lime pagoda]

i feel like 11 is the earliest honestly

[humble cairn]

I just end up going to bed really early and setting an alarm.

[severe rampart]

Mood, I've commissioned over 20 art pieces of my character and it's only been session 2

[woven flint]

Do you wake up early for Waterdeep Menaces?

[tall forge]

Yeah but waking up into immediate dnd is a no for me

[severe rampart]

granted, I didn't drop 200 bucks, I dropped like 15 bucks

[tall forge]

I would be so out of it i couldn’t dm

[limber trail]

A little. it starts at 11 so I definitely try and like, make sure I'm awake by 9 for it. It's not super early

[severe rampart]

Oh my lord I could've bought the PhB with the money I used to commission art

[woven flint]

Is it worth waking up early for?

[limber trail]

It is

[tall forge]

Who needs to know the rules

[woven flint]

HELL YEAH!

[limber trail]

I mean it's also not that early

[severe rampart]

Sighh, let's get back to paper and pen, as the ancient DnD players intended

[minor cargo]

I did this for a one shot with folks in Australia. We started at like 4am and went until 8-9am my time.

Worth it but man was that a time.

[limber trail]

rules are option designed to limit your player agency

[severe rampart]

training wheels: off

[woven flint]

Damnit, now I got one of Gooses little freaky characters stuck in my head

He made a character that was a Kenku Divine Soul Sorcerer that was given power by Bhaal.. and all the Kenku said was "HELL YEAH!"

[limber trail]

As an australian this is why I really try limit my playerbase to other australians when I dm. I love other players but, I know what our time is like for yall, I can't put someone through that week by week

[woven flint]

I should play a cultists Kenku character
Have him only say
"HERETIC!"

[polar ember]

I had a 4 piece drawn and since my friend is the person I commissioned she gave me a bundle rate I paid 175 for two full body/full details/full color, and headshot and a reference piece, her original rates weren’t bad either it’s cheaper than most Artist I’ve commissioned before thank god😭

[limber trail]

Zealot Barbarian

Zealot Birdbarian...

[woven flint]

Heretic, the Kenku Zealot Barbarian 🤔

That's gonna be a back-up character for... something

Maybe Baulders Gate

[limpid vector]

I’m new to playing dnd and am wondering if anyone has any tips on good things to do during a session so that in the next session we can better remember where we left off. I’m also playing with a dm who is dmming for the first time

[limber trail]

I simply cannot let this horrible spelling of Baldur's Gate go uncorrected, I'm so sorry

[woven flint]

Silence, Knmesis

Knome, my rival! My enemy! /silly

[lyric viper]

Very close to kismesis there.

[woven flint]

Is that a bad thing?
I don't know 😭

OH! oh...

Funny, Elgate >_>
I'm putting you on the Nemesis list!

[limber trail]

Close enough

[woven flint]

Knome would never kiss a fella like me 😔

[limber trail]

probably not

but thats neither here nor there

[blissful ibex]

and tashas, and xanathar's, and heroes of faerun, and forge of the Artificer

[severe rampart]

"or" not "and", I only spent 15 bucks for all 20 of the art commissions, regional pricing is like that

[blissful ibex]

I thought you said you spent 200
misread what you typed

[severe rampart]

Hah! over my dead body, I could only dream of having that much money in this third world country

[polar ember]

I spent that two hundred, and it’s very well spent🤣

[severe rampart]

you could buy 4 foundry licenses with that 😵

[polar ember]

I don’t want to think about how many books I bought from DnD beyond both the book and digital copy😭

[tall forge]

Me and my group just share the one foundry license…

[severe rampart]

Yeah that's what people usually do

[tall forge]

Its a good vtt

[polar ember]

I like just having the physical copy I like to read

[severe rampart]

it is, but with the currency conversion it's hard to get because 50 dollars here is = 3000 currency

[spring light]

i so much prefer physical books, and then i just piggy back on one of my player's "campaigns" to have access to the digital content

[polar ember]

Last book I bought was the monsters of the multiverse

[polar ember]

I am usually the one that provides the digital copies and it’s hard finding books in certain stores so I just go ahead and by the physical and digital copies

If it’s gonna be 60 bucks in CM games anyways but as well spend it on both copies for the same price😭

[spring light]

my lgs just orders whatever books i need/want

i have a lot of store credit at my lgs, and nothing i really want... so i just get more books

[visual fractal]

So I've been using Onenote for D&D notes so far, but I was wondering if anyone has a better altternative for taking D&D notes?

[tall forge]

I dont have money or space to buy physical copies 😔

And buying digital copies seems pretty pointless, tbh

For me specifically*

[severe rampart]

it's being resold here at like 5x the price because of how hard it is to get here

[spring light]

i use pen and paper... but i'm going to start having notebooklm transcribe and summarize my sessions for me, see how that works out

[tall forge]

thats pretty awful yeah

[polar ember]

It’s good investment to have the GM and Player one as physical copy

[visual fractal]

yeah, I though about it, but I have a feeling my table won't like that I record our sessions and then feed them to an AI

[tall forge]

Might get it one day, but for now i stick to my normal methods

[spring light]

are you a player or the dm?

[visual fractal]

Both 😄

[tall forge]

You should ask em

[polar ember]

I also like to use pen and paper but that’s because I take notes with pretty pens😭

[spring light]

if you're the dm, then it's your table right?
But as a player, should definitely ask the dm at least.

[visual fractal]

I DM my own campaign, but am gonna play in another one in like a month

[spring light]

notebooklm is nice in that it's a pretty closed system

[polar ember]

I don’t take notes as dm though💀

[tall forge]

I will say, dm should still mention it

[spring light]

fair call

[tall forge]

I had players who don’t like being recorded

[visual fractal]

I like writing notes though, so I don't want to replace it with AI notetaking based on what we say

Cus We say a lot of dumb stuff as well

[spring light]

solid. i'm still partial to pen and paper

[limber trail]

I also know I for one would not be comfortable having a recording of myself being fed to an AI

and I imagine others may too

[visual fractal]

I do that, but at session 100 an NPC appeared that sounded familiar and it took me like 20 minutes to find it

[severe rampart]

Obsidian, use obsidian

[polar ember]

Pen and paper is just easy to keep track of, google docs is also not so bad to use for notes if you wanna split screen

[severe rampart]

you can link notes together, and you can even search for keywords, + there's no AI

I've been having so much fun taking notes of Curse of Strahd for my first session (as the DM)

[spring light]

i'm gonna be trying a mixed digital presentation for this "season" of my campaign.
It's an actual tabletop session, but i'm gonna try incorporating more digital media... see how it works out.

[visual fractal]

coincidentally, that's the campaign I'll be a player in

[severe rampart]

It's a great campaign, but oh boy are there so many NPCs and locations

[visual fractal]

Yeah, my DM did say that at session 0

[polar ember]

Most of the time we do our campaign over discord I load the map in the discord board and it’s easier to navigate the VTT😭

[visual fractal]

hence the prepwork for a half decent note-taking system

[prisma crown]

hi chat, good morning

[severe rampart]

Owlbear can feel a bit wonky at times, but it's got a free fog system, I think if I really like DMing I'll just get a summer job and save up for a Foundry License

[prisma crown]

was going to come here to ask a question but apparently reddit already had an exact answer for my specific hypothetical

[severe rampart]

what is the question

[spring light]

reddit be like that

[polar ember]

Surprised Reddit gave you an answer💀

[prisma crown]

I was wondering how much force an Owlbear could exert with its body while making a bludgeoning style attack. Apparently it's 93,750 psi.

[marble lion]

i just know the rules and play the game. dont need books to run a game. just need to remember the rules

[spring light]

it's going to depend on the weight and muscle density of the specific owlbear

[polar ember]

The books are there to check to make finding monsters and other stuff easy, it’s to each their own, however you want to play is up to you but I prefer some references for world building, checking enemy stats, and etc.

[limpid vector]

If anyone in here is a dm and noticed a particular player was rather bored most of the time and said they felt that their character was basically just doing the same thing over and over and wanted to switch to a new character how would you go about that either letting them switch or making them wait till said character dies? And if the party was level 5 would the new character be level 5 or would you make them be a lower level?

[prisma crown]

generally speaking yeah. In this specific instance it would have been a very specific instance to get that number because it's the power of an owl adjusted for if it was the size of a ~600 lb grizzly bear. Since it's speculative I'm not gonna treat it as anything near fact, but it's a fun theoretical number to throw around

me when I use "specific instance" twice in the same sentence

still got morning brain, havent had my coffee yet

[spring light]

may i ask why this info was needed?

[prisma crown]

as with all highly specific research I do, it was of course needed for writing

I cannot have confidence in my writing if I cannot describe a tiefling being slammed into by an Owlbear paw with accurate physics

[spring light]

The big ol' owlbear came crashing through the door, and with a might swipe pummeled the lowly tiefling with a big meaty claw.
The tiefing said "owie" and was knocked back!

[marble lion]

i did get a book gifted once and love having it for the art and flavour. you definitely dont need them to play though imo

i think theyre worth the money as collectors items, not for rules

im glad they gave free basic rules themselves as well. thats a nice thing

[spring light]

yeah, looking through the books for the pretty pics is nice

[prisma crown]

this was the topic of discussion at 4 am with my boyfriend LOL. The phrase "owlbears are ~1,500 lbs, and I would not like to find out what getting slapped into the ground by one's paw would do to a human body" was said and I was like "hold on I need to figure this out but maybe not at 4 in the morning"

[crimson gulch]

Owlbear is all you need

[polar ember]

Getting the pretty pictures from the books is nice🤣 I do just like having them, it’s a total preference thing, I just prefer reading from physics copies

[severe rampart]

Yes I am aware, thought sometimes it feels a bit wonky to work with

[prisma crown]

anyways, it's that time of year again where I do some world building and attempt to DM 💪 I however need to buy a physical copy of the 2024 phb because I Cannot function with the digital media books it's actually akin to torture

[polar ember]

When you need the content tables🤣

[severe rampart]

also Urizt, I was wondering, do you think the Durst Manor is alright as an introductory dungeon to level 1s?

[crimson gulch]

Agreed, physical books are the way

[severe rampart]

there seems to be a lot of contrasting opinions here

[marble lion]

physical books are definitely more fun than digital reads

[polar ember]

I like the smell of new books though

[prisma crown]

I'm a very tactile person and I'm able to function much more smoothly when I can flip through a physical copy and find things easier

[polar ember]

Old ones are a class of its own

[marble lion]

see i used to like book smell but modern books dont smell anymore

[crimson gulch]

The death house?

[marble lion]

i ordered like 20 books over the past years and none of them smelled nice

[severe rampart]

Yes, commonly known as the Durst Manor

[marble lion]

they all just smell completely sterile now, nothing basically

classic book smell is one of the best smells in the world

[swift wren]

Run it raw an tell us if you liked it @echo

[prisma crown]

new book smell <3 I love the scent of like.. textbooks and big encyclopedias when you open them up for the first time. Big fan of that ink smell

[severe rampart]

I've heard of people getting TPK'ed there and others not even knowing that players could die there

[polar ember]

Yes I got a new book and omg it’s so nice, it gives me a headache reading it but it’s a good smell

[prisma crown]

When I got my 2024 Dungeon master's guide, I had to flip through it a few times just to savor that new book feeling where all the pages are stiff and smell nice

did the same with my veterinary textbooks

[polar ember]

Same I think my best new smell book has to come from House of Leaves

Next in line is all of the DnD physical copies

[spring light]

heroes of the borderlands box smells really good

or at least the first printing did, idk if it still has that really woody scent

[crimson gulch]

oh yeah that was a great box openining smell

[spring light]

you're the one who told me to make sure to smell it. it was definitely a great box

[crimson gulch]

you dont do this as much as i do it without getting a little bit to far into it sometimes, no regrets no doubts

[karmic spade]

Omg 😭

I just found a great idea for a DND character in a western setting 😭

A lil duck cow boy with newt skin boots and a six shooter

He would be the deadliest dueler in the west

His tiny,tiny pistol would blow holes in mountains 😭

[fresh elk]

Are there any spells that revert a druid his wildshape

[karmic spade]

It's so cute tho 😭

[reef tundra]

In a way, damage spells /j

[woven flint]

Moonbeam, I'd reckon

[reef tundra]

Oh yeah that too

[woven flint]

It reveals a shapechangers true form and reverts them

[reef tundra]

I love moonbeam

[karmic spade]

I wna see a tiny big talkin duck cowboy with his trusty six shooter taking down bad guys 😭

[reef tundra]

My changeling character is afraid of the Druid in the party because she knows she has moonbeam prepared

[karmic spade]

Name him Johnathan Duck

[woven flint]

Good, be fearful

[stiff rock]

i don't think wild shape technically counts as shapechanging

[karmic spade]

Or his nickname "John Penny"

[reef tundra]

A friend of mine once played a cowboy raccoon

[stiff rock]

although 2024's moonbeam only refers to have being shape-shifted, so it depends which version you're using i think

[sharp island]

Hey guys

[karmic spade]

Omg ,IDEA ,we need a DND campaign were the party is a bunch of silly animal cowboys

Imagine a bear cowboy that's just a stupid hill Billy, 😭

"Hi there Ma'am I'm bubba,have you seen my frands?"

Tiny hat, dumb face

[spring light]

there's a whole system for this, actually. . . .

[karmic spade]

Comically small boots

[karmic spade]

I need to do some research

[fresh elk]

Yeah I know of moonbeam but nothing more right? even dispel magic doesnt work

[scarlet swallow]

Also, subclasses and other rules from Xanathar’s Guide to Everything and Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything will eventually be compiled in a new book, similar to how the 2021 release Monsters of the Multiverse revised statblocks and compiled information from several older rulebooks.
— https://comicbook.com/gaming/news/dungeons-dragons-one-dnd-backwards-compatibility-creator-summit/

is this still a thing that is in the works?

[spring light]

actually i was mistaken, but can i dm you?

[karmic spade]

Yur

[fresh elk]

Targeting a polymorphed Druid for like dominate human? Is it still counted as a human or do we need dominate beast/monster?

[marble lion]

You mean wildshaped, not polymorphed, right?

Those are mechanically different in a few regards so it might matter here

[fresh elk]

YEah def wildshaped!

Polymorphed also*

Polymorph can use dominate person? But wildshape als changes the typing so dominate monster/beast then right?

[marble lion]

Polymorphed does change type

[woven flint]

Druids in Wildshape are still considered the creature type they were outside of wildshape

[marble lion]

So wildshape doesnt change type. Google and reddit lied to me

Did it get it right for poly tho?

2014 wildshape seems to change type to beast im reading it

[fresh elk]

Huh?
I've read this If the druid wildshapes into a beast, its type changes to match that beast. So, the druid is no longer a humanoid, the target of Dominate Person is invalid, and the spell ends. In this way, it works in reverse of the Dominate Beast spell.

[marble lion]

Yup in 2014

[fresh elk]

ahh yeah

[marble lion]

You only retain alignment, mental stats and personality

And apparently racial abilities, which is confusing

[fresh elk]

So with Poly & wild shape dominate beast/monster is the way to go

[marble lion]

Like a tiefling that wildshapes could still use hellish rebuke

But is no longer humanoid

[still plover]

You sure?

[marble lion]

In 2014 yes

[marble lion]

"If physically capable" but yes

I dont know 2024 at all

[fresh elk]

ah poly 2024 retains creature type

So poly = Dominate person
WS = Dominate monster (which targets a creature)

[still plover]

Ahh. 24 lets you keep your class features.

[fresh elk]

Talking about 2024 here

[marble lion]

14 also retains class ha

But again the physical capability is required

[still plover]

Can't cast spells in either version, though.

[meager fractal]

I don't see anything about racial abilities in 2024's entry though

[marble lion]

Could a 14 bear use extra attack if multiclassed?

[reef tundra]

I was about to chime in but I don’t know all of what is happening

[marble lion]

The text implies so imo

[reef tundra]

They shoulda just kept wildshape as it was in the UA

[marble lion]

Battlemaster maneuvers would work too

Hold on.... fighter druid mc

[still plover]

Yes.

[marble lion]

This sounds really fun
Or monk

[meager fractal]

that does

[reef tundra]

The cooler half brother of ranger

[fresh elk]

A wildshaped druid can cast spells right in wildshape?

[marble lion]

Kungfu panda time

[reef tundra]

Perfection

[marble lion]

I had absolutely no idea wildshape keeps class abilities, thats hilarious

[still plover]

That's... exactly the opposite of what I said, quoted in your reply.

[reef tundra]

I still run wildshape like in 2014

[marble lion]

Roel might be talking about a subclass that can

Isnt that a moon feature?

[reef tundra]

I’m pretty sure it’s a feature that high level Druids get

[fresh elk]

Talking about moon druid yeah

[still plover]

I mean, take it to #dnd-rules and yeah, if there's a druid feature that overrides it, cool, but the default is no spells for bears.

[marble lion]

Indeed

[meager fractal]

that'd be hilariously fun

[still plover]

Protip: have your druid come from a city with a large zoo.

"How do you even know that form?!"

"Trumpets!"

[marble lion]

"It was revealed to me in a vision"

[fickle terrace]

Hello ^^

[polar ember]

If my DM is doing a campaign in dnd beyond and I dont wanna bust my butt to make my homebrew character in dnd beyond should I just ask him if I can put a placement character in dnd beyond for dice rolling and stuff while I use my physical Character Sheet?😭

Imma cry nagivating homebrew subclass at this point

[reef tundra]

Do you need to be a homebrew subclass?

[polar ember]

Nah I have the physical character sheet for the Dancer class I just used the GMBinder for the class I need. I thought it would help the dm see my dice rolls for my character if I had a dndbeyond character sheet in his campaign but honestly I dont know why I am trying to help him, he can suffer

[small heath]

For me personally I am wanting to use a homebrew species and class for this upcoming campaign. My DM worked with me on finishing the species on dndbeyond and making it functional (only took a few hours). The subclass will take a bit. So he just recommended me to do a class that currently is made/existing that is the closest to what I want, then we'll integrate my homebrew desire when it gets done.

The important thing is that I am constantly communicating with my DM about what I am implementing and my ideas so they're on board, and they can give me advice.

[polar ember]

Yea the subclass homebrew on dnd beyond is giving me a headache I had to delete it a couple of times cause it didn't seem right

[severe rampart]

Right? it's so unecessarily overcomplicated

[small heath]

Honestly it's easier to use a base one then edit from there. I have a few tabs open where I looked up a specific spell or a specific class through the homebrew maker, just so I can see the textcoding needed.

It's complicated at first but after making my first few spells it isn't that bad.

That's the nice thing about dndbeyond is that I can take pre existing stuff and then look to see how it's set up, and just mimic it.

[polar ember]

EXACTLY like Monk as the base class and I wanted Dancer to be the subclass but I want to replace qi points with dance step but then I have to scale and how do I even replace Qi points in the first place

[severe rampart]

I feel so vindicated right now

[reef tundra]

Ah, you can’t on dnd beyond. You can’t remove features

[small heath]

^^

Class features /=/ subclass features

[polar ember]

yea using my physical sheet

[reef tundra]

Fortunately 2024’s name for Ki being “focus” would make it easier because of how much broader the name is

[small heath]

you can change subclass stuff, but not class stuff, and that's alright. My magic homebrew thing I am working on doesn't work as intended with current existing magic classes, so I use a google doc explaining it, and I have that doc shared with the DM.

The spells and such I implement into dndbeyond with existing things and I just refer to my document about how it'll actually function, while obeying the technicalities of dndbeyond and D&D rules in general.

[polar ember]

I have my dancer chart so it's less complicated, as long as my dm know how the class work we should be fine

[small heath]

As long as the DM has access to your physical sheet (lowkey you can just send a photo) then it works.

Then all the subclass things and spells your Dancer might have, you can homebrew that in dnd and just change the text and descriptions.

A good DM, and party in general, will help you with homebrew creation and navigating dndbeyond.

The only hard part about homebrewing imo is the textcoding and making it work automatically with dndbeyond stuff. (i.e. clickable spells and conditions).

[meager fractal]

I want to find a campaign that'll let me play a Battlemaster/Moon Druid multiclass now and go around tripping, goading, and riposting as a bear xd

[polar ember]

I have the class reference so I should be good, Kind of Eyeing the Art of Paragon from the GMBinder Dancer class guide

[small heath]

For example: this is the text coding I had to learn and manually type in just so I can click on an attack and it'll roll as intended:

[rollable]+7;{"diceNotation":"1d20+5", "rollType":"to hit", "rollAction":"Ghastly Claw"}[/rollable],

(for one of the monsters I made on their monster stat block).

That's the hard stuff

All this does is that it allows for the user to click on the attack itself and it'll roll a 1d20+5 automatically.

[polar ember]

now I know why none of my homebrew attacks work on dnd beyond XD

[small heath]

You have to learn the textcodes. Frankly, what I did was look at monster stat blocks and made copies of them through homebrewing creation, then just copy and pasted it into my custom one. I then studied it and referenced what I saw to different threadposts and made the connection.

[polar ember]

there was text coding holy cow

[small heath]

It's actually kind of cool once you find out what you can and can't edit

But your best friend is simply looking at a monster stat block, finding a set up that is similar to what you want, copy and paste it into yours, then edit the values

[stoic haven]

Mornin, how are we all

[polar ember]

I might need you to teach me this ngl

[small heath]

I myself am a perfectionist when I make something so even though I don't need to do all of this textcoding for a homebrew, I want to

Just so it'll look well made

[polar ember]

I respect that cause I could never

[small heath]

Right now regarding my homebrew quest from earlier, I managed to get my species functional, so yay.

[polar ember]

what species is it?

[small heath]

I'm currently need to do the subclass, but before that I need the spells. So I have to homebrew a bunch of spells then do tests to see if it works. That will eat up a lot of time.

I can tell you a bit about them in #homebrew if you want.

[polar ember]

yes

[faint oriole]

So I'm a first time* DM trying to make a homebrew campaign (not a super long one but still) and I was wondering if I should get the DM role despite not having experience in order to look for some help with it, or if I should just ask here and hope a DM willing to help comes along?

*I've DMed a couple individual sessions of a prewritten module, but only one was completed, so I'm basically a total noob at it

[severe rampart]

Yeah I mean, why wouldn't you? even DMs in training get the role if they want to, it's not like there are any prerequisites to getting it

[marble lion]

Yeah

All you need for the role is the desire to dm or being a dm, you fulfill both

[iron herald]

If anything the DM role is important for supporting new DMs by providing access to more information.

[proper forum]

So... can elves move their ears? I'm asking out of curiosity.

[marble lion]

I assume just as humans can move thrir ears, yes

[meager fractal]

How do you play a Light Cleric correctly?

[marble lion]

How rare it is though i dont know

[polar ember]

yes I've seen an elf do it before

[feral fulcrum]

Ponder the Lightbulb. But less jokingly, just play it as a Melee Cleric that has features that'd prefer it to cast cantrips instead.

[stray sage]

how big exactly is a 15 foot cube?

[woven flint]

...
15 feet by 15 feet

[small heath]

a 2nd story building without a roof

[reef tundra]

As a Brit who has played dnd for years. I gave up trying to comprehend how big things are in feet ages ago

[lyric viper]

It's 15 by 15 by 15 foot. Would you like a conversion, or a height comparison?

[stray sage]

as in how many spaces would it take up on a VTT?

[feral fulcrum]

15 feet cubed. So 3,375 feet of volume.

[lyric viper]

3 squares on each side usually.

A square on a grid is typically 5ft

[reef tundra]

Each square is most commonly 5 feet

[feral fulcrum]

Every square is 5 feet. 5 feet * 3 = 15.

[marble lion]

Squares are each 5ft

[stray sage]

oh okay got it thank you

[marble lion]

5ft is how big squares are

[reef tundra]

Square are five how feet

[polar ember]

haise you said that twice XD

[lyric viper]

I think we've squarely sorted this now.

[reef tundra]

How five are

[feral fulcrum]

But the real question is how all these squares made a circle

[marble lion]

Note therefore that they shall not be 4ft, nor 3ft and 2ft is entirely out of the question

[reef tundra]

Okay I’m ending there

[tall forge]

Wait, how big aree squares?

[marble lion]

Im done. I had to get monty in

[polar ember]

As a minecraft player I can not answer this

[tall forge]

What if i have a smaller square

[marble lion]

Every table is different

[lyric viper]

As another brit, feet to me are normal, but more for living creatures and people. Buildings are in meters.

[feral fulcrum]

Actually, speaking of circles, does anyone else find it odd that WOTC occasionaly stops using Radius and rarely slots in Diameter for no reason?

[marble lion]

Yup

[small heath]

Bro tryna be a bard with these jokes 💀

[severe rampart]

And I got that reference!

[marble lion]

Who said liches cant multiclass

[valid geyser]

Radius being default is weird to me

[reef tundra]

Squares feet are five feet are squares

[small heath]

I thought square feet are Minecraft based. Damn.

[tall forge]

Mine are 3 ft. Is that healthy?

[reef tundra]

Throws all of my years of playing with grids out the window but sure

[severe rampart]

personally, I've got two feet, but you do you

[reef tundra]

Health squares feet are the health

[tall forge]

Can i have them? I need to get to 5 ft

[marble lion]

Youre speaking predictive text again

[small heath]

Has anyone fed the dragon yet with a gif?

[severe rampart]

Please do not feed the dragon.

[lyric viper]

I think one of the funniest conversion issues that popped up in a game was when I was trying to math weight of water for Spelljammer. Turns out British pints and gallons are larger than US pints and gallons.

I failed to convince my DM that my cleric should get to make more holy water than others because I'm using british pints. (A flask contains a pint)

[small heath]

I wanna keep him starving.

[tall forge]

Booo

[marble lion]

Should have worked

[tall forge]

Dm shoulda done it. The british already suffer enough

[severe rampart]

I love silly little regional mistakes

on a bit of the same note, my DM had a sleepless night and ended up saying to my character quote

"You are very young for your age" which got a laugh from the entire party

[small heath]

at least not as bad the canadians a few days ago.

[astral bobcat]

A level 1 moderate encounter of six skeletons against four level 1 PCs: bone-crunchingly dangerous, or the kind of encounter they could face seven of in one day?

[small heath]

How strong are skeletons?

[severe rampart]

weak, very, but dangerous if the party's AC is low

[astral bobcat]

CR 1/4

[severe rampart]

There's your mistake, don't rely on CR rating.

Focus on what the party's weaknesses are

I reckon if they got a paladin or another PC with a high AC to be the frontliner they can easily do it

[reef tundra]

Agreed

[valid geyser]

Probably not insanely hard but if the skeletons get lucky it could be hard

[astral bobcat]

Party comp matters sometimes

[severe rampart]

I feel like it matters all the time

[astral bobcat]

This kind of encounter might be lethal in a 2014 game

[marble lion]

Nice

[astral bobcat]

2024 PCs are bigger and stronger and eat flintstones vitamins through

[woven flint]

Nah, mine eat Scooby-Doo vitamins

[valid geyser]

At level 1 there probably isn’t much of a difference

[marble lion]

I only eat the fruitshaped fruit gums that say they have vitamins

[karmic spade]

Damn bruh,the kingdom of daldar is horrible 😭

These mf dragons are bullying me in Minecraft 😭

[polar ember]

what do you think dragons taste like? Chicken? or Alligator?

[spring light]

closer to alligator

[marble lion]

There are no finesse polearms

Why are there no finesse polearms

[tropic sail]

Hey group. Got a thing, need advice. Got an encounter coming up in my campaign and have planned to reward the players with a magic item (a helmet ) afterwards.
Do I give the one item and let my players decide who gets it or do I give them one each .
Fyi they are all adults..
Thanks in advance

[feral fulcrum]

Polearms are not exactly Graceful weapons

[marble lion]

It just hit me
The spear is one of the most graceful weapons

Game of thrones viper
Shaolin monks

[feral fulcrum]

And a Halberd is not, nor is a Pike.

[marble lion]

Yeah but i feel like there should be a polearm with finesse

[spring light]

give them one each

[spring light]

unless you ahve future encounters planned to shower the other players with appropriate magic items

[marble lion]

I remember being devestated when i wanted to use a spear on my dex elf and couldnt as my first dnd session

[severe rampart]

Lobster.

[marble lion]

It makes zero sense to me

[spring light]

dragon turtle maybe

[humble cairn]

The ability scores are unrealistic to begin with and the weapons are just mechanics. Reflavor a whip.

[solar crow]

My session tomorrow could be interesting- it's my parties 5 intelligence barbarians turn to wear the amulet from our campaign, which was the item we spent the first half of the campaign (all of last semester) trying to retrieve 😅 🤣

[marble lion]

D4

[severe rampart]

Gotta crack the scales open to get to the ooey gooey insides!

[humble cairn]

Yes?

[marble lion]

I think its pretty reasonable to point out there should be at least one dex polearm

[spring light]

then talk to your dm

[marble lion]

If i had one

[noble basin]

shrug its not that hard to homebrew a dnd mundane weapon

[severe rampart]

The amulet gives INT I assume?

[humble cairn]

Ehhhhh ..... is it?

[marble lion]

Why wouldnt it be

[severe rampart]

Unless it's on DnD beyond... I hate that system

[noble basin]

sameee

I have homebrewed weapons on there though and its not thaaat bad realistically

[solar crow]

No it does time stuff

[noble basin]

Just easier on other tools imo

[solar crow]

We don't actually know much about how to use it yet

[feral fulcrum]

One barely ever needs to homebrew a mundane weapon. 99% of the time you can just pick an existing one that fits and reflavor it.

[marble lion]

I guess shortsword works for a dex spear flavour

[humble cairn]

Doesn't seem necessary at all, to me. I don't really want weapons to get any more detailed as a system.

[still plover]

That's s great idea!

[marble lion]

And no twohanded are dex

[solar crow]

We haven't unlocked many uses for it yet

[tall forge]

I think weapon masteries is enough

[marble lion]

So longer polearms cant be dex
Case closed

[tall forge]

Im happy with those, those are cool

[solar crow]

It works with what my dm calls time damage

[marble lion]

Yeah i retract my dex polearm demand

Ok ok hold on what if

[still plover]

There are existing homebrew rules for modular weapon design, I know. No idea how well they balance.

[marble lion]

Shortsword but versatile to allow for a dex d8

[polar ember]

It’s a reptile though? Even a snake tastes like rubbery chicken

[humble cairn]

Rapier exists.

[marble lion]

Oh right....

[still plover]

No versatile.

[mighty wharf]

That sounds like it's overcooked

[marble lion]

But a d8 at least

[humble cairn]

Rapier = finesse d8

[mighty wharf]

Like seafood should generally not taste rubbery but they mess it up anyways.

[marble lion]

And you can just flavour the twohanding

[still plover]

Better: you can wear a shield.

[marble lion]

Yeah im fine with this. Id love a reach 2h dex polearm but i know why that doesnt follow dnd weapon formula so thats homebrew

[spring light]

snake really doesn't though

[marble lion]

I exactly dont want that, but yes you could

[solar crow]

It's become a joke in my campaign that our barbarian is very very very dumb and it's funny as heck

[marble lion]

Id take the free-offhand feat that gives you stuff for it

Defensive duelist? Im not sure

[still plover]

Dueling style?

[mighty wharf]

Do wizards have weapons? All of my equipment is integrated into my character's body. The arcane focus, the armor, the shield, the components pouch.

[marble lion]

Dueling works with shield iirc

[humble cairn]

Portray it as defending with the haft of the spear.

[marble lion]

I mean one that needs a free free hand

[polar ember]

I wouldn’t know it’s just what other people described it but yall tasted snake before??😭 poor snakes

[spring light]

generally no, they don't use one. but they often have like a dagger as an "oh crap" solution

[still plover]

It's never a bad idea to carry a dagger.

[woven flint]

It does, yes
As long as you're attacking with one weapon in one hand

[spring light]

i've eaten many animals, yes. that's what top predators typically do

[marble lion]

Yeah the thing i mean doesnt work with shields

[humble cairn]

Flavor the rapier and shield as one weapon that you use to attack and defend.

[marble lion]

I think it gave you ac and a reaction

[tall forge]

Better known as super-predator or apex predator

I present the average dnd player

[marble lion]

Like a parry thing or a bonus action defensive stance i dont quite remember

[spring light]

player or character?

[mighty wharf]

DM homeruled it, it made sense because my character is a warforged

[tall forge]

Player 😔

Humans are weird ecology wise

[spring light]

animals are weird, generally

[woven flint]

Humans are Mid

[spring light]

then ask your dm if you can integrate a weapon

[marble lion]

Weird is general, animal

[tall forge]

Animal is general, weird

[woven flint]

Animal General Weird, is

[mighty wharf]

I think I can integrate anything that isn't a weapon... for flavor.

[marble lion]

Chat is whimsical and fun today, im enjoying the climate

[tall forge]

Is general animal weird,

[spring light]

that's is generally warforgey, yeah

[woven flint]

Weird Animal , General Is

[polar ember]

hehehehehe my friend showed me an update on my character I can’t get over how pretty he is

[marble lion]

Always cool to have artist friends

[mighty wharf]

I'm thinking of when the time comes roleplaying theives tools being built in my arm like I'm R2D2 or something, and creating a makeshift Soundwave Tapedeck for my tiny servants.

[tall forge]

Be the artist friend

[woven flint]

Have you looked in the mirror lately? try to get over how pretty that is 😎

[tall forge]

Suffer and learn to become one, as i am trying to

[polar ember]

She’s fresh out of college and needed commissions so I commissioned her and she’s doing amazing

[polar ember]

My mirror broke when I looked into it🤣

[woven flint]

Nah, that's my fault, I like breaking mirrors

[marble lion]

Mirrors really are very pretty

[tall forge]

Mirrors arent that pretty

[marble lion]

Yes they are

[tall forge]

Theres always this weird guy in em

[marble lion]

Nothing is perfect

[tall forge]

Ruining the vibe fr fr. I just wanna be alone with my mirror

[polar ember]

I think that guy just wants to be appreciated

[marble lion]

Is there a mirror themed class in dnd?

[tall forge]

Echo knight, kinda

[marble lion]

I feel like that would be a cool spark for making something

[severe rampart]

No, I'm a bard

[tall forge]

But as all CR things, it breaks the game pretty bad

[mighty wharf]

I don't like mirrors because I'M NOT ME

[tall forge]

Well yeah, im me

[marble lion]

Except bloodhunter

[severe rampart]

Whenever I see a mirror there's always a guy staring at me, it's weird

[tall forge]

Breaks the game inversely by being kinda bad and self killing

[marble lion]

I see you

[polar ember]

Role persuasion to convince me ur a bard, you have to pass a 15

I don’t believe you otherwise

[tall forge]

Portent die, nat 20

[severe rampart]

I just got on the DnD beyond app and actually rolled a Nat 20

[tall forge]

YOURE WELCOME

[polar ember]

Lmaoooooo

[severe rampart]

I am a lore bard but

[mighty wharf]

I'm just a bard

[severe rampart]

||I am planning to turn into a Lich.||

[spring light]

how original.

[tall forge]

I have to wait two whole days to kill my players 😔

[severe rampart]

Yes, daring today aren't we

[spring light]

haven't hit level 3 yet?

[woven flint]

Kill me :3

[spring light]

last campaign my spellcaster became a lich.

[severe rampart]

I don't gotta reinvent the wheel with my goals

[tall forge]

🔥 🏀

[mighty wharf]

I was just making a joke lol

[spring light]

an oldie but a goodie

[severe rampart]

Exactly

[tall forge]

My necromancer wanted to become a lich

[polar ember]

Yea I think I am putting that little side quest in the new campaign, new players love false hydras

[mighty wharf]

Off the "I'm just a girl" meme

[severe rampart]

Well, my actual character's goal is to kill his dad

[spring light]

i don't know it

[tall forge]

Then became worse, bc the only lich my dm knew was voldemort

[spring light]

daring today, aren't we.

[severe rampart]

All of my characters have daddy issues, just noticed that

[tall forge]

So he split his soul into 3 things. Himself, a teddy bear he threw into an astral plane by bag of holding a bag of holding

[polar ember]

You think a bard can charm a false hydra?

[tall forge]

And a vial he let a fellow player hold

[proper forum]

Should I ban homebrew species in case they are op?

[severe rampart]

If it's not immune to being charmed it's not immune to bards

[spring light]

absolutely. approve homebrew only on a case by case basis.

[tall forge]

Up to you, but hb species are usually thr least op

But also, you can just flavor a normal species

[woven flint]

My hombrew species that's literally just a lobster /silly

[spring light]

flavor goes a long way

[severe rampart]

Mmmm... lobster.

[proper forum]

I saw a druid turn into a homebrew wild shape and kill a dragon in one turn

[tall forge]

Theres very little homebrew can do that flavor cant

[polar ember]

Yummy

[tall forge]

The one thing being “be op”

[woven flint]

My homebrew species is now

Lobster with a Glock

[spring light]

homebrew can do a lot, like "be op"

[polar ember]

Don’t you dare I don’t wanna send out child support

[proper forum]

Seriously how did the dm allow that

[spring light]

was it a game you were in?

[severe rampart]

Child support? laughs in Changeling

[proper forum]

Yes

[spring light]

did you talk to the dm about it?

[proper forum]

But it was slightly less bad because it was a one-shot so it wasn't gonna continue

[spring light]

meh, one shot.

in actual one shots i let a lot slide, cuz it's a one shot. who cares?

[tall forge]

I usually dont care about hb races, bc end of the day
Doesn’t mechanically change much

Tho its gotta fit the vibe and lore

[proper forum]

It almost makes me wanna make the exact same character that he made with differences only in flavor and do the exact same wild shape in game he's in so that I can be like "remember me"?

[lime relic]

Hey guys just a question are we allowed to @ mods if we see someone breaking rules?

[spring light]

#moderator-support or use the App from the drop down menu on the user's name

[proper forum]

Yes, you can read about exactly how in #rules

[lime relic]

Oki thankie

[spring light]

it is strongly advised against pinging the mods en masse

[lime relic]

Yeah I don't like pinging poeple anyway XD

[proper forum]

Wait cos now I'm thinking of making the revenge character an actually interesting character

[spring light]

kit says while pinging me ;-;