#YO ANYONE DOWN FOR DND ON NON-STREAM NIGHTS?
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its in 10 mins no?
As an action, a creature can light a stick and throw it at a point up to 60 feet away. Each creature within 5 feet of that point must make a DC 12 Dexterity saving throw, taking 3d6 radiant damage on a failed save, or half as much damage on a successful one.
A character can bind sticks together so they explode at the same time. Each additional stick increases the damage by 1d6 (to a maximum of 10d6) and the burst radius by 5 feet (to a maximum of 20 feet).
@burnt sorrel
WANTED ALIVE: Karron Taranis for the murder of nobleman, 3000 gold reward (the wanted poster was 4 months ago)

@burnt sorrel that was quick thinking on your part
M31 values reason and logic over impulsiveness- she would have engaged
if you haven't said those things

Also i feel i have to tackle this cuz especially then someone will never shut up about it.
Yes i dont really do conversations, but i really really suck when i need to quickly try and figure out a realistic answer to anything that may even remotely require problem solving
So when i feel i need to give input, i will in the future have to put everyone on hold to think of a half-decent solution to whatever it may be.
Im slow coming up with shit like that on the spot and if i have to say the first thing i think about, we would be spending way more time clarifying what i mean because its a thing i face in day to day life too.
So in short, the pace at times does feel too quick for me to process and give a proper (keyword) input for the situation at hand
Now im going to eat and then sleep cuz i was doing alot of exercising today
Also great recap cannon. I was browsing the reddit cuz i couldnt sleep
sorry if i was pressuring you, but i was trying to challenge you to push yourself not just be mean making you do something you dont wanna
Okay, that makes me feel relieved cuz it does mean that way sometimes. But yeah, its just an issue of me not being quick at coming up with anything in those situations
Its a slow improvement curve in RPGs for me but i'll get there at some point
it's okay to not be good at everything, I'm for sure bad at a lot of things
none of us here are professionals

it was actually refreshing seeing Snake be the one leading diplo this time
yeah i mean i can lead stuff like that, i just prefer to let others first because although i do think im okay at "leading" generally speaking, i dont like to lead
@proud pebble just watched your recap on reddit, and sliiight thing
I didn't dispel the invisibility, I believe cullen did or whoever else had dispel magic
xopah opted to protect the party who were at 1 health first 
in case peepos care

i'm not good with talking in general one reason i chew gum at work cuz i fine it easier to speak when my mouth is already moving
maybe this is why i seem to be constantly snacking while playing with u guys 
cuz subconciously i feel i need something in my mouth to speak
CU113N did yes
not that it matters that much
yee, more if cannon cares about it, only we know anyway 
need a bit more stretch on some of our quotes i think. lil too fast to read longer ones sometimes.
darvin still misses his eyeball collection tho
as far as I can remember it was marked as Xopah in the notes 
I do want to be accurate but not enough to take the vid off reddit to fix it XD
that may have been the day half my notes disappeared and i had to retype them all from scratch

so Drake's fault 
if u hold a bee in ur hand do u become a bee holder?
Feedback noted, I will try to slow down when handling scenarios so people can take time to come up with a solution
<@&1248006648744902809> I'm still happy to run the game tonight but if people want some time off then I'm happy to postpone
i for one need the normalcy
so i am for playing but if the rest cant thats fine
I'm good for playing 
F IT WE BALL
@proud pebble we start in like 2 hours right
yes
I have to be picking my dad up on saturday night at the time dnd would be so i dont think i can make it
Hes comin home from a work trip and my mom wont be able to stay awake long enough to get him so the task fell on me
Sorry in advance guys
<@&1248006648744902809> I'm really sorry guys but I've started feeling really not good so I think I need to get some sleep
maybe we can try again this week coming if we've got a free day
No worries man, get some rest and just take care of yourself 
That goes for everyone!!
We all must make sure to take care of ourselves
Cannon be like: "Folks today's session is Go to sleep and kiss the homies goodnight"
if anyone wants to join the voice call anyways and shoot the shit play some games etc, let me know
i'd be down
rest up well, health comes first always

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level 20 M31
Reminds me of this
Jesus christ im scared
im basically going into comsci

Totally didnt take me 5 mins to find the clip
Well that came to my advantage, a fire broke out in one of the main servers in the country and literally no one had internet until this very moment

are you okay? 
i don't think he lives in teh data center... could be wrong tho
ah i left this in the wrong chat. that makes more sense
The fire is like 1 hour away from me , I am okay physically now mentally.... let's not talk about it 
@proud pebble we need a beach day
We had a beach day
It was with the sea hags
That was not the kind of beach day I am looking for
But it was a beach day
Oi justin
Also for everyone else, but would it be remotely possible to reschedule to sunday as my saturday wont work no matter what due to my dad's work trip this week and friday night i have a thing with friends

@proud pebble just killed a green dragon with another group
The druid walked up to it and slapped Contagion on the poor thing
Get hit with Scarlet Rot idiot, you're now vulnerable to all damage
and it didn't choose to succeed
Well it burned through two legendary resistances already
It would only protect against two saves and then we killed it
and it failed a +10 con save
Well no, the effect still persists until it succeeds three
did yall level up from killing a tarasque 
Or is it not a hard enough boss
Oh... You edited so it says green dragon
dam
oh green dragon makes more sense
Yeah
Hello there mister @proud pebble
mmmyes?
also
because I'm contractually obligated to say
here's the context for the spell
I did look the spell up
@proud pebble the funniest part is that it wasn't until the session ended...... that the DM said "OH RIGHT IT'S THE GREEN DRAGON HE CAN'T BE POISONED"
but by then it was too late, one dead dragon 
I mean techncally the effect is from a disease not a poison
with poison being it's own condition
yeah the rules seem to imply that the target is hit with both a disease and a poison
to me yes
it's a disease that causes an effect AND poisons them
Oops sorry my order came
I wanted to ask if the little rumor about a new DnD session being opened are true
ur campaign ended?
not yet
I just made people aware that it was close to ending in the summery video yesterday
Why you doesn't it sound cooler if you say it's a rumor?
Rumor
-People talk about it
-It's spicy
-If it isn't true you can blame it on others
-Sounds casual
Announcement
-Sounds corporate
-If you ask about it again it seems like you didn't pay attention
-Boring
I mean sure but calling it a rumor is also misleading
it's not a rumor lmao it's just an announcement
I'M NOT BACKING DOWN FROM MY WRONG WAY OF USING WORDS
You should
Its just straight up misleading and incorrect to call an announcement, a rumour
anyway, not the point
are you interested in joining?
i think it could be a rumour if the person didn't hear it from the announcement it self
It's just a silly way of me asking if I heard/remember the announcement right from yesterday
Sure though that depends on the times you set up and stuff
But I surely am interested that I can say
it would be during Jeannie's stream time on a Monday
as it's her day off
slimy doom is the best of them, if your party can hurt it at all
it doesn't get it's turn, and then you repeat that

IKR
Like 12 pm to 4 am for EU guys probably
yeah, around about that
@burnt sorrel @proud pebble are you guys free tmrw for this? If not, we'll postpone to next week
probably
@burnt sorrel ?
been busy sorry, no i wont be ablet o do sunday, got stuff planned already
can just play without me, dont mind
Majority vote in this case, <@&1284336728831950879> we will start 3 hours before stream on SUNDAY
Thank you everyone! 
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RMB the plan is to:
- Find out what the blood vials are about
- Discern how the Mafia has such rapid means of communication
that's stream start time
Thats uhhh... Thats stream time is it not
if you guys thought it was weird hearing a car in the last summery vid, I can't wait for the next one where you can hear my discord notifications
I'm gonna confuse so many people
Nah I'll tell you what to do
You have to sneak in a door knocking sound effect into the background and then people will actually question themselves
If you're funny enough you should do it for the next time Jeannie goes through the reddit
You know what you should do? Sneak in a Microsoft Teams/Discord call sound
Sounds a bit like Skype because both are owned by Microsoft
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I'll try to be home for dnd time, but if I'm not just start without me 
Sorry for asking the reschedule for this week guys
It must've put annoying strain on yall
<@&1284336728831950879> game time in an hour


both of these supposed to be my avatars

i like the first one the most
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h...
you know what that blood we found is? we're actually in the warhammer universe
and we just stumbled upon the beginning the sisters of silence, who are actually spellbreakers


: )))
nah we're not in the warhammer universe
althought there IS a D&D warhammer custom module
@proud pebble if you want ideas
for example
damn this Bloodthirster doesn't mess around
snipes from 600ft in the air, during pitch black night
This is a VERY 1 dimensional character, and sheeesh is she powerful
flying gloomstalker, invisible to creatures relying on dark vision
+13 to initiative and stealth

that would be fun to play yes
I'm happy that today our enemy was a seagull
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Notes for today: party found out how the messages are being sent (druids disguised as animals) and have discovered that some of the vials of blood contain magical-dampening properties
woe, scouts be upon ye
@proud pebble absolute cinema
I do think that we kinda miss out on this kind of atmosphere by doing it online
but on the other hand we get to play with peepos from all over
counterpoint streaming the map offers a degree of "we're so cooked"
especially when you just put up a giant eldritch horror and make it slowly descend over the stream

true
it's also funny when I have to add an enemy and then everyone gets to watch me shrink the image to size XD
Enemy shrinking to fit in the dungeon
map control was fun. 3 t-rex day was good
*4 trex next time
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Did beans die last night cuzno more hamvur
he went unconscious a couple times as we're all getting low but no one died
We've gotten quite low on spell slots so we have to probably take a short rest and then get moving
short rests will be all we have
@pastel idol are you completely out of spell slots? CU113N can rotate out to be a backline healer since he has Healing Spirit as a spell
got 2 1st level slots left, but unless we need it, you're better off doing damage before we need healing 
Out of combat I can use healing spirit as a 2nd level spell. It lasts for a minute and I can heal 5d6 to everyone
I still have lots of 3rd+ level slots available so we are still okay for dmg, plus I'm out of wild shapes
I do get both my channel divinities back on short rests, which signifies 50 points of healing(5x level) per
that I can apply however I want, not even needing to see targets, as long as they're within range

And yeah I do fully intend to use my 5th level spell slot to slap whatever's in the lake with a contagion slimy doom
Ah nice, that means we can hopefully get our healing kits back up
I think that's what cannon refered to too, when he said we've almost guaranteed to at least enter the final battle with full health

at the very least, if we reach level 11 or 12 before the final battle
I can get guardians up one final time at 6th level

alternatively, it would be very on flavour to enter otherwordly form
if cannon allows xopah to have that spell once we reach 11+
I still don't understand how the hell were meant to take on the CR23 aceraack when were gonna be drained of slots
it'd be a rough fight even IF we had all slots

And cannon alluded to there being ANOTHER boss after too 
It's gonna be a rough ride
you're assuming Aceraack is first
everything in dnd can be worked around or cheesed
one tactic that could be done if not for the location, is forbiddance
which would just straight up kill every hostile within the tomb
without us ever having to lift a finger
obviously this spell is banned in the tomb
we just have to plan ahead

Maybe we just get ridiculously lucky and Darvin crits twice 
eitherhow, I will attempt to restore us before the final fight, or first thing I do during
with divine intervention
unless something happens

just have to roll below a (currently) 10 on the dice to succeed
you'll level up at some point before the final fight

Yeah same, I hoped we'd hit 12 so I get magical secrets for shadowblade but it is what it is
Cuz it would have massively buffed my DPS
Ha, not happening
clerics don't get anything at level 12 they didn't have at 11 anyway
except feat
so little difference for xopah

more spells tho
+1 spell options tho
true
Yeah I think only xan gets a rough deal by not getting 12
I mean an extra feat for everyone else would be huge
Cuz magical secrets would literally triple my DPS 
by the way, just for good faith, I'll let cannon role the divine intervention die
since it's a beeg effect
like 10% chance to succeed

I'll slow roll it for dramatic effect
I also decided on the 2nd spell being spirit guardians with the idea being that he learns it by copying xopah 

spirit guardians is what ilmater initially protected xopah with when her village was destroyed
basically a level 1 divine intervention
what were the three skelly keys you guys had btw?
it was the somehting else I need to know XD
whoever has them would know 
by the way cannon, do you allow the "optional features" on the classes?
if yes, I could at the very least apply my divine strike to my sacred flame as well 
this one?
I am going to make a list of vicious mockery insults for the final boss
most of em are gonna be skeleton puns so be ready to cringe yourselfs to death 
divine strikes is what I've been using to add the radiant damage to my swipes 
I mean sure

though I may not actually use it anyway, since it's just good "right now"
the difference between divine strike and blessed strike, is that while blessed strikes allow it to apply to damaging cantrips
it never increases in damage-- divine strikes becomes 2d8 at 14th level
I'm glad you're excited but you will have to wait 
Curious question, could we have just opened all the doors and hid, thereby letting the monsters kill each other
Or would they have all teamed against us
no, only one wardrobe can be opened at once
I should specify
only one can be opened at once AND you have to kill the previous wardrobe's inhabitants before another can be opened
Boooo
YO
question for next summery
do you think I should leave a reading gap for the last plaque
nah she'll just pause for it
she didn't during the last time
i remember her readingit
she started but the vid moved on and she didn't go back to finish
so everyone died or you took over the world?
not yet
the party is on the 5th level (out of 6) of the tomb (and nearly done with the 5th)
I estimate 3 more sessions
one good meteor shower and they done
ye i know im evil
god can have any spell he wants. thats the point of being a god. just wish for it ๐
Mm you say that but
I have yet to see Acererak outlast Ao
Yo I have been assigned paintball today as an afternoon activity
I can't WAIT to shoot some kids
I want in on this too
You get extra points if you only hit their croch
jokes on that spell, my character might not even take damage from it

shield master feat
it will be necrotic meteor shower with acid rain
ehe

I do have my plans, I just hope cannon will let me use "otherworldly form"
<@&1248006648744902809> just want to check who in the current party would be interested in joining the next campaign

i'll bow out to allow a new player.
If there's like 8 people or something then I'll do two campaigns
and allow maybe more flexibility hours wise.
well, just let me know. you know i'm down
kewl
just wanna give peeps a chance to play
I'm making a list of peeps that are interested
Depends on who's playing and weather or not I start my own game by then but count me in tentatively
again if there's all of the current lot plus extra people then two groups would be needed
How big is that yet?
sadly i got too many campaigns, after ToA I'll probably devote my efforts to Kavinor
no worries
I would like to, but only if I don't take up the space from someone else 
Aizo gets priority spot 
Nah be egoistic and have fun
i would try to dm but i have strong russian accent. so not many would understand me + i only dmed in discord via text. so i want to play first to get a hint ๐
just to let folks know. we do have a tts bot peeps can use if they aren't comfy chatting with a mic
will see ๐ sometimes discord makes my audio card low volume even on 100%
I use it sometimes to roleplay, or specifiy my character doing or saying something 
everybody here has different accents, is not an issue 
yeah, you'll have to listen to my dry ass voice all the time
and my apparently german accent that is as far as possible from german 
who the fuck called your ass german!?!?!
almost half of twich chat the day we played nightreign live
didn't someone say italian?

at least italian is another middterrarian country
do i really sound that angry 
start adding nein in dialongs and you become easy german ๐
exactly
but yeah, don't worry about your accent
if you really don't feel comfortable then you can use the bot like Aizo does
ill first see and feel and then maybe as i have a cube(film) style deadly campaign and greek campaign
i mean i will play. maybe is on try to dm
this is me getting players for my next campaign
oi cannon , if you get 2 parties what if you set both of them in the same universe but doing diffrent missions so we can hear about eachother and maybe fuck over eachother 
you're only the second person to make that suggestion
whos the first
one is evil(bbeg) the other is good and goal is to who kills who first. 
why , it'd be so fun 
not for me XD
but if I'm assuming that the two maybes are both gonna join then we're at 8 players which is 2 campaigns anyway
you know what might be fun though? one peepo in the party is actualy a bad guy who's infiltrated the good guys party

If you want to be evil Aizo then go ahead
me me me im pure evil. me me me
I'm not running an evil campaign
isnt everyone in grim hollow evil? 
of course the tricky part is, to not give away the agenda to the rest of the party
any campaign can become evil
I have the Grim Hollow campaign sorted
but if 2nd campaign then I'll need to figure out what that's gonna be
I got a bunch of character ideas I'd like to try
- "long death" monk
- "mercy" monk
- "redemption" paladin
- "gloomstalker" ranger(owlin)
- "cavalier" fighter(riding a dragon turtle)

heads up when i am finished with my system its gonna be planescape so lets not do 2 planescape in the same time 
wasn't planning on planescape XD
just remember that if you join the Grim Hollow game, there are MORE options

if i get into the grimhollow i am going to play that hunter class they add
at least 2 more subclasses per class and 5(?) races
my fighter in Justin's campaign is one of the fighter subclasses from GH
@pastel idol
- eldritch cleric
- pestilence paladin
- parasite warlock

asshole inquistion cleric
and i can pull the classic corrupt cleric by having him learn some sort of necromancy
Plays shadow alchemist
i have either rogue who sees everything or warloc or simple barbarian
there'll be a session 0 where everyone who's playing (regardless of campaign) will meet to discuss the groups and character choices
aizo on her way to find a way to explode 50 times in one session
disembodied wild magic sorc
I'm reading the book again now
been a while
love this passage about the gods
At the start of the Age of Antiquity, the gods came into
being. They opened their eyes to behold a universe of
wonder and chaos, and they were enamored by it. They
wanted to shape it into something that resembled them.
But to do that, they needed to impose order.
The gods, good and evil alike, banded together to form
a pantheon. They shaped the firmament and the seas, then
the land and all the creatures that followed. They named
the land Etharis and created the races to populate it.
As these newborn mortals turned their minds to their
creators, the gods found an endless font of believers.
Their worship lifted the gods to greater heights, securing
their ability to turn the wheel of the universe.
But the gods were not alone. At the fringes of their
ordered realm lurked the Aether Kindredโincomprehensible
beings of pure chaos who predated the gods
themselves. The Kindred were mostly content to remain
uninvolved, thought occasionally the gods would find a
piece of reality in disarrayโa star gone missing, an ocean
dried up, an entire city disappearing into the void.
When the entire race of the Sommerkin vanished
one day, the gods decided theyโd had enough. The
Aether Kindred were an active threat to their power.
The gods feared that one day all they had built would
be stripped away. They need to strike now, while they
still had the faith of their followers and stood at the
height of their powers.
Thus, all the gods, good and evil alike, banded
together as a host and launched an assault on the
Kindred. This became known as the Aetheric War.
None can say precisely what happened to the gods
who participated in the war. Some historians say it was
a slaughter. Others believe the gods were consumed by
the eldritch horrors they tried to defeat. Others state that
some gods retreated from this plane to someplace the
Kindred could not reach them. While nothing is certain
about what happened to the gods thereafter, it is quite
certain they were utterly defeated.
Of the great pantheon, only the four youngest
survived: Galt the Builder, Maligant Warclad, Ulmyr the
Wise, and Aurelia of the Hearth. Perhaps out of caution
or fear, they held back from the Aetheric War. Thus, they
were the only ones left to pick up the pieces, becoming
responsible for the fostering of Etharisโs future.
If there was any silver lining to the Aetheric War, it was
that the Kindred never showed themselves afterward.
Itโs believed these horrors slept deeply after destroying
so many of the gods, perhaps requiring rest to heal from
their wounds. But once they have regenerated, they will
likely take revenge on the rest of the godsโ creations.
Whatever the reason, this left the Four Divines to
their own devices. As the surviving gods left to guide
the mortals of Etharis, they decided to band together.
Their idea was to create an ideal empire, the โone above
allโ to act as a shining beacon for all mortals to emulate.
This idea became the Bรผrach Empire. Its first emperor,
Indorius I, would be the lightbringer for all the nations
of Etharis. To this end, the Four Divines gifted him with
four holy artifacts that would enable him to rule wisely
and protect his empire.
For a time, all was good. Unfortunately, this method
of salvation carried the seeds of its own destruction.
The Bรผrach Empire so loved their emperor that they
decided to keep his bloodline eternally pure. The Church
of the Hearthkeepers imposed the Edict of Eternal
Blood, mandating that only those of the line of Indorius
I may ascend to the throne. With that, they forced his
descendants to intermarry, weakening their blood. The
wretched outcome of this practice finally manifested in
the Mad Emperor, Leopold.
When Leopold touched the divine artifacts, his
mind and soul were instantly connected with the
Four Divinesโand it drove them all to madness.
Galt, Malignant, Ulmyr, and Aurelia warred among
themselves, each vying to reign as the One True God of
the universe. This culminated in the Godsโ End, when
these last remaining deities destroyed one another.
Etharis carries on as a godless world. While divine power
remains, it constitutes but a shadow of its former glory
Sry, if I'm spamming XD

thats interesting world building
but how do clerics work if all the gods are dedge
maybe those kindred just give them power for the lols? 
The Arch-seraphs and Arch-Daemons have filled in the gods' positions although they aren't as powerful
so are clerics nerfed then? 

or maybe evil cults believe that if they sacrifice you, they'll gain divine power
that sounds fun
i want a cult to follow me 
maybe i can start my own religion as the inquistor
the inquistors are an order of clerics
yeah but i want to be a rouge one 
is supposed to be an evil world full of assholes so amma be one myself 
I mean the Inquisition are already dicks ngl
There's nothing stopping you from claiming innocent people are magic users
there's definitely no historical prescience for that
sounds like the demacia plotline 
I was going with the witch hunts and inquisition irl
thats like.... the exact opposite of what a monk should be
if cannon ever introduces a child in the grimhollow campaign amma abuse my authroity so hard 
I will remind you that just because the world is dark does not mean you get to be an anti-societal dick head
because I said so
nothing sadder than a good aligned DM
maybe my personal boundary is child torture 
i'd die b4 i play a child 
look the campaign I have planned requires you to not run around burning children for no reason
you actually have to be able to work with the rest of the party and the npcs
what about not childrens? and what about alcohol and sax(everything that moves)?
look if none of you can be trusted to not be murder hobos then I'm just not gonna run Grim Hollow
hey i wont be a hobo , ill be an officially licenced murderer 
wrong answer
i am confused about that class , just sounds like a alchemist
which is odd to be a fighter
so you just want to play a tank XD
when has aizo not wanted to play a tank 
If yall have a barbarian try using Stealthtimidation
not necessarily a tank, your backstory could be as an actual alchemist
and since you know alchemy stuff, you can be creating health potions and such
that you can give to your party
just in combat, you can then hulk out

Intimidate the sight out of people so yall get stealth
I mean tank as in the playstyle tho
I like being immortal
Alchemist, hmm what about edward elric
if you want to play that then you can
if aizo ever goes below half health its because everyone else died 
xD
I don't think that's GH
ahh
I know there are several lizard like races but is there also a Snake race?
yuan-ti

Full snail tail bottom too?
as far as I know, yuan-ti goes all the way from nearly human, to all naga form
Using avrae?
we aren't, no
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When did I say that 
who wants to fight... whatever this is
this is beautiful
if you're a dick then 5 of these spawn and start chasing you
nah i'd win 
not at level 1
peasant rail gun 
tomb king units

high queen khalida and her army of archers and snake constructs
@umbral osprey what is the ruling "woman" called in egypt, if the man is "pharaoh"? 
there isnt one
so just like concubines and such

the tens of tiny pyramids around the main 3 are the wives of the pharos that built them
my gloomstalker that I fitted to be same level as we are in cannon's campaign(10 now)
has +13 to initiative, with the alert trait so likely always goes first, even if enemies start a fight
she can also fly(owlin), has a dark vision range of 150, and is herself completely invisible to creatures relying on dark vision to see her
all of that, plus the fact that, if all her attacks connect on the first round of combat, she does a minimum of 55 damage
minimum
55
..
while being permanently invisible at night
..
and hitting enemies from 150ft in the air

#gloomstalkerthings
blindsight
polymorphs into a terrasque
so can't even be an ancient dragons
finds away to become level 30 
80ft

but legendary actions + breath weapons
I only have 45ft, though not until level 16 with mobile
I'll just have to make sure I hide between shots
they'll never find me

I can stay at 600ft range and shoot, just has to not be night then
hides behind the dragon
yee

drake knows
it turns around and sees you
hide behind other dragon, make them think they hurt each other
wait no, it has blindsight
they just use their breath weapons which they are immune to themselves
only if they're all the same color
just have 30 dex and shield master and become unkillable 
not all dragons have dex saves on the breath weapon
again, you can't hide mid-air
I'll just be in the darkness of the trees- my arrows cannot be detected before they hit

they burn the forest down
then move hidden between shots
mmmm hmmm
not for Dragons
not happening
unfortunately for you, I do get to say no
like you don't just get to say "I start flying" and have a 1/20 chance of it working
simply bag of holding + portable hole 
gloomstalkers have "rope trick"
that's a funky spell
basically a pocket dimension
because I'd definitely let you have both of them
dragons are not medium or smaller tho
we need something beeger
I meant to let them fly by

then there's my redemption paladin- she's a pacifist
but is quite sturdy, and intends to take the damage in place of her allies
she'll never take the attack action
a paladin that doesnt smite , talk about gimping yourself 
smite with these hands
her whole thing is she wants to talk enemies into surrendering, or stop fighting
she can even, using a charge of channel divinity, temporarily have +14 to persuasion
will probably take the skill expert as a later feat
to double proficiency in persuasion too
at level 19 where you get the last feat, if she took the skill expert then(could technically do so at 16 and wait a level)
she'd have a base persuasion at +17, without the "emissary of peace" that gives another +5 temporarily
after that it's just a question of how paladin'y I can be, so cannon doesn't just oathbreak her

we are up to 9 players for the next campaigns
so a group of 4 and a group of 5
assuming no one else turns up
@violet cave what's with your campaign?
M31 haven't even gotten to punch someone in justin's campaign yet
looking forward to play more of all the campaigns

I have an epic plan for my character in cannon's campaign
we'll just have to see if I can pull it off
prays to the dice gods
D&D winter soldier
<@&1284336728831950879> speaking of which, we will resume it tmrw, three hours before Jeannie stream
what did i miss when yalls played on sunday?
quick summary is:
- seagulls = bad(shape shifted druids)
- we now have a possible direction to go(evil hospitals?)
- razina and M31 tinkers around with, and researches the blood samples- turns out some of them have magic-dampening properties
I think that was the gist of it 
interestin thanks 
no evil hospitals, but people were seeing if they had bribed religious organizations or have infiltrated institutes
just a heads up. depending on what happens today I may be disappearing off the net a few days which included DND.
it's my grandmother aizo
oh.. hope she's okay 
she wasn't waking up. fam supposed to call me with updates.
@proud pebble question about sentinel and booming blade
booming blade's movement damage triggers when they move, yes?
so sentinel upportunity attack's halting effect would stop that, correct?
just making sure the booming blade damage didn't trigger before they move(when they try to move)

it will matter for M31, since booming blade will be her attack of choice
it adds the most to her attack, even if there's no extra attack with it
after lv5 it will do damage as if she struck twice normally, and after 11
it would do damage as if she struck thrice, and after 17, four times
so it's really good for her
plus it's also thunder damage, like her gauntlets do already
i dont think you can attack of oppertunity with a cantrip can you?
you can with War caster
ah
but i would argue that you dont WANT Sentinel if you're going to attack with Booming Blade since if they run the extra damage procs
getting that on xan could be funny , someone passes by an whisper sweet nothings to his ear using vicous mokery 
it's not the opportuny attack I mean
booming blade does damage when the affected enemy moves, so you hit the enemy on your turn
then the enemy tries to get away(which would trigger booming blade), but sentinel stops them from moving when they try
so booming blade doesn't trigger, unless you miss your opportunity attack

is xan a bladesinger???
drat its too late to dip into 5 bladesinger
which was a big mistake cus swords bard sucks 
yeah lvl 6 bladesinger gives you an extra attack, one of them can be a cantrip
point still stands!
both swords bard and bladsinger get extra attack on 6 
M31 uses it because it's the best damage enhancer she can use, she doesn't even need the movement damage
but I mean, it's neat if her opportunity attack misses

i dont think we'll ever get to 20 in any game we play 
Thunderous Smite + Booming Blade + Divine Smites = kill
it's this part M31 wants 
since thunder gauntlets never increases in damage over 1d8 thunder- booming blade works as a scaling enhancer

i mean M31 could smack them with booming blade and then Yaromir can follow up with a shield master shove
that too, but M31 mainly uses it since it's extremely flavourful for her, character wise
liger also has booming blade , we're gonna be a very LOUD party 
makes her gauntlets kind of scale with level
at level 17, her gauntlets(with booming blade) would hit for 4d8+mod
after 5 which we're nearly at, it'd be 2d8 instead of 1d8
though it doesn't change much until 11 where it becomes 3d8 combined
since she does have extra attack feature, she can just choose to hit two different enemies to get the taunting effect up
or strike a single enemy for more damage with booming blade

i hoped mobile florish from swords bard would forcibly trigger the damage from booming blade but alas it doesnt work that way 
Again refer to the image
until we encounter something that's immune to thunder damage, and suddenly I can't do damage at all

spark is gonna have this issue too since hes going to hard focus on lightning damage 
noted.....enemies will have Silence on them.
undo's arcane armour, and slaps them for 1d4 physical
I has no real plans for Yaromir
the way I make characters, is that I imagine their lv20 selves, and work down to the required level
we keep the others alive

thats the thing with fighters , they're even more frontloaded than the other classes LUL
you get everything at lvl 3 and then nothing else 
I mean... a feat every two levels is pretty great
I'm thinking mobile is probably next
yeah but ngl ASI outclasses most feats so you just end up being a statstick most of the time
M31 will take fighting initiate, for "tunnel fighter" at level 8
she has been watching yaromir, and likes what she sees

I disagree Drake
I think the feats adn teh bonuses they give are better then a simple +1
it is very tempting to take resilient multiple timesXD
and just have proficency in every saving throw
for sure- with sentinel and tunnel fighter's defensive stance
I can do an infinite amount of opportunity attacks per turn
meaning enemies (granted I don't miss) cannot get away from M31

also frees up my reaction, so I can shield or absorb elements as needed, if enemies get pesky
I am tempted to do that just because my subclass needs it's reaction to do stuff
simply stand between 10 enemies, bonus action defensive stance, action "dodge"
then pass turn- let you all pummel them from range

am I allowed to switch my fighting style?
you can switch it whenever you can pick a feat, no?
Uhhhh yes you can
M31's reason for being able to take fighting initiate(because I like flavour and being lore accurate)
is now she's having to adventure, and been watching yaromir fight, she's getting the fighting initiate feat at 8

Let's see if you guys live that long first-
might go tunnel fighter then
justin makes campaign more deadly than tomb of annihilation

Oh you're gonna be surprised
I can't wait to see
Remember I've done this module before with another group I know exactly where things are and what things are gonna come your way
as long as i continue to be a murder goblin i am happy 
Yes this is a homebrew setting but I will stick to D&D 5e monsters, even the enemy NPCs are statblocks to make it fair
There are.....a few things that have been "revamped" to fit the story but it's all gravy
M31 as a base weren't built to fight, so she doesn't like fighting
but as she is a warforged, she has been hired before for bodyguard work
that's really the extent of her fighting knowledge
And I have written people's backstories into it too
so as we continue through justin's campaign, M31 will be watching yaromir fight, and take notes

so there is a blue dragon to adopt me somewhere right? 
You just sit tight
artificers kind of add their own magic equipment, so M31 doesn't need much in terms of findings either

and for the time being, can use the "enhance weapon" infusion on yaromir's blade, making it a +1 magic weapon
or +2 after 10
I mean something as simple as a flame tounge longsword
or what ever the frost version is called
yaromir is like a fighting pirate, yes?
https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/wondrous-items:dragons-wrath-weapon
sparks gets adopted by a blue , dragon , makes one of these out of a fallen tooth 
that actually sounds like an interesting weapon- can even start out with a low rarity version
and then possibly increase it, depending on dm's feelings and such
see, I really don't ask for much in comparison XD
id be happy with just the rare version , which basically a fancy +1 dagger 
the weapon I keep talking about for xopah in cannon's campaign: https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/wondrous-items:devotees-censer
just a 1d8 flail that does an additional 1d8 radiant damage on a hit
doesn't even have a +1 to it
i mean ... the heal aura is also pretty good 
though it does have a "once per day" healing aura which is okay

my initial idea was to use divine intervention and have ilmater grant her that weapon for the final fight
but, I think the better use of divine intervention now, is to restore our spells and health, so we can fight at all
granted it succeeds, that is

like a 10% chance
has to roll below the clerics level on the percentile die
level 20 clerics automatically succeeds though
yee, but also a literal god comes and intervenes
by the final fight 11% chance
cuz if it suceeds at an 11 its 11% to pass 
equal to or lower
have to roll equal to or lower then cleric level

then yeah 11%
letting cannon do the roll, so it's fair
cannon uses weighted dice to higher numbers 
even though I don't think anyone here thought I'd cheat
I just want to let it be more fair

fuck you drake
cannon is god, hence is only natural he roll the god intervention
its a joke 

i dont think you'd do it 
there will be an active camera for it
and I will slow roll it for dramatic effect

just to be clear, are you wanting to do it before the final fight or during the fight?
ideally before, but there's nothing in the spell that says I cannot do it during
if it would full heal us its better to do it during no? 
it's not a guaranteed effect, and it's more for spell slots
healing I can simply do with short rests
yeah but if it fails we're SOL anyways 
xopah has ideas

just need to see how everything pans out
and pray to the lords of dice
xan's entire existence in that fight its gonna be a counter spell bot for exatly power word kill 
and knowing my luck i will fiail the first one and die 
but yeah I get both my channel divinities back on short rests, which is 50x2 free healing each time
at the very least, shouldn't be too much of an issue to enter a big fight somewhat healthy
the fact that i still dont even have 60 HP at lvl 10 
or 55x2 at level 11
that's your own fault tho
i did roll like 5 2s so far on my hit die tbf 
its the dice's fault
you could have had high con or played a class with a larger die
what is bards average? like, the thing they can pick instead of the dice roll
4
5
half of a D8 is 4.5
5+con it says
which means 5
so do fighters and paladins get 6? 
yes
interesting
it's because of how the averages work
average roll on a D8 is 4.5
which gets rounded up
either way , i choose b4 i roll the die , and i was just gambling for anything above a 3 , yet i keep rolling 2s
if we had 1s forced i would have 3 ones too
so yeah if i fail a single counter spell against acerrak i am fucked 
gotta counter all the powerword kills
tell me about it
the class literally designed to be the best supporter
oh I roll for it
literal life cleric
every time
which is how Yaromir has ended up with 50hp at lv4
yee when you get lucky, feels good~
i wonder how many level 9 slots does he have and if he's gonna keep one for , gulps.... wish 
I already said he has 2
redemption paladin plays closer to how I'd think a life cleric would play
except they have few spell slots, since paladin
they can take other's damage as a reaction
so i have to stop either 2 power words or 1 and an even scarier wish 
battle starts- acererak does powerword kill on xopah and darvin
good game

both of you have more than 100 HP tho
so you wouldnt insta die
its only xan that doesnt 
maybe the NPCs too
you're assuming you're going in at max hp
xopah will have literally 101 health at level 11 at full
if I pick the average thingy again

oh Luspera has been leveling up as well

so its me and artus that are fucked 
I already know, just in case, how I want it to look if xopah dies
basically just fade slowly into that same green light she's been channeling
until she's no longer there

so i have to roll a 17 or higher to counter the power word
I mean... assuming you destroy the soulmonger, she would be revivable
19 or higher
i have +2
DC is 10 + spell level
so 17 or higher
which is still really fucking hard 
imo the level the counterspell is cast at should reduce the DC by 1 for each above 3
but yes cannon, ideally we somehow find a place to prepare or something before the last boss surprises us
so we can maybe short rest, and I can do my divine intervention attempt

but that's thinking ideals
short rests aren't that big of a deal to find places for
it's the limits on long rests that are the issue
I'm not too worried about our health in itself, since I get my preserve life back during short rests

just need to not run into a surprise attack from the final boss
the fact that i have the life of 2 of us in my hands for a single roll that is do or die is so terrfying 


cannon planning to hold person xan , then power word kill while i cant counterspell







why not



