DnD is over for tonight
#D&D and other TTRPGs
prime nimbus
We played two hours earlier than usual for scheduling reasons.
The party met a lich, long after time eroded his mind into an idle impassive rut
And they successfully failed to help him out
lone widget
Although we did incidentally free his fox lady mercenary demon servant...person, and she instantly bailed, leaving our team pet with her first (and very likely only) chess win under her fur.
prime nimbus
You may be surprised to learn Bianca is a blitz chess grandmaster
novel eagle
novel eagle
keen roost
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/01/2002s-neverwinter-nights-gets-a-patch-in-...
Genuinely a timeless classic 
dawn ibex
ALways wanted to play Neverwinter.
wispy nebula
I'm still open to GMing a game of Tails Of Equestria.
fickle crow
I’d be willing to join, though I’ve zero prior experience with it. I have played a few sessions of 5e and many years of Pf2e tho
fickle crow
Point being i have experience with convoluted systems so an easier one should be easier x3
prime nimbus
We're done with my Sunday game of DnD for this week. The party made it into the caverns of ooze
steep narwhal
this picture goes way harder than it has any right to
prime nimbus
It's the 19th of 23 levels
keen sedge
we also turned a solid amethyst vampire sarcophagus into a race car bed
prime nimbus
lone widget
It's the 19th of 23 levels
Ahhh, Dungeon of the Mad Mage. I wanna play that one too, although I won't ask it of you since I know you're already playing (running?) it, so doing it again would be exhausting.
prime nimbus
I enjoy nothing more than treading old grounds, actually
keen sedge
each playthough of a book campaign is different tho, especially with a good DM changing things up
fickle crow
There’s just a lil mouse guy in the corner
keen sedge
also flitter is our DM atm, me ember gen and yay are players
lone widget
Not sure who "yay" is, but that sounds like a lot of mods in there, lol.
prime nimbus
Every player has been or is a mod of manechat
lone widget
It's not a mouse, it's a miniature giant space hamster
And no, this is not Flitter joking around, this is an actual thing in D&D. 
fickle crow
Manechat actually exists just for the mods to find d&d players
True purpose revealed
keen sedge
no just modchat
keen sedge
turns out most of the team are friends
who would suspect that talking to a smaller group of like-minded people most days would lead to friendship?
prime nimbus
Not to be confused with the Fire-breathing phase doppleganger giant space hamster or the Two-headed Lernaean bombardier giant space hamster
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I enjoy nothing more than treading old grounds, actually
I mean, if you're sure. I'd love to do this, or a completely homebrew campaign, or a hybrid between the two (DotMM with homebrew elements thrown in for extra challenge).
But it's your call, as well as our group's call when we eventually get to starting a new campaign.
fickle crow
My pathfinder session got canceled today 😦
prime nimbus
That sucks
keen sedge
:(
lone widget
im down for more D&D
I can't speak for the group but I'd be happy to have you along. I think Plucky was also interested in joining after we're done with Strahd, as well as Denzy (not sure about Poppy though).
prime nimbus
He's already in my other game
keen sedge
who's in your group?
lone widget
Rom, me, and another person named Elppan (she's not in Manechat, iirc).
She's fun, and snarky :P
lone widget
He's already in my other game
Yeah, fair.
prime nimbus
Elppan is Hoyd's wife
lone widget
He was our cleric at the beginning, right? Before he left?
Or am I getting all my names mixed up again?
keen sedge
neat
damn i wanna switch out an infusion for something else
but honestly i have all the infusions i want, and all the enchanted items i can attune to
lone widget
Wanna try artificer someday. It depends on what campaign we do next.
keen sedge
artificers are great
im in power armour and managed to get myself to 27 AC lol
wow all the infusions that look interesting to the way i play all require me to infuse a set of nonmagical armour
which i already have infused with another thing
lone widget
The game gives and the game takes.
dawn ibex
I’d be willing to join, though I’ve zero prior experience with it. I have played...
lol i just noticed we're both in the PF2e server.
im a huge PF nerd lol. GMing two campaigns currently.
novel eagle
novel eagle
For reference, the "Nexus" sites are basically online tools for aiding while you play these TTRPGs.
Pathfinder Nexus as an example:
https://app.demiplane.com/nexus/pathfinder2e
prime nimbus
Playing Pathfinder 2e. We're fighting a dread wraith.
It is prone, frightened, slowed, hasted, restrained, enfeebled, flatfooted
fickle crow
Slow/haste cancel, but otherwise yep sounds like a well-oiled party
prime nimbus
I will bring it up with the DM
fickle crow
There is one edge case where you’d want both up: if haste allows three uses, and slow only removes two of those. In this case you could argue they can use the hasted action for the one thing not blocked, but with normal spells this never comes up since it’s either step/stride, step/stride/strike, or interact/attack
Step/stride/strike is how both haste and slow work in vanilla
prime nimbus
In this case we had quickened everyone in an area but slowed this one guy
fickle crow
Yeah, he’d just get his normal 3 in the end, not limited in any way
novel eagle
prime nimbus
Hope Californians stay safe
novel eagle
It's... bad.
Lots of people lost their homes, and there was already a severe housing shortage before this.
deft spire
In a session yesterday i:
Found a Hobbit using a grappling hook I found
Adopted a baby wyrmling found in a stable
Went on a shopping trip
And killed Heat Miser
Oh yeah. The baby wyrmling is named Zev. After my characters long lost son
silk sequoia
whoa cool
karmic roost
novel eagle
Eberron!
Forgotten Realms Players guide includes a few new rules, plus new subclasses:
- College Of The Moon (Bard)
- Knowledge Domain (Cleric)
- Purple Dragon Knight (Fighter)
- Oath Of The Noble Genies (Paladin)
- Winter Walker (Ranger)
- Scion Of The Three (Rogue)
- Spellfire Sorcery (Sorcerer)
- Bladesinger (Wizard)
novel eagle
Tale of Gloam. You invoke a tale of mystery
and secrets. When you use a Bonus Action to
give a creature a Bardic Inspiration die, you can
take the Disengage or Hide action as part of that
Bonus Action.
novel eagle
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lone widget
This new Resistance Bundle presents tabletop roleplaying games about fighting authoritarian regimes and punching Nazis.
Topical, lol.
keen sedge
fickle crow
Yeah that’s me whenever I use my free demoralize when rolling initiative…despite being a Master I somehow always roll 1-5 
-# different system but the d20’s the same
deft spire
in one session my son was missing. I rolled so badly that he is gone
the worst part
I kept rolling bad in general after my son was gone
silk sequoia
oh no!
lone widget
silk sequoia
neat!
silk sequoia
ah, i've not seen too much Vox Machina, but that makes sense
Critical Role are pretty fun to watch folks
deft spire
most of my DND characters are inspired by other media
Like my first ever character, Smolder, obviosly inspired by MLP Smolder
prime nimbus
Today I learned about this place
https://bw.artemislena.eu/forgottenrealms/wiki/Belvyn's_House_of_Good_Cheer
It's a Faerun convention hall in the savage frontier
You can rent it out as a temporary temple, and they'd provide you with braziers and an altar for any non-violent religion, or you can rent it as a festhall (typically synonymous with brothel) and have a party
Or you can use it for free if you had a funeral
The newest mention of it is in 1996, in the 2nd edition book
The North: Guide to the Savage Frontier
fickle crow
Time to seek mr eaten’s name
lone widget
Obligatory: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7g7qwB1RpPc
novel eagle
fickle crow
found a lil injoke from my previous game in my folders, thought you guys would get a chuckle out of it
keen sedge
lol
my char punches people, so i have a list of identical attack moves with stupid comic sound effects, so i biff, pow and kersplat my enemies
fickle crow
lmao that sounds awesome
keen sedge
i shouold switch them up again soon actually
i also have a mindflayer fursuit and a ring of friendzone
lone widget
i also have a mindflayer fursuit and a ring of friendzone
A...what?
fickle crow
unrelated, there was a time where my character was letting a child character "attack" her (even a nat 20 would still be a miss under pf2e rules), and decided to "hit" back once she gave herself a -10 from two attack penalties
...guess who rolled a nat 20 then
thank goodness she used her unarmed attack and not her sword 
keen sedge
well i called it that, it was a ring gifted to someone else as a sign of friendship. its just funnier to call it that
fickle crow
this was during playful sparring, nobody was in any danger, but it was kinda hilarious to go "OH MY GOD"
keen sedge
lol
these kinds of situations you just handwave away doing damage tho, any DM who actually decided a crit in friendly sparring would cause physical pain is an idiot, thats a nat 1
lone widget
well i called it that, it was a ring gifted to someone else as a sign of friends...
I meant the Mindflayer fursuit, but I suppose I should've been clearer, lol.
I don't think I've ever seen anyone dress up as one, come to think of it. 
keen sedge
(this did happpen in a previous campaign for me)
keen sedge
I meant the Mindflayer fursuit, but I suppose I should've been clearer, lol.
I ...
oh thats normal
its more of a mindflayer disguise outfit we found somewhere like a year ago
its been in my bag of holding for a while now
keen sedge
god no lol
fickle crow
we had to do trigonometry of some sort to find a location once and we told the GM "okay listen, we can handle logic puzzles, please never do a map puzzle ever again"
keen sedge
oh nooo
fickle crow
yeah 
i guess more of just geometry. only one triangle was needed
prime nimbus
Here's what I have written down on the mind flayer outfit:
Standing north of the door is what appears to be a mind flayer.
Closer inspection reveals that the mind flayer is a featureless wooden mannequin dressed in a convincing mind flayer costume, complete with black robe, cowl, and rubber mask.
like i said, mindflayer fursuit
naive seal
we had to do trigonometry of some sort to find a location once and we told the G...
this is amazing
keen sedge
novel eagle
There's a quickstart linked in the Kickstarter page, if you want to see what the game rules look like.
fickle crow
Quickstarter in the Kickstarter
novel eagle
Apparently there's a bonus in the actual Fallen London game if you log in now.
Goddamn, my ancient login still works.
novel eagle
Probably got too expensive to maintain.
keen sedge
probably
i forgot i had two accounts for this game, i had an account waaaaaaaaaaaaaay back in the day that was only linked to twitter
but when i tried again i used the app and that wouldnt let me log in via twitter
novel eagle
oof
keen sedge
i found my other account
anywya
i enjoyed fallen london but i hit a wall of progress and i didnt know how to continue, so i stopped
novel eagle
Hopefully they've got that fixed now
keen sedge
It has been literally years since I played with that account lol
novel eagle
prime nimbus
Very good post
I wanted to do something like this for myself, but I was not well equipped to do it fast
fickle crow
first time in 17 levels that this relic ability was actually useful. there was a magical barrier that we couldn't dispel that required us to use a book that we had that drives people interacting with it mad (cthulu-esque stuff) and put it in a slot on a special dais. so I use this and dm asks "ok uhhhh how are you copying it i guess, what's the limit to this. tell me how you're doing it." so I do what's pictured
AND IT WORKS
so nobody had to risk going temporarily insane xD
silk sequoia
that's a cool use of ability
fickle crow
thanks to the generosity of both my DM and a party member, I can now afford any one item in PF2e that can be bought with gold (the most expensive being 90k gold)
...surprisingly, a lot of the most expensive stuff is kinda underwhelming
prime nimbus
+5 weapon is always good
Especially if you get free runes with it
Wait, those are pf1e.
+3 orichalcum impossible sword
fickle crow
impossible is hugely underwhelming for my role, it's just "ha, I can hit you and then boop away"
problem is I'm the tank with the highest AC and HP. I want to be the one inviting the enemy to blast me in the face
definitely greater fortification is on my list. 35% chance to just tell an enemy who rolled a 20 that that isn't actually a crit they just did. amazing.
prime nimbus
Impossible is good if you want to guarantee other effects of the weapon. It's good in every role where you want to hit enemies
fickle crow
greater dread would synergize with my legendary intimidation, but...problem is that the dc is only 38. the monsters are approaching level 18. 38's nothing to them, they basically have to roll under a 7 to have the frightened not decrease.
could just cut out the cruft and ask if buying a mythic striking rune in some capacity is possible. 5 dice on a fatal d12 weapon is just asking for my crits to vaporize enemies. once i hit level 18 and get 3 dice on my power attack, that's 8d12+~14, doubled. that's a lotta damage.
220 damage for two actions there, if I roll max damage
novel eagle
Fantastic deal for this. It's using Blades in the Dark rules, intended to emulate the kind of "Sailor Moon" or "Steven Universe" type of setting, but also broad enough to handle team mecha games.
silk sequoia
wait, how the heck did they adapt BitD for Magical girls?
isn't BitD a heist game?
On A Sea of Stars features mecha pilots struggling against extinction at the hands of the Leviathans and is inspired by Diebuster and The Vision of Escaflowne
Interested already
but like, I need to find some more i nfo on it
silk sequoia
this seemed to have more info on how it functions. http://www.nerds-feather.com/2024/06/review-girl-by-moonlight.html
silk sequoia
Having read both reviews, I don't think I'd enjoy playing/running this type of game unfortunately. It does seem very cool conceptually though, and emotion/relationship/player-to-character interaction based game more focused on why characters do something rather than the how characters do something.
if anyones played it let me know what you thought? was it easy to run?
novel eagle
I've not run it myself, so I'm not sure how it feels in play.
If the engine isn't to your taste, look into Thirsty Sword Lesbians, which is an Apocalypse Engine game with a similar concept.
fickle crow
I love this character. killed a fodder enemy in a single round unaided
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deft spire
Make it 6 times that my dragonborn bard nearly died
fickle crow
Managed to end the session an hour early. Wanted to teleport back to town for my character to shop, our mage is specced specifically for this. Dm asked us which town. We went “uhh this one. Capital, with the most shops.” Dm goes “are you sure?” and we say yes. He asks again and now we’re like “what” but still say yes. After he allows me to ‘theoretically’ do my shopping so i dont have to keep my documents filled, he informs us that we teleported into a major plot point out of order, and he has to stop to actually plan out what happens now that we’re here, since his first sentence to us was basically “You see a lot of guards…guards moving to…give me a minute”
Beware of teleport spells, DMs 
(He’s a first time dm so i don’t blame him for asking for the week to reorient)
lone widget
Yeah, you've just given him like three conniptions in a single action. He'll be fine, just give him a day to scream and then he'll be right as rain to reorient himself and his plans.
fickle crow
Hey! It took two actions, because pf2e has a three action economy
…still 4 seconds in universe tho xD
Wait teleport is 10 minutes my bad
(Listen I’m the fighter, I don’t memorize my party’s spells)
Even just 8th rank teleport is kinda nuts.
Heightened (8th) You and the other targets can travel to any location on the same planet. If you travel more than 1,000 miles, you arrive only 10 miles off target.
9th allows solar system, and 10th is galaxy
lime tusk
Beware of teleport spells, DMs
What I'd say is: when making plot points that are supposed to trigger in the background, beware of things like fast communication and fast travel methods. If you're not supposed to be able to discover the plot in the capitol city until it's advanced beyond X stage, then either (a) the DM should just make it advance beyond X stage off screen while you were in the dungeon, or (b) you should somehow be out of teleport range and your comms should be offline such that you can't accidentally stumble into it
lone widget
9th allows solar system, and 10th is **galaxy**
Yeah, Pathfinder's power scaling is WACK. And, fun fact, it's also canonically a mix of sci-fi, fantasy, steampunk, cyberpunk, dieselpunk, and a whole f*ckton of other "-punk" styles all rolled into one, in the same default world setting in most modules.
Hell, in Pathfinder: Kingmaker, one of the side factions of bad guys is literally a cult that worships alien technology from a crashed spaceship, and incorporates that technology into their fighting.
And I'm pretty sure there's robots in Wrath of the Righteous? As well as an instance of time travel.
silk sequoia
I quit my regular Dnd group today. I couldn't sustain the energy/time to play in it, so it's the right decision, but it doesn't feel good.
novel eagle
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steep narwhal
I have never seen Brennan Lee Mulligan look more like Conan O'Brien
lone widget
Oh my God, THEY MADE THE WHOLE SONG https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eTo4D0fqG8
wispy nebula
novel eagle
The title is a bit off, the series is about making non-Wizard liches.
deft spire
Just finished a DND campaign
deft spire
so basically. heres the story:
We went to hell to try and rescue a king and a very important NPC. when we arrived they were in the forehead of this giant monster and the BBEG of the campaign. One of the players sacrificed themselves, by making a giant hole and we ran for it. At the end we were successfull and I am going to introduce Smolder to my library group
prime nimbus
It's a video about figuring out the odds of it being impossible to agree on a scheduling time
deft spire
My new DND character for the next chapter of my cousins campaign. A wrestler named Austin Jones
novel eagle
Nice. Monk?
steep narwhal
Paladin of course
lone widget
I mean, you could theoretically make a Paladin that fights unarmed and uses their fists to smite. It'd just be unoptimized and looney as all hell, lol.
novel eagle
I think that might require a house rule, because fists aren't "weapons".
prime nimbus
You can just use a monk weapon
Any simple melee weapon would do
So combat gloves would both count as a melee weapon and allow for smiting
lone widget
Oh right, Pathfinder is the one that allows fists as weapons, iirc.
fickle crow
fists are, technically speaking, "unarmed attacks", not weapons - but a handwrap of mighty blows essentially turns them into a weapon that runes can be etched on, so...tomato/tomato
Oh, wait. Never mind, there's literally an entry for Fist in Weapons. I guess it's just wording differences in different sections.
prime nimbus
I used to play this text adventure where every in-game day you prepare by strapping your weapon to your back
If you have no weapon, you strap your fists to your back
fickle crow
"I can beat you with both fists tied behind my back! See?"
deft spire
Nice. Monk?
Yeah
He's a monk
This is his manager. A kobold named Xela Redna
Oh yeah
He's also Inspired by Stone Cold
The monk
Xela is inspired by Paul Heyman
wispy nebula
Hell yeah! Me and a friend were in a campaign where he was a Ravnican (MTG) Minotaur fighter that acted as a flashy type of wrestler (like The Rock) and I played a Tiefling bard that played his stage music before we rolled initiative.
silk sequoia
that's so cool
lone widget
...Why does that box have the Lord of the Rings font? 
keen sedge
lord of the elden rings
ripe jacinth
I think that's just the font that Elden Ring uses for its title
lone widget
High Rollers Campaign 2, episode 96:
Warlock: trying to sell magical items the team has gained from their travels to a high-level wizard while also having a panicky meltdown over the fact that they're selling highly-advanced astral magitek to a planet that is still in a relatively low-tech society 
Cleric: offers a +3 weapon that's also an artifact that the team isn't using to get appraised by said wizard 
Wizard: "I will give you 20000 gold for it." 
Entire team: "Welp, Prime Directive be damned!" 
deft spire
I'm just now crying over the fact that I retired my dragonborn bard after saving the entire multiverse. The worst part is that she never found her long lost son
I've never been this sad over a DND character I created
lone widget
That's how you know you made a great character.
deft spire
That's how you know you made a great character.
True
But I wanted to retire her because she's been through alot
She saved an entire town full of kobolds
Saved a princess
Got hit by Captain America's shield for 42 points of damage while I was level 2
Wrapped in vines
Blinded by holy light
Got her hand burnt by a meteor of chaotic energy
Watched her best friend sacrifice himself to save the entire multiverse
But the worst pain of all is never finding her son.
lone widget
Sounds like quite a journey
But maybe she could return in another campaign, and finally earn her happy ending by finding her son?
Maybe not as a playable character, but as an NPC that helps the players through other means?
deft spire
Maybe
If my new DND character doesn't work well she might return
One last run to find her son
lone widget
Hope it goes well!
deft spire
Okay
So I changed my mind on the monk wrestler
I have 2 other characters I made from campaign past
An aarakocra ranger and a cat-folk bard
I can play those
Or
Play a dragonborn rouge that I used in a one-shot
vital flint
ermm do you mean.. a tabaxi ?? ☝️ 🤓
lone widget
Not necessarily. Could be a Leonin, or a cat-based Shifter, or a Simic Hybrid with cat features.
deft spire
okay so the campaign took place 100 years after the heroes saved the multiverse
So I played my monk wrestler named Austin Jones
And he really has a hyperfixation on Smolder, my dragonborn bard
deft spire
I created a new character in case Austin Jones doesnt work out. His name is Jotaro and hes the son of Zevlav and Kazuya
prime nimbus
One of the official DnD 5e campaigns has a talking horse!
The reason the horse is talking is not explained. The only thing you know about the horse is that ||It's an agent of the Harpers||
novel eagle
The reason the horse is talking is not explained. The only thing you know about ...
God I love it.
I love everything about that.
prime nimbus
When I ran that campaign I made her talk like Applejack
Hold on, wrong text
This is the quest text: ||"One of the drays working in the city is pulled by a talking mare named Maxeene. Locate her, find out if she's learned the identity of any Zhent operatives, and if so, determine their whereabouts."||
And these are the other details of the quest (spoilers for ||Waterdeep Dragon Heist||)
||Characters can find Maxeene, a draft horse with an Intelligence score of 10, with a successful DC 13 Intelligence (Investigation) check. Maxeene speaks Common, and characters must try to convince her that they're Harpers by making a DC 13 Charisma (Persuasion) check. If the check succeeds, the horse recalls giving a ride to a sun elf and his half-orc bodyguard two days ago; she picked them up at an intersection (she doesn't recall which one) and dropped them off at the Yawning Portal. They talked about hiring spies to root out Xanathar Guild hideouts in the city. Maxeene's descriptions of the passengers match the appearances of Davil Starsong and Yagra Stonefist. Reward: Each Harper character gains 1 renown.||
novel eagle
I already adore her. Which adventure is this?
prime nimbus
And these are the other details of the quest (spoilers for ||Waterdeep Dragon He...
It's one of the ones by Matt Mercer. See the first spoiler here
novel eagle
Oh duh, I overlooked that. Thank you!
prime nimbus
It's one of my favorite adventures due to how it strikes a great balance between detail and flexibility for DM
wispy nebula
novel eagle
This is an amazing bundle for a great Lovecraftian horror game.
It's damn near everything they've published in the last decade, plus Foundry and Roll20 modules.
keen sedge
Oh wow
novel eagle
silk sequoia
oh gosh, that's probably pretty dark a TTRPG
keen sedge
I am very interested tho
fickle crow
More izzy-friendly recount of today’s crazy pathfinder 2e session:
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More izzy-friendly recount of today’s crazy pathfinder 2e session:
https://past...
Sounds like an insane session! Here's hoping you guys figure a way out of that mess next time.
fickle crow
bonus: here's literally all of us measuring aoe spells to coordinate hitting the aoe-weak guys
they are visible! just...very hard to see beneath all the layers
(the green was their own aoe, in fairness)
lone widget
I gotta ask, are you all Ponies in this campaign?
fickle crow
Just some of us
keen sedge
Not enough you mean
fickle crow
following over 3 turns of me being stuck in the maze last night with a minimum 17 roll on perception to succeed regularly despite being a level higher than the rest of the party, DM has sworn off Maze going forward since I literally cannot boost my perception any higher, and PL+2, if assumed from my level of 18, is level 20...meaning boss enemies now have an attribute boost over us
and it's kinda boring to just roll once, go "oh well I missed, ok you guys have fun"
I can nat 20 and pop out still, but...i seem to not roll those when i need them most, lol
prime nimbus
The pathfinder 2e game I'm in has a rule where if your last roll was a failure and you used a hero point, the hero point roll gets +10 if you rolled 10 or less on it
I really don't like that rule. How do you feel about it?
fickle crow
I believe that requires a specific feat; it's not on the page for hero points on its own https://2e.aonprd.com/Rules.aspx?ID=2654
it's just "reroll any check, but you have to take the result even if it's worse"
prime nimbus
it's homebrew
fickle crow
I don't like it either because it makes GMs have to be stingy with hero points. they're balanced to give out more because unlike advantage, you can actually do worse - an auto +10 removes the balance and makes it "literally why would you not use one"
prime nimbus
Not a concern here. Hero pointe are awarded automatically once an hour
fickle crow
even mythic rules only give you mythic proficiency for the reroll, which if you're untrained is at most +10, but if you're legendary, just anotehr +2
fickle crow
Not a concern here. Hero pointe are awarded automatically once an hour
Exactly - which debalances them. They're way more powerful than they're intended to be in this quantity
Of course, if you want the power fantasy of somehow rolling a 60 and obliterating a god, that's fine
But it makes encounter planning more tricky
prime nimbus
You can't roll a better score than you naturally would have
Rolls above 10 get +0. Rolls below 10 get +10
It just means you're quite unlikely to fail
fickle crow
hm...yeah i guess it depends what dc you're up against
level 1 still isn't hitting the tarrasque even if they nat 20 the reroll and have a +10
lone widget
...Ooooh literal doom. Actually using the word correctly, lol.
Also, the bagpipes of invisibility would still be playing even if you had to take a breath because there's still air in the pipes in that brief moment, so technically they aren't useless. If anything that's terrifying because you'd be invisible and it's bagpipes, an instrument notorious for striking fear into armies back when it was first invented.
prime nimbus
Bagpipes of invisibility make it harder to hit you, and impossible to target you with spells that require sight
Regardless of whether enemies know exactly where you are or not
novel eagle
Yeah, the Invisible condition itself is very powerful. Not perfect, but strong.
Loudly announcing which square you're in, that's a choice.
fickle crow
My party for like 4 levels: "ha I have invisibility have fun with that dc 11 flat check"
My GM, fed up with us abusing it: "ok no problem. these monsters I chose have innate truesight. have fun!"
steep narwhal
Or "waow you're invisible, shame I prepared fireball and sunbeam this morning"
fickle crow
activates disruptive stance, stands in reaction range of as many spellcasters as possible
your move, schlubs
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Just finished our D&D session with Flitter. We explored a bunch of crypts under Strahd's castle, found our NPC friend's sister so that he could resurrect her, found a whole lotta loot (50 platinum, I think 1800 gold, and thousands of electrum, silver, and copper), found a magical holy symbol that we have yet to identify, killed a vampire spawn in basically a single round, found a talking skull which we've adopted, and Rom stepped into an invisible portal and got transported nearby into a sealed, special crypt that is probably gonna have a big fight in it. We ended there.
prime nimbus
Fun fact
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We actually found two skulls, but the second one was irate at us (me) disturbing its sleep so we let him be. I did get to quote Shakespeare though.
lone widget
Get into that special crypt?
prime nimbus
Yep
tardy crescent
#YOLO
prime nimbus
1- You'd have to investigate the crypts one by one
2- you'd have to not be scared off
lone widget
Fair
But yeah, with all the loot and stuff we're finding, we should keep exploring those crypts. Some good stuff in them when they're not empty, or at least interesting.
novel eagle
novel eagle
prime nimbus
Nooo
novel eagle
Man deserves it, but sad to see.
fickle crow
So my character final got out of the maze void, but only because our magus sent their own copy at the boss, who reflected it. Luckily, we ruled that a) our magus had control over whether to sustain since they cast the initial spell, so they were only gone for a turn, and b) she was enraged enough to then go for our cleric and down them with two consecutive crits…which left her unable to sustain the maze keeping my character out of the fight.
Some stuff happened from there. Notably I was temporarily confused, but still targeted the boss - and crit with a 19 (Keen weapon, success = crit). We had her on the ropes, even when she used the dominated magus to haste herself, until she ran away and the dm asks for a will save. We all fail (her dc is insanely high), and my character crit fails. We wince, expecting something bad, when the dm removes her token and says “alright. You guys win.”
It’s later emphasized that we believe that we won, and saw an ordinary nonmagical cloak on the ground where she was, despite her using it to attack someone earlier. Out of character, I know this is the 10th level spell Fabricated Truth - she made us think we won rather than face defeat, since she was so damaged. But in character we’re not gonna realize we’ve been duped for at least a week…and mine never will because she crit failed xD so uh. That’s gonna be interesting when she thinks her friends have gone insane
novel eagle
10th level spell?
prime nimbus
Pathfinder 2e
fickle crow
Yep! So we’re actually just headed back to the plot we escaped from earlier we weren’t supposed to see back then. At least we still got the xp from ‘winning’ :p
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God I love High Rollers (spoilers for episode 109):
||One of the players has been captured by the bad guys, and is currently undergoing telepathic interrogation by a Mind Flayer. He has to undergo 10 wisdom saving throws in a row. He fails the seventh, and the Mind Flayer learns some secrets, but not enough. Then on the tenth roll he gets a nat 1. Cue the Mind Flayer discovering the vision the player had a few episodes earlier about the BBEG's all-or-nothing plan to stop an alien threat from devouring of the universe, and how the plan fails. The Mind Flayer then immediately panics (in a subdued, calm manner) and goes to inform his master, the BBEG's second-in-command, about the news, and how if the BBEG's plan fails, what's the point of sticking with him? So now the seeds of an evil versus evil civil war have been planted.||
Absolutely brilliant storytelling.
steep narwhal
I will still never be a fan of critical failures and successes on skill checks
lime tusk
for skill checks, I treat a crit failure or success as like, something extra and slightly cool or slightly obnoxious happens
like if you're tying a rope and you crit succeed, it's a damn good looking knot and the NPC watching you will think more highly of you because "did you see that guy's knot?" And if you crit fail, maybe your knot is bad enough that it falls apart and is extra embarrassing and the NPC is like "cmon keep your hands off of our rigging, what the hell, why are you even on this ship" and you have to smooth things over later
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High Rollers episode 110:
The gang's sorcerer just dominated the mind of a Mind Flayer... 
On the first try too!
fickle crow
I’m not sure why skill checks shouldn’t have crit results; why can a d20 amp up results only when swinging a sword but not when you’re trying to chop down a tree? Why can’t you just literally drop the hatchet on your foot because your palms were too sweaty? That’s gotta have happened to someone at some point
lime tusk
partly just that the game isn't designed around that, so if you houserule something in, it might be OK but it's something you/DM need to build out
keen sedge
I’m not sure why skill checks shouldn’t have crit results; why can a d20 amp up ...
Well as a DM the option for both is always there
Tbh in my opinion, if you're rolling the dice, there should always be the chance for success or failure, but that just means the only way to pass is with a 20, or only fail on a 1. That's enough on its own, and that's already a house rule
If every skill check comes with crit success or fail, that adds a lot more randomness for not much gain tbh
steep narwhal
That's not a house rule.... It's in the DMG
It annoys the hell out of me that a character with +15 in a skill still has a 5% chance of failure on a DC 14 check, which in theory should be impossible to fail. It takes away from the skill's meaning if no matter what you have a baseline chance of failure. On the flipside, a character with +1 to a skill simply shouldn't be able to succeed on a DC 22 check. I sometimes ask for rolls to create degrees of failure that can result in progress without total success, but attempting to outwit a master bard or recall specific knowledge more accurately than a cloistered scholar sometimes just can't be done.
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Most DMs that I've seen have a house rule where if the DC is lower than the default bonus your skill has (DC is 14, bonus is 15), then you don't even have to roll for the check, you just auto-pass because, in RP terms, you're strong or smart enough to make the skill check a nothingburger.
The only exception I've seen would be if there's an established or unknown RP reason for why you may possibly fail.
keen sedge
Well if you're not in a time sensitive or stressful situation it makes sense to ignore the roll. A skilled person would just take time and do it right, or they'd have time to fuck it up a couple times
Pathfinder has a take 10 and take 20 rule for a reason
steep narwhal
Most DMs that I've seen have a house rule where if the DC is lower than the defa...
Again, not a house rule. That's a rule in the DMG. If there's no chance of failure, don't call for a roll.
Remember that dice don't run your game-you do. Dice are like rules. They're tools to help keep the action moving. At any time, you can decide that a player's action is automatically successful. You can also grant the player advantage on any ability check, reducing the chance of a bad die roll foiling the character's plans. By the same token, a bad plan or unfortunate circumstances can transform the easiest task into an impossibility, or at least impose disadvantage.
DMG 2014, p.236
lone widget
Huh, always thought it was a house rule. TIL!
fickle crow
Well if you're not in a time sensitive or stressful situation it makes sense to ...
Notably, RAW take 10 requires a feat as of 2e (Assurance, minimum of being trained) and also excludes any bonuses (or penalties). Take 20 is just short-speak for “listen we have no time pressure, and I don’t want to spam dice at you, so just let me take a few minutes for a guaranteed success like I’ll eventually get anyway.”
I also like the degrees of success rules, where scoring above/below the dc by 10 or more is a crit success/failure, but only raises or lowers the degree by one tier. A villager swiping at a tarrasque who rolls a nat 20 and has a result of 26 basically just has a result of 36. Since the tarrasque has 54 AC, they…still miss. Just less than if they hadn’t nat 20’d. When it attacks back, the tarrasque has +45 on all its non-save attacks. Even on a 1, it’s still hitting, just not landing a crit. Villager’s probably still dead.
keen sedge
A Nat one picking a lock doesn't mean you break the lock, it means you fumbled and took 30 mins on a 5 min task
prime nimbus
It can mean either depending on the circumstances
keen sedge
Right, obviously
tardy crescent
I think the biggest problem ends up being DMs that have a poor sense of hyperbole and don't scale the extremes of either end of the die rolls properly
lime tusk
yeah, when they try to make it extra-big success or extra-big fail and it ends up being ... too extra ... that's not fun
if you're rolling athletics while running to jump the fence and you roll a nat 20, and the fence jump is of such a DC that you could plausibly jump it, then nat 20 should be something like "it's really smooth and you stick the landing perfectly in full stride" rather than like "you jump over the fence and the entire house lololol"
keen sedge
My friend once rolled to nonlethally knock someone out by hitting them with the butt of their pistol
He rolled a Nat 20
Apparently that meant killing him
novel eagle
prime nimbus
My friend once rolled to nonlethally knock someone out by hitting them with the ...
This one's actually realistic
Someone trained should be able to reliably knock people out without killing them, but mistakes happen
prime nimbus
If it's the same odds, I don't feel like it matters
I should run a game where crits are on 7 and misses are on 13
keen sedge
And if we'd agreed that Nat 20s were critical fails, it would be fine
It was a skill, not combat, check
Didn't even roll damage
steep narwhal
[Distant Delta Green noises]
fickle crow
If it's the same odds, I don't feel like it matters
Well, if both a crit fail and crit success kill them, then you’ve upped the odds from 5% to 10%. Gotta pick one or the other to keep it the same. Maybe the 1 would just not even knock them out but just annoy them, as an alternate consequence
steep narwhal
If you use critical successes, having a critical success result in a worse outcome than a critical failure is just dumb
A critical athletics check or power roll should result in exactly what you want, not overdoing it and mushing the thing into paste
fickle crow
this just feels like a class on player and dm psychology at this point. like flitter said, if the odds remain the same (and everyone is aware of the house rules beforehand; we’re not assuming the DM is pulling this out of nowhere), it really doesn’t matter. To me, rolling a 1 and hitting harder than if I rolled a 20 is also just dumb. So my dm might call out “I know you’re rolling to hit someone, but lower results mean something worse is gonna happen” and we’re good.
lime tusk
most DM advice is about psychology
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High Rollers episode 111:
The team: infiltrates the BBEG's mothership in orbit around the planet
Team's cleric: casts Calm Emotions on the guards in the teleportation room so that the team can safely leave without causing an alarm to sound
Enemy guards (under the spell): "Hey. You're not supposed to be in here. Leave please."
Team's paladin (trying to subdue one of the guards): "Yeah, we're working on it!"
Enemy guards: "Okay."
lime tusk
hehehe that reminds me of my favorite ambush in all of D&D.
We're an illusion-focused party, and we have assassinated a group of enemies and replaced them. We infiltrate their camp, disguised as them, and go to see the leader. The guards try to stop us. "He told us to come right by as soon as we got our hands on [object that belonged to our real party] so he could guide us in assassinating them. Said it was time critical." OK, they accept my bluff. We show up inside and he's like "WHY ARE YOU IN HERE? My guards know I'm busy!" and I nat 20 the bluff: "the guards said to come right in!" "Wow, I have to fire them." "Yeah anyway, sorry for interrupting, but we need you to cast scrying on [object] so we can assassinate those guys."
So the BBEG of this section ends up scrying ... on himself ... as we assassinate him, in his underground sound-proof chamber. We leave our party's graffiti all over his chambers, and then we leave. We tell the guards on the way out "hey, he was really mad when you let us in there. You should probably wait for him to calm down." Again succeed on the bluff, and we sneak out of the enemy camp having assassinated their leader with multiple bluffs and disguise spells. (We end up leading out a train of prisoners as "our personal slaves for our upcoming mission".)
lone widget
That's utterly brilliant
I can't imagine what was going through your DM's head when all that had finished.
fickle crow
: wait why are you guys leaving I’m just getting started
naive seal
It annoys the hell out of me that a character with +15 in a skill still has a 5%...
Don't ask to roll if it's an automatic success
It makes sense that 1 would be a failure and 20 a success because having to roll in the first place should imply that the success threshold is in-between these two
steep narwhal
prime nimbus
Get to the Chopter
steep narwhal
prime nimbus
Why
steep narwhal
Because
novel eagle
Oooh, you got a set!
lone widget
Those look actually nice, ngl
fickle crow
Because you can shout “WE HAVE THE MEATS” when you nat 20
prime nimbus
You can shout that for free
fickle crow
Yeah but this gives you a reason to
prime nimbus
If I don't have a reason to why would I want to do it to begin with?
fickle crow
Sometimes we wish to have excuses for otherwise embarrassing actions
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If I don't have a reason to why would I want to do it to begin with?
For...fun, mostly? Like, there's no reason for the Critical Role group to say "We play Dungeons & Dragons!" in increasingly jumbled, mumbled, and garbled ways every time they start a session, but they do it anyway because it's a silly tradition that never really gets old.
prime nimbus
But if you want to do it for fun you don't need the special dice to do it
lone widget
Yes, but landing on the special Arby's nat 20 gives it more weight.
steep narwhal
I've got the meat
novel eagle
SRD will be out April 22, using Creative Commons license.
Errata is out as well.
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High Rollers episode 113:
A very combat-heavy episode, but the highlight is Mark (the DM) going slightly insane as he controls like 5-7 different NPCs all fighting each other, so he needs to quickly calculate a ton of damage between a whole bunch of characters on his own while roleplaying and describing what happens and rolling about fifty dice on top of all of that. Meanwhile the players are just dying of laughter as they watch their friend and DM slowly descend into madness.
Oh, and he needs to also keep track of which NPC has what resistance.
Lol, I'm dying of laughter here. This genuinely has to be seen to be believed.
fickle crow
as dm I’d just take the time to compare stats between npcs per session and set a target roll to defeat a given party, giving advantage or disadvantage if i wanna skew it one way or the other. Then just roll one real die per confrontation while rolling the others for stage effect
Buuut if it came up midsession
Yeah good luck
lime tusk
one thing a DM can do to prepare for something like this is basically roll their portion out beforehand. Like if you expect to have several NPCs fighting each other, basically build out a "script" for those NPCs, roll the dice beforehand, and figure out the results -- and then what you actually have to roll during the session is just what deviates. Like if the PCs kill an NPC much faster than expected, someone else might change targets and then you have to roll out their part of the fight differently.
lone widget
True, but then we wouldn't have a funny moment like this.
lime tusk
sure, if your goal is to entertain viewers of your wacky stream, you might actually do things that are insane to do at the gaming table
deft spire
Just joined another Friday group. This time I'm using a younger version of Smolder. Here's what she looks like
Basically it's a TADC campaign and we're on a pirate mission this week
lone widget
How does Hero Forge work? Do you create your character and then buy it, and then they ship it to you?
Or is it a digital file?
fickle crow
Probably a file, that doesn’t appear to be a physical figurine
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Well, I figured you design the figurine and then they 3D print it and paint it, or something.
lone widget
Ah
deft spire
I had so much fun with my new group
sage fractal
TIL about Old Man Henderson
novel eagle
https://www.dndbeyond.com/srd
deft spire
Okay so here's how the session went last week:
So it's a TADC campaign
I show up out of nowhere after finding a portal in an alleyway
I get captured by Davy Jones
I give a speech to Berdley
I get freed by a centaur who has 2 forms. One where they're angry and one where they're happy
I use vicious mockery on a skeleton
I almost die trying to save someone
After the battle was over we get saved
Session ends with me sleeping next to the centaur on the boat
deft spire
I have big plans for Smolder on Sunday
novel eagle
novel eagle
prime nimbus
Is that devils are just cooler
fickle crow
Pathfinder is worse, having devils, demons, fiends, and aberrations all be different things
Got resistance to attacks from demons? Sorry that’s a devil. Got both? Oh sorry that’s a fiend
prime nimbus
I'm more interested in the thematics than the mechanics here
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Pathfinder is worse, having devils, demons, fiends, and aberrations all be diffe...
Also balors, daemons, and a whoooooole bunch of random demon sub-types that have extremely weird and hard-to-pronounce names.
Trust me, I am playing Wrath of the Righteous right now, and there's a lot, lol.
novel eagle
Is that devils are just cooler
The general issue is that devils are easier to turn into villains because schemers are more compelling than "brutes". Demons are all about chaos and just blatantly causing trouble.
Also the weird designs of Demons don't draw as much attention as the more-humanoid Devils.
prime nimbus
This is why I don't like Star Trek so much
lone widget
What does this have to do with Star Trek?
prime nimbus
The humanoid-alien spectrum, and the way devils tend to one direction while demons rend to the other
fickle crow
that was probably a typo, but I do appreciate demons being associated with rending
fickle crow
Speaking of demon-looking creatures, our party managed to make this guy https://2e.aonprd.com/Monsters.aspx?ID=824 part of our party through a very complicated series of hijinks involving a you shall not pass joke, him using the rider’s bond on our pony bard who had climbed atop him in the following encounter (thus ‘riding’ him), and after he kidnapped said bard later by teleporting to another planet with his 9th level teleport exclusive to himself and his rider, bard disappearanced and disappeared from all senses (even the telepathy granted, per dm ruling) - he cast teleport to go back to our party, which takes bard with him since within range (dm ruling just to see where it went), we discuss a bit tersely, and he’s like “ok listen I made a bond with her, just…as long as you let her ride me I’ll go with you on adventures n stuff.” I’m level 19 and we’re level 18 to his 17, so realistically this shouldn’t break the game too much, and it was just such a funny interaction we had to do it. We learned his name too, but i forgot it - in my character sheet though, and it’s a weird one alright.
(Bard is a linguist with many translation abilities so the languages are no issue)
Went back in just for his name, apparently it's Lungorthin
yes, as in lord of the rings
naive seal
Crit of all time
keen sedge
incredible
fickle crow
that takes talent
prime nimbus
Me when I take reliable talent but it makes me reliably bad
deft spire
I tried to calm down one of the PCs during last nights session
But trying to calm down a barbarian is like trying to stop a volcano
Physically impossible
So this happened to me
fickle crow
damn, luigified
fickle crow
Things I discovered this session: thanks to savage critical and my exceeding proficiency with my firearm artifact, I have a 65.6% chance to not crit if i use all 3 actions to fire my gun (strike, strike, two ‘separate’ strikes of which I take the higher to hit result and apply to both attack rolls). This falls to 59% if I’m hasted and use that for an extra shot.
These are agile, so 3rd attack penalty is only -8 (and -6 if I retrain to get agile grace), and I have savage critical for “nat 19 on dice hits and does damage = autocrit”
Considering they have the fatal d10 trait and do 4 dice of damage…crits are very effective to land even just once a turn
I do not have to reload; it is a magical artifact that does not require (and cannot use) ammunition
Secondary to that, our party was in search of a weapon that is capable of killing gods; we slayed the dragons that guarded the chest it was in and they laughed as they told us (dying) that a living dragon is needed to open that chest. Our GM hints to our magus that their newest, final relic ability lets them turn into a dragon…but they’d said earlier they’d never use that and took this as a challenge. So they cast stabilize on one dragon (they can use any cantrip that isn’t divine exclusive), drag it all the way to the chest (despite me and our new chill huge Tane friend, Lungorthax, easily being able to do that), and when challenged by the dm on how he opens the chest with the unconscious dragon, sticks its claw into the lock and wiggles it with a thievery check to pick it…and succeeds
Not even nat 20, they’re just really good at stealing
novel eagle
wooden swan
novel eagle
Okay folks, I need to take up a collection, because I NEED THIS
https://www.nobleknight.com/P/2147750837/Shadowrun-Original-Logo-Artwork
steep narwhal
I can contribute thoughts and prayer
steep narwhal
fickle crow
Daggerhear
steep narwhal
Did I stutter
novel eagle
I love the explanation that it rose to popularity because of an anime, as well as the fact that horror as a genre expects you to lose, so there's no shame in characters failing.
novel eagle
Nice!
deft spire
yeah
novel eagle
What did you use to make those models?
deft spire
What did you use to make those models?
Heroforge
novel eagle
Cool, thank you. I didn't see the words in the preview. 
keen sedge
(i didnt see the words either, but ive seen their style before)
deft spire
oh my god I just had some of the best roleplaying moment of my entire life
novel eagle
Oh nice, Critical Role did an Abridged version of Campaign 3, maybe now I can actually get through it. 
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1tiwbzkOjQzLiaOJBpHvyQ46GtPefp2H&si=ryltDeuoxPG2va1w
deft spire
I made angst of my dragonborn OC
lone widget
Turns out they didn't retire.
They were hired by someone else, lol. https://darringtonpress.com/welcoming-chris-perkins-and-jeremy-crawford-to-our-team/
And by Critical Role, no less
keen sedge
Damn
prime nimbus
What's Darrington Press? They don't even have an about me page or blurp
lone widget
They're a part of the Critical Role family: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darrington_Press
They're the ones who created Daggerheart, Candela Obscura, and the Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting Reborn.
prime nimbus
Yeah I've only heard of the last one's original
steep narwhal
I have Daggerheart. It's good
wooden swan
Free RPG day right now! I just found this interesting game that uses a D4 based system https://wendigoworkshop.itch.io/last-hope-ttrpg
silk sequoia
I have Daggerheart. It's good
What's it like to play? I was thinking to look into it more myself.
steep narwhal
A lot more free-form
I like the wound system, it borrows from SWADE pretty well and adds armor to it
The skills and actions available are a lot more "Well this just makes sense that I can do this" rather than "this is a list of options"
silk sequoia
ahh that's good to hear, thank you
steep narwhal
I'm still not super duper clear on the Experiences mechanic but I imagine with a more experienced GM it makes more sense
fickle crow
Had the finale of my longtime group’s pathfinder session. It was amazing enough that I’m gonna write up a dramatization, but the highlights are as follows. Note that we had to end at level 18, and quite a few plot points early, so some of this is somewhat contrived.
We brought the god killing weapon to the lair of the Wealth Goddess we’d been working for and aiming to subvert (she was also a PC from the last campaign’s story, and being chaotic evil in the end had been orchestrating chaos the entire time of this one); she, being petty and impatient, claimed to grow bored and summoned two gods we had faced off against but not killed. We injured and then killed them with the proper weapon. Then the goddess reappears and the dm was gonna have her monologue and offer a choice of final fight…but I stabbed her the second I could since she had literally ‘removed the turn order’ and called a surprise round. She went “okay fuck you”, gave us our health and spell slots back, and squared off against us and our ill-gotten demonic ally from a bit back. The dust settles with her eventually at one health, grabbed, and unconscious, but our magus keeps hitting her from bloodlust and manages to jolt her awake. Our bard doesn’t want to kill her permanently because at the end of it all, she’s still a young filly thrust into more power than she’d ever have to have, even as a 20th(+?) level rogue. So I say “hey, (cleric known for sowing loads of chaos)…make her draw from the deck [of many things].” We negotiate that she’ll draw a card for every mission she sent us on that did harm; eight in all. The dullard card is not in play anymore, but everything else naturally is. By agreeing to this we promise not to kill her. So she does declare to draw eight cards. First result…she gets 500gp of wealth. She does have infinite wealth but still appreciates it. Second result…she gets the exact same thing, and we begin to wonder “oh god what if she just gets eight beneficial cards”. But finally her third card is drawn…void. Her psyche is imprisoned on a distant plane or planet, but her comatose body remains functional. This functionally leaves her alive and able to think without care of physical needs, but (almost) permanently separated from her ill-gotten wealth, and free for us to take and redistribute as we please - while her realm is usually only enterable by her alone, she gave us a stone we can insert somewhere to be allowed in…and could no longer take it back. Also, the void card demands that you immediately cease drawing cards, so she couldn’t even draw a wish to save herself. We resigned to still take care of her body, and logged off with the goal of figuring out what exactly we intend for post-campaign because honestly, that was so fucking perfect despite being left up to chance that I hadn’t thought of what would happen from us getting such a karmically appropriate ending for her. She could even get a redemption next campaign, if powerful enough deities get involved! If she learns her lesson, that is. Still…very fun time. They remain my forever group, even though we’re likely to take a break for a few months to allow a lot of us to move house by next year.
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But finally her third card is drawn…void. Her psyche is imprisoned on a distant plane or planet, but her comatose body remains functional. This functionally leaves her alive and able to think without care of physical needs, but (almost) permanently separated from her ill-gotten wealth, and free for us to take and redistribute as we please - while her realm is usually only enterable by her alone, she gave us a stone we can insert somewhere to be allowed in…and could no longer take it back. Also, the void card demands that you immediately cease drawing cards, so she couldn’t even draw a wish to save herself.
God DAMN that's a satisfying end to the adventure. That was an extremely good idea to use the deck.
fickle crow
The best part is those rolls for the deck weren’t fudged - all were rolled in the open with no modifiers
8, 8, 21 (normally d22 but without dullard we just do 21)
It was legitimately just RNG
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Sometimes those are the best ones. There's a singer I know who made a song about her character surviving being thrown into a river of souls that would've killed her and sent her soul into an inescapable void prison, and the only way to escape was if she stayed true to herself, fought back against the unrelenting mental torment she was now facing, and "remembered who she was" (which, in game-speak, meant she had to roll three Nat 20s in a row).
She rolled three Nat 20s in a row.
fickle crow
the dice tell the best stories
There was a chance she couldve rolled the fates and gotten away scot-free, but our dm was kind enough that he was like “listen even if she got that I’d leave a loophole you could exploit next campaign probably even if she saves herself here”
Wasn’t necessary tho ❤️
Also fun fact, if she got moon to make wishes, my plan was to…use my attack of opportunity and my last hero point to get two shots at interrupting her. Disruptive stance lets me react to verbal components, since they include concentration…and if I hit, not only would she be dead, but disruptive stance says the spell in question is just wasted regardless of power
lone widget
The dice made it so that you didn't have to kill a filly, and that there would be a chance for redemption for her.
Couldn't have ended in any better way for an MLP-inclusive campaign.
fickle crow
Very glad for both the filly’s sake and our bard’s that it just worked out that way, for sure
lone widget
I would've loved to see everyone's reaction to it had it been recorded. Oh well, sometimes the greatest stories will stay only with those who experienced them.
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I hope to someday experience a moment like that. Hasn't happened yet, though we've had some humorous moments in my group's Curse of Strahd campaign.
There was one time when my Paladin was looking down a well, and saw this spider-mutant guy climbing up at us to attack, so I quickly used a cantrip to dump some dirt into the well bucket and then just let the bucket smack the dude on the head. He fell back down into the darkness and didn't come back up, and I was rewarded with an inspiration point for somehow doing something that Flitter had never seen before.
fickle crow
yeah prop play is fun. I forgot to mention that we had to kill one god by instead destroying a book they had stored their nonphysical self in…someone tossed it at me and I argued that since the book was moving towards me on a move action, and I had enough reach, I could use an attack of opportunity to slice at it and destroy it with my god-killing weapon
He allowed it because it was both funny and kinda made sense. It worked
lone widget
Book ninja!
In the same Curse of Strahd campaign our group was being attacked by a giant roc, and we were separated on a bridge. We had an archer rogue but he had very little health at the time, and our monk was useless because she couldn't attack from the ground.
Then I asked Flitter if the roc's head counted as "ground" to stand on if I could get up there. He said it did. So I used Misty Step to teleport onto the roc's head, grab onto the feathers so I wouldn't fall, and then stab it in the eye. I unfortunately failed the dexterity save when falling back down onto the bridge, but it basically ended the fight because the roc was now half blind.
There was also the time our monk jumped out the window of a manor, spider-monkeyed her way across the outside, and then smashed feet-first through another window like a ninja in order to bypass a magical trap that had been triggered so she could support me in a fight. That was pretty cool too.
fickle crow
-# I reacted with Misty Blep cuz Misty Step, get it
lone widget
Ah, I thought that meant "concentration" or something. :P
fickle crow
Or also just a playful tongue :p
fickle crow
Hell yeah
I am finally hanging up my martial hat tho
I am either playing a caster next, or GMing
lone widget
Oooo, have fun!
fickle crow
Martials are only so fun when your other 3 members are all mostly casters…magus is not a super good co-melee class at high levels :c
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I have a shadow sorcerer character I want to try using at some point in a D&D game, but I don't know what campaign we're gonna be doing next after we finish Curse of Strahd. I'll wait and see what kind of campaign we'll be doing first.
I also have an artificer backup character, as well as a unique "duo" concept that I took inspiration for from Pathfinder: Kingmaker (the Owlcat RPG, not the module).
novel eagle
wooden swan
I don’t think it’d be a commitment to a big game that lasts a long time and has a plot in mind, but would anyone here be interested in playing something play by post? So no session times, and it’d be a game system that doesn’t need a DM as an intermediary
fickle crow
My internal commentary:
“isn’t that just forum rp?”
“where do you think the ‘roleplay’ comes from?”
“ok fair…but who decides when you roll dice and what succeeds or not?”
wooden swan
There are game systems where DMing is shared by all players, or they use tools like oracles that are tables of possible outcomes, items, enemies, etc you roll against
The sudden I’m wanting to try is https://squidhead-games.itch.io/flexpiel?source=mythiria
It’s different from forum RP I guess in that there’s additional structure
fickle crow
This calls for a referee, which is still basically a DM
wooden swan
I’ve downloaded so many RPGs I got mixed up 
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From u/lordofbaers on Reddit:
steep narwhal
Tons of really great stuff here. SWADE, Cypher System, Call of Cthulhu, Cyberpunk RED, Root RPG, Kobolds Ate My Baby
$40 is an absolute steal
prime nimbus
Neat
silk sequoia
hey folks, has anyone been watching the Critical Role Age of Umbra mini campaign?
I was thinking to start watching and get a feel for how daggerheart looks.
Curious what people think of what's been shown on Age of Umbra
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From u/lordofbaers on Reddit:
silk sequoia
oh no
novel eagle
If you've ever been interested in GURPS, Bundle of Holding has three bundles:
GURPs 4e Essentials
Pyramid Magazine bundle 1
Pyramid Magazine bundle 2
prime nimbus
steep narwhal
Using heroforge models for comics is really uncanny
prime nimbus
Yeah
lone widget
https://www.rxddit.com/r/DnD/comments/1lxa5dy/why_pick_locks_when_you_can_pick_u...
Me and Rom trying to unlock/break flooded jail cell doors.
prime nimbus
You could just drink the water so you can see what's inside then misty step into the good rooms
lone widget
You could just drink the water so you can see what's inside then misty step into...
Oh sure, drink the water that multiple corpses have been rotting in for Celestia-knows how long. I'm sure our characters won't get like a million diseases.
fickle crow
Don’t be silly, diseases don’t exist in d&d
-# quietly sweeps away the rules for exactly this sort of thing
wispy nebula
lone widget
...Phantasy Star is still a thing? 
wispy nebula
Yep! I already pre-ordered the TTRPG last december. The book should release in September.
prime nimbus
Another TinyBaer comic
lone widget
Good Lord, they are all unhinged to the max. I loved every second of this: https://www.reddit.com/r/criticalrole/comments/1m8cj9z/cr_media_first_look_at_the_mighty_nein/
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Hard to tell exactly who this belongs to (I'm on mobile so it's annoying to check), but there are links at the bottom:
fickle crow
Plot twist: he knows, 200gp is just his service fee
wispy nebula
Today I was hard at work on my unknown RPG project I so eloquently call, "Too Many Classes" So far, the class count is 75.
wispy nebula
See, you start out with three base classes; Warrior, Ranger, and Mage. Then those can level up to unlock a few more classes in the same domain, then you can sub class to unlock even more classes as they level up.
fickle crow
That’s gonna lead to some fun combinatorial explosion lol
wispy nebula
I have just started working on a neat setting for it. A solar system with 4 different planets in the habitable zone, each with a magical space elevator and solar sail ships to connect the planets together.
teal flower
novel eagle
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steep narwhal
Our Master Tier subscription will unlock more customizability for DMs who need it. You’ll be able to upload homebrew maps, custom tokens, and access exciting tools built just for you.
Bro
keen sedge
so... roll 20?
novel eagle
so... roll 20?
Yeah, that's kinda what they're trying to compete with.
fickle crow
Roll20 kinda sucks for anything that isn’t mainline d&d, ime
bold sinew
FoundryVTT is pretty damn good these days
well, it's less buggy than Roll20
and a bit less miserable
bold sinew
yeah though there is forgevtt that simplifies it, in exchange for a fee for hosting foundry for you
keen sedge
Oh yeah foundry is better but I've never used it
bold sinew
(there is also other foundryvtt hosting providers)
steep narwhal
Like me
wispy nebula
So, while working on my 'unknown rpg project', I'm creating the solar system and lore/urban myths around the planets and ended up making a creation myth and associated 'Genesis' for the star.
wispy nebula
I'll post it here.
(1)Before time, there was only the Void Between. (2)A consuming darkness. A shadow of eternity. (3)The mother, from nothingness comes. Bathed in her light, we give our reverence. (4)Knowing only of the Void Between, she wanted to know more. (5)Nothing was all there was, so from nothing, she dreamed. (6)The mother dreamed of heat and we were warmed. (7)The mother danced in the heat. The Void Between knew of nothing, heat was not nothing. (8)The mother was also not nothing. The Void Between soon unlearned her. (9)Learning was all the mother wanted. The mother wanted to learn more. (10)So she dreamed again. A new dream that she would enjoy. (11)She dreamed of love. She put her love on her beams and danced it to the cosmos. (12)The mother filled the darkness with her love so that we may see. (13)Her dreams were the dreams of creation. (14)She loved her creation, but her love had no will to love back. She dreamed more. (15)She dreamed of fire, a burning passion. (16)She dreamed of water, a turbulent joy. (17)She dreamed of wind, a breeze of hope. (18)She dreamed a final time of stone, a bolder of resilience. (19)She pulled her dreams together into herself. She held it tight in a loving hug that only a mother could give. (20)And they were born of her flame.The Sacred Embers that grant us our fealty.
...```Chapter 2
(1)From the Sacred Embers, the children of Solenya were forged. (2)Four that bathe in light. Four that need naught. (3)Solenya finally signed. From that relief, the belts were formed. (4)The belts hug us closely and keep us from straying too far. (5)The children danced in her love. They wanted to love for themselves. (6)The children learned to dream, just as their mother did. (7)With the mother’s help, they learned to dream of life. (8)The mother gives to us life so we shall not suffer. (9)The children care for us so we shall not want. (10)The Void Between gives us peace so we can be at rest. (11)The children began to dream on their own. Trying new dreams. (12)The two outside dreamt on their own. Peacefully (13)The four dreamt in unison, learning to help each other. (14)The closest child dreamt of enjoyment, toys, and tools. (15)The last dreamt of self-reliance and free will. (16)Our mother watched over us all. May we praise her caring guardianship.
Chapter 3
(1)The mother’s gift is our magic. We bathe in her brilliance. (2)Our magic is our life. (3)We learn to live. Just as she dreams to love. (4)We live by the children’s will. (5)We protect the children. (6)We protect the mother. (7)May we never fall into greed, the downfall. (8)May we always help our brethren. (9)May we push forward through sorrow, loss, and pain. (10)May Solenya guide your paths to the new dream.
To be continued ```You know what, listening to Gloryhammer songs today have made me realize something...
If I ever decide to DM a D&D game someday, it's definitely gonna be a weird, wacky, cracked-out, batshit insane, swashbuckling science-fantasy adventure, in a world of magic, wizards, knights, robots, dragons, lasers, and laser-shooting robot dragons.
prime nimbus
You know what, listening to Gloryhammer songs today have made me realize somethi...
You ever hear about Spelljammer?
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I have, yes. It's part of the basis for the second campaign of High Rollers, which I am currently watching. Space-faring, yet still fantasy.
prime nimbus
Spelljammer is all about that good swashbuckling science fantasy, with hippo-headed arms dealers, psychic ant hunters, space-exploring robot gnomes, sentient undead ships that can steal a space whale -- definitely exciting. Dungeon of the Mad Mage actually has a spelljammer hook
lone widget
Flitter, I'm begging you, after Curse of Strahd, can we do a homebrew campaign with some Spelljammer elements? It would make the science-fantasy nerd in me sing for joy.
prime nimbus
You can bring it up and I'll study its feasibility
Last time I brought up homebrew nobody was excited for it
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I can only speak for myself here, but if you're referring to the first couple of sessions in CoS where you offered some homebrew options, I was still new to the game and thus didn't want to go too off-rail right off the bat. Now that I'm more experienced (and more inspired), I would love a homebrew campaign after this one.
prime nimbus
Hell yeah
novel eagle
I still want to run a Dragonstar game. It was a 3e setting that mashed up D&D with sci-fi. The conceit was that good & evil dragons had spacefaring technology & were poised to wipe out the galaxy, but decided on a peace treaty that each side alternately rule the galaxy for 1000 years.
The good dragons just finished their first rule, and now the evil dragons get to take charge...
https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/464/dragonstar-starfarer-s-handbook
Welcome to Dragonstar, a boundless universe of magic and machine, science and sorcery. Intrepid adventurers explore the Outlands in starships powered by fusion fire and arcane rituals. Dwarven prospectors work veins of pure adamantine in remote asteroid belts, and elven loremasters conduct secret experiments in living space stations. Grizzled mercenaries augment their bodies with bioengineered spellware, and orc raiders armed with pulse lasers massacre innocents on isolated colony worlds.
silk sequoia
yo that sounds sick
novel eagle
I adored it, but never got to play it. The company went under, so the IP is basically dead. But for a homebrew game, who cares?
novel eagle
wispy nebula
Another game that's good for space is Robotic Age. A game built by my friend because he wanted a system that he could build Megaman lmao. But the expansion has spaceships and Mars shenanigans
novel eagle
I'd also recommend Stars Without Number and its related games.
novel eagle
wispy nebula
Mugen Gaming is bringing Sword World to English
https://mugengaming.com/blogs/news/mugen-gaming-announces-sword-world-in-english
wispy nebula
I mean, I've been in the fan translation discord for some time and have all of the books and supplements, but I will totally support the official release as well!
keen sedge
novel eagle
teal flower
https://jobs.hasbro.com/job/Renton-Principal-Game-Designer-Dungeons-&-Dragons-Wash-98056/1295863700/
now's your chance
become the future of D&D
wispy nebula
delicate cloud
That's kind of an awesome design space too, with the play dead
lone widget
@novel eagle You might be interested in this :P https://www.instagram.com/p/DOorGTslRzJ/?img_index=6
Instagram
(That's just the first six, there's more.)
That's all of them
13 players, goddamn
novel eagle
Oooh!
lone widget
I think Marisha's character might be genderfluid, given the masculine name, the distinctly masc-leaning/nonbinary face and beard, and the...attributes, shall we say.
I also don't recognize a lot of the names here
Luis Carazo, Alexander Ward, Whitney Moore, and Aabria Iyengar are all new to me.
And Travis's character is gonna go over quite well with the furry community, lol
And Robbie's, Liam's, and Laura's are gonna be fandom obsessions, I can tell right now.
lone widget
Oh we know :P
novel eagle
For the non-Americans: ||"Remember the Alamo!" was a rallying cry for the revolution of Texas against the Mexican government, who controlled the territory at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Alamo||
novel eagle
New Unearthed Arcana for playtesting, this one is Arcane subclasses:
https://media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-images/ua/arcane-subclasses-update/LEwFmioFBYHWqzpd/UA2025-ArcaneSubclassesUpdate.pdf
silk sequoia
Just gauging interest levels, Have folks heard of LANCER, and if so, would people be interested in playing a game of it?
I couldn't get it to fire locally so I figure I'd ask here in case people were interested. I don't have anything setup right now, hence I'm just trying to see if there's interest.
Here's a short intro vid that goes over the basic stuff.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyQcrpCy4iQ
bold sinew
I’ve run it it’s a decent mecha system though my group didn’t show very big interest
silk sequoia
fair enough, how was it setting up combat stuff and did you use the Comp/con app thing?
bold sinew
Compcon is very recommended for setup
Combat is relatively easy to setup took me like a few minutes to grok what they want the GM to do
silk sequoia
fair enough! thanks
lone widget
@novel eagle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgK_qRwpygA
A hero to many, and enemy to some, when Thjazi Fang is marked for execution, various figures from across his remarkable life unite to uncover the truth behind his grim fate. Against this backdrop, the cast will traverse the new world of Aramán in a West Marches-style approach to gameplay where the story unfolds through the perspectives of three distinct rotating tables: the valiant Soldiers, the vigorous Seekers, and the veiled Schemers. As their paths converge, we’ll dive deeper into Aramán, a world of wonder with sorcery stemming from the graveyard of the gods and carrying forward the spirit of epic sagas reminiscent of The Lord of the Rings and Game of Thrones. In a land still suffering from the fallout of dead gods and living in the shadow of a tumultuous rebellion, these disparate people will come together across the fractured world of Aramán and connect in ways they never imagined. As hope and victory fade, a question hangs over Aramán. Without the Gods, what great deeds now fall to us? And who, or what, shall grab their crown for themselves?
It's a West Marches campaign set in a brand new world, and it will have three rotating tables
This is gonna be a doozy
novel eagle
Man, I have tried to get into CR several times, but I just cannot sit still to watch 4 hour sessions. Especially once it gets into the dozens of episodes.
keen sedge
yeah its why i havent gotten into them euther
i guess they'd make some good background noise tho
steep narwhal
It's a West Marches campaign set in a brand new world, and it will have three ro...
I ran two games like that
wispy nebula
I just got my PDF for Phantasy Star TTRPG! I'll be getting the physical rulebook sometime next week!
wispy nebula
Yes, you can be a Musk Cat from Phantasy Star 1
novel eagle
novel eagle
steep narwhal
Oh sweet Zamorak they're trying again
novel eagle
Everything points to a 5e Dark Sun release.
novel eagle
novel eagle
teal flower
when the Wizard discovers fireball: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/mP7OtdtLU1k
novel eagle
wispy nebula
Having some light reading.
fickle crow
novel eagle
Ooooh, episode 4 is out:
https://youtu.be/QPIYoYz-hdM?si=KOJv-vu-i8iO6pdK
novel eagle
steep narwhal
Monarches of Mau!
wispy nebula
prime nimbus
novel eagle
novel eagle
A good explanation for why maps/terrain are absurdly large compared to the minis used for D&D.
keen sedge
lone widget
Art by neonsun_art:
Karlach and Hellboy crossover
(If this is too suggestive then the mods can remove it, but I honestly don't think it's any more suggestive than the default outfit she wears in the game.)
novel eagle
novel eagle
fresh path
Hellooo! Me and my sister are looking to do a dnd like mlp thing maybe with zombies too ! We create the story together but I guess I’ll kinda be a dungeon master! I’m looking for people 16+ , 15 at the very youngest since my little sister will be joining and she is 15 . I am 20 . Please keep it sfw even if it’s all 18+ people , explicit nsfw things make me a bit uncomfortable due to personal reasons. It will be useing a discord bot to make characters and forms to keep things and places organized . We are looking for 3 or 4 people available a lot , we are on pst time zone . We wanna add elements of the owl house along with a lot of dnd including rolling! If you are interested please dm me !
steep narwhal
What system
novel eagle
novel eagle
steep narwhal
I haven't watched the video but I imagine it goes something like this:
Broke: thinks Eberron is steampunk with mechs and wacky flying contraptions, and thus is low-medium magic
Woke: Eberron is higher magic than the Forgotten Realms
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And then there's me, who thinks both (except the low-medium magic part). :P
novel eagle
Honestly, it's my favorite setting and I agree with most of his points about it.
steep narwhal
Nothing in any of the source material makes it steampunk and it annoys me when people say it is. Gnome tinkers lace everything with magic. It's magic driving everything from the coffee makers to the actual living warforged.
lone widget
Would you accept steampunk aesthetic but everything is powered by magic?
novel eagle
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Even if you're not all that interested in DG, he has a few good tips on porting some of its features to other games. I'm personally a huge fan of the Bonds system, and want to use it if I ever get to run any RPG again.
steep narwhal
Delta Green is neat
novel eagle
wooden swan
novel eagle
Oh dear
wooden swan
it's a funny video, but the tl;dr is he's one of the few people to get anything and it was a crappy rubberwood table with mismatched stains and chips. and they tried asking for his social security number
novel eagle
Wow
wooden swan
the cupholders are very good at holding beans and the tabletop is bean resistant though
it does make me wonder when a cheap gaming table is actually going to happen. right now I'm looking at getting a poker table instead for when I have an apartment
novel eagle
lone widget
This is actually a very solid way of describing how stats work in D&D to a new player:
lime tusk
"that's just called salsa" - the bard
novel eagle
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novel eagle
OMG, he mentions MLP Infection AUs.
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mild kayak
Looks like this channel hasn’t been used in a minute, but on the off chance of it being read; If anyone’s looking to join a TTRPG online I’ve got an option open! I can’t join due to time constraints, but there’s 2 other super nice participants and a DM who are ready to start! It’s beginner friendly and a pretty simple dnd like homebrew set in the ArKnights universe (don’t need to know the lore, just a cool setting!)
Dm or ping if you’re interested!
steep narwhal
What system
novel eagle
novel eagle
kindred garnet
But can I finally play as a Lich priest of the goddess of Death?
novel eagle
But can I finally play as a Lich priest of the goddess of Death?
Actually, yes.
Path of the Lich
Lichdom isn’t just for wizards; any character with the Spellcasting or Pact Magic feature can walk the Path of the Lich. The first feat in this path, Lich Initiate, grants the character a spirit jar, a magical vessel unique to them that anchors their soul to the world of the living. This spirit jar allows the spellcaster to consume the souls of Humanoid enemies and use that energy to bolster their own arcane power. Much like the lich they aspire to be, the character doesn’t need to carry their spirit jar with them to benefit from it. When the character finally ascends to lichdom, they become a fearsome being impervious to death—so long as they safeguard their spirit jar from would-be heroes!
kindred garnet
Awesome
novel eagle
novel eagle
steep narwhal
Is that Gnome Chompski
kindred garnet
When I think of playing an evil character, I feel slightly uncomfortable about what I come up with.
Instead of the usual edgelord evil. It's a slow, methodical neutral evil character who is always looking for a way to get favors from people with power. Not to cash them in immediately, but to hold onto them for when he wants to finally make his move and attain power for himself.
novel eagle
Reddit
The table:
- Jasmine Bhullar, Dungeon Master
- Mayanna Berrin as Wesley, a Drow Grave Domain Cleric
- Christian Navarro as Eloin Emberleaf, a Dhampir Winter Walker Ranger
- Neil Newbon as Crem, a Gnome Reanimator Artificer
- Devora Wilde as Zora, a Hexblood Shadow Sorcerer
They got the VAs for Astarion and Lae'zel in this one!
keen sedge
https://bsky.app/profile/vcreedsabretooth.bsky.social/post/3mjtykaudd22h ok thats kinda neat
Oficcial rules for eldrich horrors in 5.5e
novel eagle
Oh yeah, this is the new book they announced a while back. But thats a lot more stuff coming with it for that bundle than expected.
novel eagle
keen sedge
Neat
kindred garnet
But can my cutie mark allow me to be an assassin?
novel eagle
novel eagle
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silk sequoia
oh neat, the VA is doing the audio book for this too right?
novel eagle
novel eagle
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novel eagle
a solo ttrpg in fallout?
Yeah! They released a similar book for Star Trek Adventures before putting out the second edition, so we may finally get news on that later in the year. But the Solo edition of STA is great, I really want this Fallout one.
silk sequoia
i should check for reviews online, And alas, the book itself is sold out, though the PDF is still up
idk if they even ship to Aus
novel eagle
Yeah, in your situation, the PDF is probably the best option. If you've got a local game store, they might be able to order the physical copy for you.
silk sequoia
oh true! I'll have to ask around.
though... shipping is probbably gonna kill the price for me yeah, maybe PDF would be best
novel eagle
lone widget
Oooooh, it's a D&D setting. I thought it was a series at first, then a game.
arctic scaffold
Hi! I just joined the dnd discord and while on the app i went here and found this. I am very new to it all but hope to learn as much as i can 😊
slender vector
But can my cutie mark allow me to be an assassin?
Well what is it?
kindred garnet
Well what is it?
Never put more thought into that as it was a joke since Assassin is a D&D prestige class
slender vector
Never put more thought into that as it was a joke since Assassin is a D&D presti...
Oh fair lmfao xD
Thought it was like, scissors or something
Gosh
I wanna play a pony rpg
qwq
novel eagle
I wanna play a pony rpg
There's a few out there.
novel eagle
Yeah, Ponyfinder has Pathfinder & 5e rules.
There's also the River Horse MLP game (now out of print), and the Renegade Game Studios MLP game.
novel eagle
The eternal struggle.
slender vector
Anypony here volunteers?
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Roleplaying is Magic is pretty old but IMO one of the best pony TTRPGs out there
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Yeah, Ponyfinder has Pathfinder & 5e rules.
There's also the River Horse MLP ga...
Both editions of Pathfinder, it's important to note
novel eagle
One day I will sit down and do a pony RPG using a light system like Fate or Forged in the Dark.
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I've wanted to play it in Pf2e for a long while now, but I can't find a group and I'm too burnt out to run it myself
novel eagle
... actually, Fate Acclerated would be damn near perfect, because I could swap the 6 Approaches for Elements.
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I've wanted to play it in Pf2e for a long while now, but I can't find a group an...
Honestly I think I'd take any TTRPG at this point, so long as I could insert a pony into it. And so long that it isn't 5e 
I would not mind being invited to a group here, though I have to note that scheduling gets exponentially more difficult when I'm involved due to the fact that I probably live on the opposite side of the globe to where you're from... And that I cannot maintain a consistent sleeping schedule no matter how hard I try
Or at least I can, but it always fails the moment I think it's going fine. It's like a curse!
keen sedge
why not 5e? its not the best system, but it functions fine and has a lot of support
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why not 5e? its not the best system, but it functions fine and has a lot of supp...
I am so, so fed up with it and I vastly prefer pf2e over at this point
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There's also the fact that a lot of people dismiss the idea of playing any ttrpg other than 5e which stops them from trying more fun and weird stuff...
especially when it would be far better than trying to homebrew 5e again...
If I had to pick between 5e and nothing I'd still end up picking nothing 
5e just endlessly frustrates me
keen sedge
thats fair
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-# I love martial classes in any other TTRPG but in 5e the entire playstyle is "Attack, end turn, rinse and repeat"
keen sedge
...yeah actually
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-# People say play casters if you want variety but even that has problems of its own (replace "attack" with fireball and thats what casters feel like most of the time) and besides... sometimes I don't want to play a caster
I should probably stop talking about 5e though, it's been a while and I don't think anyone wants to see me write an essay on How Much I Hate 5e
More fun to be positive about other ttrpgs anyway
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Roleplaying is Magic is pretty old but IMO one of the best pony TTRPGs out there
https://roleplayingismagic.github.io/ seems to be the best resource for it
the idea of it is great; it's a rules light TTRPG thats designed to play out like an episode of the show, and at the end of it your characters "write a lesson to Celestia" detailing what they've learned (and they get an experience point for each lesson!)
character progression is quite interesting because instead of any traditional leveling, you instead buy little traits and abilities with EXP between sessions
there's also a surprisingly complex and interesting system for designing spells
and a bunch of interesting optional rules that are fun to play around with
(i am quite fond of how they have pretty unique roles for playing as an Ascended Alicorn, very few pony RPGs even attempt to give you the option and I always appreciate it when I see it)
the way the option is balanced is quite interesting...
This is also a system where Alicorns are actually.... incredibly balanced?? Since species traits aren't a thing in this game (though species do restrict what abilities you are able to purchase) they don't have any direct advantage over other species, and in terms of trait availability they lean way more on a jack-of-all-trades archetype
They have access to most things, but they can't specialize as well as other species can
I've played a couple sessions of the game with my marefriend (and her girlfriend) and it was quite fun!
I should talk about some of our sessions later
novel eagle
-# I love martial classes in any other TTRPG but in 5e the entire playstyle is "...
That's one reason I loved 4e. Lots more for martials do, and they weren't completely overshadowed by casters.
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pf2e fighter is soooo interesting
silk sequoia
ooh why's that?
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pf2e's big thing is that you pick your class feats yourself instead of having them be fixed like 5e meaning classes are a bit more varied and customizable in their builds
and for fighter, you get a lot of picks and almost no fixed features
you more or less build your own fighting style
there are dozens of combat moves to choose from and it's quite fun just building them, let alone playing them
one of my favorite things to do is pick a weapon and build the fighter around that weapon
keen sedge
That's one reason I loved 4e. Lots more for martials do, and they weren't comple...
i dont disagree! 4e is where i started and it did genuinely bring a lot of interesting ideas to the table
at the cost of turning D&D into a board game rather than an RPG
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i've still yet to actually play my fighters though... been waiting for our group's first session for a while x3
I started with 5e, do kinda wanna look at the other editions at some point
silk sequoia
yeah fair enough
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one of my favorite things to do is pick a weapon and build the fighter around th...
something that makes this way more interesting is the insane weapon variety in the game, too
there are so many weapons and they have all sorts of values and traits
silk sequoia
I've been wanting to run some TTRPG stuff for a while, but like, I don't really have a group interested in the stuff I want to run haha, that and I've been sick so I don't want to commit to a schedule if I can't stick to it
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fairrr
silk sequoia
that and like, i'm so rusty with running a game that I should probably stick to people who are friends and might be more forgiving of mistakes lol
I should check if there's a Ponyfinder for Pf2e. wanted to learn that anyway at some point
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I should check if there's a Ponyfinder for Pf2e. wanted to learn that anyway at ...
there is!
for the core stuff there's a conversion guide
i assume later books already come with the content available for pf2e
silk sequoia
ooh a conversion guide huh. 
I guess I'd need the PF2E core book too right?
novel eagle
i dont disagree! 4e is where i started and it did *genuinely* bring a lot of int...
See, I disagree with that assertion. It's still an RPG, it's just that the combat sections become a lot more clear and defined. Which I found to be a plus. But there's still plenty of roleplay opportunities.
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-# would you consider LANCER a board game?
I really gotta play LANCER at some point again, it would be really funny to try and somehow insert a pony into its setting
silk sequoia
how was LANCER? it looks fun, but I've never played it
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i haven't had too many opportunities to try but if you're a big fan of making builds and complex tactical combat it's pretty amazing
plus, pretty great support on FoundryVTT which is excellent
silk sequoia
ah that's cool
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the narrative mechanics are arguably lacking but it's tolerable
slender vector
Roleplaying is Magic is pretty old but IMO one of the best pony TTRPGs out there
Can we make it a reality then? :3
I'd love to play with you! ^^
keen sedge
youd need a DM
slender vector
Can be any system!
novel eagle
Hm. Solo play games have been popular lately, I wonder if I could use one of those with pony.
slender vector
A big part of being a pony is friendship though!!!
We definitely should do something together!
novel eagle
I wish I could, but my schedule has been too chaotic for it most of the time.
keen sedge
the true final bos of any TTRPG campaign, scheduling
slender vector
the true final bos of any TTRPG campaign, scheduling
And finding someone who wants to DM xD
I'm tired of being the sacrifice
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if you can find a GM i'd be down
novel eagle
slender vector
if you can find a GM i'd be down
New quest acquired
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCjMT6JHHzI this looks fuckin awesome
desperate to play it now
fickle crow
oh no theyre throwing dice at me
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oh no theyre throwing dice at me
I am throwing many much dice at you
If anypony wants to run this PLEASE I want to play this so bad
novel eagle
I'd love to run it sometime, but if I remember right it's still in rough shape.
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I'd love to run it sometime, but if I remember right it's still in rough shape.
Definitely looks like it (I noticed the list of premade enemies is particularly short) though at least the player side of things looks more or less complete from my skimming
I've read enough of the rulebook to say that I am willing to put up with any difficulties in actually playing the game because it looks very very fun
If you wanna run it, count me in
And if you need players, I may or may not have a couple friends I could invite
novel eagle
I'm sure I can get a few more folks in too. It's just a matter of scheduling.
dawn badge
The final boss of every tabletop rpg!
if you have a scheduling website thing like when2meet or something i could fill in my availability... vaguely
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I've read enough of the rulebook to say that I am willing to put up with any dif...
the attention to detail with all the flavor is great and there are extensive sections about the game's design that convince me that a lot of very skilled effort went into this game
a shame that it is so unfinished
but there is enough to actually play and for that i am happy
steep narwhal
I'm still waiting for Goblin With a Fat Ass to be ported to Foundry
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I'm sure I can get a few more folks in too. It's just a matter of scheduling.
Anyhow, I'm down to figure that out and help set up the game as soon as you may be able; my schedule is pretty free from the most part though we'd still need to clarify things
Admittedly I'm a little overexcited and impatient to get started at some point soon, but I don't even know your timezone, let alone your general availability, nor do I want to rush you.
Basically what I'm saying is that I'd love to play very soon and will do my best to help set things up and be patient. Just uh, probably want some indication that this is happening... It's very easy to say one wants to run something and for it to be delayed for all sorts of reasons or be set back for months (I'm already in another group that I've been waiting too long to start) (plus, I also do the same problem. I've got two of my own campaigns that are getting a little set back due to my own depression).
And if it's not soon, that's fine. Uh, hope this isn't too much or annoying
keen sedge
same
novel eagle
Anyhow, I'm down to figure that out and help set up the game as soon as you may ...
It's fine! Yeah, I can't promise anything right now. I've got a lot of doctor's appointments over the next few weeks, and I'll have to decide how much time/energy I've got before committing ot anything.
If I do decide to run it, I'll let you know.
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It's fine! Yeah, I can't promise anything right now. I've got a *lot* of doctor'...
Ahhh damn, alright! Good luck!
silk sequoia
They are kickstarting a "The Division" TTRPG
it looks interesting, but also, they are charging like, 285 AUD just to get the core books o_0
way out of my budget hahah
looks cool though, so posting here if anyone else wants to check it out
lone widget
...People still play that game?
silk sequoia
sigh
I like the game. Just because it's not super popular doesn't mean it can't have a fun TTRPG version
There's some real good story in it, even if it's not the focus of the video game
I've not seen the finished books yet, so no idea how well it's been captured in the TTRPG
steep narwhal
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/arkhane-asylum/the-divison-rpg
Y-
Th-
What?
silk sequoia
Y-
Th-
What?
Aye, I didn't expect to see this either, but it exists ^_^
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I've never heard of that but sounds cool
ripe jacinth
The Division is such an interesting concept to me, but i'm not a huge fan of the games
silk sequoia
yeah fair enough, the games are very.. "third person cover shooter versus bullet sponges" but they can be fun if you enjoy the formula
ripe jacinth
Ye
lone widget
...People still play that game?
I meant no offense with this, btw, I just genuinely didn't realize people still played the game.
silk sequoia
ah ok. For context then, The Division 2 has seen a pick up of new players, and the release of new story DLC's /endgame content has brought in a lot of returning players. So I guess Ubisoft decided it was prime time to make a TTRPG
