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HOW IS 4d6 DMG SWARM A CR 1 CREATURE? WHAT WERE THESE FAGGOTS THINKING?
Also, my lvl 1 bard is ded. Oneshotted.
Seriously, wtf?
>>46813831
Stay out of the water, nub.
>>46813831
Use a goddamned spear.
>>46813831
>i.am a shitty bad casual and my snowflake died, this isn't like WoW
cry moar
/tg/, how can I convince my GM his world is unrealistic and it affects the verisimilitude of the storygame experience?
My character uses a katana. I was very specific in this on my character sheet, for cultural reasons.
My GM said because there aren't rules for katanas in 5e D&D I have to count it as a masterwork bastard sword, an unrefined, inelegant gaijin weapon.
He won't accept that this is highly disrespectful to the swordcrafting culture of Japan, dishonouring the name and work of legendary smiths like Hattori Hanzo, Masamune Shirow...
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>>46813781
What is your katana's bonus against canines?
Also, how dare you to forget such legendary smiths as Tetsuya Nomura and Hideo Kojima?
>>46813818
Don't forget Danielle Suzuki.
>>46813781
>My character uses a katana. I was very specific in this on my character sheet, for cultural reasons.
Rolled vs Fixed hit points on monster ect, what do you /tg/ prefer ?
Rolled is mostly pointless, just like rolled stats always are. The one way I could see value in it is having your players uncertain how much it'll take to kill a monster, but if your whole group is obsessing over enemy HP you likely have other issues way beyond that.
>>46813498
Rolled. Stops players from getting too complacent and does a little bit to prevent metagaming.
Rolled on bosses, fixed on mooks.
If I have to pick one for everything forever, fixed.
We now return to the Comedy Central Roast of Strahd Von Zarovich.
Hosted by Gilbert Gottfried.
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>>46813146
>SO WE'RE WANDERING DOWN THE ROAD AND TRYING TO FUCKING GET THE SUNSPEAR, AND SUDDENLY OUR DM JUST STARTS LAUGHING. AND THIS FUCKER RIGHT HERE SHOWS UP, SAYS GOOD EVENING, AND KILLS OUR ROGUE LIKE NOTHING. AND WE CAN'T ESCAPE BECAUSE OF THE POISON MISTS. WHAT THE FUCK RAVENLOFT?!
>>46813146
I really wish this was a thing. Who are the guests?
And we're not talking 'oh, you had to kill someone to finish the quest, no more lawful good.'
One of my players ended up in debt to a vampire. She was unable to feed and called in the debt, asking for five people to feed on. She wanted two of them to be virgins.
The player, rather than arguing, went off to the nearest village and dominated person on five children from ages 8 to 18. All of them were good aligned (rolled randomly). She then brought all of them to vampire.
She's a Neutral Good Gnome Illusionist who follows a Lawful Good...
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>>46813067
If alignment really is that important to you, the character should probably shift down to LN at least. Any other kinds of punishment depend on the situation, and you know more than any of us in that regard.
>>46813067
The nobility argument is useable, but not for any of the 'good' alligned characters.
Realistic consequences and she should think about her characters' actual allignments.
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Lawful neutral and evil allignments are top tier ones for the human masterrace. Fuck everyone else.
Played a good character who ended up basically enslaved to an evil character, and had to do evil stuff to stay alive.
Not sure how that would work alignment.
Low magic settings, pros and cons, any tips for running one as a GM?
Define low magic.
If you mean it in terms of very few magic items and few magical enemies, then they can work great. Just be aware that the players will expect to be able to do everything in the PHB and more, and the odds are they will all want to paly as charaters with access to magic. The main thing you will need to emphasise to them is that there will be little or no magic coming in from outside the group. mo friendly wizards guilds who can teach you spells for a standard price, no temples stocked up with clerics who will que up to heal your wounds, and not to expect...
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>>46812638
>D&D
>low magic
Do you also walk into a Japanese restaurant and order a hamburger?
>>46812638
>The Black Company (D&D 3.5E variant)
>Pros: The Black Company.
>Cons: Everybody dies.
>check for traps, ambushers, cursed items, and so on and so on everywhere, expending divinations to help out too
>"You find nothing."
>at one point, neglect to declare being paranoid and searching everything
>"You spring a trap. You should have declared you were searching."
What is the appeal of dungeon crawling again?
>>46812563
nice thread
>>46812563
>Hire burly NPC to go with the party for a cut
>Almost always dies through being trap bait
>Spell slots and tools 100% intact and ready for boss fight
And nothing of value was lost.
>>46812563
Challenging the players. It is a game after all.
>>46812618
You should try out morale rules, fampai
Maro said multiple times that he have a vanilla mythic in folder, maybe printed in a future set. How could this be? Any ideas of a vanilla mythic design ?
U
Creature
20/20
>>46812440
Go in folder and find it
>>46812440
WUBRG
10/10
1. Prep time takes time, time that could be better spent working or studying.
2. While people are free to bring their own materials such as dice or sourcebooks, the group/game organizer must have enough supplies for anyone who does not have their own.
3. Game supplies such as miniatures are not free.
4. Things that are stolen must be replaced.
Copied from a handout I saw posted on a billboard at college, advertising $30 per year for membership. This is crazy, right? Like i'm not in some nonsense dimension?
>>46812322
Honestly, the pay wall will probably do alot to filter out children and aspies. If that money is then used to buy aforementioned books minis and stuff for a public setting it could entirely be worth it.
>>46812322
$30 / year sounds like a pretty good deal if it's netting me guaranteed access to a GM, a group, game supplies, materials, and a network of like-minded individuals.
That's basically pennies a session. If you didn't own the PHB, you'd need almost the entire year's worth of sessions just to justify purchasing that one book.
I'm a forever DM in a small town, though, so what do I know.
That just sounds like a GM who's had some very bad experiences.
>Playing DBZ game
>game is set before the destruction of planet Vegeta.
>all saiyan party.
>one of them learned spirit bomb
Would using spirit bomb, then absorbing the energy, on planet Vegeta elevate a saiyan into godhood? The guy who used it is arguing that it should since it only took a pure saiyan, 3 half saiyans and a fucking fetus half saiyan channeling their energy into a pure saiyan for that saiyan to achieve apotheosis.
>>46812014
You couldn't absorb it in the first place. No one has shown the ability to use its power that way, have they?
>>46812122
In the movies at least. Goku absorbs the power from a spirit bomb to fight super Android 13.
How did they learn spirit bomb? Why would they know they can absorb it if the main characters didn't figure that out until decades into the plot? Meta knowledge isn't cool.
The Imperial Army often uses orcs, goblins, trolls and slave barbarians as skirmishers, using them to charge and ravage the enemy ahead of the troops.
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>>46811708
That sounds pretty reasonable. Puts them to good use and reduces losses to your own citizens, while at the same time giving the barbarians an outlet for their natural violent urges so they cause less trouble at home.
All proper empires know the value of auxiliary
>Add friend's friend to game
>1st session of new game, does fine
>Talk to players about how good new guy is, fits well in.
>2nd session. Still fine, newness shines, but nothing awful.
>3rd session. Different game.
>ACTIVELY goes against the party
>does shit that should get him killed
>Typical "I do what I want" lone wolf garbage
>Tells other player how to play character
>Complaints from other players
>time passes
>Give optional riddle to party for entire party's benefit
>new guy literally only one not to answer yet
>"I don't DO riddles"
>message new guy addressing complaints and lack of team work
>Claims that in two prior games he already knows what will happen that "party will make dumb choices and die"
>Point out that he in fact was making the dumb choices.
>Tell him "I think you're a bad fit for our group. I'm letting you go."
>He accepts
>Literally 10 minutes later
>"Fuc U! U suck as DM! Lone wolf Roolz! U were conspiring against me from the very beginning!"
>Blocks me
Main reason I didn't boot him sooner is I wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt to offer him the chance to change and I didn't want to let my other player get into that uncomfortable kinda in between. Should've just done it when I first thought.
Also That guy story thread I guess?
>>46811436
>That gif
Is his only joke flipping the table or does he do anything that is actually funny?
>>46811436
You handled it correctly. Nicely done.
>>46811436
Why would someone be filming their game in such a candid fashion?
Did they intentionally provoke him just to film him wrecking shit?
>1.05E Download Link
http://www.mediafire.com/download/lbbtmqi7e75k7td/PTU+1.05.zip
>What is Pokemon Tabletop United?
A class based tabletop RPG set in the Pokemon universe. Unlike other class based systems, you're expected to take multiple classes, mixing and matching skills from all of them.
To kick the thread off: Choose your three least favorite Pokemonthey're the starter options for the next game you run
>>46811394
>sunkern
>azurill
>Kricketot
No fire starter because fuck you, that's why
>>46811584
Azurill isn't a water type dumbass
>>46811887
>Grass
>Normal/Fagotron
>Bug
Yeah, no shit
Stat me /TG/!
>>46811378
Does he got optical blasts, regeneration and adamantinum skeleton?
>>46811378
GM gets an aneurism/10
punch knives from the punch dimension/10
>your party has be contracted to assist in the organising and providing security for a birthday party of a queen in a major country
What happens?
>Shortly before the birthday celebration is due to begin, the secret service of that country contacts you for an assassination mission on one of the foreign dignitary also invited to the birthday.
>Your target is suspected to be involved in large scale clandestine arms dealing with enemy nation.
>The secret service informs you that in the event that your cover is compromised her majesty's government will not recognise you, however they will use all resources to ensure your party...
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>>46811199
>you keep bumping into a well dressed, capable agent from the secret service who always appears at the right moment to steal your party's glory.
>>46811147
The queen's a trucker, so she's most likely more hardcore than most PCs.
