>All official WotC content here (now including the SCAG)
https://mega.nz#F!UVkTnT5b!FJ34UZ98BMY2mEtexenS7g
>Tools for 5e, other stuff, misc homebrews
http://pastebin.com/X1TFNxck
>SCAG Map:https://mega.nz/#!CowGWLKT!yiwaLeoLWcsV4d8uY5DmqsmPxTw3ZIdpz8xAzaYkQ5II
> November's UA (which should be in the Mega link above, but for those who just want it alone)
https://media.wizards.com/2015/downloads/dnd/02_UA_Underdark_Characters.pdf
And question of the day:
Which character idea have you wanted to play?
For DMs: Which setting/campaign/story do you want to run for your players next?
I want to play a warlock, with the pact being fluffed to be like in Drakengard (both parties are soul linked, and the non-beast has to give up part of themselves).
I need to go back to Drakengard to get the details right.
>>43508251
>Which character idea have you wanted to play?
Been toying with being either a cleric or paliden
>For DMs: Which setting/campaign/story do you want to run for your players next?
As someone who has played a little bit of Rage of Demons, I wouldn't mind running it with my gang. I like how it seems less rail roaded like previous ones.
I'm a relatively new player. I've been playing for a bit over a year now. I'm in a group that runs 2e and 5e. How do you guys feel about 5e in comparison to previous editions of D&D? On one hand, I really like how streamlined it is compared to 2e, but on the other hand I feel a bit more restricted when it comes to character options. 2e feels more logical to me, while 5e feels more intuitive.
>>43508251
I want to run a sandbox campaign for a rotating cast where the prep includes a lot of hex mapping, borrowing the concept of "fronts" from Dungeon World, and a living world. The actual running of the game will rely heavily on wilderness travel, random encounters and navigation checks, and the players will be able to choose (or come up with) their quests.
It's gonna be a big challenge, and an experiment. But I think it's the only possible way to run a game when you have a big number of potential players. And I'm curious to see how much you can learn to minimize railroading. It's taking a lot of time to write up though - sandbox prep in general is very front-loaded, and my bloated original plan is going through some changes as I realize I have to move away from a lot of ruin-type dungeons that I had prepared, because they would be too passive, into dungeons/threats that have a more (pro)active role in the world.
If anyone has ran a sandbox before, or has experience of applying Dungeon World concepts into 5e, or even knows which parts of official adventures I could lift, I'd be interested to hear it.
>>43508251
>Which character idea have you wanted to play?
I really want to try playing a Fire Genasi who is the worthless son of an efreeti noble's human concubine. Basically a spoiled, egotistical brat with a short temper. Probably Barbarian/Fighter multiclass because why not.
>For DMs: Which setting/campaign/story do you want to run for your players next?
Putting together a short campaign centered around two rival parliamentary factions employing street-level gangs in urban warfare for control of the capital.
>>43508251
>Which character idea have you wanted to play?
Any character where the DM won't cheat and metagame to fuck him over because I stepped out of the railroad.
>Which character idea have you wanted to play?
I want to get through playing each class, up next probably a wizard, who's actually really happy at causing mass destruction
>For DMs: Which setting/campaign/story do you want to run for your players next?
Gamma World, I really like the idea and the character creation
>>43508251
I've got a few character ideas.
My first is a dragonborn draconic sorcerer with the sage background. The idea is that he is obsessed with anything draconic, he has spent years researching them, trying to find a way to enhance his own draconic ability.
Sets out as an adventurer because there is only so much you can do with books, he needs practical work, field experience.
It's subject to DM fiat and approval, but my goal for the character in my head is for him to have an eventual half-dragon template applied. Collect powerful dragon artifacts, but at the same time, play up the flaws, as he becomes more draconic the red dragon personality traits become more prominent. Pride, arrogance, greed, xenophobic, rage, isolation. All become more prominent as his transformation continues.
Maybe I'll retire him to be a villian in another campaign, or perhaps he'll he struck down by a goblin at level 1. Who knows
>>43508695
The other is just a cleric. Tempest domain, viking/sailor type. Haven't really fleshed out much for him.
When is this month's survey going to be up? I thought UA was first Monday of the month and survey was first Friday.
>>43508251
A Half-Orc Ranger, seriously I always end up playing Clerics or Fighters, I want to shoot someone in the face while shouting BRUGO-GO-GO
As a DM, I would want to run a campaign in Thay, everyone is family and you have to help Wizard Dad out in his wacky experiments
>>43508251
I've been really wanting to play these in no particular order
>Conjuration Wizard
>Homebrew Gambler/Divination Wizard multiclass
>Some type of Gish class using a Maulso I can roleplay my MMO character
>A Fighter or Barbarian with some kind of proficiency with oversized weapons
>Which character idea have you wanted to play?
ForeverDM here, only ever played a single character for 3 sessions and it was a Fighter in 3.5. I really want to get involved in a campaign as a caster of any kind. I love magic and the versatility of it, but I don't have time to join another group when I'm always DMing.
>For DMs: Which setting/campaign/story do you want to run for your players next?
I've actually recently started a 5e campaign in the Eberron setting, it's going well so far. We have a Warforged Monk, High Elf Bard and a Dwarf Fighter.
Anyone have some homebrew Dragonborn race variants? I'd like to play a lizardguy that had something that was fun to do, instead of a subpar breath weapon.
>>43508891
Do Dragonborn get the AC Bonus like the dragon sorcerer guys get?
>>43508251
>Which character idea have you wanted to play?
Pic related, a demon hunter who uses demonic powers to aid himself
I know I've read a few ideas in here about how to fix Beastmaster rangers, does anybody have those on hand? Couldn't find 'em in the pastebin.
>>43508251
>Which character idea have you wanted to play?
Pic related
Not sure how campy or straight up I'd play it, but it'd be fun to take a bard and just play it 100% like you're a paladin. Maybe go College of Valor, have your "lay on hands" (cure wounds) ready, use bardic inspiration to play battlemaster / inspirational leader, and if possible maybe even write the character sheet as though you're a paladin and note your abilities in code somewhere on the sheet so you remember. See how long it takes the players OOC to realize.
Ideas for new Warlock invocations, anyone?
>>43508251
>Which character idea have you wanted to play?
>Mastermind Rogue based off Carl from ATHF
>Jester Wizard
>Long Death Monk that using adventuring as an excuse to commit ritual murder
>a halfing Thief
>NOT Guts the Fighter/BarbarianI want to be a player again dammit
Tips to roleplay a Svirvneblin Wizard with Far Traveler background? Both parents killed at different point in his life, studied Abjuration because he couldn't protect them. Lived in Blingdenstone with brother studying jewelry-making and magic. Enslaved by Drow for years, but escaped to surface. Still thinks he is being pursued by his former Drow mistress, and is borderline paranoid. Wants to study magic on the surface and eventually find his way back to his brother, who he writes letters to but doesn't know how to deliver. Cunning, pragmatic, frugal, out of touch with surface customs (frequently invades personal space of others, has strange Underdark ideas about food).
Looking for cool additional details I can add and ways to play up this background in-game. Also possibly plant some seeds/motivation so my character will be interested in the Princes of the Apocalypse adventure hooks, which so far I know nothing about.
>>43508251
I've got a character concept I want to play for like half the classes
>tfw forever DM
Why is Wizards so fond of FR when Greyhawk is where most of D&D's common assumptions originated?
For that matter, will any setting other than FR ever get content?
>>43509270
Flight
Invisibility
Short teleports
Metamorph into a giant spider
>>43509441
Forgotten Realms novels sell well.
I hope other settings gets 5e stuff. Planescape, Dark Sun, Ravenloft.
Eberron got a UA awhile back, maybe another setting will.
Currently playing a Oath of Ancients paladin turned Oath of Vengence paladin after finding out the necromancer that killed his family (which he in turned killed) isn't dead as in fact has come back as a Lich.
Backup Character is a Aasimar Fey Pact Warlock who had to give up her name & face as a part of the Pact. Now wears a mask.
>>43509548
How often, and at what cost?
>>43509574
At will
9th level and beyond
Flight speed equal to your land speed. 12th level
Invisibility better thant the one you can't move, allow him to at least move, keep the level the same
Teleport 60 ft as move action. 9th level
Giant spider 2/day. 5th level
>>43508935
nop
Might as well ask here since the shit I'm trying to make is 5e-related.
Where do you guys go to get critique on your homebrew material? I can't get people tell me shit about fuck here and I have no idea what forums, if any, are any good for constructive criticism. I already tried the GITP forums but I'm not sure if it's just slow or if they're not interested in what I made, but based on the number of brony avatars, the place seems to be full of faggots with no taste.
>>43509270
What about something that does for another cantrip what the existing ones do for Eldritch Blast? (Perhaps including learning it, if it's not on the Warlock list)
>Wizard
>+0 con
>-1 dex
>No Mage armor
>I just don't like minmaxing, anon
>>43509903
He best be multiclassing into a Cha casting class with stupid shit like that.
Druid, Sorceror, Warlock and Wizard.
Which would yo prefer to play and why? What are the pros and cons of these? What are some cool character concepts for these?
>10 cleric
>6 paladin
>4 more levels in cleric
If I had decent wis/cha, along with ridiculous strength, why is this a bad idea?
>>43510041
War Domain and Oath of Vengeance. Forgot to add that,
I've been wanting to play a diplomatic knowledge cleric proficient in like eight languages, but language proficiency seems rather pointless in a game where someone can just cast tongues and not care
So I want to play a busty beautiful sorceress who solves problems with the following methods.
A) Seduce it
B) Burn it
C) Seduce it and THEN burn it.
D) All of the above
Would you allow this at your table? I am worried the DM will just see this as fetish bait or something.
>>43510156
Just blow your GM.
>>43510041
If you have the stats for it, it isnt
>>43510041
>>43510061
MCing Cleric and Pally seems stupid. Just stick to one.
>>43510172
But I just want to play the classical seductress enchantress. The character wont actually follow through with her game. She just wants to use her body as bait to get what she wants/lure a bastard into a dark alley so she can kill him.
So is there any way to chuck lightning bolts at people in 5e that dont involve magic weapons? Maybe some sort of spell that isnt lightning bolts (looking for targeted attacks not AoE's)
>>43510216
Feypact Lock or Bard (with Expertise in Subterfuge and Diplomacy). I'm not sure a Sorceress could focus on Enchantment. Also realize that most charm spells are considered mind rape in 5e and that the person who is subjected to them knows it happened.
>>43510263
Chromatic Orb choosing lightning damage?
>>43510263
SCAG has a cantrip that does exactly that at a short range.
>>43508891
I have Komodo dragonborn in my setting, sor far what I have is:
>Komodo Dragonborn: +2 constitution, 1d6 bite bonus action natural weapon, +1d6 scaling poison damage once a day, and poison resistance.
Basically bonus action instead of action, half damage and melee range, but always available, with a once a day buff that makes it do as much damage as normal breath weapons. Took away the advantage on fear saves to balance that out a bit, might still be a bit too good for martials so I may take the +2 con and make it +1 instead.
>>43510191
But why, anon? My reasoning is making my character basically the ideal soldier/fist of god kind of thing.
>>43510357
Devotion Paladin, Soldier Background.
Vengeance is not the fist of god, it's the fist of edgetards.
>>43510216
The only GMs who would approve of such a character only want you to try it so they can make your character fail and then spend an hour describing the ensuing gang rape.
>>43510288
It drags them towards you thoigh. That's hazardois if you're not made for melee
I wonder what the next storyline will be. They're supposed to announce it soon,
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>>43510410
>Tfw you just realized this isn't limited by the "cant wear armor" bullshit like the other monk abilities.
>>43510294
Having it as a bonus action seems pretty overpowered, as there aren't a whole ton of things consuming bonus actions as is. It would effectively make it so a character could make a TWF attack every single turn, even if they're using a shield or a great weapon. It would also be utterly useless for TWF people.
I'd say you could make it just the poison bite and have it be that it deals 1d6 piercing + a Con save for additional poison damage, with the poison damage scaling, but there's no way to determine DC for a racial Con save, really.
>>43510453
I'm not sure; it implies it's part of martial arts with the reference to the martial arts damage progression
>>43510383
Or Paladin's on a specific mission to kill a foe of the god. At least that's how I'm playing mine. My Pally serves a god that hates undead. I'm going after a lich.
>>43510383
You have had some bad experiences.
>>43510425
If I remember right, it was "Elemental Evil, followed by an adventure based off of Alice in Wonderland, and then an adventure about a Shakespearean play, but with Giants."
We have PotA and Rage of Demons as the first two, so maybe Taming of the Shrew, but with a Cloud Giant princess?It's most likely Macbeth mixed with the old Against the Giants adventure.
>>43510512
Same way they do with everything else? 8+prof+stat of choice
>>43510294
>>43510512
I am liking this, got more?
>>43510567
>Giants
Considering the previous adventures, giant don't seem very threatening.
>>43510567
I'm kind of holding out hope that the adventure will be set in Greyhawk in the Duchy of Geoff, like the old Against the Giants adventure was.
I just want Greyhawk to be acknowledged more than appendices in FR content.
>tfw its about a giant prince and a human princess as starcrossed lovers in human/giant conflict
>>43510649
>tfw it'sThe Tempest.
>>43510582
Yeah, I was just thinking any particular stat would be weird. I guess Str or Con make the most sense for it, so choice between those two?
>>43510512
That would just be worse than breath weapon though, and I want it to be a bit different. Breath weapon normally recharges at a short or long rest and is AoE vs. save instead of single target melee attack roll. I guess I could make it 1d4 normally and keep acid the same, in that case maybe recharge on short rest? Also normal dragonborn gets advantage against fear saves which makes them a bit better.
>>43510567
How about Titus Andronicus? King Snurre vs. the queen of the frost giants.
>Undying Light Warlock + Light cleric
>Cha+wis damage to Sacred Flame starting at level 9 (or 10)
Trying to decide if this is worth it (even if it does fit thematically)
>>43510880
That's 3d8+Cha+Wis damage, and you end up rather MAD if you still need Dex for armor.
You may as well go vanilla Agonizing Eldritch Blast and deal 3d10+3xCha; or, if you really want a Light theme, Undying Light Shillelagh Tomelock for 3d8+2xCha with 2d8+2xCha to a secondary target.
Are there any good map generators? I'm going to be DMing for the first time soon and I can't make a good map for my world. I've been very flexible with the lore so I could pretty easily tweak it to make sense within a given geographic region, but actually making a map is killing my motivation. I'd rather focus on filling it with interesting stuff.
>>43511010
>Shillelagh tome lock
I understand that it makes you SAD but for the love of god its just not as good as everyone says. You still need Dex for AC so its not like you wont be raising it anyways
Plus if you go bladelock you can grab lifedrinker to add another +cha mod on there.
So 3d8+dex+cha+cha and 2d8+cha+cha
Add in 6-8 levels of sorcerer and you will eventually do
4d8+dex+cha+cha+cha and 3d8+cha+cha+cha TWICE a turn with quicken.
Can someone explain to me what the Malleable Illusions feature means?
>>43511268
As mountain dwarf you'd only ever need 14 dex. You can also start as fighter 1 for heavy armor.
>>43511268
Firstly, my point wasn't to tell him 'PLAY THIS FAGET', but to illustrate that multiclassing Cleric and Warlock simply to get added damage on Sacred Flame is far from worthwhile.
I used that option because it's a commonly-mentioned build and it makes my calculations easier. Multiclassing into Sorc is just as open to Tomelocks as Bladelocks, so that's not particularly relevant, but your point on Lifedrinker is valid.
You're also right about raising Dex, as long as we're assuming he's going pure Warlock now. If he's taking a level in Cleric anywhere down the line, he'll have medium armor, and won't need more than a 14 in Dex.
Admittedly, you could get around the armor problem entirely by starting as a paladin, just going full Cha, and possibly using spell slots to smite the fuck out of people with a second level, but that's neither here nor there.
>>43511418
Usually you can't change the appearance or noise of the illusion once you've casted it without recasting it. Malleable illusions lets you change it. I think. I don't ever use illusion spells so I might be horribly wrong.
The picture of the girl centaurs in the Sword Coast book does things to my groin, and I don't even like centaurs.
>>43508251
>>43510001
I'm currently playing a druid because nobody else was playing a full caster and I figured we could use someone with full caster progression, I chose druid because I wanted healing spells but didn't want to be a cleric.
So far I love it and druids are one of my favorite classes now. Nature rules.
Wizards are my second pick but I don't feel like any character I play could live up to my mental ideal of a wizard. Gandalf and Merlin are too cool for me to be able to approach. Still, the idea of a person who learns to use magic through their own effort and study will always make them better than the other casters.My favorite wizard character concept is a Sprite Abjuration Wizard with a vendetta against the hobgoblins. She's a cranky customer who fancies herself a BRAVE WARRIOR. I probably won't get to play with any GM that would let me play a sprite though.
I've got an idea for a human red draconic sorcerer that I'll never play.
Warlocks are bad and should feel bad, I'd only ever dip a few levels in it to steal their empowered eldritch blast. It's their only redeeming quality.
>>43510001
Warlock, maybe Druid.
I never actually liked full casters that much, Lock and Bard have always been, as such, my goto option.
How do I stat a playable race with four arms?
>>43511721
Why? They're blurry shitty piles of shit.
>>43511963
homebrew up a Thri Kreen pc race
>>43511997
If you're talking about the scans, I read a physical copy
>>43511998
dandwiki homebrew looks like some major cheese, I'm sure there's more in the thread homebrew but I can't be assed to sift through them for ideas
>>43512062
Don't use the dandwiki, or the thread.
Just say "This is a race, it has four arms, it can carry more things, no it cannot quadruple wield, and no it cannot dual wield two two-handed weapons."
>>43510001
Wizard, because your character is a smart guy, Sorcerer is only cool if you are penalized for not using magic enough, Druid is neat because it comes with a rigid philosophy to RP and you can heal things, and warlock is for fucking autists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABaHY1WuAkM
>>43510156
Why the hell would I not allow a CHA Sorcerer? There's no "seduction" stat dummy, you'd just be making persuasion and bluff rolls and shit.
>>43512044
You're talking about pic related right? what the fuck is wrong with the middle one's face?
>>43512269
They have weird noses
/5eg/ if I were to perform a goading song in my character's native voice, would you need me to have a proficiency in performance even if I had a proficiency in my singing voice to add proficiency to my roll?
>>43512440
If I were your DM? No, you'd not get the bonus from proficiency.
However, you'd get a bonus from good roleplaying, which may or may not be greater than your character's proficiency depending on how well you pulled off the song.
>>43512440
I'd say normal roll bonuses but Inspiration if you pull it off well
>>43508251
My group just finished ToD, and I am up to dm next. I am going to run PotA. I think I will have 6 to 7 pc's. I know that is too many, but I am going to up stats and double monster fodder. Any other advice from players or someone who has dmed PotA
>>43512440
If I allowed you to take "singing voice" as an instrument, I would. However, I would likely not allow you to take it as a tool, and instead ask that you find a way to take proficiency in Performance to represent that.
>>43512721
Are you starting with side quests at 1 or jumping into the main quest at 3?
>>43511548
Sorry to make it seem hostile. I just get so tired of any argument that involves shillelagh. Good point in starting cleric or paladin. Only issue there is the required 13 str for paladin or 13wis for cleric.
>>43511489
You also eat up an additional ASI by not having a +1 to cha. Much better to go with a one level dip in fighter or something like that.
>>43512721
I'm gonna DM for the first time this Monday, also PotA. I'm also a player in PotA, about halfway through, so I'm hoping that will give me some experience and help running it.
>>43512721
I also ran it with 6. It's too much to handle honestly, makes combat take way damn longer than it should. Advice would be to play the prophets as being.. prophets. They know when shit is going on, though until the party actually does something SERIOUS to the cults they aren't exactly a priority. Use the local non-cult groups, like the local Zhents or the Order of Samular. They make good friends (or foes) of the party, and may send people to meet them if they start to gain renown. The way I found to keep people from just diving deep into the main quest shit is.. each surface area cleared then causes a huge reaction from beneath, and a huge outpouring of cultists and shit will start to come out, which SHOULD prompt the players to get lost. If they get to the Temple area, that's when the Prophets would know about them and start actually doing shit. The party shouldn't as reliably sneak around the Temple level (or below) as they could elsewhere.
Be sure to make things OTHER than the cult stuff seem attractive and interesting to do, as it's a good opportunity for them to secure allies, XP, and magic items if they do the side quest stuff.
>>43512859
Lvl1 side quest. Most of the players are new to the game. Let's them get a feel for the characters
>>43512890
Solid advice thanks anon!
>>43513185
Online or in-person?
>>43511128
Try Donjon for D&D stuff
>>43513423
I person. It sucks cuz we all work retail, so the greatest challenge is setting a time. We are having a character creation before we start too.
>>43513582
At least with a big group you can continue on nights where some can't make it
>>43513609
That's the case most times. Last campaign my wife would be "stunt" characters
>>43508251
I've been kicking around the idea of playing a character like Siegmeyer of Catarina. I'm still undecided on which feats for him to take. I want him to wield a greatsword, but I'm unsure of how to model blows kind of sliding off his curved armor
>>43513822
Whenever an attack doesn't hit your AC, it's sliding off your armor. That's what AC means.
Posted in a previous thread, need a puzzle for a solo quest.He's a warlock seeking an artifact in an ancient crypt.
>>43512269
horse pussy
>>43513822
ok, I need to know. Is the link in this picture when I open it in notepad safe? It's nothing cringy right? No Cheese pizza?
>>43513941
Notepad is text only, it will have some hidden text at the bottom of the picture code.
>>43513941
>>43513960
And apparently it is a link to a picture of the jumpscare type? Whatever you call those.
I've only ever seen Oath of Vengeance Paladins. Is anyone playing the Ganjadin?
>>43513979
Ah ok, just wanted to make sure it's wasn't porn or something...
>>43513979
Yes, very loud and actually made me jump. Epilepsy warning on that.
>>43513999
Yeah, quite annoying.
>>43513990
Yeah.... google is telling me it's possibly a virus.
--delete file--
Hey all, the guild artisan background suggests that one of the things you can be is a "fineamith." What is that?
>>43510383
I suppose we don't need to ask you to point in the PH where the bad gamers hurt you...
Story?
>>43508695
>Dragon D. Dragonson, son of Dragon
Cool story bro.
>>43514095
Finesmith I assume? Makes jewelry, household items like doorknobs and window hooks etc.
>>43508695
No anon, you get to level 17 and just Polymorph into a true dragon. Then become a total bro/total dick depending on color
Speaking of, what are the most supported/"best" Draconic sorcerers anyone? Red/Gold being near the top I imagine
>>43514275
I'm liking the Bronze I have going with a couple of levels in Tempest Cleric.
>>43514136
Nothing particularly interesting, a group with an edgy player who decided the best way to play vengeance pally was as a pyromaniac version of Miller's Batman.
>>43514247
yes I did mean finesmith, fucking phone, always auto correcting to nonsense
>>43514302
You're branding all vengeance pallies a certain way because of 1 player?
... you don't like minorities very much, I take it?
>>43508433
his temper could produce some nice RP memes considering fire genasi literally see red all the time
>>43513987
My buddy is a gnome moon druid going oath of ancients.
My DM has a story planned out for him and everything. It's going to be dope.
>>43508251 (OP)
Been wanting to play a Dwarf War Cleric for a while, seems like a lot of fun.
>>43508433
>>43514438
One of my favorite characters is a fire genasi paladin whose temper gets in the way of her dedication to justice at times.Unfortunately the one 5e campaign I got play her in was shit.
>>43514389
Considering this seems to be a fairly generalized problem with bad groups, it's kind of precious to compare my not liking how most players seem to roll Vengeance to not liking minorities.
>>43514302
That's disturbing.
Glad I've never had anything that... Unpleasant.
Well in the party anyway. As an antagonist, would be just fine.
>>43514559
lol u r a gay boy
>>43513987
I'm probably going to make an Ancients paladin sometime soon. I love that Green Knight-type shit and it's a nice break from the standard knight in shining armor devotion paladin or the grim-n-gritty vengeance paladin I'm not such a fan of.
Plus, our GM has a huge mage-boner and resistance to spell damage seems wise.
>>43513987
My first paladin was an Oath of Ancients.
Every other paladin I've seen has been Oath of Devotion.
I've never seen a Vengeance Paladin, though I have seen a "Dark Knight" paladin for an FF homebrew.
>>43514660
>>43514725
Green Knight is best Knight
Now remember to keep your magic powers, you must have fun, and prevent anyone else from stopping the party.
>>43510522
Implies yes, but refers to the die on the Monk table, not the Martial Arts feature. Not really seeing the broken build you could get from this either.
Has anyone had a chance to play the Swashbuckler Rogue yet? How's it hold up? It seemed really good from the UA, but I haven't gotten a chance to test one yet.
Is TWF kinda mandatory for the class? I'm wondering if I'm missing out by just wanting to go with a straight-up fencer rather than grabbing two short swords.
>>43514193
Cooler than ask the weaboos her who try to transpose their favorite chinese cartoon character into dnd.
>>43514275
But that's not as progressive. I'd like this to be something i can constantly role play.
So I couldn't resist the siren call to try to homebrew Ranger class.
I combined Favored Enemy and Natural Explorer into one feature. Instead of picking one type of enemy like undead or beasts, you'd get the Favored Enemy feature on all monsters naturally found in the environment (Using appendix B from the DMG as a guideline). Natural Explorer works the same.
Then I made Hunter's Mark a feature. Works largely the same. refreshes on a long rest. At 6th level it lasts for 8 hours, 10th lasts for 24 hours.
I made it so the capstone is that you no longer have to recharge Hunter's mark.
Maybe put Foe Slayer at level 10 and get rid of Hide in Plain Sight?
I was monkeying around with an archetype too but it was mostly just copying Deep Stalker from the Underdark UA.
Opinions?
>>43515174
It doesn't look like it fixes anything.
It looks worse, actually.
>>43515244
elaborate, if you will
>>43514886
>Is TWF kinda mandatory for the class?
Not as far as I can tell, but it gets more from TWF and melee than the other Rogues.
Rapier with GFB or BB from Magic Initiate from a Cha class probably outdamages TWF anyways.
>>43515270
Well Favored Enemy and Natural Explorer were kind of not useful. Combining them together doesn't make them useful.
They already had hunter's mark as a spell, not much improved there either. I don't really see the point of making it a feature.
Foe Slayer was cut out but it should be a level 1 or 2 feature. Replacement capstone is shit.
>>43514725
>FF homebrew
On that note I think Oath of the Crown is pretty spot on for Cecil.
>>43511548
I'm playing a human fiend pact tomelock with moderately armored as the starting feat. I don't need to raise my dex and I still have a solid 18 AC. Basically my character is walking artillery. Shits awesome. Playing him through OotA atm.
>>43514438
>Explosive Temper
>Hothead
>Seeing Red
I didn't expect a meme character, but now I'm rolling with it full steam.
>>43513822
If you want a character with really good armor skills, heavy armor mastery would seem appropriate.
>>43508251
So apparently the Sword Coast Map on the Mega is broken? Just DLed it twice, came up broken both times, and the preview pane on the site comes up blank.
>>43508251
So after having my warlock decapitated I've decided to roll up a Dwarven Paladin of Moradin. Being a Paladin I decided to make him a noble. The fighter in our party is also a noble, specifically a Baron. Any ideas on what a Dwarven title of similar prestige and power would be?
>>43516256
Tallest Rock
Master Brewer
Pickmeister
Stoneshaper
Masterwork
>>43516256
Forgekeeper. Especially as a devotee of Moradin, presiding over and maintaining a sacred Dwarven Forge is an especially prestigious position.
>>43516256
Blackboard Monitor
>>43516337
That's actually pretty solid. I like it a lot.
>>43516408
Glad to be of service, anon.
Hey /tg/, how do you make interesting encounters with monsters?
With humanoids I find it somewhat easier, since you can have reinforcements, minions, ambushes etc., but standard monsters are just giving me a hard time.
What kind of encounter ideas can monsters entail?
>>43516256
BeerBaron.
DraftDuke.
>>43508947
How to get a Garo/Makai Knight concept to work in 5th ed?
>>43516975
Palock? Paloured Soul?
>>43516975
Vengeance Paladin/Fiend Warlock multiclass?
>tfw unable to play an arcane caster without using my pencil like a wand
>>43516962
Any monster with 8+ Intelligence have all the tactical options available to them that humanoids possess.
>>43516999
And this is bad why? Assuming your character has a wand, of course.
>>43516962
The terrain. A purple worm in a wide open plain in broad daylight is a different fight than a purple worm found in a crumbling dwarven city. As it burrows through the walls and ceiling things begin to collapse on the players. The collapsing claustrophobic tunnels could deal damage, block off passages or destroy priceless dorf treasures. Now the fight with the purple worm is about more than survival for the players, they need to make sure their exit doesn't collapse and that the worm doesn't go anywhere near the library holding the book plot mcguffin and loadsa wizard spells.
The otyguh in the sewers naps in the offal the party is sneaking past. When it awakes it will surprise all but the most curious of players, and stepping through its accumulated filth is likely to give someone a disease, the party had best watch their step!
>Get into my first game of D&D Explorer's League
>jesuschristwhy.jpg
>Spend a lot of effort thinking up proper fitting gear just to start in a drow prison with everything taken away and sold
>Shit rolls, character feels useless in general, party has no clue what to do half the time because the DM refuses to use a proper map
>Improvisation goes to "Haha look at me trying to be creative" to "I'm only trying to use this shitty weapon because you took my ability for spells away" (FUCK spell components!)
>Everyone else pretty much outshines me, fun has been reduced to 0% at the end of the evening
This is how villains are born.
>>43516985
Works better than you'd think.
I need some help, /tg/
I'm a newbie DM planning to run Lost Mines of Phandelver for a group of friends, but given it's my first time DMing I'm slightly worried.
What should I do for tokens/maps? There was nothing in the setAny DM tips would be helpful too
>>43517141
>Take out a knife
>Start monologuing about how you are the evil villian
>Slice open the DM's throat
>Shout 'it's just a prank bro!'
>Continue to butcher them like the meat they are.
>????
>Profit
>>43511548
Hey, that Undying Light warlock gets CHA to fire damage, right? So once you multiclass that with Draconic sorc, you'd get CHA to fire damage twice on your GFB, along with the usual quicken shenanigans. So that'd be basically equivalent to lifedrinker (except SAD), right?
>>43517141
Your DM should of given you forewarning about the equipment loss. Also it sounds like your playing the Out of the Abyss module. Material components are a bitch but cantrips can get the job done just fine and only roughly half your spells cost materials. Unless you are a wizard you should be back to normal equipment and power by level 3.
Also if it's adventure`s league then you should of been using point buy, not rolls, for your stats.
>>43517206
As long as your GM believes in short rests
>>43517207
From playing it and from Google searches, I would advise getting the maps from the books or from online if you must and then getting a map you can draw on from a tabletop gaming store or website, and draw your maps based on the maps you get from the book and online for each section. Tbh there are only 4 important maps that need to be drawn or made: the cave, the castle, the mansion cellar, and the mines. Overall though you will be fine. The module is perfect for new players and is fun for veterans. Just be wary about the green Dragon ^^"
>>43517232
Indeed. However, you'd only get it on your primary target, as it only triggers on a 'hit'. That said, you could even play an Undying Light Bladelock/Draconic Sorc and get Cha thrice.
It's up to you to decide whether that's worthwhile, of course. Cantrip damage isn't everything.
>>43517232
>>43517306
Could get cha thrice with tomelock shillelagh too.
>>43517238
>Your DM should of given you forewarning about the equipment loss.
He's a typical gaming store employee, AKAa neckbearded asshole with his head so far up his own hobbies he can't act or talk like a normal human being..
>Unless you are a wizard you should be back to normal equipment and power by level 3.
Does it sound weird when I say I don't feel like sticking around for that long? The way things are progressing now, I'd have to waste three more Thursday evenings suffering through that unmotivating bullshit. I fucking hate Drow now.
>Also if it's adventure`s league then you should of been using point buy, not rolls, for your stats.
Stats was a set array. It's just that during the game I kept rolling below 10 on just about every vital moment, making my character look like a bumbling buffoon to the point where it stopped being funny and got cringe-worthy.
>>43517347
>>43517306
And as usual, you can quicken it/have the warlock slots to cannibalize as the usual synergy.
Not bad.
I feel like playing a "Samurai" who carries with him his epic level Gold Dragon patron's edicts as a tome and fights with a wooden sword now.
Isn't there some island ruled by a gold dragon on FR? Or am I mixing it up with golarion?
>>43511963
Thri-Kreen:
Medium. 30 feet of movement (or 35, who cares).
+2 Dexterity, +1 Wisdom
>Multiple Limbs
You have additional forearms sprouting from your sides, just below the rib cage. These secondary limbs are smaller than your main arms. Their reduced strength and reach makes them unsuitable for combat purposes, but they have the same manual dexterity and can be used to hold or draw additional objects (spell focii or material components, weaponry, potions, and similar) and pass them to the main hands. When drawing weapons or items, you may draw one additional, provided your secondary limbs are free,if your DM is the kind of weirdo who cares about the retarded object interaction rules.
The secondary limbs do not allow tri-wielding or quad-wielding. You cannot wield a shield and two melee weapons, nor can you dual-wield two-handed weapons. The limbs are capable of tossing objects, but not Throwing them with enough force to do damage or break potion glass; this requires an Action in combat all the same, and you have Disadvantage when tossing things like Alchemist's Fire or Acid Flasks with your secondary limbs (you may strike the target but fail to break the bottle).
>Powerful Leap
You may add up to 10 feet to your distance when Jumping, regardless of your Strength. This can exceed the normal maximum distance allowed. You have Advantage on Athletics and Acrobatics checks related to jumping.
Can you twincast GFB?
>>43517495
>Natural Attacks
You are capable of using your claws as natural weapons. Your unarmed strike deals 1d4 Slashing damage. If you have a feature which increases this damage, the two do not stack, but you may continue to deal Slashing damage instead of Bludgeoning, at your option.
You also have powerful mandibles capable of biting for 1d4 Piercing damage.
You produce a small amount of stinging venom from glands located near your mouth. When you successfully bite a target with your mandibles, you may inject this venom and deal an additional 1d8 Poison damage. You must finish a long rest to replenish your venom. Thri-kreen have Immunity to their own poison, and Resistance to the poisons of other Thri-kreen (but not all Poison damage). The venom denatures quickly and loses its potency once outside of your body, and cannot be used to poison drinks or weaponry.i suppose they could also be immune to magical sleep and/or have darkvision. dunno, tailor this shit for perceived power.
>>43517393
I understand the situation better now. That just sucks. Sorry to hear things aren't going that good. My best advice would be to go ahead and leave the group asap and find a better one. The sooner you leave to better your odds of finding a new group becomes.
Also, if I may, give IotA one more shot if you have it in you. It's a bit of a pain the first session or two but as you start getting to towns and such it gets really fun and unique. At least that's how my group has been. However, If you are not willing to I more than understand.
>>43517496
http://www.sageadvice.eu/2015/07/01/twin-splash-dd-errata/
Sure.
I'd suggest requiring the user to have two Attack actions, though, since one is a physical requirement of the spell.
>>43517514
I sort of feel half-obliged to go there at least one more time any way, if only because a friend of mine really seemed to enjoy it. Felt like a dick when I told him how I thought about the evening.
>>43517606
Don't feel bad. If you don't like it, you don't like it. It's not the prettiest thing to tell a friend but if he is a friend he will understand. Do give it one more go since you said you would but if it keeps going bad go ahead and get out. Though OotA usually starts rough and gets better as things go on, it should never make you feel completely useless.
>>43517523
It isn't, though, at least not mechanically. The spell specifies you make an attack, not take an Attack action; you could look at it like the EK's taking an attack as a bonus action after casting a spell.
Physically, yeah, he's swinging the sword twice, but level 20 fighters can swing 9 times in a turn, so I don't see that swinging it twice should be much of a physical limitation.
So I've been playing a human fiend patron tomelock with the moderately armored feat. I mainly use eldrich blast with Hex and armor of agathys. Just hit level 4. Since I I an playing AL I can retcon my character any way I please but I don't want to go too extreme. Any suggestions on tome cantrips or general cantrips or any other warlock cheese before I hit 5th and get locked into what I have?
>>43516985
How do you replicate the Summonable Full Plate armor D:
>>43516984
What's a Paloured Soul
>>43518071
Paladin/favoured soul
>>43510649
I doubt it'll ever be set in Greyhawk. They've invested too heavily in Forgotten Realms these past two editions.
Like, how would you coincide the Adventure with the shitty MMO and AL? A portal to Greyhawk? Nah...
I'm okay with it though, I like that they haven't brutally raped Greyhawk in a long time. Certain aspects of 3e made the neckbears mad (Seekers of the Arcane? Nigga what the fuck, just call it Harpers Lite.) but nothing compares to the ass-pounding that FR has received over the years.
I'm fine with appendices.
>>43518180
I mean, a setting book in the vein of SCAG would at least be nice, right?
>>43509634
>move action
A what now?
>>43518264
Maybe.
An explanation about the transition between the editions might be nice (similiar to Die, Vecna, Die!) so long as it doesn't take the Spellplague route.
And Greyhawk's been post-Greyhawk Wars/Rary Betrayal for... how long now? So yeah, something beyond that would be cool.
I'm only just keeping myself occupied with writing up NPC concepts, and already I feel like DMing 5e would be more fun for me. The whole ideal/bond/flaw thing makes it pretty easy to sandbox NPCs too.
>>43513822
Load up on heavy armor, take a greatsword, maybe talk the DM into statting a spiked shield, and take all the feats that enhance your defense.
Just never take the dodge action, it would make your head spin.
>>43518180
They will never stop butchering the Forgotten Realms, despite the fact that most Realms fans stopped caring about the new lore since before 3e hit.
How do I get into playing my character? I play a character and get bored like 3-4 levels in because I feel so restricted. Like right now I am playing a druid but its not NEARLY as fun as I thought. I find that I don't do much and my spells are dangeorus to use around my team mates or can really screw up a fight. For example i like the spell earth tremor and spike growth but that can fuck up your team mates too.
Druids can't sculpt their spells around team mates either. Its even worse because I chose the land druid which has gimped transformation.
What are some ways to enjoy your character more? Originally I wanted to do like a druid/monk but that would be shit because multiclassing ruins you too easily.
I already switched characters once too. I switched from a fighter. I had to switch from that because I was bored to fucking tears. Fighters are criminally boring. Even the battle master kind. Every round was just "I full attack. Oh I crit? Lets throw some superiority dice in there."
I was bored to fucking tears. Now its happening with druid and my DM definitely isn't going to let me switch. I have no idea what to play. What should I do?
>>43518367
>having fun in D&D combat
Top fucking kek.
>>43518388
What I hate is how restrictive they are with the action economy. If you take an action to cast a spell and it misses or fizzles or whatever.. thats your WHOLE turn. You can't do much else. Kind of shitty.
For the life of me I cant fucking decide what school to focus on. I know I dont want transmutation, enchantment, or divination. I am not a elf so i cant do bladesinger.
Deep gnome
Stats
str 8
dex 14
con 14
Int 17
wis 13
cha 8
>>43518401
Sounds about normal to me. I mean seriously it's the same way in pathfinder and in 3.5. The only real difference is that you have cantrips to fall back on after you run out of spells. And also bonus actions are a thing one can use. Action economy is restrictive but only in a fair way to keep someone from face rolling an encounter. Tbh I would advise sorcerer to you. They spike at about level 3 so you can cast a spell and a cantrip one turn and then cast two of the same cantrip another turn. Or do the latter three turns in a row. Just my opinions and suggestions.
>>43518447
Abjuration. Get the svirnefblin feat. Spam nondetection for the ward.
>>43518447
Why not divination? Portent is powerful and fun.
Since you're a gnome though you're obligated to go illusion.
>>43518525
Already played a divination wizard in another game.
>>43518519
I dont think that my DM would be happy with that. He can be a bit of a dick at times.
>>43518622
Play it up as extreme paranoia
>>43518525
As a GM, fuck Divination Wizards up the ass.
>>43518525
>>43518639
i've been thinking about making a halfling (always reroll 1s) divination wizard (2-3 portent rolls per day) with the lucky feat (3 lucky rolls per day). would this amount of cheese actually be practical?
Can Misty Step be used to escape from the ropes if you have been tied up?
>>43518668
It's fun. Rmember that u are still squishy. U may make ure saving throws, but a fireball is still a lotta damage
>>43518717
Yes, as long as your not blindfolded or gagged.
>>43518668
>Tfw one of your players played a halfling monk 18/divniation wizard 2 with the lucky feat for a level 20 one shot.
>Tfw he tricked you into using the three legendary saves the boss had to save against stunning strike
>Just so when he Quivering palmed him the boss would be stuck with the roll of a 4 for the con save
It was mildly annoying.
>>43518519
What is sviernefblin?
>>43518068
Refluff Mage Armor.
>>43518759
Deep Gnome.
>>43518759
The FR name for Deep gnomes. The svirfneblin magic feat is a deep gnome only feat.
>>43518773
Actually it's just the older name for deep gnomes; they called them that in 2e as a standard thing, just like dark elves were drow and grey dwarves were duergar.
They switched to deep gnomes as standard because....well, look at the fucking name.
>>43508251
>>43508786
>>43508947
>>43509270
>>43510263
>>43515571
>all of these Exalted pics in a D&D thread
do you not even know what you're playing any more, autists?
>>43518922
>thinking >>43510263 is exalted
Its dark souls motherfucker. Get your shit right before you call out other people.
>>43518922
>>43518941
Is there even a single Exalted picture?
>>43517207
I always bring along some graph paper for drawing out areas as the PC's explore, and these chessex dry erase battlemats for when combat goes down. I find it's a lot easier, especially if you're running a game with new players.
For pawns, anything can be used. Legos, chess pieces, jujubes, coins, etc. I love my Pathfinder NPC and Besitary Pawn set, but it's a bit of an investment (though much less than buying miniatures.)
There's also a lot of DIY shit online for pawns, like so.
http://rpghacker.com/rpg-hobby-games/diy-pathfinder-beginner-box-style-pawns/
Just download some character and monster art online, print them out, cut and fold the paper so they stand, and you're good.
>>43518819
>>43518773
>>43518768
>>43518759
>>43518635
>>43518519
>>43518447
Speaking of paranoid Deep Gnome Abjurers, earlier in the thread I asked for advice on playing one, and shared what I had planned so far (>>43509368). Still would welcome any additional roleplaying suggestions, quirks, or additional detail, especially if it helps motivate the character to join a party of surface freaks and take the initial PotA hooks.
>>43518264
It would, but honestly there's going to be enough fan shit coming out to make up for it. Some guy did a pretty solid guide for Mystara that was floating around.
Also, you really don't need a NEW guide to run these things. Fluff is fluff.
>>43508561
I just want to be good at this whole punching thing
I'd like to play a paladin who's a real cali surfer, skate church kind of guy. Big heart, not much brain, all muscle, talks kind of like Bill & Ted. Not sure if anyone in the group who GMs would let me but you never know.
>>43519143
Oath of Ancients all the way braheim.
>>43519143
Sounds fun and I would totally let you play it.
Dont let bad DM's harsh your mellow brah
>>43518668
I feel like lucky with divination is a little too much cheese. Practical sure but in a OP way. Just my two cents.
>>43519006
>Some guy did a pretty solid guide for Mystara that was floating around.
Link please?
>>43519004
Desires to one day be an undying (one of the super liches that can grant warlock pacts)
Kinda goes along with the defensive magic theme.
Has a recurring dream of an ancient gold dragon making a deal with an be rations and fiends. Interestingly the abberations/fiends appear to be the aprehensive ones.
Is an alcoholic.
Had contact with mindflayers in the inderdark. Is a conspiracy theorist convinced all the world leaders are possessed by mindflayers
>wizards forums are gone
Huh.
I guess that's like how they disabled commenting on Gatherer.
>>43515109
> Implying this is not every bit as one-note
>>43519441
It was announced a while ago
>>43519551
Guess I missed it
>>43515109
> We're all weeaboos here
>>43508251
>Which character idea have you wanted to play?
I want to harness my inner twelve year old and play a demon hunting Path of the Blade Warlock.
>>43519577
Please commit sudoku
>>43519618
>tfw every classic character you might want to roll has been redone in anime a bunch of times
Unless you want shit that's post 50s pop cultural characters like Conan or Tolkienesque stuff you can rest assured that there's an anime of it. Especially if the character is inspired by Chinese, French, or obviously Japanese lit.
>>43519618
> assumed willing participant on a Burmese interpretive dance website
> insists he's still not a weeb
K
I want opinions on this backstory for my fighter. I am worried it is too mary sue or something like that.
>Be a slave miner captured by drow as a child
>Forced to work in their mines
>One day our mine shaft connected with a tunnel
>The other side was full of armed dwarves
>They managed to capture us miners and kill the drow that were working us
>They free us captives and offer us shelter
>While living with them I became obsessed with a smithy that was near where we were housed
>Dwarf sees my interest and humors me by showing me the basics
>I have some natural skill with hammers and metal
>Makes me his apprentice and basically adopts me
>Teaches me how to fight as he teaches me how to smith
I am using the Clan Crafter background from SCAG and probably playing a human. I was thinking captured by drow when I was 12 and rescued by the dwarves when I was 16.
He would owe a great deal to the dwarves and be touchy about anyone insulting them. He would also have a particular hatred and fear for drow and quaggoth because of his captivity. I am very slightly basing him off of John Henry since his primary weapon would be a maul.
>>43519896
Honestly, that's a lot more interesting and inspired than a lot of backstories I've seen. Go for it. Just make sure that if you name a dwarfhold you choose one that isn't totally xenophobic and would keep you.
>>43517141
>>43517393
>play OotA
>have heard no good things about the beginning section
>apparently massive differences based on how the gm handles it, raw version is impossible
>we rush the armory and kill everything inside with cantrips
>steal all the drow equipment, all PCs and NPCs decked out in weapons and armor
>funnel into priestesses room, rush her down and kill her along with her guards
>retrieve our original stuff from her corpse along with extra magic loot
>flee feeling like champions
>>43519914
That's good I was worried that the "captured by drow" would be a little too much.
>>43519980
So I guess retrieving your equipment is doable.
>>43519980
We ran into the problem of the drow elite dropping anything that got close to him.
>>43518367
You sound like you have a short attention span and should be playing videogames.
>>43519983
In general, assume you've had some life before, most adventurers aren't quite green, they just haven't done a ton. Like, I'd assume with 5e's backgrounds you're closer to early 20s than teens as a human at least (based on the typical ages for starting journeymen in european guilds).
>>43513871
Bump for this plz halp
>>43510156
Reminds me of this
I need help making a Mary Sue enemy for my group to fight.
Names changed to protect the innocent and guilty.
What I have so far is:
>Female Half-Elf (Drow)
>Sorceror (Favored Soul/Death Domain) X/Sorceror (Shadow)
>Familiar: Shadow Pseudodragon
>Raised in the Shadowfell, is also secretly a bastard princess from the surface but was abandoned because of the circumstances of her birth. Her foster father, a now-wizened human warlock of an evil patron, has been a harsh but fair tutor instructing her in the dark arts, and though she is loathe to show affection, the girl loves him as if he had been her own father, who she assumes is scum for 'abandoning' her. The actual situation is far more complicated.
She becomes the enemy of the players when she swears revenge on them after an attack where they're planned to kill her foster father.
I'm not sure whether to play this for as much camp as I can possibly muster, or seriously.
The concept could be scrapped altogether, but it's been bothering me for a while now, and I want to get it out of my system.
>>43513871
4 scales, each of which requires a certain amount of a specific substance.
They should be labeled 'Heart', 'Body', 'Soul' and 'Mind'.
First scale requires X amount of blood, second requires a bone or similar object, third requires holy or unholy water, and the last one requires the warlock to place his own spellbook, should he have one, on the scale.
Should he not, any Warlock scroll should suffice.
>>43520035
They seemed like they had low hp or something, all of them dropped quick.
Only one of the guards was threatening and had an extra attack. Eldeth tanked him for us while we wiped out the others, glorious girl.
>>43520148
The elite warrior has 71 hp and on average hits for 17 damage with the ability to attack twice. Parry lets it add 3AC to itself for one attack as a reaction.
The motherfucker could knock out any party member save for the quaggoth and eldeth in one hit. He killed my sorcerer outright in one hit
What is the most dangerous creature to fuck with casters? (lvl 4-6 party)
>>43510156
If I was in your party I would kill your character so that we can continue having a serious game.
>>43510425
Giants. They confirmed it. Look up "wizards of the coast d&d product line up through 2018"
>>43520213
>71 hp
Jesuss
Yeah I think our dm lowered his hp.
>>43519143
I'd definitely let you play that, would be a nice change from STOICANGRY paladins.and also that's my fetish
>>43520266
Pretty much any demon. They have resistance to most damage and advantage on saves against spells.
A Hezrou is CR8 and just shits on casters.
Vrocks also shit on casters at CR6.
Shadow demons as well at CR4 though they lack the advantage on spell saves.
>>43519404
Thanks. What's the point of the Gold dragon dream?
>>43520278
>Implying you cant play that character in a serious campaign
>Implying that character isn't basically Melisandre from Game of Thrones.
>>43520359
I guess that's one way to totally misinterpret and oversimplify Melisandre's character
>>43520388
>Supposed to be extremely beautiful
>Uses sex to both further her means and as part of her magic
>Burns fucking everything/everyone
Seems to fit to me
>>43520141
>double sorcerer
the actual fuck?
>>43520337
Thank anon, this looks great!
>>43520464
In-character, her explanation would be that she absorbed the powers of the Shadowfell and her patron blessed her.
Out-of-character, I can't really think of much that screams Mary Sue more than having two different Sorcerous Origins "because I'm speshul".
I just kinda have to vent this, because it's stuck in my head and not leaving.
>>43520511
Be warned that vrocks fuck EVERYONE except archers with a magical ranged weapon.
They fly, they inflict the poisoned condition, they have resistance to nonmagical bludgeoning/slashing/piercing damage.
Almost everyone hates vrocks.
>>43508251
>Which character idea have you wanted to play?
Itching for a wizard. Probably an illusionist of some sort or necromancer but I'm almost always GM
>For DMs: Which setting/campaign/story do you want to run for your players next?
I had an idea for a Lovecraftian side adventure for the last campaign that I didn't run. Thought it would be fun because it's pretty different from my usual fare. Should probably just write it up and chuck it on the internet somewhere.
Next campaign is probably something 40k-esque though. Want something a bit silly and 40k does silly really well.
>>43520578
Even Ash and Misty thought he was a jerk, yeah.
>>43520542
> using character creation rules for enemy creation
AbsolutelyDisgusting.gif
>>43520542
> sorcerer
> patron
> DMing without knowing the rules
They arrest people for unlicensed driving, anon.
>>43520689
Eh, she's planned to be a recurring enemy.
I'll probably just end up scrapping that and just using an enemy-style statbox liken you suggest., but I wanted to see just how far you could Sue it up with the rules for player characters and then make that an enemy.
>>43520702
I used the word 'Patron' in the context of Favored Soul (Death Domain).
Worships an evil goddess, the inevitability of death, master of edge, yadda yadda.
So if anyone could help me quickly with a bit of rule bullshittery, I'm currently playing a 5th edition game and my DM is trying to say his vampire fuck can reach through the Magic Circle our cleric cast to attack our barbarian who is in the circle, but in melee.
Is he as stupid as I think he is or am I wrong to think that Magic Fucking Circle should work as advertised
>>43520752
He can't enter the circle but can attack into it with a spear. His attacks have disadvantage if he does this.
>>43520752
Does this vampire have 10-ft reach or better?
If so, he has disadvantage on the attack.
If not, your DM can go fuck himself.
>>43520798
>>43520799
Thanks for the reply, but "He can because magic ring and I'm DM" so I'm afraid it's for naught
I'm running Tomb of Horrors tomorrow, and I wanna make a playlist to have going on in the background. It can be ambient dungeon noise or actual music, just anything to add to the feel. Ideas/suggestions?
>>43520829
>your spells do nothing because I say so fuck you
>>43520849
http://tabletopaudio.com/
>>43520743
Just admit you're making an edgelord drow waifu and stop wasting everybody's time, anon.
There's no shame until you say there's shame.
>>43520752
I could see a it depends. That said, if the vampire has a reach weapon I don't see the issue as long as the other penalties are still in effect.
If DM fiat then sure, you're SOL. Ask for the ring after you kill him, that's a cool ring.
>>43520829
Could be worse:
>2nd level encounter in a preconstructed campaing
>Necromancer with 12 zombies
>After killing the zombies he turns all of them in 12 skeletons with one action, he also cast a barrier that returns all attacks to the owner, everything that enters dies (bearbarian raging charged and was instantly evaporated, no save) and seems to last forever and move with him
>Guy walks away laughing at us
We slowly stood up, packed our shit and left.
>>43520829
Grab that ring and abuse it as much as you can.
>>43520891
Eh, I guess?
I was planning on having her be more comic relief, to be honest.
>"I am the enemy of all that lives! Stop laughing!"
>>43520829
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDd-GXkMrJs
No more excuses, anon. You know what to do.
>>43520944
I'll be honest, I'm not seeing what's so funny about her, other than the meta aspect I guess
>>43520891
The guy literally entered the thread saying he's making a mary sue
>>43520986
Fair enough.
I'll probably just write up a custom enemy sheet for her, post it in the homebrew thread so it can get shat upon and forget about it forever after.
One of the angles I was planning on playing up is her social ineptitude due to being raised in Shadowfell by evil people, and having no other life context.
>>43520002
yes but its really the Gm letting you get away with it, her and the elites will fuck your shit up if the Gm wants to
>>43521162
>if the GM wants to
Following the rules is intended, not something up to the GM. Retrieving the equipment IS NOT doable.
leveling up heals you full?
>>43521194
Where does it say it does?
>>43521194
I don't think so.
You ask because this happens in a lot of video games, right?
>>43521221
just wanted to ask if leveling up heals you in anyway
>>43521194
It's a common houserule, but it's not in the book, so ask your DM. If you're the DM, read the goddamn books, THEN make your call.
>>43521237
well, my party is about to die and they are about to engage an undead minotaur, i was thinking in leveling them up before the fight
>>43521179
Eh? The book even says you can retrieve your equipment. If you can figure out a way to retrieve your equipment without getting your shit kicked in by the drow, then it's yours. Now, killing a whole bunch of drow while being basically unarmed? That's pretty bullshit, but whatever, the scenario is pretty chaotic. I guess it's possible to figure out a way to pick them off one by one, but that's a bit of a stretch.
>>43515174
How can one. Notes on a spelless ranger homebrew?
>>43521279
Allows them to take a short rest and spend HD
or
Allows them to take a long rest and restore all their HPs and resources
or
Give them potions
>>43521306
This.
>>43521286
LMoP tells you that you can kill a CR8 green dragon as a 3rd level group, that doesn't mean is doable (in fact is pretty much impossible, the dragon TPKs 99% of parties with one breath attack).
>>43521328
Okay? I specifically said that the book didn't mention killing the drow?
>>43521299
There's already a spell-less ranger in the UA Modifying Classes.
>>43521400
Doesn't that version use features that need spell slots anyway? Such ad primeval awareness?
>>43521400
You mean the one that still has 95% of the crap from previous ranger that everybody had been homebreweing for?
>>43513987
I'm waiting for War-forged to come out. I have a backstory for it. The character will be a an automation created by an ancient race to protect this artifact, and then someone came and stole it, which awakened him, and now he's on a journey to find and recover the artifact to put it back in it's rightful place.
>>43522065
Anon, they came out in the Eberron Unearthed Arcana.
>As a warforged, you have the following racial traits.
>Ability Score Increase. Your Strength and Constitution scores increase by 1.
>Size. Warforged are generally broader and heavier than humans. Your size is Medium.
>Speed. Your base walking speed is 30 feet.
>Composite Plating. Your construction incorporates wood and metal, granting you a +1 bonus to Armor Class.
>Living Construct. Even though you were constructed, you are a living creature. You are immune to disease. You do not need to eat or breathe, but you can ingest food and drink if you wish. Instead of sleeping, you enter an inactive state for 4 hours each day. You do not dream in this state; you are fully aware of your surroundings and notice approaching enemies and other events as normal.
>Languages. You can speak, read, and write Common and one other language of your choice.
>>43521964
No, that's the Ranger Variant. I'm talking about the UA that had Favored Soul in it.
>>43522023
The one that is compatible with the existing Ranger archetypes, and therefore 90% of the beastmaster "fix" homebrews? Yes, that one.
>>43522153
Sorry, I meant to say "I'm waiting for Warforged to come out in a format my DM will accept that isn't experimental"
>>43522218
See you in two years, anon.
How would you guys stat a CR1 Were-Chicken Cultist?
>>43522266
Take a chicken/hawk statblock and give it resistance/immunity to mundane weapons that aren't silverHave it so that if it pecks you, you have to make a DC 12 Con check, and if you fail, you turn into a were-chicken too.
A player of mine wants to play a Centaur.
Does anyone have any experience using the Centaur table from Midgard Heroes? They seem a little... strong.
I'm starting up a Planescape 5e campaign here rather soon, and am planning to get the players into the outer planes rather quickly (within the first three sessions hopefully, however long it takes them to locate a color pool/spelljammer vessel). What level should I start them off at that's low enough that it allows for organic character growth and doesn't overwhelm new players, while also being high enough that the players feel empowered enough to go to the outer planes/actually are high enough to deal with basic planar threats?
I was toying around with the idea of 5-7. 10 was also a thought, though 10 seemed a bit too high, especially if I'm looking to allow new players into the campaign.
>>43522903
5 should be fine. Martials get their 2nd attack, and everybody has their first ASI, so if anybody wanted to start multiclassing, they can do so without fear of fucking their build.
Hey 5eggots, quick question.
I'm testing out a homebrew paladin oath in a game tonight, and wanted to know how to build a character to give me an indication of possible stress points.
I've built a "typical" setup for the most part, with high strength and moderate charisma and constitution, but we start at a level high enough for the ASI. Do I want 18 strength, 16 con, or 16 charisma?
Which would yield the most "viable data"?
>>43522993
Also casters get their second damage die on their cantrips.
>>43522993
>>43523096
Aight, sounds good. Thanks.
>>43523066
If the oath features mostly just enhance physical combat abilities, 18 Str all day. If the oath spells and CD option require saves, the balanced route will provide better data because you'll actually get to use your features.
>>43523066
You're not going to get the most viable data from one play through, you need a control, and then two stress tests in both directions.
The first character should be a normally statted character with nothing unusual about them at all.
The second character should have max stats in all their important attributes, to see if the character breaks in one direction.
Then the third character should have at LEAST a -1 in all their important stats. This is also important, because while it should be harder, if it's well built, I would argue that the character shouldn't be drastically unplayable. He should be able to survive some battles at the very least even with poor stats. Likewise, if you pile on the minuses and the character is still pulling ahead in battle and roleplay, then it's EXTRA broken.
Since that takes time, I would recommend having the low stat character first, cause that would be the fastest way to find if it's broken, and even a well built and well played class with poor stats probably won't last as long, meaning you can shift over to the other tests quicker.
>In a group with a bunch of fedora wearers who are in their 30's and value combat over rp
>they murderhobo everything
>get made fun of because I'm only 19 and I don't understand their ebin big bad beetleborg references
It's the only group I know of in my town
>>43523144
Given that the main features of the build are all based around spellcasting, it's an argument in favour of CHA.
>>43523168
Obviously not, this isn't the first test and I don't plan on it being the last. The first time through I managed to squeeze out 20 charisma and the spells were monstrous. While I agree with you about the -1 in the important stats as something I should do, this character's being added to a game in progress (sort of,) so I'm trying for a more 'normal' stat build.
Currently it's a variant human with Savage Attacker, and
5th Level
STR 16
DEX 8
CON 14
INT 10
WIS 12
CHA 14
>>43523224
Do you not have friends?
>>43523235
Seems beefy. Surprised to see the 10 being put into Int over Dex. Enemy fireballs are going to hurt.
>>43523241
None that want to play d&d
>>43523224
Shit, I'd love to have a player like you. Our table has had one super combat monster ever and most of the time he takes it in stride and ends up being borderline comic relief around a bunch of obsessive rolists.
>>43523298
Have you tried getting them to play? Have you even asked? Because you sound miserable. Remember, No Gaming is better than Bad gaming.
>>43523266
Different guy here: I'm playing a Paladin with 8 Dex and Fireballs DO hurt. My God damn horse dies every time.
>>43523375
You better be using one of them found steeds, son.
>>43523266
Perfectly aware, but dude's gotta have a weakness. This is just a personal touch, I don't really plan on having the DM attempt to full-on murderkill.
>>43523459
Of course. I've yet to be able to use my Found Steed effectively since I got it. I'm, like, a few hundred experience from level 8 now. If it's not fireballs, it's narrow passages. If it's not narrow passages, it's underground dungeons. I suppose I could have summoned the damn thing in the dungeon, but I didn't want to waste the level 2 slot.
Though the party is running kind of low on HP, slots and other resources now...maybe summoning the steed would help out a bit...
>>43523459
If and when you're satisfied with testing, mind sharing the Oath you're brewing. A more Casty Paladin sounds right up my alley.
>>43523546
Never underestimate the power of a loyal warhorse's kick, anon.
>>43523550
That was the plan. I'm one of those autists who think that he's creative and system-savvy enough to have made enough shit to make a miniature splat.
At least I have an artist or two on hand, which is enough to keep me motivated.
>>43523601
...is that a quarterstaff just floating, or is he happy to see me?
So I have a draconic sorcerer (bronze) / Tempest Cleric, 2/2 for now but probably no more levels in Cleric. When I get an ASI, what should I get with these stats?
>8 14 16 15 10 19
+1 cha and dex and then get a +1 dex feat after? The Actor feat that gives +1 cha?
>>43523653
It's mid-drop.
>Hand crossbow and shield with xbox xpert is broken because you have more AC while still attacking at range
ok
>Cleric is using a shied and sacred flaming the shit out of people without spending feats
>This seems fine for the GM
...ok
>>43523658
>Sorcerer/Cleric
>15 on Int and 10 on Wis
The irony
>>43523708
Your DM is dumb, but you still can't make multiple shots with a hand crossbow while using a shield because you need a free hand to load.
>>43523708
Your GM is as stupid as wotc devs, congrat,s you know now you must find a new group.
Does anyone takes the Half-Elf alternative feature? I like lots of skills, but some of those features are quite interesting.
>>43523775
Half Elf getting weapon proficiency is pretty rad.
>>43523658
How are you multiclassing into Cleric with only 10 Wisdom?
>>43523728
>>43523658
Multiclassing as Cleric requires 13 wisdom, so I hope that's a typo.
>>43523728
Rolled stats, what can I say.
>>43523918
DM accepted it.
>>43523930
>Rolled stats
You still get to choose were to put your stats with rolled stats
>>43523955
Maybe the GM said in order (although with 19 Cha I doubt it).
>>43523955
Not if it's down the line. Also I didn't know I wanted to get cleric levels then, and with Fog Cloud, Shield of Faith and Thunderwave wis isn't as important.
>>43523973
Why would it be unlikely to have 19 cha if it's in order?
>>43523979
>Rolled
>In order
Tell your GM he's a retard, then shoot him.
>>43523994
Depends whether the class was picked first or second. If the class was picked first, it would at best be a happy coincidence.
>>43523998
The annoying thing with rolled is that 4d6 dropped low is so unlikely to actually give stats that are particularly low (and isn't even that likely to not give you rolls that aren't above the PB system) that I end up having to boost PB across the board or forcing the rollers to cap their stats above 15 to 15s (maybe 16s on a straight 18)
>>43524034
Or just do 3d6 down the line and tell your players to stop being whining babies.
>>43524034
With rolled stats rolling an 8 has the same chance as rolling a 15, so I don't know why you say rolling low is unlikely
>>43524072
Nice try, fake grog, not even Gygax did 3d6 in order.
>>43524122
Yes he did. But the caveat that people forget is that Gygax always encouraged "If you don't like your stats, reroll them! Rolling them is half of the fun!"
>>43524072
Real men roll 1d4-3 in order AFTER choosing the class.
>>43524160
I just roll 6d0 and be done with it. No need to drag stat creation on for too long.
>>43524034
Yeah, tell that to my old non variant human bard
>7, 12, 11, 9, 10, 14
DM didn't let me reroll or even suicide the character, I was always misteriously saved, game became so fucking bored that I still don't know why did I kept playing
>>43524003
Stats first, then get ideas from that. I think he accepts pb but he by far prefers rolling.
Regardless of my stupid decision of multiclassing and my DM's obsession with RNG, I am still looking for a good feat to not waste a +1 ASI.
>>43524233
>14
>Genius levels of Charisma compared to an average normal person
>"Wah I was so gimped that I kept trying to kill my character instead of making it interesting"
Baby
>>43524399
>DC 12
>Literally fail 60% of my spells
It actually sucked.
Also falling unconscious the 1st-2nd turns of every combat because AC 13 and d8 raw HPs didn't help a lot
>I was always mysteriously saved
Take every risk ever. NEVER choose the safe path. Pick fights you cant win and spit in the face of kings.
>>43524441
>DC 12 = 60%
wat
>Getting into the front line of combat with low AC ever
literally wat
>>43524470
A few months back I told my story here, they told me to do exactly that, I thought it could be fun...it wasn't, guards, enemies, or whatever knocked me unconscious (in case of combat was actually beliveable) and then I spent the entire encounter or scene browsing on 4chan because 1d4 hours.
>inb4 tell your cleric to heal you!
They stopped doing that after the 5 first times.
I totally became a that guy in that game...but they endured me like champions, so I left.
>>43524508
Dude, 14 on your main stat as a 4th level character is shit, face it. Specially when the non focused on Cha Cleric was more charismatic than me for almost all the game (he had a 14 since 1st level).
I wanted to go valor, but group was using encumbered rules, and I think my character couldn't lift half the shit he had already.
>>43524233
>Total modifier of +1
>Playing till 4th level
Are you into BDSM?
>>43523998
>>43524034
>>43524072
>>43524122
Anyone who doesn't do 3d6 down the line or 3d6dl down the line is a fucking faggot. And of course you can re-roll. I know you array/point buy guys are retards because if you weren't you'd be arguing to get rid of odd numbered stats and consolidate the numbers into 0(-5), 1(-4), 2(-3), 3(-2), 4(-1), etc. But you don't, because you're always the most retarded players.
>>43524081
Because the bell curve is peaked above 10.
>>43524399
>Genius level
His best stat is actually 2 HD npc tier
Acolyte, a fucking acolyte has better stats than him, so shut the fuck up.
>>43524583
>Non-Charisma focused cleric being more Charismatic than the Bard
>Which is implying the Cleric had proficiency in all of the Charisma Skills
>On a non-charisma focused cleric
Do you just enjoy lying to us to give you sympathy or something?
>>43524683
A 14 in intelligence is equivalent in real life to someone with an IQ of 140.
How about you shut the fuck up?
>>43524724
>A 14 in intelligence is equivalent in real life to someone with an IQ of 140.
Stop pulling shit out of you asshole, you'll harm yourself if you keep doing that.The average of Int and Wis is IQ irl
>>43523658
Just ignore why my stats are what they are, I just wanted a bit of advice on the non-optimal build I have going.
>>43524583
>The cleric put ranks into social skills
Fuck off you fucking retard. Learn the game.
>>43524706
>Because backgrounds can't give you Persuasion and Deception plus an instrument
>Because cleric doesn't have Persuasion in his skill set
RTFM, family
>>43524763
Why don't you just even out Cha and Int?
>>43524774
>Skill Ranks
This is the 5e general pal.
>>43524774
>Cleric
>Skills: Choose two from History, Insight, Medicine, Persuasion, and Religion
Yeah, only a retard would choose two of those 5
>>43524781
>I have a non-charisma based cleric!
>Naturally I have statted out my background and skill set to be congruent with Charisma skill family rather than non-charisma skills such as Religion or Medicine.
How about read what the fuck the guy is actually saying?
>>43524724
No, that'd be GURPS.
Both Int and Wis would affect IQ irl, with a bias toward Wis because it deals with reasoning more than memory. Wisdom in D&D5 is not congruent with what wisdom is in reality.
>>43524802
>>43524821
>>43524706
Hahahah trolled you so hard
>>43524854
>Being a retard
>Trolling
Okay, sure.
>>43524830
Can't you into acronyms? RTFM means read the fucking manual, family, you should try
>>43524900
1. That's not an acronym.
2. Read what the fuck I was saying before responding, retard.
>>43524783
With int being a weak save, not being used for anything I do in combat, and also us having a high-int paladin I think it's not the best choice. I could get Resilient dex/con after getting +1 cha and dex/con, it's my highest level character yet so I have little idea what is good for the future.
>>43524706
I think he meant the (on average) non charismatic cleric class, as in clerics should focus on Wis and then on Str/Con. Also knowing that anon got a fucking +1 is not that hard to believe other players, on rolled stats, got high rolls making him feel completely outclasses, therefore the situation of "the cleric was better than me at my job".
>>43524583
>One point more to your casting stat is miraculously twice as good
>Not taking prof in at least one social skill at a bard
You have no right to whine
Hey /tg/,
I recently started DMing for a group and one of the PCs started with a sailing ship. It's a pretty big part of his character and he has a whole assortment of sailors we've come to love, but they spend too much time at sea. They're currently on the way to a Capitol and stopped off to loot a pirate cove and attained cursed gold. I was thinking about having a volcanic eruption happen as they pass that spawns a red dragon who instantly takes note of their cursed gold (by smelling evil or some such) and attacking the ship. I want to really put the boat at risk but if they fuck up the ship goes down.
Is this a dick move?
>>43525022
Who said I didn't took any prof in social skills as a bard?
I had Persuasion and Deception, but with a 12 at first level the Cleric with 14 and Persuasion (and a cantrip that gave him more I think) he was better than me (I tried to use friends, but ended being awful) also absolutely everybody passed my DC 11 (at first levels) and DC 12 at 4th level, srly, it was boring as fuck.
>>43525050
if the dragon fight ends up being very dynamic and fun then it's fine. but if it feels forced and like you're trying to railroad them it'd flop completely.
it's risky but i think it can be very compelling
>>43525092
The fuck are you talking? even with a DC of 8 99.99% of the monsters should fail, they don't have profs on saves, only raw stat bonus, and they suck.
A fucking 12 or 14 is Abrahamic God tier levels of Charisma, fag.
Ok, I think I'm being trolled here, I'll stop talking about my 14 Cha Bard
>>43525128
>monsters
>no prof on saves
okay then
>>43525128
>d20+Stat
>Average of 10.5+Stat
>"99% of monsters should fail against DC 8"
Art major detected
>>43525128
Let's be fair here, that's a 30.
12-14 is good enough to be a leader. I'd still put a Napoleon at 16+
>>43525183
Art major here. No, anon is just a retard.
>>43525183
>>43525156
>hurr roleplaying is numbers durr
>half elf bars with 20 fucking CHA is trying to convince a dwarf warlord to surrender
>ask him how
>Jedi mind trick "you will leave and surrender"
>chuckle and ask if he's serious
>he rolls 18
>I say hell no
>he gets mad
How do I deal with his
>>43525242
Tell him that would have worked as an intimidation attempt, but as a persuasion check, it sounds like he's joking. Dwarves are not fond of elvish comedy.
>>43525242
>>I say hell no
Bad GM
I'd say that the dwarf, actually concerned, says "You make some good points, but ultimately... no, I outnumber you and have the high ground", make it look like the dwarf warlord takes him serious.
>>43525242
If the warlord is an enemy I'd assume he's not in the right disposition for diplomacy to work without taking disadvantage.
>>43525242
Not even the jedi mind trick can make someone do something they are diametrically opposed to. Pretty sure there is no way to jedi mind trick a warlord to just surrender and leave unless he was an absolute coward.
>>43525286
Eh it was more the fact that he was actually waving his hand across The air and everything. I set the DC at 25 because even that's not impossible, but he was one off.
>>43525316
Ah. The dwarf takes it as an act of elvish arrogance then.
>>43525316
That's not how persuading people works.
>>43525297
>proud dwarf
>half elf waves in front of his face and tells him to leave with a blank expression and monotone voice
>dwarf takes him seriously
In what fucking universe
>>43525337
Exactly, you don't just Jedi mind trick someone trying to kill you (if you're not a Jedi)
Is Aarakocra racial flight actually too good or is not that bad?
>>43525384
Like, I'd probably start adding penalties with that kind of roleplay.
>>43525361
I'm going to assume that the player didn't know how to roleplay and that his character actually tried to persuade, unless the player tells me "no, my character actually waves his hand and in a monotone voice says; this aren't the droids you're looking for", then I'll ask him "are you sure?" till he replies something serious.
>>43525398
Does your campaign take place in large open environments or have many cathedral like areas to fight? Yes it is extremely overpowered
Does it take place 90% of the time in small enclosed spaces with 10ft ceilings? Not that powerful.
I still wouldn't allow it because it is too powerful in most situations.
>>43525398
Depends, sometimes is just good, sometimes can break the game too early, entirely depends on your campaign.
We had one in our LMoP game and didn't affect the game much.
>>43525418
Precisely what happened, then he even said "even with an 18 on my roll?" Like he expects a good roll to outweigh a shitty solution
>>43525398
Depends on the gametype.
In a dungeon crawl, it's near useless.
In the games where it might as well be a dungeon crawl because it's really a module, but it has a lot of open spaces, it's broken as fuck.
In most D&D seetings where Aarakocra aren't really an acceptable player race? It's balanced by the fact that non-combat situations are kind of shitty for them.
I'm making an encounter for my players with a home-brewed monster and I want it to make attack where it vomits/spews boiling oil on them.
How should I treat this attack? Should I just re-fluff a dragons breath weapon and call it a day?
Also if anyone has a random table for different types of gaze attacks it would be appreciated.
>>43525361
Reread the post m8, he didn't think he was serious. Elf had to explicitly say he was serious.
On a related note, whenever I DM I ask for context for a social roll. There is no "I roll to bluff the guard to let me through" and it happens. I have to ask what the players are roughly saying at least. Whats the lie about? Are they someone important that belongs here? Another guard on duty trying to get his uniform out of his locker? Etc. Then I will assign a DC or make it impossible depending on context (eg, there are no lockers).
Is that fair or am I making a player try to have his characters stats too much?
>>43525452
Don't punish the player, teach him, instead of "hell no" tell him that waving his had on a persuasion check without magic involved won't make a difference, if he doesn't know to roleplay he can still say "my character tries to persuade him by telling him the cons of this fight focusing on the most defavorable outcome" even the most shy player would be able to say something like this.
If he still tries to do jedi mind tricks just reply next time "your mind tricks don't work on me, only money"
>>43525418
>>43525447
>>43525468
would making a house rule with something like, "If you end your turn in the air you fall" (for just this racial flight) be too harsh?
>>43525537
Harsh? No.
It would really suck, but that's how a lot of flight abilities work. If that's so much of a concern I'd probably make the Fly spell function similarly for consistency's sake.
>>43525515
So long as you don't expect the explanation to be verbatim, it's not that much more different from describing your action.
If you literally want a shy player to tell you his grand bluff, then no, that's stupid, you're not asking the fighter to swing your couch.
>>43525537
Or don't allow/nerf aarakocras till 5th level (when most casters get access to flight)
New thread?
>>43525640
Probably a good idea.
>>43525534
I appreciate the input. Granted the dwarf in the party convinced him to stand down in a pretty epic display, so they didn't lose too much ground r anything. I'm just not gonna let lazy role playing slide, I would've even accepted an explanation on the half elf's part, but literal Jedi mind trick doesn't work without real magic
>GM throws at us an owlbear at our 1st level party in the middle of a forest
>TPK
>"Well, you should have run isntead of fighting it, morons"
>After the last PC tried to escape and the owlbear outran him because it moves 40ft unlike PCs that move 30 or less
When is legitimately ok to kick someone's ass?
>>43525515
>Is that fair or am I making a player try to have his characters stats too much?
No, you need the context to set the DC
Are there spells to talk to recently dead people? I need to tell to a lot of retards "I fucking told you so".
>>43525841
Speak With Dead
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