Hey guys, I don't ever post here, but I need some input on how to handle an encounter I am devising for an AD&D adventure I'm running.
So basically the party has fought through this series of caverns infested by frost giants and their lackys in search of this noble turned bad, who is aligned with the giants. Basically the time has come to close this part of the adventure and I want to end it in some grand sort of way.
I was thinking of having a frost giant boss of sorts riding some sort of massive beast. I've been toying with a white dragon, although the party already cleared an encounter involving a giant with two juveniles as pets, so I don't wanna overkill the idea. I was also toying with a wyvern or maybe a roc (something else comparably large and deadly)
Also I was thinking of having the fight start in a throne room and move to a snowy plain.
Ideas? Recommendations?
>>54518691
Perhaps some remorhaz that he's beaten into submission, or the frost giant king has a frost giant runecaster and shaman backing him up. That, and he has class levels. That's a solid way to make him way stronger, is if he has weapon specialization and d10 instead of d8 HD. Magical backup is great as well. Perhaps lots of little ice trolls or ogres serving as foot soldiers and fodder?
>>54518691
Can't go wrong with Frost Giant mounted on giant woolly mammoth. It can not fly and has no breath weapon per say but maybe it is a magic mammoth with an ability similar cone of cold out the snout. It's still a big beast with lots of hit die and a trample attack of some kind. Frost Giant chieftain can still be tossing javelins of lightning from atop his mount. Maybe evil noble is also on a little platform on the back of the beast doing whatever he does to add spice to the encounter (healing, shooting a crossbow, just cursing the heroes in general or whatever)
>>54518768
>>54518803
A shaman or some magical backup is actually something I never thought of. I'll definitely incorporate that, good idea thanks guys.
>>54518768
Do you think making his domain almost like a court would be overpowered? I mean I could always have the party fight through waves or something like that and not all at once. The level range of the PCs are like 7-11 so they can handle most stuff I think.
>>54518803
Mammoth is actually an awesome idea and would work well in a large open area like I was planning. Also what about making the giant a recurring villain? The next leg was going to be set in an ancient dwarven ruin where a powerful magic forge supposedly resides. I was planning on having the giants seeking it out and perverting its power some how.
What mean that in humans of 5e of D&D: Your Ability Scores each increase by 1? It mean +1 to str, dex, wis, int, cha? Or +1 to any one of this?
>>54518162
It means +1 to all stats.
>>54518162
>>54518195
For example, you could start with 15 15 15 8 8 8 and end up with 3 16s to start with at level 1.
>>54518162
>What mean that in humans of 5e of D&D
What the fuck are you trying to say?
My friend wants to play something like core 3.5 D&D.
The very base of the system without any of the extra context.
I hear that core 3.5 is garbage.
Is there some sort of system that replicates core 3.5/PF without being bloated or hot garbage?
Or should I just run core 3.5?
>>54517623
You have provided so little detail that your auestion aounds like a contradition. You want 3.5 but also not 3.5.
>>54517623
Fantasy Craft
5e
13th something. Wheel maybe? Legend?
GURPS
>>54517623
Fantasy Craft.
This Daemonette is THICC edition
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>>54517483
Didnt we already have this edition.....
>>54517509
Your sense of self worth.
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>>54516427
I love that poorly painted faces are good material for reaction images.
>>54516479
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>>54516427
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Were we incompetent or are cats so strong? Jesus...
>>54515364
Have you ever tried to bathe a cat?
>>54515364
I want full story.
>>54515364
Lmao its actually a real model edition
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>>54514578
Does that grapple hook actually do anything?
>>54514597
Ignore vertical distance, its fucking amazing for 2 ppm
>>54514597
you ignore vertical movement when calculating distance i think
or something along those lines
We all have moments in the light where the stars align and our rng dreams come true.
Come share your stories of the best 20's you've ever had.
>my PC, the groups bard. A little shepard boy
>is actually an incubus wanting to corrupt the party and pull them all to acts of hedonism
>party knows not but the DM has been dropping subtle hints and is keen to take this ride into the magical realm
>all we need is the roll
>sun setting on a large port city and our travelers need to find a tavern
>my PC eagerly pulls the team along
>there are plenty of taverns alight with music but our boy finds a quiet dim one called the Broken Wing
>I explain that I intend to kick open the door, convince the bar maid to let me preform for the night
>DM asks to roll for my conversation and again for my if I do, performance
>and for the likelihood of %0.25 that dice rolls 20 side up twice
cont
>>54514321
>Come share your stories of the best 20's you've ever had.
>implying D&D
kys
>>54514321
>the party cheers but they have no idea
>two 20's nigga, t w o 2 0 's
>I don't even ask for any thing as I let the DM take a swing and go into story telling mode
>the mood of the table takes on a frantic feeling, some are amazed, some are sickened but all pulled in as the tales of that night play out
>my PC's true form is revealed and the gods weep as i play sickly sweet music so entrancing that the whole port comes to listen and revel
>the town guard tries to intervene but too surrender to the beat
>the barbarian and the druid got with the town guard, the wizard got turned into a woman, the warlock fucked a house and my pc woke up in bed with the barmaid, her husband and the dog
>the bar is now the hippest joint in the city
>my PC got inspiration
>>54514321
>>is actually an incubus wanting to corrupt the party and pull them all to acts of hedonism
I stopped reading right here, because whatever follows is going to be retarded magical realm fetish shit fanfiction that didn't actually happen.
Please fuck off and find another board to shit up. Thanks.
So I recently joined a 3.5 Eberron campaign and I soon found out that the other players have multiple back up characters and that a couple characters have been reincarnated and in the session I played, a character was killed and reincarnated for the third time and at the end, only one character escaped a TPK of vampires.
I wanted to hear some fun/cool character ideas that I could use for backup characters. We're allowed to use any official splat book so long as we run it past the DM first and he wont allow gnomes, bards and tieflings which mean pic is mostly unrelated
>>54513720
I didn't proofread this and just realised what a run on sentence the first bit was.
Also, it's a level 7 campaign rn
>>54513720
>>54513823
>3.5
Play a better edition.
>>54513720
Master Alienist roleplay build
Wizard Conjurer (Specialist)
Unearthed Arcana Conjurer Variant - Enhanced Summoning (Ex) A conjurer using this variant does not gain bonus feats for advancing as a wizard.
The Master Alienist takes 5 levels in it's wizard class
At 1st level, a conjurer using this variant gains the Augmented Summoning feat for free instead of the Scribe Scroll feat.
At 5th level, the conjurer's summoned creatures become particularly tough to dispel. Add 2 to the DC of any caster level check made to dispel the conjurer's summoned creatures. At 15th level, this addition to the DC increases to 4.
Enters Alienist Prestige Class
For Metamagic secret, Alienst takes either
Coercive Spell (Drow of the Underdark, page 47): Spell deals a -2 penalty to Will saves for 3 rounds, non-cumulative. - Force use with Ravenloft Horror check tables or madness Check tables and other stuff, seeing as you're completely wrong looking
Extend Spell
Imbued Summoning (Player's Handbook II, page 92): Any creature created by conjuration (summoning) spells can have any spell you know of 3rd level or lower with a range of touch cast on it auto-magically.
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Irresistible Spell (Kingdoms of Kalamar Player's Guide, page 87): Remove all saving throws from your spell. Yes, you read that correctly. Fuck you Rogues and Evasion. This feat becomes Blue if playing with errata, which simply adds +10 to the DC of the spell. For a +4 adjustment, a bit steep. Useful with spells like Insanity
Alienist levels to 10 in the PrC and becomes an outsider, and is subjects to benefits her kind provides
Alienist is now Level (5) Conjurer and a Level (10) Alienist
I friend of mine can't help but like edgy things, and at the table always acts edgy, making rogues 24/7 and unironically liking Linkin Park.
Is there a way a-la-tg to cure him from edginess, like, in game?
You are gonna need to show so more evidence of what you are talking about.
Rogues are cool and Linkin Park is a perfectly fine band.
>>54513304
"Hey man, I'd like to play the rogue for a session. Want to try being a bard?"
Do you play with Mark Millar?
I've got my first session tomorrow and I'm pretty nervous.
Here's the map and plan for our campaign-opening scene. My PC's will start in bondage in the attic of a repurposed farm/frontier house, get taunted into introducing themselves, and then (hopefully) escape their shackles and start a fight.
I've hidden their weapons elsewhere in the fort in hopes of getting them to explore and trigger the fight... But I think we'll all be unhappy if they decide just to flee with the small side weapons they find in the attic...
From there, they'll hopefully follow up on the plot hook that the elf boy drops for them (the same elf boy who will be waiting to introduce himself by climbing in from the roof in case they can't free themselves).
I'd also totally be down to see what happens if they just decide to take this fort for themselves and fight off the rest of the bandit crew when they come to retake it.
Also post random character art.
Don't over-complicate things for yourself. Especially if you are a new DM. There's a lot of information there that can run the risk of distracting you from providing a narrative and adapting to player questions.
Looks awesome!
You have great notes and a good set-up for a neat mystery.
Is there any way for pistol swords not being stupidly impractical?
>>54513282
Just attach bayonets to guns please for the love of god
Bayonets, anything else is garbage.
They are rule of cool only.
This image is clearly a PC plan. What are the players attempting to solve with it?
>>54512323
I thought the draft line counted from the top down…
This is a plan based on one of those "troll physics" images' understanding of how propellers work.
>>54512323
The PCs have decided that the only way to scale the fortress's seaside cliff is to be bodily flung from a powerful rotational force, as extrapolated from how far they got spin-tossed by a giant that one time. The monk is proving it works right now. The bard is expected to go next.
>>54512323
That moment Ahriman actually was wrong and there's is no denying it.
Trying to go against the great gods themselves, what was he thinking?
>>54512267
That he could go against the gods.
>>54512267
If anything, egoistic will to power is the epitome of chaos
>>54512267
>That moment Ahriman actually was wrong and there's is no denying it.
The Rubric saved every remaining Thousand Sons life. Without him they would have all died of the flesh change. Rubric Marnies can still be saved as has been shown so he just needs to find the knowledge in the Black Library.
Besides there are probably more Thousand Sons now then there were at the time of the Rubric. Except now they're all powerful sorcerers who only exist because Ahriman managed to go against the wishes of a god and his own Primarch to save his legion.
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>>54511871
more swole, and of fluffier tail
>>54511871
Dead, hopefully.
>>54511871
>What did your character want to be when they leveled up?
Still playing.