/5eg/ D&D Fifth Edition General

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What edition did you start playing D&D in? Current front runners are:

https://strawpoll.com/87rg72f

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New Thread, New Map!

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>>51728132

Christ, that sounds painful. If figures were easier (and cheaper) to get a hold if, it wouldn't be much of a problem. But yeah, really takes you out of the moment went the left over french fry snake is attacking your party.

>>51728078
Was DMing a game and had a DMPC for the solo player that was one. It was appealing cause her patron was the true BBEG, I didn't like the whole "true power and objectives are unknown to all" so I had it pitted against the Lady of Pain.

It was fun being a psychic murderhobo.

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>>51728101
This I could understand to some degree. That he occasionally pokes into our reality and affects somebody.

>>51728405
The cool part is that those rare individuals don't know they've been affected.
At the same, there are alien wizards and alien scientists alike who worship him.

>if you die your new character starts at level 1
Is 5e actually balanced around this or is my DM being retarded?

>>51728812
While parties can handle threats above their level, 5e characters are pretty fragile at level 1. Depending on everyone else's level, I might say that it's your DM.

>>51728812
The only games balanced around this is where the majority of power is at level 1, and this is not like that at all.

>>51728812
If they are a class that doesn't get hit easily, like a shortbow Rogue or sniping warlock. The deal is when they give out XP, high level characters don't excel much while low level ones excel a lot.

Last session my level 9 fighter got around 1000 XP for one fight and skill check for dragging a longship through an ice covered ocean. That would make a level 1 character level 3. It was nothing to me but it would be a lot to a low level character.

Though just because you could doesn't mean you should. Not only is it more fun to bring in a leveled up character, milestones are more fun and less painful.

>>51728812
>DM being retarded
A level 1 character can be 1 shot by a stiff breeze. I'd vote party average level -1.

>>51728812
I've been doing a level lower than the rest of the party, and also with basic starter gear. It's been working out pretty well so far, it's a punishment without completely killing the will to play. Starting back at level 1 is a great way to encourage your players to quit.

>>51728812
At the very fucking least start at level 5.


The power difference between level 1 and 5 is great. You have maybe four times as much health and twice as many attacks and much, much better utility in general.

The power difference between 5 and 11 is less, but still notable.
The power difference between 11 and 17 is, again, notable, but not super great unless you abuse stuff like wish a lot.

If your DM really insists on 'punshing you for dying' then it should be a level or two below the party, but they should avoid putting you below level 5 if everyone is 5 or above.

Besides Volo's, anyone got any source material for mind flayer lairs?

Are there any in OotA? I haven't read through it.

>>51728906
The way I did it was have a catchup modifier for lower leveled characters that got greater each level. It was more for not punishing people for being sick or whatever, but it also worked for new characters.

>>51728954
If you don't mind going back to an earlier edition lore book, Lords of Madness is top notch. Forgotten Realms, has every bit of crunchy lore you need, and actually includes a little side quest for each monster.

So silly new use for the UA wizard. Hold person, change saving throw to strength save. If target fails saving throw, they automatically fail all subsequent throws.

>>51729032
Does the changed save apply beyond the first save throw?

That's pretty fucking broken.

>>51729045
Just checked it, it doesn't say it doesn't. It says it changes the saving throw. No matter what, that is getting errata'd.

>>51728994
Cool, I appreciate it!

>>51724400
>Can we get a Roll20 map repository going?
God bless this post.

>>51729186
I don't think anybody would mind.
We do need something for it though
A mega or something.

>>51729032
>If target fails saving throw, they automatically fail all subsequent throws.
What's this?

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>>51729119
I saved this a while back. Might be fun for an sea themed campaign.

>>51729509
You automatically fail strength, and dex saving throws while paralyzed.

>>51729601
Oh, good to know!

>>51729045
The whole thing is fucking broken.

>>51729546
Bless you anon, I'm running a sea campaign and this giant ass turtle is going help a load.

>>51728173
2e!

>>51729032

Easy. Houserule that if you change the save to STR then the creature is mentally paralized, and therefore can only automatically fail its saving throws regarding WIS

>Be the beserker.

best class to play with a 5 in CON?

>>51728812
We start your new character at apl.

>>51729782
You can do what I'm mulling over. Play a melee sorcerer. So you can die faster.

>>51728173
If my first exposure to D&D was through Baldur's Gate, but my first time playing the actual game was 3.5, do I put 2e or 3.pf?

>>51729797

no I'm playing man mode, thinking some sort of wizard maybe

>>51729818
Revenant paladin then. Go apeshit.

>>51729782

Wild Magic Sorcerer

ALLUHAH AKBAR, reroll a character with more than 5 CON [/SPOILER]

>>51729828

good idea, dunno about paladin, but definitely going revenant

>>51728994
LoM is a core d&d 3 product, not a forgotten realms specific product.

3e Forgotten realms products have that beige cover with the burned in book label.

>>51729032
Seems perfectly reasonable. Yep. Perfectly reasonable.

>>51729818

Moon Druid then. So you don't ever have to rely on that shitty CON

Make it variant human and start with Resilient CON if you can. That'll at least keep ya at -2

>>51729853
Yeah, because when you have broken renevant shit you don't need health because you autorevive at the start of all of your turns unless you're killed for good, in which case you just appear again somewhere else.

So basically don't fucking do it if you want to go man mode.

Play a wizard and be very, very tactical. Have things like false life up, shield ready, portent to ensure you don't get ambushed and hit out of nowhere, maybe even the 'alert' feat from variant human.

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What's the best class/multiclass to play this guy?

>>51729916
Unclassed.

You're going to die in a few hits, so your goal is to never get hit in the first place.

If you're lucky, the DM will let you learn some class abilities as you go.

>>51729546
thanks Anon
here is a link with the maps (without the turtle map)
https://mega.nz/#!dlMlzDyB!Wjldcxuo8qdC69lQhlYwGPh-kefS8lm-cs4hcx3u4U4

>>51729916
Arcane trickster rogue.

>>51729908
>Have things like false life up, shield ready, portent to ensure you don't get ambushed and hit out of nowhere

at level 1 I only have 2 spells per day tho

>>51729989
>Starting at level 1

That's just asking to die.

If you played, say, moon druid, you don't even get moon druid features until level 2. At level 1, you would have 5 HP, and taking 10 damage would instantly kill you, permanently. Or taking 6 damage when you're at 1 HP.

Starting at level 1 is for lame-os. But if you do start at level 1, suck it up and do it anyway. One spell slot for false life, the other for either an emergency shield or the 'sleep' spell, I suppose. Then the rest would be ritual spells.

At level 1 you're not exactly massively far behind by staying away and doing 1d10 firebolts anyway.

>>51729980
Actually now that I think about it, wouldn't he be a Bard? He always puts on a performance, captivating crowds of people?

>>51730046
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>>51729916
Again, unless you want to make him some other character (Someone who can actually fight fucking monsters) then you either need an extremely lenient DM who is letting you win many encounters through non-standard means or you need to play some other system like GURPS that's less focused on being heroic in every single combat.

Or, I guess if you never surpass the first few levels, it might be fine, but once you've surpassed the first few levels you'll have gone beyond what he's normally capable of.

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>>51729747
This might also help. Not the best quality, but at least it might give you a few more ideas to work with.

>>51730119
Isn't a high level Kazuma just Rance?

>>51729032
The UA doesn't make it clear whether only the first saving throw is changed or if subsequent throws are changed as well. I'd reckon it's probably the former because of cases like Hold Person.

>>51728906
>it's a punishment without completely killing the will to play.
See this i don't get, why the need to punish a player for what is typically unfortunate rolls? I have never seen a player actively try to get their character killed outside of perfectly valid story reasons so i don't understand this need to go "Haha fuck you, you died, start at level 1 you fucking scrub!" Especially in a game where level 1 characters can be killed in one hit.

DM here. I've always allowed every UA that's come out to be used at my table (though I'm debating whether or not to allow Lore Master, but that's irrelevant to my question). I have a player who wants to play Artificer, but he'd rather keep Wizard at the core of it (meaning he'd be using the earlier UA).
Would you guys allow the Artificer tradition UA to be used even though Artificer was subsequentially released as a class in UA?

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>>51729747

Sea campaign you say?

>>51728078
I like the abilities of a GOOlock and can half get my head around it, but not sure I can 100% work it out.

Though the simple idea of "horrible things happened and I asked the heavens for help/vengeance and this GOO/devil/fey responded" works for anything.

Though would you want to stop taking levels after a while if you found your patron distasteful?

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>>51730490

Same mapbro from last thread, have a couple more.

>>51730166
I don't know, possibly, anything but Kazuma anyway.

Does anyone do questionnaires to discover what the players want in a game?

>>51730558
Yes.

>>51730029

alright, one more question. At -3 CON, can my HP decrease as I level?

>>51730606
Yes.

How many and what ranged options should I take for my Stone Sorcerer?

While tankier than any other Sorcerer, I still only have a d6 hit die. Even with high constitution always staying in the frontlines seems like a bad idea.

Also is lighting lure worth it? I could position myself a little bit further away, pull an enemy to me and then quicken gfb/bb.

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>>51730513

I really like Lost Mines Of Phandelver. Are there any other adventures that are similar?

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Great map for Planescape.

>>51730681
Is it good? I'd really like to try it out but I always balk at joining a random Roll20 game for it.

What's the name of those ant-like creatures from the plane with all the modrons? At least I think that's where they're from.

>>51730698
Formians?

>>51730681
Out of the published ones? They all have a different feeling to them. What exactly did you enjoy from it?

>>51730704
That's it. Thanks!

>>51730693
It is. Great sandbox with good options. The writing is also simple and straightforward with the boxed text kept to a minimum.

What was the general opinion on the Deep Stalker conclave ranger, again?

>>51730710
I enjoy the simplicity with the theme and plot. The editing is also the best of all the 5e adventures so far.

>>51730771
For UA Revised Ranger? It's 10x better than Hunter.
Go for it unless you really want a pet.

>>51730710
I liked the part where the red wizards raced the party through the mines and actually killed the black spider before the party reached him.

>>51728812
There are still people who play without the entire party being at the same experience as each other?

Fuck that.

>>51730778
>The editing is also the best of all the 5e adventures so far.
It's... really not. The organization is a mess, the overall setup of the campaign is confusing, info on how you get the players to go to the dungeons and take on the cult is not clear outside of them wandering around, and accessing the information about non-combat NPCs is a pain in the ass. Plus there are inconsistencies with some of the NPCs, like the necromancer in the intro part being depicted way differently than he's described.

>>51730628
Wait, really? They got rid of the rule saying you gain a minimum of 1hp/lv?

>>51730681
I would say out of all the released adventures Storm Kings Thunder comes closest to it.

It's simple, you have many options on what things you do and how to aproach them and it has lots of optional shit to do. It is also the best adventure if you want to continue with your Lost Mines characters.

>>51730807
>that spoiler
What. How did that happen?

>>51730833
Yep.

>>51730823
Come on now, have you seen Out Of The Abyss And Curse Of Strahd?

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>>51730858
It has some questionable writing, though.

Like the fact that every single NPC has ties to underground movements. Ties that they show off in plain view but no one apparently knows about. Pic related is a good example.

Not to mention that Harpers ARE FUCKING CANCER HOLY SHIT GTFO YOU MARY SUE BITCHES.

>>51730913
They are pushing the factions really hard since the beginning of this edition.

>>51730903
I've run both PotA and CoS and CoS is much easier to reference and build on.

>>51730606
Only if you roll for HP.

>>51730964
How so? Isn't -3 con, -7hp/lv on top of your HD? As in, you need at least 7 HP/lv before modifiers to break even?

>>51731024
How'd you get that number?

a con of 5 is just -3 con mod as you're saying which means you only need 3 HP average a level
A wizard taking average HP gets 4 HP a level

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>>51728078
>saw a MAJESTIC picture
>turns out to be for D&D

why did you bait me anon

>>51731024

it's half a hit die plus your CON modifier, (to a minimum of 1)

Even if you ignore the Minimum of 1 rule, the least ammount of HP you could possibly make is with a wizard's hit die, a d6, to whom the average is 3, and 3-3= 0, not -1

>>51731096
Except it's rounded up. d6s get 4hp every level.

>>51730887
Spoilers for LMoP follow, I guess.

Once upon a time there was a naive first time DM for 5e. The party had just taken care of the Redbrand Hideout and stowed them in the local prison. The prisoners were slated to be taken to the Lord's Alliance in Neverwinter, escorted by a trade caravan. Halia Thornton was the one who had employed the caravan and its guards and she was planning to have them escape with the prisoners before reaching Neverwinter and selling them as slaves on the black market.
The party, being the lawful goody-two-shoes that they were, got it in their heads to help escorting the prisoners (and they wanted to see Neverwinter of course!). This made the DM shit his pants in panic, but he was able to scrounge up material for some city-based play. Before they arrived in Neverwinter the prisoners tried escaping, most got hunted down and summarily executed but some escaped in the confusion as the party was fighting off a goblin ambush.
Beat down and weary, the party finally arrived and got themselves some rooms in the cheapest inn they could find (because fuck the fancy one where the DM had planned a ton of encounters). They spent a day or two seeing the sights of the city and replenishing their supplies of adventuring gear (healer's kits were especially sought after due to the sadistic DM being a fan of gritty healing rules). Visiting the shops also gave them a few leads on a merchant that recently had fallen into a string of unusually good luck (much to the chagrin of the other merchants, who wanted his luck to end). A strange man also approached them, asking for their help in a matter of object retrieval.
Not being adverse to earning a few coins, the party set out to seek these new leads. Abnormally large beggars were constantly showing up wherever the party went looking for clues and eventually they revealed their true nature: Uthgardians desperately seeking a shaman that had been lost from their tribe.

Cont.

>>51731133

Ah well. My bad. Thanks

My point stands tho

Are warforged in in 5e yet?

>>51730929
>They're pushing the factions
Open Faction war in an upcoming adventure? Maybe involving those mysterious monoliths that have been showing up?

>>51731192
UA only.

>>51731199

I think its mostly AL shenanigans

>>51731059
Ah, Kos, or some say Kosm, do you hear our prayers?

If my party's paladin kicks the bucket unexpectedly and I bring him back as a revenant, is it okay if I give him multiple goals to pursue before he is freed?
I.e destroying a cursed sword AND seeing the rest of the party safely home?

>>51731222
Pretty much.

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>>51731282
He has his own objectives.

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>>51731295
Really? He could just say "my objective is to kill all of the gods in every world" and become immortal.
Those two goals would be pretty integral to his personality and such, so I though it would be pretty much a given that he want's to carry on trying to keep his promises.

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>game night
>another player (I don't like much but can tolerate) arrives late
>he's got a girl with him
>"So guys, this is my girlfriend. Can she play? She's got experience in 5e before, and a few years of 3.5 too. We already made her a character sheet."
>she looks like a complete roastie--wears makeup, bra visible, absolutelydegenerate.jpg
>I say no
>all the other guys say yes
>DM agrees
>game gets started
>she's playing a diviner wizard
>fuckingoptimizers.webm
>decide to pay her back
>wait a bit (I'm an assassin 3/paladin 6)
>night comes
>over to take first watch
>roll to attack
>crit since assassinate
>critting divine smite, and one dead wizard munchkin roastie
>roastie's bf looks furious
>DM has to physically hold him back from punching me
>DM ends the session early
>he calls me
>"Anon, I talked with the other players. Everyone agrees--I'm sorry, but I can't have you play with us anymore."
>mfw

FUCK ROASTIES

Does Blink interrupt your current concentration effect when you leave this plane?

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So, does this fuck got a personality or goal at all or does he just show up? Cause I hear he got some bitch pregnant which is a hell of a feat for an 'acidic' bunch of bubbles.

>>51730490
>>51730513
>>51730131
>>51730672

Thanks mate, these'll help for a bunch of encounters.

>>51731337
Revenants are meant to be fueled by revenge so the becoming immortal probably doesn't qualify and as a GM I think I would call bullshit on his revenge involving killing gods of worlds he has never been to.

>>51731365
you deserve it for playing 5e

>>51731282
If your DM is already fine with you playing broken shit like revenant, they'll probably be fine with whatever other bullshit you pull out of your ass.

You should ask your DM.

>>51731365
>wears makeup
Good god, what a slut!

>>51731365

I'm confused mate. Whats the moral of this story?

Because you don't sound like the type of player I'd want at my table

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>>51731379

Got another set.

>>51731386
Think the poster is the DM.

>>51731158
Putting two and two together, the party deduced a correlation between their tasks; the warehouse which held the orb they had agreed to retrieve belonged to the suddenly lucky merchant, and it was also where the northmen's shaman was likely held.
After a hasty stakeout the party rushed into the warehouse without much of a plan and found themselves waging improvised siege warfare among crates and barrels. They did eventually find the missing shaman (who was in the process of escaping on his own when the party busted in), but not before the watch had turned up clasped them all in iron.
Thrown into custody, the party and the Uthgardian were at the mercy of the infamously slow justice system of Neverwinter. As luck would have it, however, a watchman was growing increasingly tired with a life of hard work and low pay. He set the party free for a promise of adventure, and the party (+ one watchman) could sneak out from the prison under cover of night. The night which was lit up by a fairly familiar warehouse going up in flames.
The party said their goodbyes to the shaman once at the gates of the city and set out towards Thundertree.

Many things happened in Thundertree and the surrounding area (among other things the party's halberdier got decapitated by his companions for attempting to kill an otherworldly being), but nothing which is important to the tale of the Red Wizards and their search for the mine of Phandelver.

About half a tenday later the party found themselves emerging from a strange elven ruin (the presence of which had been alluded to by an enigmatic old scholar at the Stonehill inn) when they were surrounded by bounty hunters. A brief but bloody battle later our heroes could conclude that these hunters of bounties were after a bounty on their heads for crimes committed in Neverwinter. There was also the matter of a Thayvian symbol that one of them held.

Cont.

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>>51731365

>>51731394
The moral is you can you post anything in quotes and someone will usually believe it actually happened.

>>51729765
Same here! Played with all of my dad's books and modules.

>>51731365
This can't actually be real, right?
I think the second to last line sounds too sane and untampered with for this to be real. If this had actually have happened you'd have twisted their words not to sound better but to sound worse.

>Playing superbursty murderhobo build
>Reee wizards
>Stab other player straight away just because
>DM doesn't even interject

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>>51731380
He's already a murderous psychopath vengeance paladin so of course he would get revenge. It's just that I'm actually a bit worried he'll die to some shitty regular enemies and not some big bad.
He's also been kinda possessed by a host of vengeful spirits who want to see the sword that killed them destroyed, so I thought that would be a good goal to work towards.
>>51731386
I'm the DM. I can deal with broken shit. I fix it, polish it real good and present it to my players on a silver platter and they will enjoy it.

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>>51731423

>>51731365
stale bait

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>>51731440

>>51731437
Well, if you change revenant to un-break it, you can also balance out the fact they have two goals, even though two goals is more of a fluff thing and says 'you get to have the character longer before you reroll a new one'.

Would be good to hear how you've fixed it, though.

>>51731437
So this guy has been wronged by every god of every world? I find that really fucking hard to believe. Also is that important this guy gets to continue his character?

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Is the Robe of Stars /fa/?

>>51731385
5e is the best edition
>>51731387
She IS a fucking slut. He's her FOURTH boyfriend!
>>51731394
The moral is roasties are fucking awful.
>>51731404
>>51731445
It's not bait.
>>51731419
The DM is my best (and only) friend. I had to represent him honestly.
>Playing superbursty murderhobo build
I like to kill things. What's wrong with that?
>Reee wizards
Wizards are fucking OP and everyone knows it. Killing them is its own reward.
>Stab other player straight away just because
She ruined the game!
>DM doesn't even interject
He was covering his face with his hands. I think he might have been crying but I'm not sure.

>>51731473
Well, I'd probably leave most of revenant as-is. My players enjoy the story and characters more than combat so I think all I'd need to to is to make clear that being a revenant is definitely not a good thing.
Maybe I'd push him to destroy the sword first and then start to deteriorate his character physically as his hold on the physical world weakens. This would give the party plenty of time to say proper goodbyes to one of their own and give the paladin's player more time to think of a new character.
I doubt the others would be jealous of his immortality, especially if I made it so that he has a chance of being possessed by the spirits every time he hits 0 hp.
This is all of course just a plan B IF he manages to die to a stupid trap, goblins or something ridiculous and unfulfilling. The paladin just happens to be everybody's favorite character.

>>51731581
Those situations seem like the least likely ends to result in someone becoming a revenant. "I was killed by a spike trap left by a kobold, now I am so angry I will walk the earth as an undead until all gods are dead!"

>>51731455

Bless u boat anon

>>51731403
Cursing the foe that got away, a most shrill-voiced druidess screeching about Malar, the party went further into the Neverwinter Woods, seeking clues of the whereabouts of the lost mine of Phandelver.
Cragmaw Castle found itself methodically surrounded and its inhabitants murdered or run off by the adventurers. A most peculiar female Drow did however make it out alive, only to be attacked and disemboweled by a stray saber-toothed tiger (a form which the Malarite had assumed in their previous encounter). Using the now derelict Cragmaw Castle as a base, they went further into the forest. Returning to the castle after a short foray they found an amicable Lathandrite who joined the party with the recommendations of a rather strange, and invisible, elf.
Finding naught on their forays into the woods but hospitable firbolgs and nasty commando goblins, they ventured back to Thundertree to seek out Reidoth. The druid himself was nowhere to be seen, but a large number of scoundrels and mercenaries were hard at work trying to prepare a dragon carcass for transportation. Being always on the lookout for a business opportunity, the self appointed party account/bard had sold the dragon carcass to a Neverwinter merchant.
After taking care of the "annoyances", mercenaries and ambushing kobolds both, Reidoth eventually agreed to show the party where to find the lost mine of Phandelver.
Little did they know (well some of them suspected something was afoot, but these suspicions were not aired with the others) that a map to the very mine they sought had been found by the Malarite, and its existence relayed to her employer in Neverwinter.

The party, lead by a slightly too virile mountain goat (Reidoth did not make much fuss about being a horny old goat), finally found themselves at the entrance to the lost mine of Phandelver.

Cont. (and conclusion in next post?!)

>>51729845
Phoenix Sorc is the suicide bomber though

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>>51731613

Sadly the last boat one I had. I have some docks though.

>>51731611
I know. Sound like some grade A bullshit when you say it out loud.
But still, I just don't want my players to feel bummed out if their characters die. I want them to die doing something grand, not falling down the tavern stairs.
Maybe make him roll something when he dies to make it clear some outside force has intervened with his fate?

I want to play a class with magic, but at the same time I don't want to think or plan strategically. I'm pretty fucking stupid.

What's the best class for me?

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>>51731639

>>51731662
Wild Magic Sorcerer

>>51731662
Paladin.

>>51731662
Well warlocks can basically just spam eldritch blast and still put out decent enough damage.

>>51730459
I'd tell him that scribe scroll still has to obey Arcane Recovery's level limits, but the tradition doesn't seem overpowered.

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>>51731671

Had a few more than I was expecting.

How did you respond to the official Sorcerer survey? I've been evaluating the archetypes again as I fill this out.

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>>51731712

>>51731365
hey /5eg/ what's the best way for a player to kill a Druid?

>>51731798
0/10, not Sha'irs or dual-element Sorcs

>>51731858
Eat a salad.

>>51731617
Inside the mine one of the party clerics (and, for a considerable amount of sessions, DMPC due to player absence) was stricken with grief as he spied the corpse of his "cousin" Rockseeker.
Abandoning the poor abbot to his grief the party ventured forward into the mine, strengthened by the knowledge that their long sought goal was in sight. They quickly found out that they were not alone in the mine (and that you don't split the sodding party) when a large prowling wolf pounced on the stray sorcerer. While the robed elf was struggling with his canine opponent, someone all too familiar paralyzed the lone barbarian. Being unable to fight back he was forced to watch as a huge tiger with fangs the size of his underarm tore into his flesh; the Malarite had found them once again.
The heroes found themselves victorious, as they are wont to do, and set out to explore the rest of the mine.

Lonely (and amnesiac) flaming skulls, sneaky bugbears and even sneakier spiders all accosted the party as they ventured forth. They dispatched their foes with grace (although the grace of taking four javelins to the face can be debated) and huddled together in the perceived safety of a Leomund's Tiny Hut.
After having rested for only a few moments the "bubble" (for that was their name given to Leomund's spell) disappeared with a soft pop. A disembodied voice began monologuing about what he was to do with these most intriguing specimens. Being unable to decide on a course of action the adventurers simply chose to listen to the man.
The voice rambled on for a while and eventually the invisibility spell he was covered in disappeared. Before them stood a strangely familiar man: the one who had hired them to retrieve that orb in Neverwinter! Judging from his shaven, tattooed head, billowing red robes and thick accent, this was a Red Wizard of Thay. And if his appearance was not enough, the man divulged that the globe he so dearly sought was one of Szass Tam's scrying orbs!

Cont.

>>51731858
Disintegrate. If it reduces them to 0hp they don't return to normal, they just die.

>>51731662
Warlock or sorcerer or both.
Spam repelling agonizing blast everywhere and stay away from enemies.

Of course, you'd be a lot better off if you played tactical for cover and such, but hey.

>>51731649
Make sure it's clear that this isn't just an out of the blue DM fudge 'a-actually anon your paladin doesn't die' but there's actually a clear sensible reason for it.

I've seen it before where an item on the player's person might save a character, but it still feels a bit fudged when it's something like a sword or something rather than an amulet that's clearly an amulet used to preserve life.

Maybe give the guy a chance to sacrifice a portion of their soul or spirit or whatever into an item where, upon the character's death, their spirit departs as per normal but a combination of the vengeful spirits haunting him and the remnant of his soul reanimates his body, possibly skewing his moral perception since he's only partially himself but allowing him to fight on until the deed is done.

>>51731518
I quite like the aesthetics, but I think it might get a little weird when you're doing somatic components.

>>51728078
Is there any way to play a lumenwood using GOOlock? I really want to do that now.

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Wild West-type setting loosely based on the real thing.
What is the ideal twist?
>aliens arrive (again?)
>mecha
>pre-apocalypse people living on the moon
>Revenge of Yucca Mountain / WIPP

>>51730341
I personally don't care about punishing my players for dying, but for some reason they do. The players requested a penalty. I guess they want to feel like their characters dying has a consequence to motivate them to try harder.

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>>51731958

The ideal twist is that it's actually Korea.

I really wish the Undying pact option got some love in the Unearthed Arcana. The Star Chain got no invocations and the Seeker only got two. Otherwise very satisfied.

>>51731977
I prefer not killing off characters, but instead giving them meaningful consequences for the characters. Lost items, disabilities like lost limbs, curses, it can depend on player attitude and level.

>>51732017
I'm saving that for my wuxia game.
>ha ha we're having a great time backflipping off walls, kick-flying through the air, and shooting 20 ki swords out of our buttholes
>OH SHIT WHY DO PEOPLE HAVE REVOLVERS

>>51731977
In a hex crawl or whatever I'll let anyone who dies start at one level behind the highest leveled current member of the group.

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>>51731573
on the off chance that this is not incredibly poor quality bait i guess I'll reply anyway

the point of D&D is to have fun as a GROUP you fucking imbecile. by killing another player you make them not have fun and when a player doesn't have fun generally it means the group will not have fun

so in conclusion you are a fun-slaying autistic faggot

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hopefully going to be playing a kenku for the first time over roll20 this weekend. fun ways to rp kenku go! recreate sounds? say what sounds my char is mimicking? use basic words to convey many different things?

>>51731875
The party agreed to help the man, for fighting him in their weakened state was not an option to be considered.
Trying to trick him into fighting a foe for the party they claimed that he had to pass through the room which the flaming skull protected. The Thayvian considered the information and invisibly strode through the room, unaccosted by the flaming skull, and the party took this chance to escape. The Wizard continued through the mines and eventually found the font of magic within its depths which the heroes (and everyone) were looking for.
While the Thayvian searched the eastern end of the mines the adventurers went through the northern parts. Among the remains of a battle (several crispy bugbears included) they found the Black Spider, bound and gagged. Ungagging the drow had him throw spells and incantations at the party, so they kept him silent while inspecting the throne room he lay in. An overly greedy halfling accountant found himself perched on the lap of a giant statue, forcing out the gemstones it had for eyes. As the statue was desecrated rocks fell and only the drow died.
Battered and bruised, the heroes decided to return to the cave entrance for some well-deserved rest.

During this time the Red Wizard was hard at work; sending a Spectator to its home plane with a well-worded Suggestion spell and using a scroll of Sending to inform his colleagues in Thay about his discovery.

The heroes' rest was interrupted by the voice of the Wizard.
He had a proposal for them: leave and never speak of the lost mine again and they would keep their lives, plus a stray dwarf that he had found.
Having just about had enough of the mouthy bald man, they attacked him with everything they had. Spells were flung (and counterspelled) and mauls were swung (and deflected).
A few moments later and all that remained of the Red Wizard was a red pulp (as the third Hold Person thrown at him was not resisted).

>>51732086
Lots of imitations and bad accents, describe sounds rather than imitating them though to avoid confusion. It's pretty fun, I had a kenku NPC a couple weeks ago and the players really enjoyed it.

>>51732086
my condolences to your group

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>>51732082
why are you replying to bait?

I WANT TO PLAY BUT I'M STUCK AS THE DM I don't hate being the DM, I just wish I got to play too
Making a DMPC wouldn't be the same thing. Fuck. And of course the players show zero interest in trying to run a game of their own any time soon.

Hello guys, I am going to be making a new char and once again stand with too many options before me. In short, what shuld i build?

I think for race I am going with Aaracocra, I feel like the 50ft flight speed would be super amazing, but I dont know what I want to build him as. I rolled for stats but essensialy got point buy rolls 15,14,13,12,10,9 and since this is a new char for an ongoing campagn he is starting as 5th level.

What cool or interesting things culd I make with my Aarakocra?

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>>51732144
why are you replying to bait?

>>51732151

This is my fault. Everyone else sucks at it so I get nominated all the time.

You guys think the mystic ua will be next?

>>51732118
The party themselves were not without casualties however, as their old cleric and trusty pack-mule had been turned into frozen statues by the devious Thayvian.

Knowing that nothing deals with grief as well as looting, they swiftly went through the Wizard's belongings. Among broken potion vials, strange books and scroll cases they found something alarming: not a scroll of Alarm, but a scroll of Sending with the Wizard's colleagues being the spell's receiver. The implications of this discovery hastened the adventurers and pushed them to explore the rest of the mine so they could be gone from the place before any more Red Wizards arrived.
They gave the dwarven cleric and their pack mule a quick burial, grabbed the stray Nundro Rockseeker and left the place in a hurry.


And that's how the Red Wizards came to control the mine of Phandelver.

It's also 3 AM and this prose is shit. I'm sorry.

>>51732205
ha ha ye

I have an idea for a Lore Bard multiclass Dragon Sorcerer, basic idea his father was a man-whore of a bard who impregnated a dragon in human form that just left him at an orphanage. He's on a quest to find his daddy. This is my rough draft of his backstory anyway.

For actual character is Sorcerer 1 then the rest Bard a good idea or should I put 2 more levels in Sorcerer for metamagic?

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>>51728078
>trying to bring back the Raven Queen

Why.

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I NEED CANTRIPS
THE BEST CANTRIPS FROM ANY CLASS
GIVE THEM TO MEEEEEE

>>51731877
>Disintegrate. If it reduces them to 0hp they don't return to normal, they just die.
They don't die. They're just dust in the wind.

>>51732205
It fucking better be.

>>51732264
Because kids can't stop jerking off over shadowshit in everything.
>urgh the darkness, i'm such a tortured soul
Even Fiendlocks aren't as edgy.

>>51732273
Guidence>Prestigi>MinorIllu>Mage hand>EB>Everything else>SpareTheDying.>Bladeward

>>51732304
>Bladeward that low
I had a feeling it was a bad choice, it sounds like you just waste a turn doing nothing but taking less damage. Guess I know what I'm retraining!

>>51732332
It's what you do if you really need to run away and the enemy already has disadvantage somehow.

>>51732304
I'd also put True Strike around STD--it's bad except in a few rare scenarios.

>>51732332
You can't retrain cantrips

>>51732351
>You can't retrain cantrips
What the DM doesn't know won't hurt him :^)

>>51732289
I always thought fiend bladelocks were about as edgy as you could get, but you're right.

I see so many people wanting to play Death Clerics, Oathbreakers, Shadow Sorcerers and now it'll be ravenlocks.

I've only ever seen one good one and that was a Shadow Sorcerer who used to be a healer before dying in a war. He just got up and kept healing people and then they kicked him out because they couldn't figure out why it happened and it freaked out the Clerics. Variant human with the Healer feat and everything, I miss that character.

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>>51732402
>tfw playing a Shadow Monk who has fuck-all to do with shadows, the shadowfell, the negative energy plane, or any other bullshit

>>51732304
I think Mold Earth deserves a higher place, being able to excavate 5ft cube of loose earth is really good when you think about it.

>>51732448
Just a monk who teleports and is cool?

>>51732471
Pretty much. It still has the restriction of shadowed areas for mechanical reasons but the flavor is completely different.

>>51732492
I will admit I've had a soft spot for shadowdancers but that's just because I like teleportation and rogues. It's good now that it's part of my second favorite class.

>>51732264
What's wrong with Raven Queen?

>>51732556
>"Hey guys, can my girlfriend play?"
>"No, keep that hambeast away from the table."
>"Too late, she's coming, and since I'm the DM, eat a dick."
>"Nooooooooo-"
>"Hey you guys! Thanks for inviting me! I can't wait to tell you about my character!"
>"Noooooooooo-"
>"Since my boyfriend is the DM, he's letting me play a goddess!"
>"Noooooooooo-"
>"She's the goddess of DEATH! She's super dark and mysterious, and everyone calls her THE RAVEN QUEEN!"
>"Noooooooooo-"
>"Since she's the Goddess of Death, she hates undead! Except for her undead servants though, because I like undead when they serve me-, I mean, when they serve her!"
>"Noooooooooo-"
>"Okay, so she's not a Goddess of Death, happy? She's a Fairy Queen! She's the queen of all dark fairies!"
>"Noooooooooooooooooooo!"

>>51732118
>>51731875
>>51731617
>>51731403
>>51731158
>>51732217

I'd just like to say that if you were a first time-DM, you did an amazing job. A couple months ago I DM'd LMoP, my friends and I's first time ever playing. I pretty much followed the book to a T, if they branched out I panicked and came up with the most basic encounter for them. Looking back on it, I wouldn't rate myself very high, but everyone had fun and we've continued playing. I guess that's all that matters.
Hopefully I'm getting better with time.

>>51732615
While funny this doesn't tell me a whole lot.
Is it just because she's a goth's wet dream? Cause what I got out of her, and the way I'm using her for muh setting, is she's just the cold hand of death who really dislikes sapient undead but shuts up about it because a bunch of sapient undead who were too good and noble to die are the only things keeping orcus from pushing her shit in.

>>51732615
Are you, by chance, >>51731365?

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>>51732402
I think I'd allow ravenlocks, but I'd have their patron be either Huginn or Muninn, with each giving them an RP hook for either thought or memory being dominant.

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So I got roped into DMing for some friends. We're all new and settle on 5E. They're all spoiled by video games.

Does anyone have any tips how to handle players like this? The first session we're planning will be a pregenned module, level 1 adventurers. What it seems to me that they want is complete customization over their character development, probably wanting to pick different things from different classes, every level, and out of order that those abilities would normally be acquired but scaled to their power level and whatever. Now I know this is retarded for them because they hardly know the rules, but what can I do to curb their appetite for new powers every step of the way and saying "I want to be able to do 'this'", when 'this' is clearly some class feature, feat, or spell that, while it may exist, doesn't show up on their character sheet?

I want to follow the given rules first so they can learn what's what. Should I go along with their requests if they roleplay their improvisation and just dish out disadvantages when they try to cast spells not on their sheet or expend additional spell slots or increase casting times? Should I raise the DC/AC for stupid stuff like attempting powerful signature attacks? I don't want them getting too powerful too quick, otherwise I won't know how to plan encounters or anything.

I realize D&D may not be the game for us but it is what it is for now, I'd just like some advice so that the first run goes well and we can maybe try some other stuff.

>>51732556
Basically some people think the Raven Queen is an insert of one of the WotC characters who killed Greyhawk's God of Death and took his place. She's basically a super edgy Death God that's also somehow not evil.

There's no actual evidence that it was the case, and by all accounts she's basically just a fantasy version of the Morrigan. She is a pretty shit god though, and 4e pushed her WAY too hard.

That said it's not like designer PCs with god-like power are anything new. Basically any mortal of importance on Krynn was a PC at one point.

>>51732644
Every time they want to do something retarded you need to speak to them in their language.
>"I want to do a double-summersault and throw knives at three people."
>"Get good first scrub."

>>51732556
Not him, but
>bringing her back
She was from 4E and most of the cosmological changes that introduced have been scrubbed from 5E.

>from the Shadowfell
One of the aforementioned cosmological changes was Shar (a shit deity) merging the Plane of Shadow (a pre-existing, and as of 3X, an MP-coterminous plane used for short range, non-ethereal teleportation) with the Negative Energy Plane. This made it EDGY AS FUCK because the Negative Energy Plane is all about sucking out life and making weird shades.
While you'd think both Shadow and Negative are edgy on their own, they were mostly empty and aimless whatever; it's only when they got combined did the designers decide it needed to be a proactively fuck-you-and-everything-else plane. It was restyled as a "nega-Feywild", and the only way you can get worse than "Feywild" is "Dark Feywild".
Also, let me reiterate that Shar is shit and anything she does is double shit, so all the shittiness of the Shadowfell on its own just got multiplied by virtue of being related to her.

>the most generic Goddess of Death
Not even a real Death deity. She's just some side bitch, has a meaningless tie-in with Orcus who continues to be a perennial has-been, and her backstory is literally "was a powerful wizard who died and then beat up some other shitty death god that isn't even from the same campaign setting as Shar or the rest of where 4E is taking place". Name a single cool FR deity that was originally mortal. Pro tip: you can't.

>>51732636
She's just a particularly awful bit of lore that sticks out for being considerably worse than what she tried to replace.

>>51732672
I believe she was a cleric originally, rather than a wizard. Still pretty shit though.

>>51732641
Now I want to play a Ravenlock with pact of the chain for a second raven. I have a feeling that could lead to some fun situations.

>>51732653
>super edgy
Anything notable? Cause I think ravens are pretty neat and shadows are par for the course. Might be too much Odin though.

>>51732686
I think it was actually sorcerer, but fluff is never really clear whether "sorcerer" means "the actual Sorcerer class" or "some kind of spellcaster".

>>51732690
Get a spear and take one of your eyes out for some magical sight and try to play odin.

>>51732644
They sound like scumpeople who start games with cheats that maximize their skills and stats.

>>51732712
>PC uses their high Charisma to trick people into believing they're Odin
I can dig it.

>>51732672
>Name a single cool FR deity that was originally mortal. Pro tip: you can't.

Kelemvor was mortal, as was Red Knight, and Cyric is probably one of my favorite gods for being edgy in all the worst ways the right way.

>>51732736
>Kelemvor
I will forever detest him after The Mask of the Betrayer.

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>>51732690
GIVE IT UP, WARLOCK, YOU'RE SURROUNDED
>heh...... saw u comin a mile away
YOUR SHADOWY TRICKS WON'T HELP YOU NOW, I'VE WEAVED A SPELL TO DISABLE YOUR RAVEN FAMILIAR
>u no wat they say...........
CEASE YOUR PRATTLE, FIEND
>a bird in the hand......... *grabs raven from his shoulder*
>.......is worth 2 in the bush *raven familiar #2 flies out of a bush and pecks ur eyes out, breakin ur concentration*
>nothin personnel *melds into his raven and flies away*

>>51732712
>>51732733
Devils sight, Raven perception bonus, observant and maybe expertise somehow.. This could actually work well.

I'd make it a comic ripoff and ask if my ravens can act anything like those asshole crows from that kids movie. Can't remember the name of it.

>>51732759
Also this.

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>>51732756
Muh worship

>>51732694
As a follower of the Raven Queen you're supposed to:

*Murder people who are trying to defy fate
*Beef with cults of Orcus
*Never be sad when someone dies
*Kill all Undead

Additionally, in 4e the Raven Queen could make one hit against HER FOLLOWER a crit until the follower prays to her and figures out what pointless task the DM/Raven Queen wants to railroad him into doing.

The entire metaplot of 4e adventures was about stopping Orcus, a long-time D&D figure from 1st edition, from killing the Raven Queen, a literal-who goddess that just kind of appeared in the Player's Handbook.

Basically she's a Mary Sue God that, while not the shittiest thing to ever happen in D&D, got so horribly mixed up in all the skub happening from 4th Edition that for a lot of players there's a particularly strong bit of taint to them still using her when the rest of the 4E cosmology was basically reverted.

>>51732791
>the wall's super fair I assure you
>what do you mean it's extortion
>just bow down before me and it's all good
>boy am I great
>my friend lost faith due to another god's tricks?
>into the wall he goes
>I can do no wrong, I am the judge after all

>>51729809
I'd but 2e, because BG is more or less faithful to the rules, including the broken parts.

>>51732722
I mean they talk about their builds and stuff like that, but only 1 min maxes, the others just want a unique, custom feel, something that is their own. One will do it through actual RP involvement, the other will try to do it through the development of his character sheet.

>>51732671
I'll keep that in mind.

>Curse Bringer Invocation creates a Greatsword
>Hex Warrior feature only works on weapons without 2 handed property

zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

>>51732869
>needing to have your cake and eat it too

>>51732819
>The entire metaplot of 4e adventures was about stopping Orcus, a long-time D&D figure from 1st edition, from killing the Raven Queen

Oh man, that reminds me of the rudest awakening I ever received as a young DM.

Back in the day, I had a really awful DMNPC, and at some point I thought it would be a great way to motivate my players by having him get captured and they would need to save him.

Instead, they all lost every last bit of motivation, and it wasn't until that moment that I realized just how awful my DMNPC was and simply let him disappear from the story.

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>>51732086

>>51732264
I do hope that's a generic patron if it goes to print. Put that in your feedback.

>>51732343
It's dodge when you have bad AC or you can't dodge anyway. Still better than True Strike.

Anons? Simple query: I know the DMG has rules for Blackrazor, Wave and Whelm, but do you think it'd be possible to update Frostrazor to 5e too?

https://1d4chan.org/wiki/Frostrazor

So I just made a human UA artificer for 5e
I can't think of a name im thinking about going with either Lysander or Adrius.

>>51732304
> no shape water
He doesn't know

>>51732733
>Odin uses his high charisma to trick people into believing he's not Odin.
It's only fair.

>>51731058
Oh. I thought he was saying he somehow had a negative con score (of -3). Nevermind. -3 con mod makes much more sense.

>>51732869
Pact of the Blade uses Str or Dex. If you wanted to kill everything with your Cha attacks, you'd take Chain or Tome or whatever new boons they hopefully come up with soon.

>>51730929
They're butchering the factions.

They've shoehorned them into various alignments to cover the spectrum, and are acting in places where they have no powerbase.

On candlekeep I also hear that they're also acting contrary to the factions goals, etc - but I'm less well read on the FR factions than other aspects of the setting.

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Haven't posted in a map in a while.

>>51731222
It's a PFS analogue more so than stuff that belongs in faerun

>>51731365
You deserved it. You're "that guy".

>>51733167
Hexblade has an invocation about creating a greatsword but you can't use your Hexblade feature to actually make it good.

>>51731413
Ah. My dad didn't keep his books. A friend got some from a relative as a hand-me-down.

My first books I had for myself were the 3.0 core books and the sunless citadel.

Hexblade is the best dip for sorcerer.

>>51733202
The Fiend patron has an invocation to make a Mace. You think that's good? The greatsword is better. At least Hexblade gives you armor.

>>51733041
TARYN DARINGTON

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So what would be the stat order for a Hexblade Warlock? Cha/Str/Dex/Con? Looks kind of mad if you want to take advantage of Cursebringer. Best way to bring it down? Just ignore Cursebringer and just go Cha/Dex/Con?

>>51732086
>hopefully going to be playing a kender for the first time over roll20 this weekend. fun ways to rp kender go! Steal from the party? say what stuff my char is stealing? use text messages to the DM to do stuff to my friends behind their backs?

Gimme a cool passive visual/flavor effect for a lighting based relic level weapon.

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>>51733041

>>51733267
Depends on what pact you want. If you want to go blade, your priorities are about like a Ranger. Attack stat (str) casting stat (cha) and then defense stats (dex and con). Dex probably more than con for initiative and because you can get temp HP from spells.

You can also pick up Heavily armored and drop dex's importance.

If you don't want blade pact, just take cha con and dex like a normal warlock that's gotten moderately armored (and shillelagh) for free

>>51732151
I solved this problem by one day my friends showed up and I said:

Well guys, I'm not running anything today, here are level 1 pretend, pick whichever one you want to play you guys can pick first, and Dan's going to run us through sunless citadel starting in half an hour. You guys pick characters, me and Steve are gonna teach Dan to GM for 30 minutes.

Dan: what?! I don't know how to GM!
Us: It'll be fine. No commitment beyond today.
Dan: uhhh.... Okay......

And now a year and a half later he runs an ongoing game and we alternate sessions!

>>51733238
>1d6 bludgeoning + 2d8 Force and knock prone
>2d6+2d8 slashing and reapply curse
I'd honestly rather have the mace if ignoring the Hexblade curse. If i'm going to use Str for my shit i might as well get some irresistible magic damage off it and apply a nice condition. If factoring it in then of course the patron made specifically for melee is better with it but mace is still a good as shit sidearm if something gets too close for comfort so you can knock em down and run for the hills.

>>51733258
God fucking dammit. I love Sam so much.

>>51733267
Using standard array...

Cursebringer STR 15 DEX 14 CON 13 CHA 12 WIS 10 INT 8.

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With a healthy 117 sample size I can say this is pretty generalizable to 5eg.

My strawpoll results since this afternoon. I hope you two get to play some day.

If you haven't voted in this I'll be doing one last screenshot tomorrow and posting the results.

https://strawpoll.com/87rg72f

>>51733330
and GOO gets a flail with reach but the same movement -> 0 ability as the sword.

>>51733313
Ah, then no reason not to go Fighter/Hexblade, and get a Halberd + PAM.

QUICK!
Tell me the fanciest/most useful magic items not in the books!

>>51733357
Sure. That still works. Though I'm not sure if there's any reason to go Hexblade for your patron if you're doing Halberd+PAM+fighter dip.

>>51732644
You could pick up the $2 classless d&d PDF that someone mentioned last thread.

GURPs and Fantasy HERO and Unisystem may be more what you're looking for.

I'm sure other people will tell/have told you how regular 5e works, so I'll leave that to other people.

>>51733313
You can also go the third route. Take pact of the blade, build like a different pact and just wait until you get a belt of giant strength to reveal your true power.

>>51733369
An item that makes you always smell nice, no BO or iron smell from recent battles.

>>51733384
>oh I'm just a caster don't mind me
>a magic belt you say
>the fighter can find his own
>why would a warlock need str you ask
>BEHOLD MY MARTIAL PROWESS

>>51732736
Also, Shevarash the Black Archer.

I'm sure there are other examples too.

>>51733400
That's good. The players were just discussing last time about how a week of travel and fighting should give you disadvantage on some charisma based checks if you don't take a bath.

>>51733267
You don't really need CHA if you go Curse Bringer, since the Curse Bringer itself doesn't benefit from Hex Warrior and you're probably going to end up spending all your spell slots on smiting anyhow. Focus on STR, DEX, and CON I guess.

If you go normal Hexblade, then CHA all the way.

>>51733369
When you wave this wand at someone it insults them.

>>51733470

The Vicious Mockery of Wands!

>>51733470
Morte on a stick?

>>51733458
You still need Cha for the damage bonus from Lifedrinker later on.

Halp /tg/
A player wants to overthrow and replace a God.
How would one even accomplish this? Go to their domain, beat them and eat their heart?

>>51733369
Wand of Pointing
Fillable Jar
Bag of Air
Canteen of Water Holding
Torch of Light
Oil of Burning
Water of Flame Dousing
Blade of Blood Releasing
Cloak of Warmth

>>51733508
What level, what god, and why?

>>51733521
>Cloak of Warmth
Now you're just being silly. We all know cloaks hold no other purpose than to make you look cooler.

>>51733541
Just level 8 for now, he'll probably postone this quest until he's 20 implying he'll make it that far
Lolth is the target. Reasons I do not know. Maybe just greed and ambition.

>>51733547
No anon, thats the other variant, the
Cloak of Cooling

>>51733496
Yeah, but you're gonna be spread thin if you put too much into it. Str, Dex, and Con will be much more important until that point.

>>51733508
More or less. But gods (when someone hints at their stats) are generally in the level 30-50 range equivalent. Sometimes a powerful demon lord might kill one and take their place, with help, and an army.

It's unlikely to happen for a PC, but I suppose, with epic rules...

>>51733575
So you're saying he'll just need some relic weapons and armor, an army, and some help from some other gods who also would like to see them replaced?
Low chance of success but who am I to crush a players dreams.

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>Planeshift: Kaladesh
>vehicle rules
>mfw Initial D&D

>>51733567
Well Lolth is part god and part archfiend like Tiamat so she'd probably be between 30 and 40 CR.

>>51733369
A staff that summons a spectral servant that does a variety of chores such as dishes, laundry, cooking, etc. as well as other tasks you give them within reason and gives you encouragement such as telling you that you look nice today.

>>51733605
In 3.5 there were deity ranks on top of regular class levels. I'd take a look at some of those resources if you want an idea about how to make a god's stats and thus make it killable.

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>>51728173
>https://strawpoll.com/87rg72f

My first time playing D&D was with an OD&D red book, a Baldur's Gate manual, and a 3rd edition DM's Guide. What do I pick?

I miss those days, unburdened by an understanding of the rules, in pursuit of fun

>>51733567
>Lolth
He wants to assassinate the Goddess of Assassins?
Is he even a drow?

Okay.
Have him work with other backstabbing drow, maybe a fraternity of drow men who are sick of all the goddamn spiders and the matriarchs and want to turn the tables. Make it clear that Lolth is aware of his plot, have driders and faithful of Lolth come after him, force him to make deals with rival gods like Zuggtmoy for powerful spell, artifacts, etc.

If he's serious about it and not just bored to the point of lolsorandumb I-is-becum-da-Sooper-Bad-Gawd, he'll either table it and find something more achievable, like a place of power under her as one of her champions, or he'll go balls to the walls, succeed, or be horribly killed and devoured forever in Spider Hell.

>>51733605
Yes.

Though he might be able to make do with a demon army and a couple demon Lords, if he's got a good plan.

But it would be a very fucking difficult mission, and he's just as likely to do it and have one of the demon Lords or another good take his power instead...

There are some God slaying weapons in faerun, which allow a moral to kill a god, but they wouldn't let him take the goods place, they'd make a power vacuum.

He'd need something else to take the gods place.

>>51733658
Lolth is a shit and any level 15 should be able to take her out.

>>51733675
She's a Greater God.

A shit or not, killing her would take some doing, given that the good elven pantheon hasn't managed to nail her down.

>>51733661
>He'd need something else to take the gods place
Welp, time to plan a heist to steal some shit from Ao.

>>51733686
They're shits, too. The gods pretty much never kill each other. The most god-murdering that ever happened was when they were all depowered mortals; the rest of the time, gods are getting bumped off by other mortals with fancy artifacts.

They're SHIT.

>>51733705
Regardless of your helpful advice, as GM should try to make something as impactful as the death and usurpation of an evil goddess of an entire species something meaningful and difficult to attain, if only for the sake of Fun.

>>51733688
So uses gods to guard his shit, and guard the way into his realm. He doesn't *let* mortals or spirits in at all, and even the gods have very restricted access.

Not *impossible*, but damn close.

I think he'd have better luck getting help and an artifact from from the hell's, the abyss, or the feywild. He might need to get an artifact meant for taking the place for demon Lords and have it altered to work on gods.

That's the approach I'd suggest. Stealing from Ao would be harder than killing the god, by orders of magnitude.

>>51733725
>Stealing from Ao would be harder
But more fun.
Time to plan a lighthearted Saturday morning campaign where nobody ever dies and even the evil gods just shake their fists at those pesky mortals.

What were they thinking the the new UA wizard. Every ability is so horribly overpowered.
From Changing elemental type and saving throw rolls for free, to expending 1 extra spell slot on a magic missle and dealing 1d4+1+2d10 per target being able to cast any classes spells for free once per long rest..At what point do you think they forgot to write a new wizard tradition and just had their intern come up with one.

Can a dragon in human form get a human pregnant and what happens if he does.

>>51733852
Yes, they're called half-dragons.

>>51733852
Half-dragon. Or a shittier version of wizard.

>>51733852
You've never read the fluff for Dragonblood Sorcerers, have you?

>>51733884
If your dad's a dragon, and you're just a shitty sorcerer, you got the short end of the stick

>>51733841
It really amuses me how all of that stuff made it in. Each individual part of it is hilariously strong, and when you put it all together it's mind-boggling that they actually put it out like that. I realise it's just a UA and they're all playtest, but how did no one stop to think "Maybe this is a little too much?"

>>51733852
Yes.

I'm not clear on one thing though. Can a female dragon get knocked up?

>>51733933
Yes. still a halfdragon.

>>51733928
Well maybe not the first kid, he'd be a half-dragon. But that's how the bloodlines are born.

My party has two elves, 2 humansand a Water genasi.

I'm trying to think of a Monk race/concept that would bring something distinct to the table. Any ideias?

>>51733930
Ive just read the warlock part aswell and warlocks are now better than paladins at pure dmg output that is insane. They didn't even balance these around the abilities they copy.

>>51733841
My only explanation is that they were trying to win over the remaining 3aboos that think wizard is underpowered in 5e.

>>51733980
Dwarf Monk who dual-wields hammers.

>>51734005
>Wizard underpowered in 5e

I'm still impressed that there are people who still think that.

Lizardfolk Sun Soul. Bring the light of the sun god and sacrifice the corpses of your foes.

Fuck, Lore Mastery fits my wizard so much more than Diviner. Oh well, I doubt my DM would allow it anyway. The part that fits the most is the doubled proficiency bonus for skills anyway.

>>51733521
Rope of many things
Pole of reasonably distant touch
Stone of depth finding
Skull of brainkeeping (Common)
Box of containment
Spaghetti of nourishment

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So my group loves Chrono Trigger and we want to incorporate Dual and Triple Techs into our 5E game. For those who haven't played the game, Dual Techs let multiple characters combine two or more special abilities, be they spells or martial maneuvers, into a new power with properties in between the two original moves. For example, a warrior with a spin attack and a mage with a flame blast could imbue the warrior's sword with fire and make a spinning flame strike that hits multiple nearby enemies. That same warrior could make a combination move with a healer's cure spell to spread the healing to multiple allies in an area of effect instead of a single target.

My goal with this system is two-fold
1) The rules have to be pretty simple. If Dual Techs can be performed on the fly, I need to be able to figure out what's appropriate within about 20-30 seconds. A chart or table would be handy. If they need to be learned or created in advance, 3-5 minutes would be the limit.

2) They can't be strictly better than using the spells / maneuvers separately. In Chrono Trigger the main drawback of Dual Techs was their high MP cost, plus you needed both characters active which meant occasionally having to delay a character's action. I'm thinking one of the two characters involved would have to spend Inspiration to perform a Dual Tech, and maybe two of three (or all three) for a Triple Tech. That would also prevent characters from 'spamming' them.

Any advice or examples would be awesome. Thanks.

Anyone who played a Mystic is willing to share their experience?
Don't bother playing it? Is it fine for 10 levels?

I wish they release Elans and the Kalashtar when they finally finish the class.

>>51734040
>>51733521
Glasses of potential perception
Kettle of boiling
Boots of walking and running
Bedroll of rest
Staff of reasonable power
Gauntlet of hand covering
Bracers of protection from slapping
Mask of face hiding

>>51734049
Spending inspiration to perform them is a nice idea. I often want to spend inspiration to do something cool instead of just for advantage. Hero point, basically.

Then the general theme would be to take a multi-target attack and give it a property from a single target attack. Like combine Immolation spell with Whirlwind attack to spread immolation to everyone hit by the ranger. Immolation is bad normally anyway. And the reverse to narrow a multi-attack onto a single target. LIke the mage readies to cast a fireball (because all he has is fireballs) and the fighter slams it into the enemy so you can throw it into a melee safely, either adding fire damage to each hit or making the fireball into a cone originating from the fighter.

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Stop playing gishes.

>>51734105
It'll be a power stunt, so expect to be winging it often. Ask your players to come up with combos they'd like to use ahead of time, so they can give you suggestions.

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>>51734113
Stop telling people to stop.

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>>51734120
Stop arguing with yourself.

>>51734113
I'll be just ok on two roles and we are going to get into this dungeon, fuck face. Don't look at me when I'm casting my spells in full plate.

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>>51734049
That's... quite the task there. The number of DT combinations you could possibly make is mind boggling, never mind TTs. I don't know how you could possibly hope to boilerplate it.

At the very least your players are going to have to justify how each combination would conceivably work, instead of you trying to think of every possible permutation. Of course that means figuring out this shit on the fly, which won't always be easy...

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>>51734128
Me first.

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>>51734152
Good.

>>51734179
> No extreme close-up on his face
0/10, there wasn't even an attempt.

>>51733181
>On candlekeep I also hear that they're also acting contrary to the factions goals, etc - but I'm less well read on the FR factions than other aspects of the setting.

This is sort of true, sort of not.
The Harpers being meddlesome dicks who hire third parties to disrupt groups they think are altering the balance of power and fight evil groups is pretty much par for course; they've always basically been an distributed independent spy network that mostly just tries to do random acts of fighting evil without trying to rock the boat too hard. They came off as a bunch of Good-aligned meddlesome dicks, even in an in-universe fashion

The Zhentarim are WAY different now. Previously they were straight-up Captain Planet villains, worshipping evil deities of evil, doing evil things because they're evil, making alliances with Beholders because they're evil, and constantly self-defeating with their internal betrayals and politics. Now they seem more like the Mafia or shady businessmen rather then the forward arm of an expanding army, so they're bad guys who actually act in semi-rational ways. To the credit of the writers, it sounds like the entire original faction of the Zhentarim are all dead and this is just the remains of the old group in Darkhold re-imagining itself over time to become something less pointlessly evil.

The Lord's Alliance is just doing what it's always done.

The Emerald Enclave is the most out of character; they were located in an entirely different part of Faerun (the Vilhon Reach) and were involved in keeping the wilderness from declining there, to the point of possibly starting a plague to cripple one city's population from spiraling out of control and then healing it later once they were no longer able to overharvest trees. They rode that True Neutral train HARD, and weren't particularly expansionistic.

>>51732736
Tempus is my favorite war god.
Not a psycho, not bloodthirsty, not a butcher.
He's a soldier's god; he fights when it's time to fight, does it by fair rules, wants everyone to fight clean, doesn't pick sides at all, and when the fight is done he wants it to be done rather then pointlessly drag on.

Our paladin is overshadowing the rest of the party, please send help and/or divine retribution.
The group consists of trickery cleric, swashbuckler, hunter ranger, lore bard and the vengeance paladin himself.
Especially the ranger and swashbuckler are doing piddly worth of damage compared to the paladin and his smites. And the cleric is yet to actually think of utilizing his many features, like turn undead which he completely forgot when they were almost overwhelmed by some undead bastards.
Any way I can even the playing field for the rogue and ranger? Just handing out magic items fro them seems a bit cheap.

>>51734276
This seems flat out unbelievable. Paladins are pretty powerful, but he shouldn't be overshadowing the rogue at all times. He has limited smites.

You DO have more then three encounters per day, right?

>>51734276
Starve the paladin of spell slots, meaning throw more encounters at them between each long rest. If paladins aren't complaining about being out of spell slots, they're not being pushed far enough.

>>51734276
Realize that high burst damage and being the tank bro is what a paladin is all about.

Your swashbuckler should be getting his sneak attacks in every round or he is fucking up somehow. That alone should be doing higher and more consistent damage than the pally.

Tell the ranger to pick up sharpshooter if they haven't already. What kind of ranger are they? If they're a hunter they should've picked up colossus slayer and should be cleaning up people that the pally and rogue fail to down.

Your trickery cleric is there to provide utility and support. They aren't really about high dpr. Not until they can polymorph into a t-rex.

Also, design encounters that are more than just slugfests. Place enemies at range. Let your ranger have a use. The swashbuckler and run to enemies that are isolated and do is duals. Paladins are typically shit at range.

>>51732712
I forget, it's been a while since I read my mythology, was Odin known to go by any other names when in disguise as a human?

>>51732672
I came here to point out that MASK is the answer to a cool FR deity - and he's actually been more than one mortal, if you really get into it.

If you read Paul Kemp's Erevis Cale/Shadowstorm series and the kickass finisher he did with the Godborn (Aka the only book in "the Sundering" bit of mediocrity that FR decided was a fun thing for Salvatore to push) then you'll understand.

>>51734317
>The swashbuckler and run to enemies that are isolated and do is duals.
Fuck I'm tired.

The swashbuckler can run to enemies that are isolated and do his duels.*

Also, I'm gonna echo what the other anons said. Make sure you're giving them more than just a couple encounters per day. A paladin should have to think about when they want to lay down those smites and make them count. If they're just burning through them without a care you're fucking up. Once the paladin is spent your rogue and ranger will REALLY outshine him.

Which gish has the most consistent damage throughout the day?

>>51734357
I have no idea the actual answer to that question.
But I've been running a swashbuckler/sorcerer that is mostly a swashbuckler who makes great use out of booming blade/sneak attack.

>>51734308
>more then three encounters per day
Nah. Combat is slow and we like roleplaying more than killing monsters
>>51734316
> If paladins aren't complaining about being out of spell slots, they're not being pushed far enough
I'll see what I can do about that.
>>51734317
>sneak attacks
It would help if the rogue wasn't rolling <10 every single attack roll.
>What kind of ranger
He took horde breaker. He hits often enough but his damage is just shit compared to the paladin.
>design encounters that are more than just slugfests
Noted.

>>51734015
If you liked the power of 3e casters, 5e is absolutely a downgrade.

5e seems balanced closer towards where bard is in 3e.

>>51734376
> Less than three encounters per day
Shit, nigger, what are you doing

>>51731365
This is how I celibate blackguard.

>>51734392
Trying to play the game. Spending all day rolling combat stuff is not apparently exiting for the players, but still they'd like to be equal when it comes to it.

Is there no extra attack for the Hexblade?

>>51734405
Another thought: Paladins have very few ranged options, so depending on the composition of your party you might be able to force a ranged fight where the Paladin is at a disadvantage

>>51734430
Does he need it?

>>51734376
Here's the thing, my man.
You can totally rely more on roleplaying and still have them go through more than three encounters per day.

Don't buy into every session has to be a single day in terms of length. However, if you really do prefer to do much less combat you should look into the variant resting rules which were written with the idea of doing less encounters per day.

>It would help if the rogue wasn't rolling <10 every single attack roll.
Did they dump dex or something? If they just have shit luck, nothing will fix that. Tell them to buy new dice.

>He took horde breaker. He hits often enough but his damage is just shit compared to the paladin.
I'm going on the assumption that he's an archer. Really, tell him to look into sharpshooter. With that and the extra attack from horde breaker he should easily be outputting consistently high damage.

Again, really the only thing you should be worrying about is how you're allowing your paladin to always be smiting. I mean, that's what people do warlock/paladin for. Don't just let him be getting that for free.

If you really want to give out a magic item, maybe toss the rogue a +1 or 2 dagger to make sure he hits if he really rolls as shit as you say he does.