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Last night i DM'd our monthly game with friends.
The game had been building up to some good ol' dragonslaying and they spent most of the evening running quests in order to stock up on dragonbane weaponry and gadgets, believing (rightfully so) that they'd need extraordinary ressources to fight a dragon.

I have allways been a firm believer in that dragons should fight intelligently, as they are after all very smart creatures.

Once the fight started the dragon laid out a smokescreen (Red dragons have smoke vision in pathfinder) used ventrilloquism to disguise auditory clues to its location and snuck up on the party, whom meanwhile were barred from looking at the battlemap due to poor visibility, in order to minimize metagaming.
What followed were a fight where the players attacked random squares, got out of line of sight from eachother with no real way to rendesvouz, several of the players got flung to far reaches of the lair, or into pits of lava and had no real way of finding their way back to the battle except to move in the direction of the noise and take 5 foot steps, in order to not eat a ton of attacks of opportunity from the dragon, in case they accidentally strafed through it's threatened area.

They still won.

My point is that i got some very constructive criticism from a player afterwards; He told me that the dragon fought how a player would fight if it knew it were going to be ambushed, and while an effective tactic - limiting, hindering, hampering, confusing, seperating and preventing players from doing what they wanna do is enormously frustrating to the players.

Basically being disallowed to play your character effectively...

I think he's very right in that regard.

My question to you GM's of TG, is: How do you construct some nice hard fights that empower the players, make them feel like heroes, while still presenting a big challenge?

Have you constructed anything that might qualify? Any tips? Any nifty psychological tricks?

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Alright you scurvy sea dogs and lily-livered, land lubbers. Be postin' ye pirate related character artwork, least ye fall under the pirate curse.

Also feel free talk about any pirate related /tg/ games ye wish to talk about.

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Lore wise what is the best color to be?

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Spite Edition

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RESOURCES

>Official Site: Contains deck building rules and the current ban list.
http://www.mtgcommander.net

>Deck List Site: You can search for decks that other people have made. Authors often have comments that explain their deck’s strategy and card choices.
http://www.tappedout.net

>Plenty of decklists and primers.
http://www.mtgsalvation.com/forums/the-game/commander-edh

>Statistically see what everyone else puts in their commander decks based on what is posted to the the internet.
http://www.edhrec.com/

>Find out what lands you can add to your deck, sorted by category, based on a chosen Commander’s color identity.
http://manabasecrafter.com/


CARD SEARCH

>Official search site. Current for all sets.
http://gatherer.wizards.com/

>Unofficial, but has GOAT search interface.
http://magiccards.info/

>Thread question
How do you feel about Stax elements? Irritations that keep people from playing, or necessary breaks on out-of-control board states?

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We're Retarded Edition

>Unearthed Arcana: Three-Pillar Experience
http://media.wizards.com/2017/dnd/downloads/UA-ThreePillarXP.pdf

>5etools:
https://astranauta.github.io/5etools.html

>/5eg/ Alternate Trove:
https://dnd.rem.uz/5e%20D%26D%20Books/

>Resources Pastebin:
http://pastebin.com/X1TFNxck

>Previous thread:
>>55197470

What's the stupidest question you've ever seen a player ask you/your DM during a game?

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Hey, quick questions from a newbie trying to get into board games.

I've got a group of up to 5 friends and we're looking for board games to play.

We really want to play Dungeons and Dragons but it's somewhat intimidating - what would be some good beginner and intermediate games to build up to that? And what are some interesting beginner games in general?

Also... board games are kinda expensive, we're all in college and don't have huge amounts of money to spend. What are some of the best games in terms of value, and what are some of the best places/times to get deals on board games?

Thanks for any replies, sorry if I asked any stupid questions.

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Thin your paints thread?

This is a Primaris Apothecary, by the way. If the paint job has rendered it unrecognizable.

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Greetings

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I need some dice. Preferably ones that look good. Where should I buy them?

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Why is 40k the only thing I care about anymore?

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Get in here and get ready for the shitstorm that is going to start when gangs start fighting kill teams.
Necromunda is coming out and there is still a chance they might use 2nd edition rules.

It looks like it might be a dual box with board rules and 3D rules. We can only hope for the best.

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How would you rate the hobbit as a rpg campaign? (The Book, not the movies)

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/tg/ give me all your fictional metals and elements!
Post their name, origin and properties.
Fantasy or Sci-fi does not matter.

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I'm playing a 'knowledge is power' themed Rouge/Assassin/Duskblade in 3.5 set in Eberron.

I have Knowledge Devotion and what to max it out by taking Arcane Disciple & Lore of the Gods.

From what I can find, the ONLY knowledge domain god in Eberron is Aureon, correct?

I'm not playing a strictly evil assassin and Eberron is lax on alignment in general but but someone like the Shadow seems like a better fit thematically. The theme of the character is a skilled Changeling, Rouge/Assassin with a fascination with knowledge and magic, who believes a knife in the right man's back can do more good than two dozen righteous paladins but is also conflicted if he just tells himself that to justify is own actions.


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Arcane Disciple: Choose a deity, and then select a domain available to clerics of that deity. You can learn to cast the spells associated with that domain as arcane spells. Prerequisite: Knowledge (religion) 4 ranks, Spellcraft 4 ranks, able to cast arcane spells, alignment matches your deity's alignment.

Lore of the Gods: +5 insight bonus on all Knowledge checks. If you worship a deity who grants access to the Knowledge domain, the bonus is +10 rather than +5—even if you did not choose that domain.

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r8 my cac. also cac thread or whatever