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>>52778610

How much is the business going to play into the game itself? It could serve as a way for them to do various things or be a game in and of itself.

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Yes, land, area, something to let them flesh out and debate on during the time in between games.

>>52778610
>kotick
triggered

If you have decent STR and CON I don't see why not. Same as any martial class.

>>52777847
All Tieflings are demons. All demons are shit.

So ya....a tiefling cav would be shit.

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>>52778293
>demon cavalier riding a demonic mount

>>52777833
Probably partially encouraged by character build mechanics, partially because people become attached to characters over time, but also the people it happens to who are okay with character death don't complain. Its part of their game/isn't a problem for them, so they don't reee about it here.

>>52777833
Different people have different preferences but, in general, systems these days are based around the assumption you'll make a character you really like and it will tend to survive.

The threat of death is just there to make your victories sweeter, really.

>>52777932
That's kind of the problem, the threat of death is minimized and victories are hollow.

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>>52777767
Mimic.

one of my players has a fucking mimic.

>>52777767
The party as a whole has a pseudodragon banker.

It's fun.

I know the party bard has wanted to get a Sabretoothed Tiger at one point and the Barbarian has been after a Mastadon since he was 1st level.

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Pet goblin

It was for sorcerers and i saw it when i made my first character for d&d and i just for the life of me can not seem to find anything about it i'm beginning to think i dreamt it up.

>>52777653
What edition?

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>>52777674

This should have been my first red flag, as he got into a bit of a huff about my lack of “preparedness.” At last, I’m able to just roll some dice. I come out with decent stats, enough to meet the requirements for a Halfling psionicist/thief (multi-classing was weird in earlier editions). He chimes, “You know, with those stats and you thinking about psionicist, how does being a Betazoid sound?”
Mentally pausing, my multi-nerdom cultured mind queries for the origin of that word. The result, Star Trek. Turning, I asked, “Wait, a Betazoid? You mean like Star Trek, with like Klingons and that stuff?”
He responds, “Yes.”
I continue, “In a Tolkien-inspired setting?”
He once again replies, “Yes.”
I might be an old-fashioned gamer, but there are certain combinations of nerdom that should not mix. Classic DnD and Star Trek being one of them. Don’t take me wrong, a table-top Star Trek? That does sound fun, but I’m getting off topic.
Sighing, I start to state that I’m not terribly interested in this… “Setting.” To which he assures me that his Sunday game (the one I was joining), had like-minded individuals, who also wanted a more by-the-book DnD game. You know, just with the occasional forehead ridge or green-blooded “elf” running around. Needing to sate my RPG withdrawal, I agree to continue. So, yes, you can say I brought what follows onto myself, but I needed my fix, man.
Having finished generating my character, I figure I’m done by this point, and say I’ll come up with a back story for my character before the game. Nope, you remember that aforementioned DM-client? Oh… son, you thought the new Volo’s Guide had a plethora of character choices? You aint seen nothin’. First, we had to generate my character’s history.

Go on...

Resulting in her somehow ending up in “Not-Mongolia” as a ward of some lord. Now, this raises a few issues, first being, for a man who threw a hissy over me not having a “character concept.” Between this auto-generated history and the mechanics of the system, how could anyone come to the table with a “concept?” Next issue, my character had to be from the region the party was currently in, and lastly my character had to be a member of the Federation. I ask, “Why does my character have to be a member of the Federation? Can’t she be a native?”
Apparently, it would lead to all manner of complications with the rest of the party, who supposedly wanted a “by-the-book” game, oh and the “Prime Directive.” We’ll put a pin in the Prime Directive for now. So next I ask, “Wait, I’m from a world where there are psionicists, and people with magic that can read people’s mind. You’re telling me not one of them has probed a Federation mind?”
Somehow, through a combination of technology, magic and psionic whatever the Federation had been able to block off all parts of the mind relating to the Federation. Which then leads to, “So, if this blocks off a “part” of my mind. Why didn’t they just block off all of my mind?” Cause the ability to just ignore Mindflayer (and similar creatures) abilities as a psionicist? Hell yeah! Nope, didn’t work that way cause of “reasons.”

>still making polytheistic settings
ugg

It is more so cleric players feel like they have options and I like the idea of lesser gods.

>>52776867
I've always like the way Thieves world handled gods.

>Gods are immortal, and powerful beings
>Each God lives in its own paradise plane (inaccessible to mortals and even other gods)
>Each god is limited to it's home plane, unless it focuses on a follower. This is the only means (other than an avatar summoning), that the god has of seeing or knowing what's happening on the prime plane
>The gods seldom directly speak to followers
>the gods are forbidden by "powers", from entering the prime plane (no exceptions)
>The god that loses all it's followers no longer has a connection to the prime plane, and slowly forgets about it, and retires away to his home plane, and lives forever there, with his dead followers...(basically on the prime plane, the god is dead at that point)
>gods can be greatly weakened by killing on of their avatars, so the gods seldom risk sending one

With that in mind, you can pick almost any 'theme' and make a minor god. Since the likelyhood of a god clash, is almost nonexistent.

A god/goddess of luck. A god of chance. A god of gambling. A god of bets. A god of challenges. A god of sports. A god of races. A god of cards. A god of skilled betting. A god of cons. A god of drinking games. All are fine in the same setting, because there's no 'clash' or overlap of the gods.

That's how I'd handle lesser gods. There would be thousands, but most people wouldn't even know who they are, since they're largely uninterested in our plane, as their home plane, is literally paradise to them.

>>52776302
I'm interested too. I'm shit at romance irl and even shittier as a DM.

>>52776302
depends what you're going for
>if it's a nice, romantic subplot for one of the PCs, let the player initiate, have the NPC open up to them slowly as they get to know each other better
>If you want drama, pick an important NPC, figure out who the worst person for them to be in love with would be, and go from there
most importantly leave it open to change, love is a fickle thing, it can and should change over the course of the game

>>52776302
Have a party aware of the difference between oc and IC.

>>52775925
Has already beaten two some of the most powerful entities in the galaxy.

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>>52775925
°±°

>>52775925
best fight

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>>52775874
Why not both?

>>52775999
Your Emperor is a rotting corpse

>>52775874
I like both

benis

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What are the features you'd expect to see from a Shaman?

>>52775805
>Violate the nap
Someone takes their Sleepytime seriously. Is the siesta sacred?

>>52775805
Make it like FreeCities.
https://www.reddit.com/r/freecitiesgame/

>>52775805
>outrageous, over-the-top and insane
>NAP
The most wild and imaginative marketing campaign, leading to gleeful citizens voluntarily exchanging goods!

>>52775799
Who the fuck would allow someone to put pins in their own back!?!?!?

>>52775863
Some sort of masochistic fetishist, I'd assume.

>>52775863
Artists

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>>52775713
>Nobody likes christfags
>Nobody likes holier-than-thou hypocrites
>Nobody likes party's nannies
>Nobody likes black-and-white morality autists
Take your pick.

>>52775776
Is this like Aku's telling child stories?

Lawful Good alignment is one of the more "headcanon-prone" branches of the alignment tree. You have people who state it's about being good and staying true to your own personal code of law, people who say it's about being good and obeying all lawful authorities, people who say it's about promoting good by way of law, and probably a dozen other variants I can't be bothered to think of. Needless to say, if the player has one interpretation of lawful good and the DM has another, conflict happens. This is especially problematic because of people having a tendency to conflate Lawful Good with Lawful Neutral, and thusly have supposedly lawful good characters believe simply "Law = Good".

Other classes with alignment ties are usually more broad in aspect. Being Lawful or Chaotic is a lot broader and easier to define, more or less, than Lawful Good is. The one other class that had similar amounts of alignment pain, the Druid, actually underwent a revision from 2e (where it HAD to be True Neutral - and True Neutral was defined in the most *ridiculous* fashion) because WoTC realized just how stupid its original alignment ties were.

Players of Paladins are well-aware that their grasp on their powers, and thus their ability to not be sub-par fighters, depends on cleaving to their alignment. Thusly, many players over-emphasise in order to avoid falling... and tend to take it into directions that just tick off the DM and/or the rest of the party. Hence the "Paladins Suck!" meme that keeps bubbling around D&D and, to an extent, Pathfinder.

As part of the "Killer DM" school of thought, some DMs enjoy puzzling out ways to cause Paladins to fall, either as a punishment for a bad paladin player, as a way of generating a backstory for a fallen/anti-paladin villain, or just for the fun of it.