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>>49182079
Wonder why I ever tolerated a necromancer in the first place, and assemble the others to take him down.

>>49182079
Stab him with the barb.

>>49182079

"For fucks sake, how many times do we have to tell you? WAIT UNTIL AFTER THE INNKEEPER HAS MADE US BREAKFAST"

>>49181624
skills

>>49181624
Fighters have a coherent class identity.

>>49181624
One's just a generalized, all purpose beat stick. The other has a focus on nature shit which sometimes brings stuff like animal companions or spells.

>>49181539
Could just run Out of the Abyss, an adventure that takes place entirely in the Underdark and goes from 1rst to 15th level.

>>49181539
>I was wondering how to get around the hostility most under dark settlements seem to have towards outsiders

You could make the player characters underdark races from underdark cities themselves.

You could give the player party a specific role. Settlements in the upper underdark actually do quite a lot of trade with the surface, so if the players are traders, or guards for caravans heading into (or through) the underdark, that could work.

You could give the player party a powerful patron who gives them a kind of 'letter of marque' that gains them access and/or a degree of trust from the rulers underdark cities.

You could make your own setting, and in your underdark the cities aren't so hostile to outsiders.

Finally you could just leave it to the players to work out how they're going to earn the trust of underdark cities.

>>49181650
Thanks, I've decided to to include some major trading cities in my settings version of the underdark to have more cosmopolitan areas where numerous races are accepted but I was wondering how an adventuring party would be accepted in some of the smaller villages with them being more insular and isolationist.

>>49180171
Is that the f2 mod?

Have reasons to the fights

Have character to the fights

Hell, even gimmicks can be good for fights. I did that several times. My favorite was a goblin with a whip that only tripped the PCs while the goblin's dogs did the damage and managed to escape into a deeper room of the cave twice. PCs enjoyed killing that guy when they cornered him.

>>49180192
nah just fanart/mockup

If an armless man can why cant her?

>>49180489

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>>49180063
Awesomeness ensues.

>>49179777
I was playing lacrosse once in high school and practically decapitated a guy with a poke check to his unprotected throat and screamed "blood for the blood god" as the flags came pouring in.

We had bad blood with that school going back a few years and half the team were into 40k so it wasn't a cringy as it sounds

>>49179832
Actually had a similar moment when playing Rugby Union, I was in a scrum and some dickhead decided to throw an uppercut just as we started to push and he actually ended up giving himself an uppercut and a bloody nose

>>49179777
Surely you mean Lychguard, since Immortals don't have a melee setup?

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Honestly, it depends on your group, but I think the hardest thing you're gonna deal with pitching that idea right now is disassociating yourself from pic related.

I'm not too interested in it.

I much rather prefer trying to immerse myself in an alternate world rather than try to literally pretend I am a person in our world in another world.

To be honest I can't see much of a difference aside from a panic-attack at the very beginning. I also feel it would have to be low-combat unless everyone is already trained with the common weapons of the setting for whatever reason.

>>49179273
Ah shit, I haven't watched that yet, didn't realize it was a thing there. That could maybe work in my favor, though, I know some people in the group are fans.

>>49178839
Stupid, stupid initial images.

I'm starting to consider it, i'm an old man now (35) and i struggle for time with my family, work and fitness...

I cannot spend precious personal hours cleaning mould lines off another pack of plastic dudes, it's the worst damn part of the hobby and i get goddamn mad as i'm doing it.

While i think i still might paint characters etc i think i no longer care if the rank and file arent painted by mine own hand.

>>49179274
>and i struggle for time with my family,
You have a ready source of labor, right there. Especially if you have children to voluntold.

>>49178825
>>attempts to produce magic wand, forgets the word for wand. "I USE MY CHOPSTICK"
Fuck me, kek

>inform Danny that the princess he just rescued will be disappointed that he's destroying her city
>he calms down
>they flee and are now fugitives from justice
>next stop, Ghost Lake

You guys want to hear about Ghost Lake when I play with them next weekend?

>>49178884
Sure; do you have any more stories from these kids?

I'll try not to over-exaggerate or over dramatize as is the norm.

I don't know what your group has agreed to 'expect' from the game. I mean playstyle and party-wise. So you're character could be fine.

But in a standard game, with standard expectations I strongly dislike your character. Not only does having a worm body not make sense in the context of your backstory, but all of it also screams of edgy. Which is fine if you're into that.

Your character honestly seems to have no redeeming character traits for a party. I see absolutely no reason for the party not to kill you on the spot when you decide pull your inevitable bullshit evil master plan antics. As a GM I would not stop them from doing this. It is not only logical but in their best interest not to travel or even associate themselves with you if they are even half-decent human beings. (other beings are available)

If the party is full of equally edgy, off-putting, unpleasant characters then I'd give you the green light.

If at all the other players are decent people, you are 100% being That Guy, and I wouldn't be surprised to hear one of your party members complaining about you down the road on this very board.

I tried very hard to say what I mean, and not be harsher than necessary. I hope my opinion at all helps make your decision, whatever that decision may be.

Cheers.

I do not care if I was an out of character shit, the second I know worm man is an evil fuck he is getting smashed.

>>49177066
Understandable, as you said you don't have a large amount of context. However in practice my character is a largely cooperative and helpful person. As a lawful evil character he doesn't actually see himself as evil, instead believing he is a good person who is willing to go to more extremes to reach his goals. Let me give you an example:
>party has a very young, naive cleric (a child)
>high wisdom in the sense of a very strong moral compass, but low int (didn't know how to count)
>first real encounter is taking care of a giant terrorizing nearby lands
>enter cave, hear giant sleeping up ahead
>cleric comes up when plan that avoids violence
>proposes to go alone inside to carry out said plan
>party deems it to dangerous to go alone even though cleric is practically begging to go alone
>end up going with him
>cleric reveals reason he wanted to go alone was to hide a secret
>behind heavy clothes cleric actually has clipped angelic wings
>offer to reveal a secret of mine to comfort cleric
>take off mask and reveal maggotness
>cleric a little freaked out but calm him down
>use prestidigination and gust to aid cleric in tricking giant into believing he is seeing an angelic vision
>everything fails and we end up fighting anyways, in the process rest of party finds out our secrets
From there on out, I started acting as a father figure to the cleric. The other two party members were naturally distrustful of me, with one in particular forming a sort of rivalry. In practice it's a very fun party with the wide range of characters. I actively try to not stretch into That Guy territory. Furthermore, I even became a teacher to the cleric, using animated skeletons to help him learn to count, etc.

>>49175270
know the rules of the system
watch other people DM on youtube

>>49175270
What >>49175325 said. If you don't know the rule for a certain thing, don't spend time looking it up. Just make a call and worry about the "real" rule later. One thing to keep in mind about planning is that they probably won't follow your plan the way you want them to. You have to go with the flow to an extent with most groups.

>>49175325
>watch other people DM on youtube
any specific videos or channels that you would recommend?

Define "jerk"

I have played as a Witch Hunter and the GM wanted to test mt faith so he had the party and I discover a village of nature magic users who follow some goddess earlier in the campaign I threw out the words of "As a witch hunter I have to hunt and end false god followers" and throw on top of the fact the villagers were harboring blood magic users.

I dont know if it was edgy but I sort of burned down the entire village becasue of muh code

>>49173481
Nah. I don't trust myself not to derail the general atmosphere with my dickishness, I don't have the acting chops to make a jerk that isn't just annoying.

I respect players who can, though.

Occasionally

It's really fucking fun

LE Barbarian name Urist von Urist who was the fucking worst.

Speaking of Slaanesh and people bolted onto armor, does anyone have a screencapped description of a Slaaneshi CSM champion that's edgy as fuck. He has twins on and there is something about them being mutilated in such a way each can sense the others pain in a different way, but they can't communicate with each other. Like one is blind and mute, the other is deaf.

>>49172765
I don't play D&D, but thank you for contributing.

I'm not super fussed about getting it shared, but is it any good? Because the intro adventure had like 2 good things in it.

I bet /5eg/ would appreciate this