/5eg/ - Fifth Edition General

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>>51067727
Now that the dust has settled, what's the best player race from Volo's Guide to Monsters?

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>>51067744
Yuan-Ti and Firbolg seem the big winners.

I really have no idea what I'm talking about, though.

>>51067591
Well, I didn't really expect them to be the stealthiest. Usually someone goes shadow monk or rogue for that, which are both sensible options, but the druid actually does it really well.

Rangers aren't bad for it either.

>>51063365
It'd be best played as the enemy making a threat to use it if the players don't back down or something, rather than out of the blue. I doubt the bad guy wants to have to use a level 9 spellslot either.

>>51067583
Well, yeah. You still have to come up with a reason why only the monk might use whatever powerboost you gave him, maybe because he did something or whatever, but I do believe monks at the #1 trap for disappointing players.

The deal isn't about
>optimizing
or anything, it's just that if you're playing a rather dodgey or bad option then you have to optimize it in some ways to make it good. For example, protector aasimars are honestly probably getting into OP territory, but despite only giving +1 to wis it works well with a sun soul monk because they can fly and avoid being hit, attacking from range, getting rid of monk's main weakness of being forced into melee despite squishiness. If it was a half-orc, you really have to make their ability go the full milage or else it's really a big waste considering monks are already not very versatile.
If you're playing a wizard or bard or something already considered quite strong, you've got a lot more room to take it easy and do suboptimal things without relying on your DM's backup.

>>51067744
Lizard folk.

>>51067744
Yuan-ti and Aasimar are more powerful than they should be.

Orcs and hobgoblins are underpowered, with hobgoblins having traits that almost exclusively affect wizards.

So, a race that's actually fair, but also interesting, serves its purpose and makes you feel like it and all that...?
I'd say bugbear. Gotta be bugbear.

So I was thinking of some houserules for my next campaign of 5e.
> roll 4d6, 8 times. Take 6 highest
> non-attack ability rolls are roll under with proficiency subtracted from the roll. DC and opposed is expressed by adding to the roll.
> 10 minute short rest. A long rest gives all hit dice back and level*con in hp
> instead of death saves, death occurs at -10 hp. Every round at 0 or below, a con save is made. On failure, lose 1 hp.
> stabilization occurs when at 0 hp. Death and dismemberment table is rolled when dropping below 0 hp.
> encumbrance rules from LotFP. More challenging hexcrawl style wilderness rules
> xp is gained from gold
> add con score to hp at first level
> monsters have 2per HD less hp

I'm thinking of essentially starting them off with a third level adventure with this. How do you think it would turn out in play?

A guy in my group gave feedback to Mearls to ok the scrapping of the immortal because he felt it would be OP

>>51067981
Why that second thing. Why ever do that.

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>>51067981
Sounds like it'd make players stronger and harder to kill while making monsters weaker. Gold being exp is just another way of quantifying it.
There's nothing wrong with it, but challenging your players will likely be harder unless you have specific ideas to do so

>>51068008
Slap the bitch right in the kisser

>>51067981
>implementing a shitty THAC0 with ability checks
Why the fuck are you playing 5e if you want all these stupid fucking rules?

>>51068023
I'd essentially overlevel the adventures I'm thinking. Start off treating them as essentially 3rd level characters. I'm thinking the stronger characters combined with having it easier to die below 0hp, encumbrance, etc wil add a different feel.

As well, i'm going to use out of combat rounds for the strategic action economy. I roll random encounter chance if they do a short rest in a dungeon, I want to hash natural healing out to be a tad slower to come by, etc.
>>51068058
Thac0 is actually more retarded than this. They'll have "proficient ability score" where proficiency is added to the ability on their character sheets. So i'd just roll for them, add a mod and ask what their ability or proficient ability score is.

It makes the difference between 10 and 15 into 25% rather than 10%. So it's part of why i'm thinking of ways to decrease the incidence of low ability scores. Maybe, as normal but reroll 1's?
I'm thinking of reducing ability score increases to +1 to compensate but then it fucks with the math on attack increases and spell dc's. though with higher stats, it might not be as big of a deal.

What's the best piece of homebrew you've ever come across?

>>51067744

The Good

>>Aasimar are as developed as a PHB race
>>Triton seems pretty solid
>>Tabaxi finally shut people up asking about catgirls
>>Kenku are megamonks and just in time for new UA archetypes
>>I cant find fault with new monsters generally speaking

The Bad

>>Several of the races have really stupid enforced roleplay restrictions that limit the personality of your character significantly
>>Yuan-Ti have better versions of Dwarven resilience and Gnomish cunning along with stats and abilities on par with other races
>>Tabaxi and Kenku are neat but their stat set steps on Elves and Halflings toes a lot
>>Lizardmen are statistically almost a Dwarven sub-race and step on their toes as well

The meh

>>Hobgoblins were unexpectedly a Int race but they are saddled with their a racial class all their wizards are forced into which is absolutely fucking terrible to curtail their power
>>The return of penalties to some races
>>Hey we need more Giants? Fuck it just give one of them two shields like that on retard on the forums kept asking about doing fuck'em they'll buy it anyways

I see a lot of shittalking about the Four Elements monk. As a new player who's only played two fucking sessions because of a solid month of delays a Draconic Sorcerer, what exactly's so bad about them?


I want to be able to explain some things to my friend who's only played 2E but is curious, but I'm not all that knowledgeable myself.

>>51068287
All of their Ki abilities are way too expensive

>>51068287
They imitate spells kind of poorly at the cost of Ki points being too high.

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>>51067727
i like Kobold cause of *coughcough* reasons
but Kenku seems like it'd be super fun to play as roleplay wise

>>51068287

Way to expensive Ki costs and most of the abilities come too late to actually be useful. Your going to find that your using your base Monk abilities FAR more often and getting much better payoff which means you were better off with any other archetype

>>51068268
>>Several of the races have really stupid enforced roleplay restrictions that limit the personality of your character significantly
to be fair you can just refluff those so something more fitting that serves the same purpose
like Turn the Kobolds "Grovel Cower and Beg" into and big attention grabbing action like a loud sharp whistle, or a flash bang, or a bloodthirsty yell.
or Take Saving Face from a pride oriented shrug off to a focused overcoming of an action, or tanking a hit because they've gone berserk.
and good DM would allow you to refluff a character mechanic to better suit your character. especially if it doesn't change mechanically.
unless they're an ass

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Is playing a chaotic neutral jester bard too edgy?

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>>51068340
I'm glad to know.

Now he's ranting about how much he hates Clerics because of one bad Cleric he had

>>51068447
not if you dont play it that way

>>51068287
my friend nearly tricked me into going four element monk until i found out how dogshit it was

by the way now what's a good race for monk that's not human

i hear bugbear is good with reach

>>51068498
To further explain. Every Monk can use 1 Ki to do Stunning Strike.

Stun is one of the best condition to inflict on monsters.

None of the ability that Four Elements Monk has ever come close to Stunning Strike while costing more Ki than that ability.

>>51068635
Wood Elf
Ghostwise Halfling

>>51068650
A damn shame. Such a cool concept, too.

If anyone likes, I could provide a retelling of his cleric PTSD later when I wake up.

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>>51068447
You know what?

Fuck Eberron.

Fuck Darksun.

And Fuck Forgotten Realms.

Bring back Ghostwalk!

>>51068635

The Kenku seems tailor made for the Monk and im considering playing a Kensai Kenku as my next PC

>>51068879
tell me more

>>51068709
>>51068650
>>51068635
>>51068340
>>51068318
>>51068315
couldn't it be fixed by a bigger pool of ki points?
or a specialized pool of ki points for casting?

>>51068921
That's what a few of the fix/update pdfs do, for the most part.

>>51068791
I could almost imagine that happening in some sort of misguided attempt to make a "Dark Souls-like" setting with some minor tweaking

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>>51068791
I'd rather have Spelljammer.

>>51068921

Honestly it should have just been a 1/3rd caster like the AT or EK. Theres just not enough Ki points to function s a Monk and run that much magic off KI. It only works for a Shadow Monk because its very good utility stuff with a reasonable cost

>>51068885

Not much to say its a +2 Dex +1 Wis race that also gets some solid skill prof. choices.Its got everything you would need for whatever sorta Monk you wanna play

>>51068953
I never thought of that...that sounds fucking rad.

>>51068956
Also a good one!

>>51067727
I heard that the eldritch knight into warlock multiclassing is really good, can someone break it down for me as to why?

>>51068921
Or just let them have spell slots like EK/AT and free access to all the druid spells?

>>51069044
Well, it comes down to your Evocations. At first level, you can get Eldritch blast, a d10 cantrip. At 2nd level, you can get 2 Invocations - probably Agonizing blast to add on Charisma damage and Fiendish Vigour for the free False Life. Since Warlock doesn't rely so much on its spell slots and gets them back superquick, it's great for an Eldritch Knight to stack up some health.

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>>51069050
is it a complained enough Class to be fixed like ranger do you think?
or was ranger fixed cause its a core PHB main class, and FEM is an obscure subclass not worth the attention

>>51069121
Homebrew man.
There's one popular fix out there.
Doesn't mean people can't discuss it in a thread dedicated to descussing D&D 5E.

I for one think that the class is a mess with mixing martial resources with casting features.
Does EK have to spend second wind just to cast a spell? NO!
Then don't make the monk do it.

>>51068330
dem hips/thighs

>>51069221
hell yeah
my Kolbold character was directly inspired by that pic.
would it be kosher to commission RobotJoe to draw a character that essentially modified from fanart he did of a friends pixel art?

>>51069277
so long as he's paid and/or wants to

>>51067856
Orcs and Kobolds are stupidly disappointing. Goblins are better than kobolds in every way, as far as I can tell.

>>51068440
Refluff works fine, but STILL. Negative stats and negligible racial traits?

>>51068330
>>51069277
Get the fuck out of here

>>51069428
anon, it's okay to be a furfag/scalefag now

there's a difference between a furfag and a furry. one has self awareness and can hide their powerlevels to achieve normalcy, the other is the stereotype

i'd be willing to bet there are just as many people who are furfags that watch hentai

What's the best class to be a unicorn knight/beloved of the unicorn god? CG, speaking beasts, whimsical adventures, climbing trees etc.

>dex ancients paladin
>dex fighter with magic initiate (cleric)
>revised hunter ranger with TWF and favoured enemy undead
>favoured soul with nature domain

A challenge for all you 5e players.

Make a viable blade-pact warlock. Multiclass as much as you want. RAW/RAI, no GM fiat.

>>51069459
>hide their powerlevels
You're the one posting fucking furfag softcore porn in this thread. Stop shitting our game discussions up with your unrelated bullshit or you can fuck right off.

>>51069525
to be fair, kobolds are on topic discussion

also, boo hoo, it's not like there's a new 5e thread every few hours. what's wrong, is the sexy scalie making your pee pee feel weird and now who gotta get all huffy and puffy?

grow up and ignore it, faggo

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Is there anyway to help remind myself and my players about inspiration without having to resort to using silly tokens or something?

>>51069573
aside from the box on their sheet?

say, "do you want to use inspiration?"

>>51069560
>*coughcough* reasons teehee I'm being so fucking coy and subtle surely no one is realizing what a fucking fetishist piece of human garbage I am
How about you start that "hiding your powerlevel" shit you were just espousing, cunt

>>51069585
No no no, I mean awarding it and such. I keep fucking forgetting it's there and the players might tick it on their char sheets but then forget they even have them as do I since I'm already juggling every NPC, trap, the story, the books so I can look up spells and conditions, etc.

>>51069598
no, because it triggers you and i find it funny

is it because i'm a scalefag, anon? it's okay, furfags and scalefags can get along, there's no need for smut wars

>>51069621
>Smut Wars II: The Smutening

>>51069612
i award players with inspiration for excellent roleplaying and great ideas only

those specific events should be memorable, as such you should know they have inspiration

>>51068053
He said psionics are a new gimmick despite It being around since 2ed. I'll play a mystic when take 3 is released just to give him the finger.

>>51069525
You sound a bit like that fat pimpley motherfucker with assburgers that is at literally every game store

i can accept monks in my world because i still consider ki magic

but psionics is just too sci-fi for me

>>51068330
Jesus christ that's an ugly fucker.

>>51069787
>but psionics is just too sci-fi for me
I see it as something similar to ki. Ki is internal energy of the body while psionics is internal energy of the mind.

>>51069780
Sorry m8, I'm /fit/ as fuck, but keep projecting

>>51069824
>internal energy of the mind.

but that's wizardry and sorcery

>>51069621
Not him, but that's exactly why we don't want either of you here. If one is here, the other will follow.

Please kindly go back to your containment thread called /pfg/. We don't need another general about fluffy tail fox girl.

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>>51069787

Then call it qi, or chi.

>>51069862
I thought that's plucking at the strings of the fabric of the universe

>>51069865
i don't play pathfinder

so i'll stay here in 5e

>>51069872
which requires high int, so it's basically mind magic while monks are body magic

i just dont see where mystics fit in

>>51069891
> High INT is now mind magic
Anon... you might have to reconsider that statement again.

>>51069891
Sorcery doesn't require high Int, besides:

CHA has sorcerers, bards, and warlocks
WIS has druids and clerics
INT only has wizards.

There is a distinct lack of Int based spellcaster.

>>51069506

We ain't doing your work for ya, ya lazy bum.

>>51069925
nigga, wizards use magic based on intellect

>>51069926
sorcery is an exception because they're born with magical powers

clerics use magic from the gods
druids use magic from nature
monks use magic channeled through the body

psionics are just a sore thumb

>>51068268
>Hobgoblins
>racial class
Where is that referred to?

>>51069952
One lore variant says psionics use magic from the Far Realm.

>>51069966
i mean

i guess

>>51069506
Paladin 2 / Warlock X

>>51069959
Looks like it's mostly in the monster fluff pages where Hobgoblin wizards specialize into Evocation to be mobile artillery more often than not.

>>51069506
One level of Fighter, Great Weapon and Polearm Mastery. Consider multiclassing out of Warlock at level 12 once you've got your CHA to Damage evocation and getting more Fighter, but be honest, you're not likely to get to level 14 to make that decision.

>>51069891
mystic is internal like ki.

>>51070007
but i'm arguing that wizards already do that

>>51070029
I don't think it's quite the same, but then I don't have any experience with editions where psionics were a thing...

But I'd say that, imagine you had a big heavy barbell. A wizard is the guy who studies and figures out a rope and pulley system to lift the bar using mathematics. Psionics would be the guy who trains until their muscles are strong enough to lift the bar.

Sorcerers are the guy whose grandfather was a pulley elemental so they gain an instinctive knowledge of pulleys. Warlocks ask their big brother to lift the barbell in exchange for a bag of weed.

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>>51070072
>Psionics would be the guy who trains until their muscles are strong enough to lift the bar.

bu that's a monk!

>>51070084
But in this case the barbell is metaphysical

>>51068635
Anything with a total of +3 in wis and dex or +2 dex +1 con, obviously. Or +1dex +1con +1wis if that even exists, pretty sure it doesn't.

>>51070129
>+1dex +1con +1wis
Non-variant human

>>51070146
Or variant Human who spend feat on something that give you +dex or +con

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>>51069573
I'm a bard and I solved this by buying several die of a unique color to give to players when they have inspiration.

When they look at their die it stands out and when they roll it they give it back.

>>51067744
Dem little triton titties.

>>51070367
i think he means normal inspiration and not bardic inspiration

>>51070029
>but they don't they just know how to pluck the strands of the weave, psionics doesn't effect the weave at all.

>>51070384
i was really confused as to why you greentexted but i'll say that was a mistake

i get the whole weave thing, it's just that in the end the wizard can be seen as someone who uses the mind the bend magic (which they have to because spells require int) and monks use the body to bend magic.

also, how can the power of the mind that psionics are claimed to use allow people to meld their flesh into metal? that dont make no damn sense

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>>51070383
Oh you mean Fate Points?

>>51070414
i remember searching his name on youtube once and a ton of drama videos came up

what did he do to piss every dnd youtuber off?

>>51070146
>using non-variant human
>ever

Even paladins would rather go variant human, and they only get one true dump stat.

>>51070423
I've only seen his stuff on occasion. Didn't realize there was drama.

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>>51070423
A few years ago, he created fake accounts to troll and harass other youtube rpg channels all while publicly saying he was a supporter of them. At the time he was trying to monetize his channel and many believe he was essentially trying to drive off the competition and make himself the leader of the youtube rpg community.

When he was caught, he first denied his involvement, saying it was just a fan of his doing it, then he had the gall to blame the trolling on his brother who was dying of cancer. Finally he admitted he was the one who did it and posted an apology video that he has since removed.

Considering the tone of his CR and AI 'reviews' and other 'interviews' he's done, it would seem that he is currently trying to find new ways to attack the 'competition' and generate hits for his channel all at the same time.

>>51070461
wow

what a fucker. i'll avoid his shit from now on. it's a shame he has so many subscribers

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>>51070471
Yeah, I had no idea either. What a shame. As a newer player the stuff I did see was decently informative.

But fuck 'em.

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I ended up tweaking the Genasi into four different races based on the classical elements for a homebrew setting. They probably need a lot more work and I need to figure out a way to balance out a fly speed at level 1 but here you guys go if you want to rip it apart.

>>51061597
How well did 5e work with a modern setting?
Specifically firearms, AC, wounding, monsters and all of that.
What classes did you all use? Any from Ultramodern and Amethyst?

>Campaign was fun, DM was pretty shit.
Wat. How?

>>51068210
Sure as shit not in this topic.

>>51070072
>pulley elemental

>>51067981
>rolling for stats
>you get worse as you level up
>hey spend some HD immediately after you long rest
>it's easier to die at higher levels
>gee DM I'm so glad I get to keep playing a massive cripple who stands an even greater chance of dying or getting the party killed now instead of rolling a better munchkin to survive your sadistic torture
>are you sure these weight values are correct, lemme see your sheet, lemme see everyone's sheets, we're gonna need a few hours to sort this out
>what
>whatever
>guess i'll have to challenge them with the action economy instead and indirectly buff wizards

>>51070782
I don't quite understand what you mean by getting worse as you level up?

>>51070782
If I'm understanding correctly, then a level 20 with 10 CON- let's just pretend that exists- would gain 200 HP on a long rest. Unless he's referring to CON modifier, in which case he can have a threesome with a cactus elemental and a lemon golem.

>>51070848
>subtract proficiency from roll
>proficiency increases as you level
>a level 1 character with 12 strength has a greater chance of success than a level 20 character with 12 strength
There's a difference between "don't add proficiency" and "actively take it away", if he meant the former.

>>51070886
it's a roll under idea.

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>Shapeshift into an spider
>crawl into a large creature's ear
>turn back into a person

>>51070994
You get turned into jam, they feel a small amount of pain (1d4 improvised weapon damage)

>>51070994
wouldnt that kill you both?

>>51070994
You're better off turning into a worm and hopping in their asshole.

>>51070994
Long version:

Enlarge. The target's size doubles in ali dimensions,
and its weight is multiplied byeight. This growth
increases its size byone category-from Medium to
Large, for example. Ifthere isn't enough room for the
target to double its size. the creature or object attains
the maximum possible size in the space available.
Until the spell ends, the target also has advantage on
5trength checks and 5trength saving throws. The
target's weapons also grow to match its new size. While
these weapons are enlarged, the target's attacks with
them deal ld4 extra damage.

That's as close as the rules get to addressing that corner case. The rest is in the hands of the GM.

Short version:

GM says "stop being a dick". Or GM thinks its awesome and that's all you do until one or both of you gets bored of it.

>>51070994
Both you and the creature take 3d10 force damage.

>>51070994
As with all other teleportation and resizing abilities, you are harmlessly shunted to the nearest unoccupied space and the creature / object you were inhabiting takes no damage either.

If you want to explode out of people, just pray that the Mystic has something akin to the Psion Uncarnate's Bridge ability that lets you (physically) enter a creature's mind, teleport to another creature's mind, and "destructively exit".

>>51071106
desu turning into a snake with girth of an average penis would be better

>>51071145
>average
Speak for yourself

>>51071142
>harmlessly
>If you would arrive in a place already occupied by an object or a creature, you and any creature traveling with you each take 4d6 force damage, and the spell fails to teleport you.
Unless you meant to the one you attempted to become one with.

>>51069505
Ancients Paladin. Your oath spells are from the druid spell list, your oath ignores Justice, Honor and Courage for simply fighting to protect what is beautiful in the world, you always have speak with animals prepared and for cherry on the top Elder Guardian at lvl 20 lets you become champion of the forest. Also consider that Unicorns are send by the gods to those that are worthy in time of great evil paladins would be pick number 1.

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So how is the latest minis set?

>>51069612
Boxes of Oreo. Get one and give a cookie as inspiration. Allow to be eaten only when inspiration is used.

>>51071225
thx

Is this any good? https://daemonsanddeathrays.wordpress.com/2016/04/01/muscle-wizard-an-absurist-wizard-school-for-dd-5th-edition/#more-1524

>>51069935
Anon, my warlock is tome pact.

>>51069991
Why paladin 2, and not 3 for an Oath?

>>51070004
That's fair, but would I get any advantages of multi fighter/warlock that I wouldn't get from fighter/other caster?

I'm basically just hoping there's a 'secret' to bladelocks that makes them something other than "a class feature entirely dedicated to poorly emulating the Shilleigh cantrip"

>>51067981
>rolling for stats
>pointless confusion
>actually possibly okay, watch for things such as a warlock spamming armor of agathys -> short rest, prayer of healing no longer awfully useful, etc.
>dying is kinda too easy, 10 hitpoints is only so much, probably better to stick with the secondary HP pool style of those this
>death table, yeah, they're gonna die. Again as above but taking damage on secondary HP pool results in some nasty table rollls.
>I'm not sure about the rules but if players are fine with it it can make strength a more worthwhile stat and help out some of the martials, I guess.
>xpisgold is fine if player characters are mostly in it for money, I guess.
>Making con even more of a required stat. That aside, makes a barbarian less tanky in comparison to a wizard if you go by proportions. You could say this counteracts easy death, but players will likely drop too quickly when it's too late to realize they should've stopped fighting at low health
>eh, not sure how you're gonna do that on weaker monsters. If running gold = exp, you could simply have monsters run away much more often on grounds of not being suicidal.

If there are new players, too much houseruling will drown them in confusion.

>>51069506
Fighter2/Warlock3/SorcererX

No, you don't actually use pact of the blade for anything. But it's still more viable than using it.

Alternatively
Favoured Soul SorcererX
Fuck bladelock.

>>51071456
While three levels is nice and all, it kind of completely crushes the point of being a bladelock.

Being a bladelock is about being someone who can do kinda decent melee damage, more than other full caster gishes, yet still have full spellcasting progression. That's their only niche.

The problem is favoured soul sorcerer can do that as well, except with better casting. Other gish options can do it much more viably but without quite as good damage.
Once you've detoured 3 levels, your casting really isn't anything special and you've kind of lost your point. Honestly, might as well be fighter1/warlockwhatever, though paladin is tempting.

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>>51068635

>>51068635
Wood elf is the best (+2 Dex +1 Wis).
After it come:

Halfling
Tabaxi
Akaorca
Mountain dwarf
Firbolg

>>51071661
Favored Soul / Warlock
Lotsa Sorcery points.

Is it worth riding a donkey into battle?

>>51071711
I have used bladelock with fighter to have a Demon Knight kind of character. A fighter with a few supernatural tricks up his platemail sleeve.
It's not optimal, but we roll for stats, and I thought I'd use my great starting stats to do something a little different and still be useful.
The real struggle is deciding whether to go for 3x attacks, or more cool spells at high levels...

>>51071456
>a 'secret' to bladelocks that makes them something other than "a class feature entirely dedicated to poorly emulating the Shilleigh cantrip"

Their spell selection lends itself to using reactive magic in every encounter while relying on your full attack. Counterspell and such. That doesn't make them better than blastlocks, but that's a high bar.

There's the classic Devil's Sight + Darkness shenanigans that only a Warlock can access, and that works better if you cast it on yourself in melee than from the back line.

Any class that isn't a proper fighting class is going to be a bit weak when it comes to fighting. Warlocks are spellcasters. Eldritch Blast or Blade Pact are for when you run out of spells, or ideas for spells. Fighters are much better fighters. Imagine that.

>>51072122

Only vs. Windmills.

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>>51072322

>>51069121
The other monk subclasses are lackluster too. You really need to compare way of the four elements to eldritch knight or arcane trickster.

>>51070367
I actually rather like this idea.

I've had players hang onto inspiration points for multiple sessions, which in turn led to my being stingy with handing them out, which in turn leads to players hoarding them even more.

But a visual reminder of inspiration points, besides a little note on your character sheet, might help remind players they can use those, and that I can hand them out.

>>51069506
3 levels of warlock, 9 levels of vengeance paladin, rest in either paladin or warlock.

What are the best ways to not lose concentration as a melee combatant? I'm making a ranger (revised) and I'm pretty afraid of losing Hunter's Mark after round one.

>>51072511
Pretty sure there's no easy way round that limitation. The standard options are to grab those two feats, War Caster and Resilient (for Constitution saves). Regardless, you're going to fail a few of them.

We're going to be starting Curse of Strahd relatively soon. I haven't read it, but I know the vague gist of who Strahd is and that it's in Ravenloft.

What's the most fun class to go in with?

>>51072632

It doesn't matter, be a Cleric. My party is in Barovia without a Cleric and it's been almost pure Hell.

>>51072632
fun as in RP?
fun as in wrecking shit?
fun as in?

Am I allowed to cast Magic Missile in the thread?

>>51072379
Monk in general is lackluster.
For one i'd give them two things.

ASIs at the same levels as fighter (so they have 7 instead of 5, rogue for comparison gets 6)

d10 Hp die

>>51072632
Light Cleric
Paladin
Anything anti-undead really.

>>51072696
Shield
Subtle Counterspell

>>51067727
Hiya /tg/

Joining a new 5e campaign today, and I was planning on playing a grappler, just for fun, since a lot of the players seem pretty casual.

Then the GM sent me the stats for his home brewed Snake-people race, and he basically handed me the keys to the city with "Always has advantage on grapple tests"

Anyone have advice for being the best grappler I can? I can basically choose any class I want, thanks to the free advantage

>>51072860
you should play an arakokra barb instead.

then you can drop people 50ft after you grapple them

I don't really care for resurrection magic.

But I also don't really care for PC death, especially if it's to stupid shit like a pit trap or some random ogre.

I'm considering just taking a page from 7th Sea and saying that a PC can't die unless an action is specifically taken to finish off an unconscious/wounded character, but is that too much? Does anyone have a decent houserule for reducing outright lethality while keeping things still dangerous?

Thoughts on Protection vs Evil & Good in 5e, /5eg/?

It used to be a spell I always prepared in 3.5e and PF but as I read over it, the spell doesn't even grant the most important thing: Instantly halting any domination/charm effect. Just advantage and another save which lets be real, if it was the Fighter with -1 WIS save it ain't exactly helping.

PvE&G in 5e, not worth the prepared slot anymore?

>>51072938
It's awesome, especially for a level 1 spell. You prepare it, when you don't want to get buttfucked by wights.

>>51069506
Pact of the Tome
GOOlock

Shillelagh Cantrip combined with Dissonant Whispers 2x/short rest you can do a burst on failed willsaves for 3d6+3d8+3 at level 1.

Wait- you said Bladelock, sorry. I still haven't quite found a way without multiclassing. And if I can't do it without multiclassing, it ain't fun.

If only bladelocks could get Shillelagh or something, otherwise they're just too MAD (unless you dump CHA and just go 16 14 16 8 10 10 V.Human or something)

>>51068791
Ill take planescape.

>>51072899
I just make learning resurrection spells really difficult. Like that's the one line of spells you can't pick as you level up.

Also finding someone to cast it is usually expensive or nearly impossible. That's where making shady deals with powerful entities can usually come into play.

>>51072860
>>51072889
Bard with Fly and expertise in grappling

What would happen if a Character Meld's into Stone with a sentient Stone creature? Would that character be simply "inside" the creature, or would they merge and become a single entity?

>>51072899
>unless an action is specifically taken to finish off an unconscious/wounded character
Well, that can already happen by attacking a 0 hp character to give them death saving successes. Of course they can still die if no healing can get to them, but this shouldn't happen unless the party spits up or they fall in an acid pit or something. So I guess you could just houserule no rolling death saves, you're just stable at 0 hp until you're either healed our finished off?

>>51073161
A stone entity is a construct or elemental, not an object, so Meld into Stone would not work RAW.

There's a guy in Curse of Strahd, who's nickname is Parriwimple. What the fuck does it mean? Google comes up with absolutely nothing. I need to translate it to another language, but I can't, because I have no clue what it's supposed to mean.

>>51069621
>no, because it triggers you and i find it funny
I am not him either but this is a shit excuse.
You might as well have said
>Umad bro? XD

I really wish people would stop doing this.

>>51070886
The former but it's roll under. With an ability score of 14 and +3 proficiency, a player is trying to roll under 17s. It makes ability scores more important. I'm actually thinking high level characters autosucceed a lot of tasks unless dc's are altered. Trying to roll under 26 means any 16 DC is autosucceeded.

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matthew colville. Am i the only one who thinks this youtube DM is very very tiresome? He speaks so fast without actually saying a thing. He just says words. And he talks on the same intonation and so fast its hard to listen to him for more than 5 minutes. Or its just me ?

>>51073684
I did kind of enjoy his point about adding interesting mechanics to enemies, but then I saw that the video was 45 minutes long so I turned it off, because I couldn't fathom how anyone could talk about it for that long (unless it was spoony-like blithering).

>>51073747
Most of that video was the history of 4E and why they made the design choices they did, if those worked or not, and basically why he liked and disliked 4E. If you don't care about that, you got what you wanted out of the video.

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>>51073684
I love how he makes videos that never get to the fucking point. He starts making the point, then tangent off into an 30 minute story about a time when he/a player he knew did this thing....

That being said, I get triggered every time I hear the word 'Doobly Doo'.

What would happen if the npc monsters were also built with class levels?

Would people play an all"monster" party?

>>51073929
It would be 3.5.

>>51073929
Like >>51073946 said, it would be a mess. Monster has separate rule from PC is one of the good idea they had in 5e.

>>51073946
What's something an actual retard would say? Are you being ironic?

>>51073946
>>51074040
Then the second bit still applies:
Would people play an all"monster" party?

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>>51073684
colville is the best.

>>51072860
> advantage on grapple
That is weaksauce. Druid can autograpple + restrict stuff when they hit.

>>51073684
How would you better present the info?

>>51074068
Just take a peek in /pfg/. That ness would be the result.

>>51068791
No one cares.

>>51070461
What a massive tool, and I also mean that literally. He fucking looks smug in everything.
What kind of shitnugget does that?
His channel needs to be taken down.

>>51074127
"brevity is the soul of wit"
AKA don't waste my fucking time

>>51070461
Is it because CR and AI are actually good and he feels immensely threatened because his content is literally shit and cannot hope to compete at all.

>>51074194
No one cares about your time.

>>51070084
Monks are just psions who don't know they're using psionics.

So how's the Berserker?

>>51074128
I mean fighting crime, smashing fiends' faces in and doing adventuring stuff, not engaging in fetishes. Sorry if that was unclear.
Because fuck the cesspit of shit that is pfg.

>>51074194
You realize you can just listen to him and also do other things. Stop being a retard.

>>51068210
Walrock Homebrew's fortress building rules.

>>51074291
What are you even talking about though? Monstrous races, like in Volo's? Or playing as random creatures from the Monster Manual?

>>51073684
I disagree with any man whose idea of making a more fun encounter is to give a creature an aura that does 20 irresistible damage to anything within 20 feet of it.

Stop, you fuckers. Melee characters have to stand in that in order to do their fucking job. I don't see anyone making dragons with antimagic bubbles that fill the entire room except for a five foot radius around the monster. Also, the bubble does 20 irresistible damage. Also, the monster has Mage Slayer. Also, its melee attacks deal double damage against any creature capable of casting spells.

>>51074194
Who thinks your time is important?

>>51074344
Like playing a team of solars descending into the Planes Below and fucking evil up, or actually playing them a horror scenario and have them fuck up evil something fierce.
Playing as a mercenary force comprised of different monsters, like mind flayers, beholders, storm giants and stuff, going into the midst of planar conflicts. Or lending their talents to a detective agency.

Stuff like that.

>>51074354
>monsters that hit you with a condition if you smack them
>monsters that reflect damage if you smack them
>monsters resistant or immune to all your physical blows
>monsters that just fly

>oh here's a monster that reflects spells
>maybe
>sometimes
>but it's a FUCKING CR 1 CAT THAT YOU'LL NEVER ENCOUNTER AND DIES IF YOU PELT IT WITH A SNOWBALL

>>51074415
>Like playing a team of solars descending into the Planes Below and fucking evil up
While navigating through the politics of the Heavens Above and trying to avoid almost inevitable destruction in the Planes Below.

>>51074415
Try running the solars through Death House.
Scale up all the encounters.

>>51073929
Well bandits with rogue levels etc, guards with fighter levels etc.
Just make a few simple PC templates and apply it for enemy templates.

However count on this:
Guard captian/Local court mage are arround lvl 5
Average guard is lvl 2-3 or lvl 4 max
Average Scout/Hunter (Ranger) is lvl 2-3
Average trained members of organizations such as mage schools, bard schools, martial arts monasteries and such asre lvl 2-3 with elder members being at lvl 5 range and the old heroes leading them bing lvl 7.

Why make a fantasy world where only the PCs stand a chance to survive?

>>51074415
>>51074522
The solars go after Strahd, maybe polymorphed in lesser, unassuming forms.

Alright boys, I'm going to be playing my forst game of 5e which is also my first game of dnd.I have read through the phb and feel I have a decent understanding of what I need to know so I dont kill everyones time asking how I into basic.

I'm planning on a human warlock with eldrich patron and want to go witch bolt, hellish rebuke, eldrich blast and minor illusion. I plan on probably getting the free false life invocation and eldrich blast + CHR modifier. I want to get the book as a pact boon. Looks like I live off of short rests with the tiny spell casts available but a wide spell pool to chose from.

What should I know and do when it comes to playing my first game anad playing warlock?

>>51074584
Learn better English. As that autist with no friends would say, that's barely comprehensible.

>>51073245

It's probably a bastardization of many an Elizabethan jester name. I'm not 100% sure it has any one etymology.

>>51074522
That sounds boring.

>>51074584
Witch Bolt is utter garbage, take something else. Anything else. It only does greater damage at higher levels on the FIRST hit, every turn after the first hit are at 1d12, even if you cast it as a level 9 spell.

What is the best way for a sub-10th level party to beat a group of mind flayers?

>>51075296
The solars are meant to completely wreck shit, but that doesn't mean they can't have a hard time doing so.

Does anyone else feel the angels are really well designed this edition?

>>51075550
They are. But they still can't win an 1-on-1 match against a balor or a pit fiend.

fiends vs celestials 1-0

>>51075568
The lower order angels aren't meant to; solars will completely rekt their shit.

Fiends are chumps.

Houserule change on Witch Bolt: If cast at a higher level, the damage on subsequent turns decreases by 1d12, to a minimum of 1d12.

So if cast ar 3rd level, you'd do 3d12, then 2d12, then 1d12 until it ends. Is it still shit? Should upcasting make the subsequent damage the same throughout the whole spell?

>>51075612
it's still shit, it's shit even when it does full damage every round (3d12, 3d12, 3d12 etc) because you need to be too close and it is too easily broken. To keep the spell alive you have to stay one move action away from the now very pissed off monster you cast it on. That's not where you generally want to be as a sorc/wiz/lock. Plus it uses up your concentration slot.

>>51075568
>But they still can't win an 1-on-1 match against a balor or a pit fiend.
Balor: CR 19
Pit Fiend: CR 20
Solar: CR 21

Hm... Somehow I think you might be wrong.

>>51075568
The angels apart from the solar aren't supposed to, so that's completely irrelevant. Solars piss on them both.

>>51075386
But at 1st level 12 per turn is prety good, no? And I can always swap it out for a higher spell later because warlocks can do that.

>>51075858
A d12 is 6.5 per turn on average. That's a waste of a spell slot.

>>51075858
>>51075881
You could be using your action on Eldritch Blast for no slot cost to average 5.5 at level 1. Concentrate on Hex for another 3.5. 9 sounds better than 6.5 to me, and I routinely call out people for being retarded for focusing on Hex too much.

>>51075858
>But at 1st level 12 per turn is prety good, no?
no. the reason is because you have other first level spells that will do more damage right out of the gate. And while witchbolt may do more damage over time, if you kill the enemy with the first shot, you wont need the extra time.

>>51075568
Back that up, cuckedbyfiends.
Only with solars.

what's /tg/'s favorite premade campaign to continue after a group of new players finished the starter set campaign?

>>51075928
that 9 takes 2 turns doesnt it? while you do that I'm at 13.

Should I instead go with something like hideous laughter for utility or something?

>>51075936
>the reason is because you have other first level spells that will do more damage right out of the gate
what other spells? Hellish rebuke does but I want that anyway.

>>51076004
Hex is a bonus action, you can hex+EB on the same turn

>>51076004
No, that takes 1 turn. Hex is a bonus action, so you can cast a cantrip with your normal action in the same turn.

Tasha's is alright but you won't use it very long. Assuming that's available to you, Dissonant Whispers must also be available. Dissonant Whispers has good team interactions with melee characters.

>>51075958
Princes of the Apocalypse. There's a good blend of running around overland and doing shit in various locations, as well as dungeon-crawling.

Storm King's Thunder has even more of an open-world style to it but new players are going to get chumped by masses of giants and there's a load of builds and strategies that just aren't viable there (Tempest Clerics are useless later, grapplers may as well never show up, Slow is the only CC spell of choice since Hold Person won't do dick, and any other spell that specifies "Large or smaller" isn't viable--and you need some form of keeping the giants in place or slowed down, since they will murdalize and chunk anyone they get near).

PotA has cooler boss fights, too.

>>51076116
>grapplers may as well never show up
They're a fucking dumb meme anyway

>>51076129
Of the four characters I've played in 5E, my grappler was by far the most enjoyable for everyone at the table.

>>51069350
*shrug*
i even think that it says in the book that the races in VGtM are fluff over function
im not happy about it either but its not gonna stop me from playing one

>>51076028
Assuming Warlock:
Arms of Hadar 2d6 (ave 7) to all creatures in 10 feet. Save for half damage.
Hellish Rebuke, 60ft, dex save, 2d10 (ave 11), save for half
Witch Bolt, 30ft, 1d12 (ave 6.5), on a ranged spell attack, miss equals 0 damage.
Hex, 90ft, +1d6 damage (ave 3.5) to target every time you hit.

Cantrips (no spell slots needed)
Eldritch Blast, 120 ft, 1d10 (ave 5.5)
Frost Bite, 60ft, 1d6 (ave 3.5) and disadvantage on next weapon attack, save negates
Poison Spray, 10ft, 1d12 (ave 6.5) save negates
Thunderclap, 5ft radius, 1d6 (3.5), save negates

>>51076162
le ebin lucha XDDD

>>51076222
Dwarves have a rich and storied history of masked wrestling, I'll have you know. It's canonical.

>>51068210

I found a full-20 5e commoner class that was balanced and seemed fun

There's a large Ochre Jelly named A, with 45 HP. It gets beaten to fuck and splits with slashing damage when it has 9 HP.

The new medium jellies, let's call B1 and B2, do they have 22 HP or 4 HP? Now B1 gets beaten and it splits with slashing damage again. B2 gets insta gibbed.

The new jellies, C1 and C2, small, what are their HPs? The text says "half the original jelly's, rounded down". Is it max hp, or remaining HP? Original B jelly or A jelly?

>>51076290
remaining hp of the jelly that is spawning the mini-me's

>>51076290
9 HP is split to 4 and 4
4 is split to 2 and 2

>>51076177
Think is with 1st level I get one non cantrip cast and i'm out till short rest so I want either big dammage or some utility like keeping someone incapacitated. Hex sounds great but the limited lots is a tightrope.

Do Warlocks live off of cantrips and limited big boom spells between short rests?

>>51076389
>Do Warlocks live off of cantrips and limited big boom spells between short rests?

Yes.

How are warlocks ment to be played with their tiny spell slots? not like you can have an hour nap between fights every time.

>>51076389
Hex is good at level 1 because it lasts an hour and you can move it between targets as long as you can maintain concentration.

You don't have big bomb spells at level 1 and your ability to incapacitate is limited.

>>51076439
Cantrips and at-wills from Invocations. Don't play a Warlock if your DM doesn't let you take a couple short rests per day.

>>51076439
See
>>51076389
>>51076426

It seems its based on how generous you DM is with short rests to weather or not a warlock is viable or not.

>>51076116
Looks pretty awesome, thank you for the recommendation

>>51076439
Use cantrips and select invocations that give you non-spell slot utility. 2 short rests per day is reasonable. The problem starts to resolve itself around level 7ish when your spell slots scale up up stuff like Hold Person automatically and level 11 when you get the 3rd pact slot with Mystic Arcanum.

You don't play warlock like a full spell caster even though it gets spell levels at the same rate. It's more like a half caster with more powerful spells.

>>51076448
Is Hex supose to be something you can hold on to for later so long as you can keep concentration? like from one room fight to the next? I would have thought it ends when there are no more enemies to hop to that you can see.

Are there any feats that benefit wielding one weapon and no shield?

I want to be able to climb and quickly change to a bow if required. Can't do that with a shield.

>>51076516
Hex doesn't target enemies. It targets creatures. Hex yourself to carry it into the next room if your DM is a stickler about leaving it on a dead body. If it ended when targets died, the bonus action to swap it wouldn't function correctly.

>>51076548
"If the target drops to 0 hit points before this spell ends, you can use a bonus action on a subsequent turn of yours to curse a new creature."

On A subsequent turn. Not your next turn. The way I'm understanding that is that you can re-hex at any time for the duration. So enemy dies, go to another room, bonus action to place it on a new creature,

And placing it on yourself wouldn't allow you to move it to anyone else, because you can't place it while the current target is alive.

>>51076604
Then that's even better and further demonstrates the point that Hex doesn't end just because you run out of enemies in the current room.

>>51076530
You have some options here.
1h weapon, no shield: No great feats to take, but you can grab ASI's and more defensie feats like defensive duelist.

1h weapon, handcrossbow: Grab crossbow expert and just sheathe the sword when you need to reload it.

2h weapon, no shield: A two handed weapon is still just a sinlge weapon, so you can grab a great weapon or a polearm and go to town with polearm expert and/or great weapon master.

2 1h weapons: If you grab the dual wielder feat you can sheathe your two weapons just as fast as you could normally just sheathe your one weapon.

So Getting the pact book is good for the cantrips and later invocation for 2 level 1 ritual spells and being able to ritual spell known, like find familiar and alarm where 10 minute cast time wont matter too much. And spell modifier damage to eldrich blast and the falselife temp hp is good for the first 2 invocations right?

>>51072899

i think the cost of resurrection is big worry. especially if someone gets obliterated/left behind, that's 25k for true resurrection if i'm right

>>51076710
The book gives a great selection of cantrips and access to every single ritual spell ever if you can find them.
The two first invocations can be whatever, but you will want cha damage. False life is redundant if you are a fiend pact lock.
Other good picks are repelling blast and devils sight.

How does this sound as a purely flavor ability?

>When holding a one handed weapon you can use an action to switch to a defensive stance, giving you the benefits of holding a shield; however your off-hand is considered full until you take an action to return to your normal stance.

Basically just let a character use a shield without actually holding one for characters that are themed around fighting defensively with a two handed style.

Should I go Eldritch Knight or Battle Master?

>>51076812
EK is more defensive, Battle Master is more offensive. Both are good.

>>51076812
Describe your party and we'll tell you

>>51076811
if it's a purely flavor ability, you don't even need to make the ability.

Also, it doesn't quite work, because this would let you avoid the don/doff times of a shield (if there is one) and lets you avoid using your "use object" action for the round.

>>51076812
>Should I go Eldritch Knight or Battle Master?
yes.

>>51076468
If your DM let's you get through an occasional long rest without incident, but interrupts every short rest attempt then he actually hates short rest classes for no reason.

I believe the general assumption is that you should be able to do 2 short rests and 1 long rest per day.

>>51071079
no that's 10d6 damage at least

>>51072899
I just make resurrection be a big ordeal, whether it's plain expensive or a mini-quest or involves a deal being made that'll come back later.

That and I avoid traps in general, but when I do they don't deal lethal damage. When you hit zero, assuming you're not in combat, you just stabilize and are stuck where you fell.

>>51076865
The don/doff time is 1 action so It should be the same

>>51076964
a monk would be able to use that stance without interfering with Martial Arts/unarmored movement, though.

>>51076811
>>51076865
>>51076964
>>51077015

Are you all missing that this is just a shittier version of the Dodge action? Why take an action to pretend you have a shield when you can just impose disadvantage on all attacks against you for a full round?

>>51077048
the point is that they can remain in that stance for an extended length of time

Does "You can communicate telepathically with any creature..." imply one-way or two-way communication?

Where do you get ideas for your characters or campaigns?

>>51077266
All two-way communication abilities will say as much later in the text (the creature can respond). If there are language stipulations, that will also be stated.

So if you're talking about GOOlock telepathy, it's one-way, and they needn't share a language. You are just yelling in their head in their own language, which you don't know.

>>51077266
If you're talking about the first-level feature for a Great Old One Warlock, it's one-way
I think the language for a two-way connection is "establish a telepathic link"

>>51077307
/d/

>>51077326
>>51077328
thx

>>51077307
I read plot hooks in the 3.5 Eberron campaign books

For characters, I take part of my personality and crank it to 11 like pro wrestlers do

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>>51077307
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8NNHmV3QPw
Click literally anywhere in this video and watch for a full minute.
It is pure, unbridled insanity and the best way to make a background for a campaign.

>>51076831
A wizard, a cleric and a rogue. That's all I know.
We'll be doing Lost Mine of Phandelver and I haven't met the group yet.

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>>51077422
Ah fuck, now I want to make an Enzo Amore character. All CHA all day, say hello to Smacktalker Skywalker. I'm thinking Halfling Bard.

>>51077498
>Thoth built a spaceship to fit on top of the pyramids
okay, so it's stargate
>a Peruvian woman entered the Christ consciousness grid and stopped Grey aliens from invading Earth during the 80s by channeling the power of the sun through the fourth-dimensional spaceship to make them all sick
WHAT

>>51077307
Usually it gets built from a hodge-podge of "What if" mixings of cultures or ideas from various games/media or even just neat visuals.

Particularly, my process is usual
>Consume media normally
>Write down shit I like
>Blatantly steal it
>Make it more original while filling in the gaps
>Campaign

>>51077538
That might be a Swashbuckler since they have an unlimited ability to taunt, they have Cunning Action to run to their bigger tougher partners, and they have Uncanny Dodge to take beatings.

>>51077563
>the poles shifted and all life on earth went into the Great Void for three and a half days
>EMERALD TABLETS tell us this
>the electromagnetic null zone wipes everyone's mind
>all because we didn't have our glowing Stars of David
>Atlantis
>fourth dimensional molecules
>magic but it's not magic
>breathing source energy

>>51071249
I like the way you think, Anon.

>>51077621
>indigo / crystal children
>SUPER PSYCHICS
>DNA is the physical soul
>THOTH talks about chromosome changes in the Christ consciousness grid
>more chromosomes = getting taller and more psychic
>people could be literally 55 feet tall and become Metatron
>ancient Egyptian rulers were actual giants
what
the
fuck

>>51077671
>Thoth's son hides in a magical arcology underneath the pyramids
>wanders around periodically and tunes his consciousness to the third dimension whenever he meets a cool person
>teaches them secrets of the universe and physics then fucks off
>someone named DRUNVALO MELKEZEDEK
holy shit it even has fantasy names

>>51077538
Also I may as well mention that I DMed for Ho Kogan, a half-orc barbarian/bard/warblade in 3.5. He's one of two characters that I've heard talked about in my area by people I never told the stories to.

I gave him an adamantium folding chair for a weapon.

>>51070072
>Warlocks ask their big brother to lift the barbell in exchange for a bag of weed.
I'm playing this warlock the next time I'm stuck with a shit DM. Thanks Anon!

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>>51077498
Wh...
What the
What the fuck am I watching

>>51077727
>the city is eight miles wide and marked on the surface by temples that match the stars of the constellation Orion
>a tunnel in ROMANIA leads to this city under EGYPT and also THE HOLLOW EARTH
>ANKHING YOUR SEXUAL ENERGY
WHAT
WHAT WHAT WHAT

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>>51077612
You make some good points there.
I've already got the T-shirt, now I just need a group that knows the S-A-W-F-T chant.

>>51077746
>I gave him an adamantium folding chair for a weapon.
Fucking kek that's amazing

>>51077498
Oh yeah, this is fascinating shit... and even more interesting is the amount of people who buy this as some kind of truth

>>51077778
>energy burts out of your root chakra when you orgasm
>Egyptians ANKHED the energy when it hit their heart chakra and looped it back on
>stick ankhs on the other end of tuning forks and hit yourself
>ancient psychic people make you vibrate until you become immortal
>L E M U R I A
>Osiris was just a dude and his myth literally happened on Atlantis

>>51077788
I also gave him a variant on the Figuring of Wondrous Power that summoned a 24 foot python. It was an awakened giant constrictor snake.

>CESARO in my captcha

>>51077727
Drunvalo is actually a real person it seems, the video guy namedrops one of his books
http://www.drunvalo.net/store.html

>>51077820
>Australian aboriginies have the human internet in their dreams
>ancient Egyptian gods were just a blueprint to becoming immortal
>King Meneth was a dumbass who ruined everything
>THE TAT BROTHERHOOD
>Pharoah Akhenaten was 15 feet tall and had a xenomorph skull
>he was born from two Lemurians having sex in the psychoverse and creating a CHRIST CONSCIOUSNESS BEING
>he was basically Jesus but everyone killed him because monotheism is gay

>>51077886
Mystic can't come soon enough.

>>51077727
>>51077886
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qELCkUKhbhc

>>51077498
God help me, anon, I'm watching the whole thing.

Pray for me.

>>51077907
>Order of the Gauntlet
>Emerald Enclave
>Zhentarim
>Harpers
>Lords' Alliance
>SCHOOL OF REMEMBERING
i'm doing it
i'm really doing it

>>51077870
Brilliant.

Seems a lot of wrestlers might convert well. Like a KO Battlemaster or a Balor Bladelock... fug I have to start writing some of this down.

>>51077957
Balor would probably be the UA shadow sorcerer combined with vengeance paladin when he's demon mode.

KO seems like a Battlemaster/barbarian hybrid. He seems to run on anger a lot in the ring.

What's a good damage dice to decide how damage did a PC take when they got hit by a 150 ton train ramming them at mach 4?

>>51077498
>>51077945
>>51077758
>>51077563
This is the same guy. He's got the tom cruise eyes

https://www.youtube.com/user/jordanduchnycz

>>51077889
>Mary and Joseph also banged interdimensionally and that's why she was a virgin mother
>Jesus was born at level two
>THE PLANET'S KUNDALINI is in Tibet
>the Lord's Prayer is a sacred geometric thingy
>Christ's name comes from the word KRYSTHL-A which is the noise at the creation of the universe
>ALLAH is also in there
>Mayans with crystal skulls were from Atlantis
>secret societies like the Illumanity and Freemasons were once good but the CHURCH infiltrated them and turned them evil
>13 families own the world and they have DNA from FUCKING MARTIANS?????

>>51078043
>HEBREWS ARE FUCKING ALIENS (BUT NOT MARTIANS)
oh jeez

>>51078033
1d1 + 5000

>>51078033
Did they plant their feet and attempt to stop the train by shoving against it and slowing it down first?

>>51078043
18d10 Being submerged in lava, being hit by a crashing flying fortress

>>51078038
>here's how to form a telepathic bridge with your soul triangles
This dude is an IRL Mystic

>>51078033
DC 30 Constitution saving throw against death

>in Tales from the Yawning Portal: tips for setting the adventures in various worlds—particularly FR, GH, DL & EB

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My players are indecisive so I'm going to let you guys vote on this:
I’m working on the Spirals guidebook, and I know that, at some point, two rival crime families joined together after a prolonged war. I can’t decide how they do it. There’s two options:

1. The leaders of both families arrange two marriages between members of the actual leading family, unifying the organizations and ending the fighting
2. The fighting seems like it will never stop, but eventually a daughter from one family and a son from the other fall in love, and that unifies the families, sort of like in west side story.

http://www.strawpoll.me/12054981

>>51078155
>no Dark Sun
>no Mystara
>no Birthright
pass

>>51077957
>>51078005
I really want to DM another game like that, but with all the PCs as pro wrestlers working up from backyard idiocy to the Eberron Wrestling Federation.

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>>51078033
Probably 18d10

>>51078219
If you name it Eberron Championship Wrestling you can chant ECdub

GIVE ME TWISTS. I NEED TWISTS.

>>51078262
ECW would be a mid-level bump in the road that loses all its talent to EWF.

>>51078187
Okay, I can understand the missing of Dark Sun... But both birthright and mystra haven't been published since the early 90's. I mean, suck a duck, Mystra was ONLY for basic DnD. Such a fucking weird thing.

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>>51078296

>>51078312
At least dwarven Paul E. Dangerously would make it to the EWF as a color commentator and manager.

I think I'd make Brock Lesnar an ancient red dragon with the gold dragon's shapeshifting.

>>51078302
Mystara was getting modules and updates well into AD&D. Red Steel, breh. Blackmoor (again, Mystara) got into 3E, too.

>>51078277
The band of adventurers break into a castle to rescue a macguffin, slaying the guards and the doing thier thing only to find out it was just a murder mystery party.

>>51078277
A dragon who is terrorizing the land is being forced to by an outside, more powerful entity

The evil lich actually died long ago and was purified in hell. He enchanted his tower too powerfully, and now, as a ghost, he will help the players end his evil once and for all.

The gods are all dead, and have been for three days. Clerics are trying to cover it up but it's becoming more obvious.

Aliens land in a spacecraft. They need magic to defeat a powerful entity their technology cannot touch.

>>51078302
Mystara is also about 12-15 times cooler than Greyhawk so

>>51078336
>Help us brave heroes! The champions of this land, Ceenuh and Lerock, they've left for the mystical Holly Woods and only return on the eve of a blue moon - you're our only hope!

It writes itself

>>51078344
Blackmoore was a separate campaign that got swallowed by a couple others. Though upon searching through the archives I see you are correct. Still, I rather a UA artical on running 5e mystra rather than some adventure and little else

>>51078433
Oh on that I agree. I just don't see it happening

>>51078501
We just need to tweet Mearls about it a thousand times

>>51078515
Why? did that get something else updated faster or are you being bitter?

>>51078547
Because Mearls is the only fun man at WotC and actually pays attention to Twitter for some bizarre reason

>>51078568
>Because Mearls is lazy as shit and he's the one that gets to decide the creative direction.

>>51078568
@dragonsmoke, AWAY!


in all seriousness, it would be a near year before we saw anything even if they started working on it now. Might as well go through the Gazetteer's ourselves for the update.


I am also contiplating booting up Tower of Doom and getting my dwarf class on

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What are some good ideas for one offs?

>>51078436
Am I too oldfag for wanting to do an espionage subplot based on the Monday Night Wars?

>Expecting WotC to do anything official but an adventure based in FR every 6 months

>>51078666
There's no shame in ripping off a classic wrasslin period

>>51078663
Three steps.
-Crash silver tube into fantasy world
-fill tube with zenomorphs/chrystallids
-profit!

>>51078714
>One of our top stars plans to defect with our world championship. Send Degeneration X to infiltrate and find out who signed the contract.

>>51078666
Well, since you're SATAN according to your trips, so yes. Yes you are.

Player wants to be a Dex fighter. Thoughts on changing proficiency in Strength saving throws to Dex ones?

>>51074584

You have VERY limited spell casts. Take spells for maximum impact. Witch Bolt and Hellish Rebuke (to me) seem a little underwhelming. Direct damage is something the fighter can do.

Instead, I'd take spells like sleep, or dissonant whispers. Darkness is a good pick if you tske the darkvision invocation.

If you feel like multiclassing, warlock meshes well with most classes.

Don't forget the ritual caster invocation for your tome! The ability to cast rituals like Detect Magic or Identify can be reallly valuable to the party.

>>51078793
Not necessary, just take Shield Master if it matters. Strength saving throws are important for an up-close character.

>>51078793
If you're going to change anything about the saving throws, change Con to Dex. All classes have a strong and weak save, and Con and Dex are both strong saves.

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How would you explain Spelljammer to new players? Is the setting viable in 5e?

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>>51078784

>>51078033
Roll all the dice in the building you're in, then double the total.

>>51067744
>No succubi player race
It's shit.

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Sup /5eg/
So im new to d&d, played like 40+ hours as a player, and know i started DM'ing. I already did one basic one off to test myself, player's did enjoyed it. They wanted me to create a campaing, so i created world of my own, prepared basic rules of it, but still there is something missing. You see my current DM, although he has like 20 year experience, he's world is breathing, its living, while mine is just a shell created for player's to do stuff. Well can You give me some advices?

>>51079092
You won't make up 20 years experience over night. Your players will forgive you if they're reasonable.

Read some campaign setting books and you'll get a better idea.