/5eg/ Fifth Edition General: Glue Edition

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>>52433021

So, if you guys agree please vote: http://fg2app.idea.informer.com/proj/fg2app?ia=110467

>>52433021
Getting the Vampire lord monologuing, with enough time to throw open the blackout curtains.

Could you use warpicks to climb a steep rock wall

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In a practical sense, when will I actually get to employ the "permanent" effect of Mordenkainen's Private Sanctum? Is there a way to automate it? Which would be the best effect to have?

>>52433126
Making a Demiplane into a prison cell, the only way in or out being casting Demiplane to access it from outside.

Just better hope you don't get stuck in it yourself.

>>52430009
thats actually really cool

>Rogue gets Supreme Sneak
>When Reliable Talent basically makes it impossible to fail a stealth check anyways

y tho

is there a new season of Adventurer's League to go with Tales of Yawning Portal? i need to get out and socialize

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>>52433126
For your treasure room, obviously. My Wizard has a war-room featuring all of the 5 different ways he's used the Imprisonment spell in the form of the material components, which can still be broken to release what's inside. All of them are set to when this Universe dies, so they're all basically there until it's no longer a problem.

The only one he doesn't have in the war room is a Noble who was the head of a human trafficking ring. He used chains to bind him to the earth he was standing on, which just so happened to be at the bottom of the mine his family owned, which has since been collapsed. His pedestal in the war room just has his signet on it.

>>52433240
Reliable Talent also means STR rogues don't have to worry about going about in half-plate.

>>52433184
That'd be fun to play or DM for

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>use the default ability score array in the PHB
>15 for INT, get +1 from Ability Score Improvement and +1 from High Elf
>17 INT at 4th level
This isn't, like, bullshit or powergaming is it?

>>52433087
I'd give you adv. on a climb check maybe. If you were using ropes and pitons and shit like that you'd get a similar bonus.

>>52433385
It's bullshit because most people get a stat to 18 at 4.

>>52433385
No, you're expected to get your main attribute as high as you can as soon as you can, since every +1 to hit and damage is precious. I'd expect most of the time people get 17 in a stat at first level.

>>52433425
>>52433434
Well damn, how does that work?

Does anybody actually play the triton race from Volos

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>>52433013

Looks like roll20 is BLATANTLY superior.

>>52433463
What do you mean how does that work?

Grab the standard array, put the 15 on your primary stat (STR/DEX for martials, INT/WIS/CHA for casters), +1 or +2 from race bonuses, you start the game with 16 or 17 and 4th level ASI you're either going to take a Feat or round it up to the nearest even number, 18.

>>52433463
Start at 16.
Put both levelup points at 4th into int.

>>52433463
Point buy for 16, or get 15 from default array and use a +2 race (or a +2 ASI at level 4)

Just wanna vent for a second. My dm prefers doling out xp instead of using the clearly superior milestone option. REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Are the players expected to return Wave, Whelm and Blackrazor to their previous owners at the conclusion of White Plume Mountain?

Because no player would ever give up that kind of power. Blackrazor in particular is way too good - +3, advantage to EVERYTHING, huge temp HP etc etc

Isn't it too powerful for one character to have?

When playing as a blade pact warlock, is there any reason not to choose the strongest weapons (1d12) in most situations?

>>52433565
Poor guy. So does mine. I don't mind so much though, because the rest of the party are newfriends, so this gives them time to learn their abilities.

>>52433567
That's what the Tomb of Horrors is for anon.

>>52433567
1. It doesn't do much to help you til after you kill something.
2. The nature of Blackrazor is to encourage you to obliterate a mook first thing.
3. The utility of a martial is in taking down the big boys first.

>>52433567
Would you not then become the next BBEG? You think you can do better?

>>52433565
Mine die a custom hybrid method where at certain points (milestones) he'd dole out XP accounting for party accomplishments and individual characters adhering to their personal goals and backgrounds.

He dropped it after 5 sessions, thankfully. Besides his retarded short questionnaire, giving out uneven XP is bullshit.

>>52433572
I think you mean 2d6 weapons.

Yes, there are plenty of reasons, most of which revolve around reducing how MAD the character is. You could also take one handed weapons if you want a shield for more AC.
Reac weapons also benefit bladelocks, thanks to PAM.

>>52433542
Not him but even then like
Not really except for voice chat and FoW I guess. Except for DMing, because it's literally impossible to be a DM without shelling out 100 fucking buckaroos

>>52433704
Thanks.

http://www.strawpoll.me/12622026
http://www.strawpoll.me/12622028
http://www.strawpoll.me/12622029

Polls for each of the archetypes in the latest UA.

>>52433724
>Except for DMing, because it's literally impossible to be a DM without shelling out 100 fucking buckaroos

There you go.

>finally reach level 17 as an assassin
>sneak attacks against surprised enemies now add 36d6 damage
>feeling great
>party wizard now has meteor swarm and can do 40d6 to several enemies at once whenever he wants
It's only once per day but I am slightly salty.

Accidentally posted in the bad thread.

I need help with an incredibly childish idea. What would a red dragon eat that would make it horribly flatulent?

>>52433463
races usually give +2 to something and +1 to something else, standard array 15+1 and 14+2 from race, boom, 16 and 16 at 1st level. at 4th level, just +2 to your primary stat, easy 18.

how should i write my character's backstory without being cringeworthy

>>52433833
OP because he's always full of shit.

>>52433572
you might want to use the UA smite weapons, or a finesse one so you don't need to pump str, on top of cha, dex and con; or use a one-handed weapon for hexblade, polearms for feats, etc.

While we're on the subject of stats, my 3rd level paladin has 18str.

Finished build will have 20str, polearm master, tunnel fighter, and sentinel.

Should I take 20str at 4th level or pick up Sentinel? I already have tunnel fighter and polearm master.

>>52433816
On the plus side, if you're a hasted crossbow master and with an ally with commander strike, you can add three extra quadruple damage hits.

>>52433856
best thing to do is make a general outline instead of actually writing cause odds are you are a shitty writer

Is there any online tabletop game thing that allows for animated tokens/animated effects on macros?

>>52433816
you should've known this would happen.

>>52433920
does tabletop simulator do that?

>>52433883
Sentinel.

>>52433883
take the ASI, sentinel isn't even that good, you fucking munchkin piece of shit.

Teach me to minmax. I want to have game ruining power.

>>52433883
PAM will use up your reaction a lot. Sentinel uses your reaction a lot. It's less important to have both than it is to have 20 Str, since you'll be using your Str every turn but you won't use both feats as often.

>>52433542
It's kind of weird, because I'm pretty sure there actually is rules automation in roll20.

>>52433833
Basilisk, tough and stony but still acidic enough to inflame the intestines thanks to their powerful gastric acid.

>>52433958
Play 3.5 or PF. The only thing game-breaking in 5e is the dubious Wish-Simulacrum combo, and if you're asking about this, you aren't making it to that level.

>>52433983
I like that idea. Beholders came to mind too to add some extra volume. You know what this dragon is going to do with his breath.

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>>52433833
A baby dragon.

>>52433963
With tunnel fighter the PAM opportunity attack doesn't eat up reaction

>>52433087
>>52433387
Personally, I only use checks like that to determine how long a task takes. For example, beat DC 10 to move up 10 feet, DC 15 for 20 feet, and DC 20 for 30 feet. I would give advantage for the picks though.

>>52433833
well. The science of flatulence says there are four main foods which stimulate the bacteria in the gut to produce gas: Fructose, Lactose, Raffinose and Sorbitol. So basically a combination of Fruit, Milk, Beans and (Artificial) Sugar. I'm sure you could make an extremely large fruit and cream desert of some kind and incorporate red bean paste. If he ate it it would make him very gassy. On the other hand, it's a red dragon, so he might be specifically a carnivore. In which case I would recommend cutting some slots in a cow carcass and filling it with beans, then sewing it back up and leaving it for the dragon.

>>52433992
Nuclear Druid

>>52434025
I missed the tunnel fighter bit. Who is insane enough to allow that?

I'd still say ASI over Sentinel though. Sentinel is not better than maxing out your main stat.

>>52433958

Your options are:

1. Wizard feral winged tiefling or yuan ti purbelood
2. Moon druid (anything with wis, but probably hill giant)
3. Winged tiefling charisma anything, or half elf
4. Martial with variant human and sharpshooter, polearm mastery or great weapon fighting.

>>52433992
You don't need to minmax in PF. Simply play a Wizard and you win it's that simple.

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>>52433021
>spend time on /tg/
>realize that I'm not the only one who thinks d&d is a role-playing game
>see threads complaining about pink-haired cat people
>mfw you don't know the half of it
>i didn't even know my bard was an elf
>my half-elf paladin is apparently 170 years old, yet has 18 STR
>my cleric said maybe 3 sentences last session
>My wild mage uses a crossbow unless he rolls a 1 on a d4, then he accifdently casts a spell
>his character doesn't want to use magic
>my rogue is literally a 12 year old elf who willingly wore an elf ear necklace and explicity never bathes
>Also, his DEX was 20 at level 1
>I'm just a barbarian
>I have to make every major decision even though we have 3 CHA based characters

>>52434075
In PF you still wanna prioritize anti-will stuff, stuff that allows no SR, and/or stuff that allows no save.

>>52434052
Considering a red dragon usually burns its food to a crisp, couldn't a water elemental in the vicinity of some sea creature with the right elements floating in it produce huge amounts of sugar crystals that might tempt the dragon when he goes fishing?

>>52434115
Do you really really REALLY want elf PCs emphasizing their elfiness?

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So when are they going to add more feats to this game instead of reprinting old AD&D adventures?

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>playing a Dorf
>joke around with my character sheet
>Resistances: poison, hitting head in doorways
>fast forward 10 sessions
>temple in a mountain is collapsing, stones falling everywhere
>can't make it outside in a single turn
>dash to the nearest doorway and hang out there
>rocksfall.jpg, party rolls to save
>remind DM that I have resistance to "hitting head in doorways"
>he sighs
>save with advantage

>>52434145
Hopefully never.

Archetypes would be welcome though. Make some of this UA stuff official.

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Are there any high quality scans of the PHB/PHB art posted online? I like this art but I can't find any PDF that isn't poor quality or the art itself online.

>>52434133
Yes, actually. That's fairly genius. You could fill it with apple juice, the reduction of which contains Sorbitol.

>>52433021
Is adventurer's league any good? What's it like?

>>52434122
PF has so many more spells for the Wizard to learn compared to 3.5 it's insane, you ain't seen versatile wizards until you see PF

>>52434169
>sleeping in armor
REEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!
REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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>>52434115
I know what you mean. And that fucking last one. That's me, i'm the Warlock who is completely reviled in every city but I have to be the face of the party because everyone else can't think of ideas, lie, or talk in character in any meaningful capacity. I went Fiend Pact so I could blast shit but now I have to do the silver-tongue part as well. It's not a bad role but it's not the one I thought we would have, not to mention literally every time i'm away from the rest of the party they stagnate at the first section they have to say any words at all for.

>>52434115
"Half-elves mature at the same rate humans
do and reach adulthood around the age of 20. They live much longer than humans, however, often exceeding 180 years. "

Besides it's D&D. I prefer quiet players who don't make a fuss, you can always just encourage them to roleplay more if not that's just what they're comfortable with.

>>52434172
I am picturing the world's most coveted apple orchard now. It needs some reason to attract red dragons to accidentally eat these sugar-encrusted sea mammals that conveniently come nearby, and then also to attract black dragons who want to ferment the apples into wine/cider.

>>52434183
He seems to have passed out while everyone's just short resting, give him a break.

>>52434115
>age-based stats
I hope you take similar umbrage with Wizards and Clerics who aren't 50+

Do you make your own character art or tokens if you use roll20 or do you get it from elsewhere?

If so post your shit

>>52434241
Pretty much. Apples are pretty useful. There's a reason they're included in most rustic dishes, they're sweet, but not too sweet, and the alcohol you make with them pairs nicely with lots of dishes.

>>52434223
TFW playing adventurers league and RP doesn't come up much

I totally would RP but I never get a chance

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>>52434257
I stitch sprites from FE together for myself and my party members.
yes i'm aware some of the ones at the top are barely changed if that, that's what the Rogue wanted and some of the other guys didn't provide art beyond "is a dwarf"

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>>52434257
I make my own tokens with the roll20 template.

>>52434154
Kek. Even though that's not how resistance works, unless we count resisting hitting your head in a doorway as a hyperspecific form of magic resistance.

>>52434223

Honestly the way that 4e handles demihuman aging is something that I've kept in 5e.

Elves and Dorfs might live 100s of years but they mature at only a marginally slower rate than humans.

Goblinoids of course mature at slightly faster rates which helps them recover from the inevitable casualties inherent in being evil dickbags.

Draconic aging is still of course a shit show.

>>52434270
Perhaps an ancient giant cidery would make a good set piece for this. There would be an excuse to have water elemental-powered running water through the facility. The ancient giants' magical secrets and treasure might initially attract the dragons who then get addicted to massive amounts of sugar and/or alcohol.

>>52434317
T E L O M E R E S

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>>52434257
>At level 1 Make typical Thief with shitloads of bags and bandoleers of equipment to batman with
>By the time I hit 7 slowly went from generic rouge to Bloodborne character

I'm redoing my token (again), here's the wip

>>52434280
I always assumed that was a problem with AL. I really like to roleplay not rollplay, and not being able to do so is a dealbreaker.

>>52434317
Honestly the way I've made it is that past a certain age demihumans stop maturing at the same rate of humans and age slower. They tend to outlive their human parents but die before their non-human one.

What's your last character's theme song?

>>52434248
>rolled awful stats, a 6 and a 7, nothing higher than 16 either
>decide to go with -2 dex and -2 con, rp it's an old fart human wizard with a collapsed lung
>74 years old but still lv1 because ???
>dm doesn't want to kill me out of mutual spite (i hate the character) so it doesn't matter at all

life is a most complex set.

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>>52434349

>>52434165
>i don't want more character options because I'm still butthurt over 3.5
> I want wizards to do their shitty overly restricted PrC substitute instead!

You are the cancer killing D&D.

>>52434372
It's an hour long playlist of weeby video game music. First song:

http://youtu.be/rGetImTgyFA

>>52434394
>feats
>not cancer

In the spirit of last thread, what are some pranks you can do with Sovereign Glue? Besides the obvious replace the king's lube with it.

>>52434248
Yes, because a Wizard needs to club enemies over the head.

>>52434413
Glue your pussy shut so that DM is foiled in his plans to rape you.

>>52434413
Stick a dwarf's ale flagon to the table.

>>52434394
>archetypes aren't options

>>52434372
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj5L9SYhoSE

Im a new DM and id like to have my party confront a cult that was kidnapping people to sacrifice to something. Not quite sure what that something is as I dont have a great grasp of the entire MM yet.

Am I looking at Devils promising greater power to the head of the cult ? Maybe somone whos bitter against the world trying to summon a demon to cause havoc?

Whats a good way to go about it?

>>52434409
I'm going to assume all you've played are casters, then?

>>52434452
>choosing between "you can fart once per day" and "you may ignore the effects of constipation once per day" are desirable options

They could have been, but as implemented most are irrelevant and unappealing shit.

>>52434461
You could do something with Hoard of The Dragon Queen/Cult of the Dragon. Devils sound fine but maybe try and write down what exactly is this cult's M.O and motivations to make it sound realistic/plausible instead of just "for the evil!!"

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>>52434257

http://villadelfia.org/sharedshit/TokenCreator.zip

Tiny app, drag a picture onti ot and then drag it off and bam, instant token,

>>52434461
If it's low level game i highly recommend kuo-toas. They've got a tons of little features and they're fun to slaughter. Plus they've got the whole cultist/sacrifice/kidnapping thing going on.

>>52434473
>he really plays non-casters with feats

>>52434311
Not him but, I was going to say something about charm or fear resistance, but nothing ever explicitly calls it that way. magic resistance is the only time the book (as far as i could tell) gives you advantage on saving throws as "resistance" to something. which is kind of weird, it could be resistance to damage from magic sources but they evidently wanted it to help against crowd control or disables so i guess there's that.

in this case i guess advantage against doorways makes more sense than half damage from doorway damage...

>>52434490
dead link.

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>>52434330
>Tfw dungeon is a giant cider making facility set up by storm giants to provide booze for their after-fight feasts.
>Happy evil dragons sitting atop giant piles of apples and gold, smashed out of their mind.
>They're all capricious as fuck because of the alcohol, they're equally likely to help or hinder you.
>Final boss fight is the corrupted water elemental that is now a cider elemental because the ancients turned him into one through some archaic ritual, lost to the ages, he is disgusted with its own impurities and foolishness in this form he brews more to try and come up with a way of reversing the transformation through reverse engineering.
>It never works, he just falls deeper into madness.
I want to run through this.

>>52434490
>we're to the point where people are calling programs "apps" on PC
i want out of this future
back in my day if you needed to be a monosyllabic twat you said PROG

>>52434547
Languages change. You may as well complain about the tide coming in, for all the good it'll do you gramps.

>>52434488
Im thinking its an Imp trying to trick this guy into doing all this bad shit promising power in return.

Ultimatley though the Imp is gonna have to deliver but it wont because "you didnt read the fine print"

Then I'm face with the question can the imp provide some kind of special gift or item in order to get this guy started.

My party is almost 3rd level and Id like to go down this path first before some of the other ideas Ive got

>>52434532
I feel like I need to work in a storm giant lich whose phylactery is an empty cider bottle too.

>>52434561
no, i get it
"literally" was used in a figurative sense more than a hundred years ago and that battle's already over
so it "moot point"
i'm a linguistic descriptivist
however, "app" is garbage
i look forward to the day when smartphones die and are replaced by subcutaneous holoprojectors springing out of your wrist and all these phone faggots complain about the kids today and their fucking "fliks"
IT'LL HAPPEN TO YOUUUUUUUUU

>>52434598
Why an imp though?

>>52434362
>at lv1 i made a cowardly and feeble bard, living as a divinator impersonator, trying to deceive and scam people
>by lv5 i was an emotionally distant walking deus ex machina with a magical mandolin, defusing conflicts, keeping people fighting at 1hp against several more powerful enemies and passing impossible rolls left and right

damn, i want to play a bard again...

>>52434631
Just as a joke Doesnt have to be I just dont know why people would be being abducted and sacrificed for some purpose.

>>52434501
That might work out for me

>>52434154
Woaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh duuuuuuude radical

How do I play an interesting bard? What are some fun instruments?

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>>52434607
>Storm giant lich.
>Considered the first lich.
>Jolly fellow, unlike those who came after him.
>He was bound to the Distillery in a ritual to generate a sort of proto-immortality.
>He likes his work making cider.
>He doesn't like that he keeps accidentally contaminating batches with bits of flesh that fall off.
>He doesn't like that he's starting to forget things.
>But he keeps brewing, because it makes him happy.
>He takes care of visitors to the brewery, and he kicks out the enemies.
>He's starting to forget which is which.
>But he does his job, and that makes him happy.

>>52434675
He can't taste his own work though, so he occasionally likes to possess people and make them drink so he can enjoy it. Unfortunately, he often makes people drink themselves to death in his hedonistic frenzy.

>>52434673
Use a hurdy-gurdy.
>>52434641
My bards a primadonna entertainer halfling.

>>52434673
play the gun

>>52434296

can you post the border?

Does Volo's guide include rules for player character Tritons?

>>52434673
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6dTeQwf488

>>52434688
>>52434675
Yes. Tragic, well meaning gentle giants tear my fucking soul in half. Do this.

>>52434730
yes

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>>52434673
Calliope. You'll need to ride your instrument into battle, but you can play circus music.

>>52434673
you don't actually need instruments for a bard, most features tell you you can just give encouraging words and you don't need to actually play your instrument to cast magic, just use it as a focus (no performance checks required or anything).

my bard >>52434641 here used a component pouch until he found the magical mandolin, just then people realized he was a bard all along.

and for interesting, there's a million backgrounds i could come with but you have to see your character and think why would he go through all of the shenanigans of adventuring, or what does he wants to achieve at the end.

if your bard wants to find the best story of the land, living it himself if he needs to, i'm sure he will be interesting regardless of the setting.

>>52434717
It's in the OP's Mega Trove link under the Extras folder there's a zip that says "Roll20 Token Templates.zip"

>>52434673
My last character was a Kenku who played the bagpipes, didgeridoo, and bongo drums he couldn't actually play any of the instruments, he would just replay sounds he heard other people make with his mimicry

Question: Can a Rogue sneak attack with Strength under the condition that he uses a finesse weapon? Because, if not, I've got to lynch our party's Rogue for taking a Belt of Frost Giant Strength we found last adventure.

>>52434780
Yes.

>>52434780
There's a whole lot of multiclass builds for half orcs with 3 levels of assassin for this.

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>>52434372
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdYaNeU9iOo
Not mine, but the theme song for our party's ancient Jew-Dwarven golem mecha.
I pity any parties that don't acquire their own transforming super robot

>>52434780
yes. reckless sneak attack to your heat's content.

>>52434780
Yes, and from your description it's about to be very effective. Tell me, is he playing Assassin?

>>52434372
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH6-J-PgaVw

What do you guys usually do for voices? There's going to be a spectator in my next session but mine is too high to imitate how I actually want it. Should I just speak normally or risk using an embarrassing voice.

>>52434798
>>52434787
>>52434804
Alright.

I mean, I'm still not happy about it, but at least it's not going to waste.

>>52434812
I'll be honest, I can't remember. Sounds familiar though.

>>52434673
Maybe don't play one as lolsorandumb traveling rock and roll star who sleeps with everything

>>52434854
Do a voice if you can do a voice. If not, don't try, it'll just break the immersion.

>>52433021
Have any of you guys played using one of the Plane Shift documents, and if so, how did it go?

I've been looking through and honestly I'm tempted to run a game on either Innistrad or Kaladesh

>>52434854
Embarrassing voice. Always embarrassing voice. It makes it more fun for everyone involved, whether it goes well or not.

My Wizard wants to craft trinkets (rings/earrings/etc.) for his group that can emit the "Message" cantrip. I'm looking at crafting magic items on the DMG and it only ever says about level-1 spells and up. Nothing about cantrips like Message. Do I just let it assume it's a level-1 spell and have the creation cost be 100gp and follow it from there?

I don't want to get real rules heavy here but at the same time, the wizard did say he's alright if he has to earn making something which is akin to a walkie-talkie. So I'm hoping to give some fun in that journey to get it.

>>52434854
Go to your local year-round Halloween party supply store and get one of those $5 voice transformer things.

>>52434884
>>52434878
We are playing a campaign with 3 illiterate idiots it's pretty silly already so I doubt it'd be worse than what my party gets up to.

>>52434372
i'd just play this whenever my dragonborn paladin started doing something stupid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRYq58QPTk8

and this when my party did something stupid and my bard had to save their asses
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tAbcWrrIQU

>>52433856
you don't

Does anyone follow the adventure day encounters/xp per character per day chart on DMG p.84? The amount of encounters just seem too big.

>>52434895
I wouldn't allow it. Seems too easy to duplicate all cantrips for other characters without cantrips

>>52433935
Yes but it's clunky and not really worth it.

>>52434895
I feel that being a cantrip it should be cheaper than 100 gp. Maybe 50 gp?

>>52434854
depending on the character, if it'd make sense for me to speak normally, i speak normally, but when playing say, a dragonborn, i'd make my best effort to do a harsh growly voice, but not all the time as we don't do everything in character.

>>52434951
An encounter is not necessarily a combat encounter, just something that uses up resources. Also the 6-8 medium or hard encounters thing is the *maximum* that characters are expected to deal with.

>>52434490
>500 Internal Server Error

>>52434965
I would allow it but only for certain cantrips and it has limited uses.

>>52434985
I usually try to make gravelly voices or if I can't do a voice I change up diction/way of speaking. I just want this spectator encounter to be scary and I was imagining a Hannibal Lecteresque voice.

>>52434895
I say give him a price point of 75, but only let them have one cantrip item equipped at a time so they don't try and abuse it by making Rings of Firebolt or something.

>>52434951
never ever, it fucks the balance entirely but 6~8 encounters, combat or not PER DAY destroys all resemblance of plot progression.

>>52434770

thanks

>>52434413
Glue the High Priest's face to the desk he fell asleep on.

By the way, does anyone have any tips for a growing Punch Dude?

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>>52434372
i may or may not be playing what boils down to Tur-ork, Aberrant Hunter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hN1bJqU50iA

>>52435023
6~8 encounters is way too much honestly.

>>52435053
Get a weapon and wear armor.

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>>52435079

>>52434372
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5l36biSLcuY
She was a Half-Elven Tempest Cleric adventuring across the seas to provide for her family back home and find her sailor papa.
>>52434461
A fiend promising power is good, since it gives a clear motive and lets you justify the cult leader being more powerful than the other cultists (since they might just be sharing a portion of their power with the others, like the Whalers and Brigmore Witches from Dishonored).
Also seconding this >>52434501 Kuo-Toas are great.
You could also utilise the Kraken Priest, Deep Scion and Sea Spawn from Volo's Guide for a similarly aquatic theme.
Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide establishes that undead can function as warlock patrons, so the cultists could be offering their sacrifices to a lich or something (the PCs don't necessarily have to confront the lich yet).
Could even be kobolds, half-dragons/dragonborn and so on kidnapping people to appease a dragon that's bossing them around.
Really, at the end of the day, there's no bad way to go about it, as long as you can come up with a decent motivation.
>>52434598
>Im thinking its an Imp trying to trick this guy into doing all this bad shit promising power in return.
That could be a pretty neat twist. The cult leader makes his final sacrifice in a dramatic showdown, flames roar up, an enormous shadow is cast across the wall of the sacrifice chamber and then... a tiny imp emerges.

>>52434965

Well Scroll cantrips exist so I thought something like a trinket of message might be plausible. I'll probably say he can make it but the Message effect will only work on paired/group trinkets he makes so the assassin rogue won't be able to use it on anyone. Probably a x/Day effect too. Then I can give him an avenue to improve it but only improve its per day function to unlimited and possibly the range from say 120ft to 240ft then maybe 500ft with additional cost in upgrading them.

>>52435016

That is true. Maybe for something like Firebolt will end up having limited uses a day.

>>52435110
Hey, there's nothing wrong with Monk levels, just being naked and waiting on said levels for your Martial Arts die. Might as well put on some plate and get to stabbing.

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>>52434895
I let my party wizard make a necklace of enlarge. It took him about 1500g to get the right gem and electrum necklace, then he had to blow all his spell slots to empower it once. Then I had him use half the next day, and a quarter the next to get the amulet fully charged. It can cast enlarge on the owner once a day without concentration. Probably imbalanced but we're playing a fucking dice rolling simulator for funsies anyways so who cares

i'm rolling a hexblade for my next game. are the martial orientated cantrips from sword coast actually any good?

>>52435134
I mean, I'm already up to a proper 1d6 and 17 AC and will likely be getting an upgrade soon. Considering the best I can get normally is 1d6 on a shortsword (if we limit ourselves due to proficiency), that's pretty good.

>>52435215
>he played a Monk but didn't take his first level in Fighter
oh anon,

>>52435192
green flame blade lets you up your damage a bit against groups of enemies. and booming blade let's you control enemies position if they don't want to take the extra damage, or be just pretty good damage with reach weapons.

if you really don't want to be a agonizing blast bitch, i'd say you take one of the damage cantrips and something else and never look back.

>>52435178
I'm impressed that you managed to make rules that makes creating magic items even more worthless than the DMG ones. Good job.

>>52435250
But muh perfect soul

Have anyone played the new Smite lock 3/Bard X build? Is it any fun? It seems super good once you get some spellslots. Playing Valor Bard even gets you multiattack.

>>52435275
Stay mad RAWfag

I did what I felt was alright for what he was trying to do

>>52435367
>Calls DMG rules shit
>RAWfag
Oh, I get it. You're a retard.

>>52435367
Not him but your rules were a little much for one measly spell tbqh.

>>52435348
which patron? i guess you don't even need hexblade as valor gives you medium armor and martial weapons.

>>52435367
Is your setting filled where it takes a small fortune to do spells like that? Or was it just the wizard.

>>52434951
No, what I rather do is smaller but resource draining encounters in one day with a time sensitive goal. Once I did a large encounter that was multiple small ones that prolong the ordeal, and the players were never in any real danger but it did drain resources and then I set them up with a challenging encounter. It tested their creativity and survivability. If you want encounters that challenge make them waste resources before they get to the big fight. Lull them into a sense of victory.

I stole this from Mathew Coleville's series and all of his advice has worked out well for me so far.

>>52435507
>>52434986
>>52435023
>>52435507
>>52435071

I'd just throw XP and do milestones for plot-heavy campaign, really. Though I find XP more fitting for something like a "adventuring guild"-based campaign.

So, /5eg/, my necromancer just reached 11th level. I was planning on taking Create Undead and Magic Jar for her first 2 spells. Her stats are mostly pretty shit (Int and Dex are 20/18 respectively, everything else is 10 or lower). and she has 41 HP. Is it worth the risk of taking MJ and potentially securing myself a much stronger body? Or should I wait until I can cast Clone?

I was wondering if I could get some comments and criticism on this barbarian archetype? it's intended for mongol/hun style archer barbarians

http://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/ByQVF_YY2x

>>52435178
it's impressive how every single one of these characters is the wrong alignment

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>>52434372
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5T60KuDDyJ8

Pic related

>>52434951
In a dungeon, yeah, sure.

In an open world campaign, I have no fucking clue how you're supposed to do that.

>>52435656
41 is pretty soft and delicate. Young Red Dragon breath is 56 damage average.

Magic Jar is good but only if you can secure a specimen of worthy caliber. I wouldn't settle for anything less than 80 health.

If you can magic jar a barbarian or something awesome, otherwise wait until clone.

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So during a session, my players visited a museum and the cleric wanted to see artistic depiction of the deities of the world. I never thought of that so I just let it flow and quickly googled some artwork of the deities my campaign setting has. I showed him the following gods and goddesses paintings that adorned the walls. When I started showing pic related of Sune, he stops and is captured by her. For the next couple of sessions he can't stop thinking of her. In the gift shop he asked for Sune pendants, asked an artist in the capital city if he can sketch his interpretation of the goddess Sune and started praying to her more than his deity.

Now he just messaged me saying he's making it his ultimate character quest to bed her and he's hoping we can work something out.

What do I do?

>>52435507
Making people think they've won so they waste resources is a bad idea, I think.

It just encourages everybody to not spend their resources and thus try to do the minimum they can and probably have less fun because then they don't get to do their cool resource-based thing so often.

>>52435810
Divine intervention to tap that ass.

if you were to make an arabic inspired human sailor, would you make him from calimshain or go the extra mile and make him from zakhara?

or would some other place fit better, i'm no expert of forgotten realms.

>>52433816
>The wizard can nuke a group of foes for more damage than me once
>you can do slightly less to someone Every Single Round
Sounds like you're just a whiner to me

>>52435810
Absolutely not.

>>52435850
>Every single round

>>52435810
Depends, if he's willing to have it happen off screen why not? That is if he can complete a quest and prove himself worthy of being her champion.

bonus points if his cleric spells become weaker from his original god, and he has to find out a way to convert over. Extra bonus if his god takes it as a slight and sends a champion after him or the equivalent of her husband sends his champions for the clerics arrogance.

>>52433816
The open hand monk can just kill people, doesn't do damage just stop their hearts.

You have expertise and the perfect infiltration set. You are good.

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I need a bit of advice.

I'm playing a homeruled-in Ratfolk from PF in my friend's 5e campaign. It's janky; they're basically small creatures who get the Halfling's "naturally stealthy," special rules for stacking with other Ratfolk, Darkvision, and an extra proficiency or two. But I wanted to get giant rat mount, like they use in their PF fluff. The problem is, in 5e, Giant Rats are technically the same size category, which I think means they're ineligible as mounts- page 198 of the PHB says the mount has to be one size class larger. To boot, it makes no sense from a mechanical viewpoint that they'd be viable as mounts; their strength score means their carry capacity would barely be able to carry a Ratfolk, let alone any sort of meaningful cargo.

So I wanted advice on how to statblock out a... I guess a "Giant Dire Rat"? How would you best go about sizing up a regular Giant Rat one size class so it would make sense as a mount for Small creatures?

>>52435853

It could work like >>52435839 suggested. Someone like the anon's cleric devotion to her should reward him the grandest booty call in divine history.

He'll just have to deal with a Wish-tier setback due to the ordeal of making love to a deity.

>>52435787
Can you level up while possessing a humanoid
Do you gain HP on level up

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>>52435920
I'd stop being that fucking guy and be glad you got your snowflake class to begin with

>>52435925
I wouldn't allow it unless he proved himself worthy and even then he'd have to roll pretty well for her not to laugh at his dick.

>>52435920
this: >>52435946

>>52435659
You can already do a sort of archer barbarian by going dex barbarian, but eh.
Let's see.

>Deadly critical
What the heck is 'deadly critical'?

>+1dX to every single hit with a ranged attack
I'm hesitant to say this is fine, but I won't say it's entirely bad.
However, as it stands, you're making an archer barbarian do more damage at range than a greatsword barbarian with this (Before feats like GWM/sharpshooter).

You don't really need to say the movement ignores difficult terrain if you say 'you may THEN move'.

Maruader's swiftness is a bit odd in how it works, seeming to be a bit like flanking rules in that it's basically 'You get rewarded for moving around, even if the movement is entirely pointless' that serves to just complicate combat, but...
It does mean that you'd take an opportunity attack if you tried to use it.
Yet, then again, you already have reckless attack because you're a barbarian, so why should you care?


Overall I think it's acceptable, but the main issues:
>level 14 ability is overshadowed by reckless attack
>Feels a bit bland. While barbarians are pretty bland themselves, it feels mostly like the archetype is there to enable a playstyle rather than also build up some interesting abilities. It's basically 'You shoot arrows, and do more damage doing it' for the most part.
>The damage portion might be a bit much. You have +rage damage, +advantage from reckless attack, +1dX damage from the feature, + possible use of sharpshooter...

I want to give my players what basically are bluetooth earpieces that can also be used telepathically (like that one scene in GiTS). Should I limit them or keep it as is. I don't really see it being prone to abuse.

>>52435946

I find ease knowing this pic has an edit to coincide with the new season.

>>52435656
>11th level
>41 HP
How are you not dead yet?

>>52435920
Maybe stop instead

>>52435970
>>52435659
(Cont..)
But when I think about it, the damage portion probably isn't too much.

Why? Because you have to use a longbow/shortbow/sling.

A fighter with a hand crossbow gets one more attack than you at level 5, and two more attacks than you at level 11. They don't give a shit, they're going to use sharpshooter to shove +10 onto all those attacks if they want to, and they'll have the archery fighting style.

So, it's actually okay in terms of balance. I'd say that it's just about right in terms of power, though the later level features (especially level 14's) don't feel awfully useful.

>>52435973

Critical Role has "Earrings of Whispering" where it can only cast Message spells to the other earrings and only reaches 500ft and has the limit of the cantrip when it concerns walls and shit. You can just steal that.

>>52435920
See
>>52435946
>>52435990

>>52436004
Hm, I don't really want the wall limitation and am not sure about the distance. Their main function is that they can be used to contact the person the party is going to be working for.

I just don't want to give them it and have them pull some use out I didn't expect and fuck myself over.

As for the earrings part making all my party members get pierced sounds hilarious.

>>52436004
>has the limit of the cantrip when it concerns walls and shit.

Huh I've only ever noticed their earrings not working when they were out of range.

>>52435920
Mastiff with only Keen Smell and darkvision 60ft.

>>52435928
Yes to level up but your original body gains the health. The person you are possessing has to level up in order for their health to go up.

Thats my take on it.

>>52436032
Rary's Telepathic Bond

>>52436124
Thanks, I didn't know that spell existed.

If you wanted to make the Kraken more of a far realm abomination how would you handle it?

Give it GOOlock powers? Mystic that shit up to make it more like an Mind Flayer elder brain? Give it more mind control type powers that allow it to lead a massive cult of deep ones errr kuo-tuo?

>>52436174
How about. Crossing a Kraken with an Aboleth. They look reasonably the same, you'd just be giving the Kraken the powers of an Aboleth. And make it able to swim in the air.

>>52435476
If you go archfey you get range smites, that seems good as fuck

>>52435988
Staying about 120' in the air on a flying broom and sending a small hoard of undead to swarm enemies, mostly.

Ideas for an arcane focus flavored for a forest witch type deal?

>>52436245
Dreamcatcher necklace made of roots and tendons.

>>52434413
Cover your armour with it and sprinkle it with iron filings. Now not only are you impervious to physical attacks, but you also ward off evil spirits and creatues.

>>52436085
Thanks! I'll run it past the DM next session; see what he thinks.

How do people rule immunity to nonmagical attacks?

>>52436197

Thematically that's kind of what I'm going for.

I like the tentacles that begin turning the victim into a slime creature, I like the enslave power, I like some of the legendary and lair actions of the aboleth.

The default kraken just seems like a massive pile of hitpoints that yes hits hard but is still fundamentally one dimensional.

>>52434413
Lay thin metal plates atop any article of clothing and slather the underside of the plates in it. It holds the plates to the clothing and holds the plates together. Congrats, you're fucking invincible.

>>52434372
Really any song by these guys sum up my last bard, but I dig this one specifically.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1-e5yub-Iw

Do druids count as shapechangers for the purpose of automatically saving against Polymorph?

>>52436513
You down take any I'll effects from an attack which isn't magical?

>>52434372
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLs-Xdd1RrY

Immortal Mystic.

>>52436513
>Ok your attack hit but it didn't seem to be damaged by it

Unless they have magic weapons, ammo, or spells they can hit all they want but that HP isn't moving.

>>52433542
I think the point is: you can't DM in FG for free.

>>52436530
Welcome to 5th's MM. See the previous incarnations of the creature ad&d to 4th ed.

>>52436637
probably not, but the dm could play it differently.

>>52434372
Not a player, but my newest NPC.
https://youtu.be/Q9lLd0rBwyQ

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What would be the best class for playing a stereotypical Dark Lord?
Conquest Paladin? Eldritch Knight? Multiclassing as a heavy armor gish Hexblade?

>>52436791
Surely Treachery or Oathbreaker Paladin. Its pretty much what those oaths exist for.

>>52436791
oathbreaker paladin, death domain cleric, necromancer wizard in general. just fluff the rest. your mage armor resembling a shadowy plate or something.

>>52435970
>>52436003
thanks for your comments!

>Deadly Critical
I think I meant to say Brutal critical? i don't have the PHB in front of me

>extra damage on each attack
yeah like you said, my reasoning is that because they have to use a sling/shortbow/longbow as a weapon instead of a greatsword/greataxe/whatever the extra dice is balanced.

>boringness
I agree that level 14 seems a bit of a boring ability, this is version 1.0 so i'm still fine tuning it. other thoughts about how to make it more unique? i wanted to include abilities enhancing mounted combat but i'm not sure if that would dilute the theme too much. other ideas about cool ways to make it fun?

Why is the Invocation Cursebringer sutch a nombo with the level 1 invocation from hexbringer's? That seems so dumb :S

>>52436867
> sutch a nombo
???

>>52436899
I think he meant combo

>>52436899
>Hex Warrior
In addition, when attacking with a
melee weapon that you are proficient with and that lacks the
two-handed property, you can use your Charisma modifier,
instead of Strength or Dexterity, for the attack and damage
rolls.

>Curse Bringer
Prerequisite: The Hexblade patron, Pact of the Blade feature
You can create a greatsword forged from silver, with black
runes etched into its blade, using your Pact of the Blade
feature.

>>52436867
because it's meant to combo with it

>>52436935
>>52436899
>>52436911

You cant use 2handed

You get a greatsword

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Why does the Greatclub kind of suck? I don't want to give up the Greataxe's d12, but I like the idea of my Barb using a big fucking tree trunk better.

>>52433240
>Impossible to fail
Not really. If you don't have expertise in it, you have a 50% chance (wihtout advantage) of getting 19-21, depending on level. Yeah, its high, but someone can still roll higher on perception

>>52436967
just fluff it as a maul or something

>>52436860
Fighters can use bows instead of greatswords too and it's perfectly viable. They don't need a damage bonus to each hit. Simply that they can fight with dex at range with feats is enough.

But that's where the difference is. They can use crossbow expert, they have the archery fighting style (which is easily the most powerful) and they don't need strength to benefit from their features.
So it's justified.


And you're pretty much right on mounted combat, you don't want it to be a requirement. Knight, for example, made it easier to use horses, but didn't make the fact more powerful (You could mount a horse quickly, but you didn't get superpowers from being on a horse)

Maybe a feature that allows you to gain advantage instead of disadvantage against nearby prone targets (Within 15ft or so) which would also encourage moving around or 'ride by' sort of techniques. Or 'If a condition would grant you a bonus for making an attack within 5ft of a creature, you may take that bonus at 15ft instead' (paralysis, prone, etc) which wouldn't give you advantage but it'd give you not-disadvantage.

Though that's a bit of a specific ability.

Honestly, it'd be really nice to see some sort of battlemaster-for-barbarian sort of thing going on, but you'd have to be really careful with that. It'd just be nice to knock someone down with your strength and a heavy arrow or something.

>>52434856
You might not like it, but it's one of the few builds that uses strength.
What's there, warlocks with their special smiting weapons, polearm masters, and then half orc assassins?
Everybody else can use an other stat!

>>52436513
Well, for lycans I like to describe them as regenerating hyper fast

Constructs etc there is just no scratch at all

Magical or ghostly or ethereal you can have the mundane weapons pass through harmlessly

>>52436949
Can someone answer this. It feels retarded, why is it like this?

>>52436537
Energy can travel tho

Hexblade, as well as being the only good melee warlock, is also the best for fluff too. You literally get to come up with a legendary sentient magic weapon for yourself at level 1. It's a mary sue's dream. Is there any better Class/Subclass for theming a character with than it?

>>52436967
>In a time before civilization, caveman worked out how to make a sword
>Everyone laughed at him, trying to fashion something out of a rock
>And then he did it, the world's first iron shortsword
>But it dealt 1d6 damage, whereas all the tribe clubmen's clubs did 1d8 damage
>He was in dismay
>But then, suddenly, the hand of god came down, finally his efforts would be rewarded!
>"Lol clubs are underpowered 2d6 weapon now don't forget to add PAM and GWM and shillelagh"

>>52436791
Dark lordship isn't for players. Dark lords are managers; they don't do things themselves. A proper dark lord should have no class at all and never, ever go adventuring.

>>52436712
>>52436725
Yeah, but any and all nonmagical attacks? Can this be extended to bullets from firearms, tank shells, thrown miscellaneous ie huge rocks and others?

>>52437106
A Dark Lord has to become a Dark Lord first. And they need a class and power to do that. Then they can retire. Or do assorted other evil shit, whatever.

>>52436967
I just tell my players they can make their weapon have the stats of any other weapon they can use, as long as it fits. Giving a fighter a 1d8/1d10 versatile quarterstaff that costs the same as a warhammer isn't going to break anything

>>52437129
Then how does, say, a dictator or a war leader become general or leader of whatever when they themself can't take on more than one man with a spear?

At least in the DnD world, you need enough power to command respect and enough power to not instantly die to the first person who decides that they dislike you who thinks really hard and makes your head explode, but... You could get that from a magical item or really dedicated followers following you everywhere.

But I suppose the process of becoming a leader would give you levels somehow anyway even if you don't fight anything.

God, I don't know.

>PCs are facing a puzzle that I've placed in front of them
"I want to roll an intelligence check to solve it"
Any advice on how to avoid PCs trying to skip encounters/puzzles I throw at them by rolling a die?

>>52437280
Give them a hint, but no more.

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>>52436791
The answer is Conquest Paladin, and you know it.

>>52437196
Empire given to them as birthright? That's how North Korea did it.

>>52437280
Intelligence checks give them more and more hints, almost up to the point where the answer is obvious, but players still have to say the answer/physically solve the puzzle. The checks just let them skip a few steps in deducing it IRL.

>>52436115
>You retain all your class features

Hit points and hit die are a class feature. When possessing a body through Magic Jar, you get your original hit points as well as the creature's stacked on top.

>>52437280

His >>52437351 , but on failed checks you give information that actively hinders process to punish them for not even trying to brute force the puzzle.

>>52437392
Seconding this, but maybe only for really bad rolls. Failing it should usually just tell them they don't have any idea.

Can 3rd level Battlemasters take proficiency with Poisoners' Kits?

>>52437280

Doubling down on this dude >>52437421 who doubled down on me, only to add that any hint rolls should be done so only you can see the result. Because come ON, if you put in the effort to make a puzzle, they should at least have to feel unsure when they try to cheat the system.

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>>52437425
Has to be one of these

>>52437425
>Is Poisoner's Kit an Artisan Tool?
>y/n

Best class for archery? Fighter or Ranger?

>>52437480
Okay, thanks!

>>52434461
GHAUNADAUR

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Would you let one of your player's swap pacts mid-game if they can find a lore excuse for it? One of my players started with Fiend pact, but after Hexblade was released has been begging to try it. I told him i'll think about it. I've no issue with the class, i'm just worried about fitting it into the game properly instead of "Oops looks like your patron fired you, go find another. Oh look there's a legendary evil magic weapon, maybe you should pick it up" Etc.

>>52437499
Fighter for full on damage with arrows
Ranger if you want to do nature shit
Valor bard if you want to be a full caster

>>52437499
revised ranger is pretty strong from the get go and can do at least some utility, fighter is just attacking and attacking some more, valor bard with swift quiver and full spellcasting probably outcompetes them both in both damage and utility but stabilizes much later in your level progression.

multiclassing any of the above surely helps if you just want to shoot arrows and nothing else. valor bard, archfey bladelock and rogue all benefit from archery style, rogue could be a good single target ranged damage dealer with any source of extra attack or free advantage, etc.

and then you have crossbow expert but i'm not sure if that's what you want with archery.

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Hey guys, look how sexy my archer is.

>>52434519
>>52435001

Yeah sorry, guy must have taken it down.

Hit up /u//TheRealVilladelfia he makes it.

Questions:

Can a 7th level party of 5 do tomb of horrors? They killed an adult dragon, so I can't image it would be too insane.

2ndly

Anyone have a decent roll20 map of TYP?

>>52437613
>variant human fighter with sharpshooter
never seen that before

>>52437520
I'd consult with him if he has any preference but reserve the right for the final transition idea. If they come up with a cool idea, use it; otherwise, have it involve some patron favor shenanigans to where the Warlock pulls a black-jack and hookers moment with the new love of their life.

>>52437701
Sure, any level is good for the Tomb of Horrors.

>>52437701
>Can a 7th level party of 5 do tomb of horrors?
You mean that thing that Gygax built specifically to be the hardest possible challenge for 20th level veteran players?

>>52437499
Battlemaster Fighter from a pure damage/combat perspective.
Revised Ranger is close, with some situational abilities.
Valor Bard, already mentioned.
Crossbow Expert Rogue with a familiar.

>>52437520
Why not have them still be in a pact with the fiend, it's just they use hexblade mechanics now after a load of training?

Which class has the most non-combat utility? I mean up to everything before "Roll initiative" so that includes shit like stopping a fight before it starts.

Have anyone played a campagn where you stay at the starting level? Xp is never given out and you do not level. Would it just be stupid? Would it be cool?

>>52437838
so just... refluff the hexblade stuff to be Hellish? Not a bad idea actually.

>>52437857
Enchantment/Transmutation Wizards, or just pure Casters in general specced for it. Rogues go behind the casters, everyone else is pretty much pure fightan man flavours.

>>52437499
Bard: Full caster archery.
Ranger: AoE archery.
Fighter: straight damage.
Rogue: Less damage, more utility and sneak.
Dex Barbarogue: Less damage, but really fucking tough.
UA Moonbow Warlock: Massive burst damage.
Warlock: Magical, but pushback out of the ass.

Choose depending on your preference.

>>52437862
>Would it just be stupid? Would it be cool?
The former if you have any casters at all. With pure martials it might be alright but it's basically fantasy Only War at that point.

So once a Loremaster learns Fireball, he can pretty much cast it exclusively? Just change it to a Frostball and expend 1st level slots to enhance it's power?

Prepared Spells: 1-mage armor, shield; 3-fireball; 9-wish

>>52437887
>UA Moonbow Warlock: Massive burst damage.
Only 3 levels then valor bard for maximum goodness :3

>>52437899
I suppose you could, that sounds pretty boring to play for any extended amount of time though.

>>52437887
>>52437499
Fuck, forgot Artificer (Gunsmith): Like rogue, but different.
Also there are some other combinations like
Monk5/RogueX archer (For.. I don't know, stunning people who get too close?)
Warlock5/RogueX (Kinda like barbarogue but trading tankiness for some weird warlock utilities.)
Also >>52437902 but that's multiclassing into UA.

..But I'm not going to list all of them.

The real answer is 'Ranger if you want to AoE shit, fighter if you want single target shit'... Probably.

>>52437932
I thougt ONE UA option was fine but not among different UA's :S

>>52437929
Fireball with a 1 mile radius

>>52437902
>UA
>Multiclassing

Pick one you fag

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Is Antitoxin worth the gold considering it only gives advantage on saving throws AFTER being imbibed?

>>52437955
You're thinking AL restrictions which are more like 'You can take one thing from SCAG/Volo's/Whatever'

You can take a single level dip of revised ranger on any core class and that's kind of broken.
You can take a single level dip in ordinary wizard as a twilight druid and that's broken.

>>52437992
The twilight build is so overrated :P

>>52437857
lore bard, you can be the best skill monkey and then do whatever the fuck else you could possibly want. clerics and wizards in general arguably come second, because prepared spellcasting is just so very good, but sometimes you need the perfect combination of spells that only a lore bard can get.

Is multiclassing 2 warlock into Abjuration wizard worth it?

A quick infinite recharge on arcane ward is nice and Armor of Agathys stack with Arcane Ward...

>>52437991
Depends on your DM and your class
If your a martial and your DM isn't giving you anything other than stuff in the PHB to buy, then go nuts, you've got nothing else to do with your gold
If you're caster, save it for components and copying spells if you're a wizard

>>52438026
Has anyone played the skill monkey meme build? The cleric 1 rouge 3 bard 1 or whatever?

>>52438006
Is Reddit under maintenance?

>>52438032
>Into abjuration wizard
You mean into warlock, right?

Yes, absolutely. I've never tried it, but if my numbers are correct it's a ridiculous combo (Armor of agathys + ward = you keep armor of agathy's temporary HP even after taking a hit), though it does have a downside (Must be attacked and hit in melee, and you're not exactly a tank)

>>52437857
Illusion wizard. Nothing beats casting an illusion spell, then making that illusion a solid object

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My players think I'm railroading and forced them to fight a dragon.

>meet dragon (adult, has been driven out of his lair, currently in a shitty one and is grumpy)
>all players are very polite
>one character jumps on the dragons tail and gets pissed off
>tell everyone to roll initiative
>ranger goes first and speaks in draconic and gives him a gift - > bag pipes of invisibility
>dragon immediately calms down and takes the bagpipes
>roll performance for the dragon
>nat 1
>dragon attempts to play the bagpipes and gets extremely frustrated and throws them, angry again that they mock him with such gifts
>they plead with the dragon to not kill them, agrees, but only if they help him take over a nearby castle, which is where their quest takes them and they needed info on where it was at
>players agree, I mention the hoard that is left behind unguarded
>one player grabs some tomes
>during the night the player tries to read the tomes
>the dragon, sleeping in a tall tree, smells his treasure and grows enraged
>fight
>"dude stop rail roading, we didnt want to fight the fucking dragon"

>>52437857
Lore bard for skill monkeying, wizard for ritual fuckery plus broad range of spells plus arcane recovery giving you slightly more uses of spells per day.

>>52438100
>one character jumps on the dragons tail
Why?

>>52438100
>bag pipes of invisibility
Was the artificer drunk when they made these?

>>52437499
Kensai with 1 level in Fighter.

>>52438044
it's not necessary, with half-elf's two bonus skills or variant human's bonus skill, two from background, three from bard and three from college of lore; expertise with two at 3rd level and two more at 10th, you should be absolutely fine. jack of all trades takes care of everything else you didn't choose already and it works for initiative, counterspell and other stuff.

Would a good DM allow a ranger to take urban environments as their favored terrain?

The player's handbook does specifically state "natural" terrain, but in this instance its for a character who is a bounty hunter of sorts, a Fighter dipping into Ranger for one level.

Any reasons against this, be it crunch or fluff?

>>52438100
>The dragon smells a book while asleep up a tall tree and instantly realizes his shit has been stolen
>The dragon left their loot unguarded in the first place

While I get they're being a bit stupid and they should stop fucking around with how they're doing, you should be a bit lighter on them and make the dragon a bit more tolerant so things don't go against how the players want things to go and end up frustrating them.

So, when they fuck up, they'll know for sure it was their fault, because the DM was even being quite generous.

>>52438139
The artificer is the character who stole the treasure, jumped on the dragons tail and is playing rick from rick n morty

>>52438092
I like the idea of a character starting out with Warlock, gaining the attention of some great power then freaking out, dedicating the rest of their life to protection magics to save themselves.

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What kind of check would it be to pocket sand someone, and what kind of penalties would it incur if successful?

>>52438234
>rick from rick n morty
let them all die.

>>52437114
Step one. Is it magic?
Step two. There you fucking are then.

>>52438231
loosely explained it sounds retarded, but the treasure was trapped and there wasn't much of it, I made the dragon -elf sleep, not actually asleep.


I mean, stealing from a dragon and then taking out the treasure when it's close while you travel with it?

>>52438250
Oh, well, yes, I get it now. I thought you meant a 2 level dip of wizard. Actually, you get 1 more HP if you start warlock instead of wizard, so it's actually better to do it like that.

So the main gimmicks are really armor of agathys, armor of shadows and using agonizing blast instead of firebolt.

>>52438253
Low DC dex save, like 10-12
Blind until end of next turn
Disadvantage on perception until you wash your eyes with water

>>52437114
Depends on how you apply the damage from those. The creature is immune to nonmagical piercing, slashing and bludgeoning, but a special kind of bullet could deal additional fire, thunder, or maybe even force damage. The initial piercing would do nothing, the secondary damage would hurt. Same applies to tank shells. A huge rock I would flavor it as the rock breaking apart in half where it hit the monster, both pieces falling to each side as the creature keeps walking unscathed. That would make for a great scene, actually.

>>52438310
Oh, well.
Overall, it sounds like one player is being retarded and everybody else is being punished for it. Sort of. Maybe.

But I've found, as a thing in general, if you overcomplicate things with 'Oh, the dragon is smart so they'll try to appear asleep while they're watching you' then the players won't be smart/pedantic/paranoid enough to check every little detail to make sure everything's just right. So I guess you have to drop hints, and if players still fuck up you can point them towards however many hints you gave.

But this is a bad example, because you don't need fucking hints to know a dragon will get pissed if you steal shit.

>>52435131
just get a fucking sending stone

>>52436513
Does that even exist?

Usually it's 'Resistance to bludgeoning/piecing/slashing non-magical weapons'
So, if it's immunity instead (which does exist, obviously)..
Wouldn't it be only physical damage, and only from weapon sources (Fall damage still applies)?

Siege weapons probably still count as weapons.

If it's a tank shell, it'll be immune even if it deals fire damage unless it's specifically bludgeoning/piercing/slashing only in which case any other stuff about the tank shell might affect it.

>>52438184
A good DM would allow the ranger to use the Revised class from UA, so they wouldn't have to pick a favored terrain at all.

>>52438312
Eldritch Blast uses CHA to hit so you'll want to use Fire Bolt still as your INT goes up.

>>52436513

>>52437054
this, for anything else large enough,
>your attack connects and it seems to make a direct hit, but the weapon fails to open/make any visible wound. the creature seems unfazed and/or mildly annoyed.

>>52438253
Player's Dex check (improvised attack) vs. target's Con save
If target loses, blinded until end of its next turn, or until the end of the player's next turn if you're being generous. Disadvantage on Perception checks while it has sand in its eyes.

>>52437965
1 mile range*

>>52438572
darn

>>52438485
Oh man I didn't even know about that.
That makes Ranger A LOT better, especially Beastmaster.

>>52438310
Shoulda had the dragon pick up the culprit and rip his fingers off. That way the dragon gets what it wants and the player gets a lesson

>>52438253
Nothing, it's abstracted into the general Attack/Help actions.

>>52438100
My response would be "then don't do shit that would make the dragon want to kill you."

>>52438468
It's simple, it means do you have a magic weapon or spells? Yes then when you hit you do damage, no then you hit and do nothing.