/5eg/ Fifth Edition General: Downtime edition

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Hittin' with lyrics thats legendary
Musical mercenary
For money
I'll have these motherfuckin' druids buried

It's good to know that now when I use my time between quests for hookers and drinking, it's supported by WOTC

Tell us about that cutie in your party! Are you the cutie?

Post very lewd things

>>52637599
It'd be simpler to just make it a +1 for eldritch blasts , or 'spell attacks' much like a pactkeeper's rod (+1).

I think it'd be neater if you either:
A) Store a spell at the end of every long rest that you can't swap out until the next long rest
or
B) As before, use it to buff the 'ready' action. You could even have it last an extra round, so you can ready a spell one turn and then the next turn use both the readied spell and take your turn.

Really, it feels like actions such as 'ready' and 'dodge' are seriously underused, they can be pretty neat. But they're usually restricted by things like not being able to extra attack or the way spells work with them. So you can make magic items to make those approaches better.

Druids are normal.

So I'm working on a backstory on my teleporting Tiefling and I want to make a backstory this is what I have so far

>Young tiefling mystic steals food with teleportation powers
>gets caught teleporting by a pro thief
>thief makes a deal with me giving food and a bed
>i'm look cool free bed and food

I want him to turn against me and I kill him to survive, but I kinda want some ideas on this transition and wanted some feedback on what I have so far.

>>52637681
Pathfaggots, go home.

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>>52637673
yes

>>52637699
why are they in our thread, anon?

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Druids
are
GHEY!

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>>52637681
have some lich love

>>52637702

I hope the party is protecting your smile!

>>52637720
Didn't you get banned?

>>52637753
I think he got warned

>>52637729
Post more warlocks.

>>52637753
>>52637759
Slam that report button, folks.

>>52637759
shame. a ban would do wonders for these threads. we wouldn't have to discuss his autistic dislike for druids for 5 minutes every time he posts.

>>52637699

But our home is a barren, wartorn wasteland.

Your thread is rich, cultured and is in desperate need of fresh blood. You must allow us safe harbor. You don't have anything against multi-threadism, do you?

>>52637773
I was the original Druid and I would be so glad to see this autist gone even though I wasn't nearly as retarded as him

>>52637780
And take the /pol/fags with you as you leave.

>>52637693
My Review of your backstory so far: http://vocaroo.com/i/s0R4bdFj7Y93

>>52637798
Polfags make up 99% of 4chan don't you know

>>52637814
Can confirm, I personally make 90% of the posts on 4chan.

>>52637798

That's no way to treat a new regular on /5eg/, is it?

>>52637780
No weebfugees allowed until we can figure out what's going on.

NEW SCHOOL SHOOTING

How should I get my players, who don't know each other, to come together and investigate some kobold shenanigans? Is a "You all saw a post on the job board at this one local tavern and it told you to come here at this time to receive your mission" acceptable railroading for the first session, or should I bother with a more elaborate setup?

>>52637814
And 75% of them are literally from leddit, your point?

>>52637801
that was the best LOL. I appreciate the feedback anon

>>52637927
yw

>>52637883

WEEBFUGEES WELCOME.

HUGS FOR WEEBFUGEES.

>>52637883
weebs are sexy

What did we ever do to you /pfg/?

Which eye is Gruumsh missing?

>>52637983

Sometimes you just want to destroy a beautiful thing - this isn't even destroying it, just adding discussions YOU don't think are important. Stop being close-minded and be a bit more tolerant.

>>52637983
>>52638006
BUILD A WALL

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>Try rolling out a sample for the "Buying magic items" portion of the new UA
>Spend 100g and two weeks alongside my +1 CHA mod
>Seller offers: 1 Potion of Supreme Healing (10d4 +20) for 10,000 gold
>Gets stolen by party enemies anyways
Th-thanks WotC

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>>52637643
>Thoughts on the new arcana?

Yes! I was hoping for something like this. Honestly, while invading dungeons and getting treasure and slaying monsters is fun, I love the downtime stuff in D&D too.

>>52637673
Appearance is equal to ([Strength or Dexterity, player's choice] + Constitution + Charisma) ÷ 3, always rounding down the remainder.

So in my character's case, (20 DEX + 16 CON + 14 CHA) ÷ 3 = 16.67, or just 16. So...yeah, that's a +3 modifier to Appearance checks. I think she's pretty cute.

...oh, also, I guess there's pic.

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LETS TALK ABOUT SORCERERS

POST CUTE SORCERERS

>>52637689
Why can't the guy just hand a Ring of Spell Storing tho?

Got an idea i wanted to share with you to see what you think.
I'm about to dm for a group of 4 moderately experienced players. I was thinking about having them roll for their attributes, but have the 24 results shared between all of them, and they have to chose how to distribute them.
I think it could help have a balanced party without a busted single character and a useless dude with only 8s and 9s.

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>>52638048
don't give up

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>>52638072

>>52638048
>+1 CHA mod
M8, you shouldn't be scouring the city.
Also, you rolled a 1 on a d10 for the complication chance or just assumed everything is awful?

>>52638095
>Pick the absolute best rolls
>Let the Bladelock get the shit rolls
>Bladelock dies in the first session
>Rerolls character

Do you want eugenics anon? Because this is how we get eugenics

>>52637689
that sounds good. Or I could have it so it can be cast as a bonus action, so one round go with a store action, and the next he can cast two spells on the same turn. Sort of like a complicated twinned spell.

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>>52638117

>>52638133
>not having the DM PC save the day every time someone nears death

"Ah shit does that mean I am dead? Ow well time to rero-"
"What is this!? the roof collapses above your character and the thieves were hiding healing crystals right above your head! roll 2 d20 healing"

>>52638056
16.0 here, but I'm playing a dude.
Which begs the question, how come most martial-based classes (notably, Paladins will generally want their three highest stats to be those used in that formula) get MORE attractive as they gain more experience? Wouldn't the scars and all that turn some people off?

>>52637673
It's the DMPC's scout elf. She doesn't do a lot in combat besides shooting at people every so often, but everyone took a liking to her quick enough.

>>52638133
Idk, you raise a good point, but the dudes don't seem the powergamer/minmaxer type.
Maybe I'll try it out and tell you how it went.

Post good homebrew so I can steal it for my own game.
I don't have any good homebrew so that's why I'm asking.

>>52638139
>filename.
>again.

>>52638078
With regards to readied actions, you can't use a ring of spell storing for reactions and if you could it'd be kinda stupid.
With regards to original idea of just storing spells in a gun.. It's a weaker version of that.

But, really, while you can say 'Why not use the PHB class?' to PHB homebrewers, you can't really say that with regards to magic items. Because half the magic items are shiiiiit.

>>52638138
It'd be a bit easier to keep is as a reaction, I guess, since that follows with...

To be honest, you can already do this, actually.
Ready action, 'Just before the start of my next turn, I use this.'

So eh.

>>52638213
hi again

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>>52638072

>>52638176
That sounds like the worst demiplane of dread in ravenloft

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>when the setting documentation is already 50 pages long without race details and Google Docs is chugging a little too much

>>52638222
Well I was trying to just fluff an item for the player to use. He wanted a pistol, I wanted to make the pistol interesting. I guess I could just refluff a ring of spell storing to be a pistol.

Do Simulacrum regain class features, such as Wild Shapes or Action Surges or Second Wind and shit?

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>>52637801
That was pretty funny, hit me!

>Be Half-Elf Swashbuckler/Warlock

Was the navigator of a group of sailors who were killed in a life ending accident due to her misdirection. During the accident, she suffered grave wounds that would have killed her instantly, but in the near-death experience, a cold disembodied voice asked her to forge a pact for her servitude in return she would get her life back. To save her life and carry on the memory of the crew she saw as her family she accepted. She lives her life trying to find ways to make up for her failure with each scar and now newly acquired familiar (which is an owl, the symbol of her crew) being a constant reminder of her pact.

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>>52638139

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>>52637773
>>52637773
>>52637773
Give it all you got

>>52638181
>playing a dude.
>Which begs the question, how come most martial-based classes (notably, Paladins will generally want their three highest stats to be those used in that formula) get MORE attractive as they gain more experience?
Isn't that just how it works? I know that's how they market touch of gray hair dye, for example.

>>52638309
Um ok: http://vocaroo.com/i/s1fX8nCQ4aHv

>>52637801
>Not wanting catgirls to mark you as their territory
Step it up

Is forcing my foes to do INT saves a good idea?
Are there too many clever monsters?
Alternatively, what are the best saves, in order?

>>52638415
>INT saves
You mean WIL?

Okay, /5eg/, I'm going to float a terrible idea now, and I want to know what you think of it.

STORM KING'S THUNDER: THE MUSICAL.

Basic idea is that each of the 5 giant lords that the players run into will sing a song about their plans and goals and whatnot, in true Disney fashion (oh, I'm going to be modifying STK so that the players have to go to all 5 giant lords, not just any one). Various other characters will probably have their own songs, too, including of course Sarissa, King Hekaton himself, and basically anyone else I can think of.

The idea came to me when I was thinking about how to make Chief Guh more interesting and I found myself humming Tamatoa's "Shiny" song from Disney's Moana...which started transforming into "Hefty". Which made me start thinking of other Disney villain songs I could apply to the other giant lords.

Basiclly, /5eg/, either talk me out of this idea, or talk me into it.

>Well y'know Ah haven't always been this large
>Ah was a wee little lass once
>Now ye see Ah'm roughly the size of a barge
>Ah'm now corpulent, babies...

>So Annam wants to tear down the Ordnung
>An' change the way things are down here?
>Well that's a craic an' Ah'll give it mah best shot
>And so you see
>Ah've made mahself

>Hefty!
>So that Annam cannae help but look and see
>Ah'm the biggest 'cause Ah'm so
>Hefty!
>An' Ah'm not nearly as big as Ah could be
>Can't ye see?
>Don't you know?

>Me kin are dumb, dumb, dumb
>They bring all the food in the land (it's sad)
>Oh, and here they come, come, come
>To the biggest, smartest giant
>Mmm, screw diets!
>Ah just love free food (free food)
>Even if it's wee food (wee food...)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93lrosBEW-Q

>>52638392
>http://vocaroo.com/i/s1fX8nCQ4aHv
Kek, not bad, thanks man!

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>>52638487
oh
my
god

biggest cringe in years

holy shit

>>52638181
>Wouldn't the scars and all that turn some people off?

Depends on the scar and the person you're trying to attract. Scars can be attractive. Plus you can always abuse the fact that hit points are not necessarily meat points. Maybe you don't have any scars.

>>52638487
Gloriously stupid. Do eet.
>>52638459
What?

>>52638500
>not bad
it's all i can hope for really

>>52638334
There's definitely a market for gruff, worn dudes with chiseled, scarred bodies so I see your point, but don't a lot of PC's adventuring lives start pretty early on their life?

What about females? Some people aren't gonna be able to get behind beefcakes if they're not cute, no matter how attractive otherwise.
Still, at least it makes more sense than ''Charisma alone as physical attractiveness''.

>>52638294
>when the setting documentation is already 50 pages long without race details and Google Docs is chugging a little too much

DM here (not yours). I've...noticed I have that problem, and imposed a rule on myself that setting documentation now cannot exceed 10 pages max.

>>52638487
Go for it

>>52638487
Holy shit.

I'm going to have the Abbot do it in Curse of Strahd


"I can hear the bells" from Hairspray

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>>52638459
They're directly based on Abilities now.

I'm running Curse of Strahd, and one of my players is playing a very scholarly character. Would it make sense for him to know anything history, religious, etc. related about Barovia? Or would it be completely alien to him, no matter how high he rolls?

If he can know such information, what form would it be in? Actual history books? Folk tales?

>>52638526
Charisma never made much coherent sense to me, to be honest. I mean for example, how the fuck do you stat Trump in Charisma? He gets more or less a negative bonus to his Diplomacy and Intimidate rolls, nothing to his Bluff rolls, but he should have like 30 CHA just due to the force of personality.

>>52638558
samefag

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>>52638505 >>52638512
Cringe is kind of the point.

I'm committed to the idea of running Storm King's Thunder as a story that's being told decades after the fact, in a tavern, to an audience, by the PC's retired adventurers. As a result anything that makes the campaign feel more like a story being told is encouraged. For example, I'm going to have an action dice system.

And, well, the idea of a bunch of drunken retired adventurers trying to convince their audience that, yes, Chief Guh totally started pontificating her motivations in song form, is hilarious to me.

>>52638581
you're fucking stupid

>>52638581
Ignore the local shitposter, it sounds fun.

>>52638602
if a musical number works for Johnny Gat, it should be fine for this.

DMs when coming up with loot for a treasure hoard, do you use the DMG suggestion of stuff like "1000cp, 1150sp, 150gp, and five gemstones worth 50gp each" or would you just convert it to straight 525gp? Seems kind of silly to make it all a bunch of different currencies like that.

>>52638415
If they're beasts, absolutely.

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>>52638317

>>52638602
lol no u.

>>52638615
Fun is the goal. Another thing that's going to happen is our previous adventurers from Horde of the Dragon Queen/Rise of Tiamat, Princes of the Apocalypse, and Out of the Abyss will all be making cameos. Well, maybe not all of them, but a lot of them. Basically, Storm King's Thunder is kind of going to be a celebration of all the 5th Edition we've been playing and having fun with.

Plus, Storm King's Thunder just seems like it lends itself well to theatrics. The whole thing, or at least King Hekaton's part of it, is reminiscent of some kind of Shakespearean tragedy like The Tempest or Hamlet or the like. The fact that it literally opens up with a Dramatis Personae doesn't help that.

>>52638649
Why?
Hoarding monsters aren't going to go exchange at the coin house.

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I'm working on a setting of my own, and I thought of a possibility of an enemy organization that is based on creating "balance through sameness". I know that Boccob (using Greyhawk because I'm not gonna work on my own pantheon yet) seeks balance by not having one side more powerful than another, but this organization essentially seeks to create a minor deity based on eradicating all that is not themselves, and forcing them to be completely the same with the reasoning that all that is different will come to conflict, and therefore no true balance and peace can exist unless all is brought into the same fold. The followers of this cult would practice this by binding themselves to masks and cloaking themselves, whether willingly or by force.

Obviously just getting out the first raw ideas, is there anything in D&D or any other universe I should know about that is similar and I can get inspiration from to make this more interesting? I can think of hive mind type people like the Borg, but that's about it right now and I don't really want to go down that route.

>>52638649
The different currencies are for flavor desu but it depends on what they're getting treasure from
If it's looting an abandoned city, sure I do that; not all of the Skeletons were carrying gp. If it's looting the horde of an archlich, his fortune is probably almost 100% platinum and gold, and not just a few pure bars of the stuff instead of gp either.

>>52638307
Interesting question. Given the example of spell slots not being able to be refreshed or restored, I would say that it cannot.
You might want to tweet at Crawford et al. about it, though.

>>52638676
I MADE A MISTAKE, THIS IS TOO ANIME EVEN FOR ME

>>52638649
The only reason you wouldn't just turn everything to GP is because you care about encumbrance and think making the PCs figure out how to get 50k copper pieces to the nearest town is fun.

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>>52638693
What about me?

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>>52638716
How about a compromise

>>52638649
For me? A bunch of different currencies, gemstones, art objects, and trinkets and sundries, including trade goods like saffron or the like. I also try and mix in platinum and ESPECIALLY electrum pieces.

Also I'm on a quest to get my players to eventually accept and/or get stuck with 20 head of cattle as a reward (because, seriously, how many people have hundreds of gold pieces lying around? Most transactions are in trade good form, not hard currency), and then watch as they try and figure out what they're supposed to do with all of that.

...what? Every Dungeon Master is evil, but not all of us apply our malignancy to impossible save DCs or contriving yet another way to make a paladin fall. Some of us go for subtlety.

What is the most SocJus part of the 5e campaigns?

>>52638751
why? are you looking for bait?

>>52638751
Uh...I don't know, King Hekaton leaving his throne to his daughter Sarissa so that she become King of Giants? But then again he had no sons and the REAL rule of royal succession isn't "only males may take the throne", it's "my family must keep the throne no matter what".

Hence the real-life example of, say, Poland with Jadwiga of Anjou. The law said that Poland must have a king, not a queen. But it didn't specify that the king had to be a man.

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My character is a clone of Teyrn Loghain, so yeah he's really, really cute.

>>52638487
tried to sing it

http://vocaroo.com/i/s1m6vMg8zkSl

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>>52638751
Any female human as a martial class or with a STR above 12.

>>52638751
The part where you save the world with physical violence.

>>52638751
There are two gay revenants in Curse of Strahd.

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Is transforming your heroes into stone, so you can thaw out when they're needed, a viable strategy? What's the easiest way to turn them into stone?

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>>52638740
But Nino is based.

>>52638744
Pay them in yaks or highland cattle instead
Good meat and tasty milk and they, unlike most cattle, don't smell like shit. Who knows, maybe one of them will decide he and his wife (party Wizard)'s combined 420k gp fortune is more than enough to retire comfortably and live a fulfilling life of raising herds instead of fighting Dragons and Lichs and Bandits that, strangely enough, historical records make no mention of until shortly before they arrive there.

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>>52637660
Well atleast its more original then the arrow picture dude. Could use some work on that second line however. Try and change the rhyme and picture each thread to atleast keep it original if you are gonna do this though.

>>52638896
>using an Est
>ever

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>>52638751
The part where you have female berserkers with 8 STR and 8 CON who have 3 INT but claim to have 22

>>52638903
it's 2pac
i ain't changing shit

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>>52638907
Challenger appears.

>>52638896
Slightly off topic but I played a campaign once which was like Banished combined with Farming Sim and a bit of Civilization
DM later regretted running it in an unholy mishmash of 4e, 5e, and PF.

>>52637801
>Twink for a thousand years
I won't lie, you gave me a giggle there m8

>>52638563
He can make inteligence checks to decifer clues he finds in books, but other than that all he knows is maybe the names of the vestiges in the amber temple. Maybe the name Rudolph Van Ricten, Mordenkeinen, and other bits from multiverse lore, like the Von Zarovich dynasty who went missing four hundred years ago

>>52638849
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becca_Swanson

>198+ Weight Class - 683 lb (310 kg) Deadlift

We can either consider this the maximum amount she can lift, or the maximum amount she can push/drag. If we use lift (x15 Strength), then this gives her a Strength score of 45. If we use push/drag (x30 Strength), then this gives her a Strength score of 22.

In either case, it's markedly more than 12.

>>52638924
You know the thing about this guy is that he actually has really fucking good gear if guns aren't possible
Shields look ridiculous in this day and age but they're extremely effective at stopping most weapons you'll see, including police batons and tasers, while the hoodie provides basic padding (would be better if he wore a leather jacket) against wooden sticks.

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>mfw there's a guy in my party who constantly makes really awkward and unfunny sex jokes multiple times a session

>mfw he also tries to awkwardly grope npcs

>>52637801
Hey look, the alcoholic redneck whose wife left him for another woman is back. Still gay for you coworker?

>>52638956
Are you the DM? Make the next one he gropes a level 21 really bored Wizard who decides she's horny but only if the other guy is a statue.

>>52638563
Barovia as it is now should be generally alien to him - but he might recognize such names as King Barov. He might even know about the Amber Temple if he rolls especially high.

>>52638966
>wife left him for another woman is back
that never happened

>Still gay for you coworker?
that did however

>>52638968
Nope, but that's a great suggestion.

Speaking of Curse of Strahd, I've made a couple of additional antagonists, and I need art for them so I'll show handouts to players.
Gimme your evilest, creepiest looking druids. If they have beards and look crazy as fuck, that's even better.

>>52638563
If he has access to books and sources of information in barovia, intellect would represent him memorizing information from those sources.

>>52639019
>creepiest looking druids
is it ok if...
they...
are...
GHEY!

>>52639019
Can't you just google headshots of Brian Blessed?

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>>52639019

>>52638956

>tfw this, but all my players are female so it just makes me rock hard instead

>>52638981
If you're gay for another man and thinking about someone else when you're with your wife I think the correct answer is either to get over your crush or get over your wife, and tell her. It's just basic decency.

>>52638981
Still getting wasted and banging strippers?

Is it wrong to tell your players the AC of the enemies they fight?

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>>52639039

>>52639058
hmm
never banged a stripper
you're mixing me up

>>52639050
t. Harem MC
It's better to have female and male players in one group though, 2F:3M ratio + DM is optimal imho. This way the sex jokes are great and everyone's redfaced by the end, and the ERP sessions are actually funny.

>>52639064
I don't know what it is, but I don't think it's a druid.

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>>52639019
Native Americans cannot into beards

>>52639060
Keep it vague as most players figure it out after a while.

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>>52639019
It occurs to me that you and I might have different conceptions of what "creepy" means...but in any event, these three are what I got.

>>52639039
>>52639064

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>>52639019
kinda more of a barbarian but it's all i have.

>>52639077
You need to read more Conan, specifically "Beyond the Black River".

When I look at that, all I think is "shaman of Jhebbel Sag".

>>52638843
>>52638392
You know what, the wizard v druid thing was pretty stupid and made you look rood, but this is pretty fuckin funny man.

>>52639167
holy shit how did you know i was the wizard guy

>>52639074

Sadly, I'm DM. No character to get molested.

>>52639284
>no character to get molested
Yeah but the real you gets molested
Unless you're a betamax harem mc
Are you a betamax harem mc?

So I ran Death House and I accidentally ressurected a player (took damage > max hit points, but I only ruled him uncounscious)

I'm thinking of now correcting that mistake by slowly making him realize he's gone revenant but while I like the idea, I have no clue on what to do with that.

>Pcs delve into ancient dwarves mines I haven't fully fleshed out yet
>the party barbarian hands over the party's mcguffin to an ancient dwarven trickster deep god and is leading an army of thralls to reignite a grand blood war against the elves to revive his deity
>his party members are all elves

I'm not sure how to proceed

>>52639363

Have all the NPC elves blame the PC elves for letting the Barbarian do it.

If I'm a Monk and I spend my turn in combat using the Ready action to "attack in response if anyone attempts to attack a party member" do I still get to use my Martial Arts unarmed strike Bonus Action if/when my ready condition is met? Or is that no go since I'm not technically using my Action to attack with a monk weapon, I'm using my Reaction?

>>52639399
i dunno

>>52639399
Wow, people actually use the ready action?

>>52639417
Yeah, hasted Rogues use it all the time.

>>52639417
Well I know I'm always READY to go while your mom spends an hour getting ready!!

hah hah hah!!

>>52639399
Nope.
You are right on the second.

>>52639417
>not using Ready Action
Ready Action is the best friend of Rogues and is really useful for everyone else in tensed situations.

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attempt to convert dnd 5e theme to a neo-tokyo/space opera setting
anything you would like to see?
class/item/system conversion tips or suggestions also welcome

things I am currently thinking about:
>elemental damage is stronger and side effects on using it on something that is weak/strong against that type, so type of element plays a bigger role
>magic is mostly allowed 1:1 because muh enhanced robotics/augments
>Races and subraces, wondering if I should even make more then just perhaps Human (pure & augmented/cyborg), Machina & maybe synthetic?

My DM just lets us delay our turn for a reason. Like "I delay my turn until someone attacks me or the paladin" and then the gobbo hits the pally and its my turn and i go sneak attack him. I once filibustered a turn by saying "I delay my turn until..." and then I read an entire book of poetry by Lord Byron for two hours until everyone gave up and we went to Denny's

>>52639481
>>52639463
Why do rogues is it so much?

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>She walks in beauty, like the night
>Of cloudless climes and starry skies

Lads, you have 10 seconds to explain why you are not an elf lord in service to the Seldarine

>>52639616
>elves

>>52639593
Kind of curious as well, since it takes both an action and a reaction it seems kind of shit unless you are waiting for someone to leave cover or something

>>52639593
Well like, just as an example
>sneak into bandit chamber
>ready action to crit berserker bandit as soon as Wizard GLITTERDUST's the entire group

>>52639535
Wew.

>>52639593
Extra sneak attack on the readied action.

>>52638751
The gay revenants in Curse of Strahd. May of not been so bad had my DM for that part of the game (A cross dressing, perhaps transgendered man, who is dating I think a cross dressing transgendered woman) kept trying to bring up how the dude was gay. Finally after hitting us over the head with hints on the dudes sexuality with the subtlety of a bull in a china shop he just said out of character, "The dude is gay, did you figure it out?" We just said yeah.

"Why didn't anyone say anything? This is so cool."

"Doesn't help us against Strahd unless he has a weakness to gays. I'm more excited about that +2 Greatsword we just got."

He seemed pretty bummed out no one was happy for a gay char. The DM is a pretty nice person however and I have never seen him gone SJW besides this one instance. Otherwise he is just weird looking.

>>52639643
Please explain?

>>52639657
You can have at most one sneak attack per turn.
So you prepare your action after using a bonus action to SA, to get another one going in the same round.

>>52639648
My players didn't even pick up they're gay. They've just thought they're very loyal friends or something.

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>>52639616
Because unlike you, I didn't dump str and con, I infact enjoy my masculinity, and I like to be able to hold and swing something more then a glorfied toothpick

>>52639657
Sure! My example uses hasted action if you are not hasted then you would just use readied actions like this anon recccomends >>52639637
If you are hasted, use your hasted action to attack, bonus action to attack if you have two weapons and get your sneak attack. Ready your action for when the enemy attacks, then get sneak attack again.

>>52639399
You can't use your Bonus Action, but the reason is that your Bonus Action disappeared after you ended your turn. It's use it or lose it; it doesn't get stored across the Round.

>>52639709
Nope, DM went out of his way to make it seem as gay as possible without them sucking each other off.


When I run CoS, they ain't even gonna be gay, just loyal friends.

>>52639748
Bummer.

>>52639713
Alas that dirty swine, ignorant of beauty or virtue
>covers nose with handkerchief
Such savagery!

why is monk so bad? what can i do to get around the inherent shittiness of the class?

>>52639616
Too half-human.
But don't worry, I'm working on it!
How does one distil Elfness?

I have a few ideas on class, background and skill/proficiency based downtime activities. Like Knights training their squire, merchants merchanting, druids raising herb gardens, Clerics doing church stuff, etc.

>the rogue uses the wizard's inkwell to draw on everyone's faces during his watch
>the paladin/barb multiclass rages and smites him
Who was in the wrong here?

How would you add Balefire as a level 9 spell?

>Choose a target. That target must succeed on a Dexterity saving throw or be struck by Balefire. Any creature struck by Balefire dies instantly, and his or her existence is erased from the Pattern. They are utterly forgotten, even by the gods, and the world is remade as though they never existed. Such power has a devastating effect on the Weave and the Pattern, and depending on who is struck, may even destroy the world.

>imagine those niggas throwing Balefire and the world literally screaming from the sheer power

>>52639802

Monk is fine, you're just doing it wrong. Take wood elf or v.human with mobile feat. Run into melee, slap a bitch, then run away behind a tank character.

When you get to 5th level, stunning strike is godlike.

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>>52639802
Play Way of The Open Hand or homebrew WO4E.

>>52639824
the multiclasser for being a munchkin

>>52639839
party doesn't have a tank character

>>52639824
I mean, i cant imagine one smite did lethal damage

So unless he actually put him in the dirt and he healed him up afterwards that was just a hilarious overreaction but something everyone can move past.

>>52639657
Also, not >>52639730, but one of the other benefits of Ready Action is that you can ready an action to respond to...anything. For example, you can Ready Action to use Glitterdust if the negotiations with the hulking bandit goes south.

Had a DM run a story for the first time and he looked legitimately hurt and bummed when he realized he had to call his rolls in order for the bard to decide wether or not to apply Cutting Words


Anyone else seen something like this?

>>52639399
Martial Arts and Flurry of Blows specify "when you take the attack action" and "on your turn". So they do not apply when you take the Ready action, which would not trigger on your turn.

>>52639534
>not having human as the default race

I am so sick of these fucking niggers who think they are allowed to play whatever they want in my campaigns. No, your shitty tengu is not allowed. No, your ratfolk is not allowed. No, your catfolk is not allowed. No, your tiefling is not allowed: that is a literal fucking demonspawn. Why the fuck would that be allowed in any campaign, let alone this one? No, you cannot play a drow. You will be shot on sight on the surface. Half these fuckers don't even read Drizz't so they have no excuse for wanting to play a drow, besides "lol it's different." Fuck different. Here's the thing: your race is the most boring fucking part of your character. Unless you do something interesting with it (which 90% of these stupid cunts don't do), then you are just weighing down the game. When you have a thri-keen, some homebrew furry shit, a tiefling and some fuck who wants to play kender, you know what? Fuck this. I made a setting that actually feels somewhat like the real world because it doesn't have 90 different races running around like it's motherfucking Mos Eisley cantina. It's not my fault that YOU are a bad roleplayer who can't be satisfied playing something out of the core book. Create an interesting character, and you can play as a human for the rest of your RPG career. I had groups that were entirely human yet they had personalities that seemed like real people. But no, no one wants to lump in 30 homebrew races plus 60 official wizards of the coast crapshit races they pump out like chocolate because they know it will keep people entertained and requires zero effort on their part. No DM worth shit wants to spend hours and hours putting that in his world. Play. A. Fucking. Human. You need to EARN the privilege of playing another race, by proving you can competently play a normal character first. You don't get the big boy toys until your prove you can be responsible for them.

>>52639060
I look at what armor this Knight is wearing.

why is my best friend such a terrible World builder?

He acts like piece is the steady state of countries, everything is a utopia, and there are teleportation circles in EVERY capital city.

any Holy cities that don't like arcane? NOPE GOD FORBID WE HAVE INTERESTING CONFLICTING IDEAS
any countries that don't like eachother? NOPE
any conflict across the globe? NO
and he expects us to suspend disbelief with his copy paste world of warcraft shit story?

PLEASE

>>52639925
piece of peace. im butt frustrated w/e

>>52639925
>teleportation circles in EVERY capital city
Why wouldn't they have one?

>>52639909
Jokes on you, I only play Humans because they are mechanically the best at every class.

>>52639947
they do

>>52639947
because maybe they don't like each other?
maybe they think it is a security vulnerability?
maybe we have 3 rangers in our party and he is too lazy to let us explore the wilds?

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>>52639909

>>52639616
Vhuman gets a feat at 1st level.

TG, I need help with a house rulling

I want to let my druid use 2 charges to wildshape into a plant. I was considering Shambling Mound or Wood Woad, as they are both CR 5, but in retrospect, it seems like a bad idea to allow someone who can then regenerate one's self with the use of Call Lightning.

So where should I aim for?

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>>52640013
>TG
Pic related

>So where should I aim for?
Your brain

>>52639909
http://vocaroo.com/i/s1NLVOVTTYAE

>>52640013
Why would you fight the interactions?
Why would you let him plantshape if he won't be able to use it to any interesting effect?

>>52639925
Your job is to foment war and conflict. Only through the crucible and the forge can the world be made strong.

>>52640042
Because I want to compliment his options, by giving him something that reflects his thematic character growth, not give him one new special snowflake homebrew that overshadows all the other ones.

>>52640072
Then don't-.
It's playing with balance for no noticeable benefit.
Or downscale some plants and watch them be used once or twice for the novelty.

>>52640013
You should be giving up something instead of buffing druid, the most OP Bullshit class (source: the bullshit OP druid character I play).

Trading beast type for plant type seems fair. You'd be Circle of the Leaf. CR 5 is available at 15th level, so it should be fine.

>>52640125
I actually for the most part run a very no nonsense, non lenient game, so the moon druid misses out on some thing like, the fact it can't command its conjurations when wild shaped because they only obey verbal commands, for example.
So the moonion is actually rather very under control right now.

>>52639974
>because maybe they don't like each other?
>maybe they think it is a security vulnerability?
Build it on the outskirts of the city?
Have guards watching the circle?

>maybe we have 3 rangers in our party and he is too lazy to let us explore the wilds?
Did they not do this for the 9 levels before teleportation circle was available? The spell requires a level 9 bard/sorcerer/wizard

>>52640347
he has the city wizards send us thru them

>>52640013
Let the druid wild shape into a plant. Not a plant *creature* like a shambling mound, just a plant like a sapling or a shrub. Probably keep it limited to Medium size or smaller so they can't bust doors open by growing against them. Still useful when you want to hide, and I'm sure they'll find some other use for it.

>>52639185
your vocaroo about the giant ape was fucking hilarious

will never forget you

Any ideas why Ro||2O isn't taking my map of the underdark?

>>52637906
This is probably hours too late but Matt Colville has a video with good advice:
>players in tavern
>bounty list for monster parts somewhere
>blacksmith barges in, begging for help, his daughter kidnapped by monsters

Motivates the good guys and anyone who just wants coin.

>>52639925
In a high-magic world where teleportation circles are common, war is a very risky prospect indeed. Strong walls will not save you, nor will great distance. The ordinary folk who sustain the economy are a breath away from ruin, and you can never be sure that your mages are better than their mages until the spells start flying. The actions of a few individuals could even end the world. High-level spellcasters are as good as nuclear weapons for creating a state of mutually assured destruction. Nations with these at their disposal would naturally be, if not at peace, at least in a state of cold war. If something goes badly enough to break this equilibrium, the results will be swift and catastrophic.

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>>52639925
>>52640492

>>52640448
oh don't remember that one

>>52639060
One of my players takes notes to figure it out and all it does is waste time and disallow certain abilities that are used after rolling but before hit/miss.

>>52637906
Make them come up with a reason to be together.
The longer they stare in silence, the less work you have to do.
If they refuse, start the game at a gay orgy.

>>52637715
Paizo is dying

As a revised Beast Master if I use the animal companion as a mount because I'm small, it does act as a independent mount right?

If so would it move on its turns, while the ranger ontop doesn't make the mount move on his turn (If he stays on the mount of course)?

> New campaign doesn't roll for damage, just use average (round up)

Is there something broken about this method?

>>52640599
Greataxes become even shittier and that's about it.

>>52640599
Not really.

>>52640599
Your combat will be way faster.
That'd be it.

>>52640599
A little dull in my opinion.

Also since theres zero variance you can math shit out.

IE: you have 21 health. Your opponent will always do 10 damage with each of his attacks so you have zero fear staying in combat.

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So how should I go about making pic related a playable character?

>>52640599
How does Great weapon Fighting Style work?

>>52640635
critical hit

>>52639748
>>52639748
What they are is open to interpretation. Were they lovers romantically? Were they brothers in arms and good friends? Were they but simple sodomites? Were they in love with one another platonically?

What ever they are, it sounds like some of y'all are projecting.

>>52639399
You can't use it because you're using a reaction, yeah.

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>>52640657

>>52639752
is that a fucking pun?

>>52640756
Is it?!

>>52640034
hahaha damn, saved.

>>52640504
Y'know, a shorter explanation for the Tippyverse is "Judge Dredd's Cursed Earth, but fantasy and the Megacities aren't as large."

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Hey, made a magus cause I know, homebrew is shit and everything. Anyone willing to read through it and tell me how shit it is?

To clarify, I don't really care about playing it, I just wanted to capture a more "gish" feeling than with EK, and a different sort of feeling than with bard, paladin, or ranger. And bladesinger is a terrible gish.

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>>52639758
I'll tell yah right now, that "beauty" nor "grace" will protect you from a big bear, but an axe and muscle? Aye, that be enough.

>>52640599
That's boring
Where's the excitement of rolling dice and getting high numbers on it? Or laughing because some loser rolled snake eyes with his great sword attack

>>52640803
Ah, forgot to mention. Haven't done the spell list yet for this. Also, I'm worried about it being too overpowered or underpowered.

>>52640803
WOW this is bad

>>52640643
You could probably figure this out with anydice but I don't know how to write it in.

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The real question, roll for HP or round up?

>>52640666
It explicitly says they're gay

>>52639362
Either skip it or talk to the player and see if they want to.

>>52640835
Round up.
As if rolling for HP wasn't retarded enough already, 5e tells you to use averages by default.

>>52640835
I prefer giving them max hp to their level and rolling to restore for short rest and full restore for long rest.

>>52638294
>>52638527
Setting doc shouldn't be more than 5 pages long for a campaign that's more than 3 sessions long.
With 3 or less sessions it should be more than 2 pages. Fuck, less than 4hs one shots should have a setting doc at all, it should be all explained orally by the DM

>>52638882
raise basilisks. kill some for stone-to-flesh stomach acid, keep some for flesh-to-stone Walt Disneyfying your dudes

>>52639909
It sounds unlikely that you play games with black people.

I've got an idea for a fun character - a Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde style alchemist, who drinks crazy potions and hulks out. Mechanically it would be a Immortal Mystic (with the Iron Durability, Bestial Form, Brute Force, Psionic Restoration and Giant Growth disciplines).

But I don't want to play a psychic, so what would be good equivalent features to swap out for the Mystic's Telepathy and Psionic Talents? I was thinking the Alchemist feat and tool expertise?

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>>52640973
why not two alchemy formulas and the satchel from the Artificer class?

>>52639060
Between five people with multiple actions aiming to hit AC, if they can't figure it out after one round they don't deserve to know.

Did they just make crafting worse?
What the fuck, Wizards?

Can shitty CON in a caster be counteracted with Tough if all I want is better hp?

>>52641096
HP is the last thing you want from high CON.
All that matters is the modifier, for concentration checks, and damage saves.

I'd trade half of my xp for more con mods, easy, it's not like you're going to survive anything that means to kill you at melee anyway

>>52640803
Never make homebrew again.

>>52641132
What's the minimum I should shoot for then? Right now I have 11

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>>52639648
We had some party splits and deaths where I'd let players play some NPC's if they didn't have any turns coming up any time soon.

One of those frequently player controlled NPC's was Godfrey. He had a falling out with (fuck I forget his name, the other Revenant) where there relationship came to light. The player was confused at first, suddenly they were playing a gay character.
"Wait what?"
"He's a batman."
"A gentlemans gentleman."
"He's batman?"
"No a batman, an officers butler-assistant-lover-friend."
"He has Woodhouse's origin story."

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>>52641086
I am rather disappointed in the entire document.
DM; "The brigands had some crap armor, 137 silver, 11 longswords and the leader had a + 1 greatsword."
"We take the longswords. At least we can sell those for something."
Apparently magic items are rare unless it is an official module then they pour them in like they always have since 1978.

I'm making a drugs system for my table (apothecary comes out a lot for reasons) and I'm working on shrooms right now.
Because they're psychedelic I'm thinking rolling a die to see what kind of "sight" effect they should get for an hour.
And before you go "hur durr, they should just roll in the ground foaming at the mouth for an hour", I'll remind you that since this is a fantasy where a female character can punch dragons into oblivion, obviously drugs can be fantastic as well.

So far, this is what I got
>See Invisibility
>Detect Magic
>See Ethereal plane
>Blindness
>Truesight
>Legend Lore
>Contact Other Plane

Aaand, still working on it. Obviously some thing are absurdly more powerful than others, so the probability curve will be adjusted accordingly.

>>52641177
Resilient(CON) will not only give you a nice proficiency bonus to saving throws, but will round that 11 into a 12. If you're a caster (obviously), it's a must get for you.

What was the last time your party used a tool that wasn't thieves tools?

>>52641268
One of my players uses his alchemy and poisoner's kit every time they have downtime.

>>52637673
Me technically. I tend to be the most open and friendly with npc's, and have actually made us some decent allies by not being a total dick

>>52638505
Le cringe le epic epic fail cringe le cringe epic fail OMG cringe XD for great justice put me in screencap screenshotted for epic cringe!

I wish my DM put this thought and effort for any idea. Fuck off back to /b/

>>52640803
magus literally means mage or magician, how is that name appropriate for a weapon fighter or warrior, magical or otherwise?

>>52641444
Ask Paizo.

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>>52640803

>>52640803
what in the name of fuck is that spellcasting progression, what the fuck is wrong with you?

>medium armor but simple weapons
>doesn't get extra attack without a subclass
???

what's the fucking point when it's just an amalgamation of stolen feature from the wizard and the EK, with some stuff stolen from elsewhere but earlier and/or better for ??? reasons?

>>52641268
My noble-birthed paladin recently freed an indentured-servant with a game of dragon chess

>>52640666

It says 100% that they take it up the butt.

>>52641480
wtf, seriously. did they just run out of names, why not call them spellknight or something that actually makes sense?

>>52640803
> bladesinger is a terrible gish
> implying a wizard is worst at melee than martials

>>52640803
I don't like how spell wieldling force you to attack before casting cantrip. Nothing else jump out to me yet.

Throw this out in unearth arcana subreddit too. There are people in there who is willing to help with homebrew stuff. Instead of just laughing at you like we do here.

>>52641616
Oh. Never mind then, carry on.

Man, now I'm just worried how batshit GMs will portray it. Not the guys who'll understate it or just present it as is and carry on; I mean the ones who will grind the detail down in front of you to so fine a powder you can seive it like flour.

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Which class is better for non-armored high AC memes? Monk or Barb?

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Any of you tried a swashbuckler before? How'd it go? Recommended multi-class?
I'm thinking 2 levels into fighter then the rest into rogue.

I'm thinking of going high-elf just so I can get a super high CHA for bluffs and the like.

>>52641715
Barbarian, easily. Wear that loincloth with pride

>>52640803
>Spellcasting table is just fucking wrong, looks like it was cropped from a fullcaster's table and just cropped
>A melee ranged weapon
>Extra attack at level 11

Is polymorph intended as a nerf? Is there no use on casting it on a party member past very low leves?

>>52640666
They're gay.

>>52641736
It's a straight buff in all situations. Even if their damage output would be a bit lower, that's still a huge chunk of HP they can use to tank hits, with extra reach and space to control the battlefield.

>>52641255
I've taken a tonne of shrooms, and never ended up rolling on the floor, foaming at the mouth. I did see the sun set twice in one night though, that was cool.

In terms of DnD, shrooms could give something along the lines of "true sight" - my mate was lying on the floor, and we saw him as a crocodile. The "seeing the sun set twice" thing could be spun into an idea of controlling time.

Another guy did laps of the house time and time again - could be spun as a type of meditation or something similar. Another time based thing based on shrooms was when we sent someone to the shops and he ended up staring at a art nouveau light shop for two hours. I don't know how you'll spin that one.

Coming down off shrooms isn't like coming down off other drugs - whatever emotion you're feeling is amplified a thousand times. Could be a charisma bonus, maybe?

Just my experience.

>>52641725
Why don't you just use the swashbuckler roguish archetype? It's on a UA

>>52641715
Mystic, it's the answer for almost anything nowaday.

AC 14+dex+1 with the ability to boost it higher.

>>52641715
bladesinger or something.

>>52641770
Oh, sorry for the confusion. I'm not used to the wording you guys use here. That is the plan, I was thinking 2 points of fighter and the rest into rogue with the swashbuckler archetype

>>52640666
They were explicitly lovers. One of them is one of the strongest allies you can get draw from the Tarokka deck (a revenant with tons of paladin spells, with Strahd as his quarry for revenge), empowered by his lover's hatred and only remembering his good nature through their love.

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Any higher rez versions of this map? My DM is using it and it's a blurry mess.

>>52641692
>Man, now I'm just worried how batshit GMs will portray it.
CoS is god but it's still a gay vampire romance novel.

>>52641725
3 fighter for battlemaster. Then you can use riposte like a real swashbuckler.

>>52641770
Swashbuckler is in SCAG, the UA version is old and no one will approve its use anymore. Also real Swashbuckler use shield (hence the word buckler).

>>52638948
Deadlifts aren't real lifts.

Is this lame?

Party is going to be made aware it's being stalked by wolves - dire wolves. In a forest. If they attempt to Chase the wolves, or run away from them, they will be led to an area by the wolves. If the party ignores the wolves and continues on, nothing happens.

There is a large boulder in a small clearing with writing on it in giant, with a huge sword sitting in the ground. About 3~ times the size of a person. The Direwolves (5~) surround the clearing and a larger dire wolf with glowing blue eyes will confront the party, pick up the sword and dexterously reverse it's grip of the large sword ala Sif from dark souls (none of these nerds have played dark souls)

Too corny?

>>52638948
What are you doing.

>>52641857
I'm sure you could do much better.

>>52641444
Good point. Literally just borrowed the name from Pathfinder. Spellknight I think is a better idea.

>>52641585
Good point with the martial weapons thing. It'd work better if the class altogether gets proficiency with them.
The thing about the features is one, I couldn't think of a lot of unique stuff to give them, also, the purpose to better synthesize magic + weapon attacking, hence why the features are typically better or sooner than others.

>>52641685
Thanks for the advice. Spell wielding works like that cause War Magic from EK works like that. Also, took from Pathfinder's magus, where you had to attack with a weapon then could use a spell.

>>52641867
Why does it have to bring the players near the sword to do that?
Why the fuck is a wolf using a sword?
Why is using a BIG sword?
Why is using a REALLY BIG FUCKING sword? Is this anime?
What are the wolves even after?

It kinda feels just silly, really.

>>52641897
I'm serious. I highly doubt they meant actual powerlifting for the Lifting category.

>>52641867
Are you a furry or something what the fuck

>>52641715
Swashbuckler with one level in Dragon Sorcerer.

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Dear 5e
Polymorph is a Concentration spell.
If you turn yourself into a beast can you have your concentration broken by injury?
The PHB states "The transformation lasts for the duration, or until the target drops to 0 hit points or dies."
I checked the Sage Advice first, it is not mentioned.
Does the specific text overrule the general rule about concentration?

>>52641725
1 level dip into Dragon Sorcerer for free +1 Studded Leather AC, Booming Blade, 1st level spellcasting and being able to seduce dragons.

>>52641943
1. Yes, you can concentrate on a spell after being polymorphed.

2. Yes, you have to make concentration saves when you take damage while polymorphing yourself.

>>52641819
Wonderful. Lord Soth the Fudgepacker

>>52641960
>seduce dragons
The greatest benefit of them all.

So we're looking at 3 Fighter/1 Sorc/16 rogue-swashbuckler

Half-elf still decent? I'm really liking their charisma bonus

>>52641906

> At 10th level, you learn how to make your weapon strikes undercut a creature's resistance to your spells. When you hit a creature with a weapon attack, that creature has disadvantage on the next saving throw it makes against a spell you cast before the end of you next turn

Eldritch Strike give you options. It last until next turn, so you can Extra attack first, then cantrip and attack (or vice versa) next round. So you can use cantrip > attack > cantrip > attack or any kind of other combination.

>>52641715
Redemption Paladin. 16+dex

>>52641965
Thanks for the response
The wording in the spell seems to limit it.

>>52641943
http://www.sageadvice.eu/2014/10/22/polymorph-concentration/

Your google-fu is weak.

>DM rolls behind a screen
How does that work with Cutting Words? Wouldn't it defeat the point of the screen if the DM has to tell me what he rolled?

>>52641998
Half-Elf is very good for a Swashbuckler.

I'd start with 1 level of Rogue, then 1 in Sorcerer and I wouldn't bother with fighter levels so I'm not sure where else to go.

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>>52641932
>furry

This is Sif

>>52641915
My players are traveling long, long distances without roads, trying to give encounters that aren't just fight goblins etc. I've had them come across shrines, hamlets and wanderers. These won't lead to anything unless they become really interested in it. If they gain the ability to speak with animals they can talk to the big bad wolf.

If the players investigate and can read the tablet, the dire wolves were protecting this area of the forest, since they regard it as a sanctuary of their fallen masters. Also hungry.

My campaign is pretty low magic and I've used VGM/MM most of the time, this would basically be a reskinned and buffed winter wolf.

>>52642016
he can lie to you still you fucking retarded dipshit

>>52642038
He could but that would be cheating :/

>>52641998
Actually, would 5 fighter/1 sorc/14 rogue-swashbuckler be better? I lose a d6 for my backstab, but I gain an extra attack per turn

>>52642016
My understanding is that cutting words assumes the player using it has no idea what the GM rolled for the monster. The bard is simply reacting to seeing the monster do something, they don't know whether the creature would have succeeded to begin with.

>>52642016
Switch to divination wizard

>>52642032
A more interesting encounter would be something more like they find a traveling wagon with a missing wheel and an old couple at the front crying cause they cant fix it. They go to the party to ask for help. All of the sudden they throw off their hoods and the cloth thing on the wagon is ripped off as a dire bear is released by two mad druids.

>>52642032
Okay, but why?

>>52642062
that is the point of the dm screen

Swashbuckler / Sorcerer?
Swashbuckler / Lore Bard?
Swashbuckler / Warlock?

Why are there so many CHA based class!

>>52642107
Everyone's a face now.

>>52642107
because they want players to roleplay

Thinking of playing a Kobold Gunsmith Artificer. Is there anything I should know about Gunsmiths or any feats/multiclasses I should look at?

>party underestimates intellect devourer
>Party thinks it is hilarious and tries to tame it as a pet


Well, it stole the lvl 6 divination wizards body.


How should I continue? PC rerolls or have him play the intellect devourer?

The party doesn't know, but I made his head and eyes bulge out to make him seem off.

>>52638294
I have a problem with being blunt and straightforward with background text for campaigns. They're rarely more than two or three pages, and they're mostly notes for myself. A way to get the basics down. I don't write them for my players, since I can't count on them to read any of this shit on their down time. It's up to me to dispense this information to them when appropriate. Makes it easy for them to fill in their own original lore, and takes a lot of burden off my shoulders.

>>52642015
>http://www.sageadvice.eu/2014/10/22/polymorph-concentration/
This does not address the specifics mentioned in the spell limiting the duration, but thanks for responding.

>>52642016
>Rolls behind screen
>Has to fudge rolls to keep the game interesting
Shit DM

>>52642078
why not?

>>52642127
get out

>>52642152
Is it a hatred of Kobolds, Guns or multiclassing UA?

>>52642032
Well, I mean, the real big problem here is that you're playing a low magic campaign and then you've got something as stupid as a wolf running around with a giant sword in its mouth. If nobody gets the reference, you're not going to get away with that without it looking stupid.

Cut the whole sword thing and it could actually be fine enough, but the idea is that the wolves either chase the players into a situation they're more likely to win or flee to a situation where they're more likely to win and that would be why they don't attack immediately. At least, that seems to make a lot more sense, the 'The wolves aren't attacking because they're not 100% sure they can take on your party and want to get an advantage" thing.

>>52642169
this is actually a good question it's giving me trouble

>>52642169
Mostly its because kobold players fuck children.

>>52642184
...I want to say some witty comeback but I guess cub porn would be considered pedo by most people.

>>52642184
probably

>>52641906
>The thing about the features is one, I couldn't think of a lot of unique stuff to give them,
then please never make a homebrew ever again.

improved spell wielding is complete bullshit, but i guess we don't even know the magus spell list, but assuming it's just wizards' because you are evidently a lazy fuck, bonus action any spell of 5th level or love WITH advantage on the roll or fucking disadvantage on the save is absolutely retarded and you get it at 11th level.

just compare it to the valor bard, when action to cast a spell, you get one bonus action attack... at 14th level or EK, who gets it at 18th level. Your thing gives a bonus attack spell or cantrip, letting you get extra attack from another source and still get the extra spell as a bonus action, which is pretty bad design and no, EK's war magic doesn't give you free advantage to hit /disadvantage to save on top of everything.

this thing is either a blatant power trip, expecting to be a magic god swordsdude instantly, while everyone else just gets fucked waiting and get less than you, or you honestly suck completely at grasping balance this game tries to achieve.

also you haven't addressed the absolutely special snowflake spell progression that doesn't follow any of the stablished rules for the system.

/pfg/ please go. We want to discuss gameplay here. Take your disgusting fetish talk somewhere else.

>>52642127
You should get 3 uses max before exploding to death.

>>52642266
everyone was done talking about it so you're either a retard or a false-flagging /pfg/ retard gj

>>52641867
i mean, i liked sif's fight but either they played the game and get the reference, also spoiling the fight or you getting called a hack, or they don't get it at all and think, what the fuck was that.

New thread:

>>52642315
>>52642315
>>52642315

>>52642127
Sharpshooter feat obviously. Lets you deliver thundering Fuck You 500 feet away and ignore cover. The bonus damage ability isn't as useful to you as it is to a real martial but it will still be nice to have if you're particularly confident about your shot.

Don't bother multiclassing.

>>52637801

>Normal people, and I know that's a term you don't like

kek