>the DM PC has been resolving a grapple action for the

>>53469307
So /tg/, what's the best way to quickly resolve a grapple?

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>>53469335

>>53469335
See which one gets higher strength roll.

>DM PC
There's your problem.

>>53469416
Now I'm getting a lecture on how much better 3.5 is than what we're playing

>>53469307
>doesn't get up and leave to spend his fleeting seconds doing anything else
you deserve to suffer

>>53469335
It's not really that hard
>unarmed touch attack (that means no armor bonus)
>opposing strength checks (winner decides to continue or break the grapple)
>you can't use anything bigger than a dagger while in a grapple

>>53469371
lol no I'll rekt you with my BJJ, you're tapping out so hard even your mom will hear

>>53469307

Tell them to get a room?

>>53469335
Grappling is easy, resolved like every other attack.
>Roll to hit
>Target rolls to defend
>If they fail, they have -4 DX and can't move
>Roll QCs for takedowns, chokes, strangles, and breaking free, roll RC for pin
Takes all of two seconds, just like everything else.

>>53469335
triangle choke!

in 5e its:
>Grappler rolls athletics check which is 1d20+prof(if applicable)+str mod
>Defender rolls Athletics or Acrobatics which is 1d20+prof(if applicable)+str/dex mod

>>53469307
>Only the DMPC can success at anything
>We're just valets seing how everything is destroyed and ruining by way over our pay grade enemies till the DMPC appears
You know, I didn't sign to play a Onepunch Man game in where I'm just a civilian. Also fuck the perception of magic some people have, magic shouldn't be way better than everything

>>53469307
Your rogue sucks if they having back stabbed in the last 45 minutes.

>>53472207
>Being a monk specialized in martial arts makes you actually worse at grappling/shoving/tripping enemies due how athletics is tied to Str and monks can't afford to have decent Str
Damn

>>53469307
>DM
Found your problem famalan

>>53472608
Good my DMPCs are crap and only are there to heal the players and die hilariously

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>>53469307
Relevant.

>>53472857

Darths and Droids is so good. I can already see how they are setting up to tell a better story with The Force Awakens than The Force Awakens.

>>53472669
>Monks being shit in D&D
Hold the fucking presses!

>>53472707
Then they aren't DMPCs. Good man/woman/attack helicopter.

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>not just flipping a coin or outright making up the results when the rules get complicated

>>53472669
Wrong, you get more attempts at it because of Flurry and Martial Arts and you also get Stunning Strike to give them disadvantage on their grapple checks
The only better grapplers are well built Barbarian/Rogues

>>53472899
They aren't sure if they're doing TFA yet. They're setting up for R1 right now but haven't announced if they are doing the new trilogy or not.

>>53476163
That's pretty arbitrary though. A straight up coinflip invalidates investment in certain stats. It's the same as roleplaying CHA checks/diplomacy without actually rolling for it: you invalidate the cha stat and investment in certain skills.

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>>53469354

>>53479332
That image has a disturbing lack of snorting, "and so forth" and ideology.

>>53479445
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ch5ZCGi0PQ

>>53478746
Stunned doesn't give you disadvantage on STR or DEX ability checks?

>>53472669
>being good at martial arts doesn't mean I can easily wrestle someone stronger than me

Well shit.

>>53483227
you know a fundamental part of any style of martial arts is grappling, right?

>>53472669
Most of the things you want to do with a grapple (holding an enemy in place, repositioning them) monks can do with their Ki abilities easily. Fluff stunning a guy as temporary trips and holds and judo throw them 15 feet around.

>>53485171
Wrong. It depends on the martial art. Some emphasize grapples. Some emphasize strikes.

But now that MMA is all the rage, yes grapples are a fundamental thing. But it can easily be fluffed that D&D monks are mostly taught in martial arts that emphasize strikes.

>>53469307
Your fault for playing Pathfinder.