/5eg/ Fifth Edition General

>They finally stop b8 OP poster


In other news Dwarf Fortress dwarfs are the best dwarfs.

>>53552941
You say "they", but it was just me and this is the first time I've been on 4chan in months, so clearly the regulars need to take more initiative.

Completely new DM here with a three player party. They want to know what they should play, I'm not sure what to tell them beyond "What do you want to play"?, which I have, repeatedly. But they're min-maxing assholes and I love them for it, so what's a good party structure for total newbies?

I like the little blurb in the 3e DMG or the 3e Oriental Adventures where dwarves are Ming dynasty gunners, but are otherwise standard Tolkien warrior-sculptors.

>>53552964
You have my thanks regardless.

>>53552964
The b8 OP poster always posts well before we actually need a new thread.

>>53552966
Paladin, Wizard, Barbarian, I suppose?
Barbarian gets to feel excessively tanky, Wizard gets excessive utility and Paladin gets excessive burst and some team support.

>>53552982
You're welcome, though I did it largely for selfish reasons.
Humorless /pol/ arguments do not entertain me, and if I have to be laid up today with a nasty skin condition I'd rather be entertained while doing it.

>>53553000
>The b8 OP poster always posts well before we actually need a new thread.
You have to preempt him then, repeatedly.
Only way to stop it. Just a suggestion.

>>53553007
I assume you failed your saving throw?

>>53553021
More like failed a Perception check.
Poison oak.

Reposting because it never got a reply:

Coming up with an idea for the dragonborn Paladin who needs a magic shield, how does this sound? Level 3, but everybody else gets something slightly similar. I made it semi-cursed for fluff reasons. It is intended to have a potential downside.

>Oath of Tamara (Requires Attunement by a Dragonborn Paladin)
>This shield is blessed by Tamara, for a devout servant in need of guidance.

>This blessed shield adds +1 AC, and the shield counts as the holy symbol.

>The wearer is no longer resistant to a damage type as per their draconic origin, but instead immune.

>Whenever a breath weapon or similar type of area of effect is made, that hits both the bearer and an ally, the Dragonborn must take a reaction to block it. This save is made with advantage, and if it succeeds, the Dragonborn takes full damage and stops the cone from hitting anyone behind him. If it fails, he still takes damage, but doesn't stop the AoE.

>Claw of Tamara
>The shield has a Claw like shape, and can be used as a +1 off hand weapon doing 1d4 slashing damage.

It feels appropriate to the character, and the God, and being a white dragonborn, I am not really worried about immunity to cold damage.

>>53552969
>dwarves are Ming dynasty gunners, but are otherwise standard Tolkien warrior-sculptors.
That sounds kinda fun, actually.

>>53553000
>The b8 OP poster always posts well before we actually need a new thread and everyone files into the new thread like sheep and starts complaining about the OP instead of just ignoring him and making a new thread at the appropriate time

Hey, I fixed that post you made

>>53553038
Sure, why not?

>>53553007

Is it mites?
Tell me it isn't mites.

>>53553069
Poison oak. I want to run blunt rocks across my arms and back right now.
Severe enough that I got sent home.

>>53553038
not bad. though that does seem like you're promoting picking a fight with dragons of your own colour.

>>53553020
So should I make a new thread right now to get there before them?
It'd only get pruned and even if it did work they'd make a new thread even earlier seeing that we'd do that and it'd turn into even more of a shitfest than when the entire thread's comments wre being deleted but not the thread itself.

>>53553103
Like I said, it was just a suggestion.
I'm not a regular here, do what you want.

Thanks to the janitors, bros.

Anyone excited for Stream of Annihilation?

>>53553030

I have poison is over my yard, thank God every day I'm not allergic.
It's weird that it's like a 50/50 split between people being totally fine and horrific burning itching agony.

>>53553038
Just know that in the long term you shouldn't dump truckloads of AC items on your party unless you want AC bloat. One or two is fine.

Shields and +3 armour modifiers are the worst offenders.

What feats or fighting style should I take to get the most out of using a trident with both hands?

>>53552912
Dwarves are near my favorite race. Its a shame my favorite classes don't mess well with them so I can't play them more. Hard to not think of surly assholes that love to mine, forge and drink though.

Not related but I'm making a Hexblade for an upcoming run and I've decided on the 1 fighter dip to get CON prof, Heavy armor, and a fighting style(shit is way too good to pass up) the question is do I go Tiefling for maximum Warlock, or Human and snag a feat.

>>53553138
Not that weird. Some people are allergic to shellfish or penuts or kiwis.
But it's not burning agony with me, just REALLY itchy and kind of everywhere, so it's extremely distracting to me and very noticeable.
Plus I'm the kind of guy who doesn't give a fuck and will just dig away at a bug bite until it turns into a scab to stop the itching, which won't really help here.

>>53553159
had a player that wanted to buy magical fullplate
newbie dm said the fullplate (which was only 300g btw) had +1 for each part, gauntlets helm etc for a total of +5
player said no cause it was too op
thank god

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>>53553194
Holy shit

>>53553183
>Hard to not think of surly assholes that love to mine, forge and drink though.

Once we had an entire party of dwarves for one game.
It was actually quite memorable.

>>53553190
>kiwis
My one weakness.

>>53553130

I'm a few sessions behind on C Team and Dice, Camera, Action.
I don't follow a lot of the other stuff, so I hope it'll be games that don't rely to much on ongoing plot.

>>53552912
>How do you do dwarves?

I play a Battlerager Goliath who was raised by Dwarves and is therefore technically a dwarf through right of nurture in ethnic dwarvish culture's eyes.


>Yes, it's Carrot

>>53553190

Well, I meant the proportion, it's almost literally a coin-flip situation, with poison ivy at least.

>>53553194
There's something really inspiring about those that nerf themselves because they know it's the right thing to do, or to make the game more interesting. I once had a player play a monk, he decided, as a challenge, he would be a blind monk, but decided not to accept the "Blindvision" our DM was gonna give him. He started the game with his sight, then in session zero, through both plot reasons and his own, he decided that to truly surpass his masters, he must handicap himself and fight to regain the level he was at. So he took a knife and ritually plucked out his own eyes, then pickled them.

20 levels later he had also removed all of his fingers so he only had his fists as clubs, and used his toes for all fine motor movements, sewn up his mouth and taken a vow to never talk, instead communicating through gestures and meaningful silence, and flayed his entire skin of flesh, so as to build up callouses and create armoured skin.

He was a crazy bastard but my god he was fun to play with.

Alright help me out here

I had to move cross country for work related reasons. I finally found a group to GM for.

They are only 3 players, and has been looking for a player and/or a GM. They don't mind being a 3 man party. They did suggest that I make a GMPC, but I am still considering that. It is 2 chicks and a guy, but they seem like a fairly friendly bunch.

Last party died because the GM and a player hooked up, and the other 3 players stopped having fun entirely. So they left and started looking for a new group.

Their preferred playstyle is not what I am used to:
>They play once a week as a group, and one day every week there is a solo session with one player and the GM rotating between them.

I am not sure how to do this at all. If we play every Sunday (as was the agreed upon day, which fits perfectly so far), I need to somehow make sure that at least the player I am having a solo session with will be alone and have something to do, that won't involve the rest of the party.

So far I am told it is mostly RP stuff, things that wont interest the other players much (because their characters aren't involved at all).

What could I do for these small 1 on 1 sessions? Just give them the ropes and hope that is enough? Any good small events I can run them through during evening I could use?

Does anyone have experience with this style of play?

>>53553219
Used to be bee stings for me.
>>53553230
That's...definitely unusal.
>>53553251
Yeah, I dunno why that is.
Excuse me while I take a dull knife and apply a refreshing flensing to my epidermal layer.

>>53553230

Does he write letters home every week?

>>53553260
One on one sessions are great for backstory related things in particular.
Things that don't involve the other party members and just would slow things down.
i.e. The Monk meeting their master.
Or the monk going on a trip to some various monastaries.

There'd be a lot less combat / less deadly combat.

>>53553260
>Does anyone have experience with this style of play?
I have, actually.
The first kind I do is "character specific" stories that are geared towards their own plotlines and backstories while they're away from the rest of the party.
The second kind won't be helpful to you.

>>53553281

Careful not to spread it anon.

>>53553256
Question is how did the DM factor this into the narrative and the mechanics ?

Wouldn't the monk have been at a constant penalty to hit, easy to be hit and even struggle to move around on his own? While it's cool when a player does this it is also a detriment to the entire group.

>>53553090
Considering he is a white dragonborn Devotion Paladin worshipping Tamara of all things, I am pretty sure that's the idea.

>>53553159
Not giving him magic armour. I told him he would get a shield or armour, and he picked his shield.

It is a pretty nifty one too. Basically his shield is a plate of a White Dragon scale, painted with the symbol of Tamara, and has his own scales literally ripped off his body, set around the edges of the shield.

I like when my players put effort into their gear rather than the boring "uhh, standard sword and shield" I always hear.

>>53553311
It won't spread, as I've removed all the urishiol already. The downside is I didn't get it off in time and it's already fucking everywhere.

>>53552941
>b8 poster
>singular

Oh sweet summer child.

>>53553194
had a player that wanted to buy a magical bow
newbie dm said the bow (which was only 200g btw) is +2 and does 2 attacks when you do one for
other players said it was too op
player took it
he is now doing 6d8+90 per turn
kill me

>>53553293
>The Monk meeting their master.
>Or the monk going on a trip to some various monastaries.
But most of these takes a long time, and I dont want the other players to feel like they just skipped several weeks forward whenever they meet again.
>There'd be a lot less combat / less deadly combat.
That's a given. I also got he feeling that combat was not really the intended use of these sessions, especially since they are so short in comparison.

>>53553309
>The second kind won't be helpful to you.
...youll need to elaborate on that, just because you made me curious now.

>>53553354
If you are in a game that lets that shit fly you've done fucked up already.

>>53553363
>youll need to elaborate on that, just because you made me curious now.
It involves my wife.

>>53553260

This old post ' lessons from dming with my gf' actually offers some really good advice. It's the kandi and pepper articles.

>http://www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?471393-Lessons-from-DMing-with-my-GF-(Oakspar77777)

You can also track down on google a whole series of one on one modules to use. I've done a 1 player 1 DM dungeon crawl and it's actually a lot of fun. (Though you need to keep fights to very low hp and CR or enlist hirelings etc)

I actually find the pure RP stuff a bit more difficult as I find a lot of good RP comes from interplay between the group but perhaps that's each to their own.

Are the current fighting styles enough? Do people want to see more of them?

>>53553363
Combat with only one or two people can be incredibly deadly unless you purposefully play dumb.

Two completely unarmed people can screw over someone by grapples alone depending on what they are.

As for time restrictions, you either have downtimes a lot of the time (that're assumed to be players training, levelling, relaxing and such or regaining power except the solo player who's with you) or it's something close or you just assume it has happened a little bit in the past.

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Hmm. I had thought that the term "planetouched" would be more well-known, but evidently it wasn't. Thus this now splits aasimar, genasi, and tieflings into three separate entries on the compatibiliy table and gestation table. This makes the former exceed the margins, but on the other hand it's not like I have to worry about print bindings so that should be fine.

Also added an appendix that we'll refer to as the "bard's checklist". If you're curious, the hardest thing to seduce is an ancient gold dragon (DC 34). The hardest thing to satisfy, however, is an Empyrean (DC 30). The easiest dragon to seduce is a young white dragon, while the easiest to satisfy is a four-way tie between young black, young green, young brass, and young copper.

Finally, I revised the satisfaction check so that you now only get +1 per minute *above five minutes* on it. So +1 at 6 minutes, +2 at 7 minutes, and so on. This means that average people (human with a 10 Constitution) now have average sex, on average. It was previously too easy to satisfy your partner.

Pixie guy needs to run the numbers again on the earliest point a non-shrunk human can satisfy a pixie, I guess.

>>53553354
>>53553354
Had a player who wanted to buy a wand of fireball. Newbie DM ( who said the wand was only 500 GP) said the wand has 7 charges so can shoot 7 fireballs per round.
Newbie DM said wand was OP. Player took it.
Player is doing 56 d6 damage per round in a 20 foot radius.
Rest of party killed themselves.

>>53553412
They're fine. If you want to make those classes more interesting, add interesting feats and remove compulsory weapon feats.

>>53553256
10/10 would play with insane monk that mutilates and handicaps(get it cause no fingers) himself
thank god he didn't cut off his feet
>>53553354
pls destroy that bow I'm getting cancer just reading about it

>>53553053
We did this a few days ago and a janitor showed up, deleted the new timely thread, left the bait thread up and proceeded to delete 22/30 of that thread's posts.

>>53553491
The difference is is
>ignoring him and making a new thread at the appropriate time
The appropriate time is when the old thread dies as presumably pruning won't happen then, maybe?

>>53553460
holy shit, I had to reread 56 a couple of times
that wasn't a wand that was a nuke

>>53553504
The appropriate time is just whenever the janitor doesn't delete the new general thread. There's no actual appropriate time.

For the record, on the times that I've created a new thread, I've usually done it when there was about 320+ posts in the old one, as that seems good enough to me.

>>53553329
for the blindness, the DM said "alright, so no blindvision, but i'm making it so you gotta see using another sense and gain proficiency with it, so it fits with your story" so he picked touch, and eventually learned to feel air being displaced by moving enemies. Took him about a year in game to perfect it, and until he did while he was learning, he had a different map to the rest of us, and could only see a very short distance.

It did make for some fun, mostly him running into walls because he was moving too fast to detect things in his way before they were right there, but it wasn't too big a detriment.

>>53553521
Granted that would be pretty casual tier I'm Pathfinder.

>>53553452
Derendil is highlighted as a quaggoth in OotA. Suck it.

>>53553504
The bait thread was made when the old thread was on page fucking 2 and was left up. The non-bait thread that went up at page 7, was deleted.

>>53553555
And Shuushar in OotA is outlined as just a regular kuo-toa. That didn't stop me from giving him a level in Mystic. Likewise Sarith was made into an oathbreaker Paladin.

I and my players found it personally more fun if they had class levels. As I believe I outlined, though, they are locked into their class choices, as well as locked into being 1 level below the average party level.

>>53553563
The only aspect of the old threads that was bait was the image, and it's YOUR fault for rising to the bait. Otherwise it's just a normal /5eg/. It's not like the links in OP were replaced with links to pornhub or something, after all.

>>53553394
>lessons from dming with my gf
That doesnt sound appropriate. But I'll give it a read.

I think the RP elements are mostly relationship building between them and NPCs. Like, a certain NPC friend, love interest, business partner, something like that, that wouldn't normally include the party.

Speaking of which, could I make a "GMPC" as a sort of familiar? I am thinking of making a small or medium sized intelligent familiar of some kind as the "follows people around" guy, tgat could potentially be present in most of these solo sessions to help alleviate the combat pressure of being 1 person.

>>53553038
>level 3
>immunity

Nah cunt

>>53553618
>and it's YOUR fault for rising to the bait.
Either you're the baitfag or you're disabled. People didn't rise to his bait images. He himself did. He samefagged like fuck until arguments were unavoidable.

>>53553651
>>53553651
Yeah I should have mentioned to ignore the GF part , it's pretty irrelevant to his advice which is essentially how to run one on one sessions properly. He also gives some general campaign starting tips.

A familiar is fine, infact that's exactly discussed in those articles. I'd let the player control what it does though via commands etc though.

>>53553672
This desu
So many posts are obviously bait poster trying to spur on off-topic arguments like 'Hurr, raycist!'

>>53553663
>Nah cunt
Okay.

For reference, I am giving the 4E Monk a fist weapon that adds his martial die on top of his damage as one of the 4 elements of his choice, as well as giving a +1 to hit and damage, and doubling his total ki points.

I would be more likely to believe the shield is underpowered.

>>53553460
Since it basically counts as a +7 weapon that also means the save DC is 7 times the usual DC.

>>53553674
>A familiar is fine, infact that's exactly discussed in those articles. I'd let the player control what it does though via commands etc though.
I think they expect me to make an actual character though.

As far as I understand, they used to have the GM play a character much like they did, and it worked really well, until he got his character hooked up with a PC, and then the players hooked up, and...

Yeah, the usual story. But aside from that disaster, they liked having the GMPC. I'd just prefer having a... less human character to accompany the party. Like an intelligent animal or something.

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Just a sketch of my Dragonborn Necromancer/Warlock/Sorceror thing...
What do you guys think OwO

>>53553780
good drawing
try cutting off half his tail for more character

>>53553780
Almost as repulsive as you.

>>53553780
looks pretty cool.
ur a huge tool tho

>>53553780
Very nice. Do you take comssions?

>>53553780
Why does he have a saddle

>>53553780
>Tail
>RÈEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Looks nice. What colour?

>>53553822
>>53553823
>>53553827
>>53553838
>>53553844
IT'S NOT A DRAGONBORN IT'S A LIZARDMAN
RRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>53553857
Nah it totally looks like a Dragonborn

>>53553873
Ugly mutated race variants when?

>>53553889
You can already make them apparently

>>53552912

I just ordered the Adventure's in Middle-Earth Player's Guide and Loremaster's Guide. In particular I'm really keen to try out the Journey mechanic and the Audience one-- I think the PHB does very little to help make journeys more interesting than checking off rations and rolling for random encounters, and the inclusion of the Intelligence (Traditions) check makes sense to me as a secondary kind of Party Face role.

Did I fuck up?

>>53553857
I'd love to play a lizardman who hates the shit out of dragonborn (still can't believe dragonborn stuck around as a main race, lizardfolk were FIRST)

>>53553000
>well before we actually need a new thread
I also enjoy watching the thread slow to a virtual crawl and be filled with more shitposting than the start of the thread when everyone's whining about blacks because no one wants to post past 330 because they know it'll disappear soon.

Threads move slower at 330+ at 4pm than they do at 100 posts at 4am. Just fucking move on, we're not going to run out of internet and no one staring at the front page is going to notice that we have a new thread when the old one is only on page 4-5. Who gives a shit?

>>53553944
Good news: no one fucking plays Dragonborn so you'll never have to see or put up with them. At least Drow have desirable stats.

>>53552912
Mountain dwarves at least are largely the same. The main difference being that as dwarves age they become more stone like until eventually they petrify and their spirit moves on to the elemental plane of earth, or the appropriate plane if they worshipped a god. Most dwarves however practice ancestral worship and can commune with their ancestors through their ancestral statues. Hill dwarves are nomads that herd great beasts. Their ancestral statues form a path through the central planes and valleys of the western continent known as "The Homeward Path." Many settlements have formed around this so to make a living trading with the hill dwarves as they make their way through.

>>53553762
Just be a gimpy humanoid. Like a cowardly little kobold that's been sent out by a wizard or some shit to help the characters for reasons.

>>53553452
>want to fugg Tiamat
>requires a DC 34 Persuasion check
>a 20th level bard with no magic items has a 20% chance of boning the dragon god of chaos and evil

>>53554169
>Implying they wouldn't use bardic inspiration for the check and maybe have a level 1 cleric/druid get hired for +1d4

>>53554192
>not having the whole party geared and built just right to maximize the chances of one of them boning Tiamat

How does Relentless Avenger interact with Tunnel Fighter (UA)? Do I get to move every time I make an attack or not at all?

>>53554169
Do you want to be castrated?

>>53554169
tiamat would get soggy wet at the thought of your giant balls if you say you're gonan fuck her

>>53554192
Under the 5e Sex Guide's revised rules for Prestidigitation, actually, that cantrip can be used to add 1d4 to Seduction checks. Like Guidance, basically, but with only the single use. Point being there's no reason for the bard to multiclass.

>>53554318
Jesus fucking Christ, why the absolute fixation on that. Go out there and talk to girls.

>>53553452
kill yourself

>>53554169 >>53554318
Hmm. More to the point, the 5e Sex Guide also provides that a bard who satisfies partner(s) in bed can, once per long rest, grant himself (and the satisfied partners) 1 inspiration die, in an exception to the normal bard rules.

So the bard starts by having "warm up" sex to give himself that inspiration die, which persists for 10 minutes as normal. Thus when he tries to seduce Tiamat he'll have +1d4 for Prestidigitation and +1d6 for inspiration. The bard's ribbon ability can also allow him to grant himself advantage on seduction checks. Average result of 1d4+1d6 is 6.

So a 20th level bard with 20 Charisma, trained and expertise in Persuasion, has a Persuasion modifier of between 19-27, with it usually being +23. On a roll of 11 or better he hits that DC 34. And he has advantage on the roll, which means he has a better-than-50% chance of rolling at least a 15.

>>53554361
Hi there pot, my name's kettle, how's it hanging?

>>53554492
I actually have friends and lots of them, we don't need your shit and especially not that drivel of a homebrew.

>>53553190
I feel like you probably alreadu know this, like your mom must have told you or something, but you know that won't stop the itching, right? Only ignoring it will stop the itching. Like, duh.

>>53554169

Well...
A Bard would just cast Glibness, Enhance Ability and inspire one's self

So with Expertise, at level 20, that's a +17 right off the bat. He needs is another 17, which he has a 40% chance of getting before either Glibness or Bardic Inspiration comes into play, which is a d12

The check is basically a 5% chance of Failure, is what I'm saying

>>53554810
In fact, a 20th level bard with Glibness, Inspire Self and Guidance can not possibly fail to seduce Tiamat

>>53554470
>>53554810
Is this some next level shitposting?

>>53554897
really it's just an excuse to start the bump limit sexy talk early. this is technically on topic

>>53554810
>>53554895
Ok so you have seduced Tiamat. What's the next step in your master plan?

>>53554931
presumably, have sex with tiamat. unless you're fond of blueballing gods

>>53554742
>You think someone would do that? Tell lies on the internet.

Sure man and we all actually play 5e instead of just shit post and theory craft all day.

>>53554959
How does a small bard fuck a gargantuan dragon

>>53554742
Sure, guy. Whatever you say.

>>53554895
I mean, in fairness, you're a 20th level bard. You're one step short of a demigod.

>>53554931
Satisfying her, which is a somewhat taller order given her 30 Constitution.

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>>53554990
Dragons can polymorph, so she does that into a more fuckable form, or you climb on in and begin the next challenge of your journey if you're into that.

>>53554895
Just take a level of wizard as well. Use the wizard feature to reduce the seduce DC by the spell level, cast Glibness, and you can't possibly fail, while retaining your use of the other buffs to the satisfaction roll.

>>53555018
> or you climb on in and begin the next challenge of your journey
Cungeon of Tiamat

>>53554959
Was getting laid part of your plan?

>>53555018
>Tiamat has 5 heads
How would that even work? Giant, 5-headed person? Smaller person with elements of all 5 types of dragons?

Don't silver dragons come out as pale, silver-haired people when they change? And if so, wouldn't that make Tiamat some weirdo with Blue/Red/Black/White/Green all over her?

>>53555161
She has 5 heads but only a single personality, so when polymorphing into a humanoid she'd jut have one-head. She's done this before.

>>53555161
Probably she'd just have multi-colored hair. Not unlike...ah, but you don't want me to post that.

>>53555161
Tiamat would probably have black har that reflects all the chromatic colours and wear fabolously colourfull dresses.

Get the artfags here to draw her.

Would it be a good idea to take a few levels of fighter as a hexblade for a fighting style and extra attack?

>>53555161
Either like >>53555195 said or a Medusa style hair with dragon heads instead. That and she's a god, doubt it's that hard for a god to hang form.

>>53554931
Crushing that puss, with no survivors

>>53554993
>I mean, in fairness, you're a 20th level bard.

Oh, a 17 level bard can do it just as easily, and still have a True Polymorph slot left to do it, while in a Dragon shape

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>>53555226

>>53555018
Bards can polymorph too

>>53555262
>this anon learned one weird trick to trigger Dragonlance fans! Weis and Hickman HATE him!

that's Takhisis, which is a different god regardless of what the DMG says

>>53553173
Instead of using a trident with two hands, use a glaive, and call it a trident.

Because tridents suck, and don't have anything to boost them.

I guess take defense fighting style, because great weapon fighting style is only 1.3 damage on a greatsword, and gets less useful as you go down in damage die.

If UA is allowed, you could take the spear mastery feat.

>>53555312
I just finished reading the original three DragonLance books recently. She's consistantly described as a Lawful Evil five-headed dragon goddess.

Takhisis and Tiamat are the same.

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>>53555357
Checkmate atheists

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>>53555385
Huh, that's new. Shows what I know, I guess.

Of course, the very same edition and writers that changed her to Chaotic Evil also specified that she and Takhisis were the same, so...

>>53553452
To solve the Tiamat problem Legendary creatures should all have their seduction DC and satisfied DCs and any other DCs during sex be doubled.

>>53553762
Honestly it's your game you run it how you want to run it not how they want to run it since they're not the ones actually running it.

>>53555441
I just choose to believe that her statblock saying Chaotic Evil was a misprint.

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>>53555444
But anon, what about regular creatures with legendary actions? Maybe it should just be legendary resistance?

>>53555385
WAAAAAAAIIIIIITTTTT a second! What's this? The 5e PHB specifies her as Lawful Evil, the same as Takhisis.

The Hell kind of ruse cruise am I on?

>>53555503
My players would flip the shit

Does the soul knife mystic treat his weapon's like he is dual weilding?

>>53552912

Eberron Dwarves are best Dwarves same for Gnomes

>>53555503
Just because it has legendary actions wouldn't make it a legendary creature. A goblin boss definitely isn't "legendary," but a dragon, deity, or lich is. If there exists a goblin that did become "legendary" then sure, it gets a doubled difficulty class, why not? It probably wouldn't be that high in of itself anyway if it was a creature like a goblin.

Basically it's to stop ERP horny bastards from fucking their way past all problems. On the upside, if you actually make all the checks and snag a legendary creature in bed even with the doubled DC you're a literal fucking legend.

>>53555444
Doubling them is a bit harsh, since it would make it essentially impossible - Tiamat would then have a seduction DC of 68, which I'm not certain is even possible to hit in 5e. She's also have a satisfaction check DC of 60, which likewise I think is outright impossible.

Mind, this might explain why she's so evil. Get it? Get why she's so evil? IT'S BECAUSE SHE HASN'T EVER HAD GOOD SEX.

Something more reasonable might be that creatures with Legendary actions get to add their proficiency bonus to Seduction and Satisfaction DCs, but this requires a fair bit of reverse-engineering stat blocks, something I wanted to avoid.

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Was there an update to Mystics? Someone give me a quick rundown

>>53555444
And then the no fun faggots show up

>>53555664
Author of the document here. In fairness, I do agree that it should be harder than it is. Not impossible, though.

>>53555638
I'm sticking by my guns that it should be a 100% increase to DC class. Raised by 50%, rounded up is my compromise.

Horny lore bard singing praises with the guidance and blessing of the deity of love is a thing. DM giving the players +5 items to seduction rolls, advantage spells listed in the pdf, and all kinds of other feats and traits would be a thing too.

Fucking a legendary deity like Tiamat should be sufficiently difficult. It's not impossible to make a 68 DC check. Just damn near impossible. You'd better git gud if you want to fuck a goddess of evil, you twats.

>>53555503
>Here's an example
>It's a goblin that attacks twice
>Oh and its legendary actions are..
>Move
>Attack
>Attack twice?
The multiattack shouldn't really be an option, it kinda defeats the points of legendary reactions spreading out the bosses turn over a round. Especially when multiattack is literally just two regular attacks unlike some creatures who, say, 'Use X and then attack with this and then attack with this'

>>53555701
>68

Bard Crit Expertise Max Self Inspire Guided and a Luckstone can reach an absolute maximum of 50. Let's say 51 for tome of Leadership (18 + 20 + 12 + 4 + 1)

How the hell do you get 68, and why the fuck would anyone bother with such a "gotta go fast" tier meme?

>>53555701
100% increase is my issue, if you don't want a horn dog cheesing every encounter make it so the casted bonuses don't stack, only a 50% increase tops or have a straight up they laugh and aren't interested.

>>53555648
Quick rundown on them:

>efreeti bow to the mystics
>in contact with the far realm
>possess psychic abilities
>control Thay with an iron fist
>own castles and banks all over the world
>direct descendants of the ancient royal blood line
>will bankroll the first cities on Athas
>Control the netherese crown
>keep the system of arcane magic down
>keep Zakhara off the maps
>keep the thri-kreen under wraps
>hold back the gods
>keep Drizzt Do'Urden a star
>own basically every research facility on Faerun
>first designer babies will be Mini Mystics
>all mystics said to have 200+ IQ
>ancient Calimshite scriptures tell of angels who will descend upon the Earth and will bring an era of enlightenment and unprecedented technological progress with them
>These are the mystics
>They own WotC R&D labs around the world
>You likely have scrying sensors inside you right now
>The Bogdanoffs are in regular communication with Bahamut and Tiamat, forwarding the word of the deities to their worshipers
>Nation states entrust their gold reserves with the twins. There's no gold in Mirabar, only Miramystic
>In reality, they are timeless beings existing in all points of time and space from the big bang to the end of the universe
>The mystics will guide humanity into a new age of wisdom, peace and love
This is the final redpill. There is no endgame. We are stuck in a revolving door, and only the mystics have the way out. They have, in a way, truly reached nirvana while we are stuck in the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.

>>53555780
>an absolute maximum of 50
Oh and the odds of that are about 0,1% at that too.

>>53555701
>It's not impossible to make a 68 DC check.

I'm actually curious as to how this could be done...

First, our theme: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNM2kEBGiRs

Because we're not talking about any random Bard anymore, we're talking Mick Jagger.

So, 20th level, expertise in Persuasion. He's read the Tome of Leadership and Influence a number of times, so he's got a 30 Charisma (max), giving him a total Persuasion of +22.

Warm-up sex for an inspiration die gives +1d6, guidance of prestidigitation gives +1d4, which means as much as an additional 10 for a total modifier of +33. Multiclassing 1 level into Wizard gives Presto, which lets Mick Jagger cast a 9th level Bard spell to lower the 68 to a 59

But, right now we're sitting on a natural 20 of only 53, which is still 6 points shy of what's needed to seduce Tiamat.

Suggestions?

>>53555780
>>53555787
eh, I'm not going to argue math, I'm only saying that magical seduction items like the Vibrator of Eros exist and will bump up their "to-seduce" modifiers.

50% is fine. Would put Tiamat to 51. I guess it's fine...

>have to choose three more languages
>don't want to pick something ridiculous like infernal or deep speech
>at the same time don't want to walk around knowing fucking halfling

>>53555869
You probably won't regret knowing Goblin.

>>53555915
I could but then again how often do you get the chance to talk to goblins before they attack you

>>53555979
If you don't speak Goblin? Never.

>>53555979
That's up to you.

>Making a new character
>my roomate Chad comes back from work with Stacy and Stacy's girlfriend
>anon what you doing
>making a character for my D&D game
>whats that
>I explain
>Stacy goes "woow that sounds like so much fun"
>both Chad and Stacy wants to make characters and play
>Chad actually sits next to me and makes a character just for fun

So /tg/ how do i tell them that this game is not for them, also I really dont want to play with normies or vaginaniggers.

>>53555869
>>53555915
I'd pick Goblin, Orc and Giant.

>>53555979
>before
You do it after once you've killed most of them and keep one or two around to be your concubines

>>53556016
>how do i tell them that this game is not for them

How do you know it isn't if they haven't even tried it yet? One of them's already made a character for fun.

If you really don't want to play with them, then simply talk to them like a rational human being - but be aware that no hobby benefits from being exclusive.

>>53555869
Draconic comes in handy in dungeons and dragons, and its common enough for every reptile on earth to speak it.

>>53556023
>concubines
I've never seen female goblins outside of CoC

>>53556016
>explain it
>they say it sounds fun instead of 'lmao playing pretend'
>how do I make them not play
is this bait

>>53556059
>female
just dress them up as qt girls

>>53556053
>>53556061
Dude they are your average fratboy and popular girl.

Do you really think they'd like it? Would you even enjoy playing with this kind of people?

>>53554990
Very carefully.

>>53556143
>Do you really think they'd like it?
>after telling us that they liked it
hmm

>>53556016
I don't know how you are about your games, but in my experience, as long as you make sure they come in with the right mindset, playing with normies can be, dare i say, fun. I get that some peolle think of this as their sooper seekrit club, but i think everyone should be allowed to at least try it.

But then again I don't know these people, so they could be completely awful. Just let them play some sort of starter session and they'll be gone quick if the game really isnt for them, or you all might have fun and they could be great to play with.

>>53556143
>Do you really think they'd like it?

Vin Diesel does.

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How do I make my alchemist help in combat more?

Running an alchemist in 5e using this https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9qLj8cUvh00WUR1d1pRNzRtV3c/view

I've been doing ok, mostly igniting tar bombs with spark bombs but I still feel like I'm not actually contributing to battles that much. Any tips?

>>53555850
Ahh I was running off no magic items that enhance modifiers like this, it'd make more sense to me to not have a bunch of random stackable items for just this.

>>53556143
>>53556188
Travis Willingham likes it

>>53556143
>fratboy and popular girl.
In my experience fratboys are really fucking good at D&D, the mumma's basement WoW players are the ones you should be wary of.

>>53556143
You'd be surprised. Some of my favorite people to play with have been people i never would have thought even cared. Especially wih 5e being really accessible, pretty much anyone can pick it up and have fun.

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>>53556200
Oh, also fun story about how I came to be.

>Start first DnD game.
>Go with sneaky charismatic rogue
>Holy shit bottles are insanely useful
>Start hoarding bottles
>A few sessions in we end collect a couple of magical mcguffin artifacts of great power
>Store that shit in empty beer bottles for safe keeping
>Start trying to steal my friends potions to empty them out and keep the bottles
>We decide to respec my character to become a bottlemancer (Alchemist)
>I now throw bombs at things and the gm uses my potions for plot things

>Also pic related happened once.

>>53555462
Sure, but I dont mind trying out their style. No harm trying, it sounds interesting, just unfamiliar.

I am mostly a bit worried about the solo sessions and what the expectations are. The last group does died because someone hooked up during these solo sessions.

>>53556322
Talk to them and explain the situation
>Hey I'm not 100% familiar with this, what all did you guys normally do so I can make it fun and interesting?

>>53555618
To be fair, this off is for playing an ERP game, and is best used as such. The intention is to fuck your way through everything. Otherwise you wouldn't bother with it.

Using it for a solo campaign i plan on running with someone, and the plan is not to be fighting with weapons.

>>53556362
If any of you WOTC cucks read these threads fund it!

>>53553452
What spell do I cast to make the pixie stretch?

>>53556419
Enlarge, but low-level mages have been known to use Grease

>>53556419
Enlarge/Reduce.

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Let's talk about Fighter options. Eldritch Knight vs Champion vs Battlemaster.

1. Which is the superior all-around choice?
2. Which would win in an all-out battle-royal?
3. Which is the most survivable?
4. Which do you personally think is the best?
5. Which would you recommend a new player choose? To have the most fun with?

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>>53556855
To answer my own questions:

1. Battlemaster.
2. Battlemaster.
3. Battlemaster.
4. Battlemaster.
5. Battlemaster.

>>53556855
1. Depends on what you want
2. Eldritch Knight
3. Eldritch Knight
4. UA Knight
5. Battlemaster

Alright best feats for a Dex based paladin using a rapier and hand crossbow for range.

Has anyone got the PDFs for the adventure DM screens, like Curse of Strahd?

It's like the thing the Megatrove is missing

>>53556916
Shield master
Alert
Defensive Duelist

>>53556916
Use the rapier and hand crossbow together, so you can make bonus action attacks, with crossbow expert.

That's kinda it as far as best options go.

>>53557041
Need a free hand to load it

>>53556855
Dude the answer is in the name. CHAMPION
Honestly if you call yourself a "figther" and you're not the CHAMPION you need to pawn your weapons.

>>53556855
1. Depends. EK and Battlemaster take difference roles. However, I'd likely say EK is just about more versatile enough that EK could be it if played be a suitably experienced player with stuff like EE cantrips.
2. Depends on level but likely between battlemaster and EK the EK will win due to having more AC and spells such as blur, mirror image or haste. In particular, EK would definitely win if they had a turn or two free beforehand to buff. Otherwise battlemaster does stand a chance since they have a good 1/2 round burst that would overcome even higher AC.
3. EK.
4. It's all shit.
5. Depends on player. I'd probably recommend battlemaster.


Champion is best if the DM follows encounter guidelines and you do a lot of fighting every day with minimal rests, and does have a place there, but it's an endangered place that almost never exists.

>>53555814
I would actually play a mystic as a paranoid /pol/lack.
>They convene at a council every year, led by visionary mystic figures such as A'lecks Jowns and Miloyian Oppoulos.
>They debate the fate of the world and of the universe, and consistently come to the conclusion that the Kender have perpetrated every evil act in history for the sake of gold.

>>53556916
PAM and taking strength.


Otherwise take crossbow expert then get back to upping your stats.

>>53557070
Dude, even namewise, Battlemaster<<<<<<<<<Champion.

Youre the fucking master of battle, its an art to you

>>53557041
>>53557063
I had planned to use it as a backup and to help in ranged combat situations.

>>53557092
>>53556855
Oh, but also, champion can win on survivability if it's at a high enough level and the adventuring day is really long.

Champion is really the 'endurance' fighter.

>>53557100
But anon most people on /pol/ hate Milo for being a degenerate, at least make your memes correct man.

What would be the motivation for an old, possibly senile character similar to Yoda or Master Roshi joining up with an adventuring party?

>>53556322
Well either don't run the solo sessions or don't fuck anybody during them ?

Is there a written alphabet for the Abyssal language? Tried looking for one but I only found similar things like Draconic and Infernal

>>53557188
Just imagine that the alphabet is all squiggles and do-dads and you'll be on the right track.

>>53557172
One of the party reminds him a lot of his estranged/dead family member.
Its a bit flimsy, but hes senile, so w/e

I'm going to play dnd with a group of autists and my character's backstory is going to be that I found this weird kid and took care of him. I'm going to give strong hints that this weird kid might be a character from our group. What are some funny and embarrassing things that I can say about his character's childhood without making him feel like I'm making fun of him personally. Remember, we're all autists in the group and we were all the weird kid in school. Every weird kid joke that I can come up with feels like it's going to hit him personally.

Maybe I'm overthinking this

>>53557188
it's just the @ character 26 times

>>53557282
Here's an idea - how about you do not do this.

Bladesinger or Eldritch Knight?

>>53557282
Things in which you were embarrassed together.

Autism angst is all about alienation and loneliness, not about being weird and spergtastic

>>53557346
Why not? It will be fun. I already have some hilarious jokes prepared

>>53557353
It depends. Do you want to be a huge cunt with 9 level spells, who chooses to swing his sword around instead? Then pick bladesinger.

>>53557353
Bladesinger is 'I'm a wizard but with high AC' trash
EK is 'I'm a fighter but with high AC' trash
Just play a barbarian if you want to be tanky

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>>53557112
>Using a rapier
>Take PAM and Strength

I guess you get half credit for crossbow expert.

>>53557100
My next character will be the Impeccable Thornere, a rogue that lost his memory but has a talent for stagecraft and speaking.

My DM has already told me that if I regain my memory I can change all of my levels to whatever my previous memory was. I'm immediately becoming a Storm Sorcerer with an anagram of my previous name, becoming the electric Michael Richard Pence

>>53557100
>>53557417
This reminds me of the lich I made that was attempting to make a spell that took the best of all the races and gave them to humans without needing to interbreed to create a superior race.

His name is an anagram for Adolf Hitler

>>53557353
People always ask this question, but the answer is always the same

Valor Bard

>>53557414
I mean, using PAM is better than using a rapier, let's be honest.

>>53557378
>>53557384
I'm trying to make a Witcher type character without making a Warlock.

>>53557146
opinion is divided, just like all opinions on a political forum. even amongst hiveminds there's room for dissent. some hate him for being a faggot, others like him because he's anti-sjw

>>53557464
You mean Mongrelfolk?

>>53557417
>>53557464
I fucking love anagrams. My player's still haven't realized that every place they visit are named by picking a descriptive word and shuffling the letters around.

>>53557417
>>53557464
these are excellent ideas. most of the settings my group played in were decidedly "progressive" due to the dm putting his personal political opinions into the game. next campaign is the polar opposite of our friendgroup's turn to campaign so the setting is going to change completely. Was considering making a character like these.

>>53557487
I remember somebody made a full on Witcher type character, complete with all the signs for 5e. Though I'm not sure what class they started off with

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If I want to become a professional D&D gamer like this team what are some good tips?

>>53557575
Be a girl

>>53557477
No shit but a) that wasn't the question asked and b) I'm building based off an idea even if it isn't optimal.

>>53557559
Yeah, that one is a Warlock.

>>53557503
True it's just last I knew anyone who supported him was called a cuck, degenerate and memed at. Then again this was months ago it got old with little to nothing of what I was looking for popping up any more.

>>53557464
Hillo Dafter is a fine name for a lich

>>53557543
I'm actually doing the same for some of cities in my settings. I doubt they'll ever visit some of them but whatever, at least I'll be prepared.

>>53557509
Not really mongrels it's advanced magic shit, taking the best parts and enhancing humans, pretty much twisting what naturally occurs in humans.

>>53557543
They are fun

>>53557550
Never did like this from either side, it should be a grab bag with the party allowed to influence the direction of the world at Large.

>>53557282
Easy. Make yourself be the retarded kid that you make fun of.

>>53555869
You don't always need to know how to speak orcish, but when you do you really need to know how to speak orcish.

>>53557600
Warlock hexblade or something? That seems close, but you'd have to splash fighter too

Does anyone have any ideas for a quick sidequest on a riverway/rainforest road that the players wouldn't want to skip because they're trying to get to the next city?

Level 3

I have some random encounters prepared and some longer stuff, but I just learned that today the session will be kinda short, and I wanted to do something they could start and finish in about 3 hours aside form just random disconnected things.

>>53557687
this

>>53557715
simple, they have to cross the river. Have them encounter a Troll Bridge

>>53553546
Hi Pathfinder I'm anon

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>>53557748

>>53557737
But that's just an encounter.

>>53557788
Trolls can have demands, anon.

>>53557715
Just pull some mysterious old man out of your ass that's just sitting at the edge of the river and when they inevitably approach him, he gives them a simple fetch quest with the promise of a reward. Have the item they need to fetch be in an underwater cave or some shit.

>>53557715
Spooky mist forest that takes them somewhere.

Maybe it leads them to a small tower no matter what way they walk, they have to go through the few monsters and traps to turn off the mist.

When they do, the forest is full of dead who starved in the mists.

>>53557788
Doesn't have to be. Could just be not in the mood to find and wants to be entertained or something but if your players are like many others they'll just murder it and be on their way.

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How apposed would a aasimar female be to advances from a tiefling warlock? I dont consider the character evil right now just incredibly misguided and a little unstable.

the tiefling in my group has a debilitating obsession, hes wondered for years what would happen if a tiefling mated with a aasimar. when i asked about the roots of this obsession he said that this likely stems from childhood trauma and that the motivation fueling it is exactly %50 sexual and %50 pure curiosity.

also what would be a interesting answer to his question if he accomplishes his goal?

>>53557874
depending on party composition, at level 3 that troll can be one tough nut to crack

>>53557788
Not if the troll's always standing in water, with a shield of acid immunity.

Better yet, a powerful Troll thats only weakness is kindness.

>>53557903
>How apposed would a aasimar female be to advances from a tiefling warlock?
Probably along the lines of "GET AWAY FROM ME YOU CREEP!"

>also what would be a interesting answer to his question if he accomplishes his goal?
a Tiefsamar, obviously. aka a human

>>53557870
Nice.

>>53557903
Why the fuck can't anyone make anything nice!? Jesus Christ

>>53557903
Depends on the tiefling essentially, tieflings aren't necessarily evil they just have the misfortune that somebody in their bloodline made a pact with a devil.

Warlock would be harder to rationalize depending on the patron

>>53557903
I can't think of a single situation in which an assimar would even associate with a tiefling, nevermind mate with one.

Stop bringing this weird fetish shit into D&D.

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>>53557952
Because you touch yourself.

>>53557947
For added fun make the tower super easy, I'm talking a cake walk for level 1s.

It's the forest full of tormented dead who desire nothing more then to eat you have to worry about. Boom, tower defence session activate.

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My friends want me to run a campaign

They hate dungeon crawling and excessive combat, they like mysteries and whodunits and puzzles

Is there any such adventure? It doesn't have to be 5e, I'll just convert it to 5e if it's 3e or pathfinder, but I don't know many other systems

>>53557377
Unless you're making fun of yourself, can you be sure you won't make the game less fun for him?

If you aren't 100% sure, don't do it, because you'll be that guy.

>>53558042
Probably a Call of Cthulu game, make it 5e and bam. Add fantasy and shit.

>>53558042
>>53558063
Tome Warlock villain that's summoning abominations and trying to resurrect Cthulhu.

Party has to try and stop it by solving puzzles and deciphering ancient texts in different languages while using ciphers and dodging a mythical, otherworldly evil.

>>53557975
Of course I touch me, I'm me but we're not here to talk about my raging narcissism. My issue is that out of the twenty or so tiefling I've encountered only two were actually decent characters instead of some crawling in my skin shit.

>>53555227
Make use of the Blade cantrips from the SCAG. That said, if you're taking the Curse Bringer invocation, then prioritize GWM. If you're still set on taking levels of Fighter, either Defense or GWF fighting styles.

If you're going for a CHA one-handed build, the Dueling fighting style and Action Surge are definitely worth it.

>>53558042
Do some Ravenloft.

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>>53557959
its the fiend, Mephistopheles specifically.

the character grew up hustling for a living in a incredibly diverse yet corrupt city where you can find folks of almost every race as long as their not inherently evil savages like gnolls. one day saw a aasimar man being swarmed by admiring citizens and guards who where scuffling to get a look at him. seeing this made him angered him because the aasimer is welcomed with opened arms by strangers for his race and he is rejected and hated for his.

after that he spent nearly all his time and money researching his question and when he ended up broke, he went back to selling fake magic & rare items on the streets. he meet Mephistopheles in disguise when he tried to sell the archdevil a rock he polished and painted to look like a gem. the archdevil wasn't having it and gave the tiefling a choice between burning in hell forever or becoming his errand boy on the material plane. he choose the latter.

>>53558042
You need some Planescape, senpai. Look for the adventure A Boy And His Modron in the Dungeon Master's Guild. It's a Planescapesque adventure set in the Forgotten Realms that ends with the characters going to Sigil if they want to.

>>53558179
Is this a literal cuckold fantasy you're writing here mate?

>>53556016
Invite them properly but say that most of the people playing these typse of games can be pretty autistic and creepy.

Let your party handle the rest.

>>53558179
Aasimer would not associate with a warlock like this, and would probably try to kill it.

>>53557903
Their bloodlines cancel each other out and their descendants becomme common pureblooded humans.

Why didn't they make them into Human Sub-races anyway?

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Do any of you create npcs and use them during your campaigns to see how they'd work as a pc? I create characters and pit them against my players every so often just to see if they'd end up being OP so when it's my turn to play on the other side of the screen I'd know how it could work.

my next set of npcs are going to be mystics multi classed with another class so they have a variety of powers but all centered around a specific job (tank, DPR, utility, etc). I'm going for the X-Men vibe with them

>>53557707
>>53557600
Wouldn't it be better to start with Fighter as a base, maybe even use the Eldritch Knight chassis to make something that more closely approximates a Witcher? They always seemed to have more martial prowess but paired it with Magic Initiate levels if arcane knowledge.

>>53557575
be attractive and charismatic. be female. have a gimmick.

>>53558277
Why multilcass? The Mystic is already designed to do that.

>>53553340
Even your butthole?

>>53557978
Okay, this is what I've come up with:

Shrine of the Spiritual Vines
They'll be walking along the flooded rainforest and notice that the water level is suddenly rising at an abnormal speed. Drowned corpses will start to show up in the water, but their immediate danger is the flood. Moving along large tree roots, they'll eventually spot a shrine raised above the water level. It's a wooden building with no walls and covered in vines. They'll seek shelter there, but there's dangers: when they arive, a haze coming from some brassieres, which seemed harmless, actually makes them over-relaxed and causes their attacks to be weaker, and they're attacked by vines or other plant monsters. To stop these vines from coming, they'll need to extinguish the brassieres. This will not only turn the vines harmless, but also trigger a puzzle presented in wooden tablets that fall from the ceiling. Completing this puzzle will open a trap door and they'll receive thematically appropriate treasure. When they do get the treasure, however, the shambling corpses of the drowned will rise and attack the shrine. Defeating them appeases the spirits and the rains calm down, over the course of the next hours, the water level slowly goes back to normal, and the party can have a long rest in the shrine under protection from the spirits, waking up with 1d6 temporary hit points.

Do you think it's a good idea to give players a pool of characters/builds to choose from, complete with their backgrounds, stories and alignments?

For example, make a pool of 10 interesting, non-overpowered, flavorful characters, and let 4 players pick through them

My players are never going to sit down and flesh a backstory or background or give them any flavor, they just want to play the game and can't be arsed to do a lot of work (that sometimes includes leveling up)

>>53558448
Have you tried getting better players?

>>53558448
Also them see what they say

>>53558448
Wouldn't hurt to try.

Can a rogue dash twice in a turn

>>53558448
I had a friend who wanted to just play and had no interest in setting a character up. I made one for him and recommended a class and race which he was happy with. I then made all of the other decisions for him so he wouldn't have to.

>>53558562
Yes with cunning action and their regular action.

>>53558562
yes, for a total of 3x their speed

When a creature uses a magic item to cast a spell that's not a cantrip, can they cast a spell using a bonus action as well, if it's not a cantrip?

>>53558448
>Players don't care about X
>Well I'll MAKE them care

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Alright /5eg/, my Lawful Good character has a moral dilemma.

>orcs raid the town
>thieves guild is on the loose
>town guard with vast resources does nothing
>be part of the town guard and is unsatisfied with the circumstances
>adventurer party intervenes and saves town
>party finds out that thieves' guild is behind much of the town's businesses
>go to guard captain; he basically says: "Don't bother."
>tell the mayor, he sends in the entirety of the town guard into the thieve's guild headquarters
>thieves' guild escapes, town guard mostly unharmed
>guard captain is angry because he made a deal with the thieves' guild so that they would protect the town as long as the town guard stayed out of the thieves' guild's way
>now he has fantasy cancer/AIDS because he broke the magical contract between him and the thieve's guild master
>currently on a quest to go retrieve a book and a priest to restore his health

As soon as the captain gets better, my character is going to arrest him on the count of conspiracy, collaborating with criminals, and endangering the security of the town. He acted outside of the law, and though with good intention, has ultimately robbed the town of its wealth. Is this the right thing to do?

>>53558610
Why 3x and not 4x?

Dash reads:
>W hen you take the Dash action, you gain extra
movement for the current turn.
>The increase equals your speed, after applying any modifiers.

The first dash makes your speed 60ft, shouldn't the second dash make your speed 120ft?

>>53558679
>you gain extra movement
>the increase equals your speed
movement =/= speed

>>53558654
Only if you have someone you can replace him with, otherwise you're just making a whole lotta new problems and fixing nothing.

What service or program would you recommend for sharing backstories/files among players and DM?

>>53552772
The fuck is a Linnorm?

>>53558734
Google docs, just share the document with each other

>>53558654
Arrest him and ensure a proper guard captain is installed is best case scenario. No matter what he doesn't stay guard captain if you leave.

>>53558614
Depends on the wording
If the description of the item says that you can spend an action to cast a spell, you can't ignore the rules of spells

However, you're the DM, do whatever you want, just change the item, so it has the same effect, but not as a spell but as an ordinary action

>>53558610
So does that mean a fighter with action surge could also dash 90 feet in one turn?

Anons? I'm working on an 5e Oriental Adventures setting and, as part of that, I'm doing a 5e kitsune race.

Now, I've shown it off here twice and both times anons reckoned the race looked pretty balanced, so I'm not so worried about that. But there's something related that I'm struggling with.

Pathfinder has a kitsune racial feat where you buy it multiple times and each time you do, you get a new tail & power: is there any way of converting that mechanic to 5e, given that 5e is a lot more careful about handing out feats than PF?

I took a shot at it in my early days, but the result was... pretty awful.

I was kind of thinking that a single feat that gets stronger as you level up is best? Or could I bake it into the race entirely that you get spells at levels beyond the classic 3rd and 5th? (Right now, it gets two cantrips at 1st level and Faerie Fire at 3rd level.)

>>53558784
>>53558702

Thanks /tg/. The DM will probably punish me/the party for this, but it will be worth it. Death before dishonor.

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If I have the healer feat and sufficient healer's kit charges does that mean I get to heal everyone in my party right before we take a short rest?

>>53558910
I think the tail should only be a ribbon of age.

>>53558915
Such is the life of upholding the law, it especially sucked as a paladin in older editions.

>>53559035
Hm. Well, that's definitely the easiest way of doing it. Still, "more tails = more magic" is kind of baked into the lore of kitsune, so I'd like to at least discuss how to make it work in crunch as well as fluff.

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>when your Bard casts cloud of daggers and you grapple an enemy and hold him in the cloud

>>53559035
In general tails are usually both a signal of age and power, though it depends on which legend you take the fox spirits from.

Korea's version has it so when foxes get to a certain age, they gained 8 tails and magical power, so once you had all 9 tails you gained your power but until then you were just a normal fox
Japan's was that foxes just gained tails and magic as they aged, so depending on your age you would get more powerful and have more tails, peaking at 9

The end result is the same, but Japan's legends had them slowly gain power over hundreds of years while Korea's just got a massive spike

I'm not sure what China's legends are like but if I were to guess it'd be like Japan's

>>53558654
Let him die (maybe bring him a phony book and a phony priest to make it less obvious,) then start systematically exterminating every member of both the town guard and the thieves' guild. Both groups have innocent blood on their hands because of their role in the orc raid, down to the last man, and any just government would hang the lot of them. Unfortunately, this city doesn't have a just government, so you'll have to serve as a substitute.

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>>53559201
>when you knock him prone with shield master, then make an action to grapple him while prone, then use an extra attack to punch him in the dick while he's held down in a cloud of daggers

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>>53559243
>The druid entangles him while prone and grappled in a cloud of daggers

>>53559071
Since so much power comes from levels and class, I feel that any power you get from a racial trait of tails is going to feel like shit. (Oh I am a 1000-year-old youkai, and I can now cast faerie fire innately, fantastic)
Not to mention, it's traditionally age already, why would you disconnect it from that concept? It's no longer accurate to the fantasy.

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>>53559273
>Wizard casting Hold Person while the druid entangles them while prone and grappled in a cloud of daggers

>>53559276
Age means nothing in D&D. Just have tails equal to half the character's class level, rounded up.

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>>53559222

>trips of truth

i know what i must do now

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There's a subterranean train in my setting that runs between several towns. I need some help figuring some things out:

1) Each town is approximately 25 miles apart, or one full day of normal travel to get from one to the next. How long should it take by train to make the train worth taking?

2) As an extension of the first question, how much should a train ticket cost per stop then, to make taking the train a meaningful choice instead of just a shortcut?

>>53559222
>One man gave orders and was the only one involved with the thieves guild
>The other guards were fully ready to uproot the thieves but guard captain tipped them off
>Kill them all because I see it as x

You don't understand how this works do you?

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>>53559305
>Monk runs in and stuns him while wizard casting Hold Person while the druid entangles them while prone and grappled in a cloud of daggers

>>53552912
so I found a group and played a tutorial mission last saturday
it was tons of fun, should've looked for a group earlier
I'm going with a Beast Master Ranger (I know Hunters are a better subclass but I don't want to metagame during my first game)
I've been reading the handbook in my spare time and I'm thinking about trying these in the future:
>Dwarf Barbarian, goes berserk whenever someone calls him short
>Half-Elf(?) Rogue, something like an assassin or some shit
>some sort of a necromancer
>some sort of a shapeshifter
those are just basic ideas for characters I probably won't make for months, but what are some other fun characters/classes/archetypes for total beginners?

>>53559374
>Monk runs in and stuns him while wizard casting Hold Person while the druid entangles them while prone and grappled in a cloud of daggers while the bard sings a bawdy tune

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>>53559374
>He steps into a hunting trap while the monk runs in and stuns him while wizard casting Hold Person while the druid entangles them while prone and grappled in a cloud of daggers

>>53559386
>(I know Hunters are a better subclass but I don't want to metagame during my first game)
I wouldn't call picking a better subclass metagaming

>>53559417
again, I'm a total newfag to dnd and I'm not sure what the correct terms are
I want my first few characters to be fun rather than super powerful

>>53559454
then stop worrying about it and just play what you want.

Has anyone ever done a campaign that went to a completely different plane before?

Like going into the realm of the gods or fiends.

How did it work for you guys? Did you stay there for long or was it only a short session or two? TPK?

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>>53556059
>cute female goblins

>>53559386
I assume you're playing with the PHB ranger, yes? Beast Master is literally non functional. Find Familiar is a better representation of having a companion than that.

>>53559499
Go away fenoxo, I won't play CoC again stop tempting me

>Has a nice group going, 3 people, 2 guys and a girl.
>Girl suggest bringing in a 4. player. Has a friend who might be interested in joining.
>Girl is actually a pretty good gamer, super knowledgeable about the game, and a very good roleplayer. Assumes whoever she is suggesting is at least passable.
>Apparently, new player can't attend for the next two sessions
>Girl suggest holding 2 private sessions to help easy "her" into the group.
>first session on a Friday.
>A somewhat small and quiet girl, 6/10 maybe. Super shy and awkward.
>Makes a thief Rogue, starting at level 7, seems to know what she is doing.
>Takes Thieves Tools, Persuasion, Sleight of Hand and Acrobatics as expertise. Sure she doesn't want Stealth.
>Takes a quick first session where she is travelling towards the location the party is at, has a quick encounter. Seems to know the rules very well.
>End the session at 1AM, after starting at 7PM, seems disappointed about stopping. Schedule next session the following Friday.

She seems like a fine addition to the party, but kinda feel like she will get drowned out by the other very vocal players in the group.

1/2

>>53559402
>Medusa petrifies him while in a hunting trap while stunned by monk while wizard holds person while druid entangles while prone and grappled in a cloud of daggers

>>53559530
>The fucking rogue comes and just throws a net on him

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>>53559520
>tfw no qt 3.14 goblin gf in Call of Cthulhu

>>53558854
Yes.

>>53559599
>The netted, petrified, trapped, stunned, paralyzed, entangled, prone, and grappled enemy in a cloud of daggers was just a regular goblin

>>53559035
>>53559209
>>53559276
>>53559309
So, basically, everybody thinks that since kitsune can take class levels, tails are better handled as some ribbon trait rather than as a racial feat to upgrade your spell-like abilities?

For reference, this is how the feat works in Pathfinder: http://www.d20pfsrd.com/feats/racial-feats/magical-tail-kitsune/

>>53559509
yeah
I'm still not sure whether I want a wolf or a hawk as a companion but find familiar sounds pretty good if I can actually use the spirit hawk as a scout or something. I assume a bat would be even better in caves

>>53559644
When I heard "tail = power" the first thing I thought of is just "You gain at tail every X level" rather than each tail having a mechanical benefit.
Otherwise you can just have it be Dragonmark-like.

>>53559499
Goblins are NOT cute and most definitely not lewd.

>>53559644
Can you repost that kitsune race?

>>53558654
>orcs raid town
oh boy, we've never heard of that one before
>thieves guild
has your DM ever even thought about this, or did he just copypaste it from Skyrim?
>town guard does nothing
What the fuck, so they just stand there while the people who make sure they have something to eat and get paid with die?
>Thieves guild protect the town
Yeah because a bunch of thieves totally want to fight orcs, because they are a thieves guild and not a fighter guild. And they will do it in exchange for pay, instead of just stealing that money from the guard.

Slap your DM for me.

>>53559755
I dunno man, his dubs are greater than yours.

>>53559521
>Next Friday
>Gets to the same frontier town the main group is at.
>Is introduced to the leader of the camp, a huge ass Barbarian, who is taking care of the main defense of the town.
>Asks what she wants to do for the day.
>Starts just looking around the camp, checking out the main base of operation and the people in it. Gives her a ton of information, a lot of it made up, because the other players didn't give a shit.
>Suddenly decides she wants to steal something
>Thief.Jpg
>Wants to steal from the fuckhuge barbarian.
>Tells her that is a terrible idea, he is the main focal point of the campaign, and making him pissed is a good way to get thrown out of the town, and never get to meet the other players.
>She insists.
>Starts surveying his home.
>Tries to break in while he is sleeping.
>This can't end well.
>Sneaks into his bedroom
>God why.
>Tries to sneak up to him.
>W H Y
>H
>Y
>Rolls a 1 on her stealth
>Wakes him up
>Barbarian immediately overpowers her, wondering what the hell to do here
>Asks to roll persuasion
>For what?
>"I was just trying to steal your wedding ring. You shouldn't be holding on to it"
>Rolls 25
>Whelp, didn't expect that.
>Manages to soothe him, ends up spending the night (Nothing lewd though)
>Ends the session there
That went a lot better than expected.

Now her character will be introduced as "apparently having stayed the night at his place", so that's kind of awkward, but that gives it a good angle.

I also have a feeling the chick from my group was trying to set either me or her friend up, because damn, she acted like some awkward fa/tg/uy virgin.

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>>53559763
>>53559721
>>53559644
The real question here is: what's the seduction DC for female kitsune?

>>53558654
Arrest him.
Hand him over to the local lord for judgement.
Find a suitable replacement that is willing to be under a magic oath to prevent corruption.
Set up a few talented youths as spies for the local lord so he can suprevise the guards better.

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>>53559755
Tell that to the short stack thread, there's even a guy writing wow erotic fanfic and I'd be lying if I said I didn't rub a couple out to it.

So far it involves a Gnome, a Goblin, an Elf and a panda thing as far as I can tell.

>>53559499
Man, one time we raided a goblin encampment and killed a bugbear chief as the boss. We went into his bedroom and two naked female goblins were quivering, hiding in his bed. I thought the rest of my party was gonna get lewd. Thankfully we just told them to get lost. I think our DM wanted some weird fetish shit to happen

>>53559791
Kitsune are notorious whores so probably a 2.

>>53558959
Yes.

Don't forget to play a Monk 1/Thief 4.

Max your Dex and Wis.

Bonus action heal everyone.