/5eg/ - Fifth Edition General

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How do I play her in 5e?

>>53799400
champion fighter with magic items

>>53799400
You generally don't play deities, minor or otherwise

>>53799400
>Good in hand to hand combat
>Fights using agility
>Famous for blocking projectiles
>Occasionally uses swords
>Jumps really well
She's a monk. Kensei monk.

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Is this how reach weapons work if you're mounted?

Why do dex dependent classes feel so restrictive?
What's the point of taking a STR weapon on ranger?

>>53799400
Aasimar Paladin who uses a whip and shield combo.

>>53799518
Green area being the weapon range, I mean.

Well, I had my first session with my new group. It was okay.

A bit frustrated by the sheer number of people. Apparently, most of the time, about half the group shows up at any given session, but we had 7 people. Four of which basically didn't talk.

I got to RP as just a chatty salesperson. I was a bit pissed off that the Rogue seemed to be able to use Deception to a much greater effect than my Persuasion. Every party member seems to have secret shit and mechanics going on, but that could just me not knowing what all bonuses they get.

I hate combat without a grid. I hate that no one knows how cover works. I hate that the DM uses critical failures on skill checks, even if he is being reasonable about it. I hate how many attacks people seem to be able to make even though no one seems to know what dice apply where.

But all in all, I had a good time. I want to be more bardy, but I'm having a hard time getting the tone right. I want to be gruff, funny but genuinely inspirational. It is a tall order.

Also, the Rogue is totally CN, not TN.

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I'm a foreverdm that just got the chance to join a "dark fantasy pirate" campaign. Been awhile (lol) since I played, what's some cool class combinations and such for a pirate?

What's a fun lvl 15 build for a ranger/fighter?

New DM here, are there any online resources that essentially are full of quick references regarding all minutia? Stuff like how chases work, what stats affect actions (jump distance, holding breath, etc.), and every other minute rule I don't immediately remember, in a DM screen format if it exists? I could make this stuff, but I'd prefer not starting from scratch if it already exists.

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What are the cultural counterparts of Forgotten Realms nations?

In my experience, I've mostly played with home-brewed settings and come up with them. Now I want to do some adventures in the FR setting soon. I've done some research on my end, and so far, the consensus is pretty much "generic medieval fantasy". The 5e SCAG was a good resource, but has scant information that I'm looking for.

I've come up with a few cultural counterparts myself, and if there are any suggestions feel free to add:

Sword Coast & Moonshae Islands = Medieval Britain
Heartlands(Cormyr, Dalelands, Sembia) =
Cold Lands(Damara, Sossal, Vaasa, Moonsea) = Germany & Scandinavia
The Lands of Intrigue(Amn, Calimsham, Tethyr) = Moorish Spain, North Africa
The Old Empires(Unther, Mulhorand, Chessenta) = Babylon, Egypt, and Ancient Greece/Byzantine Empire respectively

>>53799706
Wa is japan, I forgot the mongolian and chinese and korean counterparts names, but they are there.

>>53799704
Check the github. It has everything you need.

>>53799741
I already have checked it, there wasn't anything like a DM screen reference, I'm just wondering if anyone else has a resource similar to what I need.

>>53799706
Heartlands are french and fantasy places, pretty much literally !shire and the like.

>>53799766
Your request is specific.

Go to the github, find the rules you want, and make your own. You'll be doing yourself a favor.

>>53798074
>I suppose they made a mystic, and now fear it will get nerfed.
It's casterfags fearing that there's a class that finally outdoes them and that it WON'T be nerfed.

You're not going to find a Mysticfag saying "nothing about the class needs to be fixed or nerfed". The autists are the ones screeching REEE PSIONICS DON'T BELONG IN MY FANTASY ELF GAME even though they've got more historical representation outside of fucking Tolkien and especially in the kinds of stories that D&D was made to emulate.

>>53799778
Eh, I suppose; I was just hoping I didn't have to make a bunch of reference sheets like I had to make cards for all the spells and cantrips. C'est la vie

>>53799825
DMing may not be for you, half of prep is making reference sheets.

>>53799613
>I hate that the DM uses critical failures on skill checks
what's so bad about that?

>>53799798
Star Wars, get out.

>>53799704
dndbeyond.com

>>53799866
Not Star Wars, that's just a fucking samurai story.

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>UA Ranger
>Shield Master, Spear Master UA
Beast Master, Hunter or Primordial Guardian?
Or is this idea just garbage?

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>>53799916
>As a bonus action on your turn, you can increase your reach with a spear by 5 feet for the rest of your turn.

Pick Hunter. Go Bugbear. 20ft reach.

>>53799857
>roll a 1 on acrobatics
>you break your legs

>>53799973
disregard this, i am retarded. spear does not have reach, i was thinking of a different weapon.

still, my advice sticks. go Hunter.

>>53799987
Really depends on what you were doing

Jumping over a roofs, yeah i'd expect you to break your legs

but doing a little jig or something i'd expect something comically funny to happen if you'd roll a 1

that's what the dm should do

can't have no reward if there's no risk

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>>53799619
>awhile (lol)

Hey /5eg/, are there any decent modules to run for kids? I just got back home from my last year at college, and my little brother and sister (12 yo and 14yo, respectively) want me to run a campaign for them and one of the neighbor's kids over the summer since I've been sending them stories over the last few years about my campaigns

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>>53799619
>awhile (lol)

Which is more useful, Fog Cloud, or Detect Magic?

>>53800138
Lost Mines. Almost always the best first recommendation.

I'm shoving a small secret dungeony thing under the church my players have decided to occupy as their own, since they're renovating it and I like the idea of them discovering something interesting as a result.

So far I've dropped a couple of extra plot hooks in there using the main room as a meeting chamber, but I was wondering what else I might fill it up with. It's sort of a crypt, but I'm willing to do whatever with it.

Anyone got any floating ideas they've wanted to put in a place irrelevant to everything else?

>>53799855
I've already been prepping for the past week, it's no skin off my teeth, I just didn't want to do more if resources were already available.

Giving advice may not be for you, half of helping a DM is not telling him to give up

>>53799613
Deception should generally result in better results than persuasion, but be more risky.
Secret shit and mechanics and all that I could easily explain if I was there since I actually know all the rules.
Attacks, depends what level you are but level 1-4 usually you make either one attack or two attacks with a feat, level 5+ you're making two attacks or three attacks with a feat.

Not having a grid sucks. People not understanding the very simple concept that is cover / prone sucks.

Critical failures on skill checks are like >>53800030
says.
Critical failures should only happen if there's something to critically fail at. I find it ridiculous that people get mad because critical failures exist when they should do, 'How DARE my actions have consequences if things just happen to not go my way!' they say, firing an arrow into a dense crowd of people at an enemy and hitting someone who isn't the enemy. If it's 'there's only one other person standing 15ft away from your target but you hit them accidentally' then yes, that's fucking stupid.

As for being more bardy, I don't know. Carry a book of poems with you?

>>53800188
You said you were new to it, so I was just letting you know that its gonna be a lot of prep and you sounded like you weren't enjoying prep.

>>53799916
Primeval Guardian. You can be the king of trees.

>>53800114
>>53800142

Yes yes, awhile, like 4-5 years.

So, any unorthodox pirate ideas?

>>53800197
It really seemed to be more useful because he could use deception against the party, but I feel weird using persuasion against the party.

We're level 5. The bird person seemed to do like 3 attacks, adding sneak to one of them and not others. Which makes sense, but seemed to confuse him.

The halfling rides a panther and seems to have like 5 attacks. One of which deals additional cold and one which knocked someone prone.

Funny you picked the one scenario where crit fails do exists, attack rolls. I just don't care for it. I don't like crit successes for skill checks either, but it has all been within reason.

It needs to be pithy and not pretentious poetry though. I'll look into it.

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>5e
>playing a mountain dwarf martial (rip)
>tired of doing scottish accent
>start losing interest in character's story/motivations (recover clan artifact, fulfill oath, etc)

wel'p

>>53799916
There's no real point to it, but if you just want to play 'for fun', I guess go ahead?

>>53800278
Just start doing the scottish accent again, no?

Problem solvered.

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>>53800263
>Been [adverb: awhile] since I [verb: played]
>Awhile means a short time, not 4-5 years
>use of 'lol' on 4chan

You could just do the boring thing and play a swashbuckler / rogue with hand crossbow refluffed as pistol.

>>53799518
>>53799518
pls respond

>>53799871
Thanks, good resource!

>>53800278
>Getting bored of playing a dwarf
>Ever

>>53800283
I'm just trying to think of something interesting for a Ranger. But the class just seems so lame.

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Has anyone played or had an artificer played in their campaign? If so, how was it?

>>53800350
http://www.sageadvice.eu/2016/11/17/while-mounted-are-all-creatures-within-5-feet-of-your-mount-considered-within-5-feet-of-you/

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Hey, so for Barbarian's Rage feature, it says Rage grants advantage for Strength checks and Strength saving throws.

Does "Strength checks" include attack rolls based on Strength?

>>53799470
short swords are in fact a monk weapon.

>>53800385
>Does "Strength checks" include attack rolls based on Strength?

Reckless Attack

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>>53800359
Metagame wise it's just a variant fighter that works best with archery and at level 11 differs from fighter by having an at-will AoE instead of making more attacks and also at level 3 getting a bit of AoE there too.
So eh.

You can go melee on a ranger, but there's no benefit over being ranged instead. Also, shield master and spear master kinda conflict because bonus action economy. And PAM would probably be better.

>>53800376
Christ, that's shitty.

>>53800385
no, a strength check is something like Athletics

I know I was thinking this too when I made a barbarian

>>53800402
How the hell can you possibly attack then unless you're using a weapon with reach or ranged?

Psionic Restoration lets me remove diseases. Is lycantrophy concerned?

>>53800428
Do a ride-by. The horse doesn't take all of the space, nor do you or your enemy take all of their space.

>>53800445
Werewolves are so fucking gay

>>53800343
English ain't my first language and I write what I want, regardless of "4chan culture" or whatever you're referring to.

>>53799916
Problem is you are going to be shit with a spear unless you can use it with Dex.

The feat is clearly designed with the monk class in mind.

>>53800445
Lycantrophy is more of a curse than a disease, so most likely not.

>>53800460
Can you move into an enemy's space? how does that work exactly?

>>53800511
Technically, no, not without rules like overrun.

However, no reason you have to follow that exactly when it makes sense and the DM would be stupid to tell you 'no'. You wouldn't even really be in their space, just getting closer for an attack.

Ultimately the difference is that you're probably in the centre of the mount and thus cover 5ft radius which only ends up covering parts of some squares so chances are enemies that are diagonal to you might not be in your threat range.

Is the Eldritch Invocation: Improved Pact Weapon as useless as it seems? I mean you can just get a normal focus and a magic weapon that you find as your pact weapon.

>>53800510
>Lycantrophy is more of a curse
Lycanthropy is a gift.

>>53800565
its useful for the invocation weapons

Lore Bard 6, War Cleric 2, Warlock 1, leveling up from there would 1 more in Cleric, 2 more in Warlock, and the rest in bard. Does it seem like a solid build?

>>53800590
Those don't exist anymore.

>>53800408
That's what I thought, based on how the book was using ability checks. Seems fair to me, Rage already seems to be pretty good.

>>53800607
In the new UA it also makes your weapon an arcane focus, which can be useful

>>53800658
How? Arcane focuses are just items you can buy or start with, right?

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>>53799387

I'm having the overall antagonist of my world be the Gith Queen Lich Vlaakith. However I don't know too much about her and although she may be different in my world than in the fluff, I preferably would like her to resemble her canon self. I know she's in her own adventure model but I can't find a pdf of it. I know she's basically a wizard on crack, but what other special features does she have/know?

>>53800376
That doesn't make any sense. In the phb size refers to an area the creature controls not the actual size. It's only logical to assume you could steer the horse slightly left or right within that space.
If it was a huge creature, that explanation would make more sense.
I would rule >>53799518 to be correct if you're on a horse or similar.

>>53799645
Anyone?

>>53800671
you need to hold your focus

>>53800684
By that logic, if you're on a 50ft horse you can make an attack against an enemy 25ft away from you with a club and then 25ft to the other side with a club then 25ft to another side with a club and so forth.

Of course, for normal play it's easier to rule it how you've said, but I think having a seemingly reduced attack area makes sense and it encourages people to use polearms while on a horse.

>>53800593
No. What, why? What are you trying to accomplish?

>>53800724
No that's why I claimed if you're on a huge creature 15x15ft or larger, it would make more sense, as you're probably sitting on the neck of a dragon for example. But with the 10x10ft creatures you're stuck in this awkward halfsquare centre.

>>53800789
The answer is probably to fit the large creature onto a 5x5 space instead of trying to fit you into a 10x10 space.

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>>53800593

>>53799645
>>53800703

11 levels archer battle master. Hand Crossbow, Crossbow Expert, Sharpshooter.

4 levels hunter ranger because I guess

>>53800704
So basically without that Invocation, I can't wield a two handed pact weapon and also cast a spell that is somatic and requires materials / a focus?

>Goblin
>UA Ranger-Beast Master, Fighter-Cavalier
>Spider companion
Can I become a spider knight or is it too gimmicky?

>>53800817
Possibly. However i think the interesting question with the reach, as I'm assuming he's using a lance; Can you ride by a guy with a sword and hit him with your lance while staying out of his reach?

>>53800879
I'd say yes, because your horse is probably going to be about 7.5ft away on attack instead of 5ft away.

>>53800863
I'd go for deep gnome but you do you

>>53800861
>I can't wield a two handed pact weapon and also cast a spell that is somatic
You can, removing just one hand from your weapon to cast a spell is a free action

>and requires materials / a focus?
Yes, you need the focus, OR you can get a component pouch, this way you don't need a focus.

so
Component pouch > arcane focus

>>53800726
My party is in serious need of a really diverse support role, I figured it would give me access to a lot of utility

>>53800917
But what about somatic requirements? They require a free hand right? So you can't wield both a focus and a weapon?

>>53800970
>Two handing weapon
>remove one hand from the weapon as a free action
>cast the spell
>hand back to the weapon

>>53800704
>>53800861
>>53800917
The advantage of a focus is that you can use it for somatic components at the same time as using it as a material component (but not use it as a somatic component if you're not using it as a material component)

>>53800445
>>53800510
>>53800584
Let's just say that Crawford would be out of his goddamn mind if lycantrophy could be cured by a level 3 mystic

>>53801053
Can it be cured by a parahpt of health

>>53800863
Gnomes probably fit spider riders more, honestly. But I guess a goblin could work since they are used as slaves by the drow to milk silk from spiders

>>53800138
I got an idea from a video (other anon's here probably know the one) that I'm gonna be running for my brothers this month. Really simple, basic idea, nothing fancy.

>level 1 party
>blacksmith's daughter kidnapped by goblins
>group has to track them down
>has to roll checks to follow the tracks or talk to the townsfolk enough to know where to go
>have to travel northeast through the forest
>the goblins have taken over the ruins of an old outpost of knights from a fallen kingdom
>there is a group of 2 goblins outside the door lazily keeping watch
>there is also a group of 2 goblins patrolling the area, but the party won't know that
>depending on what they do or how they act they'll either encounter the patrol or won't
>if they encounter the patrol as soon as one goblin dies the other will begin running to warn the others, including the guards at the entrance
>if they don't encounter the patrol they will ambush them in the next encounter inside of the dungeon
>the dungeon itself is short, with about 5 simple rooms
>1st room is a normal entrance with paintings on the walls
>2nd room is an offering room with a hint to a puzzle at the end in front of the bowl, as well as paintings detailing what the order of knights was like
>continuing onwards triggers a pressure plate trap, shooting arrows against the leader of the party
>as they continue to the third room 3 goblins will be there

>>53800951
Here's how you support like a pro:

Take your first level in Life Cleric. This gives you heavy armor and shields and Disciple of Life, as well as access to cleric cantrips (Guidance, Sacred Flame) and Bless (the best early level buff) and Healing Word.

The rest of your levels go in Lore Bard. At Bard 6 you pick up Aura of Vitality as one of your Magical Secrets.

Congratulations, you now have all the support people could want, and are the best goddamned healer in the system, since at level 7 your Aura of Vitality is healing someone for 2d6+5 HP every round for 10 rounds.

>>53801088
>if alerted they will be in cover with weapons drawn, otherwise the party gets the drop on them as they screw around
>if the patrol was never encountered the 2 goblins will come up from behind and pinch the party from both sides
>4th room will be the room the blacksmith's daughter is in
>has a goblin shaman (basic mage with a cantrip or two) and a bugbear who is the leader of the goblins
>party will learn before this that the goblins are sacrificing her to their dark god and the ceremony begins from noon and ends at midnight
>players will be given a chance to rest before this encounter, and may find alchemist fire or healing potions on a goblin or two
>once they save the girl the players will be presented with a puzzle
>solving it leads them to a treasure room with one or two uncommon magic items including a +1 weapon
>when the party gets back I'll have thought of a hook for adventure #2

>>53799798
Most of the really bad posts have been by people supporting mystics.

Most of the anti-mystic posts are lists of what is wrong with them. Obnoxious, but only because it happens to derail the thread.

Mysticfags are insufferable cunts, who just copy pastes replies which are all essentially "NO U" posts, with 0 substance, either attacking the anti-mystic posters and ignoring the points, using the "they are fine if you heavily modify them from RAW" logic, or just repeating themselves after already having their argument debunked.

Both should stop posting, but at least I understand why people feel the need to debunk the bullshit that Mystics are somehow in need of BUFFS, that one of thr mysticfags started saying lay thread. Because come on, I dont care what side of the fence you are, but if you legitimately want to insist that they need buffs, you are either trolling, or actually retarded.

So hey, I haven't really played D&D since 3.5, but I still got most of the rules

Thing is, I was asked to run a game for some super green people. I am trying to minimize the things I have to learn, because I'll have to know everything, and most likely explain things to them when they arise.

Do you guys think I could learn the upgraded things from 5E, and give it a go, or go and look for a more rules-light system?

They aren't really certain of what kind of game they want. And I figured that if someone is uncertain in what ttrpg to play, you can never go wrong with ye old classic D&D

>>53800376
That actually fucks the cavalier even harder.

You only get a benefit when within 5 yards of your target.

Jesus Christ, why are they even releasing that shit.

Joining a party with a totem Barbarian, Beast Revised Ranger, ranged Fighter, Fiendlock, and unnarmed homebrew fighter, what class would best compliment them?

>>53800565
Depends on the GM.

Some will never give you a magic weapon..then That +1 is nice.

Considering how strapped you are for invocations, i would probably still skip it.

don't you guys have a discord

>>53801160
Trust me dude, 5e is the most rules light thing you will experience in the DxD genre. Its probably your best option.

>>53801242
We don't talk about it.

>>53801160
5e is alright for new players. Everything boils down to "add advantage/disadvantage, stat and/or proficiency to d20 roll trying to hit x number". Chargen is pretty quick and shouldn't take more than 20 minutes. Balance is better than 3.5

If your players would still be confused by archetypes etc. you could try B/X instead but then you'd dooming them to a future of only knowing the Basic ruleset and only playing with the approximately 5 OSR grogs in the planet

>>53801221
Life cleric

>>53801088
Hey my GM used this too.

It was pretty neat. Lot of travelling around, meeting people, using different skills etc.

I can definitely recommend that.

>>53801280
What else? Never really got into Clerics

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>Interesting character ideas are too gimmicky to be useful, require ignoring rules or take too many levels to get going
what do I do?

>>53800343
>uses reddit spacing
>bitching about the use of 'lol'
You're worse.

>>53801307
The truth aint always pretty friendo

>>53801318

>reddit spacing

You're a fucking retard.

>>53801270
well i would be interested in joining if there are any invites

>>53801095
the uncommon magic item is cool little reward, something like a ring of protection, ring of waterwalking

the +1 weapon is REALLY strong for a basic starter adventure

>>53801311
Do what I do

Accept that you're going to fairly useless in combat for a bit, and pray/urge the DM to realize that fact and design around your useless ass.

>>53799518
I have been told this is how it works if you use a reach weapon while mounted, and I think it is because your character is considered to be in all 4 squares of a large mount while riding it. This is what I have been told by various friends and DMs in my area.

>>53800607
Frankly I'd just "GM fiat" the invocation to +2 and +3 as the campaign progresses. Something like - if the player finds and performs their pact ritual on a +2 magic weapon, then any weapon created by the pact feature is +2 from then on.

>>53801307
They're in dire need of utility/support, so try a wizard, bard or rogue in about that order

>>53800850
Can you dual wield the hand crossbow?

>>53801338
>He says, as he reddit spaces

>>53801606
No. You still require a free hand to reload the crossbow. CBE removes the loading property meaning it no longer takes a bonus action to reload, however it does not change the Ammunition property which is what states that the user requires a free hand.

>>53801606
Only if your DM doesn't hate fun. Dual wielding crossbows isn't even more effective that shooting the same crossbow twice. In fact, it's less effective, if you happen to find a magic crossbow.

>>53801652

Same way I, and others, have posted on 4chan for over a decade. Fuck off back to where ever you came from.

>>53801694
More shots will out perform a higher damage die. 1d6+mod+1d6+mod > 1d12+mod. Or 1d6+mod+1d6+mod+1d6+mod > 1d12+mod+1d12+mod at level 5.
Especially with the Sharpshooter's Steady Aim feat.

>>53801705
>needing to say how long he's been on 4chan
>hmmm

How do I point buy or standard array a hill dwarf monk?

>>53801705
>>53801746
ladies, please, you're both pretty. Now shut the fuck up, because nobody here cares about your petty squabble about who's a more 1337 internetz person

>>53801760
Im a 3rd person

>>53801705
How about you fuck off back to plebbit?

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>Sorcerer casts aoe spells at a single target hitting everyone in melee because it does slightly more damage than single damage spells
>Doesn't even bother taking careful spell

>>53801908

You first, retard.

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>>53801910
>play barb
>take tavern brawler
>use sorcerer as weapon
Show them how it feels.

>DM is running an Underdark campaign
>cannot think of a single character idea that fits with this campaign idea
Why does everything seem so boring? Is 5e anti-fun?

>>53801971
No, you're just a boring faggot.

>>53801971
Maybe its you that is boring?

>>53801971
Goblin shadow monk

>>53801920
You sure showed him.

>>53802007

What, you want to see a dick measuring contest or something? Go watch gay porn then. The guy's a dumb faggot and you are too, now fuck off back to your respective shit holes.

>>53801990
>>53801996
Would you rather be a guy who says "I attack" every round or just use the same small pool of spells every round?
Or you could be an unoptimized mess.

>>53801971
dwarf explorer who got lost looking for gems and fell into the underdark

kobold tribal who's tribe got ransacked now is trying to find a great wyrm to follow

drow wizard trying to steal ilithid brains

Is there any way to make a character who fights primarily with throwing darts/daggers effective at low levels?

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Any ideas on 2 players playing a single, 2 headed creature?

>>53802231
That sounds like a horrible idea.

Does anyone here have a 'lax' group?
I'm trying to start a new cam[paign that really allows for people to play without huge commitment. I know a bunch of people who's love to play, but the thought of signing on for a whole campaign scares them. I've ran a few oneshots (which went really well) but I want to have a larger scale thing, even if there's only one or two consistently recurring characters.
How do you guys handle situations like above? Explain away the disappearances and sudden appearances of characters? I was thinking that I'd have my PCs apart of a small guild, and they get paired up and reinforced as I need.

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>>53802231
There's a reason that multi-headed creatures in this game are almost always insane and evil

>>53802231
do some kind of everyone-is-john control switching, where they can contest their will in a CHA or WIS contest 1/round.

Give them the ettin's Two Headed feature:
Two Heads. The ettin has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks and on saving throws against being blinded, charmed, deafened, frightened, stunned, and knocked unconscious.

Wakeful. When one of the ettin's heads is asleep, its other head is awake.

You have to count on your players not being complete shits for it to work, but it could be fun with the right group.

>>53802478
to elaborate, they act on the same initiative. If they agree on what to do, then there's no contest, but if they want to fight they make a contest.

If they have multiattack you might let one player roll one attack, and the other roll another so they both get to roll dice (when they both agree to attack, for example).

>>53801221
>>53801089

>>53801753
Either 14 dex 16 con 14 wis with 8 points for dump stats or 15 dex 16 con 16 wis with 2 points for dump stats and looking at getting a +1 dex feat

>>53801318
>Wow they put some space between two parts of their posts like ONCE to seperate a change of tone between 'fuck off to reddit' and 'also, here's a really boring suggestion'
>Wow they made a 5 word complaint about 'lol' and continued on with their post

>>53801753
15 dex, 15 con, 15 wis.

You'll end up with 17 con, 16 wis, 15 dex.
At level 4, grab +1 con +1 dex.

Hopefully your DM allows the superior point buy 30 (or 32, 34, whatever) to allow you to customize your dump stats just slightly.

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How do you best use the darkness ability as a Shadow Monk?

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>>53802199
Sure. You're explicitly allowed to throw daggers in two-weapon fighting. Get two-weapon fighting style and dual wielder feat and you can just be ranged dagger guy. If you want to be cheap, you can just buy a shitload of war darts and improvise them as daggers (they deal the same amount and type of damage and are roughly the same size) and use them as improvised daggers as per the improvised weapon rule.

Alternately, you can just buy a shitload of war darts, take the archery fighting style + the sharpshooter feat and just throw one a turn really hard. If somebody closes in improvise them as daggers.

>>53799518
>>53801549
No.
One, your natural reach is determined by YOUR size, and you do not BECOME a large creature while riding a large creature. You are not considered to be occupying all four squares, and no part of that makes sense. RAI, horses also don't have 10ft natural reach- such a thing has been referenced in past editions and other games, and it's a pretty safe/logical bet.

Personally, I don't even have horses/centaurs and the like take up four grid squares, they take up two. You ride on the back square of a horse, and use your own reach/etc.

>>53802951
Is war dart different from dart?

>>53802861
By taking 2 levels of Warlock to get Devil's Sight.

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>>53802956
For example, this is what your reach with a lance looks like in my games.

What's everyone's thoughts on the Seeker Warlock archetype from UA? It sounds like fun, but I don't really know how helpful it would be for anyone that isn't a Pact of the Blade or Tome Warlock.

Also, does the wording for Astral Refuge imply you can cast a ritual spell while in there? I feel like that'd be overpowered but it makes sense to be able to seeing as you can use Astral Sequestration to take a short rest without time passing.

>>53803000
No. It's just a dart. I only added war dart to differentiate it from the modern dartboard dart, since those are scarcely larger than a hand and definitely can't be improvised as daggers.

>>53803061
>061 ▶
>>>53802861
>By taking 2 levels of Warlock to get Devil's Sight.
Wouldn't taking the alert feat help you out enough that you wouldn't need two levels of warlock?

>>53802199
It works if you're a rogue or even a barbarogue, but as a rogue it's inferior to hand crossbow with CBE in every way except requiring a feat and as a barbarogue you shouldn't have an issue getting close anyway / if you're strength barbarogue you don't add rage damage to ranged attacks.

So I guess, oddly, it works best on a barbarogue maybe?

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>>53803073
these would be 15 ft. reach

>>53803094
Nope, you need Devil's Sight in order to be able to see through Darkness (spell) and turn the Disadvantage into Advantage.

>>53803292
>Disadvantage
Don't you attack normally in darkness if the enemy is also blinded?

>>53803284
How about 20ft reach anon

>>53803327
That's not even possible...

>>53803353
Bugbearmont's 40 foot reach wants a work with you.

>>53803094
The alert feat wouldn't negate the fact that you also have the blinded condition while in darkness.

Basically, while in darkness firing out:
>You have advantage to hit, they can't see you
>You have disadvantage to hit from being blinded
>You have disadvantage to hit from not being able to see the target
and in reverse
>Enemy has advantage to hit you since you can't see it [Negated by alert]
>Enemy has advantage to hit you because you're blinded
>Enemy has disadvantage to hit you because it can't see you

And if you're out of darkness and it's firing out
>Enemy has advantage to hit you because you can't see it [negated by alert]
>enemy has disadvantage to hit, blinded
>Enemy has disadvantage to hit, can't see out
and in reverse
>You have advantage to hit, it's blinded
>Advantage to hit, it can't see you
>You have disadvantage, you can't see it

So it only helps in the specific instance that you're outside darkness and it's inside darkness.

>>53803353
Bugbear with a lance and the lunge manouver I think

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>>53803404
>>53803094
Oh, also
>Taking feats other than mobile as a monk
>Ever
>When you crave ASIs so much already and get hardly any

>>53803444
Im taking athletic because my dex score is odd

>>53803481
Why is it odd and why don't you have two odd stats?

Does teleporting behind an enemy and attacking count as "surprise"?

>>53803401
>40 feet
how?

>>53803508
Because I honestly have no fucking idea, i put my wis as 14 on the standard array and put my 13 into my +1 stat

>>53803525
Bugbearmont is a meme build, is there a pdf of the build somewhere?

>>53803555
Well, if it's standard array you have my pity, because standard array hates MAD classes, as if monk wasn't punished enough.

Point buy is way better.

>>53803525
Mystic 9/Primeval Guardian Ranger 3/Battle Master Fighter 3
Whip: 10 feet
Bugbear: 15 feet
Mystic giant growth focus + become HUGE: 30 feet
Become a tree: 35 feet
Lunge attack: 40 feet

>>53801140
>anti-mystics are attractive and intelligent gentlemen of good breeding having mature discussions that tackle the issues and concisely state our incredibly valid and well-reasoned points while banging supermodels
>miserable mysticfaggots are shit-eating kiddy-diddlers who deserve to be shot
>I'm not taking sides because both are equally bad and you can tell I firmly believe that because I wrote it, but mystics are the worst thing to ever happen to the world
Your entire post is the zero-substance no u you're crying about. I just read through the last thread this argument came from and no one said Mystics should be buffed, either. Are you on drugs?

What kind of minions would a coven of sea hags have?

>>53803635
Covens of tiny hags.

>>53802861
Break LoS on enemy spellcasters so they're stuck doing nothing or wandering blindly into your party.
Cover light sources so that you plunge the room into regular darkness and bonus action Teleport everywhere. You do have Darkvision, right?

>>53801140
Never go full autistic retard.

>>53803635
A wizard capable of casting shere of water with really high con so he can keep concentration easily, the sphere of water has a swarm of quippers inside it

>>53803605
Is it possible to cast a spell such as enlarge person after that?
Wait, didn't one of the barbarians get bigger when they raged? Probably not, might just be me.

>>53803605
Were does the tree come from on this

>>53803687
Enlarge/Reduce doesn't give you more reach anyway.

>>53803826
Primeval Guardian Ranger's level 3 feature.

What are some really fun classes/multiclasses to play?

>>53803830
You don't need more reach. Being a larger size means you cover a larger area unless I'm somehow mistaken. creature that takes up a 15ft by 15ft space with 5ft reach can actually attack things that aren't in its square, right?

>>53803404
So what's the point of using darkness except to escape?

Total newfag to 5e trying to set up a character for a level 3 oneshot some friends were pushing me to join to get into the system. I looked at Monk and Way of the Kensai via 5etools and liked what I saw, but feel too blind to actually judge it myself. Does it actually hold up? Is monk even beginner friendly/not a liability to their party in this edition?

>>53803900
To fuck with people to make them think a hole is deeper than it really is

>>53803908
Monk is fine. Kensei is fine.

>>53803908
Its good for a monk

>>53803858
I guess it might be a bit of a benefit? With the mystic Giant Growth discipline you're already huge with this build, I suppose you could then become gargantuan.

>>53803900
One time, our party was camping somewhere and a whole load of really nasty things were going by in the night.
I cast darkness on the campfire.

Given darkvision only gives you dim light, it's only natural that they're not really going to care much about a slightly darker spot in the background.

Also, there are many effects that require line of sight. Many spells can be stopped by breaking line of sight. You can also do things without your enemies knowing, such as setting up traps.

>>53803966
Yeah. Basically, growing a size should give you +2.5ft reach, effectively.

Of course, I could be wrong because I remember some large creatures having larger reach values, but I think I'm right and the original question about reach wouldn't have happened in the first place if it weren't the case.

How should I incorporate science fiction into my setting? My players have expressed interest in taking their elves and dwarves on a spaceship and go looking for aliens.

I'm in the Forgotten Realms

My thoughts right now: Have Abeir, since the Weave doesn't exist there so magic is presumably much more difficult to cast, be a much more technologically advanced world than Toril, and set up a quest to Returned Abeir or something where the players can discover a space program or something. Thoughts?

>>53802861
You need 2 levels in Warlock for Devils Sight.

It's fucked up.

>>53804153
Discovery an ancient alien crash site

>>53804153
Run one of those spaceship dungeons.

I'd suggest making it so it doesn't seem immediately obvious it's a spaceship.

>>53804153
Forgotten Realms already has science fiction shit in it. There's a Dwarven space station in the rubble trailing the moon, the King of Tethyr fucking lives on the moon, and there's some Gnomish spaceship port on a mesa somewhere doing daily take-offs and landings. Just pick up Spelljammer and look at the FR resources and say the shit which is clearly magical is instead technological (or techno-magical).

Whats the highest possible stealth modifier you can come up with including use of magic items

Level 20
22 dex (manual of quickness of action)
Expertise
Pass without trace
28
Can you do better anons

>>53804260
>Including use of magic items
Magic item that gives you +100 stealth
There, done

I mean, magic items are whatever the fuck the DM decides of them.

>>53804260
>Can you do better anons
Invisibility
Boots of Elvenkind
I cannot be seen, my footsteps make no sound, I have advantage on stealth checks.

Fuck your stealth modifier.

>>53804354
You know what I meant candyass, maybe spend less time being a wise ass and actually read the fucking official materials

>>53804381
But what if you can be seen by my trusty Tressym security guards

>>53804153
Ah my favorite setting type, I plan on doing something very similar for my players, of course its a slightly different setting that base forgotten realms, but it will still work out for you.

Since its already a portal type game, the players discovered one to enter !not Egypt, and from there they were stuck wandering the desert for a whole week, sucking the dew off the plant person's leaves for sustenance. Eventually they managed find a camp of desert nomads. They spoke about how they were retreating from a pyramid which had recently been uncovered by the sand. That is three days away, the nearest town being a week. With renewed supplies from the nomads they went to the pyramid.

Long story short, there was an ancient pharaoh who arrived in the desert in the ancient past. He told everyone he was the chosen of Ra and he was a strange being. Elongated skull, pale blue skin. This pharaoh arrived with a hail of an eclipse, and a falling sun. When he stepped from there, the natives hailed him as their priest king, sent by Ra.

So they built him a pyramid to his specifications, and a strange device with magic and his knowledge. The device was a stargate for him to bring others of his kind to rule over these natives.

When a second hail of stars fell. This solid metal star landed deep in the desert, and all who approached it perished. The pharaoh had it buried in the sand, and he charged himself with protecting it.


So the players go look for the fallen star, expecting to find a ton of adamantine, so when found it, the druid used his magic to uncover it, and it was almost like a metallic boat. They entered it and found the remains of what looked like a monk who perished around the remains of strange otherworldly creatures. in his hand a contraption, and in his robes a strange map. There was still a bit of power in the ship, so with the wizard's finagaling they managed to activate a homing beacon type deal that told them where the nearest stargate could be found

>>53804415
what if you're in a blank room that's well lit and has no furniture?
Fuck your "what-ifs"

>>53804384
No, you've missed the point.
I'm fucking mad that people seem to praise the DMG magic items so much. They're all just generic dogshite for some DM to say 'oh no, I didn't consider magical items, I'll roll on my table.. Oh, leevl 1 party, have a deck of many things!'

Magic items are the DM's domain and should never apply to theorycrafting, really.

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>>53804153
Run The Immortal's Fury.
http://folk.uio.no/andremoa/Wrath%20of%20the%20Immortals/NEW%20Wrath%20Of%20The%20Immortals%20-%20The%20Immortals%27%20Fury.pdf

It's all about the consequences of an ancient spaceship crash-landing and slowly destroying all magic. The gods get involved, you play around with radiation and non-necromantic zombies, you go to the hollow earth and the moon, walk around some super high-tech spaceship shit, destroy an entire continent of wizards (from space) with a doomsday device, and other cool things.

It's set in Mystara, but you can swap out place names for Forgotten Realms shit. You can put it anywhere, but Glantri is pretty close to Halruaa lore-wise. The local politics aren't THAT important, since everything is being secretly guided by the Gods of the setting anyway; you could just as easily say X God has his fingers in all the pies of Cormyr or Amn or Chessenta and is directing them to war with whoever else.
The big difference is all the God stuff (since Immortals work quite differently in Mystara), but you could replace "the Sphere of Energy is being eaten by the Shield's radiation" with "the Shield is eating Mystra and the Weave". Since it's not destroying magic entirely, but instead replacing it with something ELSE, some Gods may be interested in seeing how this new thing plays out (since it's just as powerful) and if it has fewer downsides. Forgotten Realms lore is full of civilizations getting too magically powerful and blowing themselves up, so Gods might be a little tired of this and see this "Radiance" as a way of breaking the cycle of civil annihilation.

>>53804436
>>53804443
Lighten up anons, I'm just trying to have some fun with Hypotheticals

>>53804474
I am angry
ANGRY ABOUT DMG MAGIC ITEMS

>>53804153
>>53804425
When they find it, they are transported to a spaceport, but with no way to return, and their gold only has worth as a precious metal, not as a real currency. So trading in what they have for a real currency, they decide to use all of their cash to charter a ship to follow the map that the monk described in his map.

(Think like the ship style from treasure planet. Mixed magic and old style future tech)
All in all, its a great kind of setting, I suggest it very often.

As a 1st level Wizard, are Mage Armor and Shield really essential spells? Right now I have Shield, but I want to replace it with Fog Cloud instead. If I'm never planning on being in melee, I don't need as much protection, right?

>>53803635
Sea spawn
Deep scions
Kuo-toa
Sharks
Crocodiles
Crabs
Octopuses

>>53804487
You can make whatever ring of +100 stealth you want anon, but I'm interested in what I can do without the DM having to intervene

>>53804474
your hypotheticals are meaningless, as i tried to point out, 28 stealth mod? too bad you are in a well lit room with no furniture. can't hide while being observed. There is nothing you can do, that can't be completely negated by a hypothetical situation.

>>53804425
This is fucking sweet, more?

>>53804504
Our Wizard has somehow survived to level 9 in Storm King's Thunder without having either. Granted, we did have to wheel him away from the first two fights in a wheelbarrow, but

>>53804535
Ive got a bit more to it though. When they actually reach the end of the map, and what else they discovered on the monk's body

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>>53804532
>not having a ring of spell storing with darkness in it
> or pocket sand

>>53804657
nothing says inconspicuous like a giant orb of blackness.

>>53804681
it lets you get away, thats really all you need, you can't get caught if they cant see you

>>53804717
either it's stationary in which case it really doesn't help you all that much, or it moves with you and you are running blind.

Great Job.

>>53801221
Wizards, either necromancer or Transmutation.

>>53804768
distracts them long enough for you to bonus action dash and lay some caltrops/ball bearings

>>53804208
how did I not know about this??

>>53804425
>>53804466
thanks, I'll think about this stuff. >>53804499 seems like a nice idea; I'll probably only pull it for a couple sessions to give the players some new techy-equipment and a few allies, as the campaign at large is about a Faerun-wide conspiracy plot, so they're going everywhere, basically.

>>53803073
>>53803284
So the guy is like, a turret on a horse?

>>53804153
Is it "describe your past sci-fi settings" time?

I had a post-Earth game. Coasts changed and the planet tilted on its axis so it wasn't obvious.
Nukes and nanobots destroyed the planet, so the only survivors were stuck on the moon. They couldn't leave (nanobots) so they had to wait around for hundreds of thousands of years until the nanobots broke down, during which they got weak and spindly and ran low on resources. No colonizing other worlds; all attempts picked up nanobots and failed.

They tried to recolonize the planet but it was still too harsh for them. So they engineered a successor race that could survive it all to try and clean the place up, but they couldn't stop praising the moonpeople as Gods and the experiment was terminated (but not completely, oops).
The Second Children came in several thousand years later when the planet recovered some and more gene-juice could be dedicated to "be smart" rather than "don't die". But they were stubborn as all get-out, hyper-literal, and had to be terminated as well. Again, not completely, and the PCs played members of this race.
The Third Children came later still when the planet was mostly back on its feet again, and they're all tall and beautiful and smart and perfect and they do what the Moon People say without calling them gods. Everything's great, we can finally get civilization back on tra--

Oh no. An alien has arrived from outer space. He's looking for ancient technology buried within the planet (which was the basis for the nukes and nanobots humanity eventually almost destroyed themselves with), and now he's got the more powerful and arrogant Third Children working for him while he raises a giant robot army. The Moon People can't stop him because they're stuck on the fucking moon, and he's down there being cool.

>>53804797
nah, the wizard just fireballs the area.

>>53804821
Evasion
you can't be serious anon

>>53804835
nope, you failed your save and died. Be better next time.

>>53804793
Everyone knows Divination is the real MVP.

>>53804845
>implying I could fail
Reliable talent
10 + 12
No way you could get less than a 22 anon, are you stupid, we're still using the game's rules

>>53804845
>Failed your save
>Oh no (8d6)/2 damage is going to kill you in one go
>Average of 14 damage
Keep trying, anon.

>>53804916
Reliable talent is a rogue's skill and only applies to skill checks, not saves.

I'm this anon >>53804930

I thought we were talking about monks

>>53804820
Huh. My two post apocalyptic settings were one that was waterworld, essentially. (The aboleths opened portals to the plane of water and flooded the world, everyone has to live on floating boats and whatever else can float, or be an under water race) With atlantis, and poseidon was the main deity, tons of cool stuff happened that game.

Another was essentially mad max. I even did vehicle car rules and the players had a blast. There was a driver who was a robot gunslinger with a cowboy hat that was my favorite character.

>>53804916
and yet you still failed, christ you suck.
>>53804930
that just goes to show how badly he sucks.

this is why hypotheticals suck

>>53804957
Yah I miss read it, but no way I'm dying to a fireball

>>53804965
We are using in game rules set up in my first post on the topic, i have more than that amount of hp because I'm a level 20 rogue anon

>>53804966
Black Leaf is dead, get out of here, Marcie.

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>>53800361
The player is unlucky and nat 1s at least three times a session, but hey, he gets a bag of holding so that's something. Will report back when he gets his giant robot familiar/waifu.

>>53804986
nope, sorry, you rolled all ones for hp and have negative con. and the fireball was cast as a 9th level spell.

>>53804989
Grandma why are you using 4chan while you're at the church ice cream social
>>53805019
>implying I'm not using standard

>>53805019
>Character dies during character creation
>He autosucceeds his stealth now no matter what and wins this argument because you can't target him with your fireball nor can you notice him at all
Your move

>>53805039
>implying I'm not using standard
you're not, you rolled for stats, and rolled a 3 for your con.

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>>53805019
>forgetting that I'm a beholderkin

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>>53805054
>Your move
then, as we established, black leaf is dead and you have to leave.

>>53805056
>telling me how I made my super sneaky rogue

You didn't build this hypothetical charachter so you can't hypotheticlly change it

Con isn't a dump stat anon, never go full retard

>>53805090
>You didn't build this hypothetical charachter so you can't hypotheticlly change it
hypothetically, i can.

>>53800361
Had an Alchemist Artificer in LMoP. More useful than my Awakened Mystic, but neither of us were in it to cheese. He could have been a real bitch abusing Mass Shield of Faith and Alchemist's Acid vs. objects if he wanted to. Healing was nice.

The once change the DM made for him was the mechanical pet worked more like a typical familiar. Small animal (he chose an owl) which could be remote-controlled, and he had a pair of goggles that he could put on to see through the owl's eyes. We mostly used it to guard our cart while we went in dungeons.

It's hard to say how it would fare in later levels considering that familiar change and LMoP ending pretty low. His combat damage was usually low, as you'd expect, but the AoE Fire cantrip was pretty good and he could have abused others if he'd wanted.

I will say that the scaling of Alchemist's Acid and Fire is weird. For some of the low levels, Fire and Acid do the same damage despite one being single-target, and they kind of pingpong back and forth. I'd probaby bump Acid to 1d8.

>>53805058
At least you're not a squidface.

>>53805074
But blackleaf was only around 8th level anon, this is a 20th level rogue

>>53805112
I should clarify: he started with mecha-owl familiar at level 1, not 6.

>>53799542
This

>>53805130
GET OUT MARCIE! YOU DON'T EXIST ANYMORE!

>>53805144
But you have now realized the dangers of RPGs and must burn all your D&D books and figures

>>53805186
good thing all my books are digital.

>>53805199
BURN YOUR DEVICES NOW FOR THEY HAVE BEEN TOUCHED BY SATAN HIMSELF

>>53805199
RIP anon's computer

>>53805237
it is really too bad that he wont be able to come here anymore

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How do you handle politics in your games, /5eg/?

Do you allow players to start as direct royalty (prince, princess)? What if your player wants to become the King?

What if your evil character wants to become a powerful politician and do some corrupt shit?

What if your player wants to own a castle? Do you give them nobility, and if so, what is their job and relation to the kingdom at large?

>>53805286
That's something you have to earn or take

>>53805286
In PotA, made a low-ranking Dwarven noble whose clan was disgraced, and halfway through the campaign the party had acquired a keep and we discovered some information possibly pointing to his clan being in line for the throne of Besilmer.

Cue "we're gonna fix up this keep and kickstart a new dwarven empire" and NPCs from all over coming to help out and kick ass. Some of these NPCs have even showed up in our SKT game, singing my other PC's praises.

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>>53805286
I always dreamed of playing prince charming. Or a princess. Or, you know...

>>53805286
That's actually how my current game starts. Princess reluctantly agreed to an arranged marriage for the sake of her kingdom and her ship and escorts were attacked
'en route' and are now stranded on another continent with news of her death having already spread there.

How does healing work with an awakened tree, just like any other creature?

>>53805286
'Why is royalty on a mission to kill themself? Are they really that suicidal?'

>>53805762
It's a living creature so positive energy will heal it, yes.

Is storm barbarian worth playing if you don't plan of takin the sea aspect?

>>53805762
Healing spells work on anything, unless the spell specifies otherwise.

I really love the idea of the giant weasel/badger in for in character reasons when playing as a Ranger Beastmaster, but I feel like I will be gimping myself when it comes to later battles. Can anyone allay my fears or is this just something that comes with the territory?

>>53799706
You're doing it wrong.
Most of the Realms cultures only VAGUELY at best resemble real world ones, with the notable exception of Mulhorond and Unther which are literally inhabitants of Mesopotamia and Egypted that got stargated to Toril by dickass wizard.
Example; the Turami are a dark-skinned people who live in a varied Mediterranean climate, but they have multiple forms of government (a city-state alliance, a religious government, a militarized meritocracy, a trading group, etc) and technological development equal to every other culture in Faerun, as well as a developed maritime naval culture on the Inner Sea. They also have Italian/Latin names despite being close to North Africans in appearance.

Greenwood developed Faerun well before the "make your fantasy setting a bad patische of Europe" fad ever took off, so instead Faerun has hints of multiple cultures in the way that all human cultures everywhere have strong similarities in certain areas.

The actual similarities are like this.

Moonshaes: Norse Gaels, an extremely specific subculture of old Gaelic cultures.

Illuskan: Vaguely Danish, only mostly not. They do not have Danish names or gods, or practices, or social rules.

Calimshan: Vaguely like the Ottoman Empire in cultural position and importance, but actual culture is wildly different from actual Ottoman culture or any Middle-Eastern culture in general actually.

Amn: They are Spain for the purposes of naval exploration, but they do not have Spanish names or a Spanish culture. They also don't really resemble any other culture on the planet, more like hyperexaggerated modern capitalism in an early modern fantasy setting.

>>53800565

No not as useless as it seems. For one, you may not get a magic weapon for quite some time, and you can have a +1 right at level 2. In addition, if you ever get a magic weapon and obsolete your Invocation, you can swap it out next time you level up. So you won't screw yourself by taking it and it's a huge boost from level 2 on

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While mounted on a Hex grid, where is your character suppost to be on the grid on the horse?

>>53806030
Ed Greenwood was good like that.

>>53801666

It never takes a Bonus action to reload any Crossbow; they simply can't be fired more than once with a given action thanks to the Loading property.

>>53805286
At the highest i let my players become Counts that rule over a citty and its surroundings.

As for a noble background... Being the bastard of an Earl or the son of a Baron is enough.

Wouldn't the gritty realism rules make warlocks good and every other full caster terrible?

>>53806315
explain. Do you mean lack of access to magical powers? Because you have sorcerers, clerics, and druids and paladins who get their powers from somewhere else besides learning.

Using those rules, wizards would actually be good because they would all congregate together to share magical powers

>>53799706
>Sword Coast & Moonshae Islands = Medieval Britain
Not really. They have next to no similarities with Britain, and actually the Moonshaes have an almost completely different culture and call people from the mainland "Continentals".
>Heartlands(Cormyr, Dalelands, Sembia)=
Cormyr resembles a generic fantasy kingdom but traditionally it's much more mercantile with a stronger emphasis on centralized power more akin to Rome. They having a standing army for example, which is the opposite of a feudal culture.
>Cold Lands(Damara, Sossal, Vaasa, Moonsea) = Germany & Scandinavia
Way off. Damaran names sound vaguely Eastern European but their cultures are all different. And I do mean ALL; all three cultures you listed are completely different. Sossal's people don't even look human; they have pale white skin, white hair, and pale eyes.
>The Lands of Intrigue(Amn, Calimsham, Tethyr) = Moorish Spain, North Africa
Not really, no.
Amn and Calimshan especially are weird. What's funny is that you can see how Calimshan's culture influenced Amnish culture, except that even cursory examination shows that these cultures have no real-world equivalents.
>The Old Empires(Unther, Mulhorand, Chessenta) = Babylon, Egypt, and Ancient Greece/Byzantine Empire respectively
Actually, yes.
Their backstory is that the Imaskari did the Stargate thing and warped them to Faerun. Even their gods are ones from Earth with names altered from centuries of Imaskari slavery thousands of years ago misremembering their original pronounciation.

It should be noted that all type over time have changed a lot, with the exception of Mulhorond.

>>53806228
Well when you think about it, the only reason the "Dragon Age countries" thing is common now is because it's literally just a fad that's been popular in the last decade or so.
Maybe Greenwood WAS totally unoriginal in many ways, but that is ONE way he couldn't be unoriginal because the fad literally hadn't happened yet.

>>53806424
You could say he was ahead of his time

>>53806354
I'm talking about the long rest adjustments, with a short rest being 8 hours and a long one being a week. It sounds like most full casters would need to manage their slots extremely carefully or be relegated to ritual casting duty, unless the DM gave them a week to rest after every encounter, while warlocks only need to manage their hit dice and stay out of harm's way during encounters to be constantly at near full capacity

>>53806030, >>53806390
To elaborate on this; Faerun doesn't really organize culture by nations that often because most of Faerun's nations aren't really very centralized at all, in fact trending towards the opposite.
Instead culture is mostly influenced by ethnicities and events impacting their culture with nearby other cultures.

It's HARD to generalize about people in Faerun, there's just too much variety in how all of them operate and work.

>>53806390
>What's funny is that you can see how Calimshan's culture influenced Amnish culture, except that even cursory examination shows that these cultures have no real-world equivalents.

What the heck does that mean?

>>53802086
>you could be an unoptimized mess

How hard do you think 5e is? Why do you think you will fail if you aren't hardcore optimized?

>>53806551
Amn and Calimshan both have extremely capitalistic cultures, and Amn was conquered by the Shoon Imperium (Calimshan's older government) ages ago.
In the details they're still very different.
Amn for example has no slaves and it worships Waukeen almost exclusively and treats gaining money as literally the main focus of life; the more financially successful you are the more important you are in Amnish culture. Nobility is only important in the sense that noble families often have more money, the bloodline itself is totally irrelevant.
Calimshan conversely has LOTS of slaves, but wealth isn't it's own objective there. Rather then like Amn where your job is to make more money so you can keep making more money, Calimshan is all about making enough money until you're comfortable enough to not work anymore, and in fact "working for a living" and "working too hard" is looked down upon. Religiously they also are less supportive of Waukeen and instead don't really care about what God you worship at all.

>>53806424
>"Dragon Age countries"

I know nothing about Dragon Age. Please elaborate.

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What kind of Bard was he?
Alternatively any fun builds for monk/bard multiclass?

>>53802086
Do you understand how 5e works at all?

>>53803073
So what, they get to hack at your horses head, even when they're not in range of the rider?

What about forcing then to attack the rider using Mounted Combatant? Does their range increase to hit the rider or does the attack whiff all together?

The more I think about mounts and reach weapons the more retarded it seems.

>>53806925
Anon is confusing accent with culture. In Dragon Age, countries speak with various accents of English (not all of them European) to make foreigners actually appear foreign. Their cultures, however, are only vaguely reminiscent of the countries whose accents they stole.
The only exception is Oralais, which sort of resembles pre-revolution France superficially and occasionally uses French words. Everyone else just has accents.

>>53802086
>unoptimized mess.
You're right! Without V.Human CE+SS Battlemaster Archery, 2 level five Fighters can't slaughter a Dragon!

What a horror that they can't demolish something much more powerful then their recommended deadly CR. Woe to all who play the game without variant rules.

>>53807309
Dwarves were odd in the game, I don't think I've ever seen them with American accents anywhere else.

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Is dual wielding barbarian any good?

>>53807366
It was probably meant to make them appear more foreign/alien (since most others ARE European accents), but it honestly took me >20 hours to even notice, because as an American there was nothing strange about them to me.

>>53804260
That
Plus boots of elvenkind while invisible while your parties wizard and sorc both cast silence and darkness over you and hit anyone in the area with blindness/deafness

>>53807425
It's a good option levels 2-4 but you're better off using a 2h weapon once you get Extra Attack.

>>53807425
Barbarian is the best dual-wielder class but you should multiclass into rogue after level 5.

>>53807425
Yes it can actually, they get high attack bonuses and do a lot of damages.

Turns out Mystic isn't Mearl's favorite child after all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rijzeq7yykw

>>53807425
It's probably the best option for a single classed martial dual-wielder. Rage damage on the off-hand attack is better then what a lot of other martials get.

Honestly I'd probably do a Fighter/Barbarian Crit-Fisher.

>>53807460
Can you explain why? I was under the impression that more attacks outweighed higher damage die.
>>53807463
How does the bonus action economy work with raging?
>>53807461
Any particular reason that Rogue and Barb are a popular multiclass choice?

>>53807489
Holy shit, he looks like a child and a child molester at the same time.

>>53807535
Aside from the many synergies, rogue basically allows you to continue on your damage progression after level 5 whereas normally barbarian after level 5 sucks until you get some of the cool late level features.

Pure barbarian is fine if you want to go greataxe/maul and use their appropriate feats. If you don't want to use the feats, don't bother.

>>53807489
guy asked what his favorite subclass was, Mystic isn't a subclass, so he may like hexblade more than the other mystic subclasses, but like mystic more than warlock.

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>>53807535
>>53807561
Oh, also, have a chart. I believe this doesn't assume reckless attack so generally barbarians have a high hit chance and it tends towards the right.

So, really, TWF isn't so great but if you go rogue you get a gradual damage increase which keeps up with the other barbarian types. .. And there's another table for that.

Do we have a PDF of the new Nordgames bestiary that came out recently or is that probably a ways off?

ForeverGM here.
I finally found a game under a very new GM and with a very basic level group.

I'm in a bit of dilemma on what sort of character to build.
Not mechanically but rather if I should play a knowledgabe sort that can capitalize on my knowledge and fill in the groups general lack of knowledge, or if I should take a step back and let them learn that fire is hot, trolls regenerate and floating skulls with gem-eyes are not ornamets nor easy loot.

>>53807426
Actually they were GOING to give them accents before recording but one voice actor didn't use one and they just decided their lack of one sounded better.
I actually think they're right.

Plus in that one DLC Solid Snake was that one Dwarf fighter.

New player here. Can someone explain to me the differences between warlock, sorcerer, and wizard? I'm trying to understand why you wouldn't just go wizard.

>>53807813

>the differences between warlock, sorcerer, and wizards

Warlocks make a pact with a powerful being for magic, sorcerers are born with innate magic, and wizards study to learn it.

>why you wouldn't just go wizard

You would, if you were minmaxing.

>>53807813
Wizard
>Lots of ritual utility, good archetype features, wide spell selection
Warlock
>Powerful cantrip, push enemies around a LOT. Possibly also devil's sight for darkness shenangians or invisible familiar shenangians or ritual casting like wizard from book of ancient secrets
Sorcerer
>I guess you're basially wizard but less spells and, uhh.. You can twin haste to have haste cast on two people at once instead of just one? That's pretty neat.
Sorlock
>HOLY SHIT LAZERS EVERYWHERE THE ENEMY IS BEING BLASTED TO THE MOON, LITERALLY

>>53807535
>Can you explain why? I was under the impression that more attacks outweighed higher damage die.

1) Barbarians don't get TWF fighting style, so they're denied their STR bonus to off-hand damage. At level 5 you're looking at:

3d6+14 ~~ 24.5 two short swords
vs
4d6+12 ~~ 26 a greatsword

2) You can get the Dual Wielder fighting style to improve your damage slightly (shifting the d6 to d8 for a +3 net), but 2h can take Polearm Master and/or Great Weapon Master. Note that boosting your Strength should always come first before GWM.

3) You only need one good magical weapon.

4) Barbarian specific, they get access to crit die bonuses, further favoring picking high damage die weapons.


Dual Wielding has a niche use in the early levels and for Rogues, but otherwise it's suboptimal.

>>53807813
Largely flavor.
Classic difference is that wizards know shit, sorcerers explode shit and warlocks are sneaky shits.

>>53807885
>Note that boosting your Strength should always come first before GWM.
Yeah, no.
Especially on a barbarian, GWM is more important, referring to >>53807593 and considering that this is before reckless attack applies.

Basically, unless all the enemies your DM throws at you have an AC about ~3-4 higher than what's expected for the level you're at, GWM is better.

>>53807873
>Sorcerer
They can give a lot of other buffs or control
2nd level: enlarge/reduce, invisibility, hold person, levitate, suggestion

If you're using point buy, what's a good int score for a strength EK?

>>53807962
Hold person can target multiple creatures by upcasting it anyway. But generally they all work, it's just that haste is one of the most notable buffs you can use it with.

>>53807980
Anything, really. You don't particularly need it, but I guess it's not bad to have a decent int either.

>>53807980
8

You're only going to be using your spells for Shield and diceless effects.

>>53807781
Play someone who's smart but not too smart. Like someone who can't exactly recognise a lycanthrope at sight, but after hitting it with a non-magical attack might realise what it is.

>>53807962
>enlarge/reduce
Is the best low level twin. Especially when used on an Enemy and an Ally at the same time. For grapple fun.

>>53808012
>You're only going to be using your spells for Shield and diceless effects.
And there are people in this thread that will it's totally broken to allow STR or DEX to spellcasting instead of INT

>>53802413
West Marches? Basically a dungeon crawling sandbox. /tg/ doesn't really like those though.

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Hey so I have an issue I need help with, guys. My DM worked us into a corner and we're not sure how to reconcile what we've played so far with forgotten realms lore.

So we recently started a new campaign set in Mulhorand. Five minutes of research on my part painted a sort of arid middle-eastern type society, which clearly my DM did not know before our first session. He put us in a medieval european fantasy town that was some sort of bastion of progressivism and anti-slavery sentiment somewhere near the center of the whole area. He also made the slavery more about race—us being Americans—than I really thought appropriate for the setting.

But I digress. This land being constantly referred to as Mulhorand, I also realized that we were set in some time before the Spellplague, as Skuld still stands. That's fine, I guess. We can just adjust our clocks for that, but how do we fix all this inconsistency without starting completely over? We've already had two sessions in which we've explored this anti-slavery town, and we've also met a ham-fisted Abraham Lincoln doppelganger named Abrehoon Licoon. Do we just cut and paste this town somewhere else?

How do I Warlock/Bard?

>>53808063
What?

>>53800114
>>53800343
Ayy, who is this anime puta?

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>>53807813
They're all worse than playing a Bard. A Wizard is less worse is the only real difference.

>>53808221
Mulhorand is an ancient Eypgt analogue you fucking tard

>>53808221
It's not just Middle-Eastern, it's literally Ancient Egypt with it's ruling class being both nobility and priests, with the ruling leaders actually being mortal Incarnates of the deities themselves. Also, slavery wasn't about race, but social class, which was actually true for almost all of history prior to Spanish chattel slavery.
And in "modern" (5e) Mulhorondi apparently slavery WAS abolished after Mulhorond was re-established (and Skuld magically created again, though large geographic changes from 4e were literally completely ignored and undone in 5e Realms, which is basically the "We're Sorry We Did All That Dumb Shit" edition) due to Mulhorond being re-enslaved by the Imaskari wizards (again) and then relying on their gods to free them (again).

But a simple explanation is make this town a colony of some other realm, or even just some adventurer leading a personal crusade against a culture that they don't personally agree with and are devoted to fighting against.
Basically a midget-nation that established itself in a larger one by a skilled but otherwise minor person who is being ignored by Mulhorond itself.

My players are stopping by Phandalin next session. The Rogue's an ex-Redbrand so he has some (outdated) info on the hideout and on townspeople. The Fighter is a noble so I'm giving him a chance to send the Tresendar descendants a lost heirloom and get deeds to the ruined manor in exchange. (Is this a good idea?)

But...the Cleric is an ex-sergeant from Mintarn. What opportunities does he get in the town? Who could be an ex-soldier from there who recognizes his authority? Do I let him requisition ~100GP worth of stuff from Barthen's/Lionshield Coster?

>>53808489
What's the ex-Sergeant Cleric's exact Backround?

>>53808489
He's a Soldier?
Soldiers actually aren't too great in Faerun, mostly because VERY few nations in the Sword Coast, North, and even most of the other nations have any kind of large standing army, instead relying on a militia with a small professional force bolstered by mercenaries.
A good example? Mintarn itself has no actual army or militia, but it has a shitload of mercenaries it hires to do the same thing.

That's why the Mercenary Veteran backround was added in SCAG.

>>53799524
>Str Ranger
You hate yourself, are bad at math, or didn't pay attention to what edition you are playing and should have played a Fighter with an Outdoorsy background.

>>53799470
>Movie Wonder Woman is a monk

How do you dump wisdom then?

>>53800278
What have you played?
3, 4 game sessions?
Done anything with your path or mission, or do you just masturbate internally to them?
Are you that guy who makes a character and needs to shelf them after a month?

>>53808381
This, everyone's worse then a Bard because in this edition Bards literally CAN do everything.

Even a Wizard can't heal, weapon attack, wear armour, skill monkey and etc. whereas a Bard can.

>>53808489
I'm pretty sure the Dwarf's meant to be related to someone there. If he isn't then just make one of the NPC's who give a quest there be a Dwarf who's his cousin or something.