/5eg/ - Fifth Edition General

Guys, I'm running LMoP, and my newbie friends are having fun, but I want to present them with a real moral conundrum, or at least challenge them a bit. They just cleared the Redbrand hideout and will probably do Cragmaw Castle next. Instead of the typical go-kill-stuff, I'd love to introduce some dark ritual and go a bit more gothic. I think the group would love it, and I want to present an uncomfortable situation.

Do you guys have any ideas? Sacrificing children, no-good-outcome sort of situations so they really have to face some serious consequences. LMoP is not very morally ambiguous unfortunately (though it's a great adventure overall!).

>>55355993
Psionics are comming! Psionics are comming!
Also, why play spring eladrin?

>>55357854
This thread was dying out in favor of the other thread, you fucking moron.

>>55357863
Oh. Whoops.

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Do you love us now that we're elves?

tenth for hobgoblin armies killing high level parties

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>>55357854
>>55357863
>>55357875
I can't fucking believe how funny it is that this idiot intending to troll D&D players accidentally revived a D&D thread.

So in your personal opinions what would be flavorful for a sailor barbarian to multiclass into?

ToA ETA Bump

Does tashas hideous laughter disarm the victim?

Do you feel like there are enough or too many schools of magic? Anything blatantly missing or are there some that are overlapping and could be condensed?


Also do you think some classes are redundant and should be lumped together with others?

> Ranger / Druid
> Paladin / Cleric
> Fighter / Rogue

>>55358156
Swashbuckler

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>>55357854
>>55357875

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All right, /5eg/ I need your help with my next session.

>Party is traveling cross-country to get to an established town before winter locks them in
>After taking a shortcut through some corrupted woodland they pop out on the other side two days later
>Shave a week off their time
>Next hurdle is something called, "The Tankard".
>A massive rupture in the earth caused by the continent's former inhabitant's mad experiments
>A water volcano practically powered by an open portal to the Plane of Water that has a Mereid's coral palace blocking the exit
>Shifts infrequently causing water to surge up and out and exploding for miles in every direction
>Party has to make "The Tankard Run" quickly or be left to be eaten by the awakened plants the water has caused to grow over centuries of these eruptions

But I have no idea how to run it. I'm thinking of having it be a real slog with them being harried by these awakened things along the way. Resting increasing the likelihood of them being attacked the longer they do so. It just sort of looks like it would be the cart driver's session on no one else outside of combat. I know this is a lot to ask but is there anything you think I could do to make this better?

>>55356000
I'm also running LMoP with a newbie group

Honestly it's futile imo, they're going to stomp all over whatever you have planned and there's just no place for subtlety in a beginner generic forgotten realms intro campaign

>>55355993

Been reading it here and there the last few days. Overall I'm really impressed. There's enough material here for several campaigns, and yet the open structure allows for a lot of DM freedom.

My friend and I were talking about co-DMing: the players make two parties, one evil, one good, and we DM one group or the other, taking turns each week. The other DM helps manage notes and plays the party guide. At the end of the campaign the parties will merge and take on the final dungeon together. Has anybody tried something like this? Could it work?

>>55359948
when you say water volcano, do you mean a geyser?

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How do I make the character that can control the most creatures? Necromancer right? What about animals?

How can my character start a cult in 2 months? My Bard/Warlock needs followers to gain more power.

>>55361370
Ask your DM

>>55361314
Technically you can buy and own as many mastiffs as you want...

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>Fire genasi stone sorcerer with a pike
>relaxed surfer dude from a volcanic island
>scoop searing smite and various elemental spells
>my pike's a fucking red-hot igneous spear and i'm digdugging to slap shit with stone aegis while my body broils like lava and i'm flingin all these fire bolts and i'm molding all this earth into giant hands and spikes and whatnot

his name is Bob Magmarley and despite being essentially literally on fire all the time he's super chill

Any tips for persuading your 3.5e power-gaming/war-tactician friends to play 5e?
What should I highlight as the pros that will appeal to these people?

I'm sick of sitting down to play and spending hours of the session on chain skill checks (muh 100 skills)
and listening to the "what i'm going to do the next 5 levels it's gonna be so good" talks

>>55355993

>>55362911
added to ToA leaks album
https://imgur.com/a/iglMj

>>55363039
Dragonbait's in this module?
Holy shit.

>>55359871
Ranger isn't redundant with druid but it could be a fighter archetype and would be better desu.

Paladin/cleric, nah fuck you. Wrong again.

Fighter/rogue. Do you even think before posting?

>first question
I nearly forgot. Why does it matter how many schools there are? They literally exist namely for categorization. There are some grievances I have thinking certain spells could perhaps fit better as labeled in other schools, but outside of two subclasses and the whole discount on copying spells for wizards, they don't really matter much more than name or for when identifying magic with detect magic. I'd say they're pretty well covered. If anything you could perhaps argue restoration/healing magic should be its own thing.

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Just finished my home made DM screen. The whiteboards are magnetic and everything on them is magnetized paper. I have a rules reference on the left as well

>>55363120
looks good, if maybe too tall. Got stuff on the other side or just plain wood?

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>>55363120
Front of it. First time woodburning, I think it turned out pretty good

>>55363080

1/8, for poisonous snake. But regardless, it is still your familiar and can't use attacks as per rules.

>>55363136
Hello Australia

>>55363155
I have no fucking idea why it does this. I uploaded the picture the exact same way as the first one but NOPE upside down. And technically I'm Canadian

>>55359871
>Too many schools of magic
Not really, maybe evocation+conjuration could be combined but it's fine as is.

>Classes are redundant
As others have said, Ranger might work better as a Fighter subclass. The rest are fine.

>>55362686
but how do you control them, mechanically?

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>>55363136

>>55363120
>>55363136
ayy not bad.
I kinda agree it seems a little tall, but if you're tall yourself, or have a tall chair, shouldn't be a problem.
Personally I wouldn't be able to make use of the whiteboard though. I'd probably irritate myself too much because I know every time I tried to use it, pushing against it with a marker I'd probably move the damn thing.

>>55359871
Invocation should be a spell school. Healing should be it's own spell school. Add Psionics, and one spell school for each element as well.
Then remove martial classes.

>>55363237
>one spell school for each element as well.
Why bother when you have dragon sorcs? They just need to have a more even number of spells per damage type.

>>55363237
Don't forget my boi CHRONOMANCY

>>55363233
Book anon, please take a picture of the other side where it's all blank, and a hexcrawl. I don't have the book myself, but I've seen it.

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>>55363186
That was my problem. But I don't use them as an actual whiteboard, they are eaentially just magnet boards. Everything on them is magnetic paper so I can take shit off, write on it and then slap it back on. Like this, I make my players fill it out before we start so I don't have to ask them about AC or spell saves or anything

>>55363258
And Biomancy, Ferrokinesis, Voidmancy, Technomancy, and Meme Magic.

>>55363285
very nice

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>mfw I figure out after 6 months of adventuring that mage armor in 5e doesn't work like mage armor in 3.5

oops

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>>55363271
Got you senpai

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Any other requests from ToA before I go to bed?

>>55363336
read the book black man

>>55363368
Stats on that doggo in the back

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>>55363336

>>55363368
page 210. Why does it matter that that dwarf is albino?

>>55363368
Take it apart and run it through a scanner so I can make it into a readable pdf :3

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>>55363336

>>55363368
I still want to know if there's any spell scrolls in the various loot tables.

>>55363372
>>55363387
>>55363398

Nope, fuck that. There was no reason to change it.

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>>55363392

>>55363446
What change are you referring to?

>>55363416
A few throughout but nothing super special

>>55363449
added to the ToA leaks album
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>>55363446
If it hadn't changed it would stack with unarmored defense which would be ridiculous
A variant human monk with magic initiate could have an AC of 20 at level 1 with point buy

>>55363456
An invisible but tangible field of force surrounds the subject of a mage armor spell, providing a +4 armor bonus to AC.

Turns into

You touch a willing creature who isn’t wearing armor, and a protective magical force surrounds it until the spell ends. The target’s base AC becomes 13 + its Dexterity modifier. The spell ends if the target dons armor or if you dismiss the spell as an action.

It's not that big a deal if you're not wearing armor. Basically changed from +4 to +3

>>55363495
Are you literally just complaining that the AC bonus is smaller by 1?

>>55363495
>It's not that big a deal if you're not wearing armor
See >>55363493

>>55363500
I think it's more likely he was stacking it with something and the DM caught him, now he's upset.

>>55363500
>>55363505
I'm just complaining for the sake of complaining. I found the error and told on myself, DM didn't care much. I have to shield every time I get swung at anyway so it hasn't made a difference.

I actually like the new armor system a lot.

>>55363530
So in other words you didn't understand the whole AC system for the first 6 months of playing the game?
Props for finally figuring it out (and realizing it's good), but I'm feeling inclined to agree with >>55363372 >>55363387 >>55363398. There might be other things you've been getting wrong.

What's the lowest level for a party of 5 with two full casters to take on a dracolich in command of devils? How would you devil-ify a dracolich?

Is it just me or is Great-Weapon fighting Eldritch Knight kinda schizo?

>>55363580
Give it horns and a tail

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>>55363590
>give a dragon a tail
anon, I...

>>55363580
>a dracolich in command of devils
How old is the dragon? What kind of devils does it command?

>>55363569
Oh, no. I understood the AC system, I just assumed Mage Armor was a flat +4.

>>55363607
Give it a second, smaller tail growing off of the first one

Tips on making my world feel more alive instead of a ton of video game npcs that need help with quests?

>>55363612
Even in 3.5, Mage Armor didn't stack with other forms of armor. I'm not sure why you'd make that assumption.

>>55363580
>dracolich and devils

How many paladins. Also, give the dragon a thin moustache, a french accent, and have them walk in on it just after it gets done raping a princess to death.

I want to remake classes for my low-magic setting, well aware 5E is for high-magic heroic fantasy, but I don't want to have to teach my players a new system, 5E is complex enough. Here is a list of classes and their archetypes I want to add, note Archetypes are going to change the way class plays more than in the core game, as I will add shit to them.

Alchemist [ - Probably gonna steal Pathfinder shit - ]
Rouge [ Assasin / Bard / Swashbuckler / Thief ]
Ranger [ Beastmaster / Slayer / Hunter / Tracker ]
Fighter [ Battle Master / Champion / Knight / Magus ]
Sorcerer [ Storm / Dragonblood / Wild Magic / Favored Soul ]
Warlock [ Old One / Fey / Demon / Hexblade ]

>>55363646
Edgy.

>>55363632
>Even in 3.5, Mage Armor didn't stack with other forms of armor.

WELP, guess I've been cheating for a very long time then. Wonder why I've never been called on it.

Does Tomb of Annihilation say how many people it's made for? I'm the forever GM, and I've got 3 frequent players and I'm wondering if that's enough of if I'd have to tone it down.

>>55363624
Little nothings. A woman crying outside her shop because it's not making enough money. Actual poker games in the tavern, sometimes it gets loud but it's usually just there. Different accents for different characters, that sort of thing. At least that's what I do.

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>>55363677
In 3.PF, bonuses of the same type don't stack (except dodge bonuses). Mage Armor gave an Armor bonus, same as wearing armor. So it stacked with literally everything EXCEPT worn armor.

>>55363672
Do you have a question?

>>55363646
Zero paladins, and the wizard is a burgeoning necromancer.

>>55363735
Yes, asking for tips if someone tried to do it as well, cant be the only faggot.

>>55363705
I think it's 4-6. It's supposed to be deadly. Any time I'm prepared to kill my players I tell them to make a backup character, so they don't get stuck in the immortality thought process.

>>55363672
>low magic
>two full casters, one half-caster and a Pathfinder armored mage homebrew
Uh....
>Alchemist [ - Probably gonna steal Pathfinder shit - ]
Well your setting's already pretty magic-y so why not just use the 5E Unearthed Arcana Artificer Alchemist?

>>55363749
"Don't" and "Play a different system."

Ban all casting classes and subclasses, get rid of cantrips, and let characters with int 11-15 take up to 5 levels of wizard. The only damage spell they can take is fireball.

>>55363801
>two full casters, one half-caster and a Pathfinder armored mage homebrew
Don't forget a color!

>>55363818
Honestly, for a low magic setting, the only kind of magic that should be allowed is a warlock. Since magic's not floating around waiting for anyone to use it, the only place it should be coming from is the devil himself.

>>55363838
Oh, and no fucking eldritch blast, please.

>>55363587
Elaborate pls?

Now does this sound fun or not for Storm Kings Thunder

Jarl Storvald, with the help of the Zhentarim wizard, crafts a ritual using the blood sacrifice of Arctus Cimber's descendants, to summon and bind him to a magic circle.

Storvald takes control of the Ring of Winter, but is rendered insane by its evil power. Thus my players must battle an insane evil frost giant with ice powers

Y/N?

>>55363860
How is a giant going to wear a ring made for people-sized people?

>>55363867
Worn magic items typically adjust their size to fit the wearer

>>55363890
To the point of being the hula hoop of winter?

>>55363838
Were I to run low-magic it'd be very Conan-esque Sword & Sorcery-style, which has its light ties to Lovecraftian horror... so I'd probably allow Wild Magic Sorcerers too, just because maybe some people are born tainted by this magic, and just do not know how to controll it very well.

>>55363860
Oh he also creates ice beast minions and I'm thinking crazy ice explosions everywhere
>>55363867
Magic items resize

>>55363908
>have to make the wild magic roll every cast
>range is 1-5

>>55363904
Yes

So how does beast conclave ranger interact with mounted combat? Does Coordinated attack still function? Also, is there any race with pack tactics that isn't a fucking kobold?

>>55363953
Pack tactics is an absurdly powerful ability, so no

>>55363938
>drop enormous ring of winter around a Medium enemy
>shrinks to normal ring size and cuts them in half

>>55363987
They'd have to attune before it shrinks.

>>55363987
Is this your grand use for a ring made by a wizard god that can bring about an ice age?

>>55364000
Never underestimate the will to cheese

>>55364000
I'm a simple man. Plus, until ToA the Ring didn't have stats as far as I know

>>55364006
>drop god ring on top of human
>it doesn't go as planned, and it just shrinks to his finger
>he turns you into an icecube, and flies away on the back of a giant ice eagle
This is why people don't actually do any of those cheeses that involve handing over, or risking extremely expensive magical items.

>>55364034
So just get a spare magic ring that does nothing but resize itself

>>55364053
>giant boss has a ring that he uses that way to execute people
>players can get the command word from one of his lackeys to cause it to remove one of his fingers instead
I'm a little inspired

>>55364105
I'm putting this in STK when I run it in a few weeks

>>55356000
Hostage situation? "Let me go, or i will kill this random NPC."

So I'm gonna be making a sorta cowboy-esque character after discovering best god Murlynd, starting at 3rd with 1 level in Gunsmith Artificer, 2 in Fighter. Crossbow Expert feat from VHuman and Archery style from Fighter.

Should I forsake my 16 in INT to make it a 14 and give the excess to CHA for some good ol' fashioned rustic charm? It's 8 CHA otherwise.

Furthermore, should I keep going in to Gunsmith, or just do the rest in to Fighter?

>>55363177
If one of my players tried this, i'd just call for animal handling checks whenever they ordered thier mastiffs, with the DC depending on how many they were ordering at once and how complex the orders were. This still allows it to happen, but gives me an easy way to shut down memelords who want to be the guy who just has 30 dogs following him at all times who perfectly obey him.

>>55358156
Storm sorcerer or tempest cleric?

>>55359871
I really don't see the point of magic schools, apart from making specialist wizards based on them and that seems kinda weak reason.

>>55362990
Sounds like the problem are you friends, not the system, to be honest.
Main reasons i prefer 5e over 3.5 is because it is simpler and more wide-spread - neither of which may appeal to your players.

>>55363120
WoW!

>>55364222
Ohp nevermind that bit, rules team just confirmed that it's seperate from the Loading property.

Anybody able to upload a picture of the new backgrounds from Tomb?

>>55364337
Do you NEED the picture?
They've already been added to 5etools if that suffices.

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>>55364337
I found a picture of one on Reddit

>>55356021
Uummm what? Is there more news?

>>55364375
added to the ToA leak album
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Is there any race better than the mighty dwarf?

>55356021
What are you talking about?

Planning a campaign in a homebrew setting which used to be a fairly standard high-magic fantasy setting but got absolutely fucked and now everything more than 15 degrees north or south of the equator is completely covered in ice, any extra material I should look out for? Considering including converted stuff from Spelljammer and Planescape but I'm not sure yet.

>>55364573
How new are you?

Rolled 5, 10, 2 = 17 (3d10)

Muh dic

>>55364611
We're only at 127 replies, save the dick size shitposting until bump limit please

>>55364615
Understandable, have a nice day

My friend is trying to convince me that Tashas Hideous Laughter causes the target to drop their weapons when they become incapacitated. I'm saying that's broken as fuck and no way in hell is a level one spell going to do that.

Who's right?

>>55364622
Look up the word "Incapacitated" in the conditions section at the end of the PHB. Does it say "drops what it's holding?"

That's a rhetorical question, it doesn't.

>>55364640
^this^

>>55364622
>who's right?

The GM

>>55364622
Your friend is a mongoloid

Do weapons with the Light property use dex?

>>55364622
Tasha is pretty strong, yes

>>55364954
No, that's the finesse property. Maybe I should spent my time shopping read the book anime sluts like that other guy.

>>55356021
Is take 4 coming out soon?

>>55365001
I wish

psionics are trash

Guys i need help with a lore bard spells selection, we are a 3 members party, most likely me, a ranger and a fighter, starting from 5th level, so far I'm going to take:
Cantrips: minor illusion, friends, vicious mockery
1st level:dissonant whispers, faerie fire, healing word
2nd: suggestion blindness/deafness, heat metal
3rd: Hypnotic pattern, bestow curse
What do you think? are there too many concentration spells?

TWF ranger y/n?

Anyone else pretty underwhelmed by the new UA?

The only thing I'd consider playing is the githzerai and part of it will always goes to waste unless you multiclass. INT bonus wasted unless eldritch knight, AC bonus wasted unless squishy, STR bonus if wizard

>>55365123
>implying int is good for EKs
>implying evocation is good for EKs
>implying EK spell slots should ever be used for spells that aren't shield or other protection spells

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Looking for feedback on a homebrew race. I know this general isn't too fond of homebrew so if there is somewhere else I can post this and get feedback on it please let me know and i'll take it there instead.

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>>55363672
Hang on famalam, I might have something for you. I made low-magic versions of the Bard, Druid, Paladin, Ranger, and Sorcerer/Wizard. I didn't touch the Warlock as it's kind of low-magic enough as-is.

- Beastmaster
- Knight
- Scholar
- Scout
- Troubadour

>>55365062
It's passable, but there's no support from spells like archer ranger get.

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>>55365231

>>55365215
>player race
>doesn't suffer exhaustion
This is just begging to be abused by berserkers.

>>55365146
>implying there's any other build that can take advantage of INT and STR boosts

>>55365276
>implying there is a build that can take advantage of INT and STR boosts

>>55365123
It's nice how Bladesingers have a dedicated race that gives them even higher AC.

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>>55365238
Scholar is split in 2; this is the class, the next is the spells.

>>55365284
>imply there is more then two races with a STR/INT focus

>>55365306
Look, senpai, all I'm saying is that trying to build a muscle caster isn't going to end well for you. If you want to be an EK then you're going to be spending 90% or more of your spell slots casting shield, absorb elements, or counterspell.

>>55363483
Players are expected to fight acererak and that forming god thing at level 11? wtf?

>>55365246
Nice catch, thank you. Changed.

>>55365295
Aren't bladesingers elf/ half-elf exclusive though?

>>55365344
... oh right.

I keep forgetting fluff restrictions.

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>>55365305
God dammit, my internet connection sucks, it takes too long to upload and the stupid CAPTCHA expires. Can't include the spells for the scholar. Sorry.

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>>55365369

>>55365322
Acerak won't come out and attack until after the Atropal dies, and even then, he runs off and flees when he has only 100hp left. In addition, any player possessed by a trickster god (which has various added bonuses like temporarily boosting a character score to 23, as well as whatever the magic item they inhabit does) gets 50 temporary hit points each turn and does an extra 3d6 psychic against Acerak.

So players aren't completely fucked, but it can still be especially brutal, much like the rest of the main/final dungeon.

>>55365412
Oh that's neat, I plan to lead the group to the tomb of horrors right after this to take down acererak for good.

>>55365320
Yeah, but how else are you gonna get anything worthwhile out of the zerai?

It's another failed attempt at a gishzerai

>>55365320
True, but that won't stop people from saying "remember duskblades" even though duskblades were bland pieces of toast.

>>55363285
This man is smart as fuck.

>>55365351
Who pays attention to something like that

What are you doing in there, Georgie? You playin' with yourself? That's not allowed. That's my property, you're not allowed to fiddle with it. Now come on, open the door, I'll show you how to wipe yourself.

>>55365719
In D&D? Especially when the fluff is tied to FR?

I really hope not many.

>>55365853
Go back to your writhing orange dimension Pennywise, if you can't beat gangbanging prepubescent warlocks with a turtle for a patron you deserve everything you get

>>55365867
>FR fluff
Good.
>race restriction fluff
Bad.
>race restriction fluff when it refers to something that is not inherent to a race but is instead knowledge that is mostly kept within racial circles
Doesn't preclude extra-racial inheritors of that knowledge. There's nothing stopping someone from being taught Elf bowmagic or Elf sworddancing beyond opportunity.

>>55365443
I think the ToH is meant to take place much later, possibly centuries after ToA, since Acererak is just a skull at that point.

What are some ideas fr a lizardfolk society that's actually based on lizards and their behaviors/social behaviors?

I've got lizardfolk in a tropical jungle but I don't want them to just be aztec/mayan/etc. because the orcs kinda are already

>>55366366
Sunbathing siestas maybe? How about that mosquito burger that nigs in africa make as a local delicasy? I dunno apart from that, although most reptiles shed their skin so that could get a lookin

Oath of Vengeance or Oath of Devotion for my maul wielding Paladin?

>>55366366
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Mexico_whiptail

Base it on one of the species of lizards that clone themselves, have a matriarch that all other members of the tribe revere and protect

DMs, do you allow your players access to the class and race UAs?
Without allowing multiclassing of course.

>>55366356
That skull is just a trap.

>>55366390
Vengeace is better because more chance of crits for those phat smites

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I like having music during the campaign link up with specific characters, villains, etc.

Thinking this for Strahd von Zarovich.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbdV2Fx0PM

Any gothic music recommendations? Maybe for the Mad Wizard?

>>55366434
One of my players is a revised ranger, and the warlock player wants to take kiss of mephistopheles in the future, which I'm also cool with. I won't allow mystics yet, they look like a hot mess.

>>55366555
But only against one enemy. And what about the other feats and the vow spells?

>>55366389
I actually had an idea similar to the sunbathing siestas thing. After they give their offerings to their Gods as thanks for bringing the sun back, the lizardfolk all celebrate with a siesta.

I like the idea of the skin shedding thing. I'll see if I can think of anything to do with that.

>>55366393
This is pretty cool. I had an idea of a matriarchy since I heard that female lizards are more frequently incubated in warmer climates. I may have to look into that.

>>55366628
One of the guys in my group plays a Duergar Mystic... I think our DM actively tries to kill him out of spite because he's too universal.

>>55366615
>not trawling old anime soundtracks for shit with leitmotifs

>>55359628
Not by RAW, but logically it would. DMs probably wouldn't rule it that way though.

>>55355993
Never ran anything not homebrew, and I'm not plannin' to start one. I'm fine with stealing some minor bits and ideas from an official or 3rd party module, but I'm playing RPG to use my own imagination.

>>55366434
I do on case by case basis.

>>55365380
>>55365231
Heu man, I like your homebrew, but the Lore Troubadour is shit and has no damage options. Valor can at least Extra Attack. So if you could take a better look into it, I'd be grateful.

>>55365320
You want some Int for Counterspell, at least. And if you have Int for an EK, it can also help your GFB and make Hold Person an option for your L8 spell. It's not that important but you're not going to be gimped as an EK with 14ish Int.

>>55366615
Obligatory Strahd music:
https://youtu.be/ho9rZjlsyYY

>>55366615
I do the same, I'm using the quake 1 soundtrack for an apocalypse campaign

How much of Xanathar's stuff do you think will just be UA we've seen before and how much do you think will be brand new? Specifically in terms of subclasses.

>>55366615
Try some classic Hammer Horror Drac music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c41qUVJ8fqk

>>55366615
Hammer music for the entire campaign.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scdsQ0C4TnA

>>55367020
More or less all of it should be from UAs. That's kind of the point of them - playtesting content before it's released.
Of course, the material will be fixed/balanced, not exactly as it appears in the UA; and it will presumably also become AL legal.

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>>55366336

>>55357902
Huh, I forgot those existed. Literally just reskins of Elves though.

>>55358156
Oath of Ancients Paladin, be a protector of the high seas.

>>55358156
There's a UA specifically for a stormy barbarian

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>begin running ToA
>the first thing the playes want to do is either bet or run in the dinosaur races
>sick, i was hoping they'd be interested
>"we want to fix the races"

>>55358156
Refluff Eagle Totem Path as Seagull path
Ask your DM to play Storm Herald
Play any archetype you want as an angry pirate.

Would you allow a Beast Conclave Ranger to forgo ability score improvement on the animal companion to give it a feat?

>>55367020
Is anything 100% confirmed to be in that book? Mystic?

>>55367748
They shouldn't fix what aint broken, and the races ain't broken is they

>>55367872
they want to rig the races

>>55366615
The intro from the Phantom of the Opera overture
Drácula's Lament from Forgetting Sarah Marshal
Thriller from Michael Jackson
Sweet Transvestite and Time warp from the Rocky Horror picture show

>>55367893
Also, *lots* of David bowie

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>>55367887
Rig
1.
make (a sailing ship or boat) ready for sailing by providing it with sails and rigging.

>>55367914
is english your first language

>>55367887
Watch the latest acquisitions inc

>>55367927
yes

>>55367914
cheat, fix, set it up so they know the outcome of the race beforehand and can bet on it

>>55367893
>Sweet Transvestite and Time warp from the Rocky Horror picture show
My nigga

>>55367948
Why would they ever do that, what if they get caught?

>>55367961
Gee, it might create some sort of excitement or tension if they got caught! Like a conflict of some sort

>>55368006
But I thought the death curse was the conflict

>>55366615
Surprised no one suggested Castlevania music yet.

>>55368021
There can be more than one thing going on in a campaign.

>>55368049
How are they supposed to solve the death curse in jail?

>>55368059
A prison break.

>>55368021
Not if the party derails into an overarching crime campaign about fixing dinosaur races and trying to make sure your Dino makes it to the finals

>>55368073
And Acererak wins
The End

>>55368081
I guess he did. But guess what?

the players won the tournament

>>55368085
Congratulations, level 1s(?) vs Acererak
I'll make some popcorn

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>Its another one person pretends to be retarded
>Then another plays along episode

>>55368085
Who gives a fuck when the world is ashes?

I am the DM and doing a main villain thats basically Ramsay Bolton rakshasa. They only heard of some of his atrocities but didnt meet him yet. How do I do it right? I am afraid that the sadistic guy becomes cartoonish at best.

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I am the DM and doing a main villain thats basically Ramsay Bolton rakshasa. They only heard of some of his atrocities but didnt meet him yet. How do I do it right? I am afraid that the sadistic guy becomes cartoonish at best.
If this helpsn he is also really good illusionist and a perfect adivinationist.

>>55368163
>>55368127
You don't have to post it twice

>>55368127
>>55368163
well, I fucked it

When will the nat 20 skillcheck meme end

>>55366434
Revised Ranger over PHB is a must.

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>>55368249
Once DMs stop letting it happen

>>55368264
So never

>>55368249
When will the Nat 20 meme end?

>>55368249
>>55368264
I curbed that shit immediately when I became my groups DM

>>55368276
But for attacks it makes sense
Not for
"I roll to intimmidate demogorgon"
"But you have -1 to intimidate"
"Nat 20"
"You did it congrats"

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>hunting down a betrayer white Dragon who allied himself with a Drow army
>on the hunt, we find out he may be in leagues with undead
>turns out he was in leagues with necromancers
>turns out he has a phylactery and is a Dracolich
>still hunt him anyway
>come in contact with him after destroying said phylactery
>he is all of the above but with adamantine plate armor across his body
>first round of combat somebody crits on their bow shot
>the DM peers his eyes over the DM screen
>"you hit, go ahead and roll damage, but the Kraggis can not be crit due to the adamantine armor"
>im playing a champion fighter

>>55368310
But ol' Demoggo is immune to fear.

>>55368374
Exactly
But he rolled a number he had a 5% chance to roll
So he succeed right

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should I have Strahd show up to fuck with the players after they meet Ismark and Ireena or before?

i was thinking maybe post-burial at the church or at the crossroads past the Visanti.

>>55368373
How in hell does anyone get that much adamantine?

>>55368373
>>im playing a champion fighter
Found yer problem. You're brain-damaged.

>>55368417
Long story short, the story goes moon elves once ruled a continent that got dicked by human and dwarf invaders.

the moon elves fleed to a fucking barren ass shitty snow covered island where they basically went mad and were corrupted by Lolth, turning the moon elves into Drow. deep under the ice and snow, the island contained a fuck load of adamantine guarded by white dragons.

so after most of them were corrupted, they used it to their advantage and began sieging the mainland again after killing most of the white dragons and befriending one.

>>55368373
Meh. As much as I'd love to use crit-immune enemies, I never decide to do it because I believe it takes a big chunk of their fun. Like hell, even if I had an enemy wearing adamantine armor, I'd rather make it high AC or bonus HP or whatever, just not deny the players their crits.

>>55368273
Pretty much, but you can at least curb it at your own table.

>>55368281
That's really the most you can do, curb it at your table which gets your players in the habit of not expecting it. Then if they DM it's normally something they don't do because they never did it while playing.

>>55368417

That's nothing, one of the characters in SKT is building a freaking adamantium titan.

>>55368467
But he's finding preexisting pieces, right

>>55365215
I liked it, sounds like a cool idea. I would like to know a little bit more on the Dust mechanics, though. Also, the thing about exhaustion is a good thing to think about.

>>55368479

Some, he plans to forge the rest of it. Like, a good 2/3.

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>>55368393
Have him standing outside the church waiting for them. When they players come outside, have Strahd ask Donavich, the priest.

If the players hand him over, have Strahd kill the priest then animate him for the players to kill or have him force the party to pick one of them to personally kill the priest with their own hands.

Make sure Strahd stands there and watches it all happen. Remember, he is trying to figure out who is the strongest, weakest, most sadistic, most reserved, etc. member of the party.

>>55368525
He requires a a fucking primordial to do it though

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Got the ToA hardcover, any requests? Can't scan because no scanner but this is the next best thing

>>55368373
>white dragon
>smart enough to be a necromancer
>smart enough to wear adamantine armor
Did he at least have his phylactery in a stupid place, in the end?

>>55368626
>can't scan because no scanner
Take photos of every page then
:^)

>>55368626
Any unique magic items?

>>55368641
Mfw 243 pages. That's a hard no

>>55368563

Yeah, well, that's just for the titan mech part, he's still got access to enough adamantium to actually make the pieces, which is mighty damn impressive in and of itself.

I can't find the Curse of Strahd book in the trove, am I blind or should I look elsewhere?

>>55368634
he could barely cast anything if that helps, he essentially just got the secret of immortality for betraying his people and allowing the Drow to fuck them all up.

the Drow plated him, he didn't plate himself. but yeah, his phylactery was basically disguised as a mountaintop on that shitty island by a more powerful caster. it was hard to get inside but not because of him.

>>55368655
sheeeeeeeeeeeeeit
magic items then, that's all that matters desu

>>55368634
>Humans have INT 10 on average
>Some humans can become liches, sure
>White dragons have INT 10
>WHITE DRAGONS ARE TOO DUMB TO BECOME LICHES REEEEEE

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>>55368652
P1 of 3

>>55368660
Nevermind, I'm a fucking moron.

>>55368660
Look for Return to Ravenloft

>>55368677
Commoners never become liches.

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>>55368652
P2 of 3

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>>55368652
P3 of 3

>>55368688
Yes, but humans do, because there's variance in their intelligence levels. Why shouldn't the same be true for any other species?

>>55368703
I really hoped there was some more, oh well, cheers mate.

>>55368690
>sentient ring
Ayyy
>it's chaotic stupid
Fuck.

>>55368715
Because humans are muh adaptation race. White dragons are THE stupid dragons.

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>>55368722
>implying the ring of winter isnt the sickest chaotic stupid item

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For those who've read or have a good idea about both, which would you recommend?
Curse of Strahd or Tomb of Annihilation.
Thinking of running one for my players, and can't really decide.

>>55368744
The powers are cool as heck, but the personality is lame.

>>55368769
Then change it, the GM determines its personality, not the book.

>>55368778
But what if I'm not the GM?

>>55368758
Tomb of Annihilation if your players enjoy a more sprawling adventure with more dungeon crawling and combat. Curse of Strahd if your players like to get into more intimate RP and like atmosphere over constant conflict.

Both campaigns have all of the above but either specialize. Im running CoS right now and have ToA on the backburner,
but I already read it and it looks fun as hell

>>55368758
Strahd

>>55368792
Then enjoy your icy ring of edge.

>>55368808
You can't make me.

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>>55368820
do it

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>>55368820
This is who currently possesses the ring

>>55368836
Okay.

>>55368793
Cheers, I'll ask 'em.
It sucks, they both look like they've got a heap of potential and look really fun. I did OotA until real life got in the way and we had a blast with that.

>>55368853
>had a blast with OotA

Then fuck you're going to love CoS or ToA. Even SKT or PotA are better imo

>>55368865
As much shit as I see people give SKT. I really liked it as a player

>>55368865
When we played all we had on offer were OotA, Dragon Queen, and PotA.
We'd just run LMoP and were looking for something a bit more sizeable, so it was a tossup between OotA and PotA, and judging from everything I'd heart OotA was the better so I went with that. Good to hear the adventures just keep getting better.
Here's hoping I get a go at both of 'em.

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Can we all just stop for a second and laugh at volo. CR 1/4

Would a Dex paladin/ swashbuckler MC be a good idea?

So, I'm running Lost Mines of Phandelver for my group soon. Two of my 3 players have already gone through the goblin tribe hideout (but no farther).

What's a good dungeon I could use as a replacement? Ideally pretty much the same thing but with a different layout/traps/NPCs/etc.

>>55368877
Since when do people shit on SKT? It's really good. It isn't perfect but offers much content and replayability, perfect for running multiple times with different groups.

>>55368865
What's wrong with OotA? I've played the first half and my group had the most fun with it yet.
I've heard that the second half has more problems, but I'm unsure what exactly.

>>55368897
I'm not sure if I'd say better and better, but overall how I'd rank them personally are (ToA by reading, not playtested yet)

CoS > ToA > LMoP > SKT = OotA >= PotA > RoT > HotDQ

How would a cleric of a good-aligned deity perform a (necessary) abortion ritual?
By which I mean what spell would you use to remove the fetus? Remove curse, lesser restoration, cure/inflict?

>>55368932

Just go through it again. I've been trying to play Lost Mines since I started 5e, but it keeps falling apart. As such, I've been through those caves a good seven or eight times now.

>>55368942
There isn't really much wrong with it, but it can get quite repetitive considering it is essentially one giant dungeon crawl. Nothing wrong with that, just imo got stale towards the end.

Great concept and variety on enemies, though.

>>55368919
It would work pretty well. If you want to get real weird with it you could go variant human with mounted combatant. Take palidin up to lvl 5 Andrew get extra attack and find steed. Dump the rest into rogue and your a monster on a horse

>>55368900
>22 point buy.
>Casts spells as a 1st level wizard.
>But 0 combat spells.
>7 HD, but still CR 1/4.
>Menaces you with a dagger for 3 damage.

I've got a halfling ranger who's a bit pissed at not being able to have a longbow, is there any way to circumvent the rulebook for her to be profficient?

>>55368877
I'm a new DM several sessions into running SKT for my friends. I got it based on information I could find online, which was the usual game journalism thing where it's 90% gushing positivity and "the new one is even better than the last!"

Did I fuck up? It feels decent enough so far but could definitely be better. Many locations/characters aren't fleshed out, which is okay~ since I should be able to improvise, but defending the town against giants was a multi-hour absolute shitshow despite my attempts to simplify it... For example, one important NPC combatant starts like 5 rounds distance away from the central conflict IF you try to fix things by put him on a galloping horse, and the cloud giant taxi moves at ONE mph

>>55368900
You know what is even more funny than the stat block? The fact that he there to shill his own book to the characters with an actual mechanical benefit to buying it from him.

>>55368950
>Blessed coathanger

>>55369021
She is proficient. She just sucks with it because it's Heavy. She can use one of the crossbows instead.

>>55368950
A fetus isn't a curse or a disease; it's a parasite. Maybe there's some kind of custom abortion spell that exists in your setting because Wizards rightfully avoids the kind of stuff you'd find in the Book of Erotic Fantasy. If you're hellbent on using only the rules as written, your best bet is the Contagion spell. It could work in the same way as traditional herbal abortifacients like pennyroyal: by making the host so sick that the fetus dies.

>>55369050
I would think you could do a custom bestow curse.

>>55368900
How could Volodthamp Geddarm be like 150 years old at this point and still be 1st-level?

>>55369050
>>55369040
>>55368950

>not Thunderclapping inside the lady like we did to our Druid to remove a Slaad babby

>>55368919
I don't know, does it fit the character idea you're trying to make? If so yes

>>55368950
Lesser restoration for an ectopic pregnancy, greater restoration to abort a Slaadpole.

>>55369050
But a lot of diseases are caused by parasites and are cured by removing them, anon.

>>55369083
Could a monk expend a ki point to just punch it clean out?

>>55369021
I'd homebrew a composite shortbow which has a longbow damage/range, is more expensive than either, and probably has a stremgth requirement of 12 or so.

>>55369124
Only if he yells "Falcon punch" as he does it

Rolled 7, 1, 5 = 13 (3d10)

>>55369049
Is there a crossbow that can match the longbow's range?

>>55369087
I was just thinking it would be cool to add some extra utility and I've never tried a dex paladin. Lore bard is a good choice too. All that's left is to decide on an oath

>>55369083
If I was your DM, your druid wouldn't have survived that, to be honest

>>55369125
I was thinking something like that, although it'd have to have the heavy property removed obvs

>>55369136
Personally I like Devotion and Ancients

>>55369137
He didn't, but we were pretty high leveled at the time so there were means to get him back.

beats going back into Limbo to fight Black Slaad Tad

>>55369135
Do you need to? Do you *really* need to?

Rolled 2, 7, 5 = 14 (3d10)

>>55369249
What's wrong there friendo? Intimidated by the girth of a well-rolled human penis?

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Ok bois. Got a scan of the player map from ToA

in a 5~ hour session, how far would you assume players might get in Curse of Strahd by the end of the first session?

i kind of want to set some kind of hallmark to guide myself while DMing it and keep a decent pace. it has to be once they are leaving Barovia at the least, i'd assume.

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>>55369021
It almost like she didn't read the book.

>>55369072
I like this one.

>>55369300
>13/14
>Well-rolled
You must have rolled your Int well too.

>>55369326
You could give her an oathbow

>>55369326
Don't. Get. Me. Started. Why pick halfling at all? Why obsess over a few more feet of range? Why contest the rulebook that you CLEARLY DIDN'T READ REEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>55369343
>Slightly below the average
Besides everyone knows int's a dump stat for everyone but nerds

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>>55369361
>used to play in a game with a psycho chick with genuine mental illness, and a huge victim complex that would cry crocodile tears, and abuse people verbally, and emotionally
>she only played halfling rangers

>>55368111
A world where Banana candy can't get to the finals is a world where I don't care to live on.

for player background reasons, are there churches or clerics in Daggerford? If so, of what faith?

He had a pretty cool idea for a Warforged Paladin created in party by Paladins and Clerics there to serve a God's purpose.

>>55365215
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHyw9agRCZQ

What do you guys think of the plane shifts?

>>55369541
http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Daggerford
>The Harvest House, temple dedicated to Chauntea.
>The Morninglow Tower, temple dedicated to Lathander.
>Table of the Sword, shrine to Tempus
>Fairfortune Hall, shrine to Tymora.

>Morninglow Tower: The largest temple in Daggerford, it shared the hill with the ducal castle and was directly supported by the duke
>Maldwyn Daggerford
>Patron deity Lathander (Lip Service)
>Morwen Daggerford
>Patron deity Tempus, Lathander (Officially)
It's Lathander.

>>55368950
Cast Spiritual Weapon in the shape of a coathanger

Exorcisms are typically the purview of Dispel evil and Good

>>55369656
No opinion, really, I don't play them and aren't interested in Magic, but it does give more semiofficial options for creatures and classes so why the fuck not.

>>55369656

Don't know much about them. MtG isn't something I've paid a lot of attention to.

>>55369690
>>55369698
I'm asking because I play both and I've been enjoying them mostly for the added shit they bring. I'm really looking forward to the next one (Ixalan) because it looks like it'll be (uber-religious vampire) conquistadors, pirates, and dinosaurs which will be fucking awesome.

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>>55369312
Here's a better one.

Does a lore bard actually make a better martial bard than valour?, assuming you take Booming Blade as one of your lore cantrips, you'll be doing the same damage at level 5, which an additional conditional 1d8, which will only go up further at 11+ wheras valour doesn't get any further attacks

>>55369728
this is a super satisfying hexcrawl map

>>55369656
They're pretty neat for people who want to either play in those settings or just want a different flavored class/race, I'm a fan of the Zendikar vampire.

They also serve as a good example on how to make homebrew stuff

>>55369741
He does, but not with your logic.

Start with Sorcerer for Scag cantrips, prof in Con saves, Shield and Mage Armor, and Lore spells go for spirit guardians elemental weapon

You are sticking to daggers tho

>>55369793
Which is why at my table booming Blade and Counterspell are Valor Bard spells

fuck, i need ambient shit for Curse of Strahd. like background ambient sounds, ravens, chimes, whatever to accompany some music. all the stuff ive found on youtube sucks so far.

>>55369883
There's a YouTube channel called yellow post sign or something.

Additionally just rip off the entire Witcher soundtrack, can't go wrong.

>>55366615
>weeb shit
Ozar Midrashim

>>55369206
Sounds good, would you start as a paladin or rogue? We're starting at level 2

>>55369039
Mechanical benefit from buying from him?>>55368900

>>55370031
You can buy Volo's Guide to Monsters from him for 50gp, and players can use it to potentially get some insight on creatures in Chult when they encounter them. Not stat block stuff, but the lore stuff.

>>55369080
Not to mention he has fucking regressed. Volo was a 7th level mage during the 2E days, if memory serves.

>>55370081
50gp says spellplague did it

>>55368741
>Because humans are muh adaptation race
>elves have variance
>dwarves have variance
>halflings have variance
>dragonborn have variance
>kobolds have variance
>but pure dragons cant have variance