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>2024 PHB Scan (No more fingers edition)
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>Cropped and rotated, but more artifacty
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>2024 DMG
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>2024 Monster Manual
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>2024 Official free rules
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>2024 UA
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>2014 Errata
https://dnd.wizards.com/dndstudioblog/sage-advice-book-updates

>5etools (2024)
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>Trove
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>>95875661

>TQ
How can you make charity interesting in a game about killing things and taking their stuff?

>>95893556 (OP)
>TQ
Mechanical benefits, which simultaneously causes it to serve as a viable sink for all the stuff being taken from things that have been killed.

The gnomes are here.

can someone make me a level 5 path of the berserker barbarian for 5.5e please

>>95893766
I meant a character sheet

>>95893766
Are you incapable of doing it yourself?

Should I buy a gallon of distilled water for my chessex mat? Remind me to buy an empty spray bottle and wash cloth to for wiping the mat.

>>95893837
too lazy

>>95894038
sucks to suck

>>95893766
https://fastcharacter.com/
I don’t like spoon feeding retards but you can make infinite characters here

Would you rather your DM handed you these or just a page of college ruled for your inventory? What you can do is, is have say the top row say M.agic I.tem Sack under container, keep the item space empty, CL is the weight of everything in it combined and ML is it's ML. Then you list everything in it below that in the item part and it's weight under CL.

does anyone have the gunslinger pdf from magehand? I want to be a cowboy

>Want to play a character with the Mark of Death in Eberron to finally get that special snowflake out of my system
>Check out Keith Baker's version
>Intuition die is used for charisma checks with the dead and the undead
>other ability is opening up a telepathic channel with undead, even mindless undead

I don't know how this is supposed to work in actual play.

>>95893766
>>95894142
What he wants to build is also in the free rules for Beyond, too.

>>95894397
I want to teach him to catch his own fish

>>95894292
>or just a page of college ruled
Graph paper, nigger.

>>95894417
>Teach a man to BE a fish and his friends eat for a week.

TQ: Charity galas.

>>95894476
Fuck off with that soulless shit

>>95894482
Uhhm Pablo Escobar tier drug lord giving to the poor then?

>>95894476
>AIslop
Fuck off.

>>95894482
>>95894502
That poor artist. He got ripped of so hard by AI.

>>95894508
I didn't say it was AI, just that it was soulless. Which it is.

>>95894492
>PCs inadvertently responsible for a potential ecological disaster
I buy it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamuses_in_Colombia

>>95894508
Doesn't need to be AI to be soulless slop.

>variant human
or
>fairy
To choose between a feat or perma flight for a wizard...

>>95894521
>>95894654
Brunette fingers typed this.

>>95894654
Speaking of slop, my horizon walker remake. I moved a few features around and gave them more unique spelllist
7th level I'm not so sure on. It feels strong but bland
Dimensional strike might be too powerful

>>95895635
Vuman so you can get Eldritch Adept and Armor of Shadows to infinitely fuel your Abjuration bubble.

>>95894365
I like the idea of making the Mark of Death functional along the same lines as other Marks, but I don't necessarily like the design choices.

>>95895635
if you choose fairy you'll be gay and even worse, a manlet. It really depends on what kind of wizard

I am sure this has been discussed to death, but what is tg's opinion about DND 2024 compared to 5e?

>>95896921
It's a neat source book with cool classes and subclasses, but it's a shit rule book if you sit down and look at the changes they added

>removed personality/flaws section entirely
>ASI tied to background
>all feats are half feats
>hiding
>passive perception is so vague as to not exist
>humanoids are extinct?
seriously, go look at any of the previous animal/monster humanoids. Fucking lizardmen are elementals now.

but there are also good changes

>subclasses at 3rd for everyone would have prefere if everyone got them at 1st but the new book even states that yoiu should skip 1-3 for returning players as its a tutorial
>weapon masteries
they're cool
>feats
most have been altered and a few of them for hte better.
>grappling tied to unarmed strikes
because now you can grapple as a reaction

>grappled condition
>While you have the Grappled condition, you experience the following effects.
>Speed 0. Your Speed is 0 and can't increase.
>Attacks Affected. You have Disadvantage on attack rolls against any target other than the grappler.
>Movable. The grappler can drag or carry you when it moves, but every foot of movement costs it 1 extra foot unless you are Tiny or two or more sizes smaller than it.

>>95896921
The PHB and MM changes are mostly good. Combat feels faster and more fluid as more effects happen without calling for saves and there are more abilities that move things around the battlefield.
The DMG is nearly unusable as there are almost no rules or procedures for actually running the game: generating and populating dungeons, random tables, making new spells, items, or monsters (the guidance they give is garbage). It does have good treasure tables and I use the encounter and travel tables.

>new player asking dm about if gentle repose works with revivify
>both he and experienced player definitively say no despite the wording
>he also says pic related about revivify
Am I retarded? I don't get how you can infer this from RAW

>>95897073
>skip 1st level
>this is good
How to tell me you have zero attention span without telling me.

>>95897944
Sub 3 has always been the shitty tutorial levels and the only people I've ever seen who think otherwise are gms with an unhealthy love of rusty dagger shanktown.

>>95894476
I had a charity gala in my game. Terrorists bombed it and I almost made a player cry after the fight when I described the host's tough-as-nails body guard kneeling with his corpse trying not to weep.

>>95897944
I haven't even played a game where the dm didn't raise us to level 2 after session zero
Not by my input, that's just the norm wherever I go

>>95897954
It's the best (often only) time to show the players what the world looks like from the common perspective so they can appreciate their own power level at later tiers.
Skipping the early levels breeds retarded murder hobos.

>>95897915
Earliest revivify is accessible by players directly is lv5. So the mechanics infer that it’s aimed for characters entering tier 2 adventuring

>>95897977
I don't know why I'm surprised. I hate the effects TiK Tok has had on people's ability to delay gratification.

>>95897915
You’re not retarded, they’re just straight up wrong. The description of Gentle Repose contradicts them. It even mentions Raise Dead directly as an example. If they want to ignore the entire purpose of the spell with a house rule they might as well throw the whole thing out

>>95897915
>Am I retarded?
No, your DM is.

>>95897915
They're both straight up fucking wrong.

How often do you guys get a player that actually right off the bat wants to play cleric? What type of person are they usually?

>>95893556 (OP)
Is there a way to adapt this encounter to dnd?

https://woh.fandom.com/wiki/Horrible_Old_Man
https://woh.fandom.com/wiki/Vicious_Verses_of_A_Violent_Vigil

>DnD 5e been out for 11 years now
>entire revision made of the game
>still no zombie template
>still no skeleton template
>even if you try to derive one from the differences in the stat blocks, the results make no sense

>>95898983
templates? traits? rules? systems?
bro we dont need any of that stuff haha just make up your own! or are you saying you are a bad dm? that will be $59.99+tip

>>95898983
>dmg 2014 pages 282 and page 279

8kvpg

>>95897915
If longer than a minute passes, then no. That's a curious interaction I've never thought about. Keeping Gentle Repose scrolls is not such a dumb idea.

>>95899157
Are you talking about the monster creation rules? Yeah I know those. That's what I use. But that doesn't provide an adequate template for translating an existing monsters stats to those of a zombie version of it.

>>95897944
>>95898203
As I said, I'd rather everyone get their subclasses at first level. Being able to incorporate your subclass into your backstory is far more important to me than skipping 1st and 2nd level.

>>95898983
sorry, things like templates, extraordinary/supernatural/spell-like ability tags, and actual armor variety with different use cases were all deemed too complex for Playtesters to handle. It took TEN FUCKING YEARS before WotC added back in weapon traits, and even then 2024 masteries are simpler than weapon variety in past editions

>>95899712
sorry sweaty but a good dm should just come up with all those things. If you complain about 5e limitations then you are a bad dm. The DMG should only say that rolling 20 is better than rolling 19 and the rest should be 200 pages of AI art showing inclusive folkx

>>95899619
It is pretty awkward to think about in-universe
>Paladin swears an oath...of something and gains powers
>Warlock signs a pact with...something and gains powers
>Sorcerer has had innate magic all along but somehow only after an arbitrary amount of experience do the side effects turn up

>>95900057
Anything with a unique themetoo
>the fighter/rogue has been doing their thing for 20 years
>suddenly PSIONIC POWERS

>The ranger?
>Yea, he just started actually training an animal companion.
>Why didn't he do this 10 years ago?
>Who knows.

it just makes the world feel inconsistent.

>>95900057
>>95900126
i think that you can make it fit the campaign better and there is a change in perspective, the lone wolf ranger wanting a companion to aid him when the stakes are bigger, the regular cleric/warlock now being chosen by whatever god is part of the adventure, paladin in 5e was always an oath to himself and that giving him powers

>>95900057
Cleric is also a bit baffling. You’re the prophet of a god, but they won’t tell you who they are, just that you need to spread their word.

>>95900200
Except subclass at 3rd makes that EVERY character. Every lock, cleric, and sorcerer because a chosen one

>>95900246
sorcerer is that you have innate magics, you are now being able to channel your bloodline better as you have gotten more adept at magic

>>95900057
Just ask the players to lock in their subclass choice when creating the character, it's as simple as that.

>>95900260
Yeah, if the player isn’t roleplaying an initiate or junior of the subclass while a lower level prior to lv3 wtf are they doing

>>95898725
I like to play cleric, and it’s because I like to play healers a lot in games. While I like the sunshine and rainbows idea a bit it’s moreso about playing God and preventing deaths to me. I want my fellow players to have options in making their characters unoptimized so that if the DM is brutal, they can still play out a character arc if they want to.

>>95900251
>sorcerer is that you have innate magics
>the sorcerer is magic...because he just is ok?!?!

it's a dumb concept to take away the magical bloodline from a magical bloodline class calling it a class is dumb too, but that's a different discussion

>sorcerers still need an arcane focus
Why hasn't this been fixed already?

>>95900667
I think their new mage rage should also remove material components that don't have a cost

>>95900667
wizards would seethe if sorcerers could just cast spells without detection

>>95900696
how would they know?

>>95900701
they would read up on it as of course the masters of all arcane lore

Two dwarves are walking in Waterdeep one day - one has a gold piece the other has 8 silver. They see a sign at an alchemy shop "Turn you into an elf for 9 silver!".

So the one with a gold piece says "I'll go in, if it works come out and give you the silver".

He comes out and he's an elf! Tall, thin, pointy ears, pale and beautiful with golden hair and magical eyes.

The other dwarf says "My Moradin's Hammer, it worked! Quick, give me the silver piece!"

The elf says "Get a job, digger" and struts off.

>>95896921
Heavily mixed bag. Some things are improvements, some are awful, but the most important thing to keep in mind is that the roll-out of it was a massive fucking mess - an absolute failure - and DND is hurting because of that more than anything else.

>>95898725
First one was a caricature of a boardgame nerd falling apart from NAFLD, current one is a cool old man that makes bank in defense contracting.
Correlation: they're both tall.

>>95900926
it's a reskinned joke. cool

>>95900926
Two dwarves are walking in Waterdeep one day - one has a gold piece the other has 8 silver. They see a sign at an alchemy shop "Turn you into an elf for 9 silver!".

They walk into the shop, one of them grapples the shopkeeper while the other murders him with an axe, and then they leave.

When a guard approaches them, they pool in the 1 gold and 8 silver to bribe him to look the other way.

Afterwards they got drunk as fuck on credit in an inn they've been to before.

Where's the best place to find irl players? The flgs hasn't contacted me yet and I want to play now. No I dont have friends yet.

>>95901271
At this point you start knocking on random houses

>>95901271
Be the dm and shill on social media

>>95901271
facebook

>>95896921
It made several things worse for no real gain, added a few minor improvements, and utterly failed to address some of the biggest issues with the system. Since 5e had already developed a substantial homebrew ecosystem, the revision really needed to justify itself as an alternative to just assembling your preferred homebrew package, and it utterly failed to do so.

>>95898725
The first character I played was a Cleric in pathfinder
I find they work pretty well for beginners - right out of the box you have a set of beliefs for your character, easily understandable ties to the setting, and you pretty much always have something your guy can be doing at any point in time. You can get a lot into your character by thinking about your Diety and why your character follows them
They also are not super fragile (which is good for the newbie who doesn’t understand combat positioning), teach spells and spellcasting in one of the more accessible manners, and are generally wanted in the party by other players.
Clerics are great for beginners

Frostmourn hungers...

>>95901651
>Titty armour
>Tippy toes
Why?

>>95898725
>>95901424
I'm playing a gnome cleric in my first game right now taken because I really wanted to play a support role that won't immediately get melted and can stand a chance in melee
Backstory is she teamed up with a dwarf paladin to hunt undead in the name of their similarly-aligned gods playing fantasy Ghostbusters. Eventually they get roped into the campaign investigating a haunting at the same time the rest of the party arrive on the scene for their own reasons.

>>95901424
Speaking of pathfinder, why in the 10+ years of 5e have they not made a trapper ranger? Rangers are outdoorsman, known for being hunters and TRAPPERS.

It blows my mind that such a simple idea hasn't been implemented. Every ranger subclass has to be more outlandish or magical than the last. What about a trapper? or a Strength based ranger that's just a survivalist lumberjack? Or an cutthroat that uses natural poisons?

>>95901900
Because that sounds boring

>>95901900
Because you don't need subclasses devoted to those simple concepts. You can currently play as any of those.

>>95901979
You sound gay.
>>95902023
We have ranger with animal, ranger with dragon, ranger who hunts, and ranger who hunts monster, all of which are simple concepts. And that's a good thing, simple is not bad.

>You can currently play as any of those.
Playing as a trapper is not very feasible, off the top of my head, for traps there are

>alarm
non combat
>snare
1 minute cast
>cordon of arrows
weak, strogner than before by still weak
>glyph of warding
decent, but third levle and expensive
And maybe a few more, I can't think of. and a paul Bunyan inspired ranger would be sick as shit.

>>95901900
>>95902099
Buy some rope, nets, hunting traps, tripwires, and whatever else you want to make a trap out of and set it up. The other anon is right, you don't need a subclass to make traps.

>>95901900
That shouldn't be a subclass, it should be a suite of abilities available to any ranger. That's like asking why there aren't separate rogue subclasses for daggers, rapiers, and crossbows.

>>95902099
>non combat
You mean like all traps, since the entire point of traps is to avoid combat?

>>95902099
The fact that you think of spells when talking about traps is both hilarious and pathetic.

>>95901900
I don’t disagree that a trapping focused thing would be neat, but 1 - you run into the problem that you can set things up but you still need the enemies to walk into them or they’re useless, and b- traps (the existent set of caltrops, bear traps, and ball bearings) sorta suck and only even kinda work with low level Thief Rogues

>a Strength based ranger that's just a survivalist lumberjack?
That’s a barbarian
>Or an cutthroat that uses natural poisons?
Rogue Assassin

>>95902173
>it should be a suite of abilities available to any ranger.
In a perfect world, sure. But 5e character power is either

>spell
>feat
>subclass
and magic items, but that is entirely up to the DM on whether you get any
You can't expect all DMs to be reasonable about creating things that aren't explicit, even when rules for them technically exist, pic related

on two occasion I tried playing a mechanical based trapper, one as an assassin rogue, the other as an alchemist artificer.

The artificer was a kobold acting as a priest of Gaknulak that has several blankets with glued on debris like leaves, sticks, sand, dirt etc. to act as cover and he had the mold earth cantrip as a racial, so I often created pitfalls traps, but the DM was a dick and everyone ignore the traps and moved around them as if they spotted them. I gave up on making traps 3 sessions into that that campaign when a zhentarim on a horse moved over one the space where I had a trap and when I pointed it out the DM says "the horse jumped over it"

sad times.

>>95902299
Mold Earth creates a 5 ft square of difficult terrain. A horse could totes jump over it

>>95901900
thief can already do that.

>>95902099
>You sound gay.
Not as gay as you who wants traps (traps are gay btw)

>>95902338
Only if it could see and avoid it. That's what the terrain cover ghillie blankets were for.

>>95902370
lmao. I'll concede, you win this round anon.

>>95902388
>>95902338
Does it matter? Were you standing exactly 60 feet away from them? All that effort for pretty much nothing

>>95902370
Proof?

>>95902370
Traps are gay only if the balls are touching.

>>95902581
Traps are gay because they are untrustworthy (they masquerade as women) and will slap your ball with their balls. Mega gay.

>>95902586
>they masquerade as women
not really gay
>will slap your ball with their balls
DANGEROUSLY gay

>>95902586
But what if the trap is only masquerading to get close to other women like your waifu and plap them?

Any future trapper ranger subclass is now the fag subclass
It's your fault anon

>>95902651
Rate the classes in terms of least to most faggotude

>>95902658
barbarian is the manliest because iot gets advantage on dex saves to avoid traps at 2nd level, then rogue and monk get evasion to avoid more traps

>>95902651
>least faggotude
INT primary (30 year old virgin wizards)
STR primary (bitches love muscles)
>most faggotude
CHA primary (no explanation needed)

>>95902685
You really think skinny virgin wizards aren't getting plowed by big burly warriors, anon?

>>95902685
'lockbros...we bend for BEC (big eldritch cock)

just had my first DnD session tonight, man i have never felt so fucking stupid doing simple arithmetic in my life

on a related note: how the hell do you guys take notes? I have several index cards filled with random bullshit i'm just now realizing I have zero context for? how do I know what is and isn't important? Genuinely feeling a tad overwhelmed

>>95903352
>how do I know what is and isn't important?
your character in skyrim might feel omniscient because you can pause the game and open the wiki for what you don't know, but in dnd you are the character.

if you forget something, that sucks, if you didn't take notes then you forgot it. And that's normal. its just part of the game.

>>95903352
i play online so i use a google doc and just take important notes on stuff. things like names, locations, events that happened (I also track all damage done because its fun).

i need some combat mechanic/setup ideas
flavor is arctic dungeon (in the center of frozen island in a tropical archipelago, the dungeon has a machine keeping a portal to the frostfell open)

but the setpiece doesnt need to be directly there
ideas I have so far
>an ice troll with a lair with cave den with of water holes, when he walks near they freeze over and whoever is stuck underwater gets trapped
>machine/portal closing summons increasingly powerful frostfell creatures
>the aboleth agents that dont want the portal closed/mcguffin found first fight wearing human skins but then transform into deep scions and other aberrations

>>95903552
>weather
roll a d20 at midnight, 1-3 blizzard, 4-15 fresh snow/snowing, 16-20 calm but cold weather
>blizzard
visibility reduced to 30ft
CON saves every hour they travel/aren't warming up in the dungeon
treat the dungeon as if they are outside


include tons of difficult terrain, as well as 2x2, 4x4, or 3x3 areas of slippery ice hidden under fresh snow (if it snowed/is snowing DC 14 passive perception to notice, DC 12 dex save to prevent falling)

as for encounters, ice and m̶u̶̶̶d̶ snow mephits. Snow mephits can create difficult terrain of death/snow breath and the ice mephits can cast fog cloud which is fucking brutal for casters. you can even include the mephits as environment hazards or traps ratherthan actual encounters.

>>95903352
>index cards
A pad or notebook is probably better because it keeps it in chronological order for you, which is nice.
But to be frank - don’t worry about it. If it’s your first time playing it’s not your job to be the note-taker, let someone else do that until you’ve become more comfortable just playing the game.
And even once you’re at that point, you don’t need to be super comprehensive with everything - they’re notes, not a book. The point is to aid your hopefully functional memory. If you meet a character, jot down their name, where you met them, some identifying feature (i.e. blacksmith, pickpocket, archeologist, hates our guts, etc.). That’s usually enough. Same with locations - unless you’re drawing out a dungeon map (again - if you’re new not your fucking job) just write down enough that it’ll help you remember. I.e. Right Passage -> Small Shrine, Fountain of blood guarded by skeletons. It doesn’t have to be a lot.

What about being classless until the 3rd level?

I think my biggest pet peeve about Eldritch knight is that the war bond weapon limit doesn't scale.

I wish you could bond with PB number of weapons instead of just 2. if I play an EK, I want to bond to 2 lightning javelins ketch filled with like, 4-5 lightning javelins

Gelugons are cool.

>>95904143
thats an ice devil

>>95903732
You sound insane right now.

>>95903732
>>95904319
This only works in a specific setting, like strixhaven. where everyone just starts out as a "magic student" and then gets their class features after finish some kinda test.

>give new moon druid spells to use in form instead of savage maneuvers
>okay, yet another instance of adding magic where martial maneuvers would have fit better, but whatever
>shoots Ranged gay carebear starlight particles instead of giving them melee elemental smites or other elemental spells
I'm so tired of my subjective preference and instinct being so off from these guys who make this stuff

>>95903732
That's level 0. Starting as a commoner. People barely even play level 1-2, so going back even further isn't going to have much appeal. I like the academy shtick though, but that's me.

>>95904602
fount of moonlight is a melee thing, but it's a 4th levle spell so for the majority of your time you'll be casting ranged star motes

>>95903352
>on a related note: how the hell do you guys take notes?
I have the 5.5e character sheets and two notebooks.

Spell tl;dr
>You can cast spells faster by expending double spell slots
>You can complete (cast this for a year) conditions but are locked out of the spell slot until you pay it back

Would I be retarded to introduce this into my game?
We're on Gritty Realism, and I don't HAVE to give this spell to the players, I was going to have an NPC do this originally, they're definitely going to ask though.

>>95904917
Fuck forgot image

>>95903379
Nta, but I encourage metagaming in my games.
Players rarely take advantage of it, but I tell them off the bat that if they ask me a spoiler question, I am willing to answer it, I'll always double check by saying " Your character wouldn't know this, are you sure you want to know?". Only gotten like 2 affirmatives to that question, but it really helped to deescalate when a player felt they had gotten gotcha'd when in reality they just missed/forgot something.

People can only rise to the expectations set for them, so when you give your players your trust, they actually behave better in my experience.

>>95904920
>has a material component with a price
How do you cast another spell with its own material components as part of casting this?

>>95904917
>>95904920
Spell makes zero sense to me despite reading it several times. Help me out?

>>95904997
DM fiat? Idk I'll just nix that part.

>>95905047
Let's you cast spells like guiding bolt or identify as a bonus action. You just have to expend an extra spell slot.

You can also make a permanent teleportation circle but you lose that fifth level spell slot for the next year.

My friends and I want to start doing games over Foundry, but I've got a newborn and might have to disappear for up to 20 minutes at a time to help out with him if the missus' needs it. What's a good narrative excuse for my character to inexplicably just disappear for that length of time so I don't have to grind the session to a halt

>>95905098
Nothing, enjoy barely getting to play DnD the next ten years.
A friend of mine who was a DM for a large campaign had his second child two years ago and they haven't had a single session since.

>>95905098
When people don’t show up to sessions I say their character has terrible diarrhoea. Maybe your character has that and IBS

>>95904154

I am slightly annoyed by my DM's response to my character concept sirs

>>95905365
As a veteran too-much-detail DM myself, some of those are defensible, but why the fuck is he asking you to name everything?

>>95905365
>Why does he deserve to be a protagonist in this story?
I know he's probably fishing for what you have planned long-term but that's such a red flag

Listening to I Hate Models at the gym and got inspired

>>95905365
>Hey DM, here's the core concepts, can you give me some details of your world based on that so I can fill it out in a way that fits?
>Hey player, give me a bunch of deep details without any of the info you asked me for

>>95905689
Thanks for dispelling every debuff we've cast on the creature and attack buff we would have cast on you.

>>95905788
:3

>asking for that much detail
Unless you're starting at least at 3rd level, you only need the most basic of information.

Do we simp for the Raven Queen in this general or not?

>New player joins campaign
>Female
>"My character loves drama and stirring the pot hehe!"
Welp, that game was fun while it lasted. Time to find a new group.

>>95904602
Adding "or pick any other spell that you deem thematically appropriate" beneath the extended spell list features of classes would really go a long way. You can of course always just ask the dm, but to be given permission by the game itself would make it feel more sanctioned and alright. Other examples include Tempest cleric not having access to lightning bolt or chain lightning.

>>95906631
>Playing with real life friends
>They tell me horror stories of other campaigns of theirs that had women

>>95906631
You could set boundaries, anon. Females are a different kind of bad, but they're not all bad.

>>95906631
>>95906685
They only come in two flavors.
>Bro with tits and a pussy.
>Imminent Problem.
If you pay attention you can tell which one they are pretty quick. Though unfortunately it's "gatekeeping," "misogynistic" and socially unacceptable to cull preemptively, so it's more about just preventative damage control, making sure they can do the least amount of disruption when the timebomb blows.

AMAB and AFAB trannies only come in Imminent Problem, so I can only assume it's got something to do with serum estrogen levels. Though since some guys are Imminent Problems too if they have small dog insecurity syndrome, maybe it's low serum testosterone instead.

>DM bring his quirky gf to the table because she "wants to learn how to play"
>always playing footsy with him
>"DM, how come Anon get advantage?"
>"Goldenleaf, my dhampir Ranger with wolf companion, wouldn't let the guard disrespect her so she attacks!"

>>95906685
>>95906796
>>95906809

Jokes aside, I don't hold any inherent prejudice towards women at my table, but you can instantly tell when one's going to be an issue. My irl group I DM for has my two buddies and they bring their wives, and they're completely fine. Maybe a bit goofy but the characters they make are good, honest people. Ones a mom who wants to be this big cool hero for her kids, and the other one wants to go on a big adventure so she can write/publish a best selling story.

My kvetching is for an online game Im a player in, and no way am I trusting a fucking woman who describes her character as someone who's interested in drama and pot stirring. Immediate red flag that you're a selfish cunt who wants to fuck with other people for your own sense of entertainment. It's about as subtle and trustworthy as a male player saying his character wants to flirt with bar maids and pound pussy. Massive red flag and I've suffered through this shit before. It fucking sucks and I have zero tolerance for it.

I engage with the hobby to adventure and engage with other people. Not to be a daytime soap opera for some femcel fujoshi.

>>95906809
It's the Neuroticism OCEAN personality trait. High neuroticism

Women trend much higher on neuroticism. Trannies have sky high neuroticism basically as a rule, I wouldn't even be surprised if there's a direct casual link, a chill and stable person certainly isn't going to go "my body doesn't line with cultural gender norms, so I must mutilate my body."
But then of course some guys are still neurotics.

>>95906819
I have to be very knowledgeable/close to a couple to be tolerant of DM/Player partner dynamic exactly for shit like this. Retarded favoritism and how more often then not the gf doesn't give a fuck about the game, she just has an inherent need to insert herself in her partners hobbies.

It CAN work, but I have to be absolutely sure the couple are mature adults.

>>95906662
>Tempest cleric not having access to lightning bolt
what's even the point of playing one then

>>95907123
Well, chain lightning is a 6th level spell and 5th level is the cut off point of domain spells. If it was me, I would make domain spells reach up to the 9th level though only one per level after 5th level.

Speaking of, I made an "updated" domain spell list for Tempest cleric. Do you think it's reasonable?

##### Tempest domain spells
| Cleric level | Spells |
|:----:|:-------------|
| 1st | *thunderwave*, *fog cloud*, *gust* |
| 3rd | *shatter*, *misty step* |
| 5th | *lightning bolt*, *tidal wave* |
| 7th | *storm sphere*, *freedom of movement* |
| 9th | *destructive wave*, *cone of cold* |

>>95904920
Casting actions as a bonus action, sure. Removing the time investment from an investment over time spell like and getting it on credit?

A spell with this kind of power should not be first level. That is the most american zoomer shit I've ever fucking seen.

>>95907211
Destructive Wave and Freedom of Movement are kinda off brand. Could replace em with partner-content spells, lots more to choose from

>>95907383
I'm not seeing the the problem with letting it scale from 1st.

>>95907383
>>95907633
>american zoomer
Oh wait didn't see you were captured by buzzwords, nm. Have a good day.

>>95907639
>doesn't have the attention span to read two lines of text before responding
Thanks for proving my point

>>95907211
>*thunderwave*, *fog cloud*, *gust*
three spells? pick two, nerd
>*shatter*, *misty step*
gust of wind is a great utility spell, and "misty" does not correlate to a storm. This is munchkinery
>*lightning bolt*, *tidal wave*
sleet storm is a great spell and call lightning is underrated both for combat and theme, but I won't hate on giving them lighting bolt. Tidal wave is totally storm related as well but not as cool as call lighting imo, nor as good as sleet storm, but it passes.
>*storm sphere*, *freedom of movement*
storm sphere is meh, but tracks, and does give you a bonus action to use. Freedom of moment is in not storm related in the least, and is also munchkinery. Losing out on the utility of control water is criminal, and you should be pushed and land elbow first onto some 8d4s
>*destructive wave*, *cone of cold*
cone of cold is on brand, but insect plague is a whole other level of thematic, of literal biblical proportions.

All in all, it feels like you traded all your utility for big timmy spells or "meta" spells. 3/10


Personally, i'd just give them a new channel divinity at 6th level: Storm Bolts

>Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to wield bolts of lightning from both hands forming a 50-foot-long, 10-foot-wide Line blasts out from you in a direction you choose. Each creature in the Line makes a Dexterity saving throw, taking 8d6 Lightning damage on a failed save or half as much damage on a successful one. Creatures who fail their save by 5 or more are pushed 15 feet horizontally away from the lighting lines.

>but my onetrick!
Having a girthier lighting bolt on a short rest is cooler

What are some difficulties with developing a setting based in an isolated, insular, biologically successful, stagnant society?

I want a genuine sandbox for my players to make their own, and I want both magic and technology something that they themselves usher about within the setting.

>>95907691
Was thinking of keeping gust of wind cuz it needs rp spells and it's very fitting. Freedom of movement I agree but not sure what spell to use for that level. Destructive Wave was only chosen since it has thunder damage, but insect plague one of my favorite spells so maybe I should change it back.

>>95907748
>What are some difficulties with developing a setting based in an isolated, insular, biologically successful, stagnant society?
isolated, insular, biologically successful, stagnant
No changes, no problems, nothing new happens. How do you make a dnd adventure out of it?

is this one of them kingdom building isekais?

I find it odd there's no 1st and 2nd level spells that deal lightning damage or lightning theme.

>>95907916
you mean like witch bolt?

>>95907930
Forgot about that one. It's dog shit tbhqwty.

>>95907835
>No changes, no problems, nothing new happens
>How do you make a DnD adventure out of it?
My players happen to be there the day when Something Happens™, of course. If everything was peaceful forever, I wouldn't choose to make a setting out of it, right?
>Is this one of them kingdom building isekais?
I don't understand. Is this a common trope? Ultimately, this is going to be up to my players to decide. This is new territory for all of us, and it's going to rely on a generous amount of both player and DM fiat to function. It's risky, but I like what materials I have so far and I'm willing to allow it to crash and burn.

>>95907970
Search Labs | AI Overview
The subgenre of isekai where the protagonist builds a civilization is often referred to as kingdom-building isekai or village-building isekai, depending on the scale of the civilization being created. It's a popular variation within the broader isekai genre, where characters are transported to another world and then use their knowledge or abilities to establish and develop a society

minus the isekai bit I suppose.

>>95907691
>munchkinery
Decent spells you might cast once every 10 sessions are munchkinery now. Could you stop lowering the bar to your level?

>>95907990
>Transported
No, they're characters within the setting, and have always been there.
>Knowledge and abilities to establish and develop a society
Currently, they shouldn't really have any of these, as they're merely simple farmers or craftsmen. At least, not without some plot contrivances or supernatural assistance, yeah?

YESSSSS THE FLGS RESPONDED!!! They want me to run something. Now just to compose the response email after a YouTube video or two and rewrite my intro very slightly based on what I've learned so far.

>>95908200
Congratulations, anon

Build for this feel?

>>95908223
Do you mean including background?

>>95908236
Yeah

>>95908223
mastermind

>>95908223
Assassin

>>95906475
With mammaries this vast, yes.

He said Monday or Wednesday but Monday is Monday night magic and Wednesday is commander night. What's usually more busy (really hoping to get two tables to push together)? MNM right?

>Email works great for players to contact me. Mondays 5pm to 9pm work out? Session 0 on June 30th? The modules in the book seem to work really well with four players but it says they can go up to six (might need to toss in an extra cultist or two). If everyone who's interested shot me an email I could get it sorted out from there. FYI for potential players, this will be my first full campaign I'm running so I'll probably be more focused on just running the modules from the book with the really cool Censer of Dreams as the home base and Nafas as the patron rather than weaving the characters' backstories into the campaign (something I'll start doing once I'm a more experienced DM of course).

Favorite MM monster?

>>95908755
Boneless, theyre just so creepy

>>95908542

wtf happened to FNM?

>>95909256
It turns out they run both fnm and mnm. We're finalizing a time for monday. He said 6 or 7 pm might be better for people who work so I said 7pm to 10pm would be good but if we pick up steam then I want to play on Wednesday too, also they close at 10 so if 9pm would be better 6 to 9 could work too. He got back to me 10 minutes after my first email but I missed it for an hour reee.

A special nilbog that has a reaction to change a spell that targets it, would it be more fun to have the effect that it changes 1 letter from the spell or change an entire word into something that rhymes?

P.S everyone in this party can cast

>>95909626
Rhymes are way better.

>cone of cold
>Zone of Gold
>you choose a point and all creatures within 20feet of it gain teh effects of aura of aura of life and aura of purity


>catapult
>bat cult
>a target struck by a spectrat bat must suceed on a con sav9ing throw or gain all teh weeakness of a vampire

When everything is a rhyme, whatever you say will sound sublime.

>>95904920
You don’t know what the word “which” means and are using it incorrectly like 5 times in this description. Get a friend who has english as their native language to fix this for you.

That aside, this is a bad spell. You’re taking a feature that’s a key part of the Sorcerer and giving it to 3/4 of the classes in the game at a cheaper cost than the sorcery point requirement of quickened spell, and giving it an additional rider effect with the stuff about spells cast continuously in the same location. I would not want this in my game.

>>95908755
There's drawing from reference and then there's just painting over a photograph.

>>95905365
Stop playing games with internet trannies you haven’t met in real life

>>95905365
I couldn't post last night but I wanted to say your DM sounds like a storyshitter and as a DM I'd be fin with your backstory.

Do you ever use darts?
Seems like everyone would rather throw daggers or javelins

>>95904920
wtf am i reading

Woot session 0 is next next Monday! I don't know how many players are coming.

>>95905365
oof

>what's the name of your village, what is its specialty, and how is life like there?
I don't get in the habit of naming locations in other people's world
>which notable npcs lived in your village?
fair, but in such a small desert village, there probably isn't much to say.
>name of your family and profile about them?
fair
>what mercenary company or army squad you joined up with? what are they good at? what kind of epic battles did you partake in during your time?
fair. probably guarding merchants? probably none, the adventure is your campaign.
>what adventures did your character take part in before you joined the party?
He was a merc, not an adventurer. He had a family to take care of and was never interested a vagabond lifestyle.
>what is your character's special unique trait?
the lifestyle of an adventurer as well as the danger that comes with it is new to him.

>>Why does he deserve to be a protagonist in this story?

this is a red flag, but it could also be a means to weed out other red flags. its a toss up

>>95909929
>catapult
>bat cult
These don’t rhyme, even ignoring the extra syllable in catapult.
The “pult” in catapult is pronounced like “bolt”. The -ul- makes the same sound as the -ol- in the word “old”. It’s a sound you make at the front of your mouth.
Conversely “cult” rhymes with “fault” or “halt”. It’s a back of the mouth sound, close to your throat. It’s the same “ul” sound as in the start of the word “ultimate”.

>>95910264
k

>>95910264
>These don’t rhyme

>>95910264
This is the retarded kind of autism.

What's a good bard subclass for a 'gritty realism' setting? That is, a night's rest is a short rest & a week of down time is a long rest.

>>95910445

>Player A rolls a nat 20 on his 3rd live or die death roll
>DM and players all cheer
>>that guy: "actually, remember we said at session zero that if it lands on anything but the table we have to reroll
>its on someones flat, empty dice bag
>player A rerolls
>9

same energy

>>95909156
First time I heard em mentioned. Looked em up. They're really cool

>>95909929
>>95909626
I cast shocking grasp, checkmate idiot

>>95910810
>mocking clasp

Dex save, or you're restrained until the end of my next turn. When you make an attack roll or a ability check before the spell ends, the target must subtract 1d4 from the attack roll or check as your binding laugh at your attempts.

>>95910445
It's also just stupid and wrong. The standard pronunciation for both is -ʌlt, except this obviously varies depending on regional accent. For some speakers cult and colt are homophones; for others, they're not.

>>95910264
>The “pult” in catapult is pronounced like “bolt”
>Conversely “cult” rhymes with “fault” or “halt”.
Not in any accent that I've ever heard, and I've lived in multiple English-speaking countries.

Someone call me a retard or a genius
>Passive Percpetion Score (PPS) equals 10 plus a creature's Wisdom score plus their Perception proficiency bonus, if they have it and is a sense like any other such as blindsight, tremorsense, darkvision etc. and has a range (30ft)
>Outside of this range, a creature that can't be seen nor detected is effectively hidden

>Passive Stealth Score (PSS) equals 10 plus a creature's Dexterity score plus their Stealth proficiency bonus, if they have it, and is used when a creature cannot be seen but doesn't use the hide action.

If your PPS beats an unseen target's PSS, you know where a target is even if you can't see them and can target a square they are standing in to make an attack at disadvantage. If your PPS does not beat an unseen target's PSS, you do not know where they are, but you can make an educated guess based on other factors such as last known location, where an attack came from, a loud noise, etc. and can target a square to make an attack at disadvantage.

>example:
A tricksy gnome walks up to the party, hidden and invisible and kicks the rogue in the balls and tee hees away, his invisibility still unbroken but is no longer hidden. The druid, fighter, and barbarian now measure up their PPS against the gnomes PSS,15.
passive perception scores
>Fighter:14
>Barbarian: 12
>Druid: 22 (has advantage)
>Rogue:9 (has disadvantage because his eyes are shut, blind from the pain of having his balls kicked)
>Initiative is rolled
>The druid sees the faint foot steps that most others would miss and hears the ever so quiet giggling and casts faerie fire target the space around the gnome
>Everyone sees the gnome outlined in violet flames, it is no longer invisible


Does this work? What situations or rules could come up for this to not work? I just really hate how vague passive perception is currently.

>>95911312
Cat-a-polt
He’s right though

>>95910264
>>95911572

where is the O?

anyone playing fighter?

>>95911685
I have before, not right now.

>>95911255
Also rhyming and syllable count are not the same.

>>95911635
Polt is the pholt sound anon
Like poltergeist

>>95911739
*polt is the puhlt sound lmao

>>95911745
Yea, that sound isn't an out, it's an u, as demonstrated in the image.

is it possible some people have an accent or dialect that makes it sound like an O? sure. But to assume other people's way of pronouncing it wrong is retarded.

guys pls it's just for one encounter for some fun shenanigans you don't have to overthink what counts as rhyming that much

>>95911855
11 posts in 8 hours isn't really that much.

So, who is now a new guy in charge of D&D now that Crawford got forcibly retired?

>>95911956
That would be me.

>>95910264
Nobody says cult like that. What country you from?

>>95912096
Israel.

>>95911855
>you don't have to overthink
Anon, what exactly do you think happens in the average D&D session? I’ve lost over an hour of game time before because the party insisted on calculating terminal velocity when sinking in water.

>>95909957
>which
It's not obvious to me how I'm misusing it, can you explain?

>sorc spell slot/meta magic conversion
Okay that's a bad one. I'm going to add a max hit dice reduction on top of the lost spell slot until I think of something better. Luckily today 's session was cancelled (player's mom is sick), so I'll have an extra week to think it over.

>>95911516
I like it. The best way to find flaws is unfortunately experience. That's why games need alpha and beta testing phases. Just do things and see if they stick. For now I don't see any glaring flaws.

>>95912547
Would you pronounce that cult or colt?

so what class woud a drow be that got thrown into prison for worshipping another evil god instead of lolth?

>>95906631
The effects of women on a ttrpg game
>Slower combat, they don't care about rules
>Less adventure, they always push to run away from anything interesting
>More romance, it's the only thing they care about since women's fantasy books are 90% porn

>>95912698
>thrown into prison
What, are your drow all pussies? He’s be executed. That’s how drow society stays functional.
It’s like pissing on the Quran in front of the Taliban. You don’t get to keep living.

>>95912671
That one is clearly says cult so it’s pronounced cult (K-ult) and not colt (coal-t)

>>95912698
>that got thrown into prison

>>95912831
because out of the abyss starts with you in prison. probably scheduled for execution i have no cue though. so no my drow are not all pussies, wotc's drows are

>>95912883
Why would they execute you in some backwater camp when they could instead move you to the capital and make a big scene about it and raise their status in their community for showing their brutality and cunning strategy at capturing enemies of their people?

The drow are big on social standing and presumably the drow in out of the abyss want to boost their standing in the underdark

>>95909929
Catapult
>Fatty Bolts
>Heaviest player has to run a lap around the block or their character falls to 0 up and begins making Death Saves on it's Initiative.

>just wrapped up a flavor and mechanical revisions of all the ranger subclasses, following up a previous flavor and mechanical revision of the core class itself
>all my players are talking about how much cooler ranger is now and how excited they are for various character concepts
Is there a better feeling? Also, holy shit, some of the subclass fluff blurbs were absolute garbage.

Why is it that martials like barbarians and monks can't use some of their abilities when they use certain types of armor or shields, while most full casters can cast all their spells even in heavy armor if they grab the proficiency? Shouldn't it be the other way around?

>>95914010
Somatic components are gestures, which require the use of your hands. That’s a bit different from needing full-body mobility.

>look at living spell UA
>CR 1 for level 1 to 2 spell
>CR 5 for level 3, getting 2 attacks for 21 damage EACH
>mfw a monster with AC 15 and 30 EHP that can drop 21 damage on round 1 (scorching ray, 2nd level spell but still CR 1 for some dumbass reason) is CR 1
>but the only way to get past that is a fucking CR 5 monster that wipes half the party
How hard was it to make 2 more fucking star blocks for level 2 and level 4 spells?

>>95914377
>How hard was it to make [more content]
Have you been paying attention to the 5e release cycle, my man? Eight fucking years between people saying “hey, mystic could use a balance pass” and then releasing the dumpster fire of the Psion UA.

>>95914403
True true.
Just wish they hadn't made it a jump from CR 1 to CR 5 like that when I have a level 3 party. I guess I could use the living lightning bolt since one member is a blue dragon born but there's only 3 of them so CR 5 will be even harder. At least one of them has magic weapon.

>>95909964
Still pretty talented though

What are the criticisms/thoughts on the Psionic UA? I want to start prepping to deal with my players wanting to play it by considering ways to adjust it.

>>95915910
>>95915910
>What are the criticisms/thoughts on the Psionic UA?

>>95915910
>>95915973
To be more specific, imo, the feats are good. Maybe even great. The subclasses are thematic or have good mechanical feats that should be stolen from immediately. Their spell list is on point and suited for a psion. But I think that's where

The class itself is dogwater, like a shittier sorcerer with a shittier spell list.

>>95915910
It's shit. Conceptually, mechanically, it's just dogshit all the way down. They took a system literally defined as not being magic and just made it a spellcaster--and a subpar one, at that.

>>95916053
Oh no they made the extraneous subsystem that doesn’t interact with the other games mechanics…interact with the games mechanics

>>95916107
Psionics always interacted with the rest of the game mechanics, it just wasn't spellcasting and so didn't interact with rules around it, the same way that swinging a sword isn't casting a spell and casting a cantrip isn't firing an arrow. Mystic needed polish and a few balance passes, but it was a far more interesting way of approaching psionics as something distinct from magic--and it' was a HELL of a lot more interesting than "psionic" meaning "has a dice pool," especially when there are non-psionic character options that still involve dice pools.

>>95916107
Oh hey look, it's one of the retards responsible for the dumbing down of D&D. Does your caretaker know you're posting right now?

>>95916158
3.5 is still there if you wanna play it. But if you wanna play the retard edition, don't complain when they hand you retard rules.

>>95916220
>if you wanna play the retard edition
Thankfully, we’re nowhere near the PF2 thread.

>>95916234
That's the pride edition. you get +1 victim points for playing it.

>>95916220
Answer the question; Does you're caretaker know you're posting?

>>95916354
You’re the caretaker, Mr. Retard. You’ve always been the caretaker

With 2024's updates, should a lot of Ranger spells or the spell list itself be reworked to take into account that if you dont have hunters mark up at all times in combat you've fucked up? I'm obviously mostly referring to all the concentration ranger spells that are barely ever worth it.

>>95916568
isnt the free casting of it without using a spell slot the point of the new feature? like, you can freely break it without too much worry because you've got a few extra spell slots to flex w/

what abilities would you give a deep scion or just a generic shapeshifting spy specifically tied to an aboleth? poison? disease? just trying to hint at what might be controlling it when the party fights it

>>95914010
You shouldn't be able to use your class's Spellcasting feature unless your proficiency in the armour you're wearing comes from that class.

>>95893556 (OP)
So you know how putting a bag of holding into another bag of holding it creates a portal. How fast does that portal take to form? Is it instant or does it take a moment?

>>95916756
rip armor dipping

>>95916756
Eldritch Knight gods we're so fuarking back

>>95916354
How do you think I got the wifi password?

>>95916053
>finally got to play MCDM Talent last week for a one-shot
>my psionics were heavily nerfed and ruled as magic cause wotc UA precedent
>the 5.24 monk then solo'd the entire one shot with 60+ dpr at level 5
I got to enjoy the despair on the DM's face as he lost control of the game at least, that was pretty fun.

>>95916700
Psychic stuff

>>95916936
Instant, you can’t make a grenade with it

>>95917816
Interesting. That complicates things, but I can work around it.

>>95917816
>>95918033
It's already solved with that stupid arrow. In my game, bag in bag just deletes itself and everyone who knew about the bag forgets it ever existed along with its contents.

>>95918157
I think the most elegant solution I've ever encountered was
>I put a bag of holding inside a bag of holding.
>Nah, you can't.
>What do you mean I can't?
>Doesn't fit.
>But the dimensions of the bag's opening are sufficient that I should be able to get it in.
>Yeah.
>So why can't I get it in?
>Doesn't fit.
>But you just agreed that it should!
>Yeah, it should, based on the bag's measurements. But, based on the bag's measurements, you also shouldn't be able to fit a whole ladder in there. And yet, somehow, the ladder fits and the other bag doesn't. Weird, huh?

>>95908223
Dex based vengeance paladin, guard background.

>Reduce short rests to 10 minutes
>Can't benefit from more than 1 short rest in a 1 hour period
>You can take two short rests between each long rest. You can take three short rests when you reach 9th level and 4 short rests when you reach 15th level.

An hour is a long time, and a group needs to agree to stop and wait together, but 10 minutes is such a small amount that anyone can say "Hey, I'm gonna take a breather, I'll catch up". The group doesn't need to stop 1 hour for the monk, then after a fight another hour for the warlock and then two fights later both the warlock and the monk want to stop for another short rest

In this scenario, the monk's meditation takes 10 minutes, rather than 30 minutes.

>>95918205
Based

>>95893556 (OP)

>>95919091
>french fries inside the hamburger
Do Americans really?

>>95919782
I’ve had them in sandwiches too. What are you going to do about it cunt?

>>95919782
Ye, fries are just potato. You never put potato on a sandwich?
That said, ain't no way the fries look as good on the real burger.

>>95919782
As opposed to a chip butty?

>>95920640
won't lie, that looks good too.

>>95920681
It's pretty good. Some people add red or brown sauce, or a fried egg on top.

>>95920681
I'm glad that you didn't lie.

>>95921268
Liar.

>>95921280
You got me.

>ghouling

>the corpse of a child that has been altered with magic.
>not as strong as a normal ghoul, but they're better at hiding due to their small size, often clinging to ceilings and dropping onto those unaware.

>>95921610
uuoooohhh
The sound a ghouling makes

>>95921610
My last session ended with combat where I nearly got gangraped by four ghouls; we were walking through crypt hallways and suddenly my gnome had 3 all around her cutting off every other path
Thankfully our ranger let me go first with alert and they all failed the save against turn undead because otherwise it would've gone so differently

Today I will rewrite everything I need to for my first irl session 0 at the flgs...

>>95898725
Puckee's here too... yuck

>>95922112
What'd you fuck up that you need to rewrite everything before you even started the game?

A Christian group in roll20 is looking for more to join a CoS campaign. I'm thinking of joining just for the lols.

>>95922173
I wrote a script for session 0 and session 1 for before the players get to the module but it's written for playing in foundry. Just a little Hollow Knight (finally getting around to playing it, I'm at the trial of fools), then I'll do that.

>session time
>discord server gone
>foundry game not up
Bros? I'm not feeling so good...

>>95922373
you got kicked? lol what did you do

>>95922361
>I wrote a script
Abort

>>95922443
Nothing as far as I can tell. I was even in an enthusiastic discussion about our recent level up with another player an hour ago. I can't even tell if I was kicked or if the DM just nuked the game, which isn't uncommon in online games. But he's been pretty enthusiastic about running and has been talking about extending the module, so that seems even more unlikely.

I can still SEE the foundry game and it keeps saying "last played: now" but it also says it's offline. I don't think it's possible to just block a foundry player without outright removing them. Very confused. DM hasn't blocked me either, but hasn't said anything.

>>95922708
what have the other players said?

>>95922744
Server's gone and I never added them directly so trying to get their users for messaging is a pain. I think I've recalled one of them and sent a "you know what's going on?" message, but I'm yet to receive a reply

Alright lads, whats the most broken action for this class feature? Should I make the DC on the post-mortem higher? Also is the Azure Arcana feature enough of a boon that I could remove the benefit granted by applied research?

>>95923221
Stop trying to make blue mage a thing
It’s shitty vidya slop

>>95923248
Sorry anon, its fun. Also the whole subclass isn't a blue mage, I just gave the feature that name as a nod.

>>95923221
>Alright lads, whats the most broken action for this class feature?
Are you willing to trawl through every monster ever published, anon? Because that's what you'll need to check for edge cases and broken actions..
>Should I make the DC on the post-mortem higher?
Make sure you've balanced the base ability first. "I made this ability OP so I'll make sure it never actually works in practice" is bad balancing.

But also it's breakable with expertise. You probably want to do something about that.

IMO you need to change applied research's function. So far this entire thing is so wildly dependent on what the DM throws at you that it gains the problems of 2014 ranger. Either you get dogshit abilities and can't predict creature types, or you know what you're facing and have strong abilities and now it's weirdly strong. I'd give it something more consistent that the player has more control over.

>>95923366
>Are you willing to trawl through every monster ever published, anon? Because that's what you'll need to check for edge cases and broken actions.
I was mostly just going to trawl through the core monster manual, so far so good. Most stuff that would be broken are bonus actions. But yes, i am fortunately autistic enough to do that.
>Make sure you've balanced the base ability first. "I made this ability OP so I'll make sure it never actually works in practice" is bad balancing.
Good point, thanks anon. At the end of the day I want players to use the ability so I'll keep it as is. Maybe add disadvantage if the CR rating is a certain level above the player level.
>So far this entire thing is so wildly dependent on what the DM throws at you that it gains the problems of 2014 ranger.
Good point, I'll change it to a bonus action they can activate if they've post-mortemed that type of creature before. Thanks again anon.

>>95923221
The sphinx thing where you move 10 years backwards or forwards through time.

>>95893556 (OP)
>Parties Cleric wants to be a frontliner
>Keeps charging into every fight despite not being built around doing that
>Nearly dies every single time because he's always taking aggro
>Says it's fine because it's what his character would do
>Spams "Shatter" as his only attack most times despite not needing to get right up in front of the enemy because it's a ranged spell
>Buy our Cleric some basic chain mail armor so they have high AC since they keep doing this shit
>Last game we fought a Fire Elemental and our Cleric got fucking torched after running up to it
>Afterwards ask why he never used any healing spells during the fight
>"I don't have any healing spells prepared"
>Our healer doesn't have healing spells prepared
>Can only heal people by using the Chef feat because they're suppose to be a Cook

Our Clerics gonna die, he's gonna die Larping as a Frontliner despite the fact he has consistently gotten Bitched every time and I as a Conjuration Wizard could just summon a Creature to fill the role as Third Frontliner if we need it

>>95924226
>Our healer


eat a dick.

>>95924226
>I as a Conjuration Wizard could just summon a Creature to fill the role as Third Frontliner if we need it
Then why aren't you doing so? You could have a fourth frontliner and divide the damage by one more part

>>95924296
What are (you) even on about

>>95924302
>Then why aren't you doing so?

I have, doesn't stop the Cleric from doing that though

How can life domain be improved? It's no longer THE healer in 5e.

What's up, I'm starting a campaign at level 4 and I chose to play as a berserker barbarian (2024), but the thing is, I'm pretty new to this and I don't know what to do. Should I choose a particular feat or get the stats? And what weapons are best for me?
thanks

>>95924226
>>95924307
Clerics aren't inherently healers
What is his domain

>>95924401
>THE healer
Was never really a thing. Shepherd Druid with Life Cleric dip was best at it. Healing numbers were buffed in 2024, but not in a meaningful way. It's more ideal to heal out of combat, and use spells to mitigate or end the encounter sooner.
>How to improve life cleric
Double healing. It's such a dogwater go-to play, that it balances out.

>>95924401
>How can life domain be improved?
Replace revivify with life transference on their life domain spell list. It is a stupidly big heal for a 3rd level spell slot.
>heals an addtional 5 hit points from disciple of life.
>heals the cleric 5 hit points from the necortic damage from blessed healer.
>any other healing you perform will also restore the necrotic damage taken.

>It's no longer THE healer in 5e.
Debatable. It has free healing from the healing you'd normally be doing so if you're also getting into the thick of it, you're output is pretty good. Grave might have bigger single target heals, but that comes with the risk of letting players fall that low.

Life does much better with heavy armor master as well if you'm constantly getting chipped.

>>95924528
>>95924528
>Was never really a thing. Shepherd Druid with Life Cler-
So a life cleric then?

Retard.

>>95924528
>Double healing
That's too much, the new Grave is getting maximum values on healing downed creatures and that's already disgustingly good

>>95924589
>the new Grave is getting maximum values on healing downed creatures

That was always a thing.

>>95924618
Then an upgrade for life shouldn't invalidate it; there should be some specific circumstance to get a bonus of that magnitude like only when the healed creature is above half health

>>95924401
Double healing but in a more meaning ful way - healing done by a Life Cleric applies when you cast it and also gives a healing die ala bardic inspiration you can use after taking damage (probably within the next turn for balance reasons).
The extra die can bring back people who’ve been knocked under when they’ve actually taken damage to that point, so it can do the only important thing in-combat healing does with a lot better action economy.

>>95924575
>1 life cleric / 19 shepherd druid
Did you need me to say Shepherd Druid? Special needs.

What is the 5e equivalent to PF's Witch?

>>95921686
Spooky.

>>95924752
Warlock sorta

>>95922356
>we removed all content related to demonology
>this is a mature game, it deals with demons

>>95924639
Firstly no, Life gets a constant bonus to all healing from spells cast with spell slots on that turn fucking word salad, grave gets a larger bonus to one specific situation, a downed player, which is a risk and reward.
Life also has a large heal via its channel divinity, which is on a short rest and costs no long rest resources.

>5th level grave cleric casts cure wounds at 3rd level on a downed player
>52 healing (+4 wis mod)
Actually disgusting. But that's overkill for even the average barb of that level, so let's say 2nd level
>36
Still disgustingly huge.
>5th level life cleric Preserves life for 25 healing on a downed player
not as much, but still has all its spell slots, can still do this again, and regain this on a short rest. That's 75 healing for 1 short rest as long as the target is under half hit points, and it's efficient. You can freely split the healing to any other sub 50% HP targets to any creatures within 30 feet, its ranged.

And when you look at healing word, the disparity dwindles.
>5th level grave cleric casts healing word at 1st level on a downed player
2d4+4 healing is 12, substantial, and at second level that's 20 healing which is phenomenal.
>5th level life cleric casts healing word at 1st level on a downed player
2d4+4+3, healing 9-15 which averages about the same. And at second level that's 10-23, which is on average less.

Now you can say "white room" all you'd like, but grave cleric bigf pay off requires

>you to be near a downed player
>a downed player
Which is why I think its bonus healing is fair compared to life.


But when you throw prayer of healing into the mix? or mass healing word healing 2d4+4+5 per target? Life cleric goes hard.

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>>95924434
its pretty easy to start w/ a 17 in a stat and grab a half feat a lv 4 to bring it up to 18. great weapon master is good as it adds damage to your attacks and grants +1 to str. if youre going that way, grab any two handed weapon w/ mastery you think is fun.

you can combo things like push / crusher which could be fun. or you can go two weapon fighting with a nick weapon and another light weapon and stack damage from your rage sources (note you'll not get the extra damage from your str in your light extra attack but its still not awful while raging and two weapon fighting is less ideal on barbarian because of it).

>>95924671
That's still a life cleric as well.

>>95924937
Did it occur to you that maybe Shepherd Druid is the best healer? Is the best build of every class a dip into 19 levels of wizard, or can we not be disingenous for 1 post?