Eight of Swords edition

>"New" Arcane Subclasses UA: https://media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-images/ua/arcane-subclasses/zepvK7DBkeSt6dqv/UA2025-ArcaneSubclasses.pdf
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>2024 PHB Scan (No more fingers edition)
https://files.catbox.moe/g8oo9h.pdf

>Cropped and rotated, but more artifacty
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>2024 DMG
https://files.catbox.moe/fd04pq.pdf

>2024 Monster Manual (somebody posted a link to a scan last thread but my browser wouldn't open it)
https://files.catbox.moe/atd38s.pdf

>2024 Official free rules
https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/free-rules
>2014 Official Free Rules
https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/basic-rules-2014

>2024 UA
https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/ua

>2014 Errata
https://dnd.wizards.com/dndstudioblog/sage-advice-book-updates

>5etools (2024)
http://5e.tools
>5etools (2014)
https://2014.5e.tools/

>Trove
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>Resources:
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>>96050705

>TQ
Do you feel trapped by 5e/5.5e?

Still interested in a scan of the 2024 monster manual, https://pomf2.lain.la/ goes up to a gig for that anon who was going to share it.

>>96092625
Nice, I tried compressing it but it was still above 200 mb so I just forgot about it.

There you go.

https://pomf2.lain.la/f/1en5qwum.pdf

Preparing Ghosts of Saltmarsh for my table and I thought this was funny. Can't tell if this just got by the editors or if they really want me to change the location of White Plume Mountain.

>>96092668
>>96092625
My browser still won't let me open it.

>>96092715
Worked for me but it took like 10 minutes to load.

>>96092668
Thanks!

>>96092715
Took a while to download for me but it works.

>>96092668
thank you kind stranger

They survived the double death dog encounter and made it into the ziggurat, survived the poison gas and defeated the 3 giant fire beetles. They crawled into the hollow statues from the ladders in the gas room and used the levers to make the statues open their mouths to release the gas and decided to cover their weapons with the beetles glowing ichor for 10ft of dim light which was really smart. One of the 10 year olds is apparently on the spectrum and is tenuously paying 1% attention but I just keep running the module.

>>96092829
which module you running ?

>10 year olds
your children + friends / students?

>>96093154
The Lost City out of Quests from the Infinite Staircase. I just emailed the FLGS and had them set me up with players which turned out to be two 10 year olds, their dad and another guy who was there to play modern but no one else was. A lady was going to play but she noped out when she saw the two 10 year olds desu. (They children honestly aren't bad players but one of them doesn't seem to really want to play). Things should pick up a bit now that we're finally in the module. Hopefully my new dming doesn't kill him, we should at least try to finish the module right? When should I get their steam IDs?

Shid I forgot about weapon masteries

We have a success!
My ranger was able to free the barbarian, then a surprise party addition teleported in to run interference against the Rakshasa and eventually we killed all the enemies with time to revive the bard and paladin. Our bard is retiring from adventuring after that final revive, and we now prepare to venture into a deep jungle temple filled with enslaved various races under control of an ancient demonic bat god. Murder Of Crows kept 5 enemies blinded for 4 rounds, devastating their HP. This spell is absolutely worth it every time.

>>96092608 (OP)
>TQ
I used to but I got my group to try some other games. I realised there is something about D&D that’s appealing so returned. The new half edition mixes things up slightly even if it’s a very marginal improvement.

Is it possible to use War Caster together with Eldritch Blast in 5e 2024? I'll of course just be targeting the one enemy that triggers the feat, if it works.

What are the best debuff spells in 5e? Spells like Slow and Bane for example.

What are the best debuff spells in 5e? Spells like Slow and Bane for example.

>>96093658
>>96093664
>Spells like Slow and Bane for example.
sleet storm, web, hypnotic pattern

>jynx
remove the verbal component, alter the material component to the shard of a broken mirror, and up the die to a d6

>>96093670
Yeah, sorry, didn't mean to post that.

>>96093647
Yes sir. Cantrips are considered level 0 spells.

>>96093717
Great news.
It doesn't seem fair that I could potentially shoot four EB's up someone's ass on an attack of opportunity, compared to a Fighter hitting it just the once.

>>96093664
>Command
Approach and Flee can really fuck up positioning, Drop can neuter NPCs, and Grovel is one of the only debuffs spells that grant advantage that doesn't care about initiative order due to it happening on the target's turn.
>Fear
Two of the best commands (drop & flee) plus Frightened plus it has a full minute duration and they don't even get to make follow up saves until you are out of line of sight. Oh and it's a fucking huge AoE. Only downside is Frightened immunity is fairly common, if it weren't for that this would be a best spell in the game contender.
>Tasha's Mind Whip
Only moderately debilitating ,but this thing target INT saves which is extremely rare for creatures to have, and it packs a bit of damage on just in case. Not the strongest spell, but probably the best spell in the for burning through LRs, as you get half-damage even when the target saves, but it's debilitating enough to be worth using an LR on, all while only costing a 2nd level slot.

>>96093750
Thanks, I appreciate it.

>>96093746
You'd be doing it at disadvantage unless you also have Spell Sniper

>>96093802
>Spell Sniper
I do have that.

>>96093806

>>96093808
It's my first time playing a Warlock and I'm just winging everything that I am doing. Though I wish I had picked Fighter at level 1 for the CON saving throws as an extra bonus.
Will be dipping 1 Fighter next level for Defence, Medium Armour and Shield since I am not Hexblade.

>>96093815
You shouldn't multiclass just for the sake of making your character more powerful. Ask your DM if he would allow you to earn the proficiencies for Medium Armor and Shields through training or some alternative method.

>>96093918
Don't worry, we've already gone through roleplaying reasons for the dip.

Divination or Bladesinger?

>>96094026
Bladesinger is the single cringiest subclass in the entirety of D&D of course Divination.

>>96094030
Why?

>>96094035
Because it encourages the single squishiest class in the game to run into melee and waste its spellcasting resources on defensive spells to facilitate that gameplay.

Which martial class and subclass is the most brain dead to play?
I want to cruise control for my next character after having played druid for a full campaign

>>96094035
>Wizard
>That sings and dances for AC bonus like you're some kind of bard
>The smarter you are the better you are at singing at dancing and the higher your AC goes for some reason
>Fluff about "Cat" "Bird" and "Snakes" styles like you're some kind of monk
>None of which mention any ranged weapons yet the features still apply to ranged weapons for some reason
>Get more attacks like you're some kind of martial
>Never mind that you're a full-caster and are still better off casting spells
It doesn't know what it wants to be, tries to be everything, and comes out a confused mess both mechanically and flavor wise. I hate the Bladesinger with every single drop of my being. It's the single greatest example of trying to force a sacred cow into an edition that doesn't want it and certainly doesn't need it.

>>96094035
The optimal way of playing bladesinger is to just play a standard wizard casting spells and treating your subclass as an amazing bonus to AC and CON saves

>>96094049
barbarian.

>run into the fight
>reckless attack, every time
>profit

>>96094049
There really aren't any "simple" martial classes anymore like there used to be. Champion is still probably the least complicated, though, and it's significantly better than it was in the '14 ruleset.

>>96092608 (OP)
Anyone ever run the Humblewood campaign setting? I like the aesthetic from what little I’ve read about it. Is it recommended?

Apart from spider climbing and some kind of bite attack, what should I add to this creature to set it apart from a normal intellect devourer?

>>96094603
It's good. Bit of a departure from mainstream 5e but that's not always a bad thing.

Planegea is another of my favorite alternative settings. WoTC should do another competition for their next setting like they did with Eberron. Instead of dragging old settings from the 80s and 90s and raping them.

Are there any lower level shada-kai? My group (level 4) ran into a trio of them and while I want the fight to be unlikely for them to win (the idea is that in return for mercy they have to make some kind of pact, and these guys have been foreshadowed for a while) but the CR 7 guys are a bit much. I want there to be a chance they win the fight, maybe 1 in 4, because then it's more interesting to me as the DM. Anyone got any? Or should I just try to scale down the trio of stat blocks from Mordenkainens Tome of Foes?

>>96095091
Planegea sounds based and grugpilled. Will definitely try at some point.

>>96093235
>When should I get their steam IDs?
Huh??

>>96095092
just take any stat block and call it shadar-kai? give it the traits if they are relevant?
i dont really understand your question

>>96095091
>WoTC should do another competition for their next setting like they did with Eberron.
I used to think this for a few years, but the results of playtests and UA surveys has led me to the conclusion that I would be immensely depressed by the outcome.

>>96093647
Put on Agonizing and Repelling Blast invocations, too. That'll learn 'em.

if your players search through a bookshelf, always roll a d100, secretly.
>nat 1
glyph of warding, boom in their face
>nat 100
they find a manual/tome of +2. have the player who was search roll a d6 to see which manual/tome they found.

They are never made aware that it's possible to these books this way. Good idea or GREAT idea?

>>96096282
Oh ok I understand. Actually I'll just skip it and make up numbers instead. Possibly fudge some rolls while I'm at it. It's fantasy and it's all made up anyway, so it doesn't matter.

>>96096782
It’s not rocket science, take a humanoid monster that’s in your CR range and has similar abilities to the shaderkai, then, check to see what special abilities tbe shaderkai have, like the misty step/mobility options, the fey ancestry, and others if you want them more complex.

Stop stamping your feet like a child and think for a minute

>>96096782
>make up numbers instead

atta girl.

>>96096782
not only are you retarded but your type actually ruins games. 1st you are retarded because reskinning humanoids is literally RAW. You know all those stat blocks that say "any humanoid"? what do you think they're for?
But that's not even the whole problem, the fact that you think this is some closed system and your players can only face stat blocks that are printed, and every kobold needs to have 12 ac and a dagger and never pick another weapon or find armor is the bigger problem. You treat the game like a video game

>>96096698
>They are never made aware that it's possible to these books this way.
>they just hear you rolling dice every time they search a bookcase
>if it ever happens, they figure out what it was for and can now game the system appropriately appropriately
Awful idea. And that's not even getting into the logic of whether or not it makes sense for those things to be present in a given bookcase.

>>96097455
>And that's not even getting into the logic of whether or not it makes sense
But have you considered pic related?

>>96096890
So I might as well downscale the original shadar-kai NPCs which have thematically fitting abilities, since any NPC I tack those onto will make it unrecognizable anyway.

>>96097396
I've homebrewed loads of stat blocks. I was just hoping someone would have one that somehow hadn't made it onto 5e tools but was still semi official. I guess I'll just take those guys and drop em down to CR 4 or 5 or something

>>96097074
>make up numbers instead
>atta girl.
Kill yourself bitch. You and the rest of the fucking twats that go "lol dude just make up numbers, gygax said game masters roll dice for the sound they make, that's why I just make up random numbers for everything so nothing in the game actually means anything and it's entirely a hollow entertainment floor show for my players instead of a game.". Cool go fuck yourself go play Dungeon World or FATE or some one page RPG like Lasers and Feelings if that's what you want. No one who makes up numbers, is actually playing D&D. And don't pull that pilpul shit with "well by that logic of you homebrew at all you're not really playing D&D either" nope there's a difference between altering rules and outright ignoring them. Fuck you and I genuinely believe that people like you should be able to be fucking sued for WASTING people's time when they come to play a game of Dungeons and Dragons and instead get saddled with your pathetic masturbatory power fantasy.

Go to hell.

>>96097567
>Fuck you and I genuinely believe that people like you should be able to be fucking sued
>Sued
Angry burger detected. Calm down, your grease soaked arteries can’t take this.

>>96097567
True, you could just compare the dpr / hp of your monster against the average for the CR you want and just lower them. Shouldn’t be too difficult

>>96097567
>if you make up the numbers 1 day before the game starts it's a game but if you make up the numbers 5min before the game starts it's not a game anymore
>why?!... because I said so!

>>96094049
Champion Fighter, a friend of mine is playing one in our current session since it is his first and he wanted something extremely simple. We recently hit level 5 and he is quite happy with it.

>>96098030
Do you think taking Wite-Out™ and a felt tipped pen and changing the ending of a book because you didn't like your favorite character dying, doesn't detract anything from the experience? You're a genuine control freak.

>>96097747
Probably is what I'll do.

/5eg/ seems to be less nogames than the rest of /tg/

>>96098220
I'm sorry you lack the mental capacity to understand the logical conclusion of your arguments

>>96098220
You take the effort to be petty enough to change a book's ending, you deserve to have Harry get beaten by Voldy.

>>96098691
And what is that? Please explain since I lack mental capacity.

>>96098851
Wrong.

>>96098560
It’s not too hard to find a 5e game. Unlike obscuremcnodice games like Nobilis or whatever the fuck.

>>96099014
nta but the fact you directly compared your game to a novel is fucking hilarious, how much do you charge for tickets?

>the required value for spell components is now their market value, not some specific intrinsic value
>merchant guilds game the system to decide how much it costs to revive people
I made it fucking cyberpunk by mistake

>>96094869
Making it faster, since it has longer legs, and perhaps giving it longer range for its blindsight, telepathy, and maybe even its intellect devouring

you could make it a commander-type threat, able to teleport around normal devourers

Anyone know if it's possible for two wind currents to blow like this? Originally I only had the left current, but then realized the entire northern half would be almost completely cut off from rain clouds because of the mountain formations, making it much more arid than I want to

>>96100646
>Two gods blowing raspberries at each other.

>>96100646
yeah its possible, gives off an Iceland vibe for how the air flows around.

The monk should take on more the cultivator magic kung-fu wizard while the fighter assumes most other characterizations that plebs whose only exposure to kung-fu is jackie chan movies could never understand or distinguish.

5e was great for making dryads not made of wood again.

>>96097567

Scaling down the CR7 shadar-kai is hardly any different from grabing a weaker NPC and slapings the attacks and bonus actions onto it.

Zombies or skeletons?

>>96101217
>wet ones
meh
>dry bones
hell yeh

>>96101217

>>96101217
Skeletons.

>>96101217
clickaty clack, get in the sack

>>96100873
My players asked a wood elf-looking dryad child who adopted an old farmer for advice on going into the true neutral dryad forest for look for some missing villagers.
After she told them not to because the dryads would probably try to kill them for invading their forests no matter what the reason, she eventually reached into her hair and plucked out a twig as a token of dryad friendship.
She then reiterated it was a bad idea but I don't think the players believe every NPC who's told them how few fucks the dryads give about non-animals and non-fey and how much of a desecration it is for humanoids to enter their forests for any reason. But they'll learn. Last development was that the PC on watch failed a save against Dominate Person so he's just going to go and stab another PC at the start of next session.

>>96099859
It's an analogy dumbass.

>dm only allows two magical rings; one per hand
There goes my plan to pull an infinity gauntlet on rings of resistances
But he's open to bending that rule a bit via some additional homebrewing and imposing chances of catastrophic failure if I attempt said infinity gauntlet

>>96102161
>bending that rule a bit via some additional homebrewing
What homebrewing? You play a character with more than two fingers?

>>96102275
I play characters with at least 3 fingers so that I can give the middle finger when I need to

>>96102161
What Baldur's Gate does to a motherfucker. My condolences to you.

>>96102292
>bg3 in line with odler editions with it coems to magic items
>booo, bad
>bu the fucker wanting to make an infinity gauntlet some how gets a pss.

>>96102346
Pretty sure they mean bringing the arguably sensible-in-a-video-game restriction on magic item "slots" to a TTRPG where the limit to the number of rings you can wear shouldn't logically be be less than the number of fingers you have.

>>96102391
>shouldn't logically

Magic rules don't need to be logical. You could easily say
>"the magic held in a ring is unique and more sensitive to similar magic comapred to otehr magic items, and will interfere with each other if the rings are worn on the same hand.

because attunement isn't that logical, either.

>some magic items are so powerful that you can only use their power after performing a ritual and you can only use a handful of these items.
>ring of three wishes.

>>96102346
Define older editions, because as far as I know 4e did this but previous ones didn't.
>bu the fucker wanting to make an infinity gauntlet some how gets a pss.
Writers shoulda made that shit attunement what can I say, they have the perfect mechanic to prevent that and chose not to use it.

Will a coven of three hags (Night, Annis, Bheur) be an appropriate boss fight or a guaranteed TPK for a party of five 6th-level PCs and a sidekick?

>>96100908
I mean CR has to be recalculated either way and 5e.tools has an automatic creature CR rescaler sooooooo

>>96102868
>uses CR instead of doing vibes based encounter building
NGMI

Going into a big boss fight for my pcs, it's going to be an aboleth and 3 chuuls i don't want them to cheese it by killing one of the lesser creatures and then fleeing to rest, i was thinking of closing off the arena somewhow dark souls style in case they plan on doing this. Is it too much? How can i otherwise prevent the cheese?

I'm curious, are special eye colors still considered a special snowflake trait?

>>96103363
Yes.

Today, I will remind them

>>96103363
>purple
>heterochromia
Those are the main two for me. All my characters have brown eyes, brown hair, and skin white as snow.

>>96102845
If only there was a calculator to tell you this. Or even better a simulation tool https://dndfightsimulator.com/

>>96101217
A skeleton that is not undead but celestial, summoned by a celestial warlock and equiped with a weapon summoned with pact of the blade. You heal it with healing light.

>>96103406
If you do it every time on purpose then that's special snowflake behavior.

So is the shadowfell "adjacent" to the material plane like in 3.5e or is it a totally separate plane now? Where it's basically like any other plane and you can only access it with gates and stuff, instead of shadow creatures "clipping" in and out of it and it serving a big part of determining the properties of the material plane.

>>96102612
>but previous ones didn't.
3.5e
>It’s possible for a creature with a humanoid-shaped body to wear as many as twelve magic items at the same time. However, each of those items must be worn on (or over) a particular part of the body. A humanoid-shaped body can be decked out in magic gear consisting of one item from each of the following groups, keyed to which place on the body the item is worn.
>One ring on each hand (or two rings on one hand)

AD&D 2nd edition
>pic related

>>96104263
https://5e.tools/book.html#xdmg,5

>>96102974
stop thinking video game and think narrative
why would the aboleth let them flee? why wouldnt he be able to create more chuuls? what would the consequences be for being able to run away and letting the aboleth continue is plans? why wouldnt the aboleth just follow? etc

>>96104762
You're right, i should make it follow them, however what if they flee to dry land or directly up on the upper levels of the dungeon? Instead, would enslaving one of the pcs as they flee be too much?

>>96104993
why do they need to stop the aboleth? there must be a reason. and that reason has consequences if they flee
make it enslave other creatures, just like the chuuls

>>96102974
>>96104762
>>96104993
stop thinking would it be too much? and start thinking bloody murder
Block off the exit with a wall of coral and if they really want to flee they can hack it down, but make sure to slaughter half the party in the process.

>>96104993
>however what if they flee to dry land
If you hit them with mucous cloud or tentacle attacks they won't be able to

>>96104993
>Instead, would enslaving one of the pcs as they flee be too much?
If you're not going to enslave somebody there's no point using an aboleth

>>96105513
>>96105494
>>96105164
Just what i wanted to hear

>celebrity actress is murdered by her assistant for sabotaging the assistant’s career and never letting her catch her big break
How is this for a murder plot?
Simple, sweet. I think I like it.

>>96107089
change to understudy

>>96107159
Thanks, anon. That makes more sense.

>>96107089
>>96107159
>>96107171
make sure you have some other actress who is a jealous bitch with a lesser role be the immediate suspect, or maybe a lover or something. Murder plots only work if there's an obvious suspect who isn't the actual murderer. If there's only the understudy that would benefit, it's immediately obvious

>>96107089
>>96107159
>>96107171
>>96107274
Also have some rich noble snooping around who wants to buy the property the theater is on. The murder of an actress could dissuade other actors from participating and he could buy up the property cheap.

another easy suspect.

I think the concept of Hadar; a sentient evil dying star, is really cool. I want to use it as a BBEG for the very end of a campaign, with other characters like cultists, neogi, vampires and more being the lower level threats. What sort of force would be able to destroy something like Hadar? Can it be killed? Would the way to go about it be to deprive it of things to consume? Who or what would be powerful enough to stop it?

>>96107089
Don't forget to take Speak With Dead into consideration before your intricate plot unravels at the first hurdle.

In a theatre setting with ACTORS and COSTUMES, there must be a way of making the spell useful as information gathering without revealing everything all at once...

Another Red Herring Suspect is someone who is unconnected to the murder, but was nearby when it happened, engaged in shady business of their own that they would be reluctant to admit to under questioning/Zone of Truth.

>>96108185
Is that from the 3.5e Elder Evils book? If so all the information is probably there. If not I'm 90% sure there's a similar concept in the book.

>>96101452
How new to D&D are they?

>>96108185
another elder evil tier power, maybe one that turned good like desna in pathfinder, if fed with enough prayer/good deeds/worship

>>96108218
Not new at all! They have a reason to go there; I think they just assume it'll be balanced to be "winnable" or appropriate for their level. As it is, they're able to resolve something out of the forest where the dryads can't go, so if they can win themselves an audience by defeating the rest of the forest's hostilities, an alternative to death by dryad will present itself.

>>96094049
Berserker

So am I understanding it correctly that there are multiple rulesets for how to treat races? Why would they do this?

>>96108815
There's been a concerted move away from "race" as that word triggers some people. I personally don't really care that ability scores are now floating. I've told people not to tie them to their background either as I was sick of sailor monks.

>>96109264

>>96109275
>>96109264
Is this real?

>>96109300
It's not WoTC but yes it's a real "zine". There was a whole group of them making content like this on DM's Guild before WoTC changed races in Tasha's

>>96109264
>>96109275
I don't even necessarily care that they changed it, it's more that I find it confusing because different discussions I've seen about 5e are basically talking about two separate systems since they rewrote the rules without renaming the edition and it makes discussion confusing.

>>96094048
>>96094050
>>96094055
Best class in the game, can do everything and interact with everything, low HP is easily skirted with high AC and all the control spells you can dish out.

Most chad class in the game.

>>96109322
>It's not WoTC
why the fuck does this matter?

>>96109323
Their naming convention is very confusing. Some people call it 2024 5e despite many of the books coming out in 2025. Personally I call it 5.5e instead. I like a lot of the changes to races and it's very easy to bring 5e races to 5.5e but if you're wondering why they made some of the changes they did these images should help you understand the mindset.

>>96109338
Any retard can slap some shit together and put it up on the DM's Guild. I've seen literal AI generated adventures on there.

How do you balance chaotic party members in a lawful/neutral party?

>>96103406
>Purple
That's a common Drow color, though.

>>96109615
>Playing a drow
>Playing as freakshit
You fucked up from the starting line

>>96109664
I'm sad.

>>96109664
It's the shape of the ears that always confuses me the most

>>96103406
>Purple
Does it count as "special snowflake" if they are the villain?

>>96109797
Definitely

>>96109664
>Coward who only plays as self-inserts

>>96109797
That outfit looks stupid as fuck.

>>96109797
this shit is so ass i'm crying

>>96110448
Too revealing?

>>96110408
I find the snowflake races are the real self inserts. Just the player but a drow or dragonborn or other freakshit with funny colored eyes.

>>96110550
they are both.

>>96110550
>>96110766
And anyone playing a halfling or gnome is not a self-insert

>>96092608 (OP)
I just reached level 4 (dnd 2024) in my first campaign and we are going to choose our asis or feats in the next game (which will be in 2 days)
I think choosing the Great Weapon Master feat to increase my strength from 17 to 18 and do extra damage would be ideal at level 4.
or should i go for stats and increase my strength from 17 to 19 and one more stat?
Also, I don't wear armor either. I'm using a Barbarian class ability that doesn't require armor (Unarmored Defense) . Should I go for armor, or is it okay to fight without it? Does it make any difference?
I would like to tell you my AC but I don't remember right now and my GM has the sheet.
And one last thing, what weapon would you recommend? I'm currently using a heavy axe, but maybe buying another weapon can help me in other instances like knocking down the enemy or doing some damage even if I miss.

>>96110811
forgot to mention that I am a barbarian berserker.

>>96110811
Get GWM at level 4 and save the ASI for level 8
There's no difference between an 18 or 19 so taking ASI over GWM at level 4 means you're giving up extra damage for nothing unless you're splitting that ASI into a +1/+1 to bump a second ability score to an even number
If your DEX is 14, wearing medium armor will likely give you more AC than DEX mod + CON mod
If you're taking GWM then grab a maul for topple. It also doesn't hurt to have some tridents for ranged topple (against flying creatures for instance) even though it's not a heavy weapon

>>96110811
>Should I go for armor, or is it okay to fight without it? Does it make any difference?
do you know your stats? we can easily figure out if its worth it or not to wear armor

>as an aside, its always cool to be unarmoured even if it is mathematically inferior, the cool factor is key for the barbarian

For weapons, greatsword is decent for consistent damage, you could grab Crusher (+1 str to 18) and a pushing weapon and bully enemies around

>>96110811
>or should i go for stats and increase my strength from 17 to 19 and one more stat?
You only get to do +2 to one stat OR +1/+1 to two different stats
Not +2 & +1

>>96110811
>>96110817
There's not much point in raising your STR to 19 instead of 18. As a rule, even numbers give you extra bonus, and odd numbers meet prerequisites, but I can't think of anything off hand that requires 19 STR.

As for weapons in my opinion Maul is the best for Topple. Graze is really good in general but on Barbarians that can give themselves advantage whenever they want, you're going to be missing less and therefore benefit less from graze. Topple meanwhile can potentially help your whole team, depending on initiative order.

>>96110852
my mistake, thanks
>>96110843
>do you know your stats? we can easily figure out if its worth it or not to wear armor
I can't remember my stats right now, but I do feel like my AC is pretty shitty. It usually doesn't matter because all regular physical damage is halved against me, until I faced a wizard and the bastard started destroying me with his magical attacks.
In a few hours, I'll ask my GM if he can tell me my PC's stats. I don't think that'll be a problem.

>two fighters, one of them is me
>three wizards
>we fighters do like 20 damage compared to wizards shitting out 100+
>wizards also get dibs on attunement items so we're on a long game of catch up
>DM notices this, goes to the fighters, and "wow, your damage is lacking. did you build your character wrong? ill allow them to retire so you can make a stronger one"
no, we need the magic items and it is dumb that we have to.

>>96110890
without more information, i'm heavily leaning that you should grab medium armor, scale because its cheap and half plate if you can afford it.

>>96110969
>wizards also get dibs on attunement items
But why?
Does your DM not realize that martials rely on magic items to scale?

>>96110969
i was initially leaning on the fact that maybe your table had few items, but if the wizards are getting a bunch of junk then he's just an asshole who loves wizards

Playing with normalfags that don't know about racial lore is an experience
>party meets an adult dragon
>newfriend dragonborn is all "ayo dragon, i'm like your little brother from anotha mutha. don't hurt us"
>dragon "it was like he was looking at walking garbage"
>dragonborn eats a high roll breath attack

>>96111023
I think it's fair to tell them things their race would know

>>96111070
I'm just another player so my non-dragonborn character couldn't have imparted the knowledge during that interaction
The DM tried to imply it by having the dragon say something to the effect of "you dare compare your puny being to a true dragon?"

>>96110531
Not about being revealing or not. It looks like someone's fantasy of what erotic clothes look like rather than anything someone would actually wear.

>>96111023
My dragonborn had fun trash-talking the first young adult dragon we met and insulting him in draconic.

How much of your own Greyhawk or Forgotten Realms did you guys homebrew?

>>96109275
>the problematic notion

>>96111387
I’ve never played a game in either setting. I usually just make my own up.

>>96111433
I am currently trying to both build a homebrew setting and play around in the official stuff

>>96110969
Sounds like a fake story. An understanding DM who would let you retire a character to make a better one so you can have more fun, but doesn't understand why fighters need magic weapons sounds implausible.

it's far more realistic if that same DM would have said no to a request to change characters, rather than offer himself.

>>96111387
I homebrewed my own setting in its entirety. First two campaigns I ran featured single-use worlds, then the third campaign ended up being the jumping-off point for a setting that’s now been in continuous use for over a decade.

When you do 5e chargen do you do point buy, use an array, or do you roll 4d6? Do you feel like each of those options adds something a bit different to a game?

>>96113215
If I'm playing with casual buds, rolling is fun. When I'm DMing with randos, always point buy.

>Rolling 4d6b3
Fun, but your players have to accept that they won't all be the strongest in every way, or even balanced with three 9's. Still, limitations are really fun in close groups!

>Point Buy
Fair to all. No issues of "That's not fair!" Plus, I like building characters myself just for shits, and PB is a legitimate guideline.

>>96113215
I use standard array, with:
>you get +2 to one ability score and +1 to a second ability score from your race
>you get +1 each to two different ability scores from your (custom) background
>after these modifications, no ability score can be over 16
A bit more customization, keeping racials relevant while preventing them from being either necessary or prohibitive for any class.

If you let the Moon Druid wild shape into animal-like monstrosities (Owlbear, Axe Beak, etc.), celestials (Giant Eagle, Giant Elk, etc.), Elementals (Mephits, Salamanders), and Fey (only Blink Dog comes to mind), does it break the game? And where would you draw the limit?

>>96113467
As the DM, you set the CR of every enemy and you produce every puzzle. None of that is really going to break teh game if you prepare for it.

For me? None of it. Maybe 1 or two monstrosities as a reward for a quest, or maybe an elemental form based on their subclass (circle of the sea, circle of wildfire, etc.) but i'm not really interested in giving them more of the MM to page through for extra synergies or free spells.

Party:
>EK Fighter
>Champion Fighter
>Swashbuckler Rogue
>Paladin
>Storm Sorcerer
>Me, a Star Druid

What would you pick for a feat option?
>INT ASI for better skills
>Alert to go first more often
>Magic Initiate for more spells, probably wizard

>>96113878
WIS ASI, if maxed out then CON ASI.

>>96113878
Convince your DM that you NEED the 2024 inspiring leader feat so you can get WIS based temp hp bonus, and you can tell tall tales about the constellations and shit.

>>96113994
Would this stack if the charisma party members also had it? Might ask if any of them are interested first.

>>96114098
temp HP never stacks. You can replace old temp HP with new, (inspiring leader for armor of agathys) or choose not to take the new, (the opposite) but you only ever have one source of Temp HP.

Ideas for illicit gnomish technology? Due to setting reasons gnomish tinkering is banned, so illicit gnomish products are fodder for smuggling to those willing to buy and use them under the table.

>>96114425
Certain magic items are only made by gnomes.

>>96114425
Bombs
Ordinary objects that turn into weapons at the push of a button

>>96114425
explosives and medicine/hard drugs

>>96111144
I mean the genre is fantasy

>>96117285
Not as in the genre, more like juvenile wank fantasy.

>>96117347
aren't all wank fantasies juvenile?

Help.
Im playing a necromancer and will be reaching lv 5 soon.
Is there a way I can work with the DM to make commanding them streemlined in combat?
I already have far more complex turns than the rest of my group.
Is there a common way to represent your dead as just one unit?
Maybe use mob rolling?

>>96117524
How is your turn already more complex than the rest of your group when you aren't even lvl 5 yet?

>>96117524
So, your zombies aren't smart enough to take an actual turn on their own. You must use your action to instruct each one of them, simple things like "Attack until this target dies," or "Run and follow me." On all of their turns, they are on autopilot for what you told them, simplifying one roll each typically. On top of this, they need no flavor beyond "They attack," unless you want to say something cool when they kill an enemy.

All put together, this should really streamline your turns.

>>96117524
This probably isn't any less complex but it'll be quicker than running multiple undead
>single creature of a size one larger than an individual undead
>one movement, one of each type of action/reaction, one saving throw roll, etc.
>can occupy the same space as another creature
>combine hit points
>combine damage dice and divide it across some small number of attacks (or just one if you like risking a single all-or-nothing attack)
>reduce number of attacks as hit points are lost (e.g. N attacks? Reduce by 1 every 1/N portion of lost hit points)
One issue with this style is how to handle single target conditions. Proning a single creature shouldn't make the entire group prone but it shouldn't be fully immune either imo.
You can work out how to handle this with your DM.

>>96095091
>Eberron
I thought people hated the idea of a post magical-industrial revolution world.

>>96117834
For any concept you can imagine, you can find some number of people willing to froth at the mouth and call it the end of days. That's not a great metric for anything, though.

>>96117834
It's mostly the art direction. Eberron goes too hard into a steam/dungeonpunk aesthetic. A lot of the fanart for Eberron is actually way more appealing since they show some restraint. Most people are playing it as Indiana Jones or turn of the century pulp with elves and wands anyways.

>>96117834
>I thought people hated the idea of a post magical-industrial revolution world.
It's cool, but it needs to be done with style. Like the anime with the elf reporter MC, where they used a mix of magic and science to reach the equivalent of RL late 1930s to early 1940s technology.

>>96117913

>>96109343
5.5 or your 5.5e are the best ways to refer to it.
And yea, one of the reasons the changes to backgrounds and races is so shitty is obvious if you are familiar with the official statements like the one you linked- it wasn't made for any game reason at all, it was fully for political purposes.

>>96117913
What anime is this?

>fighter level 2
>war cleric X
best way to get as many attacks on a cleric as possible?

>>96118300
put 3 more levels into fighter

>>96094869
that thing is genuinely fucking terrifying what the hell is even that

>>96118300
put 9 more levels into fighter

>>96118308
>>96118311
>>96118300
>fighter 2
>cleric till 3
>then fighter till 5
>then cleric till 15.

>>96118300
Haste? preferably by fellow party

>>96118300
i literally just let anyone that's playing war cleric to just have extra attack at 6th level, at the cost of their bonus attack feature prior to it

>>96118300
Play fighter X/cleric 3

>>96118319
ooh, you know what. I might ask for that next time I roll cleric. that's pretty good.

rogueX/sorc3 quicken true strike or rogueX/war cleric3 for double sneak attack memes?

>>96118316
How important is being a war cleric immediately?
>1st level (fighter)
If you're using 2024 rules, you play human and take the acolyte background for 2 magic initiate's (cleric and druid). With that, you can take enough spells and cantrips to feel like you're favored by god from the get-go.
>2nd level
the god of war blessed you with action surge to further enhance your combat potential
>3rd level
you get a fighter subclass, easily flavored as a blessing from a war god. EK lets you start casting more of those cleric spells along with shield and booming blade
>5th level
the god of war grants you more speed
>6th level (1st level cleric)
you get some kind of epiphany, and you get your real cleric powers.
>7th level (2nd level cleric)
you're allowed to channel divinity
>8th level (3rd level cleric)
Officially recognized as your war god's avatar where you get your subclass
etc.

it sets you up for continuous combat growth every level while letting you grow into your destiny.

Whoever suggested using Minecraft a few weeks ago for designing/building encounter areas, seriously thank you. That is pretty ingenious thinking.

It isn't perfectly-to-scale, but it's similar enough that you get a pretty damn good feel for what an area might feel like size-wise.

>>96109797
Simp for this villainess?

>>96118378
Why can't you just play a normal class like everyone else?

>>96114425
They say that anyone that buys a gnomish massage chair will never get married.

>>96118378
Cleric gets its subclass at 1st level.

>>96103406
>purple
look man. Blame Tamora Pierce, not me. It's what the fantasy is for

>>96118669
not in 2024?

We don't use the 2024 rules.

>>96118591
Wacky combos for one shots
Normalcy for campaigns

>>96118722
Speak for yourself, fag

>>96118732
I agree with this anon. Fuck 2024

>>96118753
The poll showed it was about a 50/50 split. They split their fanbase so have halved any interest in future 5.5e books. Maybe adventure books will be safe but even then WoTC shot themselves in the foot like the retards they are. What do they even have in the pipelines?

>Dragon delves
More shitty adventure books only the DM will buy
>Eberron book
Where they rape the lore by making dragonmarks for any race. They did that in 4e but it was meant to be very rare.
>Heroes of the borderlands
Lmao really new and innovative WoTC
>Forgotten realms books
Everything interesting in the setting was done in the books
>Lorwyn
FUCKING LOL

At least 5e is easy to houserule and make your own setting for or we’d be fucked. Third party stuff is the way to go.

>>96118819
>Where they rape the lore by making dragonmarks for any race.
If they're smart they'll just move the Mark of Finding to Orcs and move the Half-Elf marks to new PHB races. Valenar being an nation of militant, isolationist Aasimar/Goliath would be unfathomably based.

Too bad they aren't smart.

>>96118701
So?

How's this as character background
>son of noble family
>parents assassinated (by his uncle but he doesn't know)
>he gets away by not being home (out in the forest during a hunt)
>his granpa was a powerful adventurer
>decide to become a paladin to exact revenge
>home incursion by other assassins that came for him
>grabs the first weapon at his disposal to defend himself
>his granpa's sword over the fireplace by his granpa's portrait
>defeats the assassins, one flees
>the sword starts talking and keeps tempting him promising revenge
>he accepts and becomes a hexblade warlock
>turns out his granps had weilded Blackrazor in the past and before retiring he shattered in multiple pieces and had them reforged into other weapons to avoid it falling in the wrong hands
>there are 12 fragments, one is in the sword the pc used
>the sword wants to be whole again
>his uncle weilds a couple pieces and is another champion of the same patron and wishes the sword powers for himself

Too much of a donut steal? Too much of a "main quest" pc side quest?

>>96119377
he shattered IT*

I didn't want poor granpa to shatter in pieces

>>96119377
>orphan
>nepo baby
>tragic past
>incredibly contrived plot device only to end up as a multiclassing powergamer with a kickstart towards an easy artifact or derivative of such
not the first and certainly wont be the last. tell me what you really want as a player and i can help steer you into something less unreasonable

One of the PCs is returning to their home city after several months away and they need to reconnect with members of their secret faction. However, the faction has splintered into small cells and is being hunted by their enemies.

How can I make finding and reuniting the remaining members interesting? Something better than an 'accumulate X successes before something bad happens' Skill Challenge.

>>96119377
Boring but I'd okay it after the following changes:
>DM determines who killed your parents, not you
>the sword might or might not be blackrazor, probably not even if it claims otherwise
>DM decides how many shards there are and in the first place the sword may be bullshitting you

>>96119377
Honestly, going line-by-line it's not terrible. I think it's a little more organic if your character's uncle makes a mistake (or underestimates his sibling) and slips up during his attempt on your parents. It doesn't look good for your character whenever his parents are depicted as incompetent.

Instead of killing both of them, consider leaving one alive and the other crippled, or even having both of them being crippled, adds both weight and responsibility to your character's motivations while also not falling into the tropes >>96119420 mentioned. I also like the idea of having your DM determine some of these things that anon >>96119478 brings up, or even playing out the assassination attempt in a session 0.5-type one-shot.

Lastly, establish your Grandfather's importance earlier on. It's overly convenient whenever his background is mentioned only as it suits your character. For one, you would have an extremely qualified mentor to assist your character's path towards his Oath of Vengeance. As for the cursed sword/Blackrazor bit? IMO just drop it. It's way too forced, and adds a distasteful tinge of artificiality to your background; there are a billion ways to turn a Paladin into a Hexblade without being so on-the-nose. If you absolute insist on it, then incorporate it as something oppositional that your Grandfather faced in his youth, that way you can both legitimately earn its presence in the campaign and you can also earn the opportunity to allow yourself to be corrupted by it, or something along those lines.

>>96119420
>orphan
>nepo baby
>tragic past
I was craving some overused character tropes
>incredibly contrived plot device only to end up as a multiclassing powergamer with a kickstart towards an easy artifact or derivative of such
Yes and no i don't expect to be given a freebie artifact for a quest i setup myself but the quest makes sense in my head as why a powerful artifact would search for mortals to obey it.
Also i expect the weapon to play dirty being a warlock patron and all.
>>96119478
Agreed i had nothing set in stone.

The goal is to have a heavily armored 2024 bladelock (hence the pally dip) with a recurring rival/villain to duel while spewing cheesy lines.

>>96119467
What is the nature of the "Secret Faction" and what are its roles and responsibilities? Before its splintering, how well-off was it? Is that fracture public information, or obtainable if it isn't? How does all of this information relate to your PC's disposition and wherewithal?

I.e. The PC is a 6th level assassin but their secret faction is dedicated to the protection of a series of druidic groves littered throughout the region —as their alliance is atypical or unprecedented, what additional barriers might your PC be expected to face? Don't think in terms of game mechanics, merely objective potentialities

>>96119588
The faction is comprised of civilians secretly opposing the dictator ruling the city, so they're not very well off.
The PCs friend can give them the details, but they too have lost contact with most of the remaining members.
The party's overall goal is to make contact with that faction, so their aim is to reunite the cells into one coordinated force.

I suppose hitting up their old meeting places could be one option, but of course there would be 'complications'.

>>96119700
Do they have a language or shibboleth of some kind, that isn't compromised, that only they would know? Have your PCs put an encrypted message in the local broadsheets at a new, secure location that is easy to escape from with multiple entrances and exits.

Are there any spells or feats at level 3 that could completely ruin a murder mystery?

>>96119467
If the PC has been away, the enemies of the secret faction won't assume that the PC is a member of it--and, if the PC has made enough of a name for themself, the enemies of the faction might see them as a potential ally. If they end up in a prominent position in the hunt for the secret faction's remaining cells, they'd be perfectly positioned to sabotage the hunt while also having access to enemy intelligence that could make it easier for them to open communication channels.

>>96119700
Yeah, there you go. If the dictator is getting frustrated with his own secret police's inability to stamp out the resistance, he might think that a band of mercenaries might be a good idea, since he can publicly distance himself from any excess force they use. It would also get the PC in a more trusted position that can be utilized when it finally comes time for the coup. The main complication--and it'd be a good one to play around with--would be the other members of the resistance questioning his loyalty to the cause.

>>96120038
Some people might say:
>Zone of Truth
>Detect Thoughts
>Speak with Dead (but not until caster level 5)
would ruin a murder mystery, but only if they haven't anticipated their use beforehand and worked out how to make them valid investigation tools without allowing them to reveal everything from the start.

>>96120094
>Zone of Truth
I’ve always been confused by how this one is supposed to spoil murder mysteries, given that most Agatha Christie stories end with Poirot gathering everyone in a single room that miraculously has the killer confess as soon as Poirot describes how it could have been done.

>>96120179
>visit each suspect one by one
>Zone of Truth
>did you kill X?
>if (no) then (ask next suspect) else if (yes) then (murderer found=true)

Poirot/Marple etc weren't PC spellcasters who can magically interrogate each suspect the instant they meet them.

>>96120238
At 3rd level, you have two 2nd-level spell slots, each of which is only good for ten minutes of Zone of Truth. If you have more than two suspects, that's going to take two days at a minimum. Most of the mystery lies in collecting evidence to identify your suspects in the first place. If you're going to interrogate literally everyone with every relation to the deceased, that could take weeks. And that's even assuming you ask the right questions--Zone of Truth specifically notes that they can be evasive or lean on technical truths to mislead you.

>did you kill X?
>no because I hired someone to do it, but Zone of Truth doesn't compel me to reveal that detail

Hell, if someone THINKS they were responsible for the victim's death, but were actually innocent, Zone of Truth would force them to confess to it. If someone has a secret that isn't related to the murder, they might be unwilling to submit to a Zone of Truth because they're worried about that secret being brought to light--hell, it could be that they've been framed for the murder specifically to force them into that scenario.

>>96120305
>did you kill X
>no, the fall did
That seems abusable, but funny.

>>96120179
It is because autists can only think in binaries and whiteroom nonsense.
Disregarding that the spell itself may fail, and the pcs do not know if it worked or not, it can be frustrated by something as simple as not answering any questions. Better, by dissembling and politico speak. The spell doesn't force words, it makes it so you can not tell an outright, knowing lie.
>What if I did kill the barman? What if I didn't? If you had proof, you wouldn't ask me, you would present your evidence, and it would speak for itself
>Now take me before a legitimate authority figure, you brigands, tomb robbers and murderers, and present your evidence
>or simply murder me here, with arrogant, self assured smugness that you are so holier than thou

Can Tactical Mind (2nd level fighter feature) be applied to attack rolls?

What's the difference between an ability check and a skill check anyway? Are attacks ability checks but not skill checks? Are skill checks also ability checks?

>>96120349
By letter of the rules, it would work entirely fine.
You have a lot of secondaries who never read a book, but watched the D&D cartoon.

>>96120365
Ability checks are rolls made with (Ablity mod + Circumstance bonuses).
Skill checks are (Skill mod + Circumstance bonuses).
They are not the same, because each is a specific thing wholly in to itself, and the game calls for them.
What kind of bad rules lawyering are you attempting?

>>96120381
I'm trying to understand what this ability does because i have a player who insists attacks are ability checks and wanted to verify that.

>>96120453
attack rolls are not ability checks, they're attack rolls. now rolling initiative is a dexterity check, which is an ability check.

>>96120349
Yeah, Zone of Truth is one of those spells that people think is an "I Win" button, but very much isn't. Hell, in previous editions, you didn't even know whether a creature had failed its saving throw--they had to add that so that it wasn't completely useless.

>>96120357
>and the pcs do not know if it worked or not
Your 3.5 is showing. But, yes, it's a spell that you have to think about how you're using.

>>96111618
I met a few DMs who are nice like giving pity to falling players but are miss why they're falling in the first place. Pity from bad luck of the dice is instantly easy to spot, anything else requires a nudge. Especially on martial classes looking weak in comparison to every other class.

>>96110969
Bad DMs allow spellcasters to operate with complete impunity.

>>96110984
Yes, DM does not know this. Despite playing DnD for 5 years or so.

Where does the concept of Slimes “teleporting” by getting really small until they pop and then appearing into another place by getting really big again?
Is it meant to represent slimes dividing into small nearly invisible clusters and then converging in one space? You see it a lot in rpgs, both western and japanese and both are inspired by DnD and Dragon Quest
But I don’t remember Slimes in any DnD interpretation being able to “teleport”

I checked the Trove Vault and couldn't find Clonker's Guide to Being a Hero adventure, does anyone have it?

>>96120860
>You see it a lot in rpgs, both western and japanese
I have quite literally never encountered this concept. Provide an example.

>>96121297
Terraria Slime King
Epic Battle Fantasy III-V

>>96121297
Chu-chus in Zelda games

Has anyone noticed that outside of generals this board is more toxic, belligerent and hostile than even /pol/ is?

>>96120238
Btw, read Murder on the Orient Express if you haven't.
>>96120530
>Your 3.5 is showing. But, yes, it's a spell that you have to think about how you're using.
It's a fair houserule to introduce though, to enable a little more variety in investigations.

>>96120365
>>96120453
Your player is retarded, or trying to cheat. its quite possible that WotC made the rules this braindead so that people wouldn't be confused.

point him to page 364 and 360

>>96120860
I've never seen or heard of this either

>>96121319
never played
never played
>>96121515
I don't recall that happening.

What's your favorite published setting?

Would you consider these the big 5? Even if Mystara hasn't gotten any recent publications, it still has plenty of history.

need char ideas for out of the abyss. how do i make a char that really hates drow and is good at killing them. as far as i know most drow are clerics and wizards?

about to start DMing a campaign for the first time
any tips?

>>96121873
Gloomstalker ranger would be appropriate

>>96121942
Run a small published module and then go from there. Can't go wrong with the Sunless Citadel

How do I handle detect thoughts during an investigation where the party is likely to meet the culprit early on?

>>96121821
Eberron followed by Dark Sun.

>>96122156
Reward their use

>>96122706
Yes, but it would be lame for the session to end in 10 minutes.

>>96122886
Well, you picked the wrong system for an investigation session. If you're desparate, you can ask your players not to use Detect Thoughts, or give them a clue that the culprit is well travelled and had learned a secret Asspullean technique for avoiding thinking about their deed when mind-probed.

I once ran a setting with a bit of a weird culture, where basically across the world it was universally acknowledged that mind reading and mind control is worse than rape and probably worse than murder too. Because of that the party only used it in the most extreme cases only, probably less than 10 times total even though it was a long fucking campaign. It made killing Mind Flayers all the more satisfying for the party too, as if any extra motivation was necessary.

>>96122156
have them only talk to the players from 30+ feet away

>>96123081
>Eldritch COVID

>>96122156
https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Amulet%20of%20Proof%20against%20Detection%20and%20Location

>>96122156
ring of mind shielding

>consider the following
>rune knight changes
>Great Stature moved to 3rd

>Great Stature
>You grow 5 inches taller. Whenever you gain a character level thereafter, you grow an addtional inch taller.

>10th level feature reanmed to hulking form
>You have advantage on any saving thorw made to shove or push you. Moreover, the extra damage you deal with your Giant's Might feature increases to 1d8.

Am I a genius?

>>96123041
Seems like 5e is the wrong system for anything that isn't babby's first game or a tranny parade

>>96123822
Then why are you here? Fuck off to your own general

>>96121533
Yes, and if we let them they come and shit up the general too.

>>96121533
It wasn’t always like this.

>>96123822
Tranny parades are what other systems are good for because I use 5e for brutal endless conflict dungeon murdercrawls

>>96124027
Why wouldn’t you just use OSE?

>>96124190
Because I'm more than FOEGYG, I dislike OSR. I frequently think GMing games is my cope for not making vidya because gamedev is too time consuming and I don't get live feedback as opposed to tabletop RPGs.

Why aren't Arcane casters able to learn any real healing magics? It seems like something that would be easy for an accomplished wizard.

>>96124976
Bards are arcane casters, so your entire premise is wrong.

>>96124976
>magic initiate doesn't exist

>>96110972
>>96110881
okay these are my stats:
str 17
fex 12
con 15
int 8
wis 15
char 10
and my ac is 14

>>96125031
>>96125234
I just meant it should be on the wizard spell list.*

(*Harry Potter wizards could heal)

>>96125298
honestly there's something to consider w/ grabbing the ASI for str/con to get those to even scores then your AC would go to 15 (plus the Hp boost) which would be the same as splint mail and considering switching to half plate when you can afford it.

so, GWM if you want more damage, asi if you want more durability


>>96125420
>Harry Potter wizards could heal
harry potter lived under a cupboard and the end of his adventure resulted in him being just a magical cop - how fucking lame

>>96125420
If anything wizards should do less shit and then the absence of healing spells wouldn't stick out.

>>96125420
Harry Potter was a sorcerer

>>96125420
Harry Potter can't Create Food or Water

>>96124976
>real healing magics?
real healing isn't arcane.

>>96125420
Harry potter magic solely exists to move the plot. Spells have zero cost since mana/spell slots/spell points/ki/chi/aether

>>96125462
I was considering getting the GWM and buying a scale armor.

>>96125740
its not a bad choice, it gets your defenses up a bit and improves your damage.

the +con is just because i personally dislike the odd stat but as a barbarian you've still got the highest potential Hp and in reality its only 4 hp at this time.

which origin feat did you grab?

>>96125774
>which origin feat did you grab?
farmer

>>96125884
>farmer

>>96125884
yeah, so you'd have tough and extra HP anyways. GWM works then as your feat pick

>>96125930
Neat
Now I just have to convince my GM that barbarians can use rage while wearing medium armor.

>>96125996
ask him to clarify why thats the ruling

>PHB'24 p51
>You can imbue yourself with a primal power called Rage, a force that grants you extraordinary might and resilience. You can enter it as a Bonus Action if you aren't wearing Heavy armor.

>Armor Training: Light and Medium armor and Shields

Our 5th, soon to be 6th level party found a Ring of Spell Storing. Purple Dragon Knight, Beast Master, Zealot, Draconic Sorcerer, Dreams Druid. Obviously the Fighter should have it since the Zealot can't cast spells while raging and the other three have spellcasting already, but what's the best use for this item? A big concentration spell, or reaction/bonus action spells so as to not interfere with attacking normally? Druid has access to the entire Druid list, but the other two may not have the exact spell(s) that the Fighter wants.

>>96126077
>Ring of Spell Storing. Purple Dragon Knight
a wish spell so they can change subclass.

>>96126121
>>96126077
Outside of the bit, Haste is always a solid pick. Ashardalons stride is something I think sorcerers can get. Or Misty step?

>session sunday

tell me what happens
No, I will not provide any context. That would just constrain your creativity

>>96126222
The players are sucked into the game and forced to live as their characters until such a time as they manage to vanquish the villain of the adventure.

>>96126222
Those happy little turdlings come across an abandoned wizard's tower where lives a blue dragon wyrmling and his little garden of shambling mounds

A few threads ago I vented about accidentally tpking the party with an encounter with ghouls that just paralyzed them with no counterplay possible

I salvaged the situation by having them wake up down river at bottom of waterfall, near a shrine/tomb to ancient saint with healing powers. They had bite marks and were aware of ghoul disease progressing, and ventured into the tomb following a voice in their head saying it could help. They dealt with some kuo-toa, and eventually found a Couatl in the inner sanctum that passed on the saint's relic before dying, then the dungeon started collapsing/flooding. Now they made it out and the leader of the kuo toa who also fled summoned a giant crayfish. I want a bossfight but they are pretty low on health and im worried about tpk again.

Ideally they surrender the relic which immediately burns the kuo toa's hand and he flees and no fight happens
But if they dont...

Basically i just dont wanna kill my party again. These guys are fucking reckless. I think they just need to learn their lesson and surrender. They have the option of giving away the relic. I cannot come up with more asspulls if they decide to start a fight with low hp

THanks for reading my blog

>>96126222
Local vampire has awoken from a prolonged nap from the last age, quickly mind controls a number of the locals (including a horny gnome.) the party are sent in to find out why said horny gnome has stopped sending payments to his well meaning and secretly in-love with him fin-dom queen.

>>96126293
>I think they just need to learn their lesson and surrender.
Is this their first time playing a ttg? if so, I'd give them a bit more leniency.

if not? pick fucking realated.

>>96126293
>These guys are fucking reckless. I think they just need to learn their lesson and surrender.
Get used to that. Parties don't give up - surrender is a fools game. every fight is to the death.

>>96118183
They're ai generated snippets, that when glued together make a human mind imagine a story around it. It's not real.

Build for this energy?

How short should a dungeon be? I have pic related for a dungeon but it feels a bit small. There's a first encounter involving zombies first. How many rooms should I aim for?

>>96125996
Your DM is mentally retarded if he thinks that isn't the case.

>>96127476
double it and give it to the next DM

>it looks like a standard 5 room dungeon w/ very little exploration potential, which could be fine for your group / your goals, but you could add in more rooms without ramping up the amount of monsters / encounters by having places where you can give some world building, hidden loot, etc, and potentially more than one path. Currently I would assume that the players have to enter through the south, then hit the east/west rooms, then go north. That doesn't give a lot of freedom for players to bumble around if they want.

>>96127448
Fighter with a warhammer and a shield.

>>96127523
>double it and give it to the next DM
What the fuck are you talking about?

>>96127448
Do my favorite, Pal 2 then Cleric of Forge the rest. Trust me, fun as shit, especially when you start using shield of faith and get your other AC buffs like fighting style. Pick Warforged too for flavor and a free couple buffs.

>>96127476
dont think rooms think encounters
and dont think dungeon think adventure
it's nice for any adventure to have encounters of each type (social, exploration, combat), for different purposes (obstacle, learning, gaining power, flavor, etc), and that leverage different PC's strengths
once you have that you can put each encounter in a dungeon room/section/hallway/part of the swamp/neighborhood of the city

>>96127476
You new to DM? If so, that's a good dungeon to start, but just run it as a one shot to get experience. Maybe your players sack it again when the real game starts?

>>96127703
>hasnt heard of the double and give it to the next person meme
ngtmi

New thread

>>96127744
>>96127744
>>96127744

>>96127739
That sounds like a very gay meme in all honesty my brethren.

>>96126293
You should teach your players early on that running away is a viable strategy when faced with an overwhelming force.

>early levels, like 3rd
>walking through a forst
>suddenly the earth shakes
>behind the players see 12 hill giants charging towards them (an impossibly deadly encounter)
>roll initaitive
players are placed in the middle of the map with the hill giants on the other side
>at the top of initative, another 10 hill giants join initative. on the other side

The giants fight each other. They get unique attacks, like throwing fists full of gravel, or wide log swings to cleavem stomping charges etc.

>after a round
Athletics, history, insight, or survival check, anyone with proficiency in any of them can roll. DC 5.
>failed check
you recall/notice how brutal this fight is gonna be, and you get the feeling that sticking around is a bad idea.
>successful check
>Atheltics/history
you've heard rumors among muscle heads of these games that hill giants play when they fight with all their might to determine who is the strongest. While impressive to watch, you also know that they are never fatal, and they are always hungry afterward. You get the feeling that sticking around is a bad idea.
>Insight
These giants are swinging their weapons with all their might, but their clubs seem to be wrapped in sheep skin with cotton still attached and are only aiming for body blows rather than the head, arms, or legs. They aren't really trying to hurt each other. While impressive to watch, you know their wounds won't be fatal, and they'll probably be hungry afterward. You get the feeling that sticking around is a bad idea.
>Survival
You spotted totally flattened stretches of forest before, and it appears this might be the reason why. While impressive to watch, you also know that they are never fatal, and they are always hungry afterward. You get the feeling that sticking around is a bad idea.

If you really wanna scare them, have a stray rock go flying and hit a player.

Female human fighter, thoughts?

>>96129606
I prefer female human barbarian.