Eight of Pentacles edition

>"New" Arcane Subclasses UA: https://media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-images/ua/arcane-subclasses/zepvK7DBkeSt6dqv/UA2025-ArcaneSubclasses.pdf

>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
https://files.catbox.moe/atd38s.pdf
https://pomf2.lain.la/f/1en5qwum.pdf (supposedly a real scan of the book, I can't open it, use at your own risk)

>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
The Trove Vault (seed, please!): mega(dot)nz/folder/uktzzTAI#KfV-EWdhd15FhHNn5HndHg

>Resources:
https://pastebin.com/X1TFNxck

Previous thread
>>96092608

>TQ
Have you gotten better at D&D over time? What skills are most important for players and for the DM?

>>96127710
My plan is:

>1. Meet up with a priest they're meant to escort back to another city. He's been killed by green skins
>2. Attacked by zombies left by the greenskins (long story) in the church see battlemap attached
>3. Track them to the dungeon
>4. go down elevator, skeleton archers in first room
>5. second room has greenskins (orcs and goblins probably), after a few rounds more come from the left barracks
>6. To the right is a trap like in resident evil the movie with the lasers, in the right room is loot
>7. Lava room has greenskin leader and bodyguards to retrieve the priest's journal

Not a lot of social encounters but a trap, I could add to it pretty easily. With new rooms and stuff like that, it's in dungeon alchemist so very easy to add whatever I want.

I find myself craving the game of D&D/Other Board Games more than vidya to a great degree, I'm 200+ hours into my new world I'm building on World Anvil.

TQ: Yes, time makes you better, hands down. What's most important?
>Players knowing what their characters can do
>Players not trying to "beat" the game with an OP build.
>Players just having fun and letting go of whatever fantasies they're chasing.

>DMs need to be able to improvise a whole session.
>DMs need a kind of memory that allows them to recall the important facts in a campaign with a handful of handy reminders.
>DMs need to allow fun, but say no when they need to. Use this carefully, but if a player is deciding more what's allowed than you, that's a bad sign.

peepee poopoo

Is there a good character builder for 2024Edition??

>>96127809
Beyond is what I use.

>>96127809
>Picrel
How would one build a Geralt's Hanza in DnD?

>>96127744 (OP)
>Have you gotten better at D&D over time
I've learned to enjoy myself more, so I guess.
>What skills are most important for players
The ability to read your goddamn class features.
>And for the DM?
The ability to throw a curve to match whatever weirdness the players are running with, and the willingness to beat stupid people with a wood-soled shoe.

>>96127744 (OP)
>TQ
>Have you gotten better at D&D over time? What skills are most important for players and for the DM?
I learned what I motivates me more when playing D&D and that has made me better at creating characters that I enjoy and can more easily RP versus characters I made early in my D&D journey

>>96126293
reposting
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 cleave 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.

>>96127744 (OP)
>Have you gotten better at D&D over time?
without a doubt
>What skills are most important for players and for the DM?
>players
Patience and curiosity
>DMs
How to prepare and improvise
>both
How to keep to a fucking schedule

>DM waited until 10pm the day before our morning game to tell us this week's session is cancelled
>for the 2nd session in a row
Bros I don't feel so good

>>96128501
legitimately and unironically ngmi

>>96128501
The game is dead and he’s too pussy to just say it. Start a new one or plan a one shot for when he cancels next week. Everyone loves the idea of being DM but doesn’t want to put in the work.

>>96128501
directly ask him, visible to everyone else in the group chat, if he wants to take a break from the game for a month or so. He'll either give it up, and you can find a new group, or he'll get the break he needs to actually run a game.

>>96128501
Those are rookie numbers, I have a game every 4 weeks/cancellations if I'm lucky, and I always have to ask before the day of the game if it's cancelled or not.

I desperately wish I could have a thrice-weekly 4 hour gaming session from 7 PM to 11 PM on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday with a party of four: A Cleric, a Fighter, a Rogue, and a Wizard. That gives me Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday nights to prep, with especially big capstone events getting to take advantage of Saturday as well.

TQ: Team playing. It's truly a skill to not be self-absorbed over your character/experience

>>96128935
this, one of my players ruined puzzle with metagaming because he thought knowing the answer and bypassing the encounter was the goal. It's a fucking game, the goal is for everyone to have fun, let the others figure it out first if you already know the answer

>>96129174
What a retarded post? You shouldn't share the solution to the puzzle until everyone figures it out? If everyone is secretly holding onto the answer and waiting for the others, how will they know when everyone else discovers the answer, when they themselves are keeping it from each other?

It is entirely fair to share what you think is the answer to a puzzle when you've figured it out out-of-character. That's the point of a fucking puzzle.

>>96129209
>You shouldn't share the solution to the puzzle until everyone figures it out?
what the fuck are you talking about you absolute retard?
he knew the answer to a puzzle from having read it somewhere online or whatever, I didnt give it to him

>>96129209
>It is entirely fair to share what you think is the answer to a puzzle when you've figured it out out-of-character. That's the point of a fucking puzzle.
The point of a game is for everyone to have fun. If you weren't autistic you would know this. When someone is telling a joke you don't spoil the punchline before the others get a chance to hear it. When there's a riddle you don't immediately answer if you've heard it before. These are basic things normal human beings understand you autismo.

>>96127744 (OP)
Checking again if anyone has Clonker's Guide to Being a Hero adventure, didn't find it in Trove.

>>96129856
I don’t have it. The share thread is better for pdfs, they posted better 5.5e core books too.

>>96129174
Puzzles aren’t fun in the first place, so bypassing them as quickly as possible is the best way for everyone to have more fun

>>96130194
>Autistic screeching intensifies

What are your thoughts about building around the Aarakocra race? +2 to DEX and +1 to WIS means it fits about half of the classes in the core rules very well, and while other races may have an innate flying speed as well, none are as fast as the Aarakocra's 50 feet per round. Coupled with features the Monk's Unarmored Movement or the Rogue's Cunning Action, this adds up quickly. After the flying speed, it has no meaningful racial features (if you have an idea where the 1d4 unarmed strike makes an actual difference, I would love to hear about it). What is your own best Aarakocra idea?

>>96130678
If you're a huge faggot, just make a fighter archer, I have no other meaningful input on aarakocra builds

>>96130678
Aarakocra Open Hand Monk is the best aerial interceptor build in the game.

3rd level swashbuckler, soon to be 4th.
Ability scores are:
8 strength
17 dexterity
12 constitution
10 intelligence
14 wisdom
14 charisma

Which half-feat do I pick up to get 18 dexterity and some extra good stuff for a swashbuckler?

>>96130457
To be fair, a lot of gms are really bad at making puzzles. Or are at least really bad at describing what the characters are looking at so you end up wasting loads of time because he forgot to mention something that was supposed to be obvious that was critical to solving it.

>the ONE splat book is delayed until December
>because the books are warping after the glue dries

What the fuck happened to the lost technology of 4E covers?

Do you have a go to length/level cap for a campaign? Currently thinking of running one for my usual group after we are done with the one the GM is running; was thinking of going around 4/5 to 13/14, don't want to run something too long and I feel like its beyond that level range that things gets harder to manage (longest campaign I was in had us going from 4 to 16).

>>96128930
>thrice-weekly 4 hour gaming session
You mean three different campaigns, right? No one wants to play the same game three times.

Assuming no 2024 feats
>elven accuracy
>gunner
>piercer or slasher
i think these are the most interesting one to pick to get a +1, but that would also depends a lot on your race and weapons of choice

>>96129251
Did he tell you that, or did you infer it?

>>96131004
Lost when the VTT developer committed a murder-suicide.

>>96128930
Must be nice to still be in High school/college.

>warduke
what the hell is his problem?

>>96131058
Speak for yourself.
>>96131582
I don't believe in working yourself to death. My job is dead-end but it's easy on the body, okay-tier benefits, and I make enough to scrape by and even have a modicum of spending money.

>>96129889
Got it, thanks!

What's the next splat due out?

>>96126240
I genuinely despise sharing this general with "DMs" who would pair a blue dragon with shambling mounds despite the complete lack of any thematic connection whatsoever, just for the haha mechanical synergy. At least reskin or reflavor it a bit ffs. Absolutely disgusting

>>96132094
eberron book has been delayed to late this year, no release date for the 2 forgotten realms books (i think there's a setting setting book and a player options setting book), the starter set is in pre-release now

>>96132108
Aren't blues supposed to be one of the more intelligent chromatic breeds? Hand-growing minions who benefit from the dragon's innate element seems up their alley - though given the fact that blues tend to nest in arid locations, maybe flesh golems would be more appropriate than shambling mounds.

>>96132287
Blue dragons, they Have People for that sort of work. You'd never see a Blue tending his own grounds.

>>96132064
Sure, maybe you have that kind of free time, but its unlikely everyone in your group can do that.

>>96127744 (OP)
>tfw want to a 6 INT unga boonga barbarian retard
>know that low INT will fuck me up
*sad caveman noises*

>>96130836
You should beg your DM to make mobile a half feat but removed the "Free" disengage part.

>>96131037
Gonna be quite honest, if your campaign is starting at any level but level 1, my interest is immediately decreased. Impatient zoomers feel entitled to start at level 3. That's retarded. So I get to level 20 and realize I don't feel like I "accomplished" anything. That'd be like if I wrote my books with AI and got published, yeah I'd still have my money but it sure wouldn't feel like I accomplished anything. You'd think vidya brained zoomers would understand this, but I guess in the age of handholding tutorials in all video games now, that's all gone too. FromSoft games are cancer but at least they attract someone who actually wants to earn their victory. Starting at level 3 or 4 in DnD is like that. You're just skipping the early part to get right to the powerwank. I bet you're running your campaign online too. Zoomers only like starting at level 1 if it's for fuckin Death Mansion in Curse of Strahd which is the default campaign all of those söy slurpers. I'm sorry anon but the best level to start is at level 1 and see how far you can get. Anything else is gay. And don't give me that "I've played too many games to start at level 1 again" I've been running games for 20 years now and I still start at level 1. Anyhring else ruins the game.

>>96132989
I really enjoyed the Barbarian-specific dialogue options in BG3, because they mainly involve going Grug mode and unga bunga-ing your way through conversations.

>>96132108
>reflavor it
Fuck off. If you're going to make a choice, you make that choice. You don't get to make two attacks and say "yeah I'm refluffing that as two weapon fighting" or use a greatsword and say "yeah I'm refluffing it as a shortsword that I'm really good with" no fuck off faggot, if the rules don't represent anything to do with what you're actually doing in the game then they have no meaning. You are not playing D&D 5e, you are not playing a legitimate roleplaying game, and you honestly deserve to be mocked and derided for even suggesting such a thing. No, you don't get to just "lol I refluff this" because that's not how the fucking game works you fucking faggot. Get the fuck over it. "I'm a battlemaster fighter who uses a sword but I refluffed it as me being a monk who disarms with his fists"..... "ok why?" ...."because I want to" ....and in the 2019 current year of Critical Roll where sucking off your players' dicks is the DM's number one job because ((((fun)))) is the number one priority (translation: pussified baby bitch power wank), that is all they need to say.

But I don't allow that shit and any DM who does is literally not a dungeon master because they are literally not playing D&D.

inb4 fauxbertarian "people can play whatever they want" no fuck off this shit actively dumbs down the game and leads to completely abstractified narrative shit because god forbid you can't make a character who kills 50 people with a fork because HAHAHA I saw a shitty /tg/ greentext where it happened. Anyone who wrote a "hilarious nat20 greentext" back in the day should be hunted down and killed with a fucking chainsaw, they literally ruined the D&D fanbase with this cancerous normie-magnet "haha epic funny thing" shit.

Faggots.

>>96133016
Aren't players supposed to hit level three by the end of the first few sessions anyway?

>>96133066
nobody said any of that you turbo autist
reskinning a monster so it has similar abilities but a different name and theme is perfectly acceptable and baseline stuff
turning a swamp/rot themed shambling mound into something more to do with sand or something else so that it fits blue dragons could be done

>>96128930
>4-hour gaming session
I’d turn that down on principle. Anything shorter than 6 hours isn’t worth running, with 8 hours being my group’s preferred session length. You get more quality out of longer contiguous time blocks because the energy keeps moving.
>only a single day of prep for most sessions
From a DMing perspective, absolutely not. Some of my best ideas come from letting my mind wander over the prep I’ve done over the past few days and suddenly seeing connections. You need some distance from yourself so that your ideas can breathe and you don’t end up stuck in tunnel vision. I always try to devote at least twice as much time to prep as the session will actually take.

>>96131058
If I had that kind of time I'd prefer to do 3 separate groups in the same campaign with 1:1 time, classic Blackmoor/Greyhawk style.

>>96133016
>e6fag got tired of being btfo in 3.x and pf gen so he wandered here to ramble to zoomers
kwab

>>96133819
>kwab
how difficult would it be to just call them a bitch, you bitch?

>>96131931
Stupid name.

>>96133016
>gygax was a zoomer

Am I understanding Vex correctly here
I attack a creature and deal damage. I now have advantage on my next attack before the end of my next turn.
I have extra attack and attack again with advantage, and deal damage. I have used up the previous instance of Vex, but applied a new one.
Next turn I start off with advantage against this creature

>>96134028
yes? its pretty straightforward

>>96131931
Someone stole his spot in line for the bathroom.
I'd swear revenge on the world just for that, too.

>>96134028
Yes, it's there to make combat math worse for DMs

>>96134090
>combat math worse for DMs
what the fuck is this kind of complaint?

What does a half centaur, half human look like?

>>96134264
Four human legs.

>>96134134
A retarded one

Finally figured out how to make an interesting "city arc" for my players. The king tells them that they are doing such a good job of ending organized crime that he wants to hold a parade in their honour. First of all, respect, recognition of past achievements, until they eventually realize that the king, maybe without realizing it, has painted five massive targets on their backs. The remaining gangs are cornered now, and as dangerous as only gangs fearing for their own collective well-being can be.

>>96134822
>The king tells them that they are doing such a good job of ending organized crime that he wants to hold a parade in their honour.
Sounds to me like your city arc is already well underway. Glad you figured out the next step in your master plan.

>>96134964
My problem is that I already have an A plot, a B plot and a C plot, and this city arc comes on top of that. I just had to figure out something satisfying in case they choose to go to the city instead of any of the other locations on the map.

Is there a decent character creator that doesn't cost money to use for either 2024 or 2014 characters? I know DND Beyond will work but I am cheap as fuck.

>>96134134
I have no idea what they’re bitching about either. Why does the DM need to know the exact percentages? Even then it’s easy to use a table for advantage/disadvantage.

>>96135004
Yeah, a bunch.

>>96135027
Neat, thanks.
(but really could you point me towards one?)

>>96135034
I could
5e character builder is a good phone app, but he hasn't updated for 5.5

>>96135004
myth-weavers.com

>>96135075
>>96135119
Thanks to you both.

A reminder to ensure your casters are fully protected and well taken care of, /5eg/. They're the most important members of the party!

>>96135453
God I wish human women were real wait, this isn't /wowg/...

>>96135574
Sorry, anon, you'll have to settle for reality.

How often do you end up playing with people who bring in OC donut steels with pages of elaborate backstory?

>>96135654
Extremely rarely, which sucks desu: donut steels are always invested in their backstories so its very easy to get them hooked to a campaign premise by involving it somehow.

>>96135654
Had one in the last group I was in. Guy had some half-vampire rogue (and he was very insistent on the character being a half-vampire and not a dhampir) with more backstory than God who was all about stopping some vampire from enacting an eternal night. To my knowledge, that wasn't originally the main focus of the campaign, but the DM kept working in angles relating to it because otherwise the guy would get pouty and disinterested. He also kept begging for hilariously overpowered abilities to be true to his character concept, but even if the DM gave him that stuff, he'd forget about it literally the next session. He'd forget about his regular features too - we made it all the way to tenth level, and despite being the apparent star of the campaign with a bevy of busted-ass superpowers, he could not have told you a single thing his character could do besides Sneak Attack (and even then, he couldn't have told you how to proc it). The DM ultimately ended the game in frustration after he gave the guy's character yet another busted superpower, only for the guy to complain that it wasn't the right thematic kind of superpower.

>>96127744 (OP)
>(supposedly a real scan of the book, I can't open it, use at your own risk)
Are you a phoneposter using a KaiOS Nokia dumb phone or something? The PDF loads just fine, it just takes some time.

>>96135787
Can confirm, works for me after giving it some time to load. It's a thicc PDF. Still though, ran that shit through some antivirus testing; came up squeaky clean.

>>96135654
never because i filter them out during the interview

my party recently made it to a secluded town thats been having unexpected issues with monsters and whatnot showing up, typical stuff. what i think threw the group though was a small misunderstanding from the old guy they were talking to that made it sound like everyone just gathers in the church and prays the danger away. i figured that the old man in question wouldnt have much of an idea about what really went on during the attacks since he always booked it to the church meaning that he would miss the other old-timers moonlighting as heroes, but recently ive been wondering if theres something more interesting i can do in line with his perspective.
should i just leave it as is? i feel like i always second guess my original designs when it comes to stuff like this. a divine intervention angle might be interesting and i have the luxury of the party not knowing much of anything about the area, but doubling back at this point just feels sort of weird to me even if it might yield more interesting thematic results

>>96136262
there's always something more interesting to be thought of the more time you spend on it. What should decide if you switch from original plan is
1 .if it's more fun for the players
2. if it doesnt retcon something they have already seen/confirmed.

Do not hold to some arbitrary and completely useless idea of what you had in mind originally as if you were married to it. That doesnt matter, it's some nogames shit from people who have never created anything. Change things up as long as they are changeable, ie as long as it doesnt retcon something that are happened in game (instead of in your head when prepping)

>>96136304
this is really good advice and i usually try to stick to a similar mindset, i just have this horrible habit of doubling back on stuff i was already content with and it throws off my rhythm. ultimately, i know its for the best but its just been bugging me more than usual lately. at some point i just have to say fuck it and do what you said

>tfw the gm said there would be no game this week either
>It's been like 3 weeks since the last game
Is it really THAT hard to coordinate 5 guys? I mean, we all have jobs and all of that, but god damn. Is this normal in dnd or am I just unlucky?

>>96136759
it's very normal. chance of player absence increases logarithmically with quantity of players. 3 or 4 players and the GM, is the absolute sweet spot

>>96136759
The game is probably dead. After games get cancelled twice unless people are very keen they die at least 50% of the time. At 3 cancellations you might as well start planning the next campaign. You might get one or two more sessions sporadically then people will just lose interest.

>>96136759
Did the group not agree on a time to play or something? What does he mean, there will "be no game"?
My fortnightly game will reschedule on request every so often, and if it can't be done the player who couldn't make the regular session misses out. The only games that actually got cancelled were when I the DM was overseas and not able to run. We might have taken a break over Christmas last year too, can't remember.
Weekly games we'll skip once every couple of months if a player's unavailable, but never twice in a row unless two of four players are unavailable (hasn't happened) or the DM's the one who's unavailable.

Most of my own players are away for the summer. The lack of sessions makes me hungry and creative, and I'm having a blast putting encounters together.

>>96137046
It does asymptote, because if you have 7 people in a party you don't care whether 3 of them show up or not.

>>96136759
>5 guys
There's your problem. Campaigns should be 3 players and a dungeon master, MAX. 5e is an easy baby bitch system so you can easily beat the encounters with 3 PCs.

>>96138388
You got that 33, 33, 33 going? Exploration, RP, and Combat?

I know a lot of DMs get imposter syndrome, but how common is it truly? I always feel like my players hate my games, but then they will talk for days about how much fun they had.

>>96138791
Retarded take from a nogames

>>96139134
Given that D&D is played mainly by nerds, and nerds aren't typically known for their self-esteem, probably fairly common.

>5.5e gnomes keep their choice of racial lineages from 5e
>5.5e halfings don't
But why? Could've even gave 5.5e halflings the bonuses from both 5e halflings and it wouldn't break anything

>>96139105
It seems to be more 10, 30, and 60. It is mostly a point crawl between named but uncertain locations on a map, with creative combat encounters, and the roleplay along the way references backstories and earlier events of the campaign.

>>96139105
>>96140167
IT'S SOCIAL, EXPLORATION, AND COMBAT
RP IS ALL THE TIME
WHEN YOU FIGHT YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE PLAYING A CHARACTER
WHEN YOU SOCIALIZE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE PLAYING A CHARACTER
WHEN YOU EXPLORE YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO BE PLAYING A CHARACTER

>>96140217
I try to prompt my characters into roleplaying in combat, but some of their characters are just so flat, and not in the delightful small-breasted way.

>>96139956
There's been a bunch of those lately

>>96127744 (OP)
Last session I made a peach and berry crumble with ice cream for the crew, only half of them had any but it still felt good to do something nice for my friends. What's the last nice thing you did for your group?

>can't even make it to our 3rd session without players canceling

Online dnd sucks why are people such flakes.

>>96140611
Just play in person, like I do.

>>96140631
My friends I used to play dnd with don't want to play anymore.

>>96140611
Sometimes life be like that man, 3 of our 6 players have kids and a lot of the time schedules don't match. Just gotta be consistent, our game has been going for 5+ years now and we're reaching the end of the campaign. Our rule of thumb is that if one person can't make it, we go ahead and someone else will play their character. If 2 people can't make it, then we call it off and try again next week. The beauty of this hobby is that you can drop a campaign and pick it up again with basically zero downside.

Why are gnomes like this?

>>96140267
Add neutral or friendly npcs to the battles that players must interact with. Like giving commands midfight to a hostage to get them to do what needs to he done. Or one of the bandits is a prince in disguise that must NOT be killed, but the players need to figure out which bandit it is mid-fight.

>>96140883
One of the planned encounters has an evil Wizard, an undead minion, and two mind-controlled minions of unknown alignment, one of whom has been a known missing person for about half the campaign so far. Is that a good start?

>>96140781
It's just how they are, anon.

>>96140167
Too much combat for me honestly. The battles are the delicious gravy of the dish, the meat should be social interactions with exploration potatoes.

With a focus on social interactions you don’t burn people out in combat, which is a game killer. Still, if you can improvise and keep your combats interesting enough, you could still have a good game.

Me? 15 exploration, 15 players crafting or exploring unique traits, 20 combat, 20 social interactions, 10 shopping, and ~20 to put wherever the players are having the most fun that day.

Reminder, you can cast the 1st Level spell once without a Spell Slot- this can be useful due to the 5.24e's Spell Casting rules. (Example: You can cast Jump without a Spell Slot and then use a Spell Slot to cast Fireball or Spirit Guardians.) These spells also can scale with your INT, WIS, or CHA your choice!

The Standout Spells for this feat via Class imo:

**Cleric**
1st Level Spells: Shield of Faith, Healing Word, Cure Wounds, Command, Bless, Bane

Cantrips: Toll the Dead, Spare the Dying, Sacred Flame, Light, Guidance

**Druid**
1st Level Spells: `Absorb Elements`, Cure Wounds, Entangle, Faerie Fire, Fog Cloud, Goodberry, Healing Word, Jump, Longstrider, Speak With Animals, Thunderwave

Cantrips: Guidance, Magic Stone, Message, Shillelagh, Spare the Dying, Starry Wisp, Thorn Whip

**Wizard**
1st Level: `Absorb Elements`, Chromatic Orb, Disguise Self, False Life, Feather Fall, Find Familiar, Fog Cloud, Grease, Jump, Longstrider, Mage Armor, Magic Missile, Shield, `Silvery Barbs`, Sleep, Hideous Laughter, Thunderwave

Cantrips: Acid Splash, Blade Ward, `Booming Blade`, Fire Bolt,` Green-Flame Blade,` Light, `Lightning Lure`, Mage Hand, Message, Mind Sliver, Minor Illusion, Ray of Frost, Toll the Dead, True Strike

>>96141455
I run find familiar on my clerics so I can heal with a touch spell from 100ft away.

>>96141513
>When you cast a spell with a range of touch, your familiar can deliver the touch. Your familiar must be within 100 feet of you, and it must take a Reaction to deliver the touch when you cast the spell.
I wish it was easier to get your familiar in position for this kinda thing. If the familiar could act at the start of your turn or on your turn this would be soooo good. But Since it has its own initiative its a bit tough to set up.
OOOO but when it works!

>>96140267
>not in the delightful small-breasted way
I always ask my female players what size breasts their female characters have. No one ever says small. Mostly they say "who cares?" or "what?" or medium or which is fine but it's more difficult to get NPCs to fixate on them if they're average-sized.

>>96141642
The harm spell too. Does decent damage.

I just have my familiar hold initiative until right before my turn. You can do that, y’know.

>>96141664
Can't do that because using the Ready action uses your reaction. There's no mechanic in the game that allows you to adjust the familiar's Initiative to right before you- except maybe the Alert feat.

>>96141703
I hate that you ended up being right.

>>96141884
Yeah, me too... I want my Wizard to cast Cure Wounds through their Cat too.
The best I could cook up, would be putting the familiar in a bag and have the character you want to heal carry the bag around to then have the familar pop out to heal the person.

>>96141949
Just takes a little more thought and preparation, but they should include a clause to make using the familiar easier. As a DM, I think I would try to make it work if a player wanted this.

>>96141643
The Half-Elf Ancients Paladin said she was pretty flat, but that was mostly to justify wearing some plate armour they stole from a man.

>>96141970
You could just homebrew it to say
>(Homebrew) Combat. The familiar is an ally to you and your allies. The familiar shares your Initiative count, but it takes its turn immediately before or after yours (your choice). A familiar can't attack, but it can take other actions as normal.
Now you could easily make this work.

>>96142012
I just don’t like when my players use their familiar to give the help action nonstop.

>>96142024
>Assist an Attack Roll. You momentarily distract an enemy within 5 feet of you, giving Advantage to the next attack roll by one of your allies against that enemy. This benefit expires at the start of your next turn.
I'm fine with it, if the familiar becomes a problem just hit it. Most familiars have between 1 to 20 hit points- it dies pretty fast.

>>96142049
>>96142024
Also from my experience help action is whatever, its when Familiars start using magic items like Wands of Magic Missiles or Ioun Stones of Reserve or Rings of Spellstoring and the like- that's when they get good.

>>96142049
>just hit it
I can never bring myself to actually target it. It just seems like pretty retaliation on my part. Maybe that’s just what needs to happen so they learn their place.

>>96142060
Of course it's petty. It's petty to have your familiar help in a fight, too. I usually try to have it get hit by an NPC that if fucked over. Or a fireball.

>>96142060
>Maybe that’s just what needs to happen so they learn their place.
I don't view it as some antagonistic player v DM thing- its simply just "That creature is getting frrustrated that it can't avoid an attack while this creature is distracting it, so its going to take it out or use an AOE."
I'd do that with familiars, summons, subclass companions, npc companions, items or terrain features that cause problems to an enemy. Why would they allow it to continue to happen if its making their job harder?

>>96142086
>fireball
Any damaging spell is all it would take. Y’know, I’m gonna start doing that when I get fed up. If they’re gonna be bastards about using it EVERY round, I’m gonna kill it! Thanks anon, needed to wake up there.

>first fight of a new campaign
>kill one of the four steam mephits
>DM: how do you want to do this

>>96142113
So how'd you kill the Steam Mephit anon?

>>96142113
How did you do it?

>>96142113
I hate that. Not every enemy needs a fifteen-second Mortal Kombat fatality.

It's over

https://x.com/MrMattyMouse/status/1946355294973628663

>>96142323
Is fourth from the left cosplaying Dame Edna fucking Everidge?
Also totally looks like Tom Cardy on the right.

>>96135453
they can suck my Big Barbarian Cock as a reward.

>>96142323
I want to bury my face in tits of 3rd from the left

Question for some opinions from you anons! What do you flavor Force damage like? We've got a few NPC Creatures that deal primarily force damage from its weapon strikes the examples...

Balor
>Lightning Blade. Melee Attack Roll: +14, reach 10 ft. Hit: 21 (3d8 + 8) Force damage plus 22 (4d10) Lightning damage, and the target can't take Reactions until the start of the balor's next turn.
&
>Flame Whip. Melee Attack Roll: +14, reach 30 ft. Hit: 18 (3d6 + 8) Force damage plus 17 (5d6) Fire damage. If the target is a Huge or smaller creature, the balor pulls the target up to 25 feet straight toward itself, and the target has the Prone condition.

Empyrean
>Sacred Weapon. Melee Attack Roll: +17, reach 10 ft. Hit: 31 (6d6 + 10) Force damage, and the target has the Stunned condition until the start of the empyrean's next turn. The target can choose not to be Stunned, in which case it takes an extra 21 Force damage that bypasses Resistance or Immunity.

Pit Fiend
>Fiery Mace. Melee Attack Roll: +14, reach 10 ft. Hit: 22 (4d6 + 8) Force damage plus 21 (6d6) Fire damage.

Ultroloth
>Mercurial Whip. Melee Attack Roll: +9, reach 15 ft. Hit: 25 (6d6 + 4) Force damage, and the ultroloth can teleport the target up to 10 feet to an unoccupied space the ultroloth can see that isn't in the air.

I might be boring, but I simply explain it as if its the normal damage but unresistable. Like An Empyrean's Sacred Weapon that looks like a Greatsword "cuts" like Slashing but would tear through anything it touched. Or the Pit Fiend here's mace would be capable of crushing anything it strikes.

>>96142236
Well it was the first fight of the campaign, so I guess it was special.

>>96142343
It's definitely Tom Cardy.

Why shouldn't I play as a __male goblin?

>>96142579
>wants to be a jobber

>>96142569
Modrons too!
>Clockwork Blade. Melee or Ranged Attack Roll: +3, reach 5 ft. or range 30 ft. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1) Force damage. Hit or Miss: The blade magically returns to the modron's hand immediately after a ranged attack.

Clockwork Spear. Melee or Ranged Attack Roll: +3, reach 5 ft. or range 120 ft. Hit: 4 (1d6 + 1) Force damage. Hit or Miss: The spear magically returns to the modron's hand immediately after a ranged attack.

>>96142104
If you were in a fight to the death, and some fucking owl kept flapping in your face letting the dude whose trying to kill you get some good hits in, wouldn't you want to kill that fucking bird?

>>96142621
Yeah, that's probably going to be my go to strategy from now on. If your familiar stays back mostly? I'll ignore them. If they're in my NPCs faces over and over, they're getting blasted.

>>96142323
>>96142578
Oh, they're in Australia doing some arena show and Tom Cardy is guest emceeing. Wild.

Are there any enemies that you guys know of that can cause undeath that are not
>undead
>necromancers
That is, I don't want a zombie or something that learned spells to raise the dead through being a spellcaster. I want something like a monstrosity whose envenomed bite causes the body to rise again after death.
Is there anything like that, or am I just going to have to go the route of tweaking an existing monster's statblock and handwave it as yet another irresponsible mage's escaped experiment?

>>96139105
The idea of somehow keeping them balanced throughout a campaign is pretty silly. Some things take longer than others, sometimes the players just want to handle everything with violence, sometimes they're in a dungeon and I'm not about to have the bloodthirsty smelly goblins try to negotiate with them.

>>96142579
>goblin
They're a monster race, don't be a FUCKING retard.

>>96142597
Goblins are tenacious. This one won't lose
>Nah, I'd win
>>96142774
But MY goblin isn't like those dirty uncivilized ones
Super unique orphan-raised-by-halflings that's not a dindu goblin

>>96142774
So I shouldn't play as a full orc even though it's in the 5.5e phb?

>>96142579
What class? This is important.

>>96142323
Literally who?

>>96142921
Oh there was a watermark in the corner. They look like a bunch of fags and a genuinely retarded blonde.

>>96142912
A barbarian of sorts

>>96142811
>just a green halfling
so fucking lame

>>96142921
Gay icons.

>>96142323
Are they like "playing" the game in front crowd? Are people paying to 0yv4xwatch this?

>>96140020
>Given that D&D is played mainly by nerds

table-top games are played mainly by nerds, d&d is too mainstream now

>>96141455
>Meanwhile, the soldier background

>>96142448
yea, Ashley got real chubby but damn her tits look great.

>>96143260
Depending on the campaign, a difference of 1d8 from 2 to 7 is five damage per round difference. A standard lv. 1 spell might do 2d6? Overall, the fighter isn't totally screwed over here.

>>96143293
>A standard lv. 1 spell might do 2d6?
Forget about damage dealing level 1 spells
Cast Bless and you'll do more in one round for the party than Savage Attacker would do for an entire campaign

>>96142889
That anon's an idiot but to be fair in 5.5e orcs are no longer a monstrous race: it's now counted as a player species, which is why it's in the new PHB and there aren't orc monsters of that type in the new MM. Instead you're supposed to have use humanoid berserker or bandit or mage or whatever statblocks for your enemy orcs.

>>96143316
>False
Let's say that in one minute, ten turns game time, three creatures blessed, hell, let's max it out at one attack and save per turn.
>60
Times the average of 1d4 (2.5)
>150 net stat gains
Now remember that if you still fail, by rolling a 4 or something, it doesn't help at all. With that average, we'll calculate an adjusted 3 to 8 on a d10 weapon (Halfway between two handed and one handed) that you rolled results in a real gain of 5 every time you hit.
>5 dpr difference
with 150 extra points in attack and saves, I'll divide by the average roll challenge
>15
15 attacks that hit or saves that work now with the blessing. Damage saved/done? let's use 5 average
>75
75 damage saved or done, divided by the average from every hit as a martial, let's say 2/3 hit. 75/5x1.5
>22.5 turns
So in 22.5 turns, you will get that interest back on average. Not to mention losing concentration or a waste of concentrating on a better spell. A fighter with this background will have much more use than a fighter with this very spell anyway!

My math is subject to review, if I missed anything obvious. As well, I took some liberties with my estimates, not going into a dissertation.

I fucking nailed the most important session of the campaign so far and the big twist was perfect cliffhanger ending and I weaved tension and relaxed moments expertly god it feels good.

>>96143406
Good job cutie

>>96143406
Hell yeah anon, tell us about it

>>96143406
I'm sure it was to d4.

>>96143411
>tell us about it
they been travelling with bbeg in disguise unbeknownst to them for a few adventures, despite hints
they been occasionally teleported back/ summoned magically temporarily to homebase by npc ally to get supplies/updates, been happening a few times with no problems
they arrived at new fortified settlement to which they were only granted access (along with bbeg in disguise) because of what they did to help other settlement while travelling with bbeg in disguise
bbeg wanted to get inside new settlement to retrieve mcguffin, so used party as cover, but is also part of its goals to deceive and betray
during evening in new settlement they enjoyed baths, games, were all relaxed and enjoying recent victories, shopping etc.
small hints that something is odd about the bbeg's familiar, been going on for a few sessions, they start investigating further, but it's invisible
friendly npc back home calls to summon them again, saying they have urgent new info about bbeg, asks permission to teleport them back, they agree
something goes wrong with summoning, they are stuck in ethereal plane because interference of local settlement peculiar thing
suddenly they watch helpless as the new settlement gets attacked by minions, the disguised familiar of bbeg they thought was a normal familiar instead is a quasit killing the guards and opening gates
bbeg minions flood in, they slaughter people, party watches powerless through ethereal plane, trying to affect and warn people but nothing
they rush to see if their friend bbeg in disguise is safe, as the minions approach, it's revealed he is in fact in command of the minions, was the bad guy they been pursuing all along
cut to black

party in shock, didnt expect the betrayal, but realize the glitch on summoning probably saved their lives and gives them a chance to arrive by surprise as the bbeg was about to murder them first before the attack, aware of the danger they might pose to his plans

So rules as written a paladin couldn't sword and board and cast Heroism without first putting away their weapon until they got War Caster, right?
>spell has somatic and verbal components but no material
>both hands are occupied

>>96143605
Yes, Correct. This also includes casting spells like Shield as a reaction, you need the free hand or War Caster to do so.

>>96142889
No you shouldn’t play as an orc. They shouldn’t be in the PHB. Don’t play freakshit races.

>>96143377
>That anon is an idiot
It’s idiotic to use orcs as anything but savages and monsters to be slain heroically. It’s ridiculous that the wokies look at orcs and think black people. It all comes back to this shades of grey there is no good and evil bullshit of modernity. They do it to justify their horrendous actions and immorality.

>>96143644
Haven't people been playing orcs in Warcraft for decades at this point?
Sounds like you have a problem more than anything else. I mean aside from your nonexistent critical thinking skills.

>>96143644
>It’s idiotic to use orcs as anything but savages and monsters to be slain heroically.
not since the 2000s have they been that way. read the books you idiot

>Don’t play freakshit races.
eat cock

>>96142236
You can just be brief with your description. "I bash it with my shield and stab it while it's stunned" or "My eldritch blasts disintegrate its head" or something.

>>96142323
Damn, I didn't realize Ashley Johnson was that stacked.

>>96143293
>A difference of 1d8 from 2 to 7 is five damage per round difference.
The actual math on savage attacker bonus is on average less than 1 for a d4, and 2 for a d12 (1.34 for 2d6).

In terms of offense, it's pathetic. in terms of defense or utility: none. The latter is more important since the post I quoted listed a slew of offensive, defensive, and utility options. While savage attacker does one thing and does it poorly.

>>96142113
>DM: how do you want to do this
I always answer something nonsensical to this sort of thing, like "I kick it in the shin" for example. I find it signals to the DM pretty quickly that I'm not interested in that kind of fantasy without any sort of burdensome above-table talk.

>>96141455
>You can cast Jump without a Spell Slot and then use a Spell Slot to cast Fireball or Spirit Guardians
I thought you were wrong about that, but apparently they changed the rules and that is how it works. It does come with a downside, though: the new rules prevent you from casting a reaction spell and an action spell on your turn. Probably won't be a problem very often, though. Although I guess it means I can't combine Silvery Barbs with Heightened Spell for extra-disadvantage like I was hoping to. Actually, I guess I could if I make it my Magic Initiate spell. Could only do it once a day, but I'm okay with that. I only want that combo available to make Disintegrate really hard to save against, and you can only cast that once a day anyway. Feels like kind of a loophole, though.

>>96144068
It also prevents you from counterspelling someone counterspelling you, but 2024 counterspell is cheeks anyway so that's not a super big deal. I think they made the change to prevent the 2 level fighter dip double cast trick, if I had to guess.

>>96143644
Based. The fact that 5.5 has this is retarded, and a good argument to avoid the version completely.

>>96143723
Warcraft doesn't have orcs, it has a weird "hip-hop" race that ended up in a concentration camp after they murdered an entire kingdom, and this somehow makes them the good guys. It's the height of self-pity racial insert. Warcraft hasn't had orcs since warcraft II.

>>96143740
>not since the 2000s

"Someone came up with some terrible bullshit that doesn't matter or count, therefore you should do it because it was yesterday that it happened"

If your game actually has real orcs- rapey murdery assholes- and your DM lets you play as one of the few that rises above their racial predilection, that's great. But the weird crap you find in the 5.5 PHB isn't good at all.

>>96144082
>"Someone came up with some terrible bullshit that doesn't matter or count, therefore you should do it because it was yesterday that it happened"
>But the weird crap you find in the 5.5 PHB isn't good at all.

you havent even looked at whats in the 5,5 book you dipshit, they're still inspired by Gruumsh and want to follow his teaching.

>>96142927
To be fair, they don't usually dress like that.

>>96143644
>No you shouldn’t play as an orc. They shouldn’t be in the PHB. Don’t play freakshit races.
What a retard post. Humans are not freakshit. Elves are not freakshit. Orcs are not freakshit. Half-elves and half-orcs though? 120% freakshit, and 5.5 is unfathomably based for getting rid of that.

>>96144078
Nah, that already says you can't use your Action Surge action to take the Magic action. I don't know why the rule exists. If Quickened Spell is overtuned, why can you quicken a fireball but cast fireball with your action using a scroll? It's simpler than the old rule but now a wizard can cast Magic Missile and Healing Word if they use Magic Initiate's free cast for the latter but a straight cleric without Magic Initiate can't cast Guiding Bolt and Healing Word. There being all these ways to cast without a spell slot just adds flavourless mechanical cruft imo. It's a rule I wouldn't bother with, personally.

>>96139134
I know my games are worse than they could had been, it doesn't matter if the end result is good because I know I fucked up.
But to have imposter syndrome you have to do something of value. Your friends tolerating you isn't really a position you don't deserve, it should be the base line, if your friends don't want to be there then the issue is not how you run games.

Does Dispel Magic have to end every effect on a creature, or can you be selective with it? Like let's say a fighter gets Haste cast on them but then gets Hold Person'd, could I choose to only dispel the paralysis and leave the Haste active?

>>96144349
No

>>96144125
I never said half orcs and half elves etc weren’t freakshit. The only race that’s not freakshit are humans, elves, dwarves, and maybe halflings but they’re annoying.

>>96144356
The description says you can target a magical effect, so I was thinking you could target the paralysis instead of the creature it's affecting.

>>96142323
>big natural, life-giving, penis-hardening tits basically fully exposed bursting out of her dress
That's offensive and a macro-agression for us Daggerheart trans women players who don't have mammaries.

>>96144554
I bet you thought that sounded clever.

>>96144180
And also quicken already has a steep cost for leved spells so it's a useless rules that can be circumvented in a number of ways.
Just say you can cast only one leveled spell if you think casters are op. If not just let them cast however they want if they find a way to do it.

What’s the consensus on Strixhaven? I like the idea of magic colleges but is the execution good? Can I run a campaign in it or do I have to write that all out?

Barbarian shouldn't be a class, it should be a background.

>>96143605
>drop sword (free)
>cast heroism
>pick up sword (one allowed interaction per turn)

>>96145298
Why even drop it? Isn't sheathing and unsheathing a weapon part of one action now?

>>96145321
Using 2014 rules, dropping is a free action while sheathing is an object interaction (free, 1 per turn). He won't be able to unsheathe it to threaten an AoO with the weapon.

Using 2024 rules, sheathing and dropping are both item interactions (free, 1 per turn). Sheathing a weapon to draw another one as part of an attack action, or after an attack, is the only time when it's free.

>>96142060
It is petty retaliation, which is what that NPC is going for after it's been bamboozled by an owl for 30 seconds. The true whitepill about DMing is that you get to play the bad guys as bad guys and indulge whatever dumbass forebrain lizard shit you've been suppressing your whole life.

How overpowered would a staff that lets druids cast wizard spells be? Example: it has 3 charges per day that let you use druid spell slot to cast ANY wizard spells of 2 or 3 levels lower. So a druid could use a 3rd level druid slot plus one of the 5 staff charges to cast magic missile, for example. This would be some insane versatility and I considered making it a preset list or something. I want this to be a legendary item that comes in 2 helical staffs that intertwine so it won't be easy to find, but I also don't want to make the guy a straight up gestalt caster. Any suggestions for making this concept somewhat balanced?

>>96146296
These are spells on the wizard spell list that

>are not on the druid spell list
>with a casting time of [1 action]
>that are from the school of [evocation]
>minus cantrips, 8th, and 9th level spells

You could sort out by schools if you want to make a different list, or you could use this list and then include a few other spells you want him to have.

Don't include shield, because if I were him, I'd just save all my charges for shield. That's why I limited it to [1 action].

>>96146296
Looks incredibly powerful. If you want to nerf it a bit, I'd say "You can infuse the staff with spells found in scrolls like a wizard does to learn their spells." Then it would be "You can convert your druid spell slots for the wizard spells, with allowance for one or two free spells every day."

>>96146365
>Don't include shield, because if I were him, I'd just save all my charges for shield. That's why I limited it to [1 action].
Yeah I jsut gave them a ring that lets anyone cast shield 3x per day and I have a feeling I'm gonna regret that shit.

>>96146422
That might be better yeah.
The lore is that a druid who multiclasses into wizard, and a wizard who multiclasses into druid, collaborated to make the two halves of the staff. So it'll have some innate spells on its own, but when combined allows that sort of spell conversion in some way.

>>96146472
>yeah I just gave them a ring that lets anyone cast shield 3x per day and I have a feeling I'm gonna regret that shit.

have them meet an eccentric merchant that has been looking for such a ring and is willing to trade them a flying carpet for it.

Trade agreement:
They receive magic carpet
You receive magical hey-jinks

Can anti life shell negate an fight against a purple worm?

>>96146696
Nah, It's got 10ft reach.

>>96146719
Back to banishment and dolphin polymorph i guess

I wanted something creative instead of the above

>>96146736
imo, those are far more creative than an I win button force field that allows you to just wail on an enemy without any counterplay. at least with those spells, you need to think of what to do next.

Unfortunately for the purple worm and all the cool shit it could do, it's functionally retarded so it couldn't plan to destabilize the ground beneath you and try to suffocate you, or swallow a mouth full of stones to spit at you

it'd just mindlessly attack you until it eats you, or it dies.

>>96146823
Would seeing through a familiar eye work inside the worm for mist step shenanigans?

How is 5e (2024) from a DM's perspective? Is it a significant improvement to run as DM? It seems at a glance that PCs are made more powerful quicker than before, but doesn't necessarily mean it would better to run like that. I am always running the games, and I'm not much for roleplaying and am light on story. I lean on the mechanics, charts, and maps. So the better resources I have, the more enjoyable the game is to run for me cause I am not good at acting. I have my 5e books and notes back in my home state so I am debating on starting over with the new books. Plus it is an opportunity to start fresh with my setting. At the same time, I just want to continue with what I already know cause it's easier for me to explain and troubleshoot for new players. I would appreciate the input.

People at my unit were talking about DnD. I overheard the conversation and joined in. Now they want me to be a DM because I have the most experience. I've been playing since 3.5 and have played other TTRPGs outside of DnD, but I haven't played anything in 3 years so ok no problem. They told me there's another 5th edition that just came out, which I was unaware of. All 4 of the players are fairly new to DnD and mostly know it through Stranger Things (I haven't seen it). It seems like a fun opportunity to get to know everyone.

>>96149743
It's fine. Strip out the copper wiring (Basic rules) and have your players make characters with RAW for the first few games. Slowly add in homebrew if you even want it at all.

My experience? I just use the rules for basics then I add whatever I need. There's no good crafting system in 5.5, but I made up my own.

All in all, could be worse, but you're also getting invested in one of the most popular games, meaning you'll have a much easier time finding players.

>>96149743
From a DM perspective 5.5e is nearly identical to 5e. A strong majority of changes are player-side and while those are good for a DM to know to help newer players, it's also not your job to know all the player's stuff. A note though:

Backwards compatibility is iffy, I recommend restricting player options to PHB only while you're getting a feel for how the game does things.

>>96149743
from a DM perspective it's the same garbage

>>96149743
The 5.5E DMG is absolute trash. It provides almost no procedures and very few random tables. Lately I've been running 5.5E but taking procedures (dungeon turns, terrain and dungeon generation, random encounters, and base building) from the AD&D DMG. I've also been experimenting with Chainmail rules for mass combat. I think the 5.5E PHB is overall an improvement over 5E though.

>>96149770
>There's no good crafting system in 5.5
That's kind of surprising. My players kept asking about crafting and augmenting so I did one working backwards from gold values.

>>96149806
Oh okay. I'm kind of frugal about player options for their characters anyway. Eventually I got tired of having to deal with people who bring nonsense like robot blood witches that drain HP whenever they knock a target unconscious or kill them.

>>96149841
Yeah but that's where the playerbase is and I work with what I got. At least I can shift the direction of how the game is ran.

>>96149891
That's disappointing to hear. That's the kind of stuff I am looking for. I do the same thing too drawing from older editions

>>96149960
I can gush about the new system I'm developing, but I won't bore you. Basically, plants have roots, leaves, and oils. All do something magical on their own. You can mix in tree stuff, weeds, fruits, saps/glues, spices, acids or various things that are hidden until a recipe is researched.

>>96149891
>very few random tables
contemporary gamers have been liking more curated content and have there's a lot of people who dislike or don't care for random encounters because it doesn't push the 'narrative' alone or whatever.

i personally am not terribly offended if the DMG doesn't have random tables, as there's so much available resources for random encounter generation that using page space for it doesn't really matter.

one of my pcs has a source of small boons that can randomly be obtained upon level with the tradeoff being that they will slowly be replaced with increasingly harsh banes, but im running out of good ideas for debuffs. anyone have any ideas for a character feature thats tough to grapple without being completely overbearing?

>>96149994
I don't have a "narrative" in my campaigns. Stories and roleplaying arise naturally from the rules and procedures of the game. In my opinion the mainstream style of modern D&D is just the DM telling a story that should have been a book while the players are just glorified dice rollers, which sucks. I like the random aspect in that even I as the DM don't know what's going to happen.
I make my own tables as well, especially for dungeons, but often use AD&D as a starting point. I find AD&D's tables are elegant and mostly make sense.

>>96150124
There was a shift sometime in 2e where failed novelists used D&D to write shitty books masquerading as adventures. I think that's where it all started.

>>96149743
Speaking as an ESL, what's that "unit" thing? Sounds like it's either prison or a home for semi-autonomus elderly persons.

>>96150892
>Speaking as an ESL
Fuck off you filth.

>>96150915
Actually ETL.

>>96150926
>https://housesolutionegypt.com/blog/what-is-the-difference-between-a-unit-and-an-apartment

I legitimately can't believe the people who replaced crawford are even worse at their job than he was

>>96150939
who?

>>96150525
>2014 Edition
Why do you hate yourself?

>>96150951
The only thing worse than the 2014 version is the 2024 version.

>>96150978
>new is bad btw
nah, i don't think so

>>96150978
People who don't like the 2024 rules need to be told exactly how many times they can chew a piece of gum before they might want to spit it out. Guidelines, just use common sense.

>>96150936
Thank you, friend.

>>96144034
>>96142113
>>96142236
You just waited ten minutes for your turn, the best part of being melee is describing your attacks

>>96149743
5e is horrible to DM if you've been out of the loop and not planning on running some premade adventure

>>96151150
>game is hard to run if you don't know the rules

>>96149743
>>96150936
EFL but my mind went to military unit lol

>>96150939
What have the new people even done so far?

This is either my best idea or my worst

>>96151205
the past few garbage UAs.

>>96151265
Guaranteed it's a call from Hasbro/WotC to design only things that are already implemented in D&D Beyond so that WotC doesn't haven't to spend money adding new features to it
They can just recycle the code for spells and temp HP if every new feature is a spell or gives temp HP

>>96150124
false dichotomy between narrative and randomly generated events/encounters
also you're assuming handpicking encounters means predetermining their outcomes, which is also inaccurate

if you randomly roll a kobold settlement then randomly roll a rope bridge obstacle, you tie them together: the kobolds built the bridge. That's basic narrative

if you handpick that the kobold settlement is here and the bridge there, it doesnt mean you decided the party had to cross it

>>96146988
as in misty stepping out using a familiar? I think so. I'm not gonna bother reading both spells, but I'd just assume ye.

>>96139956
>>96140456
I'm literally running a game for 3 characters right now you stupid fucking nigger. Call me a "no games" again and I will actually make you regret it.

i feel like I havent added things in 5etools homebrew in years
I used to expect to always find some new shit to add etc but it just feels dead

what do you guys have loaded besides the Tome of Beasts / MME staples?

>>96151576
Guess you're just a retard then. 4-5 players is fine you np games fuckwit.

>>96151576
>and I will actually make you regret it.

Estuans interius Ira vehementi
Estuans interius Ira vehementi
Sephiroth! Sephiroth!

Would a spellcaster who uses a shield be more likely to have the shield in their dominant hand for strength, or their spell components/focus/free hand for more dexterity?

campaign set in roman palestine around 33 BC

>>96151791
Depends on if they are accustomed to combat, or are just wearing the shield for protection. It makes a difference. A battle mage, a mage trained for war, would wear the shield of strength. A wizard who spends most of his time in a lab and only has a shield for added protection would wear it on offhand

imo.

grand wizard anons it's time yet again for our magic wand swishing exercise.

protip: mana potions (aka. Monster Energy drink) is best consumed 1 to 2 hours before magic wand exercise routine.

>>96152388
bonus backstory

bonus theme song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHcl9TL75So

I'm so sorry to ask, but surely someone here has this

>>>/wsr/1534375

>>96152388
Put away those fiery biscuits this is a blue board

>>96152388
>>96152391
Kys.

>>96151374
Of course random encounters get tied to the world somehow. No one is referring to these trivial details when they complain about "pushing the narrative". When TTRPG players speak of narrative, they're usually referring to a grand narrative of the player characters that spans "story arcs" or even the whole campaign. When these narratives are largely plotted out in advance by the DM, players are just following along a track and filling in minor details like whether or not they decided to use the kobold bridge to cross the gap.

Does anyone know of a place for getting Foundry VTT worlds of modules not yet for sale? Specifically looking for stuff like Curse of Strahd or Ice Wind Dale. But I'll take anything that directs me in the right direction desu.

Would you? Do you think anybody would?

>>96153095
Melissa probably would.

>>96152940
5etools and plutonium import
>>96153095
My LGS has it for 284 USD unpainted I'd say fire as long as the shipping isn't terrible and you actually want it.

So what's the trajectory of D&D in the modern era? Are we going downhill towards pay to play platforms owned by WotC? What's the general consensus on our TTRPG's future?

Anyone know a system similar to 5e that’s much lower fantasy than what 5e assumes? Like where a single ghoul could be a massive monster that you need to prepare for, or where you’d have to travel far and wide to meet a wizard. Technically speaking you can do that in 5e, but the classes and system very much assume magic is commonplace and creatures like ghouls are trashmobs

I know OSR is the place to look, but that’s quite a broad genre at this point

>create badass homebrew west marches discord server
>spend days coming up with the lore and building the world
>invite 20+ people from previous gaming groups, work, etc
>only 4 people have made characters
why even live

>>96153095
Is that the Wizkid one? I bought their Orcus for like $100 or whatever. I already have a couple nicer Orcus models that I have painted and like more. But eh. I like Orcus and I wanted that one, too.

>>96154934
>removing Orcus' bushy musky treasure trail
WOTC are cowards.

>>96154490
>So what's the trajectory of D&D in the modern era?

Going to get licensed out like Monopoly and new 'official' books will be contractors using AI remote workers

>Are we going downhill towards pay to play platforms owned by WotC?

Won't even get that, Sigil was scrapped. Hasbro is trying to direct sales max, book stores getting completely screwed, now many are not ordering more D&D books because D&DB is undercutting them

>What's the general consensus on our TTRPG's future?

Hasbro is MLP'ing it, makes a comeback in five or ten years. Alt season for TTRPGs, where everyone is trying to do direct sales with the big Diamond Comic bankruptcy, with PF2E and Daggerheart being the big ones

>>96140140
Yeah well forest gnomes are still meh and rock gnomes still piss me off just for existing so I wouldn't say gnomes are retaining much of value with these lineages.

>>96155817
>pros of playing a gnome
advantage on mental saves
>cons of playing a gnome
you are playing a gnome

>>96155828
You listed pros twice

>>96155817
Why do you hate rock gnomes, anon?

>>96155837

Is there anything Telekinesis can do that Bigby's hand can't, apart from disarming someone or moving things stealthily?

>>96156243
>Restrain the grappled creature
>Last for longer than 1 minute

Bigby's Hand is a battle spell for slapping creatures (and objects) around in style; Telekinesis is for utility (but Restraining a creature is still very useful).

>>96156243
not be damaged

>>96155871
not him, but I hate that the thing that makes gnomes are only funny if they look like tiny dwarves with hats

I have Crius as an Oath of Glory paladin. Going to gladiator route. I've been doing a shitty aussie voice for him too.

Was planning to introduce Volo as an NPC in the game I'm running, and after reading some of his wiki, I saw that he is an Anchor for the Weave and one of Mystra's chosen. What would this mean in terms of roleplaying him? Does he just Mr. Magoo himself out of danger that should otherwise kill him? If someone did manage to take him out, what would that mean as far as the Weave is concerned?

>>96158330
based on the small blurb in the wiki it sounds like Mystra / Elminster might have done some shenanigans to keep him alive and would deus ex machina him out of death

he's also found himself in very dangerous locations - like during the bhaalspawn crisis in baldurs gate 2 throne of bhaal he's in Saradush while that town is put to siege by fire giants and he escapes

I have a problem player in our friend group who, while fine outside of game, turns into a human Goblin while in game
He is only capable of playing CE characters who do the most buckwild random shit that helps nobody and actively hurts the party
Suchas
>Randomly go over to dock to flash tits at sailors. Get told to fuck off. Comes back and burns the ship while they sleep, killing most of them and lighting a portion of the town on fire. Party loses potion source for early adventuring
>Party acquires crucial item to defeat evil guy and are trying to examine it to see how it work. Dickhead asks to see it. The group does so because he has high Arcana. He yeets it into a flowing river and the item is lost. This actually caused an unwinnable boss fight ten sessions later where we lost the campaign but that's another story
>Party is attempting to enter city with some NPCs. The guards do not want to let the Cleric NPC in because they are very anti-religion. Dickhead murders the NPC in front of them to solve the issue. They bar the party from entering on pain of death. Night falls, zombies come out, everyone dies.
>Actively refuses to assist in combat because they created a character whose goals do not align with the party. This gradually leads to everyone quitting and the campaign dies.
His defense is always "It's my alignment"

First our DM's banned creating Chaotic Evil characters. He made characters then alignment shifted them to CE. DM bans all CE characters and states if you shift to one you have to reroll a new character. Instead he makes "CN" characters and alleges he isn't being CE he's being CN. DM now bans CN as well, and NE for good measure. Player makes a TN character and pedantically sits on his ass doing nothing because it's "in character."
We've now reached a point where when we're forming a group for campaigns, if he joins, the group changes their mind and leaves (unless they're new to his BS). All but one won't DM for him anymore.
Why are people like this?

>>96158612
>they created a character whose goals do not align with the party. This gradually leads to everyone quitting and the campaign dies.
what?
why kick everyone else except the dude that clearly doesn't want to play?

He's bored. Maybe it's not his style or maybe he needs ADHD medication, but he clearly messes with stuff to entertain himself. Extremely selfish too. Don't play with him.

>>96158612
Main character syndrome
No empathy / clinical sociopath
They think D&D is a video game where their actions don't affect anyone's enjoyment except their own because everyone else is an NPC in their eyes
They're actually an asshole deep down and there being no real consequences to being an asshole in a ttrpg environment means they can finally go mask off

I speak from experience because I have an IRL friend who is also an asshole CN/CE "it's what my character would do" type of player who either doesn't contribute at all or will make decisions for his character's benefit but to the detriment of the party

>>96158644
Nobody got kicked. They all chose to leave and the DM didn't stop them. Eventually too many people left and the campaign died.
DM didn't kick because they're too nice and a pushover

If he's bored he wouldn't have bought the DM $150 worth of shit.

>>96158655
Given he's a cryptobro I am inclined to agree
I don't even like him. He's even told me "I know I'm an asshole but at least I'm honest about it" when confronted
Like, bitch, you think that makes it okay? Fucking faggot

>>96158684
>Nobody got kicked. They all chose to leave and the DM didn't stop them.
Your friend kicked them out
If I start peeing on you and you leave it isn't two unrelated events.

>>96158655
>They think D&D is a video game where their actions don't affect anyone's enjoyment except their own because everyone else is an NPC in their eyes
I fucking hate this. The first thing you should think as a player is "will this be fun FOR EVERYONE AT TEH TABLE"
not for you only

>solid objects on the overlapped plane don't hamper the movement of a creature in the Border Ethereal. The exceptions are [...] and living beings.

how do you handle this in a non-combat situation?
If you're on ethereal, you cant walk through living things. I'm assuming this is really a rule for combat, but it has consequences for exploration where for example you could bump into things and they would feel something there?
I've made it like there's a vital force that keeps things apart and the cluless material plane dont feel like they just bump into someone, just they got moved, but im curious if there's a better to handle it

party is gonna be scouting enemy from ethereal plane and inevitably they gonna start touching things and try to affect creatures and I dont want it to get weird

>>96159106
>but im curious if there's a better to handle it

You are blocked but immediately forget about it happening. its magic.

>>96154562
I did just that in SotDL, it lends itself a little bit better to lower magic campaign and undead are frightening or horrifying which makes fighting then really suck.

>>96158612
Just don't invite him.

>>96127744 (OP)
Looking at 2024 ed, Battle master still looks like a much more potent fighter but the addition of a free d20 each turn for champion seems extremely good.

Has anyone had any experiences with it? Is it worth giving up trips and tricks?

>>96160014
New fighter feels more fun with the changes in general. Weapon masteries, more second winds, using second winds to boost skills, you feel like you have options and choices even without battlemaster. I played a psi warrior and really enjoyed it. The issue with fighter is still that there is often no reason to attack you over say the rogue in light armor flanking. At least with psi warrior I could reduce the damage to them.

Nearly lost a party member to the first encounter of a dungeon (3 shadows) when they were taken down to 1 strength.
Any other low level monsters that can easily lead to a party wipe I should be aware of?

>>96160014
All fighters are a great now.

Battle master was dethroned with the changes to GWM and SS, precision is not the be all end all that was previously. But giving yourself custom attacks and additional damage will always be cool.

Eldritch knight came out as a huge winner with no limits on the spells they can pick, combined with the change to ritual casting means they can bring huge utility to the game. War magic is amazing now, they can cast booming blade/green flame blade and an attack on any attack action, which includes action surge and haste.

Champion is now resectable, with a lot of smaller buffs that make it into a well-rounded fighting machine. Heroic Warrior is the bees knees. It's a survival tool, a damage tool, a utility tool, and doesn't go away after combat.

Psiwarrior isn't as hyped up as the other three, but psionic strike and telekinetic movement are underrated. Psionic strike isn't a rider like smite, it can't be used on crits to get double damage. but it IS its own source of damage, so for features like concentration, it triggers its own concentration check. And telekinetic movement lets you lift and move a horse sized object, which not a lot of classes can do at 3rd level. But if I could buff psiwarrior:

>psionic dice
you get bonus dice equal to your INT mod
>protective field
- damage reduced is the number rolled + twice your INT mod
- you gain a free use, and you regain the free use when you roll initiative.
>Psionic strike
- damage dealt is the number rolled + twice your INT mod
- you gain a free use, and you regain the free use when you roll initiative.
>Telekinetic Movement.
Bonus action, rather than a normal action.
>psi-powered leap
its free use also recharges when you roll initiative, grants the feather fall effect at the end of turn, and you can use it as a reaction to gain the feather fall effect.
>Telekenetic master
every feature that grants a free a use recharges on a short rest/initiative grants an additional free use

>>96160014
>>96161128
And old arcane archer was my favorite subclass despite being terrible, but if the UA goes through, arcane archer is going to be a fantastic option. Grasping shot got nerfed into oblivion, but it was totally justified, and the rest of the subclass got buffs in exchange.

Is sword's bard fun
Can I actually run up and swing a sword at people while casting bard spells or is it some boring shit where its objectively better to sit at the back be a normal spellcaster
Are there any multiclass setups that make it better to swing a weapon
I want to do crazy shit
https://youtu.be/06t-WSRkHZw?si=TI1Flvb8wv81iRS1

>>96161240
i looked through a video and it just seems so much worse now
what were the buffs? do you get more than 2 per short rest?

>>96160732
Wolves are surprisingly dangerous for newbie adventurers. Will-o'-wisps can execute downed enemies as a bonus action, which along with their invisibility and mobility makes them very scary. A single banshee can potentially wipe a team in one move if they cock up their saves.

Daaaamn, Bane the Accursed, Lord of Tyranny looks like that?

>>96164580
Why does he look like a league of legends character

>>96164660
Billy Christian has done LoL art according to their Artstation

>>96160014
>free d20 each turn for champion
Am I missing something?

>>96164580
I hope not.

>>96164676
Yep

>>96164754
The free Heroic Inspiration with every turn?

>>96164580
No.

>>96164674
>Billy
>their

>>96164930
I mean...

>>96164785
That's it

>>96165012
Billy, not Billie.

>join new game
>dm says its 2024
>oh
>have to LEARN something
>usually just play crowd control caster
Does this work? Are the armor dips the same? I know you wouldn't get a subclass.

I have a random question. I'm planning to run a DND game with some cool people from my work but I think starting them with 5e might be a little too complex.

I remember starting out playing a DnD lite system 15 years ago which was very simple, with each class being just a single a4 piece of paper. My plan was to start them in that game and see how they go, as most have very little ttg experience. It had all the regular classes like paladin and rogue, so it should work.

I'm pretty sure the name was something like "dungeons and dragons", but instead was "X and X". Does anybody know the system I'm thinking of? I've looked but I can't remember for the life of me.

>>96164930
is this some culture war cuckold shit where you're afraid of people using 'their' in perfectly legitimate ways?

>>96165226
The name implies male.

>>96165254
thine comment implies retardation

>>96165254
why should i care?

>>96165254
No, it doesn't. You just inferred it as male.

>>96165327
In what world is William not male?

>>96165332
Oh sorry, I thought we were talking about Billy, not William. I have no idea who Billy Christian is, but based on the art that was posted I can safely assume they're either a faggot or a woman.

>>96165386
Would this be him?

>>96165424
probably, you could check their profile to find out if they're the artist or check out their artstation, like i suggested before which indicates that they've done art for League of Legends before.

A friend of mine is playing a Moon Druid in our 2024 campaign and is wondering what he is supposed to use his Bonus Actions on, I'm new to 2024 as well and I have no idea either, are the bonus actions just for his wild shapes and healing word outside of a shape?

>>96165424
Hell if I know its them. Could be some deviant artist that just got hired. Don't care. The name Billy doesn't imply it being a male name, just like the name Apple implies a gender.

>>96165447
pretty much the same as it was for druid in 2014 before.

just make sure you double check the rule for wild shaping because they changed the mechanic up a bit w/ the temp hp shit

>>96165457
>just make sure you double check the rule for wild shaping because they changed the mechanic up a bit w/ the temp hp shit
Wild Shape went from Action to Bonus Action, and you don't get crazy amounts of health anymore, is there anything we're missing?

>>96165082
That sounds sillie.

New thread

>>96165516
>>96165516
>>96165516

>>96165226
Yes.

>>96163504
>i looked through a video and it just seems so much worse now
>what were the buffs? do you get more than 2 per short rest?
-free skills are nice, it previously gave nature or arcana and now gives both
-You get shots base on INT/short rest. So if you invest in 16 int, you get at least 1 extra shot per vs the previous version, easy enough to get with a starting int of 15 and a feat like fey touched or shadow touched. you could dump INT if you think you can reliably get a headband of intellect and if you really invest, you could get up to 5 shot/short rest.
-scaling damage dice. The old version just has 0d6/2d6 and doubles at 18th level. Now all shots do damage, and progressively get stronger at 10th, 15th, and 18th
-Every ready shot moves down to 7th from 15th so you get more shots in a day for most of the campaign

Grasping was nerfed, but every other shot was buffed to either do damage initially or do more damage, or buffed via the scaling granted at other levels.

Beguiling now let you choose yourself as a target of admiration, so the enemy can't attack you. piercing now deals 2 die rolls of damage, if you can line up two targets, thats (d8+2d6+dex)x2, save for half. Even better if you can line up a third in a hallway.


And I suppose being able to use any ranged weapon should also go without saying. Obviously a buff.

>>96165207
>armor dips
That shit's cringe, don't do it.