Thread 96554041

Knight of Cups Edition

>"New" Apocalyptic Subclasses UA: https://media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-images/ua/apocalyptic-subclasses/KKvJvHGmsJiNaafX/UA2025-ApocalypticSubclasses.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 (D&D beyond version)
https://pomf2.lain.la/f/1en5qwum.pdf (scan, 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
>>96537417

>TQ
How would you fix mounted combat in 5e?

>BTQ
Big boobs or small boobs?

>>96554041 (OP)
>BTQ
The only correct answer is butts

>>96554041 (OP)
>BTQ
The only correct answer is both

>>96554041 (OP)
>BTQ
The only correct answer is big elf tits

>>96554041 (OP)
>BTQ
The only correct answer is flat elf chests

>>96554041 (OP)
>How would you fix mounted combat in 5e?
1. On your turn, you can direct your mount to move, and take the dodge or disengage action, no action required fuck free dash
2. Mounting or dismounting is half your speed
3. if your mount has an attack, you can replace one of your attacks with their attack as long as you're mounted.
4. if you are knocked prone or pushed, you are automatically knocked off your mount.
5. if your mount is knocked prone or pushed, you make a DC 15 STR or DEX save (your choice) to remain mounted.
6. As a reaction when your mount makes a STR, DEX, INT, OR WIS saving throw, you can make an animal handling (Wisdom) whose DC is equal to the DC your mount is making. On a success, add +5 to saving throw your mount makes.


>Big boobs or small boobs?
All boobs are great, and boob size preference is dependent on body type.

Getting into 5e and have a few questions. Assuming I'm starting from scratch, am I better off with 2014 or 2024 rules? Any other recommended books aside from the PHB and maybe the MM? Is UA just beta test content?

>>96554211
>am I better off with 2014 or 2024 rules?
2024 rules are generally better. You'd hope so given the 10 year gap. It's a very marginal improvement though many people prefer the old rules for a number of reasons.

>Any other recommended books aside from the PHB and maybe the MM?
Lots of third party books that are worth it. Monster manual expanded, tome of beasts, complete armorer's handbook.

What makes 5e and 5.5e decent is the community content. The house rules, the third party books and adventures. I wouldn't play vanilla 5e because WoTC are pretty retarded unfortunately.

>>96554211
>am I better off with 2014 or 2024 rules?
Mostly the same, the 2024 has more stuff and options for character creation such as more subclasses so it's a little bit bigger. I play with 2014 so i can't really tell you if the new subclasses are good
> Any other recommended books aside from the PHB and maybe the MM?
If you are starting from scratch? PHB and check a couple of monster stats online to start. If you and your friends like the game, the monster manual is a good addition. I hear the 2024 is better than the 2014 monster manual.
The dungeon master book is mostly useless, unless you like tables of loot to roll from and general advice on how to run stuff.

>>96554253
>I hear the 2024 is better than the 2014 monster manual
Generally I like to just look monsters up on 5e tools and pick whichever I prefer.

>>96554211
>Is UA just beta test content?
Yes. But given WoTC's inability to balance the game it's as good as anything else.

>>96554041 (OP)
Boobs can get as small as they want and I can definitely still enjoy them.

But while I can enjoy some nice hefty cleavage, hyper just kind of starts to get unproportionate and gross to me. Like it doesn't even start at purely fictional levels, real life Kaiju level titty monsters still get there.

I think like a CR 14 tittymonster is about as much as I'd ever want to face in an encounter.

>>96554041 (OP)
>BTQ
Only small is real, only flat is true
>TQ
I have this general rule for mounted combat, for anything not contradicted by it I use the default rules
>The mount does not have an initiative, instead it can move up to its speed on your turn. It cannot take any actions, but you can take an action to have the mount Dash if it's able to. Also, if you take an action to Dodge or to Disengage, the mount takes the same action as well if it can. If the mount has any other unusual abilities, you typically have to spend an action to order the mount to use them.
and I tend to give maximized HP for specialized mounts like warhorses.
>>96554211
>Assuming I'm starting from scratch, am I better off with 2014 or 2024 rules?
Assuming that you're best off not starting at all but... I'm running exclusively 2014, lifted a rule or two from 2024 as houserules into my game and I don't like most other changes and don't care about learning them. On the other hand everything that comes out now will probably be 2024 slop and you'll end up having a larger playerbase to play with by learning that.
>Any other recommended books aside from the PHB and maybe the MM?
If you've never GM'd any game and intend to try, you should probably sift through DMG but take everything it says with a grain of salt. For player options Xanathar's Guide is fairly good (it's de facto 2014 contnet though). Anyway, use 5etools. If you're GMing, ConfC (Conflux Creatures) creatures are quite good and so is Kobold Press stuff (Tome of Monsters etc.)
>Is UA just beta test content?
Yes and it can be really out of whack so avoid using it unless you're desperate for the options presented.
>>96554253
>hear the 2024 is better than the 2014 monster manual.
Plenty of pictures are nicer, some are worse; some mechanic changes are fucking retarded like Mind Flayer's auto-perma-stun, I stopped perusing the book shortly after.

>>96554211
Personally? I'm working on a gestalt combination of the two. Some flavorful things got removed for no reason other than maybe page formatting, some things that needed rebalancing got bass-ackwards rebalances that missed the problem entirely or overstepped, and some things got changed just so it would be easier to code into the now-cancelled Sigil VTT. Also, there's dev-intended but weird controversial mechanics like weapon juggling and using attack of opportunities on allies to shove for bonus movement or warcaster spells on them.

If you're using JUST phb, probably 2014.
If you're comparing 2014 PHB plus Tasha's vs 2024, it's debatable.

Personally I'd kind of recommend pick and choosing or else combining them both like I am.

Newfag question
A barbarian with 14 dex and light armor would have 8+2+2 armor class, right?

>>96554378
Sorry mistype, if just PHB, use 2024.

2014 PHB only has actually playability errors. Blade warlock is nonfunctional. Ranger has no casting focus and no melee spells and will have even his flavor ribbons turned off most of the time because they're highly situational. EK and AT are laughably bad without blade cantrips. Monk at best requires galaxy brain to actually contribute on par with picking a different class, and at worst just doesn't.

>>96554380
Studded leather is base 12. Then +2 from 14 Dex.

No idea where you got 8+2+2. Even wearing no armor it'd be 10+Con+Dex.

>>96554432
>Even wearing no armor it'd be 10
Ohhh the base is 10
That's why everyone's AC seemed so low

So, what's the general consensus on the 2024 edition of 5e? (is this the so-called 5.5e?)

I've been away for quite some time so I'm surprised to see last thread there was a lot of actually good design decisions. A huge contrast to the flaming dumpster fire that was
>Aarakocra
>Hexblade, Bladesinger and other 'gish' design attempts
>silvery barbs
and especially anything Mike Mercer liked before he was fired (so, hexblade again) produced from UA that they never read the feedback for

>>96554511
The actual rule is that any given armor or class feature alternative thereof SETS you to a score, sometimes that score includes stats.

So for normal no armor, it's 10+dex.
Light armors, the score it sets you to is #+dex.
Medium armors use #+dex (max 2), though there's a feat for max 3.
Heavy all just sets you to #, no dex involved.

The setting things is why you can't wear like 3 armor sets and add all the numbers together for 37AC.

You can find what each armor's score is in the equipment section.

>>96554544
It’s talked about a lot on here. The reception is pretty mixed but mostly positive. Some weird shit in it from subclasses all being at level 3. Like warlocks who don’t know their patron or sorcerers not knowing their lineage etc.

It barely justifies its existence.

>>96554544
>Ayoub is still at it
https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/96485177/#96488584

>>96554563
level 1 & 2 are beginner* "skip these if you know how to play" levels so it kinda makes sense to keep the difficult options to pick out of reach until they've played a little and understand the consequences of choosing their entire archetype for the rest of the game. But level 3 is when casters like Cleric get level 2 spells so that must fuck up class balance somehow... At least it discourages Cleric dips for casting continuity + heavy armor.

>*beginner also includes teaching players their mortality

>>96554571
I don't know who that guy is, I was a super frequent poster of /5eg/ about 4 years ago but stopped as I got into game design work myself and had no time for playing 5e much anymore.
Thanks for the overview, though.
>(e.g. multi-smites, sharpshooter, wildshape)
It feels these are worth tackling. All of these can make sense if everybody at the table is fully optimizing (burst paladin, reliable damage fighter, jack of all trades moon druid) but for most players at most tables it could cause an imbalance. Why do you think they fixed it wrong?

Weapon juggling seems sensible. Warcaster for buffs seems ... very questionable. Custom backgrounds probably should've stayed and I no doubt agree shit like Savage Attacker and Find Traps need buffing.
I see the conjure spells were nerfed. Isn't that for the better? Though they were kinda funny when used. The race stuff is kinda cringe.

So I'm mostly curious about the nerfs of optimal/meta abilities...

>>96554629
If I'm ever running a new 5e campaign again, I'm banning Sharpshooter with no replacement. The ranged characters can either learn to get a clear fucking line of fire or go melee.

>>96554684
Fair. There's really no downside to ranged unless your class demands it (barbarian, paladin, moon druid, monk) and even then you want a ranged option on hand. Features just further cement this by removing what few downsides you had.

If an enemy gets too close, you can shove them down, shoot them (with advantage if you have CBE) and then simply walk away, meaning they can't reach you next round / they only get one AOO with disadvantage. Not reliable of course but because shoving is a contested check, each point of additional strength doesn't make a huge difference. Just saying that as one of the many, many ways you can avoid the 5ft rule. Another way is if there's any form of obscuration on the battlefield you can shoot them at point blank with no downside and simply walk away once again. A warlock can use repelling blast, you can just ignore it with CBE, you can just switch to melee for free ...
It's a pitiful downside for the upside of "I can attack you from the other side of the map" and "I can non-lethal you". Ridiculous.

Did they do anything about ranged versus melee in 5.5e?

>>96554544
Hexblade isn't going anywhere. Now every Warlock can scale off of CHA, but if thats not Hexblade enough, theres also UA for Hexblade.

Session in an hour, will be running house of lament from van ritchen's guide, slightly modified, but mostly as written.
Will report later on the player's experience.

>>96554725
>Did they do anything about ranged versus melee in 5.5e?
Not much. GWM maintained some bonus damage while Sharpshooter lost it entirely. Melee weapons also have a few more options in terms of weapon masteries, but Ranged weapons really only want what they already have with Slow/Push to maintain distance or Vex for free advantage.

am pretty pleased with how my AI-generated elf ended up like, though I had to fix a few things.

Phandelver's dungeons are pretty stupid.
Redbrand Hideout (pic rel)
>6 skeletons from 3 coffins
>3 ruffians guarding a woman and 2 children
>4 bugbear death room
>Glass staff just runs away if his invisible familiar sees the players. The book has no plan for what happens to him if he escapes.
At least the nothic is cool.

>>96554735
That's exactly the problem. At first, there was only Shillelagh, which was too overcomplicated and restricted for the likes of gish players.
They could've made it a unique class-subclass in being a more vulnerable but potent melee user that would maybe pick the right time to dive in, but that was clearly too much of a design challenge for them, so they stooped to braindead simple design
>just let every class use their main stat bro, stats are just a lame sacred cow anyway who even cares
>just give everybody armor. everyone should have about the same AC
>let's not actually give a reason to go into melee instead of using eldritch blast
>paladins should 1 level dip this because, why not? multiclassing is an optional rule!
So we ended up with... Warlock with armor proficiency. That's it. Because Mike Mearls doesn't read feedback and doesn't understand the game, he just wanted hexblade.

I guess 5.5e fixed the multiclass dip, huh? That's kinda nice.

>>96554785
GWM was more okay with bonus damage since the weapons already did more damage and it lacked Archery. It sounds like the changes are healthy overall. Even if it dismantles a meta martial build, it's better to remove meta builds than get caught up in martial versus caster nonsense.

>>96554855
>I guess 5.5e fixed the multiclass dip, huh? That's kinda nice.
You can get Pact of the Blade invocation with a single level in Warlock.

>>96554901
god fucking damnit
I hope 6e completely reworks ability scores they've become such dogshit by this point, missing the original purpose of why ability scores were made (aside from being an ancient concept that other systems have revised and done better with)
4e tried but that's, well, 4e.

>>96554929
If its any consolation, when the Eldritch Adept feat becomes available for 5.5E, then you won't need a Warlock dip to scale off of CHA.

>Deliberately avoid calling practicioners of the arcane arts the "W" word and instead use shit like sorcerers, mystycist, practicioner of magic etc.
>Player lets Wizard with hard R slip in an IC scene.
>Immediately have multiple NPCs accost him and scream about how its not cool and he needs to leave the guild right now

>>96555274
Arcane-american.

Im trying to make a race inspired from the Children of Woolpit. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_children_of_Woolpit)
I was thinking of giving their ASI's

1+ Wis
1+ Con
Con for their unusual green skin
And wisdom because of their... i don't actually know, i'd imagine these things coming from some distant land so wouldn't it be -1 wisdom?

pls tell me your warlock builds

>>96555424
>5e builds
take the feat that eliminates a mechanic from the game and max the stat that makes you better at everything, while taking the obviously op spells

>>96555424
If you feel super extra boring you can go all in on eldritch blast. Lance of Lethargy + Repelling Blast can completely lock enemies out of combat (until one of your teammates charges at it because you can never trust your teammates NOT to get themselves hurt for zero reason other than because they want to roll more dice)

>>96554829
I'm trying to create my own. They work fine if the characters are holding a weapon or with their hands closed (or at least they're more likely to turn out well that way).
But if I ask the AI to do something with their hand open, like casting a spell, it completely messes up the anatomy of their fingers. Maybe I should just leave it as a picture frame without the hands visible. Although it takes away some of the dynamism and makes the image look a bit boring.

>>96555544
Sometimes you get lucky and can fix the hands quite easily. What are you trying to go for?

Does anyone wanna play through the new borderlands adventure with me?

>>96555459
KISAMAWA.

TODOMETOKURAE.................... [[[ELDRITCH BLAST]]]

KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAGCH

>>96555451
>>96555459
I want a build that's strong but also has good RP value, I don't want to just go with whatever the meta is

>>96556307
Then just pick what you think would be fun or look at the options and ask "is this as fun as I think it is?"
For example, I remember the at-will illusions being a neat idea but in practice I didn't have too much fun with it because it requires too much discussion about the illusions themselves. Some people might have a better time with it.

You can't really fuck up in 5e character generation that hard. Not taking eldritch blast or agonizing blast is kinda dumb but it's not gonna stop you from being useful, being a character that has actions makes you inherently useful.

>>96555424
>>96556307
The best way to have fun with a warlock is to have DM be into your patron. If you have a quest or objective of sorts from your patron that is adjacent to your party's quest, but not necessarily in line with their objectives 100%, that can create some really interesting scenarios. However it does require buy in from the whole table.

>>96554848
Glasstaff will obviously show up at the cave or the castle if he runs. If a DM can't improve that much, they shouldn't be DMing.

>>96556307
That's the easy part with Warlock. Just by taking Eldritch Blast as one of your cantrips, Agonizing Blast as one of your invocations, and having 16+ Dex, you've pretty much reached a solid baseline where nobody is going to complain that your character is weak.
That means you're then free to do whatever you want with every other aspect of your character.

>>96557004
16+ dex?

>>96555710
Don’t recruit on 4chan. The kind of social rejects who will join are the scum of the scummiest website.

>>96555710
Would you share the foundry module with us?

The Foundry maps for the new starter set are really nice. Minor complaint with the Keep being so pristine and clean looking, if I remember correctly in the OG KOTB it was more of a ruin.

Want to play a devout cleric character for a change but sadly non of the gods really interest me. Hopefully my GM will let me invent a God.

>>96554041 (OP)
>Big boobs or small boobs?
Shape is far more important. I've seen big boobs that looked great while supported clothed only to sag so much they looked like sand filled socks when naked. Same with what looked like small but very perky breasts that were like fucking pancakes flopping around when completly bare.

>>96557404
I know, that's why I said 'It isn't that bad', as in 'It's not terrible'. Even that most milquetoast of non-negative comments about the system in question is going to be enough that he might pick up on it and come over here to have a meltie. I apologize if that happens.

>>96557421
Oh shit my bad sorry I misread your other post.

>>96557361
ACKS isn't that bad. It's not really good or worth using compared to most other OSR games (e.g. WWN or AER if you want the same domain scale stuff it offers as a selling point), but there are far worse games on the market and you could pretty easily run a competent game in it.

ACKS is not 5eg related. Kindly fuck off to your own general

>>96557519
>Goes to 5e general
>Discusses an entirely different system
>Told to fuck off
>You’re just being controlling!!!1
You are an insufferable cunt. There are no debates here on what is 5e and not 5e. Acks is unquestionably not 5e related, go away

>>96557498
link please

>>96557027
Meant 16+ Cha. Not sure how I mixed that up there.

>>96554783
3 hours session (a little bit less than 3 hours)
Ok, as I feared, the start of the adventure has too little combat
Until the house awakens, combat is scarce, and since my players played SLOWLY (only first floor explored) and didn't enter the basement nor hunt the chimney witch, they genuinely found no combat encounters until i decided to just make up and force one (summoned shadows at night) to finish the session and get them to level up.
The investigation side is great but DnD is a combat game and players expect at least some combat

I also made it so multiple spirits can speak every Ouija board session. The module as intended has the DM pick one and use only that, but I thought it would be more interesting to make the players speak with all 3 and then decide which lead to follow. So they have some agency on how things progress.

So far, great atmosphere, great story, needs to hombrew in better pacing if you think your group might be a slow one. A first session should always have some combat imo

>>96555424
Hexbeyblade

warlock
guide background: fog cloud, guidance, choose one
>str 8, dex 15+2, con 15+1, int 8, wis 10, cha 14
>1st level
pact of the blade: scimitar, also a second scimitar
>2nd level
invocations: armor of shadows, fiendish vigor, legends of the first ones: alert
>3rd
Hexblade UA from arcane subclasses
>4th level
weapon mastery, scimitar: nick
>5th level
thirsting blade, one with shadows or gift of the depths

>1st level
You hex a target, then let it rip.
1 attack, 2d6+dex, next turn you use your bonus action to amp it up to 4d6+dex.
>at 2nd
You have fiendish vigor for extra 12 temp HP every combat, alert+dex to go first, mage armor is 13+dex=16
>at 3rd
hexblade subclass. Fighting your hexed target nets you 18AC. And once per round, when you succeed on your concentration check for hex, you deal 2d6 necrotic in a 10ft aoe around you to targets you want once per round and 1/long rest, you can choose to suceed if you fail and gain 1d10+ warlock level temp HP.
>at 4th
2 attacks totaling 4d6+dex as one action and your AC is one higher now at 19 vs your hexed target, if you kill your target you heal 1d8+cha(2)
>at 5th you
get extra attack with extra steps. You hex a target, then let it rip, 6d6+(double Ded)

Harrowing hex can get you into a slug fest, where you use fiendish vigor to cast false life, gain 12 temp HP, and then slap a bitch as a bonus action, whoever you're fighting needs to burn through 12 temp HP and then get your regular HP. You can do this every turn.

aside from hex

>>96555687
>What are you trying to go for?
Draconic Sorcerer High Elf with pic-related pose

I'm a zoomer and I was never able to stand a critical role stream
I got into the game because of this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUrlRZu2uCc
It really stimulated me and I ended up watching some reccomendations and ended up buying the phandelver starter set.

I guess to grognards finding the hobby on youtube is "impure" but that's kind of how things are nowdays.

>>96557963
>I guess to grognards finding the hobby on youtube is "impure" but that's kind of how things are nowdays.
Matt Colville is probably one of the most grog approved 5e youtubers so you wouldn't get shit on for that. And this is 5e which is like the lowest denominator punching bag of the ttrpg community, so no one here really cares about gatekeeping.

Phandelver is fun, and there are a lot of guides/tips about it online.

>>96554848
The bugbear room isn't even that bad if you have a 19AC fighter blocking the doorway.

>>96557963
>I guess to grognards finding the hobby on youtube is "impure" but that's kind of how things are nowdays.
As one of the Longbeards of the secret Grog council I hereby grant you this;
>It's all good, just play games and have fun bro
Use it whenever someone talks shit about you finding D&D through youtube.
Go forth Unbearded, one day you shall join us.

>>96557963
>I guess to grognards finding the hobby on youtube is "impure" but that's kind of how things are nowdays.
imagine being such a weakminded zoomer that you let the internet dictate what's acceptable or not

>>96557980
>>96558009
>>96558020
I think you guys are misunderstanding, that was 4 years ago, I just wanted to share how I got into ttrpgs.

>>96558041
I got into dnd from going to a wizards of the coast store. I miss those stores, I assume they’re not around anymore.

I got into dnd from cartoons

>>96554041 (OP)
>BTQ
How else do you store so much mana?

>>96558041
I wasn't misunderstanding. You phrased it ambiguously which led any reasonable person to assume you're new.

>>96558208
I phrased it ambiguously which lead to a misunderstanding

>>96558249
I'll accept that

>Psi Warrior Fighter
>Soulknife Rogue
>Aberrant Mind Sorcerer
>Great Old One Warlock
Out of these psionic classes, which is the most fun to play with the 2024 rules?

>>96558274
Sorcerer or warlock. I don't think I would pick those subclasses for fighter and rogue. They seem too undercooked.

>>96558274
Great old one warlock is psionic? Weird

>>96558188
Hey, me too.

>>96558406
It's got psychic spells as a feature and can speak telepathically to people, and do other mind-related shenanigans.

>>96558470
I believe you. Just weird that we have ancient ones with psionics before actual psions.

can anyone give me some lesser known/obscure monsters that are low level? I'm talking CR 1/8-CR1 dudes.
building a new setting and I wanna show off the parts of the monster manuals that are less common.
>pic rel some thri kreen and their basilisk I painted to fill in the role orcs do in one region

>>96558274
Mystic
>but that wasn’t in the
You got some kind of shitty DM who hasn’t homebrewed, updated, and adapted UA material that they decided to abandon?

>>96558854
https://2014.5e.tools/bestiary
sort by CR, there are a lot of options at 1/8 and 1/4

>nobody showed up to the open table
Should probably refocus efforts elsewhere, but boy does it still sting.

>>96559089
Rough, don't give up. 5e is popular, maybe it was an advertising issue.

how do you feel about "zelda keys" where youre somewhat arbitrarily forced to explore certain parts of dungeons before others? i find it a lot smoother from a design perspective, but im always afraid of it feeling somewhat contrived and/or railroady
>oh wow, this scroll lets us get through the collapsed door we found earlier. how convenient

I got into dnd from my father who used to play 2nd edition with his high school friends. I still play with him and we are teaching my little brothers to play.

Can I just say I hate how D&D handles spells? It seems so useless to have so many one-offs when you could bunch them together and allow for different effects/abilities based on what spell slot you shove them into. Granted, it's a considerable step up from the days when you had spells that just gave you +4 to this and that like in 3.5

>>96559187
D&D is a game primarily about problem solving and player agency. Having a problem with only one solution tends not to be fun for everyone.

>>96559187
Its cool when down right, lame when not.

>gap need crossing
>storage room somehwere in the dungeon has a lot of extra rope
Cool.

>magic unblockable door that requriess a magic pass code
>the passcode is behind several puzzles and fights and is just laying there on a table.
lame.

need ideas for encounter in tropical archipelago

they already had one not too long ago with the goblin pirates and with the giant sea monster

I think maybe something that makes them go underwater?

they visited one of the 3 "quest location islands" and will probably go to the main quest giver (they skipped him the first time) where they'll get a magical boat miniature

so maybe while travelling to next location there's something that makes them go underwater to explore?

i dont wanna have them lose their boat just yet though, the arc started with a shipwreck

>>96558406
>>96558545
have you read Lovecraft? Or even like, vaguely encountered it in Pop Culture??? Cthulhu is so psionic he's a living natural disaster when he dreams because it infects the minds of anyone even slightly susceptible to being inspired and rapidly drives them mad trying to recreate visions of him and his resting place R'lyeh.

>>96559187
i'm fine with "keys," provided the method to acquire the key is still open ended. Heists basically always have one of those and nobody ever minds.

>>96559531
>I think maybe something that makes them go underwater?
If it's just getting from point a to point b underwater, that's fine. Underwater combat is lame so a whole adventure of it gets old fast.
>i dont wanna have them lose their boat just yet though, the arc started with a shipwreck
Stop.

Do not railroad your players. Why give them a reward just to script taking it away from them?

>encounter
Tribal painted and tattoo'd halfling sleeping on a rock in the middle of the jungle. When alerted, he yells something in dwarven, then morphs into a small animal and flees. Leave them paranoid that any animal watching them could be a druid spying on them. have them roll low DC perception checks for the rest of the campaign where they hear "frogs chirping, birds warbling, rodents screeching etc." if they catch him before he gets away, he could offer them 8 good berries for his release.

>underwater
Something that's strictly as a reward and optional, like finding a log book of a cache of magic items that fell off a boat and sunk, it's guarded by sirens who play with the magic items

>>96559631
>Do not railroad your players. Why give them a reward just to script taking it away from them?
stop with this reddit shit
when a campaign starts with a shipwreck, I don't want another shipwreck to happen 4 sessions later. The goal of a dm is to enable fun, and repetition isnt fun. Go cry about the purity of the game or whatever in /osr/ with the other autists, meanwhile I will make sure my players dont go through the exact same thing twice.

>>96559667
Brother, what are you talking about?

>>96559557
I've read plenty of books and comics set in Lovecraft settings. They strike me as more eldritch powers. Distinctly different to the kind of psionic abilities D&D is known for. To me if cthulhu is sending you telepathic messages it brings madness and insanity not the kind of meditative psychic powers 3.5 psions had. It's the difference between high fantasy and horror.

>>96559679
i'm talking about you clapping like a seal at the mention of a dm deciding what's not gonna happen. RAILROAD RAILROAD! RAILROAD I SAW A YOUTUBE VIDEO SAYING RAILROAD BAD! curating stuff that can and can't happen isnt a railroad, it's the job of a dm

>>96559693
If you decide "I am taking their boat away" then something is happening to their stuff that they have no agency over, that's what railroading is.

>>96559693
It's a continuum between complete sandbox play and railroading. Railroading to me is putting up invisible barriers to limit choices to a single choice the DM has thought of. To me this ruins the idea of a roleplaying game where you want to tell a story together. I'm always delighted when my players come up with new and interesting ideas.

I've also ready stories about "sandboxes" where the players are dropped in with no hooks, no quests planned, the DM just has some locations and thinks that SOMEHOW the players will make their way there. Without any direction the game will quickly die off as nothing is driving it forward.

You want to give enough direction for the players to have a goal, places to go to, things to investigate and explore. But you don't want to force them into certain directions or actions.

Here is a guide made here on /tg/ that goes into this in more detail I'd post the pdf but you know... https://www.mediafire.com/file/9iqsz2riqgoa1z8/Sandbox_Railroading_Tracks_in_the_Sand.pdf/file

>>96559693
>I dont wanna have them lose their boat just yet though
>DM is not the players, so he doesn't know what the decisions they might make
>proceeds to script an event to happen, reguardless of the players input.

That's a railroad, anon.
If you've already put in place an event that will take away their boat without thier input, that IS railroading.
Now, if that event is a choice they can take among others, then that is the opposite of railroading and I'll rescind my accusation.
But if you've already decided at the end of this arc, they lose their boat, fuckin choo choo.

>>96559732
I don't want any encounter that would take their boat away because the campaign started with a shipwreck and they will just get a boat this session

>>96559732
And you're the kind of retard shitting up this general for assuming railroading when nothing of the sort was implied.

>>96559742
>And you're the kind of retard shitting up this general
I gave two ideas for encounters along with why underwater sucks, and my claim to not railroad.

>>96559667
>>96559693
>>96559742
These posts are shitting up the general and add nothing to the current conversation.

>>96559732
Railroading is not:
>Leading the character's in a specific direction.
Railroading is not:
>Offering a path to the players.
Railroading is not:
>Keeping the players from realizing they're on a preplanned adventure.
Railroading is not even:
>Preventing players from doing an action which you have not planned for.
Railroading DEFINITELY does not mean:
>Any time the GM has any plans at all it is railroading.” Railroading is a specific term for GM's with ONE adventure.
ONE plot. It can be resolved in ONE way.
>You cannot decide to go investigate that other place that would mean you fail and the plot can't handle it. I have nothing planned for that area, so there's a wall in the way now.

Railroading is attempting to prevent players from making any changes to the preapproved plot, exploring any areas other than the preformed ones, disallowing certain actions, etc. You are stuck on the rails chum, and cannot leave them, for the train would crash and then nothing would move. Don't try to pretend that any time the GM has planned any sort of plot hook that it's at all deserving of the word railroad.

In short, railroading is when the GM takes any measure necessary to ensure that there is only one direction the campaign may proceed — his planned direction.

Railroading isn't "Hey there's a wall here!" It’s "Hey there are walls everywhere but here!" Railroading is having an idea and keeping the people or places chiseled in stone.

It’s better to keep your ideas, people, and places loose and shifting, like grains of sand.

>>96559765
No you don't understand if the players dont roll everything from a random table of everything and risk getting gibbed by an ancient dragon on the first 5 min of session 1 it's a railroad and storyshitting. If the DM has ANY idea of things that MIGHT happen it's a railroad. I saw on reddit that railroad is bad so I make sure to only run a pure hardcore game to my zero players who show up.

>>96559765
>>96559798
I fucked up the formatting but whatever you get the point. Planning for a shipwreck isn't railroading. They can react to the shipwreck however they want.

>Take away their boat without their input
Imagine if that happened in real life. How dare you take away my boat storm. Fucking mother nature railroading me!

>>96559732
>proceeds to script an event to happen, reguardless of the players input.
>That's a railroad, anon.
Ah ok genius so if I decide that halfway through the campaign once the party has earned a reputation the alliance of chromatic dragons is gonna fly accross the ocean to attack the capital city, that's a railroad?
I guess the yshould rename this the "railroad table"?

>>96559798
>>96559811

I wasn't talking about the ship wreck when I mentioned losing their boat, I as referring to the new boat they were getting and saw
>i dont wanna have them lose their boat just yet though

As an implication that they were going to lose their boat again, which is why I mentioned it >>96559631

>Researching for forge of fury which my players recently arrived at
>Download MargoMods Forge of Fury Companion for inspiration and maps
>See this on the first page
>Orks not allowed to be villains?
My orks are followers of Yog-Sothoth so they're ultra evil. Are we not allowed to have good and evil in our fantasy games anymore? Anyways I'm not reading the rest of that trash. What a waste of money.

>>96559903
orcs are one of those things that only became a racial topic after corporations became obsessed with inclusivity and optics. the funny part is that by adhering so close to their echo chamber, they have inadvertently created more slurs for people that never had widespread association before. see also stone throwing devils from mtg. anyway, back to pol i go

>>96559913
I've never understood the comparison of orcs and real world races. There's a D&D race for Africans, Asians, and everyone else. It's called human.

I like it because it makes chuds seethe

>>96559903
>My orks are followers of Yog-Sothoth so they're ultra evil.
Cool, make them evil
>Are we not allowed to have good and evil in our fantasy games anymore?
Who said that?
>Anyways I'm not reading the rest of that trash. What a waste of money.
You're either trolling, or a complete snowflake.

>>96559903
>Are we not allowed to have good and evil in our fantasy games anymore
No, and if the thought even enters your head, WotC is going to call the Pinkertons on you.

>>96560121
I fucking knew it

>>96560026
I don't want to turn this into /pol/ lite. Here's some shit I've read online about it. This is a supposedly award winning writer.

>You're either trolling, or a complete snowflake.
I bought something. Found it wasn't to my taste and have discarded it. Call me a snowflake if you want I'm not reading anymore of that garbage.

>>96560236
>All supernatural creatures are [X]+Humans+Magic
Actual soulless being.
>Control via slavery
The only time I've ever heard anyone involve 'They must be enslaved to control them' in a campaign was me. Playing a Vaarag who was an absolute Uncle Ruckus and intentionally so

>>96560236
You could just ignore that paragraph and play the module the way you want to.

>>96560236
>paying for a literalwho's shitbrew
You deserve it desu fampai, might as well be bitching about how first party books are a waste of money.

>>96560294
That’s the plan. I’ll also ignore the rest of that book. I’m mainly using tales from the yawning portal anyways. With some edits.

>>96560342
lmao fucking triggered

>>96560236
There is this prevailing yet disgusting notion that a reasonable person must be adverse to violence, which forms this false dichotomy:
If you are reasonable, you are peaceful, and if you are unreasonable, you may be violent.

I fully agree that using humanoid creatures as attack first talk never combat fodder is a complete and utter waste of their potential... but pic related does nothing to justify their over-correction. Why can the orcs not simply demand the party give them absolutely everything first, before attacking? It's reasonable to do so, you can take everything they have by force but it's less risk and less cleanup to take it by intimidation after all, right?

Wrong, because of that false dichotomy these midwits follow. They refuse to have reason and violence co-exist. They refuse the primordial truth of power. They refuse to acknowledge that violence is the supreme authority from which all other authority is derived. Thus, over-correction. This is how we go straight from murderape automatons to noble and honorable guardians. These people are cucks of the grandest order.

Well this discussion prompted me to look up more about the racist origin of orcs, and I found this interesting article. Worth a read imo.

https://jamesmendezhodes.com/blog/2019/1/13/orcs-britons-and-the-martial-race-myth-part-i-a-species-built-for-racial-terror

>>96560366
The sad reality is the best depiction of orcs in any piece of media anywhere without any exception isn't even Tolkien or bungabungaboingoboingo adjacent.
It's fucking Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. Chesterton and they're the fucking Vikings.

>"For Rome was given to rule the world,
>And gat of it little joy—
>But we, but we shall enjoy the world,
>The whole huge world a toy.

These fucking troglodytes who have such undue control over media and the hobby as a whole are shallow, unread people who don't even care about the shite they spout beyond the dank retweets they can get from other Californioids on Twit-I mean, Blue Sky.
They are tourists of the highest order.

I mean shit they'd still bitch if they knew about Chesterton because 'Oh my sweet science, he was a heckin' conservative! Ballad of the White Horse is all the problematic! It even references us in all but name >:(' but at least they'd be bitching about something that was grounded in reality instead of huffing farts like it makes them the Oracle of Delphi.

>>96560401
if you read part two (linked at the top of part 1) he talks about how to fix orcs in your games, which basically boils down to giving them a distinguishing culture and motives

>>96560353
>>96560401
You sound mildly upset.

>>96560366
>>96560436
I tried reading it but I just couldn't the amount of smug self serving shit was unbearable. In the first few paragraphs he of course had to put in that he's not white. He said he went into his research looking to find how orcs were racist and that's exactly what he found. Absolute and complete confirmation bias.

>>96560436
I will fully and openly admit I clocked out about the time he said
>I always play orcs given the chance
Because I felt the vulk of my ancestors quietly lean into my ear and whisper 'I bet you can guess exactly how he plays them can't you?' and he then proceeded to go into 'Muh warrior races bad'

I'm going to throw you a curve ball here.

I am a Welshfag.

Unlike Tolkiens orcs (Because no Little Timmy, orcs being corrupted elves isn't a direct pop about how noble Aryans interbred with potatoes and that created the Irish, put down the paste before you overdose), Deep Ones are in fact a direct reference to the corrupting influence of my bloodline upon the writers noble Saxon blood.

Do and should I get the victim points of whining, mewling and farting about how no one can use them anymore because 'Are you implying I have sex with Fish? How dare you, that's playing into the stereotype that the Welsh have sex with sheep, because what is a fish if not the sheep of the water?!'
>But that doesn't make se-
Raaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaycist

>>96560450
Funny because you sound fully retarded.

>>96560456
I will say the most entertaining thing in the entire article?
>Martial races are somehow still a thing in the Indian Army
In scraping the shit out of the bottom of the barrel he had to, reluctantly, eat an entire handful of wood shavings by acknowledging that yeah, racism isn't a whiteboi sport anymore.
>But muh or-
Orc superpower 2030 Saar, I am a higher caste, closer to the elves, ect.

>>96560479
Oh and before you even mumble out 'We're not talking about Deep Ones though'
Fun fact.
Ballad of the White Horse actually references the Welsh directly in the character of Colan of the Sacred Tree
>But though we hold but bitterly
>What land the Saxon leaves,
>Though Ireland be but a land of saints,
>And Wales a land of thieves,
My my, a land of thieves eh, that's a heckin' problematic if I ever heard one.
If I were the kind to carry a chip on my shoulder I could milk the shit out of lines such as:
>He made the sign of the cross of God,
>He knew the Roman prayer,
>But he had unreason in his heart
>Because of the gods that were.

Colan is the tamed savage, the irrational creature, the heir of a Lovecraftian inheritance of gods who were Unchristian in nature.
It'd be very easy to make an argument, if I were inclined, that he's a terrible, racist depiction of the Welsh, rah-rah-rabble-rabble-roo, Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn is actually meant to be Welsh! Please gib sympathy, for we are a smol people and being heckin persecuted ;_;

But know what? Instead I choose to hoot like a gibbon any time Colan is mentioned because he's fucking 10/10.
Irrational, pagan, savage at heart despite being tamed by Christianity, proud, driven by emotion rather than rationalism.

Maybe if the writer spent a little less time hunting high and low for offense to take, he'd find a little less of it to carry around and beat his dick to.

Oh and again, go read it, it's free online and might expand your pinhole of a perception on what orcs are or could be.

tl;dr: Offense is taken, not given, so stop trying to steal it so you can sell it out the back of your van over on Bluesky, asshole.

you guys sound homosexual discussing this dumb shit, post elf tits to prove you're not gay

>Chesterton mentioned in thread
I'd like to mention for anyone who doesn't know it that Chesterton was a close friend of H.G. Wells and directly involved in the club that first played Little Wars.
He's one of the grandfathers of our entire hobby, absolutely Deep Magic tier.

>>96560366
I just want to say I'm disappointed in you for posting cringe in our wholesome Christian thread anon.

>>96560236
five bucks someone has something on their twitter about how it's okay to kill nazis. Especially right after this whole charlie kirk thing.

>>96561523
*this one
god i hate this fucking ai autocorrect. spellcheck is acceptable but do not change my goddamn words. all i need you to do is mark it with little red line and let me handle it if I so choose. know your place clanker.

My philosophy is that I can change a villain's abilities and stats such as HP on the fly mid fight to accomodate what's going on, but I will never ever fudge the dice
Perhaps I'm a hypocrite, but the latter feels much dirtier than the former

>>96554041 (OP)
I am playing my first ever game in a week. I want to do a battle master fighter. But it looks like they are much more powerful/tacticalvin 2024 rules? Should I suggest this? I just don't want to play my first campaign and feel like I am playing a boring class mechanically

>>96559939
I understand the comparison. They're visibly a pastiche on vikings. Or i guess more accurately a pastiche on how medieval christian europeans would have seen vikings. Heathen barbarians worshipping a one-eyed god of rage and thunder, obsessed with vengeful honor, creating nothing and tearing through the countryside leaving nothing but a cruel path of ruin and slaughter. The original 5e Art for orc looks like Grey Hulk with tusks wearing a Skyrim bandit's clothes.

Getting "african" out of it when they're blatantly norse-coded and even their original D&D porcine appearance is based on a pun about the isle of Orkney a formerly norse-controlled island in Scotland said to be haunted by dangerous trolls, Orc- meaning "young boar" in Pictish, it speaks more to the accuser's inherent racism than to the authors, to see a bunch of rape-pillage-and-burners and think "oh that's a black man and can only possibly be a black man" like blacks have some kind of monopoly on violent looting and "that's all them poor negros ever can be."
They're actively racially offensive in trying to force the connection because they have zero overlap other than the negative part that would MAKE it offensive.

And then 40K orks are just even more blatantly UK football hoodlum chavs.

I guess you could fault WoW for making their orcs Native American? They're also not like, actually bad guys though afaik. Full "Noble Savage" like Eberron's take. Which is patronizing, still something they could fuss about, but it's not dehumanization which was the guy's complaint.

>>96561567
If it's your very first game a simple class will still be plenty of stuff
Besides your creativity is your limit. with a lot of stuff, even in combat.

>>96559212
I agree, for the modern game.

They work perfectly as originally written. They are single use silver bullet cheat codes your PC escort quest prepares so it's actually worth lugging around a peasant in a bathrobe. They are very strong, using one is basically a guaranteed success in most passably difficult circumstances and a good leg up in hard ones, but niche. A lot of the time you just don't have the right spell to trivialize something, which lets the rest of the party solve it the normal way. There is no caster martial rivalry in older editions because it's blatant symbiosis. A party of all fighters and rogues has to do everything the hard way even if the juice isn't worth the squeeze and can get hard walled by impossible circumstances, since they have no access to equally impossible answers. And a party of all mages starts on easy street, but dies toot sweet when they run out of gas or hit something they weren't planning for or even just something they can't buy time running from.

But it definitely does not work as a sacred cow in what the game has become. If the game is no longer a survival horror dungeon crawler where time and resource management is vital and the majority of problems are solved with only your wits, then that model of spellcasting no longer makes sense. Which is why they had to nerf spell strength. But then that meant needing to buff casters resilience and flexibility.
Which brings us to now, martial resilience doesn't matter, their high damage doesn't matter because it's single target, their resourceless nature doesn't matter because nobody runs out of spell slots, the only thing any of them have that kind of matters is access to high skill checks and even then there's bard.

Meanwhile individual spells are weak, most casters are throwing out two or three per encounter, and the same ones every encounter because they're all still niche.

>>96554041 (OP)
Um, guys? My new DM is a freaking woman.
My lady wife and my friends do not want to play, so I looked for people at my uni recruiting. In the group there is a tranny, a lesbian, some middle aged men... and then the DM is this pretty young girl.

It is honestly making me a little bit nervous because I have no idea if she will be ass or not. But from talking to her she seems super grounded.

Will I have to protect her honor from the middle aged men? I don't know! But I know I will get a rush of dopamine when the cute Dungeon Mistress inevitably thinks I am the best player at the table and tells me how much she appreciates me.

>>96561713 #
Ah yes, Africans, known for their fucking rune-carved belts, straight hair braids and ponytails, love of battle axes, complex metalwork for things like spiked armor and chain flails, pet wolves, and their warm layered leather and furs BECAUSE THEY LIVE IN THE FROZEN NORTH. THOSE AFRICANS. HOW COULD I POSSIBLY FORGET.

>>96561730
Okay! The weapon mastery stuff just looks so fun hehe. I think I can be plenty creative with trip and disarming maneuvers too. I already have one liners planned.

And if I want more complexity maybe I will multiclass into bard college of swords

>>96561824
Can you not delete fuckups anymore?

Thinking of making a drow warlock forced into making a pact with a Celestial patron, which in turn will lead to them being forced to learn the value of being good and protecting the innocent. That'll also make it easier to get along with the rest of the party. What do you guys think?

>>96561987
>forced into making a pact
that doesn't sound legally binding. Ba'ator would probably gladly offer a fine lawyer (for the right price.)

>>96561999
Could be the force involved was 'Oh fuck, oh god, Lolth is after me and she's got the strap on, I'll cut a deal with anyone, please, save me, I can't survive another pegging, send help. To whom it may concern, for sale: my heart, soul and bussy, not necessarily in that order.'

>>96562028
Yeah kinda like that. I imagine her as the favored scion of a great drow house, envied and hated by all her sisters, who group up to ambush and mortally wound her, leaving her to die. Then in her fading moments she promises her soul to whoever can save her, and an interested Upper being decides to intervene. Thus both her backstory (Noble Drow scion) and her personality (haughty, vengeful bitch) will clash with her Celestial powers and what she's forced to do to keep the pact (defend and help the innocent etc.). In the long run, I want her to gradually start doing these things of her own accord, basically turning her into a tsundere drow.

The party cleric casts spirit guardians and stands in full cover around a corner and then uses the dodge action in all subsequent turns nuking down all melee combatants in the span of two or three turns for a single level 3 spell slot. How do I make combat interesting when half of the encounters are solved by this one brain dead strategy?

>>96562028
I maintain my statement.

In fact, let me rephrase, here's my card, feel free to contact my offices at any time. We work on contingency, and our rates are reasonable just 1 soul. It doesn't even have to be yours! But if you can't find another, it's not like you're using it right now anyways. And surely you'd prefer I get it when you die than Lolth, right?

Do yall have content sharing dnd beyond campaigns here? Letting people create characters with the add ons, just out of the goodness of your heart?

>>96561791
>Female DM
>That group
Run anon. Run away from that shite group and never look back.

>>96561791
Sounds like a fun group, just don't be a sperg

>>96562078
I think thats pretty cool.
Maybe part of her motivation is not only revenge on her sisters, but they were up to something that needs stopping.

Has anyone played a arcana cleric before? I building one with a yaunti in a priestess kinda build and was wondering if I should dip into the divination wizard for their spells and for flavor as the lvl six abilities to bring back spell slots is a huge plus as a healer. At what level should I be in cleric before dipping into wizard?

>>96562369
>Buying beyond

>>96561791
Let me guess your wife goes to another school, in Canada, is camera and phone shy, and her dad works at Nintendo?

>>96562865
No my fair lady lives with me
>>96562543
>>96562571
I am prepared to bite my tongue in regards to the tranny. I know she'll be a pain but it is what it is. But I have a great feeling about fem-DM. I would elaborate but who knows if she browses here

>>96563186
>she

Are there any DnD streamers better than Critical Role? Surely there are

why don't you guys like CR? bear in mind I know nothing about it other than that it's a youtube series of DnD games

>>96563379
The only campaign I've ever gotten into is the Dungeons of Drakkenheim by the dungeon dudes. It's a dark fantasy campaign with a mix of grimdark exploration/combat and faction intrigue. Also, the players are good roleplayers, but they don't go over the top with voice acting so it still feels relatable. And they've kickstarted a few books, so if you get into the world you can run your own scenarios there.

>>96563394
It's popular with normies and queers, so 4chan has to hate it. Also, it's very heavy on the "D&D as a narrative/collaborative storytelling" style of game, and it popularized that style, which rubs traditionalists the wrong way.

>>96563394
>why don't you guys like CR?
I just didn't find them enjoyable
I tried to watch a stream but stopped caring like 10 minutes in

>>96563394
I like CR, just not what it became. C1 is legit amazing. The way Matt surprises his players with character backstory plots is masterful dming. Watch the episode where Sam's character is trying to fuck his daughter without knowing it's her. The whole table is in awe at the reveal. The dream of any dm should be to get that kind of enjoyment and engagement from your players.

>>96563440
Well, what did it become?

>>96563394
>youtube
Here's your answer, I despise celebs and ecelebs, everything they represent and everyone who follows them

I'm tired of listening to your nonsense, you assholes ... I'm going to create a MIN MAX DAMAGE DEALER
First I choose... aasimar, then... uh draconic sorcerer and then some feat that increases my damage or aim idk

>>96563565
Fire affinity and then spamm Fireball all day. That's it. Game won, haha.

>>96563492
>Well, what did it become?
More "scripted", ie not literally written in advance, but the players became more aware of what was possible for characters in a campaign and in dnd, and therefore the later campaigns was less Matt throwing shit at them they didnt expect and more going through the general motions of what they had anticipated.

In addition their C1 characters were their first in dnd ever, which made them very fitting and raw/pure. They were characters but also themselves in a way. Later campaigns most of the cast plays something entirely different and it loses that almost primal connection between the player and the character.

And of course the fame/money/drama and fakeness of becoming big business.

But I will maintain that early-mid C1 is an absolute achievement.

>>96562865
Funnily enough, my boywife is a professor at a university in Canada and is both camera and phone shy. His dad’s a retired professor from Iowa, though—no Nintendo connections at all.

>>96563320
With everything else he’s said, I’d assume FtM.
>she

>>96563672
>A woman DM, a lesbian and a woman who cut off her tits and injected testosterone
Oh no

>>96563691
I call it 'The Aristocrats'.

>>96563511
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azBcawvaOug

>>96563394
The first campaign was alright, the second was too full of faffing about and dodging plot hooks - not to mention, Matt gave up all pretense of challenging the party in combat after the purple guy died.

>>96560353
>Why can the orcs not simply demand the party give them absolutely everything first, before attacking?

Because the glory of battle honors their ancestors. Taking something without slaying your foe isn't plunder earned, its basic theft.
Your ancestors will not honor a fucking thief.

>>96563767
kek. RIP gilbert

>>96563394
Mostly the players.
The only character I can actually stand is Jester and that's only because she Activates Neuron.

But i've watched some other liveplays and liked them. So I know it's not the format.

>>96563576
>You step through the portal and find yourself on one of the lower planes. Hellfire and sulfur rise from vents around you. A squad of imps commanded by a horned devil spot you. Roll for initiative.

>>96563394
I did. The tail end of season two was meh, but everything before it was pretty good. Season one was goated.

I liked Sam, Travis, Laura, and Mercer. Ashley was ok in season one but forgettable in season two. Everyone else I wish was forgettable.

>>96563792
I hear this box doesn't even contain actual 5.5 D&D, it's it's own ruleset. For instance clerics can't use cast while wearing a shield.

>>96564080
>I hear this box doesn't even contain actual 5.5 D&D, it's it's own ruleset
What possible reason could wotc have to do this?

>>96563974
>I spend a sorcery point for Transmute Spell.

I cant find a good starting point for a giant clam monster in vanilla but surprisingly not even in kobold press

>>96564090
Beats me

>>96564080
The box art also has a DC-ass super hero.

>>96564126
wtf lmao, that almost is shazam

>>96564147
His name is Captain Marvel, chud

>>96561539
So why do you have it enabled?

What qualities do DMs like in their players?

>>96564445
-show up to the game
-care about the game
-don't fucking cheat
-don't be a sperg
-know how to communicate
-play well with others
-know how to have fun
-know how to let others have fun

basically the same shit an employer looks for in a good employee

>>96564445
>Knows their class
>Knows their spell list
>RPs their character
>Can remember things that happened in a previous session
>Can remember things that happened in the current session
>Doesn't shriek painfully unfunny shit during other player's moments to try and keep the focus on themselves
>Won't spend twenty minutes sitting in awkward silence when asked "what will you do now?"

>>96564445
Respect everyone elses time.
As a guideline to humor, if you want a character that cracks joke and whatnot, do it still roleplaying. Nothing is more disrespectful to a DM who took time to prepare a serious session than a player who only tries to get a rise out of him acting dumb. ("I tell the king to stfu", "I lower my pants and show Strahd my penis!", both things I had to contend with and both, after initial laughter, resulted in a party wipe and heated discussions at the table.).
Humor is fine, but some people don't seem to enjoy the game and show up to a session only to cause mayhem, which how they get their fun. This doesn't annoy only me, the DM, but all other players who wanted to have a good session too and whose serious characters have to contend with "John Cena" in their party whose whole character is that he likes dick jokes.
Funny characters are fine, I love rogues or bards that get up to insane antics. But those funny moments have to make sense in the context they are in, so they don't take everyone out of the experience

>>96564208
No it isn't. There's legally only one Captain Marvel, and DC does not own that.

>>96563379
I don't know if it counts, but I like Adventure is Nigh.

I have difficulty listening to D&D podcasts because if I lose focus for a second (which will happen because I listen while doing other things), then it's easy to get lost about what's happening.

Adventure is Nigh has some animation so it's a bit easier to keep my place.

>>96564524
nta but what you're describing is not a player issue, but a mismatch between type of game the player expects and the game you're running. When interviewing/inviting players you need to be upfront about the style of your game and only invite players who are looking for the same type of game.
>>96564445
understand that the goal is for everyone to have fun, not just you. Do things because they will be fun for everyone, not just yourself.

>>96563186
>prepared to bite my tongue in regards to the tranny
Very good of you to tolerate this person's existence.

>>96564962
I like this one better.

>>96565112
Well yeah I mean metaphorically. I would never start insulting someone for their mental illness. But I just mean let's keep an open mind, maybe they are pleasant to be around and not a total freak. But they wear programmer socks so chances are slim.

>>96565233
being transgender is not a mental illness. maybe if you get to know them, you can challenge some of your prejudices and learn something new about someone different.

I want to begin my first campaign NOW. I don't want to wait until next week for Session 0. I want to play NOW

>>96565241
Isn't gender dysphoria in the dsm-v? At any rate, I have met many trannies online and one was a great person, the others awful. In real life I have met two, both awful people. This is the third. As I said though, I am biting my tongue, meaning that I will go in giving them the benefit of the doubt.

>>96565242
A lot of playing D&D is patience. Campaigns can take years. Go play a solo game like Death Knight's Squire of a video game like Baldur's Gate 3 if you have a 5e itch that can't be scratched.

>>96565254
It is, but you treat it with gender affirming care, ie hormones and programmer socks.

>>96565254
nta but gender dysphoria is something trans people can experience. It's not synonymous with being transgender and can be overcome.

>>96563186
The troon in my game is one of my best players. MtF players are just like any other male player despite what they'll tell you. The other trans player I had was an insufferable cunt but I don't think that was because she was trans.

>I have a great feeling about fem-DM
Today I'll remind them what the late great Gygax had to say about women in D&D.

>>96565271
But she isn't playing she's DMing :^)
Nah but I have talked to her and she is clearly incredibly passionate and also knowledgeable.
>>96565262
If it were my kid I don't think I would buy them the socks. A mental illness is not cureable, it is something you have for life. I would try to understand why they don't feel comfortable as a boy/girl, figure out ways for them to express themselves outside of gender roles, and absolutely get them on CBT so a professional can teach them coping strategies.

I would not let them ruin their life by making a freak out of themselves.

>>96565271
I dont care what that retarded boomer thought about anything, and especially not ttrpgs

>>96565254
>Isn't gender dysphoria in the dsm-v?
As a result of being trans but not receiving treatment, and you're leaving off that the DSM-V states the effective treatment is patient-tailored gender-affirming care.

>>96565285
Being trans is not a mental illness, and gender dysphoria generally goes away with GAC.

>>96565285
>I would try to understand why they don't feel comfortable as a boy/girl, figure out ways for them to express themselves outside of gender roles, and absolutely get them on CBT so a professional can teach them coping strategies.
This is called conversion therapy, and does not work.

>>96565285
>>96565378
Compromise and get the kid a Blåhaj. Now post what you want out of 2024 Monk subclasses.

>>96565337
Triggered femoid detected

>>96565394
I want different flavors of monk that are not asian

>>96565403
What kind of monk flavors aren't Asian? Shit's all about kung fu fighting.

>>96565410
batman

>>96565427
Batman trained with Tibetan monks, anon.

>>96565394
Update Martial Arts so you can do slashing and piercing damage with your hands.

It's like people have never watched a fucking Kung-Fu movie in their life and never seen Tiger claw or the 9 Yin White Bone Claws or the 5 fingers of death.

>>96565443
yeah but his actual fighting style isn't super martial arts coded, he just punches and kicks the shit out of people.

>>96565410
Give me Catholic monks who practice wrestling.

>>96565467
You should watch Batman vs. Robin. It's free (with ads) on youtube, and they made his fighting style SUPER martial art inspired.

>>96565400
everything that boomer retard had to say about the game is outdated, narrow minded, and speaks of someone who lacks any basic creativity and the ability to see the possibilities ttrpgs offers. His followers and most osr autists have the same mental limitations but try their hardest to mask them as purity and refinement. I can't wait until they are all gone along with their tedious and dry games

kinda new to dnd and ttrpgs in general
when creating a warlock, how much detail do i have to give of my patron, if any at all? can they remain obscure, or do i have to pick an actual existing entity? is the DM going to look down on it if i handwave something kinda vague?

for my character i want to make a warlock who isn't even aware he is with a pact with some primordial evil sun entity
at least not until he levels up further and realizes all of the powerful fire spells he's been learning out of nowhere actually belong to another, much more sinister force and becomes aware of his patron

>>96565726
We’ll be here long after you and the other CR tourists leave.

>>96565777
you dont decide on your own, you workshop the character together with the dm

>>96562081
One chucked oil lantern.
One thrown basket full of venomous whats-its.
Anything that attacks the cover being used.
Do it back but also have the enemy have Misty Step/Dimension Door.
Hell, enemies who retreat when they see that and set up their own kill boxes or get reinforcements.

Dunno man. How come they always have cover handy? How come nothing ever attacks them when they're sleeping? Sounds like a battle map issue or the DM is just being nice/retarded.

>>96565631
I'm not saying he never has that style, obviously batman is a massive franchise and comic writers do all sorts of stuff. Just that from my reading it's usually a more generalized beat em up style. I'll keep that movie in mind - I haven't watched much of the DCAU besides some of the batman animated series.

>>96565849
How many comic artists do you know that are able accurately depict master martial arts style in a single panel format? If we're lucky they're able to trace still images from porn.

>>96565806
i see, thank you

would i have to workshop my warlock it if it was a more standard choice of a patron?

>>96565777
You have to talk to your DM about it to figure out what rolls in their game. There is definitely an element of not knowing what you signed up for when it comes to pacts. For instance, archfey and devils frequently try to twist naive individuals into unfortunate (for them) contracts. In your case, you could say you were praying to the sun or doing some kind of ritual, and somehow ended up binding yourself to the entity.

Otherwise, if you want to be a blaster, you could pick evocation wizard or maybe artillerist artificer. Warlocks are cool, but if your party doesn't short rest (and many don't), you get seriously cucked on spell slots.

>>96565904
True. I'm not much of a /co/fag and have only read batman. While he isn't doing full on kung fu, I will walk back what I said and admit that you can interpret a lot of fights as asian inspired. I haven't read much in a while, either.

>>96565909
Unless you are playing some pure raw module or some official shared game shit, you always have to work together with dm to make a character that fits the world and game he's planning. He will adapt some things and suggest ideas to you. If he's a half decent dm that is.

But imagine being a dm, preparing a campaign, inviting/interviewing players, and one faggot shows up like this
>my character is a cleric of mystra who escaped white plume mountain after stealing wave
cool bud, but none of those things exist in this setting

I guess if you're new to dnd you might not understand that there is no fixed one setting. You can ASSUME that some very fundamental things exist (like fiends) and then you could be a fiend warlock, but you still have to check with the dm

>>96565922
You're good man, it's just incredibly difficult to illustrate something that you have no knowledge of especially high-end fluid movements like The Batman does. A d even then different batman have different styles. Absolute Batman is absolutely not a monk, but I'm on anon's side in saying most batmans are.

>>96565946
The original argument wasn't whether batman is or isn't a monk, it's whether he falls in the more traditional eastern style monk camp (trained in tibet) vs my point that his moves have a western flavor to them.

>>96565958
My bad; depends on the batman

>>96565849
>Just that from my reading it's usually a more generalized beat em up style.
That used to be my take-away, built on the original animated series where the budget for the fights scenes was next to nothing, it was aimed at children, and it was built with fond nostalgia for not-quite-so-edgy Comics Code Batman comics.

But I've actually been on a Batman animated movie binge since I found out a good amount of them are on youtube, and in some of them they really go heavy on the "Batman is a ninja now" business.

Sometimes way too literally.

If I were to make a generic batman rip-off I would go fighter3/rogue2/monkX. I'd also suck my DMs dick to have max stats. It's my same strategy for Captain America.

I want to play a wizard lawyer.

>>96565726
I mean, I wouldn't go that far, but 1E/2E/ADnD weren't social interaction games where you develop characters out like 3.X and later, they were an outgrowth of Chainmail as "the generals of armies take side trips into dungeons." And a lot of the design space, where you don't have much control over the build and regularly having to make new characters is part of that.

Gygax had other problems in the space that eventually led to everything being sold to WotC, 3rd edition and the OGL coming out leading to an explosion in the industry, so it's not that surprising that he couldn't see other options that would make it more interesting for ladies to want to play too.

I play with one other guy and 4 women

>>96566071
Not that I was around, but I've heard stories of long campaigns with a lot of character work from the AD&D days

>>96566071
>I mean, I wouldn't go that far, but 1E/2E/ADnD weren't social interaction games where you develop characters out
This is basically wrong.
It's a little more complicated than just "No, it's the opposite of what you're claiming," because there were some groups that did play in the style you describe. But, the amount of different styles in which people played D&D, including the amazingly novel idea of "making characters they actually cared about" is essentially an endless, unknowable myriad. We do, however, know that many groups did place focus on social elements and creating developed characters. As for having control over the build, 3d6 wasn't the only way that people assigned character stats, and point buy as well as 4d6-drop-1 were variant options. There's actually lots and lots of official variant options for just about every aspect of the game.

>the OGL coming out leading to an explosion in the industry
The OGL was not as important as just the general growth of the internet, largely because most publishers that weren't already on extremely friendly terms with WotC didn't trust it at all (and it turns out that they really shouldn't have, because it didn't stop WotC from trying to sue the publishers of the Book of Erotic Fantasy).

>>96566105
A lot of what established what DnD actually became though was the community around them, would we care as much about DnD these days without Ed Greenwood's Forgotten Realms acting as the main setting everyone knows?

>>96566113
>The OGL was not as important as just the general growth of the internet
Ah, yes, the massive explosion of D20 games that happened was just a coincidence, then?

>>96566124
"Explosion" is a bit much, especially at first. Initially, it was only publishers like Green Ronin, which actually was run by a Wizards employee and his wife, who made OGL-compatible content. It took several years before true 3rd party companies with no ties to WotC decided to try pressing on the OGL and seeing what they could actually get away with. It really wasn't until after 2004 that we really saw games start to churn out, a full 4 years after 3.0 and its OGL.

>>96566119
I prefer Mystara to forgotten realms. There would just be some other generic fantasy setting. Ed’s a bit weird too, talking in depth about what different breast milk tastes like in his world and how dwarves like eating worms etc.

>>96565053
IRL high school old times friend group
I couldn't really pick and choose my players, either everyone was in, or no one was, and said player simply didn't care about the game, just wanted to hang out with everyone. I would be fine with this, if he didn't try to disrupt the game for everyone. Thankfully after the strahd party wipe and everyone getting mad at him he seems to have calmed down his antics.

>>96566092
Trooncore

I’m planning a big orc fight against the party. Anyone got some good resources or recommendations for orc stat blocks? Besides what’s on 5etools.

>>96566527
You would think so, but no. Two of them are just weirdos (but really sweet) whom I've been friends with for years, the other two are completely normal. The dude is my bro and also the boyfriend of one of the girls.

>>96566639
>Playing with a couple
When they break up it’s going to fuck up the game.
>But they won’t break up!
Doubtful

>>96566710
They're getting married soon though.

Is LMoP a good starting point for a new DM? I received a starter set with the module and have been trying to get a game together. So far my group would be two people with some D&D experience (with one of them being a Battletech guy) and two people being complete newbies. I myself have had one session of 5e worth of experience as a player.

>>96563394
CR is often not a good measure of a monster's strength.
Banshee for is probably the most clear example.

>>96566825
Just means the divorce lawyers are gonna fight for custody of the group.

>>96566895
why do you say this

>>96566564
Flee Mortals! has a bunch of scaling orc statblocks you can mix and match.
You can also take high-CR humanoid statblocks and make them orcs.

>>96566639
>>96566710
>>Playing with a couple
>When they break up it’s going to fuck up the game.
Holy fuck, this happened to me during my first DnD campaign.
>playing on Foundry
>DM in Eastern Australia, 4 players in Western Australia, 1 player in Italy
>the couple live together in a room in a house rented from one of the other WA players, he lives in another room in that house
>after something like a year of weekly sessions, the Italian player moves to Australia and rents a room in the same house as the 3 other WA players
>the woman cheats on her BF with the Italian player
>absolute chaos, DnD discontinued indefinitely

>>96566895
More likely they have kids and it screws up their ability to both play.

>>96566092
I play with 1 guy and 3 women and I wish I could kick him out. Terrible role player, always trying to do shit on his own, meta games, just awful. The women are excellent though.

>>96566858
It’s the starter adventure. I ran a single session of it to test roll20 but found it uninspiring. I’m running my own adventure now and find that’s a lot more fun. If you’re that new though start with a premade. I recommend Curse of Strahd over LMoP, less generic.

>>96567006
In the western world 38-40% of marriages end in divorce.

>my uni offers 3d printing services to students at very low price
Time to step up my game
Long gone are the days of using cent coins to represent monsters and players

>>96566092
This is embarrassing but men intimidate me. Whenever one is around I feel like comparisons are being made. I feel like I must be funnier, stronger, more attractive than they are or I am a piece of shit.

When it is just women I can relax and be myself.

Of course, if the men are all losers than I feel much better about it.

>>96567369
Trannycore

>>96567301
What kind of 3d printing? Fdm isn’t great for minis and resin is a pain in the ass. Painting is also annoying. Personally I just make tokens. He uses his own art in this video but it’s very easy to use whatever artwork you want https://youtu.be/LBZPi4oKlCQ?si=mnfHuZMF8dI0stbj

That being said nothing beats the 3dness of a mini. And if you’re decent at painting or even just do some quick slapchop it’s going to look way better than tokens.

>>96564208
>his NAME is captain MARVEL
NEVER. EVER.

>>96567369
Start working out and get some confidence, unironically

>>96564239
Probably because they make it a miserable pain in the ass to actually make it stay turned off.

>>96567297
And? Besides the fact that that's just a rough statistic based on comparing number of marriages and divorces in a year, the reality is that being able to get out of a bad marriage is better than being trapped in one.

>>96567297
>The odds of a lifelong happiness vs temporary heartbreak are 40/60.
I like em' odds and i think youd have to be retarded not to take the gamble.

>>96567791
>>96567805
If I have above-average chance of two people spontaneously detonating my group I'd rather recruit somebody else

I know its a tiny milestone, but it made me happy to see this make it to 2000 views, even if its probably just AI scraping catalogues.

Anyone got a token collection for generic mobs?

>>96567777
Beautiful lucky quads.
I do work out and am more handsome and fitter than I have ever been. So I am okay to be around much more men now, because I can look down on them.

But if they have one thing better than me, better job, funnier, taller (tho this is rare I am pretty tall) then I will again feel that it is impossible to be around them and lose all confidence

>>96567857
What is that? Could you link it?

>>96568003
Just start making tokens for the enemies you're gonna be using soon and you'll eventually build a collection of your own.
Over 10 years I've got myself over 1000 tokens using that method

>>96568003
In the sharethread you can find the pf2e foundry link and dissect the token images or just the character sans rim if you want your own. Great if you like the pf2e art style.

>>96568096
I'm using roll20 though

>>96567522
>What kind of 3d printing? Fdm isn’t great for minis
Oh I have no idea, I need to wait for the professor in charge of it to reply to my mail

I just got satanic panicked in 2025.

>>96568479
Can you honestly say the game HASN'T brought you closer to summoning demons?

anyone here plays Dominions? made a Nemedian PC race.
https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/EimHsChUp7Jf
focused on traits being ported over. feedback very much welcomed. I know its written highly unusual from the standardized way of 5e races.

>BTQ
Big boobs are so fucking stupid in a setting where most adventurers are at the peak of their fitness and since boobs are mostly fat for most women it wouldn't make sense for them to have HUGE COW TITS.

>>96568479
"Thee shall not play pretend games with dice", is apparently not only in the bible, but many people's favorite verse

>>96568527
No game teaches you that Succubi aren't worth it quite like D&D.
The pure practical examples of 'Bullshit my DM has done to fuck the entire party by throwing a Succubi in the mix' is enough to turn any man into a bastion of God in defiance of thottery.

>>96568616
The general decline in D&D succubus quality from 3e on has been pretty stark. 4e was bad, 5e somehow made them worse, and 5.5 is by far the worst iteration of them all.

I've often heard that the average combat should last 2-4 rounds at most, is this true and where does it come from

Lusting after succubus but you keep failing in literal Looney Toones circumstances i'm talking a fake pussy painted onto a wall with an embarasure on it or a bundle of alchemica explosives impossibly finding their way into the lady's bra.

>>96568703
3 rounds of things being on the fence
after 3 rounds it's clear who's gonna lose and win, so monsters should flee or dm should say "you finish the remaining goblins" or "you all die/get captured"

there is not point in playing past the point of things being decided


but you can have multiple 3-round combats chained together (like reinforcements, waves, change of environment, etc)

but nobody wants to be doing the same boring shit for 10 rounds, combat in 5e is ass enough

>>96565262
Isn't that like treating anorexia with diet pills?

I am prepping curse of strahd and I am wondering, should I just cheat the tarot reading? Like, some locations obviously make more sense than others. Why would the sun sword be in a small castle replica? And I honestly don't like the idea of Mordekaiden getting involved as an ally either. Honestly I am just considering picking the locations myself. I don't plan to railroad the player, they can miss the items for all I care, but I feel its better than leaving it up to a randomizer.

>>96568479
Thankfully theres nothing against DnD in the Catholic Church, so I'm good. Other than all the homoshit

>>96568479
christcucks, not even once

>>96568896
It’s usually best to stack the deck. Tome early, symbol mid game, sword late game. Companion someone you don’t mind following around the party. I did the puppet because they didn’t go to the castle until the end so I didn’t have to involve a DMPC. For the tome I put it at the windmill, the symbol with the werewolves, and the sunsword at the amber temple. For the sunsword in particular I thought it would make sense for him to put it somewhere he thought it would be safe.

>>96568761
Terrible take from someone who’s clearly posting in the wrong general. Might be true for basic bitch fights but it depends on your DM’s encounter design.

>>96569043
I think I'll probably give a flexible DMPC because my players are not experts and might need the deux ex machinas at some point or another, and I can always make up some excuse as to why he can't travel with them.
I was thinking Van Ritchen: he is relevant to the plot as Strahd is actively seeking him, he's a cool vampire hunter that can give out tips, and I can just make him disappear when I don't want the party to have an NPC around. ("I need to look for Ezmeralda, goodbye!", "Oh I heard a rumor that might be a lead, while you keep adventuring I'll go investigate" and whatnot).

If you join a new group and the DM says "btw instead of using roll20 we will be using the custom vtt that I programmed" is that a good or bad sign

>>96569182
i would personally turn 360 degrees and walk out

>>96569191
What does it signify?

>>96569159
He’s better than the puppet. That creepy thing is basically chucky.

>>96569182
it's a sign of autism. Autism can be a good thing or a bad thing. I would definitely stay to see what the dm is cooking up.

>>96569224
What other signs should i be looking for?

>>96569263
posting on /tg/

Do you guys generally make your characters hot or do you go for relatively grounded designs?

>>96569754
Characters can be hot even without having a porn body. In fact, they tend to be hotter without.

rate my initial TTRPG setting/plot idea.
>Midlands are one of the twelve continents(not known to the people of Midlands), ruled by the divinely ordained monarchy for aeons(literally a result of a warlock pact.)
>King gets fucking KILLED by a mage assasin employed by the Merchant Guild at one point
>Plot starts twenty years after with Wizards being by far and large implicitly assumed to be violent criminals because one of theirs killed the King
>Midlands are split into a ton of relatively-stable micronations and citystates owned by prospecting merchantry
>the plot has the players seek out a McGuffin of the former king at the order of a influential Merchant
>They can then choose to try and provide said McGuffin to the loyalist to try and help restore the kingdom
>Or pawn it off to one of the twenty warring citystate factions for money
>Or destroy it so that no one can consolidate power and the true ancap utopia can thrive without a monopoly in sight
>Also the HORDES of dwarves are coming from the Eleventh continent because Midlands is incredibly rich in ore and gemstones. The knowledge of this is being supressed by the merchantry so that they can powergrab harder.
>Unclear whether or not they can reasonably wage war on dwarves without uniting under a single ruler.

>>96570004
>The players start in a province of a chill as fuck merchant known for his fatlunece and exquisite taste in sweets.
>He keeps the army around only so he can eat off of people's taxes
>Unironically allowed him to thrive because his enemies keep trying to powergrab and overextend and eat shit
>He's just content with slow and steady margins and focuses on the sustainability first and foremost
>Widely regarded as the kindest of merchantry
>Rumoured to have eaten a child just to see what's the taste like once tho
>Adventurers begin with a few quests at their disposal
>Illegal elixir resource gathering that's structured like participating in an irl meth operation for the Fallen Mages
>Work for a dignitary of the Fatulent Merchant and then immediate upgrade to McGuffin pursuit if they suceed with that.
>Contact with the Last Kingsmen, a group of loyalists still fighting for their fallen monarch, and work as a guerilla unit against the merchantry.
>Fighting ring questline at the starting tavern that's long enough to last them a session or two. The fame from having survived in such an enviroment will rope them into one of the above.

>>96566060
A lawyer who knows magic, or a wizard who practices law?

>new UA
>no discussion

>>96568003
yugioh monsters, the first few sets are golden

>>96570064
Lawyer who knows magic. He helps people get out of Warlock deals on a technicality, wizards to skim past whatever royal restrictions there are, and paladins to explain away whatever disadherence to dogma they may have comitted.

He himself has no stats except dexterity, int and charisma

>>96570071
Old Yugioh had that anime dark fantasy feel to it
It had a distinct artstyle that I feel has been completely lost

hell yea.

>>96570083
It just feels good.

>>96570065
link it faggot

>>96570123
Hes talking about the old one, the arcane group which was released weeks ago.

>>96569182
Impressive, but why?
You have a link?

>>96568703
It's what WotC uses for CR calc, and honestly fits most play.

Though a more accurate description would be 18 rounds a day, divvied up based on threat level. An Easy is obviously going to be fewer rounds than a deadly.
>Why 18
The prescribed adventure XP per day ends up being ~6 medium encounters (which is why they quote 6-8).
3 rounds per medium, 6 mediums, 18 rounds.

You fight 3 deadlies instead of 6 mediums? 6 rounds each, still 18 rounds.

You fight 12 Easy, ~1.5 each, 18 rounds.

This also means you could just have short rests occur after every 6 combat rounds and still have the same dev-intended "very 1/3 the adventuring day" pace on rests, even without them needing to be an hour long.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1TRAYWoWnL2F16G2qxnGbLzxEw-gVyiWeskrvQKfh0dw/edit?usp=drivesdk

>>96568761
>there is not point in playing past the point of things being decided
I'll agree with this, but it's also 100% on your DM for letting things stop mattering. Turns and checks without consequences should indeed always be skipped, but you shouldn't have turns and checks without tangible consequences. Even if an individual battle is decided, that doesn't mean you've won the war.

For instance, if the goblins are nearly slaughtered, I agree with having the rest run away. But it shouldn't be a handwaive cutscene, because those fleeing goblins are running to alert backup and come back in force or set up an ambush or arm traps, now it's a race against the clock chase, can you stop that half-dead goblin in time.

My first dnd game tomorrow. I love my character and put a lot of thought with him. I am so scared to RP though. I hate my voice and these are all strangers. I have always been shy. I want to RP so bad. I have been practicing in the car. But I am not that funny.

>>96569182
A good sign, let him cook.

>>96570284
Remember anon, we don't dance for the joy of other people, we dance because otherwise those steps never taken would devour us from the inside.
Now, put on your best shoes and boogie.

>>96570284
Then don't be funny, let funny things happen around you. You're a ranger or a wizard or a barbarian, not a comedian.

>arrive at ancient long buried super secret vault of insane scale magic and archeotech sanctum of sanctums awesome location buried for aeons by the ancient civilization nobody has ever been here before it's the literal tomb of the pharaoh and everything it's the goal of the whole campaign and millions in world would kill to get here
>that guy player makes an unfunny joke
why are they always like this? stupidity? insecurity? do they think they're being clever?

>>96570004
>>96570014
sounds pretty fun as long as you draw some good maps and flesh out the factions. just don't overload the players with too much donutsteel oc/lore.

>>96570316
>knows the joke was funny
>wants to complain anyway
>doesn't say the joke

Or this is just schizophrenia and this never happened.

>>96570308
>>96570301
It is online. God i hope we have cameras on. I dont think I can do it no cameras

>>96570284
RPing in first person is a skill that takes time. You don't have to be an actor or anything. You just talk like what you think your character would say. If that doesn't work for you, you can narrate your character's conversations in 3rd person. Instead of saying "Hail barkeep. What news dost thou have for me?" You can say "Toby the Cockdancer walks up to the bar and inquires about news and quests."

>>96570316
Yes, it is insecurity. They are still too self aware that they are playing make believe, and can't allow themselves to take it seriously. So they put in an irony mask and make a joke of everything to show that they're not like, totally into it.

>>96570338
>They are still too self aware that they are playing make believe, and can't allow themselves to take it seriously.
this is why i only play with women and gays. They dont have that constant insecurity of trying to act like they dont really care

>>96565233
>Coding socks
Wait, Troon, or Transvestite?
Because femboys aren't delusional neurotics, they're just very gay bottom and kinky. Depending on your tolerance for sexual degeneracy, you might get along swimmingly. Overall, they seem pretty chill, in the same way most coom-brained perverts are chill if you can still vibe despite their respective perversions.

But Troons can't be reasoned with and are basically always a time bomb for unnecessary bullshit drama, even if you're going out of your way to suck their hormon-shrunken dicks. Some of them even actively seek it.

>>96570329
Wouldn't it be easier without cameras?
>>96570284
Not everyone at the table must be an oscar worthy actor.
You don't have to be constantly speaking either, just go with the flow and do what you can, you will get better.

>>96570329
>God i hope we have cameras on

If I go Ranger Hunter (5e 2024) with Archery fighting style and Sharpshooter, will my DPR be good enough? I’m not looking for something super optimized or anything like that, I just want to shoot arrows from a distance and not be dead weight., you know.
And if not, what feats or stats would you recommend I take?
Yeah, I know this build is generic as hell, but I still want to try it out.

>>96570435
It will be good enough.

>>96570435
If you want more damage, take great weapon master at 4th instead of sharpshooter by having at least 13 str.

Now, tell us about your character and not your build.

>>96570435
you'll probably outdamage your team by a large margin unless they are speccing well for combat.

Absorb elements says to use this as a reaction to taking damage. Is this when the hit is confirmed, or when the damage is rolled?

>>96570548
That's a great question, the way I

>>96570322
All the lore they get initially id.
>The starting province lore
>King's death
>Everyone FUCKING hates mages.
A lot of what i mentioned is hidden knowledge IC. Especially the dwarven incursion and kingsmen

i dont have time to prep, i need to find an underwater or volcano adventure/dungeon to steal
preferably a pdf I can find not some weird dmsguild shit, so kobold or paizo or god forbid wotc

>>96570548
When the damage is rolled. How can you react to taking damage if you haven't taken the damage yet?

>>96570455
General Origin:
An aasimar who was trained to protect the roads and sacred places from the corrupting forces of evil. He was born to an unnamed woman who abandoned him and raised in a vast, untamed forest. However, he was also cared for and taught by the monks of a monastery dedicated to the worship of celestial deities.
He showed great skill in studying the unexplored regions of the forest and creating detailed maps of his findings. The monks of the monastery taught him that nature is a harmonious structure, artfully crafted by the celestials themselves.

Why did he decide to leave the monastery and begin venturing beyond his forest?
The monastery also safeguarded powerful celestial artifacts that kept the forest pure and free from corruption. One day, a group of apprentices were tempted by the promise of quick power and stole the artifacts. As a result, the artifacts ended up in the possession of various individuals.

How does he find out about this? There are two options:
- The leader, a wise master, spoke with the ranger in a private audience and told him he must track down, recover, and return what was stolen.
-As an aasimar, he has a connection to the celestial artifacts, and they called to him, giving him visions in his dreams to guide the recovery.

Do you fudge die rolls or let your PCs cheat death?

been getting that feminine urge to play an artificer lately

>>96570762
Odyssey of the dragon lords had a volcano adventure in it for Fire Island. Without knowing the level it's pretty hard for anyone to make suggestions. If you're going to adapt an adventure 3.5's Stormwrack had an underwater adventure but given how cucked the underwater combat is in 5e that might be tough too.

>>96570065
>New
It's been nearly a month you retard.

>>96570977
Stop trying to play ratgirls, anon.

>>96570975
Nope. Play the dice as they lie.

New thread
>>96571031
>>96571031
>>96571031

>>96570975
I roll openly. Even if they don't know the exact modifier if they're on the ground dying and I get a nat 20 nothing is going to save them.

I sometimes fudge the health of monsters if it seems like the combat is too easy. I've been using the bloodied condition from before it was an official rule though so there's only so much fudging I can do after they're half health.

>>96571019
I normally don't go for beastfolk but now that you mention it... That sounds insanely fun.

>>96567782
How?
>get new phone / OS install
>disable autocorrect in settings before or after the first time it autocorrects you