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Knight of Swords Edition

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>2024 PHB Scan (No more fingers edition)
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>2024 DMG
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>2024 UA
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>2014 Errata
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>5etools (2024)
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Previous thread
>>96554041

>TQ
I've seen people argue that swords were more like side weapons in medieval times. How would you encourage the use of lances, spears, halberds etc more?

>>96571031 (OP)
>How would you encourage the use of lances, spears, halberds etc more?
Maybe an extra damage die. If a halberd is dealing 2d10 damage that's a pretty big incentive.

>>96570357
>>96570370
Cameras will make it easier because I can see if people are smiling + other body language to check if I am cringe or not. More importantly it will give me confidence to speak. I am terrified if interrupting people so if I see nobody is about to talk rather than having to guess that, I can carry onwards easier.

Tarot Card subclass where each card let's you summon a small little miniature magician, fool, sun, etc

posting this again, since the thread died
>>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.

I was thinking about using a whip and the slasher feat to limit my enemy's movement every round without a save. Is there anyway to abuse this

>TQ
As someone who fucking loves halberds, the reason why spears and polearms were considered the "main" weapons and swords the sidearms was because they were a lot easier to train on and because of how warfare worked. If you want to promote spear/polearm use in your game, I imagine you can have more pitched battles. You could also try to do something with Reach, I suppose, but I have no idea what would make it advantageous but not broken. Having an opportunity attack if an opponent moves within range is probably OP, but I'm struggling to figure out what else could represent having that reach advantage in combat. Maybe getting an extra 1d4 to hit?

>>96571188
>Having an opportunity attack if an opponent moves within range is probably OP
They had those rules in 3.5 and it was kind of fine. You still only get one opportunity attack a turn (or reaction in 5e).

In Castles and Crusades the person with reach gets to go first in the first round if relevant.

>>96570975
>Do you fudge die rolls or let your PCs cheat death?
I roll openly. Everything in the game is entirely random and open and honest. There is not a single element that is curated. Everything is left up to chance from encounters, NPC names, the copper coins found on a goblin, down to the grains of sands on a beach (itself randomly generated, as all terrain is of course), or if anything at all happens. The game is absolutely perfect in its purity. It is the platonic ideal of a game. I don't know anything that can or will happen, and neither do the players. When they show and the session starts, they have no idea if it will be a fun 4 hours or a complete waste of time. The dice decide.

>>96571324
You joke, but there are people who genuinely believe this.

>>96571477
I wasn't joking anon

>>96571031 (OP)
Probably something that incentives not only carrying a variety of weapons but sets up situations where using a variety of weapons is actually useful.

Also, taking a page from Elden Ring where the mount attacks as much you do. (Yes, I know Torrent can't do with the Erdtree Knight mounts or the Nights Calvary mounts can do)

>>96571031 (OP)
Make magic lances, spears, and halberds more available than magic swords. Done.

>>96571494
>Poe’s law
4chan’s biggest issue is we pretended to be retarded for so long that idiots showed up and thought they were in good company.

>But no anon people were serious the whole time
I doubt it. Things went from tongue in cheek jokes about aids and lions to whatever the fuck /pol/ is

Is that strange fella in the nusrg thread talking to himself again like we can't tell? Sad.

>>96571510
>Probably something that incentives not only carrying a variety of weapons but sets up situations where using a variety of weapons is actually useful.
I find the weapon masteries give this when people use them well. When I played fighter I was swapping between a bunch of different weapons and carrying a variety of options. But a spear is just a shitty long sword and a lance deals only 1d10 damage. Halberds are also just d10s and reserved for sentinel characters. Maybe we need to bring back the damage multipliers from 3.5

>>96571535
Stay in your containment thread you freak.

>>96571324
This is unironically how I run my game and it's great. The only session that felt like a waste of time was when I let one of my players convince me to pause time between sessions instead of running 1:1 time.

>>96571134
>>96570861
>An aasimar who was trained to protect the roads and sacred places from the corrupting forces of evil.
ok.
>He was born to an unnamed woman who abandoned him and raised in a vast, untamed forest.
Wait, who raised him?
>However, he was also cared for and taught by the monks of a monastery dedicated to the worship of celestial deities.
Ok, so was he raised in a forest, or in a monastery? I get what you're trying to say but clean it up because it sounds retarded.
>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.
Very cool.
>Why did he decide to leave the monastery and begin venturing beyond his forest?
>The monastery also safeguarded powerful celestial artifacts
gonna stop you right there, work this out with your DM first, He might not want to add random powerful artifacts to his world

>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.
The second one is better, but i'd talk with your DM about these artifacts first.

Also, your first line is hardly related to the rest of your character. Maybe it makes sense to you because you know other details about your character's backstory that you didn't think to tell us,

>>96571324
How do you deal with the volatility of low-level combat where PCs have 10-20 hp?

>>96571729
>How do you deal with the volatility of low-level combat where PCs have 10-20 hp?
There is nothing to deal with. If the dice say characters die they die. If the players don't enjoy the lack of attachment, extreme danger, volatility, randomness, or pointlessness, I remind them that enjoyment is not the goal, but purity is.

>>96571729
If I'm starting at level 1-2, it's because I want the risk of death to be very present.
If you don't want that, then plenty of people just bypass the entire situation by starting the PCs at level 3 or higher instead.

This shouldn't be difficult to deal with.

>>96571729
As the DM? Start them at 3rd.

Alternatively, start them at first level with an extra full hit die, a non-spell gain non-weapon feat, and their 3rd level subclasses features.

>>96571674
>>He was born to an unnamed woman who abandoned him and raised in a vast, untamed forest.
>Wait, who raised him?
This is where I can't quite decide... because I don't really like the ranger growing up in the monastery.
Perhaps, since the forest is being purified by the artifacts and the ranger is an aasimar, I can imagine the forest animals protecting the baby during his infancy, either because their instincts associate him with that strange but harmonious celestial energy, or because they are influenced by the artifacts to do so.
While the monks see him as a child of nature, they would occasionally send one or more monks to educate and train him in their ways
>>96571674
In another draft, the monks sense and are worried about the rise of dark entities that are corrupting nature. So they send him—the one who can create maps, navigate, track, scout, and hunt better than any of them.

>>96571862

>chronological order

Born to an unnamed woman who abandoned him, the aasimar was raised in a vast, untamed forest by the monks of a monastery dedicated to the worship of celestial deities. The monks cared for him and taught him that nature is a harmonious structure, artfully crafted by the celestials themselves. Trained to protect the roads and sacred places from the corrupting forces of evil, he showed great skill in studying the unexplored regions of the forest and creating detailed maps of his findings.
The monastery also safeguarded powerful celestial artifacts that kept the forest pure and free from corruption. However, one day, a group of apprentices, tempted by the promise of quick power, stole the artifacts. As a result, the artifacts ended up in the possession of various individuals across the land.
As due to the blood that flows in his veins, he had a deep connection to the celestial artifacts. They began calling to him, manifesting in his dreams as visions that guided him toward their recovery. Compelled by this divine connection and his duty to protect the sacred balance, he decided to leave the monastery and venture beyond the forest to retrieve the stolen artifacts and restore purity to the land.

>>96571729
At low levels, depending on the class, money is surprisingly important. For example wearing fullplate and a shield at level 1 gives 20 AC just like at level 20. While I don’t give out fullplate willy nilly I do give a money boost if I want the party to be a little more powerful. To this end I give max gold at level 1. It means the martials can be just a bit more tanky to hold the front line.

>>96571885
Thanks.
Also, artifacts aren't supposed to be THAT powerful. Like, capable of changing the world.
But they're rare and powerful enough that a local threat might want one to corrupt it, forge weapons or conduct experiments.

>>96571924
>Also, artifacts aren't supposed to be THAT powerful.

Run it by your DM. You can also just change the artifacts to "tomes of hidden knowledge" because artifact is a term in dnd.

Are there any good sites to help generate character sheets? Going to be playing DM'ing oneshot and while we like playing with paper I thought it would be nice to use a site since keeping track of stuff like potential proficiencies is a pain.

DMs, would you allow a Warlock to be a character with demonic blood allowing themselves to use Pact Magic without a pact to a fiend?

Would you allow any changes to how some things work to fit a backstory?

>>96572047
Too vague, not enough information given.

Verdict: No

>>96572025
Are you asking for digital character sheets or a site that generates characters for a one shot?

>>96572079
Was hoping for a site that walks you through building a character with the intention of copying everything to a paper at the end of session 0. We used dicecloud in a campaign before but I remember that being a pain to set up.

>>96571031 (OP)
>You gain resistance to bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing damage from nonmagical attacks.
This largely becomes useless after 8th level, right?

>>96572159
no.

>>96572132
You probably want D&D beyond. There are others but they’re ruthlessly crushed to promote D&D beyond etc.

If you just want to get some characters this site generates them based off class, background etc. also handy for NPCs https://fastcharacter.com/

>>96572047
demonic sorcerer

>>96572047
I’ve always thought warlock was a stupid class. They picked the worst class from 3.5/4e to bring over. Everyone else is powerful from themselves while warlock has to be a butt boy to some patron. If you want to play the butt boy class I wouldn’t let the player weasel out of it.

>>96572047
That's a sorcerer
>>96572205
Did you forget about clerics?

>>96572402
>Did you forget about clerics?
No I specifically don't include them as butt boys. A patron who's just some demon or fairy is very different to an actual deity. If a deity is asking you to do something regardless of whether you're a cleric or not you should probably do it. If some random demon wants you to do something most parties would tell them to go fuck themselves.

>>96572413
>I didn't include the biggest buttboys in the game, because clerussy is so good
ftfy

what ambushes the party in the kelp forest while they're looking for a giant clam shell the cleric had a vision of?
animal or monster, not anything more exotic, no humanoids

>>96572047
Im going to play a Kobeni femwarlock and theres nothing you can do to stop me.

>>96572720
Massive grouper swallows the smallest party member

when blood is shed, a pack of sharks

>>96572774
Specifically these sharks, you can bump their strength to 5 and their hit die to a d12 , PB to 3, and give them the alert origin feat.

>Cure wounds
>Dex save vs undead and deals damage instead of healing

>Inflict wounds
>changed to a dex save
>damage bumped to a d12,
>and deals caster mod damage
>heals undead
Alternatively
>Inflict wounds
>changed to a dex save
>Upcasting is an additional 2d10 per spell slot above first
>heals undead

There, i've fixed half of 5e

>>96572883
No one cares about those spells though?

>>96571031 (OP)
>put out lights arrows
>climbing vine arrows
>lockpicking arrows
So..the arcane archer is just Garrett now?

>>96573572
Also, the blinding shot seems really good.

>>96572883
I too have been a heal causes harm to undead-enjoyer since ffx yunalesca and WC3 Uther. Wanting to change the only leveled touch spell with an atk roll to yet another dex save is criminal and you're a shit though.

>>96572047
The concept you’ve described is a sorcerer.

>>96572720
>he's doing 3-dimensional movement combat with underwater rules
I salute your bravery sir

>>96573572
>LEVEL 10: EVER-READY SHOT When you roll Initiative, you can regain one expended use of Arcane Shot.
I hate these types of features so much man. Oh wow, I got a bit more of a resource to spend, how exciting, sure was worth waiting months to get through enough milestones to level up to. Fuck me. I'll play Draw steel as soon as I'm able. These million subclass UAs have run their course, it just isn't fresh anymore. Should have made 6th edition instead of this weird halfstep.

>>96572047
If a player has come up with a concept and is really into it I'll more likely let them play it that way than not. The goal is to have a fun game after all, and if he's more excited about his character concept without breaking anything mechanical or breaking the world's lore then why not

>>96571031 (OP)
>>2024 PHB Scan (No more fingers edition)
>https://files.catbox.moe/g8oo9h.pdf
First time looking through this, I'm late to the part but holy shit the art is ludicrously bad.

Half of it looks fine, in theme, a bit garish for a fantasy world but whatever, then the other half look 21st century Americans with eyeglasses, perfectly styled hair and tight fitting clothes. They look like LARPers or cosplayers, I haven't played 5e for a while but this alone while flipping through the phb would irreparably shatter my verisimilitude and make it literally unplayable.

picrel, how did it get this bad?

>>96573958
is making unappealing art of ugly real world minorities side by side with cool fantasy races some 5d chess convoluted covert way of accelerating rise in racism against those minorities or something? what's the explanation for this, no one would want to play that

Pleasantly surprised reading through the new Keep on the Borderlands. Besides the weirdly diverse cast of NPCs, WotC didn't fuck it up much. I thought it would just be a linear trip through the caves, but it's pretty sandboxy and the art is good. I would definitely still play the original or Goodman Games 5E conversion, but the new one looks like a decent starter set.
>>96573958
You know that had to be at WotC's retarded direction too, because most of the monster manual art is great (where there's less room to push the message).

>>96574162
Yeah, nu-giant ape is some of the best I've ever seen. I distinctly remember there being some really cool art of a moor-looking dude with a turban slaying skeletons in the 5e art. so I think this weird trend might be something they've picked up just a few years ago

>>96574175
Yeah when there aren't typically PC races in the shot the art looks sick. This is the new caves of chaos.

>>96574192
something about those smeared cliffs just scream digital art to me, but I love the design of the kobolds and the general framing of things

>>96574162
Samefag but
>Named NPCs are super diverse
>Background characters are all white men
lol

>>96574162
>(where there's less room to push the message)
however as long as there is some room to push the message...

>>96574226
>drawing background characters and environments draws mostly from the subconscious and relaxed truthful part of the brain which draws from european myth and culture established from childhood
>front and center characters demanding attention activates attentive social consequence and abstraction parts of the brain, drawing them in minority quotas and with public reception in mind in revision
many such cases

>>96574261
this looks great, what am I supposed to be upset about

>>96574286
moustached harpy (male)

>>96574286
>male harpy
I'm guessing

>>96574261
Yeah most but not all...
>>96574280
It's funny even when the background characters are prominent in the art they're white. Or maybe WotC is only fine with whitey getting disintegrated.

>>96574306
>>96574307
it's a change to accomodate the numale soiboi archetype that was born in 2015 and are considered honorary adjacent harpies next to the ancient female only archetype

>>96574261
>>96574319
the nu-sphinx designs are almost good, but the colors and gay-ass hairstyles ruin them

>Guards, priests, and other good masculine professions are brown women
>White men are dying horrible deaths
I'm noticing... Not complaining about the Shadow art though it's awesome

>>96574386
>Shadow
>ran a fey-themed oneshot with hags and random fey encountering the party as they were looking for kidnapped children, unbeknownst to them, it was the hags they met that had kidnapped them and would reappear as the end boss trio at the end of the oneshot
>each hag they meet offer to give them information if they give up something
>one of the options is giving up their shadow
>one player takes the bargain
>during the final boss battle, their shadow crawls from the wall and starts attacking them
>narrate the shit out how his own dark reflection is now bent on taking him down
>player doesn't care at all and just goes "okay, well I'm attacking the bhuer hag in the corner"
I'm never making an effort again , fuck players

>>96572047
That's a bit too sorcery, there is a subclass in brancalonia that would fit that (will just have to add that one pdf which expands all subclass beyond level 6) that fits the hell heritage without being a tiefling. I wouldn't be too anal either if they want to refluff because it's the only fiend theme subclass across all classes

>>96574661
It is rather stupid that there arn't more subclasses that reflect the different themes of the D&D kitchen sink setting.

There should be a Witch class different from a female Wizard

>>96574759
Why?

>>96574759
>drow
>make her a warlock
literally all you need to do

>>96574771
Because a Wizard is inherently male-centric and sexist
>>96574773
Don't want to be a Warlock though? I want to be a Witch

>>96574786
Witches are Satanists who make dark, evil deals with the Devil in exchange for power. How is that not just a variation of Warlock?

>>96574759
Then use a bard or a druid

>>96573958
I really like the clothes and the aesthetic of the little book. I think it would look amazing if the race, gender, and body type were changed.

>>96573754
it's just gonna be theater of the mind, i only use grids for combat with very specific objectives. the 3d is gonna be "i swim to the surface" or not

>>96574560
>I'm never making an effort again , fuck players
let me guess, it was a dude in his 20s
this generation has been brainwashed into thinking that caring about things or finding enjoyment is gay so they are constantly trying to act like they're too cool for that
this is why i only play with ~40y old women

>>96574786
>Wizard is inherently male-centric
No, it isn’t.

I have so many ideas for this campaign and ao many questions about the setting. It is so cool. But I do not want want to overwhelm the DM prior to the game actually beginning by daily spamming her with questions. This is where self control and social skills take precedent over my raw lust for knowledge.

>>96571031 (OP)
>How would you encourage the use of lances, spears, halberds etc more?
That you get an opportunity attack when someone moves to within 5 feet when you have reach. 3.5e had it, I don't know why fucking 5e doesn't. You should also be able to "ready" any type of spear and if someone moves up to you get +1 damage or something.

>>96574926
NTA, but wizards have historically been men. Oxford dictionary even defines wizard as a man who is believed to have magical powers. Obviously in the rules of modern D&D wizards can be either sex, but traditionally female magicians like Morgan Le Fay are referred to as witches or something else.

>>96573958
Ok you're getting close to being racist anon, that's not good. Can we talk about this?

>>96574162
>>96574175
the monster manual has different art directors

>>96574814
>if the race, gender, and body type were changed.
Why can't a plus size black woman be a bard?

>>96575105
That's because, throughout history, wizard, warlock, sorcerer/ess, witch, and most other terms for "person who wields magic and consorts with devils" were used interchangeably. "Witch" was also famously used to describe men believed to deal with the Devil same as women.

>>96575394
Wizard has more of a positive connotation, you can see it from the shared root of wise, which developed into the masculine old english word for magic. Wizard is historically like a wise sage. Sorcerer has more of a negative connotation, from the latin root that means fortune teller, or someone who communes with spirits (or devils like you said). Witch specifically comes from the feminine old english word for magic.

>>96575394
I mean, Pathfinder basically uses Witch for the same core class concept as DnD uses Warlock for, except it's an Int-based Full Caster instead of the weird Cha-based and restrained spellcasting with a Cantrip focus.

What would you run for coworkers who are new to D&D?
- level 1 to 3 mini adventure (leaning into Frozen Sick)
- full adventure book (which one that's not Curse of Strahd?)
- homebrew setting where I just make it up as I go along

>>96575484
Goodman Games' version of Keep on the Borderlands

Any great suggestions for a minion to be the unofficial fourth member of a coven of hags? Should ideally be a non-factor in roleplay and decision making, but about the same weight class as each of the three hags in combat (with or without the coven spellcasting taken into consideration). Bonus points for synergistic traits that allow creative tactics to be used.

>>96576318
hags would have minions and servants that serve as guards and muscle, so ogres, ogre zombie, etc

What are the best half-feats that boost DEX for a Monk and/or Rogue, if I have an odd DEX score and wants to make it even with a handful of other good traits? 2014 rules only.

>>96575484
Start with a mini-adventure going from 1 to maybe 3-5 and then make the rest up as you go along if it is successful enough to go past that.

>>96575484
>full adventure book
Not this, they expect your players to have a faint idea of what they are doing
If you have to pick an adventure pick one of the smaller ones (such as the ones in the starter kits)
Or you could just do your homebrew stuff

>>96575484
>full adventure book
I would not run any full adventure published by wotc, they're lazy as fuck and take a lot of work. There's 3rd party stuff that's higher quality.

>>96575484
>- full adventure book
do you have 12 months ahead of you kek

>>96575484
Option 3. Read the lazy DM’s guide and just make up your own shit. Ever since I stopped using premade adventures it’s so much more satisfying.

>>96575468
>Witch specifically comes from the feminine old english word for magic.
Anon, “wicca” is a masculine noun.

>>96573598
>Wanting to change the only leveled touch spell with an atk roll to yet another dex save is criminal and you're a shit though.

Did you forget?

>>96577447
Yes, wicca is masculine and became wizard as I said. Wicce is the feminine version which became witch.

>>96574759
Land druid, its the nature wizard, they even have their own familiar summoning. If you want to delve into curses however, thats a fucking warlock in 5e.


I would totally be down for a nature patron warlock that isn't beholden to any specific creature, which is essetially a witch

>>96574759
TSR editions had that. Though it was a kit, which work kind of like PF1 archetypes, where you remove and add features from a class.

But like, Berserker was a Kit of Fighter, so like... eh? Some kits went on to be their own class, some became 5e subclasses. Witch, if it was modernized, could go either way.

>>96573958
>They look like LARPers or cosplayers
The target audience for those arts was Tumblr, so... Yes.
The only parts of 5e D&D that aren't carefully formulated is the rules text. Especially after the "hadozee bard literal minstrel is somehow racist because minstrel shows also had minstrel costumes" fiasco.

>>96576717
Ability Score Improvement!
It's like taking two half feats!

>>96577807
>hadozee bulshit
I hate that spelljammer book so much

>>96577841
>Make Spelljammer book
>Split it into a three-part boxed set even though it barely has content for a single book
>Don't even include spelljammer combat rules, just say to resolve everything as a boarding action
What did Crawford mean by this?

>>96574759
What does a Witch class need to differentiate it from other classes?

>>96576318
a gray render my man

>>96578087
That's oddly hilarious.

>>96574351
I like their designs and colors, but I hate that they're called sphinxs.

Psionic feline monstorocities would go hard

Does anyone make backup characters for non-meat grinder games? How do you go about it?

I have some ideas to look into, but I'm not sure if its better to have the backup be related to the previous character's backstory or a completely fresh character.

>>96578031
>Mfw i have a character with many different options to use in combat and instead of using things like fireball or my bow, i have to use dedicated secondary combat tools specifically designed to attack an enemy despite when a wizard was placed on a boat in RA Salvatore's Novel's Robillard the Wizard would use his fireballs to damage the enemy vessels and other spells to help navigate the seas, and not once was he required to swab the poop deck or in the case of the bow Drizzt and his magical bow that he used to snipe enemies until they got close, then boarded the enemies because he wasn't going to waste his time loading cannons when he's one of the best swordsmen in the area.

>>96578837
I don't know if you've looked up recently, but space is pretty big. Shipboard weapons can engage at ranges beyond the standard 120ft of most spells.

>>96578939
>Expecting realism in Spelljammer
I’m not going to defend most of the bullshit in that module but Spelljammer has always been silly as fuck. Personally I wouldn’t bother with the new books, just pirate or otherwise acquire the 2e books and find ways to convert it. The community has probably made ship to ship combat rules that are a hundred times better than anything the retards at WoTC could come up with.

How do I price magic items >.<

>>96579080
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11-45kA6qWTFV_rDYkD49B_EQfF0kPrW2tXwQcNs1jVM/edit?usp=drivesdk

I use this google sheet someone made. Good enough. I also steal lots of items from the 3.5 magic item compendium and just use their prices.

There’s also this pdf which explains why some magic items are in fact too good and often game breaking https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B8XAiXpOfz9cMWt1RTBicmpmUDg/view?resourcekey=0-ceHUken0_UhQ3Apa6g4SJA

>>96579080
I use this https://slyflourish.com/lazy_5e_magic_item_prices.html

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>>96579125
Thanks bros

>>96579080
for low impact stuff about as much as a player can afford
for actual good stuff as much as the party can put together if they pool it (they will never pool it)

>>96579409
That's actually more or less what I've been doing lol but I thought now that they're getting to higher tier play I would go for a little more consistency

The GM has postponed so many games that I've kind of lost the desire to play ngtl.

>>96575105
So? In D&D there's nothing male-coded about it. Tasha is a wizard.
>b-but muh etymology
Irrlevant and only of interest to autists.

>>96579721
He’s probably just too pussy to cancel but doesn’t want to run it anymore. I’ve been there in previous games. You might get one or two sessions where he’s obviously done no prep then he’ll finally admit to not wanting to run it anymore.

What happens here? I have the central chamber figured out, where the main combat encounter will take place, but the corner rooms are less clear to me. The north cavern is the entrance.

>>96579746
Bottom right communal bath

>>96579746
Without knowing the story behind the place how the fuck would we be able to make meaningful suggestions?

>>96579902
Tomb of an ancient hero (central chamber). Statue commemorating the dragon he slayed, four pillars with eternal lights to commemorate his party.

>>96579080
I typically use Sane Magical Prices bumped up by 20-50%, unless an equivalent item existed in 3.5 and was more expensive in which case I bump it even further.

>>96578506
I don't usually make backup characters. If I really needed a character at very short notice I might just use the fast characters website.

>>96579910
Anyone who doesn’t honor his god at the altar followed by taking a purifying bath in the pool (which could be acid or oozes instead of water) is attacked by traps/tomb guardians

>>96581004
And at the entrance a metal panel contains ancient engravings detailing the rituals required to pay respects to the hero without triggering the defenses. However a rust monster is chewing on it, who ignores the party. If they don’t attack it they won’t have much left to read, but of course attacking it can damage their weapons.

>>96579849
>>96581004
>>96581023
And the ritual states its imperative that you must bathe naked.

>>96578506
As a DM, I encourage my players to make side characters--not billed as "backups"--who they roleplay between sessions and send on sidequests. Occasionally, they get promoted.

Is Ancients Paladin good?

>>96581381
It's a Paladin, so yeah

>>96581429
I know, but why would one choose Ancients over the other options? For example, Vengeance also gets Misty Step, and much better CD options.

>>96581464
Turn the Faithless can be pretty useful when fighting fiends. Spell damage resistance aura is super awesome and gets even stronger at higher level games.
The tenets of the oath are cool. Fuck the edgelords, be the light.

>>96581508
Turn the Faithless is a good point. There may be some hags coming up, and they're all either Fiend or Fey?

>>96581545
Predominantly fey, though night hags are fiends. Either way, an Ancients Paladin is the guy to send them packing.

>>96581591
If we're talking about a coven, will I fuck their spellcasting up if I go in the middle of them, use Turn the Faithless, and even one of them fails the save?

zombies

are comming

old yugioh was peak.

>>96581726
>>96581733
>>96581748
I'm not a fan of the rather thick border

personally, I also prefer the thinner border, but I love the gold gradient and token stamp 2 doesn't have the gradient available for other borders, just rgb colors

>>96581800
lost my quote? oh well.

last 2

>never give your creatures a names
>use basic stat blocks with minor edits
>they never know

bonus boss undead.

>>96581815
You ought to be able to simply use a custom border like this, and pick a thin ring to have the correct mask.

>>96581464
because this is a roleplaying game?

>>96581624
Yes, since it'll have to sprint away from you, and unless the other hags can keep pace to maintain the 30 feet maximum distance, they'll lose the extra spellcasting when their adjured compatriot flees.

>>96581910
>pros
-very cool
-exactly what I like
-artwork remains high quality
>cons
-the ring is low quality and while not actually visible in play, I know it exists and that irks me.
-a little bit more effort than the token maker page

>spend 2 weeks stressing over getting maps / tokens / everything set and ready
>come game time, the party spends spend 2 out of the 3 hours negotiating a job with the mayor
ok then

>>96582091
video game shit is a distraction from real dming
vtt products only exist to make you think you need to spend time and money on them or the ecosystem of art, tokens, maps, etc
same thing for miniatures
the exception is handouts, maps, and interactive puzzles (real or vtt) that actually give players something to engage with

>try listening to rpg podcasts
>enjoying them
>players start voice acting
>immediately lose all interest
is there a word for this specific form of autism

>>96582091
>out of the 3 hours
I swear to God, it seems like every few months the average session length people mention in these threads gets shorter and shorter. What’s even the point of having a session that short?

>>96582111
What, listening to and enjoying RPG podcasts? That’s just called being a hylic.

>>96581344
That sounds awesome af. I assume it's in the same world. Do the side characters ever interact with the main characters?

What are the most up to date laserllama fighter archetypes PDFs? I've found versions from all over.

I ask because I'm looking for his Fighter subclasses that were converted to work with the basic 5e kit rather than his revised Fighter, and the PDFs I've found have different features at different levels between the standard Fighter and revised Fighter, and I can't tell what's an intentional adjustment vs what changed over time between release editions of his supplements.

>>96582111
Depends if their voice acting is deeply bad or not.

If their voice acting is fine, you're just dying of vicariously cringing because they actually got into character to the best of their ability, then it's just you being a weak-spined pussy little bitch who probably spends his whole life hyper-obsessed with what other people think of him to the point you likely have no actual self identity. What you have is worse and on the opposite end of the spectrum than autism, you are a sheep-ass SOVL-less normie who will be forgotten before he's even dead. How the hell did you even end up here, go talk to Bob at the water cooler about the weather, celeb gossip, and the nightly sportsball game.

If their voice acting is gratingly bad, then no it's pretty normal to find bad performance insufferable.

>>96581344
The tried and true Gary method.

>>96582737
>t. Projecting

>>96574062
no youre just a schizophrenic racist, merely one of thousands on tg

>>96582649
>People are asking for pirated PDFs of fan made versions of classes instead of official stuff
God WotC really is cooked isn't it lol.

If multiclassing Nature Cleric with one of the other WIS-reliant classes (Druid, Monk, Ranger), which subclasses, ideas and character concepts comes to mind? I'm going Cleric 6 for Dampen Elements and then probably something else after that since I already get the good Cleric spells at early levels, but I'm not sure what.

>>96582745
I'm not the one so deathly mortified at the mere idea of vulnerably having fun in front of other people that he had to turn off a show he was enjoying.
No, for an accusation of projection to be valid, I would have to be committing the same actions.

Instead, I counter that your claim of projection is itself projection. You desperately need me to be guilt of the same flaw to avoid acknowledging it in yourself.

>>96582411
its easy to fit in a weekly 3 hour session once per week during the weekdays

>>96582834
This.
When I was DMing, I ran consistently every Saturday and held 5-6 hour sessions most of the time. Since taking a break and letting another friend DM, we've gone through scheduling issues and have settled on Thursday evenings for like 2.5-3 hours. I don't like it, but it's what works to keep us playing consistently.
The energy has been worse and there are other problems with the game because the current DM is experiencing the growing pains of attempting to DM something longer than a smaller module adventure, but he's doing his best and we're at least playing.

>>96582798
>your claim of projection is itself projection
Many such cases.

>>96582763
WotC not only cannot balance to save their lives, but they also suck at designing interesting mechanics and classes. 5.5e design philosophy is so bland and sterile that I can't bear it.

>>96581344
Can I make my backup character a buxom wench I get to fuck regularly?

>>96581910
Too small. I like a bigger border so it’s easier to see on big maps. The purpose of the border is to make the token more visible and distinct from the background. I like to use uniform borders for all monsters and NPCs for this reason.

>>96582949
When WoTC stop designing and supporting 5e it will only enhance the game. Unless they have a sudden change at WoTC 6e is going to be the biggest most boring slop imaginable. I’m not even sure they have the ability or imagination to make a new edition.

>>96582984
No, flat-chested wenches only.

>>96583017
I’ll accept it

>>96583017
The best kind

What kind of mental gymnastics would be required for a human wizard to consider himself superior to the majority of adventurers, not because he is a wizard, but because he is human? Can he do a racism on every race in the PHB?

>>96583214
>"Elves can't get shit done in a timely manner because their longevity makes them arrogant and passive, unlike us human's who understand the importance of proper work ethics"
>"Dwarves are a bunch of drunkards who pride themselves on blacksmithing which isn't even racially specific since I've known humans to produce better works then them as a hobby"
>"Gnomes and Halflings are the size of children and therefore will also be lesser to me because I could just kick them"
>"Dragonborns are literally just a lesser species of something greater, they overcompensate this by reminding you of their racial association with something that doesn't think about them"
>"Tieflings are the bastard children of terrible selfish deals, they live the way they do as a curse from the greed of a descendant's"
>"Assimars don't matter because I'm an atheist"
>"Orcs cannot create, they cannot think beyond want, all they do is steal and kill. They are barely autonomous"
>"Halfies are mutts lol"

I'm going to play a dhampir rune knight and wondering how to use my feats. I'm using 15 str, 17 con and planning on using the bite + the piercing damage bonuses to heal during combat. Should I get Strike of the Giants at 4 or 6? I want hill strike to knock my enemies down so i can grapple them (skill expert for expertise in athletics for grappling with unarmed fighting) to keep them down or if I crit, I can also fire rune to restrain them, keeping them on the ground for atleast 2 rounds since it doesnt go away until end of turn. Or do I rush 18 con at 4 for the better hit chance?

>>96583214
Aasimar is probably the only one that'd be tricky to justify, because it's basically a human with angelic features. I suppose you could point them out as being spoiled or out of touch because they're blessed by default and people tend to worship the ground they walk on.
Everything else is pretty simple. Every race bigger than you is a dumb brute. Every race shorter than you is a weak midget. Elves take centuries to learn the same magic a human wizard does in a lifetime.

>>96583568
Aasimars are basically walking billboards that condemn their parent's failure to adhere to the celestial virtue of chastity, and so the children will be weak-willed cattle too. On top of that they're mutts too. Goblin tier, easily, unless they're blonde-haired and pretty in which case they may be elevated to halfling tier.

>>96582649
just google and use the most recent one? He has version numbers for a reason

https://www.patreon.com/posts/alternate-class-121498442

>>96582949
Yep, that’s why the only way to play the game at this point is to write your own 5.5 that fixes what they didn’t and eschews their downgrades.

>>96584218
so the same as 5e

>>96582763
Its a natural reaction when you do stupid shit like break off core features of a class into a subclass that has no reason to exist.

Or, leaving a bunch of material from previous editions to rot on the floor like they didn't have 10+ years to make a bunch of books and find shit to fill the pages with.