Thread 96730025

Queen of Cups Edition

>"New" Apocalyptic Subclasses UA
https://media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-images/ua/apocalyptic-subclasses/KKvJvHGmsJiNaafX/UA2025-ApocalypticSubclasses.pdf
For fuck sake, somebody post the new UA

>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: >>96703262

>TQ
How supportive should the DM be of the players and their characters? Or should it be more confrontational like in early D&D games?

TQ: Depends on your tables playstyle honestly

>>96730025 (OP)
>How supportive should the DM be of the players and their characters?
I do my best to have a good blend of "Fans of my PCs" as well as "Obstacles my party must overcome"

>How supportive should the DM be of the players and their characters? Or should it be more confrontational like in early D&D games?
I present a world and a situation that's loaded for the players to win. They're going to win most encounters and find most of the treasure. But if the treasure is hidden and they don't explicitly search the zone and failed a general "I search the room" check, they're going to miss it.
It's not easy to die in my games if you don't hand your own ass to the monsters and flee when they're beating you up.
It's generally easy to complete the goals and quests, even if many steps.

>>96730025 (OP)
>TQ
I’ve never understood the confrontational approach. Even laying aside the fact that the DM is the rule arbiter and therefore can just win at any time, the DM is also capable of engineering a scenario that hard counters any or all of the PCs. Yes, asymmetrical games can be played competitively, but the only real restriction on a DM is the players’ patience. It just seems as nonsensical as ranked Calvinball.

>>96730025 (OP)
The dungeon craves PC blood and I'm going to give them to it

One adult blue dragon up against 11 PCs/NPCs of 6th/7th level, with each core class represented exactly once (one Rogue/Bard multiclass and the remaining ten single class): what does this encounter look like?

The characters can see the dragon coming and will have some time to plan and prepare before rolling initiative: one minute of in-game time and one week in real time between sessions.

>>96731213
If the dragon is separated from its minions, its going to very quickly realize its outmatched and flee assuming it isn't killed in a single turn.

>>96731213
If the dragon is separated from its minions, its going to very quickly realize its outmatched and flee assuming it isn't killed in a single round.

>>96731213
Why would an Adult Blue Dragon even bother? Is it also retarded, incurring a massive INT penalty?

>>96731292
Five PCs killed her son and five NPCs killed her other son.

>>96731213
The dragon flying overhead and strafing everything to death with a breath weapon. Or does the party have something to stop that?

>>96731352
One of the NPCs is a night-themed Dreams Druid who may or may not Conjure Animals eight giant owls or giant bats as flying mounts. They will get one-shot by lightning breath even if they succeed on their DEX saves, but I think it could be a cool way to allow the Paladin, the Monk, the Fighter and the Barbarian to be useful. Should I use this right away on the Druid's first turn, or keep it in reserve to see if they need it?

>>96731394
By all means, start the fight right, get into the air.

What is your short list of spells that should be seriously considered for a sword and board Fighter with a Ring of Spell Storing?

>>96731213
A very dead dragon, especially if at least one of those 7th level characters can Polymorph someone into a Giant Ape.

>>96731412
Thank you. I don't know if it is the tactically right decision with frail mounts and the potential for considerable fall damage, but it is the cool and hopefully memorable option.
>>96731596
Depends on how strictly the DM enforces free hands for somatic and material components.
>>96731643
The Wizard might be able to do it to the Paladin, the Monk, the Warlock or the Cleric, but the rest are 6th level (and the Wizard hasn't actually chosen her two new spells from level-up yet).

>>96731596
Absorb Elements, Shield, Jump, Expeditious Retreat, Divine Smite.

>>96731715
Divine Smite is a Paladin feature, not a spell. Shield and Absorb Elements are very good options.

>>96731707
The tactically right decision would be to corner the dragon in an enclosed space so as to limit its ability to escape or skirmish. Failing at that, fighting it in the air at least gives the party options. Plus, any party of 6th-7th level adventurers that doesn't have Fly or Feather Fall isn't long for the world anyway.

>>96731731
Divine Smite is a spell and can be scribed or stored.

>>96731743
The dragon is coming for them, not the other way around. The environment is going to be to the dragon's benefit, which is why as many characters as possible needs a way to match the dragon in either range or mobility. If only half the party can contribute, it's a 1 vs 6 and the characters may have a problem on their hands.

>>96731764
Divine Smite is explicitly a class feature that every Paladin gets at 2nd level.

>>96731805
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>>96730025 (OP)
>>96730032
TQ: yeah, some players want to be babied, some want you to be brutal. You’ll get a sense around session 3 if they just want a relaxed type of play or hardcore.

Personally, I like playing with my players knowing death is a single stupid decision away.

>>96730025 (OP)
>TQ
There's a fairly clear line between creating challenge for players and being an ass to them. I want my players to have characters with interesting stories, but challenges to overcome, and try to do that.

>>96731213
I had a group of 7 PCs at 7th level action economy an adult blue dragon to death in it's lair. Give it some wyrmlings or something to eat up attention, because it's going to get overwhelmed if it gets caught on the ground.

>>96731596
Shield, Silvery Barbs, Healing Word, Misty Step

>>96731825
???
It's a spell.

>>96731596
If you have a way to get it in the ring, shield of faith.

>>96731874
I am not the guy you're arguing with, I just hate your shitty link.

>>96731707
>The Wizard might be able to do it to the Paladin, the Monk, the Warlock or the Cleric
Monk is probably the best choice there, since the Paladin would be better off shield the party from dragonbreath via Aua, and a Cleric has their own support spells.

As you said, depends on the level-up choices, but I've seen a surprising number adult dragons get their asses handed to them by a giant ape. Not single-handed, but enough to severely help tilt the odds in the party's favor, especially with a group of that size.

>>96730025 (OP)
Why aren't you playing PF2e yet?

>>96731864
I think the fight is going to be swingy by design, since the breath weapon is going to bring anyone who fails their save to 0 really quickly, an open area with free access to the sky is going to favour the dragon, and legendary actions are a thing.
>>96731972
Absolutely, although a case can be made for any of the remaining three if they have gotten an important concentration spell up and/or have just survived a breath weapon with little HP remaining, since the Giant Ape equals or betters their CON saves. Notably, the Monk is the only one with Evasion among all 11 characters.

>https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:searing-smite
>https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:thunderous-smite
>https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:wrathful-smite
>...
>https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:divine-smite
>???
>https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/paladin
>Divine Smite

Starting at 2nd level, when you hit a creature with a melee weapon attack, you can expend one spell slot to deal radiant damage to the target, in addition to the weapon's damage. The extra damage is 2d8 for a 1st-level spell slot, plus 1d8 for each spell level higher than 1st, to a maximum of 5d8. The damage increases by 1d8 if the target is an undead or a fiend, to a maximum of 6d8.

>>96732604
We live in 2025 granpap.

>>96732650
This is the 5e thread, not the 5.24e thread.

Im playing a level 3 scribes wizard, what level 2 spells should I take

>>96732661
>9/14 links in the op are 2024

>>96730025 (OP)
>How supportive should the DM be of the players and their characters?
Pretty vague question. Yes? Sure?
>The second question
Wait, as in not killing characters? I guess it depends on the table, but for me, no chance of death is lame as hell. If that's the case, nothing matters.

>Or should it be more confrontational like in early D&D games?
Depends on the table. A table that it down for it is going to have a phenomenal time.

>>96732684
Misty Step has a range of 330 feet for you. Vortex warp is a must for you too. Other than those Web, invisibility and levitate are all good 2nd level options.

Wizard is best played as a battlefield controller and Scribes is one of the best at that.

>>96732684
Augury. It's not a spell you're going to cast more than once a day, and once a day you can cast a ritual using its normal time. With that, augury is a minute to ask the DM a question about what you should do.

Very underrated.

>>96732684
Diversify your damage pool so that you always have something to transmute.

>>96732797
at level 5 im going into tempest cleric for the channel divinity

>>96730025 (OP)
Being a supportive DM, what is the most cinematic way in which I can give the Monk (who has a subplot going with the setting's deity of storms) a Staff of Thunder and Lightning?

>>96732846
Fist-fight a Storm Giant on a mountaintop

>>96732846
Does he already have a staff he likes? Give him a quest in a dream, to slay creatures of thunder and creatures of lighting. When he wakes up, his staff lets him cast absorb elements as a reaction by spending a ki point. Each CR appropriate creature of those elements they slay grants his staff one feature of the staff.

>a giant lighting eel
>a living mighting bolt
>a behir
>a shambling mound
>an air elemental
>a bronze dragon
>a Cloud giant

Any of these might be appropriate, or you can adjust their health and PB to make them a challenge. Once he acquires 5 kills, a 6th will complete the staff, granting it a +2. You can also let him use the magic action options as bonus action using flurry of blows.

>>96732915
She has already received a prophecy roughly translating to "The godless needs the power of the storm like silver from the heavens in her hands" from our native language. At the moment, her main weapon is a spear with the Returning Weapon infusion from a friendly Artificer.

>>96732956
Yea, then during a really rough fight, have a bolt of lighting strike right next to her where a staff primed for gathering power rests, then she can go slay the creatures.

>>96732846
>what is the most cinematic way in which I can give the Monk a Staff of Thunder and Lightning?

brother, this shit writes itself

>lightning storm
>hear a voice in the thunder
>a lone large tree at the edge of a cliff, battered by the elements
>lightning strikes it, it splits in half
>in the middle of the shattered trunk, one splinter of the trunk is fuming and coursing with power
>as the monk picks it up, he hears the voice in the thunder again

>>96732846
>>96732956
If she ever rolls 20 on a death save, do this.

>>96732518
Too many ratgirls, anon.

>>96733631
The nezumi haven't made it back into 5e yet?

>>96733723
Nope. Thus far, we are flying sans ratgirls. The closest we've gotten were the angelic sparkledog furries in the 2024 playtest, but those were dropped for fear of angering all seven players who give a shit about aasimar.

>>96733749
We need more skaven furries to get into D&D.

How much would a 15% tip to your barmaid be on average for the listed price of a meal in 5e be?

>>96732518
Fuck off to your own general. Pathfinder is the worst. It’s for people too retarded to play a non d20 game but too pretentious to just play D&D.

>>96733982
My pc tips all ths silver in his pocket to the cute barmaid because he has 10k gp

>>96734013
That makes him a fucking G

>>96733982
titties too small, face too ai, 12 copper

>>96734069
>face too ai
That's just the artist style

>>96733982
Depends on the quality, the 2024 Handbook lists a comfortable meal at 2 silver so a 20% tip (pay women what they're owed) would be 4 copper

>>96733982
tits too big, I wouldn't tip whatsoever

>>96734131
face too detailed in comparison to the rest of the image, 8 copper

>>96733622
nta but that looks gay

I miss 3.5’s book release schedule. Like it takes ages for anything new to come out in 5e.

>>96734566
The worst part is that not only does it take ages for anything to come out, the quality also isn't any better than the rapid-fire content mill.

>>96734566
That was because Hasbro counted sales by subsidiary, not by brand. Wizards could pump out a dozen sourcebooks filled with 90% unplayable trash, 7% useful content, and 3% shit that breaks the game over its knee, and not worry a damn thing about how well they sold because they could just coast on MtG sales. Now, Hasbro expects individual brands to account for profits and expenses, so WotC's D&D department is cutting the margins as atomically thin as they can, shrinking their team to the skeleton of a skeleton crew and trying their utter damnedest not to spend any money actually writing or drawing anything.

>>96734566
i look at my complete pf1 pdf collection and it's insane the amount of content. I could spend years just reading everything. And that's just the official shit. And it's the fucking side game at a time when dnd wasnt even as popular as today. Sure you could argue for a moment pf1 had it over 4e but still. As I read i keep thinking "they had time to write all this stuff". Meanwhile every 5e release feels like a problematic pregnancy

ugh, I'm really attached to the idea of a bard who accidentally lichified himself by pouring his soul into an epic poem but the lich aesthetic doesn't do it for me. wdid?

>>96734934
flavor is free? just a guy with no soul, it can look and behave like anything you want
for mechanics use any undead or construct race

>>96734934
Becoming a lich is rather difficult to do by accident. Though it's also notable that by default, liches don't suddenly turn into skeletons as soon as they become one.
A lich who maintains their body can continue to look normal. It's just that when you don't feel hunger or thirst and you're an immortal nerd who wants to study in their fortress for days on end, maintaining that usually isn't on a list of a lich's concerns.

That said, you don't even need to copy that so specifically. The loss of a soul could just end up with something like the shadowfell races, where you're grey and gaunt, but not outright skeletal.

>>96734957
Skelly liches are cool though

>>96735128
Basic skellys are brainless husks. But liches have bound their minds to their decaying bodies through the use of a phylactery so still remain smarter than most people as high level mages.

>>96735115
Sure, but I was replying to someone who specifically wanted different atheistic.

>>96735128
who is gonna tell the crusader that he has a skeleton in him, right NOW

>>96734934
>https://youtu.be/dG42iwM0HDI?t=1009
Intoner Lich [AKA Bard Lich) by Pointy Hat? Time-stamped for your benefit.

>>96733982
My PC would blush and stutter a lot without being able to ask her to come to our table to pay

can someone sell me on skywrite

>>96735276
Haha if she's good at her job, she'll come to the table when she notices you are ready to pay

>>96735348
Bitch, I couldn’t sell you on the corner.

>>96735348
It can work as a bootleg version of the Sending spell, provided that whoever you're trying to contact is outdoors and within a few miles, and you don't mind anyone else reading the message.

Need someones help here
im trying to write a persudo FMA/steampunk inspired game where my players are essentially playing Ishvalans while being invaded by Amestris (Evil guys)
I'v got two things planned
A) that my players need to destroy a mcguffin that is too powerful for anyone to use, a sword that all intensive purposes is Soul Edge.
B) [The issue i need help with] The "Amerstrians" are sorta occupying the state. Their plan is to infiltrate important ranks under the guide of Knights then when the time is right they stage a coup when everything is set.
Why else would the Amerstrians be there? is being there to hunt down resources better enough? The Amestrians have airships, technologically advanced and even helped the Ishvalans somewhat. I just dont want my players to see that "this is it?" im confident they wont but i'd like some feeback

>>96733982
Mandatory tipping is a function of American alcohol Prohibition. It came about because bar/restaurant owners cut wages because of the loss of alcohol sales and told waiters to start accepting tips to make up for it.

So why would I tip in a fantasy setting where barmaids just get properly paid by their employers?

>>96731972
>I've seen a surprising number adult dragons get their asses handed to them by a giant ape.

#TeamKong

>>96735501
Resources works as a primary reason, but if you want something extra, maybe they've established a secret lab, and are conducting dangerous experiments on foreign soil so that if things go to hell it'll be in in the middle of somebody else's country instead.

Or for something simpler, you could just say that they're looking for the macguffin, or things similar to it. If there's one magical demon sword there might be rumors of other cursed shit buried in a ruin somewhere, and so the occupation just gives them an easier time searching.

>>96735501
>B) [The issue i need help with] The "Amerstrians" are sorta occupying the state. Their plan is to infiltrate important ranks under the guide of Knights then when the time is right they stage a coup when everything is set.
>Why else would the Amerstrians be there? is being there to hunt down resources better enough? The Amestrians have airships, technologically advanced and even helped the Ishvalans somewhat. I just dont want my players to see that "this is it?" im confident they wont but i'd like some feeback

I'm having a hard time reading this.

>The "Amerstrians" are sorta occupying the state.
ok.
>Their plan
the players?
>is to infiltrate important ranks under the guide of Knights then when the time is right they stage a coup when everything is set.
Against the Amesterians, yes?
>Why else would the Amerstrians be there?
That's not a detail you need to think about now, base on their actions you can add in stuff later and the players wouldn't know either way. You could introduce an herb they need which is found in the region they are occupying.
>is being there to hunt down resources better enough?
yes, especially if they don't have access to it in their homeland
>The Amestrians have airships, technologically advanced and even helped the Ishvalans somewhat. I just dont want my players to see that "this is it?" im confident they wont but i'd like some feeback.

Honesty It's hard to understand what exactly you mean. But maybe their birthrate is declining and the only way to solve it is with the herb found in the occupied region.

>>96735501
Don't know what any of this animu speak means but obviously there must be some special resource the kingdom has access to. A steampunk setting carries with it steampunk motivations, so there's probably mineral wealth the kingdom possesses and the knights have a contract with some company to take over extraction when it's done. Look up the history of the British in India or Africa for some specific ideas. Turning groups against each other by exploiting internal conflict is a major part of the gameplan.

>>96735560
>Looking for the macguffin
I did have something similar to this in my notes but decided not to go with it dead in my notebook, might look back to it, thanks for the feedback

>>96735564
Thank you anon, i do have people who lurk on /tg/ a bunch didn't want to give out a lot of information. I think that's a good idea as well

>>96735573
Overall it's just the Germanic faction setting foot on new land
>Look up the history of the British in India or Africa for some specific ideas
Thanks anon will do
Thanks for the feedback bros will take everything into consideration

>Can't I be from a good Duergar colony?
I knew this was a thing for Drow and Tieflings for a long time but I really didn't expect it with Duergar

>>96735522
>So why would I tip in a fantasy setting where barmaids just get properly paid by their employers?
Because she provided excellent service

>>96735619
Most people don't like dwarves

What have you found to be the best way to handle paying for material components for spells like revivify? Are all casts purely paid out of pocket? Are other players ever expected to chip in for revivify, whether they are the ones being revived or an NPC?

>>96735730
My players generally all chip in what they can. As a player, about the same. If someone does something particularly stupid, they've had to cover it at times.

>>96733982
Has anyone played a character that would flirt with this barmaid?

>>96735730
The way my group usually does it is by pooling group funds for basically everything, although that's hardly the norm.
Either way, pooling funds in advance to buy a diamond makes the most sense, because even if you're not the one who needs it, your ally probably got killed in the process of trying to help you. You don't get to avoid chipping in just because you're a Rogue who spends 90% of every encounter hidden in the corner.

And it's not like 300gp diamonds are a bad investment. Worst case scenario, you can still trade them for 300gp of goods.

>>96735769
Some of my past characters would have. The hornier ones. In my edgy youth I played as a rape goblin. He literally tried to rape multiple NPC women. He would have likely tried to rape her.

>small race, sit on shoulders of medium party mate
>Mounted Combatant, any attack that targets your mount can now be forced to target you instead, no reaction required
>stack AC as high as you can

1. What are some good ways to implement this idea? I'm thinking Battle Smith, Bladesinger, and Paladin, with different upsides, but I'm sure I've missed some options.
2. Who is the perfect beneficiary of this tactic? I'm thinking Barbarian first and foremost, for the ability to Reckless Attack with no downside, but maybe others get even more out of it.

>>96735769
Are you just fishing for some flirting

>>96735893
She clearly is with that dress.

>>96735619
I don’t allow evil races for good PCs myself. I tell people it’s been done to death, don’t be a faggot.

In between Session 0 and 1. Should I offer/have offered my players an option to bow out gracefully? I think a lot of them didn't really understand the campaign concept before session 0, and aren't really vibing with it bit are too nonconfrontational to say so.

>>96736046
Play a couple of sessions first, people sometimes need a couple of sessions of banging around before they hit those resonant frequencies and the vibes start humming.

>party has "accidentally" uprooted three different and unrelated criminal organizations
>remaining criminal organizations in the city and surrounding area are beginning to view the party as a direct threat to their very way of life

How do I make sure this doesn't become The Dark Knight?

>>96736467
Why wouldn't it?

>>96735348
>Skywrite
>Casting Time: Action or Ritual
>Range: Sight
>Components: V, S
>Duration: Concentration, up to 1 hour

>You cause up to ten words to form in a part of the sky you can see. The words appear to be made of cloud and remain in place for the spell's duration. The words dissipate when the spell ends. A strong wind can disperse the clouds and end the spell early.
>Artificer, Bard, Druid, Wizard

Casting time: 1 Action or 10 Minutes+1 Action
Range: anywhere from 5-10 miles depending on how high up you are and how far you can see
Duration: up to an hour

Imagine being able to communicate short sentences rapidly over long distances. Very useful for scouts and sentries.

Suppose a secret organisation with its own coded phrases had access to it (Druids, the Harpers). A supposedly nonsense sentence appears in the sky, leaving everyone to puzzle over its meaning, except the handful of people who understand its true purpose.

An evil wizard could taunt the PCs as they approach over the wilderness, if they know the party are out there, but not where they are.

Possibly not very useful at night, or in stormy weather. Unless the PCs are part of an organisation that needs to share information rapidly (but just give them a scouting mission to find the exact point where the enemy are crossing the border), it's more likely to be useful for NPCs.

>>96735730
we usually do that if we get a quest reward, we split it evenly and put it into each persons inventory, then we have a party bag where we put money found or if we sell stuff we find, then we can use that for healing potions, material components and if people need a bit more gold (you need 200 more for plate when you have 1300, it is taken out of the party bag for example)
then if wizard wants to learn a scroll that can generally be taken out of the party bag

>new campaign
>DM asks what our characters are
>me: "Human male fighter."
>DM: "Uh... Are you going Battle Master?"
>"No Champion."
>"Are you sure? It's going to probably be at least 20+ sessions. You won't get bored? I don't really want people to be rolling up new characters every other session-"
>"I'm going to live forever."

I'm going to live forever.

>>96736856
>Straight
Check
>White
Check
>Male
Check
>Human
Check
>Fighter
Check
>Champion
Check
>Bitches
Swooning
>Dick
Lubes
>Trannies
Btfo

>>96736467
Why contain it?

>>96732604
>wikidot

>>96736467
That sounds like the ideal outcome, though. Three outfits down, the others get antsy, and rally together around a new villain who they think has the solution to their problem - blissfully unaware of just how crazy he really is.

>>96735621
Most cultures consider that to be a bribe or an insult.

>>96737554
Bribery is implicitly accepted in many cultures regardless of its legality, though.

Playing a Swashbuckler Rogue and I'm a little bummed out I can't take Two Weapon Fighting unless I dip a level into Fighter. The main reason I don't want to multi-class is because I'd be losing out on Sneak Attack damage. And mathematically, it doesn't seem like a great trade off just to get an extra few points of damage. But maybe that is that worth doing? We are level 4 on the moment and level 5 will likely come next session. The Dual Wielder feat doesn't seem useful to me because I use two Light, Finesse weapons and combining that with Nick gives me 3 chances to attack (and 3 chances to hit with Sneak Attack if I miss). I was thinking of doing Scim+Rapier (using Dual Wielder) but then I wouldn't be able to benefit from Nick on the Scimitar, right? Because Nick only comes into play if the off-hand weapon has Nick as a Mastery Property, or am I not reading that correctly?

>>96738164
im sure if you asked your DM to play with the Fighter Initiative feat from TCE your problems would be solved. that said, is twf even worth it on a rogue? your main dmg is from sneak attack.

I’ve only had 4 sessions and have only played a fighter, but I think I’m ready to be a GM after reading a bit of the GM’s guide and asking my GM some questions. Which pre-written adventure would you recommend for my first time?

Hey lade, had my first session using pic related in the starter set with friends. Was great fun!

I was just wondering, what's the difference with the 2024 PHB?

>>96738657
Forgot pic

>>96738690
https://rpgbot.net/dnd-2024-5e-transition-guide-and-change-log-everything-thats-different-in-the-new-players-handbook/

>>96738726
Thank you kindly.

>>96738523
>pre-written adventure
I'd honestly suggest making up a simple story and a dungeon
Pre written adventures are deceptively hard to run well

But you could try those that come with starter sets, like dragon of icespire peak or mines of phandelver

What class/subclass for this feel?

>>96738965
Oath of Vengeance

>>96738965
champion fighter with magic items

>>96738164
>off-hand weapon
No such thing. Technically Nick doesn't even say you need to use a weapon that has it, but any sane DM would require it be one of the weapons you attack with to make a Nick attack.

>>96730032
Would you this wizard /5eg/?

>>96740077
>Human
Disgusting
My dark elf wizard is only for other dark elves

>>96738164
>two fighting is +4 to dex, +4 to yourt off hand attack
>dipping one level makes you lose out on a d6
>average of a d6=3.5

>what you lose out on
cunning strike
uncanny dodge
>what you gain
second wind
+1 HP from hit die
shield training
medium armor training
heavy armor training
2 more weapon masteries

>>96740077
No.

>>96740077
Would

>>96730025 (OP)
Yall fuck with illusion wizard?

>>96730032
>puckee spamming his commissions again
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/1dqgwj1/art_comm_amalia_fenn_wizardess_by_dennis_fr%C3%B6hlich/
https://desuarchive.org/tg/search/image/KEjif-wGDBPKQYY8Q0-LSg/
>30 times
>>96733982
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/1kiihss/artcomm_sarah_pheltan_barmaidtavern_wench_by/
https://desuarchive.org/tg/search/image/sUNE9rziWzq0VmQQskuT0A/
>17 times since May 2025
>>96735115
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/1csag1l/art_comm_vandervax_the_vengeful_lich_bbeg_by_alex/
https://desuarchive.org/tg/search/image/R3ZGLpr6llIB-YZIuybu_A/
>27 times

>>96741020
Illusion, divination, and enchantment should be combined into one school under a psychic/psionic umbrella.

>>96740189
Imagine being such a shit wizard you need to look for employment.

How can a player become a better player?

How does a DM become a better DM?

>>96741556
Read Appendix N novels relevant to your class
Read Appendix N

>>96741556
I can't talk about being a good player because I'm a fucking shit player who struggles to get into my character
>How does a DM become a better DM?
Read books, read fiction, nonfiction. Pop culture, fantasy, horror, crime, fantasy, scifi, etc.
Take the things you read about that sound cool and apply it to your campaign. Good DMs are just guys who have read more books than you and know how to steal from obscure sources you haven't heard from. Play story focused video games, watch weird movies, etc. Media theft is the easiest way to create an interesting world and an interesting world in turn creates an interesting place for the players to be in. If your games are white box dungeon crawls the players will treat them as uninteresting white box dungeon crawlers.
Tolkien's works are "just" heavily altered Catholicism and Pagan mythology mixed with personal experience in WW1 and English philology. If the creator of the fucking genre that is epic fantasy can do so by influence from other works, you can also steal from stuff.

HELP!
I am a wizard who is taking Magic Initiate: Druid. This means I get access to two Druid cantrips and one Level 1 Druid spell.

I am kind of a new player. What are the essentials that I should absolutely take? Guidance seems obvious, and also I thought Speak to Animals maybe?

>>96741654
The majority of my character ideas have even been modified versions of something posted on /tg/, or a modified archetype from a book I read.

>>96741718
Cantrips you can take whatever you feel like. Same with spells really, though something that's not on the Wizard list gets you the most bang for your buck, since you can still cast it with your other spell slots.
In the context of a Wizard, Healing Word would be a boring but safe suggestion. Although even that's mainly helpful in the case where the party doesn't already have much healing elsewhere.

>>96741718
Unless you want some connection with animals, you can ignore speak with animals. DMs usually never have the foresight to improvise anything useful for speak with animals.

>Cure wounds
2d8/spell slot level is a lot of healing.
>Healing word
a solid back up, you can even hold it in your back pocket and never use it until a clutch moment.
>Animal friendship
Charm person, but for beasts and it lasts 24 hours. No disadvantage if you're fighting them. Even more solid on an enchantment wizard.
>create/destory water
Soaking an area or a group of people to grant fire resistance, or to put out a fire, is cool. Always having water is also neat. also cool for conjuration since its thematic.
>Entangle
Solid area control and crowd control. Also, great for conjuration
>Purify Food and Drink
worth it for playing up a paranoid schizo wizard

>>96741793
Girl I know I can take whatever I want, but I want to take advantage of this rare chance to get Druid spells
>>96741805
We just don't have any other Druid so the idea of my old man wizard suddenly busting out the rat squeak language is funny to me...

I am an Illusion wizard.

>>96741836
>I want to take advantage of this rare chance to get Druid spells
In that case I'll also suggest Faerie Fire. Solid support potential for a level 1 spell, utility against invisible enemies, etc.

But I cannot stress enough how little the cantrip choice matters. Basically every Wizard cantrip is better for attacking than Druid cantrips, unless you're planning on using Shillelagh with your staff to run into melee combat. Guidance is obviously useful, but you already figured that out for yourself.

>>96741836
>We just don't have any other Druid so the idea of my old man wizard suddenly busting out the rat squeak language is funny to me...
If you think it's cool, by all means take it. I've never had success with it, but your millage may vary. The origin feat also gives you the ability to swap the spell on level up, so if you feel like you don't get good use from speak with animals, you can swap it to something else later.

>Spell Change. Whenever you gain a new level, you can replace one of the spells you chose for this feat with a different spell of the same level from the chosen spell list.

>I am an Illusion wizard.
Entangle may not be an illusion spell, but you can describe it as "ethereal transparent vines" to make them seem like illusions. It doesn't even need to be vines. Or flavor them as ghostly purple chains that rise from the ground ot wrap your enemies. You can take a page out of Pathfinder for your illusion jargon.

In the case of entangle, if your DM is cool with it, entangle is made of shadow. Real enough that it affects people who don't believe it (people who pass the save on entangle aren't restrained but are still affected by the difficult terrain) but when the spell ends it still disappears.

>>96741836
>>96741872
The only cantrip that druid has over wizard aside from guidance, shillelagh, is the new one. It's radiant damage, so its a unique damage type, and It's got a fairly unique feature in the form of a glamer. If you take "see invisibility" you can help out the team with this. The damage drop from other cantrips isn't too bad.

And if you wanted to load up your wizard with pure wizard utility cantrips, this is a decent replacement.

>>96741718
>Guidance
Definitely
>Other cantrip
They don’t add a lot to wizard. Probably starry whisps, maybe message for utility.
>Level 1 spell
This list is good >>96741805 I would add faerie fire as a prime candidate for advantage. Especially good if you don’t have advantage for flanking. Goodberries is also good for healing and giving everyone a berry to revive an ally.

>>96741880
Oh shit really? Does it let me swap cantrips too? Entangle seems awesome but I took Grease instead for crowd control because my wizard is a drunk old man and it seems funnier...
>>96741913
Okay I think I will take Fairae Fire for now so I am useful at level 1, and swap to speak with animals because presumably once I get level 2 spells there will be a good crowd control one
>>96741908
Fuck man I will have to go with Shillalay. I want my old man to beat someone with a stick

>>96741718
And lastly, don't shy away from non illusion spells. Any spell that conjures something or changes what you see can feel like an illusion. Most DMs are cool with flavor on spells. Flaming sphere could have you drop a meteor on the ground, where you then move it with your mind. Earthen grasp doesn't have to be real dirt, or could just be a bunch of ghost hands piercing the earth to grab a hold of your target.

The shield spell could also just be an after image of yourself taking the hit while you dodge out of the way. Talk with your DM about flavoring spells, its like 80% of the fun gained from being caster

>>96741923
>Oh shit really? Does it let me swap cantrips too?
It lets you replace ONE spell, per level up. So you can replace a single cantrip, or the 1st level spell. If you want to change something later, you'll have to wait for another level up.

>>96741923
>Fuck man I will have to go with Shillalay. I want my old man to beat someone with a stick
>>96741923
As a general rule, you never want to be in melee as a wizard. But shillelagh is hilarious, so take it.

>>96741950
I never even considered flavoring them. Fantastic idea. I will go through my chosen list right now and do it. Thanks so much.

>>96738957
>mines of phandelver
I've been resizing it, and the goblin ambush at the beginning looks pretty deadly.
but beyond that it looks good
>dragon of icespire peak
I'll give it a reading

>>96741979
>resizing
reading*

>>96741979
If you wanna reduce the lethality of the goblin ambush, have an NPC with the inspiring leader feat tell the players a word of warning before they depart. With maybe 7 temp hit points (2 levels + 5 wisdom), the fight can still be close, but you won't need to pull as many punches.

>>96742000
>mines of phandelver
great idea,I was thinking that I could also remove a goblin

What are some good encounters for a party of 5 level 3 characters?

Is this too much for a feat? I feel like the idea of a shield fighter subclass is way too niche and the specificity of enhancing a shield is perfect for a feat, but I may have overloaded it.
I also need a better name. It was originally Aggressive Aegis, but I liked the name arcane aegis for the +1 bit of the feat, so I changed it

Combat encounters

>A hungry owlbear
A formidable single enemy, an owlbear (CR 3), can be a serious challenge for a level 3 party.
Encounter idea: While traveling through a dense forest, the party stumbles upon a cave marked by torn-up trees and the remains of smaller creatures. Inside, a mother owlbear guards its nest. Instead of an open brawl, the encounter can become a tense standoff.
Twist: The owlbear is not hostile until provoked. Its cubs are trapped in a collapsed section of the cave. The party could use persuasion or animal handling to calm the creature and then apply skill checks to rescue the cubs, turning a potential boss fight into a problem-solving exercise.
>Goblinoid siege
A horde of smaller creatures with a leader can be a great way to test the party's resource management.
Encounter idea: A local village is being harassed by a large warband of goblins and hobgoblins.
Tactics: The party must defend a choke point or a vulnerable building. The encounter could play out in waves, with the players first facing a few goblins before the more disciplined hobgoblins arrive, led by a bugbear boss. Terrain effects, like a flimsy barricade or a burning building, can be added to make the fight more dynamic.

Non-combat encounters

>Haunted ruins
A classic encounter where a supernatural threat is not what it seems.
Encounter idea: The party explores a crumbling ruin that seems eerily empty. Strange whispers and floating objects appear, but no monsters attack.
Twist: The source of the disturbances is not a powerful monster but a cursed individual wearing a Ring of Vampire Power. This "non-pire" has been tricked into believing they are a vampire and is just trying to scare people away. The party must use investigation, persuasion, and deception to uncover the truth and find a way to break the curse.

>>96742213
Basher should just be a mundane item and arcane aegis is part of a magic item. The only thing that isn't retarded is shield meister.

>>96742217
>A hungry owlbear

>>96742213
>>96742390
Now that I think about it shield meister is a fighting style. 2/10

>>96742399
Fighting styles usually affect the fighter (unarmed, blind, defense) or a group of weapons (two-weapon fighting, greatweapon fighting, archery etc.) A fighting style tied to a single weapon is weird.

>>96738965
Illrigger Painkiller

>>96740432
She cute

>play D&D with new group
>use burning hands inside
>dm says he's going to roll a "luck die"
>rolls a d20
>19
>"the building you're fighting in doesn't catch on fire"
>use burning hands again later
>dm says he's going to roll a "luck die" again, on a 19 or 20, I'm lucky
>19 again
I don't have a problem with fire spells starting fires that we then have to deal with if I use it inside a wooden building, but something felt really wrong here.

>>96742539
No it makes sense that a fire spell would set wooden things on fire.

>>96742213
>Is this too much for a feat?
No.
>Specificity of enhancing a shield is perfect for a feat
Concur.
>Agressive
Aggressive has two G's.
>Arcane Aegis
Wrap this up into "Basher" and then remove it. If you do it efficiently, it will cut down on the "bloat" of the feat and make it feel less busy or "too much" as you put it. If you want to keep it, consider reworking the effect so that casters are both granted proficiency with and the ability to use Shields as a spellcasting focus, removing the need for the ability to use shields as a prerequisite.
>Shield Meister
What's your intent behind this?

Looks comfy. I approve.

I don't think it's a bad choice, but I do think it's incredibly niche. Specialization like this brings into question opportunity cost. At level 4, there are a metric shit ton of very useful and strong feats that martials have to decide between, this would not be very high among most people's list. Even if this was an option and there was a shield afficionado in the party, there's also "Shield Master" feat that would need to be considered.

With that being said, consider reworking it into an origin feat and maybe toning it down, so that if a player did want to lean really hard into using shields, they could have both of the shield-based feats.

>>96742652
>shield proficiency origin feat at level 1
id definitely pick this up on a rogue for shits and giggles

>>96730025 (OP)
>Friend shows up as a guest character as our parties Rogue
>Backstory is that his previous party was betrayed by a member and most everyone died in an ambush
>Rogue is now going on a revenge quest for the person he believes betrayed them
>Eventually we find the guy, he was captured by Gnolls
>Rogue is about to get his revenge when the DM decides to shift courses
>"Traitor" reveals through basic illusions that he wasn't the one who betrayed them, it was some other member the whole time
>It's very apparent that "traitor" is telling the truth
>DM retconned the Rogues backstory for no real reason other than a forced twist
>Rogue doesn't know what to do going forward

Kinda feel bad for the guy, had his whole agency fucked up there because the DM decided to take some liberties

>>96743170
That's some M. Night Shyamalan shit right there

Do you allow Aarakocra pc in your campaigns? y, n, and why?

>>96743409
O-of course
Why?-I'm not a scrubtard DM. Any DM that isn't already thinking in 3 dimensions is not a DM worth playing with. Any DM that restricts their game to what they expect the players to do is a fucking retard.

>>96743170
>>96743276
the "traitor" used magic to control/duped the rogue into betraying the party.
he used the rogue knowing that he'd get away thus leaving him a fall guy in case anyone starts asking questions.

>>96743170
Should have made the PC rogue be the traitor

>>96743409
No
Not for any balance reason
I just don't run any non-PHB races for worldbuilding autism

>>96743170
For a second, I thought the traitor was going to be the Rogue

How do we feel about tenser's floating disc? In what situations would this be useful? It is so funny to me just conjure the disk but it is immobile if within 20 feet of me. So this disc that just trails along significantly behind me. A burden? It is either this or Alarm or some other utility spell

>>96743924
It's useful for hauling heavy shit but I find most dm's don't hand out expensive heavy shit that would make it useful to take

>>96743924
Holdover from old school design where the game was carrying crazy amounts of heavy coinage out of the dungeon.
Today it's not generally useful with how most people play. If you're a wizard and find a scroll of it, it's worth scribing if you have the gold. If it's not specifically useful for how your DM runs the game, it's not useful unless you're doing funky stuff.

>>96743944
My DM has encumbrance on for gold

>>96743953
But does it actually become relevant? Floating Disk has a duration of 1 hour. Are you always going to have the gold floating behind you in a chest or something and recasting the spell?
It's useful for transporting stuff out of the dungeon when you weren't expecting to have so much weight, but not useful for just existing most of the time.

Bag of holding and similar, buy tons of inks and scribe scrolls, buy gems, exchange your currencies for platinum or higher values if they exist.
This is similar to "I have more than $250,000 in my bank account but it's only FDIC insured up to $250,000".
Buy expensive swords, take good care of them, don't use them and use those as lighter currencies. Become a fancy sword merchant.

There isn't any fucking point in calling it Conjure animals anymore, suggest me some cool reskins of a moving aoe slash damage
Like phantom chainsaws or something

>>96741805
>foresight to improvise

Would you a halfling?

>>96743409
I've only ran homebrew settings and Aarakocra haven't been in them, not by any deliberate act though.

>>96744783
Depends. Are they like a Hobbit or closer to faggot Kender?

>>96744799
Like hobbits of course
But one of the cool hobbits

>>96744821
Then yes

>>96744783
Yes and Halfling is too easy of a question. About 60% of the DnD nerds I've met would anything that passes the Harkness test, and one or two I've met would a few things that fail. Let's try something tougher. Would you a Thri-Kreen?

Stat him

I got a player that idk what to do with. I've communicated already and last time I did, we argued about it.

Pros:
>He's experienced (loops back to first con)
>Engages with the system mechanically a lot
>Has really good party dynamic
>is a good RPer when he's trying

Cons:
>Is a metagamer and tends to hyper optimize victory
>Cracks way too many jokes even at super serious moments
>While he RPs with the party well, he tends to be a dickhead with NPCs and then acts surprised when I don't have the NPCs continue talking to him
>is a caster, yet insists my game is a martial power fantasy as i gave martials some buffs to help them get some variety like casters. He spends his concentration on hasting the Fighter to further support this even though I told him he should be doing something else, but this is the most optimal method in combat for him, and he even admitted he doesn't find it fun.
>if it's not his turn, he's not paying attention

I'm debating kicking him. We're a close group of friends though and we're old enough to not be affected by this outside of the game, but I'm afraid in-game it would mess things up, both narratively and by ruining the party dynamic.

What do I do fellas

>>96745315
20 10 20 10 10 7

>>96745186
Gross no. Do they even have vaginas?

>>96745393
I highly doubt there's any canon writing on the subject. They resemble mantises which do reproduce sexually in a way that is mechanically similar to humans but still not the same thing. No guarantee of happy times for your peepee. I also would not the bug people.

>>96745321
Read this.
https://theangrygm.com/the-campaign-managers-guide-to-conflict-resolution-part-i/

>>96745572
>https://theangrygm.com/the-campaign-managers-guide-to-conflict-resolution-part-i/

Interesting, alright, thanks I'll read it

>>96745572
>theangrygm.com
midwit full of himself overwriting and giving names to everything

>>96745393
And now I'm thinking of an old cap where it's a human guy and thri-keen girl getting really close, and then it goes out to the DM saying "this is why I wanted you two to play incompatible species."

>>96744324
You do need foresight to improvise properly, since you need to be able to project the possible consequences of what you’re throwing into the mix. That’s not at all what was talking about, of course, but it’s a point worth making.

>>96738965
20th Level Oath of Vengeance Paladin. This is the way they look when Avenging Angel transforms them.
Otherwise, a Vengeance Paladin who's also an Aasimar- using Heavenly Wings. This is doable by level 3.

>>96745186
would

have

>>96745862
>This is the way they look when Avenging Angel transforms them.
The face looks like there’s something wrong with the chromosome count

>>96735225
This is over designed garbage.

>>96745186
I remember reading a fantasy comic where a bug girl and a human fall for each other.

>>96744783
Yes.
Would extra if she has big tits.

>>96745393
You are weak and will not prosper in Dungeons and Dragons if you're not willing to explore some dangerous and unknown territories.

And another session ruined from a dice cheater and meta gamer. The guy never "rolled" anything lower than a 18 for 3 straight sessions, always shouted over the DM rolling for shit he was never asked to, and flipped out when the DM finally snapped and told him he's not playing with us anymore. It's been impossible trying to find a stable group in person. Looks like it's back to fucking roll20 pugs again

>>96731213
PCs need to have a minimum of 5-9 fights before a major encounter. Encourage combat to move faster by ending the turns of people who aren't prepared.

>>96746716
What if one of my players asks if he's in melee range of a goblin?

>>96746748
Goblin immediately reaction attacks him to answer the question for him in game. If you aren't paying attention at my table that's fine but the games goes on. And that's why I've been running a universe campaign for 11 years for over 200 players

>>96741979
Good let it be deadly. Players need to learn consequences early to establish good habits at the table. Do not coddle them or you will regret it later.

>>96744783

Official art:
>>96746870

>>96746921
It's funny to me that faggots and fat sexless women and the usual seething suicidal tranny retards tried to co opt fantasy art then got fucking cucked out because the moment real women found out about it they immediately started making slutty dnd cosplays. Lmfao

>>96746686
The first campaign I played in had a guy who never 'rolled' below an 11 for his initiative for 20+ sessions. He also had a curious habit of landing crits when things looked like they might go bad. Because we had played online and weren't enforcing dice rolls in a bot, couldn't really prove he was cheating, but the odds were something like a couple trillion to one.

my that guy is really nice, polite, timely, always says "hope everything is ok" when i have to cancel a session etc. I think he does it because he knows his metagaming opti playstyle annoys everyone and so does his terrible rp

>>96747140
are you my dm

>>96747105
>weren't enforcing dice rolls in a bot
Does the VTT you use not have dice rolling functionality? I've played in multiple groups using different systems and in every case the default assumption has been that you use the app or platform or whatever to roll your dice. I've only ever wanted to roll dice when I'm DMing and running like 10-plus creatures and it's faster. Otherwise seeing the number pop up is part of the experience, like when the players gawk at the dice tray IRL.

>>96747177
We weren't using a VTT for that campaign, most of it was ToTM or us looking at a screen share of Roll20. Most people rolled dice in the discord (I'd do it when I had something that required more than the two paltry dice set I had at the time). Since then, the campaign's I've been in or DMed have been strict about having to have rolls somewhere the DM can see them.

>>96747215
>ToTM
Fair enough
>or us looking at a screen share of Roll20
How horrifying

>>96747266
I was just glad to know if my AoE bow was going to hit the Paladin with 11 con and horrendous HP rolls.

>>96742652
>>Shield Meister
>What's your intent behind this?

If your character has weapon mastery, they can use any weapon mastery available to them on the shield
>the fighter has weapon mastery with a greatsword, a trident, and a short sword
they can apply graze, topple, or vex to the shield, and When they finish a Long Rest, they can practice weapon drills and change one of those weapon choices.

Without weapon mastery, you don't get this part of the feature. although maybe I should just add sap if they don't have weapon mastery


>>96742652
>there's also "Shield Master" feat that would need to be considered.
Yep.
Shield master feat is the defensive option that grants a bit of control. Ag(g)ressive Bulwark is the offensive option, allowing you to use two weapons fighting with your shield and use it in a dex build.

>>96747359
What the fuck? I literally opened up this thread for the explicit reason to see if you responded, and you did it almost immediately a couple minutes before. That's very uncanny.

>They can use any weapon mastery available to them on the shield
Right, I get that, but explicitly why do you want them to have this unparalleled flexibility? Not a criticism, mind you, just something to think about.
>Masteries & Sap
I think this is very reasonable.


There's this implicit "intent" you have behind the feat, that it could or would only be used by fighters, it honestly seems to me that what you want really does and could (or should) be developed more deliberately into an entirely new fighter subclass revolving around shield usage. You have more to work with than you presupposed here >>96742213.

im trrying to play a hobgoblin in a new campaign. i need some inspiration for the character, idk how to make him "good" inclined. maybe need to read some drizzt books?

>>96747611
Simple, you and yours spent generations mindlessly serving the dark will of Maglubiyet in exchange for the power to destroy your enemies, until you stopped and asked yourselves why your enemies still haven't been destroyed in all this time.

>>96747611
depends on the setting anon

>>96747622
my god i totally forgot about maglubiyet ( i only know this from BG3 )

thats a good idea. thanks fren

>>96747611
in motm they gave goblins a fey connection so hobgoblins have fey gift (help as bonus action and can give additional movement, thp or disadvantage)
i have an idea for a motm hobgoblin glamour bard that uses feywild magic to fight the forces of maglubyet, the additional movement options can also be used as a battlefield commander which hobgoblins are known for

What race/class/backstory is everyone playing and how did you get to that character?

>>96747430
>Right, I get that, but explicitly why do you want them to have this unparalleled flexibility? Not a criticism, mind you, just something to think about.
Because shields are cool.

Swords have lots of masteries associated with them (sap, vex, graze) because each is a different weapon. 5e doesn't really have more than 1 kind of shield, baring some magic ones, so the weapon masteries let you have a sense you're using different kinds of shields. Push/topple could feel like a heavy tower shield, nick and vex are affiliated with fast and light weapons so you might feel like you're fighting with a buckler. Cleave or graze can give you the impression that your shield is bladed or maybe has a spike etc.
>There's this implicit "intent" you have behind the feat, that it could or would only be used by fighters.
It's a feat and fighters have extra feats, so that's understandable. But any barb, paladin, or ranger who wants extra AC for survivability and a bonus action attack has it available. Paladin and ranger have access to two weapon fighting, and barbs have rage damage so they don't fall off too bad.
The sword and board fantasy is so iconic, so I'm just let down that there isn't much to it, and locking it behind a single fighter subclass didn't appeal to me.

>>96747711
A younger character who just turned an appropriate age for adventuring, who had a spark of magical ability but came from a tiny fishing town of around 500 people. Went off to learn magic from a traveling wizard who turned out to be a bunch of fairies under a disguise spell that trained him wrong as a funny joke
I wanted to try a sorcerer in 2024

>>96747711
dhampir rune knight that used to be human but due to tragic circumstances, he got trapped in a death giants lair and over years he got turned into a dhampir, feeding off souls (as well as regular food and blood)
rune knight likes con for the saving throws, dhampir bites scale with con
i should be able to tank a lot of hits and get permanent advantage on attacks while bloodied, using skill expert athletics for grappling to keep my allies safe and being able to use bites and second wind to just sustain a boatload of damage

>>96742213
>>96747359
It's probably not too powerful, but it kind of invalidates dual-wielding. Why would you have two light weapons when you could have a light weapon and Nick shield and have +2 AC compared to the other guy? There's probably also room for someone to rules lawyer that it doesn't preclude benefiting from the Dueling fighting style as written.
Finesse and any weapon mastery you want don't make sense to me but I get you want it to work as unrestrictively as possible.
Rather than interacting with the Light property, I think just getting a bonus action shield bash à la Polearm Master would make more sense.

>>96747897
>bonus action shield bash à la Polearm Master
so shield master

>>96748013
That does make more sense than a light finesse shield to me, yeah.

>>96746655
I will not live in the pods. I will not fuck the bugs.

>Lawful Good Yuan-Ti that was "adopted"/kidnapped as a baby by a group of holy warriors of Helm
>is spared by the then grandmaster of the time because he was a lawful good cleric that decided to raise her right under the teachings of Helm
>he passed away shortly after so instead was raised by the Lawful Evil new grandmaster that instilled a sense of self loathing in her because her "very being was sinful"
>decides to go out adventuring as a sort of penitent crusade to absolve her sinful nature
Was thinking of making her a VERY paladin-coded fighter due to her not having enough faith in herself to become a paladin yet. Also she's fucking hot under the helmet but refuses to remove it around others because then they would see her as the monster she thinks she is
yay or nay

>>96748293
>yay or nay
Neither, but I'd give it a yea.

If a player dips enough into a Blade Pact warlock for Improved Pact Weapon, would you allow it to be a firearm? I feel like it's fair since they can make it any general kind of bow/crossbow

>>96748396
If firearms existed in the setting, yeah I'd allow it

>>96748293
Sounds kinda fine. A bit trauma dumpy. I'd play as it as an actual paladin.

>>96748400
>If firearms existed in the setting, yeah I'd allow it.
Same, and I feel so gaslit by my DM who has been adamant against it even though "explosives" have been used before as a plot device. So I feel kind of stiffed. I can fulfill my warlock concept with a hand crossbow, but I was banking on firearms still.

I'm reading about Lost Mine of Phandelver and I'm having trouble understanding the Steep Passage part.
Getting to the goblin guarding the bridge seems very difficult if you don't have someone with Darkvision and Perception to spot the goblin, and good Stealth to get close without being noticed. If the goblin sees you, a flood is triggered, dealing damage and knocking you back.
An alternative is the Western Passage, which counts as difficult terrain and basically can’t be crossed if you weigh more than 45 kg.
The third option is the Fissure, which would actually be the best route if you have a high STR score to climb the wall.

>>96748433
Explosives don't necessarily mean firearms, being able to make a boom doesn't necessarily mean they have the metalworking capable of precision casting/boring/repeatable parts to make handheld guns.
Plus cannons were around for a fair amount of time before handheld guns (just under 200 years or so)
But I doubt anyone other than a worldbuilding autist like me would make that differentiation

>>96748468
I'm not sure I follow. I just pulled up the section and it seems fine to me.
>It seems difficult if you don't have someone with Darkvision and Perception
Correct. That is intentional, and typically how these things go. Darkvision is bullshit. Have someone play Twilight Cleric, or something.
>But that means humans and halflings, among others, are fucked!
Not necessarily, but yes in this specific scenario, pretty much. It's not like it's unwinnable.

>>96730025 (OP)
After they nixed Brawler, do you think they'll ever have some sort of Pugilist class? For the guy who wants to play a boxer but not a wuxia monk?

>>96744783
Yes? Of course I would pic related obviously. If I had the option between a normal woman and a halfing woman of equal attraction level, i'd pick the halfling every time. I love mandhalding women during sex and the smaller they are, the easier it is.

>>96746870
Even better.

My GM gave it to me to read if I'm interested in running a game, but it's starting to give me a headache.
Cragmaw Hideout in general seems to require a well-balanced group with at least one full scout (darkvision, good stealth, good Perception)
It's kind of making me realize that being a GM isn't my thing.

>>96748567
My GM gave it to me to read if I'm interested in running a game, but it's starting to give me a headache.
Cragmaw Hideout in general seems to require a well-balanced group with at least one full scout (darkvision, good stealth, good Perception)
It's kind of making me realize that being a GM isn't my thing.
maybe light up the cave so as not to punish races without darkvision?

>>96748428
I kinda want paladin stuff to be a personal story progression kinda thing, basically dont want my party to be expecting paladin mechanics and yes she is basically religious trauma the character (which is ironic since I have a very healthy history/relationship with religion lmao)

>>96748428
>trauma dumpy
Is this a thing people play in their D&D characters?

>>96748687
trauma is literally one of the best motivators for adventuring

>>96748701
Why not money and xp?

>>96748624
Didn't you post more context earlier?

>It's kind of making me realize that being a GM isn't my thing.
It isn't, for the vast overwhelming majority of people.

Personally I think the only traits you truly need to be able to DM are:
>is to be a good reader
>have a degree of self-awareness
>bonus points: be knowledgeable of the core game rules

That sudden realization that you made earlier makes you less unqualified than you think it does. Much of my own DMing is done very loosely. I don't like campaign modules because of many of the reasons you've already discovered: they're very "video gamey" and semi-linear, and their structure makes deviation very hard to enable; they're very constraining for both the DM and players.

People can and do act outside of what's written in those adventure supplements, and you should reward, not punish, them for doing so, in my opinion. Phandelver and Below is an extraordinarily detailed adventure, like many of them are, but most of the times you won't explore even half of it, and that's okay. In my own campaign my players do shit I don't expect all the time and I have to improvise, adapt, and overcome their behavior continuously. It's not easy and it is a lot to manage, but to me, the challenge is worth it.

Also, you're doing something for the first time, of fucking course you're going to be dogshit ass awful at it man, come on. You fail, you learn, you acquire skill, and you become good.

>>96748701
I mean, mental trauma is one of the core elements of how people in Stormlight get chosen to become Knights Radiant.

>>96748713
Thanks for spoiling that for me you fucking cunt.

>>96748640
Play it however you want but for me it would be more interesting as a paladin. It all feels very religiously coded. But I am biased towards paladin. I played a psi warrior a little while ago and found it a bit boring after a while. 2024 fighter is much more interesting but I like to have spells.

>>96748687
Someone on /tg/ was talking about their player basically trauma dumping on the group and the DM was the only person responding. Might have been on here I cbf reading.

>>96748597
>I love mandhalding women during sex
tmi

>>96748705
xp is meta stuff and there are less dangerous ways of earning coin, which is why there are a lot more commoners than adventurers

>>96748705
Cannot imagine a more boring dogshit character motivation.

>>96747897
>It's probably not too powerful, but it kind of invalidates dual-wielding.
I think it's a fair if you're comparing base two-weapon fightings vs the shield feat since the feat is allowing you all the benefits of two weapon fighting, +2 AC, but comparing the dual wieldier feat to the shield feat, dual wielder is better offensively. DWer +1 damage, allowing the use of a d8, and then allows a whole extra attack as a bonus action. And that's a good thing. I think that's a great way to create more types of melee combat varieties.

>Grappler
>Duelist
>Sword and board (mine)
>Dual wielder
>GWM
>Polearm user
>Body gaurd


That don't rely on a subclass for their identity.

>>96748739
>Someone on /tg/ was talking about their player basically trauma dumping on the group and the DM was the only person responding. Might have been on here I cbf reading.
It was last thread

>>96748468
It is worth noting that the damage from the flood is a mere d6, and it's only a DC 10 Dex save to avoid if the characters were within 10 feet of the steep passage or kennel. Which if they're going through the tunnel single-file, they probably are, at least if they're taking the time to stop and inspect the steep passage instead of immediately rushing forward.
But again, it's only 1d6 damage if they fail.
It's also worth noting that you can climb the walls with a DC 15 Strength check, so if the steep passage seems too risky, then if somebody shoots the bridge goblin, one party member can just climb up and lower a rope for the others.

Phandelver really starts off on the wrong foot in a lot of ways. There's some good introductory stuff here, but it's usually hindered by just being placed oddly or having too many goblins.

>>96748293
>>96748640

Kinda pointless to include
>>is spared by the then grandmaster of the time because he was a lawful good cleric that decided to raise her right under the teachings of Helm
Firstly, who asked? Not in the meme, but like, who is going to care enough to ask your character that? Second. Nature vs nurture; If you can be raised to be good then you don't you're simply molded by your upbringing, then being initially raised "good" serves no purpose.

Lastly, you sound like Naruto

>orphan
>raised good
>Begrudgingly supported despite everyone (or at least the grand master) thinking they are innatley evil.

Believe it.

>>96748468
>>96748624
Darkvision lets you see in darkness as if it were dim light. That's a -5 penalty. Regular MM25 goblins have a passive perception of 9, the psi variants have a PP of 12.

So against a regular guard, they'ed have to roll less than a 4 to be seen. If you give these goblins torches, they lose this penalty and have their full PP score in the whole space of the torchlight so they can't be snuck up on, but they CAN be spotted easily, and taken out twice as quick.
You can alter the guarding goblin behavior based on the player's strengths or weaknesses. Hell, you can just have the goblin guard be asleep on the job, and someone with a decent passive perception might hear him snoring.


So there solutions
>spot the torch bearer and kill him (10 damage roll(s))
>sneak up and kill him (5 stealth roll)
>notice he's asleep (5 percpetion roll)

>>96748852
>Firstly, who asked? Not in the meme, but like, who is going to care enough to ask your character that?
It's just to explain why she's an Acolyte of Helm, her brief role model instilled good morals into her that were eventually just buried under so much self worthlessness, that was probably shared by most of the convent. She was treated more or less like dirt. Why wasn't she killed? Because I'm playing her as an adventurer that's why
>Lastly you sound like Naruto
Nah because she doesn't turn her neglect/trauma into reckless flamboyance, she is a socially timid yet fiercely protective individual, planning on giving her the "team mom" role

>>96748937
>>Lastly you sound like Naruto
>Nah because she doesn't turn her neglect/trauma into reckless flamboyance, she is a socially timid yet fiercely protective individual, planning on giving her the "team mom" role

ok.

>>96748909
the problem is in RAW 5e doesnt matter if it's harder to see you in darkness because you can still be heard normally

>>96748941
I wouldn't call Hinata a motherly figure. She was just a paper bag whose only characteristic was "in love with naruto"

>>96748949
incredible character assassination

>>96748953
Maybe if she were a character. She is more like furniture.

A new player sent me this backstory:

>When Seraphine Vex was born, the midwife screamed and threw herself into the holy font. The child came into the world already weeping black tears that hissed against the ground like acid. Her mother died moments later, her final words a prayer that the gods would “forgive this cursed thing.”
>The village of Ashvale never forgave.
>Seraphine grew up in the ashes of their hatred. The priests said her eyes were windows into Hell, and they weren’t wrong — because something was looking back. She saw it first in her dreams: a city of endless brass towers burning under a blood-red sky, where rivers of fire ran like veins through the earth. And at the center of it all, a throne of iron and bone — and a smile carved across eternity.
>He called himself Asmodeus.
>He told her that mortals fear what they cannot command — and that fear itself can be a weapon sharper than any blade. He promised her power beyond their small-minded faith. All he asked for in return was a piece of her soul.
>She laughed.
>What soul?
>The pact was sealed in her own blood — her veins ran black for seven days, and when she awoke, fire danced along her fingertips like eager serpents. The villagers who came to burn her home found only cinders and screams that echoed long after dawn.
>Now, Seraphine walks the world draped in scorched silks and broken promises. Her infernal patron whispers from behind every shadow, demanding she collect debts owed to Hell — and perhaps, one day, her own.
>She claims she doesn’t serve Asmodeus. She claims they’re partners.
>But sometimes, when the night grows too quiet, she feels his claws curl around her heart and wonders who truly owns who.

This is just shitty AI right?

>>96749077
>—
Yep, AI slop

>>96749077
>>96749135

>>96749077
>>96749135
>>96749167

yea

>>96749077
Jesus man fucking at least rewrite it yourself. Describe this "player" to me I'm very curious

>>96749077
Almost certainly. Way too many full dashes in places where there should just be a fucking comma. Switches from a more general prose relaying events to dialogue for no real reason. Not to mention the weird bit where she spends her entire childhood in a village, but during her seven-day coma, the villagers have suddenly decided to burn her house down.

The fact that it's also an overly-flowery backstory for what is otherwise an extremely generic tiefling warlock doesn't help either.
If a player did have this much interest in creative writing, surely they could have come up with something better than "Asmodeus wants souls".

>>96749077
Good God, I hate these edgy characters so much. Every campaign has at least 3 PCs who are chosen ones by their deities... at level 1. What happened to ordinary people who take up arms to the best of their abilities? Simple, humble clerics? Mad but amateur cultists yet to prove themselves to their evil patrons? These fags would rather have the story hidden in a sheet no one's gonna read instead of having the interactive experience that is the main fucking point of the medium.

>>96749077
>mfw i wrote a backstory only to find out that you're not actually supposed to make it a literal story
my poor dm actually read all 2700 words the poor bastard. i genuinely didn't know and i didnt bother. at least he thought it was alright

>>96748724
>The Way of Kings came out in 2010
If you haven't read it by now that's your own fault.

>>96749077
Please ask the player why they felt the need to do this.

Ropers: 2014 or 2024?

How common of knowledge would Mind Flayers be? Guy in our party meta gamed but insisted that everyone in the world knows what they are and how they work. I told him he's just saying that because he played Baldurs Gate (he constantly metagames enough as it is and even rolls without prompting, "My character would know this because x").

>>96749213
>Theoretical physics PHD
>Long thick hair
>Always wears black or dark colours
>Wears sunglasses inside
>Tall
>Hasn't said so but he's definitely on the spectrum
I'll ask him to have a go at making a character concept without AI in person. I hate AI slop. It should be used extremely sparingly for inspiration and idea generation only. Even then it gives you the lowest common denominator of ideas.

>>96749343
How common are mindflayers in your world?

Either way, have him roll an arcana/history check

>high roll
He knows what he knows, just let him have it
>he rolls low
He thinks he knows what he knows is real. You're the DM, you can improvise and entirely rewrite how they function. Your mind flayers don't eat brains, they eat eyeballs for nourishment. The idea that they require brains is a common misconception similar to how many believe zombies need to eat brains, rather than just flesh in general

>>96749343
>Meta gaming
This is always difficult. Sometimes it needs a bit of DM support with rolls for knowledge. But even then it's hard not to use out of game knowledge. I'll admit to looking up stat blocks while bored as a player. Don't fucking @ me

In terms of how common is knowledge of Mind Flayers for peasants they're probably just legends and stories used to scare kids. For adventurers they might have heard more but wouldn't know their monster manual block. For people who actually come from the underdark they'd probably know a lot more.

>>96749343
I'd say that the only common knowledge would be akin to common knowledge of vampires. People know that vampires drink blood using fangs and are weak to sunlight, so people probably know that mind flayers eat brains using tentacles and have psychic powers.
Anything more than that is going to be inherently more specialized info. Particularly anything involving tadpoles or specific psychic abilities.

>>96749356
It's much better at analytical work imo. "hey gpt, can you verify this for logic? i'm worried about X, Y, and Z?"

>>96749343
>How common of knowledge would Mind Flayers be?
depends entirely on the setting and therefore you need to ask dm

>>96749356
Every so often I'm tempted to get it to spew me lists of miscellaneous items to flesh out locations – not the creative bits, but the details for verisimilitude that the creative bits stand out among – but I always end up finding stuff directly from somewhere else or make it up myself.

>>96749399
And even then, if it's Faerun, for instance, Underdark characters would probably be more likely to have them as common knowledge, they likely wouldn't be on the radar for most people on the surface unless they were scholars or wizards of some kind.

>>96749356
It is fine for having it write down the ideas you give it.

>>96749356
I think ai has its use in dnd but you gotta use it like a starting tool.
It generates a bunch of ideas, you grab a handful that sound interesting, then you refine those by hand.
I use ai generated stuff for worldbuilding (especially names) because I can do stuff like have it generate a series of a dozen towns following a central naming theme based around ancient Mesopotamian naming conventions and I'll end up with a handful of places that sound pretty close to it.
Ai art has made my usual sites for character art searching totally fucking unusable and now I'm stuck having to go through fucking reddit of all places if there isn't a thread on this board.

>>96749077
>Seraphine
Yeah it's ai

what's a generic-looking fey that just looks like an elf with sharp teeth?

>>96749541
Elluvez. They are generic-looking fey that looks just like an elf with sharp teeth.

>>96749356
AI is very easy to spot because it's generally very poor at generating content, especially creative content. I was able to immediately identify a player who generated a character and backstory using Chat GPT. Unfortunately, this is fast becoming the norm for a lot of players. I generally have noticed a massive drop off of people who play TTRPGs being able to be creative. Running games now means dealing with a player base who need meta gaming (it always existed but modern players are the worst offenders, likely because people today are anxiety ridden and insanely insecure), AI generated player bios/characters, and very short attention spans. AI has been overall a detrimental and negative thing for the hobby and it's only going to get a lot worse.

The funniest story I had was during a session 0, two players came to me with the same character name and bio (bios were slightly different but thematically the exact same). I had asked if they used a LLM to create their characters and they admitted they did. I don't see the point in playing a fantasy RPG and using AI. But maybe I'm old school. The hobby is certainly dominated by people using AI generated content and I don't think that's going to change, unfortunately.

>>96749688
When I first started playing ttrpgs way back in the late 90s, there was always "that guy", which became a meme for the entire hobby as a whole. It's interesting to see how that meme disappeared with time, because in reality, the majority of modern players are that guy. Insecure, hostile, lacking an attention span, prone to cheating, etc.

I noticed that running games now is a very personal thing for modern players. I've had players personally furious at me for something that happened in-game, usually revolving around a situation that didn't go their way or an encounter that was difficult. More and more players are resorting to cheating. I generally believe this is because our current world is so insecure with itself, and it's not a matter of geography it's everywhere and everyone on earth. I remember my friend DMing back when we used to play as kids and if we died we just made a new character and kept on. A PC dying now causes an incredible amount of... trauma? Players often seem to treat the DM as a hostile force rather than someone participating in the game, too. When I take the role of player now I'm also amazed at how poorly people manage social skills. Main character syndrome is way too prevalent in today's hobby.

To go back to AI, this, in combination with all these other factors there is now a layer of disconnect. It's a schizophrenic mess. On one hand, modern players use AI for a backstory while at the same time, cannot handle loss, challenge, or things not going their way. I've heard, read, and seen countless DMs now share these problems. I used to attend some larger fantasy conventions as well. They'd run contest tables for a laugh, which almost always ended with parties wiping. In the past, these were one-shot fun (or funny) challenges. Now? People are offended, cheat, make scenes.

AI, combined with the incapability of paying attention/not getting an immediate hit of dopamine, is overall killing the hobby.

>>96749477
What I like to do when I'm too lazy to come up with the entirety of a text myself is:
>(optional) describe the situation, ask for potential outcomes for inspiration
>ask for text with shortened version/summary as the prompt
>write the text myself, using whatever the model spat out as inspiration for vocabulary and structure, sometimes keeping whole sentences verbatim if they're really good
Takes much less mental effort than writing from scratch without any assistance.

>>96749477
You might as well just use a pre-made adventure.

>>96749754
And characters

>>96749780
Yeah, exactly. I don't see any purpose in using AI at all here. If you don't have the creativity to create your own content there are tried and tested pre-made adventures and characters that will be infinitely better than AI slop, which just spits out the same em-dash HR corporate nonsense over and over again with slight re-texturing.

>>96749800
Ai isn't even coherent with that kind of shit at this point.

>>96749077
If you see a dash --- you can safely assume it's AI generated.

>>96749838
em dash, anon. the other telltale sign is an overabundance of
>not just X, but Y!
clauses in their prose. They really fucking love doing that, for whatever reason.

>>96749737
Yeah I just play with my old friends. I dread if I ever have to go through the cesspools of finding players online. Fortunately they’re all neets with no job prospects so the chance of the game breaking down is low. And I am too

>>96749688
>>96749737
i wish i had time to play a one shot with you, anon. you seem like decent folk. i hope both sides of your pillow are cold.

>>96749077
>When Seraphine
Stopped reading there.

HWYB Richard the Lionheart?

Is multiclassing monk after five levels of ranger a good idea to escape the hunters mark curse?

>>96749737
>the majority of modern players are ... insecure, hostile, lacking an attention span, prone to cheating, etc.
Nah, but cool blog.

>>96749855
Em dashes are just American custom. Non-AI American writers also use them, while British, Australian etc. ones are likelier to use spaced en dashes. Personally, I think em dashes are too awkward for parenthesis and introducing clauses. I prefer to use them only for broken-off text myself.

>>96749855
I use em and en dashes all the time though, they're so useful :((

A little over one year into the current campaign. I made this during the first arc as a reward for killing a mad-doctor themed boss that was snatching and killing people.

It has been the most used item I think I've ever made, so I'm presenting it here in case anyone wants to steal it for their own game.

>>96749077
Seraphine and Vex are league of legends champions. The first is a pop star, the second a depressed squirrel.

>>96749343
In my setting, a double-digit number of people know that mind flayers exist at all and only a single-digit number knows what they actually are, including the fact that they can arise spontaneously in certain conditions

>>96749800
>Yeah, exactly. I don't see any purpose in using AI at all here.
You're telling me you've never used a random name generator? Because thats the sort of thing I'm saying ai is good for

>new to dnd
>play two campaigns
>first one is a level 3 fighter battlemaster
>very little to do both inside and outside of combat
>second is wizard, level 1
>5x the amount of things I can do

Why would I ever play a martial race again??

>>96750965
Because you don't die the instant someone gets in your face.

>>96750142
Crossbow from a kid with cobbled together armor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Basile

>>96750818
You also don't need AI for that.

>>96750818
There's no shortage of places where you can get fantasy names from a simple program or just rip off names from other settings.

>>96751644
>>96751675
Why would I seek out a specific one when I can be as specific as possible with the AI? And then have it narrow the list based on different criteria and then assign a few quirks to each name

>>96750965
You don't have a ton of options, but you're the best at direct, simple confrontation for basically all of tier 1-2 play. By the time you reach level 6, a Fighter or Barbarian will routinely shit out way more damage on average than any other class without hardly having to expend any resources barring a few specific exceptions. A caster has more variety and potentially great burst damage, but they have to pay for it in spell slots.
Martials also don't die to a stiff breeze in the same way that a caster might. Even with all of the options like Shield, Misty Step, or Mage Armor you really only get to shunt off a few attacks or delay things enough to allow your party to rally around you.

>>96751713
>AI does nothing pre-existing systems or doing it yourself didn't do better
>Uncreative morons think its the best thing since sliced bread

>>96751860
There's a guy in my group who keeps trying to get a chatbot to make characters for him, despite the fact that it routinely ignores rules, cites non-existent resources, and fails at math. I really don't know what he's hoping for with that stuff.

>>96751644
You're right, I could go through a handful of different name generator sites (combination of fantasy, historical, and regional name generation tools), through the books I have around, and various other bits of media
Chatgpt can give me a list of a few dozen names based around a certain culture that at least sounds similar enough to a bunch of dudes in the midwest who, besides me, have never read a thing about Mesopotamia in their lives. It isn't revolutionary but it's a convenient tool in a franchise that's been full of random tables and random generators since its creation

>>96750818
dont argue with the luddites they are not rational, they just hate NEW TOOL because it's NEW

>>96751945
There was a guy a while back who preferred hardcopy monster manual over 5etools.
>How do you crosscheck all monsters from an arctic environment that have a swim speed and a CR over 5?
>t-t-there are tables at the back!
it's like they cannot conceive of new unlocked possibilities being useful

>>96745572
>>96745610
Alright I read it, while there are some parts that I think are true, I'm not sure I liked the rest. The guy sounds like an autist with his whole "youll be the only one to get it, no one else!" and seems like he lacks basic human communication skills while preaching for them lmao

The whole final conflict could've been resolved by simply learning to separate dnd as a hobby from your personal life like a normal functional adult. Instead the dude just said "aight" and lost his friend lmao
Idk not someone I wanna be taking advice from then

>>96749077
It's AI because AI loves using — so much

>>96751860
1) it is much quicker and easier to consolidate
2) because it can be so boring, you need to be creative to use it properly as a tool.

An uncreative person will take exactly what it gives and it will suck. A creative person can take the barbecues archetype an AI gives, with maybe the traits and name, and easily flesh it out into an interesting concept.

>>96748909
>Darkvision lets you see in darkness as if it were dim light. That's a -5 penalty. Regular MM25 goblins have a passive perception of 9, the psi variants have a PP of 12.
Okay, that's fantastic, thanks Anon.

>>96751945
>Retard thinks the Luddites hated technology, and not it's misuse to make a small few rich at everyone else's expense

So nothing's really changed.

>>96752291
Bullshit on both claims.

And AI has been proven to stunt your ability to perform tasks you use it for.
https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-can-stunt-the-skills-necessary-for-independent-self-creation-relying-on-algorithms-could-reshape-your-entire-identity-without-you-realizing

>>96752438
Uh oh sounds like somebody is upset they aren't smart or creative enough to use it effectively

>>96749838
Touble is that some devices autocorrect “--“ to “—“.

>>96752476
>Retard thinks letting an algorithm do all his thinking for him makes him "creative"

>>96750818
I haven’t, actually. We use conlangs in my group, so random name generators won’t provide usable output.

>>96752544
I know this is a shit post but that would be such a cool game if it was real

>>96752648
NTA but my DM has a conlang. She is still working on it. I am helping out since I know Latin.

>>96752438
>Posts article about the dangers of letting AI define your personally identity and dictate your life choices.
>See anon, this is why you shouldn't ask it for a list of anglo names from the early medieval period.

Gimme a break dude. Using the machine that specifically creates inconsequential filler to create inconsequential filler isn't going to lobotomize anyone.

how do i make traversing a 20 mile long underground tunnel fun

>>96752648
>I know this is a shit post
Here's the naming sheet from my favorite region of the setting, along with the abugida used to write that language:
https://files.catbox.moe/fgb7kf.pdf
https://files.catbox.moe/2mbgzq.jpg

Here are the names from another region, which I've worked on most recently:
https://files.catbox.moe/fhj5a5.pdf

And here are the names from the other regional languages:
https://files.catbox.moe/f8xlry.pdf
https://files.catbox.moe/01ovdk.pdf
https://files.catbox.moe/aqsguz.pdf
https://files.catbox.moe/px3via.pdf
https://files.catbox.moe/zivk8e.pdf

Here's the pronunciation guide for the standardized orthography used in these documents: https://files.catbox.moe/1pls4f.png

Unfortunately, while I do have an abjad developed for the Sekál language, I don't have it scanned into my computer and I don't have access to my physical notes while at work.

Hopefully not beating a rotting horse corpse but here's how the MM25 / 1D&D Commoner art could be redeemed

>>96752818
Please never let yourself get baited into putting this much effort again. The best thing Anon can do to btfo you is ignore lmao

>>96753313
It’s not exactly effort to drop stuff from my setting folder into catbox.

>>96752960
>All characters various shades of brown
>Brightly colored clothes and pastel buildings
>Lush greenery

Remove the pseudodragon, the blue guy, and the winged man and this is just a bland painting of an old colonial style neighborhood in Colombia.

>>96754158
Do you guys really have 3' tall walking lizards?

>>96754249
Si

>>96752960
now, instead of a random flying aasimar, it's a magical negro.

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>>96754413
That makes it almost look like he's jumping off the roof over there.
I think the actual answer to salvaging the art is just to have the background be a cityscape, so that all of these odd races are together on one street of a large metropolis, rather than what looks like a small town.