Thread 96876165

King of Cups Edition

>2024 PHB Scan
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)

>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:
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Previous thread: >>96835311

>TQ
How helpful should NPCS be? Should they be helpful advisors or just give really cryptic useless shit? Is it okay to have NPCs give bad information just to fuck with the players or will that make them distrust NPCs too much?

>>96876165 (OP)
>TQ
It should reflect what the NPCs would reasonably know and would want to tell the party.

A friendly NPC in some random town should give good helpful info while a hostile NPC in enemy territory may give bad info.

Is 5e a good system to make a 1-10 adventure path for now? I originally made it for Pathfinder for my group and I realized my campaign would actually be a decent adventure path, with a timeline of events and I already ran it so I know what to change and adjust. But would it be better to convert it to 5e? I know 5e. I know Pathfinder 1e. I don't know Pathfinder 2e but if it's way better then it might be worth learning to convert this. I just want to publish my adventure and have it do as well as possible.

>>96876223
What about this Bounty Hunter?

>>96876165 (OP)
Depends on the reaction roll.

TQ: Always make sure to go to the best source of information when talking to NPCs.

>>96876223
Sure, but much like the quantum ogre the DM decides how much the NPCs know and if they’ll meet the PCs. So my question still remains. How helpful should they be?

>>96876803
Fuckee is that you?

Need some good snippets for a half Yuan-Ti when she was younger growing up in the more bougie (predominantly human/elf) part of a city

I'm thinking of ways to adapt/customise Lost Mine of Phandelver.

There is an old wall around the town, but some of the farms have grown beyond the remains of the wall. I had thought that Halia Thornton was sponsoring the repair of the wall, but if it's incomplete, would it be worth repairing?

The Redbrands don't hassle Halia, even though she's probably one of the wealthiest/most influential citizens in town. I guess she's likely to have a couple of guards with her, to discourage them? But she'd be reluctant to lend them to someone to help deal with the Redbrands as she needs them for security.

There is a smithy, but the blacksmith is not a key NPC. Should I make them a middle-aged human male/female dwarf/teenage female halfling/other?
What minor side-quest could the smith offer?
I suppose there would also be a small farrier's stable nearby where horses could be bought/rented?

How often would travelling merchants visit the town? (In case the PCs want anything that the local shops couldn't supply easily). What other kind of travellers (quest hooks) might turn up?
What about messenger services? Would there be a (semi)regular courier or would letters be entrusted to passing caravans?

What are your takes on the new Circle Casting rules?
I think they're cool thematically/narratively, but the Expand, Prolong, and occasionally the Distribute options seem really powerful and easily performed without much issue.

>>96878706
It's basically just copying Ritual casting from PF2E, but in a worse way. In PF2E, it's used to cast spells without using any spell slots and to be able to cast spells you might not normally have access to by using collective effort, and spending time instead of slots.

My level 5 bard is hiding an evil book from the party, he has a ring of mind shielding and a necklace of non-detection. The book is a very potent one although currently in a dormant state.
We recently got a paladin join our party, will his divine sense pick up the scent of the book if it's in a satchel and if so, what can I do to prevent that from happening?

>>96878989
Ask your DM.

I hate the weird "sidegrade nerf" they did to Divine Smite.

Getting one free cast a day that never scales seems really doesnt feel like a fair trade for not being able to Smite as an Opportunity Attack, especially since you're a front liner.

Maybe the free Find Steed and Abjure Foes makes up for it in the end but that's so disappointing.

I have once again been roped into playing 5e.
Every time I play this game I get bored at the lack of mechanical complexity involved, so please give me ideas for nonsensically complex builds, or as close as you can get to it in this game.

>>96879471
I think that 2014 divine smite put the paladin in your average group, who probably has 2-3 encounters between long rests, pretty solidly ahead of the other martials in damage output. It doesn't help that paladins already tend to rock high AC and have good saves as a product of their aura. At the end of the day, it feels more of not knowing what to do for the other martials to bring them closer to paladins, so they brought the paladins closer.

>>96879332
That's actually the correct answer.

>>96879507
>not knowing what to do for the other martials to bring them closer to paladins
Please just bake Martial Adept into all martial classes at this point.
The feat tax on martials is super real and it sucks.

>>96879595
>spoiler
Except Paladins. They really do not need it.

>>96879617
I meant more for the full martials. Sorry Ranger.

>>96879617
>Two level dip in Pal
I wish the Save Bonus happened at 3, I can't justify 6 in most campaigns. Still, that would be too strong.

Smite is fun, even in 2024, I actually don't mind the changes, as long as my DM allows me to choose to Smite after I get a crit so long as I have my Bonus Action still.

>>96878706
I initially thought that the secondary casters required concentration to assist in that Magic Action. Turns out that's only if the spell has a 1-minute or longer casting time. So with a Wizard and a Cleric, they could go:
>Wizard: I want to have a 1-hour-long Greater Invisibility spell. Cleric, you okay with expending a 1st-level spell slot to help me with that?
>Cleric: Sure, as long as you're okay with expending a 1st-level spell slot to prolong this 3rd-level Bless to the party for 1 hour.
>Wizard: Deal!
They can simply do this out of combat in like 12 seconds.

>>96878706
Not a fucking chance I would allow even 25% of this in my games, I'm getting a headache from just beginning to think how my players would abuse it

>>96878706
Very silly and senseless rules. If more magic = those effects, then why can none of that be achievable by up-casting? I'll happily let two players cast the same spell cooperatively, it'll result in the spell level increasing and doing whatever the fuck happens when you up-cast that particular spell. So much complexity for so little depth, horrible game design.

Is it alright to ask for build advice here, comrades?

>>96881754
No, but if that stops you you're too weaksauce for making optimized characters anyway

>>96881754
If its for 5E or 5.5E, go ahead

>>96881824
Touche. I just wanted to be polite.
>>96881825
Thank you.

>2024, 5.5 Edition
Backstory time. Our table has had a long-time player ask to be the DM for the first time. They're brand new and running their own custom campaign. I’m not in love with their story telling but they’re trying and I’m all for it, but they suck at balancing combat. Both our normal DM and I have given advice, but they’re more stubborn than a Modron. Our fights are either a complete joke or a borderline TPK with no in between.
>FOURTEEN Giant Rats all at once when we were level one as a party of four.
>Not spaced out. All at once in a cramped room. There were more rats than empty tiles.
>Next fight was three Goblins for an entire adventuring day.
>Cakewalk or chaos.
They really don’t seem to get the multiple encounters per day mantra and have been dumping everything at us all at once. They’re trying to improve, but we’re now level 5 and my druid has become the victim of this pendulum of imbalance.

He’s actually trying to use a lot of custom lore so Intelligence skills aren’t completely useless and he’s added a decent bit of social challenges in urban environments. He’s using a mega city on a newly discovered continent and blah blah blah. He is keeping us massively gold and item starved. The party has about 2-3 magic items between the entire group.

We currently have have:
>Fiend Warlock playing decently optimized
>Bladesinger Wizard who is going extremely melee focused as a tank for some reason
>Thief Rogue played by a brand new player who is learning the ropes.
>My Druid’s incinerated corpse, after the Warlock was possessed and fireballed.

>>96881952
Our DM knew he fucked up with the fight and has been debating a free 'Your druid somehow survived' but myself and another player expressed we'd prefer to play ball and do something new. He's been waffling but finally made his decision. Now I've got about 3 hours before the session (he just decided) to finalize a build.

I now need to make a new character going off of 2024 core rules + most D&D Beyond content (They insist). 1 free general feat at level 1, multiclass restrictions apply.

But I’m at a loss for what to make. I want to make something that can survive his learning pains without being sadistic to him as a new DM. Any suggestions?

Otherwise I’m debating on Rogue (1) > Knowledge Cleric (X) and grabbing Rogue (2) after Cleric (5) for a combination of Spirit Guardian movement and skill monkey, but I’m also open to ideas.

I feel like I need to throw something AoE centric because the DM keeps adding too way too many enemy combatants and mooks who do decent damage but have low health.

DM has expressed he'd rather see a new class (Not Druid) and our Bladesinger doesn't want another Wizard in the party.

>>96876842
>puckee spamming his commission again
https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/1l4rkhq/artcomm_luckless_len_fantasy_medieval_beggar_npc/
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>13 times since April 2025

>>96881973
The two levels in rogue slows down you're spellcasting quite a bit for not much in return. It would probably be better to just go full cleric.
>Bladesinger doesn't want another Wizard
He is aware that another wizard would effectively double his known spells, right?

>>96882055
Yeah, I knew it would slow me down which would suck. I only considered it so the additional Expertise so the DM could have his "feel good" moments sharing his world building.
>Is he aware
He is aware and dumb. To quote him, "I'd just prefer something else."

>>96881973
>>96882067
Knowledge Cleric already gives you expertise in two Int skills, and as long as you pick things that the Bladesinger Wizard doesn't already have, then it should be covered well enough in terms of lore.
You could take Thaumaturge to help with that more, although that means giving up Heavy Armor.

Spirit Guardians should do a decent job of helping against hordes of enemies. May want to grab War Caster or Resilient Con for the sake of concentration. Word of Radiance also might not be a bad cantrip in those contexts.
Taking Magic Initiate so you can get Shield could also be a strong choice, since then you can better weather an assault by all those rats and survive to ensure you get off a bigger AoE spell.

>>96882117
Our resident Bladesinger only picked up Arcana. Both our Thief and Warlock dumped Int, so it left Religion, History, and Nature open. I'll probably just settle for the Knowledge Cleric's base expertise and give up on Rogue though, so thanks for the advice.
>Thaumaturge
I had the same thought. It'll sting to give up Heavy Armor, but Dex is better anyway. I was already going to dump Str if I went Rogue (2).
>War Caster and Resilient
War Caster was going to be my free level 1 and I was considering +2 Wis or Resilient with my level 4.
>Magic Initiate Shield
Trust me, I planned on it. I had it on my Druid too.


Any other combinations you could think of for this party comp or suggestions? Otherwise it sounds like I'll just go Mono Knowledge Cleric.

>>96881952
>>96881973
If all you want is to survive, Barbarian is great at that, plus it looks like your party is missing some damage. Kalashtar is a great race (species now I guess) for that class since they get advantage on Wis saves which are well known to fuck barbarians up, but if you're PHB only for species then Gnome will do that same thing, but Gnomes are cringe. Halberd's cleave property will also get a lot of value if the DM is throwing way too much at you, so that's the weapon I would recommend you build toward, and don't worry, small character can use heavy weapons just fine in 2024e.

As for actually strategizing around way too many enemies, I recommend going Valor Bard. Hypnotic Pattern will shut down a lot of enemies at once and seriously eat into the DM's action economy, plus you'll have medium armor proficiency to keep yourself safe. For feats I recommend Resilient (CON) at first level to boost your HP and saves, War Caster is fine too but Resilient is the more defensive of that two and I would prioritize that heavily in this context. At 4th I would take Defensive Duelist for Temu Shield, same reasoning.

>>96882144
Not every skill need to be covered, the wizard will have lots of INT to get by with. Focus on making your character to their strengths, that will give you win conditions to play towards. Focusing on your party's weaknesses isn't always a bad thing, but having strengths is always more important than not having weaknesses.

>>96882202
Barbarian is great for soaking up damage but I'd have gone for Paladin for the party wide save bonuses. But I figured it would be better to either CC or AoE down the mobs they're overusing.
>Races
PHB only or I'd be using Satyr for the Magic Resistance.
>Valor Bard
This was actually an option I had considered before trying to include some Skill Monkey in the build. I was going to do Fighter (1) > Valor if I did it for the weapon masteries and Con proficiency if I did, though, but once again it slows down caster progression. Not only that but it pushes Extra Attack + Cantrip even further away.

>>96882144
>>96882258
Conquest Paladin comes to mind as an option, since the Aura there debilitates enemies in addition to helping allies.
Could also combine that with Aasimar for other AoE fear/damage

>>96882258
You don't need weapon masteries on Valor bard, you're a full caster. What do you want weapon masteries for anyway? Vex on your rapier, when you're going to use your action to heal next turn anyway? Nick on your scimitar, when you should be using True Strike and it won't even activate? The only reason to ever dip on a full caster is for armor proficiency, but Valor bard already has that. If you're going to pick Bard or pick Cleric, either way, just go full class.

>>96882290
NTA but...
>Vex on your rapier, when you're going to use your action to heal next turn anyway?
Wouldn't most be using their Bonus Action for this via Healing Word? Why not continue to attack?
>Nick, on your scimitar, when you should be using True Strike, and it won't even activate?
Valor Bards get to cast Cantrips with their Extra Attack, so they can use Nick alongside using True Strike. In fact, they might be one of the best classes at using Nick due to having access ti Conjure Minor Elementals or Spirit Shroud. More attacks boost those spells

>>96882311
>Wouldn't most be using their Bonus Action for this via Healing Word?
No, Cure Wounds is mega buffed.
>Valor Bards get to cast Cantrips with their Extra Attack, so they can use Nick alongside using True Strike.
Not at 5 they can't, and while that build will in fact do a lot of damage, being overwhelmed by low power mobs means defensive play is much better. Having +2 AC from a shield won't mean shit when a Giant with +16 to hit is swinging at you, but when 8 different things with +5 to hit are swinging at you that +2 to AC is going to significantly reduce your expected time to die.

Also, even if you were going for a CME focus build eventually, that is a high level spell and you would absolutely not want to delay it by multi-classing, just use your bonus action for the two-weapon fighting attack and call it good.

it's amazing how much worse the new team is than the old team, and that's saying something

well this new book is dogshit, what a surprise
back to reading old 3.5 and PF content for gameplay systems and lore to adapt

>>96882627
Third party publishers and old books are way to go. 5.5e is fine I guess if you ignore the woke garbage artwork and house rule it heavily. If they ever make a 6e it will be complete and utter trash.

>>96882854
>Buys salt
>Is mad cause it's too salty
Just take the parts you like. The best game mode is whatever is the most fun. For the most part, I accept 5.5e's limitations, while also having a system for crafting, combat, and RP I like.

I offer my 2014 and 2024 players the following:
>**Paladin's Smite.** Once per turn when you hit a creature and do not cause the attack to deal additional damage from a "Smite" spell or effect, you can use your Divine Smite feature on that attack.
>You can use your Divine Smite feature without expending a spell slot as if you had expended a first-level slot. The effective level increases when you gain additional levels in this class to 2nd level at Paladin level 5, 3rd at Paladin level 9, 4th at Paladin level 13 and 5th at Paladin level 17.
>**Divine Smite.** (as 2014)
One smite per turn, doesn't cost a BA, doesn't stack with spells/Eldritch Smite, can use on opp. attack, free use which scales.
>>96879747
>as long as my DM allows me to choose to Smite after I get a crit so long as I have my Bonus Action still
Exactly how it works RAW. They'd have to houserule it to not let you do that.

>>96882861
Piling on just to call bullshit on the Cleric getting heavier hits with every attack while Pal gets dick for Divine Strike.

>>96882861
>Exactly how it works RAW
In the old phb. In the nu-phb you have to cast the spell before the hit.

>>96882877
>In the old phb. In the nu-phb you have to cast the spell before the hit.
>2024 Divine Smite: Casting Time: Bonus action, which you take immediately after hitting a target with a Melee weapon or an Unarmed Strike

If your wizard could only use spells from one school, which one would it be?

>>96882988
Elementary, my dear Watson.

>>96882859
I do much the same. I have a 4 page document of house rules. I’ve found as time goes on many 5.5e rules are a bit silly and poorly thought out. Like their rules for switching weapons mid attack. Weapon masteries are a good addition, I think I annoy my players by giving them to NPCs too but why wouldn’t they master weapons as well?

>>96878706
>>96882598
A 4th-level Earth Tremor with Augment is really funny. With 6 secondary casters (Who do not need to expend a spell slot), that's a 5280-foot grounded emanation. It doesn't damage objects or structures, but it does have a chance of harming creatures, so if you cast this in like a village or small town, you'd probably kill most people and animals there if you're lucky, while also causing massive difficult terrain.

Augment a Dimension Door to 1500 Feet! The secondary caster doesn't even have to expend a slot for it; they could just hitch a boosted teleport ride! I'm unsure how Distant Spell Metamagic works here. Idk if you double the spell's range after or before Augment is taken into effect. If it's before, that's a 2000-foot teleport, if it's after 3000-feet!
It's crazy that you can do this without having the secondary caster have to use concentration or expend a spell slot- you just gotta be able to get a turn before the primary caster loses concentration.

>>96879471
It's a buff. As a spell, it can be buffed by spell effects.

>>96883138
>I have a 4 page document of house rules.
>he hasn't completely rewritten his own PHB by this point

>>96883172
Vortex Warp and Thunder Step also work really well with Augment. Vortex Warp an ally 1090 feet somewhere that you can see.

>>96882877
Did you even read the 2024 spell before posting this?

>>96878706
Distribute can be used with the Summon X spells out of combat to effectively have multiple Summons going at once. You can offset the concentration to another ally caster, then cast the Summon spell again for you/another ally to Concentrate on. I don't know if that's worth the cost, but since the spells last 1 Hour and doesn't cost the ally any spell slot, I could see it actually kinda working.

Build anon from earlier. The Bladesinger has now joined my Druid in death. DM sweating bullets.

>>96883182
At that point I’d play a different game. Other d20 games I’ve played and enjoyed are 13th Age, Iron Heroes, and Castles and Crusades. I could take the elements I like most from all of them but for now I’m enjoying trying 5.5e.

My group had a nice Halloween session in a non-Euclidean haunted house with four encounters against various crustaceans. I hope everyone else had a good time this Halloween.

>>96883431
Had an administrative session for my Star Wars Saga session, strangely was fun despite it being the party maneuvering around bureaucracy shit

>>96876165 (OP)
How come there are no elemental, fiendish and fey sorcerer subclasses? It seems like wasted potential.

>>96883606
>Elemental
Technically, storm sorcerer, but I know what you mean. It'd be nice
>Fiendish
iirc for the same reason a dragon patron doesn't exist, wotc wants to keep the two classes narratively different
>Fey
This is wild magic

>>96883606
>Wasted potential
>In 5e
>In the year of our lord 2025
I just wish WoTC weren't so fucking brain dead.

>>96883609
It seems that Warlock and Sorcerer have many thematic similarities, which can greatly facilitate multiclassing.
For example, a multiclass of Aberrant Mind and goo Warlock

What's the closest thing to Irori from Pathfinder?

>>96879507
I really really really think you have the right take on this.

>>96878706
Can you use Expand to make Wall of Force's hemispherical dome larger?

>>96883737
You're going to have to explain what that is. most people here don't play shitfinder

Just swinging by the ‘ol containment thread here to make sure you pathetic mind prisoned losers are discussing character builds, stats for items, and how to make small number into big number. Really just anything but the practical and diegetic aspects of adventuring, combat, fantasy, and historical warfare.
Looks good. Keep up the fine work, homos, get back to it

>>96882202
>Gnomes are cringe
Anti-gnomism is cringe.

90% of the new feats are trash. Why would anyone waste their ASI on that?
>Only One subclass per class.
>The only worthy feat is behind a faction AND origin feat.
Who are the retarded braindead theater kid that are designing this?

>>96884625
Anti-gnomism is common sense.

>>96884646
I think at this point, their writing team is a handful of interns feeding prompts into chatbots.

>>96883737
Maybe the Zakharan faith? It's made up of deities who represent singular aspects of Enlightenment which need to be understood and reconciled as a whole in the path to wisdom. Or the Kahin faith, which is an animist sect of the above.

>>96878706
I haven't looked into what people have been cooking up, but I will be preemptively banning the option. I'm sure people have/will come up with ways to abuse it. It being a feature of Faerun and my campaigns not taking place in Faerun gives me a nice excuse to use other than "because I said so".

>>96876165 (OP)
>TQ
As helpful as the players want them to be. It's fine if, occasionally, an NPC gives bad information in the right circumstances.

>>96878706
Way too powerful. I've got my own set of overhauled rules changes + Classes for 2024 and I took it and nerfed some of the more broken options. The Secondary Casters must also have the spell being cast prepared or in their spellbook, and use a slot of the same level as the Primary Caster's slot to participate, among other changes.

The concept? Great, fun, flavorful. The execution? Poor. I have no clue how this got out of playtesting in its current state.

But hey, the new UA glazes monks more so at least they're doing something right after gutting purple dragon knight into a dogshit useless subclass.
>WAHHH THAT ISNT WHAT A PURPLE DRAGON KNIGHT IS!
I don't care, dragon pet > whatever lazy shit they printed in the new faerun book.

>>96884106

Irori, Master of Masters, is the god of enlightenment, self-perfection, knowledge, healing, and inner strength. His followers claim that he was once a mortal who achieved absolute physical and mental perfection and thus attained divinity of his own volition.He is one of the core gods of, if not the most powerful deity of, the Vudran pantheon but is also worshiped widely in Tian Xia and has a growing following in the Inner Sea region as well.

>>96879471
I tweaked it as follows:
>Starts at 2d8, +1d8 vs fiends/undead
>Increases by +1d8 at levels 5/9/13/17, when you get new spell levels
>2/3/4/5/6 Uses at levels 2/5/9/13/17, per long rest.
>Works on Unarmed Strikes or Melee Weapons
>Can be used Once per Round
>Table that lets you burn a spell slot of a certain level depending on your Paladin Level and the power of the smite at that level, from slots 1-5

Ranger had the same change to Hunter's mark.
>Starts at 1d6, increases to d8/d10/d12/2d8 at levels 5/9/13/17.
>2/3/4/5/6 Uses at levels 2/5/9/13/17, per long rest.
>Works on Unarmed Strikes or weapons
>Can be used Once per Round, damage can be applied once per round
>Bonus Action to apply, no concentration but can be applied to only one target at a time, if you would apply it to a new target it ends on the first.
>Keeps the advantage on checks against the target.
>10 minute duration
>Ends if 10 minutes pass, you end it for free, or target is reduced to 0 HP
>If it ends via 0 HP, you can pop a reaction to swap it to another target without burning another use
>Range 90 feet
>Table that lets you burn a spell slot of a certain level depending on your Ranger Level and the power of the smite at that level, from slots 1-5


Mind, these are part of a sweeping suite of other changes I've called my Unchained Rules/Classes, referencing older stuff from 3.PF1e in name. Progression is different, features are mostly different with lots of new ones (including Martial Strikes, which are just aoe powers from 4e for the most part tweaked to work in 5e).

>>96885078
A quick Google Search pointed me to the Zakharan pantheon, which together embodies enlightenment. Alternatively, Padhra?

>1000 ft extra range for no slot

what
are
they
smoking

I dont even need to open some tryhard website or reddit to know there are already 9000 insanely op combos from this

not that I play some dogshit "if it's printed by wotc i must allow it" game, but it's still fucking funny

>>96885490
What are some OP combos you can think up or have seen for Augment?
Dimension Door, Thunder Step, Vortex Warp, and Earth Tremor is all I can really think up. So many spells require line of sight and 1000+ feet if really big, it's unlikely you could take advantage of that. This is all out of combat, too. In combat, it's tricky to use this mechanic.

For the other options I got:

Distribute (Offset concentration to someone else): Doesn't require spell slots from Secondaries
-Out of Combat: Summon X (Such as Fey, Dragon, Celestial, Fiend, etc), Danse Macabre, and Pre-Combat Buff Spells.
-In Combat: Wall Spells and Damage over Time Spells

Expand (Increase radius, emanation, cube, or width of spell by 10 feet per secondary): Does require at least a 1st-level spell slot from Secondaries
-Out of Combat: Pre-Combat Emanation Spells
-In Combat: All Action cast time Emanation Spells and AOE Control Spells- Wall of Force?

Prolong (Increase the duration of the spell by 1 Hour with one secondary or 8 Hours with four secondaries, or 24 Hours with seven secondaries.): Does require at least a 1st-level spell slot from Secondaries
-Out of Combat: All Action cast time Single Target/Mass/Self 1 or 10 Minute buff/emanation spells (Bless, Blink, Blur, Fly, Giant Insect, Haste, Conjure Minor Elementals, Conjure Woodland Beings, Conjure Celestial, Aura of Vitality, Greater Invisibility, Spirit Guardians, Mirror Image, etc), Delayed Blast Fireball, Illusory Dragon
-In Combat: Prismatic Wall

>>96885593
>What are some OP combos you can think up or have seen for Augment?
First thing I can think of is making enemies that fly high up plummet to their death with tasha's hideous laughter

How do you guys choose your spells?
It seems to be such a great list and everything seems to work.

>>96885758
Pick a theme for your character. Not everything has to be damage. If you're at a total loss, just give a dice a roll to pick.

Maybe build spiderman, with jump, shield (spidey sense), and web.

>>96885664
That's a good option, assuming you're in a case where the opponent is fleeing and you and your ally have the initiative order to make that happen without you dropping concentration.

I wish more monsters had weird weaknesses like werewolves and silver
I'd love to play a Supernatural influenced rogue/fighter who hauls around a bag of totally random bullshit items made of weird materials or blessed by religious people so when he realizes he's fighting fae he has a special shortsword made of pure iron because they're weak to it or whatever

>>96886127
Do what I do. Give them a weakness that needs to be discovered, unique for every creature, but at the same time they get a little buff. It's actually really good because they identify the creatures that way.

Do the Dan Coleman small adventures stuff have a PDF I can look at online? I don't mind buying them, but 'piracy' is a good way to check their quality, what they contain, and whether I like their story.

>>96884330
They did it

>>96887174
>>96884330

>>96886932
https://files.catbox.moe/rqcpic.pdf

>>96887332
My bad that was just a preview here is a full adventure https://files.catbox.moe/qrgmeb.pdf

elf... ranger...

>>96887332
>>96887381
Two different adventures but nice, more detailed than I thought. I don't suppose you have the level 6 one, "If Looks Could Kill"? That's the one I was thinking about buying for my one-shot if it matched my wants. Though the quality of the ones you linked me already seems pretty good enough to buy it.

>>96883172
now I'm picturing an adventure where you have to track down the 8 casters who are destroying the countryside via Earth tremors. (the 8'th is for the safeguard effect)

>>96887440
https://files.catbox.moe/m07fro.pdf

>>96887409
Female half-elf Ranger with wolf companion.

>>96887480
Yeah, think I'll buy this, the dungeon's basically just what I wanted. Thanks

Wizard

How do you guys do "fog of war" for dungeons when using physical maps? Just cover that shit up with lots of paper? There has to be a better way

>>96887526
you just know

Human
Female
Champion Fighter

>>96887540
Yeah, it's called "don't use maps that have everything already laid out on them". Just use segments for the immediate area, or just draw new areas with a marker if you're using a marker-friendly medium.

>>96887548
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/8GhBubSOPrA

>>96887460
A spell can only be effected by a single Circle Casting bonus effect. The primary caster will be safe from the Earth Tremor, but the others... Well, they could just get off the ground, climb a tree or something and support from 30 feet.

>>96887537
We do be Bladesinging around here.

>>96887720
oh I must have missed that part. it still is a fun idea though

>>96887540
Things are only conveyed to the players as the characters learn them.

my new dm is a woman, what am I getting myself into

>>96888261
>Playing with women at all
Don't do it in general

>>96888261
In my experience, a very horny dm

>>96888261
Pic related.

>>96888261
Depends entirely on her personality and interests, but they tend to be heavier on RP than combat, with some exceptions

>>96888261
the female dm I played with was heavy on feywild/alice in wonderland/wild magic stuff

What makes a good 5e campaign?

>>96887749
cool although I never liked Asian aesthetics

>>96888581
Horrible monsters, dastardly villains, devious plots, glittering treasures, exciting locales, kissable princesses, musical numbers, a large quantity of elephants, and at least one guy who sounds like Ed Wynn.

>>96888261
That sounds like a question you should be asking your DM. She'll be able to tell you more about her style of DMing and what type of campaign or one shot she'll be running.

>>96888753
Nah, asking random strangers to project onto his new DM sounds a lot more fun. I'm going with "running a Gamma World game masquerading as fantasy".

>>96888587
Nah, son. Dastardly treasure, devious princesses, glittering monsters, horrible locales, kissable villains, musical elephants, a large quantity of numbers, and at least one guy who sounds like Ed Wynn.

>>96889074
Unironically a compelling combination as well.

>>96883609
>Elemental

They made the four you'd want in Unearthed Arcana.
Water: https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/sorcerer:sea-sorcery-ua
Earth: https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/sorcerer:stone-sorcery-ua
Fire: https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/sorcerer:phoenix-sorcery-ua
But only Air made it into print:
https://dnd5e.wikidot.com/sorcerer:storm-sorcery

This was just a failure in development, that's all. All three of the dropped ones are mostly ok and could even be used straight. The one with extra attack is probably a bit too good when combined with paladin (for a 5.0 game). More work would be needed to play them in 5.5.

As for fiendish and fey, I really do think these would be at cross paths with warlocks. They would certainly not be impossible though.

>>96889510
NTA but sea sorc works perfectly for an adventurer NPC in my campaign. This was interesting to see. I'd have to read the fire sorc, but I know that there's a pyromancer subclass in one of the planeshift books.

>>96884646
Probably just an extension of Mearls wanting to get rid of all player choices other than subclasses.

What did i thunk about call of the deep campaign?

I will start a "horror" campaign next week end.
I will put my fetishes in it

>>96889992
>I will put my fetishes in it
based

Give me an item name and I will make for you an item.

>>96890135
Belt of engorgement

I ran my first one-shot last night lads. Had to stop a few times to sort out how shit worked but everyone seemed to have fun so that was nice.

>>96890135
The Throngler

>>96884646
Which feat were you eyeing?

>>96890135
Glaive of the Hornswoggled

>>96890135
Spear of the last dawn

>>96878706
For a brief shining moment, I thought I could finally Eldritch Blast the Moon. And then, the cuckolds put a limit on it. Still, it brings up the limit of Eldritch Sniping up to 1 Mile, 5280 feet and 1164 5' squares or hexes.

>>96890369
Typo

My Halfling Rogue spent a lot of the one shot I ran perched on top of the Wood Elf Barbarian. When it came time to roll initiative for combat, I just took the higher of their two rolls and let them both use it, but I also want to discourage them from trying to metagame this. Do I just have them roll seperately going forward or keep doing what I was doing but have them roll with disadvantage?

>>96890307
This one is OP af. Every feat should be like this. You can even remove Versatile Merc and still more useful than the rest of the feats.

>>96889510
>wikidot
For what fucking reason?

>>96890135
Enforcer's cudgel

>>96890546
This looks amazing for a rogue

>>96890639
For any melee, better for a rogue, marvelous for a swashbuckler.
The bad thing of it? you have to be Zentharim 100%. I don't see logic nor sense on locking these kinds of feat exclusively on one setting.

>>96890673
I think the logic is to prevent everyone from taking it.

>>96890722
>To avoid people on using this badass feat, we're going to lock it behind a Setting and specific Faction
>Everyone becomes a Zentharim ruffian
Nothing personel, kid

>>96890886
>The reason the Zhents have such influence in the realms is because they offer genuinely useful character options
Devilishly cunning.

the game was already dogshit but everything they do makes it worse
it's honestly impressive

>>96890135
Tin of Many Mints

>>96890546
Could you not just re-flavor this feat into something else? Tie it to a different faction relevant to the setting you're playing in? Or even just rename both into generic names?
>Zhentarim Ruffian---> Ruffian
>Zhentarim Tactics---> Ruffian Tactics
Nothing stops a character from getting an Origin Feat as an ASI or from Lessons of the First Ones. So technically you don't have to have a background as a Zhentarim to get access to it!

Do Dan Coleman's adventures not come with non-GM versions of the maps?
They're high quality otherwise but that's such a weird thing to exclude

>>96884646
Only no games care about subclasses. if you're in a game, you probably ALREADY have a subclass, and are looking for other options to customize your character or increase their power.

each book should be coming up with new FEATS to change how the game works and interactractions players can do.

>>96891933
My mention on subclasses was to contrast the 5e books where you had 2 or 3 subclasses per class in each book.

>>96891878
My complain is not that i'm not capable of doing that (hell, why not even change the flavor so i don't have to be a ruffian) but the design ethos of whoever came up that restriction.

>>96890407
You can't Eldritch Blast the moon, but you can Spellfire Flare the moon! This is basically Eldritch Blast, but it's a 1st-level+ spell, so it's kind of meh.

>>96892174
Also, you can't Circle Cast with cantrips. Spells using spell slots only!

I'm interested in playing as a farmer druid... what subclass would you recommend for a beginner?

>>96892253
Circle of the Land

>>96892253
Either Land or Dreams. Land just boosts your spellcasting in a general way, and Dreams offers extra healing and utility with some features that are relatively basic.

>>96891933
No-games is not the same as caring about future games. You can desire more options than what you presently use in a game, especially if you aren't happy with the ones present. Plus, people like to make back-up characters.
Having more feats is important, but subclasses contribute more overall features to a character and are important for flavoring your options.

>>96891880
If you bought them from DriveThru RPG you get the player safe maps. It'll be in your library.

so i imported the map into roll20 however it doesn't fit. how do i fix this?

>>96893307
You can resize the backdrop and/or the map itself to fit. If you go to the page settings there is an option to expand the backdrop to a size that will accommodate the map without having to resize it.

Question: Do your adventurers eat the monster they kill? Such a waste of good meat if you do not.

>>96892942
Oh I see, thanks

>>96890135
Faithbreaker (Mace)

All of you are bald, bearded, fat losers who worship the notion of girl power and worship the sight of brown people shoehorned into historical non-brown aesthetics. You conflate your weak willed cuckedness and self defeating permissiveness with relaxed chill and deep thought. You have neither, and you prove this all to be true and accurate every time you sit down at a game table. Yes all of you.

>>96893929
Clean-shaven, hair over a foot in length, but admittedly chubbier than I'd like. One out of three ain't bad.

>>96892315
>>96892301
I forgot to mention that I can only use subclasses of 2024, I don't know if that changes the answer in any way

>>96894069
Circle of the Land is 2024

>>96893929
Sry m8. I'm ripped with great hair, and my beard is neatly trimmed, thank you very much. As for the rest, did you mean to post this on Reddit or something? 4chan is the font of red pills

5e Queen’s Blade(HobbyJapan)
Release date 2026

>>96894173
oh ok... I've been taking a look at it and it looks pretty good. Basically, it seems to increase my druid's versatility by adding more spells.

>>96890541
>When it came time to roll initiative for combat, I just took the higher of their two rolls and let them both use it
Why? They should roll their own initiative.
Did you treat the barbarian as a controlled mount or something?

>>96894500
I think I had the idea of them occupying the same place at the same time meaning that they'd have the same initiative. It makes more sense to have them just roll their own initiatives.

How do you represent a master craftsman within a 5e statblock? like someone who forged the armory of the gods obviously wouldn't have adventurer levels or stats meant for combat, but if the party are murder hobo enough I'd like something to work off of.

>>96894703
Unless you have your own crafting systems where you can roll or get bonuses, it's really hard. In RAW, you're better off just giving lip service and showing them in possession of rare items.

>>96894738
is there no existing craftsman type monster/character within official sources?

>>96894877
Guild Artisan, Forge Domain Cleric, or possibly a Veteran?

>>96894703
>>96894877
You use any statblock you want and rename it?
Just because there is a commoner stat block doesnt mean that every commoner ever in the world uses that block. The published stat blocks are helpful jumpstarts or ready made helping tools, they do not circumscribe the realm of all possibility.

Read any (official) published module and you will see this non stop
>use the veteran stat block to represent <mayor of town>

>>96894915
I guess. I was just hoping there was something like a duergar forge master stat block or something to pull from. Oh well.

>>96894956
There's the kobold inventor, though I wouldn't call that a master craftsmen by any measure

>>96894956
Just use that and use the DMG section on changing the race of a monster

>>96894956
You really need to get out of the mindset that if a statblock doesnt exist it can't be represented. The statblocks are just examples

>>96895067
i assure you im not in that mindset, but if there was an example to build off of, all the better.

What class would you say is a non-magical equivalent to a wizard?

>>96895277
fighter. sorcerer would be barbarian

>>96895089
then download all MME and ToB from 5etools homebrew, as well as the custom npcs etc. Im sure there's a good start there

>>96894877
>Official sources
WoTC are retards. The community will have better stats. Here is a free place with every class represented as NPCs. There are many other resources out there. https://www.emptyhexes.com/monster-mondays/npc-artificer

You could also just go here and ask it to make you an artificer of whatever level you want https://fastcharacter.com/

is it normal for people to have a dnd self-insert character? I kind of wish I had one, but all my ideas are super boring

>>96896128
>is it normal for people to have a dnd self-insert character?
in some cases but usually no. but let’s be real, every casual dnd campaign between friends, they are absolutely roleplaying projecting themself into their character to an extent so spiritually almost everyone is already a self insert

>>96888269
>As a biological determinist

>>96896141
Oh he'll get really tweaked about your post, the guy who likes to post that thinks Gygax was an infallible demigod who must have been the perfect DM no matter what.

>>96896150
it's funny cause from everything I read gygax just sounds like a terrible dm autist who didnt grasp the potential of dnd at all and was doing his autism in his corner while other people at the exact same time where already leveraging the nascent medium to create memorable experiences with their friends
He should be an example of what to avoid

>>96890546
Am I reading that wrong, or does that theoretically give you unlimited opportunity attacks? It doesn't say you can make an opportunity attack as a reaction after being hit (which would limit it to one reaction per turn), but just that if they attack you, you get to opportunity attack them, no reaction spending needed.

Surely that is not the rule as intended?

>>96896229
An opportunity attack requires taking a reaction.

>>96896229
>does that theoretically give you unlimited opportunity attacks?
I wish
>Am I reading that wrong
Yes, you could use it with the Cavalier Subclass since it gives you the ability to have a opportunity attack per enemy that gives you the chance.

>>96896128
The most insane campaign I was in had 2 blatant self inserts, 1 unforgivably evil murder hobo (one of the DM favorites), and a DM that was a massive control freak and told multiple people that if they wanted to be a "control freak" (i.e., suggest maybe killing players as a story death at level 4 is retarded) that they should DM their own campaign.
The self inserts were ironically some of the least bad parts. It's sort of expected every player WILL have a self insert in some form sooner or later, and every character will reflect the player in some way.

>want to try buying a magic item
>Ioun Stone of Mastery because ioun stones are cool and it doesn't SEEM that OP
>I roll to see if I can find one in this giant metropolis we are in, get high result
>DM consults book, rolls dice
>tells me that it'll cost me 200k if I want to follow up on the search and buy it
He could have just told me no. Is +1 proficiency bonus at the cost of an attunement slot really that expensive? Trying to take it in stride, but there seem to be much better items at lower rarities (our Sorcerer's Bloodwell Vial is insane).

>>96896378
The price the dmg recommends for a ioun stone of mastery is 50k. Maybe he included the cost of labor in finding and acquiring such an item, but I don't know why he'd quadruple it.

>>96896210
>>96896150
>>96896141
You femoids and simps just can’t help but out yourselves.

>>96896580
Keep proving me right, dipshit.

>>96894703
I have Mastery and Grandmastery beyond proficiency and expertise, granting 3x and 4x prof bonus. There's less than 10 grandmasters of anything in my very expansive world, and most of them don't want to be found. One of my players gained mastery via a god's blessing though, otherwise that shit takes 10 in-game years to obtain through constant daily training.

I'm not going to lie, someday I'm going to play Evoker because I want to spam fireballs without repercussions, but the Abjurer wizard pic looks way cooler than the gay twink elf

>>96894703
Master Craftsman
59 hp (7d10+21), AC 13, Speed 40 ft.
STR 14 DEX 14 CON 17 INT 14 WIS 14 CHA 14
Expertise in one or more types of tools
Masterful Crafting. Masterful Craftsman crafts things masterfully. Items of the type the Master Craftsman is masterful in are crafted masterfully by him.
Keen Sight and Smell. The Master Craftsman has advantage on Wisdom (Perception) checks that rely on sight or smell.
Multiattack. The Master Craftsman makes two attacks: one with his beak and one with his claws.

mmm interesting

>>96896229
You would need something that gives you more than one reaction for that to be true.

>>96894282
Give me a link or honor yourself

>>96897833
I'd swap Monk and Wizard complexity

Anyone have the pdf for the new official book Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerun?

I ran my first one-shot the other night and it went well. I want to segue into Lost Mines, and my players all want to keep their characters from the one-shot (Barbarian, Fighter, Monk, Rogue). They will be starting at level 2 from finishing the one-shot, but I'm concerned about the lack of healing. Do you think it's enough to give them a few Potions of Healing before the journey starts, or should I have a DMPC Cleric help them along on the trip?

>>96899349
>No casters at all
>All Martials and one skill monkey
Yeah they could probably overpower most encounters but once you get past the Redbrand hideout they are going to have issues with NO spells at all.

>>96890135
Inferno's Luctus

>>96890135
Syphilitic Saber

Behold 5e's feeble attempt at replicating 4e's epic destinies: https://5e.tools/book.html#fraif,1,epic%20destinies

>>96899878
...that's just reflecting your character development with your mechanical choices. What about this is destiny in any way?

How would you guys characterize Acererak? I was unironically thinking of something like picrel. Currently running Tomb of Annihilation and I was thinking of having him be pretty nonchalant about his whole evil plan, in the sense that it's just one of 50+ others that he's managing at the same time. He'd throw almost comedic jabs and make fun of the whole absurdity of the party actually having survived the dungeon, considering how much of a power difference there is between him and the party. But I'm afraid that having the big climactic battle being against a guy who doesn't seem to give much of a fuck about what happens might be kinda deflating? I also didn't really wanna make him another stereotypical evil lich. Since there's two of those in the campaign already.

>>96900146
It's not him it's a simulacrum?
>running 50 evil enterprises
>leave them to my duplicates
>literally forget to check on them most centuries

>>96900186
I did think about the Simulacrum as an alternative to the "Acererak teleports away if he's under a certain threshold" default outcome. Will probably make it much harder if they have to fully deplete his health points but it does make him more imposing. Ty anon.

>>96900146
The way I tend to characterize entities on that level is brutal, direct, and efficient application of power. No pointless torture, no disproportionate punishment of subordinates, and no "sending progressively stronger mooks to deal with a problem that could have been solved if you just sent the strongest one in the first place". When he deems it worth his time to act, he does so to his utmost. But it may not always be worth it to him, even when it seems of utmost significance to those beneath him.

Que-sera-cerak has invested a certain degree of time and effort into his current plan and he'll defend that to an extent, but you have to know when to cut your losses and move on to the next scheme. He might even congratulate the heroes, noting that he'll factor in their particular strengths for next time, but he wouldn't stick around out of spite. After all, being able to execute on his other projects is more important than the loss of this one.

You are being made to create the shaman/spirit shaman as it's own unique class for 5e how do you do it?

>>96900649
Set it up with Warlock style casting with a Druid spell list, but in place of Invocations you've got Barbarian style totems that tend to offer more physical benefits instead of extra spells.

>>96900649
The two options are some type of fullcaster (>>96900680 already pointed out warlock is a good match for this) or a half caster. Regardless, the base class spell list should be anemic and each subclass should fill it out very nicely.

>>96899878
>>96900105

Just to get this out of the way, no, they have virtually nothing to do with level 21+ (in the vein of D&D 4e's epic destinies, which offered features at 21, 24, 26, and 30, plus an immortality quest), and they are only tangentially related to epic boon feats.

The Adventures in Faerûn epic destiny rules are essentially just "Talk to your DM and figure out how to flavor your character background and feat progression in a cool way, and maybe even some magic items and other miscellaneous rewards."

Notably, the "heir to the throne" example has the character be coronated at level 11, but be convinced by a magical vision to abdicate at level 17. That seems like a letdown.

What do people here think of them?

>>96900649
definitely needs to have a totem mechanic and what >>96900680 said is interesting. Maybe make them a half caster with a focus on melee so that its general gameplay idea is using totems to buff itself and any other allies to make dealing with you harder with AC or health increases, making you hit harder through adding things like prof. bonuses to damage, or making enemies weaker. Subclasses could lean into other aspects harder. A lightning based shaman where you add onto spell casting making you a blaster caster of sorts, like adding lightning blot and thunder wave and making them consistent or higher damage. Could also do things like chaining lighting melee attacks so it doesn't abandon melee entirely. Maybe one based on totem spamming with buffs and debuffs in AOEs, make the AOEs bigger, making it so you can place more then one totem at a time at later levels. Spell list could add obvious things like bane and bless, maybe barkskin if it isn't already there. and final one could lead into the taboo I guess you could call it and focus on melee by using tales of wendigos and maybe transforming into something wendigo like giving you melee buffs and protections. The warlock style casting idea is cool and could work really well while still keeping it a half caster though it would probably need to be tested with both versions to see what would fit best.

>>96899097
>the pdf
Wizards doesn't make those. PDFs for their books are scans of the physical books, which I'm going to assume haven't been made.

>>96899349
>I ran my first one-shot the other night and it went well
Congrats! What was the best part?
>Do you think it's enough to give them a few Potions of Healing before the journey starts, or should I have a DMPC Cleric help them along on the trip?
Just let them buy potions of healing if they want.

>>96900697
>What do people here think of them?
the more autists take over this game the more basic dming things have to been turned into explicit systems and rules
>are you using the epic destinies system
>do you mean will your character have a journey yes you fucking autist

Help/advice needed!
>Started a new campaign yesterday
>4 players
>rogue's background is that she's a thief therefore she "must find a way to steal everything"
>group is mostly onboard with this idea
>spends more than I would like thinking how to steal the quest giver's signet ring
>fortunately decides too risky
>goes to tavern, spends more time thinking about how to steal more stuff

How is a good way to prevent this from accidently derailing the campaign? I don't mind they getting some extra gold here and there but I'm afraid that a low roll at the wrong situation might ruin the entire thing

Thoughts on how to deal with this kind of rogue?

PS: the rogue as a player is typically not problematic, but its her first time on dnd so she might not be thinking too much on consequences of actions

>>96900697

Notably, the highest-level adventure in this Adventures in Faerûn book is at level 13, so there still is not much support for high-level play.

>>96900941
Consequences for stealing. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face.

>>96900941
Including a few more clearly signaled targets of theft might be the better option. Instances where there's low risk of getting caught that you can put out there in order to let them do their thing.

That pairs with >>96901118 though, where you want to have more immediate consequences for more high-risk thefts. To avoid derailing, make it so the consequence isn't that the town guard sends waves of men to capture a single pickpocket.
Having whoever they were stealing from (or a bodyguard) beat them up is the simplest, though there is a risk there that the rest of the party will decide to escalate.

Something you could probably do but will only work once is have the stolen item be cursed, or have the victim of the theft be a Hag or some other disguised monster that could hinder the thief in supernatural ways regardless of whether they were successful.
You could even work plot hooks into it, where stealing a pouch might have some job offer or a coded message or whatever other sinister object helps push things along.

>>96901118
To add to this, if they're stealing in public and get caught, make a big scene.

>>96900858
The best part was that I managed to keep the game going with minimal interruption and kept the players engaged. I definitely fucked up a few things but I took notes and will prepare better for next time. As far as specific moments go, I decided to let my players Cleave through enemies on kills after my Fighter asked if he could throw his javelin through one rat into another. I told him he could, then described how he made the Rat version of Human Centipede as the momentum from the first rat carried its ass into the second rat's face.

To be honest, I've got enough on my plate without trying to play a character too. I think letting them spend some of the money they earned in the one shot on potions and gear before setting out is probably the best way to go.

>>96899349
Chuck a few potions around in chests. They’ll work out how handy they are. Here are my potion prices.

>>96900649
>how do you do it?
I already did. It’s part of my bullshit.
https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/-VVNGbAUyyHU

As >>96900680 and >>96900690 posit, the warlock chassis is pretty damn solid for distinguishing a shaman from a druid.

>>96900941
talk frankly with the player about how to work this into the campaign without it derailing things, cause left unchecked it inevitably will. depends on your campaign of course but 'plotting to steal key item' sounds like it would be more fun for everyone than 'plotting to steal random tchotchke the dm mentioned in passing'. if they're not trying to be disruptive it should be fine, and gives you potential hooks for both complications and scenarios.

>>96899074
Yeah

What's the most doable way for a human male fighter to become immune to magic, or at least immune to magic below a certain threshold?

>incoming fireball
>Magic isn't real, nerd!

>>96902914
cock ring of magic immunity

>>96902914
stuff that gives you magic resistance and bonuses to saving throws

or the ball gag of magic immunity

>>96902914
buttplug of magic plugging, you just have to get close enough to shove it in the mage

how do i play songo from inuyasha in 5e, i see no large boomerangs anywhere in the book

>>96899097
>>96900832

filebin net slash lzzel1gwka252b9h

you gotta download the whole zip and not the individual files

What's the best setting for 5.5? Greyhawk? Faggotten Realms? Grim Hollow? Midgard? Eberron?

How would you describe a Halfling carrying a lance, visually? I have a hard time picturing a 3' person carrying a 10+ft long weapon.
When not in use, that is

>>96903685
kept on the horse/pony obviously.

single check >>>>>>>> group check > multiple checks

>>96888261
same factors you'd have if you had a male GM, it depends entirely on what they want out of a game.

>>96888581
The same thing as any other TTRPG, having your friends with you at the table. Any TTRPG not played with friends is a TTRPG played incorrectly.

>>96902914
Use my 2024 Unchained Fighter homebrew.

>At 7th, once per long rest, can just choose to succeed on a save and ignore any damage taken from the thing that forced the save. +1 uses at levels 11 and 18

>at 9th, add half proficiency bonus to all non-proficient saves

>at 17th level, immune to Frightened and Charmed

>Grab my revised Brute Subclass packed in, 5th level adds Con mod to all saves

>Get magic items that gives Resistances

Of course, baseline it's impossible for a fighter to become immune to magic. It is, however, possible for a fighter to run down a mage and stab him to death before he can use fireball on you.

>>96878706
Cocainelocks no longer need diamond dust, just friends who support their habit. And they could enable each other.

>>96903452
Everyone has their favorites. For me it’s whatever custom setting the DM has put time and effort into. For premade settings my personal preferences are Mystara and Dark Sun because JoTC haven’t wiped their ass with either…yet

>>96903891
>immune to Frightened and Charmed
>level 17

OH SHIIIII!!! OPPOWERGAMINGMUNCHKINFAGGOT!!!!! LOOK MA I SAID IT AGAIN!!!!!

>>96900649
>>96900680
>>96900690
>>96902006

It should a warlock or even artificer style caster with a variety of "build your bear" features like those two classes. Spell list a mix of cleric and druid. Have some way to add the 3.5 spirit shaman 4 e spirit compain.

Shame we never will see that happen because I would love an animism based caster. Because of how lazy WotC are.

>>96900146
I think it's pretty much canon that yes, Acererak's scheme here is just a side hustle and hobby project for him, which is why he teleports in to see what happened. For all the players know he might have been in the bath or the lich equivalent to a bath when his necrophone beeped at him that his experiment had been interrupted.

The book also does say that if the party does beat him, he shrugs and moves on to something else once he respawns, wait for time to kill off his foes, and then ruins the lives for their descendants for all eternity just for shits and giggles and petty amusement/revenge.

>Purple Dragon Commandant
>General Feat (Prerequisites: Level 4+, Purple Dragon Rook or Martial Weapon Proficiency)
>Ability Score Increase. Increase your Strength or Dexterity by 1, to a maximum of 20.
>Encourage Ally. As a Bonus Action, you bolster one ally you can see within 30 feet. The ally gains Temporary Hit Points equal to 2d6 plus the modifier of the ability score increased by this feat. You can take this Bonus Action a number of times equal to your Proficiency Bonus, and you regain all uses when you finish a Long Rest.
>Last Stand. You have Advantage on attack rolls while Bloodied.

Found this feat in Heroes of Faerun. It's sort of locked behind an Origin feat but also not really since martial proficiency can replace the Rook origin one, but is it generally worth taking? Advantage on all attack rolls while bloodied, and a way to feed temporary hp to somebody.

Probably not that good for a Samurai Fighter (what I'm playing at the moment) because Fighting Spirit exists, but it doesn't look terrible either for some other builds. Just a fucking shame some of the other 4+ feats have the origin as a prerequisite and don't have an alternative prerequisite you can use.

How do you guys flavour the world tree barbarian's extra reach? The description says you basically smack them with branches but that seems exceedingly lame to me and doesn't explain how those branches deal the same damage as your weapon.

>>96900941
As others have said, you can try and work thievery into story progression by making things that maybe you didn't originally intend to be thievable thievable. Some sort of corrective (getting beaten up) that doesn't derail the story might also cause them to second guess constant theft.
It also sounds like you're only on session 1 or 2? Hopefully they'll mellow out slightly. I think sometimes when people come into the game they have a chaotic or evil character in mind but then the act of playing calms them down because they see, consciously or not, that running around creating havoc will make it a bad time for the other people they're playing with (including the DM). If there's no sign of this happening on its own over time, then you'll need to talk to the player about how to productively channel their theiving impulses.

Apparently we are scheduling 2nd session for next weekend!

2nd session will be more a straightforward dungeon crawl (bunch of goblins, couple of spiders, you know the gist!)

>>96901118
>>96901395
>Consequences for stealing
Yes, I mentioned this to them (which is why I think the ended up thinking twice before trying to steal stuff). Though I both understand & agree that setting up the right expectative is important, I don't want it to cost them the adventure because that will just derail too much stuff for me

Long story short, I will teach them a lesson if needed, but I rather not need to

>>96901342
>Including a few more clearly signaled targets of theft might be the better option
Definitely! I just wasn't prepared for it for session 1 (I didn't even know that player was rolling a rogue). I will try to keep that in mind... maybe more proactively mention targets worth of stealing (so far, the group is actively scanning for targets... but maybe if I take upon myself to point them out, they might stop looking for targets in places I don't want them to)

>Having whoever they were stealing from (or a bodyguard) beat them up is the simplest
Problem I got caught up in is that their first target in mind was the quest giver... which would do exactly what you said but would also retract the quest (thus, my whole session planning would go to waste)

>>96902052
>talk frankly with the player
Yeah I was thinking about it! I plan on telling her that stealing stuff in their (small) hometown is not that great of an idea, but it might be easier to get away in a capital, and also that I will keep that in mind during the planning for future sessions

>>96904612
>Yes, I mentioned this to them (which is why I think the ended up thinking twice before trying to steal stuff).
I think this is a good enough sign that they won't get too crazy with it, since they clearly took the prospect of getting caught or reported seriously.

Introducing other more viable targets should be enough in that case, particularly those that have less consequence/risk. As long as they understand that they need to not piss off the people they're working for or land on a most wanted list.

Next session players might go into a bazaar that sells stuff, including magical items. How careful should I be in letting players buy magical items? Right now my plan is to make a list of 15~20 items (a good chunk of them consumable) to let them choose if they want to buy things, with the more permanent items costing almost the party's entire budget

They are level 1~2

>>96904574
Apologies I missed you on my reply! I hadn't reloaded the page in a while...

>you can try and work thievery into story progression
Definitely! I might try to weave that into the next quest or so. Too bad though that when I asked the to choose their quest giver, they went with the Merchant and not the Guild of Thieves (the latter would make it way easier to put her skill to take things away more useful for the plot)

>It also sounds like you're only on session 1 or 2?
Yes, that was session 1 (both for the campaign as well as for the player, her first time playing D&D)

I think you are right, this need to stealing everything will probably tone down as the party gets attached to the town/npcs and get more quest oriented. For instance, on session 1 the rogue herself rolled 20 on a charisma check with the owner of the tavern, and I mentioned she made a friend/ally, so that alone might thwart the party from trying to steal stuff in the tavern

I'm hoping the next quest will take them to the capital, so I might signal (or straightforwardly tell) her that a big city is easier to steal stuff from

>>96903953
True 5e enlightenment is embracing the strengths of the system’s chassis but recognizing that homebrew is necessary for the game to fully realize its potential. WotC’s laziness is a boon in that it limits the amount of official material that people will expect to see reconciled with your curated experience.

Im playing in a saltmarsh campaign and I attuned to the philosophers stone which my dm said was a stone of good luck but in combat my initiative was 3 points lower than it should have been so it is probably a cursed luckstone
i am also the resident health potion maker so im thinking about dropping the stone into the potion so i can share in the "luck" with the party
what should happen? is it poison instead? it heals like normal but it gives -1 to their next d20 roll?

Damn wizards sunsetting sigil I thought it had promise

What are some good uncommon fighter magic items besides the obvious +x items/armor?

>>96906151
Resistance rings? Environmental benefits like water breathing?

>>96878748
Ritual casting in pf2e is literally nonfunctional and the math of it makes adding additional casters an active detriment to success; it's a total meme and basically only exists so they can say many iconic spells weren't just deleted from the game to avoid pissing off grognards.
If you want actually functional ritual magic and the martial equivalent of martial practices look at how 4e did it

>7-member party.
GMs who are here, do you think you could manage a party of this size?”

>>96906151
I love javelin of lightning and sending stones.

>>96907533
I had seven in my first, and it was probably a bit much for me to handle. I had 5 for most of my second campaign, peaking at 7 twice. Now I have seven total players, but three of them cycle in and out for my current campaign, so it's generally 5-6. I think that's a good range where you have breathing room for challenging combats against more enemies and people still have a chance to speak in social situations.

>>96907533
I already have. The game went smoothly enough, though I wouldn't like to go beyond that number.

>>96908775
What are some good, generic magical items I can give my players a choice of for a level 6 one-shot?
Also, level 6s would realistically have +1 weapons, yeah?

>>96909122
>>96908775
Sorry, didn't mean to reply.

>>96909122
Yes, it's pretty reasonable for them to have a +1 weapon or focus. +1 shields, cloaks of protection, wands of magic missiles, etc are pretty solid choices. Others kinda depend by class/role.

>>96906151
Wand of Magic Missiles.
It's 3d4+3 force damage with perfect accuracy at 120', 6 times per day.
It's a nice sidearm to have for a melee character.

>>96909122
Are they starting with the items? Let them pick about 1 uncommon item each.
If it's an one-shot, you may do what I did: Randomly roll an item per player as a pool for the entire group, then let them figure out who wants what and how they'll use it. You may want to reroll if it's inappropriate (I kept getting items with necrotic resistance when I knew there won't be any necrotic damage), but don't tailor-made it for them.

>>96909255
>>96909325
Alright, sounds good. I like the idea of rolling for it, too, thanks

Do the new Forgotten Realms books have anything going for them or just more half baked slop from WOTC?

>I cooked for my character, if you don't bring the heat I'm rolling through your PISS dungeon, I've found an insanely op build, you'll see
How do you, as a DM, respond to this?

>>96909608
it's mostly slop but I thought the one adventure that has different "skins" to reflavor it for other settings was a clever idea and good inspiration in general, even if it's basic stuff like change the bear to a snow bear in icewind dale

>>96909621
Inform him that dandwiki content is not allowed in the game.

>>96909621
just prep underwater combat

>>96909717
Diabolical

>>96907533
I've typically run games for ~6 players

Just last weekend I started a group with me +4 players, and gods, its insanely better. DM +4 is a sweet spot IMO

>>96909621
Tome of Beasts 1. Elvish Veteran Archer. Pinning Arrow. Thank me later, because STR is probably his dump stat.

>>96909621
>How do you, as a DM, respond to this?
I pretend to be challenged and play along, giving him an opportunity to feel powerful and make sure to vocalize my fake disappointment "oh my god you're so OP this is crazy" so he feels accomplished.

How else am I supposed to respond? I am god, I can just decide to win. The fact that the player thinks I am bound is because I curate that illusion.

>>96910432
Sometimes I get mad at my players. Then, I just remember that Mystra is my bitch and if I wanted to, I can literally materialize her to smite the ants of the party because they made fun of my NPC's name.
That helps.

Why is there an anon calling all muslim fighters "daddy"? It's weird, man, stop.

>>96900941
Random loot table for stealing + gold. if enough times passes, someone is gonna notice her or put the pieces together.

You don't have to explain who saw her or how they saw her. it could even be an invisisble person tailing her and watching her. But don't stop them from stealing. you can drop quest hooks OR CURSED ITEMS

>>96911349
fuck you, it played in my brain

Not gonna lie, this pic makes me wanna play as a berserker.

>>96911398
lmao got em

I need an idea for what (non magical) class would best embody a childish or autistic character
example:
a homebody type personality who is not retarded or unintelligent but is ‘simple’ and while fully capable, prefers childish hobbies
My idea is either a non-flashy swashbuckler or prankster type Rogue who enjoys simple childish pranks and is able to weaponize that spirit just enough to become an adventurer

>>96911593
a tardo personality has nothing to do with any of that and anything could apply to such a person.

>quiet but competant guy with strange hobby

is not a class.

>>96911593
My first thought was rogue because they'd want to take objects of their fixation

>>96900697
>What do people here think of them?
Fucking sucks, it's retarded since it's a pretty fucking basic thing on every fucking game.

>epice destinies starts from level 11
FUCK YOU

How great is it?

>>96911932
I appreciate how that cover looks good with Heroes of Faerun

>>96904645
I usually ask each player what they're looking for, then have them roll luck checks to see if anything similar is even for sale. THEN I have them do Perception/Insight/Arcana or whatever to locate the booth, discern BS items, or find hidden gems.
I just improvise everything though, might not be your style.

my character got some magic items that upgrade damage and ac at lvl 5
Although I think it's because it's my first campaign and I'm the only melee in a group of 3.

>>96912883
Everyone in my current campaign has at least one magic item and we're all level 6.

>>96909621
>How did you “find” a build, given all the homebrew we’re using?

>>96912682
>Jarlaxle
>No drizzt
I hate fucking faggots on WotC

>>96878706
CIRCLE MARTIALLING WHEN

>>96913844
Hey, Jarlaxle is cool

>>96878706
>sorcerer distant spells to make touch spell 30ft range
>5 people Augment

Touch Spell, 1 mile range.

Get fucked Mr. BBEG.

>>96899074
>>96897833
It depends if they're measuring skill floor or skill ceiling.

Wizard skill ceiling is one of the highest in the game. You can do astounding things with the wizard toolbelt. But you can also just get by throwing fireballs and occasionally popping a utility or a buff/debuff when the team asks. The worst wizard (assuming we're not talking intentional sandbagging like only taking noncombat rituals or something, which requires system knowledge and thus is not what the skill chart is for) basically just plays like a pregen warlock.

Monk, inversely, basically just is all one complexity, especially with 4elem reworked. The ceiling and the floor is just a single plane. But, inversely, means if you don't know what you're doing, you will *consistently* suck ass. And a lot of monk players...don't.

Most classes if you brain off and ignore most of their toolkit to just nova out dealing damage, they'll perform... adequately. Bard can't do shit for damage, but anyone with a second brain cell realizes it's for support so instead they nobrain buff/healbot and still perform adequately.
But Monk has no brain-off mode, you get like one and a half rounds of passable damage then get bodied, which is why the prevailing community opinion was that monk was bad and kind of a joke. If you want to play monk, you need real competency in threat assessment, when to dodge, when to retreat, when to hang back and throw shit, when to chase down, when to skirmish vs when to double down and flurry, when to opportunity attack vs when to save deflect up, etc. Every button, every resource, every square of movement needs to be considered. It's not big brain 5D chess, but you NEED a comprehensive knowledge of the full martial tactical fundamentals.
They made it slightly easier in 24 with the changes to Stun. You can't waste them nearly so easily. And deflect soaking melee damage too helped with the tough calls about positioning and overcommittal. But it's still unforgiving to idiots.

>>96914722
If they're going off skill floor, then Warlock should be Low not High.
It's prevailing reputation is that if you just grab armor of shadows and everything that adds damage to EB or Hex, and then hellish rebuke every time the reaction triggers in a boss fight, you do swimmingly, the class is literally playable by a flowchart.

Also, monk did have one other community reputation, it was STUN TOO GOOD STUN OP PLEASE NERF STUN MONK BROKEN THEY CAN HIT 4 TIMES IN A TURN. Typically the same ones who say something similar every time a rogue crits. How there's all these alleged reddit greentexts about monks stunning bosses when there's usually only like a 40% chance to fail the save max and bosses have 3 leg res to burn through is anyone's guess.

>>96890135
Wavesplitter Cutlass

>>96911593
Phantom Rogue haunted by spirits of children either related to people or places in his life

Top 3 Third-Party Adventures... GO!

>>96914804
>How there's all these alleged reddit greentexts about monks stunning bosses when there's usually only like a 40% chance to fail the save max and bosses have 3 leg res to burn through is anyone's guess.
It's called the DM forgot to give the creature stun immunity

>>96914420
Sure, but why do they have to include Karlach and that Niggerstaff?

Has anyone completed the new starter set that can speak on how it plays overall? Curious to see how long it ran and what can be done to improve the experience overall?

>>96915938
>Karlach and that Niggerstaff
>Anon randomly spouts out racist rhetoric to fit in

Drizzt would hate your ass btw

>>96916453
Don't care, niggerfaggot

>>96915805
>It's called the DM forgot to give the creature stun immunity
I basically almost never give stun immunity to enemies, it's dick design to tell the monks to eat shit because they are basically useless without the stunning strike.
>>96914804
When the monk shits out 5 attacks per round, eventually something will stick and even if it's just to burn the legendary resistance that's even better, because this enables the party casters to inflict even worse effects sooner.

>>96916590
>it's dick design to tell the monks to eat shit because they are basically useless without the stunning strike.
Have you tried having more than one creature in the combat so the monk can use their mobility instead of sitting in front of a single enemy? There's plenty of other options they can use ki for other than stunning strike and flurry of blows

>>96915372
My homebrew three times

>>96914383
That's called Help action.

New thread

>>96917739
>>96917739