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FRINGE posted:Whats in the list though? Persons of Interest.
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Splicer posted:But doesn't do the actual burying, because ehhh... The obol is an ancient tradition, I don't see anything wrong with that.
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Jul 26, 2016 11:49
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"DEPRESSED DRAGONBORN DRUID FROM AN ISLAND THAT CAN'T BE REACHED BY BOAT WHO IS TRYING TO AVOID A PROPHECY" "I was prophesized to bring honor and wealth to my island. I never told anyone I was leaving because they wouldn't care. I just can't find a job out here and none of the animals like me. I've got this terrible pain all along my left side and my joints creak."
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quote:EAGER HUMAN ROGUE FROM AN ISOLATED MONASTERY WHO WAS TOLD THEY'LL NEVER BE GOOD ENOUGH "Shut up, Brother Ignatius! I can too climb this wall! Just watch me! *sniffle""
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Jul 26, 2016 15:30
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Caphi posted:Hang on, you can roll a Lawful Good Criminal. Annie are you okay?
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quote:POMPOUS HALF-ELF WIZARD FROM A YOUNG OFFENDERS INSTITUTE WHO HAD THEIR LOST LEGS REPLACED WITH ENCHANTED WOOD Look at the situation they got me facin' I can't live a normal life, I was raised by the Thay So I gotta be down with the Red team Too much prestidigitation got me chasing dreams I'm an educated fool with Electrum on my mind Got my wand in my hand and a gleam in my eye I'm a loc'd out Wizard set trippin' banger And my party is down so don't arouse my anger, fool Death ain't nothing but a bad roll away, I'm living life, Revivify, what can I say I'm Level 3 now, but will I live to see Level 4 The way things are going I don't know Bluedeanie fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Jul 26, 2016 |
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Jul 26, 2016 15:41
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Random rolling can be great, the Reign random character generator is fun to use and just make up life stories. D&D is not a good system for random rolling abilities. Roll the story elements, sure. Roll the motivations, the history, the plot hooks. The crunch? No.
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Jul 26, 2016 16:03
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holy poo poo the beginning of princes of the apocalypse is soo bad
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Jul 26, 2016 16:29
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Cat Face Joe posted:holy poo poo the beginning of princes of the apocalypse is soo bad New thread title?
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Jul 26, 2016 16:51
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Cat Face Joe posted:holy poo poo the beginning of princes of the apocalypse is soo bad It don't get much better!
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Jul 26, 2016 17:29
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A Darker Porpoise posted:It don't get much better! I figured!
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Jul 26, 2016 18:12
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Cat Face Joe posted:holy poo poo the beginning of princes of the apocalypse is soo bad
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Jul 26, 2016 18:25
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Monk E posted:Did the kobolds kill you yet? No, but the four stirges in the otherwise empty cave almost did.
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Jul 26, 2016 18:32
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The epic high fantasy of fighting mosquitoes and rats. In the mud.
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Jul 26, 2016 19:09
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Gort posted:The epic high fantasy of fighting mosquitoes and rats. In the mud. Where the fungus in the surrounding caverns is more fantastical than the players, no less.
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Jul 26, 2016 19:24
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Gort posted:The epic high fantasy of fighting mosquitoes and rats. In the mud. My character has regularly complained that "[she] is not an adventurer" and it's really turning out to be the case. The DM is taking the book as is and all four fights we've been in has seen at least one character barely escape death. The stirges almost killed three of us and one player is currently at 1 of 1 HP due to the ghost in some tomb.
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Jul 26, 2016 19:32
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Cat Face Joe posted:No, but the four stirges in the otherwise empty cave almost did. My in-person group has come from Hoard (pile of poo poo) into princes, and jesus, it's a pile of poo poo. It's actually super incohesive too, or at least it is to me. Maybe I'm just dumb, but this whole section on the Mirabar trade delegation at the Level 3+ bit is such a hot mess.
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Jul 26, 2016 19:37
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Cat Face Joe posted:My character has regularly complained that "[she] is not an adventurer" and it's really turning out to be the case. The DM is taking the book as is and all four fights we've been in has seen at least one character barely escape death. The stirges almost killed three of us and one player is currently at 1 of 1 HP due to the ghost in some tomb. roguelike design  How is Out of the Abyss, by the by?
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Jul 26, 2016 20:20
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Dre2Dee2 posted:How is Out of the Abyss, by the by? I really liked it. You start off scrounging for every resource and work your way up to leading an army and loving up demon lords. Some people thought it was a bit on rails but it never felt that way to me until the end when there was very clearly a BBEG agenda we had to stop. It had way less wonky imbalanced fights than PotA and our DM said it was a lot easier to run. I'd like to run it sometime.
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Jul 26, 2016 20:51
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Dre2Dee2 posted:How is Out of the Abyss, by the by? Terrible. What the gently caress, Zuggtmoy marrying Araumycos? 
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Jul 26, 2016 20:56
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Kaysette posted:I really liked it. You start off scrounging for every resource and work your way up to leading an army and loving up demon lords. Some people thought it was a bit on rails but it never felt that way to me until the end when there was very clearly a BBEG agenda we had to stop. It had way less wonky imbalanced fights than PotA and our DM said it was a lot easier to run. I'd like to run it sometime. I've now run this twice and I can definitely say it is the strongest of the first three adventures (haven't finished strahd so cant comment). This coming as a DM perspective it flows really well. The two times I've run it I have sat down with the group and asked if they preferred to do it "the hard way" where they start with nothing but their characters and dont have a convenient box with all their starting gear, or whether they want the "vanilla" rpg start where they are captives but break out and get their stuff asap. Both groups have selected the "hard" way and it's been a blast, at least for me, and seemingly the players. If you are going to run it though, I definitely think laying down the expectations of the campaign first is the way to go, since it can be jarring to find out you get nothing of your starter gear (concessions were made to our one wizard to allow a spellbook to be found amongst the prison guard's spires)
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Jul 26, 2016 21:44
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Arivia posted:Terrible. What the gently caress, Zuggtmoy marrying Araumycos? Well, Forgotten Realms is pretty stupid, yea
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Jul 26, 2016 22:17
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Kaysette posted:I really liked it. You start off scrounging for every resource and work your way up to leading an army and loving up demon lords. Some people thought it was a bit on rails but it never felt that way to me until the end when there was very clearly a BBEG agenda we had to stop. It had way less wonky imbalanced fights than PotA and our DM said it was a lot easier to run. I'd like to run it sometime. Since I'm playing a skeleton necromancer I took tool proficiency 'butchery/corpsery', saying I'd worked in a morgue and butcher shop, in order to justify why I can rapidly turn corpses of enemies into a pile of bones worth raising as a skeleton. It turns out this skill is also extremely useful for turning corpses of foes into delicious steak. There's a lot of underground cave squid and darkmantle. That's a lot of calamari the group have been eating.
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Dre2Dee2 posted:Well, Forgotten Realms is pretty stupid, yea Nope. See, Araumycos was a giant dangling adventure hook for decades. A miles-wide giant fungus that's somehow psychic, home to colonies of myconids, vegepygmies, and other things, and continually expanding but only to the limits of the forest above it. It had mysterious ruins and mummies inside of it. What was going on with this thing? No single answer ever got printed, the idea was for the DM to do some cool stuff with it for their game. But nope - let's just marry it off to a demon lord from another setting. Because that doesn't deflate the mystery at all.
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Jul 27, 2016 03:26
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Everyone that "hates" FR always turns out to know almost nothing about the setting. But of course theyve heard of Drizzt, Neverwinter, and Baldurs Gate so thats like "all of FR". On a related note that comes up every few months, FR even solved the "kill all orc babies" dilemma that bad groups couldnt solve. The orc might not be evil.  http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Orc quote:No one knows from where orcs originally came, though they appear to be non-native to either Abeir or Toril. The first legends of orcs tell of the wars between their primary god Gruumsh and Corellon Larethian, the creator of the elves and eladrin. The latter two races tell of how Corellon defeated Gruumsh and took his eye; though many orcs deny this charge, they acknowledge Gruumsh as the one-eyed god. quote:Mountain orcs quote:Ondontis revere Eldath, the goddess of peace and quiet places, and their culture attempts to embody the pacifist teachings of Eldath. Ondonti oral history recounts that “the Founders” brought 30 young ondontis to the lands they still consider theirs long ago, and laid down the teachings that provide the foundations of ondonti society in a cycle of tales called Tarek-Passar (the Way of Peace). One sage has theorized the original ondontis were in fact infant gray orc orphans, brought from their lands and taught by a reclusive group of priests of Eldath. This is quite correct, although the full details lost to history are that they were raised in the faith of the Green Goddess by the people of Myth Ondath and left to their own devices when that city was destroyed by the Ice Queen and the Gatekeeper's Crystal.[2] quote:Gray orcs of the eastern lands are concentrated in the Moonsea and Endless Wastes, with a much smaller number scattered through the various lands that lie between. While just as mean, savage, and barbaric as their northern cousins, gray orcs lack their mountainous kin's drive to conquer and enslave. They are quite likely to react suddenly and irrationally to events, trusting to his heart and instincts more readily than logic. Like theres plenty of ways to create hooks there without going straight for "dumb evil orcs to kill". Some extremely low-effort ones: - Ondontis needs help to save unborn baby from sickness/curse/attention. - Grey orcs will raid because they are starving, players can try and solve this by forging some kinds of deals to get them fed. - Mixed orc tribe is being driven to war by Orogs. Somehow smart orcs get PCs to "deal with" Orogs in order to stop the war. Also If you re-tune the Orcgate Wars history you also get a whole new pantheon ready to go: http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Untheric_pantheon FR is full of great things to grab and use. Its just a lot of words and no one digs through it anymore.
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FRINGE posted:Everyone that "hates" FR always turns out to know almost nothing about the setting. But of course theyve heard of Drizzt, Neverwinter, and Baldurs Gate so thats like "all of FR". Haha, so you're going with "Obviously you geeks who know every esoteric out-of-print D&D book backwards and forwards and post about it on a dead gay forum don't read enough?" Generally the kitchen sink element of Forgotten Realms is a large part of why people hate it, yes. We're getting a Forgotten Realms movie at some point, I guess (probably on a budget of a nickel and a bet), so you'll get your day.
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I can sort of understand where Arivia is coming from where slapping together two things that don't make sense isn't really helping FR be any better, but on the other hand I'm pretty sure a movie set in the FR isn't going to give a rat's rear end about The Lore beyond the broadest of strokes.
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If you're going to talk poo poo about a fantasy kitchen sink setting for a fantasy kitchen sink game, FR is surprisingly not the worst offender. That would probably be Greyhawk, which was nominally the default setting until 4e.
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Yo, I got a question. I'm a longtime DM, but just getting into 5e. One of my players really wants to play a dude with spirit animals. He's pretty sure it is a real class. My bud posted:The animals it self has a damage threshold or something like that and when he does it would take damage as well there was also spells you can cast through you spirit animal and stuff like that
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Jul 27, 2016 07:51
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That exactly describes the Shaman from 4e.
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MadRhetoric posted:If you're going to talk poo poo about a fantasy kitchen sink setting for a fantasy kitchen sink game, FR is surprisingly not the worst offender. That would probably be Greyhawk, which was nominally the default setting until 4e. Basically all the "main" settings have been bad and the player base has been perennially starved of the settings that actually received a good response (not least because they bothered to have a coherent theme).
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NachtSieger posted:That exactly describes the Shaman from 4e.
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Von Humboldt posted:Yo, I got a question. I'm a longtime DM, but just getting into 5e. One of my players really wants to play a dude with spirit animals. He's pretty sure it is a real class. You could hack the Beastmaster Ranger to let your bud use spells with the pet as the focal point or you could make a Druid with an animal companion instead of Land spells/Wild Shape and do the same.
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Von Humboldt posted:Is there a good 5e version of it? There is one on the Dungeon Master's Guild. 5e with its touted "Theater of the Mind" is exactly the opposite of the Shaman's gimmick, which was having an animal buddy to be a proxy through. You could likely bash something with the Druid or Ranger, but to not just be an  level hackjob you'll really need to implement custom abilities to really push the concept through (because spell ranges don't really matter, let's be honest) and at that point you'll just be making an extremely watered down 5e version of a 4e thing.Also I can't speak for the quality of the already up Shaman, but cynicism leads me to say that it's likely bad.
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OneThousandMonkeys posted:We're getting a [DnD] movie at some point, I guess
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Von Humboldt posted:Yo, I got a question. I'm a longtime DM, but just getting into 5e. One of my players really wants to play a dude with spirit animals. He's pretty sure it is a real class. The only spirit animal guy I know in 5e is this variant Ranger: http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/ranger But it doesn't really work the way you describe it though.
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Ok, warlocks are OP as gently caress In our current game, our warlock is tankier than our barbarian and does way more damage than anyone else in the party. I feel like I would ban warlocks next time
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Dre2Dee2 posted:Ok, warlocks are OP as gently caress Huh. I've seen both Barbarians and Warlocks in play and this doesn't match up with what I've seen at all. Could you provide some details? Like, their levels or builds or something? I'm just curious, that's all.
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What's make our warlock so drat tanky is the temporary hitpoints he gets whenever he kills anything (which isn't too hard). So it's a free 7 health thrown on top of his HP, so 2 or 3 kills in a fight, and it can be 14-21 extra health in a fight. The temp HP doesn't stack, so I guess I could avoid hitting him, but it becomes hard for me to threaten him unless I really ramp up the monster damage when he gets hit behind the screen.
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Dre2Dee2 posted:Ok, warlocks are OP as gently caress E: I'm pretty sure that's not how temp up works. "Healing can’t restore temporary hit points, and they can’t be added together. If you have temporary hit points and receive more of them, you decide whether to keep the ones you have or to gain the new ones. For example, if a spell grants you 12 temporary hit points when you already have 10, you can have 12 or 10, not 22." I'm curious about this as well. What level are we talking? I'm assuming blade lock with armor invocation and dark ones blessing. I've only played a blasty warlock and did good damage but I've never gone the melee route. Is he using green flame blade? Kaysette fucked around with this message at 13:04 on Jul 27, 2016 |
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