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Doresh posted:Caster Supremacy has become so bad that the casters fear an uprising of the Linears. To apease the masses, they orchestrate the rise of fighter heroes to generate the illusion that even non-casters can accomplish great things. Im going to try and remember this one for the future. 
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AlphaDog posted:So I want to try a game where players get 2 characters, one simple and one complex. Probably throw all casters on the complex side, but how to divide the rest? I think you could pretty safely file all non-casters and half-casters under "not complex" despite some being more competent than others. I don't think any version of the Ranger to-date could be called complex, though some iterations are more competent than others. Paladins are good, Monks are kinda on the fence, Fighter/Rogue/Barbarian are meh.
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P.d0t posted:I think you could pretty safely file all non-casters and half-casters under "not complex" despite some being more competent than others. just give everyone a fighter/rogue and a spell list instead of letting one person get 1 1/2 spell lists
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Elfgames posted:just give everyone a fighter/rogue and a spell list instead of letting one person get 1 1/2 spell lists This reminds me how I kinda wish 5e had gone with some sort of dual-classing instead of the 3.5-style multiclassing; a dual-class Fighter/Cleric is a Paladin, etc.
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Elfgames posted:just give everyone a fighter/rogue and a spell list instead of letting one person get 1 1/2 spell lists Man, what if the party had a shared spell list?
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Doresh posted:Man, what if the party had a shared spell list? What if the party played five wizards who got into a magical accident and then fused into one ultra penta-wizard?
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NachtSieger posted:What if the party played five wizards who got into a magical accident and then fused into one ultra penta-wizard? "I'll form the head!"
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Doresh posted:"I'll form the head!" The beard is actually where wizards concentrate their power.
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Dec 24, 2016 11:53
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NachtSieger posted:The beard is actually where wizards concentrate their power. That spot is reserved for when the sixth wizard appears 1/3 through the campaign.
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Dec 24, 2016 11:57
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Doresh posted:Man, what if the party had a shared spell list? those are called scrolls, houserule that anybody can use them and keep a group inventory.
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Elfgames posted:those are called scrolls, houserule that anybody can use them and keep a group inventory. Better known as a flying familiar with a Bag of Holding.
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Doresh posted:Better known as a flying familiar with a Bag of Holding. Anyone tries that on me there's going to be a lot of archers over (effectively) bottomless pits
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Manic_Misanthrope posted:Anyone tries that on me there's going to be a lot of archers over (effectively) bottomless pits but why
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Another dimension to encounters, take out the archers before blasting with the spells or risk a lot of stuff getting lost. Also works the other way, very easy to push enemies into bottomless pits.
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Doresh posted:Better known as a flying familiar with a Bag of Holding. You mean a courier?
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Arivia posted:You mean a courier? A courier of bag holding. His has a Liefeldian outfit filled to the brim with Bags of Holding.
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Dec 25, 2016 16:44
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That Middle Earth book is really cool. The different types of humans, virtues, and backgrounds let you make some very fleshed out characters.
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Open Marriage Night posted:That Middle Earth book is really cool. The different types of humans, virtues, and backgrounds let you make some very fleshed out characters. I've been wondering about that. What does it offer that The One Ring doesn't?
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Sage Genesis posted:I've been wondering about that. What does it offer that The One Ring doesn't?
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Willing participants?
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I know that this is a bit of a taboo subject, but hopefully it's not an NSFW one. Xenophilia is literally one of humanity's oldest fetishes, to the point that there are Stone Age cave paintings depicting humans having sex with animals, and the D&D worlds are ones filled with many exotic creatures that have human level (or better!) intelligence. To this end, D&D recognizes this by the existence of races like the Half-Elf and Half-Orc, the tiefling/aasimar/genasi trinity, and more besides. Stout halflings are openly reputed to have dwarvish ancestry, whilst the now-forgotten Tallfellow halflings were implied to have similar lineage connections to elves. Krynn is full of half-human hybrids, to the point that its 3.5 "Races of Krynn" sourcebook contains stats for half-dwarves, half-kender, half-gnomes, half-ogres and half-goblins, whilst Dragon Magazine #385 for 4th edition mentions that the "Gleeborn", a rare strain of dragonborn who are believed to have copper dragon ancestry, are actually popular as courtesans for human kings! Heck, Races of Destiny even gave a possible myth for humanity's origin in that they are the divinely "assisted" blending of halfling, dwarf and elf (long story short, it involves a beautiful but greedy and selfish halfling woman and her two somewhat reluctant husbands; one dwarf, one elf). Anyway, what I'm getting at is this: have you ever given any thought to interspecies romances in your D&D games? Have you known players who tried courting outside their racial boundaries, or encountered NPCs who either had "attracted to a species not their own" as a quirk or were outright in an interspecies relationship? And, in your opinion, where do the borders lie? What forms of interspecies romance simply cannot exist, and why? Where is that nebulous point where its existence as a background element becomes the sign of a "magical realm"? On a related topic, do you place any restrictions on interspecies breeding between humanoids? If yes, what are those restrictions, and why?
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I tend to have a strict no sex stuff rule because players just can't do it without bringing their own creepiness into it. If seduction happens, it gets rolled for and happens off screen. Plus as a player who's had to sit and wait while another player graphically described their romance and rough copulation with a young elven bride, I don't wish that on anyone.
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don't be the whizzard, don't play with the whizzard
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My experience with "inter-racial relations" in a tabletop game amounts to: *pinches bridge of nose* No, guys, half-orcs aren't always the product of rape
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Is it a playable half-____ race in the current printed supplements? If yes, whatever, if no, it's not a generically productive pairing.
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Elendil004 posted:I tend to have a strict no sex stuff rule because players just can't do it without bringing their own creepiness into it. If seduction happens, it gets rolled for and happens off screen. That's how we played a couple of sex scenes in the game I was a part of "Oh yeah you gently caress, best sex you've ever had [it was a shady angel lady]. Skip to morning/when you wake up/later" kind of thing.
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Yeah any sex should be a fade to black thing unless you formed your group on Fetlife.
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Hold up lemme check the table.
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drat, no dryad lizardfolk crossbreeds. I wanted to play a wood lizard.
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mango sentinel posted:Yeah any sex should be a fade to black thing unless you formed your group on Fetlife. Please don't doxx me
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Skellybones posted:Hold up lemme check the table. Nymph: YES What book is that, you've piqued the interest of the part of my brain that hates the rest of my brain.
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How the gently caress does Minotaur x Sprite work. Logistically.
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Skellybones posted:Hold up lemme check the table. Sprites can breed with minotaurs, centaurs, and also giants (with a slight reduction in % of fertility). Jesus Christ, how does that even work?
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Also they probably should have picked a different letter than M to represent their edge cases, cause it's hard to pick out from a sea of Ns.
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Sage Genesis posted:Sprites can breed with minotaurs, centaurs, and also giants (with a slight reduction in % of fertility). Jesus Christ, how does that even work? Nancy_Noxious posted:I know that this is a bit of a taboo subject, but hopefully it's not an NSFW one. Xenophilia is literally one of humanity's oldest fetishes, to the point that there are Stone Age cave paintings depicting humans having sex with animals, and the D&D worlds are ones filled with many exotic creatures that have human level (or better!) intelligence. To this end, D&D recognizes this by the existence of races like the Half-Elf and Half-Orc, the tiefling/aasimar/genasi trinity, and more besides. Stout halflings are openly reputed to have dwarvish ancestry, whilst the now-forgotten Tallfellow halflings were implied to have similar lineage connections to elves. Krynn is full of half-human hybrids, to the point that its 3.5 "Races of Krynn" sourcebook contains stats for half-dwarves, half-kender, half-gnomes, half-ogres and half-goblins, whilst Dragon Magazine #385 for 4th edition mentions that the "Gleeborn", a rare strain of dragonborn who are believed to have copper dragon ancestry, are actually popular as courtesans for human kings! Heck, Races of Destiny even gave a possible myth for humanity's origin in that they are the divinely "assisted" blending of halfling, dwarf and elf (long story short, it involves a beautiful but greedy and selfish halfling woman and her two somewhat reluctant husbands; one dwarf, one elf).
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Sage Genesis posted:Sprites can breed with minotaurs, centaurs, and also giants (with a slight reduction in % of fertility). Jesus Christ, how does that even work? artificial insemination
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Splicer posted:Male sprite, extremely disappointed female giant. The hell was she expecting from a sprite? Splicer posted:This is a lot of words to say "Can dwarves gently caress elves Y/N". Where'd you get it from? I believe this is a copy-paste from RPGnet, a thread posted about a month ago.
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Sage Genesis posted:I believe this is a copy-paste from RPGnet, a thread posted about a month ago. I wouldn't put it past N_N to have come up with this themselves. Last time I saw them post they were getting banned for defending Beast and demanding that we declare pogrom on anyone who dares play Pathfinder.
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Sage Genesis posted:The hell was she expecting from a sprite?
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