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Kaysette posted:lol if anyone plays a spell casting class without a spellbook app Can... Can you recommend one? (for android) Krinkle fucked around with this message at 01:04 on Apr 21, 2017 |
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Krinkle posted:Can... Can you recommend one? The selection on iOS kind of sucks but "5e Spell Book" works fine. You have to import the spell list as xml files yourself to get around copyright poo poo but a quick Google resolves that.
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Apr 21, 2017 00:34
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Krinkle posted:Can... Can you recommend one? (for android) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.spellsdd5&hl=en works good for me. No need for xml stuff, the spells are kinda just in there.
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Apr 21, 2017 01:17
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lmao I've really been looking for a good way to just introduce some really lovely classism at my table while simultaneously making sure everyone gives a ton of money personally to Mike Mearles. We can't find his address tho but fortunately that official ruling sounds like exactly what I was looking for, thanks rando Facebook guy! edit: in a squeaky voice Thanks for this rule! I was really upset because Billy was allowed to make a cool monster from Volo's even tho his dad is unemployed and my dad is a doctor! How would that be fair? Thanks for this rule!!!
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Apr 21, 2017 01:24
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Paramemetic posted:lmao I've really been looking for a good way to just introduce some really lovely classism at my table while simultaneously making sure everyone gives a ton of money personally to Mike Mearles. We can't find his address tho but fortunately that official ruling sounds like exactly what I was looking for, thanks rando Facebook guy! It's not as exacerbated in 5e because there's not as much stuff out for it, but for organized play where you're going from table to table and playing with different groups, it is pretty critical to have the actual official rules available for whatever you're using. It's a reasonable requirement due to the organized play nature of the campaign.
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Apr 21, 2017 01:56
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Krinkle posted:Can... Can you recommend one? (for android) Honestly the DnD Beyond mobile format works pretty well.
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Apr 21, 2017 02:20
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Has anyone tried the new UA rules for rangers? I've always wanted to play a bow specialist/outdoorsman type but vanilla rangers are just trash compared to fighters, and the UA rules seem to make them a bit more competitive and interesting.
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Apr 21, 2017 05:54
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just lol if you don't have a stack of index cards thick enough for a rolodex to track all your action descriptions, spells, special abilities, and magic items.
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Apr 21, 2017 06:20
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So I just took on permanent madness that requires greater restoration to fix. Our party is level 3.
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Apr 21, 2017 07:07
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Couple of Unfortunately there's no official digital rulebooks for 5e. Paizo lets you use printouts in PFS for example (with the watermark intact so they can check you bought it and it's authentic).
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Apr 21, 2017 07:22
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Nehru the Damaja posted:So I just took on permanent madness that requires greater restoration to fix. Oh dear. How'd that happen? Some homebrew DM shenanigans or something legit out of the books? (Not sure which is worse.)
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Apr 21, 2017 07:36
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NeurosisHead posted:Honestly the DnD Beyond mobile format works pretty well. I can't find that on the play store, is it something you only get access to if you sign up on their forums for the beta?
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Apr 21, 2017 07:44
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Sage Genesis posted:Oh dear. How'd that happen? Some homebrew DM shenanigans or something legit out of the books? (Not sure which is worse.) From the DMG: quote:GOING MAD
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Apr 21, 2017 07:49
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How does D&D unearthed arcana work? This is playtest material, should I be submitting logs or something? How do they know if we like it or not?
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Krinkle posted:How does D&D unearthed arcana work? This is playtest material, should I be submitting logs or something? How do they know if we like it or not? They do surveys at the end of the month usually.
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http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/unearthed-arcana/trio-subclasses I found it. I looked at the next thing about the starter spells and it didn't have anything so I gave up. But then I looked at the NEXT next one and it was there. Nevermind. Okay for the Redemption Paladin your armor class if you are naked starts at 16 and goes up with your dex, so you want good dex, but there are no simple melee bludgeoning weapons that use dexterity so you also need strength. I don't want to just be using my jesus radiance until I find a suit of plate mail. I want to be naked forever but pumping dex will never help me tag someone with my friendship stick. It's kind of a weird awkward impossible to synergize stat allocation. I guess I could subclass into monk for a dex based quarterstaff but then what's the point of the naked AC quirk? And my GM thinks that a free automatic charm, even if it's at the near impossible to reach trigger of thumping someone to 0hp with a stick on your turn and not anyone else's, is too powerful, and interpreted it to be like the spell charm, necessitating a saving throw. It is kind of bumming me out thinking about what it would mean when a redemption paladin thumps you to 0, offers you his hand, and you save your throw, meaning you, what, bite off your tongue and choke to death rather than be my friend for one drat minute? That's so bleak. Goddamn. I like this goofy UA though. I got to sleep an attempted murderer and brought him back to town and gave him a lecture about not drowning children in lakes while I fed him and he nodded like a real lenny. Krinkle fucked around with this message at 08:28 on Apr 21, 2017 |
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Apr 21, 2017 08:05
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gradenko_2000 posted:From the DMG: Yeah we used this system. It's tied into some character progression poo poo for my warlock. I'll have an opportunity to get Greater Restoration through something other than level progression or casting as a service, but it'll probably be a couple levels. At least I rolled the one about being incapable of taking poo poo seriously instead of wanting to kill everyone. Hell, if I'd rolled the one about paranoia, there would have been basically zero change.
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Apr 21, 2017 08:10
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Dracula Factory posted:Has anyone tried the new UA rules for rangers? I've always wanted to play a bow specialist/outdoorsman type but vanilla rangers are just trash compared to fighters, and the UA rules seem to make them a bit more competitive and interesting.
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Nehru the Damaja posted:So I just took on permanent madness that requires greater restoration to fix. did you do this on purpose because it sounds like a dick rule
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mastershakeman posted:did you do this on purpose because it sounds like a dick rule It was the DM's doing. I've thrown out some vague ideas of things I'd like to do and how I see the character acting and DM has rolled with some of it. DM asked out of game if I'd be down with a prolonged period of madness and I said if it worked with the story, sure. So I was briefly projected through time and space and came face to face with my Great Old One. Character can still act intelligently and work to defend himself and such. It's just the gravity of everything eludes him right now. I'm not gonna be all fishmalk about it. I got the result to take nothing seriously and laugh more the worse things get. Fortunately, Twitter has trained me at this for years. Nehru the Damaja fucked around with this message at 12:39 on Apr 21, 2017 |
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Apr 21, 2017 12:15
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Single-user poll written in ink: "Varis's Journal: Are we all gonna die [ ] yeah lol [X] he'll yeah" "Varis's Journal: love too struggle against inevitable world-death and also bRaIn PrObLeMs"
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Apr 21, 2017 12:46
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Dracula Factory posted:Has anyone tried the new UA rules for rangers? I've always wanted to play a bow specialist/outdoorsman type but vanilla rangers are just trash compared to fighters, and the UA rules seem to make them a bit more competitive and interesting. Revised Ranger is decent but also incredibly frontloaded so it's probably still the smartest to get like 5 levels in Deep Stalker to get all the good stuff and go Fighter otherwise.
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Apr 21, 2017 14:15
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Krinkle posted:Okay for the Redemption Paladin your armor class if you are naked starts at 16 and goes up with your dex, so you want good dex, but there are no simple melee bludgeoning weapons that use dexterity so you also need strength.[/b] I don't want to just be using my jesus radiance until I find a suit of plate mail. I want to be naked forever but pumping dex will never help me tag someone with my friendship stick. It's kind of a weird awkward impossible to synergize stat allocation. I guess I could subclass into monk for a dex based quarterstaff but then what's the point of the naked AC quirk? Makes Sense™ Whatever cosplay you're trying to emulate with this oath clearly isn't gonna work; not sure why you're hung up on using this particular weapon type, when paladins get proficiency with every weapon in the game.
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Apr 21, 2017 16:12
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P.d0t posted:Makes Sense™
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Splicer posted:The "Beat the friendship into you" power only works if you use a simple melee bludgeoning
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Apr 21, 2017 16:20
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Indefinite madness is not a super big deal. As it's a character flaw rather then mechanical. You are actually supposed to get inspiration for properly representing it.
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Apr 21, 2017 16:23
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:The DM's job is to ignore rules like this one. (You could say "I hit him with the butt of my sword" if you wanted.) I hit him with the butt of my rapier. There are no martial bludgeoning finesse weapons either. You gotta be a monk before you can thump someone dexterously.
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Apr 21, 2017 16:47
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It doesn't take a trained fighter to figure out how to smack someone with the flat of the blade. Honestly the rules about who can use what weapons are kinda all over the place, I think they should mostly be ignored outside the huge stuff.
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Apr 21, 2017 16:50
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DND needs more German swordsmanship anyway. Lemme grab my blade to beat the poo poo out of someone with the blunt end of it. Knowing Mearls he'd make you make the same damage or some poo poo though.
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Apr 21, 2017 16:58
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Also how would you interpret the "stick thumps = charmed" mechanic when I can quadruple my damage output from a stick with a divine smite. Is this mostly a burning attack at this point and it wouldn't make them love me? Or does my god's love just help the friendship stick along?
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Krinkle posted:I hit him with the butt of my rapier. There are no martial bludgeoning finesse weapons either. You gotta be a monk before you can thump someone dexterously. Isn't this rather explicitly why they started putting basket hilts on rapiers?
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Pretty sure those were more of a, keep your fingers from being cut off if the dude swung at them and managed to hit. Not all rapiers were pointy metal sticks but had actual edges to them as well.
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Apr 21, 2017 17:00
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Do your FISTS count as bludgeoning dexterous weapons? Just punch them until they are your friends. Then get some spiked gauntlets so that you can become even better at friend-punching people.
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The Saddest Robot posted:Do your FISTS count as bludgeoning dexterous weapons? Unarmed only keys off DEX if you're a monk.
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The Saddest Robot posted:Do your FISTS count as bludgeoning dexterous weapons? I'm envisioning someone beating the ever loving poo poo out of somebody with a Macuahuitl screaming "ARE YOU MY FRIEND YET!?" while they slowly bleed to death because it deals Slashing and bludgeoning.
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My guy hugged a vampire spawn, and we couldn't keep him down, and when he did go down it was to someone else, so he's not charmable. So I'm dripping blood from a pricked thumb into his mouth trying to wake him up so I can try to thump him into being my friend again and I"m just feeling like the biggest heel trying to game this mechanic. The dm was like okay his wounds heal up and he's still out cold, boy he looks like he could rip a throat out and is dreaming of this, he's licking his little vampire teeth in his dream of eating everyone, and I got the feeling I wasn't going to get to have a vampire friend this way. I imagined the next half hour boiled down to just reviving and thumping a vampire over and over again trying to get it just right where he's gonna, what, beg me for more blood? If you were my friend you'd hook me up, man. You can be good friends with a meth addict and he'll still steal your tv. I felt like I was wasting everyone's time and gave up on that plan and just let the ranger coup de grace him. But this week I got to mediate between the party tearing itself apart. I used my Rebuke the Violent channeled divinity to mirror some damage back on the ranger who shot our warlock with a divine spanking of KNOCK THAT OFF. And I slept an NPC to find another peaceful solution. I'm taking Raandyy's example and showing the forgotten realms a more peaceful way.
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Quick question about monks having extra attack. Do you then get extra free punches? Attack punch attack punch? or just attack attack punch (spend ki for extra punch here)
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Apr 22, 2017 01:19
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Unarmed strike is a bonus action, so extra attack would be attack attack punch
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Krinkle posted:Quick question about monks having extra attack. Do you then get extra free punches? Attack punch attack punch? or just attack attack punch (spend ki for extra punch here) Martial Arts & Flurry of Blows can be used when you use the Attack Action, not whenever you Attack. Extra Attack grants you a second Attack when you take the Attack Action. So the flow would be Attack->Attack->Unarmed->Unarmed (stop at the first Unarmed if not using Flurry).
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