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Does anyone voice a dwarf character without either their ordinary voice and speaking habits or Scottish WoW nonsense
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Jul 12, 2017 10:49
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AlphaDog posted:What about an ancillary, or dependent action?
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Jul 12, 2017 10:58
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Nehru the Damaja posted:Does anyone voice a dwarf character without either their ordinary voice and speaking habits or Scottish WoW nonsense I voiced my last dwarf character as Macho Man Randy Savage. OH YEAH!
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Jul 12, 2017 11:15
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gradenko_2000 posted:I mean, that's what early 3e, and 3.0 Core was even just Half-Actions and Actions because it was still inheriting stuff from AD&D, but I think they had to invent the Swift action eventually because they couldn't keep assigning effects as riders or as "Free Action, but only usable once per". remind me what healing word is?
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Jul 12, 2017 12:06
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It's a minor Heal spell cast as a bonus action http://engl393-dnd5th.wikia.com/wiki/Healing_WordNehru the Damaja posted:Does anyone voice a dwarf character without either their ordinary voice and speaking habits or Scottish WoW nonsense I thought everyone was on the same page that Dwarves are Italian now, not Scottish. mango sentinel fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Jul 12, 2017 |
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Jul 12, 2017 12:23
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Healing Word also serves the very important purpose of picking up characters that are at 0HP at a distance with only a bonus action, making it one of the few heals worth using in combat starting at level 1 and continuing all the way through a campaign.
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Jul 12, 2017 13:28
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I'm only just learning about Healing Word now and that's a really cool way of letting clerics heal in combat while still doing other stuff. Also finding out now lets me anticipate my players asking me the difference between healing word and cure wounds.
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Jul 12, 2017 13:34
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gradenko_2000 posted:burn it all down and salt the earth. Only way to be sure. Ha, I actually suggested that too instead of surrendering the city. I already burned down a monastery to cover our escape out a secret passage. My character is from a family of wizards known for dirty tricks and by god I'm trying to live up to it And since when are dwarves Italian? I can see German but not Italian.
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Jul 12, 2017 13:52
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Dwarves should be Scandinavian.
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Jul 12, 2017 14:23
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Thanks all for helping me understand how to be a good beginner. I've put together your useful comments along with some other resources in this Google Doc in case you want to share it/feature it in the first post. https://docs.google.com/a/goldladder.co.uk/document/d/1rLxmpy_X6Kg9C28MXXHkpctSd2ROftN_I_QeD_Kou3k/edit?usp=sharing
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Jul 12, 2017 15:23
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Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:Dwarves should be Scandinavian. nah those are drow between drow, dwarves and gnomes there's one too many races for the easy stereotyped comparisons
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Jul 12, 2017 15:31
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Dwarves are New England cosplay enthusiasts.
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Jul 12, 2017 15:38
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just lol if ur dwarfs aren't québécoise
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Jul 12, 2017 15:52
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Accents, sense of superiority, hair, gold-based economy. Checks out, though you'd think they'd be better at fixing potholes.
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Jul 12, 2017 15:54
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mastershakeman posted:And since when are dwarves Italian? I can see German but not Italian. Cheese Dudes know
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Jul 12, 2017 16:02
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If your barbarians aren't doing Wisconsin accents, you have no place at my table.
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Jul 12, 2017 16:10
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At our table it ended up that an entire region of the main Empire uses valleyspeak. My character (and most tieflings) is from there which I admit takes away from the gravitas a bit. The adjacent region meanwhile is deep American southern. 
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Jul 12, 2017 16:14
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Nehru the Damaja posted:Does anyone voice a dwarf character without either their ordinary voice and speaking habits or Scottish WoW nonsense I did a one-shot homebrew with a DM that did a German accent for the dwarves, made them come off vaguely sinister actually. And the elves, who were evil, were Japanese. It was the orcs that were Scottish.
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Jul 12, 2017 16:39
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Enola Gay-For-Pay posted:I'm only just learning about Healing Word now and that's a really cool way of letting clerics heal in combat while still doing other stuff. Also finding out now lets me anticipate my players asking me the difference between healing word and cure wounds. That's because it's one of the few things lifted from 4E. Honestly, healing isn't that powerful in 5E that it'd break the game to make basically all heals bonus actions, but it's been the thing to make clerics choose between healing (usually a trap) or contributing for a while.
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Jul 12, 2017 18:39
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I was inspired by their beards and just came back from Portland so in one game I ran all the dwarves were just Portland hipsters. That was a good game.
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Jul 12, 2017 19:11
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EDIT: IM DUMB
Nehru the Damaja fucked around with this message at 19:43 on Jul 12, 2017 |
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Jul 12, 2017 19:15
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Nehru the Damaja posted:Show them how Cure Wounds is kind of garbage compared to Healing Word and the only real upside to it is that it scales better at higher levels. An upcasted Healing Word is pretty much a waste of better spell slots unless you think it's going to get that character past some important damage threshold. You add spellcasting modifier to Cure Wounds also. It's a better spell out of combat
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Jul 12, 2017 19:26
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Nehru the Damaja posted:Does anyone voice a dwarf character without either their ordinary voice and speaking habits or Scottish WoW nonsense Not really WoW nonsense or just dwarves, I've had to put up with players doing awful Scottish accents as their role playing voice for over 20 years now.
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Jul 12, 2017 19:37
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esquilax posted:You add spellcasting modifier to Cure Wounds also. It's a better spell out of combat You ever actually know the thing you're saying and your brain just decides to take another direction? Because that happened to me. This is like the time I thought Spiritual Weapon had concentration despite knowing that the whole appeal of it was that it didn't.
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Jul 12, 2017 19:42
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The last dwarf I played had a Russian accent. He ended up with three bear companions (though one was ghost bear and another had bird for head).
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Jul 12, 2017 21:30
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My first exposure to fantasy was when I read The Hobbit (and then LoTR) as a kid in the 80s. I have no idea why, but those books made me picture dwarves as being kinda Baltic-ish. Like, north/east European. Where did the scottish dwarves thing even come from? I remember it being a thing in the 90s before the LoTR movies. Maybe Warcraft 1 or 2? Before that?
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Jul 13, 2017 00:50
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Dwarves in my games have always had a lazy Australian/South New Zealand accent. Lots of "Aww bro" like phrases. Watch the beached as whale video to get a perfect idea of it
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Jul 13, 2017 00:52
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drow should sound like afrikaaners since that's the most villainous sounding accent
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Jul 13, 2017 00:54
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I thought it was Alan Rickman's British accent
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Jul 13, 2017 01:01
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCN2BkQaD3Y Earlier than 95 gently caress if I know. I feel like dwarves and trolls and such are all norwegian folklore but nobody wants to guess what that sounds like while scottish is easy to imagine. I honestly think it's people not wanting to swedish chef up their imaginations.
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Jul 13, 2017 01:09
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The dwarves of Scandinavian folklore are also a bit different than the modern concept of half-pint axebeards. A lot of it seems to overlap but I think they weren't meaningfully different from the svartalfar, the dark elves. Tolkien was responsible for how we think of them now but I'm not sure when they first branched away from malevolent creatures in folklore. I assume at least before the 1800s since the written stories of Snow White say the dwarves are miners and not weird evil tricksters.
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Jul 13, 2017 01:23
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Dwarves make amazing things which are incredibly sturdy and work really well. This must be because of some kind of built-in dwarfish magic though, because even when they provide you with all the components and a set of step by step instructions for assembling it, you end up with something that wobbles and falls apart and never quite looks right. They're definitely Swedish, is what I'm saying.
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Jul 13, 2017 01:34
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A friend who moved to the US from Russia later in life played a great dwarf so now I sort of hear all dwarves with his accent.
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Jul 13, 2017 01:44
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Splicer posted:Let's not quibble over minor phrasing details.
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Jul 13, 2017 06:27
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Babylon Astronaut posted:Start measuring things in fractions of a turn. Rolemaster did nothing wrong
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Jul 13, 2017 06:34
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gradenko_2000 posted:Like, how would you structure Healing Word without Bonus Actions? Ask
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Jul 13, 2017 07:49
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Has there been a TTRPG with an action point system similar to the original XCOM?
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Jul 13, 2017 08:16
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AlphaDog posted:Has there been a TTRPG with an action point system similar to the original XCOM? I was being somewhat facetious, but Rolemaster actually really does allow you to "consume" your turn on a percentage basis, and you get effects like the accuracy of your attack getting reduced as a proportion of how much action you have left to spend on it when you actually make it. The alternative is any number of 90s-era RPGs where the Dexterity stat governs the number of actions you can take in combat, but not only is that bad in terms of breaking the action economy in general, it also only faintly resembles XCOM's Time Units system because shooting actions were based on a percentage of max TU. It was movement that had a flat cost, so while a high-TU soldier could move farther and still be able to shoot, the number of shots any individual soldier could take was, in general, equal across the board. Actually, thinking about that more now that I've written it out, XCOM's TU system is really more traditional than it seems, since the only gains you get with more TUs is movement, and that can be represented outside of TUs (by having your "movement action" cover more ground). That's probably why it was streamlined to the form it was in 2012's XCOM.
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Jul 13, 2017 09:13
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I'm going to start DMing Storm King's Thunder with my group. I haven't DM'd for 5e yet so I was wondering what most people do for Ability Point allocation. I don't really like the idea of rolling unless all my players really wanted it. What do people think of the default point buy system? And on that note, does anyone know of any youtube/twitch plays of Storm King's Thunder? I'm looking for some inspiration on how I should be playing some of the NPCs in the book.
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Jul 13, 2017 14:53
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DarkAvenger211 posted:I'm going to start DMing Storm King's Thunder with my group. I haven't DM'd for 5e yet so I was wondering what most people do for Ability Point allocation. I don't really like the idea of rolling unless all my players really wanted it. What do people think of the default point buy system? Point buy is good, don't roll for stats.
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