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Philthy posted:If a Warlock gets hit, you're doing something wrong, or the DM is bored. Some dms just don't believe in dumping all available offense into the party tank.
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Magil Zeal posted:You can cast Darkness on an object, and if you can fully cover the object it blocks the Darkness. The idea being that you cast Darkness on an object on your person, then after you make whatever attacks you want you can cover up the object to let your allies see again. How exactly you do this is shenanigans.
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Sep 27, 2017 21:15
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ritorix posted:The town bully has been possessed by sentient fungus. Its plans for peaceful coexistence are well underway. Bwahaha. (ancient oath paladin, charlatan background - he only pretended to be tough) My current plan is to irritate my DM by playing a hunky farmboy named Todd who's real good with his hands (monk) but hates violence and just wants to find someone to love He wears exclusively flannels without the first two buttons buttoned and rolls the sleeves up to just below his elbow
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Sep 27, 2017 21:32
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Magil Zeal posted:I agree on Battlemaster maneuvers and hell I homebrewed 22 new ones, but at the same time I feel like it's a pretty big design problem right now that BM maneuvers are tied to one single fighter archetype and that makes me really not want to play any other fighter archetype. Really, all fighters should get BM maneuvers and the martial archetypes need to be overhauled. Like, Knight is kinda neat, but picking it means no maneuvers at all and that's sad. These are neat, thanks!
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Sep 27, 2017 23:48
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Magil Zeal posted:You can cast Darkness on an object, and if you can fully cover the object it blocks the Darkness. The idea being that you cast Darkness on an object on your person, then after you make whatever attacks you want you can cover up the object to let your allies see again. How exactly you do this is shenanigans. Conspiratiorist posted:You can cast it on an object and then fiddle with the hand economy and your free object interaction per turn to stow/unstow said object. Sounds like one of those scenarios where a brisk "gently caress off with that bullshit." is the correct response from the DM.
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Sep 27, 2017 23:55
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My warlock's number one use of darkness is as a smoke bomb so he can easily evade the consequences of his dumb actions.
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Sep 28, 2017 00:05
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Part of the campaign setting is that we're in a town that recently found it can grow a cool plant that nowhere else can go so it's experienced a huge growth and urbanization is running rampant, so I can play anything from a farmhand to a policeman to a politician's son to an alleyway thief and anything in between, so I have a ton of options. Farmhand makes me laugh the most though and has the most potential.
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Sep 28, 2017 00:37
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SettingSun posted:My warlock's number one use of darkness is as a smoke bomb so he can easily evade the consequences of his dumb actions. Anyone who doesn't have a Batman belt of poo poo for any occasion on every character should be ashamed. Why the hell wouldn't everyone who expects to fight the horrible poo poo adventurers do have pouches full of caltrops and antivenom? e: or get your stupid rear end out of being hung
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Sep 28, 2017 00:56
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OK, I've decided that my character is going to be a good old country boy. He loves three things: his farm, his momma, and whatever representation of Jesus Christ I can get closest to using this system. What 5E Dadey would probably be the closest to Jesus, in either name or general domain?
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Sep 28, 2017 01:36
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Thumbtacks posted:OK, I've decided that my character is going to be a good old country boy. He loves three things: his farm, his momma, and whatever representation of Jesus Christ I can get closest to using this system. What 5E Dadey would probably be the closest to Jesus, in either name or general domain? Pelor is a god of light and healing, most go with that. Toss in some Praise the Sun if you feel like.
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Sep 28, 2017 01:53
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I put a jenga tower on the table last night and every time the players performed an action they had to pull a piece. It was fantastic for building tension. One of them cheated and pulled a piece and placed it back in the middle of the tower. The other players objected and told him to pull another piece. It was great. They were making their own rules. At the end of the session the players exclaimed the tower didn't fall. Then pushed it over, I noted that down, they all looked worried.
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Kommando posted:I put a jenga tower on the table last night and every time the players performed an action they had to pull a piece. It was fantastic for building tension. There's this game called Dread you may enjoy.
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Sep 28, 2017 02:18
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Conspiratiorist posted:Anyway, as long as you don't cast Darkness on top of your party it's all fine. Closest I've seen a table almost get flipped.
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Sep 28, 2017 04:19
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I told a bandit about Jesus and his two friends jumped out of bushes and shot me in the back and then his boss stole my cool jeans rip hunky Todd, 2017-2017 Time for a new character
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Sep 28, 2017 04:52
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Thumbtacks posted:OK, I've decided that my character is going to be a good old country boy. He loves three things: his farm, his momma, and whatever representation of Jesus Christ I can get closest to using this system. What 5E Dadey would probably be the closest to Jesus, in either name or general domain? If it's Forgotten Realms Lathander is probably the closest thing.
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Sep 28, 2017 05:47
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Thumbtacks posted:I told a bandit about Jesus and his two friends jumped out of bushes and shot me in the back and then his boss stole my cool jeans I don't understand why banditry isn't a much more severe problem in 5e worlds since low level adventurers get mulched with ease.
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Sep 28, 2017 15:59
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SettingSun posted:I don't understand why banditry isn't a much more severe problem in 5e worlds since low level adventurers get mulched with ease. Because the wilderness is loving dangerous.
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Sep 28, 2017 16:00
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He died on literally the first encounter which was hilarious and I only miss him a little bit
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Sep 28, 2017 16:07
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Thumbtacks posted:He died on literally the first encounter which was hilarious and I only miss him a little bit Why didn't your magical friends save you after you got robbed? Dang but getting bandited at level 1 is cruel. I'm glad you took my idea, I was very proud of it. I feel like I gave you a baby to raise and you dropped it though.
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Sep 28, 2017 16:11
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Years ago in a 3.5e session I was rolling a wizard, and was pleased as punch when I got an 18. My friends' faces when the next roll came up 18 as well was priceless. After much deliberation on where to put the second 18 I decided to put it in STR (metagamewise, so we'd have someone who could carry a bunch of stuff without already being weighed down by armor) and decided he was a good ol' boy from a big ol' ranch and daddy sent him off to get some fancy city learnin'. It was probably the most fun I had with a 3/3.5e campaign.
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Krinkle posted:Why didn't your magical friends save you after you got robbed? Dang but getting bandited at level 1 is cruel. I'm glad you took my idea, I was very proud of it. I feel like I gave you a baby to raise and you dropped it though. crit failed a saving throw, it was v bad
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Sep 28, 2017 16:44
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It still takes two turns to bleed out even if you critically fail a death saving throw. This was all on your teammates. My next character would be a barbarian whose mentor spirit would be the ghost of that previous character, and boy would the ghost be eternally upset.
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Sep 28, 2017 17:05
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Thumbtacks posted:He died on literally the first encounter which was hilarious and I only miss him a little bit
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Sep 28, 2017 17:42
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Conspiratiorist posted:Because the wilderness is loving dangerous. 
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Splicer posted:Bring him back as a Revenant whose goal is to get his blue jeans back. Adventure Zone spoiler: A undead character known for his blue jeans? Surely that will never work in D&D.
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Sep 28, 2017 17:56
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Is your own family a suitable Warlock patron? Playing on themes of lineage, some personal development powers probably. Definitely an ability called "passed down for generations!". Based mostly off Major Armstrong and the Cavendish family in Hellboy, and in general weird twisted families more beholden to The Family than anything else.
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Sep 28, 2017 17:57
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The fear family from the classic fear street novels is a good sorcerer background lol.
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Magil Zeal posted:I agree on Battlemaster maneuvers and hell I homebrewed 22 new ones, but at the same time I feel like it's a pretty big design problem right now that BM maneuvers are tied to one single fighter archetype and that makes me really not want to play any other fighter archetype. Really, all fighters should get BM maneuvers and the martial archetypes need to be overhauled. Like, Knight is kinda neat, but picking it means no maneuvers at all and that's sad. These are really good and flavorful. Except Execution sounds to good, especially if combined with a crit.
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Sep 28, 2017 18:09
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With my dying breath I requested my friends remove my jeans and give them to the next worthy adventurer, who they will probably meet fairly quickly at the next town over
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Sep 28, 2017 18:22
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Well at least you can be whatever you want and you don't have to have been raised on a farm.
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Sep 28, 2017 19:10
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I approve of this pants based adventuring lifestyle.
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Sep 28, 2017 19:16
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my DM refused to call them jeans, insisting that jeans don't exist in this world. we compromised and called them JORNS, so now i'm going to make sure all my character names rhyme with it currently writing up my plan for Gorn, a barbarian that lives in the forest we're traveling through. the forest is being torn down because of the rapidly spreading urbanization so he's on a new quest to petition that the government declare his forest a national forest because it houses a specific species of bear he's very well read
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Sep 28, 2017 20:05
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Todd was too beautiful for this world.
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Sep 28, 2017 20:13
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THE ORC CAPTAIN GROWLS "TAKE OFF TH OSE JORNS, CITIZEN."
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Sep 28, 2017 20:14
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Thumbtacks posted:my DM refused to call them jeans, insisting that jeans don't exist in this world. we compromised and called them JORNS, so now i'm going to make sure all my character names rhyme with it I'm totally stealing this
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i'm honestly okay with it because it was really hilarious, bandits were holding us up on a path through the forest so i was like "hm let's just walk around them" so i turned left and walked off the path and was immediately shot in the back by an archer, who crit and immediately killed me before anyone could say anything. i even had alert, so that wasn't an advantage roll. the first encounter and first loving dice roll of the game and I get crit to death instantly
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my first saving throw was a nat 1, and then our only healer rolled such a low initiative that they somehow weren't able to do anything before i rolled again, and then i rolled a 2 and immediately died i feel bad for the girl who was playing for the first time, she probably thinks dnd is a heartless game where you can die at any time. I'm not even mad though, I choked on my beer after I rolled that 1 from laughing so hard.
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Sep 28, 2017 20:22
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Here's a fun story. Another character in a game I just joined has a sentient magical weapon that lets him do things like double his AC/HP, cast arbitrary spells and choose his damage type, such as cold or fire or w/e. He also talks to it constantly. Oh, he's also a were-bear. To say he's dominating the story space is, well, sort of understating the matter. We're at 4th level by the way. Anyway, that's my D&D story.
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Sep 28, 2017 20:29
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Doubling AC? What the gently caress?
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All it costs is memories! Fictional memories!
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