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My current group not only has a guy playing a Dwarf, he's playing a really strange class that is a melee Sorcerer Dwarf. Dude mostly picked defensive spells and stuff like green flame blame and booming blade and took a splash level in fighter in order to be a sorcerer that just wades into fights hammer-first. It's kind of cool. However he still plays his character gruff-voiced so you can't avoid that with dwarves it seems.
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I’m playing a dwarf Druid, it’s fun. I don’t do voices.
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Oct 13, 2017 16:21
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I do voices for everyone I don't know what's wrong with you guys. I mean they all sound terrible but that's gonna happen either way.
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Oct 13, 2017 16:25
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In my fantasy games when I voice dwarf NPCs I like to give them redneck accents.
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Oct 13, 2017 16:26
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if you aren’t playing your dorf as short Italian-American stereotypes who augment their hand gestures with their beard what are you even doing with your life
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Oct 13, 2017 16:31
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Zikan posted:if you aren’t playing your dorf as short Italian-American stereotypes who augment their hand gestures with their beard what are you even doing with your life I've avoided dwarf accents because I can't really do a Scottish accent but I love that idea. Next dwarf is going to sound like Mario. Right now I'm DMing ToA and all my chult merchants/ merchant princes are Indian accents. I figure it's got kind of an India vibe and I'm bad at African accents, which would also be fitting.
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Oct 13, 2017 16:37
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Zikan posted:if you aren’t playing your dorf as short Italian-American stereotypes who augment their hand gestures with their beard what are you even doing with your life "Ehhhh, It's-a-me, Dorfio!"
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Oct 13, 2017 17:18
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It's me, I'm the player who doesn't like playing the short races I can't help but see them as just...goofy? Gimli in the movies doesn't help that perception either
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Oct 13, 2017 17:51
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Y'all should check out System Mastery 90 when they find out Secret of Zir'an dwarves are called Dolonori. Also DA dorfs have a kind of Medici era Italian flavor.
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Oct 13, 2017 18:12
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Dwarf rogue checkin' in. Expertise in thieve's tools and investigation (+10% find/remove trap, old school).
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Oct 13, 2017 18:54
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suggestions for lowering the fps on webcams to cut bandwidth use? this one would be pointed at a psychical tabletop, the dm is frustrated with roll20
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Oct 13, 2017 19:05
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There are psychical tabletops now? Gaming technology is advancing so fast!
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Oct 13, 2017 20:11
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mastershakeman posted:suggestions for lowering the fps on webcams to cut bandwidth use? this one would be pointed at a psychical tabletop, the dm is frustrated with roll20 My group plays in Roll20 but we use Google Hangouts in a separate window for A/V.
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Oct 13, 2017 20:21
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What software do you use for streaming? There's usually a suite of options for adjusting the video to suit your purposes. Though if bandwidth is a concern that can only be mitigated so much.
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Oct 13, 2017 20:32
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BetterWeirdthanDead posted:My group plays in Roll20 but we use Google Hangouts in a separate window for A/V. that's exactly what we've been doing, but he wants to just abandon roll20 (on his end at least , probably keep it for us to discourage dice shenanigans) and just have another webcam pointing at his table. he just has bad internet and running two Google hangout webcams didn't work the last few times we tried it before going to roll20 basically just needs a camera that updates at 1 frame a second, I wonder if it'd be easier to just have a script upload a compressed picture or something to a server
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Oct 13, 2017 20:53
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Can a warlock use a Rod of the Pact Keeper and Wand of the War Mage at the same time?
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Oct 14, 2017 13:26
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We have a Goliath cleric. That's neat. I'm a boring elf monk.
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Cassa posted:Can a warlock use a Rod of the Pact Keeper and Wand of the War Mage at the same time? RAW, you just have to be holding them to gain the benefit. However I would be hard pressed to allow someone with two magical weapons to let them stack on one attack. Personally, I would allow the benefits of both but only the +attack bonus of whichever is higher.
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Oct 14, 2017 13:44
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Admiral Joeslop posted:RAW, you just have to be holding them to gain the benefit. However I would be hard pressed to allow someone with two magical weapons to let them stack on one attack.
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Splicer posted:Tie them together and give all their spells a cool twisty dual coloured effect "You took ten levels of Warlock? I'm sorry; go ahead and tie those items together and combine their effects."
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Oct 14, 2017 14:06
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Cassa posted:Can a warlock use a Rod of the Pact Keeper and Wand of the War Mage at the same time? I'd say yes if you have War Caster, otherwise you're not going to be able to do the somatic components of spells.
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Oct 14, 2017 14:29
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Require proficiency in nunchucks.
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Oct 14, 2017 16:05
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Good news! Open broadcaster software actually has a setting where you can just type in whatever fps you want, which is perfect for streaming a high quality HD picture at 1fps. Now I just have to figure out why I can't get it to work with twitch/YouTube gaming and we'll be good to go once lighting and all that is positioned. Unsurprisingly, the open source software package has about 3 million custom settings vs Google Hangouts with one or two
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mastershakeman posted:Good news! Open broadcaster software actually has a setting where you can just type in whatever fps you want, which is perfect for streaming a high quality HD picture at 1fps. Now I just have to figure out why I can't get it to work with twitch/YouTube gaming and we'll be good to go once lighting and all that is positioned. 
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Oct 14, 2017 18:08
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Chiming into Dorf chat. In my current game I'm playing an Incan dwarf stone sorcerer who failed out of wizard college for smoking too much weed. It owns. I also saved the party when they were captured by elvish crusaders by hotboxing the jail.
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Oct 15, 2017 16:36
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Soylent Pudding posted:Chiming into Dorf chat. In my current game I'm playing an Incan dwarf stone sorcerer who failed out of wizard college for smoking too much weed. It owns. I wanna play at that table. Incidentally, D&D just isn't the same without the smell of weed. My original group fell apart a few months back, and I've started a new group, but we have to play in non-smoking areas, and it doesn't feel like the full experience without it.
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Oct 15, 2017 16:58
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My current character is a teifling fighter who has been described completely amoral and borderline sociopathic, but he has still done less harm than our CG rogue, who has knowingly unleashed magical plagues and soul-stealing coins because he could. His arguments being, the plague was set loose in the enemy stronghold (which would never spread, I guess?) and the coins were going to a guy who was totally evil because he was trying to bribe us, the heroes. Even better, I'm the untrustworthy one because I'm true neutral, whereas everyone else is some flavor of good. The other players don't see the irony in this. That aside, we've never had any really bad intraparty conflict until I threatened to kill the rogue for abandoning our allies to get slaughtered by a dragon because he was scared of it and it was in-character. You might think it's a terrible game, but everyone has fun! DnD is weird.
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I really like parties with restrained in-character conflicts like that. My group recently lost a player (he moved) whose PC was a chaotic neutral orc fighter that fought with mine (chaotic good tiefling sorlock) a lot on how to approach problems. They're both prideful, stubborn asses so they played off each other really well which gave the party's bard a chance to act like a mediator or the prankster-god cleric to act like a poo poo stirrer. It's the kind of group where a character can do something we objectively know as players is a bad idea but hey, it's in character for them to do it and it'll probably be really funny when it blows up in our faces.
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Oct 15, 2017 19:40
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Yeah I hate the parties that are too wrapped up in playing the game to beat it instead of having fun roleplaying.
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Haggins posted:Yeah I hate the parties that are too wrapped up in playing the game to beat it instead of having fun roleplaying. I was part of a dungeon world game where I got sick of casting magic missile every turn as a level 1 wizard so I used my turn to cast prestidigitation and make a huge middle finger Critted, too
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Ainsley McTree posted:I was part of a dungeon world game where I got sick of casting magic missile every turn as a level 1 wizard so I used my turn to cast prestidigitation and make a huge middle finger My Sorcerer was once caught in a Zone of Wild Magic and the result was his Fire Bolt turning into a stream of confetti, complete with noisemaker. The DM allowed me to learn the cantrip "Confetti Bolt" - same effect as Fire Bolt but it does psychic damage instead of fire.
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Oct 16, 2017 01:20
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Is it awful for a lore bard to take swift quiver at level 10 I mean 3 ranged attacks is still pretty good. It's no four attacks, but....
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Oct 16, 2017 02:48
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looks like darksun is confirmed  https://mobile.twitter.com/mikemearls/status/919638124262596608
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Oct 16, 2017 03:23
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Too bad Mearls worked on it.
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Oct 16, 2017 04:26
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I have no idea how anyone can be excited about this given how "awesome" their Eberron materials for 5e were.
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Oct 16, 2017 05:46
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To be fair, Ask Your GM, gives you everything you need to run a Dark Sun campaign.
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Oct 16, 2017 05:56
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Honestly, Mearls and Dark Sun seem to go very well together. Although his guidance for 5e already is a desolate, hopeless landscape, so I'm not sure what needs to be added
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Zikan posted:if you aren’t playing your dorf as short Italian-American stereotypes who augment their hand gestures with their beard what are you even doing with your life I've always felt dwarps should be sorta hillbilly types forget dwarven ale, wheel out the dwarven moonshine and forest weed stay outta that mineshaft, they trade in...harder stuff, over yonder PupsOfWar fucked around with this message at 09:15 on Oct 16, 2017 |
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Oct 16, 2017 09:11
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My current character is a dragonborn monk biologist with a Texan accent who is trying to make up for 24 years of celibacy and never seeing a female by collecting as many Playdrake issues as he can. He's a red dragonborn so he's obviously called Puce Lee.
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Krinkle posted:Is it awful for a lore bard to take swift quiver at level 10 I mean 3 ranged attacks is still pretty good. It's no four attacks, but.... Kinda, yeah. Not much reason to take Swift Quiver over the slightly more damaging and much more versatile Bigby's Hand unless you really want to taunt a Ranger at your table. Swift Quiver's strength comes from getting a lot of damage out of each attack. This generally comes from the Sharpshooter feat, and that along with maxing out dex and multiclassing into the archery fighting style is a bit lower priority for most Bards, particularly those of the Lore persuasion.
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