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Yeah I am not afraid to tell my players "Your alignment has changed due to your action."
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Gridlocked posted:Yeah I am not afraid to tell my players "Your alignment has changed due to your action." Now if alignment mattered this edition...
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Feb 4, 2018 05:08
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Conspiratiorist posted:Now if alignment mattered this edition... Yeah it's more "the alignment you scribbled on your sheet is not representative of your character." It isn't a mechanical thing and has no real meaning or bearing outside of a shorthand for a character's motivations.
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Feb 4, 2018 05:11
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Hot take: alignment should be descriptive, not prescriptive, of a character's behavior. You can start with whatever alignment you want, but if you don't live up to it, it's going to change.
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Feb 4, 2018 05:14
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Alignment is a silly concept anyway. Monsters should have every opportunity to be peaceful and good for one example. On another hand too, sometimes doing really bad stuff is what it takes to get the results you're after. No shortage of people hailed as heroes in history who actually did some really vile stuff.
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Feb 4, 2018 05:15
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Alignment isn't just dumb, I all but guarantee it's existence has contributed to the refusal of DMs and players to just loving talk to each other when there's a problem. Don't say "your alignment has changed," say "hey Jeff that's real hosed up, I'm not sure I'm cool with that in game."
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Feb 4, 2018 05:16
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I refuse to write in a proper alignment anymore. Usually I'll just write something defiant like "None", or something descriptive but noncommittal like "Schlamozzle"
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Feb 4, 2018 05:18
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If any of my current DMs checked my sheet they'd find that for all of 5e my characters have all been aligned "gently caress tha police"
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Feb 4, 2018 05:26
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Razorwired posted:If any of my current DMs checked my sheet they'd find that for all of 5e my characters have all been aligned "gently caress tha police" "Chaotic Full Communism Now"
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Feb 4, 2018 05:29
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Pleads posted:Do your part and link the thing for those of us unaware such a thing exists! https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1586134783/faerie-fire-a-5e-supplemental I'm backing it. Got a feywild thing coming up later and wanted to have more poo poo for it. Plus it seems like a neat piece of work.
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Feb 4, 2018 06:07
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I think the range of human personality and motivation is much better described by a harry potter house and a friends character than a d&d alignment.
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Feb 4, 2018 06:21
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:I think the range of human personality and motivation is much better described by a harry potter house and a friends character than a d&d alignment. https://twitter.com/meakoopa/status/959541172497723393
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Feb 4, 2018 06:23
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im a ravenclaw phoebe
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Feb 4, 2018 06:26
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huh, my current character is a Hufflepuff Ross. this checks out.
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Feb 4, 2018 06:35
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Excuse me my character would not help the peasants, haven't you seen that his alignment is ordering a single black coffee at the drive through?
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Feb 4, 2018 06:38
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I"m Lawful Joey
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Feb 4, 2018 06:45
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gradenko_2000 posted:"Chaotic Full Communism Now" Has to be Lawful Full Communism Now if you're playing the tank.
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Feb 4, 2018 07:05
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gradenko_2000 posted:huh, my current character is a Hufflepuff Ross. this checks out. ugg ross campaigns are the worst
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Feb 4, 2018 07:36
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I just write "socialist" as my alignment any time I can get away with it.
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Feb 4, 2018 07:37
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I kinda wanna write my Tempest cleric out of the story of this Storm Kings campaign we're doing. I feel like I made kind of a serious/earnest character and he's not really meshing with the sillier vibe of the group. That said, hachi machi this is a fragile group and losing their big armored dwarf would hurt. What's the funnest thing I can do with a heavy-armored polearm master?
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Feb 4, 2018 08:47
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The straight man is a time-honored position in comedy. Wear this role well, friend.
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Nehru the Damaja posted:I kinda wanna write my Tempest cleric out of the story of this Storm Kings campaign we're doing. I feel like I made kind of a serious/earnest character and he's not really meshing with the sillier vibe of the group. That said, hachi machi this is a fragile group and losing their big armored dwarf would hurt. What's the funnest thing I can do with a heavy-armored polearm master? Play it so straight it's ridiculous. Become so serious about everything that it's funny, take things as literally as possible.
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Feb 4, 2018 09:28
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Nehru the Damaja posted:I kinda wanna write my Tempest cleric out of the story of this Storm Kings campaign we're doing. I feel like I made kind of a serious/earnest character and he's not really meshing with the sillier vibe of the group. That said, hachi machi this is a fragile group and losing their big armored dwarf would hurt. What's the funnest thing I can do with a heavy-armored polearm master? Polearm Master reaction attack plus Sentinel and the Trip Maneuver.
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Yeah - humourless and obtuse can be a fun comedic choice if you do it right. That said, if you're fighting giants and have polearm master I'd totally let you vault onto them with a staff.
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I'm chaotic ugly naked guyThe Bee posted:The straight man is a time-honored position in comedy. Wear this role well, friend. CubeTheory posted:Play it so straight it's ridiculous. Become so serious about everything that it's funny, take things as literally as possible. Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Yeah - humourless and obtuse can be a fun comedic choice if you do it right. Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:That said, if you're fighting giants and have polearm master I'd totally let you vault onto them with a staff.
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So if I'm a 3 Sorc/2 Warlock can I use metamagic on spells from my warlock self? Specifically can I Twin Eldritch Blast?
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Gridlocked posted:So if I'm a 3 Sorc/2 Warlock can I use metamagic on spells from my warlock self? If you were below a character level of 5, yeah. As of then, unfortunately, no. It's dumb but that's when Eldritch Blast becomes 2 beams that can be targeted at different things. Twinned Spell explicitly forbids anything that can target more than one thing, even if you opt not to: quote:To be eligible, a spell must be incapable of targeting more than one creature at the spell’s current level. quote:The spell creates more than one beam when you reach higher levels: two beams at 5th level, three beams at 11th level, and four beams at 17th level. You can direct the beams at the same target or at different ones. e; You can however still Quicken it, to cast it as a Bonus Action and then cast it again as your regular Action.
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Splicer posted:This is correct Pull off absolutely ridiculous stunts, and never be impressed by them. Not because you're depressed or have low self esteem, but because everyone knows it just plum does no good to get all excited about things when there's work to be done, and besides, you could've done it too if you just applied yourself and prayed to Kord properly.
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Nehru the Damaja posted:After a few weeks in my campaign my players were looking at scenarios where inaction was supposed to look really appealing and declaring "it's impossible to be neutral on a moving train" as they attack the cops This owns, I love that logic.
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Hey, so I got roped into DMing the next campaign for my group. It's gonna be a continuation of Lost Mines of Phandelver, and I'd like a bit of feedback as to whether or not it's gripping enough for the players.
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inthesto posted:Hey, so I got roped into DMing the next campaign for my group. It's gonna be a continuation of Lost Mines of Phandelver, and I'd like a bit of feedback as to whether or not it's gripping enough for the players. That sounds very cool and I'd definitely be down to play in a total war scenario like that.
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I started DMing for a group last year and have about 6 people that, through conflicting schedules, can only field 4-5 at any given session. How do you handle the absences? Also, it makes it hard to plan encounters when I base the CR on 4 level 4s and we end up with 5, or visa versa. Everyone seems to be having fun even if they just clown on a boss that fails to hurt any of them meaningfully but I'd like to out them into some danger without a TPK.
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Schwza posted:I started DMing for a group last year and have about 6 people that, through conflicting schedules, can only field 4-5 at any given session. How do you handle the absences? Also, it makes it hard to plan encounters when I base the CR on 4 level 4s and we end up with 5, or visa versa. Everyone seems to be having fun even if they just clown on a boss that fails to hurt any of them meaningfully but I'd like to out them into some danger without a TPK. Try and just on the fly scale either number of enemies (i.e. 6 orcs vs 4 orcs) or scale the boss hp (drop it from 150 to 120 if you have one less player than you expected).
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Schwza posted:I started DMing for a group last year and have about 6 people that, through conflicting schedules, can only field 4-5 at any given session. How do you handle the absences? Unless you're happy to make the game about single-session missions from a shared base, get used to handwaving. I mean, literally just ignore that some characters are there / not there during different sessions. It'll be fine. Either way, any PC not present was doing something cool and dangerous off-camera and still gets xp etc. Schwza posted:Also, it makes it hard to plan encounters when I base the CR on 4 level 4s and we end up with 5, or visa versa. Everyone seems to be having fun even if they just clown on a boss that fails to hurt any of them meaningfully but I'd like to out them into some danger without a TPK. If nobody else gives a gently caress, you shouldn't, either. If you care anyway, I guess you could build each encounter twice, once for 4 players and once for 5? Don't try to be exact, but it should be relatively easy to make stuff where you can add or subtract an opponent (or move their AC, hp, number of attacks, etc up or down slightly) to put it in roughly the right zone for difficulty. You'll probably get good at eyeballing it pretty quick, especially if your fights are similarly themed. You can always adjust the encounter on-the-fly if you need to. You don't necessarily have to fiddle with numbers, either. Have the boss send two sidekicks away to get something/someone. Have reinforcements arrive. Have the bad guys run away shaking their fists and promising to get the PCs next tiiiiiiiime. Elector_Nerdlingen fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Feb 4, 2018 |
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West Marches if you wanna get fancy, but otherwise just level everyone up together.
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My friend thought my idea for a SorcLock was too cliche. What do you thibk goons: A Red Dragon descent Sorc who makes a pact with Mephistos for some power bevause his great great whatever Red Dragon ancestor is hunting down all of its mortal progeny because it is feeling insulted that its drunken mortal fling a few hundred years ago had resulted in the lesser races getting to tap into some dragon powers for free.
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Yeah if you have groups where you're constantly running at a revolving 60-80% of players, whatever else you do, give missing people who have jobs, wives, other interests, and whatever the same XP as everyone else. Don't poo poo it up with Adventurers League "logic." In other news, Wizards has now instituted background checks for both Magic and D&D event coordinators after some sex offenders were discovered to be involved in them (which statistically is more or less inevitable, I think). Naturally the D&D side is receiving less attention because by comparison it is almost dead compared to Magic, but: https://company.wizards.com/article/news/making-magic-spaces-safer quote:The safety of Magic events is of paramount importance to us. https://wpn.wizards.com/en/article/making-magic-spaces-safer quote:Section 5b: To protect players of all ages, to the extent permitted by applicable law, you agree to conduct background checks to meet your obligations under Section 15 on your Staff as well as those you engage with that interact with the public. I have a friend in Seattle who participates in the Wednesday D&D events, and he and at least one other person have quit rather than submit to a background check for an unpaid position. The triggering incident seems to be a Magic tournament judge who was discovered to have a sexual offense on his history, reported to the governing (and ostensibly independent) coordinator organization, and then this information was not acted on. As much as I would like to come down on the side of privacy, before I stopped participating in Wednesday events a few years ago I saw more and more little kids, so it's not just the 18-34 crowd to keep in mind.
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Ultimately you’ve gotta take an anti-rape stance, so I can’t argue against this.
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Surprised the people running the games refused to undergo a background check they didn't have to pay for. The cost falling on the owners of every little game store that wants to keep in business with WoTC is the big thing here. Hell my cities stuff has no connection in any official capacity with WotC/Adventure League but the owner of the place we game at every other Friday is still requiring our DMs to go through the checks because otherwise he'd just ask us to leave if a Magic game was also being ran at the same time. Which is almost always.
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