Gridlocked posted:

Theres a reason I avoid playing video games with him now days.

The Crotch posted:

I'm sure your game will go great.

AlphaDog posted:

Doesn't seem too bad given that you're giving up doing anything else from the list to get it, but yeah, I missed that.

AlphaDog posted:

I wonder if you could do something cool with Fighters (specifically Fighters) by switching some of their attacks from attacker rolls d20 to defender saves. Take the "fighters are the best at fighting" thing at face value and show that in the mechanics by having one of their attacks each round always hitting unless the defender does something to actively avoid it. The rest are normal attacks.

AlphaDog posted:

e: I wonder if you could do something cool with Fighters (specifically Fighters) by switching some of their attacks from attacker rolls d20 to defender saves. Take the "fighters are the best at fighting" thing at face value and show that in the mechanics by having one of their attacks each round always hitting unless the defender does something to actively avoid it. The rest are normal attacks.

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Rain of Steel:
As a bonus action you can expend a superiority die to gain the following concentration effect lasting for a minute: you swing and strike at nearby foes near continuously. Any foe near you, even one that you don’t directly target, is in danger of being hit by a back swing or a stray strike. For the duration, whenever a hostile creature begins its turn within reach of your weapon, it must make a Dexterity saving throw or take two of your weapons dice of damage. It takes half as much damage on a successful saving throw.

Saxophone posted:

So my wife and I are going to start playing D&D 5e with a group soon. I played back in 2nd edition and she's never played. So far, I'm really enjoying the streamlining of systems and abilities.

So in terms of character sheets and such, what would you all recommend? Should we just print out the ones that came with the players manual I picked up? Also, are the books cheaper in PDF format? Because I wouldn't mind picking a few other things up, but 50 bucks a pop for books seems a bit ouch.

Is there a decent phone app to use as well?

Basically she's brand new, and I'm just now getting into it again almost 20 years later, so some resources would be swell. I read the OP but it has "updates" from like 2016 so I don't know how relevant or up to date the links there are.

Thanks goons!

gradenko_2000 posted:

The success of Colville's kickstarter is probably more attributable to cultivating a fanbase more than anything else. He has a blog, a video series, and palled around with a lot of otherwise big names in TRPGs (as big as those names get, anyway). You hit critical mass, and then you make a "book deal" that's guaranteed to sell like hotcakes just out of brand loyalty.

I'm not saying this necessarily to impugn on his writing chops*, but that's really a huge step to making a successful kickstarter: spend the next year or so building hype and winning-over fans so that it's funded as soon as you launch it.

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* I do agree with the phrase "bad design apologist", on top of the fact that a lot of "domain management" supplements already exist

DalaranJ posted:

The biggest card game kickstarter of all time was exploding kittens, and I’m pretty sure it wasn’t due to the quality of the game design.

Splicer posted:

Fifth Edition Character Sheet and The Spellbook are my go to Android apps.

Also character creation is full of newbie traps and some concepts just don't work so be prepared to scrap a cool and intuitive seeming concept if it just doesn't work mechanically.

Toplowtech posted:

The thing is Domain Rulership rules for D&d is something really big for a lot of obsessive people who watch too much game of throne and the only recent crunchy thing available on the market to fill that need is Adventurer, Conqueror, King, an OSR game literally owned by the alt-Right guy producing Milo Yiannopoulos so anyone offering a kickstarter for a game like that fill that niche but who didn't rape 30 women and killed kitties on video is literally going to get mad money.

DalaranJ posted:

I’m not sure the audience of people who want these sort of rules, and realize and care that the ACKS guy is a douchebag is very large. I was under the impression that that audience was about a dozen people including myself.

Now there may be a lot of people who want these rules and don’t know that ACKS exists, and if so I’m glad of it. Whatever this rules set looks like it’ll be infinitely more popular than ACKS.

Toplowtech posted:

The thing is Domain Rulership rules for D&d is something really big for a lot of obsessive people who watch too much game of throne and the only recent crunchy thing available on the market to fill that need is Adventurer, Conqueror, King, an OSR game literally owned by the alt-Right guy producing Milo Yiannopoulos so anyone offering a kickstarter for a game like that fill that niche but who didn't rape 30 women and killed kitties on video is literally going to get mad money.

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

wow I guess vaguebooking is even lamer when the people being complained about are internet randos and not people you know

Saxophone posted:

Awesome, I will check those out for sure.

So if you don't mind, could you deliver into some examples of those kinds of newbie traps? I don't want to power game, but I'd also like her first D&D experience to be a good one. She's leaning toward a magic user of some type if it helps. I'm probably going bard or Monk.

Nash posted:

I had to deal in my first dm gig with the party splitting up. Three headed to the goblin cave and two others took the wagon into town. The three were going to try and clear the whole cave while the others were in town.

This sounded incredibly boring for the other two so I switched focus to them. After returning the cart to Barthen, they promptly headed for a tavern. The player who previously said he wanted to “torpedo the game” wanted to try and gamble at a table of card players.

I had the old men playing cards tell the player to gently caress off because it was a private game. The guy puts down a gold piece and is still promptly told to gently caress off. He rolls a 1 on a sleight of hand check to steal some money on the table. I told him to take one point of damage as an old man at the table puts a knife through his hand.

At this point they finally decided to head back to the cave. I was not prepared for a split up group as a first time DM.

Nash posted:

I had to deal in my first dm gig with the party splitting up. Three headed to the goblin cave and two others took the wagon into town. The three were going to try and clear the whole cave while the others were in town.

This sounded incredibly boring for the other two so I switched focus to them. After returning the cart to Barthen, they promptly headed for a tavern. The player who previously said he wanted to “torpedo the game” wanted to try and gamble at a table of card players.

AlphaDog posted:

He literally pulled the "Dungeon? Nah, I'm going to the pub!" thing?

Toplowtech posted:

The thing is Domain Rulership rules for D&d is something really big for a lot of obsessive people who watch too much game of throne and the only recent crunchy thing available on the market to fill that need is Adventurer, Conqueror, King, an OSR game literally owned by the alt-Right guy producing Milo Yiannopoulos so anyone offering a kickstarter for a game like that fill that niche but who didn't rape 30 women and killed kitties on video is literally going to get mad money.

gradenko_2000 posted:

Saxophone posted:

So if you don't mind, could you deliver into some examples of those kinds of newbie traps? I don't want to power game, but I'd also like her first D&D experience to be a good one. She's leaning toward a magic user of some type if it helps. I'm probably going bard or Monk.

Subjunctive posted:

Yeah, this is in my queue, but I’m not sure how tied it is to the Labyrinth Lord stuff.

Rigged Death Trap posted:

Basic rain of steel would be STR mod, upgrafing to 1[W]+STR, then 2[W]+STR

Nickoten posted:

Cleave: Make a melee weapon attack. If it hits, a creature or object you choose within five feet of the target that you attacked also takes damage equal to your Strength modifier. [This way, you only cleave with weapons or your unarmed strike, and you can break a table or something in addition to hitting an enemy. I don't think you gain much rules-wise from adding that the target has to be next to both the enemy and you].

Reaping Strike: Make a melee weapon attack. If it misses, you deal damage equal to half your Strength modifier. If you're using a weapon with the two-handed property, you instead deal damage equal to your Strength modifier.

Covering Attack: Make a melee weapon attack. If it hits, roll your weapon damage dice an additional time and add the result to your damage [I used the Brutal Critical/Savage Attacks wording here], and any ally of yours that is adjacent to the target may immediately move 10 feet.

Passing Attack: Make a melee weapon attack against a creature. If it hits, you may immediately move 5 feet. Whether or not you move, you may make an additional melee attack with advantage against a different creature of your choice.

Steel Serpent Strike: Make a melee weapon attack. If it hits, roll your weapon damage dice an additional time and add the result to your damage. Also, the target's speed is reduced by half and it cannot use the Disengage action until the end of your next turn.

Brute Strike: Make a melee weapon attack. If it hits, roll your roll your weapon damage dice two additional times and add the result to your damage. If it misses, you can still use this attack again.

Taran posted:

I really like the idea of D&D games where the PC group gets a keep or something somewhere during Paragon tier -- in most of the games that I've played where that happens, the base management was mostly handwaved or a series of basic choices like a Bioware RPG ("do you want your castle to be [MILITARY] or [TRADE] focused?", that sort of thing). And it worked out, but that's because it allowed the games to still mostly be about the heroes going out and adventuring most/all of the time.

Elendil004 posted:

I had a pretty good moment in a session last night. I'm a bard with a black metal angle and this deranged druid ambushed us with little tree things. I did unearthly chorus and nailed a roll to turn him friendly, he went from "you just die!" To "this track rules what is it?" And the party sauntered by.

kingcom posted:

I keep it simple, grapple check on the target, if successful caster needs to make a concentration check (Con Save) with DC equal to the check the grappler made.

Conspiratiorist posted:

Grapple is extremely potent and I'd be wary of making it any stronger.

kingcom posted:

and yeah the big strong guy should be able to just grab some spindly wizard and lock him down.

Ryuujin posted:

I believe there is actually a feat for hindering spellcasting?