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Would lye or bleach kill an ooze?
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Mar 15, 2018 01:09
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:Would lye or bleach kill an ooze?
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Mar 15, 2018 01:14
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Even if you can't buy magic items you're often still better off saving the potion money for expensive magic foci, and spell components including diamonds. But if you're playing all martials I could see how money could become trivial after the single heavy armor guy gets his full plate. I'm a little blind in that sense because I've never played 5e without a ton of casters in the party.
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Mar 15, 2018 01:27
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:Would lye or bleach kill an ooze? Slingshots loaded with sugar lumps 
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Mar 15, 2018 01:37
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Razorwired posted:Slingshots loaded with sugar lumps Wait what would that do? Semi-related, we recently got burned by an NPC ally in a heist in a library. Our GM expected she’d escape immediately since she turned invisible and activated the paper-golem security systems, but we kept chasing and attacking her as best we could. Eventually we had to leave the place but we set off every remaining alarm device so she’d have to deal with a tornado of angry paper-constructs. So When we restock I’m going to make sure I buy lots of lemon juice. And flour, so she can’t hide again.
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Mar 15, 2018 01:46
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You don't need flour to reveal invisible opponents. Use the one thing adventurers have access to in copious amounts - blood
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Mar 15, 2018 01:51
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mastershakeman posted:You don't need flour to reveal invisible opponents. Use the one thing adventurers have access to in copious amounts - blood I use cheap healing potions.
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Mar 15, 2018 01:52
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My players (lvl 4) are going to have a paladin NPC travelling with them on and off. I don't want to build a full character sheet, but I'm looking around and paladin seems like the only class that didn't get a monster version? So I'm looking for ideas on spells and abilities. I don't want him to have optimal stuff that really affects combat, I'd rather he just avoid being a liability.
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Mar 15, 2018 01:57
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Yeah this is really odd to me, I know high level groups can bring in thousands of gold after clearing out a dungeon but the campaign I'm playing in my hexblade just lost his home, his business, had to flee the city with 15gold and is trying to figure out if he and the rest of the players should run away from the distinctly dodgy resistance who are currently offering them shelter "or else", and how he's going to justify spending 10G on lead paint for a single cast of Illusory Script to use as a trust test. "Oh if they're loyal to the prince they see a pretty yellow bird with a rainbow tail sat on top of a golden sickle but if they really want to overthrow him then it'll be a long manifesto blaming Stavian for everything that goes wrong upto and including toe stubbings or moth holes in bed clothes." Yes the DM is using a pathfinder setting for 5E and it perfectly fit the joke character concept of a Hexblade warlock whose patron is socialism. Well really it's The Whisperer of Souls nearly purified by Shelyn and reliving the overthrowing of the gods in a smaller scale as it's once fiendish sentience is purged but this tiefling is convinced the voice in his head is telling him to go hardcore revolutionary screaming "All lords are bastards!".
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Mar 15, 2018 02:11
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:Wait what would that do? I'm taking a big assumption in guessing that DND slimes are at least in part sulfuric acid. If you mix that with table sugar you get an exothermic reaction resulting in a bunch of water steam and an expanding mass of carbon ash.
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Mar 15, 2018 02:21
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Verizian posted:Yeah this is really odd to me, I know high level groups can bring in thousands of gold after clearing out a dungeon but the campaign I'm playing in my hexblade just lost his home, his business, had to flee the city with 15gold and is trying to figure out if he and the rest of the players should run away from the distinctly dodgy resistance who are currently offering them shelter "or else", and how he's going to justify spending 10G on lead paint for a single cast of Illusory Script to use as a trust test. "Oh if they're loyal to the prince they see a pretty yellow bird with a rainbow tail sat on top of a golden sickle but if they really want to overthrow him then it'll be a long manifesto blaming Stavian for everything that goes wrong upto and including toe stubbings or moth holes in bed clothes." I mean I guess the obvious question for you is, what level are you? A fighter is going to need 1,500gp for their set of full plate at some point and those classes that don't use heavy armour are probably going to have around 1,500gp in cash to spend on something by then as well. You can only really spend the gold on potions RAW so you're probably going to pile up a pretty comical reserve, especially if you don't have any special spell components to spend money on. kingcom fucked around with this message at 02:57 on Mar 15, 2018 |
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Mar 15, 2018 02:51
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Level 3, we've only had one session so far that gave us nothing and was just an interrsting way for the party to meet at a public hanging. Group is a halfling lore bard, air genassi elemental monk, my winged Tiefling hexblade, and a homebrew perma-diminutive tiny human mystic who lives in our pockets and has a psychic sock puppet as his focus.
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Mar 15, 2018 03:08
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Verizian posted:Level 3, we've only had one session so far that gave us nothing and was just an interrsting way for the party to meet at a public hanging. Group is a halfling lore bard, air genassi elemental monk, my winged Tiefling hexblade, and a homebrew perma-diminutive tiny human mystic who lives in our pockets and has a psychic sock puppet as his focus. Yeah that checks out, you're right out of the gate so you basically start with rags and homelessness as your equipment set (there is a reason murder-hobos is the word used). Once you start running your GM will either not bother with giving you gold, give you some kind of money sink or you will be flooded with it and having not much to spend it on by the time you're level 6ish.
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Mar 15, 2018 03:34
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I hate to be that guy, but the whole issue of people bouncing back up indefinitely was one of the problems that 4e's Healing Surges attempted to solve. Getting up from 0HP or less was a non-zero resource consumption for the person being healed, so it meant that you couldn't do it all day.
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Mar 15, 2018 04:22
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3.P solved it by making it easier to die.
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Mar 15, 2018 04:59
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"solved"
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Mar 15, 2018 05:09
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Elysiume posted:3.P solved it by making the player want to die. ftfy
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Mar 15, 2018 05:24
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So I'm joining yet another 5th edition game. This time though, the GM has said homebrew, UA, and other forms of non official content are allowed. Now, I don't want to break the game with some bad stupid homebrew... But is there a resource for the good stuff? Specifically looking at maybe some form of paladin, because we have no front liners of the other 3 so far who have said they wanna play
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Mar 15, 2018 20:37
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So... is a Halfling Diviner with the Lucky feat overpowered? Asking for a friend.
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Mar 15, 2018 20:39
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KittyEmpress posted:So I'm joining yet another 5th edition game. This time though, the GM has said homebrew, UA, and other forms of non official content are allowed. Now, I don't want to break the game with some bad stupid homebrew... But is there a resource for the good stuff? Specifically looking at maybe some form of paladin, because we have no front liners of the other 3 so far who have said they wanna play I think the UA redemption paladin was pretty cool if maybe a little overtuned - charming things you kill for a minute is really thematic and fun sounding: https://media.wizards.com/2017/dnd/downloads/UAThreeSubclasses.pdf (They got rid of it in the xanathars version.)
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Mar 15, 2018 20:54
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Smashing Link posted:So... is a Halfling Diviner with the Lucky feat overpowered? Asking for a friend. I wouldn’t say it’s much more OP than any other full caster but diviner + lucky is fun to play. Making powerful spells stick after burning through legendary resistances is always a good feeling.
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Mar 15, 2018 20:57
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In Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, elves will get the ability to change their gender 1/day. The main question I have to ask is "why just elves, and why 1/day?" I am reminded of how Starfinder had a sex shift elixir, but it was barred from sale unless you were level 3 or higher. The gamification of LGBT themes is kinda weird to me...
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Mar 15, 2018 21:27
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Hey i sort of want to run a 5e game but buying all the books twice to have the physical books plus the online reference in Beyond seems a bit steep. Just want to confirm there's absolutely no discount or online code when you buy the books?
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Mar 15, 2018 21:37
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You can give yourself a discount by downloading PDFs of books you legitimately bought. I dunno why you wouldn't do that.  Pay for beyond if you want their tools, not literal copies of books you paid for already.
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Mar 15, 2018 21:42
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Libertad! posted:In Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, elves will get the ability to change their gender 1/day. There wasn't an explicit ability for it in the PHB, but it does mention that Corellon was genderfluid and elves are made in Corellon's image.
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Mar 15, 2018 21:58
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KittyEmpress posted:So I'm joining yet another 5th edition game. This time though, the GM has said homebrew, UA, and other forms of non official content are allowed. Now, I don't want to break the game with some bad stupid homebrew... But is there a resource for the good stuff? Specifically looking at maybe some form of paladin, because we have no front liners of the other 3 so far who have said they wanna play I made a Halfling Paladin oath last year. It probably needs me to revisit it for another pass, but I thought it was fun. The idea was like an order of Halfling paladins who are strident defenders of hospitality and kinship, so they had a lot of things about protecting their friends and bringing the comforts of home with them (along with an option to key weapon attacks off CHA because Paladin is MAD enough as it is without playing a pretty poorly suited race for it.) If it's the sort of thing you're interested in I could dig it up and give it another look.
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Mar 15, 2018 22:28
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Libertad! posted:In Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, elves will get the ability to change their gender 1/day. The article is talking about it in more gamy terms then the lore terms it was brought up in. What the video and the transcript of it I read. (Crawford is not the best talker so I did not feel like listening to him and felt it easier to just read what he said.) It's talking about how Elves as descendants of Correlon created in his image use to have mutable forms like he did one of his powers being able to freely shift his sex and gender, to what ever he wanted male, female, neither, both. A piece of lore being introduced in the chapter about elves is that some are born with Correlon's blessing which allows them to shift their sex over a night. The point of bring this up is that the Drow hate this and kill whoever has this trait in their society.
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Mar 15, 2018 22:39
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MonsterEnvy posted:The article is talking about it in more gamy terms then the lore terms it was brought up in. A really great thing about this is now if I want to play Drow in FR I have to explain why I'm not from Rape Clan Mezzromazzaranch or whatever *and* why I don't want to murder trans people. Like for christ's sake just scrap most of the godawful Drow lore and find a way to make them vicious and severe without being horrible in ways that resonate too hard in real life.
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Mar 15, 2018 22:49
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Nehru the Damaja posted:I made a Halfling Paladin oath last year. It probably needs me to revisit it for another pass, but I thought it was fun. The idea was like an order of Halfling paladins who are strident defenders of hospitality and kinship, so they had a lot of things about protecting their friends and bringing the comforts of home with them (along with an option to key weapon attacks off CHA because Paladin is MAD enough as it is without playing a pretty poorly suited race for it.) Well halflings are my favorite race in d&d (though 5e ones look like deformed pathfinder goblins)
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Mar 15, 2018 22:53
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D&D is weird in that entire races can have general alignments and tainted blood due to ancient pacts with gods and poo poo. Aren't the drow supposed to be evil?
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Mar 15, 2018 22:54
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Baronjutter posted:D&D is weird in that entire races can have general alignments and tainted blood due to ancient pacts with gods and poo poo. Aren't the drow supposed to be evil?
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Mar 15, 2018 22:57
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Not that you would, mechanically, want to play one anyway. Disadvantage while in sunlight is real dumb.
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Mar 15, 2018 23:07
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given that drow are evil dark skinned feminazis i'm a little surprised it's not the genderfluid ones who do the discriminating
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Mar 15, 2018 23:14
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Half-Drow are strong as hell if you're looking to powergame it but then you're still stuck with the lore that all half-drow are pretty much products of rape. Say what you will about Matt Mercer but he had the good sense to make refugee communities who escaped the Underdark and peacefully coexist with toplanders, giving players the option to play Drow and half-Drow without terrible story implications. I just want a way to play/GM Drow and Half-Drow without choosing between it causing problems at the table or being Mary Sue Drizzt clones. Nehru the Damaja fucked around with this message at 23:32 on Mar 15, 2018 |
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Mar 15, 2018 23:21
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Play a Drow with decent Disguise skill and pretend you're a really buff Wood Elf.
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Mar 15, 2018 23:44
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I thought there were communities of drow refugees in the Forgotten Realms setting, too?
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Mar 15, 2018 23:56
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Arthil posted:I thought there were communities of drow refugees in the Forgotten Realms setting, too? There are, they are just few and far between. I remember in the Neverwinter MMO you work with a small group of drow who are members of Harpers to fight off an raid from some other Drow. The primary drow you work with calls his kin disgusting scum, gives you advice never to take a drow at their word until you know they are trustworthy, even if they are claiming to be good. As far too many try to take advantage of some of the good will drow like him and Drizzt have managed etch out. Brother Entropy posted:given that drow are evil dark skinned feminazis i'm a little surprised it's not the genderfluid ones who do the discriminating The fact that they are feminazis is one of the reasons they are stated to be disliked in that interview Crawford interview posted:Now one of the neat twists too that we talk about in Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes is going back to this notion of changeability is we talk a bit more about something that was discussed in the Player's Handbook and that is there are certain elves who are blessed by Corellon because one thing we also hint at is that even though Corellon was upset with the elves for turning on him, there is also some love in Corellon for his children and some of these children are seeming to be particularly blessed and one of the signs of this blessing is they are able to change their sex. He also says earlier on he imagines Drow society to be like that miniseries I Claudius.
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Mar 16, 2018 00:15
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Baronjutter posted:Hey i sort of want to run a 5e game but buying all the books twice to have the physical books plus the online reference in Beyond seems a bit steep. Just want to confirm there's absolutely no discount or online code when you buy the books? Do this Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:You can give yourself a discount by downloading PDFs of books you legitimately bought. I dunno why you wouldn't do that. Unless you like me have nothing better to do with your money then buy the D&D Beyond versions. Or if you would rather have the D&D Beyond Versions instead of the Physical versions.
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Mar 16, 2018 00:24
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MonsterEnvy posted:There are, they are just few and far between. I remember in the Neverwinter MMO you work with a small group of drow who are members of Harpers to fight off an raid from some other Drow. The primary drow you work with calls his kin disgusting scum, gives you advice never to take a drow at their word until you know they are trustworthy, even if they are claiming to be good. As far too many try to take advantage of some of the good will drow like him and Drizzt have managed etch out. yeah i read the interview and i strongly disagree that making drow society more irredeemably evil and unlikable is a 'neat storytelling twist'
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Brother Entropy posted:yeah i read the interview and i strongly disagree that making drow society more irredeemably evil and unlikable is a 'neat storytelling twist' Well I think 'neat storytelling twist' was a type of Drow that other Elves are more ok with cause they have a trait they consider blessed. Also I feel that it's not making Drow society more irredeemably evil cause they are already at 0 and can't really go any lower. If you can think of something horrible and cruel chances are the Drow do it with glee. Like they enjoy murder, rape, torture (physical and mental), abuse, ritual sacrifice, are racist, sexist. They kill any of their kind that has any deformities or ugliness mainly babies. This is just another way they are awful. MonsterEnvy fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Mar 16, 2018 |
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Mar 16, 2018 00:46
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