Elfgames posted:

ok but like if you dislike grid based combat games why not play a game like torchbearer that isn't those things

MonsterEnvy posted:

I know that. But Beasts are just animals. So I can't really think of any that third parties would think to come up with that have not been covered.

crazypeltast52 posted:

I had a question about the awakened mind of a Great Old One warlock. Is the telepathy 2 ways or is the warlock just shooting mindyells at whoever they want that have to be replied verbally?

crazypeltast52 posted:

Also, with the actor feat, I assume I can have someone listen to chewing sounds endlessly for hours on end, in someone else’s chewing voice?

Nehru the Damaja posted:

Yeah, but I'm looking for like weird magic animals. Stuff more interesting than just "an animal you know but it's big as gently caress"

I know Blink Dogs are technically Fey but things like that.

MonsterEnvy posted:

Ok that is much easier. Stuff like fey and Monstrosities would fit then.

The Yeth Hound from Volo's is outright stated to be a big vicious Feywild dog. Displacer Beasts are also stated to originate from the Feywild.

The Almiraj is a cute horned bunny from Tomb of Annihilation.


Other animal like creatures from Tomb of Annihilation that could work are the Eblis, Flying Monkey, Jaculi (A large jumping Snake), Kamadan, Zarbo, and Su-Monsters (Psychic Monkey monsters.)

Those of some of the strange animal things from the main sources, I have not checked out a ton of third party products myself so can't help you too much there.

MonsterEnvy posted:

Elysiume posted:

It's one way.
That seems to have questionable utility, but I don't see why not.

Xae posted:

There is always more detail to 'sperg out over. Or are you saying an African Swallow has the same move speed as a European Swallow?

CubeTheory posted:

I just realized this reference is 43 years old.

help

Razorwired posted:

Is it considered to post a Kickstarter update?

FRINGE posted:

Subjunctive posted:

Yes, IMO.

PublicOpinion posted:

Kickstarters have the option to make backers-only updates and the one in question is publicly viewable, so I assume they're fine with people linking it. I assume this is the update: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1586134783/faerie-fire-a-5e-supplemental/posts/2134066

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Wild Magic Surge

Starting when you choose this origin at 1st level, your spellcasting can unleash surges of untamed magic. Once per turn, the DM can have you roll a d20 immediately after you cast a sorcerer spell of 1st level or higher. If you roll a 1, roll on the Wild Magic Surge table to create a magical effect. If that effect is a spell, it is too wild to be affected by your Metamagic, and if it normally requires concentration, it doesn’t require concentration in this case; the spell lasts for its full duration.

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Tides of Chaos

Starting at 1st level, you can manipulate the forces of chance and chaos to gain advantage on one attack roll, ability check, or saving throw. Once you do so, you must finish a long rest before you can use this feature again.

Any time before you regain the use of this feature, the DM can have you roll on the Wild Magic Surge table immediately after you cast a sorcerer spell of 1st level or higher. You then regain the use of this feature.

Froghammer posted:

Has anyone else tried Tomb of Annihilation? Because I tried being run through it and it's loving awful.

doctor 7 posted:

It's an old school adventure that is designed not to cater to the newer style of play where encounters are more balanced for parties. Going out at level 1 is a death sentence. We're coming up on level 4 shortly and 1 of our original 5 is still alive.

The problem is life is cheap so it's difficult to really want to role play in this game. Why out hours of effort into making a character that's probably going to die to some random poo poo rear end encounter you had no hope of winning?

That said I had a better time of it when I showed up with 6 premade characters I didn't care a ton about. I put effort into making them fit with the campaign but didn't waste time coming up with longer backstories and how they will mesh with this world etc.

When my character died I literally just told the DM to roll a D6 and picked out a guy from my numbered pile and continued. Also all the characters are named "Red Shirt" but plugged into Google translate for different languages. I feel like you need that kind of attitude in order to really enjoy the campaign.

Which is think is super lame because "yeah let's play this role-playing game where you are probably going to die lots, can't come back so why even bother getting invested in your characters and actually role playing?"

Froghammer posted:

Pretty much, yeah. One of the things I've been thinking about a lot lately is that old school ultra-realistic everything-can-kill-you-after-one-botched-roll appealed to me more when I was younger and when my free time was significantly less precious. Now that I'm an adult with other things that occupy my time (work obligations, a social life, a romantic partner, other non-gaming related interests, etc) my stomach for getting the chance to roleplay as a character for whom life is cheap and death is almost certain has dropped significantly. I only get to game maybe once every three or four weeks, and I'd just much rather be getting emotionally invested.

BattleCake posted:

This might be a little late but specifically with regards to combat abilities, D&D 4e was actually the first edition I ever played and the fact that everyone including martial classes having a bunch of cool powers they could do in combat seemed to make sense to me at the time from what little I knew of D&D. I was surprised and disappointed to find out this wasn't always the norm when my group switched to 3.5e.

As a side note, I have a few friends who would like to try out D&D for the first time, and I plan to run a short intro adventure for them (something along the lines of Lost Mines of Phandelver). I have my own thoughts/preferences but I don't mind running either and want to let them make the decision on which system to play. From some play experience and reading SA I feel like I have a pretty good grasp on the pros and cons of 4e, but I wanted to ask the thread what they thought the pros of 5e might be, to people who have never played a PnP RPG before? Combat being simpler and having fewer mechanics to track is the main thing that comes to mind, but what else should I mention that would actually be useful to know to players who are totally new to D&D?

NachtSieger posted:

Hey so, a friend of mine was interested in the playtests where the Fighter wasn't a useless sack of poo poo, does anyone have the ones where fighters had martial damage dice and actual options in combat and all that good stuff?

Nehru the Damaja posted:

Rolled a strong set of numbers for a roll20 game for a group that really looks like it needs a meat-shield.

10 13 15 16 9 15

To me, that screams "go Variant Human Paladin with 3 16s and a feat."

Difficulty is I've almost always played full casters other than for quick one-shots and the typical "smash things and never cast my spells because I'd rather have smites" thing doesn't sound super appealing. Anyone got any interesting suggestions for a fun pay to play this?

Nehru the Damaja posted:

10 13 15 16 9 15

Nehru the Damaja posted:

edit: lol nevermind this group is creepy as hell and I'm seeing my way out of this shitshow. Roll20 strikes again.

Gridlocked posted:

My PBP SA Mines of Whatits update:

Group is trying to intimidate and non-lethal the last goblin from the ambush so far we've knocked it probe and have all failed to do anything to it beyond that. so there is a goblin on the ground surrounded by hero's try to tell at it or bash it and it is dodging like a champ.