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Agent355 posted:The corridors? I'd do just the opposite and describe it as 'a confusing array of criss crossing corridors' and just leave it as that in the narrative. No need to get specific about it. As narrative that's fine, but then it doesn't work as an obstacle. Same with drawing it out, revealing it bit by bit, or whatever else. Sure, that works, but what's the purpose of a "confusing" part if you're literally showing them the map?
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Sure but it's also just a small encounter with an ochre jelly and not a main plot point. No need to get super concerned with it, do a little roleplay of the party getting turned around a couple times, have the ochre jelly attack, move on. The fun is in how well you roleplay it, I don't think anybody expects it to be a serious obstacle. My problem with it is what do i describe it as? Like what the hell is the purpose of it. If this is basically a base camp for an abandoned mine and you have temples/forges/etc up here in this dwarven frontier town equivalent, whats the point of these random corridors? Maybe like, test tunnels? To see how well the rock holds up in this area of the world. But then aren't dorfs supposed to be better at mining and can just rub their face on the rock and know how well it'd stand up to tunnels being dug through it? Agent355 fucked around with this message at 06:30 on Apr 11, 2018 |
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Agent355 posted:Sure but it's also just a small encounter with an ochre jelly and not a main plot point. No need to get super concerned with it, do a little roleplay of the party getting turned around a couple times, have the ochre jelly attack, move on. The fun is in how well you roleplay it, I don't think anybody expects it to be a serious obstacle. That's a really good way to do it. Makes it pointless to have a map that's more than a circle labelled "A maze of twisty little passages, all alike. It is dark here. You are likely to be eaten by an Ochre Jelly" with lines connecting it to other circles though. Agent355 posted:My problem with it is what do i describe it as? Like what the hell is the purpose of it. If this is basically a base camp for an abandoned mine and you have temples/forges/etc up here in this dwarven frontier town equivalent, whats the point of these random corridors? Yeah, that's also my main problem with it. It doesn't look like a mine. It doesn't look like a test mine. It doesn't look like an exploratory dig. It looks like the sort of kid's maze you used to get on the back of the McDonald's placemats. Elector_Nerdlingen fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Apr 11, 2018 |
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AlphaDog posted:That's a really good way to do it. Yeah I'd agree. it's not well thought out but it's not untenable either. Come up with a reason for it to exist so it doesn't clash with the rest of the setting and its good enough IMO.
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Agent355 posted:Yeah I'd agree. it's not well thought out but it's not untenable either. Come up with a reason for it to exist so it doesn't clash with the rest of the setting and its good enough IMO. gently caress, just put the wreckage of a bizarre looking experimental clockwork mining machine somewhere in there and let players draw their own conclusions. Elector_Nerdlingen fucked around with this message at 06:49 on Apr 11, 2018 |
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Agent355 posted:Running Phan You wouldn't happen to have any openings in your roll20 party, huh?
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Agent355 posted:
Oh hay, my early life obsession with being a mining engineer is going to pay off. Those grid arrangements are room and pillar mining. It was a common method of mining before mechanization. Excpet something else tunneled in and some areas collapsed.
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Got greedy last night trying to kill a couple more Umber Hulks without thinking that with the dynamite I was going to detonate that the cave might collapse and I died. Now I'm just sad because I really liked that character.
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i want to hear everything people know about real life mining engineering + urban exploring of mines/underground stuff and then how it applies to d&d because that is rad as hell
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mastershakeman posted:i want to hear everything people know about real life mining engineering + urban exploring of mines/underground stuff and then how it applies to d&d because that is rad as hell It really doesn't apply to d&d a whole lot because what an object or place looks like matters a whole lot less than what people think it looks like. D&D is inherently unrealisitc. Let's not even get started on how few things below ground wouldn't completely flood in weeks or months, let alone centuries.
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Is it legal to use Shield on my familiar? I really like using dragons breath in it, but it's super vulnerable.
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Shield is a self-cast. I don't think familiars can do self-cast, the dragon's breath bit only works because it's a targeted spell.
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the onion wizard posted:That sounds reasonable, just not sure how you get lost doing that; or if the DM gives you the map.
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The UA ranger’s ability to not get lost really took some fun out of the first half of my ToA campaign.
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kidkissinger posted:I'm pro UA ranger. They seem really boring and underpowered with Vanilla. They are. There are exactly 0 roles a PHB ranger can perform in which it is not outperformed by a wide margin by another class. At least the UA ranger has "can't get lost" and "will probably go first" going for it.
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SettingSun posted:The UA ranger’s ability to not get lost really took some fun out of the first half of my ToA campaign.
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I'm in a party doing Tomb of the Annihilator and our Lizardman UA Ranger is making the game way less of a hassle.
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SettingSun posted:The UA ranger’s ability to not get lost really took some fun out of the first half of my ToA campaign. We can fly in our ToA campaign due to some fantastic torturing/selling out and some really good rolls. Having a ranger that 'never gets lost' seems fine. Hell, rangers should be able to hunt and provide for a party too. Food and water become unnecessary thanks to their natural abilities and wayfinding skills, imo.
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Yeah, our ranger plus the Alchemist Jug we found makes jungle-trekking trivial.
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I've given up on making maps with software like Dungeon Painter etc, just can't get to grips with it. I'm just gonna hand-draw little map handouts for the players, maybe find my old dry-erase mat. edit: Holy poo poo I just realise I have a shitload of tokens from 4e box sets, I can definitely use these. Dr Snofeld fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Apr 11, 2018 |
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I bought a small dry erase board with 6 different colored pens for battles that require keeping track of positions, etc. Not as defined as a grid, but it works with the rough estimates of distances and position fairly well.
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One of the Monsters from Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes got it's page previewed.
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Wasn't this in the 3rd edition manual of the planes?
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A crab hosed a cacodemon. 
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kidkissinger posted:Wasn't this in the 3rd edition manual of the planes? The Dreadnought dates all the way back to the 1e Manual of the planes. But it was in the 3e one too. 
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Then I take it back and doom ripped off of DnD like so many other 90s video games.
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Agent355 posted:A crab hosed a cacodemon. Was about to bring up the Cacodemon.  The Doom creators actually ripped the head off of the Dreadnought then traced and recolored it. MonsterEnvy fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Apr 11, 2018 |
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kidkissinger posted:It's got dicks for arms Ummm. If that's what your dick looks like you should probably go to a doctor. Like yesterday. They usually don't end in crab claws.
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Xiahou Dun posted:They usually don't end in crab claws. ...how do the so-called normal ones grab on, then?
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Dreadnoughts been in every edition so far, never really changed much ether so it's art tends to always look pretty good. 2e  3e  4e Manual of the planes cover and interior   5e (The one on the statblock.) 
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Not sure if this is the right place for Original Content but I thought it'd be fun to share, at least as a testament to our group's kind of scary dedication. My girlfriend's an artist, and she took it upon herself to do portraits for the PCs/key NPCs of the heavily homebrewed/expanded LMoP game we're in. She's drawn loving 35 of them so far.    
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gandhichan posted:Not sure if this is the right place for Original Content but I thought it'd be fun to share, at least as a testament to our group's kind of scary dedication. My girlfriend's an artist, and she took it upon herself to do portraits for the PCs/key NPCs of the heavily homebrewed/expanded LMoP game we're in. No this is very cool.
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Those are excellent and great.
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gandhichan posted:Not sure if this is the right place for Original Content but I thought it'd be fun to share, at least as a testament to our group's kind of scary dedication. My girlfriend's an artist, and she took it upon herself to do portraits for the PCs/key NPCs of the heavily homebrewed/expanded LMoP game we're in. Those are great and you should also post them in the art thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3605440
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AlphaDog posted:Those are great and you should also post them in the art thread https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3605440 Oh man I could've sworn there was a dedicated art thread but missed it somehow, thank you!
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They remind me of the portraits in Infinity Engine games.
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They're great and could probably go in the GM / DM advice thread too maybe.
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Hollandia posted:They're great and could probably go in the GM / DM advice thread too maybe.
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