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hangedman1984 posted:Any good survival* mechanics that aren't just insufferable tedious bookkeeping? Planning on running a game exploring a lost (supposedly)uninhabited region after the game I'm currently running wraps up soon. The set I made is based on the assumption that you will be purchasing supplies from a settlement, I assume that’s not the case here? I can probably whip up a set of completely untested survival rules on the fly for you though, are there any thematic aspects you’re interested in?
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DalaranJ posted:The set I made is based on the assumption that you will be purchasing supplies from a settlement, I assume that’s not the case here? I can probably whip up a set of completely untested survival rules on the fly for you though, are there any thematic aspects you’re interested in? Its still in the early planning stages, since I'm only just nearing the end of my current game. But the premise is the players will be exploring and rediscovering the ruins of the ancient human empire that was destroyed after some mysterious cataclysm released plagues, blights, natural disaster, fiends and monsters that destroyed said empire, forcing the surviving humans to migrate to the the region they now occupy. The ancient lost empire is rather isolated due to natural geographic features. So the game itself will probably focus a lot on rediscovering lost history, excavating ancient ruins, and longterm goal try to resettle and reclaim the region as well as dealing with the all the problems that originally drove the ancient humans from the region in the first place. It is actually part of the same homebrew setting I am using for the current game, so some of the information is actually already known to the players as background setting details.
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Jun 2, 2018 16:40
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Splicer posted:Or dump str put that 14 into dex and go medium armour like a normal person. Oh yeah, if this is AL then just reassign stats and go medium; there's no shame in wearing half-plate.
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Jun 2, 2018 16:51
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Question, if the PCs find a spellbook as loot, is it assumed they can read what the spells in it are? Do they have to make a check? I just started running my friends through Death House and there’s a spellbook in a chest in there and I don’t know if I should just tell them what’s in it. There’s no wizard in the party but there’s a warlock and a cleric (and a fighter who plans to go EK but that doesn’t matter yet). Obviously none of them will be able to use it except the warlock eventually wants to take the book that lets them cast rituals and there’s at least one ritual spell in the book as written.
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Jun 2, 2018 18:20
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Epi Lepi posted:Question, if the PCs find a spellbook as loot, is it assumed they can read what the spells in it are? Do they have to make a check? I just started running my friends through Death House and there’s a spellbook in a chest in there and I don’t know if I should just tell them what’s in it. There’s no wizard in the party but there’s a warlock and a cleric (and a fighter who plans to go EK but that doesn’t matter yet). Obviously none of them will be able to use it except the warlock eventually wants to take the book that lets them cast rituals and there’s at least one ritual spell in the book as written. I'd say that if there are spells in there that are on the other casters' spell lists, they can read them, but if the spells are wizard-only then they would need to make an Arcana check to try and interpret them. The spellbook doesn't really offer any benefit to a wizard-less party though, since only wizards use spellbooks for casting. If the warlock takes Book of Arcane Secrets, he or she would be able to copy rituals out of it into a Book of Shadows, so that's cool. Book of Ancient Secrets is a really strong invocation.
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Jun 2, 2018 18:24
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MonsterEnvy posted:I assume it's because Waterdeep Undermountain is next. This is correct. Waterdeep part is 1-5 with multiple pathways to play through, undermountain book will be level 6 to epic tierish.
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Jun 2, 2018 18:31
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Epi Lepi posted:Question, if the PCs find a spellbook as loot, is it assumed they can read what the spells in it are? Do they have to make a check? I just started running my friends through Death House and there’s a spellbook in a chest in there and I don’t know if I should just tell them what’s in it. There’s no wizard in the party but there’s a warlock and a cleric (and a fighter who plans to go EK but that doesn’t matter yet). Obviously none of them will be able to use it except the warlock eventually wants to take the book that lets them cast rituals and there’s at least one ritual spell in the book as written. Tailor them all to the warlock's ritual thing and have them make a fake arcana check to decipher them. Warlock figures out like 2 rituals. Occasionally make more arcanas and just keep doling out rituals. Hook, line and sinker mothrrfucker.
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Jun 2, 2018 18:38
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Is there a 5e discord channel?
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Jun 2, 2018 18:40
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Novum posted:Tailor them all to the warlock's ritual thing and have them make a fake arcana check to decipher them. Warlock figures out like 2 rituals. Occasionally make more arcanas and just keep doling out rituals. Hook, line and sinker mothrrfucker. This is a good idea. Take away the book later (as part of something else, not its own thing), and when they get it back, the warlock happens to roll really well and get more rituals than normal.
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Jun 2, 2018 18:44
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CeallaSo posted:I'd say that if there are spells in there that are on the other casters' spell lists, they can read them, but if the spells are wizard-only then they would need to make an Arcana check to try and interpret them. The spellbook doesn't really offer any benefit to a wizard-less party though, since only wizards use spellbooks for casting. If the warlock takes Book of Arcane Secrets, he or she would be able to copy rituals out of it into a Book of Shadows, so that's cool. Book of Ancient Secrets is a really strong invocation. 
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Kaysette posted:This is correct. Waterdeep part is 1-5 with multiple pathways to play through, undermountain book will be level 6 to epic tierish. Thats cool. So it's a short adventure like Lost Mines just with multiple paths. RC Cola posted:Is there a 5e discord channel? Don't know if there is one for this site. But there are a quite a few that are easy to find. MonsterEnvy fucked around with this message at 18:59 on Jun 2, 2018 |
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Jun 2, 2018 18:57
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MonsterEnvy posted:Thats cool. So it's a short adventure like Lost Mines just with multiple paths. I was hoping for a goon one, if there isn't one I'll look for a nice non goon discord channel Also is adventure league fun, or does it tend to be super rule lawyery and not worth it? I'm thinking of trying it out when my usual group can't get together RC Cola fucked around with this message at 19:13 on Jun 2, 2018 |
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Jun 2, 2018 19:02
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Kaysette posted:This is correct. Waterdeep part is 1-5 with multiple pathways to play through, undermountain book will be level 6 to epic tierish. This is still just speculation though right? Or has there been confirmation of this stuff. Seems a little specific for what they were discussing yesterday.
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Jun 2, 2018 19:14
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Kaysette posted:This is correct. Waterdeep part is 1-5 with multiple pathways to play through, undermountain book will be level 6 to epic tierish. Man, I really wish this had been released a month ago so I could have adapted it as a starter to my urban campaign rather than awkwardly grafting Lost Mines onto it. (on the bright side I guess it means I might find local public games for it and actually be a player for once.)
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Jun 2, 2018 19:19
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Changed some things round, new stats at level 4 are: Str: 11 Dex: 14 Con: 14 Int: 8 Wis: 10 Cha: 19 Invocations are now Devils Sight Beguiling Whispers Spells- Hellish rebuke Armour of Aghtys Charm person Crown of Madness Comprehend Languages Cantrips Eldritch Blast True Strike Green Flame Blade. Also since I chose a new sort of Tiefling I also get to use: Searing Smite once per day.
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Jun 2, 2018 19:37
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I was wondering where that 11 str came from. But now either your con or dex has a +1 it's not entitled to.
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Jun 2, 2018 19:56
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Splicer posted:I was wondering where that 11 str came from. But now either your con or dex has a +1 it's not entitled to. I used this one as a tool to make my char, is it wrong? http://chicken-dinner.com/5e/5e-point-buy.html
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Jun 2, 2018 20:39
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Josef bugman posted:I used this one as a tool to make my char, is it wrong? http://chicken-dinner.com/5e/5e-point-buy.html No it works fine. Just don't see the reason for the 11 Strength.
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Jun 2, 2018 20:42
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MonsterEnvy posted:No it works fine. Just don't see the reason for the 11 Strength. Using the latter, Zariel, set up of Tiefling: 
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Jun 2, 2018 20:45
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DKWildz posted:5E is the first and only edition that I've actually played. It's really weird to hear these stores from people that experience these 'meatgrinders,' or the DM's themselves that love to run them. I'm sure it's more the edition and generation of the game that you started with, and that initial group that imprints that mindset. I keep hearing that they think the game is too easy and they need to challenge the players more. Do they think the players aren't having fun, or is it that they aren't having fun when they're actually killing player characters? In general, when running a meat grinder, the story kind of falls apart quickly and the DM's expect that you just roll with it that everyone that is new just has the exact same drive as the old party. Even though in Strange Aeons one of the main conceits is the original party has amnesia... which in my game at least, no new characters have this affliction, so if he did get his way, we would have a very odd game.
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Josef bugman posted:Using the latter, Zariel, set up of Tiefling: Ah thats fine.
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MonsterEnvy posted:Ah thats fine. Grand! How are my spell choices (going to take either Hypnotic pattern or darkness for next spell choice)
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Josef bugman posted:Grand! Nothing wrong with them from what I see.
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Jun 2, 2018 21:41
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MonsterEnvy posted:Nothing wrong with them from what I see. Thanks!
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Jun 2, 2018 21:44
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Nehru the Damaja posted:Tome of Foes mentions that servants of Mammon often keep a book on them called The Accounting and Valuation of All Things, which has among other things, pricing information for mortal souls. The first thing that springs to mind is the bits from The Good Place where you see how many points different good/bad deeds are worth
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Jun 3, 2018 00:07
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Mike Danger posted:The first thing that springs to mind is the bits from The Good Place where you see how many points different good/bad deeds are worth would a demon value good or evil things higher?
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Jun 3, 2018 00:19
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https://www.twitch.tv/averagebearsa Today we are fighting Thanos with an erection.
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Jun 3, 2018 01:12
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As a D&D player how do I convince my friends that loving kobolds and thinking they're cute lil fuckos and the absolute best is objectively correct so they stop making fun of me. My kobold love is not perverse kobolust.
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Jun 3, 2018 01:21
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Clearly find new (better) friends
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Josef bugman posted:I used this one as a tool to make my char, is it wrong? http://chicken-dinner.com/5e/5e-point-buy.html Are you planning to take a +1 cha feat at any stage? If not, might be more useful to start off with 18 cha (14 +2 +2). Then you can pump your wis to 12 (optimal option) or pump your str to 13 (not a real power move, but you seem to be interested in being a bit buffer than the average bear). On the other hand, there are some nice +cha tiefling racials in Xanathars (though if you start with 18 you can take two of them!) Splicer fucked around with this message at 01:58 on Jun 3, 2018 |
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rumble in the bunghole posted:would a demon value good or evil things higher? There should be 2 systems. Evil things are valued higher for standard soul market. Good things are valued higher for sport.
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If y'all mad about decks that make Legendary Monkey tokens, go gently caress yourselves, cause that's the best thing.
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Average Bear posted:https://www.twitch.tv/averagebearsa Today we are fighting Thanos with an erection. does thanos have it or are you using it as a weapon because either way yikes
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Ok we got the cover for the adventure after Dragon Heist. From levels 6 to 20. Edit for Comparison the Dragon Heist cover. (It being levels 1 to 5.)  It appears the Thanos looking dude is Manshoon. (Or to be even more exact a clone.) It appears the other villains the DM can have the party face off against in Dragon Heist from the cover are Xanathar the Beholder, Jarlaxle the head of a Drow Mercenary company, and the Cassalanters some influential Waterdeep nobles. MonsterEnvy fucked around with this message at 04:33 on Jun 3, 2018 |
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Xanathar as in the author of XGtE? I don't know the in-game canon for XGtE, but I just sort of assumed someone able to write a book important enough to be the name of a real-life release would be stronger than a fair fight for a level 5 party. Although I just now looked up Volo and apparently he's a level 1 wizard in 5e, so...
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So did someone clue Wizards into the pathfinder model? Just split one adventure into as many books as you can.
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Elysiume posted:Xanathar as in the author of XGtE? I don't know the in-game canon for XGtE, but I just sort of assumed someone able to write a book important enough to be the name of a real-life release would be stronger than a fair fight for a level 5 party. Although I just now looked up Volo and apparently he's a level 1 wizard in 5e, so... I don't imagine you will actually fight Xanathar or Manshoon in Dragon Heist. Manshoon is an Archmage while Xanathar is a Beholder. I am also doubting on Jarlaxle. (Both because he is strong and he is not that evil.) Volo however is a wuss and always has been.
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MonsterEnvy posted:I don't imagine you will actually fight Xanathar or Manshoon in Dragon Heist. Manshoon is an Archmage while Xanathar is a Beholder.
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Elysiume posted:Ah, you meant face off against their organizations, rather than the big bads themselves? I assume. I also don't think they could beat those guys at level 5. But who knows how it will work. As it appears the adventure is also going to be partially a setting guide for Waterdeep.
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Half the villains on those covers are holding their hands the exact same way. Like they’ve just scratched their rear end and are checking to see if they found anything.
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