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BetterWeirdthanDead posted:The funny thing is that I pick up a round, palm-sized key attached to a 2’ elastic cord via muscle memory almost every day at work. I forget which round of the “I tied a mouse to my wrist to make a game rule” it was, but it was a funny day when I realized I’d passed his test. I remember thinking that was BS back when I read that anecdote in Dragon Mag. even if you want to do the dumb version of it and swing it into the air and catch it it's still not that loving hard.
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User0015 posted:You can't be serious. But you probably are. Okay, so back in 2011, Paizo released the Ultimate Combat supplement for Pathfinder, which introduced rules for guns and the Gunslinger class. Players eventually figured out that the best way to deal damage with the Gunslinger was to wield akimbo pistols, but it only worked if you could fire-off all your attacks, which meant you needed to be able to reload as a Free Action. You could do this if you took the Rapid Reload feat and used Alchemical Cartridges for ammunition ... ... but you also needed a free hand in order to be able to reload, which you normally wouldn't if you're wielding a pistol in both hands. Enter the weapon cord:  Using this, you could fire off as many shots as you needed to: - Start with your primary weapon drawn, and your secondary weapon dangling/dropped on the ground, but still connected to you via a weapon cord. Since you only have one weapon drawn, you have one hand free - Declare a Full Attack Action - Fire all your primary weapon shots, reloading as necessary as a Free Action and with one hand free - Drop your primary weapon, but it is still connected to you via a weapon cord - Retrieve your secondary weapon into hands as a Swift Action, using the weapon cord - Fire all your secondary weapon shots, reloading as necessary as a Free Action and with one hand free (this time the "primary" hand is the one that's free) - On your next turn, what is currently your "secondary" weapon will become the new primary, and you will alternate This caused a firestorm of controversy with people debating over whether it was "plausible" or "realistic" that A. you reload this many times, and that B. flipping a weapon-corded weapon back into one's hand was "only" a Swift Action. Enter Jason Bulmahn, lead designer for Pathfinder:  Because of this "playtesting", the weapon cords were later errata'd:  and the attack pattern no longer worked, because you couldn't make a Full Attack if you needed to save the Move Action to retrieve your weapon. but the entire basis for the "nerf" was some dude trying to play ball-on-a-string for a couple minutes, and deciding that their experience would be reflective of an experienced combatant's.
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Jun 11, 2018 17:28
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It’s hard to believe that the Paizo office was devoid of NERF blasters in 2013. http://nerfhaven.com/forums/topic/9382-how-to-dual-wield-mavericks/
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Jun 11, 2018 17:39
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Baby T. Love posted:Factoring in Dash solves these issues, which I was doing but I guess you didn't read the strikethrough which is fair enough. I realize this means the average person could just dash and jump 20, which seems high to me but I feel like it's better to have that problem than one that limits the players. I can't comment on the Fighter power jump beyond saying that for my game 20 feet in armor or 30 feet with some access to Bonus Action Dash is sufficiently superhuman.
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Anyone here play Adventure's League? Could anyone help me with some questions? Googling reveals AL Player's Guides from vers 1.0 -> 7.03, and honestly that might be homebrew. I have no idea what the current rules are. 1.) Is "Story Origin" still a thing? 2.) How do I determine starting lifestyle? Apparently one of the AL PHB had a chart based on background, but I can't find it. 3.) Would you recommend a faction?
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Jun 11, 2018 18:12
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The current rules are here: http://www.dmsguild.com/product/208178/DD-Adventurers-League-Players-Pack Story origin is not a thing, though a limit to using rules from PHB+1 is. The different +1 choices are wildly unbalanced from one another, with Xanathar's Guide to Everything being the strongest, but you don't have to choose a +1 rules source book until you use something from it. Lifestyle doesn't matter except when you're spending downtime so just pick one. Pick whichever faction you like. Any faction is better than no faction. There's also a Guide to the Factions of Faerun floating around somewhere--iirc it's bafflingly missing from the Player Pack. The biggest mechanical difference between them is that you can buy certain magic items from your faction using downtime. Emerald Enclave has a cool non-attunement item, but they're all okay, more or less.
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Emy posted:The current rules are here: http://www.dmsguild.com/product/208178/DD-Adventurers-League-Players-Pack The PHB + 1 thing isn't foreign to me, I seem to remember it existing in some Pathfinder games I used to play, but I could be off. What I want to play is basically just in the PHB. Variant Human Paladin of Devotion with Noble (Knight). I was thinking the Gauntlet order. What +1 should I use? I assume it would be one that put more Paladin spells in, but I can't seem to really recall what would be the best from those options. Any suggestion on that? Thank you for posting the current one.
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There aren't many spells for paladins outside of core. I don't recall what's in Tome of Foes' scant player options, but XGE has three spells for paladins. It also has some strong options if you want to multi-class, because it has a ton of other sub-classes and spells in it (hexblade warlock and sword bard being some stand-outs for paladins). As I said, the +1s aren't very balanced.
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gradenko_2000 posted:Okay, so back in 2011, Paizo released the Ultimate Combat supplement for Pathfinder, which introduced rules for guns and the Gunslinger class. That's insane on a number of levels. It says a lot about these people that they spent so much time on skirting rules, abusing mechanics and testing using a cord mouse as a stand in for a loaded gun, and at no point did anyone point out baldrics are a thing.
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Pathfinder devs, probably posted:I failed to climb a rope in gym class in third grade, so we're errata-ing the DC to climb a rope to be 50
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Jun 11, 2018 19:14
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Splicer posted:If you need to use the dash action then now we have a situation where Fighters can't jump more than 10 feet and also attack on the same turn. I'm totally ok with that. If they want to jump 20 feet and attack in full plate in a single round they can take the Charger feat at some point or use magical equipment. e: If you really wanted to, you could give Fighters a feature that lets them use thier Bonus Action to make a single attack after taking the Dash action. Baby T. Love fucked around with this message at 20:04 on Jun 11, 2018 |
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Jun 11, 2018 19:38
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How is Asmodeus pronounced? I have been saying Az-mo-dayus (like Amadeus) but I have been told that is wrong.
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RC Cola posted:The rainbow metal set(I wanted the metal silver gothica d20) a metal silver gothica d6, the swamp set of plastic, and the rolling tray. I almost wish I had stuck with the golem set like you got. Those look really cool. I love these 'golem' sets, but I kinda wish I was in your shoes now! They started the Trevor Project donations for this month so I didn't see it, and those rainbow dice are loving rad! I might buy more before the month is out now, lol.
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Josef bugman posted:How is Asmodeus pronounced? I have been saying Az-mo-dayus (like Amadeus) but I have been told that is wrong. http://www.dictionary.com/browse/asmodeus az-muh-dee-uh s
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Baby T. Love posted:I'm totally ok with that. If they want to jump 20 feet and attack in full plate in a single round they can take the Charger feat at some point or use magical equipment. That's just the charger feat but even worse.
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Jun 11, 2018 20:39
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The Bee posted:That's just the charger feat but even worse. It isn't worse if it's a Feature instead of a Feat, because Features are free.
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Jun 11, 2018 21:01
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Josef bugman posted:How is Asmodeus pronounced? I have been saying Az-mo-dayus (like Amadeus) but I have been told that is wrong. I usually say it like you have it written here, but I've also fallen into 'Azmodee-us' once in a while.
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rear end mode, us
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Baby T. Love posted:It isn't worse if it's a Feature instead of a Feat, because Features are free.
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Baby T. Love posted:It isn't worse if it's a Feature instead of a Feat, because Features are free. ranger dot txt
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Jun 11, 2018 21:53
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Anyone got any rad pics of Bugbears? I need to make up my Roll20 token for tomorrow night.
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Toshimo posted:Anyone got any rad pics of Bugbears? I need to make up my Roll20 token for tomorrow night. 
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Toshimo posted:Anyone got any rad pics of Bugbears? I need to make up my Roll20 token for tomorrow night. There's some sweet bugbears in trenchcoats floating around from D20 Modern.
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Jun 12, 2018 00:27
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    Like what kind of bugbear image are you looking for?
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Jun 12, 2018 00:45
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Hey 5e thread. Long time no post. I'm looking for advice for advice about building a necromancer.
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Ryuujin posted:
 I used this one a bit ago too.
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Gridlocked posted:Hey 5e thread. Long time no post. Wizard, School of Necromancy, INT is your primary stat, DEX and CON your secondaries, leave chargen with at least 16 INT and 14 CON.
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Gridlocked posted:Hey 5e thread. Long time no post. Long ago, during the third and a half age of the world, clerics, wizards, and dread necromancers each had advantages in the field of necromancy. But these are those days no more, and in the Fifth Age, wizards of the necromancy school are King by virtue of being the only contender. Nothing else has bonuses to undead.
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Ryuujin posted:Like what kind of bugbear image are you looking for? Thanks for these. I'm going Bugbear Assassin because it's incredibly hilarious to me to basically be playing a guy with the mutant body proportions of Michael Phelps who is simultaneously The Stealthiest Motherfucker On Faerun.
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Gridlocked posted:Hey 5e thread. Long time no post. http://blogofholding.com/?p=6826 Maybe make your inevitable horde of skeleton warriors one stat block?
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Don't think anyone posted the new UA yet. https://media.wizards.com/2018/dnd/downloads/UA_GiantSoul.pdf Josef bugman posted:How is Asmodeus pronounced? I have been saying Az-mo-dayus (like Amadeus) but I have been told that is wrong. As far as official D&D goes. Both az-mo-day-es and az-moh-dee-us are proper. az-moh-dee-us seems to be the most popular right now. http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/File:Asmodeus1.ogg http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/File:Asmodeus2.ogg MonsterEnvy fucked around with this message at 03:49 on Jun 12, 2018 |
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This subclass has subclasses. Has science gone too far?
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I believe you missed the greatest bugbear of all
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Asmodeus is a weird one. The greek version of the text in the book of tobin should be "Asmodaios" in the latin alphabet, but in English texts it's "Asmodeus" for some reason, probably because everyone involved int he translation was on laudanum. Regardless, the accepted pronunciation is az-muh-dee-us (short "o") unless you're a Crowley fanboy, because he thought it sounded cooler as az-moh-dee-us. That poo poo's probably irrelevant though, because it looks like the final -os or -us was somehow added in the old Greek translation. If you go straight from the Hebrew translation to english letters you get "Azmodai", pronounced (short "o" again) "az-muh-day". Which is likely to also be wrong, because the "original" text isn't in Hebrew, either, and it also turns out that the "original" text isn't original, because the book of tobin's also in the dead sea scrolls, making at least 500 years older than anyone thought it was, but apparently nobody's allowed to look at the originals of those for whatever reason so gently caress actually knows. Anyway, what you should take away from this is that the correct pronunciation is definitely  but since your mortal tongue can't handle that, I'd stick with "please don't kill me". Elector_Nerdlingen fucked around with this message at 04:31 on Jun 12, 2018 |
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Toshimo posted:Thanks for these. I'm going Bugbear Assassin because it's incredibly hilarious to me to basically be playing a guy with the mutant body proportions of Michael Phelps who is simultaneously The Stealthiest Motherfucker On Faerun. Oh found another bugbear    
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Ryuujin posted:Oh found another bugbear
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AlphaDog posted:Asmodeus is a weird one. They love latin deus all day long etc
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gradenko_2000 posted:Okay, so back in 2011, Paizo released the Ultimate Combat supplement for Pathfinder, which introduced rules for guns and the Gunslinger class. Huh, that's neat. I'd only seen this floating around, mainly on 4chan but also on Facebook occasionally  I mean, that's enough for me to swear off any sort of system based off of 3rd edition D&D in and of itself. To find out that it was in response to people trying to make the Gunslinger an actually viable class is funny, in some sort of ironic way. As for bugbear pics, I'm actually pretty OK with Eric Belisle's work from Pathfinder, as it looks like a savage brute, but one that's smart enough to use armor and complex weapons.  fancy bugbears are ok too
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No way THIS is a bugbear.   edit quote:They have no compunctions about eating anything they can kill, including humans, goblins, and any monsters smaller than themselves. They are also fond of wine and strong ale, often drinking to excess. Respect. FRINGE fucked around with this message at 09:19 on Jun 12, 2018 |
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Toshimo posted:Anyone got any rad pics of Bugbears? I need to make up my Roll20 token for tomorrow night. Bugbear! 
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