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Novum posted:My war with the lizard men became a parlay thanks to a diplomatic party who are cowards in the face of glory. Huge bummer imo. Lizard men are cool, though, enlist them to fight the warmbloods
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Hmm that is what needs to happen. A game with a lizardfolk, a tortle, a yuan-ti, and a kobold. Can't remember if anything else would fit the theme.
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Saki posted:Any goons have a free spot for an online game for a new player? It's either that or I dip my toes into a random group on roll20. No idea what to expect from that. What time are you looking for? I think I recall you saying you’re EU?
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Ryuujin posted:Hmm that is what needs to happen. A game with a lizardfolk, a tortle, a yuan-ti, and a kobold. Can't remember if anything else would fit the theme. Dragonborn; if kobolds and yuan-ti are fine, dragonborn should be as well. Maybe tritons and/or merfolk as well, if you don't mind that they're fish rather than lizards. Merfolk character stats can be found in Plane-Shift: Zendikar and P-S: Ixalan.
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Hmm yeah if we are opening it to the Planeshift stuff there is the Naga in Amonkhet.
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Jul 1, 2018 04:35
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CeallaSo posted:Maybe tritons and/or merfolk as well, if you don't mind that they're fish rather than lizards. What is this unmitigated horseshit
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Jul 1, 2018 16:16
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So I led the lizardman army against the overwhelming white ape invasion under threat of being eaten by a black dragon who had installed herself as their god and wanted to keep getting free snacks. It was great and we capped it off with a showdown with the white ape's four armed huge sized leader and his shitlord pet Death Naga at the vacant lizard throne. Got to eventually knock Goro Kong into the murky water where he was eaten by some immense eel monster. Death Naga dimension doored out with my best weapon stabbed into its side just before we could finish it off. Good night overall.
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Gharbad the Weak posted:Lizard men are cool, though, enlist them to fight the warmbloods Wisdom e: killed about 400 apes in the battle overall. Our wizard and bard did some serious poo poo at the first choke point they broke through. Novum fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Jul 1, 2018 |
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Jul 1, 2018 16:32
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So what's the logic behind spell scrolls only being usable by characters that have the spells in their class spell list in this edition? I thought I'd give my party a few spell scrolls as part of a reward for defeating a lich, but it seems kind of pointless now.
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Jul 1, 2018 18:16
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You’re the DM, you make the rules. You could give them single-use items that do the same thing, so it doesn’t make much sense to me either.
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Jul 1, 2018 18:17
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Lurdiak posted:So what's the logic behind spell scrolls only being usable by characters that have the spells in their class spell list in this edition? I thought I'd give my party a few spell scrolls as part of a reward for defeating a lich, but it seems kind of pointless now. But seriously, it's yet another case of D&D trying to be all the fantasy and ending up being none of them. Scrolls in fantasy novels are powerful one use maguffins requiring multiple wizards to craft, or extremely common maguffins the friendly neighbourhood wizard hands out to our hero before he leaves, or ancient lost maguffins that you spend an entire book trying to track down. They're one-shot items anyone can use with ease, or specialist items that require training and effort to cast, or repositories of knowledge that a Wizard uses to further his craft. D&D has spent several editions wildly swinging back and forth trying to settle on a nice generic implementation that satisfies all of the above directly contradictory requirements. Unsurprisingly, 5e settled on the one that cripples martials, buffs spellcasters, and completely fails to emulate any work of fiction that doesn't have D&D written on it.
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Jul 1, 2018 23:17
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After playing levels 1-5 and realizing that the team wizard was greedily grubbing all the scrolls, I just started dictating some were Divine and others Arcane, and they were just one-shot uses of the spells. It meant the wizard stopped insisting he squirrel all of them away for copying and everyone else got some versatility. I stopped bothering with the "must be on your spell list" element. Malpais Legate fucked around with this message at 23:30 on Jul 1, 2018 |
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Jul 1, 2018 23:22
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I basically treat spell scrolls like apps. Anyone can use them, though they consume themselves when used. If you want to reverse engineer a spell scroll to learn a spell you can, but it will require an (Your Spell Ability)arcana check. To make the check you have to 1) know the language the scroll is written in, and 2) have the spell be in your spell list, and 3) be able to cast a spell of that level. The check is 10+the spell level of the scroll. In terms of lore, spells of slot level 4 or high usually need to be written in a sufficiently magical language, such as draconic, giantish, celestial, abyssal, primordial, etc.
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Jul 1, 2018 23:47
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Splicer posted:Scrolls in fantasy novels are powerful one use maguffins requiring multiple wizards to craft, or extremely common maguffins the friendly neighbourhood wizard hands out to our hero before he leaves, or ancient lost maguffins that you spend an entire book trying to track down. They're one-shot items anyone can use with ease, or Where exactly is this?
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FRINGE posted:Where exactly is this?
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Introduced 5 people to D&D for their first time ever last night. I took them through the Lost Mines of Phandelver adventure; they only made it to the Redbrand hideout, but we had some laughs. They got into a big bar brawl at Stonehill Inn, and the Dwarf Cleric got kicked in the chest for a natural 20 that sent her barreling into the Folk Hero fighter and both of them into the bar counter. The High Elf Wizard rolled a natural 20 on a Magic Missile AND Ray of Frost, one of which popped some poor fucker's head like a grape. The Wizard renamed himself Gorgeous Gallagher, and thus we have a new D&D group.
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TheHoosier posted:The High Elf Wizard rolled a natural 20 on a Magic Missile AND Ray of Frost, one of which popped some poor fucker's head like a grape. 
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Jul 2, 2018 10:09
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Yeah we remembered after the fact but kept that particular instance for flavor.
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Just flavor all scrolls as End User Agreements. The first line is the name of the spell and it's effects, and maybe the words you have to say to activate it, in a magical script that everyone can read. Then when you keep unrolling the scroll, it's just hundreds of pages of magical lawyerese that no one but a
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so i just started playing d&d, and pnp games in general, a couple weeks ago, and i'm looking for a way to play AL games online that doesn't require scheduling them days and days in advance for a slot. is there maybe like a discord group or something that has non grid based AL adventure games going throughout the week?
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TheHoosier posted:Yeah we remembered after the fact but kept that particular instance for flavor. This is the best D&D. gently caress up a rule but it doesn't matter so you just roll with it.
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Admiral Joeslop posted:Just flavor all scrolls as End User Agreements. The first line is the name of the spell and it's effects, and maybe the words you have to say to activate it, in a magical script that everyone can read. This but the power for all scrolls everywhere is supplied by weird warlock patrons and Oops! you cast Charm Person without reading the fine print, now you have to somehow acquire four hopeful dreams of the innocent or some faerie corporation is gonna come and repossess your +1 scimitar. Gods help you if you copy that poo poo in violation of feywilde copyright. (Spoiler: the gods cannot help you.)
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doctor 7 posted:This is the best D&D. gently caress up a rule but it doesn't matter so you just roll with it. Yeah we had a great moment a couple sessions ago in my group. The eldritch knight cast thunderwave on two direwolves that were in front of him and I mistakenly let him make an opportunity attack against one of them and he dropped it way below 0 hit points with his greatsword. We described it as him slicing through the wolf's neck as it tumbled away from him and it was pretty cool in the moment. He did work that session, he killed two other direwolves with Green-Flame Blade, it just so happened that the secondary target had 1 or 2 hp left and so it combusted while he stabbed/burned his primary target. I need to write up recaps of this campaign, if only so I have a record to remind myself what's been going on. I'm running Curse of Strahd and it's been fun, though the last two sessions were a little rocky There's so many plot hooks in Vallaki that my group has found it a little overwhelming. They've spent a session and a half just following plot hooks but haven't resolved any yet so it's felt like spinning wheels. They've decided both Lady Watcher and the Baron are lovely people and joked that they should kill them both and install Ismark as the Burgomeister and I honestly hope they do it.
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Epi Lepi posted:Yeah we had a great moment a couple sessions ago in my group. The eldritch knight cast thunderwave on two direwolves that were in front of him and I mistakenly let him make an opportunity attack against one of them and he dropped it way below 0 hit points with his greatsword. We described it as him slicing through the wolf's neck as it tumbled away from him and it was pretty cool in the moment. The festival and the ensuing feast if your players haven’t finished the bones quest is a good 2-3 day timer with a bang to stop vallaki dragging on. Though both times I’ve run it my players have loved loving around there, it’s a good town and the subplots and characters are varied enough to get some good role playing out of it beforehand Proud Rat Mom fucked around with this message at 19:37 on Jul 2, 2018 |
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Epi Lepi posted:Yeah we had a great moment a couple sessions ago in my group. The eldritch knight cast thunderwave on two direwolves that were in front of him and I mistakenly let him make an opportunity attack against one of them and he dropped it way below 0 hit points with his greatsword. We described it as him slicing through the wolf's neck as it tumbled away from him and it was pretty cool in the moment. My group managed to get Vallaki burned to the ground within 24 hours of being there, so I'm honestly kind of jealous.
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Mr. Humalong posted:What time are you looking for? I think I recall you saying you’re EU? Yep, I'm in the UK. I've read the combat rules in the Player's Handbook twice, so I'm basically an expert now.
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Mendrian posted:My group managed to get Vallaki burned to the ground within 24 hours of being there, so I'm honestly kind of jealous. The first time I ran it was amazing Through the Wacher brothers egging on the party, they along with book club cultists posing as fed up townsfolk to the party stormed the manor, leading to a pc death at the hands of a fleeing Izek, and the burgomeister getting ejected from the top floor window. Lady Wacher took over the town and held the Monster's Ball, A monster themed fancy dress party. the adventures had collared on that something was majorly wrong with her, and attended the marque party with the rouge who posed as staff to infiltrate the house. Highlights include the monk having a dance fight off with a vampire spawn while everyone else cheered on, crazy crab man aiding the party to test the guy in the strahd costume, Strahd secretly turning up in fancy dress (wearing a 'costume' of the barons skin and clothes he died in) lady wacher taking the bard upstairs and them having sex while both her husbands corpse lay on the bed, along with the rouge who triggered the sleep dart trap. The climax was after the awards and toast to the adventuring party, strahd reveals himself, along with the 5 vampire spawn whose costumes now look very real. I got the major NPC's, along with the party IRL, to draw straws. a poor vallakian npc who dressed as a mermaid was the unlucky one, and went forward to claim her prize, which was all 5 spawn descending on her by strahds command, ripping her to pieces and causing instant chaos.
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Proud Rat Mom posted:The first time I ran it was amazing  drat
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Okay I just go the PHB and I might have been somewhat spoiled because I am very used to Glorantha sourcebooks but mother of God the art in this book is such generic shlock. It is astonishing how there is no uniformity and not even different styles that mesh or are obviously different. I think the worst is probably the halfling species picture. Seriously, what the hell?
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Mendrian posted:My group managed to get Vallaki burned to the ground within 24 hours of being there, so I'm honestly kind of jealous. My group Was convinced by lady watcher to kill izek so she could coup the town. We cornered him in the toy maker shop and murdered him before he got a round between our surprise round and his low initiative roll. Then we helped lady watcher coup the town only to find out all the cultist poo poo. Then we killed her and put the innkeeper in charge and went on our merry way. CoS can have so many different things happen in the same place. It's amazing.
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Josef bugman posted:Okay I just go the PHB and I might have been somewhat spoiled because I am very used to Glorantha sourcebooks but mother of God the art in this book is such generic shlock. It is astonishing how there is no uniformity and not even different styles that mesh or are obviously different. I think the worst is probably the halfling species picture. I prefer the lad on p. 132: the ideal halfling body. You may not like it, but that is what peak small folk looks like.
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I think you'll find that the forum will divide against itself on whether p132 Halfling or p120 Halfling is best in life. Begun, the Smallfolk Wars have.
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Josef bugman posted:Okay I just go the PHB and I might have been somewhat spoiled because I am very used to Glorantha sourcebooks but mother of God the art in this book is such generic shlock. It is astonishing how there is no uniformity and not even different styles that mesh or are obviously different. I think the worst is probably the halfling species picture. Me and my pals have a joke theory that,at least where halflings in 5th ed are concerned, they were trying to distance themselves from 4th edition "Halflings are basically just scale models of normal sized people. No more insane proportions" by going all in on the insane proportions.
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Josef bugman posted:Okay I just go the PHB and I might have been somewhat spoiled because I am very used to Glorantha sourcebooks but mother of God the art in this book is such generic shlock. It is astonishing how there is no uniformity and not even different styles that mesh or are obviously different. I think the worst is probably the halfling species picture.  I don't know how she can be happy existing in that body but I won't shame her.
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That picture and all pictures in the PHB are awesome.
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I've always wondered if down syndrome elf was just how elves were always meant to be and we just kinda glossed over that part in LOTR
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Wanna party with that halfling
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Can someone sanity check a character for me and also answer a couple of questions that I'm kinda stuck on? I'm sleep deprived because of children. This is for a one-shot adventure themed dungeon-crawl-as-reality-TV, level 8, UA allowed, "optimised but not broken". Variant Human (Lore) Bard 6 (GOW) Warlock 2. Standard array. Theme: Doom Metal Bassist. Mechanical Goal: ranged damage + control. St 10, Dx 14, Co 14, In 8, Wi 12, Ch 18. Spells: Eldritch Blast, Mage Hand, Vicious Mockery, Prestidigation, Dancing Lights, Tasha's Laughter, Dissonant Whispers, Charm Person, Sleep, Unseen Servant, Thunderwave Hold Person, Invisibility, Crown of Madness Hypnotic Pattern, Dispel Magic. Invocations: Repelling Blast, Agonising Blast. Skills: Performance, Persuasion, Deception, Sleight Of Hand, Stealth, Acrobatics. --- What feat do I take with VH, and what do I do with my 2 spells from Magical Secrets? e: Also I get 1 uncommon magic item. What should I do with that? The obvious choice is an instrument (Mac-Fuirmidh Elector_Nerdlingen fucked around with this message at 02:55 on Jul 3, 2018 |
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