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DoctorWhat posted:Lucky is really boring and unfun, don't take it. lucky rules actually
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Hey so I'm finally joining a new game as a player and making a character I've always wanted to play. Anyone got a picture of a fat elf? Google just gets me weird fetishy stuff
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Super Waffle posted:Hey so I'm finally joining a new game as a player and making a character I've always wanted to play. Hell yes, I do. Super Waffle posted:Google just gets me weird fetishy stuff Oh, never mind. 
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Nehru the Damaja posted:I don't have the book on me but I think you're basically talking about flavor text. Simic Hybrid has its own stat block and doesn't borrow extra abilities from other races. That makes sense, thank you. I'm not used to this edition yet.
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Jan 25, 2019 01:18
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DoctorWhat posted:Lucky is really boring and unfun, don't take it. F that. Lucky is such a fun feat for those epic clutch moments. Barely alive and on your last legs you can make an attack disadvantage and prone... and completely turn the tables by turning it into triple advantage. Or the opposite, an enemy attacking with advantage and you turn it into a critical miss because they rolled a 1 in their pair. It's a great fun feat. Granted if a player is using it 3x every session it's ludicrous but when I took it saving it for those clutch moments was just the best.
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Piell posted:I'm looking for feat advice for my level 4 half orc zealot barbarian. We rolled stats so I have Str 18, Dex 16, Con 18, Int 13, Wis 14, and Cha 14. I was going to take Great Weapon Master originally, but the DM gave me a magic item that let's me take damage equal to my rage damage bonus to make a bonus action attack. I've got 50 HP so I use it every turn, so GWM is partially redundant and I already deal a lot of damage. I'm thinking +2 Str, +2 Con, Lucky, or Charger. Opinions? We rarely have more than a couple of fights per long rest, so I'd be able to get good use out of Lucky. Lucky is extremely good, to the point DMs tend to ban it or nerf it. Charger is just garbage. GWM's -5/+10 ability is good on a Barbarian due to Reckless Attack. Either take it now then STR+2, or take STR+2 now then GWM at level 8. What your magic item lets you do is sorta obviate Polearm Master, the system's actual top melee damage feat. loquacius posted:Hey, it looks like I'm the second guy on this page asking advice for what feat to take at level 4. I'm playing a Dwarf Battlemaster, Protection-style tank who uses heavy armor, 1H weapons and a shield, with a statline of 16/15/17/14/9/10. The best you can do is ask your DM to let you change Protection Fighting Style for Dueling, then take Polearm Master for use with a Spear or Quarterstaff. If you don't want to do that then grab more STR or Resilient(WIS).
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doctor 7 posted:F that. Lucky is such a fun feat for those epic clutch moments. I guess playing almost exclusively with children has warped my perception of the game.
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Super Waffle posted:Anyone got a picture of a fat elf? Google just gets me weird fetishy stuff It would really help if you were more specific, like, fat male elf ranger, fat female elf wizard, etc jeez https://i.pinimg.com/236x/a5/7c/63/a57c63395f84a573e69323fea84ca096.jpg https://goo.gl/images/YKQ3hb https://66.media.tumblr.com/18efc913b0517f694cfc6317fb5e4a98/tumblr_or7ga9vXMB1wraxgzo1_250.png
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Ceros_X posted:It would really help if you were more specific, like, fat male elf ranger, fat female elf wizard, etc jeez Ok ok, fat male elf rogue. I'm talking 300lbs morbidly obese, greasy skin, total goon quote:Obsessed with the search for the ultimate culinary experience, Chef Elapeiros grew bored with satisfying the tawdry palettes and pedestrian tastes of his hometown, and joined the Adventurers Guild in search of exotic spices, new ingredients, and ancient recipes lost to the sands of time.
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Super Waffle posted:Ok ok, fat male elf rogue. I'm talking 300lbs morbidly obese, greasy skin, total goon Couldnt find exactly what you want but maybe one of these will work or you could tweak the race/learn to photoshop some pointed ears/add "Do you know what happens when an elf gets to be 300lbs? Even his ears get round, people mistake him for human" to your background  https://i.pinimg.com/originals/36/75/03/367503a1cb63942a10fd9351ae9f4788.png https://i.pinimg.com/originals/07/1d/45/071d456119418d89a72cac191a2d74c5.png https://i.pinimg.com/originals/e4/f4/b5/e4f4b54672d5447b7990524dbfee1cf7.png https://www.google.com/imgres?imgur...fkQMygLegQIARAz https://pin.it/rkejir2pnjeibl https://pin.it/msuf7ingidav7b https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.pinterest.com/amp/pin/360921357628092367/ https://i.pinimg.com/originals/81/51/cb/8151cbfdde550c2e3b55c6c6a7b1f1ed.jpg
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DoctorWhat posted:I guess playing almost exclusively with children has warped my perception of the game. It's great when you essentially have a gentleman's agreement to only use it sparingly. Personally I think our DM likes it as everyone rolls openly so he's less terrified of lovely rolls killing us (well me at least).
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Jan 25, 2019 03:58
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Farg posted:lucky rules actually Especially with a diviner
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Nehru the Damaja posted:New group is too drat big and DM immediately caved on the heavy rp aim, so we're loaded up on "cast magic missile at the darkness" type goofballs. I'm gonna stick around because schedule attrition might take a couple and I wanna get to know some of the others, but I'm bummed how hard it is to find a group who can keep the giggles to appropriate moments. Was looking forward to leaning into the edge and grimdark. That loving sucks when it happens. But grimdark is usually a fine line between hard-to-keep-a-straight-face and  , and it's better when it fails on the Magic Missle At Dark Hell-Lord Lord Helldark Frostbite The Impaler side than on the cannibal-corpse-track-title-as-scenario-description while breathing too heavily[/i] side.
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I'm going to start playing an Adventure League Eberron game and I cant decide on a character. I'm thinking of either a whispers bard or mastermind rogue. Anyone have experience with either?
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kidkissinger posted:Especially with a diviner Halfling diviner with the lucky feat.
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Super Waffle posted:Ok ok, fat male elf rogue. I'm talking 300lbs morbidly obese, greasy skin, total goon 
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Big Mouth Billy Basshole posted:I'm going to start playing an Adventure League Eberron game and I cant decide on a character. I'm thinking of either a whispers bard or mastermind rogue. Anyone have experience with either? What race? Race is much more important in Eberron than standard.
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Elector_Nerdlingen posted:That loving sucks when it happens. I wouldn't mind as much if it was at least silly by way of grimdark but we're talking bog standard silly like "I blow up stuff in the tavern and run away" kind of stuff. And honestly that's a completely fine way to play, but the game was posted as one with a heavy RP emphasis and I'm gonna be bummed if we don't get that because the DM doesn't wanna put their foot down. But hopefully a little schedule attrition and a little effort on some of our parts can steer this thing back on course. I'm certainly gonna give it a chance.
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Oh poo poo I misread you, I thought you wanted RP-heavy grimdark and got combat-heavy "grimdark" which would suck a whole lot less. I hope the people who are somehow not on-vibe at all are the ones that drop out!
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Toshimo posted:What race? Race is much more important in Eberron than standard. I was thinking Changling for the bard and dragon marked (house of tharashk) for the rogue.
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Big Mouth Billy Basshole posted:I was thinking Changling for the bard and dragon marked (house of tharashk) for the rogue. Both of those subclasses are going to be very high table variance and DM discretion in AL, but of those, I'd go with the Changeling Bard.
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While we're doing :AUGH CHARACTER BUILD TIME:, I found out today that I can't take Disguise Kit as an Expertise option on my Bowbear Assassin and I am HECKIN' MAD. Any thoughts on my last expertise slot? I'm leaning Acro for grapple prevention. Sheet: https://ddb.ac/characters/3408615/jxp7QO
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I'm homebrewing a race - what do you guys think? Is this OK, underpowered, or overpowered?quote:Soulbound DrSunshine fucked around with this message at 19:41 on Jan 25, 2019 |
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It's the last part that stands out to me. They're resurrecting your phylactery, and thus your reconstituted soul? Seems like, with the other essential immortality, you should probably not allow someone to resurrect your "red piece of ribbon" or whatever and just let the fucker fully die unless he properly protected his artifact. Would put some real tension on aoe effects, but I'm not an expert on all available mechanics that could ruin your time.
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That race seems really weak for what's essentially a background perk of "can't die accidentally, must be intentional" with a few caveats. It doesn't give any combat or ability score advantages for offensive stats, making it instantly worse than every other race, and it has a movement penalty and undead vulnerability (without most of the advantages). And the thing that makes liches hard to kill is that they hide their phylacteries, instead of carrying them along for the ride. The whole undying undead thing is super cool, but give them some advantages for it. +1 or +2 to Strength or Wisdom, some resistances and immunities (I'd probably do necrotic resistance and immunity to sleep and charm), make walking speed 30 feet. I'd probably give them proficiency in a single skill to reflect their long life, and I'd take away the distance limitation on the phylactery, or somehow make it more effective at surviving whatever killed them in the first place. That seems more competitive with the other races out there. re: Resurrection, I'd have a dead Soulbound create a new phylactery from a small object nearby automatically when they come back to life via magic, if the original was destroyed.
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Infinite Karma posted:That race seems really weak for what's essentially a background perk of "can't die accidentally, must be intentional" with a few caveats. It doesn't give any combat or ability score advantages for offensive stats, making it instantly worse than every other race, and it has a movement penalty and undead vulnerability (without most of the advantages). And the thing that makes liches hard to kill is that they hide their phylacteries, instead of carrying them along for the ride. The distance limitation is so that the player isn't just like, so what if I bury my phylactery in a deep hole somewhere and now I'm safe forever? The proficiency is a nice perk. I like that suggestion, that's a good suggestion! I personally thought about maybe a wisdom bonus reflecting a long life of experience. How about giving the phylactery itself as many saving throws as you get? So effectively you get double the saving throws, but split it among your controlled body and your phylactery?
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Infinite Karma posted:And the thing that makes liches hard to kill is that they hide their phylacteries, instead of carrying them along for the ride. Well, that and the fact that they are high-level gently caress off mages who can stop time, summon meteor showers and suck the life from a body.
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DrSunshine posted:The distance limitation is so that the player isn't just like, so what if I bury my phylactery in a deep hole somewhere and now I'm safe forever? The proficiency is a nice perk. I like that suggestion, that's a good suggestion! I personally thought about maybe a wisdom bonus reflecting a long life of experience. How about giving the phylactery itself as many saving throws as you get? So effectively you get double the saving throws, but split it among your controlled body and your phylactery? I mean that is, in fact, the purpose of a phylactery. I would probably remove the distance limitation, but if you wanted to keep it interesting, make it so that the phylactery has to be the target of any beneficial spells or effects, rather than the body they are animating. That way they have a reason to keep it nearby.
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If a dead player resurrects at their phylactery, then there's a definite incentive not to just bury it in a hole in the ground and never go back, at least until the party has access to teleportation magic. "As your spirit coalesces around your body, you awake on the soft grasses of your homeland, above where you buried your phylactery all those centuries ago. You are struck with two realisations: you are thousands of miles from the site of your death, and your former companions. It will likely take you months of overland travel to rejoin the group. Second, you are all alone in this hostile wilderness you have not visited in an age." Up until teleportation magic, that's functionally the same as the PC being dead for at least the duration of the current adventure. Players might instead hide their phylacteries close to the site of the adventure, but that sounds like a positive to me, as a DM? Once the players have a reputation, villains will know the PC is soulbound, and hunt for the phylactery, a "dead" PC who expects to wake up a day's travel from the group might instead wake up in the villain's lair if the villain or their minions have successfully tracked the PCs or scried on them, and then gone to get the PC's phylactery.
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Make your phylactery a pebble and throw it in the open ocean, or better yet, bury it under the ocean floor.
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Reveilled posted:If a dead player resurrects at their phylactery, then there's a definite incentive not to just bury it in a hole in the ground and never go back, at least until the party has access to teleportation magic. "As your spirit coalesces around your body, you awake on the soft grasses of your homeland, above where you buried your phylactery all those centuries ago. You are struck with two realisations: you are thousands of miles from the site of your death, and your former companions. It will likely take you months of overland travel to rejoin the group. Second, you are all alone in this hostile wilderness you have not visited in an age." Up until teleportation magic, that's functionally the same as the PC being dead for at least the duration of the current adventure. Oh that's actually a great thought, I had not considered that! It could be an excellent adventure complication. Cool! Thanks!
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Needing to touch the phylactery for beneficial spells is interesting, but it probably should have some kind of range limit. Just hide the spellcaster in a barn while this guy runs around
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Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:Make your phylactery a pebble and throw it in the open ocean, or better yet, bury it under the ocean floor. Make it into a powerful magic item that nobody would want to destroy. Or attach it to one. But yeah, for an adventurer, hiding your phylactery in the middle of nowhere is also a risk. You might miss the rest of the campaign trying to find the rest of the party. So practically, you need to keep it relatively nearby. Just not a hard limit mechanically.
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Phylacteries have always been massive bait for the sort of "Well if I were the evil villain, I'd just blah blah blah" sort attitude. They absolutely benefit from rules demanding either the lich stay at least a little close by, or that the item in question has to be powerful and important enough that you can't really just dump it in a hole somewhere, if only to cut out that poo poo.
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I wanna see phylacteries not be controllable. They're just a random object that was within, say, 100 feet of the original spellwork that made the lich. And they have a soul in them, so they MAY be sapient and mobile of their own accord. They may or may not actually like the lich.
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Had my first session DMing for the D&Dads yesterday! First time DMing in about thirteen years, but I forgot how much I actually liked sitting behind the screen. We had a great time with mercifully no PvP (yet). I wasn't sure how they'd get on keeping notes on the bazillion different quests they get in Phandalin, so I made them up little index cards with quest details on them as a sort of quest log to help them decide what to pursue, which I think helped a lot. As a group, I've discovered that it doesn't really cross their mind to do interrogations, they captured a goblin and a redbrand in the course of their fights but aside from asking each of them what was in the next room, they've not tried to glean any further info about wider events (even if the people being questioned wouldn't know). I've got a framing device of the adventure being a story Gundren is telling other people (think the intros to the Borderlands games), so I might drop a few hints in the second session recap that the links between all the various bandit groups is a thread worth pulling on. Questions for the thread: I think I might have to rework one guy's cleric for him. At the group's request I provided them pre-gen characters for the adventure (they gave me race & class), and two of the players wanted to be clerics, so I made one as a War cleric and the other as a Light cleric. But the light cleric player didn't have much interest in actually using Sacred Flame and just wanted to hit stuff with his mace all the time, so I feel like he's going to be happier if we swap his domain for something a bit more smashy (of course, I'll talk with him first). There's quite a few different melee focused domains, I'm thinking of switching him to Forge, but what's your favourite? One alternative I'm considering if he wants to stay a light cleric is making Sacred Flame into a spell attack like Fire Bolt, essentially, because honestly it's not much fun when your main attack has the DM rolling instead of you. I can't think of anything this would gently caress up, right? Also, any suggestions for where to reintroduce Glasstaff if the PCs let him get away? We finished the session right at the door to his workshop, and I'm planning to prep for a chase in the event they act quickly enough (they found his go bag, so he can't turn invisible), but provided he does get away, I'm thinking he and the last of the redbrands might ambush the group as they return to Phandalin after one of the wilderness excursions.
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Forge is probably the best for just smashing things in melee through LMoP (levels 1-5). Tempest is better at being both melee and exploding things, though.
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ProfessorCirno posted:Phylacteries have always been massive bait for the sort of "Well if I were the evil villain, I'd just blah blah blah" sort attitude. They absolutely benefit from rules demanding either the lich stay at least a little close by, or that the item in question has to be powerful and important enough that you can't really just dump it in a hole somewhere, if only to cut out that poo poo. It might be neat to make something of the idea that it's your *soul* that's being put in that thing. Maybe if you put your soul in a tiny piece of stone, you constantly have the feeling of walls very close to you. If you bury it under the ocean, all you can feel, forever, is cold and dark, and at least a little bit alone, o matter how many people are around you. Whereas if you put it in a jeweled amulet, something made with care and to please the eye, you feel glorious and beautiful. Forever. If it's something that is carried and seen regularly, you feel as though you're still part of the living world. Some liches wouldn't care about that. Some would. Some might even *think* they didn't care, and then change their minds, which could be a fun quest.
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