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As I continue to prep for SKT, I want to start my PCs off with a unique item given to them by their families. I have items in mind for two of them (the moon druid is getting a flask of infinite booze that makes wild shape more rage-y, the assassin rogue is getting a poison dispenser that lets her apply poison without using an action), but I could use some help on the other two. - One PC is a clerc/shepherd druid who is the grand-nephew of one of the most famous generals in the world. I want the item to be a tactical manual written by said general, but I'm not sure what it should actually do. I'd like to avoid extant mechanics like "get advantage on X" and probably scavenge something from the warlord. Does "1/short rest give everyone a move action" sound like it would be interesting enough? - The other PC is an infernal/tome warlock and his family history is that they've been sworn to a demon for generations. The PC is a bit of a screw up, though, and every time he tries to hex or curse somebody, the target ends up winning the lottery or something. It's a cute concept, but I'm not sure which direction to take in terms of a family boon.
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Mar 22, 2019 12:30
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Stroop There It Is posted:lol bless clint mcelroy Have it be the actual soul of the creature that you killed. Your patron, when you cast, grants the soul a chance to start the process of redemption by following you for spell duration.
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Mar 22, 2019 12:37
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inthesto posted:
Make it similar to the magic tomes: if they spend enough time studying the book they get a permanent boost in INT, proficiency in INT checks involving combat strategy (doubled if it's something they already are proficient in). Or perhaps mine the Schwalb Warlord for a mechanic that they can learn. Maybe consider what type of warlord the general was if you want it to be something more specialized.
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Mar 22, 2019 12:40
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I would say at least give an automatic advantage roll on history roll related to warfare. Free History proficiency too maybe? But yeah if the pc is a cleric it wouldn't hurt to give a small +1 or +2 INT increase and it will not make the player insanely more powerful in combat either.
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Mar 22, 2019 16:36
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Tome of Tactics: once per $whatever, instead of rolling initiative you can set the order of the initiative. You must set the order as follows: 2 PCs, then alternating 1 enemy and 1 PC.
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Mar 22, 2019 17:36
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On a roll of (low chance) in combat initiation, act as if you surprised your opponents. Think of a fancy name for the book that's better than "What up fuckers"
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Mar 22, 2019 20:14
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Give it a cheesy self-help book title like "How to avoid unwanted attention" - it's written by a depressed doppelganger.
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Mar 22, 2019 20:17
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inthesto posted:- One PC is a clerc/shepherd druid who is the grand-nephew of one of the most famous generals in the world. I want the item to be a tactical manual written by said general, but I'm not sure what it should actually do. I'd like to avoid extant mechanics like "get advantage on X" and probably scavenge something from the warlord. Does "1/short rest give everyone a move action" sound like it would be interesting enough? What about 1/short rest force an opponent to use a move action the way you want, as your superior tactics trick them into making an error? Or a choice between several such things? The book works for the player and nobody else because the player's got a pre-edited draft so it contains the real deal advice that the publishers thought wasn't interesting enough to sell books. Like the published copy ia all diagrams and complicated poo poo, but the players' copy says stuff like "really it comes down to having more spearmen than the other chap", "generally you should try not to fight uphill", etc.
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Mar 22, 2019 23:36
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inthesto posted:- One PC is a clerc/shepherd druid who is the grand-nephew of one of the most famous generals in the world. I want the item to be a tactical manual written by said general, but I'm not sure what it should actually do. I'd like to avoid extant mechanics like "get advantage on X" and probably scavenge something from the warlord. Does "1/short rest give everyone a move action" sound like it would be interesting enough?
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Mar 23, 2019 01:05
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Not sure if this the right place, but feel free to point me in the right direction. Spawn of the Phoenix Egg I finished a spiritual sequel to the classic 80's module Egg of the Phoenix in 5e and before I go into finalizing it, I'm requesting people for game testing. I'm also interested in people reading it over for feedback. please let me know by pm or via email at drevrpg@gmail.com.
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Mar 23, 2019 14:26
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Our DM just had a gently caress ton of slaad show up in a floating fortress and take over our fortress while we were gone. Over the days of their invasion before our PCs showed up they killed some of our favorite npcs and also my custom race dog bard had a slaad explode out of her right at the start of the session(she was infected during the invasion). The DM and I planned it out to drive the narrative and it definitely worked. I'm excited to go fight an army of slaad in this memory spire
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Mar 23, 2019 16:40
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RC Cola posted:Our DM just had a gently caress ton of slaad show up in a floating fortress and take over our fortress while we were gone. Over the days of their invasion before our PCs showed up they killed some of our favorite npcs and also my custom race dog bard had a slaad explode out of her right at the start of the session(she was infected during the invasion). The DM and I planned it out to drive the narrative and it definitely worked. Slaad are cool if played properly. They're WEIRDOS, and while they attack in large numbers they do it single-file, one per target until every slaad has died or surrendered. At least, that's how they used to work as a racial culture. They were all about personal strength, so ganging up is totally alien to them. If you're stronger than them, and can prove it, they also submit until they think they can take you. However, just because you're stronger than one of their number doesn't mean the others don't all, individually, have to be beaten up! Thus, the lines. Dunno what they're like in your game though. How have they battled? Do they have any chaos-shaping? Are you fighting them in Limbo?
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Mar 23, 2019 18:23
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So am I totally out of line here for wanting to name a thief character “Django Speedwagon” or a paladin “Gaston Martel-rambeau”?? How are these any different than a random mouth noise elf name? I got told no silly names by the dm (who’s apparently never heard of France) and so I just left the table as I was certain he was trying to piss me off.
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Mar 23, 2019 20:06
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Numlock posted:So am I totally out of line here for wanting to name a thief character “Django Speedwagon” or a paladin “Gaston Martel-rambeau”?? How are these any different than a random mouth noise elf name? Just sounds like a bad match. If a DM wants a serious, RP-heavy game in a setting that wouldn’t have names like that, then they’re well within their rights to have general guidelines on naming and silliness level. If that’s not the game you want, then you made the right decision to walk away. I wouldn’t attribute it to the DM trying to intentionally aggravate you but I can’t say more than that based on the given information.
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Mar 23, 2019 20:14
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Those are excellent names and that DM is bad.
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Mar 23, 2019 20:14
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Djangi Speedwagon: Perfectly acceptable halfling or gnome name. Gaston Martel-rambeau: Weren't a chunk of the KotRT french? Of course this is assuming you were putting these forward in good faith and not mugging like an idiot the whole time.
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Mar 23, 2019 20:16
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Yeah they were serious names. He refused to believe that “Rambeau” was a real name and thought I was trying to name the character “ Ram butt”
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Mar 23, 2019 20:20
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Sounds like your DM is a tool.
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Mar 23, 2019 20:26
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Numlock posted:Yeah they were serious names. Ok that’s not great haha.
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Mar 23, 2019 20:29
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Chronische posted:Slaad are cool if played properly. They're WEIRDOS, and while they attack in large numbers they do it single-file, one per target until every slaad has died or surrendered. At least, that's how they used to work as a racial culture. They were all about personal strength, so ganging up is totally alien to them. If you're stronger than them, and can prove it, they also submit until they think they can take you. However, just because you're stronger than one of their number doesn't mean the others don't all, individually, have to be beaten up! Thus, the lines. Well we only fought them in ways so far that none of us have had more than 1 gang up on us. There were 6 of us. 3 fought a blue slaad and some cultists dudes worshipping them and trying to help them. Another 2 fought a blue slaad while a green slaad in the back was somehow turning corpses into zombies and sending them out to cause chaos. He waited until the others died to fight. Before that we fought a single red slaad and 4 cultists. And he made a cultist explode into 4 chaos bolts? It was weird. I image their alien ship we are about to board will be hella weird. There are also two other factions of humanoids on the "memory spire" that ended up waking the slaad from stasis off screen. So it's gonna be a poo poo show. Also is a giant tear drop shaped tower called the memory spire a thing in dnd already or did my DM make it up? Just wondering. Not looking for spoilers
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Mar 23, 2019 21:11
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If anybody race would be prone to weird names, you'd think it be the elves, since their lives are long enough to get bored enough to plausibly try anything, so it definitely seems plausible for the odd elf to settle down in Fantasy France for a while and adopt a local name. Unless you're telling me Fantasy France doesn't exist at all, or elves never get bored and do wacky things ever, in which case an auteur DM that expects that level of control over their setting is at least a yellow flag, I think.
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Mar 23, 2019 21:12
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lightrook posted:If anybody race would be prone to weird names, you'd think it be the elves, since their lives are long enough to get bored enough to plausibly try anything, so it definitely seems plausible for the odd elf to settle down in Fantasy France for a while and adopt a local name. Unless you're telling me Fantasy France doesn't exist at all, or elves never get bored and do wacky things ever, in which case an auteur DM that expects that level of control over their setting is at least a yellow flag, I think. My latest campaign I got my players to design the cultures their characters came from. The elves are literally Fantasy France, complete with all of the unpronounceable names and words.
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Mar 23, 2019 21:26
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Hell, a 100 or 200 or 400 year old elf might have a completely vanilla name that just sounds crazy because that's old as hell. Plenty of English names from the 1600s would easily sound like jokes too, in 2019.
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Mar 23, 2019 21:28
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Infinite Karma posted:Hell, a 100 or 200 or 400 year old elf might have a completely vanilla name that just sounds crazy because that's old as hell. Plenty of English names from the 1600s would easily sound like jokes too, in 2019.  "I'm uh... I'm guessing that means something else in old elvish?":elf: "No my parents were just real old and bored."
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Mar 23, 2019 21:58
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Village grocer: Greetings, travellers from afar! My name is Corvellionial Lorelithilienialis Asterialioliareolaean, and I welcome you to the humble hamlet of Jenerick'ton-by-the-river, rich in history and ripe for... PC: Areola Ian, got it. I'm Berserk Barry IV, seen any dark lords recently? Maximum D&D achieved. Elector_Nerdlingen fucked around with this message at 22:36 on Mar 23, 2019 |
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Mar 23, 2019 22:19
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A character in my current AL game is named Lightning McHugeBeef and we have deep, deep lore established for him.
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Mar 23, 2019 22:26
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I have definitely played a wizard named chunk beefplank who upon death got replaced by his adopted gnome brother chip beefplank.
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Mar 23, 2019 22:34
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Malpais Legate posted:My latest campaign I got my players to design the cultures their characters came from. I played a game where the world composed of highly militaristic birdmen, sentient plant international merchant diplomat assassins, dragons that were literally landmasses, skeletons who just decided not to die, and imps who were magically embodied concepts. Let your players make up poo poo, it's a ride.
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Mar 23, 2019 22:38
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Numlock posted:Yeah they were serious names. Is this your DM? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd7FixvoKBw
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Mar 23, 2019 22:42
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I named my character from CoS Vindaloo T. Buckshank. My current Dwarf Paladin is Bobson Battlebeard. I had a DM give me naming rights to a thieves guild in Stars Without Number.. so I named it Haastaag Svvag. Silly names are part of the game. Also, just show him a picture of Monica Rambeau from the avengers.
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Mar 23, 2019 22:53
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Yeah, that's not a name people are going to have trouble with as of last week. Well, I could easily see someone who already has trouble with it refusing to see that movie, actually, so...
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Mar 23, 2019 22:57
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In the 90s, before his first ever game, one of my friends wrote "Conan Rambo" in the name box, asked what alignment meant, listened as far as "like personality and political..." then went "ok cool" and wrote Conan/Rambo there too, getting it on a level I've only ever seen a handful of times. E: PicklePants posted:Silly names are part of the game. Elector_Nerdlingen fucked around with this message at 00:08 on Mar 24, 2019 |
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Mar 23, 2019 23:35
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Our DM let us name our first few npcs. We have Fumbles, Wigglytits, and Rumham
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Mar 24, 2019 00:21
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RC Cola posted:Our DM let us name our first few npcs. We have Fumbles, Wigglytits, and Rumham you can't just use pokemon names that's not fair
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Infinite Karma posted:Hell, a 100 or 200 or 400 year old elf might have a completely vanilla name that just sounds crazy because that's old as hell. Plenty of English names from the 1600s would easily sound like jokes too, in 2019. I went with a 16th century style horatory name for a wizard I made. Her parents called her Grace-of-the-Light-Behind-The-Sun, a name she found deeply embarrasing and told no one about. Meanwhile the group I DM features a Dragonborn sailor inventively called "Salty", and an elf who's art looked so much like Sean Bean that he's now officially "Boromears".
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Mar 24, 2019 01:43
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I've got a Dwarf named Gote Wellington ready to go.
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Mar 24, 2019 02:17
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Numlock posted:So am I totally out of line here for wanting to name a thief character “Django Speedwagon” or a paladin “Gaston Martel-rambeau”?? How are these any different than a random mouth noise elf name? Name your character Baston and see what happens
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Mar 24, 2019 02:48
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https://twitter.com/awfulfantasy/status/595364160587730945
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Mar 24, 2019 05:30
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One of my players is a bard/barbarian luchador and his name is : San Juan María Juárez Del Mundo Obregón Guadalupe Villa Vicente Zapata II, Conquistador del Los Espíritus, El Invencible, El Cantador, El Luchador, El Número Uno.
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Mei Mei and Neega are two names in the PHB for Christ's sake.
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