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I'm making a Lore Bard and I'm going to take Fly and Haste for my secret spells Change my mind
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Apr 14, 2019 05:36
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Ceros_X posted:So there we were, playing Curse of Strahd in a homebrew campaign. Did you happen to ask why he is skipping half the adventure and bringing in Lolth.
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Apr 14, 2019 05:39
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Baller Ina posted:I'm making a Lore Bard and I'm going to take Fly and Haste for my secret spells Find Steed is a major class ability you could get, and a damage spell like Call Lightning would expand your good spell options beyond buffs.
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Apr 14, 2019 05:42
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Is mounted combat actually fun in this edition? I really want to make a goblin that rides around on a boar sticking people with spears while the boar charges into them. Can I actually make this work in a fun way? I would assume I would make a beatsmaster ranger for this character but is cavalier better since I know the ranger, especially the beast master, isn’t great.
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Apr 14, 2019 06:47
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It's best on Paladin, who get Find Steed at 5 and Greater Find Steed at 13. Fighter is OK if the DM hands out decent mounts, but it's still not as convenient as sharing spells and being able to just dismiss them or recast them if they die. Either way you'll need to talk things through with your DM regarding how the mounted combat actually works: will you have reach to everything in contact with it or will you need to move around over it? When fighting as a unit the mount acts on your initiative, but does that mean you can choose whether it goes before or after you, and can change that turn to turn? Or does it mean that the mount can move, then you make attacks, then the mount is allowed to move again? etc
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Apr 14, 2019 07:09
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MonsterEnvy posted:Did you happen to ask why he is skipping half the adventure and bringing in Lolth. Nope! None of us have ever played Curse of Strahd before. He is a super new college aged DM and seems to take some poo poo from published campaigns and then add in OP monsters and go off the rails. I have no idea what is what.
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Apr 14, 2019 13:59
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That sounds bad.
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Apr 14, 2019 14:03
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Stradh and Lolth, two great tastes that taste great together?
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Apr 14, 2019 15:31
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My DM replaced an npc in the amber temple with a weakened Vecna. Functionally the same, but a tie in for post Strahd
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Apr 14, 2019 16:40
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Infinite Karma posted:Find Steed is a major class ability you could get, and a damage spell like Call Lightning would expand your good spell options beyond buffs. I like the Call Lightning and I think I'll hold out for Find Greater Steed Good suggestions though, thank you
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Apr 14, 2019 17:01
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Baller Ina posted:I'm making a Lore Bard and I'm going to take Fly and Haste for my secret spells Counterspell! I took Destructive Wave as one of mine and I regret it, because (1), I am super fragile so anything in range is Big Trouble for me and (2) I roll like crap and (3) it targets CON and everything is strong against CON. Alaemon fucked around with this message at 04:54 on Apr 15, 2019 |
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Apr 15, 2019 04:43
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Madmarker posted:Well, I know my next character: Holy poo poo I'm stealing this concept at the very least.
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Apr 15, 2019 05:09
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Baller Ina posted:I'm making a Lore Bard and I'm going to take Fly and Haste for my secret spells When I played a Lore Bard I made sure all of my secrets were spells that weren't on the spell lists for any other players in our party. I was the only arcane caster, so I took Counterspell and Fly (both are sor/war/wiz spells). At 10th level I took Wall of Force since it's only available to wizards. It was a godsend on multiple occasions. I think I also took Evard's Black Tentacles (war/wiz) but I didn't wind up using it much.
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Apr 15, 2019 05:32
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I've been burned on DMing for wizards in this dumb game, and I swear to loving god Wall of Force is the bane of my existence.
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Apr 15, 2019 05:46
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Malpais Legate posted:I've been burned on DMing for wizards in this dumb game, and I swear to loving god Wall of Force is the bane of my existence. Quote this straight into my veins.
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Apr 15, 2019 11:40
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I mean, you could have enemies interfere with the wizard's concentration, right? stealthy dudes could get the drop on them after they pulled their stunt, or teleporty guys could bypass the wall and harass them
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Apr 15, 2019 11:47
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Mr. Lobe posted:I mean, you could have enemies interfere with the wizard's concentration, right? stealthy dudes could get the drop on them after they pulled their stunt, or teleporty guys could bypass the wall and harass them Also lol if a 9th level Wizard doesn't have either War Caster or Resilient, plus Shield prepared. Conspiratiorist fucked around with this message at 23:48 on Apr 15, 2019 |
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Apr 15, 2019 15:55
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Mr. Lobe posted:I mean, you could have enemies interfere with the wizard's concentration, right? stealthy dudes could get the drop on them after they pulled their stunt, or teleporty guys could bypass the wall and harass them Disintegrate instantly destroys wall of force. Maybe the party needs to meet a beholder or two.
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Apr 15, 2019 16:23
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These last few posts are giving me an itch to make up a spell called "Wall of Forks"; does 5e have a "tine" damage type?
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Apr 15, 2019 16:35
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My wall spell sense is tingling. Are we talking about wall spells? Would anyone like me to try a conversion of the wall spell from Empire of the Petal Throne? The walls in that setting Pokémon battle.Glagha posted:Holy poo poo I'm stealing this concept at the very least. Yeah, this is the concept that I used to call ‘chainbreaker’, it’s much better written up than my concept though.
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Apr 15, 2019 17:26
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Baller Ina posted:I'm making a Lore Bard and I'm going to take Fly and Haste for my secret spells Animate dead solves literally everything in 5e by throwing enough dice at it.
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Apr 15, 2019 17:36
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Conspiratiorist posted:They need a save to teleport out of the WoF. They do not need a save to teleport into/out of a Wall of Force. Nothing in the text mentions anything other than physically trying to get through, just that it extends into the Ethereal Plane. So even just Misty Step will get you through.
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Apr 15, 2019 21:28
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Are there video games for 5e or 4e like there are for Pathfinder with Pathfinder: Kingmaker? I really want to try a game like that but the Pathfinder ruleset is really off-putting to me. I dislike playing tabletop Pathfinder because it seems like a system where everyone is just trying to make the most ridiculously overpowered character they can, and the rules, feats and classes actively encourage it. And because if that, I have a bias towards games based on Pathfinder. Maybe the group I've played Pathfinder with has ruined it for me, but I just like the newer versions of D&D way more, and would love to try a video game based on them.
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Apr 15, 2019 22:54
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Despite being very easy and almost tailor-made to being converted into a video game, Atari sat on the D&D licence for all of 4e's lifespan and refused to make a video game with it other than a generic MMO that barely resembled D&D. As far as I know, it's the same deal with 5e. The closest you'll get to the D&D experience is 3e's Temple of Elemental Evil, which is authentic down to the point where the entire game falls to pieces the moment you try to do anything clever with it.
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Apr 15, 2019 23:03
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They made one isometric 5e RPG but I think they killed it.
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Apr 15, 2019 23:05
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Apr 15, 2019 23:21
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Kaysette posted:They made one isometric 5e RPG but I think they killed it. People apparently did not enjoy it cause it was not very faithful to the tabletop. Then the studio making it went under.
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Apr 15, 2019 23:34
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Arthil posted:They do not need a save to teleport into/out of a Wall of Force. Nothing in the text mentions anything other than physically trying to get through, just that it extends into the Ethereal Plane. So even just Misty Step will get you through. I was thinking of Forcecage, my bad.
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Apr 15, 2019 23:47
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Madmarker posted:Well, I know my next character: That homebrew is literally why I started playing. I ultimately decided it wasn't for me, but not before being waist-deep in reading the books.
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Apr 15, 2019 23:58
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MonsterEnvy posted:People apparently did not enjoy it cause it was not very faithful to the tabletop. Then the studio making it went under. Lmao I did not know the end of that story. I mean I poo poo on 5e but real talk just having an implementation of the tabletop so you can level up and play out your characters you'll never get to play irl is why people play these games. I'm not surprised thats why people didn't go to it.
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Apr 16, 2019 01:12
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The problem at heart is that any company big enough to make a proper D&D game is almost assuredly better off using their own IP, even before you get into Atari's fuckery.
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Apr 16, 2019 01:43
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ProfessorCirno posted:The problem at heart is that any company big enough to make a proper D&D game is almost assuredly better off using their own IP, even before you get into Atari's fuckery. What does Atari have to do with that?
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Apr 16, 2019 02:47
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MonsterEnvy posted:What does Atari have to do with that? Atari got the licence for producing electronic media for D&D for the entire run of 4e. They made one game which was an action adventure game and a facebook game during that period and nothing else just to do the minimum to keep the licence. It hosed over any chance of getting a good videogame rpg for a system that is renowned for having really engaging and clever combat mechanics.
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Apr 16, 2019 02:49
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kingcom posted:Atari got the licence for producing electronic media for D&D for the entire run of 4e. They made one game which was an action adventure game and a facebook game during that period and nothing else just to do the minimum to keep the licence. It hosed over any chance of getting a good videogame rpg for a system that is renowned for having really engaging and clever combat mechanics. They also got sued by WotC at some point over this licensing deal? It was before my time playing D&D but I've read a bit about it.
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Apr 16, 2019 02:50
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kingcom posted:Atari got the licence for producing electronic media for D&D for the entire run of 4e. They made one game which was an action adventure game and a facebook game during that period and nothing else just to do the minimum to keep the licence. It hosed over any chance of getting a good videogame rpg for a system that is renowned for having really engaging and clever combat mechanics. Yeah that's a shame. A 4e faithful game could have been cool. Sword Coast Legends the decently recent failed game also had the fatal flaw as marketing itself as a successor to stuff like Neverwinter Nights and Baldur's gate. I played the game, and while it has some cool aspects, it really did not measure up to anything like those games, and it was not faithful in the least to the game system it marketed itself as being based on. MonsterEnvy fucked around with this message at 04:57 on Apr 16, 2019 |
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Apr 16, 2019 03:04
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MonsterEnvy posted:Yeah that's a shame. A 4e faithful game could have been cool. So they tried to signal that they were doing the thing everyone loved but ultimately appealed to neither the people who like that old style of rpg nor the people coming for 5e.
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Apr 16, 2019 03:26
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MonsterEnvy posted:Yeah that's a shame. A 4e faithful game could have been cool. It was this weird cross between Diablo and Baldur's Gate and it had some neat ideas but just felt like a buggy game.
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Apr 16, 2019 03:27
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SCL was a disaster. The Neverwinter MMO is still alive somehow. They update it with new storyline content from 5e with like a year lag time. Undermountain comes out soon, they've done ravenloft, chult, rise of tiamat, OOTA, POTA, etc. It's free but prods you to buy things in the cash shop. Someone must be buying stuff.
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Apr 16, 2019 03:31
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ritorix posted:SCL was a disaster. Dungeons and Dragons Online is still being updated somehow too.
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Apr 16, 2019 03:34
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tbh it's frankly stupid that people don't try to do neverwinter nights 1&2 again drop a tileset in you don't even need to be creative just make all that bank
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