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ZZT the Fifth posted:I’ve been making a divination wizard for a game I’m in whose gimmick is that he’s a cheaty gambler. He has the Lucky feat, and that’s gonna be combined with Portent. It’s probably gonna be hilariously broken. I wouldn't dip Rogue, no. You're a Wizard: you don't need skills. Are you asking for what spells are good or what spells fit your theme?
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Conspiratiorist posted:Are you asking for what spells are good or what spells fit your theme? Both, really.
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May 23, 2019 23:40
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Never forget that you can dual-wield lances while mounted and get free disengage, so go buck wild.
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May 23, 2019 23:42
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Stupid question: Are lances even things you'd actually use in a fight, and not just in silly carnival jousts (which can kill you but aren't really a "fight")?
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May 23, 2019 23:47
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:Stupid question: Are lances even things you'd actually use in a fight, and not just in silly carnival jousts (which can kill you but aren't really a "fight")? They were pretty drat effective during the middle ages when wielded by cavalry for charging and breaking infantry and archer lines. Effective enough that the pike became a necessity to counter charging cavalry. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lancer
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May 23, 2019 23:53
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:Stupid question: Are lances even things you'd actually use in a fight, and not just in silly carnival jousts (which can kill you but aren't really a "fight")?
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May 23, 2019 23:56
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:Stupid question: Are lances even things you'd actually use in a fight, and not just in silly carnival jousts (which can kill you but aren't really a "fight")? Yes but imagine instead of a poxy one handed stick designed to break on impact you have a 15ft long wooden pole with a sharpened steel tip that's thick enough to survive a full speed charge and you wield it with two hands while steering your horse with your knees. gently caress armour. gently caress infantry formations. This thing starts poking and it does not stop. In three words: raw stopping power. Azza Bamboo fucked around with this message at 00:05 on May 24, 2019 |
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May 23, 2019 23:59
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WELP Druidchat a few pages back inspired an Eberron 5e oneshot about tracking down a bunch of druids that had sabotaged a portion of the Lightning Rail via planting a bunch of fast-growing plants under it because gently caress you trains. Looking more and more like it's gonna blossom into a full campaign. Thanks again, Trad Games. You mostly never let me down.
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May 24, 2019 00:19
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If you are at all interested in stuff relating to lances, armour, knights, horses and plenty more medieval stuff. Can't recommend Modern History TV more: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_D1ZQ7Hu0g
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May 24, 2019 00:27
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:Stupid question: Are lances even things you'd actually use in a fight, and not just in silly carnival jousts (which can kill you but aren't really a "fight")? Lances were useful to the degree that lancers remained a thing into the 1900s. The 17th Lancers (who yeah, carried lances) are the dudes you're probably thinking of when you think "charge of the light brigade". The actual lances they use look more like spears than the jousting sticks you're probably picturing though. Polish winged hussars were very famously lancers too and their outfits were D&D as gently caress.
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May 24, 2019 00:38
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:Speaking of, what are some good alternate styles for monk other than Shaolin karate-man? I've seen the luchador grappler one, but in 5e wouldn't that be better done with a barbarian? Baritsu user. Give yourself a big ol handlebar moustache and a monocle. Take Tavern Brawler or ask your DM if you can source reinforced canes and watch chains to fight with. Buy Blinding powder and keep it in a snuff box.
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May 24, 2019 00:42
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ZZT the Fifth posted:Both, really. By no means exhaustive Cantrips: Toll the Dead: your best basic attack option; Fire Bolt if you want something that can target objects. Prestidigitation, Minor Illusion: no introduction needed Mage Hand: telekinesis Mold Earth: instantly dig, shape sand, very useful 1st Level: Find Familiar: essential ritual, get an owl and have it fly around giving you or your allies Advantage using the Help action. Also scouts and poo poo. Mage Armor: have non-poo poo AC Shield: have actual good AC when it counts Absorb Elements: so you don't die to elemental AoEs Detect Magic: essential ritual Identify: essential ritual, works on magical objects you run into, not just items Magic Missile: the best 1st level spell slot damage option Fog Cloud: situational, but can be a lifesaver 2nd Level: Misty Step: bonus action teleport Web: the big thing is that they need spend an action to get free, but be mindful of allies Dragon's Breath: cast on your familiar and now you have an AoE kill drone Suggestion: talk with your DM on how they'll adjudicate it Enlarge/Reduce: good utility, and can also be a pretty big buff on a party member that can figure out how to make the most of it Hold Person: gently caress humanoid 3rd Level: Fireball: large area, high damage. A wizard staple. Hypnotic Pattern: one of the best CC spells Dispel Magic: it dispels magic Counterspell: counter enemy casters (best on Bards and Sorcerers, though) Slow: excellent debuff when you fight multi-attack enemies. Also trolls casters big time, but those tend to have better WIS saves. Tiny Hut: essential ritual Fly: come on 4th level: Banishment: charisma, save or time out, or lose for extraplanars Polymorph: turns your foes into snails and your friends into giant apes Dimension Door: bigger teleport Black Tentacles: it's like web but they need to check vs restrained every turn There's also a bunch of very good single-target buffs like Protection from Evil, Haste, Greater Invisibility, etc that martials will love to have on them, but if that's the game you wanted to play you'd be better off as a Sorcerer.
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Thanks for the Horse Chat. I'm planning on changing my Skeleton Fighter into a Skeleton Paladin (Lawful Good, long back story) at the end of this campaign and I really want him to go balls-wild with charging with a lance and then (after the horse dies) pulling out his scimitar for high levels of chaos fighting.
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W.T. Fits posted:Does anyone here ever go out of their way to give their dwarf characters a non-Scottish accent, if only to buck the trend/stereotype? I played in a one-shot game online a few weeks ago where I rolled up a mountain dwarf stone sorcerer and had him speak in a thick, Russian accent just for the hell of it, and it was pretty fun. I cannot remember her name for the life of me, but I played for ages with someone who had a female Duergar cleric of Lathander. She always did the character in a west country accent (look it up), and it was hilarious. This cleric was the utter opposite of a duergar: loved the open air, the sun, running water, growing things etc
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West country's the pirate one because of that one actor, yeah? I played online with a dude who rarely broke character in voice chat and had a thick northern english accent. Took me a month to realise that it wasn't his character's accent. Elector_Nerdlingen fucked around with this message at 05:16 on May 24, 2019 |
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May 24, 2019 05:14
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I’m about to create a lvl 5 cleric for Tomb of Annihilation. Goons, sell me on the best cleric domain!
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plester1 posted:I’m about to create a lvl 5 cleric for Tomb of Annihilation. Goons, sell me on the best cleric domain! Light. You don't get Heavy Armor or Warhammer proficiency but who cares with the spells you get.
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I don't usually see people going for Light! I am enjoying the one I'm currently playing but people usually recommend Life (for Maximum Healer) or like, Arcana (because you basically get to pretend to be a Wizard). It has a workhorse-like solid Channel Divinity, a meh defensive option and a REALLY good capstone, should you ever actually reach it. If it had the heavy armor/melee bonus type of Cleric build so you didn't have to rely on the underwhelming Cleric cantrips for free damage it'd be REALLY great overall.
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plester1 posted:I’m about to create a lvl 5 cleric for Tomb of Annihilation. Goons, sell me on the best cleric domain! Tempest gets Heavy Armor, damage/knockback on enemies that hit it, and a maximize damage Channel Divinity option that lets it twice per short rest turn Shatter into a mini Fireball.
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Conspiratiorist posted:By no means exhaustive I would add Light to the cantrip list so you can ensure your human friends can see.
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Infinity Gaia posted:I don't usually see people going for Light! I am enjoying the one I'm currently playing but people usually recommend Life (for Maximum Healer) or like, Arcana (because you basically get to pretend to be a Wizard). Yeah!  Light cleric is my favourite class to personally play (as much mechanically as being able to be all "I am the morning sun, come to vanquish this horrible night!" and whatever), and I have one as one of the premades I have on hand for the one shots I run. I've had her get picked almost every game and she steals the show every time. The spell list is pretty great; Faerie Fire, Scorching Ray, and motherfuckin' Fireball BattleMaster fucked around with this message at 09:20 on May 24, 2019 |
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BattleMaster posted:Yeah! The only downside of Fireball is that Cleric level 3 spells are loving PACKED with poo poo you might want to use instead, either for utility, saving someones rear end (Revivify!) or more consistent turn-by-turn damage in Spirit Guardians. But when the situation presents itself that you can Fireball, it feels good to be able to do so.
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Who/what is the best way to heal as a skeleton besides chugging potions and resting?
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Professor Shark posted:Who/what is the best way to heal as a skeleton besides chugging potions and resting? Find someone's nonna (oma, abeula, etc) and wait for her to feed you something that will put flesh on your bones.
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Elector_Nerdlingen posted:West country's the pirate one because of that one actor, yeah? Also a load of pirates were originally from Bristol, so it's only mostly inaccurate
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Drink milk.
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Liquid Dinosaur posted:Drink milk. 
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W.T. Fits posted:Does anyone here ever go out of their way to give their dwarf characters a non-Scottish accent, if only to buck the trend/stereotype? I played in a one-shot game online a few weeks ago where I rolled up a mountain dwarf stone sorcerer and had him speak in a thick, Russian accent just for the hell of it, and it was pretty fun. Our group uses different accents depending on the variety of dwarves, our hill dwarves are german, duegar are Russian.
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May 24, 2019 14:52
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Thayans have German accents in my game bc they are the baddies.
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My Genasi are various eastern european accents. Dwarves are Yorkshire. Elves often have a californian twang. The only Orc that they've met thus far has been Cockney, but that's because he grew up in waterdeeps underbelly. Everyone else is various semi-british accents.
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On clerics, I really like the idea of a Drow or Kobold Light Cleric who because of their sunlight sensitivity is really scared of their own magic. Dwarves should all have Russian accents, and elves all want to speak to your manager
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Dwarves tend toward Yorkshire for me. They're usually crass and chummy when they talk. Like builders on a building site. High elves don't so much have an accent outside of my ordinary British accent. Their language is usually very considered, inoffensive and almost businesslike. Wood elves are slightly Irish. They use flavourful, passionate language like a stereotypical Italian would, but can be quite blunt. Dragonborn are the ones I give the Russian accents to. Halflings usually get the stereotypical British treatment. Not so much real cockney as "shine yer boots guv'ner" fake cockney. Gnomes get that chavvy Billie Piper vibe. For Orcs I just speak like a Klingon, which is basically a space orc.
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Azza Bamboo posted:For Orcs I just speak like a Klingon, which is basically a space orc. This Red Dragon has no honor!
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Azza Bamboo posted:For Orcs I just speak like a Klingon, which is basically a space orc. And Vulcans space-elves and Romulans space-drow
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Madmarker posted:And Vulcans space-elves hmm Azza Bamboo posted:
I may have been doing this already without realising.
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Azza Bamboo posted:hmm Add a charming high elf grandad with a fondness for jam, have him solemnly intone that the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. I'm dipping my toe into online play for the first time because a friend has assembled a group of people to play from up and down the country. I have literally no idea how to run campaigns online despite years of at-table experience, is Roll20 relatively easy to learn for players and DM?
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Bogan Krkic posted:On clerics, I really like the idea of a Drow or Kobold Light Cleric who because of their sunlight sensitivity is really scared of their own magic. Dwarves should all have Russian accents, and elves all want to speak to your manager The party my (Goblin) Light Cleric is in has both a Drow AND a Kobold in it. I'm... Hoping we can find some shades for them or something by level 17.
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I've got an acquaintance who is interested in D&D, but only knows about it from the Big Bang Theory. Does anyone have a good reference of a game for him to watch that isn't going to have a laughtrack, as an example of how games typically go? Preferably something that can be distilled down to 30m. Yes, I'm aware of Harmonquest, but would like other suggestions too.
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Volmarias posted:I've got an acquaintance who is interested in D&D, but only knows about it from the Big Bang Theory. Does anyone have a good reference of a game for him to watch that isn't going to have a laughtrack, as an example of how games typically go? Preferably something that can be distilled down to 30m. Yes, I'm aware of Harmonquest, but would like other suggestions too. One on one session without a grid and an hour long. You're not going to find much good dnd session content under an hour, if at all. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3658C2y4LlA
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Reveilled posted:
I haven't played any full sessions with it, but I did check it out a few months ago. It seems relatively intuitive so far as I can tell. There was an interactive tutorial also, but everything it showed me send pretty obvious.
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