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please knock Mom! posted:I wish rogues just got additional bonus actions already. Make it a freaking capstone, I don't care. but then they wouldn't be bonus actions!
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Open Marriage Night posted:I appreciate the input. Mathematically, Great Weapon Fighting is one of the weakest fighting styles; on a 1d4, it turns your average of 2.5 per d4 into a 2.875 [(2.5 + 2 + 3 + 4)/4], which translates to about one extra pount of damage every time you roll 3d4. Like I said, it's not really a compelling choice. If your one and only goal is to improve your hitting power, I still think there a lot of better choices out there. Wizard gets you the Blade cantrips, for one, which are conditionally better than Extra Attack for now and pull ahead outright later on. Or you can just hold course with Artificer and get better spells to enhance your skills and combat that much more. I guess Paladin also offers a really direct route for converting spells into damage, but that's not really a compelling choice to me.
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Microcline posted:I'd say the two hard rules are Yes, the point was that as long as each character is on board with killing (and taking the stuff of) the same people, it doesn't really matter why.
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Open Marriage Night posted:I appreciate the input. -Extra skill picks and an extra tool proficiency aren't nothing. Especially if you go on a skill-heavy race like Half-elf or Kenku (but plenty of other races provide a lot of versatility and a skill or two), you can start with 8 trained skills, which is probably going to be every skill in two attributes. Expertise also makes at least two of those skills really powerful. In a 4-person party, you can easily have the amount of "skill spotlight" as the rest of the party combined. -Ability score flexibility. Dex is already one of the best main ability scores and it does everything your class needs. So you can pick basically any other ability score purely for skill synergy, have a good Con, and not have to sacrifice anything. -Cunning action is just cool. Getting to do a real action as a bonus action, and not needing that bonus action to contribute to damage, gives you more time to showboat and pull off the cool stuff that makes you feel heroic.
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Concepts like "law" and "chaos" are just prototypical faction systems, it makes perfect sense if you assume the world is ruled by basically one ruling class or kingdom. They stop making sense when you assume a diverse world with many rulers and cultures.
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Keep the world under one ruling class, Bane 2012
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My other two party members are a frog man arcane archer, and a swashbuckler of that blue skinned aquatic race I usually always stay straight class unless the concept was initially created that way. I swear I have a good idea for a Druid/Ranger that I’m going to use someday. The Rogue cross classing idea came about because I thought about using my steel defender to flank enemies. I should probably just stick with the artificer, so I can get the higher level stuff sooner than later. I think these next couple levels are just kind of dead and making me feel antsy.
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Ok. Making an adventure where a cast out wizard plots revenge. He has experiments where he uses a magical item to combine animals. In my world he creates the first Owlbears, Leopasser, Half moles/wolves. I thought maybe he made one creature that escaped that I want for a water fight they have on a raft or something. Something that can float on water such as a frog. But I wonder what I should combine it with to make it an interesting fight. I though the frog can try to grab one of the players with its tongue.
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Midig posted:Ok. Making an adventure where a cast out wizard plots revenge. He has experiments where he uses a magical item to combine animals. In my world he creates the first Owlbears, Leopasser, Half moles/wolves. I thought maybe he made one creature that escaped that I want for a water fight they have on a raft or something. Something that can float on water such as a frog. But I wonder what I should combine it with to make it an interesting fight. I though the frog can try to grab one of the players with its tongue. ... Hippo?
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I mean, hard to make it float as half hippo. Crossing animals is tougher than I though.
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Hippo. . .griff?
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A shark-frog that reels you in with its tongue into gnashing teeth
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Frog+Fly=Flog. Whatever weird frog mechanics you wanted to give it but now it has a fly speed. You should flog your party.
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I also thought he might experiment with wasps or mosquitos for nightmare fuel that he might let loose upon the city at some point.
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Midig posted:I mean, hard to make it float as half hippo. Crossing animals is tougher than I though. Half frog to catch prey, half crab to hold and defend it. Or have a gigantic snail filled with gigantic, horrifying parasitic worms that pop out and lurch at the players if they get too close. There's also a huge range of horrific marine invertebrates to choose from.
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Frogbee. It hops, it glides, it has a stinger on the end of its tongue AND its butt!
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Midig posted:I mean, hard to make it float as half hippo. Crossing animals is tougher than I though. No no no see, a half hippo half frog would be a hip-hop-pa-potamus
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Abroham Lincoln posted:Frogbee. It hops, it glides, it has a stinger on the end of its tongue AND its butt! Solid! I also though the wizard might cross a mosquito with something. They betray and kill him and the players might have to root them out or they might grow and attack the village. So the players might find out that a crazy wizard got cast out for doing these experiments and they might see weird animals about and seemingly aggressive moles stealing jewelry (already exploiting their greed for this railroad). Then they have to cross a pond to find the lair, defeat Frog/Goat hybrid (Can drag or push them off the raft). It is aggressive, but with speak to animals can be talked out of combat and give information. Midig fucked around with this message at 03:15 on Dec 12, 2019 |
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Midig posted:Solid! I also though the wizard might cross a mosquito with something. They betray and kill him and the players might have to root them out or they might grow and attack the village. This just makes me think of a centipede hyrbid. A million little tiny wings and a million little needle suckers on its underside. You could have them grow bigger the more blood they suck until they're roughly humanoid size and can grapple players.
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Midig posted:Ok. Making an adventure where a cast out wizard plots revenge. He has experiments where he uses a magical item to combine animals. In my world he creates the first Owlbears, Leopasser, Half moles/wolves. I thought maybe he made one creature that escaped that I want for a water fight they have on a raft or something. Something that can float on water such as a frog. But I wonder what I should combine it with to make it an interesting fight. I though the frog can try to grab one of the players with its tongue. Hit them with the flying snake things. Anaconda with wings. Or a Froctopus, and have him be able to swallow two people at once. Maybe have them rescue a friendly flying hippo.
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What is crazy wizard's motivation here? Does he just like making weird hybrids for shits and giggles, or does he have an ultimate goal? Does he want to make the strongest monster ever, or does he intend to eventually cross with humans to make some sort of ubermensch? If there is some sort of direction for this, the early enemies could be the failures, where the mixes look super mutated and wrong and become more advanced and effective as time goes on. End game could be extremely effective and dangerous monsters with the wizard himself having turned into a crazy powerful chimera.
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Kung Food posted:What is crazy wizard's motivation here? 
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Stirges are a mosquito/bat hybrid?
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Ok, wait, is the problem with an experimental frog/hippo hybrid that the idea of this magical monstrosity floating is unrealistic?! It's an unnatural abomination! It walks on the floor, and then bloats itself to rise so rapidly that it breaches like a whale trying to win the gold at the Aquatic Olympics! Rocket that beast and give it flyby attack! Edit: or it's just half frog and jumps off the ground, I just like the idea of the frippo/hrog suddenly and menacingly inflating. Gharbad the Weak fucked around with this message at 19:19 on Dec 12, 2019 |
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I legit thought this was a Dr. McNinja thing, even with Spidey in the corner there.
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TooMuchAbstraction posted:I legit thought this was a Dr. McNinja thing, even with Spidey in the corner there. The Dr McNinja guy has been on a number of actual marvel books now that might actually be his writing.
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I need some inspiration for a backstory/background for a new character/campaign. I rolled up a 6th level half-elf sorcerer w/ draconic bloodline (gold) subclass. The campaign is a home brew where we're trying to stop a group of cultists from joining the limbs of an ancient dragon god and it's almost completely a dungeon crawl. I'm really just trying to pick a background that gives me arcana and a backstory that makes sense for the crawl even if it's a little generic. this group isn't going to be too hardcore on the roleplaying but having some idea of motivations would be great and I'm never great at this type of thing.
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Indiana Jones but a sorc.
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MMD3 posted:I need some inspiration for a backstory/background for a new character/campaign. Inheritor: Whatever your inheritance is was stolen by the cult and you need to do an adventure to get back your birthright. Make it tie to your dragon lineage. Kung Food fucked around with this message at 22:29 on Dec 12, 2019 |
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mango sentinel posted:The Dr McNinja guy has been on a number of actual marvel books now that might actually be his writing. Nope, it's by Elliot Kalan, late of the Daily Show and the MST3K reboot.
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Hippo. . .griff? No, the hippo guys are called giff. 
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MMD3 posted:I need some inspiration for a backstory/background for a new character/campaign. RAW you can make up your own background, which would include saying “I’m the X background except I want these skills/proficiencies instead of those other ones.” It only gets complicated or up to DM permission (more than any other standard thing) if you want a unique background perk.
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Recent MTG sets have some cool hybrids. Sharktocrab is a Fish Octopus Crab https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=457350 Hydroid Krasis is a Jellyfish Hydra Beast https://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=hydroid%20krasis
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odinson posted:Recent MTG sets have some cool hybrids. just don't have an elf druid summon a hydroid krasis unless you want the mtg players in your group to break out in tears
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http://www.generatorland.com/usergenerator.aspx?id=4753 I got Hog/Vulture, Scorpion/Golden Retriever, and Sparrow/Silkworm
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Splicer posted:http://www.generatorland.com/usergenerator.aspx?id=4753 Crowbra, which is amazing and terrifying at the same time. Also, already exists in the Forgotten Realms!
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Yak/civet and hornet/sable were the first two I got, weasel hybrids!
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Praying Mantis/Chimpanzee sounds horrifying e: Mantis Chimp, a chimp with patchy armour and a claw that shoots plasma Splicer fucked around with this message at 00:03 on Dec 13, 2019 |
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