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Lammasu posted:Got the Ravenloft book and I love it. But why doesn't it list the monsters alignment. Is there any guidance in the new ravenloft book regarding various divination/detection spells? I understand that any commune with higher power potentially allows the darklord to intervene.
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# ? May 19, 2021 05:11 |
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# ? Jun 4, 2024 14:25 |
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So the most likely thing on everyone's minds is... How did they handle the Vistani?
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# ? May 19, 2021 05:47 |
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change my name posted:It's because you can make them whatever you want. Maybe that carrionette is evil, but maybe you run into a little killer doll who's actually possessed by a kid ghost and just wants to play, not really hurt people. Or whatever. It's WoTC moving towards a "let the DM decide who is good or evil" system rather than imposing racial alignments. The nonsensical alignment system in D&D has become more and more of a vestigial organ, first in practice if not in word, so it's legit good to see this is progressing along.
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# ? May 19, 2021 06:49 |
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So are any of the class changes and expanded abilities from Tasha's Cauldron objectively bad or unbalanced? Many of the changes seem like much needed balance updates but with the silly "oPtIoNaL aSk YoUr DM" framing it's really hard to tell if the changes should be treated like an errata or if any are like "use at your own risk" rules.
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# ? May 19, 2021 12:55 |
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Not Keyser Soze posted:So are any of the class changes and expanded abilities from Tasha's Cauldron objectively bad or unbalanced? Many of the changes seem like much needed balance updates but with the silly "oPtIoNaL aSk YoUr DM" framing it's really hard to tell if the changes should be treated like an errata or if any are like "use at your own risk" rules. every single thing in dnd 5e is given this treatment for better or for worse. nothing from tashas is going to be an issue unless players were using some awful class or absolutely screwed their build by doing something like charisma ranger
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# ? May 19, 2021 13:04 |
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Not Keyser Soze posted:So are any of the class changes and expanded abilities from Tasha's Cauldron objectively bad or unbalanced? Many of the changes seem like much needed balance updates but with the silly "oPtIoNaL aSk YoUr DM" framing it's really hard to tell if the changes should be treated like an errata or if any are like "use at your own risk" rules. There's some fairly obvious power boosting; the Tasha's Beastmaster is pretty obviously not balanced with the PHB one and the sorcerer bloodlines give you extra spells. But it's boosting the underpowered stuff - the only things I'd side-eye are the new cleric domains.
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# ? May 19, 2021 13:28 |
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Sodomy Hussein posted:The nonsensical alignment system in D&D has become more and more of a vestigial organ, first in practice if not in word, so it's legit good to see this is progressing along. I played in a game a while back that where the DM would have NPCs "detect as" an alignment based on what they'd actually done recently. So, as a paladin, I could track evil acts, regardless of the creature's theoretical alignment, and conversely I couldn't track a supposedly evil creature that hadn't been up to anything recently. I wouldn't mind seeing that become the accepted standard, let Paladins detect evil actions, let protection from evil defend against evil attacks, etc etc. Might depend on a bit too much on the DM and group but I'm sure they could make some clear bullet points for adventure league or whatever.
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# ? May 19, 2021 13:42 |
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Libertad! posted:So the most likely thing on everyone's minds is... Much like in the CoS, they're no longer Roma stereotypes of thieves and murderers. In fact, they made it so the "Vistani" who turned Van Rcihten's child over to vampires were not actually Vistani, but pretendde to be for nefarious purposes.
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# ? May 19, 2021 16:37 |
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Megazver posted:They're all Hella Evil, I imagine. I was gonna make a joke of asking where Hella Evil fits on the traditional alignment matrix, but anyone who's played DnD knows that the answer is actually True Neutral.
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# ? May 19, 2021 17:27 |
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The Mash posted:I was gonna make a joke of asking where Hella Evil fits on the traditional alignment matrix, but anyone who's played DnD knows that the answer is actually True Neutral. Don't know about their place in the matrix, but their Outer Plane is the Double Hell:
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# ? May 19, 2021 19:14 |
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Sorry for the stupid annoying interruption but I'm thoroughly confused about adventurer's league concept. The D&D website says that you can play AL games anywhere, including game stores, in your own home, or online, like Roll20. They also says the adventurer's league is currently running the Rime of the Frost Maiden, which is extremely my jam - brutal, barren, frozen wastelands on the outskirts of the world? Yes please. I've never played a rollplaying game (except for Hero Quest) so I figured this is the perfect starting point. Well obviously board game stores are a no-go right now, so I filter on Roll20 for games that are AL, and nothing comes up. I search for Rime of the Frost Maiden, nothing comes up. Am I missing something? Has literally everybody just bounced off AL and Rime and is doing their own thing instead?
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# ? May 20, 2021 01:35 |
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Anarcho-Commissar posted:Much like in the CoS, they're no longer Roma stereotypes of thieves and murderers. In fact, they made it so the "Vistani" who turned Van Rcihten's child over to vampires were not actually Vistani, but pretendde to be for nefarious purposes. That's good, although that really just covers what they are not anymore. Does it expand on them much as a people and culture? How are other things handled, like the use of tarot cards and that inborn "evil eye" thing? Also can PCs be Vistani, or are they still a mysterious NPC only group?
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# ? May 20, 2021 01:37 |
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Libertad! posted:That's good, although that really just covers what they are not anymore. Does it expand on them much as a people and culture? How are other things handled, like the use of tarot cards and that inborn "evil eye" thing? quote:Vistani
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# ? May 20, 2021 02:01 |
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stratdax posted:Sorry for the stupid annoying interruption but I'm thoroughly confused about adventurer's league concept. The D&D website says that you can play AL games anywhere, including game stores, in your own home, or online, like Roll20. They also says the adventurer's league is currently running the Rime of the Frost Maiden, which is extremely my jam - brutal, barren, frozen wastelands on the outskirts of the world? Yes please. I've never played a rollplaying game (except for Hero Quest) so I figured this is the perfect starting point. Well obviously board game stores are a no-go right now, so I filter on Roll20 for games that are AL, and nothing comes up. I search for Rime of the Frost Maiden, nothing comes up. That's weird, there might be some filters on Roll20 you didn't hit. I'm in a Frostmaiden game right now and saw more than one recruiting when I searched this week for open games
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# ? May 20, 2021 02:10 |
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Are arcane focuses magical at all? I'll probably DM fiat it so that yes, a PC looking for one could find traces of magic used on one, but I couldn't tell what the official ruling was.
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# ? May 20, 2021 02:12 |
Acerbatus posted:Are arcane focuses magical at all? Pretty sure an arcane focus is no more magical than e.g. bat guano.
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# ? May 20, 2021 02:38 |
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Acerbatus posted:Are arcane focuses magical at all? no, and interestingly enough arcane focuses are not defined anywhere other than mechanically so they can look like whatever you want
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# ? May 20, 2021 02:41 |
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Dexo posted:Vistani Thank you for posting all that. They do seem to be portrayed better than prior editions, although that's not exactly a high bar and this section is rather brief for my liking.
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# ? May 20, 2021 02:46 |
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Libertad! posted:Thank you for posting all that. They do seem to be portrayed better than prior editions, although that's not exactly a high bar and this section is rather brief for my liking. I skipped some stuff quote:Vistani Knowledge
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# ? May 20, 2021 03:53 |
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Session two of curse of stradh with three pcs. I am a warlock along with a paladin and a cleric. We play 7 hour sessions. We left daggerfell with the visani. We spent a lot of time milling around daggerfell and got to madame Eva. We started after the cards today. We proceeded to preform wonderfully at all interactions. He added an artificer that we befriended and agreed to help recover rare materials. We were tricked into fighting three dire wolves by stradh and the paladin used divine sense, saw him, and we just destroyed the wolves by the road. We also challenged the old man's son to a contest, the paladin beat him in unarmed combat 65 hp vs 24 with a potion of heroism, and took him for his sword. I presented the wolves as a heroes feast and we partied through the night. The visani know the pally as the captain beater and we are very well liked. We talked the chef into joining us as a sidekick, and set out for the village of barovia at level three. Paladin got us trapped in death house. Super enjoying this campaign so far. Dm says we are killing it dragging it off rails and it feels so good. Having a great time.
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# ? May 20, 2021 06:26 |
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I'm hoping to get back into running a campaign, but my last homebrew campaign eventually burnt me out, so I was hoping a published adventure would make things easier for me. Are there any published adventures that people really enjoyed running? Preferably around level 5.
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# ? May 20, 2021 08:26 |
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How did Iron Kingdoms Requiem turn out, by the way?
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# ? May 20, 2021 08:35 |
lightrook posted:I'm hoping to get back into running a campaign, but my last homebrew campaign eventually burnt me out, so I was hoping a published adventure would make things easier for me. Are there any published adventures that people really enjoyed running? Preferably around level 5. Mentioned in the past on this thread already but I'm currently running Odyssey of the Dragonlords, and really recommend it: It's great if you like classic myths (Gods, titans, medusas, labyrinths, pretty much all of the callouts from the Ilyad, the Odyssey, the Argonautica etc.). It's written by former Bioware people - James Ohlen, Jesse Sky, and Drew Karpyshyn off the top of my head, so it has the staples of Bioware games: companion quests (for your PCs and for NPCs both), world-ending main quest, romanceable NPCs, which might not be everyone's cup of tea. It's level 1-20 but you can easily skip the prologue for a higher level start if you want; the beginning can be a bit deadly at low levels so you can also start them at higher level and keep the prologue. Really enjoying it so far (we're about one third in I'd say), players are enjoying it too.
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lightrook posted:I'm hoping to get back into running a campaign, but my last homebrew campaign eventually burnt me out, so I was hoping a published adventure would make things easier for me. Are there any published adventures that people really enjoyed running? Preferably around level 5. Do Keep on the Borderlands followed up by Expedition to the Barrier Peaks. This is how I open almost all D&D campaigns, but I put some twist on it.
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# ? May 20, 2021 13:03 |
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Rutibex posted:Do Keep on the Borderlands followed up by Expedition to the Barrier Peaks. This is how I open almost all D&D campaigns, but I put some twist on it. Does the Goodman Games 5e version exist in PDF format?
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# ? May 20, 2021 13:56 |
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It's print only for the Goodman OAR line.
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# ? May 20, 2021 14:02 |
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poor life choice posted:Does the Goodman Games 5e version exist in PDF format? They exist but you can't buy the pdf Honestly I just run it straight from the 1e module. Aside from Armor Class the statistics for monsters are very similar between 1e and 5e
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# ? May 20, 2021 14:03 |
poor life choice posted:Does the Goodman Games 5e version exist in PDF format? 5E is very strict about PDFs of official material, unfortunately.
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# ? May 20, 2021 14:31 |
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Devorum posted:5E is very strict about PDFs of official material, unfortunately. Why would Wizards of the Coast give them permission to use all the old art and writing, but forbid them from putting a PDF up on DMs guild?
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# ? May 20, 2021 14:36 |
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Because WotC is a poo poo company.
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# ? May 20, 2021 14:43 |
ForkBanger posted:Because WotC is a poo poo company. Not an empty quote The D&D stuff is the only thing in the Goodman store with no PDF.
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# ? May 20, 2021 14:55 |
Wonder if lack of PDFs is because of some kind of exclusive that D&D Beyond has for digital on official content?
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# ? May 20, 2021 15:11 |
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Keep in mind the "Into the Borderlands" loads you down with treasure - +1 weapons and armor EVERYWHERE. Paladins with a 21 AC at level 3? It could happen TO YOU!
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# ? May 20, 2021 15:15 |
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canepazzo posted:Wonder if lack of PDFs is because of some kind of exclusive that D&D Beyond has for digital on official content? It's because of piracy concerns, it's a policy running back to 4e. The pirates just scan the book and OCR it themselves, it's very easy to do these days.
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# ? May 20, 2021 15:21 |
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Arivia posted:It's because of piracy concerns, it's a policy running back to 4e. The pirates just scan the book and OCR it themselves, it's very easy to do these days. Oh yeah, totally doesn't happen anyway... Also, for those who have Van Richten's (I'll buy it when it goes on sale), did they actually do anything with the combat wheelchair or establish solid rules for using it?
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# ? May 20, 2021 16:46 |
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change my name posted:Oh yeah, totally doesn't happen anyway... I haven't seen anything about a combat wheelchair or anything. Did they ever actually say they were gonna put one in or something? Dexo fucked around with this message at 17:46 on May 20, 2021 |
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Dexo posted:I haven't seen anything about a combat wheelchair or anything. Did they ever actually say they were gonna put one in or something? I saw people hyping it up and there are adventurers in wheelchairs in some of the official book art:
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# ? May 20, 2021 18:04 |
change my name posted:Oh yeah, totally doesn't happen anyway... Not at all. Not only did they simply rip off Mustang's idea for a glorified photo-op, they did so without any consult from wheelchair users resulting in the unusable abomination in the art. They've got a whole thread about it on Twitter. Fake Combat Wheelchair ForkBanger posted:Because WotC is a poo poo company.
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# ? May 20, 2021 18:14 |
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change my name posted:That's weird, there might be some filters on Roll20 you didn't hit. I'm in a Frostmaiden game right now and saw more than one recruiting when I searched this week for open games Ok I figured out what I was doing wrong. Searching for "Rime" in the wrong place. Looks like most, if not all, the open games on roll20 are pay-to-play, which I wasn't expecting but makes sense. The Adventurer's League game group filter only returns one hit, a weekly lobby. So I guess I'll drop them a line and see what happens. Btw I only need the player's handbook and I'm good to go yeah? I don't need the Rime of the Frostmaiden book itself, that's just for the GM right?
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stratdax posted:Ok I figured out what I was doing wrong. Searching for "Rime" in the wrong place. Looks like most, if not all, the open games on roll20 are pay-to-play, which I wasn't expecting but makes sense. The Adventurer's League game group filter only returns one hit, a weekly lobby. So I guess I'll drop them a line and see what happens. You can search for only free games, I've never paid. And correct, the book is really only for the DM, there's no new classes or anything in there apart from two new spells (which my party never came across and we don't have a wizard anyways)
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