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The closest idea I have to "off-the-wall" is a Librarian Barbarian. (Half-Orc, the Sage (Librarian) background, and the Path of Wild Magic sub-class). They'd have "LEARN" tattooed on the fingers of their right hand, and "2READ" tattooed on the fingers of their left hand. ( Or probably "LERN" and "READ".)
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:The closest idea I have to "off-the-wall" is a Librarian Barbarian. (Half-Orc, the Sage (Librarian) background, and the Path of Wild Magic sub-class). They'd have "LEARN" tattooed on the fingers of their right hand, and "2READ" tattooed on the fingers of their left hand. Named Marian, of course, who is pursued by Harold the Hill Giant Bard of the Gary, Indiana College of Eloquence (gold medal class of '05). Deteriorata fucked around with this message at 03:42 on Nov 30, 2021 |
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Nov 30, 2021 03:35
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Bogan Krkic posted:Air Genasi bard who can only play the kazoo, harmonica and vuvuzela Gotta point out that bagpipes are an option here
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Nov 30, 2021 04:04
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Bogan Krkic posted:vuvuzela
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Nov 30, 2021 04:10
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The lesson from tonight's adventure: Swarmkeeper Ranger has no size limit on the forced movement and even the biggest guy can flub a strength save. Landed a lucky hit and my faeries dragged a roper into a nearby fast-moving river (fortunately and coincidentally when it had just dropped everyone due to a teammate's efforts). Turned "how are we going to get out of this" into "...do we go after it? If it survived how fast can it get back to us? Do we have time to rest?"
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Nov 30, 2021 04:26
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Has anyone read the Eberron: Rising from the Last War 5E sourcebook? Does it do a good job of introducing the setting compared to the books from other editions?
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Nov 30, 2021 04:41
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ninjoatse.cx posted:Has anyone read the Eberron: Rising from the Last War 5E sourcebook? Does it do a good job of introducing the setting compared to the books from other editions? It's unquestionably a worse tool than the 3.5 or 4e books.
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Nov 30, 2021 04:59
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Bogan Krkic posted:Air Genasi bard who can only play the kazoo, harmonica and vuvuzela I'm thoroughly disappointed that air guitar was left off this list.
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Nov 30, 2021 05:12
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mango sentinel posted:It's unquestionably a worse tool than the 3.5 or 4e books. why?
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Nov 30, 2021 05:16
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LennyBriscoCountyJr posted:I'm thoroughly disappointed that air guitar was left off this list. Base Emitter posted:Gotta point out that bagpipes are an option here i hang my head in shame for neglecting these, and also the recorder
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Nov 30, 2021 05:20
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mango sentinel posted:It's unquestionably a worse tool than the 3.5 or 4e books. That’s a hard disagree from me. Regardless of edition, Rising from the Last War is the one I would pick if I had to choose between the three of them.
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Nov 30, 2021 05:44
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sebmojo posted:why? It only Khorvaire. It's overall less evocative in its placesetting and writing than the other two and as a consequence, less hook-y. The older books are so much better for a DM planning a campaign just because they're a bigger wealth of information with more dangly bits on the ends. As far as the crunchier bits: The execution of Dragonmarks are awful. If you're going to play artificer or Eberron races, and don't have Tasha's, then you're buying this anyways. I don't think it's a bad book, I'm just disappointed in it, but part of that may be feeling burned at the Wayfinder's Guide.
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Nov 30, 2021 06:13
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ninjoatse.cx posted:Has anyone read the Eberron: Rising from the Last War 5E sourcebook? Does it do a good job of introducing the setting compared to the books from other editions? Baker released an additional book with more information than he was able/allowed to put into the offical 5e book https://www.dmsguild.com/product/315887/Exploring-Eberron
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Nov 30, 2021 06:32
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Thanks for the replies. I never knew Baker put out the additional book. I have the sourcebook from 3.5, I was thinking of picking it up in the sale, and hoping it’d be a good intro for people not familiar with the setting.
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Nov 30, 2021 07:52
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Finally suited up and I’m rolling with a neither-undead-nor-alive Reborn cleric of Life in the Western Heartlands. Why an apparently Ravenloft-related character race would show up on Faerun was not deeply considered all we know is that a cursed artifact sucked his mind out so he died and woke up with a new one ten years later. Search and rescue corpse on duty.
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Nov 30, 2021 09:20
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Narsham posted:Off-the-wall concepts, eh? Court Flatulist
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:The closest idea I have to "off-the-wall" is a Librarian Barbarian. (Half-Orc, the Sage (Librarian) background, and the Path of Wild Magic sub-class). They'd have "LEARN" tattooed on the fingers of their right hand, and "2READ" tattooed on the fingers of their left hand. Can you tell me where I can find a book on Astronomy?
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Nov 30, 2021 12:03
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Now I want a bard who casts spells by farting. Grants inspiration by farting. Their enemies must never learn that lactose intolerance is the source of their power.
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Nov 30, 2021 14:15
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Devorum posted:Can you tell me where I can find a book on Astronomy? "Well, I can make you see stars - does that count?"
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Nov 30, 2021 14:28
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I wonder if real pixies are offended when they see a swarmkeeper ranger with the "playful pixies" swarm?
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Nov 30, 2021 14:43
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Facebook Aunt posted:I wonder if real pixies are offended when they see a swarmkeeper ranger with the "playful pixies" swarm? Ask your GM
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Nov 30, 2021 14:53
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Facebook Aunt posted:Now I want a bard who casts spells by farting. Grants inspiration by farting. Their enemies must never learn that lactose intolerance is the source of their power. Hieronymus Bosch Butt-trumpet Tiefling Bard
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Nov 30, 2021 15:01
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Facebook Aunt posted:I wonder if real pixies are offended when they see a swarmkeeper ranger with the "playful pixies" swarm? depends on the pixie i guess. making stereotypes??
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Nov 30, 2021 15:30
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pog boyfriend posted:depends on the pixie i guess. making stereotypes?? The swarm is generic 'nature spirits' that take on the appearance of a swarm of creatures like fluttering birds, crawling insects, or playful pixies. The fake pixies have the same degree of sapience as the fake insects or fake birds. They aren't people, they can't talk. They might also modify their appearance and behavior based on the desires of the ranger they are bonded to, leading to some deviantart-rear end tiddy pixies. Stern pixie matriarch: "We're a culture, not a costume, and this is not okay."
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Nov 30, 2021 15:50
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If your swarm isn't made of ethereal raccoons then you're playing wrong
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Nov 30, 2021 16:10
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What's up with the DMsGuild books? They really look like official books and seem to use different properties from D&D (i.e. Mordenkainen, Fizban, Eberron).
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:The closest idea I have to "off-the-wall" is a Librarian Barbarian. (Half-Orc, the Sage (Librarian) background, and the Path of Wild Magic sub-class). They'd have "LEARN" tattooed on the fingers of their right hand, and "2READ" tattooed on the fingers of their left hand. Do they have six fingers on each hand, or do people just see "LEAR READ"?
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Nov 30, 2021 16:19
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Narsham posted:Gnomish Fighter/Cavalier who believes himself to be his mount's familiar (his mount is obviously a Pact of the Chain Warlock and it's weird people can't see that). I'm building a kobold drakewarden who worships his drake companion as a dragon god.
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ninjoatse.cx posted:What's up with the DMsGuild books? They really look like official books and seem to use different properties from D&D (i.e. Mordenkainen, Fizban, Eberron). They're written by people outside of WotC but the DM's Guild has a special license where they can use D&D creative properties and trade dress. The quality can range from very good to trash.
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Arivia posted:They're written by people outside of WotC but the DM's Guild has a special license where they can use D&D creative properties and trade dress. The quality can range from very good to trash. Open question of any good books I should keep an eye out for/ avoid?
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ninjoatse.cx posted:Open question of any good books I should keep an eye out for/ avoid? I enjoyed Heroes of Baldur's Gate and Minsc and Boo's Journal of Villainy. They're both written by one of the designers of the original BG games. The first is a decent adventure in and around the city with a lot of callbacks to the games and some cool dungeons plus a pretty detailed city sourcebook. The second is more about building campaigns in the southern Sword Coast and Amn regions also with a lot of callbacks to the games and some good setting details. I would have enjoyed The Border Kingdoms a lot more if it had more than one small map. But it is full of what Ed Greenwood does best: ground level details about a made up place.
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We've been playing this campaign with a rules variant and I'm curious people's thoughts on it. Instead of a flat proficiency bonus you roll a die of value twice the flat number (so a d4 for starting +2, a d6 instead of +3 at 5th level, and so on). Numerically it's a slight bonus of half a point, in play it's... well in theory it adds more randomness and tries to blunt the edge of "I can calculate the odds so easily that I feel robbed when I'm unlucky on a "sure thing"". In practice I'm not sure. I haven't noticed anything *bad* from it, but I haven't noticed anything good either, it just feels like a non-factor. If we weren't playing on Roll20 with a character sheet that (mostly) handles all that itself, I'd be more annoyed with the hassle.
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ninjoatse.cx posted:Thanks for the replies. I never knew Baker put out the additional book. I still like the 4e player book since it leaves off info and plants some false rumors in players, but the 5e book is fine if people don't like digital or you think they would get confused looking at older version supplements.
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PeterWeller posted:Do they have six fingers on each hand, or do people just see "LEAR READ"? They tattooed their thumbs. Then realized it wouldn't work when they made a fist, and don't want to talk about it anymore. 
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Devorum posted:Can you tell me where I can find a book on Astronomy? For research purposes or more casual? Oh, a word of caution: If you mark your place by dog-earing any pages, I will fold you. PeterWeller posted:Do they have six fingers on each hand, or do people just see "LEAR READ"? The original thought was to go with "LERN" and "READ", but then I considered using the side of the thumbs. If the latter isn't that practical, probably go with the former.
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ninjoatse.cx posted:Open question of any good books I should keep an eye out for/ avoid? The Monster Manual Expanded series is probably one of the single most useful series of products on there. The three entries contain variants and rescaled versions of existing monsters that both allow DMs to throw individual monster types at a wider level range and make combat encounters more interesting by including new variants of existing monsters with new tactical options. The Uncaged anthologies are pretty solid collections of short adventures, each typically themed around specific female monsters Benjamin Huffman's work tends to be pretty solid. He's done a bunch of new classes like The Pugilist as well as the Complete Arcanist, Martialist and Devout Handbooks which offer new subclass options. He also released The Book of uncommon Ancestry Which offers some interesting new race options. Warlock Homebrew has similarly put out some interesting class and race options, including the moth-like Lera, Fairies and variant Tabaxi. The discourse about race options and ability score bonuses also inspired some interesting homebrew products to address it, the two I found most interesting were An Elf and an Orc Had a Little Baby, which provides options for making PCs with options from two different races and Grazilaxx's Guide to Ancestry, which converts the existing races into a pseudo-point buy system where you can select from a list of individual racial abilities to give your PC. M.T. Black is also pretty widely regarded on the platform for releasing consistently solid adventures. 100 Monster Hunts is a pretty solid collection of mini-adventures
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KingKalamari posted:The Monster Manual Expanded series is probably one of the single most useful series of products on there. The three entries contain variants and rescaled versions of existing monsters that both allow DMs to throw individual monster types at a wider level range and make combat encounters more interesting by including new variants of existing monsters with new tactical options.
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Bruceski posted:We've been playing this campaign with a rules variant and I'm curious people's thoughts on it. Instead of a flat proficiency bonus you roll a die of value twice the flat number (so a d4 for starting +2, a d6 instead of +3 at 5th level, and so on). Numerically it's a slight bonus of half a point, in play it's... well in theory it adds more randomness and tries to blunt the edge of "I can calculate the odds so easily that I feel robbed when I'm unlucky on a "sure thing"". In practice I'm not sure. I haven't noticed anything *bad* from it, but I haven't noticed anything good either, it just feels like a non-factor. Always struck me as weird how swingy skill checks are even when you have proficiency with d20s. Like, a DC 10 is supposed to be "easy", but a level 1-4 character with 14 in a stat and relevant proficiency is only A. 20 percent more likely to succeed than an average untrained person and B. 25% likely to fail in any case (because a roll of 1-5 is a failure when youre adding +4). So, a person with training and with significant natural ability can't be expected to reliably succeed at an easy task. From what I understand you are trying to blunt the disappointment of failure by making the bonus from being trained less predictable and therefore lower peoples expectations, but to me, it retains the core problem that a trained and talented person is not reliably competent Mr. Lobe fucked around with this message at 22:58 on Nov 30, 2021 |
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Mr. Lobe posted:Always struck me as weird how swingy skill checks are even when you have proficiency with d20s. Like, a DC 10 is supposed to be "easy", but a level 1-4 character with 14 in a stat and relevant proficiency is only A. 20 percent more likely to succeed than an average untrained person and B. 25% likely to fail in any case (because a roll of 1-5 is a failure when youre adding +4). So, a person with training and with significant natural ability can't be expected to reliably succeed at an easy task. IMO that's why you don't even bother having people that are proficient/skilled in something roll the check in the first place. let them have it for free
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Glans Dillzig posted:IMO that's why you don't even bother having people that are proficient/skilled in something roll the check in the first place. let them have it for free The whole point of numbers and dice is to avoid forcing the GM to make judgement calls like this; saying “just don’t make them roll if the results would probably be ridiculous” seems tempting, but then you’re just making the GM adjudicate every roll for “ridiculousness.” It’s like fixing a car by telling the owner to just walk to work instead.
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