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Fishbus posted:I like it, it's an interesting enough wrinkle that leads to a distinct fork in outcomes, I may even throw in a red herring too for good measure. Yeah, maybe a creepy old graveyard keeper as the red herring, if you want to indulge a little in cliche. Shades of Scooby-Doo.
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Literally call him Old Man Withers
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Trivia posted:Necromancer is raising the dead to use as free labor at the behest of the town council. I would be more keen to this if I was continuing the story, but I want to tie everything up in a neat bow by the end, it's a yearly(or longer) occurrence. I'm going along the lines of a young noble learning magic/necromancy to frame a handful diaspora of lizard folk displaced via a similar threat from years back. The figurehead Beth, she's an essential and beloved part of the community who runs a very traditional apothecary and basically the necromancer is just a bigot looking to oust them. Old man withers will also be there... as collateral. Fishbus fucked around with this message at 22:19 on Feb 18, 2022 |
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With the new Crit Role campaign finally having a name for their group, what are the best or funniest names you've had for your party? I'm playing Rime of the Frostmaiden as a goblin warlock named Junior and ended up with the owlbear whisperer secret, subsequently getting me a snowy owlbear cub companion / mount. After some in-character discussions we decided to name him JJ - Junior Junior  After spending most sessions being well meaning bumblefucks more than murder-hobos we accidentally (Ranger had some amazingly bad rolls on animal handling and perception) let JJ loose unsupervised in Easthaven and he absolutely decimated an outhouse while we were talking to the town speaker. After calming down an angry elderly man and his son and leaving town again the name came to us: Bear With Us (We Can Explain Everything).
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There was a psychotic AI in one of my previous campaigns that took over an Imperium Planeship and the crew forced it to crash in Carceri rather than let it escape. It was like SHODAN from system shock, but my players called her Nurse Joy because the first time they encountered her she was pretending to be a nurse android. They made friends with her and actually worked together to escape the plane. "Nurse Joy" went back to her plans to conquor the multiverse and ascend to techno godhood after the party let her go Anyway for my current campaign the characters were raiding an abandoned SCP facility and find a mysterious CD Rom that contains an anomalous teaching AI that calls herself Miss J  A few of my players got the reference and a few of them are happily letting Miss J teach them various lessons https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hn96E-KioKU
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Our 4E Dark Sun party was called, of course, the X-Slaves.
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PeterWeller posted:Our 4E Dark Sun party was called, of course, the X-Slaves. When I ran Dark Sun as soon as the party escaped slavery they stole a sand crawler and enslaved a bunch of people to live in the wheels 
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Rutibex posted:When I ran Dark Sun as soon as the party escaped slavery they stole a sand crawler and enslaved a bunch of people to live in the wheels We do what we know.
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Our party is a trio of licensed City Adventurers, and as part of our charter we're supposed to come up with a name. Avoiding doing this has become a running gag at this point.
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 That's smart, can't be sued if you don't have a name
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The five of us are a for-profit enterprise in Exandria, and my cleric is constantly spreading the good word of Pelor. To distinguish our group from The Mighty Nein, we named ourselves Five Prophet, which is always sung to the tune of the Hot Pockets jingle.
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In an OotA party with 2 spellcasters and a sharpshooter Gloomstalker ranger, it wouldn't be too cheese to take a bear totem barbarian dip for my fighter right? Everyone else is going to be blasting out damage so I might as well become unkillable
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Rutibex posted:
Funny story, we got away with being accomplices to murdering a cop and a city council member because assisting the fulfillment of a supernatural curse by a spiritual entity (Spiritual Retribution) is an affirmative defense.
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I find that I am dragged into a 5th ed game again. What's a current go-to low key competent build for level 5 to 10 or so? There's new players so I want to leave OP tricks and flashiness to them while still retaining a baseline quiet effectiveness.
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Elector_Nerdlingen posted:I find that I am dragged into a 5th ed game again. What's a current go-to low key competent build for level 5 to 10 or so? There's new players so I want to leave OP tricks and flashiness to them while still retaining a baseline quiet effectiveness. Fighter of any particular flavor with polearm master and a glaive is 2 attacks base and the polearm master extra bonk at level 5 plus a reaction attack when something enters your melee range. And of course action surge and second wind, It's all very straightforward, you're hard to hit and bring down since you have heavy armor and while you might not hit quite as hard as some classes, you hit stuff a lot.
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^^ that plus Great Weapon Master lets you pile on some big hits, but you might feel bad about giving up 2 ASIs to feats if you're not a variant human. The best idea is play a wizard but don't take any spells that do damage (War Mage, Diviner, or Enchanter preferably). Let your comrades feel like they're doing all the "big things" while you quietly sculpt the game to set everyone else up for success. Other good options: Trickery cleric for a great battlefield controller in that level range. Forge cleric can be a really good tank. Literally any paladin, your aura comes online at level 6. Wildfire or Stars Druid seem like a lot of fun too.
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Recently got in to some D&D podcasts after not having been in the D&D world since like 1995. I enjoyed all of the completed Dimension 20 and The Adventure Zone campaigns. I figured this would be the place to ask - what other podcasts heavy on goofiness/comedy are recommended? It’s a slippery slope to be sure. I have already picked up some digital books with plans to write a campaign for my kids.
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St0rmD posted:The best idea is play a wizard but don't take any spells that do damage (War Mage, Diviner, or Enchanter preferably). Let your comrades feel like they're doing all the "big things" while you quietly sculpt the game to set everyone else up for success. A wizard who does direct damage is a failure. You will get a lot more damage out of a Haste spell on the party barbarian than you will get out of a Fireball
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Ragequit posted:Recently got in to some D&D podcasts after not having been in the D&D world since like 1995. I enjoyed all of the completed Dimension 20 and The Adventure Zone campaigns. I figured this would be the place to ask - what other podcasts heavy on goofiness/comedy are recommended? You want The Dragon Friends, to be sure. A pack of Australian comedians who don't know the rules, murderhoboing their way around, insulting each other's character voices, and trying not to make every punchline be "cum." They have live music accompaniment.
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El Fideo posted:You want The Dragon Friends, to be sure. A pack of Australian comedians who don't know the rules, murderhoboing their way around, insulting each other's character voices, and trying not to make every punchline be "cum." Hell yeah that sounds like a blast thank you
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With new ppl in the group a good support character that demonstrates clever play would be both useful and set a good example.
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Ragequit posted:Recently got in to some D&D podcasts after not having been in the D&D world since like 1995. I enjoyed all of the completed Dimension 20 and The Adventure Zone campaigns. I figured this would be the place to ask - what other podcasts heavy on goofiness/comedy are recommended? Not Another D&D Podcast
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St0rmD posted:L Think I'm gonna go with this one. Thanks everyone!
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Ragequit posted:Recently got in to some D&D podcasts after not having been in the D&D world since like 1995. I enjoyed all of the completed Dimension 20 and The Adventure Zone campaigns. I figured this would be the place to ask - what other podcasts heavy on goofiness/comedy are recommended? Dungeons and Daddies is legitimately hilarious.
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Elector_Nerdlingen posted:Think I'm gonna go with this one. Thanks everyone! Treantmonk did a good build video for this a couple years back, just keep in mind if you use it for ideas, it was pre-Tashas, so you'll want to swap in picks from the expanded spell list and definitely use Blessed Strikes over the useless poison thing.
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Azathoth posted:Fighter of any particular flavor with polearm master and a glaive is 2 attacks base and the polearm master extra bonk at level 5 plus a reaction attack when something enters your melee range. And of course action surge and second wind, It's all very straightforward, you're hard to hit and bring down since you have heavy armor and while you might not hit quite as hard as some classes, you hit stuff a lot.
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Azathoth posted:Fighter of any particular flavor with polearm master and a glaive is 2 attacks base and the polearm master extra bonk at level 5 plus a reaction attack when something enters your melee range. And of course action surge and second wind, It's all very straightforward, you're hard to hit and bring down since you have heavy armor and while you might not hit quite as hard as some classes, you hit stuff a lot. I'm planning a minotaur this out right now for my group's next campaign. Minotaur horn push to knock people back out of range.
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Ragequit posted:I figured this would be the place to ask - what other podcasts heavy on goofiness/comedy are recommended? I think Rude Tales of Magic is the best and funniest liveplay podcast. everybody involved has been doing improv together for years. DM is Branson Reese, the smooth sharks guy. he and another player are (among other things) storyboard artists, and another player is a comics writer, etc, so they all know how to do stories. the editing is tight. there are earned narrative stakes and the general mode is that people will pick the move most appropriate to the fiction, even if it seems suicidal. very anti-powergamey. also it's loving hilarious.
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St0rmD posted:The best idea is play a wizard but don't take any spells that do damage (War Mage, Diviner, or Enchanter preferably). Let your comrades feel like they're doing all the "big things" while you quietly sculpt the game to set everyone else up for success. I just started playing 5e for the first time and made an abjurer in this mold. mostly defensive/assistance spells. so far, not doing blasts has been one.
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Empty Sandwich posted:I just started playing 5e for the first time and made an abjurer in this mold. mostly defensive/assistance spells. so far, not doing blasts has been one. Playing a wizard as your first character. A true man of culture.
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St0rmD posted:Playing a wizard as your first character. A true man of culture. I made him a researcher on his first field assignment, so my rank incompetence is in character 
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So, question: my 6 players and I just started up a Witchlight campaign; one of my players is playing a barbarian and expressed the fear that she won’t have a lot of utility outside of combat. How crazy would it be to allow one use of her Rage to grant her advantage on a single Skill check in which she’s proficient?
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Gray Ghost posted:So, question: my 6 players and I just started up a Witchlight campaign; one of my players is playing a barbarian and expressed the fear that she won’t have a lot of utility outside of combat. One thing to emphasize to her is that she is part of a team - everyone isn't going to be (or supposed to be) good at everything. Kicking rear end in combat is pretty important, and is a big role to fill. It's OK to stand back and let the high charisma characters do the talking out of combat, for example. Everyone's important for different reasons. As a DM, you can throw in some encounters that will involve her in unexpected ways.
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Deteriorata posted:One thing to emphasize to her is that she is part of a team - everyone isn't going to be (or supposed to be) good at everything. Kicking rear end in combat is pretty important, and is a big role to fill. It's OK to stand back and let the high charisma characters do the talking out of combat, for example. Everyone's important for different reasons. I don't think this really holds since no class is designed to be 'bad at combat' but good elsewhere. I would suggest some magic items or some degree of plot significance or the like in order to draw them in during non-combat sequences, if they want to be part of the experience other than when monsters are attacking I 100% think that should be facilitated.
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Ash Rose posted:I don't think this really holds since no class is designed to be 'bad at combat' but good elsewhere. I would suggest some magic items or some degree of plot significance or the like in order to draw them in during non-combat sequences, if they want to be part of the experience other than when monsters are attacking I 100% think that should be facilitated. Part of the problem is that she's choosing a class that is naturally strong in combat and weak outside it. If she wants to be stronger out of combat, maybe she should choose a different class. I guess it's sort of like wanting to be a bard that excels at melee combat. If you want a strong melee fighter, a bard probably isn't the first place to start. You don't get to be good at everything. Choosing a character that's strong in one area means its going to be weak in others. Rather than trying to force a square peg into a round hole, just pick a different peg.
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I get your point, but Valor and Sword Bards are pretty loving great at melee combat. Of course, the issue there is Bards do get to be good at everything in 5E.
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Gray Ghost posted:So, question: my 6 players and I just started up a Witchlight campaign; one of my players is playing a barbarian and expressed the fear that she won’t have a lot of utility outside of combat. As far as a resource expenditure goes, I probably wouldn't utilize that trade much if I was playing a barbarian. It would pretty much mean one less (likely) full combat that I can be tanky in that day in exchange for a better chance at succeeding at a single skill roll. You could probably up the value of the trade (1 daily rage for advantage + double prof?) or give it some longevity to have it apply to multiple skill rolls (until next combat, next X skill rolls, etc.) for it to be worthwhile IMO. Otherwise yeah, you can give them out of combat value by dropping a magic item that helps them out with proficiencies or diversifies their skillset a little. Ash Rose posted:I don't think this really holds since no class is designed to be 'bad at combat' but good elsewhere. I would suggest some magic items or some degree of plot significance or the like in order to draw them in during non-combat sequences, if they want to be part of the experience other than when monsters are attacking I 100% think that should be facilitated. 
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Gray Ghost posted:So, question: my 6 players and I just started up a Witchlight campaign; one of my players is playing a barbarian and expressed the fear that she won’t have a lot of utility outside of combat. If the wizard wants to track the bear, they have to roll and use their skills. If the rogue does, same deal. But when you get characters confidently taking their spotlight time, you get good and immersive stories. If they're constantly avoiding doing things they're not good at "on paper" you end up with a much more cautious and gamey experience. That also means the rogue just pops open locks during exploration, wizards identity magic glyphs, bards make friends with the gate guards. When something is meant to be hard and failure is meaningful, make them roll, but when failure means some variety of "try again immediately," "the adventure stops until you find a solution," or "you (the players) just miss out on experiencing this detail", you're better off being permissive and saying the first idea succeeds, improv the scene out.
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Edit: ^^^This guy gets it. The optional class features in Tasha's buff Barbarians out of combat by giving them more skill proficiencies. Where that puts them in relation to other classes, I'm not sure. They're definitely still a smash and bash-centric class, but it's something at least. That said, how the out-of-combat game feels leans at least as heavily on how you roleplay your character as any mechanical features on your sheet, in my experience. PeterWeller posted:I get your point, but Valor and Sword Bards are pretty loving great at melee combat. Are they, though? St0rmD fucked around with this message at 19:48 on Feb 23, 2022 |
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