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Azathoth posted:"The poison arrow trap releasing a puff of lavender and chamomile with the propellant was a nice touch, as was disguising the pit trap with an expensive illuskan-weave rug." OK, the idea has been iterated on - the players join the Happy Dungeon Academy and are tasked with breaking into dungeons and testing and grading them for the mysterious Lyle. They also all get issued red blazers they have to wear while on the job.
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Mr. Lobe posted:How's the bait going to work if taking the bait reveals the trap before its triggered? Any adventurers worth their salt would be rolling it up and stuffing it in their bag of holding, not walking on it Trying to pull or lift the rug triggers a second, even deadlier trap.
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May 6, 2023 18:21
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Hmmm. By what criteria do the players achieve success? How would they progress? We need a gameplay loop.
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May 6, 2023 18:21
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Can I find family background or extended background apps or kits for D&D somewhere? I come from Runequest and really like the extended way you roll family history and members.
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May 6, 2023 18:39
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Tias posted:Can I find family background or extended background apps or kits for D&D somewhere? I come from Runequest and really like the extended way you roll family history and members. That’s in a section called “This Is Your Life” in Xanathar’s Guide to Everything.
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May 6, 2023 20:28
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Oh cool! Thanks.
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May 7, 2023 08:55
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Recently ran Wild Sheep Chase for a group of complete beginners; they enjoyed it and now they want another one-shot. Any recommendations of one-shots I could use?
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May 10, 2023 03:31
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Skyhorn Lighthouse is consistently rated pretty high. It's also free!
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May 10, 2023 05:21
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Trivia posted:Skyhorn Lighthouse is consistently rated pretty high. It's also free! Seconded on this, I ran it a while back and it was a lot of fun, particularly for me, as it was my first time DMing.
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May 10, 2023 20:56
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I'm thinking of making inspiration more powerful, so you can use it to change any die roll to a 20. Would this break the game?
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May 11, 2023 04:32
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That's not game breaking but you need to be more judicious about handing out inspiration. Alternately, tell your players they can use inspiration to impart advantage or disadvantage on any d20 roll OR, if they wish, they can take a non-critical roll of 20 but the DM then gains one charge of imposing a non-critical roll of 1 at any time the DM chooses.
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May 11, 2023 04:39
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Destiny tokens are a good mechanic lol.
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May 11, 2023 06:52
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Dungeon Meister posted:I'm thinking of making inspiration more powerful, so you can use it to change any die roll to a 20. Would this break the game? It's the continuation of 1e's "gently caress the players" mentality that brought us Ear Seekers, I suppose.
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May 11, 2023 09:13
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If you’re gonna make such a powerful token, give like 3 of them to each player and tell them “these will never come back, so use them wisely”. Then give out 1 extra at the end of a long campaign, after doing something insanely epic.
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May 11, 2023 12:29
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Personally I wouldn't give out an auto-20 inspiration. Not so much for "balance" reasons as because I feel it would short circuit a lot of the game's tension and make me less likely to give out inspiration. Advantage is plenty powerful. I don't want my PC's automatically succeeding any more than I want them automatically failing.
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May 11, 2023 12:40
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An idea pops into my head without the rule books to check, but how many of the 'you can reroll a d20' features can be applied to divination wizards, specifically their weird banked roll thing?
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May 11, 2023 14:37
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Divination Wizards get three pre-rolled d20s every day at level 20. It's not game breaking. Bountiful Luck feat is a much stronger ability.
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May 11, 2023 15:23
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Bobby Deluxe posted:An idea pops into my head without the rule books to check, but how many of the 'you can reroll a d20' features can be applied to divination wizards, specifically their weird banked roll thing? I don't think any of them can? The portent rolls aren't ability checks, saving throws, or attack rolls. I don't think any ability lets you reroll plain d20 rolls.
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May 11, 2023 15:24
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No I mean could you reroll the prerolls, and if so how many abilities would let you do that?
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May 11, 2023 15:24
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Bobby Deluxe posted:No I mean could you reroll the prerolls, and if so how many abilities would let you do that? That's what I meant, I don't think anything lets you reroll the prerolls. "When you finish a long rest, roll two d20s and record the numbers rolled", and e.g. Lucky says "Whenever you make an attack roll, an ability check, or a saving throw, you can spend one luck point to roll an additional d20". IIRC other reroll abilities use similar phrasing too, only applying to (some subset of) attack rolls, ability checks, and saving throws. And the portent prerolls aren't any of those. Zurreco posted:Divination Wizards get three pre-rolled d20s every day at level 20. It's not game breaking. Bountiful Luck feat is a much stronger ability. You mean Lucky, the one that gives you 3 rerolls a day? Bountiful luck is the halfling feat that lets you use your reaction to reroll a nat 1 rolled by an ally within 30 feet. It's nice of course but I wouldn't call it stronger than portent or lucky.
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Staltran posted:You mean Lucky, the one that gives you 3 rerolls a day? Bountiful luck is the halfling feat that lets you use your reaction to reroll a nat 1 rolled by an ally within 30 feet. It's nice of course but I wouldn't call it stronger than portent or lucky. I think an unlimited amount of redos on nat 1s for the whole party l is way more powerful than 3 rerolls a day for one PC. Whenever I play a Halfling Bountiful Luck is a slam pick at 4.
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May 11, 2023 16:42
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How many parties are rolling around at level 20?
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May 11, 2023 17:07
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I would guess that after the level 12 lull there's a spike at 20 for groups who want to play with all the toys.
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May 11, 2023 19:39
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The highest level I GM for was 17. They started from level 1, so it was quite a journey
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May 11, 2023 19:58
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My party is at 13, I'll probably end the campaign around 15 and do a time jump for a higher-level epilogue at 17. Running a level 20 game seems like a nightmare
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May 11, 2023 20:01
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My last game had us end it at lv 16. Even with 4 martial characters our DM had a hard time throwing anything at us and us not taking it out pretty handily. I don't think he was feeling like throwing more things at us given that we already had 2 fighters resolving 6 attacks on the 1st round and generally 2 or 3 attacks from us the rest of the time
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May 11, 2023 20:04
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Their last fight was a giant assault to an evil God temple. It was actually one of the first places they visited years before, when they were low level and it was completely abandoned. A bunch of powerful demons and undeads guarding the place, a lot of crazy high level spells flying around, a lot of anime monk poo poo and paladin super powerful Jedi knight smites... It was fun.
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May 11, 2023 20:08
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change my name posted:Running a level 20 game seems like a nightmare I've had a blast every time I've run a campaign up to 20. The question stops being, "will the party overcome this challenge?" and becomes "by what ridiculous means will the party overcome this challenge?"
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May 11, 2023 20:19
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You can be a lot more recklessly self destructive at higher levels. I fondly remember a fighter in our campaign piledriving a beholder he was grappling into a fall at terminal velocity when it was injured enough for it to kill him and merely incapacitate the fighter
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May 11, 2023 20:26
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Divination wizards are awesome because it doesn’t matter what the d20 portent roll ends up being. You can use high rolls to guarantee hits and low rolls to guarantee failed saves. I’ve occasionally given a portent-like effect as a bonus to represent a vague glimpse of the future that isn’t clear until it happens. One player rolled a 20 at 2nd level at a shrine of Savras and saved the use of it for a killing blow against a dragon at 10th level. The party loved the critical hit and I loved the symbolism of an adventurer making sense of a personal prophecy. Players sure do hate to use one-time magic!
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May 11, 2023 21:02
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The Divination Wizard in my group likes to use portents to speed up boring social encounters. It's win win.
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Zurreco posted:The Divination Wizard in my group likes to use portents to speed up boring social encounters. It's win win. I'm picturing them doing the Joseph Joestar "Next you'll say (blank)  " "Yeah, well (blank)! Uuggghuaaa!?  " thing.
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alright, the post you've all been waiting for. I watched the D&D movie, took notes on everything that stuck out to me, for wrong or good, and checked them afterwards (using 5e sources as much as possible) for accuracy. In total there were 30 bad lore things and 4 good deep cut lore things. spoilers are for D&D: honor among thieves of course -why are there horses in icewind dale -lore check: "grand larceny and skullduggery" does that fit the waterdeep code of justice (no, per waterdeep: dragon heist) -"the harpers faction" -you don't need to say "thayan red wizards" the red wizards are of thay, period -"no cleric can repair the damage from a red wizard's blade" what -that is way too modern a pane of glass -lore check: "korinn's keep" the harper stronghold (korin archipelago, yes, but new for movie) -time stop doesn't work that way it should be a stasis field -map projection on the title was a little bit off -what the gently caress, enchanted paper advertising??? -why is there an open volcano in the middle of the North (probably supposed to be Mount Never, but it definitely doesn't look like that) -"high sun games" aka NOON GAMES -why does everything have fuckin gothic arches -there's no such thing as a "professor" in the forgotten realms -a person on faerun wouldn't be talking about being a god like that -lore check: "ghelryn foehammer" & darksteel (character is from SKT) -they're heading east from neverwinter along a plain IMPOSSIBLE -"my five year old can do that magic" (no, see swords of eveningstar) -coins are accurate (waterdhavian) but that's easy -why is someone herding axe beaks? -is this in teumanthaar? (no just a wood elf settlement in neverwinter wood called the emerald tavern) -"caldwell and piradost" from waterdeep and baldur's gate (characters are new, existing families) -why is it protected by a seal from mordenkainen -WHY IS CASTLE NEVER ON A GIANT MOUNTAIN HILL -why is the gate to neverwinter so fuckin EMPTY -why is the elk tribe buried in fuckin coffins -"in the Anauroch" pronounced anor-och ??? (this pronounciation is pretty all over the place so they get a pass) -AN ELK TRIBE MEMBER WOULDN'T BE READING BOOKS -lore check: "the fanged tome of lykanthus szar" (in fuckin Blackstaff, good reference although extremely out of place) -lore check: harper sanctuary at mornbryn's shield? (new for movie) -lore check: szass tam's spell to turn thay undead was called the "beckoning death" (new for movie) -why is a paladin in the harpers anyway (no idea) -lore check: entrance to dolblunde in the sword mountains/kryptgarden forest (not canon) -who is xenk a paladin of with the "no resurrection" talk (script says triadic, not in final movie) -why is dolblunde so lit up (it's likely not the real dolblunde) -"the hanging city of dolblunde" bullshit (again not the real dolblunde) -"hither-thither staff" that's a fuckin portal gun (lol) -mulan sounds like an asian language not mesopotamian/ancient egyptian -dolblunde is not under the sea of swords (again not dolblunde) -azuth hosed with the sorcerer (no that's supposed to be elminster who they race swapped i guess, the casting/movie/novelization disagree with each other so this may be simon imagining his future self as elminster but it's weird) -lore check: "aoth fezim" (yep, leader of the brotherhood of the griffon) -why are the grey hands in the high sun tournament tl;dr: everything about dolblunde is wrong to the point they maybe just took the name and put it on some random other deep gnome ruin. the geography of the North is incredibly wrong, despite it being the background to the title drop. they retconned a ton about Szass Tam turning Thay into undead.
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Arivia posted:alright, the post you've all been waiting for. I watched the D&D movie, took notes on everything that stuck out to me, for wrong or good, and checked them afterwards (using 5e sources as much as possible) for accuracy. In total there were 30 bad lore things and 4 good deep cut lore things. Paladins don't need to follow a god in 5e, just an idea, and I believe and any class can join the Harpers. also I can't believe you missed that the other arena team was the party from the 80s D&D cartoon
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Did you enjoy it though? I thought it was surprisingly entertaining.
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imagine dungeons posted:Did you enjoy it though? Yes, I thought it was a good summer action flick and would recommend it to anyone who wants to watch one, or D&D players. There's nothing to be upset at except for deep FR lore nerds like myself.
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If the D&D movie is intended to evoke the feeling of actual D&D, then not taking FR lore seriously is a necessary feature.
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The portal gun is canon, they added it in a pack of magic items to promote the film. I know that's cheating, but it does exist. I think my favourite dumb idea in the lead up was the idea of them really leaning into tabletop tropes, like every vendor is played by the same guy doing different voices, or a party member dies and the next tavern they go to they recruit a guy played by the same actor. Bobby Deluxe fucked around with this message at 00:18 on May 12, 2023 |
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Bobby Deluxe posted:The portal gun is canon, they added it in a pack of magic items to promote the film. yeah they did that with a bunch of them, i was just kinda like "that's a really bad name and also ow creatively bankrupt" (although they did some cool stuff with it later on)
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What is everyone here doing for music and ambience during sessions? I usually have a player handle it, but I'm kinda interested in trying to do it myself. My experience so far has been that random D&D playlists on the internet stink. Reasons include tracks being dissonant from the alleged playlist theme, inconsistent volume, random pop or non-instrumental songs, and use of the Skyrim OST.
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