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Love that there's flumph popes and a strong tradition of religion among them because it sets up an amazing story opportunity with these guys:  Ixitxachitl, which are also highly religious, generally either following their own species god or just Demogorgon. Party finds a religious war happening between flying jellyfish and flying stingray vampires. How will they get involved? Do they really even want to?
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theironjef posted:Party finds a religious war happening between flying jellyfish and flying stingray vampires. How will they get involved? Do they really even want to? I’m in! Text me when it’s my turn in combat.
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theironjef posted:Love that there's flumph popes and a strong tradition of religion among them because it sets up an amazing story opportunity with these guys: Three way holy war between Flumphs, the stingray guys (gently caress spelling that), and Kuo-Toa adherents of that sexy crayfish goddess whose name is also hard to spell
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It's like blipboopdebloop or something. Kuo-Toa language is actually really simple to use when DMing, it's just random sounds that are easy to make.
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i tried imitating fake languages for a while but it always ended up feeling weirdly racist so now i just say stuff like “they say something in a language you dont understand, they sound angry and there’s a lilt indicating they might have asked a question”
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:It's like blipboopdebloop or something. C’mon, it’s Blibdoolpoolp, just like it sounds. (No, I didn’t look it up.)
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theironjef posted:Party finds a religious war happening between flying jellyfish and flying stingray vampires. How will they get involved? Do they really even want to?
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scary ghost dog posted:i tried imitating fake languages for a while but it always ended up feeling weirdly racist so now i just say stuff like “they say something in a language you dont understand, they sound angry and there’s a lilt indicating they might have asked a question” British accent for groups of evil non-common using groups so the party doesn't feel too bad about wiping them out. Outrail fucked around with this message at 02:44 on Apr 6, 2024 |
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so my longtime dnd group has hit a brick wall after our online ttrpg map tracker thingy of choice, standardaction has been down for over a month with no sign of life. we briefly tried to juryrig something with foundry but that was... a mess. dm hated the UI and we couldn't even get the whole online connection / server thing working, the dm had to stream their screen over discord does anyone have some suggestions for replacements i might be able to float to the group? preferably something that isn't going to cost an arm and a leg since we're all dirt poor. we used to just do pure theatre of the mind years ago but it's hard to go back to that after having gotten used to actually being able to track things like range, distance, and the size of aoe spells :v
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Apr 6, 2024 16:07
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Roll20 was always my 5e virtual tabletop of choice, though it may not have all the features you’re looking for. It’s fairly free and straightforward to use, and offers a lot of support for D&D.
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Apr 6, 2024 16:12
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We like Owlbear Rodeo for our games. Free tier has lots of features.
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If you use DnDBeyond there are extensions that let it work with Roll20 (we use Beyond20), which can be less frustrating than dealing with the standard Roll20 interface. I was fine going into the weeds of Roll20 macros and building a bunch of custom buttons, but I doubt the average player will bother with that kind of thing.
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Foundry is worth figuring out, the dnd 5e quality of life is insanely good. Importing and syncing with DDB, adventure munchers/imports, ready-to-go battlemap imports.
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Whats the consensus, if there is any, on the whole shadow blade/booming blade combo given the updated rules for booming blade stipulating that the melee weapon used must have a price of at least 1 sp.
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Apr 6, 2024 20:17
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All warlock contacts with their patron include a 2 SP processing fee.
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Telsa Cola posted:Whats the consensus, if there is any, on the whole shadow blade/booming blade combo given the updated rules for booming blade stipulating that the melee weapon used must have a price of at least 1 sp. Mike mearls hates fun
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You have to shout "I'd buy THAT for a dollar" whenever you swing your summoned sword around. Or just keep a silver piece in your hand when summoning it.
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Telsa Cola posted:Whats the consensus, if there is any, on the whole shadow blade/booming blade combo given the updated rules for booming blade stipulating that the melee weapon used must have a price of at least 1 sp. I think Crawford said he'd allow it if he was DMing (or something like that, anyway). The intent was to stop you from using a focus instead of a weapon, not from stopping you from using a shadow blade/pact of the blade summoned blade/whatever. e: and stopping you from using a component pouch, though that one is hilarious.
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Wait, what? Using a component pouch for Booming Blade?
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:Mike mearls hates fun didn't he get fired last December? Jimbone Tallshanks posted:Wait, what? Using a component pouch for Booming Blade? Component pouches are supposed to contain any listed spell components for your spells that don't have a gold value GFB/BB list melee weapons as components, and previously did not have a minimum value accordingly, your component pouch contains infinite weapons of your choice so you didn't need one to use the blade cantrips Dallan Invictus fucked around with this message at 23:17 on Apr 6, 2024 |
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thanks for the suggestions posting friendsDeteriorata posted:We like Owlbear Rodeo for our games. Free tier has lots of features. i recc'd this to our dm, seems cool and about in our lane for what we need, thank you!
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Dallan Invictus posted:Component pouches are supposed to contain any listed spell components for your spells that don't have a gold value I'm pretty sure that was already covered with "you must make a melee attack with a weapon"
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Beast Pussy posted:All warlock contacts with their patron include a 2 SP processing fee. That reminds me of the time in Dimension 20's Fantasy High: Sophomore Year where there was an Fiendish Warlock Patron who didn't own the patron's soul or anything, but just charged them gold for spells.
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Jimbone Tallshanks posted:I'm pretty sure that was already covered with "you must make a melee attack with a weapon" How so? You draw a melee weapon out of your component pouch, cast booming (or green-flame) blade, and make a melee weapon attack with the melee weapon as a part of the effect of the cantrip.
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Staltran posted:How so? You draw a melee weapon out of your component pouch, cast booming (or green-flame) blade, and make a melee weapon attack with the melee weapon as a part of the effect of the cantrip. You draw the needed material component out of your pouch, cast booming blade, don’t have a melee weapon to make the attack, and the spell fails.
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I also don't see how the intent was to stop you from using a focus. The focus stands in for the component of the spell, but the description still requires a weapon.
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shadow blade is just too cool to let someone sully it with booming blade, a boring-rear end artificer weapon buff. i would only allow it begrudgingly
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Kaal posted:You draw the needed material component out of your pouch, cast booming blade, don’t have a melee weapon to make the attack, and the spell fails. the material component is the weapon. it's a stupid and obtuse idea but I don't think you can defeat it by being more obtuse. Valentin fucked around with this message at 00:31 on Apr 7, 2024 |
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Do improvised weapons count? Wear a ring worth 1sp and you've got a booming punch. Are your boots worth 1sp? Booming crotch punt.
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Valentin posted:the material component is the weapon. it's a stupid and obtuse idea but I don't think you can defeat it by being more obtuse. The component pouch can create the materials needed for the spell, but not for actually making the attack. It’s the same issue as using a component pouch to make a ranged attack with your bow - ammunition is a spell component but the bow can’t draw from it.
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so a melee weapon created from the component pouch is not a melee weapon? Is there a basis for that in the RAW?
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Valentin posted:so a melee weapon created from the component pouch is not a melee weapon? Is there a basis for that in the RAW? the component pouch doesnt “create” anything - its the implied stuff you picked up to cast spells with later instead of making you actually pay attention to what spells cost. you can choose to pay attention to spell components instead if youre obsessed with RAW
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Component pouches don't make the components.
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scary ghost dog posted:the component pouch doesnt “create” anything - its the implied stuff you picked up to cast spells with later instead of making you actually pay attention to what spells cost. you can choose to pay attention to spell components instead if youre obsessed with RAW quote:A component pouch is a small, watertight leather belt pouch that has compartments to hold all the material components and other special items you need to cast your spells, except for those components that have a specific cost (as indicated in a spell's description). I struggle to find a way to read this to suggest anything other than that a component pouch contains all components except those that have a specified cost. The fact that melee weapons were listed as a component with no cost implied they were held in a pouch until they were cast. That's why this got errata'd. What am I missing? e: like what seems to be suggested by the replies I'm getting is that a component pouch contains not e.g. bat guano but the vague gameplay essence of bat guano needed to cast a spell. But that is simply not what is said. The pouch is not a material focus replacing the need for components, it literally and explicitly contains all non-costed components. That's stupid, and adding a cost to the weapon in BB/GFB to make the component pouch not a melee weapon container is stupid, but it seems pretty straightforwardly true by what's written. Valentin fucked around with this message at 01:34 on Apr 7, 2024 |
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Outrail posted:Do improvised weapons count? Probably. it's very clearly a kludgy rule change just intended to stop people from doing a thing that was too cool (shadow +boom). Whic is dumb because it's just a few extra dice end of the day; let people have cool stuff.
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Valentin posted:I struggle to find a way to read this to suggest anything other than that a component pouch contains all components except those that have a specified cost. The fact that melee weapons were listed as a component with no cost implied they were held in a pouch until they were cast. That's why this got errata'd. What am I missing? yes, your component pouch quite literally contains the set of all sets that dont include themselves
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Valentin posted:I struggle to find a way to read this to suggest anything other than that a component pouch contains all components except those that have a specified cost. The fact that melee weapons were listed as a component with no cost implied they were held in a pouch until they were cast. That's why this got errata'd. What am I missing? PHB posted:Casting some spells requires particular objects, specified in parentheses in the component entry. A character can use a component pouch or a spellcasting focus (found in “Equipment”) in place of the components specified for a spell. But if a cost is indicated for a component, a character must have that specific component before he or she can cast the spell. Mechanically the specifics of the 5e PHB rules are that the component pouch is no different from a spell-casting focus. It exists to offer an alternative form than a wand or a staff. For the most part it works really well to differentiate characters without actually changing things, though obviously in some cases it can cause misunderstandings. Updating the spells to clarify that melee weapons, ammunition, and similar situations have value is a reasonable solution.
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Valentin posted:I struggle to find a way to read this to suggest anything other than that a component pouch contains all components except those that have a specified cost. The fact that melee weapons were listed as a component with no cost implied they were held in a pouch until they were cast. That's why this got errata'd. What am I missing? Okay, sure. You can pull a weapon out of your component pouch. What weapon is it? How much damage does this weapon do? How does it fit in the pouch? Can't be any of the weapons on the weapons table, because those have a cost.
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How does it fit in the pouch? It fits very well thank you
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Sorry, the weapon is the pouch itself.
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