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Anyone who doesn't shake down Sildar for more money when he tries to get you to do unpaid overtime is a sucker and a class enemy.
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Nehru the Damaja posted:Anyone who doesn't shake down Sildar for more money when he tries to get you to do unpaid overtime is a sucker and a class enemy. Also true
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Conspiratiorist posted:PHB Ranger is bad except for Gloom Stalker. Revised Ranger Gloom Stalker is actually really good. Good, it shouldn't be. Combat pets are a horrible idea both in universe as well as due to action economy
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mastershakeman posted:Good, it shouldn't be. Combat pets are a horrible idea both in universe as well as due to action economy It’s almost like requiring the ranger to use their action to have only their pet attack until they got the Extra Attack feature was purpose-built for this situation.
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Sep 14, 2018 19:03
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That said my CoS character activated the Shield Guardian and now he's my new best friend (after the rest of the party went evil power tripping on dark gifts).
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Last night in my Out of the Abyss campaign I whiffed a pile of charisma saves after touching the angel offering something in the gallery of angels and almost killed my party before they were able to hit me enough for me to make my save. Then we found the Orderer and now my wizard has 24 int, so that was a hell of a session.
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Elysiume posted:Last night in my Out of the Abyss campaign I whiffed a pile of charisma saves after touching the angel offering something in the gallery of angels and almost killed my party before they were able to hit me enough for me to make my save. Then we found the Orderer and now my wizard has 24 int, so that was a hell of a session. now just get a staff of power and a wand of the war mage, picking up warcaster along the way somewhere. never miss or have something without legendary resistance beat your DC again!
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Conspiratiorist posted:PHB Ranger is bad except for Gloom Stalker. Revised Ranger Gloom Stalker is actually really good. Hm this player has not played before but from our character creation session it seems like she will be much more interested in the role playing aspects than combat strategy and mechanics, so I'm not really concerned if she is slightly underpowered. OTOH if RR is super overpowered that might be bad since some of my other players are definitely excited about wrecking poo poo with their spells and might be miffed if a new player joins and immediately outshines them (they are all first time players too, we have 5 sessions under our belt, currently level 4). Is power level the main reason you suggest not having a new player play as a BM ranger? At this point I'm stuck with it because I'm not going to have her first D&D experience be rolling a character and then immediately be told to roll a different character, but wondering what other problems I could anticipate. The party is currently following up on some leads in town (that will probably include combat) so I was thinking when they meet up with her this session I could have her have left her Panther outside the town gates since, y'know, it's a panther. That way first session she can focus on her own character's actions.
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Revised pet ranger isn't going to break anything unless you're trying to. A player who just wants an animal friend will be fine
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Eggnogium posted:Hm this player has not played before but from our character creation session it seems like she will be much more interested in the role playing aspects than combat strategy and mechanics, so I'm not really concerned if she is slightly underpowered. OTOH if RR is super overpowered that might be bad since some of my other players are definitely excited about wrecking poo poo with their spells and might be miffed if a new player joins and immediately outshines them (they are all first time players too, we have 5 sessions under our belt, currently level 4). Revised Ranger isn't overpowered, but it's frontloaded in a similar way Barbarian is, and competently (not even fully optimized) built can seem overpowered when playing at low levels with players not very familiar with the system. RE power level, I posted not long after: Conspiratiorist posted:The problem isn't effectiveness, but that copying MM statblocks is strong in the lamest, most boring way possible, that also happens to be highly time-consuming unless both the player and DM have a great and agile handle on things. The problem with BM is not just that it's underpowered, but that it's fiddly and time consuming, and also you have to take one more thing into consideration: pets are weak and they loving die. I'm not sure if you want to deal with your player's panther taking two hits and just loving dying the first time you go into combat, because that's very likely to happen and will only get worse as you level up and raise encounter difficulty. Addendum: they can play a no fuzz Hunter Ranger and you can just give them an animal as an ally, no need to handle special archetype mechanics or anything, and they can gently caress off during combat so they don't die. Conspiratiorist fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Sep 14, 2018 |
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Mendrian posted:Okay I warned you. This seems fine, perhaps even thematic. Only question is do you have to take damage to your real hit points, or would taking damage to your temporary hit points trigger the gaining Cha modifier temp hp? For comparison the Immortal Mystic, from the Mystic UA v3, gets Int modifier temp hp at the start of each of their turns. quote:Armor of Blood Interesting, on the one hand a +2 bonus to AC is pretty good, on the other hand Warlock AC is generally kind of bad so they could use the help. quote:My Blood Speaks Bad. Bad. Bad. In the hands of a Wizard being able to change the damage type of their spells frequently might be overpowered. But converting damage to Poison, or to a lesser degree Necrotic, is hardly gamebreaking. This should be available much more frequently, personally I would make it at will. If you really want to reign it in then have it require spending a bonus action before casting your spell. quote:Blood Grasp Now this might be a bit much for at will. If you are going to restrict anything to 1/Rest then it would be this. Although I am not sure that even it would really need that restriction. quote:Sanguine Recall Interesting, and thematic for what you seem to be going for. quote:Master of Blood And this could get out of hand if you did take my suggestions and removed restrictions on My Blood Speaks and Blood Grasp, though if My Blood Speaks is at will and Blood Grasp is limited to once a rest, maybe slightly more frequently at higher levels, it would still be reasonable.
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Conspiratiorist posted:Revised Ranger isn't overpowered, but it's frontloaded in a similar way Barbarian is, and competently (not even fully optimized) built can seem overpowered when playing at low levels with players not very familiar with the system. Hm that makes sense, the HP values are pretty low for a melee combatant, even with the hit dice.
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Mendrian posted:Okay I warned you. On Gift of Blood. I would just make it so that you take reduced damage equal to your Cha Mod. Because that is effectively what the ability does anyway.
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Eggnogium posted:Hm this player has not played before but from our character creation session it seems like she will be much more interested in the role playing aspects than combat strategy and mechanics, so I'm not really concerned if she is slightly underpowered. OTOH if RR is super overpowered that might be bad since some of my other players are definitely excited about wrecking poo poo with their spells and might be miffed if a new player joins and immediately outshines them (they are all first time players too, we have 5 sessions under our belt, currently level 4). She's new and probably won't care that much that she can't go crazy with the beast. Just make sure she knows that it's not a tank and is there to support her attacking, not BE the character she's playing. You wouldn't send your beloved dog into a fight just to bite some people and get kicked to death and you wouldn't send your animal companion into the middle of a melee without support. Half the fun of RPGs is being someone different doing things you can't do. Even if your panther isn't great at fighting you're still prowling around with a panther and that's fun. Mendrian posted:That was the intent, yes. Too much? I foresee thunderclapping or shattering a group of enemies and poisoning all of them, then ducking out and just blasting them with bonus damage and poisoned disadvantage while the rest of the party just wrecks. I suppose if Blood Speaks is limited to a rest then it won't be spammed constantly. I don't really know if that's OP. You might want to consider that instead of limiting to 1/rest or day Blood Grasp can only affect one creature at a time? Highly effective for the most dangerous of the group but you won't be casting a mass poison/dmg/no healing aoe spell as many times as you can. First thing that popped into my head but I could be totally off and it's not going to be op.
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Yeah it's loving insane how powerful "Poisoned" status is in 5th ed. Which is why you see a million things that deal poison damage, and hardly anything that inflicts poisoned status accessibly to the players. Like, Ray of sickness causes poisoned until the end of your next turn. And then... I don't think any other spells let you inflict poisoned in the PHB at least? But you never know with supplements. Section Z fucked around with this message at 23:45 on Sep 14, 2018 |
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I'm gonna be in a one-shot that's probably an altered White Plume Mountain. I can make a level eight guy with any mundane gear and two non legendary magic items. I'm not looking for the strongest thing possible but what could I do that really makes things fun and interesting? Especially re the items?
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Nehru the Damaja posted:I'm gonna be in a one-shot that's probably an altered White Plume Mountain. I can make a level eight guy with any mundane gear and two non legendary magic items. I'm not looking for the strongest thing possible but what could I do that really makes things fun and interesting? Especially re the items? OK well you want a Paladin so you can pass the cancer saves, and because it gives you spellcasting which is FUN. Let's add more FUN to that: take a Staff of Power, which gives you better AC and better anti-cancer saves and MORE SPELLS. Also you can add smites to your smites. "But wait, how does a Paladin use a Staff of Power? That's an arcane caster item." So you take a level in Warlock. Hexblade Warlock, to be precise. Now you have Shield, and can use your CHARISMA as your weapon attribute. Go around rocking full plate, a shield, wacking things over the head with your magic stick. Add Polearm Master and you get more attacks with your stick, add War Caster and you can cast while your hands are busy (required for Shield). Other non-legendary item? Dunno Winged Boots are cool: fly everywhere. Or grab a Belt of Fire Giant Strength so you're rocking 25 STR.
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Where do I start if I want to make an OP hexblade?
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Eggnogium posted:Hm this player has not played before but from our character creation session it seems like she will be much more interested in the role playing aspects than combat strategy and mechanics, so I'm not really concerned if she is slightly underpowered. OTOH if RR is super overpowered that might be bad since some of my other players are definitely excited about wrecking poo poo with their spells and might be miffed if a new player joins and immediately outshines them (they are all first time players too, we have 5 sessions under our belt, currently level 4). The more the beast can be used for RP and fluff the happier they will be, that's why they chose BM in the first place. That's what I found with our BM who is also disappointed with the mechanics of the class. When combat starts get the beast the hell out of the way unless there is some awesome moment they can help in a unique way. (help action offer advantage for some killer blow can make for a cinematic moment kind of thing) Mechanically I allowed our BM to choose a Hunter ability as well as the Beast just to help life not suck. Then I found this homebrew ranger which I liked and offered it to the BM. It offers choice and customisation (superior to UA & PHB) between playing a non casting scout / rogue type ranger or instead a spellcasting ranger, more like a druid. With a bunch of other variants besides. The main improvement I felt was the ability to choose spells each day allowed the ranger to actually use the more interesting spells for a BM. The balancing is pretty good I think. Although, the XGE Gloom Stalker is still mechanically superior to the Deep Stalker on offer in this homebrew. Anyway, this may not be your thing so back to BM... ...Mainly the Beast is there as a cool roleplaying aspect of the class and needs a fair bit of DM investment to make work for the character. Mechanically it's terrible unless you can be creative enough. So it's reasonable to offer some mechanical compensation that doesn't overcompensate. Good luck 
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My players think taking prisoners is the cheat code to getting all the information they want. They've given me a very teachable moment that intelligence from torture is useless and they aren't Jack Bauer. I've had their last prisoner tell them the exact opposite of the truth, and that the password is "alu vith dosstan" (undercommon for "go gently caress yourself" - none of them speak that - who said languages were a bad mechanic?). When/if they try to use it on the skeletons, I'm going to describe how, somehow, this fleshless ghoul looks highly loving offended.
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Novum posted:Where do I start if I want to make an OP hexblade? Two levels of Hexblade and the rest in Sorcerer (start Sorcerer then dip later, so you get CON save prof).
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Conspiratiorist posted:Two levels of Hexblade and the rest in Sorcerer (start Sorcerer then dip later, so you get CON save prof). Yup, divine soul gets you some awesome stuff by being able to twin cleric spells or shadow sorc gives good mobility and ways to get advantage. Be some kind of elf for super advantage from elven accuracy. There are some arguments for going warlock 3 for pact boons but they aren’t necessary. If you want to play an OP melee hexblade then you’re SOL because it’ll never be OP.
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A few of my friends are starting a DnD podcast and they're running a kickstarter for it. Is that something I could post to this thread, or would that be in poor taste?
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A kickstarter seems like a weird choice instead of patreon but go ahead
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What's the historical batting average for "brand new podcast kickstarter"? I'm betting it's not great. Is this a podcast they've already been doing for a while and they want to kick it up a notch? Or literally "We need to do a kickstarter to even get started doing this"? Because podcasts are just like blogs used to be. Regular updates for three months, then increasingly infrequent as they realize no one gives a poo poo... then six months of nothing, followed by the "sorry I've been absent guys, but I'm going to start posting regularly again" post, then nothing till the heat death of the universe. I would never kickstart a podcast unless it was a good one that had been posting regularly for years. Imagined fucked around with this message at 03:30 on Sep 15, 2018 |
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Kaysette posted:Yup, divine soul gets you some awesome stuff by being able to twin cleric spells or shadow sorc gives good mobility and ways to get advantage. Be some kind of elf for super advantage from elven accuracy. There are some arguments for going warlock 3 for pact boons but they aren’t necessary. If you want to play an OP melee hexblade then you’re SOL because it’ll never be OP. Dragon Sorc (fire) to 6, 1 level of Hexblade, attack with Green-Flame Blade for 2d8+CHA*2 plus splash 1d8+CHA, with medium armor + shield AC + Shield. First level in Sorcerer for Constitution save proficiency, Variant Human for War Caster (so you can cast Shield while Sword & Boarding). 10 14 16 8 8 16 attributes, ASIs go into maxing CHA. It's a good gish, very fun. EB doesnt get absurd till CL 11 so you can put off the 2nd Hexblade level till Sorc 9, and use Fire Bolt+CHA as your standard ranged option. If you want to go straight Hexblade there's ways to make it work, but it's not very strong.
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I feel like a podcast can get away with using crappy headsets and paying the audio editor by buying them free drinks the next time you go out to a bar
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Wrestlepig posted:A kickstarter seems like a weird choice instead of patreon but go ahead I know, right? Anyway, I'm not responsible for any of this but a couple of the people that play in the game I run are playing also in this game so I thought i'd make a token effort to signal boost. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/adreamofaztera/a-dream-of-aztera
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Ignite Memories posted:I know, right? Wait, this is tagged as Coolidge Corner in Brookline?!? I live there and play D&D at Knight Moves every week. Didn't realize y'all were so close. That character art is pretty sweet.
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Yeah several of the ppl involved work there and they record up in the offices I myself am located in brighton somewhere. How's the knight moves dnd game? Ignite Memories fucked around with this message at 04:08 on Sep 15, 2018 |
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Imagined posted:What's the historical batting average for "brand new podcast kickstarter"? I'm betting it's not great. The only one I know of is the Comedy Button which has kept on going for over half a decade at this point.
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Oh we have a new survey. https://www.surveygizmo.com/s3/4495590/ddsurvey?src=ddweb
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MonsterEnvy posted:Oh we have a new survey. Cripes am I doing a survey here or a personality test for a retail job
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The best part is all the variations of "click here if you're that lone wolf dickhead who plays the same poo poo every time and kills npcs mid-conversation because you're bored." Friend: "Oh god what if that gets a lot of representation and they start marketing D&D for Assholes." "That's just Adventurer's League isn't it?"
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"It's what my character would do."
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So okay, I'm dead set on the hobgoblin who didn't realize "Modern Major General" was a joke. The question is: How do I preserve the typical hobgoblin culture that's actually quite good at military things, while also putting on airs about being a pompous idiot, because that's what the hobgoblin believes the "civilized" races do? Basically, I'm asking how to pretend to be incompetent when you're actually competent.
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edit: got it solved.
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inthesto posted:So okay, I'm dead set on the hobgoblin who didn't realize "Modern Major General" was a joke. Zap Brannigan Edit: or maybe Gaston from Beauty and the Beast. Dameius fucked around with this message at 14:26 on Sep 15, 2018 |
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poorlifedecision posted:She's new and probably won't care that much that she can't go crazy with the beast. Just make sure she knows that it's not a tank and is there to support her attacking, not BE the character she's playing. You wouldn't send your beloved dog into a fight just to bite some people and get kicked to death and you wouldn't send your animal companion into the middle of a melee without support. Also if they die it just takes 8 hours and 25GP to resurrect them. You don't even need any bits of them.
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