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Hollismason posted:Hey, anyone got some suggestions for tokens that would be used for visual aids for a in real life game. Seems more affordable than miniatures. Unless there's some super cheap miniatures out there. Scale and print images and use binder clips to make them into standees.
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I have a bunch of toys and other little things for D&D minis. Some bought for a specific purpose, some just collected. Dollar stores, thrift stores, flea markets, etc are all good sources. Clearance sections of toy and novelty places can also have some fun stuff, a local drugstore was selling some Yu-Go-Oh minis for almost nothing so now I have some weird bugs, a four eyed beluga whale, and a sci-fi centaur as minis. Some I attach bases to, I've found that Pringles lids are perfect large size bases and nuts come in containers with perfect huge (or maybe gargantuan, not sure ATM) bases. Sometimes you can find neat art or symbols on plastic cards, like hotel keys and membership cards, and cut those down to size. If you want mono colors go raid your local hardware store for paint swatch cards. I also got some cheap bugs in resin that were made into jewellery that are perfect for giant insects.
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Mar 27, 2024 00:52
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Hollismason posted:Oh so there are old modules for fifth converted? There are even some that have been done officially. Tales from the Yawning Portal are all adventures from previous edition. Maybe Saltmarsh is too?
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Mar 27, 2024 15:44
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I designed and printed some meeples with letters on them for generic use, I'll link them when thingiverse is easier to accessBobby Deluxe posted:I ask mostly because those peeples posted on the other page look like a great idea, but they're just ever so slightly off-scale, and the UK delivery is almost as much as the things themselves. If you're a stickler for scale you almost need to do everything on your own for scratch anyways. Maps are 1:60 but WiKids use 1:56 for their minis, and I doubt they're even consistent with that. I scaled some minis from mz4250 and a tiefling scaled to be six feet tall at 1:60 and he was barely bigger than an official halfling mini. Jimbone Tallshanks fucked around with this message at 19:26 on Mar 27, 2024 |
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Mar 27, 2024 19:07
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Here's my J, K, L, M, & N tokens in Tinkercad. https://www.tinkercad.com/things/giundrpxB32-tok-jklmn I never thought anyone would want to use them so they're not organized or even all set to public. I have large and tiny ones as well.
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Mar 27, 2024 19:49
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Does weapons include staves? Get a staff of insect swarming and have a bee bee gun 
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Mar 27, 2024 23:30
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If your DM is gonna let you make special bullets anyways just ask for bullets with effects you want.
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Mar 28, 2024 13:46
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I'm not actually using special bullets, the gun is just a prop to disguise* that my character is actually casting spells, he doesn't need it at all. I only mentioned it because it seemed tangential to what Ranier Salazar was talking about. Yeah I meant to quote this part of the post quote:The sunblade seems like its mainly useful against undead in which case I might as well figure out holy water bullets and get the same effect.
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Mar 28, 2024 17:08
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PeterWeller posted:I gave an artificer a revolver with six "charges" a day. At the beginning of the day, the artificer could decide which damage type the gun was loaded with for those six "charges" from acid, cold, fire, lightning, or poison damage. I wish there was more stuff RAW that differentiated damage types. Thankfully it's pretty easy to lift effects from cantrips and other spells to spice things up, cold reduces movement speed, lightning means you can't take reactions, etc.
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Mar 28, 2024 17:14
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TheBizzness posted:My group is 4 people with almost always open schedules and the busiest woman alive 😭 Get a second campaign going that doesn't include her. Or give the character an excuse to be absent.
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Mar 29, 2024 19:50
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bird food bathtub posted:I've never even bothered making up backstory for why a given character is or is not available. If life happens and someone has to drop out for a session then welp, they're just not there and nobody in the universe remembers their existence to even ask about them. When they manage to get back in to the game I try to let the players brief them on what happened in their absence so I don't contaminate the narrative they've built up with my head canon then we get right back to it with no explanation asked or given. The character is there now and has always been there now and will always be there now until they're not again. Yeah, the actual playing is the important part. Unless you really only enjoy playing with the missing person, just play.
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Mar 29, 2024 22:12
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If you want to use baseline D&D 5e for anything but going on adventures and crawling dungeons and killing everything you meet you're gonna get frustrated.
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Mar 30, 2024 02:06
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Bards have a lot of buff and utility spells that don't involve your spellcasting mod at all, so low charisma isn't that big a barrier to effectiveness.
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Mar 30, 2024 03:20
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I love my swashbuckler rogue. Not really optimized, though. I took a level in fighter for the proficiencies and for the Two Weapon fighting style. I like the way the character plays and feels, but the Paladin in the party does a lot more damage.
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Mar 31, 2024 01:20
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Staltran posted:Why on earth would a lich be wearing their phylactery? That's just deliberately creating a single point of failure, and is completely counter to the point of having a phylactery in the first place. Low wisdom Lich who can't help but show off his sweet bling
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Mar 31, 2024 16:47
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Make a table to roll on to determine what's underneath. 0: Nothing 1-3: Heart pattern boxers 4-7: Second backup pants 8-13: Underwear with day of week 14-16: Underwear with wrong day of the week 17-21: Stockings and garters
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Mar 31, 2024 19:17
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This is my Barbarian gnome, Tripod
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Mar 31, 2024 20:23
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Are you starting your character at a set level, or building as you go?
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Apr 2, 2024 03:55
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I think WotC was expecting every party to be 3/4rs human or something
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Apr 3, 2024 03:07
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imagine dungeons posted:Plasmoid all the way, baby.   
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Apr 4, 2024 18:10
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Flumphs live in cloisters and are led by abbots so it stands to reason there's a Flumph pope
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Apr 4, 2024 19:57
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scary ghost dog posted:or perhaps a flumph costello  as I was posting I was thinking about introducing a Flumph NPC Abbot just so people could yell "HEY ABBOT!" at.
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Apr 4, 2024 20:54
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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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Apr 5, 2024 19:08
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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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Apr 6, 2024 16:31
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Wait, what? Using a component pouch for Booming Blade?
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Apr 6, 2024 23:08
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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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Apr 6, 2024 23:24
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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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Apr 7, 2024 00:16
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Component pouches don't make the components.
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Apr 7, 2024 01:15
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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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Apr 7, 2024 01:48
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Crawford seems to come up with a lot of solutions for problems that don't exist.
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A party full of people trying to optimize for combat is also gonna have a much easier time than a party of people who just choose what they think looks and sounds fun.
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Apr 8, 2024 06:12
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Stabbey_the_Clown posted:I don't think I have that, at least not unless Bless (+1d4 to saves and attack rolls) and Faerie Fire (advantage on attack rolls to affected targets) count as damage reduction by helping to kill enemies faster. Way better to focus on that and save the healing for emergencies. Failing a save can be just as bad as dropping to 0
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Apr 9, 2024 03:55
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Are you looking to buy them? It's convenient but man I wasn't impressed getting a bunch of tokens that are just the creature name instead of an image.
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Apr 10, 2024 15:29
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scary ghost dog posted:it would be cool if wizards could spend downtime studying a first level spell until theyre good enough at it to cast it as a cantrip I think that's what signature spells or whatever is all about
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Apr 12, 2024 20:03
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Of course they don't, that would step on the toes of the Wizard regaining spell slots on a short rest. I feel like Sorcerers shouldn't have to rely on most spell components and Wizards should have to rely on them more.
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Apr 12, 2024 20:54
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They bring Chaos Bolt, their one unique spell! Wizard subclasses are magic schools (mostly kinda), Warlocks adopt the abilities thematic of their patron, Clerics get domains of Gods, Druids take on an aspect of nature, Bards focus on areas of knowledge (I guess?) and Sorcerers... Get one of those by being born with it, but probably not as good.
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Apr 12, 2024 21:55
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Hieronymous Alloy posted:They had a niche, flexibility, but everyone else moved into it. Emphasize the flexibility by using points over slots. Now people who are familiar with Final Fantasy's MP system can quickly understand how spellcasting works.
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Apr 12, 2024 22:00
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Morrow posted:Sorcerer and Warlock should just be merged, Warlock does the Sorcerer's original gimmick of being a brute force caster way better. That and stuff like the celestial Warlock and divine soul sorcerer feel redundant to me and might as well be blended together.
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Apr 13, 2024 06:06
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Evokers being able to sculpt spells and leave allies untouched every time is so much better than the sorcerer having to spend a resource to only do half damage is a pretty good demonstration of the disparity.
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I leaned into the nepo baby angle for my original setting and most of the world is ruled by a noble class of draconic sorcerers. Any draconic sorcerers are automatically eligible candidates for nobility so you've got potential you can offer up to a house that hasn't yet produced a worthy heir but you may also get a target on your back for the same reason.
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