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KorvinStarmast

12:03 AM

@nitsua60 Yes, you are right, but elfrich and eldritch are actually not from the same indo european root. :)

Himitsu_no_Yami

12:21 AM

Someone here told a story a while back about some caster who thought they were a barbarian. Can someone link me that?

BESW

12:55 AM

Oct 16 at 20:07, by Delioth

I once played Grog, an orc sorcerer. He thought he was a barbarian, and did not believe he was casting spells

Hot RPG Questions

1:32 AM

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Q: If I attempt to use the Teleport spell to teleport into an area warded by the Forbiddance spell, is my spell slot expended?

From the Forbiddance spell description: For the duration, creatures can’t tele⁠port into the area A character may not know the area is warded by Forbiddance, attempt to cast Teleport to enter it, and fail. If they do, does that cost a spell slot? When a character casts a spell, he or sh...

Medix2

3:04 AM

I'm unsure whether two questions are duplicates but I'm not sure I want to open a meta on it. Can I run it by here?

BESW

@Medix2 Sure! The chat's a bit sparse on the weekends but we can try.

Medix2

rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/130537 and rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/69509

BESW

Oh wow that's a lot of 5e inside baseball, I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to help.

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"How I, a Hobbyist, Choose to Price My Published Games," a Twitter thread by K Lam.

nitsua60

3:26 AM

@Medix2 Ooh, that's a good catch. I can see arguments either way. I think a meta would be good--if you don't want to post it go ahead and ping me, I wouldn't mind doing it.

V2Blast

@Medix2 Yep, they definitely seem related. The former is broader than the latter. I'd second a meta being brought up about it

V2Blast

4:22 AM

NewbieDM did a preview of the Tyranny of Dragons rerelease, with some comparisons showing the changes: twitter.com/newbiedm/status/1185242570638708738

Xirema

4:35 AM

@Miniman And here I was worried the homebrew would be too overpowered. XD

(Although I'm assuming it is if we ditch the changes to the Sorcery Point pool itself)

Miniman

4:59 AM

@Xirema Not sure, honestly.

Medix2

5:10 AM

@nitsua60 @V2Blast I've now asked it here, feel free to edit it if you know a better way to phrase the question

The Oracle

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Q: Are these questions about damage reduction and multiple damage types duplicates

Recently the question "What part of a multi-type damage roll is reduced by a non-type-specific effect?" was bountied, and earlier today I found the question "How does a Battle Master's Parry work with multiple damage types?". Note that the first question is more general, asking about effects tha...

discussion specific-question duplicates

Carcer

8:31 AM

192.168.1.1

whoops

V2Blast

9:26 AM

@Carcer hmm?

Carcer

9:45 AM

that was meant to go in the address bar

it is of no consequence

ACuriousMind

Setting up some new gadget in your local netwokr, eh?

Carcer

nah, kicking my router

it has an issue where it forgets how to ipv6 from time to time and have to reapply the configuration

nitsua60

1:04 PM

@Medix2 looks great--thanks!

doppelgreener

@Ben NYEEEEHHH

trogdor

@doppelgreener fantastic XD

doppelgreener

:D

Zachiel

1:21 PM

I feel like being stingy and not be willing to print color maps for my dungeons is detracting from the adventure. Sigh.

BESW

1:37 PM

I never HAD a color printer for my D&D stuff.

If I wanted color, I used colored pencils on the black and white printouts.

Zachiel

@BESW One of my players' wife runs a stationery store

Having access to color printing is not an issue. In the past, I have either used old scrap paper (small squares, erasing and redrawing positions), unused parts of plotter prints from work (big squares for mini placement but I have no more time to do them at lunchtime, and it is a lot of work) and building maps with 1x10, 10x10, 1x6, 6x6, 1x5, 5x5, 1x4, 4x4, 1x3, 3x3 and 1x1 tiles, which takes time at the table if the room has a weird shape

(I hate playing encounters in the Elemental Chaos, all rooms have weird shapes)

I also have a monitor for using maptools, but the stand broke and if flat on the table, it's hard to look at from certain angles

V2Blast

7:44 PM

I'm tinkering with the final encounter of LMOP to make it more interesting. They've already fought the GSes and DG in another room. Thinking of turning Nezznar into a drider or something as I know some others have done - but the party's level 4, and I'm not sure if they can handle a CR 6 creature plus minions (I was thinking of using something like blink dogs and/or phase spiders, but I'm open to more appropriate suggestions). Anyone have any guidance?

ACuriousMind

Sorry, not a Cleric so I can't cast Guidance

V2Blast

boooooo

I did find this Q&A but the answers speak more in generalities and not much in specifics:

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Q: How can I make the final boss of the LMOP a memorable and exciting fight for my group?

This post contains spoilers for the Lost Mines of Phandelver. I have been DM'ing a group of six new players through the dnd 5e starter set and they have just entered the eponymous 'Lost Mine' where they will come face to face with their adversary 'The Black Spider' and a fight to the death will ...

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MikeQ

@V2Blast Maybe find a lower-CR creature with a similar stat block as a drider, and then say it's a drider

V2Blast

For reference, it's a party of 4 level 4s (a bear totem barbarian, plus the human champion fighter, dwarf life cleric, and elf evocation wizard pregens from the Starter Set).

MikeQ

Ok, I'd do the following:
- Legendary resistances, maaaybe 1 or 2
- Legendary actions (1, just for cantrips and staff)
- Give him a 1/day effect to polymorph into some spidery thing, either via staff or innate spells
- Upgrade minions

@V2Blast I have mixed feelings on lair actions. I've done the whole "waves of minions" before and got lukewarm feedback; it's also a hassle to manage, because you don't want too few or too many.

V2Blast

8:02 PM

@MikeQ Good ideas. I'm thinking of keeping him as a drider and adding in some kind of weak minions just to balance out action economy. any suggestions on what low-CR minions might fit the drow/spider theme?

MikeQ

Thugs in spider-themed costumes, like how a supervillain's minions must have thematically matching outfits

V2Blast

lol

MikeQ

I'd also bump up the wizard's Constitution, for hp and concentration and other saves and such

V2Blast

@MikeQ do you mean Nezznar (the "Black Spider")? As I mentioned, I'm thinking of using the drider statblock for him (spellcasting variant) and they have pretty good Con

MikeQ

Yep, I'm looking at the D&DBeyond entry

V2Blast

8:10 PM

...then again the variant drider's statblock seems to have almost no offensive spells. lol

that's probably intentional to avoid changing the CR I guess?

nitsua60

@V2Blast Objectives are my first go-to. If the only objective is to kill the baddie, then the fight's always going to feel a little linear. If it's kill the baddie and save bystanders or kill the baddie and escape from the collapsing fortress... then we're playing two-dimensional chess!

Time and terrain are my second go-tos.

V2Blast

@nitsua60 True, true. But I think my players just want to be done with the campaign. There is the matter of saving Nundro (the dwarf brother of Gundren, the quest-giver NPC); the doppelganger had impersonated him and attacked during the fight with the giant spiders.

nitsua60

So maybe it's a dangerous enough environment that they have to choose letting Spider get away or risk their lives to kill/capture?

V2Blast

@nitsua60 Glasstaff already escaped the party twice before they finally caught him and killed him, I don't want to put them through that again :P

MikeQ

8:29 PM

@V2Blast Hm, perhaps adding them to the encounter (as an NPC to rescue/defend, and maybe an ally if they need it) could make it more dynamic

V2Blast

8:46 PM

I'm thinking of Nezznar using the variant drider statblock (plus Spider Staff benefits), and maybe a few fiendish giant spiders (which are a variant from OOTA of giant wolf spiders that adds resistance to cold/fire/lightning and immunity to poison damage/the poisoned condition - which apparently increases their CR from 1/4 to 1/2).

plus maybe the additional legendary resistance (I already had him use 1 against... Hold Person I think? in the previous fight before he cast invisibility and retreated). and maybe a legendary action for a cantrip? I imagine the spiders will die pretty quickly

Hot RPG Questions

9:06 PM

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Q: Should I discourage a group of players from all playing the same class with very similar builds?

Concerns I have Traditionally the D&D party has been a Cleric, Fighter, Magic User and a Thief. Adventures have been balanced around the traditionally party composition listed above. Players feeling upstaged by another player doing the same thing better. So if I'm dealing with a group that...

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