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And auto-magic a weapon or armor. Well, if you wanted to go front liner, there is a juggernuat plating feat for warforged from Exploring Eberron. It's a bit of a waste on a cleric, but it's thematically nice.

Ben

@GcL I think I'll keep it simple.

GcL

When integrating heavy armor, advantage on STR saving throws or versus being knocked prone.

Ben

Also "Specialized design" gives one skill and one tool proficiency

GcL

Probably max out WIS with first two ASI is the mechanically better bet.

Making con saves vs DC10 are pretty easy, so warcaster isn't likely to help a warforged much.

Ben

ok so starting stats are 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 / 10

GcL

12:28 AM

You went strength cleric?

I like the panache

Ben

Well, I want a battleaxe, or maybe a warhammer. Probably the hammer

So yeah, probably str

GcL

Definitely the war hammer.

Skin it as an oversized forge hammer.... maybe gifted, won, or bought from a fire giant or something.

Ben

Nice

GcL

You should probably swap STR and WIS though. 16 STR is still formidable. 18 WIS befits a cleric, and 14 DEX... because unless you're wearing medium armor, who cares?

Ben

So Str and wisdom. I get +2 to con, so I can go with maybe the 14 for con., bump it up to 16. Give myself the 16 str and 18 wis

@GcL True. Dex helps with the initiative

definitely only 10 Cha though. Lol

GcL

12:34 AM

The juggernaut plating feat allows you to use your con bonus to your AC instead of your dex for medium armor. So if you're not going heavy armor, that's something to think about.

Eh.... init just sorts out the first round. After then it's not that big of a deal. Also, spirit guardians is pretty nasty as a trap. A cleric in a group of mine freakin' holds that as an action until at least one enemy is up close.

They went tempest cleric, so despite having a 21 AC, usually tries to get hit so they can do their electric rebuke.

and channel divinity for max damage. It's up to 30 or something nuts like that.

Ben

Daaang

Adeptus

so str 16, dex 12, con 14+2, int 10, wis 18, cha 10... with a +1 still to assign

Ben

Was thinking I could whack that onto Str?

Adeptus

cool

Ben

@GcL Just gonna get the DM's go ahead for which one to use - Wayfinder or Eberron

GcL

12:38 AM

Looking at the other warforged feat, "Your proficiency bonus is doubled when you make ability
checks using this integrated tool." would make a hell of a safe cracker with theives tools and that double proficiency that rogue specialization gets.

@Ben If you're allowed Exploring Eberron as your +1 source, you'd be doing it just for that juggernaut plating feat. It's not that great really.

Ben

Ah fair

GcL

It reads like a feat to turn a warforged fighter/barbarian into some very bad tanky news for a combat.

Ben

Well, as far as the skillsets go, I think I wanna go with potentially medicine (at least for the knowledge) cos he wants to "integrate"/"upgrade" himself with Fleshwalker bits

GcL

rage + plate + shield on a Fighter 4/Barbarian 2 with high con and str would not be a thing to be ignored... on account of it ignoring a lot of incoming damge.

@Ben I like that. Have you seen the movie Millennium Man?

Ben

@GcL Robin Williams?

Yeah

GcL

12:42 AM

Are you going that direction?

Adeptus

@Ben if you have an updated version of wayfinder's, it's the same... the old version is no longer official

Ben

@GcL Sort of. Halfway. He sees the benefit of the machinery, he's just fascinated by the "self recovery" of the Humans

@Adeptus Ahh ok

GcL

Use the Rising rules. They're better thought out. The exploring book is a lovely compilation of the lore and feel of Eberron, but not much mechanically useful for a non Eberron campain.

Ben

Done and done

GcL

@Ben Cool... could also go the route of convergent evolution. Instead of trying to do healing their way, find a mechanical way that approximates it.

Maybe discover the drawback of healing is susceptibility to aging or disease or something.

Ben

12:44 AM

Biomechanics

GcL

Although in 5e, warforged heal the same as other creatures.

Ben

In the most literal form XD

GcL

It was 3rd ed where they had an entirely separate class of spells and mechanics for hp recovery.

I think it would be cool to skin it as a separate set. Like, the medicine kit has separate stuff for warforged and constructs.

Ben

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GcL

12:51 AM

Okay. VPN'ing over to England to watch some Channel 4

Chat with you all later.

Ben

Ciao for now

So apparently the DM might make their own Clockwork Warforged lol

Adeptus

@GcL have you found a VPN that works with BBC iPlayer? I've got one that works for Canada & USA, but BBC blocks the UK server because it IDs it as a VPN somehow

Hot RPG Questions

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Q: Do you have to see the person, the armor or the metal when casting heat metal?

If someone covers his metal armor with cloth. Can it be the target of heat metal? Does the interpretation undermine a positive development of the combat?

Ryan Kinal

1:22 AM

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TheDragonOfFlame

Just finished a game, and at the end the monk got super drunk on tropical wine and got into a fight and I was trying to figure out a cool drunken master themed feature I could give them

any suggestions?

Ben

Have you looked at the Drunken Master class?

TheDragonOfFlame

Subclass? Yep

Ben

Is that what you're picking from?

TheDragonOfFlame

I was thinking of modifying one of those, or maybe just making something up

one of my ideas was “when you use flurry of blows, you may make 3 attacks, but the last two have disadvantage”

MikeQ

1:30 AM

What is the monk's current subclass and level?

TheDragonOfFlame

5, way of four elements

MikeQ

I'd suggest the "ki-empowered strike" from Tasha's cauldron. Get a bonus action unarmed attack if they spent ki as part of their action. Definitely helps the four winds monk.

TheDragonOfFlame

Hmm

Ben

Ok so I've done a little look into spells, I have [Cantrips] Sacred Flame Spare the Dying and Light {1st level] Identify, Searing Smite, Healing Word, Bane and Command

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TheDragonOfFlame

2:06 AM

@Ben what is this?

Ben

Making a 5e Warforged Forge Cleric

Sorry, that would've been a little confusing lol

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GcL

@Adeptus I've got a few. The one I use for the media PC is Nord VPN. They've got a nice linux CLI that is amenable to scripting.

If you have to enter an address, I suggest using the Channel 4 HQ, because it also has 600 or so flats at the address.

Ben

So now I need to come up with a backstory.

Why is a warforged, maintainer of the secretest secret in the entire city, out and about and looking to become a realboi

I've stated that he has found and created a "bond" with a skull he's found, perhaps one of the Ordos' Warforged original creators.

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GcL

@Ben Like Bob from Dresden files?

Alternatively, you could ask one of the other players for their backstory and see if they have a tie in for you.

Ben

@GcL Haven't seen it lol

GcL

Kind of a cheat to ask another player to do the legwork, but can be gratifying to build onto their lore

Series of books.

Ben

Potentially, but of all of us I think I'm actually ahead of everyone. Our game isn't until next week

GcL

Session 0 isn't until next week?

Hmmm... write up a couple sketches for a two player backstory. Always better when players tie together.

It can be as simple as this is the human that lets you study their anatomy.

And they have an endeavor to fulful, so: "as the gear turns, we all move the machinery forward" and you are invested in furthering their quest.

Also, catch phrases are good if you can come up with a bunch. Test em out and only keep the ones that entertain the other players.

Ben

4:14 AM

Sounds good :D

GcL

How many players?

What's the time zone spread? Your in sanity land, so in person or remote?

Ben

It's remote, but all in the same time zone

GcL

Any inkling of what the other players are thinking?

Alternatively, you could just align the backstory directly with whatever the DM main story is.

Ben

No clue at this point lol

GcL

That's a cheat, but not a bad one. Basically, ask the DM for a once sentence backstory that fits with the main story for you to expound upon.

Y'all need an email thread.

Ben

4:28 AM

Yeah we've got a chat going atm, and I think we're gonna be on twitch when we get up and running.

I'm just super keen lol

Adeptus

@GcL also a TV series (sadly only got one season)

GcL

@Adeptus I wasn't sad about it. It was a very poor adaptation in my opinion. While the concept of a hockey stick as a staff was briefly entertaining, that was the pinnacle of the writers capabilities.

@Ben challenge the other players into seeing if you all can come up with one cohesive backstory. Offer a fill in the blank or ad libs kind of session where you start a sentence and let another player finish it... the non-involved vote yay or nay and you run with the result.

A warforged examining a human indebted to a half-elf following a dwarf on a dare to save the world.

kviiri

10:11 AM

My most favorite DnD backstory so far is "my character is a retired halfling smuggler who local folklore says invented pockets. And I'm her (points at another player) character's son-in-law"

BESW

11:11 AM

> “I don’t want to be human.”
Dr. Mensah said, “That’s not an attitude a lot of humans are going to understand. We tend to think that because a bot or a construct looks human, its ultimate goal would be to become human.”
“That’s the dumbest thing I’ve ever heard.”
- Martha Wells, "Exit Strategy" (Murderbot Diaries #4)

AncientSwordRage

12:55 PM

@BESW Thats cool

I like that new perspective

BESW

@AncientSwordRage It makes me think about all different kinds of normativity.

AncientSwordRage

mmmmhm

BESW

Since there's now an officially licensed D&D character who uses a wheelchair, a good topical example would be the term "wheelchair bound," which assumes that a disabled person must feel trapped by their use of a chair because it's not how "normal" people get around--when in reality the wheelchair tends to be a tool of freedom.

But I'm tired enough to write poetry, so I definitely need to log off. ttfn

AncientSwordRage

@BESW true, even when you realise that bound is an autoantonym

You can be bound for the wheelchair but not bound by it

Ryan Kinal

1:13 PM

My DM has covid :-(

So sad

AncientSwordRage

@RyanKinal I hope they're ok

be aware we've been putting some/all covid messages in a separate chat rooms

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Ryan Kinal

Fair enough

I wasn't going to go much further with that, other than to say we're probably skipping this week's game lol

AncientSwordRage

@RyanKinal I think there's no need to move any comments :)

Ryan Kinal

I was thinking I might see about running a one-shot, but I don't want to step on any toes. It would have to be something completely different, I think... different genre

Maybe do something cyberpunky

Or sci-fi, space, that kind of stuff

AncientSwordRage

2:02 PM

,@RyanKinal any of those seem cool

Ryan Kinal

I also had an idea for a Gatsby-inspired Monster of the Week

He's a vampire or some crap

AncientSwordRage

That's definitely a mood

This looks interesting theguardian.com/science/2021/jan/13/…

Especially as I just found this setting:reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/kwq58r/…