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12:32 AM

@DanielZastoupil It's not a matter of boredom or disinterest. Right now, this homebrew content isn't at a stage where I can give meaningful input.

If someone asks me for input to make "versatile magic barbarian" or "support rogue" then I'll say "great" and suggest like 100 different ideas

Ben

1:02 AM

@mikeQ how's it going

MikeQ

Been better, been worse. What's up?

Ben

Not much. Doing bit of work on my game. One of the main issues is that all the monsters in the game are fairly unique, so at the very least, I have o do a lot of "re-skinning" haha

Ben

2:12 AM

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The Oracle

4:41 AM

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Glazius

...oh, I think I just realized something. Can you only participate in Hatmas if you've uploaded an avatar?

trogdor

Huh, I'm not sure?

Why do you ask?

Glazius

Because I was active this time last year but still had the polygons and there was no indication of hats.

trogdor

Oh no I saw people with those who had hats

Not sure why you didn't see any on yourself

MikeQ

@DanielZastoupil Here's a homebrew spellcasting barbarian, is it close to what you had in mind?

trogdor

4:55 AM

I do know there are some weird interactions though

Like on my phone, I can't change what hat I have on

Or wear one if I don't have one or wtv

So maybe something else is different between this year and last year?

Glazius

No, this was on a full browser. Maybe I just didn't pay enough attention?

trogdor

Maybe?

We're you trying to get any hats in particular?

Ben

Hatmas can be sneaky

trogdor

Or had you maybe accidentally hit the button to hide hats?

Glazius

No, I had no idea hats existed as a thing.

trogdor

4:57 AM

Ah

Glazius

Like, to personally have.

Was the snowflake icon in the top bar there last year?

Ben

Yup

trogdor

Yeah if you weren't gunning for any and or didn't know they existed they aren't that easy to get all the time

I mean

Usually some are really easy

But if you don't even know to look for them you can even miss those ones

Ben

...hat?

Must need to wait for it to load

trogdor

Yeah it will probably be a minute or so

Mine took a little to load in

Ben

4:59 AM

@trogdor Yeah I just popped over to Arqade… Surprise hat.

trogdor

Even when I refreshed

Lol

Was it was your first time over there?

Going to a new stack with enough rep on your main one(s) will get you one of the hats

XD

Specifically if you get the 100 rep for new stacks

Ben

@trogdor Me? On Arqade?

trogdor

Yeah

Ben

Nooooo haha. There's a reason I have 38k rep lol

trogdor

Lemme guess, the green present one

You get that one for getting 25 rep "as new user" but the new user part counts for a new stack

Not the site as a whole apparently

It's practically the easiest hat for almost anyone to get

Ben

5:03 AM

@trogdor I have received that one twice, on a couple of sites I've posted on once or twice.

trogdor

Which is great, I want more of those kinds of hat

@Ben fair enough

Same actually

Oh yeah I see it now

Ben

Hat! Lol

trogdor

That one is also one of the relatively easy ones

So is this one

Ben

Yeah lol.

trogdor

I think I only have really easy hats so far

Ben

5:06 AM

Question.

5 "large" floors, or 10 "medium" floors?

trogdor

What context?

Ben

the party would level up at the end of each one/two floors respectively

Megadungeon

trogdor

Ah

MikeQ

If you did 10, would there be some sort of pattern for each pair?

Ben

5 floors sounds short.

MikeQ

5:08 AM

5 floors sounds manageable, depending on how large "large" is

trogdor

Yeah

Ben

@MikeQ Yeah. Each pair would share the same theme

trogdor

I mean, I would usually advocate for the smaller number

It just seems more manageable on many levels

Than it would be,... With many levels :P

Ben

Lol

I was waiting for it :P

trogdor

I set myself up accidentally

So I had to take it

Ben

5:14 AM

Is there such a thing as "retaliation damage" in 5e? Like, every time you hit something, you take damage?

MikeQ

@Ben Fire Shield

Ben

Ok, cool

I have a monster that I want to give that ability to

When it gets hit it deals d6 lightning damage

I might need to evaluate this. Basically, this creature is using the "bat swarm" stat block. Each individual creature is weak as - a single hit will kill each creature. But, they deal lightning damage each time they're hit. But, I also want to give them the ability to teleport. Short distances only, within the swarm, for example.

Maybe just boost the AC and each time the party miss, it's because they teloprted out of the way?

So a Bat swarm is CR 1/4, if I boost the AC up to say... 15? And then the ability to deal 1d6 lightning damage on hit...

To the DMG!

Ben

5:39 AM

Ok, I'm either doing this wrong, or vastly miscalculating.

trogdor

5:50 AM

What's the problem?

Ben

Well, if I pump the AC to 15, that immediately puts it in the range of CR 5.

from 1/4

BESW

It's D&D, so the math may be wrong without you being wrong.

kviiri

6:06 AM

@Ben That doesn't sound right to me...

Ben

To be fair, this is my first time doing this. Not even really sure how I should be doing it

Also, @BESW is that by any chance Big Ted from Playschool?

BESW

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Ben

Nice.

Glazius

I think the offense rating comes from its total damage output in a round, not just per hit. Figure it's going to get in, what, two-three of those retaliation shocks?

Ben

Probably

I just used this tool, and it came out with CR 1/2. 22 hp, AC15, +4 atk bonus, and 14 dmg per round (~3 per d6)

CR 1/2 was probably closer to what I was looking for

And if that is right, I'm not sure how that calculation got there

kviiri

6:14 AM

What level are your players and do they have any means to hurt the swarm without attacking it? (I assume "when hit" refers to attacks only)

Glazius

Hmm. That's autohit damage. I think you might want to double it?

Regular damage has a miss chance and all that.

Ben

@Glazius Well, basing it off the Bat Swarm stat block, they deal 5 (2d4) damage as an attack, then I added the 9 damage from ~3 per ~3d6 per round

And it is a swarm...

Will need to look back on the rules, but I remember there being something about an auto-hit based on full vs half swarm, or something

kviiri

Hm, there's an issue that damage-on-hit doesn't neatly map to normal damage

Ben

might be a different system though

@kviiri Just cos I'm new to this, could you help explain what exactly I'm looking at? haha

Rubiksmoose

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kviiri

6:24 AM

I'd maybe approach it by figuring out how many hits the party needs to defeat the swarm... that tells you how many d6's the swarm's gonna dish out total.

If you want per-round for CR calculations, dividing that by the amount of turns the swarm's going to take to die seems appropriate

Ben

By "that" you're referring to your previous statement?

Sentence*. Not statment

kviiri

Yes

Sorry for choppy replies, I'm switching trains

Ben

All g

Derpy

10:46 AM

@trogdor I have taken the liberty to redo your avatar.

trogdor

lol

Derpy

free to add this one to your site archive.

also, if anyone can find me a --simple-- but cute MLP fanart (preferably Fluttershy) I can try to convert that one.

As I said yesterday, the avatar I use is probably too complex.

kviiri

@Derpy pulling the wool over the eye of the beholder

Derpy

11:24 AM

Here, since Trogdor is a lazy lazy pony

at least now you will have the picture stored for reference

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12:04 PM

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BESW

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kviiri

Out it goes

KorvinStarmast

1:36 PM

@SomberRaven Pact Magic and Spell casting are different features that work together in a peculiar way. If the two answers I liked under your question don't help, please let me know

Derpy

1:48 PM

attempt number one - must really work on the hair lines

Rubiksmoose

@Derpy Nice!!!!

Love the beholder as well BTW

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