I play a summoning focused druid in my 3.5e campaign and handling multiple summons and math on the fly with all the augments got tiresome - I couldn't find a helpful sheet for animal/creature templates, so I decided to try to make one (.NET, C#). It's a work in progress, but I want to share the s...
Work's good, immediate family's good, extended family's got some health struggles putting pressure on everything. My father-in-law's been in the hospital (mostly in ICU) for seven months, now.
He'll make months of progress (to the point that someone once quipped "physical therapy twice a day? At what point is he just a gym rat?"), but then one bad week almost completely resets everything. So, that's tough.
@kviiri: The dungeon levels do not repair. In any case, the basic plan is to unroof the dungeon and burn it out as well.
Even if unroofing fails despite burning the support timbers, neither the rats nor the scythes are a threat with every single bit of doorframe and drywall destroyed.
There are some spells which you can concentrate on even after they will not provide any benefits, for example the thunderous smite spell states:
The first time you hit with a melee weapon attack during this spell's duration, your weapon rings with thunder that is audible within 300 feet of yo...
Are Level 1 Druid cantrips (5e) changeable each day?
As opposed to picking 2 cantrips at the start of Level 1 and those are the ones you keep until until you get more at higher levels
I read that like "Where do you expect me to put it" And then everyone, without dropping a beat, and in perfect sync all say "Australia"
Followed by Hermes adding a "duh" from the back
@Yuuki reminds me of a weapon from GURPS that dealt 11d1 damage
So, from memory, what have we got so far? There's the Emu Wars, the Dire Koala/Dire Eucalyptus War, Drop Bears, the rogue Canberra plane carrying the sentient fungal strain politicia, the platypus, the Koakookaroo...
@MikeQ Religion, faith and worship are among my favorite themes to portray in RPGs and this got me thinking back to the first DnD group we played in... again. Didn't go too well.
@kviiri Hello. Paladins being one of the worst class for new players to go for, I can't imagine why a group of religious zealots characters would go wrong :)
@JohnP to be fair, Applejack is a reference to an apple liquor, Big Mac is probably a reference to the Apple computers (he has a bitten apple cutie mark), I don't know about an apple called "Bloom"
@Nyakouai We actually didn't have a paladin, but my character was a cleric. I had conceptualized my character growth from levels 1 to 30 (a rookie mistake) as a slow quest of growing from uncertain faith to sainthood and exarchy of my chosen god Avandra.
@Derpy I thought Big Mac was a reference to the hamburger.
@Nyakouai (contd.) But we also had a hobby novelist in our party who played a Ranger, lifting her character straight from one of his novels. This Ranger had an unfortunate trait of being a relatively hard-core pacifist, but also was in direct speaking terms with their god of choice from Level 1.
@Derpy They went for multi-pun attack
@Derpy It's also an actual apple cultivar though: wikipedia
It seems the Macintosh computer was named after the cultivar
@Nyakouai So ofc we were completely unaware of session zero of discussing expectations and so but I recall being a tad miffed that me, being the cleric, had been instantly outdone in the religion game by another character who wasn't even playing a religiously oriented class :(
our first game was a bit dysfunctional, although no friendships were broken and that's a plus :)
We hadn't yet developed the idea that even in tabletop RPGs (or perhaps even especially in them) it's ok to ask others to do things differently instead of just letting them do whatever they please with their character
@Nyakouai DnD 4e isn't the easiest place to explore religious themes anyway because it has a somewhat more unconventional cosmological model than your Default Fantasy Setting does. Although upon some reflection I guess it does have parallels with Greek mythology or somesuch?
@Nyakouai Paraphrasing from memory and I might be getting things wrong, but the gods (most Evil ones included) are fighting a war against Primordials who oppose the order of creation and seek to return the world to raw roling elemental chaos.
I think 4e intentionally cut a lot of ties with previous edition lore, it has parallels but if I had to guess I'd say it's not a part of any established metaplot
So in 4e one of the religious classes is the Invoker who indeed is in direct-ish speaking terms with their god of choice. They're, in-universe, the gods' frontline combatants against the Primordials. The difficult part, for me, was justifying the role of clerics if there's people who are in actual direct contact with their gods.
@Nyakouai no, it is a TWO swords styles. But consider that Zoro added the third sword after his childhood friend / rival died - he originally used two sword when he meet her
Maybe a cleric is not in direct relationship with their god, but in the end, how easier is it to believe and have faith in an entity that actually answers to you? The Cleric is the day to day believer, tending to the masses and keeping the faith in good healoth while some shiny invokers go wreck havoc on heretics (or primordials)
@Nyakouai I think I ultimately settled with the Invokers being concerned with the very basic level survival of the deities --- protecting their influence from Primordials (indeed the PHB2 notes they pay respects to the whole pantheon since the gods are tenuously allied against the Primordials). The Clerics are more devoted to the actual ideology the god's domain promotes
The thaumaturgy spell states
You manifest a minor wonder, a sign of supernatural power, within range. You create one of the following magical effects within range:
Your voice booms up to three times as loud as normal for 1 minute.
You cause flames to flicker, brighten, dim, or chang...
How should I react/reply if an answer to a highly book-specific question admits not even having said book and trying to guess some of the subtler assumptions and interpretations that vary by book? I wouldn't want to encourage such answers to float to the top, but I don't want to be rude or start an argument.
@vicky_molokh If it's attempting to answer the question but just doing a bad job of it for the reasons you state, then yeah, downvote is the best solution (and perhaps a comment explaining why it doesn't solve the issue/suggesting how it could be improved)
if it doesn't actually attempt to answer the question (or "answers" it thinking it's for a different system), then it may be worth voting to delete it or flagging it as such
@Miniman This comment admits the familiarity with the book, while how exactly the book approaches the conversion is of importance to the question; the answer itself also makes an assumption which I think is possibly wrong (but I'm not 100% sure, which is why I'd like a knowledgeable answer and thus asked the question). Contrast against the other answer.
@NautArch I suppose I was just considering the many conversations I've seen about wildly exotic character creation concepts and applying that to the situation.
@JohnP I rolled back your tag change on the DM RP question. I don't think we should be changing questions to SA just because they could be seen as independent of the system. If OP decides they want to do that, that could be fine. I don't see any benefit to doing so.
@JohnP As much as I love Q&As that can apply broadly beyond one system, I have to agree with @Rubiksmoose in practice even if not in allegiance, because the asker made the question a PF one.
And just as an FYI John I didn't intend that to be scolding on my part either. AFAIK there's no policy or anything on it. Just my opinion on the matter.
@NautArch Stinking cloud has the same effect/line.
> Each creature that is completely within the cloud at the start of its turn must make a Constitution saving throw against poison. On a failed save, the creature spends its action that turn retching and reeling. Creatures that don't need to breathe or are immune to poison automatically succeed on this saving throw.
@JohnP Right, but if for poisons generally holding your breath doesn't work, and stinking cloud just says 'creatures within the cloud' and not 'creatures breathing in the cloud', then don't understand why they need that sentence.
As suggested by one of the answers to this question on holding breath, there can be situations where damage may be able to be avoided by holding your breath.
A creature can hold its breath for a number of minutes equal to 1 + its Constitution modifier (minimum of 30 seconds).
When a crea...
@Rubiksmoose have a relevant webcomic, let me see if ic an find it.
also, BlueMoon can definitely choose what link they want, but doy ou think it's generally better to link directly to the evergreen twitter vs the sageadvice.eu site?
@NautArch Physiologically I can see it. Even if you hold your breath, your body is still performing oxygen replenishment in the lungs. Inhaled air is about 21% oxygen, exhaled air (normal) is 16%. So if you hold your breath, your body is still moving blood and performing co2/o2 exchange in the alveoli. That might be a difference.
@NautArch I do generally think it is better. I'm iffy on if I decide to edit them and change them myself. Sometimes I do and sometimes I don't. I definitely expect Twitter to be more stable than SA.eu. The one time I definitely don't edit it out is when SA groups a bunch of tweets together that would otherwise be scattered.
@NautArch hah! And bonus points to the commentator for the Guybrush Threepwood callout.
@NautArch Didn't earlier editions have a thing where you could pick player races that were substantially overpowered, but conferred penalties to your XP gain to offset it?
@Xirema Level adjustments in 3.X. Pathfinder approaches it using monster Templates, where the CR adjustment sorta translates to PC level adjustment. (It is not balanced at all well)
Like, if you picked X race, then at first level, you'd have to gain XP as though you were level 3 or 4, meaning you'd level much slower than the rest of the party until their level was equal to your "effective level".
@MikeQ That might be what I'm thinking of. I only had an approximate understanding of how it worked though.
And then some templates have varying effects based on the creature's racial HD, and others add or adjust racial HD. Some do both. Some adjust HD and CR independently.
I suppose if you're measuring by the amount of HP "gained", then double wild shape would have diminishing returns, assuming you wild shape into the same form
@JohnP Yeah; but if you can wild shape an unlimited number of times, then you just shift into something else before your current wild shape pool runs out. So you just have to avoid creatures that can deal 120+ damage consistently every turn.
Which basically means only stuff like the tarrasque.
@JohnP Well, they can use it unlimited times per day, so as long as they don't take more than the maximum HP of their form in a single round, they can wild shape to something else and clear out the damage they took.
> Variant: Ability Modifier DiceWhenever an Ability Check, Saving Throw, Attack Roll, or Damage Roll calls for a player to add an Ability Score Modifier to their roll, use a die instead: +1→d2, +2→d4, +3→d6, +4→d8, +5→d10
The Succubus' charm says that:
One humanoid The Fiend can see within 30 feet of it must succeed on a DC 15 Wisdom saving throw or be magically Charmed for 1 day. The Charmed target obeys the fiend's verbal or telepathic commands. If the target suffers any harm or receives a suicidal Command, ...
Wild Shape is the prominent feature of the Druid class, but it allows only two uses until level 20, when Archdruid makes it limitless. This scaling feels quite odd to me and it appears to impact Moon Druids the most, since they rely on it for their combat prowess, while Land Druids have their sup...
@MikeQ They return to their normal form. Nothing causes the Wild Shape forms to stack on top of one another; the new one just replaces the old one.
Eberron: Rising from the Last War is getting a new cover (the one they showed off during the previous announcement was not yet finalized): https://comicbook.com/gaming/2019/09/13/dungeons-and-dragons-eberron-rising-new-cover/ The article also contains a photo of the table comparing what will be included in Wayfinder's Guide to Eberron to what will be contained in Eberron: Rising from the Last War. The full 10-minute update is here:
Can't find any official rules about holding breath in combat in 5e. If there's a poisoned gas in the room, and party is fighting against some creature with poison immunity, like golem, and so this golem smashes one of PC's hard - do this player need to roll something not to lose his breath? It is...
I don't know how long this is going to stay up, but someone had a really "great" idea for a 5e D&D App, and wrote up an adcopy for it on various D&D/TTRPG subreddits. It appears they may have forgotten something important, though.....
All I'm saying is, I think WotC's lawyers might be seeing dollar signs in their eyes pretty soon...
@Xirema (Honestly, I suspect WotC won't be getting a cent from anyone, because I don't think there's an actual /thing/ to sue over. This has all the trademark signs of being a vaporware project cooked up during a brainstorming session with no actual plan to produce)
Although maybe I'd just rather believe that than believe someone did hundreds of hours of pre-production/development and are only just now being told "oh by the way WotC is DEFINITELY NOT going to license out their content to a direct D&D Beyond/Roll20 competitor".
I actually assumed that there's not really an exclusive partnership for digital licensing with WOTC, given both fantasy grounds & roll20 have licensed content. I wouldn't be horribly surprised if someone could make a competing character builder to dndbeyond if they were willing to pay the licensing fees (not that I believe this is one such case).
> And then down below, Vi is accompanied by her warforged companion who is clad in heavy armor plates because we talk about - also in this chapter - the ability of warforged to attach armor to themselves. And so if anyone is wondering, "Why does this warforged look so unusual?", it's because it is clad in heavy armor using one of the options described in this very chapter.
So last night I was absent from our game and my DM took over my character with neither my knowledge nor consent. Not only that, he also changed my characters relationship with an NPC.
I’m really not sure how to handle this but as far as I’m concerned it’s a blatant abuse of power. Rather than ou...
Evil Hat has A Word about Kickstarter: they're delaying the launch of their Agon campaign while they asses Kickstarter's ongoing actions regarding unions.
Also, they plan to update WGTE with the final versions of the existing included content (plus artificer with Alchemist subclass) on the same date Eberron: RftLW is released, November 19.
Space Goblins! is a free game by Viditya Voleti with "rotating GM play and an emphasis on wild Goblin created mayhem!"
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11:24 PM
@BESW This is something I run into a lot, and I am glad someone is pointing it out.
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Like "simpler mechanics" can be an accessibility thing, but more often than not that's not what I'm asking for - that for me is "approachable" but not necessarily "accessible".
@Ash As I'm a relative newbie to GSS, having played only one (short) session: what part(s) do you find unaccessible? If you don't mind sharing, of course.
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@V2Blast As with most games, the more moving parts I gotta remember, the worse I am (I have a lot of memory issues). So I struggle with remembering my skills, with remembering what Feelings/Dreams/the other thing I am forgetting relate to, etc
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11:27 PM
Like I can generally remember I can give Dreams because I've tied that to "if it makes me giggle or feel similar feelings" but I forget to use them.
@Ash Yeah, that makes sense. I was sort of surprised by the number of different numbers/mechanics and skills involved in it, for such an approachable game tone-wise.
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I love the game, I'd happily play it lots, I just need someone to remind me of the bits.
@Ash As with so many things, this seems to be a case of "We face the same problem but you don't have brakes."
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11:32 PM
@BESW Yeah, that does seem to be the essence of my NATness, that it is just "normal trait careening down a hill at max speed"
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@V2Blast Yay!
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(There are a lot of other ways that things can be approachable but not accessible, like for vision impairments, etc but I tend to prefer using my own self as an example just because that's the stuff I can speak with confidence on.)
The greatsword Hazirawn in Hoard of the Dragon Queen is described as "A sentient (neutral evil) greatsword" and it requires attunement. Are there any restrictions on who can attune to it, or any rules explaining what might happen if a good character attempts to attune to it?