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TTRPGkids: Review: Magi-Knights, a 5e compatible magical-girl inspired TTRPG!

posted on June 29, 2023 by Steph C.

If you like the vibe of magical-girl or modern fantasy anime, Magi-Knights is a great pick! Balance your life by day as a student and friend with your secret life as a Knight in this 5e compatible core rulebook and adventure! Continue reading “Review: Magi-Knights, a 5e compatible magical-girl inspired TTRPG!”…

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Dice Exploder: Design Your Character Sheet First

posted on June 29, 2023 by Sam Dunnewold

Or I dunno, you do you, but this is why it's effective for me

Dice Exploder: Divine Favor (Agon 2e) with Greg Soper

posted on June 29, 2023 by Sam Dunnewold

Listen now | You can find a plain text transcript of this episode here. This week, Sam talks with Greg Soper AKA sporgory about Divine Favor, one part of the dice pool mechanic from Agon second edition by Sean Nittner and John Harper. Some topics discussed include:

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Xirema

15:54

They finally did it

It only took them nine years, but they finally fixed the Invisible condition.

Of course, they still took the most circuitous path to fixing it

GcL

@Xirema What was the issue? and where is that from?

Xirema

@GcL It's from today's OneD&D Playtest material.

For reference: media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-images/ua/ph-playtest6/…

As for why the old wording was an issue....

> - An invisible creature is impossible to see without the aid of magic or a special sense. For the purpose of hiding, the creature is heavily obscured. The creature's location can be detected by any noise it makes or any tracks it leaves.
- Attack rolls against the creature have disadvantage, and the creature's attack rolls have advantage.
(PHB 291)

That second point was the original problem. Having Advantage tied to the condition itself.

Which led to endless debates about what should happen if a creature casts See Invisibility and can see an invisible creature, which yet still has disadvantage on attacks against them.

(and receiving advantage from the invisible creature's attacks)

Which, of course, Jeremy Crawford confirmed was indeed exactly how the rules worked, and implied it was intended all along

GcL

Gotcha. I guess it never came up for us. If the target can see the attacker, then the attack isn't invisible to the target. Kind of an implicit house rule that I don't think my tables have ever considered was a house rule. Usually happened with fairy fire.

Xirema

@GcL See, Faerie Fire actually has a specific clause built in though.

GcL

I haven't been tracking the OneD&D at all. We decided to go with pathfinder 2e for subsequent games. Lost of the stuff we liked and a lot less WotC.

Xirema

16:06

> [...] the affected creature or object can't benefit from being invisible.

I mean, the number of house rules we're using at my table, we're practically playing D&D 5.1 anyways.

I modded stat arrays, feat progression, rebalanced some of the class features, etc.

We're using an extensive system for handling Critical Hits instead of just doubling damage dice, so that damage type matters more and crits are more exciting.

GcL

17:00

You know, @Bucket, there was once a war fought over that namesake. youtube.com/watch?v=Cln0J87vulU

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Trish

18:53

@GcL I still prefer the war in which a disorganized Militia with Toyota HiLux totally demolished a theoretically organized army, because they were faster and more mobile. We know that war as the en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_War

In the Toyota War, about 30.000 people won against 90000 infantry, 300 tanks, 60 aircraft - they destroyed over 800 tanks and APCs while losing only about 1000 of their own

Trish

19:08

In the first engagement once the Toyota truck became the standard issue vehicle, in Fada, for the loss of 3 trucks, the Chadian Army took out 92 tanks and 33 armored infantry fighting vehicles.

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