@waxeagle So, with clever placement, you can actually get the Wall of Fire to deal damage 2x with one casting
:)
@JoshuaAslanSmith heya, you around?
@waxeagle basically, if casting as a ring, you set the damage dealing side to be the *outside* of the ring, and place it such that the target enemy is at the opposite end of the ring, relative to the party. e.g.,
E-R R R
R
Party
When casting as a wall, similar idea
Enemy x x x x WWWWWWWWWWW
Unless the enemy has more than 7 movement, it will have to cross the wall, taking 5d8, and then end its turn within 2 of the damage-dealing side, taking 5d8 again.
@waxeagle And thanks for the tips on making foxes! I’m thinking along the same lines as your write-up, but it’s sort of new ground for me so I wanted more input.
@BraddSzonye really wish someone had statted one up already, that's a lot of guess work unfortunately. I don't think anything I suggested breaks anything.
and I think the best thing to do is pick a monster, pick it's giant equivalent, compare the two, and make small tweaks
Even if somebody had already done the work, I’d still need to vet it, but at least it would be a start better than “well I guess I will need to tweak a cat”
The cat/panther is an excellent idea. I think a jackal/dire wolf is another solid approach.
Right, that’s probably what I will do. And I agree that it should probably be CR 0 for the fox and CR 1/2ish for a giant fox.
The main difficulty I think will be coming up with the right specials, as neither climbing (cats) nor pack hunting (dogs) is quite right for the vulpines.
Badger/giant badger is another good source of inspiration. They’re just all not QUITE right for a fox.
Anyway, very helpful regardless!
I am trying to prep for my first D&D5 campaign, starting Saturday.
And trying to get it right, because I’m teaching my fiancée to play, and because my best-friend-who-doesn’t-actually-like-RPGs is doing me a solid by agreeing to play with us.
The main problems with just ripping off an existing critter is that they are all the wrong size, and they all have movement modes or special abilities that are inappropriate for foxes.
Foxes are about 15 lb. animals, significantly larger than all of the tiny critters, but still smaller than a jackal. I’m not sure whether that actually makes them Tiny or Small.
But it does mean that they are bigger, stronger, and smarter than everything except maybe a badger.
I would just steal the jackal except that foxes are not pack hunters, they’re ambushers.
So maybe a slightly smaller jackal with pounce?
Gotta run for now! Later, and thanks again for the help.
I am looking for an online die roller that works similarly to the following:
The GM provides a string identifier to the player. E.g., "gandalf attacks balrog #12"
The player enters the id on the roller site, which checks it for uniqueness vs the DB, then generates the results, lined to that i...
That was easier though since it was 98 tickets so I just did 2d10 to equate 1d100 and just rerolled for 99 or 100 (which never actually happened anyway)
@André Since the release of the PHB each positively scored question asked about 5e has been counted, and the user who asked has been given an entry into the raffle
Monster Manual Raffle Open Now
August 19th marks when the Player's Handbook's major release came out. The Monster Manual comes out in September, though close enough to be October. So until the day, post good upvoted questions about 5th Edition for a chance to win a free copy of the Monste...
Welcome, everyone, to the Roleplaying Games Stack Exchange Dungeons and Dragons Fifth Edition Monster Manual Contest Raffle Drawing Scheduled Chat Event! Because you don't stop the pattern once you've started with long names!
Today I'll be doing one drawing, using the chat's dice feature. From August 19th until the end of September 29th, all upvoted and open questions asked about D&D 5th edition were tallied up, each question producing one ticket for the individual who asked. In total, 171 tickets were earned across 70 users. The winner of this drawing will receive a free copy of the Monster Manual for 5th Edition.
This is the drawing table I will be using. In this case, with 171 tickets, we'll be rolling 3d6, and converting the print-out from base 6 into base 10. A roll of a 6 will be treated as a 0 in that digit, similar to how one treats a 10 from 2d10 used for 1d100 - by extension a roll of all 6s will be treated as 216 in our functional 1d216.
With 171 tickets, any result of 172 or above will result in a reroll. 171 is 443 in base-6, so that'll be any rolls above that, which happens to include everything above 500.
That wraps up an explanation of the event. Are we all ready for this?
Well, that's fancy enough - in a bit over a month for the first raffle, we had 98 questions asked by 48 users. This round, roughly a month and a half, saw 171 questions asked by 70 users, 18 from the original round. So with two months, we shall see how things go!
I'll set up the schedule assuming that they'll stick to December 9th, then. So until then, I'll see y'all! I'll be working on some statistics from the contest so far.
I've updated the Meta post with a handful of statistics and also the results of the drawing.
The other main thing I’m considering is allowing a hidden fox to make a leaping melee attack within 15 feet. During which they are still considered hidden.
I am looking for an online die roller that works similarly to the following:
The GM provides a string identifier to the player. E.g., "gandalf attacks balrog #12"
The player enters the id on the roller site, which checks it for uniqueness vs the DB, then generates the results, lined to that i...
Monster Manual Raffle Open Now
August 19th marks when the Player's Handbook's major release came out. The Monster Manual comes out in September, though close enough to be October. So until the day, post good upvoted questions about 5th Edition for a chance to win a free copy of the Monste...
