@James si?

@dot_Sp0T I created a DM of Politics twitter account.

Basically its a parody account that makes fun of politicians and media in the language of DnD

I only pretend I know the DnD lingo, mostly by stringing together loosely understood terms. Like one of those buzzword generators: "We should syndicate real-time e-services." “If we close the loop, we will unfortunately be lagging in organic sustainability.”

@AndyD273 You forgot to use synergy.

@James My buzzword generator didn't come up with that one the first few times I hit it.

@AndyD273 Your generator is flawed then. Synergy is the ultimate in useless buzz words

@AndyD273 Your next step is to create a situation where you could use that sentence.

@James No, it's just too random. I think that they should have a weighted list, with a much higher weight given to Synergy/synergize.

@Hosch250 I may actually be able to do that when the boss gets back from vacation. He wants me to start looking at a cloud based data management system

That being said, I may change the word syndicate to synergize... I think that's going to fit a lot better.

The tricky bit will be to keep a straight face

@AndyD273 Changing syndicate to synergize and adding "don't" between we and close would totally work.

heh

[life goals]

I do enjoy using unusual words when I can fit them in. The wife and I went to a fancy banquet with my parents one time, and of course the ladies went to stylists to get extra fancy. So I complimented my mom with something along the lines of "you look very coifed tonight".

Thankfully I didn't say she looked quaffed...

Heh. At fancy events (i.e. opera house), I'm almost always the least-well dressed.

Jeans (dirty from horse-riding bareback), polo, etc.

@James can u tweet the acc at me?

I really hate trying for [hard-science] answers... Can someone tell me if this one uses enough numbers to count as an acceptable answer?

@dot_Sp0T Its @PoliticsDm

@AndyD273 Seems science-y enough to me.

@James sweet

@NexTerren @dot_Sp0T I need help designing a fallen angel for DnD

@James aasimar?

Nope, full blown angel

So there are these inter-dimensional gates that are basically doors to an alternate plane that is a prison for all the demons that almost armageddoned the world a long long time ago.

There are 4 gates in total

The prison/other dimension is the soul/spirit/whatever of a deity.

To destroy one of the gates the adventurers will have to go inside and destroy some sort of orb/altar thing...a keystone.

The deity set an angel to watch over each keystone when he sacrificed himself yadda yadda

But being entombed with the demons for several millenia has caused the angels to go bad...like...cheese.

So I am picturing a 20 foot tall, black winged angel with dark smoke rising from glowing red eyes.

All the players are level 12...ish

4 players

sooo, borderlands + oblivion ?

@dot_Sp0T Never played borderlands...

@James YOU ARE FUCKING KIDDING ME

@dot_Sp0T shame

anyway, have you checked the Fiend section of the Monster Manual?

@dot_Sp0T Yeah, I found some celestials in there...I am sort of loosely basing the character on the Deva

But the party would chew through a deva in 3 rounds.

This battle should be pretty epic.

always consider using waves of stuff, e.g. throw wave-by-wave of smaller demons or such at the players - maybe even prep a bunch of possible waves of small monsters and decide which to throw at them based on their current tactics

I am thinking the angel will need legendary actions to get more attacks in...

then there's much bigger stuff than Devas

I thought of minions and also some warm up/resource eating battles to lead up...but I want them to be expecting that and then to just run into one giant powerful entity.

but tbh, CR10 is not bad - how badass is your party?

@James make it all a big battle?

...they do a stupid amount of damage but are pretty squishy.

have the baddie show up, land a few blows, disappear again

I have a hexblade/bladepact warlock, fighter/champion and Dragon Sorcerer.

baddie hits, disappears/pulls back - minions to give the party time to spend resources/recover from the hit, while still engaged - rinse and repeat

and a healing cleric.

@James why not have the angel belong to the clerics deity?

:D

@dot_Sp0T Interesting idea...maybe some dominated demons get released.

@dot_Sp0T There is only one deity in the world (I am using my universe)

Ok technically there are a bunch but the world believes there were only ever 2 and one died.

So the angel does come from the cleric's deity.

@James Hey

I'm here but I don't want to read back because I'm lazy

@NexTerren you git

@NexTerren Fallen angel = angel that has been corrupted.

@NexTerren I understand.

anyway, most of my ideas won't be of use to you right now as I am watching NGE

@dot_Sp0T I noticed it was on Netflix the other day, I am three or four episodes in...

@dot_Sp0T git add -A git commit -m "because I'm lazy"

@dot_Sp0T Also, wow. Have you seen the stat block for Zariel? Basic attack is 2d8 slashing + 8d8 fire. +16 to hit

@James don't own MtF

but CR 26, so that checks out i guess?

@NexTerren The short version is they have been guarding a demon prison for a really long time. In that time they have been corrupted, black wings, pale skin, red eyes with smoke rolling out...

The secret being that the god that became the prison they are in basically has a split personality now since he too has been corrupted.

@James what was your party makeup again? (levelwise)

4 x level 12

Warlock, Cleric, Fighter, Sorcerer.

Maybe I include lair actions...

@James That's a sweet description

@James i guess you could throw Zariel at them, if you have the demon-minions actually join the party because they are royally fed up with that fallen angel dudette

@dot_Sp0T Zariel would straight up murder them, they'd last two rounds, tops.

She has legendary actions.

and lair actions. I think

and regional effects.

@dot_Sp0T I am thinking the character needs to have 1) Flyby attack 2) 2d6 necrotic damage bonus on melee attacks 3) 2d8 2h mace attack 4) +10 to hit. AC 18, HP 175

hrm...what else

Thinking a ground slam attack that does 2d8 force damage and knocks them all back and prone DC18

...Athletics or acrobatics chek

maybe some sort of lair action too...some sort of like...horror ability that makes them think they are surrounded by demons and getting attacked, with a wisdom dc save

@James when your area of effect is so big that they call it regional effects...

hey there @Mithrandir24601