@Ben Mostly it's an aggressive re-skin of the game's fluff, and I'm adding a few extra mechanics like a hand of cards that represent the meta narrative of the kids' interaction with each other outside the story they're playing, and I'm giving the landmark countdown clock some more crunch.
I'm also aggressively simplifying the bonus/penalty system, along with a re-skin to make it more gobliny.
The Arcana cleric's Arcane Abjuration feature may affect a celestial, elemental, fey, or fiend.
A Tiefling has infernal heritage and an Aasimar has celestial heritage. Is this sufficient for them to be affected by Arcane Abjuration?
@Miniman Well they are attacks, just also ability checks. But yeah I'm wondering if there really is a horrible annoying difference between having advantage on your next attack and having advantage on your next attack roll :(
(It's definitely not one of those situations where "the rule is simple: if you're making an attack roll, you're making an attack" is going to cause any confusion....)
I just thought feature normally said "you have advantage on your next attack roll" but then I found one that doesn't... time to look for more features I guess
I'm just gonna chalk it up to a wording mistake then, since everything else I see says "attack roll"
Nah I just found a feature that worded it incorrectly and was perplexed, think it was just an actual error. And only technically cheese-able for things like grapple/shove and whirlwind attack / volley
There's gonna be a few more moving parts, but I'm trying to simplify each set and keep them mostly independent so there's not more analysis complexity about how they interact.
As I'm working these last couple days, I keep realizing that the ideas I'm putting down are sound but I have to completely re-organize them.
In particular I'm struggling with the relationship between mechanics and fluff because in the past my designs have basically been down to just writing the narrative and that's the mechanics.
Can you use the Spirit Totem feature of Circle of the Shepherd (XGtE, p.23) while you are in your Wild Shape form (PHB, pp.66-67)?
SPIRIT TOTEM
Starting at 2nd level, you gain the ability to call forth nature spirits and use them to influence the world around you. As a bonus action, you ...
I originally got part of this idea from the chat from user GcL then fleshed it out a bit and created it as a magic item. I'm not sure if it's balanced though against other Legendary items as it could potentially be quite powerful.
Necklace of Nine Lives
Wondrous Item, legendary (requires attu...
The description of the prone condition says:
A prone creature's only movement option is to crawl, unless it stands up and thereby ends the condition.
The creature has disadvantage on attack rolls.
An attack roll against the creature has advantage if the attacker is within 5 feet of the...
there may be other sources that aren't worded as precisely
@Miniman Yeah... that one's quite silly
Today's free D&D product (...well, yesterday's, at this point) is Saltmarsh Encounters on DMsGuild, by Ashley Warren, James Haeck, James Introcaso, M.T. Black, and Rich Lescouflair.
@KorvinStarmast Get that while it's free! ;)
(There's also another coloring book page, as usual.)
@doppelgreener Each of the monster decks will have one or two cards that say "When you draw this card: shuffle this card back into the deck and draw two more." But that's gonna be one or two cards out of decks of... probably 20 cards each.
The College of Glamour bard's Mantle of Inspiration feature reads as follows (XGtE, p. 14; emphasis mine):
As a bonus action, you can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to grant yourself a wondrous appearance. When you do so, choose a number of creatures you can see and that can see yo...
I think it was the aftereffects of an interrupted Thursday night's sleep. (Anyone else get that? Something wakes you up one night, then for a few nights following you also have wakeups?)
I woke up 2am Thursday bolt-upright with a stabbing pain between two of my ribs, could barely breathe, and then it passed in about fifteen seconds. Felt absolutely fine afterwards. Figure it's just a charley horse of the intercostal muscles, which I've never experienced before. But I took a moment to write my doctor an email saying "this happened, I don't have a fever or cough or ache or sore throat. It's probably not CoViD, right? Passed a little too quickly?"
I chuckled. She chuckled. WebMD said I have lung cancer.
@nitsua60 I have identified the one dyed in the wool murder hobo in our old fart group. He's playing a monk and, as they crossed a river the other night and a polar bear was watching them (they are 1st level) the others stayed alert; when it was his turn to cross the river, he just took out his long bow and let fly at the polar bear. And of course he hit. (He's a wood elf)
He's a wizard in our other group, who's mantra is usually "patience my backside, I wanna kill something" but we find ways to work around it. In this case, he's on the other side of the river: the barbarian and the fighter got to taste the Polar bear's annoyance before "focus fire effect" ended the bear. I was not intending to have the bear attack ... but after the arrow and the sorcerer's fire bolt, the reaction was changed
They are about to arrive in town, and I need to be prepared for his "Uh, OK, at this point I am gonna kick your butt" approach. (He's done it in the other campaign and my life cleric had to clean up a few of his messes...) What I want to be able to do is turn the whole situation into something absurd in a humorous way... still cogitating.
@Powerdork I never played 4e despite having some of the Eberron 4e books. If power surge was essentially a class feature and intrinsic to the character, then it fits the lore better than external healing spells working for both constructs and non-constructs.
> A lycanthrope can either resist its curse or embrace it. By resisting the curse, a lycanthrope retains its normal alignment and personality while in humanoid form. It lives its life as it always has, burying deep the bestial urges raging inside it. However, when the full moon rises, the curse becomes too strong to resist, transforming the individual into its beast form — or into a horrible hybrid form that combines animal and humanoid traits. When the moon wanes, the beast within can be controlled once again. Especially if the cursed creature is unaware of its condition, it might not reme…
Her name will be Ursala (something that means speaksing or talking)
Ursaloquace? Almost too cute there ...
Ursala Kwais? Hmm.
@MikeQ "This isn't 'dances with wolves' this is "talks to bears" since she goes out once per month to have a rap session with bears north of the lake ... which is frozen in winter ...
The monk can whack away at her with his quarter staff and she just keeps knocking him prone on his butt with a shove ... this might be funny or it might be lame ... not sure.
@nitsua60 nope, the town isn't that high level. The only 'wizard' is a retired Eldritch knight (4) who has been working his butt off (has arcana skill) making low level potions and scrolls to make ends meet. neat idea for a higher level town or city.
And of course the city guard really could abuse those scrolls, so only the Sergeants or Lieutenants would have them. Plus, this guy is a monk, decent wis save
what I am trying to do is evoke a bit of laughter from the rest of the players so the unbeatable big boned lady is only part of it ... plus she's seen adventurers come and go ...
(There's a fun backstory--generations (editions!) back some adventurer came through town, sowed chaos, and tossed the bands at the one do-gooder who tried to stop them. This captain's granddad. Days later the village finally freed him, and ever since the Iron Bands of $Village have been the cornerstone to their more-efficient-than-usual sense of order. And they get handed down, captain to captain.)
@nitsua60 that also works, but we then end up with a jail break scenario or something, and I am not interested in running a jail break in town; I am trying to get them out of town toward the Sunless Citadel ... torching the town isn't a serial I want to set up.
of course, they might do that anyway ... these are my D&D friends we are talking about, and random has a certain attraction to them all ...
@nitsua60 This reminds me of a case when someone in the GURPS IRC asked about doing some basic MonoBehaviour stuff in Unity 3D. I used the opportunity to give answers. IIRC it took the fellow something like half an hour to realise that this is the GURPS IRC channel and not the Unity 3D one.
There's no need to standardize across the whole hobby, obviously. I prefer TRPG, for a variety of reasons not least of which is that it's faster to write and less awkward to say--especially in this era of online "tables".
I guess my reaction is telling that I'm used to the Generic Universal RolePlaying System (spelled that way, though the word alone tends to not have the PascalCase throughout the rest of the books).
I do see that the all-knowing corporation sees about fourfold more cases with one T than with two.
The Arcana cleric's Arcane Abjuration feature may affect a celestial, elemental, fey, or fiend.
A Tiefling has infernal heritage and an Aasimar has celestial heritage. Is this sufficient for them to be affected by Arcane Abjuration?
Can you use the Spirit Totem feature of Circle of the Shepherd (XGtE, p.23) while you are in your Wild Shape form (PHB, pp.66-67)?
SPIRIT TOTEM
Starting at 2nd level, you gain the ability to call forth nature spirits and use them to influence the world around you. As a bonus action, you ...
I originally got part of this idea from the chat from user GcL then fleshed it out a bit and created it as a magic item. I'm not sure if it's balanced though against other Legendary items as it could potentially be quite powerful.
Necklace of Nine Lives
Wondrous Item, legendary (requires attu...
The description of the prone condition says:
A prone creature's only movement option is to crawl, unless it stands up and thereby ends the condition.
The creature has disadvantage on attack rolls.
An attack roll against the creature has advantage if the attacker is within 5 feet of the...
The College of Glamour bard's Mantle of Inspiration feature reads as follows (XGtE, p. 14; emphasis mine):
As a bonus action, you can expend one use of your Bardic Inspiration to grant yourself a wondrous appearance. When you do so, choose a number of creatures you can see and that can see yo...
