J. Wagner

@NautArch The way it happened was not the main question though, I just wanted to know how Vampirism worked in RAW no matter how the RP went.

Just to clarify as another answer stated, a full vampire has to bite to cause this, not a vampire spawn?

oh that would be really cool Someone_Evil! That subclass gets a launcher mechanical gun or backpack attachment or something

but i guess that would just fall into the "hey its a game" situation

i like that trappings idea, my only hesitation is distance lol. Imagine throwing a bottle 120' accurately

i know the mechanic i want is to throw a bottle and the spell is cast from that bottle. I guess I could just do the obvious and you throw to hit as a ranged attack, if its single target it acts as normal, if you throw an AOE spell you aim at a block near someone

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trappings

i have 4 subclasses for Alchemist in mind, this one was the most complicated mechanics one

i dont think that quite fits this, that is still a variation of the Artificer and has mostly elements around that with Alchemy flavor

i have not, let me pull it up real quick

it would depend on the spell, snollics (however you spell it) snowball is a 5' radius, so the bottle breaking would cast it in that radius

what is "splat" in this context?

5e

yes

trying to make it unique to throwing bottles with made magical spells inside (think lightning in a bottle)

as in if i throw the bottle to an area, would it just cast the spell at that location only and whatever is in the AOE is hit? Or if its targeted, it hits the closest creature to it? I am having trouble figuring that out

How would you handle the spell casting mechanic

So for an alchemist subclass called Mad Scientist i am thinking it, i want it to be similar to a spellcaster class, maybe Eldritch Knight, but your "prepared spells" are instead created potions/draughts. For instance there could be a potion of fireball, and you throw the bottle to cast the spell

having to think about if your guy moves here, they can do these several moves in response, then you think in those terms for 4 or 5 moves ahead within one turn. Its mentally exhausting sometimes lol

Yep, you will lose a lot before you figure that out

not sure why that question is in the RPG SE lol, but just keep playing against other people/computers and try different methods of attack/defense out until you understand the game. You will lose a lot at first learning new methods

much appreciated, have a good evening/weekend

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Having the Q&A above will help. Thank you.

It just seems odd that im getting comments about that, but other's aren't for the same thing. It's been a few weeks worth of it. I am doing it to begin with based on others NOT being called out for it

Thanks you V2Blast for that

this stack

Had a question removed that was opinion based and saw a question almost exactly the same a few days later

I was told to remove a partial answer in the comments, when I see those fairly commonly

Moderation on here seems very targeted. I feel like i get comments/flags for things other people are doing that never hear a word about it.

Just a question: Permissions are needed on publicly supplied images?

NautArch are you here

awesome, well i think i got what i needed. Thank you NautArch and everyone else for your input. Much appreciated, have a great rest your day and happy D&Ding!

might look at teh forge cleric/ battlemaster option

no one within 5' of you is what i plan on going on

i like the swashbuckler sneak attack criteria

swashbuckler?

and how much monk is needed for Kinsei to help

depends on how much rogue i need for sneak attacks, fighter has to be 5

i mean i could try 3 classes, but at lvl 12 would it be spread too thin

w/o magic just focus on using sharpshooter and attacking as many times as possible to use it, so ill tweak the build around that

actually i think that answers my question enough to tweak the build

dang

just the best base build i guess

we break up the main campaign with the one shots every now and then when theres a good break

its just a one shot, so i will not have those opportunities. However i plan to use him for more One shots in the future

distance wouldnt really matter, just however far i can see them id like to pop htem. In combat distance is just hte back of the room

no magical items

There is someone at my table that uses one of those dice rolling towers, and for probably 4 sessions straight he rolled 15 pluses for combat encounters. It felt like he never missed once, but then it started evening out. I agree to notate every roll, but it could take several sessions for a balance to be established. Don't notate one session and use that as your basis to approach him until you have more data!