>>94040906
Another player at my table got owned by a mimic today. RIP to that level 2 knife-ear warlock.

I reformated, hopefully less of a chore to read

I've been modifying the Dragon of Icespire Peak module for a campaign with my brothers. We'll transition into Storm King's Thunder afterward. Here's what I'm changing:
>Reworking most orc encounters into a Cult of the Dragon cell aiding Cryovain.
Umbrage Hill
>Manticore displaced by Cryovain, actively seeking allies to challenge the dragon.
>Not evil; has an unspoken agreement with Phandalin to stay out of each other’s way.
>Potential ally, can provide info on Cryovain’s whereabouts.
Dwarven Excavation
>Reworked into an ancient dwarven vault filled with giant lore.
>Chamber 1: Murals of giants + a puzzle involving arranging statues of giants in order of Ordning.
>Chamber 2: Combat – defend dwarves from Grey Oozes.
>Chamber 3: Riddle and combination dial to open the vault door.
>Inside the vault: Giant stone tablet with runes hinting at Storm King’s Thunder plot, treasure + prophecy alluding to Eye of the All-Father.
Gnomengarde
>Going for full horror vibes, like Alien.
>Gnomes are already being picked off by a mimic, remaining gnomes in hiding
>Atmosphere: Flickering bioluminescent mushrooms, claustrophobic passages, unsettling sounds.

>>94041179
Seems rad, bless you for skipping nightstone.

>>94041229
Not that anon, but what's wrong with Nightstone?

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>>94040906
How important is travel in your games?
One previous GM I had always kinda handwaved it, but I've always thought it should be a part of the adventure

Relatedly, if given the choice between easier going and bigger potential threats vs harder terrain but trouble's likely to be smaller scale - An old haunted road vs narrow mountain paths, for example, which do you pick

>>94041513
harder terrain because every DM is way too much of a wuss to give individual party members exhaustion, they just handwave that shit with "the barbarian carries the wizard" or some such

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one of my players keeps beating all the gay and trans npcs with a mace. he says he needs to as a cleric of Wastri. he doesn't even use the mace in combat, he uses a trident, he carries the mace just to "bash the child molesters"
how do I deal with this?

>>94041632
based

>>94041632
Reveal that his mother/father came out as a gay transbian

>>94041685
his parents are dead as part of his backstory

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>flg, book stores and other 3rd party sellers have only sold 4,000 copies of the 2024 PHB combined

>>94041360
Never ran STK, but I did break down the Nightstone encounters. I'd have to guess that it's just a boring slog to play. Here's a few notable encounters within the town of Nightstone

>Nondescript goblins on the town walls. party can pick them off one by one
>1 goblin named Gwerk
>2 goblins named Larv and Snokk
>2 worgs
>2 goblins named Pojo and Tot
>2 goblins named Blik and Flik
>a tressym
>2 goblins named Beedo and Vark
>a specter
>A goblin named Derp (yes, really)
>A goblin named Gum-Gum
>2 goblins named Longo and Yek
>A bandit captain and 6 bandits on riding horses

If I was a player and I ran into derp the goblin i'd off myself.

>>94041229
tyty
>>94041360
IMO A Great Upheaval/Nightstone is just very boring chapter in STK and the pacing feels off. The goblins aren't a very interesting threat. The Zhentarim don't really amount to much, and there is a weird encounter where a band of Orcs appear from nowhere and just as quickly have the potential to be killed off by a band of elves which appear from nowhere.

I'm sure it could be great fun in the hands of a good DM but for me at least it is just very vanilla and not very exciting and all in all it just feels like an excuse to get the players to a high enough level to start the "real campaign" which starts in chapter 2.

>>94041813
>>94041819
The best way to make Nightstone memorable is to have the party arrive a day or two before the giant attack so they get to know the people who live there and have some kind of vested interest in the townsfolk. Then you combine an orc+goblin raid with giant boulders being tossed into the town be the real threat, destroying the key parts (if the players kill enough orcs before X rounds, they might prevent some places from being destroyed)

Orcs fight, while goblins net and kidnap and coherence civilians into following them back to the lair (so you can reuse that part of the module)

but that basically just rewriting the whole thing. You could just as easily use a different module or just start your players at 5th level in Waterdeep.

>>94041807
You're not cool or funny and no one cares about your icv2 clickbait Scott. Roll for Initiative is trash

>>94042049
idk who scott is, some irish roastie was the one in the vid saying it, fagola

Anyone here run or play in a long term rebellion campaign against the king? How did that work? What did the party to do take down the king?

TIAMAT HAS SEX WITH BAHAMUT

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>>94042098
>watching female presenters regurgitate the news on yt
lol, lmao even

>>94041807
>Massive discount on the Book+Beyond combo purchase
Gee, wonder what promoted buying direct.

>>94042250
so why is the data wrong for only the phb?

I'm just about to start a campaign for five and we were waiting on one guy to get back from deployment to begin. Which means we had almost eight months of prep
Specifically all they had to do in eight months was read the rulebook and make a character sheet
Well now that we're a week away four of the five have done so and one hasn't even started. He wants to play, but I'm tempted to say to him if he isn't ready by the deadline his slot goes to the next person in line who, coincidentally, has also read the rulebook and has a character sheet ready as our first in line backup

Should I be merciful or nah?

>>94041749
A necromancer brings them back to life

How do you guys go about making cursed items that you’d actually use rather than avoid?

>>94042753
Make it a high risk/reward scenario
Like if you're shit outta luck, this could potentially be your salvation, but it'll have a hell of a drawback

Example: Hilariously good damage
After fight, permanently lose a point in a random stat

>>94042741
Nah

>>94042212
I did that once. Now it burns when I pee.

>>94042753
using the item will give all elves HIV but will drop your str stat to 8

>>94042775
That negative is a bit too harsh. Lose that point for 7 days

>>94042212
Not with him, he's her brother

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Happy birthday, 4chan!

>>94042098
Is that what that video was about? I've seen it suggested but I won't watch anything as I have no clue what it's about from the shitty clickbait thumbnail and title.

>>94043027
I think her argument is that she doesn't think hasbro is lying about sales, she thinks hasbro just fucked over flgs

>>94043094
Hm, I'd maybe consider watching the video if the thesis were represented in the thumbnail, title or both, but since not I'll reserve judgement I guess.

>>94041632
based player
stop making trans/gay the identity of the NPC. Who they love isn't their identity.

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>>94041632
Give him more to bash, obviously.

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>>94033471
I was getting set up to run my very first DnD campaign between my friends a few months ago. The main person in the group that really wanted to play was my friend's fiancé, she wanted to be an albino Seldarine Drow Sword Dancer Cleric of Eilistraee. Then like a week into me planning everything out and buying my first DM screen and physical copies of the Monster Manual and Dungeon Master's Guide they decided to break up after being in a relationship for over 5 years. The main reason for the breakup? She was too obsessed with romancing Astarion from BG3 and playing porn mods where she'd fuck him every night and constantly talking to an AI version of him instead of her boyfriend and making these weird TikTok music videos about him that she'd spam the chat with along with a bunch of Astarion gifs.

My friend literally got cuckolded by a video game and now nobody wants to play DnD anymore, especially him.

I've got a very serious group of barbarians played for laughs irl. They've got a few elemental wizards, fire, wind and earth. Is there a way to dress them to maybe telegraph their elements?

Fire guy has a flaming wand, earth guy is covered in mud and wind guy is flying?

>>94041632
why did you let someone play as a cleric of bigotry?

barbrogue still the most fun melee character in neo-nu 5e did fighter overtake it?

>>94041632
Have you tried not needlessly filling your game with gay tranny pedo NPCs? Sounds like you're just enabling him.

>>94043354
Well that's rough for everyone. I wonder if your friend should have tried being more of a vampiric twink.

>>94043358
Either wardrobe or a single noticeable item. Red robes for fire, brown with gold trim for earth, white with blue trim (or the other way around?) for air. Or maybe flaming wand, stone bracers, diamond amulet that lets him hover.

>>94043369
>DM choosing the players' gods

>>94043390
Yeah we've all made jokes about how he should dye his hair white or finally get around to playing DnD with him doing an Astarion voice because of what she'd post in the chat daily, but now in context those feel bad. He was in a hell of his own and we were there at the sidelines laughing at it all.

>>94043354
BG3 was a mistake.

>>94043433
It was literally so bad it's got niggas writing their first D&D Horror Stories before they can even play the game. That's got to be some kind of record.

>>94043465
Most horror stories are fake though

>>94042801
They're also gods
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incest_in_folklore_and_mythology

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>>94043496
Yeah well this one isn't. You're not on Reddit right now.

>>94043510
>1 in 10,000 coloration
Yeah this was written by a female

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>>94043510
You're a special kind of retard, ain't ya?

>>94043540
Reddit is inherently full of more liars and bullshitters than 4chan because we have no built-in reason to do so beyond laughs.

>>94043498
I don't care

>>94043510
>BG3 screenshot as the character portrait
>muh super speeshul albino variant that makes the whole point of my race not apply to me because I'm just that special
>likely overpowered homebrew class for their first game ever
Don't know what he's talking about, looks like legit wombyn cringe to me. Sad this had to end without a single session happening, it would have surely made the breakup story even funnier.

>>94043546
>The stories and information posted here are artistic works of fiction and falsehood. Only a fool would take anything posted here as fact.

>>94043578
To be fair, m both szarkai and Eilistraeeans aren't exactly uncommon, so I would allo-
>descendant of Qilué Veladorn
Oh, fuck off.
Although kudos for knowing who Qilué Veladorn even was.

>>94043565
Good. Because if you objected she would probably kill you.

>>94043371
Even if it had, you've now got barbarogue built with 2024 classes.

>>94043602
Yeah she had always been into DnD but never actually played it (just like me now A-BOO HOO HOO :C). Would watch people play online for fun a lot when not shlicking to Astarion, she was the first and only person to fill out a character sheet. God would I have loved to have been a fly on the wall as she tried to convince her boyfriend to begrudgingly fill out his own sheet.

>>94043510
>Acrolyte
>stats shake out to point buy with 13/13/13/10/13/13 and +1/+2
>missing two Cleric spells and one domain spell you're supposed to automatically have
What does Magic Missile have to do with sword dancing anyway?

>>94043604
Idc

>>94043659
Guaranteed damage so it's a must-have

>>94043632
If that's any consolation for you, my gaming group broke down some two years ago and I still haven't found a new one. And trying to convince my normie friends to play D&D is like pulling teeth out of a crocodile.
Who would've thought that the supposedly bohemic hipsters would be do against playing a silly game about elves and dwarves.

>>94043659
Yeah I told her about the missing spells thing. We were going to fix it up in session 0 but that obviously never happened. I don't know why she chose Magic Missile but I mean come on, it's a really good spell. The whole singer musician aspect kinda came out of nowhere too, she never expressed a deep interest in music before.

>>94043659
>What does Magic Missile have to do with sword dancing anyway?
That's actually a go-to spell for Eilistraeean sword dancer prestige class in 3.5e IIRC. My take is that a person who made this sheet was a D&D fan and knew exactly what she was doing, she just went overboard with fan autism.

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>>94043673
>trying to convince my normie friends to play D&D is like pulling teeth out of a crocodile
God I know how you fucking feel. As soon as I even mentioned the concept of a session 0 to my friends they were 100% convinced the girlfriend was going to be disappointed in all of us and get bored really quick just because none of us were planning on playing like Critical Role characters, and they kept on making excuses for it to not happen yet even though I explicitly told them they don't have to actually have characters made up yet or a thought out backstory like hers. Literally just choose something generic from the book for me to work with how is that hard? But niggas don't wanna read.

I have actually played a few times as a character before but that wasn't for very long, just enough to reach some cloud castle in Hoard of the Dragon Queen, but their DM got a fancy job where he regularly gets flown across the world to do welding stuff and eventually the invites went from occasional to never. I really miss that table, even when the girl I had liked for years in there started to troon out, I was surely gonna get over it. I was finally THERE. I was finally playing THE DND and using my fancy dice I've collected over the years. Fuck.

>>94043735
>even though I explicitly told them they don't have to actually have characters made up yet or a thought out backstory like hers
Yeah, that's where my friends hit the wall as well. They think I am going to expect them to give off some Oscar-worthy performances or write characters that would put GRRM to shame, while I'm keep telling them that I DON'T FUCKING CARE.
Because the best sessions are those imptomptu ones where we are coming up with fun stories together and get stupid in the process.

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>>94043354

>>94043371
Jog my memory, what's barbarogue got going for it?

>>94043767
One of my friends literally asked if they could just be a "regular guy" lmao. I mean yeah, if you want no bonuses at all you can do that I guess, but I highly discourage it. Most people seem to think the Background is supposed to be a novel you plan on posting to your fanfic.net account later tonight instead of the box you tick when you boot up a new CRPG.

>>94041513
>Narrow mountain path
I was in one Hexcrawl and it was great fun, lots of random encounters, some survival mechanics.

>>94043799
I've often wondered about the idea of a levelled civilian class that gets steadily stronger in utility and social stuff and, while weak, has hit dice and grows enough defensively to keep up with other classes so that if you have a party of level 10s going into dangerous situations they can have their level 10 civilian tagging along, trying to keep his head down and make himself useful by chucking potions and distracting rocks, jumping on an enemy at a critical moment, carrying the one ring, etc. It certainly wouldn't be for everyone but I think there's place in loads of parties for someone who sticks with the group and plays an important role but is way out of their depth in a fight.

>>94041632
He is based, give him mace of basedness and let him do based things.

A friend of mine is planning on DMing a brand new 5e game. He wants to make it a grimdark, mudcore, "grounded", dark fantasy type of game. Only playable humans, magic exists in a binary as either demonic or divine, no "neutral" arcane "science magic". Monks and artificers are banned because they aesthetically clash with his idea of the setting, and he'll have to think about bards as well.
I don't dislike this concept, but I haven't played monk in a while and I kinda feel like playing one. So I've been thinking, would it be possible to reimagine monk as a class that would aesthetically fit in this kind of setting and how would one go about doing that?
Based on his idea of the setting, I can see it happening in two ways. Either monks harness divine magic, by being devout followers of whatever deities exist in the setting and gain their powers that way, as a form of holy warriors, or like sorcerers etc. they are cursed and/or have made deals with demonic entities to gain supernatural abilities at the expense of their immortal soul. I guess whichever choice I'd go with would have to depend if rest of the party wants to take a goodie two shoes route of playing fighters and clerics and rooting out evil or a more grimdark approach and play a more evil party.
Have any of you guys done anything similar? I guess before I approach the DM with the idea, I would at the very least need to offer alternative names for ki and all the other aesthetically "Asian" abilities and such. Or maybe I'm just wasting my time because he only really dislikes the idea of someone punching and kicking people in his setting instead of stabbing them?

>>94042801
That makes it even better

>>94042741
im merciful but I also handpick my players.
Is the guy a good friend who will make a good addition to the table, is he from a close group of friends, than show mercy he can learn the rules as he plays

>>94043811
>Charisma only 11
Highly unlikely, too humble with this background. Go ahead and take a free feat to make up for it, you deserve it.

>>94043841
Why doesn't he just run WHFRPG then? D&D doesn't do gritty very well.

>>94043841
my guy deadass put in more effort to "declaw" a high fantasy system into a low one, than he would spend to learn some actual mudcore shit like >>94043882 said

talk to him and ask why not run something more appropriate to what he wants instead of shoehorning retardism into 5e
like run Pendragon or some shit

>>94043841
Yeah, monks aren't science magic, I don't see why they couldn't be made to fit as explicitly grounded in divine/demonic magic. Is his concern that he doesn't want it to be Asian themed? I'd just ask him, explain your wish to enjoy some monk gameplay and ask which bits of it you need to refluff to make it sit nicely in his setting.

>>94043882
>>94043902
I don't know, maybe 5e is easier to run? I never DMed before so I wouldn't know. Or maybe he's worried if he offered to DM something other than D&D the players who never played those other games would find it too daunting? I never bothered to ask.
>>94043906
He did joke before that monk is an optional class to play when you're running an Asian themed game, so I assume it's more about aesthetics and fluff than gameplay. I'll talk to him and offer alternative fluff like this, but even if he refuses it's not a deal breaker, I've also been thinking of playing a rogue for a while now as well, so I'd just play that instead.

Just noticed not the 2024 PHB is jammed full of Wayne England art, and I dont think I've seen them before, were they from other works or unused concept art?

everywhere i look i keep seeing people talk about "HP bloat" and it makes me feel like i've been taking fucking crazy pills, what are these people even talking about? where are the bloated enemies? a normal, predictable amount of party DPR is usually more than enough to absolutely blitz a majority of enemies in the game if everyone focusses fire, are people just getting mad they can't one round KO a dragon or something???

>>94044058
>if everyone focusses fire
There's your problem

>>94044058
If you can't oneround a dragon in 5.0 then you and your build should make an appointment with a woodchipper anyway. HP-bloat is purely a buzzword from retards who don't play.

>>94044085
Or retards who play badly, let's be fair here.

>>94044085
that's exactly what my intuition is fucking telling me, not even once have i GMed a big scary monster for an appropriate level party and felt it had too much health, if anything i've only felt the opposite

>>94044058
>>94044089
>4 enemies on the field
>enemy 1 gets damaged by first player to go, 2, 3, 4 unhurt
>melee player that goes after attacks enemy 2 because "he's closest"
>bard player vicious mockery on enemy 3 because he thought of a "funnier" joke about enemy 3 than the others
>the lone female player at the table looks up from her smartphone asks what's going on and then decides to attack enemy 4 because her brain got information overload and she has add adhd dyslexia borderline and bipolar disorders
>damage successfully split between every enemy
>tactics nonexistent
>combat takes forever with "bloated hp enemies"
wala

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The poisoner feat is slightly annoying. If I want to play as a cleric of Talona or Wastri I think I need to grab it. the issue is its a +1 to dex or int and what ever stat gets the +1 is used to make the poison DC check. I guess Talona isn't so bad since I could wear medium armor and go with 13 -> 14 dex or 14->15 dex though its still only a +2 mod, but with Wastri I'm not sure if I dump strength and use a glaive purely off guided strike or if I make str 15 and try to get 13->14 int.

>>94044117
Poison is a bad damage type. Ignoring resistance does nothing for immunity, mind.

>>94044121
my character would still be a cleric. having poison on cantrips and weapon attacks is an aesthetic/flavor thing when I am a full caster with bless and spirit guardians anyway.
the other issue is that not using the level 4 feat on a bonus to wis makes spells like command and hold person worse, though don't matter for aid, spirit guardians or bless

>>94044137
If it's purely flavor and you don't mind the lack of usability that's fine. Just didn't want you to be too disappointed with it, anon.

>>94044148
I tried to run an alchemist artificer on bg3 and saw first hand how absolutely terrible acid splash, poison and alchemists were

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>>94040906
>My DM: Go into the mine, you have nothing to fear, the tactical dwarf does not exist.
>The tactical dwarf:

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First time onepagedungeon generated something like this..

>>94044296
>An adventurer realizes in chamber six that he dropped something important back in chamber one

>>94044296
>Archive of Dark Star
Sounds epic wonder what the adventure is about...
>Standard eviction process against mentally ill homeless schizos

>>94044182
Deep Rock Galactic, the early days

I want to create a half-orc that multiclasses between barbarian and sorcerer with white dragon ancestry
Is this a bad idea? How would I avoid ending up completely useless?

>>94042741
Pick the guy you like better regardless of who read the book. Half my players have not read the PHB. The rules are not complicated and people will figure it out after one or two sessions of combat.

>>94044359
Play 3e/Pathfinder
Dragon sorcerer barbarian was very much a thing.

>>94044359
>spend 3 turns casting non-concentration buffs
>finally enter rage
>combat is over
sasuga

>>94044656
>Half my players have not read the PHB
the absolute state

>>94044342
>Deep Rock Galactic, the early days
damn, i forgot that existed, it was popular for like a week and then everyone forgot about it.

>>94044359
Pick entirely non-concentration or non-combat utility spells, then use your sorcery points to extend the duration.

>>94044751
speak for yourself, I hit 1k hours not too long ago
but such is the cycle of the squad based PVE game

>>94041807
Why would they release the PHB alone? I'm betting most DMs are waiting for the full ruleset to actually release before moving to the new edition.

What's the best way to build an eldritch knight in 2024? I was thinking mixing it with hexblade for smites and eldritch blasting with my final attack.

>>94041807
That's all they were supplied, most stores had between 3/4 to 9/10ths of pre-orders go unfulfilled.

>>94045821
Because the PHB always sells best as GM's get one, most fixe play groups get a second and then there's the nogame "players" why buy the book and imagine having people to play with.

But yes DMG, PHB, MM would have been the best order.

>>94043842
>>/b/

>>94045908
my local stores still have at least 5 copies of each version still sitting around

>>94045821
>Why would they release the PHB alone?
Digital sales are the only relevant sales in the Hasbro/WotC suits mind, and they probably believe that this will make them more money.

>>94042752
He will bash the parent skeletons to death again, simple as

>>94044751
drg is one of few games that got more popular through its lifespan.

Is the new PHB just an over glorified balance patch/rework?

Anyone knows which video (with time estimate, ideally) had Crawford saying he doesn't think diseases exist in 5e?

>>94046441
Wait, Crawford said something stupid again? Must be Tuesday.

>>94045821
Makes more sense than AD&D 1E, which release Monster Manual -> PHB -> DMG, with a year between each of them.

>>94046394
I’d call it a 5.5 half a decade too late

>>94043783
It's an easy source of always on Advantage since Sneak Attack just needs to be a Finesse or Ranged weapon, not specifically DEX, just use STR and Reckless Attack

>>94047540
Steady Aim though. Assassin can even move with it now.

>>94043783
>>94047540
Also a more mobile Barbarian with bonus actions if they didn't already have something to use them on. Pair it with Tavern Brawler or something and get a grapple in and Sneak Attack the fuck out of them. Or more reliable pushes for prone advantages.

I want more info, always interesting how people answer on Barbarogue for how much a thing it became.

>>94044058
No, you've got it backwards. The players are the ones that are HP bloated.

I base my campaign arc bbegs on whatever mini my gf got me lately
No I will not apologize

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Why are the faerun gods mostly good and boring, but Greyhawk gets badass shit like Hextor the god of fascism and slavery who explicitly has nonevil believers, Iuz, a second god of fascism living as a king on Oerth, Kord, god of sick gains, Norebo, god of gambling and fucking your sister, Trithereon, the god of 'Merica, Vecna god of evil secrets and hidden knowledge, Wastri god of racism and frogs, Zagyg god of pranks.
The bad gods in faerun seem like chaotic stupid, whereas a cleric of Hextor or Vecna seem like you could play them as a PC and be fine with your motivations not being fucking retarded

>>94046394
with a lot of intentional power creep to get people to switch over.

>>94046342
Dock him for poor roleplay

>>94047702
>>94043783
you get to rage like a barbarian during combat and get all the mobility options cunning actions give with disengage and sprint, can sneak attack at will with a rapier, short sword, dagger or scimitar since sneak attack doesn't say it needs dex, just that the weapon is finesse and rage says to use strength and you can reckless attack for advantage.
evasion and danger sense work together
expertise, rage giving advantage on str rolls means you can shove and grapple anything
it plays like how people want monk and ranger to play, except you are a barb so you can take hits without dying

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>>94044058
>everywhere i look i keep seeing people talk about "HP bloat" and it makes me feel like i've been taking fucking crazy pills
I feel like this whenever people say 5e is super easy and nobody can ever die. It's not as deadly as many other games, sure, but absolutely not as easy as people make it out to be. Do GMs out there just not use basic tactics for intelligent monsters? Do they let players buy diamonds in every village as long as they have the money? What? Even the pussified 5e Ravenloft has a bunch of monsters that bypass death saves and murder you right away.

>>94048080
It frankly does take a good DM to understand the ebb and flow of resources. A good encounter performs not only as an independent event with a cost, but also as a feature in the attrition-based adventuring form that makes DnD narratives work. Whether they believe bloat is on either side of PCs or NPCs, the DM is to blame. People with no experience playing a well-run game shit on the "6-8 encounters" in the DMG without context, when
>6-8 can be adjusted to range from small to deadly and are there to provide texture to the setting and complexity to the goal
>resting is best when players have control over it and recognize the world is living and will respond to bad resting habits. getting to rest twice or so in a dungeon day is expected, but trying to do it after every trap or scrape is playing too cautiously
>adventuring day =/= session, one adventuring day should span 2-3 sessions ideally
>downtime is exempt from this idea but shouldn't necessarily be devoid of conflict or encounters if the scenario demands it
>knowing this format is meant to inform your building of scenarios so players have adequate time to accomplish things if they make well-informed decisions and by ignoring that advice you're creating your own problems
>PCs are expected to take on encounters and succeed at a cost of resources, be it HP, hit dice, spell slots, ability uses, item uses, charges, etc.
The unwritten stuff just takes time and experience to learn. The DMG might not explicitly tell you that glass cannons are more fun to be faced against than tanks, and that when an encounter's conclusion is clear to all people at the table it should have been over a round prior. DMs either just make chunky monsters to pad out combat time and don't account for damage articulation, or don't realize how to make an interesting encounter scenario beyond "big guy takes a lot of hits."

>>94048216
>adventuring day =/= session, one adventuring day should span 2-3 sessions ideally
This doesnt mesh with modern expectations, or even larger campaigns with lots of overland travel
For a dungeon crawler, sure though

>>94048248
>This doesnt mesh with modern expectations
Define modern expectations without using buzzwords.
>or even larger campaigns with lots of overland travel
You mean, 5e wasn't designed with your specific narrative as the core loop. You can't comprehend a way to do an adventuring day with overland travel? That's your own lacking. The DMG should provide an essence of framework but the nature of an encounter is learned if you're running regular games across tiers.

>>94048310
>Define modern expectations without using buzzwords.
Modern and new players like to emulate the style of play they see on popular dnd podcasts like d20 or CR which usually have just a single large encounter in an adv day

>You can't comprehend a way to do an adventuring day with overland travel?
Sure but modern players dislike random encounters to fill these up and lots of adventure modules as written, can have lots of trivial encounters in a single day, not really depleting resources

>>94048310
Modern expectations is a long rest between sessions. That's not how I run games, but that how most people who play 5e expect the flow of the game to go.

>>94048407
>>94048425
Expectations about a campaign should be covered by the DM and adapted to based on player desires. If the modern player base expects something, either they need to adjust their expectations based on what the DM outlines, the DM should adopt some of what the players are expecting to experience, or both. Especially with how digital games are becoming the idea of starting each session fresh is unnecessary as the tech will remember how much of every resource you have and a good DM starting narration to remind everyone what's happened and where they are will reinforce the setting.
>but modern players dislike random encounters
Where the fuck did I say to use random encounters?
>lots of adventure modules as written, can have lots of trivial encounters in a single day
And those adventure modules won't have extensive overland travel, so what's your point? You're running your own game. That means it's entirely on you and you can prepare scenarios accordingly. Random encounters isn't scenario design.

>>94047954
Correct me if I wrong.
I feel that the damage difference between a big two handed weapon and a finese weapon would only be compensated by sneak attack at 3th level. If you want a barbarian path that means the build would only match a pure barbarian by lvl6 and by then you're missing your second attack so you'd need 2 stages of sneak attack to just match

>>94048464
retard

>>94048464
I dont disagree with you ftr, just pointing out that this is also the way wotc commmunicates how they intend the game to be played
Plenty of modules have overland travel btw

>>94044088
>Or retards who play badly, let's be fair here.
Eh, depends on what you mean. Even if you have a dogshit build the tiem to kill is hardly anything because 5e is built more around gangbanging something with 1.5-2x the health of a chracter who, worst case scenario, four rounds himself. I can see people who've never played a TTRPG before and who take give minute turns thinking HP is bloated because a four round combat takes them upwards of two and a half hours, but that's not actually a mechanical reason to ever think HP is bloated. Nobody could come to that conclusion by the numbers.

>>94048080
>I feel like this whenever people say 5e is super easy and nobody can ever die. It's not as deadly as many other games, sure
You're being disingenuous then. The people saying nobody can ever die played those systems before 5e, the people who have 5e as their first games have DMs who let them long rest after every fight. Neither of them is getting a difficulty tuned to what they actually expect.
You're right that low level 5.0 is a clusterfuck where every second enemy moves faster than your party and is completely immune to everything other than spells, though.

>>94048507
biggest finesse weapon is a rapier with a d8 vs a d12 (or 2D6) for a great ax is 4.5 vs 6.5 (7). sneak attack is 1d6 or 3.5. I think they are directly comparable once you get extra attack
7+4+7+4 = 21 (plus rage damage) vs 4.5 + 4 + 4.5 + 4 + 3.5 = 20.5 + (rage damage). sneak attack will keep scaling, though a straight barb could do more damage with GWM
Most people go either
>rogue 1 -> barb 5, rogue x/rogue 2(3) -> fighter 2
or
>barb 5-> rogue x/rogue 3 -> fighter 2
it is the eternal multiclass problem of you push back your cool level 5 shit (extra attack or 3rd level spells) by a level and the build doesn't really come on until highish level when like 90% of DND beyond characters are level 10 or lower.

>>94048644
rappier isn't strength so you're not getting the bonus from rage, the best option is a d6.

>>94048752
You don't need to use DEX for attacks with a finesse weapon, though, it's just an option. You can continue to use STR, and thus qualify for Rage bonus, and since Sneak Attack only requires that you use a finesse weapon, you also get bonus damage for that.

>>94048752
>rappier isn't strength
>Finesse
>When making an attack with a finesse weapon, you use your choice of your Strength or Dexterity modifier for the attack and damage rolls. You must use the same modifier for both rolls.
>Rage
>In battle, you fight with primal ferocity. On your turn, you can enter a rage as a bonus action.
>While raging, you gain the following benefits if you aren't wearing heavy armor:
>When you make a melee weapon attack using Strength, you gain a bonus to the damage roll that increases as you gain levels as a barbarian, as shown in the Rage Damage column of the Barbarian table.
>Sneak Attack
>Beginning at 1st level, you know how to strike subtly and exploit a foe's distraction. Once per turn, you can deal an extra 1d6 damage to one creature you hit with an attack if you have advantage on the attack roll. The attack must use a finesse or a ranged weapon.
rapier has a finesse tag so sneak attack works, finesse says I can chose strength or dex so I chose strength, rage says I need to use strength so I use strength and now rage bonus damage works

>>94048794
I really don't like the image of a raging barbarian sneaking and using a rappier. If it's not even gonna be mechanically strong I can't see the point.

>>94048803
I would had believed you without needing to quote sources, don't worry

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>https://www.bestrandoms.com/random-character
This mystical device will predict your next party of heroes.
How's it looking?

>>94048829
You don't like the idea of some noble hero flying into a black rage, his elegant blade and lordly finery drenched in gore as he is overcome by a wrathful impulse born down from the very dawn of mankind?

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>>94048829
>I really don't like the image of a raging barbarian sneaking and using a rappier.
flavor is free. it looks like most people play a barbrogue as either a swashbuckler like Dread Pirate Roberts/Errol Flynn, Aragon or Conan the Barbarian.
Just pretend the rapier is whatever sword would be appropriate and the extra damage dice are for hitting the right spots or being strong or something. The weapons table is literally retarded anyway.

>>94046267
Oh hey one of my old brews
Do you have a question regarding it?

>>94048875
okay, I'm warming up to the idea
He can scream about how his dad never bought him opera tickets or how much he hated his manners tutor as he attacs.

>>94048875
Hell yeah, I do!

>>94048875
>noble hero
>is literally a filthy barbarian

Should I make my players train at a school or with a tribe to level up? It makes no sense for them just to get stronger in the middle of a dungeon.

>>94049312
School but nothing makes sense in d&d, anyway, it won't hurt the game to let them level. It hurts immersion and that's it

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>>94049227
A man can be both.

>>94049312
If I'm not mistaken, that was how it used to work in early editions - leveling up would require time and money spent training, once you hit the xp requirement.

>Stamina Potion
>Takes two days to make per level of character meant to be used on
>Herbalism kit with 25Gp per level of character meant to be used on
>Once taken gives the benefits of a short rest immediately
>If taken at too low a level, it works
>If taken at too high a level, it allows the use of a few hit die to heal akin to a long rest but no spells or abilities back

Thoughts?

>>94049227
Vlad the Impaler.

>>94043783
Reckless + Extra Attack + Rage Dam + Sneak Attack
Rage Resist + Uncanny Dodge
Danger Sense + Evasion
Fast Movement + BA Dash/Disengage
Expertise + Primal Knowledge + Rage Adv

Rogue gets Bonus AC when otherwise stuck with Light.
2 simple/finesse/light weapon masteries + 2 Melee martial.

>>94048829
conan spends most of the movie sneaking around. people like barbrogue because it lets you be fast as fuck and amazing at athetletics while having some actual out of combat benefits and competitive damage with the grug smash two hander style

>>94048248
>doesnt mesh with modern expectations
The players I DM for are all modern, as am I and some of my fellow players, and none of us have those expectations. Weird thing to try and claim.

>>94048248
>larger campaigns with lots of overland travel
Those have one session per travel day and every one has multiple encounters? I can't help but feel that would get old fast.

>>94047882
It's honestly turning me off. i'm DMing a 5e2024 tomb of horrors mix with tomb of annihilation currently at lv5, but i'm playing solodark myself and i'm having way more fun, eventhou a Max level SD character would be weaker than a Lv5 d&d5e char.

>>94046394
It's 5.5, and it's not even remotely backwards compatible by any means, don't fall for the psyop.

>>94049617
it's literally just the same game but with more stuff and some things are differen't, feels like an expansion dlc to a video game

>>94049617
Since the first blurry pdf dropped i adapted my game to 2024/2014 and the only thing that changed drastically was the battlemaster becoming a monster pinball machine, it's literally the same shit, but worse.

Why do Fighters and Barbarians have worse mastery preparation?

>Ranger: 2 of anything proficient. You're proficient with everything. Swap 2 daily.
>Paladin: 2 of anything proficient. You're proficient with everything. Swap 2 daily.
> Rogue: 2 of anything proficient. Natively that's all simples and martial light/finesse, but multiclassed into martial prof it's everything. Swap 2 dail
>Barbarian: 2 Simple or Martial MELEE weapons. Swap ONE (1) daily. Total number of masteries increases as level increases.

>Fighter: 3 Simple or Martial weapons. Swap ONE (1) daily. Total number of masteries increases as level increases.

So not only must they pick a proper weapon from the weapon list, in the case of unusual weapon proficiencies like sun blades and storm boomerangs and psychic blades and iron ball or improvised weapons, etc.
AND in barbs case it has to be melee specifically, even though they get proficiency with all martial.
They can't even swap out as many per day! Rogue and Ranger and Paladin can swap out all of their masteries every time they prep them. Fighter and eventually barb get more, sure, but they can only swap at a pace of 1 per day, like ranger and paladin are for spells now. That means if your current setup ends up disadvantageous, the Semi-warriors are better prepared than the actual Warriors!

>>94048829
Use 2 shortswords then

>>94049662
>the only thing that changed drastically was the battlemaster becoming a monster pinball machine
People said they wanted maneuvers on all martials. Masteries ARE effectively maneuver cantrips, i.e. weaker but free.

It only makes sense the class that basically has permanent Quickened Meta-Maneuver, popping off both a levelled maneuver and cantrip maneuver on every swing, would be insanely good at it.

Openhand Grappler/brawler is in a similar vein.

>>94049787
Also weapon juggling sucks, people will ask for each martial weapon to have 2 or 3 masteries so they can settle with their magical weapon as soon as they get one.

Why is a camera captured PHB leak on here but not the proper Digital version of the PHB 2024?
Is the Digital just not the same or out?

>>94049845
Have you bought the digital PHB and uploaded it yet?

>>94049821
>weapon juggling sucks
if nothing else it finally lets you actually be a hybrid sword and bow character without it being extremely shitty and/or a massive feat tax

>>94048513
Sure, but not as the extensive point of the module, as padding around the critical path. The only module where it does have extensive travel is ID where they provide you with the mechanics but don't teach DMs how to fuckin run a sandbox.
Also yes, that is the problem at the heart of everything. WOTC doesn't fucking teach DMs how to do this stuff, it's learned in spite of their efforts. They need to be clear about the intent of the game when you pick it up.

I am utterly unfamiliar with 5e. My D&d stopped at 3.5e and I moved to other systems.

Can anyone give me a brief outline on how the balance between classes is, a very brief rundown on how the casting system has changed, and if the primary d20 mechanic had shifted at all? I will freely admit to being a wizard faggot - A brief glance suggested things have changed, and most spells or abilities come from level ups instead of learning. Is that true or false?

>>94050165
TOA is also hexmap focused and it has to include how to run one, it doesn't include some stuff that's in the DMG so you're supposed to check both for some reasson.

>>94050278
Class balance is something experienced in play; some classes are overall a little better than others, some subclasses specifically peak while some main classes are strong enough to support themselves. The most major thing is that the action economy has been simplified immensely to Action; Bonus Action; Reaction (can be used outside your turn, but only recharges when your turn starts); movement is bespoke with no types of move actions; and an object interaction to speak, draw a sword, open a door, etc. Martial classes gain Extra Attack as a feature and don't have BAB/ multi-attack penalties because their number of attacks is limited by class/actions. Spellcasting has a major nerf by way of Concentration (only one Conc spell active per caster at a time [ you can stack multiple Conc spells on one target, you just need multiple users]), which some 3epf'ers hate.
Casting is no longer Vancian: you have classes with spells known and classes with spells prepared. Known casters typically have smaller lists (bard, sorcerer, ranger, warlock) or fewer known spells but have other stuff going on, whereas prepared casters (cleric, druid, paladin, wizard) have a larger list they prepare a number of spells from. In either case, those lists are what a caster can use by spending spell slots. So if you have a spell prepared and have a slot high enough, you can cast it by spending it.
D20 mechanic hasn't really shifted, but the accuracy/number peaks have been bounded. Your bonus to rolls beyond your ability score are at most your proficiency bonus (or double that for certain classes/feats), meaning you're not adding +28 to hit anymore but you're also not aiming at 30+ AC at any point. It's contentious, but overall it works for the system 5e tries to be for the most part (though Expertise breaks it with no caveats because ???). Most skill proficiencies (and even the skill list has shrunk significantly) will be set from chargen, with only some features or feats adding to those.

are the beedle and grim sets worth it?
is any other company out there making comprehensive sets with maps and minis and everything but with less panache?

>>94050467
>beedle and grim
Absolutely not

>>94049506
Vlad took baths tho. Bathed in the blood of his enemies!

>>94050412
When you say it isn't vancian, it seems very vancian just removing a few steps for others. Still slots, still prepared for the classic wizard. Is that correct?

>>94050702
you can use any slot for any spell prepared now

>>94050716
Ah, so you've a mana bar sort of thing and you choose a number of spells per day to have 'on hand'? And anything else is cast as an extended ritual if you've the feat? I assume reserve feats are long dead.

>>94050702
It isn't Vancian in that you aren't preparing for each slot anymore, just a list of spells. You aren't gonna be kneecapped for not preparing 6 fireballs instead of 5, if you have slots you can cast. Slots are freefloating similar to spontaneous casters. For wizards especially this gives them immense variety. Vancian was basically making every single spell slot into a single spell scroll for the day, in a sense, not so in 5e.
>at 5th level, a wizard has four 1st level, three 2nd level, and two 3rd level spell slots. if their list has Shield (1st), Magic Missile (1st), Scorching Ray (2nd) and Fireball (3rd) on it, they can cast Fireball up to twice using their 3rd level slots, Scorching Ray up to five times using their 2nd and 3rd level slots, and Magic Missile/Shield anywhere between zero and nine times using all or none of their slots

>>94050781
Wizards are just sorcerers that choose their spells known fresh every day. That's it.

>>94049617
>not even remotely backwards compatible by any means
It's mostly backwards compatible. Most stuff works without any issue. What are you talking about?

>>94050781
Somewhat, moreso like bespoke coinage when each spell costs a specific denomination or higher.
Ritual is a specific tag some spells have that lets you cast sans slot for an additional 10 minutes casting time. Wizards especially get benefits from this because as long as you have your spellbook, any ritual spell inscribed in it can be cast, whether you've prepared it or not. Not sure what a reserve feat is in this sense, but feats do exist and come in specific backgrounds and at certain levels varying slightly by class.

>>94050781
>Ah, so you've a mana bar sort of thing and you choose a number of spells per day to have 'on hand'?
sort of, but like notches. So you have 4 lvl1 spells and 2 lvl 2, but you can use the lvl2 to cast a lower spell.
>And anything else is cast as an extended ritual if you've the feat?
no, certain classes can cast a few spells as ritual, meaning they don't spend the slot but it takes 10 minutes.

>>94050795
Reserve feats gave you a minor benefit or action as long as you had a kind of spell memorised and didn't cast it, usually a lesser variant. On demand short range teleportation, or small amounts of damage, etc.

>>94050333
>to use this book you will need to own the PHB, the DMG, the MM and ping pong between them every two sentences and also spend hours per session building usable notes out of our wall-of-text descriptions of areas and encounters
>if your players deviate from the expected actions taken you can either aggressively railroad them back or make up the rest of the book yourself

>>94050818
Oh nothing like that, that sounds kinda cool but very few things in 5e give passive benefits for specific choices. There are some spells with actions granted by their effects like Bigby's Hand, but none that you get just by having a spell prepared.

>>94050781
Sort of. I summarized it poorly. You can use any appropriate levels spell slot for any support prepared of that level or lower. So you have magic missile and shield prepared. You can spend every slot on shield, or every slot for magic missile, or any combination of those spells. You can also use any slot of a higher level. Slots are not longer tied to specific spells.

>>94050823
>>if your players deviate from the expected actions taken you can either aggressively railroad them back or make up the rest of the book yourself
that's most modules tho

>>94050911
yeah, it's almost as if that's the point of modules

>>94050870
Cheers.

>>94050818
5e cantrips do basically the same thing, since they scale with total character level and don't use slots.
There's nothing like jaunt or the elemental summon though.

>>94050781
you also have 3-5 spells you can do at any point as much as you want called cantrips. Some are equivalent to a ranged attack with some effect and others are like minor effects and illusions.

I'm going to be dm-ing for the first time next saturday and im going to run a reskin of lost mines set in my original world. All players are fresh 5e meat, and we'll be playing on roll20.
Any tips, or mindsets i should have in mind?

>>94051286
Prep is underrated

>>94051286
players will take way longer to do things than you expect
1 combat = 1h
1 room in a dungeon with a few things of note = 30min

>>94051286
Play the goblin ambush like the goblins are completely retarded.

>>94051286
Level up after the goblin ambush >>94051375
it will make running the next cave so much easier without having to worry about king clarg getting a crit and starting the PC death spiral.

>>94051427
Let them die

>>94051459
>letting a TPK happen due to DM incompetence
classic /5eggs/

>>94051427
>king clarg getting a crit and starting the PC death spiral
Yeah, we pulled through with only one death (my sorc went down) but that was the first round of combat: a crit that killed our fighter from full health with 30 damage.

>>94051462
That's not the dm's incompetence tho

>>94051473
yes it is

>>94051286
if they seem like they are too passive or don't know how to interact with the world ask them questions about their characters. Getting people talking about the world is a good first step to interacting with it.

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>>94050786
>>94050781
they got rid of one of the main differences between wizards and sorcerers in the new rules
In 5e only certain classes had the ability to ritual cast, like clerics. wizards took it a step further and could ritual cast any spell in their books regardless of it if was prepared or not. in bg3 and 5.24e any class that can cast a spell that has a ritual tag on it can cast it as a ritual. though wizards still have the slight advantage of being able to cast ritual spells out of their books without preparing them
they also gayed it up by standardizing how many spells each class can prepare per day
one chart for full casters
one for half casters
one for third casters
one for warlocks
so sorcerers and wizards have the same number of prepared spells per day, with the only wizard advantage being they can change a spell on as short rest once they hit a certain level and they can ritual cast out of their books

>>94051654
Dog, horse and squirrel are based. Everything else is disgusting. It's weird, like looking at an artist that does have actual talent but squanders it drawing repulsive things.

>>94051892
>realist style that'd be unremarkable from some unpaid monk with a crushing hangover a thousand years ago
>talent
lmao

>>94051892
But there's nothing wrong with the bard girl.

>horse
Oh, ok, checks out.

>>94051878
are you really surprised that they would make the caster powered by charisma and feelings better then the caster that has to read books in millenial writing: the D&D version

>>94051486
How when it's a die roll lmao

>>94052017
yeah I fucking hate CHA casters. bg3 did a similar thing by adding more content for cha casters like all the paladin shit or having a sorcerer shit talk gale because they wanted default durge to be a cha caster

>>94052047
NTA
If you have enough XP to level at that point and the only reason you don't level (and change how the rest of the module plays out) is because the DM doesn't realize that you should, it's clearly DM incompetence. Don't see how you think that comes down to a roll.

>>94052070
I'm not talking about leveling

>>94052088
>[...]about king clarg getting a crit and starting the PC death spiral.

How are you gonna stop a die roll lmao dm incompetency? Lmao

>>94052088
The reply clearly was though.

>>94052105
>the PC has more health
>how could this possibly impact whether they go down to a single crit?
(you)

>>94052088
Yes you are
>Level up after the goblin ambush
Gee anon, how does having almost double the health as a level 1 PC stop PCs from dying from a single crit? Hmmmm, geee I fucking wonder.

>>94052122
That's purely ancillary to what I'm talking about, a single die roll

>>94052132
A crit is a single die roll, you fucking retard

>>94052132
You were talking about what a different anon was talking about, which is leveling up you retarded shitgoblin. I'd call you disingenuous and point out that you're moving the goalposts but I honestly think that you're unaware of that fact simply due to not being able to read more than once sentence at a time.

>>94051878
There are only 4 Ritual spells on the Sorcerer list anyways. And all of them are utility spells.
Comprehend Languages
Detect Magic
Water Breathing
Water Walk
They get the same number of Rituals as a Paladin, and can still only learn or change known spells at level up. And Sorcerer really needed more known spells, and getting a list of 2 per level at 1-5 free spells from subclass that don't count against known is fantastic.


Warlocks get 6 rituals.
Clerics get 12.
Bards get 13
Druids get 14.
Wizards have 16 Ritual spells they can put in their spellbook, and don't need them prepared to use them.

If anything, Sorcerer was barely given anything by being able to cast as a ritual. Unless you're rolling a Divine Soul.

Sorcerer's big stuff is in Metamagic, the Innate Sorcery buff, and the subclass features.

>>94052167
>if anything, Sorcerer was barely given anything by being able to cast as a ritual. Unless you're rolling a Divine Soul.

The ability to ritual cast itself is still a huge buff, because any ritual spells he picks up through any means get the same benefit, and lucky lucky, magic initiate lets you pick up ritual spells and every sorcerer can pick up magic initiate.

>>94052105
>>94052116
>>94051427
>>94051462
this is why inflict wounds was nerfed

>>94052167
cha casters need to be nerfed because only trannies play as cha casters

>>94052293
I thought it was because Crawford is a weenie?

>>94052293
Because too many ShitDM's rely on low level hp and single hit kills to challenge a party?

>>94052150
>>94052149
Crying on the Internet lmao

>>94052349
well then stop crying, you retard

>>94052306
>>94052313
old inflict wounds was a 3d10 attack roll meaning it could crit which is 6d10 or 33 average damage for a level 1 spell. nu inflict wounds is 2d10 half on a con save so it can't crit. everyone's theory is some dev or play tester saw inflict wounds crit one time and thought fuck that and got rid of its ability to crit

>>94052368
>ShitDMs relying on low level hp and one hit kills
called it

>>94052283
>because any ritual spells he picks up through any means get the same benefit,
Only Wizards can cast with a Ritual only in their spellbook, unprepared. How are they getting these spells into their repertoire to cast them?

And if it's via wand/scroll, those wouldn't eat a spell slot, the reason you'd cast as a ritual.

>>94052283
>and every sorcerer can pick up magic initiate
>Two cantrips and an extra level 1 spell
>Can repeat, but only get 2 cantrips and a Level 1 each time
That's a huge waste instead of taking War Caster and ASIs.

>>94052430
In 2014, sorcerers couldn't cast as a ritual at all. Having it is still a big boost compared to not.
>Only Wizards can cast with a Ritual only in their spellbook

Yea, that's fine, that's a wizard thing. Sorcerers have meta magic. If you wanna sit there and complain that your sorcerer doesn't play like a wizard, then play a wizard.

>>94052475
It's not a waste if you want to invest into playing a sorcerer with lots of rituals
>human: magic initate
>background: magic initate
they way they neutered ritual caster was criminal
that's two more rituals

>>94052068
>having a sorcerer shit talk gale
brb, starting a sorc playthrough

>>94052430
in 2014 sorcerers and warlocks always had to use a spell slot to cast spells, now they can ritual cast

>>94051878
Goong to admit, I skipped 3 because of all the marketing on how 'horny' it was. And because I bought the original when it came out using carefully hoarded pocket money - I think I still have the foldout cd wallet somewhere. Is it actually worthwhile or is it just shitty porn?

>>94052869
nta but I will unironically argue that 3.5e is the best edition if you're willing to sink time into it. It's not perfect but it's far closer to my ideal version of D&D than 5e.

>>94052938
he is talking about bg3
>>94052869
its not bad. the combat is fun. the issues I've had with it are that they obviously spent the most time on act 1 so once you finish act 2 the game falls off, all the characters are gay rapists and become unlikeable because of that, a lot of what's cool about the game is only cool the first time playing it, then it becomes a slog and apparently trannies bitched about stuff during the early access period so larian did everything they could to rewrite shit to be worse
for instance, in the early access wyll was a spiteful conman and a liar, that's gone now he is just mass effect 2 jacob and halsin, based on data mined stuff, accidently murdered another character and was caused a war causing him a ton of grief, but in the full release he is just a horny bear man who will fuck your gf and invite himself into orgies and will turn every conversation into being about how he was once a sex slave and once fucked a bear and how he wants to fuck your girlfriend and then you inthe ass

thinking about having goblins and bugbears sailing around in my archipelago arc with some Malaysian pirate aesthetic vibes
any cool ideas around this?
or a better race to switch them
I already have plenty of aquatic races under the water

>>94051343
>1 combat = 1h
Underestimation for newbees honestly

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>>94052990
>goblinoids

Pacific islander dwarves, sailing around, pirating what they can. The best sailors and the best navigators with the best ships. Weapons of choice are spears, tridents, and torches. They all carry around booze for drinking and fire breathing attacks.

You can even steal Disney's maui and claim he's a crafter instead of trickster and a lot of the cool shit that exists is because he made it (the sun was the original flame in his forge that he gave up in order to light up the world, the breeze was created from bellows he first pressed, the tides are caused by the thrashing of a monster he himself caged (he also made the cage etc.)

>>94052869
you can trivialise the entire game by using area spells like Wall of Fire or Spike Growth, the AI even on the hardest possible difficulty just completely melts and is forced to either stand around and do nothing/spam impotent ranged attacks at you or walk directly into your fuckpile of stacked area denial spells that instakills everything that enters
i stopped playing by the end of act 2 because it was pissing me off how larian have no fucking idea how to design a boss in 5e even after they went through all the effort of rejigging the system, the legendary actions are a fucking joke that make no sense, the encounters are all boring and i don't care about any of the characters and their extremely mary sue backstories

>>94052990
I think aquatic goblins is a great idea. Them as a seafaring people is fun. Goblins with ivory scimitars, bugbears wielding shark-toothed clubs, maybe a hobgoblin with a fishing spear.

>still no destitched immaculate photocopy
I thought this industry was filled with nerds.

>>94041513
>How important is travel in your games?
Just hexcrawl ffs.
DMs that don't use hexcrawl are shit DMs.

>>94043354
Do people really?
How does one fall for AI?
HOWWWWWWW!?

>>94053500
The kinds of people that rip and scan books don't pay for 5e

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I am planning on running a 5.24 campaign soon by mashing together LMoP and Essentials Kit adventures. I was thinking about adding some dungeons from anthology books but which ones would fit in the most? I have considered adding Sunless Citadel thanks to the Gulthias Tree (thus creating a connection with Essentials Kit) and Against the Giants as a lategame.
Any suggestions?

>>94049227
I think "barbarian" is best understood as a melee combatant whose power is rooted in entering a flow state and connecting with their "killer instinct" rather than in mental discipline and carefully honed technique. Most frequently that'll mean a savage warrior from a primitive society like we tend to imagine a barbarian being, but there's no reason it can't be someone civilised. In fact, if you dropped a pampered civilian who'd never seen a fight into a dangerous adventure and he found he actually had an aptitude for fighting and became a capable combatant, it would probably be from him fighting like a barbarian - it's a much more natural fighting style for an untrained normie to successfully adopt in a survival situation.

>>94053522
There's a lot more than AI going on in that story. Have you seriously never heard of a waifuist before despite posting on 4chan? Or in this case I guess, a, err, husbandoist? Husbandophile?

>>94051654
the dragonborn is alrightish, nothing special, weird posture. the bard is cringe, the woman would be alright but the little dog ruins it and the pink haired halfling thief downgrades the whole picture heavily

>>94053595
>a melee combatant whose power is rooted in entering a flow state and connecting with their "killer instinct"
So a Monk?

>>94053671
>rather than mental discipline and carefully honed technique
Anon, I...

>>94053681
>Anon
Yes fren?

>>94052990
The pirate flagship is mysteriously capable of running down any ship that catches it's sight. It turns out that it has propellers that are powered by a cave troll or some other giant monster thing they have caged up below deck that springs out as the final boss.

>>94053540
there's a whole-ass expansion to lmop now (shattered obelisk) which might offer some inspiration

>>94053916
LMoP has had DLC since 2019

>paladin
>wielding a staff
>forgo points in STR & pump up CHA >magic initiate druid feat to gain shillelagh
This works in BG3, is the same true in tabletop?

>>94053952
yeah but those were side quests
shattered obelisk is an entire campaign

>>94053668
I have, but I just can't imagine.
I grew up with IRC. Chat bots and the like.
I grew up playing all the Bioware dating Sims.
I don't get it. Never will. Nothing will ever beat physical touch, affection and sex.

>>94053668
There literally is not a single challenging thing about a make-believe relationship.
Courtship, challenges and fights are the coolest part of a relationship!

>>94054103
>There literally is not a single challenging thing about a make-believe relationship.
I gave up after literally years of trying to give my tulpa a voice

>>94054093
not really

Why did WotC take Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes and Volo's Guide to Monsters, mash them together, remove all the interesting stuff, and make the remaining stuff garbage?
Why did they remove MTOF and VGTM from print for this?
Why do monsters suddenly have Harry Potter style spell laser attacks that are not actually spells?

>>94054119
What happened to you tulpa after that? Did you abandon her? Does she live in your head, mourning what could have been and cursing you, cursing herself, for not being able to manifest audibly and give you what you needed?

>>94054085
>24
yes
>14
no

opinions on Storm Kings Thunder?
we're halfway through and I think its bad

>>94052548
>>94052806
You're still not showing how it's a big advantage when you're not getting many spells to do it, and have to take a bad feat to get more.

>>94054544
module as written is a bit hamfisted and requires a DM to do a lot of work to rectify the entire setup and payoff. Shame cause there's a lot of interesting stuff in the sandbox chapter.
My personal homebrew for SKT (spoilers below)

Iymrith is still the main antagonist but her motivation is more fleshed out. She orchestrated the giant chaos (no ordning bullshit) to sow death and destruction across the land so her cult (instead of the kraken society) can reap souls to make herself a dracolich.
Her cult is actually the cult of Nil who she turned to after Tiamat's failure in ToD.

So there are basically 2 subplots:
1. giant attacks and giant battles everywhere, this remains largely unchanged from the module
2. the Cult of Nil has cells across the lands reaping souls and collecting ingredients for the lich ritual, so players may come across a battlefield with lots of dead bodies and find a cult caravan performing strange rituals, Iymrith takes harshnag prisoner instead of killing him, she needs the Giant heart for her lich concoction, and so on for the other 'ingredients'. Now characters have a couple of more hooks to connect to earlier in the adventure.

I also changed a few giant boss encounters to be outright sieges, it's supposed to be a war between the littles and giants, but nowhere in the module do you get the feeling this is the case. Citadel adbar/feldbar are good candidates for doing a a helms deep style defense against the fire giants. My players absolutely loved this.

Oh I also introduced Klauth early as a secretly evil patron for the party in the form of a waterdhavian noble, otherwise the whole klauth boon comes out of nowhere and feels whack.

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>>94051343
>>94051375
noted!
>>94051427
Was considering this. Will go with the ebb and flow of the table, wouldn't want to completely stop the adventure just to level up to 2.

>>94051324
Prepping has been t he bane of my week so far. So many things, so many maps, npcs, everything to keep track of...

How do you long-time DMs prep for sessions?

>>94054948
>How do you long-time DMs prep for sessions?
don't overthink it, especially with lmop
the encounters are quite good so you can just refer to the text when combat starts and don't need to memorize
your players will forget more about most npcs than you know, so it doesn't matter much and just wing it when roleplaying

Is the super skill monkey build still viable in 5.5?
In 5e you could do
Knowledge Cleric
Lore Bard
Scout Rogue
to have expertise in 10/18 skills and proficiency in the rest by level 7. You could then level up bard or rogue to do a support or DPS role.

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>>94055000
Currently imo the best 'Skill Monkey' is probably a Human Soulknife Rogue. You can start the game off with picking up the Skilled feat twice. Giving you..
>x2 Skilled: 6 Skill Profs
>Background: 2 Skill Profs
>Human's Skillful: 1 Skill Prof
>Rogue: 4 Skill Profs & 2 Expertise
13/18 Skill Profs and 2 Expertises at level 1. Then by level 4 you can pick up Skill Expert to get 1 Skill Prof and 1 Expertise (plus a stat boost). Then at level 6 you get 2 more Expertise then at level 7 you'd get Reliable Talent for 14 Skills you're Prof in and the 5 you have expertise in.
Soul Knife is the best imo because of this
>Psi-Bolstered Knack. If you fail an ability check using a skill or tool with which you have proficiency, you can roll one Psionic Energy Die and add the number rolled to the check, potentially turning failure into success. The die is expended only if the roll then succeeds.
If you multiclass 3 levels into Bard you could go Lore Bard and net 4 more profs putting you at 18 Skill Profs and 2 more Expertise. So by level 10 you'd have proficiency in all skills and expertise in 7 Skills.

>>94055136
Yeah but why? Does your DM miraculously make every skill check relevant all the time? When's the last time you rolled a history, let alone a performance check?

>>94055184
Idk why make a Super Skill Monkey to begin with? Maybe you just want to be skilled at everything you can be.

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>>94055184
>When's the last time you rolled a history, let alone a performance check?
Sometimes you ask questions or do things that cause skills to trigger. You don't always have to rely on the DM to push you into making a check- you can be proactive and cause those to happen.
>Example: You're about to go hunt a Dragon. You ask your DM what your PC knows about this particular type of Dragon, such as its abilities, common type of temperament, general desires, how they fight, etc. The DM can then call for a Nature check.

>>94054948
Prep one hour a day until game time. Anymore than that, you risk burnout

>>94055136
My next character, wow

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Can anyone think of a reason why my friend does NOT want us to organize his minis? He is strangely vehemently opposed.
>Friend collects minis as a hobby
>Our group has also contributed minis to the collection as well
>Had boxes labelled 'character models' 'enemies' 'large enemies' etc
>About 15 years ago is when he stopped organizing them
>Now minis are strewn everywhere, piled up in boxes and on shelves
>In fact I came into the game room one day to find a 10 year old box finally fall apart and all the minis on the floor
>Can't find certain minis so we use coins
>Offer to bring in a free multi shelf storage bin from work
>Get told no
>Try and press, say it'll be good to get all our minis organized
>Get told NO
>And that's the end of that conversation
Just seems weird he doesn't want his mini's organized.

>>94056097
Maybe he's got a bunch of coomer kingdom death minis in there

>>94054103
>Courtship, challenges and fights are the coolest part of a relationship!
To women maybe.

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Anyone here up for elf watching? I know a nice stream they like to gather.
>Tell me about your hirelings, henchmen, and minions, /5eg/. What makes them special?
My party's tank has like six orc henchmen, we just kind of throw them at our problems. It's kind of boring to be honest, but he's the DM's brother so I can't say anything.

>>94056097
Hoarder mindset
He likes his mess the way it is and any suggestion that whiffs of 'cleaning up' is too confronting

/5eg/, what do you think about all attacks/saves having a minor effect on a miss?

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What's your favorite type of familiar? Do you go for the classical animal familiar or something more sprite like a pixie or imp?

>>94056805
Don’t really like it in pf2e (spells)

>>94054085
in 2024 yeah, but you still need 15 str or 14 dex to wear armor

>>94054655
you can get the feat for free when you pick your class or by playing as a human and its a buff when they get a feature they didn't have in the old rules.

Would you grant advantage on checks if players roleplay really well? Like if a player is very specific in persuading or looking at specific interactions to gain insight?

>>94055331
>Okay, you can make that check but it'll take your action.
Every time. No fucking way would I do that instead of casting a spell or making an attack. Insane.

>>94057044
yep

>>94057287
At my tablenI rule that more passive abilities (history, nature, insight, etc..) can be done instead if movement without losing acton but active abilities (athletics, acrobatics,...) do

>>94056841
Panther or faerie dragon

>>94057044
Yes, sometimes I reduce the DC as well and in some cases I don't have them roll at all.

>>94053335
>Pacific islander dwarves, sailing around, pirating what they can. The best sailors and the best navigators with the best ships. Weapons of choice are spears, tridents, and torches. They all carry around booze for drinking and fire breathing attacks.
thanks but I already have boreal/inuit dwarves that live on their magically frozen island in the middle of the tropical ones

>>94057476
>don't have them roll at all
One of the best pieces of DMing advice I heard was from WebDM "if you don't want a PC to fail a roll, why are you having them roll to begin with? Just have them do the thing".

>>94057044
That's what inspiration is for dude.

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I'm probably crazy to even dream about this, but what are the chances that the new Monster Manual includes random encounter tables?

>>94057840
Zero

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>>94057840
>Dalelands
>Orc approaches peasant woman with his tiny little handaxe: "Fear me, human, i shall rape and feast on your body tonight"
>Peasant girl: "FLAME ON MOTHERFUCKER!" Activates flame tongue Scythe
Holy shit i'm laughing so hard at this cover rn

>>94057891
Raiding a farmstead in the Dalelands is like robbing a house in Appalachia. Not only are the residents armed, they're probably packing some kind of malformed descendant of the blunderbuss loaded with used heroin needles and human teeth.

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>>94057840
Some relatively recent books included encounter tables, complete with a really bizarre version of reaction rolls. I can't imagine current-year WotC giving us anything more expansive than pic related, though. The ones in Xanathar's are as close as 5e is likely to get.

>Human character with dwarfism recentful of being assumed to be a halfling.
How stupid is this for a bit character?

>>94058208
resentful*
I don't know why my spellchecker was fine with that.

>>94056943
So you're just dumb, gotcha.

>>94054216
Because the demon worshippers that run the world are required to give you a glimpse of what hell is like.

So they create these fantastic, entertaining spectacles and novelties that are fun and interesting, but clearly steeped in demonic influence. Like dungeons and dragons, rock and roll, and TV and video games. But due to metaphysical laws, demons have to make their distractions shitty and gay by bureaucratically raping everything fun to death. This way, even the most braindead normie can at least have a chance at parsing the truth that everything demons promise and give you is actually going to be taken away in the end.

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which ones did you get?

>>94058552
I had no idea this was a thing until you just posted it, going to the lego store asap

>>94058601
you can use an app to scan the qr code and find out which one is in the box to get the ones you want. no need to gamble with blind boxes

mind you the dragonborn paladin is being wiped by scalpers

>>94058339
you literally play as a cha caster. you are retarded and a tranny and ugly

>>94058552
Bought three and got the mindflayer, druid and tasha

was hoping for the tiefling but coulda been worse

>goliath hill giant wizard
>hit an enemy who won't have their turn for a while with sickening ray
>make them fall over (no save) so the fighter/barb can rape them to death
Seems kind of kino

>>94058692
You forgot
>have your Summon Undead attack for no-save paralysis

>>94058552
I just spent $200 on a single D20, I'm not wasting more of my money on literal garbage.

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HALFLINGS!

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>>94059089
nothing to blame but yourself to miss out on this $360 absolute bargain :^)

>Hey wizards, do you make minis for all of the characters and monsters in your adventures?
>We sure do!
>Awesome! I’d like to buy all the minis for this adventure i’m going to dm.
>Ooh. If you want them all your best bet is to buy a brick for $160 which contains ~40 minis, but there are 52 total in that series and we can’t guarantee you won’t get duplicates so best to buy two bricks. oh also a couple key npcs and larger enemies don’t come in blind boxes and have their own sets but we’re totally out of stock of those sorry!

blind boxes are the fucking devil

>>94059130
the color palette of puke

>>94059130
I mean yeah, I will miss out on the obvious scalping potential. But only living pieces of shit care about that.

>>94059089
Post the D20

>>94059185
Just but the individual pieces for less than a dollar, c'mon

>>94059254
where?

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>>94059248
Ever since the whole Pokemon TCG price surge in 2020 I started looking into some of the other rare collectibles I had, and found out that not only was this one D12 I bought in 2010 discontinued, but the glitter involved in making it is apparently used in European bank notes nowadays and considered contraband over there. It took four years of dutifully checking eBay and after seeing only two other instances of this kind of die being sold, one in a complete polyset for over $1,000, I finally found this bad boy.

Behold the Chessex Green w/ White Borealis D20.

>>94059333
I Google them

>>94059386
Nice