>>97140444
>TQ
Warlord. A martial support class like that always tickles me just right.

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Second for The Kingdom of Furyondy

>>97140444
Shaman

>>97140444
>TQ
Either an actual wizard derived half-caster or a shaman.

I feel like I can always improvise how to play a celestial ( good or chaotic), a devil, a demon, and any associated creatures etc. I get them completely. If my player randomly summoned one and I had 0s to prep, I would know exactly how they'd behave, talk, etc

but Fey... always feels like - I hate to say it - but random
inb4 that's the point

I dont know how to explain it's just there arent easy shortcuts, and so many different kinds of fey.

Are they the hardest to nail down as a dm?

Sure I can make the evil queen of ice obsessed with her beauty
or the carnie/harlequin/theatrical jokster
or the bad irish accent small thing whatever
or the odd group of childlike pranking friends in over their head
or the horned hunter lord
or the easiest any hag offering a bargain too good to be true

but always feel like im missing something

anyway thanks for reading my blog

>>97140519
I have avoided this by simply never having fey characters in my campaigns. I don't really care for fey nonsense distractions, we've got demons and aberrations to fight.

>>97140528
I have one extremely good player and I want to reward her with more backstory related stuff which is Fey-linked, so it's been bothering me

>>97140468
Shaman would be dope, specifically something that leans into ancestor spirit worship and healing/buffs/necromancy based on that. Maybe something between a Druid and a Warlock with some basic martial ability?

>>97140519
>>97140545
Good on you for wanting to reward her. Maybe try to figure out what you find most interesting about Fey creatures and try to build off that. I like the whole fairy-tale contract thing where someone ends up being bound to a Fey creature's service because of a careless word or by being tricked into agreeing with something more than they'd thought was asked of them. Is that a hook you could use?

>>97140613
>Good on you for wanting to reward her. Maybe try to figure out what you find most interesting about Fey creatures and try to build off that. I like the whole fairy-tale contract thing where someone ends up being bound to a Fey creature's service because of a careless word or by being tricked into agreeing with something more than they'd thought was asked of them. Is that a hook you could use?

backstory basics we workshopped together was she accidentaly went into feywilde as a child, grew up there, but was banished by a fey lord for poaching or something, and can only return after slaying 1001 worthy beasts in the material plane. Right now she's on the hunt for a deep dragon, the party is in underdark. They should kill it within a few sessions so I wanna mark that as a big moment for her character and have some reveals/developments, especially because she joined halfway so havent spent too much time on her character yet

I was thinking some possible twists
- she has some brother who also ended up in feywilde but he's working for rival court or something, she doesnt remember him but resemblence is striking, and he's trying to stop her from doing something
- or she is (or has) a clone fetch, ie a duplicate of the actual human child, she just doesn't know it (either as a player or character), and the real kid is still alive and fine
- or the time she grew up in the feywilde didnt pass in the material plane, so there are parents still looking for a small child missing in the woods everyday, she doesn't remember them of course

I also have been having a "fey vault" in a "domain of coin/greed" where they sometimes receive a coin from a few creature they help and can magically teleport to this bank/museum run by goblin that allow them to pick wacky items in exchange for coins, my players always love when those come back, especially because the items aren't identifiable (But they spent 1 coin to buy a catalog)

>>97140444
>TQ

Knight of st. ydris

>>97140461
I ran a campaign where the PCs were the court of Kalinstren who get drive out of their lands during the Greyhawk Wars by Iuz.

>>97140444
Needs more black women

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>>97140814
Nobody would complain about black women in D&D art if they looked more like this.

>>97140809
Nice, I'm iffy on the GH wars, I usually run my games in 576CY

>>97137059
>>97139125
>>97139610
Alright so for running Wild Beyond the Witchlight for my table I think I'm going to use the Carnival as a litmus test.
If they're able to sink their teeth into the RP and play along with the whimsy then I'll stick to just adding the temporary fey curses and boons tables I'm making (d100, breaking fey rules or decorum or pissing off the DM will cause a random curse ranging from funny to deadly, obeying fae bullshit well and playing along gets a boon ranging from funny to OP as shit)
If they wind up ruining the Carnival and blitzing through every situation without much fanfare I'll figure out some daily encounters to add in to the mix

>>97140829
>my dark elf breasts boobily down the stairs, enticing the guardsmen so my compatriots can sneak by
>roll charisma
>1
>the alerted guards shout "no spice no rice" as they draw their blades

How's 2024 war cleric?

>>97141037
Really good and fun. You should play one and form your own opinion though.

>>97140758
I looked up this class, looks pretty cool

I'm a decade late to the party but man looking at the fluff for the Greatwyrms in Fizban's and no wonder they're confused with gods in the fluff.
>bunch of really old dragons combine power
>result is explicitly greater than the sum of it's parts
>skills and presumably carry over too
The moment you take that kind of archetype and apply it to a dragon who isn't a lazy fuck you'd get something hilariously broken with 100+ character levels scattered over random shit since even a bunch of level 5s stack up fast. This feels like the kind of concept that shouldn't show up outside of an Epic handbook.

Is a stress/madness/sanity system a bad idea?

>>97141413
Depends on the genre you're going for.

>>97141414
Just a general horror theme but I wasn't sure if something like that meshed with 5e well.

>>97141418
I'd imagine that sort of game is gonna revolve around avoiding combat in a lot of ways because things just aren't as spooky when ripping their dicks off is a viable option.

>>97141422
Ah yeah. I should probably just leave it to horror "theme'd" and not actual horror then cause my friends probably still want to roll dice and fight stuff.

>>97141413
>>97141418
This >>97141422 tends to be the big problem.
I tend to find the closest you can get to horror is a mystery being somewhat spooky. Where a monster might be picking off the townsfolk and the PCs are tasked with finding out what it is and tracking it down.

Madness/sanity doesn't really add to that. Since typically as soon as the PCs see the scary monster they're going to try and kill the scary monster. Those sorts of rules tend to work better in the context of cursed items, madness-inducing plagues, or things of that nature. Stuff that the players can lean into by roleplaying a descent into madness, with the upside that a cursed weapon driving them mad probably makes them better at killing things.

>>97141470
Makes sense. It's why Curse of Strahd has the Amber sarcophagi in the Amber temple. I have some ideas that'll probably work.

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haven't played in a bit and just been making builds, thoughts on a Monk multiclass idea, Cleric or Druid? I know it's better to just go all in on straight Monk but generally which do you guys think you end up getting more out of with a 3-5 dip?

I'm kind of new to 5e how long before they release 5.5 versions of the other subclasses?

>>97141917
who knows

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>remove ability score increases at character creation being determined by race
>now they're tied to background instead
for what purpose

>>97142337
To reminds everyone to use Tasha's

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>Didn't have time to prepare for shit
>Group confirms everyone can today last moment
>I have 2 hours and I haven't eaten nor cleaned the house, and need to prepare the session
Fuckfuckfuck

>>97142337
To change them from being intrinsic racial traits and instead that they're things you develop as you grow.

anybody have an actual good hexcrawl procedure for 5e?
the more i go into the rabbithole the more garbage I read (every fucker who has dmed for 3 months seems to have his own blog with overlong articles about his own perfect procedure)

things that are objectively good: giving players clear choices, sense of wonder, exploration, freedom, surprising even the dm with random encounters, which makes for fun improv and scenarios

things that suck: unclear procedures or steps (do you find everything in an hex? do you travel inside the hex or only between hexes? how do players know they should keep searching a hex or move on? etc), when more time is spent resolving weather/lost/veer/travel/encounters than actually engaging with encounters, conversely when normal behaviors might break the system or result in loss of immersion (going backwards etc)

considering maybe point crawl maybe instead

I guess im dreaming of finding something that actually works out there instead of having to come up with my own custom like everything 5e

>>97142337
That's one of the good things from 2024

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is there a way to do some funny fairy trickeries? as a player character i mean

>>97142901
How'd you go?

>>97145190
In what way? There are several fey-themed subclasses and plenty of illusion/enchantment spells.
What is it you're actually trying to do?

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>>97145857
2 players character died, but I think we all had fun

The fighter was captured last session and was used by druids as sacrifice, literally like this:
https://youtu.be/H__Ta_PiBU8?t=36

The barbarian died because he went alone in a 1vs10 and the bard and rogue had to retreat leaving the fighter to die.
But he had a character ready ( since he knew him dying was a possibility before the session) so when the inn was under siege by the druids we had a pretty epic siege battle. I think everyone was pretty satisfied with the result

>>97145999
Fuck yeah

>>97145993
vanishing people away, causing madness, abducting stuff. you know, stupid malevolent stuff.

noob here, how can you capture a monster alive without harming it, using non magic shit like nets ropes chains, but I'm getting confused trying to actually understand grappled incapacitated prone and restrained conditions

>>97146113
>causing madness
That's a bit easier. Crown of Madness, Bestow Curse, and Symbol are all good spells for that. There aren't really any class features that would be particularly better for causing long-term madness.

>vanishing people away, abducting stuff
This is probably the harder part. Teleporting yourself is one thing, teleporting other people, or unwilling people especially tends to be restricted to higher levels. The 2014 rules let you Plane Shift someone directly to the Feywild, but that's a 7th level spell.
Funnily enough I think the best option there is actually Artificer. You only need two levels in order to make your own Bag of Holding, which is a very good way to be able to shove someone in a bag and carry them wherever you need to go. They only have enough air for 10 minutes, but that's still quite a lot of time for trying to escape.

Beyond Artificer, I'd say Wizard actually gets you most of the spells you'd want. Illusionist or Enchantment being the most trickery-focused there. Glamour Bard or Fey Warlock are also options, but the Charisma focus doesn't overlap with Artificer as much, and they each miss out on some helpful spells. You don't really need more than 13 Int for 2 levels in Artificer though, so it's still quite viable.

>>97142337
So minmaxers will stop bitching about non-optimal racial choices.

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>>97146383
i was thinking about going divine soul since we're "patching" it for 2024, which we are playing, by choosing one cleric domain's spell lists. so divine soul with the trickery spell list is what gave me the idea

Racial bonuses sound flavourful but don't really create that fantasy. It would tell more of a story if you couldn't distribute ability scores so freely in the first place and you were comparing your character to the average person rather than to other potential PCs with the same stats but different racial bonuses
>my race gets +2 intelligence, demonstrating their keen intellect and vast cultural knowledge! anyway I rolled a 7 and I'm dumping INT so I'm still dumber than a commoner
>my race doesn't get a strength bonus but I am putting 9 point buy points into it so it's still a 15. my muscle elf is way brawnier than my 8+2=10 STR "orcs are naturally strong" cleric buddy

>>97146302
>how can you capture a monster alive without harming it
Well, first and foremost, it's worth noting that if you reduce a creature to 0 HP with a melee attack, you have the option to render it unconscious instead of killing it, according to RAW.

Putting that aside though
>conditions
Grappled is something you can achieve with a free hand in place of one of your attacks. Restrained is something that sometimes gets paired with Grappled as a stronger grab, but can also be its own thing.
For example, a Crocodile bite grapples and restrains someone, while a Net only restrains someone.
>incapacitated
This is more typically linked to other conditions. Paralyzed, Petrified, Stunned, Unconscious. Basically it's a shorthand for someone who can't act at all.
>Prone
Not really relevant to capture. It combines well with Grappled, because you can easily knock someone prone and then grab them to prevent them from standing back up, but that's about it.

>ropes chains
These are better defined within the 2024 rules, where you can apply them to a grapples, incapacitated, or restrained creature. The big difficulty with using them is that the DC to escape makes it possible for a bound creature to free themselves within a matter of minutes as long as they're constantly using actions to try to escape.
To some extent you probably want to talk to your DM about this if you're planning on making a dedicated monster-catcher sort of character.

>>97146628
I opted not to mention Sorcerer since it lacked Bestow Curse and Symbol as some of the better madness-inducing options, but Divine Soul actually solves that by getting access to the Cleric list. Modify Memory is another good one Trickery gives you there.
I'm less sure Divine Soul's other features are particularly helpful for Fey Trickery, but the spells are what's going to be doing most of the heavy lifting here anyway. That and the possibility of shoving your enemies into a bag.

Though with the 2024 rules there's also another option there. Namely, magic-item crafting means that for 10 days of work, 200gp of materials, and the right tool proficiency, you can make your own bag of holding. Multiple, in fact. That cuts out any need to fiddle with Artificer levels in order to ensure access.
That could also combine with the 2024 Bastion rules in order to give yourself a place to keep whoever you're abducting. I forget if there's a specific facility for storing prisoners though.

>>97146674
Brilliant explanation thank you so much!!!

>>97146649
That's because racial bonuses merely influence the average.
Personally what I dislike more is that WotC has consistently removed other flavorful features at the same time as removing ability scores. They didn't bother to replace the modifiers with anything interesting.

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>>97146628
This is how I built it when we converted to 24 mid-campaign, but it's just "gains access to Cleric list" plus a set of spells that would make sense for a character in the good-aligned zone.

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need some advice, anons.

I've been playing in a curse of strahd campaign and we just hit level 4, which means feat time. I'm currently playing a full support tiefling bard whose only source of damage comes from Firebolt(the DM let me take it due to some confusion at chargen), which is from his infernal heritage. I plan to multiclass into Sorc to play up him embracing the devil flames to help people(yes, generic I know).

It's feat time though, and if I take a feat that gives me +1 Int(he's a travelling wiseman of exiled elven descent, and the party face/general lore skillsbitch), he'll get to his next modifier, so I was looking at these feats. I'm leaning towards the tiefling feat, but...

>Flames of Phlegethos(Tiefling feat) - reroll 1s for damage when doing Fire Damage, also everything in a 5 foot radius catches fire if it can, and if enemies attack me they take damage
>Observant: can read lips and get +5 Passive Perception(he currently has the highest passive perception already)
>Linguist : gain 3 more languages and can make ciphers
>Keen Mind: always know which way is north and can accurately recall anything he has seen or heard in the last month
>Skill Expert

>>97143081
That one icelandic youtuber had what I felt like was a decent video on hex crawling but I haven't delved as much as you anon and so it may in fact be slop

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>really like the Øone’s Blueprints
>can't fucking use them on VTT because there's no toggle for GM/Player maps

>>97148514
Should just remake them in dungeondraft, you can drop an image in the program and just trace it.

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>>97148534
I'm trying to reduce prep time by using assets from other people but I hate most dungeon layouts. If I'm tracing like that I might as well make my own. This is one of the levels I made for a dungeon.

>>97148545
Ah yeah I feel you then.

So they didn’t reprint the Gunner feat in the new Artificer Book- meaning if you’re strictly using 2024 rules your only method to removing the loading property on a Firearm is to get the magic weapon Repeating Shot… which is attunement and a specific item so you couldn’t get something like a Vicious Weapon with that property without homebrew.

creation bard makes a barrel of oil (32gp) and lights it. wdyd?

>>97149140
Also random question time: If I gave a Homunculus Servant or Summon Construct a Dancing Weapon what does the dancing sword use for its attack and damage roll?

>>97148545
How many hours does it take your party to clear that?

>>97147573
well the only way to get fairy hijinks and some cleric spells at the same time would be to have the hijinks in the prepared spell list i believe. thought trickery cleric's list would be fine enough and not too broken. but i have no clue about why certain things could be unbalanced or not, that's why i refrained from building my own list

Tell me your homebrew rules to make combat more fun.

>>97149409
I find making combat more fun isn’t about house rules. It’s about interesting, varied enemies, spellcasters especially help. And it’s also about maps with terrain and features to make the combats feel more interesting.

>>97140444
>If you could pick a single class to add to 5e which would it be?
Warlock.

>>97142337
It's for a shitty political purpose. Just ignore it. Choose what races are in your world, give them attributes, give them powers, press print. Hand out to players. No terrible cuck 2025 stuff, no shitty Tasha's mush, and if a race sucks at being a class that's cause you made it that way.

I don't know where to ask this but like, what era of sailors should I look at for reference for a typical DnD setting?

>>97142337
The new background rules are one of the worst decisions of this edition.

>>97142935
didn't they already do that with the tasha's rules, where you could just do any 3 +1 or 1 +2 and 1 +1?

>>97149507
Huh?

Are there any settings where gnomes don't suck?
>inb4 Eberron
Nobody actually cares for Zilargo's gnomes as characters that can be encountered and interacted with, they're only appreciated in their vague capacity as a big unknowable mystery blob that sees and hears everything but can itself never be directly observed by the players.

>>97149177
I ask him to describe what he’s trying to achieve, how he’s going about it, and then confirm whether the other player characters are going to try to stop him.

His stated goals may well be successful, but it’s highly likely that the situation won’t remain controlled.

I have a question, which I know will sound quite MMO, but Which class or subclass is the most powerful in tier 1 and somewhat in tier 2? I'm talking roughly from level 3 to level 7 and around there.
I know that "more powerful" is quite vague in D&D because there are many things players can do that feel significant in certain situations, some more than others. But I mean in the combat sense, like "stronger in terms of versatility and damage output."

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Whats the worst that can happen if you form a pact with Succubus?

>>97151496
Torture and death.

>>97151496
"activities of passion"

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>>97151496
Their MO is making people miserable and then killing them once things can't get any worse, so imagine all the ways your life could be ruined and then imagine someone going out of their way to make that happen.

>>97151829
>>97152006
>>97152068
Why did you reply to him? That's just an horny Devil and not an Tana'ri.

>>97152113
>an

Mortal (Male) & Baatezu (Male) romantic (abusive, BDSM) love.

>>97152113
I like to talk about succubi and baatezu in general.

>>97152323
could tanar and baatezu fell in love?

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How are we feeling about the new changelings gaining near-universal advantage on all Charisma checks?

The new changelings in Eberron: Forge of the Artificer are mostly the same as those in Monsters of the Multiverse, down to being fey... but "While shape-shifted with this trait, you have Advantage on Charisma checks."

I find it somewhat dull. It is just flat-out advantage on all Charisma checks, even those completely unrelated to impersonation. There is no longer any impetus to try to gain advantage on Charisma checks.

>>97152841
I think part of that is just how some of the rules work now in 2024. A Disguise Kit adds your proficiency bonus to checks, but gives you Advantage instead if you have proficiency with a skill as well.
So someone with proficiency in Disguise Kits and Deception trying to fool someone with a disguise would roll the same thing as a shapeshifted Changeling: Deception with proficiency and advantage.

It also just gives it an edge over simply casting Disguise Self, which is also a positive for making a racial trait feel more useful.

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>>97153059

But the changeling would gain advantage even on Charisma checks totally unrelated to deception.

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>>97149177
Something along the lines of
>"I don't think there are rules on an oil barrel being lit on fire, so how about we use the Keg of Alchemist Fire to accomplish this? Sound good?"
And then do that.
>>97152841
>"While shape-shifted with this trait, you have Advantage on Charisma checks."
It's probably fine- you can use this as a Sorcerer, Paladin, Bard, or Warlock to have automatic advantage on all Dispel Magic ability checks. Outside of that, it's excellent in social encounters. I've read some people don't like it cause its tougher for GMs to give bonuses in those moments- which I don't agree with since you can just reduce the DC needed for that check for good Roleplay.

>>97153132
And? The changeling could also use their shapeshifting to make themselves look more beautiful, or more scary.
It just seems like a real non-issue. If racial traits were still more detailed and complicated, then maybe it'd be an inconsistency worth caring about. But the Changeling only has two listed features, so cutting out half the situations in which one of them applies is just sort of cruel.

>>97152433
No.

>>97146649
I keep racial bonuses and added background bonuses, then added a simple restriction:
>Ability score increases from races and backgrounds cannot increase a score above 16.
So you can always cap any ability score from a background’s +1, but members of a given race will still on average be more adept in their increased ability score.

>>97152841
i dont care because i control what i allow in my game

>>97147837
Which Sorcerer subclasses will you go for? Bit of a shame that there is no fiendish Sorc' subclasses in the mainline book; I do recall that Brancalonia has the Heresiarch, but it doesn't go beyond 6. Also whats you Bard subclass
I wouldn't go with Linguist as it probably won't be that useful in CoS and its hard to justify suddenly knowing 3+ more language in such campaign.
I'd go with Skill expert or Observant, these are the more mechanically sound imo

How the fuck exactly heavy obscurement works? Do people outside the darkness bubble have disadvantage to hit stuff inside or the disadvantages cancel eachoter out like some people say?

Can't tell if it's 2024 Stealth rules that are retarded or just me, but I'm trying to set up a goblin ambush and it occurred to me: what happens if the goblins successfully stay unnoticed but end up lower in the Initiative order than my party members? I presume that the goblins remain hidden until they attack or are found, but is rolling Initiative without there being an immediate threat going to tip off my players that something is about to happen? Do they just perform whatever action or hold something in anticipation of an attack?

>>97154334
they cancel out due to poorly written rules. however, it still prevents opportunity attacks and spellcasting

>>97154389
Ok thanks, there is actual official source on that so i can shove it in the face of the dm?

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My GM keeps putting us in situations where we have to sneak into a camp or a cave, but they're always heavily guarded (we can't just force our way in because we'd get swarmed by enemies). That's fine, not everything is solved with brute strength... the problem is that I have no idea what to do in those situations as a barbarian.
I usually feel useless in those moments and I just let the casters handle everything. The casters use find familiar and minor illusion to distract the enemies and let us slip through, perfect. But I'd also like to contribute somehow, yet I always freeze up in those situations and end up staying quiet while they solve the problem.
What strategies or ideas could a full martial like a barbarian or fighter use to deal with a problem like that? Any ideas?

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>>97155119
If someone catches you, you can intimidate them. Bend or break something as an excuse to intimidate with an athletics check.

>>97155119
If you're playing the 2024 rules, you should have more options as you gain levels. Primal Knowledge helps in terms of using Stealth or Perception for example.
If you're playing 2014, then Totem Warrior is one of the easier options for utility, since you can use something like Speak with Animals and Beast Sense to get similar results to what a familiar could accomplish.

>>97154334
wait, no, I was wrong. it's vague

>2014: A heavily obscured area—such as darkness, opaque fog, or dense foliage—blocks vision entirely. A creature effectively suffers from the blinded condition when trying to see something in that area.
>2024: A Heavily Obscured area—such as an area with Darkness, heavy fog, or dense foliage—is opaque. You have the Blinded condition when trying to see something there.


it's phrased in such a way that it can read as
>You have the Blinded condition when trying to see something THAT IS IN THERE.
it's phrased in such a way that it can read as
>You have the Blinded condition when trying to see something WHILE YOU ARE IN THERE.

>>97155671
I believe it's actually both, given what "opaque" means.

>>97154334
>>97155671
>>97155765
It's always been phrased in a way that makes it seem like the designers intend for it to work one way, but it really doesn't.

Even for the 2014 version, where it's explicitly the former, we're still talking about an opaque cloud here. If something inside of a Fog Cloud spell can't be seen at all because the fog is too dense, then logically you can't see something on the opposite side of that fog cloud if it was blocking off a hallway or something.
But also conversely, if you're standing in a dark cavern and somebody lights up a candle on the other side of the cavern, you'd be able to see them despite the fact that there's darkness in the way.

So you pretty much can't rely on the strict rules, and instead have to rely on common sense. And the common sense is that if you can't see them because of opaque fog, and they can't see you because of opaque fog, then you're both functionally Blinded, and therefore you both get advantage/disadvantage.


Personally I prefer just houseruling it so that attacks towards or from creatures within a heavily obscured area have disadvantage, because that way two people knife-fighting in the dark are going to miss more often. But that's mostly my own preference so that a spell like Fog Cloud actually works as a a smokescreen to provide cover or blind someone.

>>97155671
The second clause states that if you're trying to see something INSIDE the heavily obscured area, you are blinded (either phrased as "effectively suffering from" or actually having the condition).

This is interesting because if something is immune to being blinded, it arguably can't see something in darkness in 5.0 and it arguably can in 5.5

The only part that makes this confusing is the FIRST half, but even that works if you read it correctly and not like a retard (I've literally seen brain damaged retards on reddit argue that you can't see the moon at night, despite nothing in the rules implying or stating that).

How's the 2024 Artificer?
Any big changes?

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For anyone who ran this in a campaign setting other than Greyhawk, how did you translate the town politics into the new setting? Did you just omit it entirely?

>>97156068
massive buffs to the core class, minor tweaks to everything else. Alchemist got a lot of improvements, but is still very underwhelming. The cartographer is the new worst subclass.

>>97155828
>This is interesting because if something is immune to being blinded, it arguably can't see something in darkness in 5.0 and it arguably can in 5.5
In a lot of cases that's probably a moot point, since most of the monsters immune to being Blinded also have Blindsight/Tremorsense/Truesight, and therefore would be capable of seeing everything anyway.

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>>97154235
I'm going for Pyromancer as my sorcerer subclass, to play into the 'embracing the infernal fire' motif(my DM already gave me the OK on using it). Alternatively, I think I could have justified going with Divine Soul, but I think pyromancer fits better with the general concept. My bardic subclass is Lore, going with the Travelling Sage/full support motif.

>>97156118
>massive buffs to the core class
How so?

>>97154388
>Can't tell if it's 2024 Stealth rules that are retarded or just me, but I'm trying to set up a goblin ambush and it occurred to me: what happens if the goblins successfully stay unnoticed but end up lower in the Initiative order than my party members? I presume that the goblins remain hidden until they attack or are found, but is rolling Initiative without there being an immediate threat going to tip off my players that something is about to happen? Do they just perform whatever action or hold something in anticipation of an attack?

they included a "you decide" rule in the DMG to avoid having to write rules that make sense
>Combat starts when—and only when—you say it does. Some characters have abilities that trigger on an Initiative roll; you, not the players, decide if and when Initiative is rolled. A high-level Barbarian can't just punch their Paladin friend and roll Initiative to regain expended uses of Rage.

>>97156294
*which means you decide that initiative is only rolled after the goblins attack from a hidden position

>>97156225
NTA, but I'd say the biggest one is that Spell Storing Item can now include 3rd level spells. Which means an Artillerist can toss out 10 free Fireballs per long rest starting at level 11.
That's also part of why Alchemist still isn't as good, since it doesn't have a very good 3rd level spell to store despite being a spell-focused subclass.

My level 1 players are going to attack a goblin camp with a bugbear leader. 2025 version of a bugbear, so they wield a light hammer instead of a morningstar.

Can I give them the bugbear weapon as loot without breaking game balance?
>Savage Light Hammer
>Light, Thrown 20/60
>3d4 + STR bludgeoning damage
Which, given its light and thrown properties is very strong. Maybe it should be nerfed
>if you're not a bugbear, or large, or have a strength of 20 or greater attack rolls with this weapon have disadvantage.
What do you think?

>>97156444
doesn't seem like a light hammer if it takes 20 str to use

>>97156444
>Light
>if you're not a bugbear, or large, or have a strength of 20 or greater attack rolls with this weapon have disadvantage.
Why?

>>97156444
Even going by the old oversized weapon rules, I'm not really sure why that's printed at 3d4, since it should just be 2d4 for a large weapon.
You'd think they also could have just given the Bugbear a 2d6 Javelin if they wanted a Large weapon that could also be thrown that would have similar average damage.

To answer your question though, I'd mostly be wary of the precedent it sets in the future, because it means they might expect to use other Large-sized weapons with 3x the standard dice in the future.
It might not be the worst thing, since I tend to find melee characters often benefit from magic weapons like Flametongue swords to help them dish out bigger chunks of damage. But I'd just as soon say you should just hand out magic weapons that can have the exact damage bonus you want, instead of having to be wary about including any enemies with big weapons.

If you wanted, you could always make the Bugbear's light hammer into a magic weapon of some variety as well. Then it turns into a normal-sized magic weapon when the player's loot it and you can give it whatever effect you think would be fair.

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>>97156492
>I'm not really sure why that's printed at 3d4, since it should just be 2d4 for a large weapon.
They probably just wanted it to sit in with 1d12 and 2d6 weapons.

>>97156444
im thinking you're opening a can of worms if you start think the 25 stat blocks damage values are from items the mobs are carrying

>>97156528
Okay, but then why not just give it a 2d6 weapon?

>>97156528
I think they took the complaints about the old morningstar doing 2d8 being too swingy seriously.

>>97156533
Yeah.

>>97156460
>>97156458
You're right. That was videogame logic.

>>97156492
I'll come up with a new effect, "big damage but can't be used" would feel bad to find anyway.

>>97156542
Maybe they got the idea that a bugbear must weird a hammer-type weapon.
Maybe they already had the art done but decided to change the mechanics last minute.

>>97156622
>complaints about the old morningstar doing 2d8 being too swingy seriously
High-roll crit and killed our fighter from full HP when we played LMoP, which objectively was kind of funny. The craziest part was that the bard silvery barbsed it and the DM rolled another 20.

>>97156444
Just give your hammer bugbear a trait that lets it deal extra damage with hammers, or go full modern design and have the weapon damage divorced from any kind of internal consistency.

>>97156625
>"big damage but can't be used" would feel bad to find anyway.
Well, it can be used is the thing. There are probably some use-cases where having a one-handed 3d4 weapon is worth the disadvantage. But you also paint yourself into a corner either way, since as the PCs gain levels they'll not only find better Large weapons, but also have higher Strength or ways to turn Large to ignore that disadvantage.

I could easily see a Barbarian or Fighter specifically going for the Giant/Rune Knight subclasses specifically to take advantage of bigger weapons.
So yes, much safer to just ignore what the statblocks say when dishing out loot.

How much experience with D&D should one have before taking a crack at DMing a whimsical one shot? My DM is retiring and invited me to try for our group. I have some fun ideas and a good narrative sense, but not many sessions or situations under my belt and like 1/5 of Baldurs Gate 3.

>>97156809
none, go for it anon

>>97156225
>a bunch of powerful magic items were added to infusion list, including wand of magic missles/webs, weapons of warning, sentiel shield, and starting at level 10 every uncommon wondrous item
>at level 6, they can turn spell slots into item charges (at will) and item charges into spell slots (1/day)
>homunculus servant no longer costs an infusion or requires a bonus action
>they get an infusion that lets them give an ally an tool proficiency, meaning they can help crafting for 2x speed
>on top of that, all subs get 2x speed crafting on relevant magic items

>>97140444
New Eberron book any good? Will be buying it today before grabbing the Faerun stuff next month. Heard plenty of bitching about the latter, but nothing about the former yet

>>97156809
Everyone has to start somewhere anon. Oneshots are a great way to do so, since it's low investment and low stakes.

>>97157404
It’s shit

>>97157645
That bad, huh?

>>97156302
I ended up thinking this made the most sense. Goblins get a free volley off, then everyone rolls initiative with the players who got surprised rolling at disadvantage.

>>97157404
>buying anything post 2024e
Shiggy diggy

>>97157780
You're in luck. Those chucklefucks delayed all three releases by two months here in germany. Went and grabbed Candlekeep instead. Was planning to buy the rest of the 2014 stuff anyway

>>97157404
If you're looking for stuff specifically to run Eberron, especially for character background/House/Dragonmark stuff, it's pretty comprehensive on that.

I think I'll add this character trait to my rogue: She cannot sleep alone. It's a remnant of when she needed a sleeping pile of other kids to share body heat on the street, or she would freeze to death. She also insist in doing back-to back, not face-to-face, so no snuggling or emotional intimacy though. Also, she keep a knife close-by while doing so.

>>97156386
>Which means an Artillerist can toss out 10 free Fireballs per long rest starting at level 11.
That's unhinged.

>>97155449
>>97155150
I mean, I get what you're saying, but I was referring more to strategies I could use to lure many enemy guards away from a cave or enemy camp to give us a clear path to the target, because fighting our way through is suicide. I mean, strategies like starting a fire to draw their attention, or making noise in the middle of the night so they move away from there, things like that, although I don’t even know if any of those would help
I’d like to find alternatives so I don’t have to rely so much on Minor Illusion or even on magic in general

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>>97156962
>starting at level 10 every uncommon wondrous item
Reminder that any level 10 Artificer can make a Deck of Wonders.
At Artificer Level 14 they can make Cube of Force, Bag of Beans, or Necklace of Fireballs.

>>97156962
>help crafting for 2x speed
>all subs get 2x speed crafting on relevant magic items
Aren't the crafting rules dogshit, though?

>>97160174
As of 2024? Not really. Uncommon items for 200 gp and 10 days of work by default. Rare for 2000gp and 50 days. Halved from the subclass and help you're looking at 2.5 days or 12 days respectively. 2 weeks of downtime for a rare magic item is quite good. 3 days and 200gp is a steal for some of the uncommon items out there.

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Is CR14 appropriate for this creature?
We're doing normal XP.

>>97160738
Damage output is pitiful for CR14

>>97160738
Has about 100 hitpoints more than other creatures at that CR. The damage on the actual attacks is also low, although the fact it paralyzes people so easily should mean that it's getting near constant advantage and crits, so it's probably fine in that respect.

The damage doesn't really matter though, because the fight is an exercise in annoyance. It's a big bag of hitpoints that grabs you, paralyzes you for starting your turn near it, gives you disadvantage to avoid getting paralyzed while grabbing you, gives you disadvantage to escape being grabbed while grabbing you, and rips your head off if you for whatever reason can't immediately escape being grabbed (such as being paralyzed or having disadvantage).

>>97160751
>>97160842
Appreciate the feedback, thanks

what are the best summons in the game?

>>97158344
Honestly, a lot of the 2014 adventures aren't too bad, Candlekeep is a good collection of adventures.

>>97161199
the friends we made along the way <3

>>97161312
i don't think mind controlling other characters is going to be appreciated at the table

>>97161199
Conjure Animals in 2014 is hard to beat.
For 2024, Summon Fey would be my pick of the lower-level Summon spells. It has solid damage and the secondary effects are pretty easy to utilize. It's also one of the more widely available ones between classes.

Dragon is also worth a mention for having better AC than most, as well as just being able to fly around and make constant AoEs. Only downside is that it's Wizard and Draconic Sorc only.

>>97157404
I'm really curious if they're going to release a Greyhawk book outside of the DMG or not.

If not, I'd fw a reprint of old adventures.

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>>97161199
Using 2024 5e: I'd say Giant Insect is the best:

Giant Insect [Spider] has an excellent movement lockdown effect:
>Web Bolt (Spider Only). Ranged Attack Roll: Bonus equals your spell attack modifier, range 60 ft. Hit: 1d10 + 3 + the spell's level Bludgeoning damage, and the target's Speed is reduced to 0 until the start of the insect's next turn.
No save and no way to escape if they get hit. Bludgeoning is a solid damage type as well, since not much resists it. This can easily lock down melee people from approaching and flying creatures. This spell also doesn't have a costly GP component you need to get. However, it's only available to Druids and eventually Bards, and it only lasts 10 Minutes, unlike the other summons that last 1 Hour.

Summon Undead is also up there. Ghost can fly and auto Frighten on hit, Skeletal has range, and Putrid can theoretically Paralyze lock a ton of creatures if you're able to set it up consistently.

My favorite is Summon Fey. Consistent damage type, teleportation, Flight, Mirthful has a great Charm effect too! The other two aren't as broadly good, but if you fight something without a special sight like Darkvision, Tricksy pops off.

Honorable Mention 1: to Summon Celestial [Avenger], which can fly and has a 600 Foot Ranged Attack. I find Giant Insect's lockdown effect to be better than just a big range attack. Though this can kite quite well.

Honorable Mention 2: Summon Dragon, getting a Damage Resistance can be clutch. If you can use Nystul's Magic Aura + Planar Binding, you can make an army of Dragons that gives you Resistance to Acid, Cold, Fire, Lightning, and Poison damage while they're alive.

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>>97161425
I seriously fucking hope not, judging by the DMG info

>St. Cuthbert was changed to just Cuthbert
>Speaking of gods, it's a very incomplete list and I would love to see Phaulkon for example used more. Procan was prominently featured in Ghosts of Saltmarsh and I don't see why he didn't make the list here.
>Scarlet Brotherhood changed to Scarlet Order
>Dyvers and Verbobonc ruled by women(presumably black and queer)
>Not longer a low summer and high summer but standard 4 seasons throughout the year, crossing into different months
>Namedrops different human ethnic groups and cultures without properly explaining them. Guess it doesn't matter since all the artwork is just a modernist multiracial mess anyway
>Blackmoor changed to Arn(Okay this one was kind of clever but I really don't see why it can't remain Blackmoor unless they plan on releasing Mystara and want to avoid confusion)
>Ekbir changed from a Caliphate to a Sultanate
>Magic item shop right in the middle of Greyhawk for some fucking reason(this is a mid-magic setting bruh)
>The Yeomanry's president is a fucking goliath for some reason(The Yeomanry is at war with the giants)
>Vecna listed in the gods section without the demigod marker when I got the impression this was supposed to be 576CY era. He only achieved lesser godhood in 581CY
>Change the Wolf Nomads to Wegwuir but the Rovers of the Barrens are still the Rovers
>Pomarj is home to "bandits and marauders" not specifying that it's an orc ruled nation and home to the Slavelords
>Bone march is ruled by Nyrond and Almor instead orcs
>Gran March ruled by a dwarf
>The Sea Princes are "Independent oligarchy of sea traders founded by buccaneers; now a powerful naval force" when they should be a straight up pirate confederacy enslaving the Olman tribes of the Amedio Jungle.
>This is more of a complaint about the 2014 PHB but in it's Greyhawk Gods section, it got the Pelor-Pholtus distinction very, VERY wrong.

This isn't Greyhawk, this is Gaywoke

>>97140444
>TQ

Dragon Shaman, but I'd retool it to be a Druid sub

>>97161940
>St. Cuthbert was changed to just Cuthbert
To be fair, it was always a bit strange for a god to be identified by a definitionally sub-god title.

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>>97161974
My reasoning as a DM in my version of Greyhawk is because he's the real world St. Cuthbert of Lindisfarne who was sent from Earth to Oerth by the Biblical God after his death to stand between mortals and chaos in that world. He prefers to keep his title of Saint even after his new status.

I like my explanation because I think it really re-contextualizes his dislike of Pholtus. With Pholtus claiming he's the only true god, whereas St. Cuthbert stood before the *actual* true God after his death on Earth. He sees Pholtus as a self-absorbed pretender, but gets along with the other lawful and good gods of Oerth such as Heironeous as they know for a fact they aren't the ultimate light.

I know this seems like some CS Lewis bullshit but I don't care. If any of my players complain, St. Cuthbert will mention that his Lord took the form of a lion in another world.

>>97161312
Suggestion + Magic Aura + Planar Binding. I see the 'friends' we made along the way indeed!

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>>97162070
Currently, in my Saltmarsh game, he's under the guise of a fisherman. My players first met him around the cove reef area, he provided weapon provisions for them as this was their first underwater combat session and it came to my attention that I had not properly geared them for such an encounter, the three martials carried a greataxe, longsword, and greatsword.

He was also friends with the bronze dragon mentioned in the Coven of Wet Rot adventure. And openly spoke draconic in front of the party, merely giving them hints into his nature.

I'll probably bring him back later to explain the Isle of the Abbey Pirate's Path mechanics but in an 'ingame friendly' sort of way.

>>97162070
>who was sent from Earth to Oerth by the Biblical God
The theological quandaries this would raise are just immense. Why would the Abrahamic god be chill with people in other worlds having other gods before him if he still apparently has dominion over those worlds?

>>97162194
because christcucks cant help but to inject their bullshit where it doesn't belong

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I find it weird how Eberron: Forge of the Artificer tries to convince DMs that every campaign premise, even just "wipe out this one criminal gang in this one city," needs to be a 20-level epic saga.

Consider Sharn's Boromar Clan. In 3.5, their leader, Saidan, was a rogue 8. In the 4e adventure "Dead for a Spell," at level 7 (in a 30-level system), the PCs get to kill Saidan in a side encounter only tangentially related to the wider adventure.

Back in 2021, I ran an Eberron game. There, at level 5, during a side encounter unrelated to the wider plot arc, I let the PCs wipe out Saidan and his inner circle. The players found it entertaining enough.

Forge of the Artificer has other ideas on how fighting Sharn's Boromar Clan should play out. Specifically, it proposes that such should be a 20-level epic saga: https://5e.tools/book.html#efa,4,a%20boromar%20clan%20arc,0

Same goes for Daask, another criminal gang. Daask is composed of monsters, but said monsters are not that much stronger than the Boromars. I do not see why "down with Daask" needs to be a 20-level epic saga, either: https://5e.tools/book.html#efa,4,a%20daask%20arc,0

Why does the book not just suggest a smaller, more compressed scale for such adventures? It is deeply unrealistic for "wipe out this one criminal gang in this one city" to be a 20-level epic saga.

Even if we assume that the characters are actually tackling multiple such arcs concurrently, it seems weird to suggest that a DM should let the PCs vanquish some criminal gang in a city only at tier 4.

What makes suggestions like the above stranger is that the exact same book is capable of laying out campaign arcs that more justifiably go up to tier 4, like this one: https://5e.tools/book.html#efa,6,a%20lords%20of%20dust%20arc,0

Though even this seems like it could be compressed into a much smaller number of levels.

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>>97162799

>Levels 17–20. Assuming the characters haven't joined the Boromars, the clan leadership tries to eliminate them. The Boromars can't muster a physical threat to challenge characters of this level, so they wield their political power instead. Under pressure from Boromar leaders, the city council declares the adventurers a threat to Sharn's safety and security. Officials revoke their inquisitive agency's operations permit and ask the characters to leave Sharn.

Oh no, the level 20 demigods have been asked to leave the city.

>>97162799
Most of that probably has to do with the fact that Eberron was originally written with much lower level scales in mind. Even the loli-pope was just level 18, and even that was inside the Silver Flame's main cathedral.

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Apparently they started making vidya for individual classes now. I take it multiclassing will be off the table.

>>97162871
It's going to be a singular character's story in an action RPG, not a CRPG like BG3.

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>>97162810

How did it even reach this point, as opposed to the PCs just completely demolishing the Boromar Clan much earlier, at tier 2 or thereabouts?

Same goes for any other criminal gang in any other city.

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>>97140444
After playing BG3 I realized I've been playing Warlock like a Sorcerer, I had no idea how few spell slots I had. I'm lvl 6.
Any way to make a pact of the Tome warlock work, or should I see if my DM will let me switch to pact of the blade?
Any tips are appreciated, I don't know how you're supposed to make warlocks work other than playing casting Eldritch blast all the time. This isn't a campaign where short resting all the time will lead to verisimilitude.

>>97163106
>Any tips are appreciated, I don't know how you're supposed to make warlocks work other than playing casting Eldritch blast all the time
Short rest so you can spam 3rd level spells
>This isn't a campaign where short resting all the time will lead to verisimilitude.
Punch your DM in the face.

>>97163106
A cantrip should be your go-to spell for most actions* with using your spell slots for situational effects, like when you need to Fireball several enemies at once.

*Eldritch Blast augmented with Agonizing Blast is usually the go-to that pretty functionally works like a Fighter with a 1d10 Bow and getting up to 4 shots per cast as you level up

>>97163106
play a sorlock

>>97163106
If you're not taking frequent short rests and you're not using cantrips predominantly, then you're basically limited to taking the various "cast X spell once per day" invocations to make up for the deficiency of your spell slots.

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>>97162799
>>97162810
>>97163005

In the 4e Eberron Campaign Guide's adventure "Mark of Prophecy," level 1 (in a 30-level game) characters stop the Menthis Plateau quarter from collapsing. 5e's level 17-20 hook of Daask planting bombs around the city seems like a joke in comparison.

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>>97162799
>>97162810
>>97163005
>>97164310

There is a possibility that the campaign arcs in this book are LLM-generated. But just to entertain the idea, I prompted DeepSeek with the following:

>Generate a four-act campaign stretching from level 1 to 20 in D&D's Eberron setting. It should take place entirely in Sharn, the City of Towers. The primary antagonist, from level 1 to level 20, should be the Boromar Clan.

>The first act should be labeled "Levels 1 to 4." The second act should be labeled "Levels 5 to 10." The third act should be labeled "Levels 11 to 16." The fourth act should be labeled "Levels 17 to 20."

>Ensure that the challenges at each level are appropriate for PCs of that level.

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>>97164528

DeepSeek spat out an outline. The key tier 1 threat was:
>a new, highly addictive narcotic called "Dream Mist" (refined Eberron dragonshard dust). They trace the supply to a clandestine processing den in the Cogs, beneath the Boromar's legitimate casino in Middle Tavick's Landing.

By tier 2:
>The ledger reveals the Clan's ultimate patron: Saidan Boromar, the patriarch, is secretly a vampire and has made a pact with a powerful entity from the Cults of the Dragon Below for immortality and power.

By tier 3:
>They discover Saidan's pact is with a Daelkyr or an Overlord's powerful servant (like a Rakshasa) trapped beneath Sharn. The Clan is excavating in the deepest Cogs, not for treasure, but to physically tether the city's manifest zone to Syrania to their patron, which would allow it to warp reality over Sharn.

By tier 4:
>The party must perform a "mythic repair" of Sharn. This involves: 1) Securing the Heart of Syrania, a celestial artifact that stabilizes the manifest zone (located in a hidden chamber in the highest spire). 2) Traveling to the Demiplane of the Patron's Imprisonment to sever the tether at its source. 3) Battling the Heir and the manifesting Entity in a reality-shaking confrontation that spans from the deepest Khyber fissure to the peak of Skyway.

So honestly, I would say that an LLM unironically has a better grasp of level progression than this official book.

Does 5E.24 have a good Sun Soul yet?

>>97165360
Why ask instead of just checking if it had been reprinted or updated?

>>97165490
because anon is a retard

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>>97162871
Wake me when they make Paladin.

Rolled 5 (1d20)

>>97165549
may he get some wisdom

>>97165360
Nope, but you could play a Four Elements Monk with the Magic Initiate [Druid] Feat for Starry Wisp and Faerie Fire. Starry Wisp is a cantrip that lets you shoot a radiant Hadoken at a target.

>>97152841
Considering nothing says a Changeling can't "be using" the ability to look almost exactly like themselves (they could just lengthen their hair half an inch), this is just permanent Advantage on all Charisma checks, which is stupid design. I could see it being fine to have advantage on checks where the new form is *relevant*, like on Deception checks made if impersonating someone.

But universally? Nah. If Jimmy the Human Diplomat has +6 to Persuasion, why would a changeling who has taken the form that looks identical to Jimmy the Human Diplomat have Advantage on that?

Changelings' innate skill at social interaction is already reflected in getting two proficiencies in Charisma skills.

>>97154334
Per RAW, you have Advantage against the target because they cannot see you. However, you have Disadvantage against the target because you cannot see them.

And when you have both Adv and Disadv, you have neither.

Consider it this way: if you dropped a smokebomb *and didn't move*, would people have much more trouble hitting you, considering you couldn't dodge because you couldn't see them? Maybe, but it cancels out *enough* for 5e's purposes. What it really lets you do is lose them - i.e. you can Hide when Heavily Obscured, and then they lose track of your position, which will make them miss you more.

Batman drops smokebombs and then grapples up to the ceiling - i.e. he Hides.

>>97162871
>"We're not trying to simulate the tabletop RPG experience, so there is no dice-rolling in the game — we're trying to really deliver a video-game experience first," said Dominic Guay, studio lead at Invoke Studios. "If you are not familiar with Dungeons and Dragons, you are not going to feel friction, like in that you're missing details of the world. But if you are a fan of the universe, you are going to be really excited about what we are doing with the lore of the series for Warlock."
That first sentence immediately kills any interest I might have had.

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>>97140444
We've got loads of magic staffs and wands, but what about a magical component pouch? What are some fun ideas you can think of to put on a magic item component pouch?

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Rate my players' characters for Lost Mine of Phandelver.
Guy on top is NPC.

>>97166741
The ability to pull out non-spell-component items as well. Basically just slap the rules for Performance of Creation onto it.

>>97167133
>Albino
>Anime Girl
>AI Turtle
>Elf Noctis
>Anime Slutbag Dark Elf
2/10, see me after class.

>>97167133
>AI Token
Lame, soulless. I'd rather the player use someone's OC for our home game.

>>97167277
Same. Take a screencap of a fucking HeroForge model, I don't care.

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>>97166741
Put money in, get components. Great for campaigns where GMs don't want to have to explain or worry about the scarcity of an item or how a PC can get access to certain costly components that just don't make sense in the moment.
It even has a failsafe for the cases where the DM doesn't want the item to be so easily accessible via money.

>>97167347
>within six seconds, you can precisely and exactly transfer hundreds of gold coins from one bag to another
Doubt. And, before you say it, the transfer occurs BEFORE you say the command word, so it isn't a magical function of the item's activation.

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>>97167304
Hero Forge does have some pretty great models out there.

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Does the "Discount" part of the crafter origin feat apply to the trade goods bought by the storehouse bastion option? It uses your funds to purchase them after all, so this feat could be helpful in increasing your profit margins.

This goes into overdrive in an Eberron game, because you can also get the Kundarak Vault bastion option and use your renown with the house to also treat the house itself as another storehouse, essentially triple-dipping in buying and selling potential.

>>97167347
>>97167381
It's also not even like the ability needs to even function within 6 seconds, if the PC is just going to use it in order to get a component they couldn't buy otherwise because the party has been in the wilderness for weeks.
And if the party hasn't been in the wilderness for weeks, then the DM should just let them buy the thing without jumping through hoops or roleplaying a whole shopping session.

Though also, if you're making a campaign that's 100% on the frontier and you're worried it's going to be a big problem, then you could also just say that a gemstone of X+ value functions as the component for any given spell. That way you don't have to worry about specific materials, and instead gems can just show up in any given pile of treasure.

>>97167133
I'm not feeling the AI turtle. Not because its AI, but because they used the basic artstyle and didn't check for obvious issues like the belts.
Goonerbait Drow makes me uncomfortable.
The first two are pretty good tho. Girl character is cute.

Marry a fairy
Marry a fairy
Marry a fairy now

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Any Mystara enjoyers out there?

Seems like exactly my kind of setting but im not sure how to throw a party from forgotten realms into that shit.

Im thinking have them portal into the middle of a riot between a pro-senate and pro-caesarian Thyatis thing. Basically just do a not-Caesar's Thyatis civil war thing and make the players choose what side.

I have no experience with the Mystara setting though and it seems overwhelming with not a lot of up-to-date official stuff.

>>97140444
Vampire

>>97167858
Look for sites like vault of pandius or famous big names like mr. welch on youtube. That should help a lot already. And random planar gate bullshit is a thing. From what I know, the forgotten realms has a few in some locations. Then there´s the mtg method, which has an 5e spell I think, planescape and the staircase are also options.

DM is going to run an Eberron game. Which should I play?
>Kundarak Dwarf Abjuration Wizard
>Kalashtar Great Old One Warlock
>Khorovar Storm Sorcerer

>>97168192
I feel like a Dragonmarked character or a Kalashtar would be making the most use of the setting. Half-elves exists in other settings.
I'd go with whichever one gives you more backstory inspiration, but if I had to choose one, I think Kalashtar are pretty cool and Warlock is my favorite class.

>>97157404
They deleted half-elves then brought them back as "Khoravar", suddenly dragonmarked aren't and weren't ever race-locked (maybe that would be racist according to WotC), Changelings are OP (want permanent Advantage on all Charisma checks forever?), and put "Eberron campaign" in as prerequisites for basically every single fucking fear or player option in general in the entire book.

It's shit.

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>>97167133
>Ai
fucking cringe, get a pen out and flex your creativity, I don't even know how to draw and I can get a basic face down

>>97167635
In my Feywild game they're going to meet a fairy who speaks in rhyme and is secretly the BBEG. I think she'll be 12 inches tall.

>>97167635
What kind?

>>97141037
>>97141137
i just let them have extra attack at level 6 in lieu of war priest charges, which are retarded and a waste of action economy

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>>97162799
>>97162810
>>97163005
>>97164310
>>97164528
>>97164530

Keith Baker's thoughts on the subject:

>I think the suggested arcs are fine as ARCS. But I don’t see them as logically using the suggested character levels, and I wouldn’t expect 20th level adventurers to still be working as street-level inquisitives. If you took the same story ideas but tied them to levels 1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8 I think they’d be fine.

>>97168978
I admire your chutzpah in actually bothering Keith with your usual brand of autism.

>>97169001
If Keith Baker's willing to give a straight answer to weirdos like 2hu, then more power to him.

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>>97165692
>>97162871
>Bard: Dungeons & Dragons
>it's guitar hero but all the tracks are filk songs

>>97168296
>deleted half elves
>brought them back
based
>race-agnostic dragonmarks
it isn't established as normal, merely that there's precedent for it. it is very rare.
>changelings are op
Legitimate complaint

Alright, now what about the rest of the book anon?

>>97169114
The rest of the book is artificer and Ebberon, so shit.

>>97169206
>artificer
>shit
You're shit.

>>97168662
The funny harmless prankster kind who will trick you into wearing a ring one time without realizing you've now made a deal for your first through tenth born

>>97169361
>Funny prankster fairy wants ten kids
I am going to hear every bad joke about bad pullout game ever conceived.

>>97168190
Appreciate it!

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>>97140444
"Let’s say a new player joins your table, someone who’s never played D&D before and really wants to start as a full caster. But keep in mind that the campaign they’ll be starting will be mostly Tier 1, beginning at level 3 and going to around level 6. Which full caster would you recommend to this newbie? and why

>>97169728
Warlock
It's a Strong, versatile class that can realistically pull off any playstyle desired, offers good rp hooks and room for character customization while still having a good baseline to ensure you're always useful through agonizing blast.
Big downside really is that there's lots of options to fuck up through bad invocations and/or spell use

>>97169756
I'd second it since you have limited amount of spells, all spells are always maxed, and they're always prepared, so it would be easier to keep track of.

>>97169361
>The funny harmless prankster kind
Can I have a gothy autumn or winter eladrin instead?

>>97169772
>Autumn
>Gothy
No
>Winter
Yes but the catch is she has a really thick Irish accent

>>97169728
I'll third >>97169756 suggesting Warlock, if you count it as one.

If not, probably Cleric. No remembering to cast Mage Armor. No reaction spells like Shield. No metamagic or ritual casting from your spellbook. Channel Divinity is a short rest feature, but not as important as Wildshape or Bardic Inspiration.
Cleric also has one of the shortest spell lists, with domain spells as a bonus, so there's less worry about them picking terrible spells to prep.

>>97167635
What class(es) do I make my con dump fairy

i want to be a tiny PC riding a small mount

>>97169952
Best I can do is a halfling on a vulture

>>97169728
I'd tell them not to play a full caster. I've seen new players do that before and it never ends well. I'd give them a champion fighter and tell them to shut their fucking whore mouth. I have had many players quit my games btw, nothing of value is ever lost

>>97169961
shit dude ill take it

wtf is the point of ready an action if you can't do it before combat starts when like a door is being opened

might as well just remove it completely, it's useless now?

>>97168296
>They deleted half-elves then brought them back as "Khoravar"
As Eberron's term, not as a common element in the rest of the multiverse.

>>97170137
Because if you could do it out of combat literally everybody would be doing it all the time and there's conveniently a mechanic for handling this called "initiative"
Ready action is for when you want to do something off turn "I want to shoot someone as they enter my line of sight down this dark hallway" or "when James moves away from the enemies I will cadt fireball here"

>>97140519
My fey mindset:
Extremely cruel and arbitrary toward mortals because fey are full of life and primes are exceedingly dull and empty, slow and dull witted, primes are to fey what a zombie is to a prime
You can imagine chaining up a zombie to see what it does like they do in 28 days later, the only value it has is its amusement to you and the possibility of learning something about its behavior
Primes speak slow, move slow, think slow. Every once in a while a remarkable specimen may surprise or amuse you, in which case you’ll want to put it in a cage to show your fey friends and subjects.
How would an alien of extreme intelligence and social advancement think of average humans? It would vary somewhat based on personality and temperament but the baseline would be some mix of pity, disdain for plebs, like when you’re 10 years old and you realize the ant is too simple to even know what it’s missing.

>>97169728
New players are so much fun if they’re actually into it. I love when people come to the game fresh without decades of reading 3.5 character optimization forums and trying to game the system mechanically and beat the DM. I’ve had new players pick abilities and feats and features based on their roleplay without asking ai for the best optimized combat build, it’s so refreshing.
Probably the best part of playing with women honestly.

>>97170315
I like to know what the height of character power is and then simply not do that myself, personally

I just finished DMing for the first time, and one of my players is upset with me because I didn't handle him pulling shards of broken glass out of his pocket and throwing it at the enemy from melee range in the middle of combat the way he expected.
:^(

>>97170359
Trying to improvise an action mid-fight is always going to be a gamble for the player, because they can never be sure how the DM is going to rule it.
As long as you didn't require multiple checks (like attacking at disadvantage and then giving the enemy an extra save), then I wouldn't beat yourself up over it. Generally it's a good idea to be generous about such things, since if you're strict, it can result in players not bothering to try to improvise or use the environment in the future. But your players should also understand that if you make broken glass an amazing option, then they're just going to start spamming it.

>>97170359
if he is going to be upset at something as small as that it doesn't matter who the DM is or what they decide works and what doesnt

>>97170359
Sounds like a cunt. Give him the boot he'll only get worse.

I played DnD with a bunch of frens for the first time in ages and we had a good time, but wtf is up with all the fake reddit drama stories ?

I mean there are whole youtube channels dedicated to these fake stories that border on sexual assault or are actual crimes.

Is a loud minority of DnD players just a bunch of degenerate drama queens ?

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>>97169728
just let him play a full caster, worst case he is going to make the combat more interesting for your other players that prolly copied and preplanned ther character from some guide.

>>97170517
Generally just fake stories for updoots
But not always. I have booted people from my games for being retards who think my dnd games are their place for political venting during games nonstop or trying to offload personal trauma onto everybody else like dnd is a replacement for a therapist

>>97170537
>Worst case
Nah worst case is he will do nothing but cast magic missile then quit the game after two sessions because casters are too hard for him

>>97170537
>>97170564
No, worst case is that every round becomes
>I cast a spell!
>Alright, which one?
>...
>Which spell do you cast?
>Um...
>Where is that on my sheet?
>The section that says "spells".
>...
>This one here.
>Um...
>...
>...
>...
>I cast Earthbind!
>Okay, on who?
>...
>Um...
>I want to cast Earthbind on this guy.
>He doesn't fly, you know.
>What?
>That guy can't fly.
>...
>You know what Earthbind does, right?
>It traps them and keeps them from moving, right?
>It keeps them from flying.
>...
>They can still move, they can't fly.
>It doesn't stop them from moving?
>No.
>I don't want to do that, then.
>Um...
>...
>...
>...
>I want to cast Hypnotic Pattern.
>Okay, where?
>...
>Um...
>...
>I want to cast it on that guy.
>Centered on him?
>...
>I want to cast it on him.
>It's an AoE spell, you know.
>It is?
>Yes. 30 foot cube.
>Oh.
>In fact, you could probably get some of the other guys if you aim it between them.
>Um...
>...
>...
>...
>Okay, I do that.
>What's your save DC?
>...
>Your save DC?
>...
>Um...
>Should be written near your spells.
>Where are my spells?

>>97140444
My newest (and probably last) 5.5 book came in, Forge of the Artificer. What a waste of $30, the thing is basically a hardcover leaflet.

>>97170584
I'm playing in a campaign with three new players, and yeah, the first couple sessions were like this. They're playing a druid, Ranger, and Paladin.

>>97170584
>>97170660
Okay… let’s say the new player is motivated to play but doesn’t know much about the game. They’re friends with the GM and ask:
>Hey dude, what advice would you give me to make spell selection and understanding what each spell does easier? Like, should I write things down on a piece of paper or something? And if so, what important info should I include? I mean, I know there’s the character sheet, but it feels kind of small. Surely there are better homemade alternatives for tracking my spells, right?
what you do as gm?

>>97170584
>look, Mom, I posted it again!

>>97169998
Actually, my first character was/is* a berserker barbarian. I really liked it a lot, although in the first few sessions I felt a bit overwhelmed by the number of dice *(that campaign isn’t really finished; it’s just on a long hiatus).

Can Yeenognu do anything to flying creatures? Huge+15 foot reach puts anything 35 feet up out of reach, or 45 if he high jumps.

>>97170688
Just because it isn't on his stat block doesn't mean you can't have him chuck a boulder 300 feet for like 3x his melee damage but with one attack.

>>97170688
>yeenoghu teleports to flyer
>legendary action swat away
>flyer prone, plummets

>>97170584
I’ve had this same conversation with an old player. She insisted on playing a druid but then took 3-5 minutes per turn and never knew what any of her spells did. Made combat absolutely crawl. I don’t play with biological women anymore for a good reason.

>>97170669
Personally when I play, I always write down any spells on a spare sheet of paper. Mostly because copying them down in full not only gives a good reference, but it also usually helps you to memorize it because you had to fully read the spell and write it out without any skimming.
Failing that, I 100% guarantee that there's a spell-card generator out there for just printing off whichever spells you need.

None of that really helps with spell selection, either in the context of the player choosing what spells to prepare from their list, or in knowing when to use each spell in the moment. The former is alleviated by you as the GM recommending them spells, picking out some solid and straightforward ones where the use cases are more blatant.
The latter is just experience, and there's not a good way to substitute that.

>>97170811
The 14 version had card packs for Arcane, Cleric, Druid, etc., but they haven't gotten around to reprinting them for 24.

>>97170847
If a player can't find out how to print spell cards despite having access to the internet, then they are incapable of learning how to play a spellcaster anyway.

>>97170934
personally if i can't remember the exact details and wording of my entire spell list then i don't deserve to cast one of my spells let alone all of them

>>97170761
>teleports to flyer
>falls
>ends turn on ground

>>97170688
He's a demon lord, just have him sprout bat wings or give him ability to cast Fly at will (that's what he did in 3.5)

>>97170688
He's a demon lord or whatever, add whatever you want to his statblock if you're concerned your players will do this.

>>97171015
>doesn’t know how turn based works
No games

>>97171339
>>97171388
I'm more questioning how well constructed or exploitable his stat bock is rules as written or I've missed some aspect of his capabilities. He and Zariel are both in Descent Into Avernus at CR 24 and 26 and the difference in their power and the ability of a well-equipped party to threaten them seems massive.