>>98440952
10

>>98440952
>TQ
3. None of the shit that grognards care about existing or not in the setting matters to me. Dark Sun's society doesn't function without slavery. If they remove it, I'm putting it back in.

>>98440952
>TQ
7. With the exception of Phandelver, all the other adventure modules have been absolute shit. With Dark Sun, WoTC would have to sanitize the setting since the odds are good that the "modern audience" would absolutely hate and despise it.

>>98440952
Around an 8. Them slapping an 18+ label on it is at least a sign that they aren't going to completely sanitize it, but thus far they're advertising that via gore and violent dismemberment.
Decent odds that it's just shock value as a marketing ploy while missing the point of the setting entirely.

>>98440952
Was doing some googling about 5.5e classes and stumbled upon the 5point5.fandom wiki, which has the Brawler fighter subclass. I'm not seeing it mentioned elsewhere and it seems like a pretty cool subclass. Is this some homebrew shit that made it onto that wiki?

I now have the urge to make an improvised weapon character who uses a talking doll and a pole of collapsing, either dual wielding each as light weapons (with pole collapsed) or jamming the doll onto the extended pole as an improvised halbard. The doll will insult enemies as I hit them with it, and I could persuade my DM that since these are magic items, they should react to resistances in the same way as magical weapons.

>>98441021
Yes, it’s homebrew. D&D wikis pretty much always include homebrew of questionable quality, which is why you should stick to dedicated tool websites like 5etools and the Hypertext SRD.

>>98441021
It was a subclass in UA before being shelved. https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/dungeons-dragons-discussion/unearthed-arcana/184463-ua7-survey-results

I'm guessing they kept it for historic purposes.

Finally reaching 12th level for my Sorcerer, and the DM is giving me an option of what I would like out of a legendary item (which we will all be getting, but acquiring them for each party member he wants it to be "special").

I play a Sorcerer, and I'm wondering whether to ask for an ioun stone of mastery (makes me better at literally everything I do, including spell save DCs plus I already have a bloodwell vial for an additional +1, and it's a cool floating magic rock while my character was a jeweler before he became an adventurer), OR a ring of djinni summoning (would eat my concentration when I use it, but it's a summoned genie, and the character is from not!Arabia, usually wears a genie robe for clothes too). My concentration slot is usually taken up by Bless (Magic Initiate), Hasting the party Barbarian or Fighter, or Sickening Radiance/Spellfire Storm for damaging groups, so a djinni summon would be competing for that.

Is one going to be significantly better than the other?

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>>98441119
The best sorcerer item isn't legendary. I'd ask for a +3 bloodwell vial.

>>98441140
Already have a +1 version, and was told a while back that he wouldn't go above a +2, if I wanted to try and upgrade it.

>>98441061
>>98441053
Lame. Guess I'll have to find some other way to do my doll-knight

>>98440952
>TQ
7
Based on the trailer, I think that they think Dark Sun is all about brutality or perhaps that's their way of glossing over the problematic elements.
My DM is not going to change to 5.5E so my game is safe. Or unsafe may be the better word.

Sorcerer is easily the strongest full caster in lvl 3 to 5
It has everything: a great spell arsenal (Web, Fireball, Blur, Sleep), Metamagic, which is extremely powerful, and proficiency in Constitution saving throws.
Circle of Stars Druid comes in second place, but it is still very strong because it can maintain concentration no matter what, on top of having the Druid's spell arsenal.

>>98440952
6, i think they’re gonna pussy out on the environmentalism focus that’s at the centre of the setting

>>98440952
So DnDBeyond is intentionally designed to be cumbersome and a pain in the ass to use, right? Looking for items is especially painful.

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My 5e Greyhawk game is coming up on it's first year anniversary. However it takes place in 576CY. (Well I call it 5e Greyhawk, but it's just Ghosts of Saltmarsh with some other adventures sprinkled in.)

Have they announced what year the Drelzna module will take place in the Oerth calendar? I imagine S4 Tsojcanth would've at least taken place by now.

>>98440952
8 at the minimum. But I'll do what I always do with D&D, use what I like ignore what I don't.

>>98440952
>TQ
Releasing a setting all about harsh survival in a game that has goodberry is an interesting choice, let's leave it at that
Also they literally went out of their way to remove even the mention of slavery from monster statblocks and you want me to believe they have the balls to do Dark Sun justice?

Best class for a plasmoid character who rarely takes a humanoid form? I want to be a blob.

>>98442294
be a moondruid and be a dinosaur instead

>>98442166
When I played Dark Sun the DM said the create water spell only makes water that lasts 5 minutes, including when you drink it.

Conjure minor elementals is kinda broken huh

>>98442667
Go on...

>>98442335
I've not played Dark Sun myself so I don't know if this fits in with the established lore, but I recently finished the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. There was a very serious logistical issue in a later book where an army had to cross a vast desert and due to the circumstances surrounding the desert, the army's mages could only draw upon their magic to conjure water at greater than normal cost to themselves, and then at one point deep enough into the desert they could not do it at all. I wonder if there could be a mechanical representation of something like this in Dark Sun.

I'm hitting a mental block. What kind of Steel Defender would a Kobold Battle Smith have? A tiny dragon? Cobbled together trash constructs? Taxidermy?

>>98442972
Try making your character more than just his race. Don't think what a kobold would have, think what your specific kobold would make based on his personality and personal experiences.

>>98442975
That makes sense, I guess I was just being retarded and focusing too much on the race.

>>98440968
>Dark Sun's society doesn't function without slavery. If they remove it, I'm putting it back in.
Dark Sun's primary form of villainy is slavery.

If there's no slavers, who are the bad guys?

>>98441119
Ascendant Dragon Vessel.
use it for 1 potion of dragon's majesty each day.

Alternately, cubic gate for funsies, or ring of 3 wishes.

>>98442667
you're late to the party. they already errataed it.

Let's say I want to play as an intelligent item or other "possessive force". Is there literally anything in the rules that might support something like this? I know that there are rules for intelligent items fucking you up and taking your body, but what about a PC who is a sentient item possessing the body of an unlucky peasant to go about finishing unfinished business or just otherwise cheating death?

>>98443041
the way i've seen it done before is to be a Hexblade bladelock, you are the patron, and then you're using the race stats of whatever schmuck you possessed.

that said i'm also partial to using kalashtar to represent possessed people, given they literally are, so maybe consider changing his race if he was a bog standard human to begin with.

the guy I played with was using warforged, because he was possessing a high quality war puppet like the ones from naruto.

>>98443077
Those are neat ways of doing things, might have to float something like those ideas past my DM if I decide to commit to the idea. I imagine things could get a little awkward around reviving the host body if they weren't exactly a willing participant.

In a perfect world, I think I would really enjoy a necromancer-type character who is actually a sentient spellbook that assumes direct control over one undead minion instead of a zombie horde. Almost like a constant magic jar or something.

>>98440952
>TQ
9

>>98443155
undead PC is definitely doable, that's a Reborn.

>>98443037
>If there's no slavers, who are the bad guys?
The evil chud racist bigots! The usual diarrhea libshits use. They used that to excuse the misery in 40K; we all suffer, but we will not tolerate bigotry!

>>98443181
Yes, but no, but yes. Their description as "something that should be dead but isn't" sure makes it sound like they're undead, but in both VRGR and RHW they have the humanoid type instead. Meaning they're categorically different from regular zombies and whatnot. But then any DM should be willing to approve a change of type from humanoid to undead for reborn PCs.

>>98443200
BUT THAT'S STILL LITERALLY THE SAME THING.

THEY'RE RACIST AND THEY'RE SLAVERS. THEY'RE OKAY WITH SLAVING BECAUSE THEY'RE RACIST. THEY'RE RACIST BECAUSE IT'S A JUSTIFICATION FOR THE SLAVING.

>>98443037
>If there's no slavers, who are the bad guys?
The Genocidal Halfling

>>98442294
You can pretty easily get away with Sorcerer or Wizard. You don't get armor anyway, and if you're willing to create a single arm, then that has you covered for somatic/material components.

If you want to avoid even that, then I think you'd be leaning heavily onto Aberrant Mind Sorcerer, with Magic Initiate as a necessary take at level 1 to ensure that you have a 1st level spell without Somatic/Material components. Once you get Metamagic, Subtle Spell can probably help carry you until you hit 6th and get the Aberrant Mind feature that lets you bypass components more readily.

Looking over the list of spells that only have Verbal components, the most oddball option would be Paladin. Assuming your DM allows you to make Unarmed Strikes as a Plasmoid, then with the 2024 rules you can pick up Unarmed Fighting and just start smiting people by slamming into them.
The Genie Paladin can make up for the lack of AC, though it would require spreading yourself a bit thin between Strength, Dex, and Charisma.
I suppose Monk also becomes an option at that point.

>>98443037
>If there's no slavers, who are the bad guys?
DRUMPF

>>98443041
Yes, but it requires level 11 and brings some vulnerabilities. Magic Jar allows you to transfer your soul to an object, and then use it to posses other people. There's no fixed duration on the possession, but if you don't keep your original body close, you die if the possessed body gets killed (not much of an issue, people die when they're killed anyway), but more importantly, Dispel Magic may one-shot you.

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>Ravenloft: The Horrors Within added Undead patron
>Arcana Unleashed adding Vestige patron
>Dark Sun adding Sorcerer-King patron
Greyhawk needs to add a new warlock pact to keep this train going. Maybe a dragon patron? Come on, don't let me down here.

>>98443959
When do I get a new druid circle

>>98444002
Dark Sun should include the updated Preservation circle from UA.

>>98440952
How are they going to handle psionics for Dark Sun?

>>98444002
Druids are the least popular class so they don’t get attention
(Ignoring shit like artificers that aren’t even real)

>>98444076
With that fuckawful psion class they were trying to force in UA, no doubt.

>>98443959
I wouldn't be surprised by an Archmage patron, considering Mordenkainen & co.

>>98444201
That sucks. For what its worth I actually like the psionic dice system so I would hope it would come back in some way but it does seem likely they will make a psion class.

>>98442667
Its just 'okay' now after the errata nerfed its scaling. Since it takes an Action to set up putting many into the position of not being able to take advantage of it until their next turn (if they keep up the concentration till then) the damage you gain for that lost turn is not bad but its not great either.

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>>98443959
>>98444735
You're getting a Primordial pact like what was in the "villainous" UA.
>But it wasn't even villainous!
Not the point. And it doesn't matter that nobody liked it. It's what you're getting.

>>98444886
>Xhe doesn't pre-cast buffs
ngmi

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I've become interested in the idea of combining elements with each other to create unique effects and one way I was thinking how this could be done is in the myriad ways Dragons exist.

So, in creating a Draco-Lich template for Dragons would you just have negative energy be part of their original breath weapon or would you create a unique breath based on what the dragon used to be?

I need to put together a rather large city map (a few miles across) but I don't know the best way to go about it. Any tips? I was considering breaking up the districts into their own somewhat generic plots and then stitching them together so I could rely on a list of specific businesses and locations per tile instead of the map itself, but I'm having a hard time making this work well from a player-facing perspective.

>>98445488
Find a minor European city on google maps and copy layout from there. Works every time for me.

>>98445488
>I need to put together a rather large city map
I promise you, you actually don't.

>>98445524
It's more just to facilitate a list of locations, but I at least want to give my players something nice to follow at while they're in the area. I'm more concerned about the logistics than making it pretty, I assure you. I've just never had to handle such a thing before

>>98445530
So have them draw the map based on the information you provide.

>>98445399
split the damage, do half and half

Any advice for someone running Tomb of Annihilation for the first time?

>>98445641
read up on your different dinos

>>98445155
looks nice anon
how'd you do it?

>>98445805
cheapasa watercolour and fountain pen :D

>>98445399
>Go to fight a dragon
>Charred corpses all over the mountain
>It's a white dragon
>Has ice breath
>Turns out the dragon burns all the corpses on his mountain to fuck with adventurers
This was a little silly right.

>>98445919
Feels like the sort of trickery a Green dragon would pull off. They love to scheme, have an excess of timber that they could use, and seem like the sort who would enjoy misleading people into thinking a more dangerous dragon was living there.
White dragons typically aren't that clever and would sooner just eat any corpses they kill instead of wasting time with cooking them.

>>98445967
I'm pretty sure the DM rolled to determine the type of dragon randomly. It was just a fucking around game where we started out fighting rats in a tavern basement.

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Remember that you are not limited to the backgrounds that are in the PHB 24

>>98445657
I'm definitely considering expanding the menagerie of dinos they can encounter. I feel like Troodon would be a blast in this game if I portray them the way they appeared in the TellTale Jurassic Park game.
>big orb eyes
>venomous bite that causes fatigue, fever, and hallucinations
>hunt in packs
>build their nests out of living hosts rendered catatonic by their venom, the body heat of their prey keeping the eggs warm

>>98446023
In 5.0 it was written so that you the player could make your own background or use one of the sample ones on the following pages.
In 5.5 it is written so that you are limited to the backgrounds in the PHB unless your DM says otherwise. The quote you have is for the DM, telling them that they can create a background to help a player. It never says that a player can choose a custom background without the DM's permission, and this was of course on purpose.

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What do I do for these clockwork horrors? I put a bunch of them in my dungeon in pairs and trios for an 8th level party. The challenge ratings are FINE as is, I don't want to change them. My problem is the hit points / resistances. 2025 edition basically dropped all magic resistances, which I don't love, but reducing reliance on them isn't necessarily bad. That said it's annoying to track either way. These creatures make sense to require magic. But my entire party has magic weapons, so fighting them is gonna be kind of a joke. Do they look any good as is right now? I gave them pretty good AC because they are well-made constructs with full metal armor. That helps a bit. But let's be real, people have pretty nuts to-hit compared to AC in 5e anyway, a 17+ AC isn't gonna slow someone down THAT much.

Basically I just want to know if these monsters look fine as is, especially in a group where the main damage dealer has a magic weapon and the other PCs have non-physical damage they're dealing. One of their biggest damage vectors is conjure beasts, which (I think?) counts as magical BPS. Even if not, 60 hit points won't mean much against even a level 4 frenzy barbarian. Let alone a level 8 one. Even if I used 4 or 5 of them, I feel like they might die rather quickly. And that's for what should be a fairly difficult encounter.

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I also looked at the Clockwork Oaken Bolter and its HP from Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes (2014 edition D&D) to Mordenkainen's Monsters of the Multiverse (pseudo-2025 edition D&D) and its hit points went from 58 to 117. Basically doubled to compensate for the removal of nonmagical BPS. Should I do that? I don't want to double the hit dice of these things. And it might get to be overkill to just double their hit points. But I could run it back through the CR calculator.

Would DOUBLING their hit points (or close to it) be the best solution here? And removing the BPS resistance? I feel like the adamantine one should just be immune to nonmagical nonadamantine BPS. But that might force it to have lower HP and that would be weird.

I also thought about the resistance being to non-adamantine weapons. But 5e golems don't have that. And I hate 5e 2024's golems, because straight-up BPS resistance is retarded IMHO. But whatever, it is what it is.

I just want to compromise
>making these monsters good for my party whom only one of them attacks with a nonmagical weapon
>making these monsters good in general, because they're part of a giant 3e conversion I've been doing and I want it to be "professional tier"

>>98446037
>build their nests out of living hosts rendered catatonic by their venom, the body heat of their prey keeping the eggs warm
God damn, that's metal as fuck. The last thing I would expect from my campy dinosaur franchise is discount xenomorph body horror. I didn't realize anything in the Jurassic Park IP went that fucking hard.

Wording fix (maybe):

>>98446528
Sonic Weakness. Whenever the clockwork horror takes thunder damage, it must succeed on a DC 15 Constitution saving throw or lose its immunity to blindness and be blinded. These two effects fade at the end of its next turn.

Maybe there should be a type with a ranged weapon attack?

>>98446650
Even the T-rex from the original book is described as some horrific mutant with a prehensile snake tongue that can't stand direct exposure to the sun and soporific venomous saliva that drugs one of the protagonists as he's about to be crushed, on top of the dilophosaurus scene being less "haha fat guy gets eaten in a cartoony way" and more him being disemboweled and feeling it's teeth pierce his skull as he's lifted off the ground and smashed back into it since the dilo is the size of a horse
They deliberately nerfed the vibe to be more family friendly with each movie until we got whatever the fuck the franchise is today

>>98446037
My raptors were like the ones from Sorna. Used some excuse about the Death curse fucking with them according to local guides. They were a duo; an orc ranger named Tembo and and a gnome big game hunter named Roland.
>>98446650
You need to read the books. The Lost World is completely different than the movie, and they both lean way more into horror.

>>98446764
>>98446791
Never knew the franchise was so toned down since I've never touched the JP books. Guess I have some shit to add to my reading list.
>tfw full blown horror JP reboot never ever

>>98446658
oh yeah I removed its blinded immunity, just forgot to redo the screenshot.

If I were to create some undead and use True Polymorph to turn the undead into little trinkets I can carry around, would they still be under my control if they were to be dispelled of the polymorph? In other words, if creatures do not remember their time spent as an object, do spells affecting them also pause their duration (such as Animate/Create Undead's control factor).

Other than divine/DM intervention, is there anything that would prevent some high level wizard from minting currency out of a bunch of nasty creatures using true polymorph, introducing those coins into a region's economy, and then at some point in the future using a Wish spell to dispel all true polymorphs they've cast to immediately throw a region into chaos?

>>98446954
The IRS

>>98446979
Is there actually an IRS in DnD settings? I doubt every coin circulating through the kingdom is serialized or anything like that, so some new coins containing horrors beyond comprehension would probably be hard to notice.

>>98443037
Wishes are a hard no. We got one from a genie already (whole party has bludgeoning resist now, which was hilarious when we had to fight through a temple of not!Asian Kung fu masters).

Is the potion going to be that good for a sorcerer though? I don't do melee.

>>98446993
Cormyr does.

>>98446954
I mean, other than DM/divine intervention, is there anything that would prevent the wizard from just using the Wish to create the nasty creatures scattered across the region without bothering with the silly Polymorph step?

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What's his problem?

>>98447878
He's dressed like a chick, for starters

>>98447878
Nipples are cold

>>98448154
Lucky for him, he doesn't have nipples.

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>>98447878
Gay Arthas

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>>98440952
Dark Sun announcement made me remember this game has been on my backlog for years and I never played it.

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>>98448347
Well, here's my party.
I gave them all John Carter themed names because I once heard Dark Sun was inspired by the Barsoom novels.

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>>98448361
Start of the game, you see this wizard fighting some monsters.
Out of curiosity I loaded the intro a couple of times.
Sometimes the wizard manages to kill the green lizards but he always dies to the ravager.

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>>98448370
I actually won my first fight, but I ended up getting a game over afterwards, because I picked the option to badmouth the announcer who sent some really strong monsters which wiped my team.

>>98448297
Tautology

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>>98448384
This is after the fight. You're not given any goals at all, but the game manual heavily implies you need to escape the arena.
Also, I noticed everyone in the party has some kind of psionic ability, even if they're martials like fighters.
There's 4 spheres of elements, but when I checked the cleric spells there's like 10 cosmos sphere spells for every 1 elemental spell. That's why I went with druid.

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>>98448411
So in the gladiator pens, I found these guys planning some kind of escape.
However, when I talked to their leader (pic related), he just told me to win more matches in the arena first.

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>>98448429
I have some trouble getting used to the controls for this game.
TLDR you left click to talk, move and attack. You right click to change your action mode from move to attack to talk.
So if you want to walk to attack someone you use the move mode to walk up to the target, then you right click to change to attack mode and attack.
I bet before key controls got formalized in the late 90s a bunch of PC games had their own weird mappings that would make no sense today.

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>>98448471
I met another woman named Gilal who apparently has only fought once in the arena.
When I asked her about escaping her head suddenly started hurting. I assume you can psychically trigger pain when talking about something.

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Is this like a typo or did they genuinely make a CR 17 with 10 AC

Can't wait for WoW dnd!!!! Going to play just like the mmo from what ive been told

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I'd never seen a plus-size dragonborn before. Now I have. My life doesn't feel any more complete.

>>98448753
They did studies and found most players cheat and demand to auto hit and that players who miss attacks get negatively impacted so most new monsters coming out have low AC

>>98448753
I mean why not, I recently had 3 adds for a miniboss, CR of a single one would calculate to around 17 and they had AC 10, 350 hp. They had one job, walk up to things and hit them with +17 to hit, average 82 damage slam.

>>98440952
Maybe a 3 (as in, not very fucked up at all). People who spend too much time on 4chan/Reddit act as though WotC won't sell a "based" product the very second an algorithm or consultant tells them they can make some money off of doing so.

It'll have slavery, Muls, and all the other sacred cows. The most major problem it will encounter is just 5e itself. Characters were much easier to kill in 2e, whereas the power level in 5e is very high pretty much from the jump.

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>>98448850
This but unironically. I've been thinking about preparing a campaign related to Azshara and the Black Empire inspired by the BfA story line. I think it would work well as a trpg.

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>>98448894
But 2024 MM monsters have higher ACs on average

>>98448874
That's disgusting

>>98449018
Is there any leaked info yet? I saw video of books that were already published. Im curious if there will be any gameplay changes

>>98449108
Not to my knowledge, but I haven't been looking into it that deeply. I just hope for the best.

>>98448850
I saw from the leaked art that they managed to make the furry dragon race not look like complete and utter faggotry which is impressive

>>98449102
No it's not.

>>98449147
Wait its going to be modern WoW? But the first content book is ICC raid

what the fuck was that

>>98446650
I wouldn't call the TellTale game good, but the Troodons are definitely a highlight. It's hard to come up with a new compelling enemy dinosaur without just going with "different T-Rex", "different Raptor", or "genetic monster". The Troodons being little poisonous swarmers that can fit in places Raptors can't definitely puts you between a rock and a hard place.

Highly recommend the original book, it leans way harder into Paul Verhoeven-style horror and violence.
>the part where they adjust the parameters of the population search and run it again
>Velociraptors
>Expected: 8
>Found: 37

>>98449328
Probably just gonna be a hodge podge

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>>98448411
Everyone on Athas has a Wild Talent. My fighter's talent is he can't be teleported against his will. In 5 years it has never come up.

Hey, haven't played 5e since 3-4 years. I have to dm a one shot session soon and I'm seeing a 5.5 version on 5etools.
Is there any core mechanic change I need to be aware of? I'd rather not re read an entire book if I can get away with not doing that.

My players are going to use a 5.5e tool to generate their characters if that matters.

>>98448874
More like tortoise born

>>98440952
They will fuck it up, it is just a matter of how badly and what direction they go.
My bet is that they get too edgy in one direction and too soft in the other.
Universes Beyond has got me more worried.

>>98449952
Most of the changes were on the player side. Might want to read up on the updated classes.

>>98449952
I mean the smart move would just be have your friends make 2014 characters and run what you know, but whatever.
Uh as a shortlist of things
>Stealth is changed and kinda a mess, worth looking into
>They changed / grouped a lot of actions you can take differently. You should know what a Search / Magic / Study / Influence / Utilize etc. action does
>Weapon Masteries are new and you should at least familiarize yourself with them

And then as >>98450759 said, a lot of player stuff. they changed how backgrounds and feats work for example and switched a lot of class features up.
And then there’s a lot of small changes - many spells for example are going to be a little bit different. If you have spellcaster enemies in your one-shot it’s worth taking a look and comparing to see if there’s any small wording changes that you might otherwise miss. Players can hopefully read their own

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>Hey can I do a homebrew monk thing? I got a RAW character too in case you say no :)
>links this
What do bros?

>>98450932
Ask them for actual rules. If that's all they give me, it's a hard no. I don't care that 4 of those are roleplay/flavor shit, the fuck does #5 even do?

>>98450932
Sure i guess but I’d have to see the actual sub-class features
Punch person who likes to punch isn’t that big of a shift, they’ve already taken most of the religious stuff out of monk anyways to make it PC.

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>Been playing Curse of Strahd
>At the battle of yesterhill
>we stop the summoning of the wintersplinter
>paladin gets instagibbed in the ensuing explosion
>afterwards, I(the bard), find a greataxe in the druid encampment
>gives a bonus on damage to plants
>despite the fact we won't be fighting plants for the rest of the campaign
>DM explains this is a canon magical item to find
fucking why? For what purpose?

>>98451109
How do you know there won’t be any more plants

>>98451137
I was talking to the DM about it after the session. How it kind of sucked that we got it after the paladin died. He said there wouldn't really be many, if any plants in the rest of the campaign.

>>98451145
Anon he’s lying to you

>>98451160
I mean, if he is that's cool, then. I'm not sure when though. We don't have a whole lot of new locations left to go to.

>>98451167
>We don't have a whole lot of new locations left to go to.
How do you know that?

>>98451171
because I got a spoiler of upcoming 'recommended levels for events' from the previous DM before shit happened, he had to drop, and one of the players took over as a first time DM.
We're roughly 2/3-3/4 of the way through the campaign. We still have to go to the dinner at Ravenloft, argynvosstholt, the swamp(which comes after castle ravenloft), and the mountains(which require going to castle ravenloft first).

>>98451109
The last time you asked this, I gave you the answer. Do you remember what it was?

>>98451220
no?

>>98451222
Why are you asking me?

>>98440952
I did some simulations with a cleric (a level 5 party of 4 vs 3 knights). Spirit Guardians is much better than I thought. It’s a really strong offensive spell, especially if you’re a melee character.
But I’ve realized that, out of the group, the sorcerer is the most busted. The sheer amount of versatility and power that Metamagic gives is genuinely impressive. Maybe I’ll play a Divine Soul Sorcerer someday...

>>98450932
>"Do you understand what a monk is? What kind of monastic structure are you imagining with this? And what's this about 'normal everyday lives by day'? Being a monk is generally a full-time commitment."

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Do you play with any homebrew classes or other franchise conversions? The new ff14 class, Bastion, has me hyped and I know there's that FF14x5e conversion someone made that'll hopefully have Bastion added. When it does I'd like to run a game using it.

>>98451577
>Do you play with any homebrew classes
Oh, absolutely. I've written--
>or other franchise conversions
Eww.

>>98451455
>Okay, so like, a gentle teacher that is only so kind because she goes out for bloodsports every night, but she HAS to do that. If she takes a couple days off she risks hulking out in her day job.
>Barbarians don't punch people, do they?
>Of course it's my fetish, why do you ask?

>>98451729
BEING A MONK IS YOUR DAY JOB IF YOU'RE A MONK. FUCK'S SAKE.

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>>98451455
>>98451784
I have never played a monk who was an actual monk. I will never play a monk who is an actual monk. Rename the class martial artist.

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>tfw no brawler class that's like a monk, but without the gay Ki powers and a focus on grappling, wrestling finishers, and improvised weapons
I just want to toss enemies around into each other, break weaklings in half over my knee, hit a dragon with a suplex, and fuck up a lich with a magical folding chair. Is that too much to ask for?

If casters truly are the better, what are some good tricks to pull with their spells/traits?

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>>98441021
>>98441053
>D&D wikis pretty much always include homebrew of questionable quality, which is why you should stick to dedicated tool websites like 5etools and the Hypertext SRD.
Unfortunately, these wikis are the only resource I can find for those paywalled D&D Beyond Drops WotC makes since 5etools and Hypertext don't have them. It doesn't have DM-facing stuff like the Para-Elementals or other paywalled monsters, but they at least copy over the Magic Items, new Feats & Fighting Styles, and Spells.
http://dnd2024.wikidot.com/system:page-tags/tag/drops
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/2188-d-d-beyonds-june-drop-new-monsters-spells-magic

>>98449013
>People who spend too much time on 4chan/Reddit act as though WotC won't sell a "based" product the very second an algorithm or consultant tells them they can make some money off of doing so.
If that was the case, they'd have never removed Half-Elves & Half-Orcs, given their popularity as character options. It's frankly naive to assume they won't shoot themselves in the foot for ideological purposes.

>>98452107
5etools actually has Drops, they're just tucked in the homebrew section instead of prerelease like UA.

Will there have been early copies of Arcana Unleashed available at Gen con? Or is it not going to be out for another good month?

>>98452050
>magic jar someone/something
>reduce person on your unconscious body
>flesh to stone your smaller body
>transmute rock your stone body into mud
>scoop your sludge into a bottle
Congrats, you are immortal
>lmao what if magic jar gets dispelled
You just get shunted back into your goop body, and who the hell is going to destroy mud? Just have your party scoop you up and fix your body at a fraction of the cost of a resurrection.

Should I play a skeleton "reborn", and if so should it do bone puns?

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The cover for Crown of the Witch Queen goes hard as fuck. I also can't help but notice that the new castle greyhawk painting has bat-like creatures flying around the keep just like the witch queen cover, suggesting that Drelnza might have her liar there. Which means we might get an updated Castle Greyhawk from wotc in addition to what Troll Lord is cooking up. Or at least the castle grounds and upper-works. I doubt wizards will give us a mega dungeon so soon after Dungeon of the Mad Mage, but man I wish. Castle ruins near a big city would make a great fit for a vampire too, which makes it more likely I think.
>>98452595
Yes, I don't remember where but I saw pictures of people standing in line to buy the books.

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The new Castle Greyhawk painting that I was talking about

>sandbox city adventure in greyhawk, the players are investigating a series of murders and disappearances in the city and surrounding farm land
>the investigation leads them to an enclave of vampires in the city sewers, big dungeon crawl, rumours are going about that castle greyhawk has a new owner, more and more adventurers never return from their expeditions, the castle is more dangerous than ever
>a showdown with delnza at the castle
Tell me I ain't cooking I dare you

>>98449542
In fairness that's a very obscure talent.
Hell, I might have that talent in real life, I'm not even sure.

>>98440952
Thoughts on Arcane Archer? 2014 and 2026

>>98451984
Fighter already exists.

>>98452667
That's a convulted way to kill yourself. Flesh to Stone in itself works, as that just give you the petrified condition (note that Reduce Person will still expire normally when its duration runs out). However...Transmute Rock only work on non-magical rock, either way, so you can't use it on a petrified creature. But even if you could...
>If the creature is physically broken while petrified, it suffers from similar deformities if it reverts to its original state.
Congratulations, you've just turned your body into a sludge. If you've turned the mud back to stone, you'd have weirdly shaped lump of rock. If you end the petrification, you'd get a lump of meat. And getting back from that is beyond what Resurrection can do, so you're looking at True Resurrection or Wish to fix that fuckup.
And that's assuming that the GM is generous enough to agree that a bottle of mud is still your body and thus valid for the Magic Jar.

>>98454266
Fighter doesn't know kung fu.
>b-but I can take unarmed fighting and EK for mage armor and

Lame!

Are monks the most not roleplayed class?
They're supposed to be monks. But I've never seen a player actually lean on that. They're always just the roadmap to being an MMA fighter or an anime character.

Like making a wizard that hates books.

>>98455359
Most barbarians aren't actually from more primitive cultures and most druids are just hippies or Radagast knockoffs not Celtic priests. But the big one is Clerics, fucking nobody plays a Cleric as anything but a white mage who is maybe, *maybe*, vaguely religious.

>>98455359
The two monks I've played with in the decade of 5e were both roleplayed well. I've found warlocks to be the least roleplayed. Only once has the patron ever come up, and that was when I was playing one in a spelljammer game with randos on roll20.

>>98452029
It's 3rd party, bur the Pugilist is literally just this and it's absolutely fantastic. It's a bit strong as a melee tank, but if you adjust/remove Haymaker it's perfectly fine for use at just about any table.

Someone needs to explain something to me about Dark Sun
>Be Abalach-Re
>Be a sexually active woman
>Generations of children

>Be Nibenay
>Have a literal harem of naked women
>One child

>>98455408
>3rd party
I'll have to take a look at it, but desu my group tends to avoid 3rd party stuff. The quick summary on DnDBeyond definitely sounds like what I want.

>>98455431
makes sense

>>98455408
>>98455501
I'm actively playing one in a campaign at the moment, and can confirm it's exactly what I wanted for a strength-based unarmed melee fighter character, but yeah haymaker is busted as all fuck, as-is the class is very overpowered so be prepared to adjust unless your table is just good with having someone who can solo most encounters no issue.

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r8 my splash screen for the vtt game
I painted 3/4 of the character art

>>98455971
W

>>98455380
>Celtic priests
No one knows/cares what that is. Druids are how they're usually roleplayed.

>>98455359
i think its hard to roleplay a monk because people are unsure what they are meant to be like - we honestly don't get many depictions of monks in modern media besides uh, jackie chan and friar tuck kek

whats the easy way to convert a monster from 5E to 5.5E?

>>98456048
this but for druids
at least for monks I make some weaboo wuxia shit "you can't see mount tai"
for druids as in celtic priests you have like five roman niggas like
>there is this priestly caster
>they employ an oral tradition
>human sacrifice
which is really just a cleric
Druids feel like a really specific archetype that I never actually see

>>98456126
I have one druid in my game and she just roleplays it as being insane

>>98456081
you don't really need to do much if anything

>Focus Points
Monks are forever fucked. There's no hope

>>98456081
Pull up the stat block and read it.

>>98456081
>Take the monster
>Do nothing to it
I guess if it casts spells you use the new version. Of you could give it a weapon mastery if it feels like it would make sense. From the DM's perspective 5e and 5.5e are functionally identical except for changes to spells.

>>98455431
Women want children, men just want pussy.

>>98455380
>nobody plays a Cleric as anything but a white mage who is maybe, *maybe*, vaguely religious
Not how I've seen them played. Maybe you should stop playing with godless heathens.

>>98440952
I don't know anything about the specifics of this Dark Sun thing but as I understand it in contrast to most grimdark settings the players are actually expected to make things better right?

>>98456713
>the players are actually expected to make things better right?
Yes, you assassinate Charlie Kalak, free the slaves, then turn Tyr Qwyr

>>98456851
Kalak died 30 years ago anon, let it go.

>>98456022
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Druid
>A druid (Gaulish: druides, from Proto-Celtic *druwides, 'oak-knower' or '[priest with] strong insight')[1] was a member of the learned class of the ancient Celtic peoples of Gaul and Britain, described by Greek and Roman writers as a priest, teacher, judge and custodian of religious and legal tradition.

Imagine outing your ignorance this hard, on purpose. Nobody plays a druid as a druid. Nobody.

>>98457182
>Nobody plays a druid as a druid. Nobody.
That was exactly my point. A D&D/PF/whatever druid has nothing to do with that shit. It is how people are playing them.

wanted to run a 5e campaign in foundry, but I cant be assed to manually import all the crb shit since I only have the books.

Anyone got compendiums modules I can just import? I've been running pf2e for the last few years and I just want to take a break from that.

>>98457663
crb?

>>98457692
core rulebook, but i found the plutonium shit in the OP so I no longer need any help.

>>98453980
We don't even have updated Arcane Archer yet, I don't think

>Iggwilv never learned plane shift, she uses an item for that
FRAUD

>>98457334
Okay good, so monks have nothing to do with monks.

>>98457878
Maybe it'll get updated in the Sword & Sorcery season? I wouldn't say it's plausible, but hey, there's a shot.

>>98456713
The pitch this time around is that "Athas is not the world you save, it's the world you survive."

>>98458135
I bet you they won’t even make the Sorcerer-Kings CR 25+ like even 4E did.

>>98457878
>>98458122
Arcane Archer will be part of Arcana Unleashed. The book is being sold at gencon so we might get a first look fairly soon.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/2209-master-the-weave-with-these-8-arcana-unleashed

Actually…
In 4E, Level meant suitable challenge for 1 character of the same, Elite was a challenge for 2 PCs and Solo was 5 PCs
No Mind Lords of the Last Sea in 4E

Daskinor Level 20 Solo, made up for Dungeon Magazine
Tectuktitlay Level 22 Solo
Abalach-Re Level 23 Solo
Andropinis Level 25 Solo
Hamanu Level 27 Solo
Lalali-Puy Level 28 Solo
Nibenay Level 29 Solo
Dregoth Level 30 Solo
The Dragon of Tyr Level 33 Solo

>>98458188
>Arcana unleashed
That cover art is still so fucking shit. Complete and utter fucking shit. I'd rather chop my own dick off than buy that garbage.

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>Just heard about the Dark Sun remake
Please, please, please don't sanitize anything in this setting. PLEASE! Either add the halflings that eat sentient creatures and cannibalize each other, elves that engage in racial bigotry and hate their half-elven mutt sibling and have a banditry culture, and Muls who are born into slavery through eugenically altering dwarves and humans who come into the world ripping their poor dwarven mothers apart during birth, or don't make the setting at all.

>>98458282
Give us your rating on how badly you think they'll fuck it up. I already did here >>98440961

>>98458286
I want to be hopeful, but your rating is most likely the real case scenario. Why now.

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>>98458288
Yeah, those FUCKERS will make it into some sort of fucking CAPTAIN PLANET bullshit. It'll be a bunch of butch lesbians in leather killing white men and screaming. Apparently that's what they think we want.

WoTC are disgusting freaks. They can't make their own setting because they know it will flop. All they can do is rehash old adventures, old settings, and even with 5.5e old classes and subclasses. They are so FUCKING unoriginal they remade the PHB before giving us anything of substance. What a disgraceful lazy company.

where is a good place to find high quality home-brewed short campaigns for 2014/2024

I basically just want something simple in the lines of lost mine of phandelver, maybe a bunch of maps, a very simple story, a bit sandboxy

>>98458902
You could steal something from OSR

>Arcana Unleashed is introducing new X School of Magic Adept feats
>Evocation Adept
>Unknown Name of Trait: One a turn when you deal damage with an evocation spell you can expend up to 2 hit dice and add the total to one damage roll of the spell.
>Your prepare: Chromatic orb, shatter, fireball, vitriolic sphere, Wall of force.
New book gives Wall of Force and Fireball feat for fullcasters who don't already get it!

I was DMing a campaign with my friends but in between sessions i had a depressive episode and threw all the campaing material in the trash. Now i'm ghosting my friends. This is a reminder to never attempt to do things when you're mentally ill

>>98461102
Trashing a campaign because you are unwell is fine, it's a game after all. Losing your friends however, is not ok. Talk to them, tell them what's going on. They'll understand.
I lost mine due to my own mental illness two decades ago and I regret it every day.

>>98440952
My group hardly ever manages to set up games, so I've been testing out different builds on my own.
I use a Warlock with Hex + Eldritch Blast + Agonizing Blast as the baseline for minimum expected damage, and a Champion Fighter with a Greatsword + Great Weapon Master as the benchmark for strong damage
Another thing I’m noticing is that the Warlock baseline of Hex + Eldritch Blast + Agonizing Blast is basically identical to the Rogue baseline of shortbow + Sneak Attack + Steady Aim
Very interesting, i wonder why

>>98458902
You could try Dan Coleman's dungeons and string them together somehow.

Troll Lord Games make great content in general and had some 5e adventures. Check out Assault on Blacktooth Ridge and The Rising Knight.

Frog God Games made their Quests of Doom series too for 5e.

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>>98461102
I have depression but I'm not a cunt who would fuck over my friends. Get help and stop using your mental illness as an excuse.

>>98462156
If you can "get help" you are not really depressed. Therapy is for low IQ people who can't self introspect.

>>98462210
>Xhe thinks the only way to get help is therapy
Ngmi

uhmmm sorry sweaty but my therapy IS dnd

>>98462210
Depression isn't a binary state. There are days that are better and days that are worse. Seizing the opportunity when you have one of those better days is crucial.

>>98462381
Yeah and then you're in one of those good days and you decide to do something, but then you fail at that thing which leads to a bad day and you start to question what hubris even led you to believe you could do that thing to begin with, so you just become worse and worse

What a pathetic depressed little bitch.

>>98462496
we don't sign our posts here

>>98462521
You've made this joke multiple times. That's a sign of autism.

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Would introducing different arrow types, either historically or like BG3, help the ranger suck less?

>>98462536
it's not a joke, stop signing your posts

>>98462625
lol

>>98462601
No because then you’d have to actually track arrows
It’s busywork

>>98462636
Technically you have to do that now.

>>98456126
Weren't actual druidic orders basically just clerics but for celtic spirits and shit?

I have a druid in my current party, but she's basically just a ranger, lore-wise.
>aasimar, lives out in the wood, communing with trees and shit
>undead blight starts to taint her home wood
>goes out exploring to find a cure
>ends up in barovia with a ranger with 'tism, a closeted self-hating tiefling bard, a nudist archfey warlock, literally puss in boots(from the last wish), and a dragonborn paladin who was a...soldier somewhere.

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>>98455380
I played a LE cleric of asmodeus who was happy to tag along with most party comps because she viewed killing sinners as sending more souls to her god, and helping evil people(or giving people the opportunity to do evil) as getting more and more powerful souls to send to her god eventually, and if innocents died, well they get to go to the heavens.

Let me be visibly pretty evil, very much devoted to my evil god, but also not kicking puppies and being hella obtrusive in good parties.

shame the campaign for that character fell apart after two sessions because the DM didn't know what they were doing, railroaded the hell out of us, dropped a nuke, then said 'um actually you can't conjure food and water without a special new reagent' specifically so they could force us to explore a mysteriously intact inn, that turned out to be a mimic. Unironically 'the tavern is a mimic'. Also we would have found out later that the final threat was a false hydra, so we had a DMPC bard that we couldn't see, giving us invisible aid throughout.

>>98462719
Shamans, priests, clerics, warlocks, magicians, alchemists, wizards, occultists, sorcerer, mystics. Same shit.

We might get a shaman class in the WoW book. I wonder if it'll just be a subclass or we'll get some actual new classes.

>>98462733
>spoiler
That sounds so AIDS.

>>98462960
yeah. After the second session the writing was on the wall and the DM admitted they bit off more than they could chew and gave up.

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>>98462733
>railroaded the hell out of us
A railroaded campaign can be fun, depends on how obvious they do it. It's generally a bad idea though.

>dropped a nuke
What? As in literally?

>hen said 'um actually you can't conjure food and water without a special new reagent' specifically so they could force us to explore a mysteriously intact inn
Sounds pretty stupid. There are much better hooks if you want someone to go to a particular inn.

>Unironically 'the tavern is a mimic'
A neat idea I guess,, maybe a bit silly.

>the final threat was a false hydra
The false hydra can be okay, but it needs both a competent DM and competent players. The DM to run it and make it feel mysterious. And players who can distinguish between player knowledge and in game knowledge. At this point the false hydra is pretty stale unfortunately, it's been meme'd to death.

I hope the next campaign is much better. Hopefully he learned from the experience and will do better next time.

>>98463012
yes, as in literally.
>campaign has us going to go find a stolen necklace
>find it, slay the bandits who stole it
>as we gather our strength for the return home, a giant fuckoff magical explosion renders everything ash for thousands of miles
>except us, because of the strange protection around the necklace, which turns to ash after the spell fades
>with nothing to forage for, or access to clean water, we head towards a town weeks away, which we hope is outside the blast radius
>was told in advance to be ready for actual survival necessities and extra gold to do so
>I invested almost all my gold into a travelling cart and containers for water and food that I could conjure for the party
>only to be told "Yeah, uh...actually you need a reagent to cast that spell and you don't have it." once the nuke dropped
>this was (by the DM's own admission) an attempt to force us to explore the mysteriously intact tavern

literally just finding a totally intact tavern AFTER A NUKE AND DAYS OF TRAVEL would have been motive enough to explore it. Conjured food is explicitly flavorless.

>>98463058
Sounds pretty dumb to me. I'm not surprised the game died.

>Conjured food is explicitly flavorless.
Prestidigitation can make it taste like whatever you want. But I'm pretty sure most parties would go investigate, if I was the DM and they decided not to I'd just shrug and continue. I have had entire dungeons skipped before, comes with the territory.

>>98463146
also this was only their second time trying to DM and they wanted to try all this cool stuff from the internet.

I can't even say my first time behind the screen was any better. It was a fucking mess. Everyone's first attempts are bad.

>>98463149
It's a skill that takes time to learn. I'm glad my group has been patient with me. They said I've improved with each new campaign. It helps to start with premade campaigns and dungeons. To get a feel for the game before making your own campaign. Right now I'm running my own campaign but with many locations with premade dungeons e.g. Lost Caverns of Tsojcanth and Forge of Fury.

>>98463160
I started with Warhammer 40:000 - Dark Heresy, and my first campaign was an 'investigation' where the players kept getting given the lead and their choices made no difference, to the point one of the fights(which I thought would be cool to have) was them getting babysat by a trio of deathwatch marines while they did basically nothing. After that campaign failed, I ran the premade to...middling success, and I've since started running original campaigns in the world of darkness and I have an age of sigmar: Soulbound campaign that I've been cooking for a while, while I wanted for one of my players to get free to actually be able to play.

At this point, I'm relatively confident in running games - to the point that terrible DM has said their favourite campaign they ever played was my Hunter: The Vigil game...but I'm not the best DM in my group and I'm always learning more from watching live plays.

Right now though, I'm having a lot of fun playing in curse of strahd as basically the party mom since half the party(on the tabletop) has the tism, are joke characters, or are Roll players.

>>98463176
My first game I ran was 3.0 when I was 13 years old. I hand drew an adventure map and you went in through a secret tunnel in their "bathroom" which was just a cave filled with screaming fungus so you were meant to burn it first. They fought a bunch of gnolls and some other stuff I can't remember. The final boss was some sort of centipede with magic powers who was way too powerful. I think we played the first two fights then got distracted. Looking back it was a very poorly designed dungeon with no hooks, no roleplaying, and nothing after you killed the centipede.

My first real campaign that was a success was using Iron Heroes. It was a low very low magic game with a party of an archer and a weapon master. I don't remember it that well but it was a fight between Law and Chaos. The party chose to be the neutral group in the situation trying to keep the peace. Still a favorite system of mine even if I doubt I'll ever run it again.

>>98463191
NTA
The classic experience of running a game young. Designing a dungeon, maybe get halfway through and then your siblings grow bored and it falls apart

>>98458188
I honestly just want to know if someone, anyone, got a look at it at Gencon, and knows what those feats for extra spells are.

The Transmutation Adept feat is +1 to a mental stat, plus always having Jump, Spider Climb, Slow, Polymorph, and Animate Objects prepped. And a speed bonus after casting them.

There's almost certainly feats for other schools as well.

>>98463199
I think I got bored too, some games are just for older people.

>>98458188
I wonder if they're gonna get rid of the Longbow/Shortbow-only flavor restriction so any jackass with a crossbow or pistol can be an Arcane "Archer".

>>98458135
So they are taking a premise that's genuinely unique and removing the unique part?

>>98445155
Very nice.

>>98463503
How is overthrowing despotic wizards a genuinely unique premise?

>>98463524
Because in any other grimdark setting things aren't meant to ever get better

>>98463578
Unless you play past level 20, things aren't getting better on Athas. And even then it's mostly just stopping it from getting worse.

>>98463447
They did, yeah.

>>98463212
Divination Adept is absolutely retarded.

>>98462923
It’s dumber than that. It’s a skin for barbarian.

>>98463778
What? Why? What the fuck??

>>98463785
What, did you genuinely expect WotC to put in the effort of creating an entire new class when it took like 10 fucking years just to add Artificer?

>>98463768
What are the spells and ability it offers?

I find it hard to believe that it could have too incredible a spell list (sending? silvery barbs remake?).

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>>98463908
Hey man, it was only half a decade.

To play devil´s advocate, past editions already had a shaman class, the oldest I remember being in the Ethengar Khanate Gazeteer. They could have worked off that bit

>>98463916
>+1 INT, WIS, or CHA
>Spells: detect evil and good, mind spike, clairvoyance, divination, scrying
>When a creature you can see makes a d20 test you can take a reaction to give advantage or disadvantage. You can do this once per long rest. You can regain the use when you cast a divination spell that uses a spell slot.

Overpowered as shit.

Best heavy crossbow build?
Halfling Rogue level 5
STR 14 / DEX 17 / CON 16 / INT 8 / WIS 12 / CHA 8
Class Feat (Rogue 4): GWM
Weapon: Heavy Crossbow
Damage: 1d10 + 6 + 3d6, with advantage

>>98464057
Yeah, that shit will obviously be changed later, like Conjure Minor Elementals lol.

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>>98443959
>>Arcana Unleashed adding Vestige patron
I want to sloppily make out with the Vestigelock

>>98464292
>Vestige patron
Is this the arcane warlock subclass? Nice

I'm curious what /5eg/'s preferences are with respect to potential Universes Beyond partnerships.

https://poal.me/3p8yy5

>>98464414
Yeah it's an updated version of the UA class. Hopefully it plays better.

>>98440952
>TQ
8\10. It's too early for it and the current wotc art paradigm is particularly ill-suited for it. It's a sign of changing times, possibly even for the better, but I don't give them much of a chance of pulling it off.

The fact they've concentrated on just the bloodiness to underline the setting's "maturity" is also worrying.

>>98446650
IIRC those things were so fucked that even Movie Hammond went nope kill it with fire upon seeing what they were like.

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Would you guys play with an AI DM? I've been thinking about the future for WOTC. I have to assume they'll eventually plug in ChatGPT to DM for people too scared, power gamey or perverted to find a table.

Personally, idk where I draw the line at AI and gaming. It feels like a natural conclusion for open world games that truly feel immersive.

>>98464786
I think they talked about developing proprietary AI that might simulate various iconic characters in campaigns. So when players encounter Vecna in a campaign, the DM might tag in Vecna.GPT that's programmed with a synthetic voice and personality parameters, and it responds to players to reach a predetermined conclusion that continues the adventure.

I personally wouldn't like that, but it's something that WotC is looking into.

>>98464786
AI can't into rule systems. It's great for dumb shitpost scenarios like "What if Vecna teleported to Super Mario Sunshine?" but actual structure just leads to AI-isms and hallucinations

>>98464786
Sure, when we have actual AI, not LLM. So about never at the current rate.

>>98464849
ROFL. Imagining a DM doing that is just funny to me. Might as well put on a bad voice changer.

>>98464959
>actual structure just leads to AI-isms and hallucinations
That's interesting. I assumed rules would make AI more compatible as it has guardrails to its hallucinations. Like you can say you want to do wild shit in DnD but it still just translates into needing to roll X check and meet Y DC depending on the difficulty of the action.

>>98465055
When we reach that point, fuck a text prompt. Just plug me into the matrix.

After 10 years of TTRPGs I only know two fucking guys who can actually commit to a game schedule. Coincidentally they've also been GMs before.

I tried to watch a roleplaying game on youtube, but they were constantly giggling like they were on drugs. I had to turn it off. Is this what roleplaying games are?

I realized from my simulations that the best place to start a fight as a melee cleric is not to be in front of everyone, but rather to stay right behind the characters who usually take the front line.
More specifically, you want to be at least 5 feet away from the closest position an enemy can reach with their movement + reach.
That way, I can cast Spirit Guardians, move away, and then move back in, forcing all enemies within the area to make the save.

>>98465513
>move away, and then move back in
repeat until you spent all your movement

>>98464959
>AI can't into rule systems. It's great for dumb shitpost scenarios like "What if Vecna teleported to Super Mario Sunshine?" but actual structure just leads to AI-isms and hallucinations
This is only true if you're just pulling up something like ChatGPT and telling it "hey play DND with me, retard". Getting an LLM to behave and follow rules does take more up-front effort, but that's exactly what shit like agents exist for, so you can have one that's in charge of pretending to be Vecna, another that calls it a faggot every time it tries to cast a spell it doesn't know, one that tracks initiative order, etc.

Would I want to play with an AI? No, but it's absolutely something that could and will be built.

>>98465812
You know too much about this shit to not be a Slop gooner

>>98466161
No, I actually just have a job in a field that involves having to understand this shit.

I avoid using them at all in my personal life if I can avoid it, because I don't find them useful outside of work.

>>98464057
Is there a full pirated copy somewhere? If not, where’d you get the text?

>>98464849
You could already do that with a shitty AI chat bot. I doubt it would be worth your time though. I'd probably just try to have awkward sex with it.

>>98443260
>they're fine enslaving their own race
>checkmate, atheists

>>98465644
Once per turn sis

>>98464786
No, I'd sooner run a dungeon crawl for the AI so as not to deal with playoids but at the moment I've got a cool group

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This is an anatomical model of a tiefling female. Any questions?

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>>98450932
Okay fine, I'm the GM for this player. I want to allow it because I trust my bro not to take us into his magical realm, but I can't figure out if she should be a monk as-written or a weird berserker or what. If anyone has advice I'd love it. For the moment I'm considering asking him to play Barbarian while I figure out what to do.

We're not here for the waifu factor, this is meant to be what Zariel was trying to do to Karlach, but in production mode.

At least one of you is probably smarter than me so I figured you'd be able to point me in the right direction. Sorry for being a faggot about it.

>>98451784
Yeah, a teacher at a monastery??

>>98466290
The book was on sale at Gencon.

>>98467805
Yes two questions
1. Can a tiefling and a human make baby?
2. What does tiefling breast milk taste like?

>>98468104
1. Yes. It's kind of baked into their whole premise.
2. Brimstone.

>>98468123
Is tiefling pussy tighter than human pussy or the same?

>>98468481
The more muscular and masculine the tiefling woman, the tighter the pussy. If you want big tits, you get a loose pussy.

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I feel like I've lost my edge when DMing. Like I keep having trouble fully improving and roleplaying NPCs. I notice I keep going "X is [mood] from [event]"

Help... how do I roleplay as DM?

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Any advice equivalent to this?

>>98469032
Playing 5e

>>98467835
You could easily just reflavor the pugilist homebrew class from dnd beyond that people were talking about earlier, and it would probably fit the theme better than monk or barb would.

Thoughts/opinions on PCs romancing NPCs in games? Not talking about the obligatory "yeah I'm a bard so I try to fuck the tavern wench everywhere we go" player, but like giving characters actual romantic arcs/ongoing relationships.

Based or gay?

Question about Dark Sun.
Are most Sorcerer Kings supposed to be dragons? I know Nibenay is a dragon who glamors himself as human when appearing in public. But then Kalak was constantly trying to sacrifice slaves to ascend to dragonhood despite being in the same generation.

my first time DMing
>they instantly uncorked and got drunk off the 300 year old elven wine they found
>they smoked the herbs from the healers kit
>the rogue halfling tried to steal sacred relics like 6 times
>the vengeance oath dwarf tried to solo the endboss demon
>the wizard lead the charge into every room
>the light cleric blased the ghosts with then undead which lead to a 5 round chase until they finally cornered and killed it
>they completely ignored my favourite puzzle and just fuckin walked past it
I think they had fun but holy shit DM'ing SUCKS

>>98469450
>>they completely ignored my favourite puzzle and just fuckin walked past it
The fact that you allowed this and didn’t try to come up with a way to force them to engage with it is a sign that you’re a more suitable DM than half the ones out there.

>>98469128
It can be very satisfying when well done, but a large part of that is running the love interest as an actual character, with goals and conflicts beyond the PC romancing her/him. You also want to make sure the player has the maturity and context to understand that relationships involve arguments and conflict and that friction between them and their love interest isn’t automatically you trying to fuck them over or a sign that they’ve somehow “lost”.

Also, do make sure that the love interest also has rapport and interactions with the rest of the party. Even if it’s just something silly like “I like showing my pressed flower collection to the illiterate barbarian my husband travels with, and doing so seems to bring some brief peace to his constantly raging heart, so that’s nice”. That sort of thing can open up some really fun roleplay for the whole table—to continue the silly example, the barbarian might notice a rare flower on their travels and nudge the husband to pluck and press it to add to her collection, since he knows that she’s missing one of those.

>>98469218
Nope. Borys is the only one who finished the transformation, the others are in various stages in the process. Nibenay is pretty low on the progress track (4 stage out of 10)

>>98468481
The same but she can squeeze it with her tail too

>>98469218
>Nibenay is a dragon
lmao that fuckboi wishes he was

>>98470065
yippie