>>98535517
>TQ
Don't know, don't care. WotC doesn't run my game.

>>98535517
>TQ
Tieflings are already in Dark Sun. I'm currently playing one lol

>>98535537
>implying OP knows about 4e

>>98535517
I'm not sure. I'd like to play a Dragonborn Artificer, myself. Would you guys let me do that if I was a player in your campaign?

>>98535552
Sure, but you'd have to be a child of Nibenay, the biggest fuckboi on Athas. And yes, you would have mommy issues.

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Don't Tieflings already exist in Dark Sun with the slop that was 4e? Because of freakshits, they made them available and excused their anachronistic appearance (Because Athas cannot access the Outer Planes) as le mutant humans.

They even massacred the cool race that was the Dray and turned them into "NOTDRAGONBORN" for scaleyfags.

>>98535562
Verily, any post-2e Dark Sun isn't the real thing

>>98535517
>TQ
They just will and won't even bother trying to justify it

>>98535558
Actually, I was hoping you'd be okay with me being female. Also, I'd like to have digitigrade legs, if that's alright with you. I do not wish to wear shoes. I wish to embrace the warm sand with my toes while pondering my Rope of Climbing.

Beyond all the main stuff people already mentioned a harsh desert setting is just going to further highlight how fucking retarded spells like goodberry and create water are

>>98535579
Good thing those spells aren't in Dark Sun.

>>98535579
You actually you haven't access to them, apparently. Many of the survivalist-sidestepping capabilities in the baseline PHB are being tuned, or even simply made unavailable.

>>98535566
As it is with Dark Sun, so it is with Ravenloft.

>>98535573
I don't care. You'll drop the game after 3 sessions, play whatever the fuck you want.

>>98535551
>>98535562
I didn't read 4e Dark Sun. I find 4e is best forgotten entirely.

>>98535583
>>98535584
Source? I straight up do not trust Wotc to put it's foot down and say "no, you can't use those options here" because of their retarded anything goes anywhere all the time philosophy

>>98535593
You probably should. A lot of the shit people bitch about in 5e is either a direct evolution of or response to something in 4e.

>>98535591
Jesus, are your games usually that brutal? Am I not allowed to make a new character when I die? I won't leave unless you ask me to.

>>98535596
I played 4e, it wasn't for me. They fucked up the math so combats took literal hours.

>>98535595
They weren't any of the previous editions of Dark Sun, therefore they aren't in Dark Sun until the new book drops. And even then I guarantee you there will be a blurb at the beginning of the book telling retards to cut those spells for harsher survival.

>>98535562
that image is pretty cool

How strict are most tables about inventory concerns? I know that virtually nobody runs spellcasting RAW. I genuinely felt insane when I pulled my DM aside after our session and asked him why he wasn't enforcing spellcasting components or equipment proficiencies, and she looked at me like I was genuinely a retard. This girl and her sister were playing a Sorcerer and a Bard and both were using shields and weapons, just casting V, S, M spells with impunity.

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>>98535615
4e had some good art

>>98535621
>How strict are most tables about inventory concerns?
99% of them will prefer handwaving it away instead of keeping track cause it can be a lot, but that's not an excuse for not fucking bothering with spellcasting components

>>98535621
That's when you play a wizard with two levels in fighter.

How are dragonborn supposed to work in Dark Sun, early stages of the transformation?

>>98535645
4E turned the Dragonborn into reflavored Dray

>>98535645
If one of my players were genuinely interested in playing on I would tell them something similar to >>98535558. There are avenues to playing a dragon person on Athas without just filing the serial number off another race, but they would be absolutely hated and feared. I know the players in my group would fine with the roleplay aspects, but I have no faith in anyone else outside of our group.

>>98535621
Equipment proficienies are 100% enforced. Components are handwaved in-game by arcane focuses, and I do try to track that you have one in one hand and a free hand for somatics.

>>98535517
Zamn, tieflings look like THAT?

>>98535645
This >>98535653 is the most likely, though I think it'd be better to make them ssuran, at least in terms of viability as a PC race.

Dray are pretty limited in terms of being the weird mutant pet project of a sorcerer king, while Ssurran are just nomadic lizard people.
Just give the dragonborn Fire resistance and a psychic-damage breath weapon and you can more easily say that they're desert-dwelling lizardfolk that channel their psionics into a blast of raw energy.

>>98535626
It truly was a different time...

>>98535517
This is why you don't have sex with a succubus.

Succubus ===> Cambion ====> Tiefling

>>98536013
For all of the 4e-isms that it added to Dark Sun, I think it's still going to end up as less of a butchering than 5.5e.

>>98535621
I rule that S only spells can be performed with a hand holding a spell focus, while RAW that can only be done with with an SM spells. Other than that, components and armour proficiencies are all observed. Why wouldn't they be? They're a significant part of spell and especially class design.
>Sorcerer and a Bard
Did they have proficiency/training in shields at all?

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Party needs passage into a sort of hidden spirit zone, what's an interesting enough roadblock to entry? figure out how to get inside help? recover some relevant artifact? complete a ritual? all of the above? I'm not usually the type to write this sort of thing but it sounds like a fun extra hurdle to add to the process

>“You don't have to have slavery in a setting if in order for it to be oppressive,” Bilsland emphasized. “There are other forms of oppression out there.”
Dark Sun confirmed ruined

>>98536438
My first instinct would be to have a 'key' in the form of a specific magical artifact, but also by extension treat the entrance as a locked door, in that there's a way to get it open without the key.
A ritual is the best analogue there, but I'd have it be a situation where the ritual itself involves gathering some other more generic items that fit certain categories.

First one that comes to mind is the old wedding rhyme. Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue. Fairly vague in terms of items, but specific enough that a party might need to go hunting for some of them.
Probably better to come up with a list that's more thematically relevant to the realm in question, but it gives the party options. Either they hunt down some specific magical relic, or they partake in a bit of a scavenger hunt and hope that whatever they find fits the criteria.

For an added wrinkle, you could make it so conducting the ritual might cause a fight with an angry spirit, in order to represent that the key would have been the 'safe' way to open it, but that's less critical.

>>98536507
I think this is a great balance, much appreciated. Definitely looking forward to seeing how it all comes together

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How awful is the formatting for my homebrew bestiary? Should I just use Homebrewery instead? I want to share it on DMsGuild when it's done. I know the art sucks but it's the best I have right now.

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>>98536608
Not terrible. What I don't understand however is why you aren't enforcing your guiding lines more strictly (if they are guiding lines and not part of the layout. The spacing of the two images for example is not consistent and the statblock on the right side of the left page is peaking over the border line to the right. The art is fine.

Nitpicks:
- The horizontal margins on the stats blocks could be bigger.
- Some people would criticize that a colored background or background with image makes reading more difficult and could be fatiguing. I find it very charming, so I won't criticize you for that.

If you haven't already create a master page with guiding lines before creating more pages.
>Should I just use Homebrewery instead?
Not necessary in my opinion

>>98536532
My friend, Legacies are a racial trait. It even mentions how “it is like a subrace” in the sense that you pick one and gain only the appropriate traits. It is essentially Variant Human, but instead of a Free Feat, your teacher/ancestor was a lvl 20 Character and he thought you some tricks related to his class.
You also aren’t forced to take the same class as your Legacy, but like Roy Greenhilt, your peers are gonna get pretty angry if the son of a Wizard becomes a Fighter.
Some scale, some don’t, because the entire point is that no two Legacies are exactly the same. All function differently

>>98536038
Seeing dragonborns described as actually having something going on about them is almost uncanny given how they're presented nowadays
Actually, what the fuck is the current dragonborn lore even supposed to be?

>>98536798
Vaguely related to dragons. That's about it.

>>98536798
It went from humans rebirth from dragons, to drops of blood becoming soldiers during Bahamut and Tiamat’s first battle, to a type of lizard-like humanoid that is related to dragons, but not genetically like Half-Dragons and Kobolds are

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>>98536492
I actually don't get it.
I mean, you don't usually play as slavers. They're the bad guys, the slavers are there to be killed and rebelled against.
So why remove them?
Will they slowly remove every bad guys from the games so everybody is nice and at peace? Will they eventually remove combat completely?

My friends want me to host a short campaign for them but I don't have the energy to spare for a second campaign with an actual story focus.

How can I trick these BG3 dudes into just venturing into the underground mouse maze so I don't have to draw maps?

>>98537229
The people making the books hyperventilate the second they hear the word "slavery"

>>98537231
Just go grab a pre-made campaign or string a few dungeons together. Tales from the Yawning Portal has plenty of random dungeons that will fill enough sessions.

>>98537238
Thanks.

>>98537237
>But Bilsland insisted that the D&D team is taking the subject seriously. The content is being reviewed by sensitivity readers, Bilsland said. “In fact, we invested more deeply in [sensitivity readers] for Dark Sun, knowing the challenges it faces.”

So there are people being paid to read things and get offended, and like they rate how offended they are on corporation certified chart so the lawyers can remove content? It's almost fascinating.

>>98535517
Oh my Heckin Science! i can't wait for wotc to kick the CHUDS out of dark sun! my players are going to assassinate Charlie Kalak and Borys Trump of Aeb, and make Tyr Qyr!

>>98537238
>>98537242
I can also recommend Tales from the Yawning Portal. The book has a 5e conversion for Sunless Citadel, the dungeon itself is a modern classic and has the opportunity for a lot of roleplaying. It is also close to Neverwinter, a city that was teased in Baldur's Gate 3, but never visited. I would recommend setting the adventure right after the spell plaque while the city is still in disarray as it makes for a very engaging backdrop with a lot of interesting opportunities and characters. Castle Never also makes for an excellent dungeon for to visit after the Sunless Citadel. For the city description there is this excellent resource: https://inchoatethoughts.com/files/neverwinter/guide-to-neverwinter.pdf

>>98535621
Material components for most spells are covered by a components pouch or focus, which 99% of players have from starting gear. For spells where specific material components are needed if your DM isn't enforcing that then they're a retard because letting the players have something like revivify for free is stupid.

Letting your players run a shield while casting spells without making sure they've got a free hand for somatic components is also a clear sign of a retard DM, but I very rarely see players running that kind of shit on a spellcaster because most of them want to play up the wizard shit anyway, to the point that they won't even carry a weapon as a backup even though they could/should. It just sounds like you're at a table with a bunch of retards run by a retard.

>>98537231
I'm doing a campaign by taking some adventures from Candlekeep Mysteries and Keys from the Golden Vault and just linking them together.

>>98537229
Modern xittertrannies literally cannot separate the concept of a fictional bad thing existing in a setting from the creators endorsing said bad thing, they are retarded. It really is that simple.

>>98537300
People don't chant "Death to America" for nothing, you know.

>>98537352
It's so ridiculous. It's like thinking George Lucas approves of blowing up planets because they did it in A New Hope. It established the Empire as terrible people, just like slavery and literally destroying the ecosystem does for the Sorcerer Kings. It's just so fucking retarded! Nobody is in support of slavery by having it something the literal evil aligned people do! What the fuck is going on do they not understand there is literal good and evil in D&D?!

Everyone knows that Borys achieved his ascension through the volontary sacrifice of a thousand paid, unionized workers you damn chuds.

>>98537361
They're the same retards who complained that characters said nigger a lot in Django Unchained.

>>98535621
I like inventory tracking and weight management because it tickles my autism in a funny way but I don't begrudge other players who don't. As for spellcasting I don't bother too much with material components unless they are in a situation such as a prison where they don't have access to spell foci or a spell component pouch or if it has a material cost that gets used up like in the Revivify spell.

>>98535626
>>98535562
Dark Sun dragons are so disgusting I hate even looking at them. I want them all to die.

>>98537508
That is the entire plot of a dark sun campaign, anon. Congratulations, you have been accepted into the party

>>98537508
The thing with Dark Sun dragons is that that aren't dragons, but dragons in """transition""", which is why they look all scraggly looking because they aren't fully dragons yet. Massively powerful wizard/sorcerers who have suction off a lot of power (defilement) decide to strip their vessel and turn into something even more powerful, and its a long and arduous process requiring a lot of needs and which either kills the faggot performing it, or becomes too painful that the cast doesn't bother leaving them half beast. To put it into perspective, only one sorcerer was able to become a dragon and he was the most powerful one of them all.

At least trannies can identify and sympathize with chud sorcerers they hate so much.

>>98537943
One sorcerer *king

>>98537300
The part that gets me is doing all that for what is supposedly an 18+ book.
The whole thing is already being advertised as adults-only, but they still have to hire people to make sure it's family friendly anyway.

>>98537508
They're the best dragons DND has ever seen, and the only original ones

>>98537300
>Saying the word "sensitivity readers" out loud in 2026
They really just don't see what the world is like from their ivory tower

>>98537300
Grim.

It's simple
We open the planes again and dump every Tiefling in Dark Sun
Now every setting is free of Tieflings

>>98537943
So basically kind-of-liches?

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>>98538894
Essentially, except they're a way bigger deal than Liches for the world at large

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got 7, 10, 10, 12, 14, 16, can add +3 anywhere up to the max of 16 (can split)
How do I build fighter or hexblade with this in 2014 ruleset?

>>98535566
I don't know, the rolled back the Prism Pentad metaplot, so it's not all bad...

>>98536671
>If you haven't already create a master page with guiding lines before creating more pages.
Will do.
>Some people would criticize that a colored background or background with image makes reading more difficult and could be fatiguing. I find it very charming, so I won't criticize you for that.
Definitely, in fact that's the biggest reason I wanted to switch to the stat block.

Should I make the art and tables absolutely justify to the column width? That would look neater, definitely.

>>98536671
Also do you think the dark red text is worth the effort of having to manually select everything and change it? I am currently copying and pasting plaintext stat blocks for around 50 plant monsters into the different parts of the stat block table wholesale, instead of pasting the stat into each row and preserving the "Armor Class", "Hit Points" etc that were in red text

>>98537388
>I don't bother too much with material components except in the exact situations where you are supposed to
???

>>98538104
Not family friendly, mentally ill retard friendly

>>98537508
>them all

>>98539589
NTA but if a PC has a component pouch or a focus, you don't need to be fussy about making sure you have the exact components.

That said, one time our group had to break out of captivity and of course we didn't have access to our usual equipment. I must admit it was fun reviewing what spells I had access to and what the material components were and trying to find ways to scavenge those components out of household items. For instance, I broke some furniture to get a nail (a "small, straight piece of iron") for Hold Person, which came in handy for paralysing a guard.

>>98538902
>psion confirmed a spellcaster

can't these boring cunts experiment even a little

>>98539743
>NTA but if a PC has a component pouch or a focus, you don't need to be fussy about making sure you have the exact components.
That's what I'm getting at though, anon described literally verbatim the way you're supposed to treat material components, which is "if they've got a component pouch or a focus, it's fine except in pretty specific circumstances"

He basically said he doesn't bother with material components, he just follows the rules for material components, just a really weird statement.

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>>98539859
>complaining about Tasha's

Does anyone else think about their characters' potential epilogue for when the campaign is completed?

>>98540752
My PC is almost guaranteed to die in the final fight, so no.

>>98540752
I often have ideas for what a resolution to a specific aspect of their story might be, but I'm always open for this to change over the game based on growth or new developments, or for it to simply play out differently than I'd assumed.

Magma dungeon for l4 PCs, natural caves where one area was converted to essentially a small gas power station with natural vents of some magic mineral, but it's now inaccessible as due to magic disturbance some time after it was last used there are collapsed tunnels, diverted lava flows that have now swallowed up pathways again, etc. Mix of natural obstacles and hazards, machinery to reactivate, native elemental creatures to attack.
What are some navigation challenges, mechanisms to control stuff, encounters other than "mephit attack" or "lava elemental I stole from BG3 I mean homebrewed" I can use to flesh out this concept?

>>98540911
Just to clarify, is the power generation geothermal, or was it moreso chemical? Siphoning up that specific mineral that was in whatever volcanic fumes were going on.

The former might have some potential mechanisms for sluiceways and pumps designed to funnel the magma around, which could serve as a way to let the party cut off certain flows to open up passages.
The latter could likewise involve clearing a room of toxic fumes through similar pumps, though more interesting would probably be some sort of drill or digging mechanism. Maybe something on minecart tracks that limits where the players can reasonably transport it (with it being very heavy otherwise) and if the drill itself uses that magical mineral for power, then it can also be a factor of harvesting materials if they want to use the drill to cut through some walls to make shortcuts, or perhaps dig a tunnel downward in order to drain lava out of an area.

As for monsters, basically anything immune to Fire is easily justified. Firenewts if you want a weak tribe of monsters that could be negotiated with. Imps, Devils, and Hellhounds if you want the tunneling to have hit something dark/sinister/cursed. Azers or Salamanders could be good candidates if you want a grumpy blacksmith to help explain some of the machinery or give the PCs some advice. And of course a Red Dragon trying to claim the place as a lair could work out.
A Flail Snail could also be a bit of a curveball there, as they're not usually thought of as fire elementals, but are still immune.
Also fitting would probably be something that's feeding off of the magic in the vents. That could be something simple like oozes, but various aberrations or monstrosities might also fit the bill. Maybe even Fey, if you want to go for a bigger contrast. There's some parallels there with a Hag in a foggy swamp versus one in a misty cavern.

>>98541011
These are some cool ideas, thanks! I was definitely thinking more sluiceways, and geothermal energy fits the bill. The setting is the feywild – the setup is (was) just that an NPC has gone missing and disappeared into magma tunnels below a theatre with some whimsical shit going on. This coincides with some weirdness with the domain's leylines that is preventing them from returning to their home plane(s), which the PCs have come here to investigate. I'm working back from that concept.

I had the idea of the whole place existing for stage pyrotechnics, with channels for a flammable gas up to mechanisms in the understage area, but I think it's cooler if the theatre people set this up in what was originally an old disused geothermal power plant. Multiple layers of history and all that, and it makes sense why there's enough dungeon for a proper adventuring day for a L4 party.

>>98539887
Ah yes because nobody ever complains about old books https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/thread/98203207/#98203207

>>98541122
In that context, it seems like having a Hag lurking down there with a cauldron of lava isn't quite as far-fetched.
And I'm also even more confident in the proposal of a Flail-Snail, as that's whimsical enough for the feywild while still being immune to any lava.

Though I'd also say you'd want to double-down on mephits. Mephits are the exact sort of tricky pranksters that I'd expect in some lava caves in the feywild.
If it is a theater, then that gives you plenty of excuses for lifts and trapdoors connecting various sublevels. Mining equipment would be more out of place, but simply having levers and pumps designed to direct the flow of lava down one channel or another can still let you do a lot in terms of opening up areas.

And if you did still want to toss in a dragon, an Emerald would fit the bill rather well. Immune to fire, burrows through rock, good with illusions, enjoys observing. Abandoned fiery theater is checking a lot of boxes there.

>>98541122
Oh, I'm definitely looking forward to the warlock in particular encountering a flail snail; that's a great suggestion.

>>98539859
Experimentation means having to do actual rigorous design work instead of just using existing systems and saying "you cast [existing spell]" or "you add [x] to your range/damage". There's clearly standardization at play, given how they standardized language on a lot of abilities and removed flavor on a lot of abilities. Making a whole new class would go against that.

>>98539859
They have to actually care about their job to experiment

>>98539589
>>98539870
Let me put it this way, I'm not going to check your character sheet if you have bat guano when casting a fireball. I will check your character sheet for a 1000 gold worth diamond if you're casting Resurrect.

>>98542901
Yes, again, that's just the normal way to run things.

>>98542901
Those are literally the rules for material components.

>>98542901
yes, because the guano is not consumed by the spell, so as long as you have an arcane focus or a component pouch, you good.
But Resurrect does consume the diamond, hence why it mentions the price and expects you (player, DM) to keep tract of it.

Arcana Unleashed link?

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No shitpost, every time I try to run a game with my girlfriend she gets worked up and wants to roleplay having sex with my DMPC, is there a solution to this? Having difficulty making progress on Dragon of Icespire Peak.

>>98543360
Is this a 1-on-1 game? If so, just ERP with your girlfriend, you dunce.

>>98543360
You tried dicking her down?

Cleansing Wars in Forgotten Realms, NOW!

I hate gnomes.

>>98543360
easy solution!
>excuse you and girlfriend from table
>go to room out of line of vision from table (very important)
>do the sex with the girlfriend
>come back to table when done
>finish module
see? Very easy!

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Anybody got a pdf of this, or a siterip, or whatever? I'm aware it can't be anything but dogshit, but a sick curiosity compels me to take a look.

>>98535593
Martial Powers actually make martials good though.

How the fuck are you supposed to come up with an interesting Wizard character? Their entire flavor is "Magic Nerd". They use the worst stat in 5e, INT, as their casting stat. Their subclasses are all either mid as fuck or hilariously broken to the point they'll annoy the GM and everyone else at the table.

I want to genuinely give full casters another shot in 5e/2024 since the last one I played had baggage from the character himself and I started playing him at the wrong point in a campaign which led to my choice of spells being mostly useless against anything we fought, and generally speaking unlike Martials, you can't really play a thematic caster. You have to pick the "good spells" or otherwise there are certain archetypes (i.e. a cryomancer) which are just unsupported due to a lack of spells that fit the theme.

My current character is a Silver Dragonborn Redemption Paladin of Bahamut, and I've mostly just been playing him as a martial. I also have a history of playing martials in not just 5e/2024 but also other TTRPGs (or otherwise if the TTRPG is classless playing something that's basically a melee beatstick). But if something happens to this character, or someone else in my usual groups runs 2024, I want to play a wizard and I want to give casters a proper fair shake. I just keep running into the wall of "how do I make this fun for me?" and my answer usually becomes "Play a bladesinger and be a better Eldritch Knight" or "Play a sorcerer because they have cooler flavor".

Is there somewhere I could look to for inspiration on what makes a fun, cool D&D wizard? Older edition flavor text, some sort of side media or something?

>>98543509
All the short races. Dwarves, Gnomes, Halflings, Goblins, Kobolds, if your only size is small, then you don't matter at all.

>>98539859
>Doesn't know anything about the UA psion
It has psionic power dice and has unique ways to use them from the base class and each subclass.

Besides, psionics are just another flavor of magic at the end of the day in terms of how they affect the game. You're just a munchkin who wants something that is as powerful as magic but doesn't count as magic so features that grant advantage vs magic don't work on it.

>>98537508
>>98535626
Motherfucker looks like Ridley or a Phantasy Star Online 2 boss.

>>98535601
Now we have rocket tag

>>98545191
The fuck are you on about? 5e/2024 combat takes fucking forever.

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How do I explain to a DM that being a lich is not some spectacularly OP ability in the game?
Oh no, I died
My wizard is now TP'd to a different spawn point
I have no gear
I have no spell book
Have to make my way back to get my gear
if I died, it's probably somewhere dangerous

>>98545201
I am a lich
I don't have a backup spell book
....
Realistically though if unlimited uses of raise dead/reincarnation is allowed, lichdom isn't OP. Though it could be a flavor thing as Liches are almost all evil.

>>98545201
Guessing you pleaded with him to let your character become a Lich and he said no

>>98545145
Dwarfs can't be small, though.

>>98545191
That's not remotely true you fuckwit nogames. If anything people whine about HP bloat.

>>98545201
A wizard who's able to become a lich should also have enough sense to have a backup spellbook ready at all times

>>98545201
sorry if this might be an odd question but why would you even want to be a lich

>>98543360
Shit like this makes me sad that I'm ugly

>>98545480
So you can make skeleton jokes

>>98545480
Because it's fucking cool?

>>98545670
It's basic and cringe?

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I need to make a dungeon but I’m struggling for ideas. It’s an undead dungeon where they think there will be a lich. It’s actually just a pyramid in the traditional sense, it’s a tomb, the lich died 3k years prior. The whole area is still infested with undead. Any ideas for some non combat encounters? I have a bit of a scavenger hunt for ingredients to summon a succubus if they decide to (they need a demon horn for a spell reagent so could negotiate for one).

There are magic obelisks at the junction of each level I’ve been having do stuff. Might make one make shadow versions of the party but only with cantrips and no other special abilities.

Anyone got other ideas?

Zhentarim Ruffian + Alert is a pretty powerful combination, ngl, especially if you’re a Human with an extra Origin feat + a steady supply of Heroic Inspiration.
You can turn a medium- or hard-difficulty encounter into a piece of cake while making sure your teammates don’t burn through important resources.
I'm almost certain you can take this even further if you're a Warlock and abuse Lessons of the First Ones.

>>98544445
>>98543399
>>98543507
I do but then she's either too tired to keep playing or she gets horny again.

>>98545493
It will be you one day anon I believe in you

>>98547045
You sound like a faggot so your opinion isn't relevant

>>98547210
I'm not the one basedjacking about being le epic skeleton man

>>98547326
>basedjacking
Do zoomer niggers ever realise just how monumentally retarded they look and sound to people who don't cry themselves to sleep every night?

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>>98545480
Pinnacle of wizardry next to becoming a plane walker. You're basically as close to godhood without being a god- you have conquered death.
It's also about creating a puzzle.
>You need to make a phylactry
>it can't be too easy to be destroyed
>It can't be too secured so you can escape when you respawn
It's not much different than the clone spell desu but on harder mode.
>>98545670
Also, this.

man, i've got a guy that got his level 4 dragonborn paladin tossed off a cliff for 20d6 bludgeoning damage and he desperately wants to make an alchemist artificer about it. fuck my LIFE why cant it ever be easy

>>98547385
Also needs to feed on souls. But that isn't much of an issue for an adventurer that's always killing

>>98547385
Clone is a gay retarded spell that no actually competent design team would have ever allowed to be even brainstormed in the first place so it doesn't really matter.
>"Yes, lowly retarded Fighter player, you might have just become able to do like 4 attacks per turn or some shit like that but did you know that with a single new spell slot i have just discovered literal immortality and also completely shattered the setting's wordbuilding?"

>>98547397
Not another fucking story about paladins falling.

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>>98547397
>got his level 4 dragonborn paladin tossed off a cliff for 20d6 bludgeoning damage
>he desperately wants to make an alchemist artificer

I have a feeling that will sort itself out soon enough.

>>98547402
It's okay. Clone is gay but it requires 3,000 gold and 120 days. Idk about your tables but my table hardly gives any fucking loot.
>"Congratulations! You've said the day! Reward?... uhhhh... Thank You? Is that not enough?"

>>98547404
he's a goddamn moron with a terrible understanding of the game no matter how much I try mom-DMing away from his stupid antics. he made paladin and then dumped strength (why?) then he decided that he wanted clamber up the side of a mountain instead of just taking the stupid mountain goat path that the party knows the elementalists have been using. i gave him three goddamn rng opportunities to succeed... just to make it up at the same time the rest of the party did, and he rolled under a 5 each time and was laughing about it while everyone else was looking at him like he was retarded.

also what do you mean another story about falling paladins? is this some sort of recurring bit in the thread?
>>98547405
im thinking about just letting him doing it because ive almost stopped caring. if the guy wasn't such a loveable golden retreiver ass goofball with a wife that has murderous talent for pierogis i wouldve kicked him out. god i hate non consensual whimsy. fuck off im a miserable bastard i dont want you being happy near me

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>Sorcerer has custom magic item that allows then to switch out a known spell every 4 hours
>DM didn't put a cap to the spell level
>They're too retarded to abuse it the entire campaign
>MFW
I remember why I had a rule to never look at another player's sheet.

>>98547468
Man, my DM lets our sorcerer at my table make throwing attacks from 20/60 feet away with flame blade.

>>98547436
>also what do you mean another story about falling paladins? is this some sort of recurring bit in the thread?
It's an old school /tg/ joke. You must be too young for it.

The only time I can see a Paladin dump strength is if he has a way to use charisma instead for attacks like pact of the blade warlock. But they still have to deal with this rule if they wear heavy armor.
>If the Armor table shows “Str 13” or “Str 15” in the Strength column for an armor type, the armor reduces the wearer’s speed by 10 feet unless the wearer has a Strength score equal to or higher than the listed score.

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>>98547525
I'll spoon feed them.

>>98545152
>>Doesn't know anything about the UA psion
It's boring and doesn't experiment with anything even slightly.
>Besides, psionics are just another flavor of magic at the end of the day in terms of how they affect the game.
Then just relabel wizard as "the psion" instead of wasting everyone's time with the sorry excuse for a class they crapped out. If you're so adamant that psionics don't add anything to the game, don't include them.

>>98535601
The later half of 4e patched that, and the people who still have it have recommended modifications to use the early stuff with it (it's all about increasing monster damage and decreasing monster hit points).

But this was a big problem that they did address within the (later) life of 4e.

>>98545201
Is there even any half decent homebrew for becoming a Lich? Like the entire process and what it entails for your character afterwards

>>98547931
There are UA feats that cover it.

>>98547472
Considering he could've been doing the exact same way with Shadow Blade, I don't see an issue with that. Flame Blade is just a worse version of Shadow Blade, making them work the same with a different damage type is fine ||And exactly what I do at my table||

>>98547525
>The only time I can see a Paladin dump strength is if he has a way to use charisma instead for attacks like pact of the blade warlock.
I'm planning to play a one-off character soon who's exactly that, taking the pact seeker origin with fey pact to get true strike so he can bop niggas with a big hammer despite having 10 strength.

>But they still have to deal with this rule if they wear heavy armor.
Good call out that I honestly hadn't considered, but for this particular character I think that will just be funny so I'm fine with it.

>>98547992
>||
Go back

Please stop fucking eating and snacking at the game table. If you must stuff your fat goddamn face, bring something remotely hygienic for christ's sake like almonds or grapes or something. FUCK.

>>98547986
I mean it's kinda ehhhhh

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>>98547404
kek

Noodly rules question that probably doesn't have an answer other than the pragmatic "the spells do what they say they do" but if I'm in a tunnel and I cast Silence so that it fills a portion of the tunnel, would it muffle the sound of a confrontation from people on the other side of the silence bubble even if both are technically outside of the spell? Like would it "dampen" the noise?
Here's a diagram if my wording doesn't make sense.
Scuffle (Silence bubble) People I don't want alerted

>>98549500
>For the duration, no sound can be created within OR PASS THROUGH a 20-foot-radius sphere centered on a point you choose within range.

Sounds cannot pass through it. If you're in a tunnel and a silence spell fills the entire tunnel section to block it, nobody on opposite sides of the effect hear each other. If you fill only part of the tunnel such that there is a gap then sound travels normally or is altered such that it passes only through the narrow gap.

>>98547757
I have yet to see anyone make an argument as to why the Psion isn't satisfactory other than "IT ISNT LE EXPERIMENTAL/DIFFERENT ENOUGH", nor have I ever seen anyone make an argument as to what would make for a good psion mechanically, so you fags just want magic that isn't technically magic so you can powergame.

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>>98549600
I just skimmed the UA Psion. Its not terrible, but there's nothing about it that makes me want to play it. I preferred the Pathfinder 1E Psion and laserllama's take on the class for 5e (where its basically Warlocks But Good).

>>98549600
>or have I ever seen anyone make an argument as to what would make for a good psion mechanically
The Mystic, but with another two or three balance passes.
>you fags just want magic that isn't technically magic so you can powergame.
You repeating that over and over doesn't make it true. Nobody has said that psionics shouldn't be stopped by all the same things that stop magic. The point isn't for it to be "magic that isn't technically magic", the point is for it to not do the exact same things as magic and for the use mechanics to be different.

>>98535517
>New D&D campaign starting soon.
>One of the players invited 3 friends.
>All the newbies and one other player chose warlock for some goddamn reason.
>Now the party is 4 warlocks, a cleric (me), and a monk.
>TFW the DM also said he'd give the newbies a "welcome" by making a lethal first session and told us to prep backup characters.
Next session is gonna be a complete jungle, right?

>>98549600
>I have yet to see anyone make an argument as to why the Psion isn't satisfactory other than "IT ISNT LE EXPERIMENTAL/DIFFERENT ENOUGH"
Psionics not being magic is the entire point of psionics existing. It being represented as just magic is a valid criticism, no matter how much you try to pretend otherwise. Fighter being a spellcasting class would be just as stupid, for exactly the same reasons.

>>98549600
Psions aren't experimental, they just need to copy 3.5 like they've been doing from the start.
>Power points instead of slots
>Limit to how many power points you can use to "level up" a single power. They literally have the ability to upcast already it's the easiest fucking rule to add HOLY SHIT
>Psion spell list like in 3.5, just fucking copy it like they did with everything else
There, done. So fucking easy to make a psion that feels like a psion and not a fucking wizard. You stupid FUCKING CUNT YOU STUPID FUCKING FUCKING CUNT FUCK YOU AND FUCK WOTC

>>98550296
So it's just a spellcaster with the spell points variant rule, meaning it's literally the same shit as a Wizard.

>>98550105
>>98549959
Balance > Flavor. Every ability that works against spell saves would have to be errata'd to work vs psionics.

It having a different mechanic that's just a copy of an existing variant rule for 5e doesn't make it interesting, it just makes it pointlessly convoluted. You're all a bunch of whiny babies.

>>98550357
>So it's just a spellcaster with the spell points variant rule
If you can't see how power points and the ability to upcast past your usual level limit changes the dynamic of a spellcaster I'm not wasting anymore time on you.

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>Want to have a scene where the kraken demolishes a port by throwing ships at it, like the Beast Titan destroys a city by throwing rocks
Is it even plausible? FIrst of all, how hard do you need to throw something to wreck houses? Secondly, can someone with no bones or joints even throw stuff this hard?

>>98550515
yeah sure who cares

>>98550366
NTA, but that's never been how the Psion worked. Even in 3.5, you were still limited by level in terms of how many points you could pour into a power. People who tried to dump all their points for the day in order to supercharge an ability were just reading the rules wrong.

It is, in fact, exactly like how the Spell Points variant works in 5e.

>>98535621
>I know that virtually nobody runs spellcasting RAW
It is in fact extremely common to run spellcasting completely RAW, you just need to not be a complete fucking mongoloid and ACTUALLY read the fucking rules to know that having a spell focus or component pouch completely obviates the need for any non-costed material components. A huge amount of spells don't even have material components to begin with so even during the extremely uncommon circumstance where you're stripped naked and thrown in a prison to escape like the start of a Bethesda game, you can still use plenty of spells like firebolt, shield and misty step to fight your way out.

People who think running spells RAW means going to the market square and individually buying single-use packets of bat guano like stocking up on ammunition in a Resident Evil game are the ones with no clue who haven't actually read the fucking book

>>98550515
A Kraken might not be big enough to throw a proper ship. Going by the statblock, it's large or smaller objects/creatures it can throw. That could still easily be ship masts, cannons, the crew, and so forth, but boats are pretty massive.

Which is still probably plenty to destroy a house, since that's easily a boulder bigger than what a trebuchet would be lobbing. Might not have as much raw power, but unless it was a castle or something else properly fortified, a building isn't likely to stand up to that sort of bombardment.
If you scale up the Kraken to the point where it's throwing even small fishing boats around, that gets even easier. Plus failing all that, it still has lightning and weather control it could use if it really needs to wipe out an entire city.

>>98550061
Just bring John Fighter and have your real character as a backup.

>>98547144
To add to this: Human Warlock level 5 + Musician + Alert + Zhentarim Ruffian + Purple Dragon Rook + Cult of the Dragon Initiate + Undead Patron (Level 3: Form of Dread).
With this, you're basically giving the entire party advantage on initiative twice per short rest. Very strong
The only, and pretty major, problem with this Warlock build is that it doesn't really have a big control spell that can still affect enemies after they fail a save, like Web or Entangle. So it has to rely on having a Druid, Sorcerer or Wizard in the party who also has Alert. That way, you further increase the chances of starting the fight with an important spell

>>98535579
>game about forcing players to expend resources
>players have a resource that is very useful in a specific environment
>criteria of the environment is determined by a game master

What is the issue here? Neither of those are cantrips, can you not just engineer scenarios where your players have to choose between being set for food and drink for a day or having 2 extra spell slots?

>>98550746
Honestly, the more I think about it... Purple Dragon Rook is a bit unnecessary here. Since Cult of the Dragon Initiate already gives you Heroic Inspiration once per Short Rest, you could replace it with Magic Initiate (Druid) and pick up Entangle.
That would leave the only real issue being that the warlock has very few spell slots, although they recharge on a short rest.

>>98547404
KEK

>>98550515
A large resilient object has 27 HP. Most houses are bigger, but they are just made from multiple large-sized sections mechanically. Extrapolating from the object HP table suggests a huge object would have 6d12, or 38 HP.
A kraken's Fling does 1d6 damage per 60' of distance, up to 6d6, or 21 damage on average, but with the Siege Monster, Kraken does double damage to objects, so 42.
5e kraken shouldn't have much problems destroying huge and smaller building by throwing things, but entire ships are too big to throw. It can also use Lightning Storm for similar purpose, hitting 3 buildings for 44 damage each at double the range of Fling.
5.5 kraken can only throw creatures, not objects, only does 4d8 (18, doubled to 36) damage per throw, and can't target objects with Lightning Strike. It can also only use Lightning Strike or Fling once per turn.

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The truth is that psychic powers have no place in the kind of medieval fantasy most players want out of D&D - save only as a mechanism of wannabe-Lovecraft shit like Aberrations.

>>98551120
That's probably why they waited until the Dark Sun book to introduce it, since Dark Sun did originally try and break away from some of the typical elements of a D&D setting.
I expect it to end up as the same level of quality as everything else they're doing with updating Dark Sun though.

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>2014 edition game I'm in had a tpk
>DM gonna restart it w/ 2024 rule set
>three total players including myself
>was playing a dex horizon walker ranger to cover some skill gaps with dex
>figure I could play rogue for some things
>reliable talent moved to 7th level
>skilled can be taken multiple times as a feat
>noble gives skilled feat
>human gets extra origin feat, so could take skilled
>scout, while not in 2024, still playable, so can get 2 extra skills
>were starting at lvl 7
>mfw if I take skilled at lvl 4 I get reliable talent on all 18 skills

Guys, I may be late to the party, but this was surely found previously, yeah? if I am late, I'll just slink away to my corner, but this is a meme that I can't help but go for.

>>98551132
You don't need to guess, they've shown off psionics in the UA, and it's horrid slop that feels nothing like psionics.

>>98551120
I assume that pic is word for word how Wotc sees Dark Sun

I'm very excited for how Nu-Sun will deal with the path from defiler to dragon, as in:
>instead of sacrificing five billion slaves-erhmm, unionized workers, you instead take some shitty feat at level 5 and instead of a slow, detailed metamorphosis into lvl 20 Godzilla with spells you can just transform into a dragon a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, except it has like 10 AC and is made of glass

im looking for exact name of a dnd short adventure / one shot i read about navigating through the body of a dead god, it had 2 specific beats i remember clearly: a beholder camouflaged amongst debris/asteroids and a wall made of flesh / gibbering mouther in the body of this dead god, im 100% sure those 2 were in there

does anyone know what im talking about

>>98549742
Here's one.
>psionics don't use a direct resource, but rely on thermal flux
>each power generates a level of flux directly to their nervous system
>using too many powers too fast or straining one power too far leads to flux overflow
>the further your character goes beyond their safe limit, the more damage and adverse effects they suffer
>include a "mishap table" for unintended consequences of pushing flux too far from hitpoint damage, to unconsciousness, extreme ones such as permanent attribute loss
>psionics may perform incredible things other classes simply cannot keep up with short term
>but in a battle of attrition, they risk burning themselves out if pushed too far

I'm imagining a class that really likes INT and CON. Leveling up provides a deeper flux pool and access to new powers that are picked from a list and you always have access to them like a sorcerer without spell slots.

>>98549600
>>98551791
I meant to reply to his post. My bad.

>>98551567
This chapter of Vecna: Eve of Ruin perhaps? https://5e.tools/adventure.html#veor,3

>Monk with mobile feat and boon of speed reaches 100 feet of movement
Is there any actual reason to have this much movement?

>>98552905
no

>>98552909
That's what I thought, didn't feel like it was actually worth not taking a different boon.

>>98551960
>>98551567
no it was journey through the radiant citadel: elder drought

>>98552905
Immunity to melee if you have enough space to run around? It also works for getting into cover against casters and ranged enemies.

>>98544822
>>98420463

>Join new campaign with new players
>Ask the DM if I can random roll my character's background, species and class
>Get the go-ahead
>Roll a storm goliath rogue criminal
>Other players tell DM in front of me they are worried my character won't be optimized
>DM says they're not going to pull punches but nobody needs to hyper optimize to survive
>Other players begin fretting about bitch shit
>"Are we not going to get into combat at all, then?"
>"Just putting this out: if his character is about to die, I will not try and save him if my character might die"
>"So why does one person get to decide everyone has to play around his need for unnecessary random generation?"

Fucking autists.

>>98554056
Optimize for getting their characters killed, it'll be funny.

>>98552905
I wonder what that translates to in terms of physical capability. Doesn't that mean they can dash 200 feet in a turn?

>>98554273
200 feet in 6 seconds if they push themselves, 100 feet in 6 seconds as a casual walk.

That's nearly 17 feet a second, which is actually not the record for how fast a human can sprint.

>>98554347
adjusted for acceleration/deceleration it's actually quite remarkable

>>98553821
Guess that's as good a version as I'll find. Thanks!

>>98554056
what the fuck
honestly I would seriously consider bouncing out of that, if they're going to be minmaxxers then theyre not going to be fun people to play with

>>98554056
Optimization is fun from the engineering perspective, but it's only background for the theatre.

>>98554056
I keep reading posts like this and all i can think is "where the fuck do you find people like this"

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>>98554273
>>98552905
A character's Speed/10 is their walking speed in miles per hour per the rulebook. You can cross reference Third Edition's running rules to find a character's full sprinting/narrative speed is their Speed/2. So a Speed of 100 character is running 50 MPH though in map distance its 100-200 feet. If you have bonus action dashing you can reach total speed by taking the full turn movement and instead dividing by 4. So if you move 300 feet in one turn with a Dash and Step of the Wind, in narrative real life terms you are moving 75 MPH. This is of course only your sprinting speed, for cross country you're moving about 10 miles per hour or 80 per day without a forced march. If you do a fast pace you multiple speed by a third, so that's 13 miles per hour or 104 miles in a day.

Though frankly high level characters and large flyers should be capable of more than a walking pace while traveling [RAW a dragon can travel only 64-72 miles in a day when a fucking duck IRL travels around 400. And that's not a size thing, the pterasaur queztecoatlus also had an estimated flight range about that far]. So travel speed rules need some tweaking at the high end, but if you want to know how fast to visualize your Monk going just taking his total Speed, multiply by 3 for Double Dashing with SotW and then divide by 4. My speed 50 monk runs 37.5 MPH.

>>98554489
Hmm.
NTA but..
Having looked for players online my experience is pretty bad.
>1 super autist we had to kick out
>2 jews and 1 jewess
>1 openly hostile player who had to be kicked out
>1 edgy power fantasy player
>1 quiet tomboy who quit after her characters died
>1 funny orbiter from her circle, played well but wasn't good with rules
>super kind tranny who got scared off by the others

>>98554515
meanwhile me online group of randos consit of
>normal dude
>normal dude
>normal dude
>can*dian

>>98551180
you'll be good at skills but you will be very very underwhelming in fights and also not very dynamic

>got to play endgame barbarian
>brutal critical, reckless strikes with tons of buffs, great stats and feats that let me attack more (Polearm mastery)
It is great to outdamage 9th level spells but it feels pretty bad that one feat outclasses your entire subclass (my bonus action and reaction are better suited for more attacks that might crit than any fancy stuff).

>>98554056
>I'll take the max rating subclass from the handbook then
Should shut those faggots up.

>>98554580
The Berserker Barbarian is incredible. I’ve only played it a couple of times, but it was an absolute meat grinder. What a brutal powerhouse.

>>98554347
300. Dash action + Step of the Wind BA Dash.

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>>98513132
What's the Spell Lumi's Worldclass Workbench?
May we have it? It sounds like a spell I'd love to add into my game.

>>98547931
You could copy the Dread Necromancer from 3.5. It's capstone is literally just becoming a Lich (which only applied to Humans for some reason.)

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>>98550105
Let's be real. The powers from 3.5 were just reflavored wizard spells at the end of the day. I think psionic dice is probably one of the few good things to ever come out of 5e as it allows for psionic flavors to exist without having to make a whole new list of the same shit with a different coat of paint.

Then again. I'm very much in the camp that psionics isn't different/seperate from regular magic.

Now if you truely wanted to make something different, you'd invest in making the different classes approach spellcasting different. Explain to me why the Sorcerer casts spells in the exact same way as a Wizard barring the need to "prepare" spells in advance?

>>98555006
Wizards should go back to proper Vancian casting, with specific spells prepared in each slot.
Sorcerers should use spell points
Clerics should use Pact Magic. "Can only bother the boss few times per rest + divine magic always coming at the maximum possible power" makes more sense flavor-wise.
Warlocks, more focus on rituals and Invocations than casting?
Bards should go back to being half-casters, let them do more with Bardic Performance to compensate
Druids, I'm not sure about. I'd love them to be more dependant on the environment they are currently in when it comes to what they can do.

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>>98555145
>Wizards
Being able to play around with your spell slots seems like an appropriate wizard thing to do spending a spell slot directly to do stuff as opposed to just putting a spell there.
>Sorcerers
I like the idea of spell points and would even go as far as to make it a main mechanic for all magical beast. it makes sense to me that them using their natural magic in such a way would be emulated by a class that uses more natural magic.
>Warlocks
Mega Merge with 3.5 Binder. The more access to higher magic you get to more aspect of your patron you physically take on that can cause its own problems.
>Bards
Agreed, put more emphasis on bardic Performance.
>Druids
As a fan of incarnum, I think the Totemist would make a good base for Druid.

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>>98555171
>Cleric
I suppose if we have to keep with the Domain as the defining feature of the cleric's connection to divinity then pestering your god/source for magic is also good. I would make something like "Devotion Points" where you can do things in alignment with your Domain that you can exchange for higher level spells. The more difficult the task the better/more spell uses you receive.

Also, it goes without saying, these identities should be solid enough for classes that mix their flavors. A cleric who worships a god of magic would obviously use vancian spell slots. Certain Barbarian subs might look more like Sorcerers and use spell points. etc, etc

>lways plays female characters
>uses a woman's image as their profile pic
>refers to themself as "she"
uh... I just realized that one of the players might be a tranny.

>>98555206
Okay?

>>98555230
just that... I feel a little stupid because it took me more than a year to even notice. It also makes me think back to some moments from games we played.
>tfw that one time when my Fighter couldn’t tell what gender their Dragonborn was
>tfw my fighter kept calling the dragonborn a man until he was corrected
Ay lmao

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>>98554893
I've written a number of spells for my wizard PC, take all of them.

>>98555251
based retard

Looking for some advice.

When building a "death knight", what would you guys find more mechanically appropriate? I'm considering Eldritch Knight/Necromancer or Oathbreaker/Undead.

>>98555549
Wait until the Oath of the Ebon Blade subclass drops in the wow supplement in november probably. alternatively yeah just take one of the oaths and invert its features and swap out its free spells with necromancy ones

>>98555549
could try warlock with a fighter dip for the armor proficiencies since death knight sorta kinda has a patron in the form of the lich king or whatever. its also the strongest martial caster, since it gets extra attack 2, unlike everyone else who gets stuck with basic extra attack

>>98547468
Isn't there the Cartomancer feat that lets you do that every long rest, and the spell you select even gets cast as a bonus action?

Has Arcana Unleashed leaked anywhere yet? Either Dndbeyond or somebody scanning the print copy.

>>98556203
Yeah, I've had it the last thirteen times someone asked about it in /5eg/, but I was waiting to link it until a fourteen person posted.

>>98556208
While I appreciate you for being a smartass, it IS strange how long copies have been out in the wild without any scans.

Fucking book had a black bitch on the front. It can burn for all I care.

>>98555675
Man. I didn't know this was a thing, but its absolutely wild to see Universes Beyond cone to D&D after what it did to MtG.

>>98556714
The pinkertons are working overtime

>>98557094
>after what it did to MtG
You mean “monetize it more efficiently”? Because that’s what Hasbro sees. And they’ve had a bug up their ass about the monetization of D&D for decades.

>>98557094
Wotc is ready and willing to rape anything and anyone in the name of slightly higher profits

>>98554056
Some people are just chargen autists. They're so anal about roles being covered, Maximizing hit chances and static numbers I sometimes wonder why they want to play a game that has random generated numbers as it's core mechanic.

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>>98556200
That's a pretty good feat.
But the difference is the change for this magic item is permanent- not one free cast per day.
It basically circumvent the leveling up decision of choosing spells for sorcerers. With the downtime had, it basically changes them to be learned spellcasters like Druids or Clerics. The sorcerer would be just a better wizard if they used it daily.

Id think it's a conscious choice if it also wasn't a player that still runs in to stab people with a shortsword +1 at level 15 with all spell slots. Fun player having fun. But the power gamer in me dies a little knowing they'd be twice as effective is they even casted a cantrip.

>>98558648
I don't even think that's the powergamer in you based on that description, there's something deeply frustrating about watching a player clearly have no idea how to play their own character. It's one thing to just forget a character feature occasionally, or not bother working out the absolute optimal action economy for your build or whatever, but for the love of god, remember your core features exist.

Had a player in a game I was in who was running a rogue paladin, never cast any spells, never used cunning actions, had to constantly be reminded she could do things to get advantage so she could apply sneak attack, had to be basically bullied into ever applying smite, even when rolling a crit against boss enemies, etc.

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>>98559099
>she
>mfw I'll be running for an all-female group soon
I'm fucked, aren't I?

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>>98559099
>there's something deeply frustrating about watching a player clearly have no idea how to play their own character

Yeah. You'd think after 4 years of playing the same character something would click.

>>98559236
>MFW
On the bright side, you won't have to think so hard about balancing. Unless they're gay or autistic, I find most straight women aren't great at tactics. They are way more into RP. So, just make it like 80-20 RP vs combat.

>>98552905
Playing a coward who never gets around to abandoning the party in a fight.

Do you guys know some homebrew that makes casters more asymmetric?
As it is, only Warlock is using a unique form of magic, everyone else is the same, even Sorcerer.
here's an example for Artificer:
Artificer is supposed to use inventions to cast spells, but you wouldn't notice. The amount of spells known and how that scales stays the same, but instead of spell slots, they have a number of "Inventions" equal to twice your Artificer Level. During a Long Rest, your skill as an Artificer lets you make that many Inventions and infuse them with magic. A level 5 Artificer can make 10 Inventions and his Inventions can at most carry a spell of 2nd level. Nothing is stopping the Artificer from all 10 Inventions carry 2nd level spells. But the Inventions are physical objects he needs to physically hold and carry. He can be disarmed of them and they can be destroyed. When the Artificer uses a Invention, it is destroyed and all Inventions fall apart after a day from the strain of containing Magic inside an otherwise mundane object.
Artificers do not get free Cantrips, they must spend an Invention on them as normal and they also break after use. You could make it so Cantrip-carrying Inventions don't break from magically strain, so you can stockpile them, but that still leaves the logistical problem of carrying that many Inventions.
That would be the main limiting factor for Artificers. A level 9 Artificer can have 18 Inventions carrying the spell Dispel Magic, but if we make an Invention have a weight of 3, that's 54 Pounds just in spells. More, if we make Cantrip Inventions only expire on use. If we also use Variant Encumbrance, with a Str score of 10, they are already Encumbered.

>>98559785
For Artificer, I'd point to the Spell-Storing Item feature as a better basis for what you're trying to do there. Instead of having a bunch of inventions that each carry a single spell, you make it possible to just have a wand with multiple charges of the same spell.

The way to homebrew that into an alternate casting system for the entire class would likely be just have one item per spell level, each capped at 2-3 charges. Maybe give a second item for 1st level spells at some point just to make them more plentiful.
Alongside cantrips that's 9 items total, and at 3 pounds each 27 is doable. Though if you use something lighter like a Wand they can just be one pound each.

If you wanted to further reduce weight, there would probably be other ways that you could condense spells. If the Artificer makes a Wand of Fireballs, then perhaps that invention is also what they need in order to cast Firebolt as a cantrip.
Or, phrased more succinctly, an item with charges of a spell could also have a single cantrip that shares a school or damage type with the spell. That could potentially be extended further into Staff of Fire style items which cover multiple levels of spell but still with a limited number of charges, but that gets more complex.
Either way, with just the cantrips, that still condenses things further to 5 inventions total, not including any existing infusions or items otherwise.

Obviously there would be some downside there with how it'd more heavily limit the Artificer's flexibility, but that's sort of a realistic limitation when the flavor of the class is supposed to be that they made a bunch of potions/scrolls/wands ahead of time. The class reasonably shouldn't be very good at changing spells on the fly.
Even that could potentially be addressed by allowing for some swaps during a Short Rest.

>>98559947
hmm.
How about an Artificer makes Wands for Lvl 0,1,2,3 Magic and for 4th and 5th level spells he makes Staves. During a Long Rest, he makes as 2-4 Wands (as many has he has Spell Slots) and either recharges his 1-2 Staves or breaks them down and makes new ones.
Cantrip Wands hold a Singular Cantrip. Lvl 1 Wands hold a level 1 Spell. Lvl 2 Wands hold a Level 2 Spell and a Cantrip of the same School and Damage type. Level 3 Wands have a Level 3 Spell, a Level 1 Spell and a Cantrip of the same School and damage Type. Staves have a number of Charges and can cast a 4th Level Spell of a Specific School once or twice, a 5th Level Spell of a specific school once and a number of 1st,2nd and 3rd lvl Spells of the same School a number of times based on the Staff's number of charges.
An Artificer can equip a number of such Wands and Staves equal to the number and type of Spell Slots they have, but they can also give them to others to use. Non-Artificers must attune to such Wands and Staves as if they are a normal magic item.
So while limited in how many spells and what kind of spells they can use on their own, in a party and with enough Long Rests to prepare the Wands and recharge them, Artificers have more versatility than Wizards.
Very limited caught off guard, very versatile with prep time and additional manpower, as magic item inventors should be

>>98559785
Half-caster, but rangers should only be able to ritual cast spells, and should have a very limited number of spell slots but get access to higher level spells relatively quickly as a trade-off.

>>98559785
Every time a cleric wants to cast a spell, they should have to make a religion check with a DC based on their current cleric level that determines how high of a spell level they are able to cast in that moment.

Maybe the DC per spell level is always static, but they add their cleric level to the check so it gets easier the higher their level is. On a nat 1 you burn the slot with no effect, on a nat 20 the spell doesn't expend a slot.

>>98560143
and he can recharge a number of wands per LR equal to PB and half of that per SR. Each Artificer can only ever make 2 Staves, one at 13th level and the other at 17th.
Wands and Staves don't recharge on their own. they require an Artificer or Wizard (that has attuned to them) to do so.
Wands have 2 or 3 Charges (except Cantrip Wands those either have double or infinite) and the Cantrips that come with a Lvl 2 and Lvl 3 Wand don't consume Charges.

>>98560164
If it's all ritual casting, then they wouldn't really need spell slots at all, unless you mean that their spell list should only consist of spells with a 10+ minute casting time. It also sort of ceases to be a half-caster if they get the spells at a more typical rate.

That said, it does sound like a pretty good way to handle utility magic for a Ranger. Alarm, Speak with Animals, Beast Sense, Locate Animals/Plants, there's a lot of suitable rituals that fit with the idea of a Ranger taking some time to prepare an ambush or use their skills.
Sort of like taking the time to set up a snare trap, but with a more supernatural outcome.

if Spell Storing Item becomes the spellcasting system of Artificers, what do you replace it with? You could put the ASI one level earlier, but now both level 13 AND level 12 are dead levels, but what more could you give them? Mid-tier extra attack for Ranged weapons to synergise with their (optional) Firearm Proficiency? I will rarely play at that level but not Half Caster should have dead levels period, yet Artificer already has 2...

>>98560252
So I guess to explain my thinking better, I think they should only be allowed to cast as rituals, following the normal ritual casting rules, but instead of having normal "spell slots" they have a number of rituals they can perform per day, their known rituals list is fairly small, but they get access to higher level rituals (spells) at an accelerated rate compared to other casters.

But yeah, what you mentioned is kind of the vibe I was going for. Instead of "outdoorsy fighter who also does wizard shit sometimes" I think the vibe should be that they're particularly attuned to nature and/or good at utilizing the environment around themselves to the point that they can leverage their knowledge and experience to produce magical effects.

>>98560143
>>98560295
I don't think you'd fully need to replace it. At least, not in the sense of getting rid of the sudden power spike of an Artificer being able to start spamming 3rd level spells.

Going by the new system, it could even be something as simple as giving the Artificer extra 3rd-level 'Wands' at that point. If each wand had 3 or so charges, then they've got their 3rd-level 'Wand' from their class feature (matching the three 3rd-level slots they'd have at 11th level), and could then get three extra 'Wands' for nine more charges (roughly matching the 2 x Int casts from Spell Storing Item).

There's some flexibility with the exact numbers there, but I think it's largely a matter of seeing approximately how many spells of a given level the Artificer can use, and then building a system of items and charges that gives a similar result.
Using the existing sorts of rules for magic item charges and spellcasting is just the simplest way to do so. At least, doing so without turning every item into a one-shot spell scroll and functionally just being old-school Vancian casting.

>>98557442
I meant cause division and brand damage to the point that investors started a lawsuit. I know Hasbro wants to bring every last penny they can out of it before its a lifeless husk, but I didn't figure they'd pull the *exact* same idea. I figured they'd just stick to "live service" models and a "digital tabletop" or whatever. But seeing Universes Beyond in D&D is kind of crazy.

>>98560379
I don't think you'd really need to put a cap onto anything that already exists as a ritual spell. Ritual spells are already pretty fair in terms of being able to cast them for free by taking 10 minutes.

I'd also note that there really aren't that many higher-level rituals though. And some of those also aren't quite the things I'd expect of a Ranger.
Even just being able to cast rituals matching the rate of a full-caster is already a big improvement though, as it means a Ranger could more freely be using spells like Silence much earlier.

And then on top of that, they could still have a half-caster progression for spell slots, but with list tailored for everything to have a 1 minute or higher casting time. Prayer of Healing would be the sort of thing I'm thinking of there, moreso due to the effect rather than flavor. Spending 10 minutes in order to let the party short rest and get a bit of extra healing would be a fair tradeoff for a spell slot while still fitting into the 'ritual' theming.

It's primarily a case of 5e lacking in spells that suit that sort of theme, and so more of the effort would go into the spell list rather than the casting progression itself.

>>98559785
Since it's just stupid not to take Eldritch blast as a warlock, it should just be an automatic level 1 warlock feature and evolve to different variants based on which pact you choose. Like make it a variation on mind sliver for GOO patron, chill touch for undead patron, etc.

Would help a lot to make Warlocks less samey across builds beyond "are you a blade pact warlock or a blastspam warlock?" I think.

>>98560469
>Even just being able to cast rituals matching the rate of a full-caster is already a big improvement though, as it means a Ranger could more freely be using spells like Silence much earlier.
That's the thing though, I don't necessarily think I would want them to be casting spells at the same rate as a full caster, seems kind of counter to the idea of them sticking to just rituals.

Maybe have their casting more like a warlock where they get a very limited number of casts, but it resets on short rest? I dunno, I'm just spitballing, but yeah the main thing is I like the "all rituals" vibe for them.

>It's primarily a case of 5e lacking in spells that suit that sort of theme
Yeah, I can agree with that. Honestly I think there should just be more separation in which spells are available to certain classes than there currently is.

>just spent 2 5th, one 6th and one 7th level spell slot to kill a swamp hag
the worlds luckiest bitch.
>"poison" her tea with her own hag magic berries that delete past, present and future (three different berries.)
>force her to drink the tea
>7 turns of forcing tea down this cunts throat
>healing, re-casting hold monster cause it passed TWICE
a +5 on wisdom btw. worlds luckiest hag. it took nearly a half hour of the end of the session just to make her fail this.

>>98560518
>I don't necessarily think I would want them to be casting spells at the same rate as a full caster, seems kind of counter to the idea of them sticking to just rituals.
That's not what I'm saying though.
I'm saying to give them the ritual spells 'early' in the context of a half-caster, meaning that they get 2nd-level ritual spells at Level 3 but can only cast those spells as rituals. Similar to the 2014 version of the Ritual Caster feat.

And like with the feat, they would still be ritual spells, so a Ranger could spend the whole day casting Detect Magic and Silence if they wanted.
But Level 3 Ranger would still be a half-caster, and thus not have 2nd-level spell slots yet. They'd have unlimited rituals, but still be limited in proper spell slots. A Tome Pact Warlock would be a good comparison.
But then, taking it a step further would be to make it so that the non-ritual spells have a longer cast time. Again, Prayer of Healing serves as the easy example here. 10 minutes to cast, but it lacks the ritual tag so it's not being cast for free. But because it's a 2nd-level spell and the Ranger is a half caster, the Ranger would still be waiting until level 5 before they can cast it.

Basically, the spell slots would be functioning as the big costly 'limited use rituals' for the Ranger, which would be assigned to the typical half-caster progression. But then the unlimited use rituals (Alarm, Silence, etc.) would be given accelerated progression to match a full-caster, since those are already cheap utility options that make sense for the Ranger to have access to relatively early.

>>98560697
Hm, I think I see what you're saying, not a bad idea.

I do think I'd prefer if they could only learn spells with the ritual tag, but like you said that'd be pretty limiting. I think it would probably make more sense to give more spells the ritual tag, but then they would probably also need to bring back the limit that only certain classes get the ritual casting feature (I think it was dumb to do away with that rule anyway though, so I'm in favor of that)

>>98535626
it's one color. monocolor.

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>>98535626
>4e had some good art

>>98560407
I'll keep that in mind, about the 11-12 Artificer level boosting the number of wands you can make. We'll see how the normal amount feels first.
In the meantime, here's Spell-Storing Artificer:
Level 11th Class Feature Spell-Storing Item is gone. Storing Spells in Items replaces standard Spellcasting.

You have a fixed number of Artificer Spells you know from the Artificer Spell list.
At level 1 you know 2 Cantrips of your choice from the Artificer Spell List, you learn an additional Cantrip at level 10 and another at level 14.
The number of Artificer Spells you know is equal to your Intelligence Modifier+Proficiency Bonus (minimum of 2).
When you gain a level in this class, you can replace Int Modifier number of the Artificer Cantrips and Spells you know with others from the Artificer Spell List.

During a Long Rest, you craft and enchant a Wand for every different level of Spell Slot you have. For example, a Level 9 Artificer can cast spells up to 3rd Level, so during a LR, he crafts and enchants four Wands; a Cantrip Wand, A 1st Lvl Wand, a 2nd Lvl Wand and a 3rd Lvl Wand. An Artificer can only ever have one Wand per different level of Spell Slot equipped. But they can share the excess stock.

Wands are physical objects the Artificer must hold and use to cast their spells. They can be stolen, attacked, disarmed of them, stowed away for later use and so on. An Artificer’s Wand has Int Modifier HP and an AC of 9+Int Modifier and has all the immunities of an item. An Artificer’s Wand weighs 1 Pound.
cont.

>>98560848
Wands are not necessarily a thin, straight rod of wood or metal. They can take many forms and shapes, but they always fit into an adult's hand. Casting a Spell through a Wand satisfies the Material (M) Component of a Spell, as long as it isn’t consumed by the Spell. A Wand holding a Spell that requires a Reaction might take the form of a bracelet or earring, while one that requires a Bonus Action might be an object like a coin or figurine you only need to briefly hold or touch. Otherwise, a Wand’s Spell still requires the hand motions and incantations of a normal Spell to activate.

A Wand holds 3 Charges of its Spell. Cantrip Wands hold 6 Charges. Higher Level Wands hold both Spells and Cantrips. Cantrips casted from such a Wand do not consume Charges. An Artificer can recharge Proficiency Bonus Wands per Long Rest and half as much on a Short Rest. Wands do not recharge on their own and an Artificer can sustain a number of Wands equal to Int Mod+PB.

Artificer Wands are only slightly different from ‘’normal’’ Magic Items and non-Artificers can attune to them as normal to use them. A Spellcaster that uses Intelligence as their Spellcasting Modifier can recharge an attuned Wand, like an Artificer can.

A 2nd Level Wand holds a 2nd Level Spell and a Cantrip of the School or Damage type.
A 3rd Level Wand holds a 3rd Level Spell, 1st Level Spell and a Cantrip of the same School or Damage type.

A 4th and 5th level Wand is called a Staff and functions differently. An Artificer can only ever have 2 Staves, a 4th Level Staff and a 5th Level Staff. During a Long Rest, an Artificer can only recharge his two Staves or destroy them to create new ones containing a different 4th and 5th lvl Spell.

>>98560764
I'd also be in favor of more spells having the ritual tag, though it is a matter of what spells can feasibly get it.
Healing spells being the most obvious one, since if you can just cast the spell over and over for free, it becomes a cheap way to patch the party up without any real cost other than time.

Which is mostly why I think still giving the Ranger spell slots, but with a spell list tailored to have spells with a long casting time, is the best way to maintain the spirit of all their spells being rituals, if not literally all having the ritual tag.

>>98560439
>to the point that investors started a lawsuit
You aren’t actually taking that thing seriously, are you?

>>98560860
An Artificer’s Staff has Int Mod*2 HP and an AC of 11+Int Mod and are otherwise identical to a Wand physically and in the way it facilitates spellcasting, except that they weigh 3 Pounds and are very obvious and hard to conceal, at most passing as a fancy cane or walking stick.

An Artificer’s Staff holds 6 Charges. Both a 4th lvl and a 5th lvl one hold, in addition to their one high level spell, a 1st, 2nd and 3rd level Spell of the same School or Damage type. A 4th Level Spell costs 3 Charges and a 5th Level Spell costs 5 Charges.

An Artificer can give away their Staff to another Creature, who can attune to it as normal, but cannot make an additional Staff of that Spell level.

Regardless of how many Wands he has to recharge during a Short or Long Rest, an Artificer can always recharge one of his Staves during a SR and both of them during a LR. A Spellcasting Creature, that uses Intelligence, attuned to an Artificer Staff treats it as a normal Wand when recharging it. Artificer Staves do not recharge on their own.

>>98560864
Yeah, infinite healing glitch would definitely be an issue, could maybe mitigate that by adding a cost to ritual cast healing spells where you have to expend a hit die or something.

Really I'd just love to see more done with ritual casting in general to make it a more distinct form of magic, as it stands it just feels like such an afterthought.

>>98560192
so clerics must first always beseech and pray for a miracle from their god, before they can manifest any form of magic? That sounds nice on paper, but can you really do that in less than 6 seconds? Maybe what separates a Cleric from a Priest is the ability to enter a trance whenever you wish, a direct psychic connection to God, where time flows slower, giving you enough time to pray to them and also successfully cast the spell afterwards.

>>98561005
>That sounds nice on paper, but can you really do that in less than 6 seconds?
Grab your holy symbol and hope for a miracle? Why not?

>>98560379
>>98560469
what about stuff like Ice Knife and Conjure Barrage? I'm all for turning Ranger into a proper Dunedain Outdoorsman with ancient knowledge of the true name of nature and all that, but those spells are there to represent you doing a cool trick with your bow or dagger, even if entirely magical in nature.
You could take Arcane Archer's Arcane Arrows. Shoot AA in the back of the head and cannibalize the corpse. With ritual casting for the outdoorsman knowledge and Arcane Arrows for the bow tricks, Ranger would have its own unique Half-Caster Identity

>>98561023
so instead of Somatic, Verbal and non-consumable Components to a spell, you just pray?
You entirely rely on Thaumathurgy for your magic?

>>98561083
Grabbing your holy symbol and praying can literally be verbal and somatic components, and a holy symbol already serves as a spell focus for non-consumable components.

>>98560697
so a Ranger's spell progression works like this:
They still have spell slots, Half-Caster Spell progression and the same number of known Spells, but they always know (and always have?) their Ritual Tag Spells from their Spell List and get them 2 levels earlier of their Spell slot level (so 2nd lvl rituals at Level 3, 3rd lvl rituals at Level 7, 4th lvl rituals at Level 11 and so on).
Rangers also can only cast spells as a Ritual and if a Spell has a Casting Time of 1 minute or higher, they can cast it as a Ritual.

Did I get it right?

>>98561060
I think there's still room for having some spells like that if the class keeps spell slots. Though it would be flipped around where instead of casting those as an action, it'd probably be something like a 10 minute casting time to put the spell on a piece of ammunition or thrown weapon for 1 hour. It wouldn't be as efficient, but it'd be a plausible way to implement some of those types of spells.

The other alternative would be handling it via subclass. Either in an Arcane Archer manner like you said, or by giving the subclass an expanded spell list that would give the Ranger some spells with shorter casting times.

>>98561147
The phrasing I would use is
>At level 1, you learn two 1st-level spells of your choice that have the ritual tag.
>Whenever you gain an odd-numbered level in this class, you learn two additional spells of your choice that have the ritual tag. The spell's level can be no higher than half your level (rounded up).
>You can cast the chosen spells as rituals, and you can't cast them except as rituals.
Which works out to be 2nd-level rituals at level 3, 3rd at 5, 4th at 7, and so on. This could also include the ability to swap out rituals known either on a long rest or on level-up.
This would functionally be a separate feature from their standard half-casting Spellcasting feature. The example I'd point to is Book of Ancient Secrets for Warlock.

>if a Spell has a Casting Time of 1 minute or higher, they can cast it as a Ritual.
This part is completely incorrect for what I'm proposing.
It is simply that every non-ritual spell on the Ranger spell list has a casting time of 1 minute or more. They do not gain the ritual tag, since that would mean being able to cast them for free.

To give an example (with some existing spells that fit the tags/casting time, rather than being a proper suggestion of what spell should be available to them), a level 5 Ranger would have four 1st-level slots and two 2nd-level slots.
The spellcasting feature would give them Alarm, Identify, Snare, Augury, and Prayer of Healing as spells known. All of which have a lengthy casting time, but aren't all rituals. The Ranger could cast Prayer of Healing twice per day.
The ritual casting feature would give them Detect Poison/Disease, Speak with Animals, Animal Messenger, Silence, Tiny Hut, and Phantom Steed.

This is also why I said that most of the work in making the Ranger function this way would be in the spell list, because it's a matter of coming up with a good list of Ritual spell versus spells like Prayer of Healing which aren't Rituals but still take 10+ minutes to cast.

ok. Thanks for the responses!
that's at least 3 classes with completely reimagined spell casting mechanics and even multiple ideas for Ranger's.
I go to sleep now, because it is 2 in the morning. But if you still have ideas keep posting them and I'll add them to the document when I wake up.

>>98560792
>>98560800
>anon replies almost a week later to let me know he found out about monochrome paintings
good job kiddo

>>98560192
>>98561083
It does remind me a little of how Dungeon Crawl Classics handles it, where you roll in order to cast a spell, with higher results giving you an increased effect, but a low-roll resulting in a loss of your god's favor and being cut off for that particular spell until you earn back their favor (typically in the form of offerings alongside your evening/morning prayers).

It's a pretty volatile system, but from the times I've played it does a pretty good job of making the powers feel like something that's being lent out. Though with the tradeoff of making the gods feel rather fickle.

>>98560866
I mean if I recall, its already been dropped. The point isn't the lawsuit itself, though. The point is that the investors are upset, and are making it known that they're willing to take action.

In light of that, yeah, I think more Universes Beyond was a bold choice.

>>98557094
To be fair, there were licenced Warcraft D&D books (made by White Wolf, of all people) before WoW was even released.

>>98560192
>>98561083
>>98561399
So I guess let me revise my initial explanation of the mechanic, at the start of each turn I would have clerics rolls their religion check + cleric level and that would determine how strong their spiritual connection is in that moment, informing which spells they currently have access to for that turn. Could even work in some fun mechanics where doing certain things either strengthens or weakens their connection making that check harder or easier throughout combat. To support this, I'd probably instead of giving them leveled spell slots use something more like warlock pact slots where they're good for any level that the cleric passed the check for.

>>98561909
In that context, it would probably need to be closer to Warlock slots, where the Cleric has a pool of uses, and the check just determines how good the slot is at that moment.

Having the check fluctuate or get modified in certain circumstances is also a fun detail. Like giving Advantage if you're up against the god's enemies, or like a War Cleric getting a stacking bonus whenever they hit with an attack.
Could even be used as a catch-up mechanic in some ways, like if an ally takes damage, that boosts your check, so if a battle is going poorly, you're more likely to pull off something major.

>>98535621
If you aren't holding a focus you need a free hand to cast spells and handle components, that's just the basic rules. But I'm pretty forgiving on what can be a focus.

>>98536798
Well they certainly aren't slavers since the dark suns reboot will apparently not have slavery.

And here I was excited by the dark suns announcement. Fuck wotc.

>>98537361
What's extra funny is they are replacing slavery with conscription which plenty of idiots support. So we'll get plenty of insane pink haired nafo trannys defending the evil tyrants.

>>98536642
>Elf Red Wizard
>Some random Dwarf vendor
>Dragonborn and Tiefling guards
Not Thay, that dwarf and elf shouldn't be there and those guards should be an Orc and Gnoll instead.

Improvised Eeapons p. 367 PHB '24
>If you use a Ranged weapon to make a melee attack [...], the weapon counts as an improvised weapon
>Weapon Equivalents. If an improvised weapon resembles a Simple or Martial weapon, the DM may say it functions as that weapon and uses that weapon's rules

Using this niche glossary entry, would it be unreasonable for me to argue with my DM that my bayoneted Musket could use the rules for a Shortsword, Javelin, Spear, Pike, or Lance?

>>98562189
I'd be fine with spear. 1d6 piercing damage seems right for a bayonet.

>>98562189
>Eeapons
Weapons*
>argue with my DM
advocate to my DM for my bayoneted Musket*

The proofreading demon strikes again.

>>98562197
In that instance, would it be eligible for the "versatile" keyword for a bump to 1d8? If not, the only viable option left would be the shortsword, or perhaps I would be okay with a Dagger, as I would at least receive my proficiency bonus and could use dexterity for the damage rolls, which is higher than my strength.

Would it interact with the "Polearm Master" feat, if I had it?

>>98562211
No, and because you asked retard questions I'd bump it down to 1d4.

>>98562189
It is ultimately the DM's call. Expecting it to be on par with a Pike or Lance feels rather unreasonable.
Spear or Javelin is closer, just in terms of the length of a musket and the fact it's a more basic stabbing weapon.

>>98562211
I'd say Versatile would apply if they rule it as a Spear, though I could see them denying Polearm Master even if they did rule it that way, since at a certain point it is still an improvised weapon.
I could also see asking for a Dagger over a Spear, in order to use Dex that way.

I will also say that a Shortsword, while not making as much sense, would be relatively fair. Since any musket-toting character could, instead of fixing a bayonet, take one hand off their musket and just draw a shortsword/rapier/etc.
Taking a hand off of a weapon isn't an action, and as of 2024 drawing a weapon can be done as part of an attack. So the only real reason to go for a bayonet is the style points, which is still a good reason to go for it