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Question of the thread, have you ever successfully used, or seen a player use a character who is clearly a rip off of an anime/vidya character without it being immediately called out or a genuine trainwreck. Pic related for a Spear wielding Triton Vegeance Paladin.
Secondary question, what is the next character you are most itching to play?
I haven't seen any blatant rip-off characters in-game yet, but I've had a few people put forward applications that are described as 'the blind monk from Marco Polo'.
I just want to play a barbarian, nothing special, I like barbarians.
Jonathan Collins
Are there any first-party rules for settlement construction and management yet? I've been out of the loop for a while and want to run a Kingmaker-esque hexcrawler game.
Grayson Bailey
I really wanted to play a goblin rogue but I'm not sure I should do it. There seems to be a lot of overlap between their abilities.
Some Forgotten Realms lore questions for other characters I want to play;
Are there any wizarding schools in the world? I'm not thinking about something like Hogwarts but more something like Unseen University.
Is it possible to be a cleric for a dead god and still have powers and stuff?
Nicholas Powell
>Does this passive perception just make it so that they have a constant radar that makes them always pick up on things? yes >Aren't "scanning" checks like that specifically for class skills, like that paladin "divine sense" and stuff? yes, you need to find the object first before you can check it with arcana >There were other examples too; they would "roll to persuade," but I thought you had to basically attempt to persuade, then roll if it works. to be honest senpai I'm not smart or charismatic enough to come up with some long winded convincing speech to warm the heart every time I want the barmaid to suck my dick so a lot of the times it comes out as "suck my fucking dick" then persuasion roll it's fine to just roll persuasion without thinking up what you actually say as long as it's not some heated plot moment where you're trying to convince the BBEG to come over to the good side
Jack Morales
Personally I want to play a Dwarf Battlerager, mostly becuse one autistic player at our table is such a grognard who has to be the center of attention who demanded that he gets to play a half-orc Luchador because he is clearly the only person who has seen Los-Tiborion. So we help him build a 5e Grappler and show him how to be effective and he immediately gets outright tantrumy when the DM won't let him jump 40ft into the air to suplex flying enemies, and the odd time when the GM does allow his idiocy, he gloats like he is the biggest badass for the rest of the session because the GM let him jump out of a window onto an enemy. Meanwhile in combat he gets bored of grappling since he lacked the cognitive capacity to understand how grapples and shoves worked effectively so just made unarmed attacks at everything for 1d4 damage, asked the GM if he could "Dual wield fists" can get an extra punch as a bonus action instead of grappling, then got bored and started using his greataxe and eventually asked the GM if he could swap his feat for great weapon master because grappling sucks. He then claims the Holy Great-Sunsword we got as our end-of-quest loot from our Paladin because "The Paladin gets smites so he doesnt need more damage so the free damage on the greatsword will be better for me." which our nice-guy paladin let him have, he then constantly gloats about how much damage he does with his sword and all the dice he rolls are amazing.
So out of sheer spite, I want to in our next campaign play a real grappler and be an effective control element for our team. Does this make me a That-guy? I mean I want to play the class because it looks fun but at least 40% of the reason is because "Hey, look how effective grappling can be when you're not a manchild."
Xavier Mitchell
Ugh that point about the passive perception shit sucks
He's been getting at me for not mentioning shit in rooms like barrels that had gunpowder in them because "my passive perception would have smelled those." I hate that he's right apparently.
I'm not asking for speeches either, just something other than >I roll persuasion >What do you want to persuade her about? >Well...
Dylan Sanders
I mean, I don't think that'd make you That Guy, but for all I know I could be That Guy, so don't take my word.
How would you put together an effective grappler?
Michael Thompson
Just don't get in his face about it (too much). That Guy sounds like an immature dick though.
Brody Morgan
>Are there any wizarding schools in the world? I'm not thinking about something like Hogwarts but more something like Unseen University.
I'm not very good at lore but i think candlekeep is like that.