/5eg/ D&D Fifth Edition General

As says, but you can be the sort of polite racist. Like, you wouldn't explicitly say anything but the way you act implies a slight aversion or suspicion of her, with the most overt thing being like accidentally letting something slip

Sounds super fun. You sure showed him.

Goblins would be attacking the bakery quite soon.

No, he finds it hilarious.

Yep. My Dwarf Barbarian did indeed fight off a couple last session, actually.

>group looks promising, normal good guy party
>lawful evil tiefling joins
>"my character is lawful evil, but only follows his own code. He sees others as tools for his own gain, and does whatever he wants"

Great, there goes the party

That's called Chaotic Stupid.

DAMN DIRTY ELVES.

Seriously considering no elves in my campaign setting. y/n?

I get why people would play a character like that (they're mentally stunted spergs), what I don't get is why the GM would say "yea thats cool you'll fit in with our human elf halfling dwarf party that is all LG NG or CG"

I guess the ideal is they're edgy kid who pulls through in the end to help save the day through the power of friendship.

Anons? Long story short, I got a race brewed up for one of my settings who basically originate out of a "gone horribly right" experiment at mixing together kobolds and snakes. How far up the scale of overpoweredness would you rate this racial write-up?

+2 Con, +1 Cha
Small
25ft base speed
Darkvision
Sunlight Sensitivity
Bite Attack (as per Lizardfolk, but doing Slashing)
Down the Hatch (can eat a Medium or smaller corpse as an action, or as reaction to killing an enemy with your bite attack - this weighs you down appropriately)
Digestive Boost (spend a bonus action to heal yourself for level + swallowed corpse's CR health - this is a once per corpse thing)
Venom Spittle (cast Poison Spray via Cha as an SLA)
Resistance to Poison damage and Advantage on Disease saves

Which book has the faction stuff?

How's the monster math in this edition? I've only played in small groups with weird class combinations, so I can't really tell myself.

It works well enough for how flexible the game can be. I've had no real specific concerns with it.

Been crunching numbers, it seems okay so far. I also lack a lot of "in the field" experience, though.

make sure the player know what your doing and maybe try to keep it to non combat stuff.
like have him make shitty remarks at a taven but like dont leave her character in the lurch in combat
or do! depends on how deep you want your characters prejudice to go! hell you could ive them a campaign wide storyline of coming to terms with it and being less racist.
or not s'you character, but above all else make you intentions known so its not like your just the asshole player hiding behind roleplay

>my character is lawful evil, but only follows his own code
The concept of Lawfulness exists in this player's mind.
>He sees others as tools for his own gain
And there's the Evilness. So far, the character seems Lawful Evil...however:
>and does whatever he wants
Chaotic Evil with a slight Neutral Evil lean.
The reality is, they want to do what 14-year-olds do when they play GTA. They want to start trouble with random acts of violence against people who don't deserve it, then get free stuff off the small waves of faceless mooks sent after them. They get incredibly shitty when they fail and have to come to terms with the fact that the party will neither help in the fights, nor rescue or resurrect the player's character.

>DM drops some hints and lore about some very powerful heroes that once saved the area from a big baddie and orcs years ago, who have now turned to the evil side lately for profit or whatever

>later, fighting some bandits while escorting a trade caravan
>four guys looking just like those fallen heroes (as described back in town) barge in, killing 2-3 bandits with flair during their entrance, telling us to just stay calm and they'll just take one thing from the caravan and be off
>DM makes it sound as if we'd be stupid to even try and fight them
>one guy asks what their leader is wearing
>DM says he's just wearing a chain shirt and holds a well polished axe, but nothing special
>we all immediately think "wow this guy is so badass he doesn't even need fancy gear"
>DM plays them really well and we all just back off to avoid dying
>they open a specific chest and take one very specific item (some black stone) and leave

>3-4 hours later, four guys looking just like those fallen heroes show up, except these guys are fully clad in fancy looking gear, their mounts are some golden-horned rams and the blackguard fallen paladin makes us all piss our pants just by being near him
>mfw they ask if we have seen four clowns pretending to be them
We are so fucked

Why is there still no sign of Dungeonology on the Trove? We've had Volo's for ages when it's still not even due for release, but Dungeonology has been out for days and still no sign of it?

vore fetishes detected

That sounds awesome. Did that feel exciting? You didn't feel cheated, or made out to be stupid?

Anyone have an online dice roller that I can use to easily determine the number of encounters that will happen in a day?

No we were all absolutely sure they were the real thing

Wow that started off like a typical shitty gmpc thing then became ace

wizards.com/dnd/dice/dice.htm

Yo yo yo what if the guys pretending to be the fallen heroes were good guys trying to stop the now evil heroes from doing something and now yall gotta go find them and team up with them to take on the assholes

YOOOO what if those guys are actually the fallen heroes but are time traveling to the future to stop their evil future selves from doing evil shit

YOooo what if those guys who are time traveling to stop future versions of themselves end up turning evil because of the events that unfold during thembfighting their evil future selves

Yoooo

Never do anything with time travel in a TTRPG. It never ends well. NEVER.

It worked fine for me.

It can be done well. You need to go with branching timelines/alternate timelines, rather than dealing with paradox though.

how high are you right now?

DMG has a little bit on the factions and if i recall correctly on the adventurers league website there is a free download that also has some info

Why the fuck would a bite attack do slashing damage?

why the fuck would you be able to eat a whole medium creature with one action, instead of it taking an hour?

SLA don't exist, you vore loving tard.

gtfo with your fetish, it can join the sentient sword in the trash

Act the way a nice old Southern lady would. If the tiefling does something nice, say something along the lines of "Oh, I didn't expect that from you." Look up "microaggressions" and do those.

Hey Veeky Forums I have an idea for a dragonborn paladin who serves Bahamut. My dm has said that I can be a platinum dragonborn, for a cool story where I'm the first platinum dragonborn in history. Does anyone know what my breath weapon would be? Is there any record of Bahamut (Platinum god of good dragons) breathing fire/lightning/cold etc.? In contrast, does anyone know what breath weapon Tiamat uses?

Assume he can't read/write, if something needs to be explained be sure to do it extra slow for the monsterman.

For Bahamut it's cold/special effect kinda like silver's as far as I remember. In the meantime Tiamat had 5 heads last time I read about her, so she'd have them all.

Isn't that like a kid's pop up book with slide tabs and shit?

Apparently it's cold according to the FR wikia.

If you want to be a special snowflake "Clearly this is ones birth is the blessing of Bahaumat!" give him Radiant breath.

That's pretty good user.

Awesome, ty
Didn't know about the FR wiki, thanks man!
I like this idea actually!

Is it ever justified to kill another PC?

I am a NG fighter, one of the other PCs is a NE sorcerer. He's using some edgelord shadow sorcerer bullshit. He has, IC, said that the rest of the party are just servants he tolerates so long as it benefits his cause, which is raising undead and taking over some city or some shit

He's done some edgy shit to the point where the true neutral rogue whispered me and was like "we should fucking murder this guy", honestly id be totally down for it but the player of shadow the edgehog would probably have an autistic meltdown

OoC we all told him that his evil garbage doesnt fit with the group and he got all self righteous and whined about player agency and something about railroading(??¿)

Tldr is it ever justified to murder another PC, considering if its pretty justified In-game?

As a DM I never like it when my players are trying to PVP. If he wants it to be player agency and go down that route, I don't see why your characters wouldn't want to murder him.

He's going to sperg out no matter what, because he's not going to get what he wants instead of what the group wants.

>HFW you guys man up and murder his character

A better course of action is to talk to the DM about kicking him from the group and NPCing his character afterwards.

and then kill the npc, right?

If it makes for well built up drama then It's probably for the best, but I'd say either spend some time laying the groundwork before a showdown and if possible convince the character to just find another party to frequent.

First of all, talk to the player privately about it and spitball some ideas, if he's not budging just say that your character probably can't allow too many more overtly evil actions go without atleast speaking up about it, encourage him to be a sneaky sneak

IC debates about morality are great ways to showcase roleplaying, just ensure you're 100% acting out your ideas and character's personality as opposed to OOC feels soaking into the game (Which can be real difficult).

Eventually instead of straight up murder, challenge the PC to a Duel, if you win I'd suggest not straight up killing the guy, just patch him up, leave him in an inn room with all his belongings.

100% do not just have a rogue slit his throat when he sleeps, because the player will throw a bitch-fit and insist that he catches the rogue in the act with metagaming.

that came across as real patronizing... sorry that wasn't my intent

Surely you can figure out what to do with the evil asshat sorcerer

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My group tends to buy splats for the DM as they come out, immidiately if its campaign relevant, birthday/holiday if not. It entirely solves any issues, and splits cost, which is a good thing to not force on DMs, since they typically invest the most overall.

quick question. what happens if a character is always heavily or lightly obscured?

Lightly: creatures have disadvantage on perception checks that rely on sight
heavily: vision is blocked; creatures effectively blinded

straight from the DM screen

"Run monsters like they're heroes of their own adventure".

Thoughts on this?

hold up. so if a character found a way to be lightly obscured all the time, they can make stealth checks whenever? so kind of like hide in plain sight?

>Next time on: Gelatinous Cube Adventures!

Technically, where are you going with this?

working on a homebrew class, trying to balance a class feature that essentially does exactly that.

sounds neat, what are the key concepts/abilities of the class?

Gonna clean this motherfucking dungeon for the next two centuries. Awww yeaaaa.

Just give them the wood elf 'can become lightly obscured in heavy rain n shit dawg' thing

is that a patch of mold 20 feet away?

awwwww shit yeah, in 3 months i'm gonna be eating like a king

but then an issue would come up if they wanted to play a wood elf "whatever the homebrew class is called"

although you could just give it a different set of conditions than the wood elf feature

honestly - and this is being super critical of my own creation - It probably doesn't merit being its own class. It'd be a fine mystic archetype, if anything.

Basically its a sneaky/stealth based version of the mystic. Its a spell point based mixed caster class (casting similar to a warlock), whose main abilities come from the disciplines or paths they take. The two archetypes I've typed out for it include a more caster-centric archetype akin to the lore bard but more specialized towards anti-casters, and a skirmisher archetype reminiscent of the rogue.

homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/BkaciQ1L

if you want to check it out. beware - its pretty long and uses the word shadow WAY too much.

>uses the word shadow WAY too much.

nah i think it's fine

lmao

yeah, i need a fuckin thesaurus...

i like it, it's just a little weird as a full class but as an archetype i don't think it would come into itself enough

a wild idea, what if you were to rework it into a prestige class? probably wouldn't work but whatever ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Classes and races already do that, so just do it.

I have no experience working with prestige classes. In fact, I didn't even know prestige classes were a thing anymore.

Mind telling me more and elaborating on what you mean?

I did something similar. Basically the class grants the next level of obscure-ment based on lighting. In normal light, they are lightly obscured so receive bonuses to stealth checks via disadvantage on perception checks. when they're already lightly obscured, they count as heavily obscured and can just make stealth checks to hide outright.

media.wizards.com/2015/downloads/dnd/UA_Rune_Magic_Prestige_Class.pdf

they're not "officially" a thing

idk, i thought maybe it could work as prerequisite: rogue or warlock X level prestige class because of the focus on magic and stealth

but rereading it, i realised a lot of the homebrew comes from the shadow arcanums and paths

prestige classes are a good way to squish a lot of good features in ~5 levels because of prerequisites like X level and X stat

all that said, i have NO experience with making my own homebrew and think yours is very well done

>DM bans
dropped right there

Good, good.

Didn't a UA for bards just come out, where is that?

Hello elegan/tg/entlemen.

I bring you a quandary of mine: last session my party was looking for a woman to ask questions to regarding plot.

Thing is, the woman is probably going to be like a noble lady and there probably is no possibility for us to speak with her in a normal way.

So my druid hatched a plan: in case we can't talk with her in the usual way mortals communicate, he will try to talk with her privately, sneaking past the boundaries that blocked us from reaching her.

My question now is: could my druid turn into a raven and then talk to her in common?

one for barbarians came out on monday if that's what you were thinking of
media.wizards.com/2016/dnd/downloads/UA_Barbarian.pdf

or there's an older one that has bard subclasses
media.wizards.com/2015/downloads/dnd/04_UA_Classics_Revisited.pdf

media.wizards.com/2016/dnd/downloads/UA_Bard.pdf

ah. well, thanks anyway. Ill check it out and consider it, maybe youre right and this would be fitting for a prestige class. Like I said before, I didnt even know they were a thing.

Yeah, a majority of the homebrew are the paths themselves. Id say they make up around 70% of the class.

why not?

yes actually, the raven has the mimicry ability that lets it mimic simple sounds. i would argue it would be able to imitate someone speaking common

Thanks heaps brah. Nah, it was a most recent UA. So, we'll be on track to get a new UA on Mon?

Yeah, found here Thanks heaps brah!

oh shit, i missed this one, when did it come out?

I really like 4e, but can't play it because my friends like 5e. But I just wish 5e was more like 4e.

Im sorry user but your that guy.

i think you're the only person that i've ever seen that prefers 4e over 5e.

what parts of 5e do you dislike and how does 4e deal with that?

It hasn't

Overly simplistic combat, and poor social support. Skill challenges were stupid at first, but they're a great framework for DMs to generate in depth social challenges. You can do the same thing in 5e, but because it isn't spelled out anywhere, most DMs just default to roll a die and if you roll high enough once the guy dues what you want. Poor balance between casters and martials also tarnishes 5e.

Finally, I dislike that 5e is built around 90 percent of combat turns being attacking or cantripping.

Then go to /4eg/

oh, did people guess the URL?

hasn't this happened before?

Yes and yes

I'm playing 5e.

I'm just asking for your opinion: I don't want to be the only one to think that the plan would work quite well.

I think so too: I hope the GM will agree with us.

This annoys me. Why are the ten minute rituals on any sort of rest based cool down at all?

Wizards needs to give every class more interesting at will abilities, and these were perfect opportunities to do so.