Previous Thread: Thread Question: What's the best setting for a survival focused game?
Logan Collins
1st for treant rangers
Isaac Robinson
>What's the best setting for a survival focused game? Dark Sun
Jaxon Baker
>Dark Sun 5e update never
Asher Morris
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Lincoln Young
Are you implaying that a Hobgoblin battlemaster / ranger using whip from 25 feet away is a ranged character?
Brody Hughes
Bugbear.
Andrew Fisher
Is it bad that I was thinking of making a bugbear rogue for an upcoming Storm King's Thunder game simply because having a 15 foot range is a lot better than getting destroyed in close combat?
Kevin Walker
Which giant lair in skt is the best?
I might choose for my players, cause you know, illusion of choice means I only need to read one chapter instead of 5 and only use 1.
Samuel Bell
What classes and mechanics from the other UAs have people been using?
Jack Long
So far we have used
>>Mariner fighting style >>Gourmand feat because flavor is awesome >>Revised Ranger because people want to actually play the class and were smart enough to say "Yeah this is a bit lacking" >>Artificer/Alchemist is no my main character and im having an absolute blast playing him
Its a little easier to remember the more recent ones and I cant recall if Goliath started in the UA or not
Ryan Fisher
Didn't use classes, but the revenant race from the gothic one is pretty fun. Makes for a good short, sweet character story. Once your mission is accomplished you die. No need to come up with "where are they now" shit once the campaign is over.
Easton White
Why not just use a bow or crossbow?
Connor Murphy
Well, I think it really brings out a weakness in wizards that should really be there.
While wizards are capable of much greater feats than a martial, they have to be careful with when they choose to use their power. They can use their power to solve problems, but they have to hold back on using their power to solve everyday problems unless they use a low level spell/cantrip.
That's how it is by standard, and you can turn it up to SUPER SHOUNEN BOY SHOOTS LASERBEAMS AND WUXIA VERSUS SUPERMAN AND BATMAN if you wish, but 5e keeps it much more moderate by standard so not everybody has to suffer that shit.
Yes, they can. >every single goat somehow knows that if they don't kill your party wizard when they start concentrating on a spell the world will perish >100 goats appear every time the wizard attempts to cast a spell
Brayden Long
What servant did you take/do you plan to take?
Blake Watson
Already made a hand crossbow wielding rogue in an earlier campaign. Variant human with Crossbow Expert and Sharpshooter.
Also wanted to play a monstrous race so might aswell take advantage of the extra 5 feet that bugbears get.
Ethan Richardson
Giant Vulture and im packing a saddle of the Cavalier and the mounted combat feat to keep him alive. Its also thematically fitting the character [Plague Doctor]
Jonathan Robinson
>illusion of choice When illusion of choice applies, it rarely is actually a choice and an enjoyable choice.
>you hit a crossroad. Go left or right? >'I go left!' >you end up at a graveyard >'I go right!" >you end up at a graveyard All you did is waste the player's time. The players had no idea which route went where and so they can only argue over nothing until they reach a meaningless decision.
Heck, if you even said that one leads to the right side of a graveyard where all the nobles are and one leads to the left side of a graveyard where there's the groundskeeper's shed, they actually have a choice because they can then think 'Okay, do we want to go in on the left of the graveyard because we want to get into a building straight away, or do we want to start from the right?'
Daniel Barnes
It depends on the situation, if it was like this user says, an animal intelligence thinking tactically, your DM is a shit. But anything with like 8 or better Int will at least know the guy wearing common clothes or leather will be easier to hit than the guy in full plate
Luke Martin
Opinions?
Joshua Nguyen
What is the marraigable age in Faerun?
William Carter
Mariner fighting style?
Justin Martinez
They're all good except for hill giant's hold
Depends on your party. If they're a bunch of murderhobos go frost. For people who are really into RP go cloud. If they're a bunch of sneaky-types Fire is good. Stone is a mix of murderhobos and sneakystuff
But just an FYI despite all your careful planning the players will probably do something you didn't plan on. What I do is pick the one you feel is most likely to be chosen by your players and memorize that chapter. Then glaze over the others because they're all pretty neat
Noah Stewart
If there's dust on the fairy, she's free to marry.
Tyler Gutierrez
How effective are modern world bullets, tanks, missiles and other modern world armaments against the monsters from the MM and Volo's?
Nathaniel Cook
>>Waterbone adventures >>If not in heavy armor or wearing a shield gain a swim speed and +1 to AC
Colton Gutierrez
With the disparity in maturity rates of all the races I doubt they have one singular age of consent.
Robert Barnes
Thanks dude.
Jack Russell
>Hit on elf at bar >Her friends slap you, she's only 60 you freak
Connor Robinson
Is level 1 dip into warlock going to hurt me much as a bard?
Ayden Miller
Lemme explain the situation >DM is one of those "killing my players is winning" DM's. >Yes, I know I can leave, but I've got nothing else to do, he's my IRL friend, i've talked to him about it, and besides those things, there are no other groups I can join because of social fuckery >Back to the point, we're in a town in a campaign >Earlier in the campaign, Asmodeus, my patron, me being a fiend pact warlock, gave me a gift >I can, in exchange for a soul, summon demons/devils, sort of a teleportation spell through two dimensions >Can only do this at certain locations of power, the spell has a very exacting set of requirements in order to be utilised >There's one of these locations of power in the middle of a town, in the sandbox in the local playpark >i'm going to summon one of the more knowledgeable creatures out of hell to help us out with what we need to do for the next stage of our quest, we're stuck and the DM is either not giving us hints or we're not picking them up >No animals in this town, it's in the middle of a desert >Soul should reasonably be from one of the town's inhabitants. >We're not awful, we decide it should be someone who's going to hell anyway >Wait on the gallows >Ask to buy one of the prisoners >Try and convince the guard to sell to us >"No, you're a member of a demon cult, guards, arrest them" >We have literally given away nothing to these people, we dress like aristocracy, we haven't used any magic, we've been in town two days >The DM is looking smug through this entire bit >We complain and ask him to explain himself >Doesn't >He knew my plan but nobody in the game did. >Bastard
Cameron Hughes
>A solar's not even that strong. >The solar would probably get wrecked by two missiles, though. How true is this?
Sebastian Carter
Are you talking about pubic hair?
Jack Ortiz
Well, sucks. How do you fix it?
Brayden Lopez
No I'm talking about fairies. Jeez.
Gavin Parker
The tavern owners daughter is 13 . Shes cute and want to know if shes marraigable
Brayden Morris
Fire or Stone looks good for them then, at least if these characters survive or the player's styles maintain through all their characters, they haven't even left Nightstone yet so I have time to read them all to be honest. Its not like they will get to that point in 1 session
Luis Campbell
/pfg/ get out.
Brody Gomez
That kinda sounds like shit user. I can only assume the guards are paladins or something for that to make sense. Either way he's punishing you for trying to follow the story.
I'd not play.
Henry Torres
Either really very effective or not at all base on how mythic you want the game to be.
In principle anything humanoid should die from one or two bullets and no natural creature should be able to survive a missile. Modern tank rounds would blow anything apart with a direct hit, or rather turn them to paste if it's a sabot round, up to and including Tarrasques and godly manifestations (Tiamat, Orcus etc.)
OR, large and magical creatures have that fantasy-film resistance to bullets that lets them chase the heroes around despite taking multiple second-long bursts of automatic fire (looking at you, T-Rex in Peter Jackson's King Kong) and explosives burst harmlessly on their hide so that the only way to fight them off is to take up the sword.
Ultimately, the only answer is depends on the setting.
Xavier Cooper
Isn't tarassque immune to non magical weapons?
Austin Green
Run away with her to the far north. Start a home and family in a new tavern in the snow. Nobody questions your relationships in the North.
Michael Harris
Probably not.
Hudson Rivera
I normally wouldn't encourage this, but Pathfinder has the deity just for you, pal!
Isaac Hughes
Don't Orcus and Tiamat have Damage Immunities necrotic, poison; bludgeoning, piercing, and slashing that is nonmagical
Nathan White
At that, nonsilvered bullets can't hurt lycanthropes
Benjamin Myers
>You hear Steve's fucking a penguin? >It's too cold for me to give a shit.
Angel Green
That's fucking disturbing.
Jason Mitchell
>be 100 year old elf >too much of an autist to court my own race >start dating a 20 year old human >Elf family looks at me with disgust >Fuck them I know I'm not a pedo
Ethan Lee
Why me , you fuck.
Michael Perry
Wasn't there a mask in pathfinder that let you make babies with other races?
What the fuck happened in Pathfinder? Are they all paedos and sheep-fuckers?
William Williams
>favoured weapon: net
Angel Robinson
I dunno, a depleted uranium dart travelling several times the speed of sound seems pretty magical to me.
But you do have a point. Ignoring those specific examples then, tanks would at least be effective up to ancient dragons.
Noah Clark
>Furs etc join system >they make content for said system >system gets reputation for furs etc >furs etc hear about this, join system
Isaac Price
>hey user, your a good warlock to Asmodeus, let me give you this cool reward >but nah you can't use it when it could help you beat me
Easton Gray
To make these creatures nigh unkillable, just give them resistance or immunity to nonmagical attacks (this is something that Tiamat, Orcus and their ilk already have). Tiamat also has Regen 30!! and Discorporation.
Jaxson Phillips
I'd say the best thing to do is make sure other players are on your side so you can all discuss the bullshit with the DM.
Even if it continues, you're not alone.
Jackson Kelly
Like ants leaving a pheromone trail... nature is horrifying
Jose Ramirez
Only 13? That's legal by most medieval standards.
Benjamin Nguyen
Reminds me of that anime where they give a bunch of elves rpg's and take out an ancient dragon. With a helicopter since the elves fucked up the blowback.
Kayden Wood
Explain to your friend that he doesn't have rules like you do. He's got infinite resources. Beating you isn't something that's hard to do. And it's not the point.
Carter Phillips
Unless your DM pulls fantasy bullshit on levels I absolutely detest 'This creature can't be harmed at all by anything but silver!' then the tank beats pretty much everything.
Angel Mitchell
What do you guys think of the homebrew herb+alch rules?
Robert Watson
so. could you roll a paladin/cleric that is completely devoted to the cause of pedophilia?
Caleb Bell
I'm going to session 3 Thursday and my players still haven't met harshnag. I prefer to build up the whole "Giants are fucking ruining everything" before revealing the cause
Isaiah Sanchez
What are the dice you like using most?
I think I want some new dice just to spice things up, any good places to order from?
Hunter Evans
to be honest yeah, offer her dad a dowry, make an offer he can't refuse
Wyatt Johnson
Why's that?
Hunter Bailey
Because I thought your post was aimed at the tavern owners daughter one, so I quoted both. To be fair and on a more serious note, it's a demonic demigod from a splat book that features very minor deities devouted to very specific kinds of atrocities, wrongdoings and bad aspects of human nature, unlike more general all-encompassing kind of evil deities like Tharizdun, Nerull and so forth. Taxe Cixyron for example, a personification of harmful effects of the industrial revolution like pollution and so on. I think both have rights to exist as antagonists (which they are intended as), and even though some might be considered a bit "edgy", I personally wouldn't be turned off by having to fight with pedocultists and whatnot. If anything, fighting some demon harbringer cult is probably more interesting than having to deal with yet another apocalyptic order.
Jonathan Moore
wouldn't demon harbinger cult sort of fall into apocalyptic cult. i mean, demons tend to have fairly obvious plans for the world, generally related to either destroying or ruling it.
Landon Cruz
What level did you start at? I started the group at level 1 cause two of the four players are pretty new. I honestly don't expect them to meet Harshnag for at least a month or two of weakly play.
Jack Fisher
>be 40yo human >shack up with a halfling gal >SICKO >wtf she's twice my age
Michael Brown
so, if those societal expectations were in place, would that mean that like, 1st century elves all act like toddlers but in a fully grown elf body?
Ayden Thomas
5. I was taking over as DM after one of the others did LMoP. We were adding s couple players and I'd been prepping for SKT for a while so it made sense. I'm actually enjoying DMIng more than playing.
We ended last session after spending an hour gambling on the Grand Dame in Yartar. I can't wait to see their faces come chapter 9 and 10!
Luis Jones
No. Elves are considered ''adults'' at 100 the same way Spartans were ''adults'' at age 30. It's a cultural thing. They are fully mature at age 21.
Joshua Brooks
Heck, the age of consent in the Vatican is 12! no, really it comes from the time yonks ago when the Vatican copy-pasted all of Italy's laws, and Italy's AOC way back when was 12 because that's just what you did when half of everyone died before they were 20
Ethan Rogers
So how does mounted combat work? Is it basically on my turn, the mount also gets an action and a movement action? So I can move the mounts speed, dash the mounts speed then still have my characters action, movement and bonus? How does it work if the creature has its own initiative?
John Russell
In Austria it's 13 and below that with parrents approval.
Jayden Reyes
>tfw furries infect your game system and cause a giant fungal growth to burst out of its head and spread its spooge-spores which infect others as well
Jaxson Green
No. You use the multiclass spell-slot table and gain an additonal 2 warlock spell slots per short rest as well.
Caleb Gutierrez
>you get a good shot off on the dragon but then it just lands on the tank
Anthony Wright
Well, depending on the deity their cause wouldn't necessarily be the end of times itself, that would be more of a possible side-effect. Demonic harbringers aren't really suited for massive cults with a global objective, they're fairly petty and many are based on certain phobias like fear of falling, fear of aging or this one.
Jackson Reyes
>1st century elves all act like toddlers but in a fully grown elf body All elves act like toddlers, user.
Oliver Morales
It often serves to narrow down possibilities to 'Only the hero can save us now!' which feels.. I just don't like it.
I like the idea of even commoners having a chance, not just the heroes. Even if they're not much, they can at least try to stab an orc with a spear for a 1d6. Even if the commoners are likely to route and end up slaughtered by an aggressive orc onslaught into a millitia of peasntry, I like that they actually have a chance and that a player can drive them to victory if they play right. I don't like it when it turns into 'Well, okay, they're all just background fodder characters that you're either trying to save or that will buy you time. You go do it all by yourself, because you're a hero'.
So, say, you have a creature that can only be hurt by X. That narrows you down to being able to do nothing but use X. What if somebody wanted to get creative and try using Y? You can barely reason with why it wouldn't hurt them in the first place - Are they immune to non-X attacks because they're enchanted by a god? Because of bullshit genetics? Just because?
I can understand there being some complications tanks might face. How do they beat an ethereal enemy? But you can then see that the army with the tank can develop anti-ethereal methods - Maybe a faraday cage type set-up keeps ethereal beings out. Maybe if you blast them with enough microwave radiation is causes the force animating the ethereal to disperse.
God I hate the 'one man beats an army' shit.
Tyler Parker
so they would just pull the world down into fearful inconveniences and disgusting crimes?
Caleb Torres
You don't use multiclass spell slot when multiclass with warlock. Warlock doesn't have spell casting class feature, they have pact magic.
Thomas King
I like the "only the hero can save us now" trait when the hero is fucking dead and the populace dies hopeful. Softens the blow.
Jace Peterson
So basically they keep their own spell table and gain warlock slots. Damn that's just asking for abuse.
Daniel Torres
Granted a lone tank can't beat anything, but a modern army should be able to solve any threats such as undead and the like and finally overcome things unless you start bringing in bullshit god powers.
As for dragons, considering a mounted machinegun will probably do in the realms of several times the damage of an arrow with better accuracy at range and with many more hits per second, a 5e dragon's AC and health will hardly hold out more than a round if it's lucky.
Jackson Powell
>It can only be harmed by silver >But hero, only you have a silvered sword. >Just fucking load up all your good jewelry and tea sets into this canon, we'll be fine.
Asher Peterson
>Nalmungder Why does that sound vaguely racist?
Nathan Taylor
Even peasant armies should be able to solve threats like the undead. Skeletons are fucking dumb.
also >not having bullet-resistant dragonscales lmao arrows do damage when they're lucky and well-aimed enough to slip between some gap the wild spray of your machine gun just makes nice sparks and ricochet noises
Joshua Sanders
>It can only be slain by a virgin >Hero goes off to stab the lich, red-faced the whole time >Entire town smirking as he rides back with the head of the lich in tow
Angel Baker
It starts with N rhymes with MAL, which means bad and contains the word MUNG which is a disgusting sex act it's pretty much the worst name
Julian Sanders
???
Bard 5 / Warlock 1 would have the spell slot of Bard 5 (+2 seperate slot from Warlock). It's the same thing as when you multiclass with 0-magic peasant like rogue or fighter.
Logan Lopez
Oh ok that makes sense, which of the chapter 2 cities did you do?
Thomas Harris
>bullet resistance but not arrow resistance Yeah, right. That just sounds like the DM bullshitting you saying 'Oh no, you aquired a game-breaking weapon. Well, all enemies from now on have magical anti-bullet shields, because I said so.'
Easton Roberts
Triboar for a number of reasons:
>it's centrally located >the giant attack there was more interesting >it's near Yartar, which I really wanted to foreshadow because the "rolling investigate to figure out where the coin is from" is dumb and anti-fun >the plot hooks are interesting >it fed from LMoP well
Overall it was a good choice. Thought about doing Bryn Shander but it seemed like it was too far out of the way from everything and sort of restricted the players a little more
Jack Parker
No one is gonna care hes a virgin. Virginity could be a choice and he can show his manliness and worthiness by other means like slaying a lich.
Benjamin Williams
Enough gambling to feasibly fund Khaspere's plans a significant amount?