>Tell me about your villains and their plans! Seeks dominion over worlds using the star's power.
The star seeks to awaken, using pawns to usher in it's coming.
Daniel Stewart
Nice. Any traps or henchmen of notoriety?
Brody Jones
Do you fluff your multiclassing?
Landon Brooks
Our last villain was a black dragon trying to cause a civil war for the lulz, and make us (the party) as miserable as possible by hurting bystanders and innocents. But she got what she deserved.
Evan Rogers
Yeah problem is I actually know these people so its a bit harder, the other guy is actually one of my players in a Deathwatch game
Julian Ross
>insane archdruid who took too many mental blows in childhood >mass "cleansing" ritual >will literally destroy the planet >its my PC and the party doesnt know
Brody Sanders
>Immediate villain Standard take over the empire because he wants power, managed to kill the Emperor but the Imperial Princess escaped, is being manipulated by a fallen hero who is doing it all to unite the land for war against Eldritch horrors wanting to invade.
>Potential side villains
Leader of Templar style order that is made up of paladins that believe in objective good and evil. They have some who bend the meaning of this such as killing tieflings and other oddities on sight even though laws protect them as citizens.
Dwarven Ambassador wants her "kingdom" to break away from the rest of the empire believing it for the best. She is promoting and helping sow chaos in the land to sway the hearts and minds back home to her line of thinking.
Elven ambassador wants to put his queen on the throne instead of help resecure it for the Imperial Princess. He is fully willing to outright kill the rightful heir and any who stand in the way of this.
Underworld leader wants to truly change her ways and dismantle the crime organization she is apart of. The problem is doing so would take the cooperation of a stable government and could lead to conflict should the PCs decide to simply out her before a deal can be made.
Fun part is not all of them have to be enemies it'll all depend on how the PCs interact with the world.
Blake Collins
well if they're your buds it should be even easier to say "id have more fun if we actually.... tried? a bit?" ive been exactly where you are i spoke up and my friends were like "oh alright yeh lets try that then" and weve been going for years now
Joseph Nelson
How many of those do you consider evil?
Owen Ross
>I'm thinking of giving the asi in addition to the feat. I expect it to go about as well as an ice cube hanging out in Avernus. Convince me why I shouldn't?
Carter Morales
What happened to her?
James Perry
Instead of doing that I'll warn you about the possible speed your game can end up with. Some builds can go online way earlier that way, and the party can get out to stronger foes.
Evan Jackson
Only one who would be straight evil is the guy seizing power for himself. The elven ambassador could fall under that aswell since he is outright willing to kill anyone to put his queen on the throne, even if she hasn't asked for it or wants it.
The others are up to the PCs and how they view the world.
Adam Wright
The main threat is, I guess, a GOO. Specifically, the one that the GOOlock in the party has as his patron. Other than the entropy and destruction that leaks off the thing sleeping in the ground, the cults and organizations that form around it cause a lot of problems. >the ancient empire that used to be in the area the party is exploring was fractured and dissolved because people started making contact with it and leaching powers from it, and infighting >the wizard college the party's wizard went to is secretly trying to revive the thing >a christian-reform-camp-type institution run by warlock doctors has been kidnapping kids and feeding them drugs to turn them into cultists for fifteen years >the dragonborn goolock turned out to be a four year old clone with implanted memories that was in fact infested by the creeping tendrils of influence of the GOO but thinks that he developed them somehow while living in a giant library with knowledge monks typical stuff, you know
Grayson Barnes
I think it's the fucking BLOWN THE FUCK UP WITH WATER poster form last thread.
Michael Thompson
OotA, so demon lords, i guess they just want to fuck everything up.
Landon Sullivan
Reform Io body. 4 or 5 if I include gem way war. His cult, dragon cult and Tiamat, Bahamut and his councils, and the Death Dragon godforgot his name. I am just going to have a big ass dragon war.
Cooper Hughes
You really missed that whole thing last thread? Dude told us about his magical realm and how he snuck it into the game. Was pretty funny.
John Barnes
If I recall correctly: Boom. Vanilla or spiced by the DM? I get the plan, but who is behind it?
Nathaniel Taylor
How can I make my necromancer interesting and not just a robed guy that can make skeletons?
Josiah Lewis
Ask your DM about making a single bigger skeleton. Speaking with dead people is useful if your campaign has some mistery too.
Jaxson Martin
There is a particular captain that is obsessed with the party, having been foiled by them on a few occasions. She's gone as far as insubordination and hiring a shitton of bounty hunters to find and track them down. Her obsession is clouding her judgement and her devotion to the dogma of her leader.
Adam Ward
By being a robed guy that can make zombies.
Jonathan Perez
In forgotten realms lore can goblinoids crossbreed? Mostly wondering if Bugbears can crossbreed with Humans for an adventure idea I had.
Easton Barnes
First time playing warlock, found the pact magic system really boring and now I'm thinking about multiclassing into Bard and fluff into some Shaman/Witch Doctor so I call the fiend's power to buff/heal my allies and debuff/CC my enemies.
Aiden Moore
Maybe Io, no one really knows. His action were always to further the survival of dragonkind as a whole. In the end, a lot of dragon magic toss around and transforming the word into more dragon like.
Christian Russell
Yup. Boom. Glad you think it was funny
Jackson Martin
if you're gonna do MC warlock you'll probably have most fun as a sorlock
Dylan Perry
Although now that I think about it the manipulator would be evil aswell. My players made a typical cast all with tragic back stories and such. So I tied them together without them realizing it yet in that he had orchestrated those events trying to kill them before they could grow up.
Thing is he succeeded in his own time but the will of the world knows his plan will lead to ruin and broke the rules to send the ones he killed from different times there but able to defend themselves now. It works like Wheel of Time they are heros woven into the fabric of time and are produced ever now and then, different faces and names but same soul. This guy was once a friend and ally but grew bitter and became a lich/death knight (haven't decided). It's how he knew who they were and tried to end them believeing everything he is doing is for the greater good.
Jose Lee
i imagine pretty much vanilla, a textual quote from my dm, "it's all written in the book so i don't have to think about it"... yep.
so far so good, all things considered.
Ryder Ramirez
/5eg/ tell me your favorite spell
Oliver Powell
Main threat is a cult of necromancers who believe that undeath is the natural course and the next step for all lives on the planet.
Major side threats include :
Slave revolt who's leaders are pushing for the slaughter of the citizens of their master country, even people who were not involved in slavery at all.
An "incursion" from a foreign plane
and for post cultist story line the Golden City from a long dead civilization where no one who has entered has returned but sometimes clockwork automatons wander out and wreak havoc.
Anthony Davis
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Tyler Davis
Dust Devil. I know it's weak and not really worth it on anyone but I love it with a passion.
I find Bugbears the most repulsive PC race available. Closely followed by Orcs and Goblins.
I just wanted a bunch of Humans worshiping the Bugbear gods because I thought it'd make a good group of tribal ambushers to steal the mcguffin. Just wondering if I should throw half Bugbears in there.
Cameron Davis
Bless! It's the one I've gotten the most mileage out of, as a Paladin, and I can't help but feel the 1d4 to most combat-relevant actions is huge.
Brandon Nelson
"Consume Cummies" is my favorite 5e homebrew cantrip
Angel Hall
I can compensate for that. I just don't think it will make a tremendous difference in the long run, either way. Unless there's an epic level handbook I'm 5e's future, which I doubt.
Juan Kelly
You can weave in Orcus, if you like. Oh boy. Chapter 4 might kill him. If disciplines don't count, Bless has been a lives saver. If they do count, Mantle of Command.
David Bailey
Delayed blast fireball, AKA The Tactical Nuke. Have a familiar or a pet bird fly off with it and drop it behind cover and BOOM dead orcs
Logan Hughes
Chromatic Orb. It's almost impossible to not have it matter at some point in time to avoid resistances or immunities, and it does nice damage for low and mid level characters.
Adam Wilson
Yeah, but our group already has one sorcerer, so I don't want to step on his toes, plus we're only using PHB, so there's only Wild or Draconic.
I'm really liking the idea of buffing my allies and vodooing my enemies.
Cooper Wilson
Currently trying to gain as many forms of power as possible in order to achieve a form of bizarre perfection.
Makes dealing with creature types difficult, I'll say that much.
Jackson Morgan
>playing D&D >one of the characters is playing a bard >has history skill >constantly plans tactics and refers to battles where they used certain maneuvers >this annoys me but I have a list of famous battles for him to draw on and i tell him some (usually passing notes) to keep it true to the setting >one day they are hard pressed to fight some high-level ogres >they use illusory decoys as bait, and the bard says something about how they were used in the battle of Caruso, decoy soldiers made of wicker to draw the enemy into range of the archers >i tell him that battle never happened >he refuses to break character and says to me (the DM) "oh of course it did, back in 1132 B.V., the great battle of Caruso, you can't tell me you don't remeber that?" >I tell him that that battle never happened in this world >he says he's just trying to play his character >I tell him, no, you are trying to fuck up my world by making up battles that don't exist >he tells me I am being a control freak >I tell him he can get the fuck out of my house >dead silence follows, before he packs up his stuff and leaves >awkward quiet follows for the rest of the session, basically ruining it
Why do people have to be such jackasses? I literally broke my back to accomodate his character's personality, I wrote out DOZENS of notecards of famous battles throughout the history of my world for him to refer to. Yet that wasn't enough for him. Players are fucking parasites.
Jaxson Bailey
Dancing lights because my dm treat it like an invulnerable creature that trigger sight base action/reaction for the first creature that knows nothing about it.
Jack Butler
>playing evil character >good character in party finds out my PC's master plan and threatens to out me my character would normally kill anybody who gets in his way but i dont feel like i should just kill other PC's wat do? newer player by the way
Asher Mitchell
They do in fact worship Orcus as their patron deity. Their leader has a custom artifact called The Eye of Orcus, a necklace that continuoulsy rots the land within 30 ft of him and raises any and all corpses within the area of effect as his permanent slaves. Anyone who looks at the eye must roll or be frightened, then if they look while frightened they must roll or be panicked.
Gabriel Wright
A robed guy that makes one big skeleton that he walks around inside like a mech suit.
Adrian Hughes
>Chapter 4 might kill him. that's the fun, isn't it?
Joshua Reed
How much of a stickler do you have to be where you can't deal with a handful of battles that didn't happen a long time ago in a setting?
Matthew Parker
shit bro calm down lol
Brandon Howard
you were in the right until you said ">I tell him he can get the fuck out of my house"
Parker Howard
Faults on you for sperging out. No one cares how well crafted your shitty world is.
Robert Hall
Bugbear Monk. Can it work if I convince my DM to swap the STR and DEX increases?
Will I be punching with the extra reach?
Christian Smith
his only other option would be if you gave him an encyclopedic rundown of every event that has ever taken place in the history of your setting and obviously you faggots werent going to do that so he just had to ad-lib get over yourself
Jose Green
>getting this assblasted over someone being a character to the best of his ability >not having him do that and potentially giving the party a chance to recover relics from said historic battles as a surprise No user, you're the jackass.
Gabriel Cook
Honestly, for something like that, I would have rolled with it. Maybe changed it to some minor, inconsequential/small scale skirmish so your history isn't messed up so bad though. I'd rather have a player that's creative than one who sits down and doesn't take any initiative, but that's just me.
Anthony Powell
You did sperg out pretty badly and kicked what looks like the one player who had an interent for your setting.
You should have made up a battle that did use the tactic and tell him to use that. Maybe a skirmish in the border if your setting can't deal with being played on.
Landon Williams
If you weren't both retards, you would've had him roll deception (or had the other players roll history themselves) and it could've become an interesting development. Could've even created a whole dynamic where the rest of the party isn't sure if he's been bullshitting the whole time and made them question the value of his advice. Might have even caused him to stop doing it in the long run.
Angel Anderson
Fuck you, that's how a character driven game functions. You can't have a real list of events and people, so the player HAS to ad lib their way through things in order for the character to function as a person. The alternative is just constantly asking "do i know about X" every two seconds.
Luis Murphy
Fuck your world and it's history, literally nobody gives a shit
Aaron Rogers
I fucking hope the rest of your group has the sense to drop you like the hot spergtato you are.
Levi Wright
For the Hexblade Warlock, would you as a DM allow a player to refluff the Shadowfell angle?
Christopher Myers
>Would you let a player refluff
In general, yeah. It's rarely harmful.
Luke Hughes
I was about to post mine for a current campaign, but the new player might actually browse Veeky Forums, and I don't want to spoil their fun.
Adam Lee
I only multiclass if something happens in game that justifies it. >playing fighter >save some kind of lesser deity >it wants me to be its head priest >multiclass into cleric
Nolan Cooper
I too would be mad if it influenced my empire a lot, but if it just x tactic used in battle y and has no meaning in z other than bragging in my world where magic are completely countere and dispelle 24/7 in war leaving people to just hack and slash until the enemy is dead. Was it just a battle or was it THE battle?
Justin Nelson
I have to believe posts like this are just completely made up in order to get (you)s
Jayden Nelson
Actually it's Lolth.
Don't read that spoiler if you haven't played past the Stone Library
Caleb Smith
Play red rogue. Thief->necromancer who has a reanimated version of her husband as her companion.
Christopher Martinez
I would like to believe that stories like this are just made up, but past experience tells me otherwise.
Jace Bell
So I'm wondering from a purely RAW perspective if what the Barbarian's doing is allowed.
He's a Goliath Totem Barbarian and took Tiger as his level 3 option, at level 4 he upped his Strength to 18.
While Raging he can jump 10 feet in the air after moving 10 feet. His height is 8 feet and according to the PHB you can reach or lift something an additional distance equal to half your height. So all up after jumping he can reach 22 feet in the air.
Now he's been grappling people and using his Strength to lift them above his head an slam them down for 2d6 damage and only using movement. Is this allowed?
If he can do that, there's nothing stopping him from keeping them grappled after that right? So he can super slam them for 2d6 and knock them prone, without losing the grapple?
Aiden Watson
>I didn't "yes and" or "no but" and for some reason that killed the mood
You're an idiot, user
Joseph Turner
I play a bugbear monk! You don't have to switch because you'll still be useful. Strength makes you a better grappler. Also yes, you do punch at an extra square.
Juan Gutierrez
Looking at an upcoming Dark Sun 5e game, what are some cool tricks for a Minotaur pc from the waterborne UA that ARE NOT polearm+sentinal?
Going Battlemaster. Anything for martials that will tie into their Goring Rush or Hammering Horns abilities? I was thinking about nets, grapples, and the Flail Mastery from the feats ua might be fun for knocking, throwing, and slamming people all over the place.
Alexander Lee
RAW is pretty vague on the matter. Tiger is kind shitty though, let him have his fun.
Nicholas James
Shield Master, Dueling and have a free hand for grappling.
You get advantage on the Shield Master shove which you can use to knock people prone and your 1d10 Horns make you deal more damage then any other Sword and Boarder while still able to grapple. Take the Brawny feat if you want to be the king of grapples and prones.
Lincoln Johnson
If they take damage so does he
Matthew Sullivan
What if he only jumps 9 feet in the air but lifts them 21 feet?
Dylan Ward
>Not making them suplexes or powerbomb
He's doing everything wrong
Jace Diaz
52866135 Not even a followup autismfit? How disappointing.
Brayden Sullivan
>Now he's been grappling people and using his Strength to lift them above his head an slam them down for 2d6 damage and only using movement. Is this allowed?
If anything, that's amazing. You better put him against a Phantom Train.
Owen Phillips
Don't forget that your movement is halved if you try to move someone grappled
Julian Torres
If you don't like it, and you don't want to get into a rules argument with him, throw some enemies at him to counter it. Something with a pushing ability, which will make him drop the grappled target. Something with disarm, if you decide that disarming can make you drop a person you're grappling (only specifies weapons or objects). Something to charm him, totem barbs don't get immune to charm when raging, just berserker I believe. Ranged enemies that take shots at him every time he grabs an enemt, hopefully to draw his ire away from the enemy he's closest to. Flying enemies that go out of his reach. Enemies with reach weapons + PAM feat to keep him at bay. Kamikaze enemies that explode when he suplexes them.
Best part of any of those is that not only will they stop him from doing the tactic that you don't like, they'll also probably push him to think of new tactics to try and he'll appreciate that.
Gabriel Thompson
dont they make opposed athletics/acrobatics checks to end grappling at the beginning of the enemys turn?
Kayden Clark
If a Rogue is stabbed with a poisoned sword, and uses his reaction to halve the damage, is the sword damage AND the poison damage halved? My gut instinct is to say yes.
Connor Gutierrez
WTF you don't deserve your players
Ethan Rivera
Alright, guess I'll let him continue. It's pretty fucking awesome anyway. Can't find anything against RAW with it anyway and doesn't seem to be to unbalancing.
True. Means he can only pull it off once per round which is good.
I'll make sure to add in some stuff he can't use it on. He's a pretty crafty guy so I'm sure he'll think of some new tricks.
Enemy has to use an Action to try and escape.
Joshua Nelson
If he was hit, only the sword damage is halved.
Zachary Barnes
Mechanically it makes sense but real talk you're not dodging poison (actually venom) inside you. It's on you if you let it happen but I wouldn't
Jayden Watson
If the poison sword deals poison damage straight from the hit ("1d6+3 piercing damage and 4d6 poison damage") then yes, they're both halved. If it's beyond a saving throw ("The target must make a DC 15 Constitution save or take 4d6 poison damage") then no, only the piercing damage is halved, as it's not considered damage from the attack proper.
Ayden Bailey
Just says damage. Doesn't specify weapon damage, or spell damage, or anything like that so you should conclude that any damage done with that one particular attack is halved.
Aaron Rogers
For the same reason that you can't crit poison weapon damage?
Evan Young
Yes, that feels exactly right. Thank you.
Grayson Wilson
Lie to his face until you have fullproof blackmail.
Liam Torres
Yep
Luke Butler
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Xavier White
Not that I don't believe you guys, I'm willing to believe you're right, but is it specified anywhere that this is the case? I don't recall ever reading anything about damage from a weapon and poison damage from that same qeapon being considered separate if there's a save involved. Is there a sage advice or something along those lines that confirms this or a rule I've overlooked in one of the books?
Nicholas Phillips
true but the barb has to use an action to engage grapple and its only 2d6 damage so its not op or anything