I basically get all my powers through the might of unbridled nepotism
Gavin Perez
Why do people consider Arcane Trickster subpar?
Daniel Cooper
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Brandon Lopez
Other than Unearthed Arcana, what other official WotC material can I use?
Parker Thompson
Is the far right wearing that virgin-killer sweater?
Anthony Thompson
>clerics, how is your relationship with your patron? Last time I suggested that I could play a Cleric as a sort of mercenary, who does work for a god in exchange for divine power with both deity and cleric considering that to be a fair deal, I got told to just play a Warlock.
I've never played a Cleric. I like the mechanics, but I don't like the flavour. I can't imagine worshipping someone, and I don't like the idea that all my decisions are made by a powerful NPC the GM controls. It'd be like making a character to be Elminister's whipping boy.
Aaron Flores
Reposting from Old thread:
So I had an idea for some 5e homebrew as a person who's played 5th edition so much and is getting tired of the standard classes. In 3.5e it felt like there was so much customization that no 2 characters were really the same. Backgrounds/Race/Class/Archetypes add a lot of potential variation but the problem is that backgrounds and race are chosen at 1st level and archetypes are chosen at 3rd level and for the rest of the game you're just along for the ride with no customization to speak of besides feats. Which brings me to my second point: Feats suck. What if characters could select other classes class features instead of feats whenever they got an ability score improvement. Prerequisites would include the level of the class feature and the multiclass requirement for the class they're borrowing from.
Would you play in a game that adopted this homebrew? What are the positives and negatives of taking class features as feats in relation of balance and customization?
Luke Williams
What are the best gishes for being in the thick of it? Besides paladin and ek
Easton Jones
That's a nice sweater, but why is she wearing it backwards?
Hudson Bennett
Valor Bard
Adam Hughes
Battlemaster Fighter.
Colton Fisher
Stone sorc
Grayson Brown
Bladelock Stone Sorc
Ian Walker
Yeah, I'd give it a shot. Lots of min maxing potential though.
Christian Gray
Stone sorcerer can't be stressed enough here
Joshua Foster
Are Bladelocks actually good? Don't think the DAM is allowing UA.
Thomas Jackson
Would you guys MC or just go all levels of bard/lock?
Tyler Harris
bladesinger hexblade bladelock is pretty good
Christopher Mitchell
A lot of their bonuses aren't useful for high magic/fantasy campaigns. They really only shine in urban campaigns
Adam Moore
>I basically get all my powers through the might of unbridled nepotism
So... you're a Democrat?
Aiden Hill
>Bard/Lock >quotes posts about Bard and Fighter
Elijah Evans
If i could use UA i was already set on hexblade, or stone sorcerer. I've heard mixed things about regular bladelocks
Jackson Lewis
Whoops, I'm retarded.
Jackson Rodriguez
Regular bladelocks are good for multiclassing into paladin, but otherwise you're better off spamming eldritch meme as a warlock.
Blake James
regular bladelock suck for anything not multiclass, tell your DM to allow the fucking bladelock UA because it makes them usable Nothing in it's OP if I remember right, it's just flat "GOOD" also if you go bladelock, still grab Eldritch Blast so you can have a reliable long range option
Landon Baker
Well, I am self righteous whitey with a savior complex, obscenely privilege, out of touch and drop explosives at hairs trigger, so yeah...
Ayden Reyes
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Luis Price
he has sold it like 3 times
Adam Green
>Sell soul 3 times >Character dies >Battle between a GOO, a Fiend, and an Archfey while the normal citizens are stuck in the middle Could be a fun plot idea
Sebastian Richardson
On the other hand, I'm also a white evangelical arms nut who wants to make the forgotten realms great again
Jason Morgan
>party tracks a group of smugglers to the docks at night >they're loading some dangerous goods onto a boat that the party has been hired to stop >group gets into position to jump them >paladin whips out his gun and fires on a smuggler >Are you sure you want to do that? >yeah, it's loud, but they're all going to swarm us anyway >It's murder, is what I was getting at. >we kill bandits all the time >Most of these smugglers don't even have weapons. >they're breaking the law >So is vigilante murder. There is a town guard. It's possible they would investigate gunfire in the dead of night. >we'll be fine So the Paladin's in jail now for shooting several guys dead over their illegal movement of crates, then scuffling with the town guard who came to check it out. Codes were a mistake.
Connor Smith
>bad playing of codes was a mistake
Hudson Taylor
So what's the deal with Warlocks this edition? Are they supposed to be casters or martials who can cast spells? I'm asking because I want to make one but I 'm not sure if it's worth it especially since at max level they can only cast 4 spells before needing to take a short rest.
Colton Rogers
• Put it in your sleeve and shake someone's hand. Oh my, you pulled my hand off! The ol' fake hand gag! • When you need to flip the bird three times simultaneously. • To complete your Addams Family cosplay. • Getting at those hard-to-reach itches on your back. • Masturbation. It's "The Stranger."
Robert Rodriguez
Archery Rangers whose bow and arrows have been replaced with a purple beam. They have limited spellcasting and do some utility shit to get around and sniff stuff out, but their primary purpose is to deal ranged damage.
Juan Wilson
Wait till you find out who the president is my man
Nolan Martin
Hence the Eldritch blast spam meme. Use 4 spells and then you're stuck shooting lasers, unless you're gishing. I play them as a full caster, using my spell slots for utility (or for specific damage aapplication like aoe) and shooting lasers otherwise.
Adam Wright
You're thinking of John Constantine.
Eli Wright
Why does everyone say Warlock magic is purple
Landon Foster
They're casters who get shortness of breath after being awoke for 60 seconds straight. In fact, best make your warlock narcoleptic.
Easton Young
Wanna spam a cantrip that can 1d10+1d6+5 force damage 4 times while pushing all hit targets 10 feet away? Want to do anything else? A different class is probably better at it.
Matthew Parker
Dangerous Habits was a fantastic Hellblazer arc
Liam Rodriguez
The "dark magic" archetype using purple. Personally I'd change the lasers color based on the patron, or just white
Jaxon Ramirez
Because that's the color of eldritch juice.
Josiah Morris
Cause purple is the pimpest color and Warlocks are pimp as fuck, nigga.
Caleb Watson
>Take the haunted one background because it seems like it would be fun to have something slowly making my character go mad unless I find a way to get rid of it >Tell the DM this >DM makes it so it's a 1/2 challenge shadow that we kill in the first session o-oh
Hudson Reyes
Other products put out by WoTC?
The free elemental evils PDF filled with races and spells. Sword Coast Adventurers Guide The various player's options in each of the hard cover adventures? Content hidden in various Adventurers League PDFs which you could buy off the DMs Guild? The Plane Shift PDF articles that WoTC's MtG team put out to cross the streams with D&D filled with races, subsystems, backgrounds, and subclass options?
And third party there is a robust selection of independently produced content on the DMs Guild online marketplace.
Lincoln Diaz
Gotta roleplay the madness yourself, making sure that you tell your DM if you're thinking that your character will lash out at other PCs
Ethan Collins
no, Dr Strange has sold his soul on multiple occasions, not just good ol' Conjob
Carson Thompson
you know what you got to do.
Dial the paranoia up to 11. The shadow was actually your last anchor to sanity
Austin Turner
My warlock barrister wore purple courtiers clothes, for he presented himself as a man or note and a person of means.
Shit is pimp.
Easton Brown
Why do bows scale with dex and not strength?
Benjamin Scott
Sounds like a white Obama.
Lefties really can't meme.
I wonder how long it took Trump to clean the smell of fried chicken, crack cocaine, and nigger shit out of the White House carpet.
Lincoln Ward
Accuracy
Alexander Parker
DEX measures hand-eye coordination and accuracy. Realistically maybe STR would allow you to use more powerful bows or something, but D&D is not a game for fiddly realism and 5e least of all.
Camden Turner
To facilitate dedicated ranged characters as something useful in every fight, not just when you can cheese and kite things around. Also, because Dex wasn't good enough yet. FUCKERS.
Make it scale off Strength if you want. Doesn't break anything. Dex characters have access to a 1d8 one-hander so whatever.
Lincoln Wood
Scan of this when?
Isaiah Thompson
You're trying too hard
Landon Long
>Dangerous Habit OG Hellblazer was the fucking bomb.
Henry Nguyen
>gencon weekend but none of us could make time/buy tickets >at least our weekly session is still on >DM group texts everyone saying he won a single four-day pass and is going to be in indy all weekend
>tfw no game and no convention
Brayden Clark
He bought if off ebay and doesn't want to admit he paid quadruple the normal price.
Ryan Davis
How can i make a Witcher type character without using Homebrew or UA?
Noah Harris
>cunning action dash >have 80 feet of movement >rapier attack >have another 50 feet of movement to get out of enemy movement range or take cover So is this feat standard for all rogues?
It's standard on anyone who wants to be a cheeky git instead of a GWM/PAM cookiecutter.
Colton Hughes
even the regular tickets were quadruple the normal price, they're milking the fuck out of the 50th anniversary
Cameron Myers
>engaging an anonymous keyboard warrior instead of ignoring and reporting
Jacob Bennett
Firstly, anything based on being a non-caster that benefits from a very select amount of casting is going to be tricky to get full value from, especially in the sort of naive white room analysis that corrupts internet message boards. In game terms, it suffers from a high skill floor but compensates with a high skill ceiling and has only situational usefulness.
Secondly, all Rogues are heavily, heavily DM-dependent. With few exceptions you're exactly as good as the DM thinks you should be at the time which further frustrates discussing the class in anything resembling a fair matter.
Kayden Adams
Pick champion fighter and kill monsters for gold.
Michael Moore
Swashbuckler, Some background with the alchemist option, alchemy kit, and a drinking problem. Alternatively maybe ranger.
Luis Peterson
Attack of Opportunity bro. Safer to shoot off double crossbows from a distance
Connor Smith
>When you make a melee attack against a creature, you don't provoke opportunity attacks from that creature >whether you hit or not sounds plenty safe to me, even something that a range character would like so they can get out of dodge while attacking
Ian Harris
Sorry I meant from other creatures potentially, though with enough movement you could approach from proper angles to avoid that
William Reed
Eldritch knight with a greatsword. For the generic Geralt meme.
Easton Cook
They're full casters, but they use the same resource spending rhythm as martials. If "cantrip-based Battle Master" is what you're after then they're absolutely perfect and they make an excellent dip for a multi-class character. If it's not feeling suspiciously martial-y you're doing it wrong.
Lucas Thomas
Current game: >takes place in Faerun, in the walled city of whatever >party is hodgepodge mess >lizardfolk fighter who was taken from his far away homeland as a slave alongside his mate, fighting to save her and return home >kenku bard on a quest to discover the cure to his people's curse and return their creativity >drow cleric trying to find a place to settle her people in the above world >GM starts us off in three separate places Will it work out?
Christian Russell
Standard for anyone who's keen on melee, but doesn't have the health or armor to stay in reach and take a beating.
Bentley Foster
jesus, why am I seeing this every other 3 threads?
Michael King
/v/ players with shitty taste in vidya
Matthew Green
>GM starts us off in three separate places He better have a really good plan for putting you all together. also the drow is retarded, have they heard of the SUN
Austin Peterson
'Force' used to be the damage type associated with amethyst and purple dragons and it backwashed.
Josiah Diaz
Lots of people like Witchers
Isaac Powell
Made a Sorlock originally for spell point cheese but went for backstory and "flavor". He's a shadow sorcerer/he blade warlock. I took the Gourmand feat so I could support the team and for backstory. His patron is a blade is called Flayvar (pronounced like flavor) and it only chooses people who want to cook what they kill. His pactblade is a greatsword/meat cleaver and he uses the UA invocation so he attacks/damages with charisma when using the blade. The joke is that the patron is playing a Highlander game with other patrons mixed with food wars. He talks/acts like Guy Fieri mixed with Ainsley Harriot and my character seems to be currying his favor. Sooner or later I'll have to fight the other bladelocks he partnered with in his own pocket dimension "Flayvar Town".
Brandon Murphy
>have they heard of the SUN Maybe the drow likes the pain? Wouldn't be far-fetched.
Chase Campbell
This may happen in other systems but 5e has tight enough mechanics so that even unoptimized and optimized characters are on relatively even footing.
Levi Bennett
That's fucking retarded, but I love it.
David Green
The problem isn't that Arcane Trickster is subpar. The problem is that Rogue/Wizard is simply better. Most of the power of the Rogue archetype is baked into the core class and most of the archetypes fluctuate around the same level with Swashbuckler being the best mechanically (Thief is better at high levels, but almost no one plays high level campaigns).
Familiar + Help pretty much gives you the benefit of Rakish Audacity (without the Initiative bonus), if you really want Panache you can just take the Friends cantrip.
So really you're losing out on Fancy Footwork, which is good, but not amazing since dual wielding is bad in general.
Benjamin Morales
That's why she's searching: to find a place free from the tyranny of the sun. Or whatever. The alignments are CN all around but nobody's been a murderhobo yet. The lizard guy is just willing to do whatever it takes to save his wife even if bystanders get hurt, the kenku is CN because most of his people are and his motivation is inherently selfish with a mask of altruism, and the draw truly cares about her people, even the cruel and vicious ones.
>Playing rogue has that +7 investigation and sleight of hand at level 1 >Use investigation to find loot and sleight of hand to pocket it for myself
Isaiah Bennett
>stuck with DMing 5e so I can't play a swashbuckler
I just want high seas adventure but I have no time to play a 4e campaign, dm a 5e campaign, and join a 5e game. At least my 4e dm has talked about possibly switching to 5e once this campaign is over which I also don't want to happen because I want to play an Eladrin knight/swordmage multiclass
Andrew Morales
>playing a Monk >Got boots of striding and springing >just got a Belt of Hill Giant Strength
What kinds of silly shit can I do with my newfound near-50 foot vertical jump?
>Grapple enemy >Jump 50 feet straight up >Pile drive them for 5d6 damage (without using the attack action
Also would you say Tavern Brawler and Brawny are worthwhile so I can Donkey Kong enemies with barrels and boulders and shit?
Hudson Nelson
Are there any notable benefits or downsides to playing a DEX paladin over STR or is it just another flavor?
Mason Mitchell
hey so how big of a faux pas is it to entirely prefer published campaigns over homebrew?
Leo Butler
>be in an urban campaign >get into a fight with some gang >grab one, jump 50 feet >place them on the top of a building >repeat so your party has to fight as few enemies as possible
Christopher Richardson
>Roll 3 1s in a row in combat. >Joke about going home if I get a fourth 1 in a row. >I get a 2 instead. My paladins god has clearly forsaken him.
Cameron Clark
DEX paladin=tank paladin. Rapier and shield+shield master and Defensive Duelist make you rather hard to hit.
STR paladin is "shit out damage" paladin with GWM+PAM memes.
Which one is better will likely depend on party layout.
Chase Campbell
If you follow the multi class rules then you'll be unable to multi class until your strength is 13.