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A +1 Dagger with the ability to explode with radiant energy. Deals 1d4 damage and you may expend a charge to, after hitting, choose to do an additional 2d8 radiant damage (plus 1d8 if target is undead) has 5 charges, expend 2 charges to deal 3d8 radiant, 3 charges for 4d8, 4charges for 5d8, 5 charges for 6d8. Regains 1d4+1 charges at dawn. The Dagger is volatile, when the last charge is used roll a d20, on a 1 the dagger explodes in a flash of radiant light dealing x amount of damage in a 10 foot radius and is destroyed.

What do you think Veeky Forums?

giant bats or cultist-riding dinosaurs with sick ass death whistles that cause fear when they hear it

>Tell me about the times you and your party were heros.
Once, we threatened to blow up the BBEG, the building he was in, and ourselves if he didn't stop his monologue. He decided his stuff was more important than his speech.

I specifically said I was using spiders.

the question still stands, how come you are not using a horde of cats?

Posting my story about the Trial of Coins and Dinner for the user from last thread.
>party gets sent to go check on one of the archmages of a magical organization
>enter his tower and are immediately greeted by a hunch-backed greasy old man
>he declares that the party must undergo three separate trials before he'll allow them to stay for tea
>party agrees because 6th level and the party's wizard is hoping to learn some spells
>first trial is the Trial of Coins; archmage declares that the party must collect his babies
>proceeds to whistle and ~1,000 silver coins drop from the ceiling into the room; archmage teleports away
>have party roll DEX checks to catch the silver coins as they bounce around the room crying like babies
>every now and then, have them roll a d100, on a d100 the coins let out a SCREAM and deals sonic damage
>after ~400 coins have been captured, the rest combine into eight silver mephits that can misty step at-will
>eventually, party takes down the mephits and collects the coins
>next trial is the Trial of Taxidermy
>party fights reanimated taxidermied creates; 6 wolves, 2 displacer beasts and a gorilla
>final trial is the Trial of Dinner
>archmage teleports them to his kitchen and tells them to make him a mushroom, egg and strawberry frittata
>paladin goes to make her Cooks' Utensils roll and I hold a hand and slowly place tiny cutlery and pots all over the map
>archmage steals all their equipment, except clothes, and teleports away
>party spends fives minutes chasing after cooking utensils and ingredients
>as they're starting to cook the frittata, the frying pan the paladin is using misty steps
>more hilarity ensues as all the other utensils misty step as well
>~7/8 STR/DEX checks and eight cooking checks later and the frittata is finally ready
>archmage thanks them for dinner and a show and teleports them back to his doorstep
>wizard has a frozen stick of butter in his hand; written into the butter is the Dispel Magic spell
>party has their stuff

So how do people feel about reflavoring some classes? Nothing big, but like saying a Hexblade can have someone besides the Raven Queen as their patron.

rules are just a suggestion, do what ever you want
personally i really couldnt care

The Raven Queen is not the sole patron of the hexblade, though it seems to be the one the writers are wink wink nudge nudging the players towards.

You mean like how it was originally? It's better than edgebitch.

I would love if the pther players I'm playing with did it.

My party is currently at level 9, and as part of a big quest, they were part of a large battle that saw the death of an ancient red dragon. They managed to secure the head, meaning they looted a dragon skull, all of its teeth, good amounts of meat, two eyes, a tongue, and most importantly, a buncha scales. Obviously, they want to make armor/reinforce armor with ancient red dragon scales.

Does anyone have any suggestions for effects Dragon parts could have on armor besides + to AC and fire resistance? They afterwards went into the Dwarven Kingdoms, so they'll be able to find experiences smiths. Nothing is particularly out of the question conceptually, though they may be priced out of quite a few options which just leads to opportunities for them to find other ways to pay.

It's a trait due to their fey ancestry, so it stands to reason they inherit those resistances. If it's inherited, that means fey creatures have those same resistances.

A friend is starting a campaign in this. I want a character with abilities that are useful in a wide variety of situations. What classes fit that this time? Druid?

Maybe a helmet with an Advantage to intimidate. Otherwise the AC and fire resistance make the most sense.

Because this isn't dwarf fortress and the fortress isn't over ran with cats.

Those two will definitely be options, but I'm looking for more ideas like the Helmet, other pieces of armor or even weapon ideas are welcome. Just drawing a bit of a blank here despite coming up with other custom magical items.

for reagents this is what i can think of
>tongue can be used for fire breathing and speaking draconic
>wings can be used to create draconic wings to fly
>eyes can be used to imbue yourself with draconic abilities

Looking for ideas to lead into my academic researcher finding themselves as a prisoner of the drow for our OotA campaign.

Delving into the Underdark to get rare components or ingredients feels a little weak.

I'm tired and slightly drunk, so I apologise. Hard to keep track of what I have or haven't used.

You were attempting to study and document Purple Worm mating habits as nobody in the world has ever managed to do so and it would immediately make yourself a name in the academic world.

Not bad, could work well with the right player seems like almost an mid/late game item

My creation

Here & There
Twin daggers
One glows blue the other orange
As a bonus action you may focus on the blue dagger and teleport to the orange dagger. (Only the person using it)
When you do you will teleport to an unoccupied space 5ft from the dagger and holding it.
Charge # depends on when I give it to the party, and recharges after long rest
early 1-2
mid 3-5
late unlimited
Thoughts?

Current party:
Tiefling paladin, human melee ranger, human wizard, human bard, gnome gunsmith artificer, and human old one warlock.

We just very literally immolated a troll.
...and a small cache of scrolls it had. Whoops.

When do you decide to use charges, before or after you roll to hit? If a rogue gets that sees a crit they will nuke a boss hard

>mfw Guiding Bolt crits
Is there a better feeling than fucking erasing something with holy light?

Crit smiting the BBEG into dust.

are you the new shadposter?

>Implying it isn't the same person
He has simply evolved

or this art

Maybe a necklace that grants some of the blindsight or darkvision the dragon had. Could have boots using the claws give a climb speed.

Knights are boring as fuck

What would be better to run for a group of 3 people, 2 of which played only a murderhobos "campaign" aka: 6 session of random fights in pathfinder? Tomb of annihilation, or Red Hand of Doom?
And, in case someone played both, which one did you like the most?

Going supernova isn't a new idea, but here's my attempt at it.
Feedback on this would be much appreciated.

anyone else read goblins

Anyone else wanna do all monsters?

How do I make an encounter with a young red dragon interesting? I feel like she's just going to get fucked by action economy without legendary actions. Party is level 7, Druid, Paladin, Ranger, Rogue, Warlock, with a Couatl NPC.

Minions, environmental dangers, modifying the dragon.

Help me homebrew a magical item for a hexblade. Preferably a magic glaive, but a trinket or some such will do. I was thinking of making a reapers scythe with necrotic damage and a bonus when you get a killing blow, also an eldritch fire glaive. Trinkets that buff the casting would be nice too. The rest of the party got legendary items but they weren't in that campaign, and so are gonna be behind in power level.

death house in CoS, we ran into the shambling mound. I made a heroic sacrifice to save our half-orc warlock (who by the way, had been "that guy" for the whole adventure thus far)

>brown jester

Remember that dragons are significantly smarter than the average person, even young ones. That means they're smart enough to stay in the air and do sweeps over the party with their breath weapon or even run away if things look bad and show up down the road with friends.

Abyssal Edge
Glaive
+1d8 necrotic damage

As a bonus action, expend a charge to send a wave of necrotic energy out in a 15ft cone. Targets must make a DC16-18 CON save or take 4d6 necrotic damage, half as much on a successful save.

On a killing blow, generates a charge. Charges cap at 3 total. Additionally, each charge grants the glaive a +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls.

>she's just going to get fucked
Yeah she is

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Good stuff, and it's inspiring me to think of more. Thanks.

Just got a new sorcerer, so excellent.

>Paladins, the return of justice
>takes an arbitrary oath
>enforcing it gives you powers
>enforcing it is justice
The paladin system is really screwed up. You can literally think yourself into superpowers.

How do I do a maximum DPR Hexblade Warlock?

And how much of that melee DPR do I need to sacrifice to also do decent Eldritch Blasts on range if need be?

half-elf. get elven accuracy. grab GWM and knock enemies prone with eldritch smite then use your second attack to follow up with double advantage.

>You can literally think yourself into superpowers.
It's a magic promise, user. You have to be genuine and sincere and firm in your convictions.

are you fucking stupid?

unless you chain the dragon to the floor it should be nearly impossible to beat one.

None really, I find I can do more damage with PAM than agonizing blasts but I keep the invocation for the utility of easy d10+5 ranged damage.

>6 people vs one young dragon
>most of them have some sort of ranged attack

Cover + hit & run tactic. Change it to Blue if you want more challenge.

Does anyone happen to have the magic item certificates for The Yawning Portal or just The Sunless Citadel? My PDF doesn't seem to have them.

How can I play jolly sunlight man of co-op lightning strikes?

Critical role isn't mandatory, it's not even recommended. FFS.

fuck you, it's shit, your "revamps" on this have been shit and your idea is shit. This kind of stuff is desihgned specifically for a single subcvlass in mind, so fuck you for wanting to give it to everyone.

you wan't actual feedback for a change? Howabout just going fucking supernova and don't give a fuck about your character after it turns into dust, just make a fuckign new one. Those fucking bonuses are just too fucking OP. It seems to me that you might actually be retarded.

Doesn't need to be kauw kauw witch. Why are people so hung up on this?

what the fuck is double advantage

Bump plz?

advantage2

Your face is boring.

The Hexblade fluff, more than any other fluff for the Warlock, pins the powers of the archetype on the Raven Queen.

GOO is generic otherworldly, Devil could be any of the Infernals, same with Divine (doesn’t even have to be a deity) and Fey can be anything from a Dryad to the Wild Hunt.

But Hexblade? That’s Raven Queen, baby.

I’m sure your rendition of Quippy Archer is quite ravishing.

>Harpers
>Lord's Alliance
>Emerald Enclave
>Zhentarim
>Order of the Gauntlet

If you were to introduce a new faction, what would it be? What would their goals and motivations be?

There isn't really a niche that needs to be filled.There would be a degree of overlap with any new faction.

>The finaly session of the first act of the campaign is today
>Half the game has been building up to this dungeon
>It's just a few encounters with the enemies the party have already fought, and a demon delivering exposition to them.

FUCK

Definitely, I’m not fond of the Raven Queen so her patronage from the UA is shifted to being a pact with either of the death gods in my setting. One gives you a miniature black swan spirit, the other a vulture.

The Clippers, who are dry corporate suits out to defeat the Harpers with triplicate.

Kill a player.

Wow. Sounds like a great time, user! Was the party frustrated to get only a single spell for all that trouble?

>Just started DM'ing a campaign, everyone fairly new to DnD
>First session, friend tells me he wants to play something small
>Tell him Kenku is the best I can offer
>Rolls up his stats
>Has higher Charisma than the Tiefling Bard
>Has low as fuck Dexterity
>Picks Rogue
>Later find out that Kenku is working together with Goliath to swallow people whole
>Let it pass, I just want them to have fun
>Mfw a fucking Kenku rogue swallows a full-size Grizzly bear
He has dubbed himself Nikolai the Thick.
It's an interesting campaign so far.

WHAT DID YOU EXPECT?!

Forgot to add image

He's a Kenku, he can't dub himself anything

That didn't stop him

Knights if the black Rose. They are obsessed with bringing order to the nation at the mere cost of using the bodies of the death to add more to their ranks.this gives them supernatural powers since most of their ranks are undead.

Reposting for feedback

>This ring is set with a jet black stone carved to resemble a spider with a skull drawn into its lower abdomen. If you press the spider fangs into your finger, it drains some of your life force and shoots a dark thread into the earth, reanimating the nearest corpse. The target can be affected through up to 20 feet of soft earth or similar material, and if it is, it takes 1 minute to claw its way to the surface to serve you.

>Depending on how much life force you let it drain, the ring creates different kinds of undead: ghoul (7 HP), ghast (11 HP) or wight (15 HP). Your hit point maximum is reduced by the amount indicated. This reduction lasts until the creature is destroyed, which you can do as an action. You can control up to 3 creatures with this ring.

Does this item seem good? And more importantly, would you use it?

Guess who should have stopped him then

Well you can if you manage to find your balls sometimes soon. He can't have an original thought, period, have him role play that or send an Inevitable after him.

>He can't have an original thought, period,
He can't vocalize an original thought

Fuck off, Mearls

I went back and reread, you are correct my bad.

People usually value their game being good over shilling WotC canon.

"the spark of creativity was torn from their souls" probably goes beyond just not being able to vocalize an original thought

Obviously that user doesn't find it good because he came here to cry about it.

Oh, no. You misunderstand. I find it funny as fuck.

I guess if you want to be super pedantic, but this seems like it would be almost impossible to roleplay.

Somehow, it seems I've caused you great distress. How have I wronged you?

By all means, I'd appreciate some actually constructive feedback on how to improve it.
Beyond just cursing me out, what would you advise I specifically remove, add or modify?
Perhaps I'll never use it, but the exercise of creating something and getting constructive feedback is valuable, no?

>impossible to roleplay
It is, it's a race created to be the perfect minion for fuck sake, not to go on adventure

Tell that to Volo

How far does the "spark of creativity" extend?
Can a Kenku even communicate at all? Isn't translating thought to something communicable technically being creative?
They probably can't use improvised weapons, since that would require creativity to make the improvisation.
Effectively Kenkus seem to be catatonic or am I missing something?