D&D 5E Hex Shenanigans

Dausuul · May 8, 2020

Fanaelialae said:
I've been talking about doing this as a routine. Every morning whether you think you might need to or not.

Then why are you talking about this? As far as I can tell, you are the only one who is. Everyone else is assuming an adventuring scenario.

I mean, there is all kinds of stuff PCs do on adventures that should raise eyebrows if they claim to be doing it 24/7. If a player declares that their PC checks for traps every time they open a door in their own house, that's pretty wacky behavior. But what relevance does it have to a general discussion of checking for traps in D&D?

jasper · May 8, 2020

I know of one warlock which carries around alot of chickens

Fanaelialae · May 8, 2020

Dausuul said:
Then why are you talking about this? As far as I can tell, you are the only one who is. Everyone else is assuming an adventuring scenario.

I mean, there is all kinds of stuff PCs do on adventures that should raise eyebrows if they claim to be doing it 24/7. If a player declares that their PC checks for traps every time they open a door in their own house, that's pretty wacky behavior. But what relevance does it have to a general discussion of checking for traps in D&D?

For a while jaelis was asking questions about it, so I was responding. Others began responding to my responses and I responded to them as well.

Additionally, there are plenty of things that fall under adventures that aren't immediately dangerous. If the players travel to a distant land over the course of several weeks, and a few things happen along the way, that's an adventure (or at least part of one). But I don't think that the warlock should be doing the hex chicken every day.

If someone stated that this was only as needed (for dangerous situations) rather than every day, I must have missed it.

jmartkdr2 · May 8, 2020

Fanaelialae said:
If someone stated that this was only as needed (for dangerous situations) rather than every day, I must have missed it.

I don't remember anyone specifying either way, which probably added 10-15 posts to this thread.

Fanaelialae · May 8, 2020

jmartkdr2 said:
I don't remember anyone specifying either way, which probably added 10-15 posts to this thread.

I feel like I was fairly explicit in at least several of my posts, given that my primary complaint was questioning why a warlock would follow this routine every day for such a minimal benefit. If people didn't read it or simply assumed I meant "every day when there is danger" I can't really help that. I literally put "every day" in italics in at least two of my posts (three counting this one).

Fenris-77 · May 8, 2020

So this is where we're at here then eh? Everyday bag of chickens versus Break-sack-in-case-of-emergency chickens? Alright gentlemen, carry on.

jaelis · May 8, 2020

Dang, this is almost something useful you could do with the feign death spell. If you could just get the duration up to 24 hours somehow, you could use it to put the chickens in suspended animation.

Fenris-77 · May 9, 2020

If I was a mage in that party I'd be casting Feign Death on those chickens whenever the Warlock wasn't looking. Or casting Grease on the whole contents and watch him try to juggle a greased chicken like a wet bar of soap in a prison shower.

Cap'n Kobold · May 9, 2020

jaelis said:
I don't understand why this would be silly in the context of your world. If its uncontroversial that a warlock can hex a chicken, and that any warlock can renew their arcane power whenever they sit and chill for an hour, then why wouldn't every warlock just do that? What is disruptive or immersion-breaking about it?

If its uncontroversial that a fighter can make an attempt to strike any creature not taking precautions as it moves close to you, and that when this fighter kills a creature it can continue the swing to hit another creature, then why wouldn't the fighter begin every fight by dumping a bag of rats over their opponent?
What is disruptive or immersion-breaking about it?

Fenris-77 · May 9, 2020

The dreaded Hex Chicken, Sword of the Raven Queen and Defender of Shadow

D&D 5E Hex Shenanigans

Dausuul

Legend

jasper

Rotten DM

Fanaelialae

Legend

jmartkdr2

Hero

Fanaelialae

Legend

Fenris-77

Small God of the Dozens

jaelis

Oh this is where the title goes?

Fenris-77

Small God of the Dozens

Cap'n Kobold

Hero

Fenris-77

Small God of the Dozens

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