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Stats mean more than just having a -4. They’re supposed to represent something about your character. 10 is supposed to be the average person. To make things more clear, let’s go by this chart, which I have shortened to only the relevant numbers: Strength 2-3 (–4): Needs help to stand, can be...

That’s the point. It makes the “long rest resources” mean more, so they don’t get used every. Single. Fight. And it affects Barbarians more, but Fighters and Rogues get the vast majority of they abilities as at will abilities. Fighters get a long rest heal, and a long rest action surge, but...

You know, if Envisioner wanted to depower the dominance of spells, without nerfing the spells themselves, we could always play with the optional Gritty Realism rules for resting. That makes a short rest into 8 hours and a long rest into 7 days. One short rest a day, and we can only long rest...

That’s fair. I’m just trying to decide if I want to play this character or one that will have less dependence on magic.

In that scenario, it would depend on what level we are. If we’re lvl 9, he’d be a Killer Whale and in the water already. Killer whales have blindsight out to 120 ft. But if we’re lvl 8, like you said, then to start, he’d use a 3rd lvl spell slot on Conjure Animal to summon 4 reef sharks, then...

The following is for DND 5e, but other games that use such stats could be included. If you were allowed to take an 18 on any stat you wanted, at lvl 1, but had to take a 3 in another stat to compensate, which ability scores would you raise, and which would you dump? And what would that look...

Teiflings have no sub races until Mordenkeinan's Tome of Foes came out. Now they have sub races. Although, "Of Asmodeus" is actually the vanilla Teifling, so it's actually fine.

Rule 0 - the DM is god. A wizard gets to get away where a rogue can't because magic. They can literally turn invisible or fly. A team of wizards who are prepared enough can take on literally anything, because magic. A wizard can be made to mimic any other class, because magic. If you...

Right. It's still in the same vein.

We have a lot of "Monster killed a whole village" motifs going on, I wonder if we can combine them a bit? Also @mips42, you'e backstory is a lot like Keth's, with the whole "became a bounty hunter and is therefore known and tolerated" thing. Any chance they've worked together?

Oh, and regarding the rolls, how about this. My first roll was the equivalent of a 16 point buy, so that sucked pretty bad. My second rolls are equivalent to a point buy of 55. That's pretty intense when the standard is 27. Robyn Two-Penny, our cleric, has the equivalent of a 48 point buy...

He's not wrong. Any wizard of 6th level would have access to that spell as a matter of course. I also worry about you saying you don't approve of tactical complexities in spells because you think being able to create difficult terrain will somehow outshine the uses of the other spells. If...

The Emerald Enclave is, at its heart, a general purpose druid alliance, though they also include Barbarians, rangers, and anyone who respects nature and wants to protect the balance in the natural order against those who threaten it. But that's just it. Keth is a Predator. He doesn't care so...

I can make whatever changes are necessary to the backstory, especially if we wind up doing a homebrew. I definitely planned on playing him more Lawful than Chaotic, and in no way Evil. But when i was writing all that, I decided I wanted to go more Orc background than human, as that would be more...

I've been reimagining my original four Genasi. All four could be one kind of Druid or another, as Druids do have a lot of Elemental abilities, but I thought I'd try to make them using other classes. Terrus was always more of a Fighter. He would probably be a Rune Knight Fighter. They can...

Titus shrugged off the sleepy effects of the spell, then smiled at Dandin. "You know, if you could use that spell to help me get to sleep at night, that would be great." Looking around to make sure there were no other enemies around, Titus knelt down and began to tie up the Orc asleep at his feet.

Oh, I would expect nothing else. It would have been a stretch, in any case. I’m just looking at the backstories and seeing lots of similarities that could be used to tie them together.

Also, if we wind up in the Homebrew world, then I can change what needs to be changed. I just like the Orc lore in Volo’s Guide. I like leaving some mystery to the DM, so things like whether his power actually comes from Gruumsh, or comes from his mother, whom he doesn’t know. Anything from...

I made him an Eye of Gruumsh, because of his high stats (When I rolled the second time). So he only has one eye. Jeremy Crawford said he wouldn't impose any penalties if the character was used to mono vision, which he would be, but we can talk about that if you want. Also, I'm flipping...

I'm going to go with a Half-Orc Druid. But I'm not going the usual "Tree hugging, civilization hating, nature must be balanced" kind of druid. He's using the "Circle of the Moon" as his class, but he wouldn't call himself a Druid. He would call himself a Predator. He lives by the code of the...