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  1. MonkeezOnFire

    D&D 5E (2014) 5 Years in: Concentration

    I use concentration by the book and we have gotten quite good at remembering to make saves on damage by marking tokens that are concentrating with Roll20 symbols. I love how the mechanic allows for non-magical characters to disrupt magical effects. In some past editions it really feels like...
  2. MonkeezOnFire

    D&D 5E (2024) What will D&D 6th edition be like?

    I predict that once 5e slows down that the next edition will be able to get a bit more complex in terms of options while streamlining some sticking points of 5e: -More alternate class features like we saw in UA to customize builds -Adopt some form of Pathfinder 2e's 3 action economy where every...
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    D&D 5E (2014) How does [i]animate objects[/i] work?

    Is the plan to use the basic poison from the PHB? That kind of poison only lasts 1 minute once applied and is an action to apply. So by the time poison has been applied to the last dagger the poison on the first dagger has expired. You can of course get others to help you apply poison. But...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Dispelling Permanent spells

    I would rule that once a spell becomes permanent it can no longer be dispelled by Dispel Magic. My thinking here is that once the effects are permanent the spell it becomes more like the magic of a magic weapon. It's an effect created by magic, but magic is no longer needed to sustain it. Of...
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    WotC World Reveal of Baldur’s Gate 3 Gameplay at PAX!

    It seems like its more of a publicity event than just a trailer. If it was just a trailer they could have just released it on Youtube. Instead they're hosting a public event that they want people to attend. And well, if you want people to come to your events you generally have to let them know...
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    D&D General Help with tools for large on-line game

    I currently use Discord and Roll20 to run an online game for 6 players. Discord allows you to set up multiple voice channels on a server which can be useful when someone needs to pull you to the side to talk in private. I've also set up private text channels on our server for each player. You...
  7. MonkeezOnFire

    D&D General Justify A Level 1 Drow On the Surface?

    I'm not super familiar with FR lore (I did read the dark elf trilogy, but that was long ago). As the privileged sex are females given freedom to determine their own fate? If so would it be really out of place to have a female drow leave the underdark to pursue an adventuring life? I get the...
  8. MonkeezOnFire

    D&D 5E (2014) Which way to go with pole arm build?

    If what you care about the most is maximizing polearms I'd lean toward the human fighter to get everything online as fast as possible. The bugbear seems strong, but I think the extra feat from human is better. Extra healing and burst damage from smites on paladin are nothing to sneeze at. But...
  9. MonkeezOnFire

    D&D General Justify A Level 1 Drow On the Surface?

    Just about every campaign I've played in has relaxed the always chaotic evil aspect of the drow. So really a drow on the surface to me has never been any weirder than any other race that's just travelled far away from home.
  10. MonkeezOnFire

    D&D 5E (2014) Divine Soul is Kinda Nasty

    I played with a divine soul sorcerer that I used for a number of one shots over time. I didn't take a ton of cleric spells overall, but I had fun with the ones I did have access to. I mainly focuses on synergies with twin spell: cure wounds (which you get as a bonus), guiding bolt (chromatic orb...
  11. MonkeezOnFire

    D&D 5E (2014) I want to try out a different way of doing racial ability scores in my next campaign, want to poke holes at it?

    In that case I can't think of any edge cases where your setup doesn't allow any stat distributions that would normally be possible. So the only possible thing you'd have to look out for are class and race synergies. Mountain dwarf gets to bring medium armour proficiency to any class without...
  12. MonkeezOnFire

    D&D 5E (2014) I want to try out a different way of doing racial ability scores in my next campaign, want to poke holes at it?

    Ah okay, I misunderstood. I thought the restriction was that if a race with only +1s loses a bonus to a score that the class can't replace the one lost. But it actually means that you can't put an additional +1 into a stat to get a +2. So to clarify a standard human will still only be able to...
  13. MonkeezOnFire

    D&D 5E (2014) I want to try out a different way of doing racial ability scores in my next campaign, want to poke holes at it?

    First, I think your stat generation method will affect things so what are you planning to use? If a race's +2 goes down to +1, is the player allowed to buff that same stat back up to +2 with their class buff? If so why the restriction in point 2 for losing a +1 bonus? Is it a little weird...
  14. MonkeezOnFire

    D&D General Stocking libraries - a brainstorming thread

    Do Modrons Dream of Lawful Sheep? Barry Potter and the Transmuter's Stone
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    D&D 5E (2014) Adopting Baby Monsters (Out of the Abyss)

    That wasn't quite the death of Glabbagool as we did encounter it one more time.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Adopting Baby Monsters (Out of the Abyss)

    When we played Out of the Abyss we had Glabbagool join us for a bit. We it him when we encountered a large canyon with a rope bridge across it. While working out how to get everyone across we asked Glabbagool how it wanted to cross and it responded with just psychically projecting an image of it...
  17. MonkeezOnFire

    Unearthed Arcana WotC Removes Latest Unearthed Arcana

    Don't even get me started on the Medusas! To clarify I'm not saying that the old myths justify a piece of material that makes people uncomfortable. I just wanted to point out that there exists such material that the domain was emulating so saying that it failed to live up to the concept off the...
  18. MonkeezOnFire

    Unearthed Arcana WotC Removes Latest Unearthed Arcana

    I would disagree here. From the perspective of emulating an acolyte of Aphrodite the powers are perfect. In the classic myths Aphrodite uses her powers to make people fall in love for her own personal gain or amusement. Making Helen fall in love with Paris being the most obvious example of this...
  19. MonkeezOnFire

    Unearthed Arcana WotC Removes Latest Unearthed Arcana

    Love being a dedicated buff domain also allows it some breathing room mechanically. We already have the order domain that focuses heavily on enchantment magic.
  20. MonkeezOnFire

    WotC Wizards of the Coast Announces Sci-Fi Video Game with ex-BioWare Developers

    On their website it says they are still hiring. Clearly someone from EN World has to get a job there to leak us info and to influence them so they implement all of our ideas. :p
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