Search results

Another small feature but critically important for me in roll20 - DM controlled music and sound effects from sound cloud. Having battle music and/or suspenseful music while heading through a dungeon etc adds a lot of immersion.

Out of those, only the Paladin is stronger than the Fighter. Out of all those classes, The Rogue is probably the one that needs help. It becomes very disappointing later on. I don't think people realise that Rogues skills become redundant as you get higher levels, as you only really need...

Does fantasy grounds have dynamic lightning yet? Because that's probably the best roll20 feature. If FG had dynamic lighting Id consider switching.

Ive played a dex based EK Fighter that was the party scout and trap monkey. They can do things out of combat fine, the champion also does get to add half their proficiency bonus to all str/dex/con checks, making them reasonably good at anything physical out of combat. When it comes to combat...

More monsters manuals, NPC codex, and potentially equipment books but not magic items, rather flesh out stuff like more armors, weapons, siege weapons, and items from other historical periods.

I remember way back in the third edition days, they ran arena competitions on the WoTC forums. It was well organised and had a lot of structure in place. Kinda like D&D PvP.

Magic item prices are not balanced. Magic items are not balanced. Congratulations, you've uncovered this huge critical flaw in the game that prevents anyone from playing it... or not. It really doesn't matter, at all, not in the slightest.

That's nice, but there are millions more CRPG gamers and MMO players out there than TTRPG roleplayers - so that style of play is actually exceedingly popular. MMO is also a social thing for many gamers, in fact, it's pretty hard to play most of them by yourself beyond the beginning. Not that...

And you lose your ability to counter-spell when you pop shield. It's easy for a group of players to overwhelm a solo Dragons reaction.

It's kind of one of those things, if you have a Abjurer and Bard like you do in my group, you just kind of have to accept the fact they're an incredibly good anti-caster party. Yeah they will eat a CR20 caster for breakfast, they're highly optimized to face those threats, but then on the other...

Even though I mentioned in the other thread I enjoy rollplaying along with roleplaying, I agree with you on knowledge checks. I tend to be pretty vague with them now, and read more flavour text from the Monsters Manual than anything from the statblock. I also made the mistake of allowing my...

The Frenzy Barbarian is a DPR build. The Bear Totem is a tank build. I happen to think the former is better earlier in the game, and the later is better the later in the game. Disadvantage on ability checks (1 level of Exhaustion) isn't really that big of a deal really. We always have access...

I agree with you here. While I detest the concept introduced by XBE and SS - which is a character with few weaknesses - optimizing as a group is still critically important. Which is why having classes like a Paladin and a Bard in your party are so amazingly strong, because they bring the means...

After a while gold becomes meaningless anyway. My characters (giving out 0.5x the number of hoards recommended in the DMG) have about ~90,000GP each. And that's after spending gold on strongholds. Once you start getting above level 12, the difference between 500gp and 5000gp is not even worth...

Ill also chime in with another incredibly useful tool for those who play online (can even be used by regular groups in between sessions). Microsoft Office Online and/or Google Docs. It's incredibly useful to be able to post up XP per session, loot found per session, and all sorts of other...

The problem with 5e is you can't play strictly by the rules, because there aren't rules for everything. I play in a couple of games and DM one, and there are lots of little things that are ruled differently across each game, leading to an inconsistent experience. We have had some big arguments...

Hi all, I'm looking for a couple of players for a new Princes of the Apocalypse 5e game, starting level 1 and progressing to level 14. This is a game that is played over Skype & Roll20. I am anticipating running this on Friday nights, but with the option of switching to Saturday nights...

You're quoting from the email notification you got, not the actual edited post of mine, which I edited seconds after posting. I stated the only time you actually have to think about it is when you're sitting there fighting highest AC creatures *without* buffs. Which in my experience in game is...

That's actually an option I haven't considered, which I might. A "minimum" threshold as such. I don't mind the Wizard breaking down the door when the Fighter can't once in a while, as it causes a bit of comic relief and such, but too often and it starts to strain the suspension of disbelief...

Path of the Berserker is still viable. We have one in our party and he does obscene damage when he frenzies. It's godly at lower levels (3 attacks at level 5....). But it does drop off a bit in later levels because the Barbarian can be shut down too easily, since he doesn't get any mitigating...