D&D General DM Says No Powergaming?
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Vaalingrade
Legend
Or Line Inverse.
UngeheuerLich
Legend
Not in D&D.
What, it's just an arrow of dragon slaying.
I don't follow.
UngeheuerLich
Legend
Extra 6d10 damage won't cut it.
Maybe if bard was a level 20 assassin with sharp shooter surprising the dragon.
((1d10+6d10+10d6)*2+5+10)*2
= 324 damage... nope, still not enough.
Edit: maybe if you invoke tge massive damage rule.
But only on aday, where the dragon has not a single legendary resistance left.
Maybe if bard was a level 20 assassin with sharp shooter surprising the dragon.
((1d10+6d10+10d6)*2+5+10)*2
= 324 damage... nope, still not enough.
Edit: maybe if you invoke tge massive damage rule.
But only on aday, where the dragon has not a single legendary resistance left.
UngeheuerLich
Legend
You don't kill an ancient dragon with one lucky shot.
Well Bard did.
In 4e D&D this could be a skill challenge to "minionise" the dragon.
I don't know the details of how 5e D&D would resolve it, but I assume it has a way.
Zubatcarteira
Now you're infected by the Musical Doodle
An Adult Red Dragon has 256 hp, and Bard clearly crit and also hit the weak spot Bilbo told him, I think it's fair to say he had vulnerability in that one place, so he could make do with just 64 damage in one hit with all the dice.
Smaug also clearly spent all his Legendary Resistances resisting Bilbo's Vicious Mockeries earlier that day, dude had no chance.
Smaug also clearly spent all his Legendary Resistances resisting Bilbo's Vicious Mockeries earlier that day, dude had no chance.
UngeheuerLich
Legend
Urrgh... not really...
Oh well, apparently they don't make arrows of dragonslaying the way they used to. : (
Maybe we should change the name to "arrow of dragon hurting".
Maybe we should change the name to "arrow of dragon hurting".
Stormonu
Legend
More like "arrows of dragon enraging".
Anyways, storywise, my homebrew world has several accounts of armies facing off against dragons (the First Dragonwar), with it not ending well for the dragons.
However, what I really care about is in-game. And short of doing a modified Battlesystem scenario for 5E, commoners with bows vs. ancient dragon isn't something that will ever come up. So I'm not really worried it'll take a ream or two of peasants to take down a dragon. The PCs will be involved long before that ever becomes a concern, at best.
AbdulAlhazred
Legend
Sure, you ask the GM if they will do it.
There you go!
Bill Zebub
“It’s probably Matt Mercer’s fault.”
Not the standard Arrow of Dragon Slaying you read about in the DMG. The Black Arrow is a sentient Artifact. You can tell because Bard spoke to it.
EDIT: I realize this reads as completely serious. Maybe I should have appended a winking smiley?
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Oofta
Legend
I had an old car I spoke to all the time. Mostly "Please start" or "&$^ what's wrong now!" Doesn't mean it was sentient.
Bard also spoke to a random thrush. Lots of things have sentience in Middle Earth.
Oofta
Legend
When it comes to anti-dragon weapons, I assume people are inventive. I've had towns that also shot special ballista that kind of acted like harpoons on whales, barbed arrows with weights attached. In addition, they can fire nets etc. It won't kill the dragon, it's all about slowing it down and hopefully bringing it to ground. Biggest threat of course is simply well trained archers.
All of this of course is just backdrop and story. People have been figuring out how to kill every animal we've ever discovered, along with overcoming enemy equipment and tactics for that matter. I don't see why dragons would be different.
All of this of course is just backdrop and story. People have been figuring out how to kill every animal we've ever discovered, along with overcoming enemy equipment and tactics for that matter. I don't see why dragons would be different.
Bill Zebub
“It’s probably Matt Mercer’s fault.”
I had an old car I spoke to all the time. Mostly "Please start" or "&$^ what's wrong now!" Doesn't mean it was sentient.
Doesn't mean it wasn't.
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