D&D 5E (2014) Would you marry a party member for +2 AC?

[gyor]

You don't know need to marry a party member, you can be use the Noble background with the servant trait alternate trait, but instead of 3 servants, it's three future wives/husbands!

 

[Caliban]

You don't know need to marry a party member, you can be use the Noble background with the servant trait alternate trait, but instead of 3 servants, it's three future wives/husbands!

New alternate trait: Harem in Waiting (Or "This is why we can't have nice things.")

 

[jgsugden]

You're all short-sighted. Polygamous undead weddings, once per week. Marry into widowed status.

 

[abirdcall]

OTOH, any time you begin to introduce these types of "ribbons," you have to worry about powergamers and optimizers. Other than the edge cases, this spell will likely have almost no impact on most campaigns, and the danger of including this type of spell for "gamist" reasons is that someone will try to abuse it.

Or you could just not.

It's better to make a better game. Being paralyzed by the fear that some players might 'abuse' the game doesn't benefit anyone. Those players will still ruin the game for the groups they are in unless...

That is what the entire group finds fun, and then, it's also fine.

I think the spell is good for the same reason backgrounds are good. Character backstory doesn't exist until it comes up in game. Backgrounds help that. Ceremony helps to make events in game matter. I could see 2 characters (PCs or PC + NPC) getting married at the end of a campaign just before diving into Hell to combat the forces of ultimate darkness. Ceremony lends weight to that event.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I can just hear an adventurer complaining about his “Old Bag of Holding Me Back.”

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Note: this spell puts a different spin on “Vegas-style” quickie marriages.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I got some chainmail on my body goin' jing-a-ling-a-ling
Wanna to call you on the crystal ball baby, a-give you a ring
But each time we talk, I get the same old thing
Always no delv-ee no slay-ee until I get a weddin' ring
My honey my baby, don't put my love upon no shelf
She said “Don't hand me no lines and keep your hands to yourself!”

B-B-B-baby baby baby why you wan' treat me this way
You know I'm still your lover boy, I still feel the same way
That's when she told me a story, 'bout free milk and a cow
And said no delv-ee no slay-ee until I get a weddin' vow
My honey my baby, don't put my love upon no shelf
She said “Don't hand me no lines and keep your hands to yourself!”

Hold it here

See I wanted her real bad, and I was about to give in
But that's when she started talking about TRUE LOVE,
Started talking about SIN
And I said, honey I'll live with you for the rest of my life,
She said no delv-ee no slay-ee until you make me your WIFE-a
My honey my baby, don't put my love upon no shelf
She said “Don't hand me no lines and keep your hands to yourself!”

 

[Negflar2099]

These kind of min/max thought exercises give me a headache like you wouldn't believe. I love this spell. It supports the flavor of a cleric as a community priest, would totally exist in a world of magic, and answers a lot of questions I had about how low level magic is supposed to work (how else are you supposed to be able to create holy water anyway). I not only allowed it in my game I pointed it out to my players (their characters had been dating in game since the campaign started and so marriage seemed like a natural next step).

But no, we can't have this because there's a power gaming fantasy/thought exercise where it could be abused by someone willing to marry their character off to rats. It doesn't matter that this would never actually happen in a game, and if someone tried this in my game I would say the spell just wouldn't work (the Gods see through your frankly sad and pathetic attempt to get them to protect you and instead curse you for all time or until you atone). Bam. Done.

This is why we have DMs. Otherwise we'd just have a computer spitting out canned responses to every gaming question. This is a flavorful spell. Why can't we just have something nice for a change?

 

[lowkey13]

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[Satyrn]

I got some chainmail on my body goin' jing-a-ling-a-ling
Wanna to call you on the crystal ball baby, a-give you a ring
But each time we talk, I get the same old thing
Always no delv-ee no slay-ee until I get a weddin' ring
My honey my baby, don't put my love upon no shelf
She said “Don't hand me no lines and keep your hands to yourself!”

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