So I am aware that this group has been doing D&D forever, through various editions of D&D, and that when they started putting Critical Role on Geek and Sundry they had just gone from Pathfinder to 5e. However, specifically for Pike Trickfoot, she would at will cast a spell that would fit armor on her as well as create a mace. So what spells are these? She also did these blasts as well as a shielding, any ideas on those spells? I’m guessing Spiritual Weapon for the mace, but I thought that’s just a floating thing. Unless I’m wrong. Just trying to figure things out, thanks for the help,
I mean, if this is based on the show, that's pure TV invention, like most of the magic you see there. Been a while since I watched the actual campaign and I didn't get far at the time, but I don't recall them having her make stuff appear for fights then.
I'd also go with spiritual weapon for the mace, just reskinned to be held rather than float and either shield of faith or entropic shield; initially the 3e/p1 version; but for 5e maybe indeed warding flare. The 3e wasn't a 'pick your own shape' kind of thing, the spiritual weapon always took the form of your deities favored weapon (or an alignment specific weapon if you were unaffiliated). I'd check what Sarenrae's (The Everlight's) favored weapon is to see if it is a mace to double check.
Doesn't critical roll have a page where you can look at their character builds?
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So I’ve generally asked around, and the history of the group I heard was that they were basing this on 3e, then to Pathfinder, and then to 5e when it went to G&S. I actually didn’t consider that the show might be taking liberties and artistic license, although to be fair some spells were “forgotten”, such as Scanlan didn’t go invisible and it was “Scanlan’s hand” instead of Bixbie’s hand. And of course they had an array of voice actors for the characters instead of just Matt doing them. I was only hoping that for the Cleric I could use those specific spells I the manner that Pike was, hoping. Thanks for the help.
Well no, she started out as a light, then was killed and resurrected. When she came back she went to War domain.
She may have been a light cleric in their home game, but she spent the entirity of her existince in the streamed campaign as a War Domain cleric. So about 15 levels. Not that it really matters since she was rarely there because she was in New York most of the time. The animated show takes a LOT of artistic liberties and really can't be relied upon to represent in game spells or abilities.
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Definitely the show takes some liberties with the rules. Some things I can identify, but there's lots of stuff in there that's definitely not in any rule book. It's also possible that the show doesn't 100 % represent the live stream and is taking even more liberties there. Of course, I didn't watch the live stream, so I could be very wrong there. It just seems that condensing a 4-hour live stream into a 30-minute show means there's going to be some changes to make it fit the new format.
The show definitely alters the plot from the livestream- the entire first arc of the stream was cut- probably for a few different reasons- and since that stream was a continuation of a long running plot where the party had already hit 3rd tier they got a lot of respect as genuine heroes instead of being a bunch of bottom-of-the-barrel losers.
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So I am aware that this group has been doing D&D forever, through various editions of D&D, and that when they started putting Critical Role on Geek and Sundry they had just gone from Pathfinder to 5e. However, specifically for Pike Trickfoot, she would at will cast a spell that would fit armor on her as well as create a mace. So what spells are these? She also did these blasts as well as a shielding, any ideas on those spells? I’m guessing Spiritual Weapon for the mace, but I thought that’s just a floating thing. Unless I’m wrong. Just trying to figure things out, thanks for the help,
Probably Shield of Faith and Spiritual Weapon, like you said.
I mean, if this is based on the show, that's pure TV invention, like most of the magic you see there. Been a while since I watched the actual campaign and I didn't get far at the time, but I don't recall them having her make stuff appear for fights then.
Those shields could be a version of the light cleric’s warding flare. I think pike is meant to be a light cleric.
I'd also go with spiritual weapon for the mace, just reskinned to be held rather than float and either shield of faith or entropic shield; initially the 3e/p1 version; but for 5e maybe indeed warding flare. The 3e wasn't a 'pick your own shape' kind of thing, the spiritual weapon always took the form of your deities favored weapon (or an alignment specific weapon if you were unaffiliated). I'd check what Sarenrae's (The Everlight's) favored weapon is to see if it is a mace to double check.
Doesn't critical roll have a page where you can look at their character builds?
Thank you for your time and please have a very pleasant day.
Pike was a War Cleric.
Mother and Cat Herder. Playing TTRPGs since 1989 (She/Her)
Well no, she started out as a light, then was killed and resurrected. When she came back she went to War domain.
So I’ve generally asked around, and the history of the group I heard was that they were basing this on 3e, then to Pathfinder, and then to 5e when it went to G&S. I actually didn’t consider that the show might be taking liberties and artistic license, although to be fair some spells were “forgotten”, such as Scanlan didn’t go invisible and it was “Scanlan’s hand” instead of Bixbie’s hand. And of course they had an array of voice actors for the characters instead of just Matt doing them. I was only hoping that for the Cleric I could use those specific spells I the manner that Pike was, hoping. Thanks for the help.
She may have been a light cleric in their home game, but she spent the entirity of her existince in the streamed campaign as a War Domain cleric. So about 15 levels. Not that it really matters since she was rarely there because she was in New York most of the time. The animated show takes a LOT of artistic liberties and really can't be relied upon to represent in game spells or abilities.
Mother and Cat Herder. Playing TTRPGs since 1989 (She/Her)
Definitely the show takes some liberties with the rules. Some things I can identify, but there's lots of stuff in there that's definitely not in any rule book. It's also possible that the show doesn't 100 % represent the live stream and is taking even more liberties there. Of course, I didn't watch the live stream, so I could be very wrong there. It just seems that condensing a 4-hour live stream into a 30-minute show means there's going to be some changes to make it fit the new format.
The show definitely alters the plot from the livestream- the entire first arc of the stream was cut- probably for a few different reasons- and since that stream was a continuation of a long running plot where the party had already hit 3rd tier they got a lot of respect as genuine heroes instead of being a bunch of bottom-of-the-barrel losers.