Although I'm starting this thread with the intention of getting help for myself, I figure it can always operate as a help thread for others as well. The creator for DDB has some, at least for me, confusing elements to it. Rather than drown out the mods in their creator guide threads, I figured engaging help from the community could be a better route.
I've seen this work elsewhere for something similar on other forums where you number your post as "QUESTION #1: My question detailed here." People then reply, "ANSWER #1: My help detailed here." Obviously this requires writing out your query first and then checking what the most recent question number is before hitting send, because if you spend a fair amount of time typing, someone else could've taken that number by the time you post.
Anyway, let's see if this works. I'll start and say a pre-emptive thanks to anyone who can explain it to my like I'm 5 :)
QUESTION #1: Can someone please help me understand how the various fields for spell homebrew works?
I'm trying to make a cantrip similar to booming blade but for clerics. I'm unclear on what it means by fixed values and scaling values and modifiers and... it's all not very clear on what these mean and how they impact the spell as it's represented.
For instance, with a booming blade type cantrip, do I add three "At Higher Levels" entries for 5th, 11th and 17th levels or just one? What's the fixed value in "At Higher Levels" entries represent? In the example below, should I have a fixed value of 1? Should I then create another modifier entry for 11th level and have a fixed value of 2? Does that represent rolling the dice twice? Or if I create extra modifier entries, do they automatically stack with each other or cancel each other out? For example, if I list the 11th level modifier entry as being 2d8 with a fixed value of 0, does that cancel out the 5th level modifier for an 11th level caster or will they then stack and be 3d8? Again, what's the "fixed value" entry represent and mean to all of this?
Although I'm starting this thread with the intention of getting help for myself, I figure it can always operate as a help thread for others as well. The creator for DDB has some, at least for me, confusing elements to it. Rather than drown out the mods in their creator guide threads, I figured engaging help from the community could be a better route.
I've seen this work elsewhere for something similar on other forums where you number your post as "QUESTION #1: My question detailed here." People then reply, "ANSWER #1: My help detailed here." Obviously this requires writing out your query first and then checking what the most recent question number is before hitting send, because if you spend a fair amount of time typing, someone else could've taken that number by the time you post.
Anyway, let's see if this works. I'll start and say a pre-emptive thanks to anyone who can explain it to my like I'm 5 :)
QUESTION #1: Can someone please help me understand how the various fields for spell homebrew works?
I'm trying to make a cantrip similar to booming blade but for clerics. I'm unclear on what it means by fixed values and scaling values and modifiers and... it's all not very clear on what these mean and how they impact the spell as it's represented.
For instance, with a booming blade type cantrip, do I add three "At Higher Levels" entries for 5th, 11th and 17th levels or just one? What's the fixed value in "At Higher Levels" entries represent? In the example below, should I have a fixed value of 1? Should I then create another modifier entry for 11th level and have a fixed value of 2? Does that represent rolling the dice twice? Or if I create extra modifier entries, do they automatically stack with each other or cancel each other out? For example, if I list the 11th level modifier entry as being 2d8 with a fixed value of 0, does that cancel out the 5th level modifier for an 11th level caster or will they then stack and be 3d8? Again, what's the "fixed value" entry represent and mean to all of this?
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