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That's what french toast is! My family recipe is egg, milk, and bread. Cinnamon too if you have it. Put the eggs in a tray or bowl with the milk and cinnamon then dip the bread in. After that, you fry it in the pan, then eat it with butter and powdered sugar. My nana has this story of when she felt sick while she had just started living on her own, she called her dad, and he dictated the recipe to her over the phone. Prime "use it up" food.

 
If you mix a bit of ground allspice and ground nutmeg in with the cinnamon, you get a pumpkin spice french toast ;)

For hard core scrump, though, get a little heavy whipping cream, heat it slightly with the cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice, let cool, then whip up into whipped cream with a basic mixer.  Top it over your french toast, pancakes, or waffles in thick dollops.

 I never eat breakfast, but now I crave it to an incomprehensible degree.

You all better eat brekfast.

Sorry, I am a hard core food person.

I have what my family calls the Born To Feed gene -- where we are at our happiest when we are making good food for other people.

I have as many cookbooks as I have reference books: about 250 ast last count.

I have a lot of stuff in my head about food. It is the only thing I have done longer than my work or worldbuilding, and I am just as bad when it comes to restaurants and foodservice as a business.

If I was ever isekai'd, I would probably end up running an Inn.

On my birthday I cooked dinner for my entire family. 

I have one cookbook.

It's the D&D cookbook.

I'm not much of a cook. It's not to say I'm bad at it. I think I just never learned to think of it as a normal part of living. It's an unnecessary chore in my mind.

Most of the time when I buy fresh ingredients, I end up not making the dish soon enough and the ingredients spoil.

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I have one cookbook.

It's the D&D cookbook.

I'm not much of a cook. It's not to say I'm bad at it. I think I just never learned to think of it as a normal part of living. It's an unnecessary chore in my mind.

Most of the time when I buy fresh ingredients, I end up not making the dish soon enough and the ingredients spoil.

 There's a dnd cookbook?

The hero's feast.

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The hero's feast.

 this is what will get me into cooking lol

What happens if you roll a 0 or negative number?

VERY fail.

Big fail, like bellyflop off a diving board fail

big fail.

My players killed a vampire easily, I wonder if I did something wrong. The paladin threw holy water on the vampire and the sorcerer froze it making the vampire encased in holy water, he only froze it so much as to encase the vampire so the water was still slightly running. It died really quickly.

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That's what french toast is! My family recipe is egg, milk, and bread. Cinnamon too if you have it. Put the eggs in a tray or bowl with the milk and cinnamon then dip the bread in. After that, you fry it in the pan, then eat it with butter and powdered sugar. My nana has this story of when she felt sick while she had just started living on her own, she called her dad, and he dictated the recipe to her over the phone. Prime "use it up" food.

 
If you mix a bit of ground allspice and ground nutmeg in with the cinnamon, you get a pumpkin spice french toast ;)

For hard core scrump, though, get a little heavy whipping cream, heat it slightly with the cinnamon, nutmeg, and allspice, let cool, then whip up into whipped cream with a basic mixer.  Top it over your french toast, pancakes, or waffles in thick dollops.

 I never eat breakfast, but now I crave it to an incomprehensible degree.

 Wrong. Like it or not, every person only ever breaks one fewer fast than they start throughout their life. Except for people who die while they're eating, I guess.

Technically, if you roll a zero using most of the standard dice on a standard table or mechanic, you get the highest result, since dice systems typically run from 1 up, not 0 up.

if you roll a 1, that is a critical fumble. In my game, if during combat, it means your weapon breaks.

which can be bad, as now it is an improvised weapon.

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Technically, if you roll a zero using most of the standard dice on a standard table or mechanic, you get the highest result, since dice systems typically run from 1 up, not 0 up.

if you roll a 1, that is a critical fumble. In my game, if during combat, it means your weapon breaks.

which can be bad, as now it is an improvised weapon.

So if someone has a magical weapon and crit fails - you break their magic weapon?

My house rule is that a Critical Fail is always a miss (no matter the bonus) - and what happens is they either hit a party member (if one is close by) for half the WEAPON damage they do (so if someone rolls a critical fail and rolled 10 damage - they'd hit a party member instead for 5 damage). I do not include anything special (like I do not include a Rogue's backstab - just their base weapon damage rolled not their Sneak Attack damage). I always try to make these moments very comedic. If no one is around (for example the Paladin is up front fighting by himself) - the weapon will slip from his hand. And I have them roll a d20+10 and that's how many feet their weapon goes sliding away. (So if they want to go get it, they have to typically leave the base of the creature giving it an attack of opportunity before they can get back into the fight). Rangers and Spellcasters who critical fail, often hit the melee who are up front and engaged.

If there's more than 1 potential target, I have the dice choose. I either have them each roll a d20 - whoever rolls lower is hit, or I roll and do odd or even, or something.

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My players killed a vampire easily, I wonder if I did something wrong. The paladin threw holy water on the vampire and the sorcerer froze it making the vampire encased in holy water, he only froze it so much as to encase the vampire so the water was still slightly running. It died really quickly.

 
Well, one thing I'd say (and every table is different) - the Paladin throwing holy water on the Vampire. To cover the entire Vampire's Body with water would have taken a massive jug of water. Even if you take a glass of water - pour it over the top of your head - it's not going to cover your entire body. So at most, if this were to happen - it certainly should not have frozen the entire vampire. Maybe his shirt, or his arm.

So the fact he was completely frozen seems more comedic than actual "sense."

So the running water aspect - that would do 20 acidic damage to the vampire.

Assuming no one else attacked him (which would then technically break any ice on him) - the 20 points of acidic damage would have required around 7 or 8 rounds, based on the Vampire's Hit Points.

If he wasn't fully encased (since you said there was enough to make running water), I'd also argue their Misty Effect would have taken place.

But the big thing is - you seemed to have missed that a vampire has three legendary actions where they can PASS any failed savings throw if they want. I assume when the Holy Water was thrown at him and he was being frozen (what spell did the sorcerer use?) - the vampire should have had a savings throw against the spell. So if he failed - he could have burned one of his three legendary actions - and laughed at their stupid attempt. And then torn them apart with the rest of his abilities.

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Technically, if you roll a zero using most of the standard dice on a standard table or mechanic, you get the highest result, since dice systems typically run from 1 up, not 0 up.

if you roll a 1, that is a critical fumble. In my game, if during combat, it means your weapon breaks.

which can be bad, as now it is an improvised weapon.

 

So if someone has a magical weapon and crit fails - you break their magic weapon?

 

Yes. Seriously. But wait, there's more...

Magic weapons get a save. Magic armor also gets a save. The DC in both cases is a 10 minus the weapon/armor bonus.

On a Critical Hit, the damage (natural roll, before bonuses) reduces the AC of the target as well -- potentially destroying their entire armor.  No double damage, though.

Both work both ways -- and nothing makes a goblin panic faster than their weapon breaking right when they were all excited that they dented the hell out of the paladin's armor on their last round.

I narrate all of it for chuckles, but it was a unanimous vote to stop the damage thing. They really liked as players when they got the crits, but they super disliked it when I got the crits -- and I have a lot of dice, lol.

Side benefit is that I get to play an obnoxious as hell blacksmith far more often, lol.

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I prefer french toast.

 
Me, too.

BUt I have a fondness for "peasant" foods that focus on the "use it up" kind of thinking -- they are the most creative recipes!

 So you like malasadas?

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I prefer french toast.

 
Me, too.

BUt I have a fondness for "peasant" foods that focus on the "use it up" kind of thinking -- they are the most creative recipes!

 So you like malasadas?

 
yes. I'm Lakota and raised in Navajo territory, so I also love sugar frybread, lol, sopapillas, and related goodies. basically, give me flour, baking powder/baking soda, salt, and water, and imma fry me up some treats to roll in sugar (sometimes with cinnamon and nutmeg and allspice, lol).

malasadas are great with a berry honey (bees raised next to a berry field).  A good, dry, ice cold hard cider and a little tray of fried dough (yeast based like malasadas or soda based like frybread) is a great snack for when I sit down to game, as well.

Oddly enough, I dislike cake donuts. Which is like, weird, because I like cake more than pie.

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Technically, if you roll a zero using most of the standard dice on a standard table or mechanic, you get the highest result, since dice systems typically run from 1 up, not 0 up.

if you roll a 1, that is a critical fumble. In my game, if during combat, it means your weapon breaks.

which can be bad, as now it is an improvised weapon.

 

So if someone has a magical weapon and crit fails - you break their magic weapon?

My house rule is that a Critical Fail is always a miss (no matter the bonus) - and what happens is they either hit a party member (if one is close by) for half the WEAPON damage they do (so if someone rolls a critical fail and rolled 10 damage - they'd hit a party member instead for 5 damage). I do not include anything special (like I do not include a Rogue's backstab - just their base weapon damage rolled not their Sneak Attack damage). I always try to make these moments very comedic. If no one is around (for example the Paladin is up front fighting by himself) - the weapon will slip from his hand. And I have them roll a d20+10 and that's how many feet their weapon goes sliding away. (So if they want to go get it, they have to typically leave the base of the creature giving it an attack of opportunity before they can get back into the fight). Rangers and Spellcasters who critical fail, often hit the melee who are up front and engaged.

If there's more than 1 potential target, I have the dice choose. I either have them each roll a d20 - whoever rolls lower is hit, or I roll and do odd or even, or something.

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My players killed a vampire easily, I wonder if I did something wrong. The paladin threw holy water on the vampire and the sorcerer froze it making the vampire encased in holy water, he only froze it so much as to encase the vampire so the water was still slightly running. It died really quickly.

 
Well, one thing I'd say (and every table is different) - the Paladin throwing holy water on the Vampire. To cover the entire Vampire's Body with water would have taken a massive jug of water. Even if you take a glass of water - pour it over the top of your head - it's not going to cover your entire body. So at most, if this were to happen - it certainly should not have frozen the entire vampire. Maybe his shirt, or his arm.

So the fact he was completely frozen seems more comedic than actual "sense."

So the running water aspect - that would do 20 acidic damage to the vampire.

Assuming no one else attacked him (which would then technically break any ice on him) - the 20 points of acidic damage would have required around 7 or 8 rounds, based on the Vampire's Hit Points.

If he wasn't fully encased (since you said there was enough to make running water), I'd also argue their Misty Effect would have taken place.

But the big thing is - you seemed to have missed that a vampire has three legendary actions where they can PASS any failed savings throw if they want. I assume when the Holy Water was thrown at him and he was being frozen (what spell did the sorcerer use?) - the vampire should have had a savings throw against the spell. So if he failed - he could have burned one of his three legendary actions - and laughed at their stupid attempt. And then torn them apart with the rest of his abilities.

 

 I reduced his stats because they was a low level party, didn’t take. Into account the amount of holy water though, that explains it.