Anything BUT whatever dumb ass 💩 WotC has recently done or is currently doing, literally ANYTHING

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Blood red eyes and scars give barbarian vibes. Not sure what race, maybe elf like Tawmis said?

 She was more of a half Tiefling half Aasimar situation. The horns and red eyes represent her demonic side, but the pure white skin represents angelic energy. Plus, the tip of each of her horns form a halo-esque shape. For now, she’s just the mother of one of my characters.

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Blood red eyes and scars give barbarian vibes. Not sure what race, maybe elf like Tawmis said?

 Plasmoid Beast Barbarian.

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Hey, any of you guys remember that one adventure that recently came out that's been getting a lot of hype? The one that goes from levels 10-20 where you have to save the multiverse? The one with a certain ancient arch-lich as the BBEG? Well, maybe you've heard of it, maybe you haven't, but either way, I have a proposal: You could click the link

Recruiting for Vecna Eve of Ruin!

Anyway, question of the day:

What is your favorite and least favorite 5th edition module published by WOTC? Or, for you grognards, what were some really good (or bad) official adventures from earlier editions that you still remember to this day?

 I really liked Icewind Dale. I've heard from my DM others that Storm King's Thunder is really hard to DM. 

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Blood red eyes and scars give barbarian vibes. Not sure what race, maybe elf like Tawmis said?

 Plasmoid Beast Barbarian.

 Halfling Rogue. 

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Blood red eyes and scars give barbarian vibes. Not sure what race, maybe elf like Tawmis said?

 Plasmoid Beast Barbarian.

 Halfling Rogue. 

 Umm…uhh…skeleton is a an ancestry in Pathfinder, and then, umm…wizard or sorcerer. Maybe warlock

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Blood red eyes and scars give barbarian vibes. Not sure what race, maybe elf like Tawmis said?

 Plasmoid Beast Barbarian.

 Halfling Rogue. 

 Umm…uhh…skeleton is a an ancestry in Pathfinder, 

 Really? That's interesting.

Question of the Day: Ever done any Larping?

I recently got together with a bunch of friends and had a bunch of really fun battles. A friend of a friend has been collecting fiberglass weapons for years and has quite the impressive arsenal. I don't know if it technically counts as larping since there wasn't a story or real roleplaying, but it was incredibly fun. 

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Question of the Day: Ever done any Larping?

I recently got together with a bunch of friends and had a bunch of really fun battles. A friend of a friend has been collecting fiberglass weapons for years and has quite the impressive arsenal. I don't know if it technically counts as larping since there wasn't a story or real roleplaying, but it was incredibly fun. 

 Nope. Sounds fun tho :)

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Question of the Day: Ever done any Larping?

I recently got together with a bunch of friends and had a bunch of really fun battles. A friend of a friend has been collecting fiberglass weapons for years and has quite the impressive arsenal. I don't know if it technically counts as larping since there wasn't a story or real roleplaying, but it was incredibly fun. 

 Wish I could, but haven’t.

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Question of the Day: Ever done any Larping?

I recently got together with a bunch of friends and had a bunch of really fun battles. A friend of a friend has been collecting fiberglass weapons for years and has quite the impressive arsenal. I don't know if it technically counts as larping since there wasn't a story or real roleplaying, but it was incredibly fun. 

 No. Never tried it.

Question...

Whether DM or player... but mostly DM...

You have a group of Level 3 adventurers (six of them)... and the current mission is to liberate the town from the evil clutches of a cult that is holding this small village hostage... convert or burn at the stake...

The party wants to stealth in and take out some of the guard towers, each with one archer positioned in the tower to keep watch...

Often times, in moves, you see cool stealth missions where they're able to get in, and quickly slit the throat of the enemy (or whatever, essentially take them down in a single move)... And having cool, theatric moves like that would be nice (and enhance the game as players succeed, ideally, and pull off this rescue/liberation)...

How would you play this out (being that the party is level 3, naturally these archers have more than 1 hit point)...

Or would you let the party do a one hit kill like this?

Thoughts?

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Question...

Whether DM or player... but mostly DM...

You have a group of Level 3 adventurers (six of them)... and the current mission is to liberate the town from the evil clutches of a cult that is holding this small village hostage... convert or burn at the stake...

The party wants to stealth in and take out some of the guard towers, each with one archer positioned in the tower to keep watch...

Often times, in moves, you see cool stealth missions where they're able to get in, and quickly slit the throat of the enemy (or whatever, essentially take them down in a single move)... And having cool, theatric moves like that would be nice (and enhance the game as players succeed, ideally, and pull off this rescue/liberation)...

How would you play this out (being that the party is level 3, naturally these archers have more than 1 hit point)...

Or would you let the party do a one hit kill like this?

Thoughts?

 That's a really annoying part about Dnd. That type of stealth kill doesn't really work unless you are a rogue. Maybe you could make it more of a skill challenge than a combat one. If they can roll high enough on their stealth checks and maybe roll another sleight of hand or attack roll, they can dispatch a guard in one hit.

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 That's a really annoying part about Dnd. That type of stealth kill doesn't really work unless you are a rogue. Maybe you could make it more of a skill challenge than a combat one. If they can roll high enough on their stealth checks and maybe roll another sleight of hand or attack roll, they can dispatch a guard in one hit.

 
Yeah - I am fine with allowing those kinds of kills, as long as it fits the "theme" of what's going on, for sure.

Just seeing how others have done it (if at all) and how. I like the idea of Stealth (which is what I used for last night's session I ran). I ended up lowering the HP of the archers, and removing their multiattack, to favor the players in this assault. But definitely, after the session, wish I would have allowed an opportunity to "one shot" kill these archers in the tower, to get a more cinematic feeling. I was caught between trying to provide a challenge and wanting to reward the players. I should have sided with rewarding the players more.

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Question of the Day: Ever done any Larping?

I recently got together with a bunch of friends and had a bunch of really fun battles. A friend of a friend has been collecting fiberglass weapons for years and has quite the impressive arsenal. I don't know if it technically counts as larping since there wasn't a story or real roleplaying, but it was incredibly fun. 

 Nope but I really really really wanted to join the local chapter of the SCA.

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Question...

Whether DM or player... but mostly DM...

You have a group of Level 3 adventurers (six of them)... and the current mission is to liberate the town from the evil clutches of a cult that is holding this small village hostage... convert or burn at the stake...

The party wants to stealth in and take out some of the guard towers, each with one archer positioned in the tower to keep watch...

Often times, in moves, you see cool stealth missions where they're able to get in, and quickly slit the throat of the enemy (or whatever, essentially take them down in a single move)... And having cool, theatric moves like that would be nice (and enhance the game as players succeed, ideally, and pull off this rescue/liberation)...

How would you play this out (being that the party is level 3, naturally these archers have more than 1 hit point)...

Or would you let the party do a one hit kill like this?

Thoughts?

 There is nothing wrong with making the guards 1 HD creatures. They're guards, they're not supposed to pose a threat on their own. They are the alarm system or obstacle which needs to be avoided or taken out. This situation is ideal for Assassin Rogues which many cinematic heroes have a couple levels of.

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Question...
Whether DM or player... but mostly DM...
You have a group of Level 3 adventurers (six of them)... and the current mission is to liberate the town from the evil clutches of a cult that is holding this small village hostage... convert or burn at the stake...
The party wants to stealth in and take out some of the guard towers, each with one archer positioned in the tower to keep watch...
Often times, in moves, you see cool stealth missions where they're able to get in, and quickly slit the throat of the enemy (or whatever, essentially take them down in a single move)... And having cool, theatric moves like that would be nice (and enhance the game as players succeed, ideally, and pull off this rescue/liberation)...
How would you play this out (being that the party is level 3, naturally these archers have more than 1 hit point)...
Or would you let the party do a one hit kill like this?
Thoughts?

 There is nothing wrong with making the guards 1 HD creatures. They're guards, they're not supposed to pose a threat on their own. They are the alarm system or obstacle which needs to be avoided or taken out. This situation is ideal for Assassin Rogues which many cinematic heroes have a couple levels of.

 
Yeah - I should have adjusted in the moment. As written, I had them as the Archers (which are CR3) from D&D - because I assumed, they might focus on a tower to take it out. However, they went for - send the rogue to one tower, send the ranger to the other, and the kender druid to go to the back of the windmill, while the minotaur fighter, human cleric, and half-elf artificer approached the windmill (which was also guarded).

So the two tanks (artificer armorer and minotaur fighter) who could take the most hits, were with the cleric.

While the rogue and ranger were doing 1:1 against archers who have that nasty's "Archer's Eye" (add 1d10 to either their hit roll or their damage roll - and I always called it was going for damage, because it might miss and give the heroes a chance... my dice, which I roll in the open for all to see, were not kind to the players).

Question: If one of your campaigns had an animated intro with all the PCs, how would it go.

For my current one, it would start in a battle, with Lug being stabbed in the back. The music will start playing and flashes of different versions of him as other species appear, before shifting to a door, where Billy the Elf will walk through it before going behind a podium and assuming the shape of a gnome. Once again, flashes of different versions. Next, Ejud the Tiefling battles another Tiefling wearing bone armor while dodging spells from a wizard elf. She goes in for a deadly strike, and freezes, the multiple versions of herself appear like the others. It will end with a frame of Boblin the ascended sitting at a desk, staring at the watcher.

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Question: If one of your campaigns had an animated intro with all the PCs, how would it go.

Hah - probably like Legend of Vox Machina. 

Let's see...

It'd focus on a single figure standing in a field, wearing plate armor - bows his head - and bursts of light beam through every crevice of his armor (the human paladin), a half-elf leaps up and grabs the light  and balls it in his first - then channels it into his energy bow (the half-elf ranger with the radiant bow that mimics the bow from the D&D cartoon), the air genasi comes running down one of the beams of light and misty steps (her dagger) and stabs (air genasi rogue) a creature about to stab a female elf cleric - who holds up her holy symbol and channels all the light from the paladin and a huge ball of light bursts when she holds her holy symbol over her head destroying all of the shadow - the four heroes, standing side by side.

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Question...

Whether DM or player... but mostly DM...

You have a group of Level 3 adventurers (six of them)... and the current mission is to liberate the town from the evil clutches of a cult that is holding this small village hostage... convert or burn at the stake...

The party wants to stealth in and take out some of the guard towers, each with one archer positioned in the tower to keep watch...

Often times, in moves, you see cool stealth missions where they're able to get in, and quickly slit the throat of the enemy (or whatever, essentially take them down in a single move)... And having cool, theatric moves like that would be nice (and enhance the game as players succeed, ideally, and pull off this rescue/liberation)...

How would you play this out (being that the party is level 3, naturally these archers have more than 1 hit point)...

Or would you let the party do a one hit kill like this?

Thoughts?

 
This is why 4e minions rocked. They all had 1 hp. Do the same with these guards. It turns them from annoying combatants into an environmental hazard. It'll also make your PCs feel awesome when they can take down five of them in a round.

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Question: If one of your campaigns had an animated intro with all the PCs, how would it go.

 
Something like this, I imagine.

Anyone watch the live stream?

https://youtu.be/WPBnLlqV0Z0

Thoughts?