"The Biggest problem D&D player face is their own bad decisions." "What doesn't kill you makes you more likely to die."- Thauraeln_The_Bol "Well, hey, if it ain't broke, then break it!"Former_Queen_Yvonne See my homebrew spells, monsters, and this thread part of the cult of science, and the Cult of the Nothic, and plays on Tenbrae Sine Fine Please help us!!! (Link) Nickname is Colton. PM ME THE WORD TOMATO. The best name for the mad gibber
*I personally hate combat, and as a DM, try to avoid it. I feel like it takes up too much of our short playtime when it happens. the idea of running a meat grinder interests me, but when the entire session is fighting 5 enemies, I don't want to run one anytime soon*
*The group I play with are all very experienced and like the challenge of difficult combat, but meat grinder campaigns also have traps and puzzles which is half of the fun.*
*Yeah, the traps in the campaign were devious. It was also a campaign with evil players specifically. So lots of betrayal and backstabbing.*
My titles are the great Silver Dragon Lord of the Sky, Second in Command of the Dragon Cult, High Warlock of Cynophobia, High Cultist of Jeff, The Lightning Mage. I’m a ✨Chronically online teenage boy✨, and one of the most active posters on the forums (MORE THAN SALEM AND GONZALO). Always open to talk if you’d like to shoot me a PM! Please don’t hesitate to tell me I’m being a jerk or overbearing, I love helpful feedback! Love y’all!
*Crossbow builds work only if they’re hand crossbows. 1v1ing a greatwyrm is a terrible idea but you can maybe pull it off with echo knight/gloomstalker/assassin, sharpshooter/elven accuracy/piercer/crossbow expert, and hopefully with a magic item. Your nova damage there should be around 231 without crits and with only a +3 crossbow, but you can’t really get any higher than that without luck or magic items.*
*Also would like to note that while this number seems impressive, it’s a one turn nova as well as lacking any utility whatsoever, so it would lose a 1v1 with a greatwyrm unfortunately.*
*I meant hand crossbows, sorry. I usually pumped out at least 200 damage per turn. I had several magic items though, including the blood fury tattoo and others. So with a few spells and effects active, I could easily triple that damage.*
*Triple it? Haste would give you one extra attack, the classic bloodfury gives you a really good damage boost but it’s not at 600-700 damage, and I don’t think I know of any other items that can insanely boost damage (maybe dragon ascendant crossbow but thats just 1d8). Hunter’s mark adds a fair bit, but all of those combined could probably put you at the 400 mark. The highest nova damage builds you can do involve critfishing with an oathbow or doing a paladin build.*
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He nods. “And my group. We are unified. We are one. What is your name?”
"I am Coronet. And as far as your group, you are new and therefore unfamiliar to me. Time will tell how well that unity lasts. Especially as it seems you may be losing a member." she says as she watches Correlion take Hettie. "Some words of advice. If you want to take that one down, you will need to learn his strengths and weaknesses and power yourselves up accordingly. Their sense of honor will see them wish to fight one on one. Don't, it will most likely be a death sentence for whoever tries. Also mind their allies, Bludspiter and Ravarus in particular. They are quite formidable as well, though Bludspiter is the more dangerous threat. The Tree Beast can be avoided if you stay away from him, though he will come to the angel's aid if he senses they are in peril. I have seen that great brute fight before, but the real danger is his ability to heal his allies. So that is something else to consider."
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"Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
*yeah, my group gets two hours of playtime a week, so we have to spend it carefully. I've done summer camps where the entire day was playing d&d, and enjoyed combat in them*
*Nice! I haven't played in awhile, hard to schedule. I do run a extremely modified campaign for Curse of Strahd and It is SO FUN to see the surprise on the innocent faces of my players.*
*Crossbow builds work only if they’re hand crossbows. 1v1ing a greatwyrm is a terrible idea but you can maybe pull it off with echo knight/gloomstalker/assassin, sharpshooter/elven accuracy/piercer/crossbow expert, and hopefully with a magic item. Your nova damage there should be around 231 without crits and with only a +3 crossbow, but you can’t really get any higher than that without luck or magic items.*
*Also would like to note that while this number seems impressive, it’s a one turn nova as well as lacking any utility whatsoever, so it would lose a 1v1 with a greatwyrm unfortunately.*
*I meant hand crossbows, sorry. I usually pumped out at least 200 damage per turn. I had several magic items though, including the blood fury tattoo and others. So with a few spells and effects active, I could easily triple that damage.*
*Triple it? Haste would give you one extra attack, the classic bloodfury gives you a really good damage boost but it’s not at 600-700 damage, and I don’t think I know of any other items that can insanely boost damage (maybe dragon ascendant crossbow but thats just 1d8). Hunter’s mark adds a fair bit, but all of those combined could probably put you at the 400 mark. The highest nova damage builds you can do involve critfishing with an oathbow or doing a paladin build.*
*I've done 427 with the new version and the core books*
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"The Biggest problem D&D player face is their own bad decisions." "What doesn't kill you makes you more likely to die."- Thauraeln_The_Bol "Well, hey, if it ain't broke, then break it!"Former_Queen_Yvonne See my homebrew spells, monsters, and this thread part of the cult of science, and the Cult of the Nothic, and plays on Tenbrae Sine Fine Please help us!!! (Link) Nickname is Colton. PM ME THE WORD TOMATO. The best name for the mad gibber
He nods. “And my group. We are unified. We are one. What is your name?”
"I am Coronet. And as far as your group, you are new and therefore unfamiliar to me. Time will tell how well that unity lasts. Especially as it seems you may be losing a member." she says as she watches Correlion take Hettie. "Some words of advice. If you want to take that one down, you will need to learn his strengths and weaknesses and power yourselves up accordingly. Their sense of honor will see them wish to fight one on one. Don't, it will most likely be a death sentence for whoever tries. Also mind their allies, Bludspiter and Ravarus in particular. They are quite formidable as well, though Bludspiter is the more dangerous threat. The Tree Beast can be avoided if you stay away from him, though he will come to the angel's aid if he senses they are in peril. I have seen that great brute fight before, but the real danger is his ability to heal his allies. So that is something else to consider."
He nods. “I will have to beat them using diplomacy and smarts, not brute strength.”
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My titles are the great Silver Dragon Lord of the Sky, Second in Command of the Dragon Cult, High Warlock of Cynophobia, High Cultist of Jeff, The Lightning Mage. I’m a ✨Chronically online teenage boy✨, and one of the most active posters on the forums (MORE THAN SALEM AND GONZALO). Always open to talk if you’d like to shoot me a PM! Please don’t hesitate to tell me I’m being a jerk or overbearing, I love helpful feedback! Love y’all!
*Crossbow builds work only if they’re hand crossbows. 1v1ing a greatwyrm is a terrible idea but you can maybe pull it off with echo knight/gloomstalker/assassin, sharpshooter/elven accuracy/piercer/crossbow expert, and hopefully with a magic item. Your nova damage there should be around 231 without crits and with only a +3 crossbow, but you can’t really get any higher than that without luck or magic items.*
*Also would like to note that while this number seems impressive, it’s a one turn nova as well as lacking any utility whatsoever, so it would lose a 1v1 with a greatwyrm unfortunately.*
*I meant hand crossbows, sorry. I usually pumped out at least 200 damage per turn. I had several magic items though, including the blood fury tattoo and others. So with a few spells and effects active, I could easily triple that damage.*
*Triple it? Haste would give you one extra attack, the classic bloodfury gives you a really good damage boost but it’s not at 600-700 damage, and I don’t think I know of any other items that can insanely boost damage (maybe dragon ascendant crossbow but thats just 1d8). Hunter’s mark adds a fair bit, but all of those combined could probably put you at the 400 mark. The highest nova damage builds you can do involve critfishing with an oathbow or doing a paladin build.*
*I'll have to share the stats with you some time. It worked really well for this specific campaign, and its really hard to recreate, but my rules-lawyer DM eventually had to ban it.*
*Nice, ours was a high-level campaign so the DM really should've known better. It finally got to the point where he brought in a Balor, and with my abilities I just said. "I kill him." When he started bringing in gods.*
*Nahh, your DM isn’t evil enough. I could solo a 20th level party with some CR 13 monsters.*
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— δ cyno • he/him • number one paladin fanδ — making a smoothie for meta ——————| EXTENDED SIG |—————— Φ • redpelt’s biggest fan :) DM, minmaxer, microbiology student, and lover of anything colored red • Φ
— δ cyno • he/him • number one paladin fanδ — making a smoothie for meta ——————| EXTENDED SIG |—————— Φ • redpelt’s biggest fan :) DM, minmaxer, microbiology student, and lover of anything colored red • Φ
Desto approaches Correlion as they stand over Hettie, a wide smile on his face.
Correlion is at the top of their center tree, on a floating platform of glass.
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— δ cyno • he/him • number one paladin fanδ — making a smoothie for meta ——————| EXTENDED SIG |—————— Φ • redpelt’s biggest fan :) DM, minmaxer, microbiology student, and lover of anything colored red • Φ
*yeah, my group gets two hours of playtime a week, so we have to spend it carefully. I've done summer camps where the entire day was playing d&d, and enjoyed combat in them*
*Nice! I haven't played in awhile, hard to schedule. I do run a extremely modified campaign for Curse of Strahd and It is SO FUN to see the surprise on the innocent faces of my players.*
*tell me about it, I have an assignment for school that asks what do you wish for, and I'm tempted to put down "being able to play d&d everyweek with all of my players and have no scheduling issues"*
*Yeah, I also try to be the best DM possible. I have journals on all my players characters, And spend atleast an hour setting up. I just got tired of people not keeping one birthday clear.*
*Crossbow builds work only if they’re hand crossbows. 1v1ing a greatwyrm is a terrible idea but you can maybe pull it off with echo knight/gloomstalker/assassin, sharpshooter/elven accuracy/piercer/crossbow expert, and hopefully with a magic item. Your nova damage there should be around 231 without crits and with only a +3 crossbow, but you can’t really get any higher than that without luck or magic items.*
*Also would like to note that while this number seems impressive, it’s a one turn nova as well as lacking any utility whatsoever, so it would lose a 1v1 with a greatwyrm unfortunately.*
*I meant hand crossbows, sorry. I usually pumped out at least 200 damage per turn. I had several magic items though, including the blood fury tattoo and others. So with a few spells and effects active, I could easily triple that damage.*
*Triple it? Haste would give you one extra attack, the classic bloodfury gives you a really good damage boost but it’s not at 600-700 damage, and I don’t think I know of any other items that can insanely boost damage (maybe dragon ascendant crossbow but thats just 1d8). Hunter’s mark adds a fair bit, but all of those combined could probably put you at the 400 mark. The highest nova damage builds you can do involve critfishing with an oathbow or doing a paladin build.*
*I've done 427 with the new version and the core books*
*2024 rules are terrible and so comically easy to break. They overtuned all of the classes to give players more damage output but didn’t fix any actual problems from the 2014 rules.*
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— δ cyno • he/him • number one paladin fanδ — making a smoothie for meta ——————| EXTENDED SIG |—————— Φ • redpelt’s biggest fan :) DM, minmaxer, microbiology student, and lover of anything colored red • Φ
Desto approaches Correlion as they stand over Hettie, a wide smile on his face.
Correlion is at the top of their center tree, on a floating platform of glass.
He raises his hand in peace. “I see my friend has made a grave mistake here. I warned her not to do this, but she clearly did not listen. If you give me her body, I will make sure no harm comes to you, through physical strength or mental.”
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My titles are the great Silver Dragon Lord of the Sky, Second in Command of the Dragon Cult, High Warlock of Cynophobia, High Cultist of Jeff, The Lightning Mage. I’m a ✨Chronically online teenage boy✨, and one of the most active posters on the forums (MORE THAN SALEM AND GONZALO). Always open to talk if you’d like to shoot me a PM! Please don’t hesitate to tell me I’m being a jerk or overbearing, I love helpful feedback! Love y’all!
*I'll have to share the stats with you some time. It worked really well for this specific campaign, and its really hard to recreate, but my rules-lawyer DM eventually had to ban it.*
*I’d be happy to see it. I would love running a oneshot for the people here tbh, it’d be fun.*
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— δ cyno • he/him • number one paladin fanδ — making a smoothie for meta ——————| EXTENDED SIG |—————— Φ • redpelt’s biggest fan :) DM, minmaxer, microbiology student, and lover of anything colored red • Φ
*Nice, ours was a high-level campaign so the DM really should've known better. It finally got to the point where he brought in a Balor, and with my abilities I just said. "I kill him." When he started bringing in gods.*
*Nahh, your DM isn’t evil enough. I could solo a 20th level party with some CR 13 monsters.*
*You'd be surprised how evil he was. It was an actually insane campaign. The first sessions we had no items and a Metalic greatwyrm, and several cities armies attacking us.*
*Can I get a guess of how many times you touched me?*
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"The Biggest problem D&D player face is their own bad decisions." "What doesn't kill you makes you more likely to die."- Thauraeln_The_Bol "Well, hey, if it ain't broke, then break it!"Former_Queen_Yvonne See my homebrew spells, monsters, and this thread part of the cult of science, and the Cult of the Nothic, and plays on Tenbrae Sine Fine Please help us!!! (Link) Nickname is Colton. PM ME THE WORD TOMATO. The best name for the mad gibber
*I'll have to share the stats with you some time. It worked really well for this specific campaign, and its really hard to recreate, but my rules-lawyer DM eventually had to ban it.*
*I’d be happy to see it. I would love running a oneshot for the people here tbh, it’d be fun.*
*Yeah, still working on a place for people to battle. It would be a place to test different builds and styles, I have the grounds to begin. Just not the nohow of how to make it happen. For example I'm still not sure which mapmaker to use.*
*2024 rules are terrible and so comically easy to break. They overtuned all of the classes to give players more damage output but didn’t fix any actual problems from the 2014 rules.*
*As someone who has used both, not really but honestly you can break the game easily either way. And I say that as someone who's entire D&D group are experts of minimaxing several different ttrpgs. It's crazy some of the combos they come up with.*
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"Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
*I can take a short rest when I gain 1 HP*
"The Biggest problem D&D player face is their own bad decisions." "What doesn't kill you makes you more likely to die."- Thauraeln_The_Bol "Well, hey, if it ain't broke, then break it!"Former_Queen_Yvonne
See my homebrew spells, monsters, and this thread
part of the cult of science, and the Cult of the Nothic, and plays on Tenbrae Sine Fine
Please help us!!! (Link) Nickname is Colton. PM ME THE WORD TOMATO.
The best name for the mad gibber
*Yeah, the traps in the campaign were devious. It was also a campaign with evil players specifically. So lots of betrayal and backstabbing.*
Desto approaches Correlion as they stand over Hettie, a wide smile on his face.
My titles are the great Silver Dragon Lord of the Sky, Second in Command of the Dragon Cult, High Warlock of Cynophobia, High Cultist of Jeff, The Lightning Mage. I’m a ✨Chronically online teenage boy✨, and one of the most active posters on the forums (MORE THAN SALEM AND GONZALO). Always open to talk if you’d like to shoot me a PM! Please don’t hesitate to tell me I’m being a jerk or overbearing, I love helpful feedback! Love y’all!
Extended Signature!
*Triple it? Haste would give you one extra attack, the classic bloodfury gives you a really good damage boost but it’s not at 600-700 damage, and I don’t think I know of any other items that can insanely boost damage (maybe dragon ascendant crossbow but thats just 1d8). Hunter’s mark adds a fair bit, but all of those combined could probably put you at the 400 mark. The highest nova damage builds you can do involve critfishing with an oathbow or doing a paladin build.*
— δ cyno • he/him • number one paladin fan δ —
making a smoothie for meta
——————| EXTENDED SIG |——————
Φ • redpelt’s biggest fan :) DM, minmaxer, microbiology student, and lover of anything colored red • Φ
"I am Coronet. And as far as your group, you are new and therefore unfamiliar to me. Time will tell how well that unity lasts. Especially as it seems you may be losing a member." she says as she watches Correlion take Hettie. "Some words of advice. If you want to take that one down, you will need to learn his strengths and weaknesses and power yourselves up accordingly. Their sense of honor will see them wish to fight one on one. Don't, it will most likely be a death sentence for whoever tries. Also mind their allies, Bludspiter and Ravarus in particular. They are quite formidable as well, though Bludspiter is the more dangerous threat. The Tree Beast can be avoided if you stay away from him, though he will come to the angel's aid if he senses they are in peril. I have seen that great brute fight before, but the real danger is his ability to heal his allies. So that is something else to consider."
"Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
Characters for Tenebris Sine Fine
RoughCoronet's Greater Wills
*Nice! I haven't played in awhile, hard to schedule. I do run a extremely modified campaign for Curse of Strahd and It is SO FUN to see the surprise on the innocent faces of my players.*
*I've done 427 with the new version and the core books*
"The Biggest problem D&D player face is their own bad decisions." "What doesn't kill you makes you more likely to die."- Thauraeln_The_Bol "Well, hey, if it ain't broke, then break it!"Former_Queen_Yvonne
See my homebrew spells, monsters, and this thread
part of the cult of science, and the Cult of the Nothic, and plays on Tenbrae Sine Fine
Please help us!!! (Link) Nickname is Colton. PM ME THE WORD TOMATO.
The best name for the mad gibber
He nods. “I will have to beat them using diplomacy and smarts, not brute strength.”
My titles are the great Silver Dragon Lord of the Sky, Second in Command of the Dragon Cult, High Warlock of Cynophobia, High Cultist of Jeff, The Lightning Mage. I’m a ✨Chronically online teenage boy✨, and one of the most active posters on the forums (MORE THAN SALEM AND GONZALO). Always open to talk if you’d like to shoot me a PM! Please don’t hesitate to tell me I’m being a jerk or overbearing, I love helpful feedback! Love y’all!
Extended Signature!
*I'll have to share the stats with you some time. It worked really well for this specific campaign, and its really hard to recreate, but my rules-lawyer DM eventually had to ban it.*
*Nahh, your DM isn’t evil enough. I could solo a 20th level party with some CR 13 monsters.*
— δ cyno • he/him • number one paladin fan δ —
making a smoothie for meta
——————| EXTENDED SIG |——————
Φ • redpelt’s biggest fan :) DM, minmaxer, microbiology student, and lover of anything colored red • Φ
*Sure.*
— δ cyno • he/him • number one paladin fan δ —
making a smoothie for meta
——————| EXTENDED SIG |——————
Φ • redpelt’s biggest fan :) DM, minmaxer, microbiology student, and lover of anything colored red • Φ
Correlion is at the top of their center tree, on a floating platform of glass.
— δ cyno • he/him • number one paladin fan δ —
making a smoothie for meta
——————| EXTENDED SIG |——————
Φ • redpelt’s biggest fan :) DM, minmaxer, microbiology student, and lover of anything colored red • Φ
*Yeah, I also try to be the best DM possible. I have journals on all my players characters, And spend atleast an hour setting up. I just got tired of people not keeping one birthday clear.*
*2024 rules are terrible and so comically easy to break. They overtuned all of the classes to give players more damage output but didn’t fix any actual problems from the 2014 rules.*
— δ cyno • he/him • number one paladin fan δ —
making a smoothie for meta
——————| EXTENDED SIG |——————
Φ • redpelt’s biggest fan :) DM, minmaxer, microbiology student, and lover of anything colored red • Φ
He raises his hand in peace. “I see my friend has made a grave mistake here. I warned her not to do this, but she clearly did not listen. If you give me her body, I will make sure no harm comes to you, through physical strength or mental.”
My titles are the great Silver Dragon Lord of the Sky, Second in Command of the Dragon Cult, High Warlock of Cynophobia, High Cultist of Jeff, The Lightning Mage. I’m a ✨Chronically online teenage boy✨, and one of the most active posters on the forums (MORE THAN SALEM AND GONZALO). Always open to talk if you’d like to shoot me a PM! Please don’t hesitate to tell me I’m being a jerk or overbearing, I love helpful feedback! Love y’all!
Extended Signature!
*I’d be happy to see it. I would love running a oneshot for the people here tbh, it’d be fun.*
— δ cyno • he/him • number one paladin fan δ —
making a smoothie for meta
——————| EXTENDED SIG |——————
Φ • redpelt’s biggest fan :) DM, minmaxer, microbiology student, and lover of anything colored red • Φ
*You'd be surprised how evil he was. It was an actually insane campaign. The first sessions we had no items and a Metalic greatwyrm, and several cities armies attacking us.*
*Can I get a guess of how many times you touched me?*
"The Biggest problem D&D player face is their own bad decisions." "What doesn't kill you makes you more likely to die."- Thauraeln_The_Bol "Well, hey, if it ain't broke, then break it!"Former_Queen_Yvonne
See my homebrew spells, monsters, and this thread
part of the cult of science, and the Cult of the Nothic, and plays on Tenbrae Sine Fine
Please help us!!! (Link) Nickname is Colton. PM ME THE WORD TOMATO.
The best name for the mad gibber
*Yeah, still working on a place for people to battle. It would be a place to test different builds and styles, I have the grounds to begin. Just not the nohow of how to make it happen. For example I'm still not sure which mapmaker to use.*
*As someone who has used both, not really but honestly you can break the game easily either way. And I say that as someone who's entire D&D group are experts of minimaxing several different ttrpgs. It's crazy some of the combos they come up with.*
"Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with ketchup."
Characters for Tenebris Sine Fine
RoughCoronet's Greater Wills