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This is a great raw but I feel like as a DM I would have to give it a one and done kind of thing like oh haha that was a great use of the spell. It's not happening again.

Its safe to ban spirit gardians. If by some off chance you get two clerics in the party, its mandatory to run things resistance, and proficient in wisdom saves so they dont get melted in 2 rounds.or nerf it to 10 ft

This is tough because sometimes story greifing can also be a problem. Rogue characters are the stereotype for it, but that’s due to how crime is seen as part of the class. Who hasn’t dealt with a rogue who might be too pickpocket happy, or likes lying to the party or making deals behind the party’s back, only to make sure none of our party can do anything about it because they have a great deception check? Now the party has to clean up the rogues mess and it becomes unfun for everyone. Would that be considered greifing? It can be tough to say for sure

“Skipping Cleanup” had a phrase back in old school DnD: Morale checks. Different monsters had different morale, and you could roll them when the first enemy died and when the enemy count is cut in half to determine if the enemy surrenders or runs away early. Kobolds for example are easy to scare off unless they know they have the advantage, but dragons are far less likely to surrender. It more or less builds cleanup skipping into the system.

I miss group initiative. That alone makes fights so, so much faster

Lmao

I once got called useless for landing sneak attacks as a rogue instead of normal attacks

Kobold: Martial classes are all WEAK! Also Kobold: I NEVER hand out magic shields or armor! 😂

Wild how he talks at 80% speed

Bullshit. I haven't seen a squishy 5th ed spellcsster ever. Especially with the overemphasis on magic and combat being near extinction.

If someone wanted to keep crit fails just make them only apply on your first attack of the turn. That at least makes them not worse for martials than casters

as much as I would love to combo gwm with graze, wouldn't it be impossible since it says the damage can only be increased by increasing the ability modifier?

I had a guy explain to me once that mechanically in a tabletop rpg, a very early firearm (those medieval hand cannons) is basically just a reskinned heavy crossbow. Theyd have a similar reload mechanic, similar damage dice, and would simply follow the same rules for a heavy crossbow during combat.. except it would do piercing and bludgeoning damage and take a -2 to your attack roll (early firearms were not the most accurate ranged weapon. Lol); which frankly makes them mechanically inferior to the heavy crossbow. Even if youre using more advanced firearms; the most theyll do is, what, a couple d6, maybe a couple d8s per shot? Literally every single casting class can do more damage than that by level 5, 8 at the latest. Frankly, im all for early firearms in 5e.. especially since youd need to give up some stats for the exotic weaponry feat to even use it properly, otherwise youre gonna be at a -4 to your roll. Like, i mean.. cmon. Youre telling me that NO artificer would think to make a gun? They can make all sorts of grenades and stuff, you cannot tell me that not one single artificer would see gunpowder exploding and wonder "hey, what if i put something infront of it".

That's trolling. I was expecting the bullshit notion of grieving over dead characters. Like from critical role where taffer got bored with the custom build character and wanted to swap to a cleric.

Apparently you can technically play as vergil in dnd as a fallen angel blade singer

It's great in SCA.

This will not work for all tables.

The first example of burning the web, was something that was done in game we all faild our strength save besides the Barbarian but he couldn't get out past the web. Everyone was freaking out, I offered to burn the web because that's all I could do the party majority agreed so I burned the web then used my movement speed to catch up with our escaping enemy.

Or... Here me out. . . . . . Just play a winged kobold.

i genuinely cannot believe my brother let me play this, it is so overpowered

Mediocre spells : good when smart and cheap -any kind of damage will cause a concentration check, which you can use as a second chance to break conc. with -Has 60 feet range, can fly, can be cast against ranged enemy who have unmanuevrable high ground like a watchtower to harass it -Force damage, never know when you might need it. -Can synergize with other spells allow advantage on attack or free crits, like hold person, which contributes to not dying faster unlike healing word -Has no health, can move across surfaces without range limitations to hit that da*n lever to activate the thingy, if no alternatives.

I think the intent of the spell is to say that natural traps aren't covered but manmade ones are. Still the fact it is a 2nd level slot and doesn't reveal where a trap is located is silly.

I want someone to tell me how useful this feature is if it uses my homebrew heroic critical which adds max dmg of a roll + your dmg roll. Id allow brutal criticals extra dice be part of the max dmg and the roll.

A lot of craftiness and rules lawyering

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I have an example of griefing where I was the griefer but I legitimately didn't know how not to act in that way. We were starting a new campaign, and pretty much the only worldbuilding guidance we got was that their were two empires, and elvish and a human, who are locked in war. Wanting to integrate my character with the world, I created an eloquence bard half elf who I said passed as human and was secretly a spy for the elvish empire. We had no session zero and I had no idea what the other charaters were or even whether the empires would play a major role in the adventure we were playing. At the first session it turns out that all the other players are devoted to the human empire and hate the elves, and literally our first plot hook is that we encounter a group of elvish warriors carrying a McGuffin that is crucial to the war. A fight breaks out with the players trying to take down the elves and steal the McGuffin. I felt that I couldn't justify my character not helping the elves, so I tried to secretly use spells to hinder my own party, like calm emotions and suggestion. I felt really bad because I hadn't wanted to be griefing or pvping but I just couldn't see any other way for me to play my character.

So what is the MOST complicated spell?

For some cases, if someone the DM controls needs to succeed a saving throw to end an effect (that leaves them incapacitated) at the end of each of their turns, the DM can just roll multiple to see when they succeed, skipping each turn they'd do nothing in.

Say what you want about s&b but shields offer 2+ AC and if you’re prot that can save a squishy. The catch for me is either make sure you’re healing well or doing CC if you’re not capable of doing damage and being tanky.

Rules as written: PLAYERS HANDBOOK EXCERPT BEGIN *********************************** "The DM decides when circumstances are appropriate for hiding. When you try to hide, make a Dexterity (Stealth) check. UNTIL YOU ARE DISCOVERED or YOU STOP HIDING, that check’s total is contested by the Wisdom (Perception) check of any creature that ACTIVELY searches for signs of your presence. You can’t hide from a creature that CAN SEE YOU CLEARLY, and you give away your position IF YOU: Make noise, such as shouting a warning or knocking over a vase. An invisible creature can always try to hide. Signs of its passage might still be noticed, and it does have to stay quiet. In combat, most creatures stay alert for signs of danger all around, so if you come out of hiding and approach a creature, it USUALLY sees you. However, under certain circumstances, the DM MIGHT ALLOW you to stay hidden as you approach a creature that is distracted, allowing you to gain advantage on an attack roll before you are seen. PLAYERS HANDBOOK EXCERPT END ********************************* These ARE the rules as written. This might not have been what they intended however, it is what they wrote though! You'll notice that in the first two paragraphs clearly establish the following facts: Fact 1: You're considered hidden until you are discovered. Fact 2: There are only two things that can break your stealth they are: A:) if a creature can see you clearly B:) A loud noise. Thusly, to say when you attack you reveal your position is incorrect. You might reveal yourself if you're seen. When it comes to the auditory aspect I'd argue it has a greater chance of leading to your detection unless the auditory sound leads to you directly being seen visually. Your creeping up behind a guard and the candle stick you pilfered falls out of your pack clanging to the floor the guard looks back yeah bro your detected. Then there's the whole does it rise to the level of auditory equivalence. Is a bow twang louder than a vase breaking? What about whispers in the night?

6:14 the right way to play DND is the fun way if you can’t have fun playing DND or you’re too much of a problem player every time you have fun and it’s not fun because you keep getting kicked then DND ain’t the game for you

Ok, but I feel like if your paladin sees your warlock doing some evil acts like stealing, aiding the enemy, or harming innocent npcs, and you step in, it's the warlock's fault. If the warlock didn't behave like an enemy, then he wouldn't get treated like one

It has happened to me while playing a swarm keeper that a playing threw fire on my web while sounding optimistic. After combat I asked him "why?" and he said really happy that it was to deal more damage. It happens. He didn't mean harm. I explained to him that if they are stuck we get more turns to attack them and that does more damage than burning the web and his mind was blown! Everyone won that day.

I use this rule and I actually think it works. I've experimented with other homebrew rules and this is the easiest to remember and apply. The problem for me isn't one of mechanics, it's one of verisimilitude. If you've never been knocked all the way the fuck out it will completely cross your wires and scramble your eggs. Watch any boxing match where a fighter needs a standing 8 count. That man is barely on this planet. The idea that somebody could go all the way unconscious, heal 1% of their damage, and be just as effective as they were when they first got into the fight is the biggest fantasy of all.

I don't know much about the community, so I can't speak to how much players overrate optimizing action economy. I'm just going to believe you on that though, and I think your points are very agreeable! Now that you've engaged me, I'd like to chime in: Your takedown of action economy optimization in favor of optimizing dmg and efficiency, seems very solid to me. However, when you introduce the alternative "optimization objective" of minimizing enemy action economy, it stirred the devil's advocate in me: I think it's a super smart and elegant way of flipping the argument around, but there are some subtle issues with ending on that idea, in my opinion. Consider this: one would have to rate the effectiveness of removing enemy action economy based on the efficiency and damage output of their specific actions as well; Just as you say with the player actions: power is power. To elaborate: we could conceive of plenty of encounters (in fact, almost every encounter the more I think about it) where disabling a certain enemy's action economy has a far larger effect on mitigating the loss to our own health and resources, than disabling the action economy of another enemy with a different, less threatening skillset/target/position. You worded it best yourself: Winning with reasonable (I would say minimized) losses to your resources. This! This strikes me as a more robust formulation of the ideal "objective function" of optimal play. You hit the nail on the head already there. Your further discussion on minimizing enemy action economy is very fun and engaging, but I argue it would still be just another variable which has a high impact on the objective function, but does not describe the objective itself, just as the play action economy doesn't. It does have a far higher effect in general than the player action economy though, I think you proved that quite solidly! That being said, I want to stress again that your idea of "minimizing loss of resources to pass encounters" wins out over both as the be-all-end-all objective of optimal play. Thanks for the fun video!

Probably the worst case of griefing I’ve ever experienced was with a fellow player playing a life domain cleric ‘pacifist’. He wasn’t even really trying to actively sabotage (at first), but he clearly thought playing a healer who refused to participate in combat in a cooperative game was somehow okay. To give a few examples of things that actually happened in this campaign: -Party fights some skeletons. Cleric is afraid of undead, runs into the next room and barricades the door, then proceeds to spring a pitfall trap that nearly kills them while the rest of us are still fighting. -After getting inadvertently split from the party in a dungeon, overhears the party getting into a fight and proceeds to outright decide ‘I won’t see if they need help because I don’t want to fight, so I’ll go explore a different room instead.’ Proceeds to walk in on a bunch of bugbears who try to attack them. They decide they’re going to run towards the rest of the party, bringing the bugbears with them as the rest of us are already dealing with a hard fight, leading to a player death and a near TPK. -After some ‘character development’ where they decide they now hate undead, the party encounters a flame skull and some other monsters and want to avoid fighting them, so the ranger makes clever use of shape water to seal the door they’re behind shut with an ice block…only for the cleric to use Destroy water to remove the ice block because ‘I have to destroy all undead now’, resulting in a fireball hitting all of us and again nearly killing everyone. At some point I just couldn’t understand if it was a deliberate choice to sabotage or if they were just that out of touch with the unspoken rules of the game.

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"Lawful stupid" can work... IF the DM and players understand this is a character flaw that will need to be changed or "redeemed" through story.

too bad paladin is now the worst class in the game

The section about not retaining class levels seems to me like it’s there for DM shenanigans. Obviously you’d want to not just spring this on a player with no warning, but collaborating with a player to infiltrate the party by having their character taken over by an evil wizard in a jar sounds like fun drama.

so UwU

Aw, wouldn't want the poor fighter to feel useless. But seriously, sounds like the GM just doesnt know his stuff, explicitly telling the party: A) the golem has a resistance B) he, as the gm, forgot it had that resistance C) he's going to keep it's resistance anyway For me a lot of the fun comes from the fighter taking that first swing and his sword bouncing off, then having to be terrified the rest of the fight (I'm sure up to this point he's had very little trouble fighting anything at all) while his teammates rush in to save him. And all of that is lost if you gave him a magic weapon before the encounter. Like why even play with resistance rules if you're just gonna give everyone a way to bypass them before they encounter it?

Is Gator a Kobold or a Lizardfolk?

A bit nit picky, we know how Rule Is Intended. I thought tremorsense would negate invisibility? There are a ton of more needy fixes in 5E -long rest is a worthy fix, Pack Tactics mentions casting spells just b4 rest finishes then regaining slots, dont know any DMs letting that fly, most rest casting is done b4 rest commences with extended metamagic Or the most hated is Goodberry with leftover slots b4 rest & your B rule wont fix that

"Respectively" vs. "Respectfully" is such a good word change 🔥

Does this make you immune to counterspell and silence?

I find that the other players do the worst things to screw up my wizard.

{Note: everyone is close longtime friends, of between 15-40i years... The campaign started maybe 4-6 months into the pandemic, and lets face it... Everyone went at least a little crazy in our own unique ways at the time... High strees and/or cabin fever?} 'Luck Favors The Bold' 'I always land on my feet' 'Friends Are Worth Dying For' 'jumps in with both feet without testing the waters. Chaotic Good Halfling Ranger(5)/ Rogue(1), playing the Acquisitions Inc. campaign... Dandy (me) was always making 'questionable judgement' calls, like climbing in the poison Jacuzzi in ch. 1, or jumping in to hold off 3-4 enemies so our warlocks were safe... Or running too far ahead of the group on the first roundnof combat to take out enemy archers/etc. (gloomstalker class bonus movement and attack use-it-or-lose-it)... Reckless little phuq, but tried to make sure not to jeopardize otheers in the party. Anyhow... We fiinish up with the grove (near the end of the campaign) and are talking to an NPC... I asked if the waters were no longer corrupted and received affirmation. I state Damdy is walking down to the water, everyone else is asking the NPC about other things. I state that I fill a canteen, store it away, then cup my hands, scoop some water, and take a drink for myself... (Hey, Dandy was thirsty, NPC implied it was no longer tainted, and I wanna make sure it is safe for if/when my friends use it later... DM: Wait, you actually do that?! Me: Yep DM: (frustrangrily) That's stupid. I thought you were joking when you said that... Youre Really going to drink from their sacred waters? Me: c'mon, its TOTALLY what Dandy would do! And the deed is done. (Mumbled agreement from a few others over Discord) DM: (huffs) Fine, make a percentile roll, I need to find the relevant table... DM doesnt find one in the campaign, looks thru the DM handbook, finds one he doesnt hate the results of, I roll, DM looks at the corresponding result and rejects the option, goes to an adjacent bracket, doesnt like it.. picks another nearby bracket, doesnt fit. Third time is the charm? Guess so. DM: Dandy goes into a deep sleep and iis unable to be roused for [d] days. Make a copy of your character sheet and adjust it so Dandy is back to being level 1 (rogue) Summary: I was going to have to do some soul searching and make reparations so my character would have some epiphany and mellow out/learn fear or something... I state that Dandy would have NO reason to think that way... He'd see it as a blessing or favor... I mean, the last time he was that age he didn't have the friends, connections, resources oragical equipment... He'd see it as a do-over in life where this time he has all these advantages... I tried to appease him somewhat by having our cleric teach me to pray and speak with her god to find out why my luck has seem dnti change (leas effective in combat, no spells, damage seems to take a higher percentage of my total HP, etc. Luck doesnt know, hasnt don wnythin g... So we try to contact the mother of halflings god - the roll sucks so best we can glean is that she wasn't connected with it either... A dead end... [Some of the other players were grumpy at this point, one mentioning the whole thing was a [Minotaur's solid waste product] they lhad looked it up and the campaign had no negatives attached to my irreverant hydration, the table the DM used had shown my roll actually giving me a positive outcome, until cherry -picked to a nearby result, tthat DM tacked on the magical coma, and fabricated the down-leveling as there was nothing that causes a loss of levels, short of -1 when you die. I agtee and thank him, but mention its hthe DMs campaign, its within his right to make sure bitrary changes and DMs have the hardest job, and final say.. just happy that we were still able to get together for our Friday Night Gaming ritual, even if virtual... Blahblah happy stuff... I was enjoying it im a masochistic nihilistic way... Well, we get to the final arch of the final chapter... Intellect devourers... I do rath well on my rolls until near the end of battle, where one goes in for a mental enack of lvl 1 goodness and my save doesn't quite make the cut. Next round save is at disadvantage which I failed (due to ddisadvantage) Level 1 Dandy'e intellect has been devoured. Slain on the spot without a way to revive short of a wish spell ora high level itual magic ... The party forges on, and in the last battle doesn't do so well - our Bard dies, but still has a brain so they can be resurrected. The rest of the group, down two members, is pretty much toast until the DM story-modes their success (it was close, a few of the bad rolls near the end were retcon'd)... After the narrow ?victory? the group makes it back to town. Yadda yadda bare com s bqck with -1 level, somehow using our connections they get Lvl 1 Dandy brought back as well. So we hit the final milestone and 🔔ding, leaving the party as lvl 7s, bard level 6, Dandy level 2... A long, fun campaign was derailed and turned into a frustrating and wholly unsatisfying end (saved by retcon the following week doesn't sit well, and the hand-me-down final rewards and level ups for characters being immediately archived... Meh, who freaking cares? But... !!! Dandy is a legitimate level 2 character with plenty of gold, two or three rares, and a handful of top notch unncommons, commendations, fame and renown, and is in the prime of his youtth, barely considered an adult ... A character which could be used in future low level campaigns... Who can also elect to take a different path in life when reclaiming levels 3-6... See? Its true... Dandy DOES always land on his feet, leading a charmed existence, favored by the gods... Even afte being subject of a griefing which ultimately killed the vibe for everyone in the final weeks of a 5-6 month long campaign.