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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #8745 on: October 04, 2021, 06:36:30 am »

How "simple" of a simple shape would you allow for the Shape Water spell? Are we talking just cubes/spheres/pyramids, or would you allow for things more like a Lego block, or some other object with multiple sticky-outy bits?

I really want to piece together the Popsicle Wizard with Prestidigitation and Shape Water, but that "simple shapes" limitation is kinda being the hurdle between "handing out dozens of popsicles an hour" and "handing out one colossally huge popsicle an hour"

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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #8746 on: October 04, 2021, 08:43:22 am »

I'd say simple shapes, but a wizard with proficiency in ice sculpting can go ham

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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #8747 on: October 04, 2021, 08:52:27 am »

I really want to piece together the Popsicle Wizard with Prestidigitation and Shape Water, but that "simple shapes" limitation is kinda being the hurdle between "handing out dozens of popsicles an hour" and "handing out one colossally huge popsicle an hour"

Look, a single dragon is a more important friend than 100 commoner...

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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #8748 on: October 04, 2021, 05:32:45 pm »

You can get as complex a shape as vertices you can hold in your brain~
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #8749 on: October 04, 2021, 05:50:55 pm »

I really want to piece together the Popsicle Wizard with Prestidigitation and Shape Water, but that "simple shapes" limitation is kinda being the hurdle between "handing out dozens of popsicles an hour" and "handing out one colossally huge popsicle an hour"

Why do I think this might be relevant?
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #8750 on: October 04, 2021, 06:35:06 pm »

If push comes to shove, why not stone shape yourself an ice tray?
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #8751 on: October 04, 2021, 07:36:34 pm »

Relatedly, druid flashlight: woodshape a case and handle around a relatively smooth rock. Cast light on the rock.

(or get everburning flame cast on it via a friendly wizard and fashion a lever-action cover to make it fancy)

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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #8752 on: October 05, 2021, 05:02:26 am »

Look, a single dragon is a more important friend than 100 commoner...

The accuracy of this statement depends on whether the DM allows use of the Peasant Railgun.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #8753 on: October 05, 2021, 05:05:20 am »

Also depends on the dragon, and the .. ahem... nature of the "Friendship."
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« Reply #8754 on: October 05, 2021, 01:27:57 pm »

A friend wants to try out her DMing abilities by doing a mini-campaign for a few of us.

So, naturally, we're gonna be starting at level 8 and flavored as lesser devils in our home plane of Avernus.


I haven't really landed on any real character concepts for this, but I did unfortunately bump into a build recently that can fart out 8 GWM attacks in one round at level 8, which I will not be using because I don't want to munchkin the fuck out of her first campaign.

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« Reply #8755 on: October 05, 2021, 04:42:03 pm »

Why wouldn't you want to make it a thematically hellish campaign?
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« Reply #8756 on: October 05, 2021, 10:26:21 pm »

The accuracy of this statement depends on whether the DM allows use of the Peasant Railgun.

I was just hanging out with my dragon friend, eating an enormous popsicle when a popsicle moving at 1000ft/second flew straight through its skull! That damn rival Popsicle Wizard...

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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #8757 on: October 06, 2021, 12:15:19 am »

A bit of a crossover with the random thought thread, but I think this picture from the 3rd edition monster manual had a strong effect on me.



It's very evocative. I think Primal and a couple of my D&D characters probably owe some of their mental DNA to that illustration.
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« Reply #8758 on: October 06, 2021, 10:20:28 am »

Also depends on the dragon, and the .. ahem... nature of the "Friendship."
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #8759 on: October 06, 2021, 02:04:48 pm »

Why wouldn't you want to make it a thematically hellish campaign?

I mean, a slightly different build at level 9 can do 6 attacks with superadvantage in a round.

"Oh, it's my initiative? Okay, uh, well, lemme just roll 18d20 real quick..."


Also, I'm pretty sure it's the players who are supposed to be trudging through hell, not the DM :P
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