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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6150 on: November 10, 2018, 09:12:11 am »

Okay, so... Let's say Ranger X with either a level of Rogue or just spending a feat on Prodigy. Pick up expertise in Perception and the Observant feat. Max out Wisdom (want a combat stat too? Too bad, take Shillelagh as yet another feat or just suck it up).

In your favored terrain at level 20, you now have a passive Perception roll of 10+12+5+5 = 32.

Proceed to never be able to sleep again, since you hear everything.


Or you could just decide to cultivate an antimagic moustache as a Gnomish Paladin and enjoy advantage on mental saves vs. magic and also add your CHA mod to them. The +2 Int will really be useful here, as you're gonna need to be pretty damn smart to figure out how you're gonna do anything as a pipsqueak pally.


EDIT: As an aside, anybody else get a bit disappointed by reading some grand tale of tabletop nonsense, getting into it, and then uncovering that it's blatantly a fabrication? Bleh... I'm not even halfway through yet, there's still at least like thirty chapters to go.

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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6151 on: November 10, 2018, 12:33:15 pm »

Which one might that be? The only long running game tales I'm aware of at the moment are Steelshod and the All Guardsman Party.
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« Reply #6152 on: November 10, 2018, 01:17:50 pm »

Which one might that be? The only long running game tales I'm aware of at the moment are Steelshod and the All Guardsman Party.
I'm reading "Memories of a Stone Wall", which starts off at least somewhat pretending to be an in-character account of a Legend of the Five Rings campaign. It becomes fairly obvious fairly quickly that it's just an exceptionally long fictional greentext.

I also got finished reading The Industrious Rogue for the first time a few days ago, which spurred the interest in reading more tales of craziness.

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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6153 on: November 10, 2018, 04:40:25 pm »

Deinonychus Cavalier 1/Ranger 1/Druid however many. Rides a Tyrannosaurus into battle, learned languages out of spite, and summons swarms of velociraptors as it's primary combat role.

This would be the most Crazy Awesome BBEG ever.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6154 on: November 10, 2018, 05:40:50 pm »

BONUS points, if it places the helmet ON the T-Rex, and has initiated the training process on its mount.

(Imagines tiny fireballs shooting from short stubby T-Rex arms, followed by horrible biting.)

(See also, Master-Blaster, Dinosaur style--)

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« Reply #6155 on: November 10, 2018, 06:32:08 pm »

Deinonychus Cavalier 1/Ranger 1/ Druid 10

Tyrannosaurus Wizard 10
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« Reply #6156 on: November 10, 2018, 07:17:58 pm »

Deinonychus Cavalier 1/Ranger 1/ Druid 10

Tyrannosaurus Wizard 10
It has to be at least Cavalier 3, since Fighter can't pick up archetypes until 3rd level, but otherwise good. Honestly, the Deinonychus stats are even pretty good for these classes, and you'd only have to bump up the wisdom 1 point to make it work with multiclass rules.
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« Reply #6157 on: November 10, 2018, 08:34:32 pm »

Deinonychus Cavalier 1/Ranger 1/ Druid 10

Tyrannosaurus Wizard 10
It has to be at least Cavalier 3, since Fighter can't pick up archetypes until 3rd level, but otherwise good. Honestly, the Deinonychus stats are even pretty good for these classes, and you'd only have to bump up the wisdom 1 point to make it work with multiclass rules.


Well for my scaly BBEG we can easily set him at Cavalier 3/Druid 10, assume that first level 4 point is WIS plus maybe a few booster items easily affordable with level 13 cash. Then bring on the Dinopain.
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« Reply #6158 on: November 12, 2018, 01:40:59 pm »

I love this.

DM says "let's run through Teen Sex: The Movie!" and comes up with lots of love mechanics and interpersonal connections between the PCs.

Actually puts the characters through Friday the 13th.
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« Reply #6159 on: November 12, 2018, 03:31:34 pm »

Teen Sex: The Movie!"
Just a heads up for everyone: this is not a real movie; do not Google this phrase if you're at work or whatever.
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« Reply #6160 on: November 12, 2018, 03:54:18 pm »

Yeah. Paraphrased. Sorry. The faux title was mentioned somewhere in the video but I didn't want to click around to find it. If you've seen modern "party teens" slasher flicks, you can probably get the gist of what the movie is supposed to be about.
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« Reply #6161 on: November 12, 2018, 04:29:44 pm »

I think he called in Summerspell in the podcast. I listened and enjoyed this for 5 minutes, and I'll probably check out the rest pretty soon. Is anything else they've worth listening to too, out of curiosity?
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« Reply #6162 on: November 12, 2018, 04:35:07 pm »

Jumanji and Back to the Future were pretty good.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #6163 on: November 12, 2018, 04:59:11 pm »

Ahem: PTW

Also i’ll be testing out the PF2.0 beta sometime in the next weeks so that’s neat.
Still would probably rather play dnd5 though
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« Reply #6164 on: November 29, 2018, 09:49:49 pm »

Just remembered this campaign setting that was devised in this thread last year, and disappointed that no one thought to refer to it as bloodpunk.
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