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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #7875 on: April 09, 2020, 11:21:59 am »

What spell level in 5e Dnd would you say a spell that turns all sunlight near the caster into moonlight for 8 hours be?
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #7876 on: April 09, 2020, 11:44:27 am »

Probably 2nd or 3rd, using the 2nd-level spell Darkness (which makes things dark for 10 minutes) as a template.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #7877 on: April 09, 2020, 12:03:51 pm »

I was just thinking such a spell would be pretty useful for a vampire.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #7878 on: April 09, 2020, 04:02:03 pm »

Maybe 2nd level and it only lasts 10 minutes, but you can cast at certain higher levels to make it last longer. Being immune to sunlight for an entire day would be pretty powerful for a low level spell, IMO.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #7879 on: April 09, 2020, 04:27:02 pm »

If it was a vampire NPC I'd probably just handwave it.  He just has a spell that does that, asuming the vampire in question was a reasonably powerful spellcaster.  Or it could be a majic item that does it in which case what the vampire is, is rather irrelevant.

You'd only need to stat it if the players want it, which with the standard PC races, I'd kinda doubt.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #7880 on: April 09, 2020, 04:33:40 pm »

That would also work as an at-will transformation for werebeasts, right? So long as they're out in the sun, at least.
Could actually make for a fun plot, about a werewolf which somehow attacks during the day.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #7881 on: April 09, 2020, 06:19:51 pm »

That would also work as an at-will transformation for werebeasts, right? So long as they're out in the sun, at least.
Could actually make for a fun plot, about a werewolf which somehow attacks during the day.
Am I misremembering, because I thought 5e werewolves have at-will transformations even in the day-time if they embrace the curse?
Or am I thinking of other werewolves?

The stat blocks I can find don't mention any restriction on transformation at least.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #7882 on: April 09, 2020, 07:53:31 pm »

Even the unwilling transformation probably isn't triggered by moonlight. After all, it occurs even if the victim is indoors and the Moonbeam spell, which is a concentrated death ray of moonlight, actually forces shapechangers into their original forms.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #7883 on: April 09, 2020, 07:58:47 pm »

That would also work as an at-will transformation for werebeasts, right? So long as they're out in the sun, at least.
Could actually make for a fun plot, about a werewolf which somehow attacks during the day.
Am I misremembering, because I thought 5e werewolves have at-will transformations even in the day-time if they embrace the curse?
Or am I thinking of other werewolves?

The stat blocks I can find don't mention any restriction on transformation at least.

Dunno about 5e fluff but before there were two types of lycanthrope.  Natural ones were born as werewolves, and could change shape whenever they felt like it, and could also take on a hybrid bipedal beast form.

The other type were afflicted types, who became werewolves by getting bit or cursed.  They follow the typical werewolf lore.  They are forced to change cyclically, and generally cannot control themselves in animal form.

I think stress or high damage could also force an afflicted werewolf to change into an animal as well.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #7884 on: April 09, 2020, 09:50:33 pm »

Werewolf lore has changed multiple times over the editions. I believe but am not certain that 5e lore generally follows 3.0's werewolf lore.
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #7885 on: April 19, 2020, 04:38:55 am »

I'm writing a 5e Druid cass guide for the Enworld forums. Any interest in me dropping it here first for some feedback? The Emworld crowd is...over passionate about this kind of thing and I'd rather get some friendly notes from here first.

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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #7886 on: April 19, 2020, 05:16:48 am »

I can't promise I'll be much help, but I'll read it if you do ;)
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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #7887 on: April 19, 2020, 08:14:21 am »

Well, I just lost all the work I put in on the races (which took about 3 hours since they're across so many damn books) so... might take a while.

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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #7888 on: April 19, 2020, 08:33:04 am »

Yeah drop it here, I could spare a few minutes or two. Also how do you guys do goblins? /tg/ DMs general rule of thumb is never let your players give the goblins names. The moment they have names the entire campaign becomes derailed

In my current campaign, there is an awakening deity about to end the world. All of our party are instead pursuing a quest to make our adopted goblin stronger, and are fighting over whether a mechanical cat is in fact, a murder weapon, or a normal clockwork cat

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Re: Dungeons & Dragons / PNP games thread: The Barren Snowflake Wastes
« Reply #7889 on: April 19, 2020, 08:46:47 am »

if not a murder weapon, what else would a normal cat be?
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