Dungeons and Dragons Megathread
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Okay if you are both level 3 that means that her maximum damage without magical weapons is
1d8+4 , as she can't have more then strengh 15 as a elf.
So her avage damage is 9+7 per turn or 8 per attack leaving her with 16 outgoing.
Your damage on the other hand is 1d8+2/3 (depending on your strengh and if you have duelling fighting style or not) and 2d8 further damage from the smite so in the barebone version you deal around 8ish damage per turn compared to her 16,
But then you might use your sppells for that, like using command to force her to throw her weapons away...
shepsquared
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Okay, it sounds like the following is true:
- The DM has let people take a feat at level 1 by trading out a weapon proficiency or something (you got the better deal out of this though. Alert is way better than the dual-wielding feat)
- The barbarian has gotten the rules for dual wielding confused
- The barbarian missed the text that makes the vast majority of barbarians use Str
- The barbarian is super wrong about how their resistance while raging works
- You're only getting 2 significant fights a day or the barbarian missed the text about only having 2
- You either rolled stats or had a crazy point buy
Sit down with your DM and the other players and explain the rules issues and the rp issues. If the others are going to be difficult, just do it with the DM.
LordInsane
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1 was already known before Paizocon, the thing that seemed more up in the air - which Paizocon playing wouldn't reveal - was if this was a firm Starfinder design principle or if they might maybe make 9th level caster at some later point if they feel they can do it right. 3 seems like it might make 'some good stuff' even more important - if there's no concentration checks, will they still have an equivalent of casting defensively? If not then it means being threatened could do a lot more to shut down spellcasting, which I guess isn't necessarily a bad thing but still feels somewhat wrong.
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That was my thought on defensive casting as well. I hope it's a thing still. Otherwise Mystics and Technomancers will almost never be built as gishes. Which is sad, I like gish.
I'm really curious about the 9th/6th level casting stuff. Will they make Eox liches templated to get full wizard spells, since that was their flavor in Pathfinder, or will there be an in universe explanation for things like why gods no longer grant 9th level spells when they did for thousands and thousands of years.
Valkur
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Can I PM you guys about this and invite both of you? I talked with the dm but i want to make sure that my points are clear on why the barb is so broken right now.
shepsquared
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I mean, what powers are you thinking of?
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Looking back on this, I think I'm going to go with the following thanks to your suggestions:
1) Shark Telepathy is turning into Innate Spellcasting. The new text for the trait will be "You can cast Speak with Animals an unlimited number of times with this trait, but you can only use it to communicate with sharks. Starting at 3rd level, you can also cast Animal Friendship an unlimited number of times with this trait, but you can target only sharks with it. Wisdom is your spell casting ability for these spells." This allows all Sahuagin to at least communicate with sharks (and generally at least keep such encounters non-Hostile), and by third level allows them to (more often than not, especially if taking Animal Handling) direct them as allies.
2) Limited Amphibiousness will be broken down into two traits: Limited Amphibiousness, and Prowler of the Depths. Prowler of the Depth is, for all intents and purposes, Guardians of the Depth. You have resistance to cold damage, and ignore any of the drawbacks caused by deep, underwater environments. Limited Amphibiousness meanwhile has the basic rules of Amphibious (can breathe air and water), with the caveat that "Whenever you complete a Long Rest without spending at least half of its duration submerged, doused, or otherwise saturated via fresh or salt water, you do not regenerate any previously spent Hit Dice." This allows you to refresh yourself back to full with a Long Rest regardless of water supplies and does not penalize your party for taking one or more Short Rests during an expedition, but still encourages bringing spare water. How? By not bringing supplies to submerge yourself often, one of the chief advantages of a "typical" Adventuring day (having two short rests to burn HD between encounters) can quickly stop applying for you, causing a drain on the party's active healing resources.
Sound good?
LordInsane
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I did a roundabout question about it on Paizo's forum (the AoO simplification was mentioned in a blog post), and it sounds like casting defensively is gone, but AoOs are now clarified to happen directly after the triggering action, meaning you don't lose the spell (if it has a casting time of 1 standard action - or less, presumably) since you get off the spell and then get AoO'd - plus, most healing touch-range spells and "a few other touch spells" specify they do not provoke.
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Oh, ok, that's a lot better. I like this rule change, then. High risk/high reward, not just pumping up items and feats into raising the roll arbitrarily high to cast defensively.
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So, what's y'alls opionions on were creatures and what are some of the more stupid or awesome ones you've seen or come up with?
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IMO, Lycanthropy should be a curse, "You can shape shift when you want and do awesome stuff with no real penalties" something else that's similar in some manners but different in others. This curse can be milder with certain forms / creatures, or under certain situations, but it should never be a direct upgrade or 90%+ buffs.
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How about entothropes?
"Were you... always a goblin?" - line my character had a chance to use in new game I'm in.
In Bestiary 6 it's definitely a curse.
In Bestiary 6 it's definitely a curse.
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Not too familiar with them, a casual Google search says they're a fancy PF name for Insect Lycanthropes (odd considering there's never been problems with other PnP games using the term to cover things like Were-Reptiles or Were-Birds or whatnot) and nothing else so I'd say "Same thing". Lycanthropy was often seen mythologically as either a plague / curse / punishment upon its bearer (Most forms of Werewolves), or associated with evil beings (such as Werehyenas), with cases otherwise (such as the divine Wereleopard) often only lumped into the "Were" category because people aren't familiar with the various other terms / types of "Has the ability to transform into an animal / possesses a blend of human and animal features" so they hear "They can become an animal / have animal traits" and immediately go "Ah, Lycanthrope.".
D&D / PF Lycanthropy is odd in that in some regards it tends to borrow heavily from historic Lycanthropy (it's ostensibly seen as a Curse, it is often transmitted via bite or scratch or such [not universal in Werewolf mythology, but common enough to be in the same boat as many vampire weaknesses], etcetera) but in others it tends to be closer to other aspects / examples of Therianthropy as a whole (ex: that often times it's only seen as a curse not because it's a punishment or leads to horrific acts, for example, but because "Something something don't understand something something fear something different").
Rambling aside: PnP settings can have people who shape shift but I'm getting a bit sick of the prevalence of "You're cursed… WITH AWESOME!" style Lycanthropy. Then again Vampirism had the same issue for much of 2E through 3.PF's era.
Aye, but I'm not sure Wulver is necessarily the best example as from the look of things it appears to constantly be in a sort of intermediary stage between "human" and "hybrid" form (bearing the head and exceptional body hair, but no more) with Werewolves generally seen as shape shifters either in possession of at least two stages (Human and Hybrid or Human and Animal in the very least) or the result of one being fully turned into another.
I feel as though arthropods generally get the short stick when it comes to MM's, one of the last types of creature that can universally be summed up as "Bad Guys" / "Naturally Evil".
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The sample werewasp is CN and a cleric of Calistria, the CN elven goddess (who's sacred animal is, of course, the wasp). It's not alignment that makes it a curse, but it notes when someone transformers, they should lose control of their character til they're untransformed.
So your wasp form may not be evil, but it's still running around with a mind of it's own. That's the curse.
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My point in that regard was more that a lot of times when Insects (Lycanthropic, Anthropomorphized, Gigantic, otherwise) are portrayed, they're almost always going to be lumped into two categories: Evil (probably ~66-80% of the time when not simply Gigantic or Natural) or Neutral (everything else and the remainder of Gigantic / Natural). A few mammals get this schtick still, as do Snakes, but they're generally the final holdouts and most probably stem in some part due to either (in the mammal's case) being seen as pests or outright giving people the heebie-jeebies.
As said, those tend to fall more under something else in the Therianthropy blanket but are tl;dr'd into "Were-" because - as far as most Westerners are concerned - if it can take a human form and a not-human form it's a Were. Sorta like how Minotaurs and a lot of other "Animal Head Human Body" creatures were slowly turned into more anthropomorphic versions of their hybrid animal over time in popular culture despite there being quite stark mythological differences between "Helenistic Minotaur" and the general category "Anthropomorphic Bull".
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Double post due to a completely different style of content.
Another Monstrous-Race-As-PC WIP for a home-brew I'm working on, the Ettercap. Still need to hammer out a few points of the cosmology (one of which is already in need of changing), but re:reference to Fey kin I do intend Ettercaps and Fey to be distantly related (in part why they get along like fire and petrol).
Does this look roughly acceptable / balanced for a PC, or in need of a little more padding? The tl;dr is that they are relatively mobile in rough terrain (as well as conductive to aiding party members in such environments), fairly self-sufficient, pretty good in a grappling melee, and can pack a nasty bite, but at the same time see diminishing returns in protracted confrontations.
Another Monstrous-Race-As-PC WIP for a home-brew I'm working on, the Ettercap. Still need to hammer out a few points of the cosmology (one of which is already in need of changing), but re:reference to Fey kin I do intend Ettercaps and Fey to be distantly related (in part why they get along like fire and petrol).
Ability Score Increase: Your Dexterity score increases by 2, and your Strength score increases by 1.
Age: Ettercaps mature within three years of hatching, though typically claim adulthood at the age of ten. While some Ettercaps enjoy the everlasting longevity of their Fey cousins, most have their bodies fail somewhere in their third decade.
Alignment: Lawful?
Size: Ettercaps range from barely four feet to almost seven feet in height, often possessing long and spindly limbs. Your size is Medium.
Speed: Your base walking speed is 30', with a Climb Speed of 30'.
Darkvision: Your multitudinous eyes offer superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60' of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
Bite: Your dagger-like fangs form a natural weapon, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d4 + your Dexterity modifier instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.
Clawed Digits: Because of your specialized claws, you can climb difficult surfaces - including upside down and along ceilings - without needing an ability check so long as your hands are otherwise free. In addition, your claws are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.
Envenomed Bite: Though at a lesser rate than your Araneaen kin, you can still produce a potent venom. Once when you hit a creature with your Bite attack, they must make a Constitution saving throw, taking 7 (2d6) poison damage on a failed save or half as much on a successful one. You regain the ability to use this trait whenever you finish a short or long rest.
Obligate Hunter: You have proficiency in the Survival skill.
Spinnerets: As part of a short rest, you can utilize your silk glands to produce one of the following options: Two nets, a rope ladder (10-foot), 25' of silk rope, a silk hunting trap, or a backpack. A silk hunting trap has all the rules of a regular hunting trap, but does not deal any damage. Such hurried constructs always break down within one week of their production. In addition, when grappling with a Large or smaller creature you can use your Attack action to make a Net attack against them.
Languages: You can speak, read, and write Araneaen and one other language of your choice. Most Ettercaps learn Sylvan as their second language.
Age: Ettercaps mature within three years of hatching, though typically claim adulthood at the age of ten. While some Ettercaps enjoy the everlasting longevity of their Fey cousins, most have their bodies fail somewhere in their third decade.
Alignment: Lawful?
Size: Ettercaps range from barely four feet to almost seven feet in height, often possessing long and spindly limbs. Your size is Medium.
Speed: Your base walking speed is 30', with a Climb Speed of 30'.
Darkvision: Your multitudinous eyes offer superior vision in dark and dim conditions. You can see in dim light within 60' of you as if it were bright light, and in darkness as if it were dim light. You can't discern color in darkness, only shades of gray.
Bite: Your dagger-like fangs form a natural weapon, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal piercing damage equal to 1d4 + your Dexterity modifier instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.
Clawed Digits: Because of your specialized claws, you can climb difficult surfaces - including upside down and along ceilings - without needing an ability check so long as your hands are otherwise free. In addition, your claws are natural weapons, which you can use to make unarmed strikes. If you hit with them, you deal slashing damage equal to 1d4 + your Strength modifier, instead of the bludgeoning damage normal for an unarmed strike.
Envenomed Bite: Though at a lesser rate than your Araneaen kin, you can still produce a potent venom. Once when you hit a creature with your Bite attack, they must make a Constitution saving throw, taking 7 (2d6) poison damage on a failed save or half as much on a successful one. You regain the ability to use this trait whenever you finish a short or long rest.
Obligate Hunter: You have proficiency in the Survival skill.
Spinnerets: As part of a short rest, you can utilize your silk glands to produce one of the following options: Two nets, a rope ladder (10-foot), 25' of silk rope, a silk hunting trap, or a backpack. A silk hunting trap has all the rules of a regular hunting trap, but does not deal any damage. Such hurried constructs always break down within one week of their production. In addition, when grappling with a Large or smaller creature you can use your Attack action to make a Net attack against them.
Languages: You can speak, read, and write Araneaen and one other language of your choice. Most Ettercaps learn Sylvan as their second language.
KingseekerFreyr
Currently kingseeking...
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Is it weird that I really like original flavor for classes and their class kits?
For example, my next character is going to be a Blade who is essentially Jackie Chan in a Wuxia film like Hero.
For example, my next character is going to be a Blade who is essentially Jackie Chan in a Wuxia film like Hero.