- Location
- The Usual Room
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Also, the (Partial) Character Sheet is up!
Of Fists and Faith - A 5th Edition D&D Quest
- Thread starter Novus Ordo Mundi
- Start date
- Location
- Indonesia
Yep, this is a pretty rounded plan. Alice has a buff modifier, a support skill, and an attack spell!
My vote:
[X] Plan: By the Light of the Moon!
My vote:
[X] Plan: By the Light of the Moon!
[X] Plan: By the Light of the Moon!
- Location
- The Usual Room
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Alright, so voting will end in 9 hours. Should be enough time to get some sleep. Already have the starting blessings ready to go, and I will give you the titles now. But not the benefit.
A Mind of Mercury
An Insight Beyond Insight
Ascetic Priestess
By The Light of Her Moon
By The Blood of His Son
Coexistence Through The Abyss
Fast Learner
Do No Harm
Do All Harm
Gifts From Faerun
Gifts Against Dark Dungeons
Holy Reservoir
Like the Wind
Like the Elements
Like the Shadows
Sheer Wind Strikes
Tattooed Monk
A Mind of Mercury
An Insight Beyond Insight
Ascetic Priestess
By The Light of Her Moon
By The Blood of His Son
Coexistence Through The Abyss
Fast Learner
Do No Harm
Do All Harm
Gifts From Faerun
Gifts Against Dark Dungeons
Holy Reservoir
Like the Wind
Like the Elements
Like the Shadows
Sheer Wind Strikes
Tattooed Monk
Archeo Lumiere
The Prince's Archivist
- Location
- Lumiose City, Kalos
- Pronouns
- He/Him/They/Them
I mean... It's kinda meant, isn't it?
That said... The counterpart illustrates her crisis of faith very well, bravo.
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LucidProp
Pocky Eating MafiaDoka
Being able to pull off some sort of syncretism between Selune and YHWH would be incredibly heretical. No wonder we're being hunted down.
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- Location
- The Usual Room
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- He/Him
Character Creation 03
- Location
- The Usual Room
- Pronouns
- He/Him
So, now it's time for your Starting Benefits. As a Full Human, you gain two benefits. These Benefits can and will affect you, and can possibly change the story in various ways. Vote as a plan, and remember to choose wisely.
A Mind of Mercury - If you have already used your Reaction, and you wish to use a Reaction, you may spend 1 Ki Point to do so.
Against Dark Dungeons - You gain Resistance against any damage Undead or Fiends deal to you. You roll with Advantage against any D20 Tests caused by a trap.
An Insight Beyond Insight - You roll all Insight Checks with Advantage, and can never be given Disadvantage on them.
Ascetic Priestess - You gain 2 more Level 1 spells, and a level 2 spell. You may cast them once for free, and may use Spell Slots to cast them normally.
By The Light of Her Moon - As long as you are on decent terms with Selune, you gain the following benefits
By The Blood of His Son - As long as you maintain the belief that Jesus dies on the cross to save you from your sins, and resurrected on the third day, you gain the following benefits:
Coexistence Through The Abyss - You are one of the very few who've gotten sucked through the Abyss, and made it back. Or more specifically, sent back. Your crisis of faith has been resolved, and now turned into a new resolve and mission. You gain 4 Starting Blessings of the DM's choice, as well as a couple of Feats. But for many people in many places, they will do everything in their power to kill you.
Do No Harm - Your Hand of Healing now does two rolls of your Martial Die plus Wisdom, instead of one.
Do All Harm - Your Hand of Harm is no longer once per turn. The first use of it requires no Focus Points
Fast Learner - You gain your Level 6 Warrior of Mercy ability now, the Level 11 ability at level 6, and the level 17 ability at level 11.
Gifts From Faerun - You gain a Ring of Defense, A Cloak of Defense, and Bracers of Defense.
Holy Reservoir - If you could cast a Cleric Spell with a Spell Slot, you may use Focus Point instead, equal to twice the Spell Level of the Spell being cast.
Ioun Saint - You gain 4 random Ioun Stones. Ioun Stones count together as one Attunement
Like the Wind - You may use Step of the Wind as part of any other Bonus Action you perform
Like the Elements - Your Unarmed Strikes may deal damage to a certain element. That element is determined at Random when this Benefit is chosen. Your Unarmed Strikes gain +10 Range
Like the Shadows - You can teleport through Dim Light or Darkness, up to 60 feet, as a Bonus Action
Sheer Wind Strikes - Your Unarmed Strikes gain the Graze property.
Tattooed Monk - You gain 3 Tattoos now, and 1 more every even Level. This Tattoos provide benefits. (A Subvote will commence)
[] Choose Two, as a Plan
A Mind of Mercury - If you have already used your Reaction, and you wish to use a Reaction, you may spend 1 Ki Point to do so.
Against Dark Dungeons - You gain Resistance against any damage Undead or Fiends deal to you. You roll with Advantage against any D20 Tests caused by a trap.
An Insight Beyond Insight - You roll all Insight Checks with Advantage, and can never be given Disadvantage on them.
Ascetic Priestess - You gain 2 more Level 1 spells, and a level 2 spell. You may cast them once for free, and may use Spell Slots to cast them normally.
By The Light of Her Moon - As long as you are on decent terms with Selune, you gain the following benefits
- You regain 1D3 Focus Point and Monk Level worth of HP at the start of your turn, as long as the moon is in the night sky.
- You gain Resistance to Lightning and Radiance Damage
- You gain Truesight and Blindsight up to 30 feet.
By The Blood of His Son - As long as you maintain the belief that Jesus dies on the cross to save you from your sins, and resurrected on the third day, you gain the following benefits:
- You cannot be Charmed or Frightened.
- You gain Resistance to Psychic and Fire Damage.
- You gain Proficiency and Expertise in Persuasion.
Coexistence Through The Abyss - You are one of the very few who've gotten sucked through the Abyss, and made it back. Or more specifically, sent back. Your crisis of faith has been resolved, and now turned into a new resolve and mission. You gain 4 Starting Blessings of the DM's choice, as well as a couple of Feats. But for many people in many places, they will do everything in their power to kill you.
Do No Harm - Your Hand of Healing now does two rolls of your Martial Die plus Wisdom, instead of one.
Do All Harm - Your Hand of Harm is no longer once per turn. The first use of it requires no Focus Points
Fast Learner - You gain your Level 6 Warrior of Mercy ability now, the Level 11 ability at level 6, and the level 17 ability at level 11.
Gifts From Faerun - You gain a Ring of Defense, A Cloak of Defense, and Bracers of Defense.
Holy Reservoir - If you could cast a Cleric Spell with a Spell Slot, you may use Focus Point instead, equal to twice the Spell Level of the Spell being cast.
Ioun Saint - You gain 4 random Ioun Stones. Ioun Stones count together as one Attunement
Like the Wind - You may use Step of the Wind as part of any other Bonus Action you perform
Like the Elements - Your Unarmed Strikes may deal damage to a certain element. That element is determined at Random when this Benefit is chosen. Your Unarmed Strikes gain +10 Range
Like the Shadows - You can teleport through Dim Light or Darkness, up to 60 feet, as a Bonus Action
Sheer Wind Strikes - Your Unarmed Strikes gain the Graze property.
Tattooed Monk - You gain 3 Tattoos now, and 1 more every even Level. This Tattoos provide benefits. (A Subvote will commence)
[] Choose Two, as a Plan
[X] Plan: Monk Cleric Quest
-[X] Ascetic Priestess - You gain 2 more Level 1 spells, and a level 2 spell. You may cast them once for free, and may use Spell Slots to cast them normally.
-[X] Holy Reservoir - If you could cast a Cleric Spell with a Spell Slot, you may use Focus Point instead, equal to twice the Spell Level of the Spell being cast.
Bless (1st), Shield of Faith (1st), and Silence (2nd) would be my picks.
This is worth it for Silence alone.
-[X] Ascetic Priestess - You gain 2 more Level 1 spells, and a level 2 spell. You may cast them once for free, and may use Spell Slots to cast them normally.
-[X] Holy Reservoir - If you could cast a Cleric Spell with a Spell Slot, you may use Focus Point instead, equal to twice the Spell Level of the Spell being cast.
Bless (1st), Shield of Faith (1st), and Silence (2nd) would be my picks.
This is worth it for Silence alone.
LucidProp
Pocky Eating MafiaDoka
[X] Plan: Syncretism
-[X] By The Light of Her Moon
-[X] By The Blood of His Son
As juicy as grabbing Coexistence would be, it skips a lot of fun character development and denies us the ability to define how Alice solved her crisis of faith. For now, I think attempting syncretism between her two deities would be a fun exercise, especially since she does have pretty good WIS and Religion as a skill.
By The Blood of His Son is really strong for us, since we'll likely neglect CHA since you typically only want to invest in 3 attributes. For us, that's WIS, DEX, and CON. Blood of His Son helps alleviate that by giving us Expertise in Persuasion which doubles our Proficiency in convincing people that our faith is true and that they shouldn't kill us. Immunity to status effects like Charmed or Frightened is also really good since that outright removes options from our opponents' toolkit.
By the Light of Her Moon is much more combat oriented, but Truesight and Blindsight are incredibly useful for us since we're being hunted down. Combine that with our high Perception, and it'll be very difficult to trap or manipulate us even through magical means, especially since we can't be Charmed at all and will see through all their tricks.
-[X] By The Light of Her Moon
-[X] By The Blood of His Son
As juicy as grabbing Coexistence would be, it skips a lot of fun character development and denies us the ability to define how Alice solved her crisis of faith. For now, I think attempting syncretism between her two deities would be a fun exercise, especially since she does have pretty good WIS and Religion as a skill.
By The Blood of His Son is really strong for us, since we'll likely neglect CHA since you typically only want to invest in 3 attributes. For us, that's WIS, DEX, and CON. Blood of His Son helps alleviate that by giving us Expertise in Persuasion which doubles our Proficiency in convincing people that our faith is true and that they shouldn't kill us. Immunity to status effects like Charmed or Frightened is also really good since that outright removes options from our opponents' toolkit.
By the Light of Her Moon is much more combat oriented, but Truesight and Blindsight are incredibly useful for us since we're being hunted down. Combine that with our high Perception, and it'll be very difficult to trap or manipulate us even through magical means, especially since we can't be Charmed at all and will see through all their tricks.
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- Location
- Indonesia
Exactly the plan I want to make.
My vote:
[X] Plan: Syncretism
My vote:
[X] Plan: Syncretism
[X] Plan: Syncretism
Archeo Lumiere
The Prince's Archivist
- Location
- Lumiose City, Kalos
- Pronouns
- He/Him/They/Them
[X] Plan: Syncretism
- Location
- The Usual Room
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Alright, based on your choices through the first two votes, your Character Sheet is a bit more filled in. You now know your stats! Also, I'll need to make your equipment list.
LucidProp
Pocky Eating MafiaDoka
Our stats are looking pretty good. High DEX and WIS means we're pretty good for a monk of our level. 12 CON isn't great, but it's not bad either, while our INT is mainly there for the History Skill.
9 CHA is an ouch though. That's a -1 to our Persuasion rolls. Thankfully, Blood of His Son means we get Proficiency and Expertise in Persuasion to overcome that with a +4, and we do have Guidance as a Cantrip for a +1d4 to the Persuasion roll.
- Location
- The Usual Room
- Pronouns
- He/Him
As a general rule, unless you need Concentration for something else or can't use it for some reason, I am going to assume Guidance is on.
Also, I decided on +2 Dex +1 Wisdom regardless of the background chosen, as it frees you from having to take a specific Background for it. (There will be a lot of Sailor Monks in a few months or so)
Also, if you have any questions, I will be available for a bit! So always feel free to ask.
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- Location
- The Usual Room
- Pronouns
- He/Him
- Location
- The Usual Room
- Pronouns
- He/Him
Huh, I thought I set that for 1 my time, not 11.
Okay, so that is character creation. You are pretty powerful coming out the gate. I can't wait to see how you deal with the crisis of faith, your new powers, and [Redacted].
All I need to do is update the Character Sheet, and give the quest a proper name, and then I can start writing!
But I'd like to open it up. What name do you want to give the Quest. No votes, just your opinions.
Okay, so that is character creation. You are pretty powerful coming out the gate. I can't wait to see how you deal with the crisis of faith, your new powers, and [Redacted].
All I need to do is update the Character Sheet, and give the quest a proper name, and then I can start writing!
But I'd like to open it up. What name do you want to give the Quest. No votes, just your opinions.
- Location
- Raleigh, NC
By his Blood and Her Moon: An IRL/D&D5E quest
Crescent and Cross
- Location
- The Usual Room
- Pronouns
- He/Him
At work, so gotta do this quick: you are proficient in, and possess, a Hurdy Gurdy.