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If you made it this far, I want you to know that I believe in you.
DarkBeerPotato
I will ALWAYS upvote D&D.
kubi
#50 I remember when TFS streamed D&D, Ben (who played a bard) would just hand off the giant inspiration die while saying "I believe in you"
gtotherizzle
#18 and 3 small villages, and half a city
JackalopeElope
Honestly Mind Flayers would be pretty good against a Tarrasque so a Brain/Tarrasque seems logical.
qtRaven
#11
notkvothethebloodless
IsTodayThursday
Love being a cleric, lotta tools in the kit and a lot of options. You can cast decent offensive spells, buffs, utility spells, smash face with big stick, soak up a lot of damage, wade into the thick of it and be able to walk out. AND you're good at healing
Bubbells
#38 thank you for this one, I needed that smile today
PackYourBagsGriff
#36 One of these is way more accurate to the character in the show than the other two and it's exactly the one I wish wasn't.
Sechran
#19 - ... better make sure you outrun the range of its breath weapon no matter how slow the rest of your party is.
BumbleBeeBeardedGingerBear
These are all dynamite.
Sageypie
#34 personally, one of my favorite characters was a Human Brawler (it was pathfinder), guy was the 2nd born son on a farming family. Third oldest. Had the opposite of a green thumb and found out quickly he was just damned good at killing stuff. Hired himself on as a guide for the area for a passing adventuring party and quickly found out that they made bank. He ended up saving the group by killing a BBEG for them. After that he started traveling about in the adventuring life, sending home money
DriverIRQnotlessOrEqual
When the party makes fun of you for being a basic fighter, but then you deal 90 damage with just a metal stick
myr14d
#2: Yeah, with my group you'd just get different flavors of stick figures. We have a lot of fun, but artists we're not.
Alistairetheblu
#1 This completely misrepresents D&D. You say the insane thing first and *then* you roll.
MeanWinchester
#23 it can do many awesome things, after wizard, cleric has one of the largest spell lists, and unlike arcane casters they can change their spells up, making them much more than a one trick pony
ohbotherwhatdoiput
To be fair on the "too dumb to solve a puzzle" thing, I once ran 50 Fathoms as is and one of the puzzles basically relied on a word being a homonym for key, but it was only a homonym because the scenario writer had a southern accent.
KiwiGameDev
Haha okay that’s hilarious tho, do you have that adventure name? I’d love to use that as a case study
ohbotherwhatdoiput
It's the 50 Fathoms setting for Savage Worlds. They write their setting books as plot point campaigns where most locations in the setting have a short adventure seed and more important places have a longer adventure. In this case the puzzle was to press a specific spot on a globe named (something something) Cay.
trigonman3
#3 I count 8 protagonists
Argusdubbs
#42 Pippity Poppity give me the Zoppity!
KiwiGameDev
#15 as a DM, I feel like asking your players “roleplay among yourselves” is like asking people to laugh after you say a joke. It’s our job to facilitate an environment where people feel both safe and excited to roleplay naturally, interacting with NPCs and each other
Pyrowolf1
#5 Where is the "murder hobo" limb?
reichstein
#16 The Never Ending Story one doesn't need the last panel. If you know, you know.
VayaKahvi
#47 It feels really good being that GM, I managed to do it with "And you all wake up" once as well.
tesseract4d2
#19 hahaha ice breath is a cone, you definitely need to outrun the dragon. Hope you're a hasted rogue!
Yakeshinu
So much this ^^^. Otherwise, the dragon:
tesseract4d2
An ancient white dragon's breath weapon is a 90ft cone, (for non-dnd peeps, essentially an equilateral triangle with 90ft sides) most characters have a 25 or 30ft-per round move speed. You can use an action to dash instead of attacking, getting you 60ft away. Rogues can dash as a bonus action, getting 90ft. Haste doubles your move speed, so if the dragon is point-blank like shown, you're only guaranteed getting away if you're a hasted rogue and use your entire turn to move. Assuming your turn is
Enoan
Equilateral? Nah it's isosceles right triangle
tesseract4d2
Before the dragon's
kadaeux
Looks like 2 fighters and a ranger so… probably not…
Theonlyyeti
"Monk"
tesseract4d2
I've never played a monk, but if I recall, they can also dash as a bonus action? That would also work here. Your pally/fighter/cleric and other casters aren't getting away, though.
gtotherizzle
#42 my buddy, who I gamed with many times and who was a roommate for a time, passed away about 10 years ago in his mid-30's. This meme reminded me 100% of him
DarkBusterBaron
#8 sometimes the doom music plays when the barbarian decides that the heist nonsense is getting needlessly complicated and it would be alot less trouble to just break down the front doors and kill everyone and just loot the Vault keys off the guards body.
Chikun31
#13 I have said this before, but Illusion magic is the ultimate dad magic.
DrBlackJack
#34 A short story about an adventurer who specifically didn't have a tragic bacstory. I give you, " Stan the Barbarian." /gallery/iMhge3r
TimmyTimm
I don't want to be "that guy" but is there a tldr version?
DrBlackJack
Stan came from a happy well adjusted home. Stan is a Barbarian. Stan likes to talk things out rather than fight, but sometimes he has to bonk people over the head first, THEN talk things out. Stan is the man.
yalczero
He's Dave's more mature cousin.
tantallous
but can he improvise a megaphone using a squirrel, some string, and a megaphone?
TinyLiehon
Thanks for writing this story
RoombaTheAssaultVacuum
I had a long running fighter who was a war orphan (Parents died when he was an infant so he had no memory of them) and was raised by a temple of Bahamut. When he came of age he wanted to set out into the world to do good deeds, solely for the reason that he liked seeing people happy. He eventually acquired a very fanciful knit blue scarf from helping a tailor (she insisted on making him something even though he wanted no reward) and a pet mule from a farm he helped defend, and he cherished both
RoombaTheAssaultVacuum
as he traveled. I played him to just be a genuinely good person who wanted to help even the people who had been hurt the worst by society, and I made absolutely sure that if I ever left a town, I left it at least a little better than when I had entered it. Even the party warmed up to him very quickly.
Roehcai
Yeah, you don't need a tragic backstory, you just need a motivation. (For example, I've played an happy, kind of naïve character who want prove to himself he's a hero worth of the stories he read growing up, etc.) Motivations are often tragic, but you really just need to give them a 'desire' that adventuring fulfills!
CheesecakePi
Ideally one that provides flexibility to expand or grow as the character does. Like, if they just became an adventurer to make money to save the family farm, or to rescue their long lost brother, okay, that's cool... but concrete achievable goals can be tricky (although they can be great for a very short campaign or to add some extra flavor to a one shot).
Kbantar
I had a water genasi cleric that was just trying to make enough money to buy a large quarry, and fill it full of regularly purified water to set up as a kind of home away from home for water based travelers.
feryooday
My tabaxi fighter is just a wanderer who wants to see the world. she picked up adventuring as a way to make money to travel. she was very happy go lucky until the party all got killed except her… she’s got a tragic backstory now huh?
redsmerf
Mine was a 6' 6" fighter who's halfling wife was pregnant for the 4th time (guy couldn't even pull out of a parking spot, much less his wife), off adventuring for coin because his job as a bouncer wouldn't pay the bills.
My backup character was the wife, since the fighter was a lovable, somewhat-drunken idiot who had lost track of how long he'd been off adventuring.
Rystefn
#5 This is a hobby where people say "subtraction is harder than addition" and everyone nods sagely like it's some great wisdom handed down from the mountain. No. There's no math. There's counting.
Miyamotofan
Hey hey there's division sometimes. Like when someone makes their save and also has resistance. Or when you need to split the dungeon take five ways.
Kbantar
If people moan about that, then it's no wonder people get all critical of GURPS which sometimes does involve actual math.
Rystefn
I was criticized in the R Talsorian Discord the other day for suggesting that you could take half the value of something twice to get a quarter of it. That was, apparently, beyond the pale. Way too complicated to do that at the table during a game.
Rogahar
#2 I'm our group's resident artist (2D, anyway), so I end up drawing our party a lot of the time. It's honestly a lot of fun because bringing people's visualizations of their character to life brings me joy.
MostlyAngryButNiceAboutIt
You gotta set up a shop link in your bio! That sounds like so much fun. Good for you. And after having read your bio I imagine some in your party have some savory renditions for when the charisma checks be poppin'?
Rogahar
That's got to be the most diplomatically phrased way to say 'nude versions' but yes, they often do lol (at least, my husband's characters and mine usually always do - one of our groups is very pro-deviancy, the other is much more standard-TTRPG-shenanigans and I don't really know them *like that* to be offering to draw their characters with their junk out lol)
Rogahar
As for the shop link, I do have a commiss.io page but I'm on semi-permanent sabbatical from taking commissions atm because I had to get a full time job to make ends meet and I just don't have the time/energy to be doing paid artwork in my free time on top of wanting to just draw whatever takes my fancy or play video games.
Rogahar
That said, I'm always happy to flaunt my creations, so here's one of my more recent ones - Whistle, a Sprite Inventor and her Construct Companion, Belle from a Pathfinder 2E game (the adventure itself was kinda whacky as written, so the DM encouraged us to pull out the character ideas we'd shelved that didn't suit more serious campaigns to take them for a whirl.)
MostlyAngryButNiceAboutIt
Way fuckin' cool, gal. Thanks for sharing all of that. Cheers to your creative self!
Rogahar
Every now and again someone will either insist on using some dope picture they found (which hey, fair enough, its your character after all lol) or never actually give me the description to draw from, so our party tokens are often 'my style', 'my style', 'my style', 'cropped frank frazetta painting', 'my style' but hey, everyone's having fun and that's what matters lol
Tyrannotron
Haha, for sure. I used to eventually draw the party once we had played long enough to have a good idea of what everyone looks like, but these days AI can do it better than I can, so it's become the go to for us.