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The Warlock casts Rogue in c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
[–] BloodBrandy@ttrpg.network 1 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

Pretty much, except for the racial feat I mentioned since it's a feat.

In 5e, you tend to get your Racial ability stuff at character creation, save for some more powerful stuff that unlocks down the line. For instance, the Teleport abilities I mentioned for the Eladrin and Shadar-Kai are things they have out the gate, but the added effects of those teleports don't come until a few levels later.

It's the same for a few other races where they will have some starter thing that is improved later on (IE, Tieflings start with a set Cantrip and level 1 spell at the start, and at levels 3 and 5 get higher level racial spells, which are all determined by the circle of hell your bloodline is tied to), but most stuff is out the door from character creation

The Warlock casts Rogue in c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
[–] BloodBrandy@ttrpg.network 1 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

Eladrin do, they have a racial ability called Fey Step which lets them use a bonus action to teleport up to 30ft (With the added options I mentioned earlier). The only other elf race that gets a natural teleport ability is the Shadar-Kai (Elves tied to the Shadowfell and the Raven Queen), who can teleport as a bonus action and at higher levels gain resistance to all damage for a short time after.

Other Elven subraces don't inherently have the ability to teleport but do have other abilities, usually some combination of Spellcasting, Weapon Proficiency or Supplemental Skills. The only other thing close to a racial teleport is High Elves can take a racial feat to get the Misty Step spell (Teleport 30ft) with one free cast per short/long rest

The Warlock casts Rogue in c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
[–] BloodBrandy@ttrpg.network 0 points 18 hours ago (4 children)

Eladrin is a subrace of Elf that are more closely tied to the Feywilds, having a form for each season that they shift between based on emotional state and which effects their racial teleporting ability (Spring can teleport an ally instead, Summer deals fire damage to chosen targets on arrival, Autumn can charm up to two targets on arrival, and Winter can Frighten a target next to the point they are teleporting from)

Synaptic Static is a Intelligence save spell that deals AoE psychic damage and on failure also inflicts a lingering debuff that subtracts 1d6 from the targets attack rolls, ability checks and concentration checks until they pass the save at the end of their turn.

Dimension Door is a teleportation spell that can carry you and one willing creature of your size or smaller up to 500ft and doesn't require line of sight

The Warlock casts Rogue in c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
[–] BloodBrandy@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 days ago (6 children)

Well what words you having issues with?

The Warlock casts Rogue in c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
[–] BloodBrandy@ttrpg.network 1 points 3 days ago (8 children)

Oh...Then you're kinda in the wrong place? XD

The Warlock casts Rogue in c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
[–] BloodBrandy@ttrpg.network 1 points 4 days ago (10 children)

What do you mean?

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The Warlock casts Rogue (ttrpg.network)
 

The War against the Drow continues

This countess didn't appreciate me yeeting a psychic grenade at her before she could monologue. Her warriors preceded to cast Darkness on the bridge we were at and she teleported with three Shadow Demons before taking me to full health to 0 (Though I stayed up thanks to Gift of the Protectors).

But unfortunately, she could not shake the Synaptic Static debuff and didn't really accomplish much after that before trying to run. If not for the fact Dimension Door has a size limit (Which I hadn't realized until my DM remembered), I'd have teleported over the giant kobold Rune Knight, but settled for bringing the Rogue over to finish her

Let Loose the Snakes of War in c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
[–] BloodBrandy@ttrpg.network 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Oh that, so she's been planning this war thing for a while now, it's been the endgame of our current campaign for about 6 years now. I will point out that, as of the war starting, she's actually using two systems.

We have the usual actual D&D battle if the player party actually enters into proper combat, which is largely meant for when we actively move to encounter special units ourselves, which we will be doing next week as we move to try and take out the Countess who heads up the upper markets where slaves are sold.

But most of it thus far as been an overworld strategy game style of battle she worked up for it, where we have units who's HP signifies the number of members in that unit (Barring special units such as our party being one unit, a slime rancher we recruited, the Pirate Queen's crew, etc), and each unit has a set damage number, a set bonus to attack, an AC and a Morale stat, like so-

Moon Warriors-Infantry HP-8 Attack +5 Damage 1 Morale +3 AC 14 Range 1

Slime Rancher-Special HP-10 Attack +7 Damage 1 Morale +2 AC 14 Range 2

Overworld battle is simply attacks of one unit on another, you choose to attack a square in range. For normal units, your damage goes to the least damaged, non special unit in the square (Ala infantry battles), and special units can choose specific targets to press a weakness or go after enemy commander units. If a unit drops below half health, they have to make a morale save or spend the current turn fleeing.

As an example, my party popped up in the middle of the city with our slime rancher and two platoons of Moon Warriors. This means our square had four units. A neighboring square had two Drow units, so our moon warriors attack there and their damage, if they hit, applies to the unit with the least damage, but either the party or the slime rancher can target a specific enemy unit to try and wipe it out with our better range or damage (The party has 3 damage in overworld). This means the infantry battles are more streamlined and the special units can more specifically target weakened units to lessen the number of attacks against our side.

Lastly, at the start of each day is the Tide of Battle roll to determine which side resolves their actions first during the day, with two actions per day (Actions currently are Unit Movement and Unit Attack, other things may become available as things progress)

Let Loose the Snakes of War in c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
[–] BloodBrandy@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Yeah, why?

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Let Loose the Snakes of War (ttrpg.network)
 

Our party has opened war on the Drow capital city, with a rag tag army of Moon Warriors, Pirates looking to make a name for themselves, Forest Rangers, and our not quite stable party of an Eladrin Warlock with multiple personalities, a half orc barbarian with Wonder Woman's tiara, a panther-halfling hybrid rogue, a Giant Powered Kobold, and a Yuan-ti/Gobling hybrid Bard against the forces of the Drow Nation. Numbers are not in our favor, especially as our allies from the Wizard City can't arrive until we destroy the giant spider golem the city has.

Combat is rough, so our party's opening gambit...is to throw out an egg in the center of the city that becomes a gargantuan Spawn of the World Serpent, then run back to our battle. It spawns with only the golem between it and the Arcane Academy, and next to a giant spider nest spawning giant demon spiders once a day.

The first couple days are a bit rough as the tide of battle is not with us, and the serpent, while destroying a large area of downtown, is taking a lot of damage and missing it's attacks on the mechanical and demonic spiders...

So we throw two more eggs into the mess, and continue on with our battle as the Pirates manage to reach us where our part of the army had come up from the underground, the eastern front is still rough but sorta even, and the center of town has had a kaijuu battle going for half a week now.

It was actually more efficient than EB (Against a group of 50 CR1/4 peons) in c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
[–] BloodBrandy@ttrpg.network 2 points 3 weeks ago

So we're at the start of a war where, thanks to saving a GOO Warlock and getting help from her connections, we're coming up from the sewers closer to the middle of town while allies attack from opposite sides of the Drow capital.

While our 160 soldiers went off to secure the borders of the market district as our safe house/staging point, my party (5 level 12 characters, a Half Orc Berserker Barbarian, an Eladrin Celestial Warlock, a part panther Halfling Scout Rogue, a Kobold Rune Knight Fighter, and a Half Goblin/Half Yuan Ti Glamour Bard) stayed behing to go through the 50 CR1/4 Drow warriors in the area we're in as the war is kicking off.

Yes, I know they're they're only CR1/4, but because their HP was just high enough, this actually did end up being more efficient as I was trying to conserve resources as it may be a bit before we can short rest.

As it stands, my Eldritch Blast is 1d10+4 per dart, and these guys had 13 HP, so any given dart on it's own had a high chance to not secure a kill if I was going one dart per enemy.

With Green-flame Blade, my initial attack would be 1d6+4+2d8 and the rider would be 2d8+8 (since Radiant Soul can add my CHA to fire damage spells when cast, I could have added it to either but kept it to the rider). This just ended up being a more consistent damage in the amount I needed, and the total max is about the same, just split between two targets

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It was actually more efficient than EB (Against a group of 50 CR1/4 peons) (ttrpg.network)
 

Not a huge achievement, but I went the whole battle with relatively minimal resource usage

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Surprise Magic Items (i.redd.it)
 

So in today's session my group set out to what may be the final battle of the campaign, a war to dethrone a Drow Matron. Given my character, an Eladrin with multiple personalities (One for each season) does not need a full 8 hours for a long rest, I set out in the middle of the night for each of them to make a prayer to a god before we then gave a final prayer to our celestial patron.

Spring gave prayer to the Elven God of War and Order, and was surprised that we ended up with a Chainbreaker Scimitar (A +1 Scimitar that also gives advantage to break chains, manacles and similar bindings, and such things are vulnerable to it's damage).

Summer gave a prayer to the church of Macho Man Randy Savage, and made friends with the cleric on duty.

Autumn gave prayer to the trickster Gnome god, getting a flute and well wishes from the nice old lady at the temple.

And Winter gave prayer to the dwarven god of War, getting a one use blessing that gives the target a lot of boons for a minute).

Then on our second day at sea with pirate friends, en route to war, my character decides to play the flute for their girlfriend.

Then the DM asked me what my spell save DC was and rolled a wisdom save...

So I have learned I have a flute that casts confusion centered on me (I am immune) as long as I play it (Once something makes the save or has the spell end on it, it's immune for a day)

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When the Paladins are demonic and the Warlock is angelic (ttrpg.network)
 

Our party has been investigating the Church of the Macho One (aka the Church of Randy Savage), which is our Paladin's Church, after receiving information of a demon that our paladin ticked off a long time back, had been influencing things and may be linked to the death of the previous head of the church.

After a short investigation, dispelling an illusion of the Paladin's parents, and checking the guard records, the captain of the church guard drops his cover and attacks us and the new Macho Pope. However, as the Captain screamed his head off as the lair actions triggered, I, being closest to her, noticed odd whispers around the Macho Pope.

Turns out she was the demon in question under Shapechange. The fight dragged on and we had a couple close calls, with the Paladin having to counterspell a Power Word Kill, the Rogue avoiding being plane shifted to the Abyss, and the Bard dropping a Fire Storm from her instrument to take out the guard captain.

The Demon, a powered up Marilith, was drawing power from a gem that she had captured holy souls in, which lead my Warlock to take the initiative in summoning an Arisen Nightmare (A celestial Nightmare with all it's Fire replaced with Radiant) and gave him the duty of breaking the gem. Overall he only got one hit in on he because he missed his others, but that one hit was a crit with most of the damage being Bludgeoning, which the gem was vulnerable to.

The party followed suit, including the Barbarian who was grappled in the Marilith's coils and eating a lot of damage herself, but managed one last crit on the Gem, which shattered it and caused 85d6 Radiant to both her and the Demon, ending the fight and us having to quick Revivify the Barbarian.

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Long Term Ramifications (ttrpg.network)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by BloodBrandy@ttrpg.network to c/rpgmemes@ttrpg.network
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Tonight in D&D: We preside over a peace talk between Dwarves and Shadar-Kai, I tell one ~~Evil~~ Morally Questionable pair of lesbians about another pair of ~~Evil~~ Morally Questionable pair of lesbians they can be friends with, and the possible benefits of said friendship.

We learn that the old Pope of Macho Man Randy Savage, who we thought was alive but in containment after being mind controlled by the Yellow Diamond, is actually dead and the current Pope of Macho Man Randy Savage is either controlled by, possessed by or working for an Arch Demon. Said new Macho Pope is also possibly the reason the followers of Macho Man Randy Savage are having trouble with their powers, and is not only in control of our Paladin's family fund but may have killed his parents, who were also supposed to be in containment.

This brings about long term effects of my original character, a Tabaxi Rogue, keeping a magic book out of the hands of a Tiefling Warlock Mob Boss (Who was the cousin of our Paladin), it falling into the hands of a party member who became a servant of this archdemon, dying and the archdemon getting a vendetta against out paladin.

And as the day comes to an end, my Eladrin's spring personality keeps from screaming, goes to her room with a drink, says a prayer and just spends time with her familiar.

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Sometimes, "Questionable" friends can be just the friends you need (ttrpg.network)
 

Watching a documentary on Tubi, and this quote seemed applicable to another meme I'd made in the past.

Documenary is "Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau"

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Fiendish Problems require Fey Solutions (ttrpg.network)
 

FIRST POST HERE! But also a direct follow up to my last allowed post in the old lands of long, long ago.

Two centaur tribes in a forest and another in the mountains to the north. One a bunch of overly pacifistic pacifists, one a bunch of devil worshipers who sacrifice anyone they find lost in the forest, and the mountain ones something akin to ogre/elephant centaurs.

The pacifists don't like us picking a fight with the devil worshipers and seem bent on trying to justify their stuff because of past bonds...Well, all my personalities say that devil lady gonna die.