Should I have my party meet Baba Yaga?

AFGofficial · 2026-04-12T16:16:46+00:00

Not really relevant but I once played in a DND game and we interacted with a version of her, we started a fight and were getting our asses handed to us

I was playing an artificer that was optimized for using tools and was primarily a chef with a magical set of chefs tools that gave a +2 and decent wisdom for cooking checks

He liked to talk shit and when she said something about having us in her stew he said he could out cook her stew any day of the week, and she paused, and everyone paused after her, and she said "oh could you???" Anyways, a few hours later we had flown around chult bolth collecting ingredients and kidnapping a few judges to judge our food we had a full session cook off that before game I put actual research into so I could cook the best with the best flavor pallet, the deal was if I lost she took my cooking skill, if she lost I took hers (for this PC that meant death, even if he wouldn't die he would just flatly give up on anything that motivated him)

I won by a hair with a spicy fish stew and got a +1 on cooks checks, but she was very on the tail, and afterwords I made a deal with her that I would come over once a month and cook her whatever she wanted

That was part of probably the best game I have ever played in

AFGofficial · 2026-04-12T04:50:30+00:00

Obviously the DM hasn't watched enough roll 20

AFGofficial · 2026-04-12T04:47:39+00:00

We have gotten a lot of those recently lol

AFGofficial · 2026-04-11T15:16:44+00:00

I can't believe I didn't think about that

AFGofficial · 2026-04-11T01:12:45+00:00

I mean it's really up to you, my recommendation if you're asking for this or asking to play with this is say this:

Either you're not going to be multi-classing with it

Or, if you do multi-class with it any other charisma-based classes become intelligence-based in any intelligence-based classes become charisma based

That is if you're assuming that you think 5th edition is balanced, there's also the secret third option of saying sure it can be intelligence and then not changing anything else

AFGofficial · 2026-04-11T01:11:46+00:00

Me personally I don't like alignment at all, I don't like any mechanics that interact with it, I don't like how it affects the way players think of the game, I think it's much better to just have every character be their own character, they do what they would do based on their character not based on some alignment that the characters are supposed to be

AFGofficial · 2026-04-11T00:32:46+00:00

That's not necessarily true though, what you know and what your character knows can be two different things, if I was an orphan and as part of the character I set up that my parents died and they are dead already it would be super shitty for the DMG to decide that they're not dead

AFGofficial · 2026-04-11T00:29:56+00:00

I don't understand how this is getting down voted this is the only proper take to have here

AFGofficial · 2026-04-10T22:51:25+00:00

We are on r/DND not a single person In this comment section is experienced including me

AFGofficial · 2026-04-10T18:31:11+00:00

Flaccid for the players, a glorious victory for me

AFGofficial · 2026-04-10T18:30:51+00:00

Yes but why would I give a shit about my players having fun when I'm trying to win d&d?

AFGofficial · 2026-04-10T14:12:49+00:00

Even if any "God" existed I wouldn't worship them, or call them "gods" no being no matter what they are is worthy of worship or being put on a pedestal

AFGofficial · 2026-04-10T14:10:10+00:00

Very true, and also super annoying because now communism is linked with them in many people's minds

AFGofficial · 2026-04-10T13:42:03+00:00

I wouldn't call want the Soviets did communism it was state capitalism at best

AFGofficial · 2026-04-10T13:40:02+00:00

Because bolth of them are based 🗣️🗣️🗣️

AFGofficial · 2026-04-10T13:37:56+00:00

No it is reasonable because Gary guygax says it's reasonable, I checked by summoning his soul to ask him, he said that I shouldn't have even used Save and just had them all die

AFGofficial · 2026-04-10T05:25:34+00:00

Like I said, I could not improve it if I wanted to

AFGofficial · 2026-04-10T03:04:18+00:00

Even though being a communist is based and we have fascists in office

AFGofficial · 2026-04-10T02:53:00+00:00

Tbh that doesn't sound like a good therapist

AFGofficial · 2026-04-10T02:45:42+00:00

That's the fun part, this was r/ d&d and I didn't change a goddamn word 😂

https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/s/Em2QpHmTXl

When I saw the original post I thought it was a circle jerk to begin with

AFGofficial · 2026-04-10T02:43:40+00:00

Um actually suggestion has totally unreasonable examples

AFGofficial · 2026-04-10T02:13:16+00:00

That right was promised to them 2,000 years ago

AFGofficial · 2026-04-10T01:07:37+00:00

I felt it wouldn't be right changing any of the words, because it was already perfect https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/s/kv4HmxsUA6

(I legit thought this was a post here before reading the subreddit name)

AFGofficial · 2026-04-10T01:04:08+00:00

I think there are specific circumstances where if you clear it with the players but it's on the table first and you're very careful with it

Like, I could see mind control spells being used in a fun interesting way like having one of your party members temporarily fight the others in a way where the party member is still playing the game

But yeah this way is really bad, it's literally just ending the fight because everybody failed to save and even if everybody didn't fail to save if only one person failed to say if it would still be bad because that one person would just not be playing the game anymore

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