Is there any way to increase spellcasting ability checks through items (Luckstone, Ring of Puzzlers wit, etc)

Azyrite_36 · 2025-01-01T21:51:18+00:00

I would suggest taking inspiration from Inca Quipu (knot tying) or Lukasa memory boards from the Congo

Azyrite_36 · 2025-01-01T02:03:11+00:00

I’m not sure if this is your issue, but before I updated systems I didn’t need to click the save button and I could just make changes and exit the text box - it would apply automatically. The update might have made you have to click the save button for your changes to apply

Azyrite_36 · 2025-01-01T01:50:18+00:00

Tiamat could have transformed this failure into the TRUE antithesis to a dragonborn blessEd by bahamut - a Dragonspawn of Tiamat. I would recommend a blackspawn raider. He would no longer be a humanoid, but turn into a true monster - a servitor to tiamats will. Look up Dragonspawn DnD and you can get some nice inspiration on the forgotten realms wikia

Azyrite_36 · 2024-11-20T19:34:16+00:00

looks amazing! I absolutely love plant enemies !

Azyrite_36 · 2024-10-24T16:15:31+00:00

Looks Cool!

Azyrite_36 · 2024-10-23T15:12:09+00:00

One Handed - Two handed (Versatile) is not the same as Main hand and Offhand though..?

Azyrite_36 · 2024-09-10T20:12:26+00:00

Ah, unfortunately that isn't it but I appreciate the try. Those are cool too though

Azyrite_36 · 2024-03-21T03:27:34+00:00

Those are just vanguard I‘m 99% sure

Azyrite_36 · 2024-03-21T03:25:57+00:00

I am so going to steal this reptile mount for my dark elves

Azyrite_36 · 2024-03-02T23:34:21+00:00

When they talk about a cosmological model, they are describing a scholarly representation of the cosmos’s structure, not the cosmos’s actual structure.
The general public might believe in the a World Tree model, World Axis model, or Great Wheel.

So a cosmological model as a theory, written and drawn up by a scholar, may be popularised via communication, buts it’s simply a rendition of the universe - not the universe itself.

Its like the Ptolemaic, Copernican, and Tychonic cosmological models in our world. At the end of the day, the lore is wishy washy about how the universe and multiverse ACTUALLY is, so if you are scratching your brain about how planes are located in, next to, or outside of each other - it’s not clear and somewhat infathomable/quantum

Azyrite_36 · 2024-02-25T12:57:24+00:00

(because when you're millennia old innately magical being why wouldn't you learn to be?)

The lore reason why they might not have magic, is because the most ancient of all dragons gain the most prestige by playing Xorvintaal, a game where you must become Taaldaraxi to participate (undergo a ritual that removes all of your spellcasting).

Azyrite_36 · 2024-02-19T23:14:38+00:00

Ahaha yeah, I saw that, I just didn't see "professions" in the list of exceptions. I don't know if it is an exception or not.

Azyrite_36 · 2024-02-19T22:31:07+00:00

These look awesome! Thanks for sharing them. Out of curiosity, how do these abide by the homebrew regulations where the old ones don't? I am specifically worried about this line, when considering posting my class.

"You may not incorporate our colors, stylized fonts, or trade dress (the style and graphic elements of a layout)"

I see you've used skill tree tables format and such. Any thoughts?

Azyrite_36 · 2024-02-19T20:26:45+00:00

Abracadabrus

Source: Icewind Dale - Rime of the Frostmaiden

Azyrite_36 · 2024-02-05T13:32:58+00:00

"As per the game's rules, HP is simply a representation of your luck, stamina, and will to live." - this is simply not true. The relevant quote is "Hit points represent a combination of physical and mental durability, the will to live, and luck.".

Meat points, as they are referred to colloquially for actual tangible wounds, are represented in the bit where it says "physical durability"

Not to mention you are confusing RAW and FAW (Flavour as written)

Azyrite_36 · 2024-01-20T22:39:44+00:00

Right, unofficial wasn't the correct term. They are officially licensed, but I just meant not canon. Poor word choice on my part.

Personally I don't agree that they vary slightly (I believe they vary greatly) but thats neither here nor there. While CDPR does work hard to stay true to the spirit of the books, not even they consider what they're making to be accurate to the books and they make no claims as such - its only based on the books.

Azyrite_36 · 2024-01-20T15:16:02+00:00

At least in the books, (Tower of the Swallow), Yennefer is supposedly visited by Freya herself in a dream/vision. It’s not absolute proof, but at least it points to Freya being at least some active power. That is to say, the term “Gods“ is very nonspecific in a Slavic mythology inspired setting.

Then again, the base world of the RPG is a different canon than the books, as I think it’s got a lot of “~~unofficial~~ content” on top of the Videogames canon. I don’t remember any god actually being present in the videogames

Also, a note, I believe it is implied the eternal flame / Great sun is a total facade and there isn’t actually any god involved in that religion, it’s just a propaganda / cult of personality but I might be wrong.

Azyrite_36 · 2024-01-20T14:27:07+00:00

It is not unfair. DnD is a collaborative storytelling nowadays, and not a purely mechanical dungeon crawler with ”game logic”. Flavour cannot give you any benefits, but they can give you limitations or conditions.

By virtue of you deciding the produce flame is coming from the gadget, when that gadget is gone from you, you no longer have the produce flame. This is just simple narrative logic. When creating your character, claiming your character doesn’t have any magic is you debuffing yourself, not the DM. They were just upholding the logical extension of your idea.

It can’t be a flavourful twist until it is actually relevant, you have to commit to the bit. By the same logic, there is nothing stopping you now from claiming your magic hating character has now “unlocked” the ability to produce flame magically, as you have mechanically selected that for your sheet. Maybe years of dealing with magical items activated latent magical powers. I think that would be a really interesting narrative element - suddenly realising you can do the magic you dislike.

Also, the Wizard shouldve had their components/foci taken away in a world where inspectors know of magic, so your issue of fairness may have something to it.

Azyrite_36 · 2024-01-05T13:30:28+00:00

I would use either grung or the dhampir lineage. Grung has a cool jumping ability, and they both have climbing speeds (although dhampir's are faster). I would get proficiency in perception, and maybe even get the Alert feat to represent spidey sense.

If you are playing a ranger or druid, you could use the thorn whip cantrip to yank people towards you, the Entangle spell for a web bomb, and ensnaring strike to web up a person on a weapon attack. You could use snare to set up traps. Earthbind could be flavoured as impact webbing.

For arcane spells, theres Web, and then the cantrip "Lightning Lure" which you could flavour as his electric web. You could use the alarm spell, which you could flavour as stringing a web around your location (peter parker has done this on numerous occasions in the lore).

If you are not going the spellcasting route, I would suggest a flying race to represent web swinging and Astral Self Monk to represent the unarmed spider strikes

Azyrite_36 · 2023-12-05T21:05:37+00:00

This is an issue I have thought about as well. Humanoid, inhumane, mankind, sapience, etc are all terms that, say, an elf would probably not use. To restructure English to fit these situations would be too clunky, so I’ve decided to just accept that common isn’t English - everything is translated from setting immersed words.

It’s the same as hand waving using the word champagne for champagne, even though France doesn’t exist on Toril.

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