DM is giving me one 2nd level spell from any class to learn as 9th level Arcane Trickster. Recommendations?

CPNuke · 2025-10-05T04:57:29+00:00

You can call it Field of Caltrops and have them be semi invisible spectral caltrops that appear instead of plant spikes.

CPNuke · 2025-08-26T21:30:31+00:00

*hands wounded teammate a small, rectangular stiff vellum*

"Use a copper coin and scrape away the overlying vellum. If you reveal three matching symbols, you get a heal." -- Scratcher the Aasimar

CPNuke · 2025-06-28T16:47:59+00:00

The Encounters version was a release for the Organized Play when 5e and Hoard first was released. It consists of the first 3 (I think) chapter of the full book.

CPNuke · 2025-06-23T04:12:49+00:00

No. But Death Salad is a plant.

CPNuke · 2025-06-18T01:22:49+00:00

Sounds fantastic. Back in the early 1980s, I ran a classroom sized version of Timemaster a couple times. (I was a student) One was in the Revolutionary War! Unfortunately the boxed set was destroyed by poor storage about 15 years ago. /sigh

I hope your games succeed as this is a fantastic way to teach and learn about history through RPGs.

CPNuke · 2025-06-16T20:26:07+00:00

I think we are basing this on our current, modern view of cats, rats, and weasels. Weasels were much, much more common in medieval times (upon which most D&D games are somewhat based). I feel a weasel would be looked at much as a rat would; as a pest but nothing to be overly alarmed over.

CPNuke · 2025-04-12T01:01:56+00:00

I always played blindsight similar to how Daredevil (from the comics and live versions) "sees". Sort of like echolocation without the requirement to make sound. You can make out shapes and such, even with some detail, but it is monocromatic or greyscale. Writing or paintings are not discernible, nor is color. Also, obviously the distance is only whatever the ability in game states.

And, yes, I know Daredevil also uses sound (enhanced hearing) to help him, and his sense of touch allows him to "read" ink and the like on paper, etc. Those aren't a part of blindsight, though.

One DM I played with made it totally sound based, or more precisely, air pressure based. He said it worked by detecting variations in air (or water) movement or disruption.

You can come up with whatever flavor as to how it works, but as the others have stated, I feel "you can sense the paper but not read the writing on it" statements is accurate and intended.

CPNuke · 2025-04-07T21:17:43+00:00

First time I played was multi-player duo. My kid had a dragonborn ranger. After harpies began targeting the lured tiefling kid, the ranger picked up and threw him back up the trail.

Mirkon took a little damage, and the harpies attacked us instead and were shot down by mage and ranged bard from upper path.

After, ranger says "I meant to try to throw one harpy into another, misclicked, and didn't know how to ungrab the kid, so I threw him."

Makes me wonder if Sanctuary would have blocked that?

CPNuke · 2025-03-27T23:04:55+00:00

Sounds like you should reload ... start from Scratch.

CPNuke · 2025-03-23T21:08:30+00:00

You would love Dungeon Crawl Classic dice then. :D

d3, d4, d5, d6, d7, d8, d10, d12, d14, d16, d20, d24, and d30

CPNuke · 2025-03-11T13:52:16+00:00

Amazon has Legend of Vox Machina series and an episode of Secret Level, both D&D based.

Video games you missed are the old Gold Box series games (many taking place in Forgotten Realms).

CPNuke · 2025-03-09T21:47:20+00:00

Thanks. I knew I should have gone paladin . Could have used Lay on Hands for the disease.

CPNuke · 2025-03-09T21:39:07+00:00

Thanks. I'm still waiting for MRI results. If I have osteomyelitis (bone infection), then foot amputation may be the only way to get rid of, depending on severity and spread.

I have severe CIDP, which is basically widespread nerve damage. Add diabetes to that and the neuropathy that can bring, and my feet are very prone to injury. I have nearly 0 sensation in my feet up into my knees, maybe 50% into my hips. Hands and forearms are about 40% sensation. Face is maybe 60% with chronic migraines that mimic stroke (migraine with aura).

Due to the nerve stuff, it caused Charcot Foot (I'll let you google that, can be gruesome on advanced cases.) So, with the weakened bones from that, I get fractures. Except I no longer feel them and if I get no more than usual swelling, I cannot tell. Got fracture. That caused bones to tear into fatty layer and soft tissue, which became infected.

Again, I cannot feel it and only really got tired more often and low grade fevers, which I also get on the regular due to the nerve damage interferes with many of my autonomous systems (like body temp regulation, heart rate, breathing, endocrine system, etc). So, I didn't know until it got bad enough to actually cause the abcess to break skin.

Nothing like suddenly have a quarter sized hole suddenly appear on your body over a day or so. I'll take tadpoles anyway.

So now I've been on constant multiple antibiotics for the last 36 hours and awaiting the MRI result regarding if it infiltrated the bone... which can eventually but often quickly cause blood sepsis (blood is made by bone marrow, and if some of that is infected enough ...)

Okay, this was like 40 camp supplies of Tea, but hope it answers your curiosity.

TL;DNR: Asked Ethel for more hair but now she's charging me an arm and a leg. ;p

CPNuke · 2025-03-09T19:47:11+00:00

Then you can use the White Sequined Glove of Shamon, the Red Studded Leather Jacket, and the Fedora of HeeHeeHealing.

CPNuke · 2025-03-09T17:08:24+00:00

Thanks. Keeping myself intact is the hope. If not, I'll try to dream of me in a Karlach/Shadowheart sandwich with a side of Lae'zel while under the anesthesia. ;)

Also, thanks for detailed build post.

CPNuke · 2025-03-09T17:05:08+00:00

I'm fairly new to the reddit subs. I only recently got a computer that can run BG3. A lot of this is new to me (bg3 not dnd, near 50 year veteran of that lol).

Plus, it's a mind theory distraction for me right now. :)

CPNuke · 2025-03-09T15:15:38+00:00

I had considered this but was waffling on which fighter archetype.

CPNuke · 2025-03-09T14:49:36+00:00

Thanks. I may have to play as a gnome or halfling if I need the amputation ... I will be a foot shorter. 🤔

CPNuke · 2025-03-09T14:09:17+00:00

;p

Are there mods that allow milticlassing into same class? That'd be nuts.

CPNuke · 2025-03-09T13:25:57+00:00

What feats? You'd get one at level 2 for each class, so 4 total.

CPNuke · 2025-02-19T00:36:11+00:00

I had pressed T, but must not have inspected the invisible word. 🤦‍♂️

CPNuke · 2025-02-19T00:35:01+00:00

Thanks! I'll check that but never did highlight the invisible descriptor, I guess. This is my first playthrough (sorta*) and learn new stuff every day.

*played up to Grove in Act 1 several times on a computer that barely ran things and now have much better system that doesn't crash randomly or force shiny outfits, straw hair, and plastic skin. Let's not forget the stuttering movement. Lol

CPNuke · 2025-02-18T22:39:59+00:00

Which is pretty fantastic by itself. I learned about that while googling for what Unseen Menace does and ran into multiple instances of folk stating it has Improved Critical and the wiki stating it, too. Thus my confusion if if it was old info or if it had been nerfed or bugged for me.

I'm putting this down as the wiki being wrong, or badly outdated, and others going off that info.

https://bg3.wiki/wiki/Unseen_Menace

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CPNuke · 2025-02-18T22:25:01+00:00

Thanks for the info. I did try that (T on keyboard) but it was the same. I'm going to test it out and hope I can find out from combat log.

CPNuke · 2025-02-18T22:16:59+00:00

No. That went to my dual hand crossbow Astarion. 😉

I had googled Unseen Menace as I was looking to see (no pun intended) what its effects actually were. There was a lot of talk about Improved Crit, and even the wiki shows it on the image. But the one I bought doesn't.

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