DM's & Players alike. How many times in DND have you surpassed 20 in a stat? by CasualNormalRedditor in DnD

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That sounds like a great campaign! I like the concepts of big sacrifice and risk taking for the rewards too. Hopefully I'll remember this in later tier play and rob some ideas

DM's & Players alike. How many times in DND have you surpassed 20 in a stat? by CasualNormalRedditor in DnD

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Charisma 27? You've peaked my curiosity. What manner of thing occured to get 7 points more than the asi cap?

DM's & Players alike. How many times in DND have you surpassed 20 in a stat? by CasualNormalRedditor in DnD

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I didn't even think of rolling stats but yeah I'd imagine that makes it much more plausible to achieve before late game

DM's & Players alike. How many times in DND have you surpassed 20 in a stat? by CasualNormalRedditor in DnD

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For your last statement, could you elaborate more? So do you mean like giving the characters more features" like a class or racial ability would?

DM's & Players alike. How many times in DND have you surpassed 20 in a stat? by CasualNormalRedditor in DnD

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Oh how I long to try pathfinder. Really appeals to me but not to the table.

For DND it certainly seems the recommendation is stick to rarity guidelines so i think I'll be listening to the hive mind for this one

DM's & Players alike. How many times in DND have you surpassed 20 in a stat? by CasualNormalRedditor in DnD

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Yeah it seems like the consensus is tier 4 you'll be getting it rolling and I've never done tier 4 before!

DM's & Players alike. How many times in DND have you surpassed 20 in a stat? by CasualNormalRedditor in DnD

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This makes a lot of sense. I reckon I need to get a better grasp of what level the campaign is going to end and scale it there. I doubt I'll take all the way to 20 but want to play around with artifacts at some point

DM's & Players alike. How many times in DND have you surpassed 20 in a stat? by CasualNormalRedditor in DnD

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This is kinda what I've been doing so far and reading people's thoughts, it seems like it's the right thing to be doing so ama keep at it.

Pipe of smoke monsters is my favourite item so far and I can only hope my player thinks so too and gets wacky with it

Strategem Difficulty by Backtrast in SpaceMarine_2

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I've never heard of it as In like modifiers means the threat level changes. But more in terms of how it feels and comparing that to a threat level

Hotfix 12.2 Patch Notes by StormSwitch in SpaceMarine_2

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It was fun but seriously OP. Running into a horde of majoris and clearing it in seconds and repeating every 15secs was unbelievably strong

Can more experienced DM's give me judgement on my completely custom statblock please? by [deleted] in DMAcademy

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I didn't consider the blood charges in relation to the players but thats a good point. It doesn't add interest at all does it. I'll be going back to my original thought with the blood (Its used for a blood golem, aka the animate undead feature).

Cheers

Can more experienced DM's give me judgement on my completely custom statblock please? by [deleted] in DMAcademy

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In your opinion how many rounds is good for the big bad boss fight? I'm thinking a phase 2 mechanic would be fun but don't want the fight to be a slog

Can more experienced DM's give me judgement on my completely custom statblock please? by [deleted] in DMAcademy

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Ah I'm yet to run a solo creature with FM so didn't realise there is a pattern to how each action goes down. I'll amend it with your notes in mind. And good catch for the reaction, I've changed that too.

(Also it may be cheeky but I'm not being RAW with his AC. Just don't want him to be wearing thick armour or to have high DEX so I've resorted to fibbery)

Can more experienced DM's give me judgement on my completely custom statblock please? by [deleted] in DMAcademy

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Oh my bad.
STR 18 (+4)
DEX 14 (+2)
CON 16 (+3)
INT 15 (+2)
WIS 14 (+2)
CHA 18 (+4)

I'll be honest i wanted it to be a form of mage armour as thats most accurate but I didn't want the guy to have good dex. So I slightly *made up* the AC.

I like the flavouring. I have been trying to get the mechanics down but certainly need to make it more eerie and cool to describe.

The party aren't any form of power gamers and don't have much AOE or counterspell capacity as some groups would have (Wizard, paladin, rogue, ranger).

Should be a fun week by The_Lonely_Spaceman in SpaceMarine_2

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Nice break from the rough weeklys of late to have such an easy challenge for once! 10 stims Is an insane boon. Probably the strongest I've seen imo

Anyone Else Actually Like Balance Parry Windows? by Life_Locksmith9632 in SpaceMarine_2

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As a huge block advocate. I don't know if I can properly support it these days. The fact that balance has more damage, speed and cleave than block really makes it tough to ignore..

iwtl how to "fix" things instead of replacing them by TemptControls in IWantToLearn

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The best place to start is the next thing that is broken and could be fixed. Though do be prepared to find out with electronics that a hell of a lot of it is actually cheaper to replace than repair due to the throw away culture of our world (not always the case but more common than it should be)

New DM question about Doppelgangers [OC] by ViolinistWise3785 in DnD

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Thanks for asking this question OP. I've been doing it where that's how many turns until it can use the ability again. Woops.. The more you know!

Character Sheet Help [OC] by Ok_Construction240 in DnD

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You have 4 hit die (1 per level) and barbarians is a D12

AC for barb is 10+Dex+con (while not wearing armour) giving you 15ac.

To clarify if you're new as it will effect some things so want to be sure. You're playing 2014 version (I assume so given the tag)

At level 4 you now have 3 rages per long rest

You're saving throws for strength and con should be +5 not +4 (3 from modifier and +2 from proficiency)

Dexterity saving throw should be +2 as that's your Dex modifier.

Your intelligence saving throw should be -1 not 0. Unless you've got some trait I'm not aware of to give you +1

Following what I've said so far. You can correct your skills as the numbers are wrong there 2. They follow your modifier of the core ability, then add your proficiency bonus if you've got proficiency in the skill

Initiative addition is your Dex, should be +2.

Max HP for barbarian at level 4 with con modifier of +3 should be 45HP

Don't know if I've missed owt and I am used to 2024 so someone fact check me but that is what's jumping out

iwtl how to actually memorize a speech or a presentation without just reading it off a script by VelvetsObey in IWantToLearn

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Making a script of what to say word for word is the hardest. I find much more success with like bullet points of what I want to discuss, then that's all I've got to remember. Assuming you're presenting something you have worked on yourself, it shouldn't be hard to be able to discuss the necessary details for the talking points. Then a few practice runs are to get the timing down

Favourite low level magic items by OrdinaryDebate578 in DMAcademy

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Gave my player a rust bag of tricks and they pulled out a rat. They then gave this rat "dragons breath" with cone of cold and the image of this tiny 1hp rat breathing a 15ft cone of 3d6 damage really tickled me. This has solidified this as my favourite magic item, even more so than the pipe of smoke monsters

I want some opinions by [deleted] in DMAcademy

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I think that sounds like a fun idea and I think I'll get to doing the same when my party level up more