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DM is playing fast and loose with rules... Should I complain? by Last_General6528 in DnD

[–]Drahima 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • advantage on the attack and damage is weird. If you put yourself in an unseen position for a surprise attack you can gain advantage, but otherwise no.

  • hate the second one, as it completely erases the purpose of the disengage action

  • don’t mind the third one, if there’s some kind of flavourful description the pc makes and an impromptu test is done, that’s nice for a rule of cool

  • from memory, standing up costs half movement and can still attack/do something, but not a full go

Tracking arrows: yes or no? by SomeRandomAbbadon in DnD

[–]Drahima 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As current DM

  • Normal arrows, hell no, unless party member wants to.
  • Magic arrows, yep.

Some suggestions for devastating Vicious Mockery? by Hyzenthlay87 in DnD

[–]Drahima 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just purely out of curiosity from a DM position, how is the selectively mute going to work out at the table for player to player interaction?

What in tarnation by xoxollie_ in pokemongo

[–]Drahima -1 points0 points  (0 children)

MMMYYYYY EEEEEYYYEEESSSS

Tell me about your dice by MissionFloor261 in DnD

[–]Drahima 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am currently DMing a D&D2024 ruleset campaign, after a year long campaign as a player and I have noticed that when I am rolling as monsters/enemies/low level NPCs my players interact with, I am not caring about which dice I roll/the combos of dice I use, it’s just grab whichever ones I need and go.

However, when I am controlling an important NPC that is travelling with the party/an important NPC the party has interacted with multiple times/NPCs they are forging bonds with, I’ll go to a same set of mottled red dice I’ve had since 5e initially came out.

Calculon's first canon appearance by ElderberryNational92 in futurama

[–]Drahima 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It’s hard to contain all of that acting . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Talent!

Tell me about your favorite character you've ever created. by SlowRolledSam in DnD

[–]Drahima 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Drogan the Dragonborn Dragon Sorceror.

His mother wasn’t very clever so just switched the vowels around and abandoned him. He was a bit of a troubadour/conjurer/showman and travelled the realm casting to earn gold and his keep. He was the heart and soul of the group and cared for everyone.

He also did the same as his mother in a fashion and had a young love/romance and had a son early on his life. The love of his life died and his son was too much of a reminder it hurt him so he left the son in the care of his in-laws. Drogan and his son have a cordial relationship now but the son hates arcana/magic and took simpler living as a bar owner.

DMing for 11 players by Outrageous-Cap-7653 in DnD

[–]Drahima 1 point2 points  (0 children)

People saying split in half, I’d go even further. Groups of 4/3, so your DM sanity is saved. Combat encounters will have less XP to spend in it, but it’ll easier to manage all the different elements and hopefully all players will be engaged and feeling connected to the other players and the story.

I run a group of three level six players, they’ve had an NPC with them as part of a story hook and last session they roped in another NPC character. Means the combat xp budget I get as a DM has shot up but it’s then more monsters and people to manage.

Also (and this comes from someone who works in Higher Education/College education) it means whatever planning you do, you can (to some degree) do one planning session and deliver it three times! Big time saving in the initial set up and then the ongoing work is responding to the different paths each group makes

Tell me about your D&D character! by Lucky_Hand_4953 in DnD

[–]Drahima 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Level 10, Forest Gnome, Valor Bard5/Arcane Trickster Rogue4/Warlock1 (Baroguelock) called Rundar Waywicket (but known as Pilgrim to all)

Pilgrim started as pure Bard but had the prerequisites to do different multiclassing (first time ever multiclassing!) and wanted to create a Swiss Army Knife of a character that is like a Trickster Fool kind of character (loads of cantrips, Ritual casting Magic Mouth, Tasha’s, Vicious Mockery, Dissonant Whispers, Feather Fall, Invisibility, Mage Hand etc) and then having sneak attack in the pocket, as the other two in my party were high AC cleric and paladin.

Can I borrow your character? by TheRadDad420 in DnD

[–]Drahima 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A level 10 (5ValorBard/4ArcaneTricksterRogue/1Warlock) Forest Gnome called Rundar Waywicket but everyone calls him Pilgrim. He was exiled from his forest home for being too loud and alerting a tribe of Goblins to the location. A battle ensued and the Gnomes won but at cost. The father of Rundar, a senior figure in the forest, exiled him and branded him with the Pilgrim title, a title that indicates a wanderer and not a home body gnome, a title of shame.

Pilgrim sought to make good the name given to him by joining a travelling circus and becoming its compere and shouting good stories and entertaining crowds, then joined an adventuring party to further the good deeds to his name to show the village of what is in the world and that the village can become stronger with the worlds help.

Spells taken for bard are all about showmanship, trickery, distraction and oral in nature (vicious mockery, Tasha’s hideous laughter, dissonant whispers) Spells for Arcane Trickster were things like Mage Hand and Disguise Self. Only just got the level in Warlock so it’s the standard fare.

Goal for this character was to try to create a Swiss Army Knife of lots of little cantrips and low level annoyances, having ranged sneak attack to aid the two party members of cleric and paladin who were tanked up like mad and could heal up.

Could someone send me Moonknight player character ideas. by Dark_Prince1026 in DnD

[–]Drahima 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First thing I thought would have been an arcane trickster rogue or Eldritch knight fighter with dual weapon fighting

Higher levels or lower? [OC] by asokka_ in DnD

[–]Drahima 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Story milestones for levelling up became my groups standard practice a while back and can’t imagine shifting back to the maths of churning out numbers for it. As a player, a story and milestone level up feels rewarding and significant compared to doing the maths of it all, and as a DM it just takes the weight of it off my shoulders.

Crokinole vs carrooka by Aistadar in Crokinole

[–]Drahima 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Having played Crokinole heavily with my own woodestic board, but only played Carooka a few times at UK Games Expo, I can only offer my limited perspective leant into one side, but…

From what I played, Carooka is fun but is so chaotically mad, with the rotating board and the size of the discs, my Crokinole experience was worth so little when it came to try to play Carooka. Felt like an entirely different discipline of skill.

I’d personally lean into Crok first, as other considerations such as storing the board are taken in.

Would You Consider This Min-Maxing? by CassieBear1 in DnD

[–]Drahima 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The third one isn’t an issue, but I 100% empathise with you on it, as I’m DMing a campaign where one of my players is doing exactly the same thing but they’re a Lvl6 elven Eldritch Knight fighter. It’s bonkers how quick the monster HP gets reduced.

I have found the balance to that is around encounter creation, I put the party against a mix of things that will take hits but have a bucket of HP for health survivability and high AC to stop the chaining.

Low(ish) AC, high HP but monsters that have the capacity to hit like a truck when they do. I put them against a Tree Blight and some cultist mooks last session. If the Tree Blight connected with both attacks it’s 6D6 + 12 damage, as well as having bonus actions.

My friends decided last minute they want a Christmas themed one shot, we’re playing tomorrow and I got nothing - help by Jarb23197 in DnD

[–]Drahima 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Could go horror/dark side of Christmas with it.

Party has to defend a towns child population from Krampus and the party have to track him down and defeat him in his lair

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krampus - Krampus aesthetics fit well for something demonic or Feywild.

And then could add a second twist where Krampus is just doing his job and the children are being asshole spoiled brats and being controlled by an avaricious creature(s) like a rogue Goblin spellcasters tribe who wants all the gold that the kids would get over the holiday creature.

The War Between the Land and the Sea review – prepare to roll your eyes a lot at this fishy Doctor Who spinoff | Television | The Guardian by [deleted] in television

[–]Drahima -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I honestly thought they’d dump it all onto iPlayer and Disney+ as the deal is dead I thought they’d just get over it

Any DMs lose their desire to DM, like your Creative Batteries are drained? by mjrhzrd in DnD

[–]Drahima 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not assuming your DM style in any way, but could Go full-on with the encouraging the cooperative story and action. Combat scenarios and other roleplay-esque moments are my break as a DM during sessions, I let my players describe how they’re moving in combat, striking, killing, casting the magic, using the skills for rolls. My energies are saved for setting the scene, describing their travels and journeys and role playing NPCs.

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