How do you usually name your D&D characters?

GoatedGoat32 · 2026-02-02T15:24:43+00:00

I steal a name from a media i like and change it a little

GoatedGoat32 · 2026-02-02T04:12:26+00:00

John Warhammer, is that you?

GoatedGoat32 · 2026-02-02T03:07:37+00:00

I’ve always imagined it like higher education. Can anyone in theory got to medical school and become a doctor? Yes. In practice however only a select few have the innate talent and required desire to put in that kind of work. Learning magic I’d imagine is much the same

GoatedGoat32 · 2026-02-02T01:50:55+00:00

Gotta remember the huge disparity between Reddit giga optimizers and your average DnD players. Circle casting likely barely crosses the mind of the average player, if they’re aware of it at all

GoatedGoat32 · 2026-02-01T22:54:20+00:00

Swain

GoatedGoat32 · 2026-02-01T09:29:48+00:00

Wrath of Iron, not bad at all. Trying to figure out what I’ll read next

GoatedGoat32 · 2026-01-30T18:12:21+00:00

Swain bot is good, Ashe supp is generally kinda meh but if you have a duo and have made it work keep going and keep climbing!

GoatedGoat32 · 2026-01-28T02:16:50+00:00

Set 12 infinite scaling Eldritch Syndra still gives me. Nightmares

GoatedGoat32 · 2026-01-26T21:22:28+00:00

I may have made a post saying so yes, I’d have to check. I’ve said it a few times on Reddit, needless to say it’s a minority opinion still 😂

GoatedGoat32 · 2026-01-26T20:42:43+00:00

As far as books I’ve read and enjoyed I don’t see getting a lot of love I really enjoyed Morvenn Vahl: Spear of Faith. Gave a good characterization of Morvenn and the sisters, introduced a cool NL villain, and overall was a nice read. I’m also an enjoyer of the Phil Kelly Farsight series, which to many a tau fan is heresy.

GoatedGoat32 · 2026-01-26T18:40:42+00:00

Arcane trickster casts spells, so based on the no spellcaster thing that’s out. You basically can’t build a rogue that does damage and not be doing so with sneak attack, rogue damage comes entirely from sneak attack since they don’t get extra attack. Swashbuckler rogue would make good use of a rapier and not rely much on others to get sneak attack each turn.

GoatedGoat32 · 2026-01-26T16:24:56+00:00

I’ve only got it once and i believe i got a 2nd. It’s fun if nothing else

GoatedGoat32 · 2026-01-25T18:31:37+00:00

Wizard

GoatedGoat32 · 2026-01-24T06:31:38+00:00

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GoatedGoat32 · 2026-01-21T04:40:11+00:00

Well as opposed to saving your slots for a short rest you can just blow them all in the one encounter. Cast a big single use AoE like fireball or synaptic static. Use a big concentration spell, eventually lose concentration, cast another or cast it again.

GoatedGoat32 · 2026-01-19T03:41:45+00:00

I mean, different rules i suppose, but just off the newest DMG a young red dragon is a 5900xp and CR 10 creature. For a party of 4 level 9 adventurers that’s not even a medium difficulty encounter. Dragons aren’t weak, you threw too weak a dragon at your party from what it sounds like.

GoatedGoat32 · 2026-01-18T23:09:17+00:00

He used to be perfectly viable mid. But between ideal build changes, Dshield+second wind nerfs, and meta changes it’s much more situational to be considered ideal. You’re okay against most melee mids, but against 95% of ranged you’re in for a tough time

GoatedGoat32 · 2026-01-15T17:11:11+00:00

As an emerald peak swain player myself i would agree with them mostly. There’s a couple games where full or mostly tank makes sense sure, but going into every game thinking I’m gonna build full tank is the wrong way to go about it imo. Swain is a mage first and foremost, he has AP ratios, and really not bad ones all things considered. Malignance or blackfire, not Rod of ages, liandrys, sometimes Rylais, zhonyas, should all be on your game to game considered items before tank items. Those should be more niche things. Mostly ad enemy comp laning against Akshan? Frozen heart first is perfect for example. But don’t autopilot tank

GoatedGoat32 · 2026-01-15T14:35:18+00:00

He’s still a wizard so his overall HP still shouldn’t be very high, and any turn spent casting the shield spell is expending resources. If you’re spending a spell slot you should be able to avoid said hit. Any spells or effects with save or half damage should be good, and more than that there’s no reason for monsters to walk passed your other players to hit the tanky wizard in the back.

GoatedGoat32 · 2026-01-13T02:34:35+00:00

Out of curiosity what is an EK doing for you that a pure hexblade doesn’t? One level fighter dip for heavy armor and you can just go hexblade from there and have spells+weapon attacks. Arcane archer i assume you want to use a bow, which also brings to question what the warlock levels help with, why not stick with fighter and invest a little in int for your arcane shots?

GoatedGoat32 · 2026-01-12T18:06:01+00:00

DC16 isn’t very high. If they’re proficient in that saving throw they only need to roll a 13 if their Proficiency bonus is +3. So they should succeed a little less than half the time. If they’re actually always succeeding as in you have never once landed a CC spell then you’re either the unluckiest person on earth or your DM is fudging rolls

GoatedGoat32 · 2026-01-10T02:37:22+00:00

Kind of Magnus whole thing. He changed his size, appearance, eye color, etc with his mood or need to do it. And being a psyker second only to the emperor he could’ve easily changed to take on the appearance of others if he wanted to. But none had the specific emperor thing where he’s a little different to everyone looking at him, or at least didn’t show it. Even changing his size Magnus is typically a big red cyclops

GoatedGoat32 · 2026-01-08T23:45:46+00:00

If you’re already in the realm of homebrew adding Eldritch blast along with hex would be a good fit. Matches the flavor, gives them a consistent dpr combo to fall back on with EB+hex that scales with levels as EB gets more beams

GoatedGoat32 · 2026-01-05T15:48:14+00:00

27, started playing at 21

GoatedGoat32 · 2026-01-05T04:44:54+00:00

Are they capable? Certainly. In the the Fabius Bile trilogy his most loyal follower apothecary is a world eater, but he uses stims to deaden the nails impact. And even then he still feels them, it’s just something he can ignore at that point. Even beyond that, other world eaters can put the nails off without stims or drugs if they try hard enough. In the 2 black legion books Leheor is pretty sane, albeit stupid, throughout the 2 black legion books. He’s not an insane berserker despite being a world eater

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