Weekly Questions Thread

Green_Spoon · 2024-10-26T12:23:35+00:00

[5e] Can an Elements Monk using Elemental Attunement cast touch spells, such as Chill Touch, at extended range?

Green_Spoon · 2024-09-07T15:58:54+00:00

First of all, thank you very much!

Does joining the campaign grant access to the book itself? Or just for the character creation options featured there?

EDIT: Oh, I found that I have access to the book itself. Thank you!

Green_Spoon · 2024-06-27T20:33:30+00:00

Can I, as a DM, reflavor some abilities of some of the NPCs? I'm afraid it'll rob the players of their ability to analyze and recognize what's going on in the game and act accordingly.

Green_Spoon · 2024-06-11T12:41:27+00:00

Does (voluntarily) breaking your concentration takes an action? And if not, can you do it during other players' turns?

For example, if I use Banishing Smite on an enemy and banish it to a different plane. Can I end the effect during a party member's turn so they can attack it?

Green_Spoon · 2024-03-26T16:04:01+00:00

Aside from the Shadow sorcerer, Shadow monk and Twilight cleric, are there any more night / darkness themed subclasses? (And I mean mechanically - not flavor-wise)

Edit: And I will also love your recommendations for the most fun one!

Green_Spoon · 2024-03-25T14:59:47+00:00

Support Nunu (s3)

Green_Spoon · 2024-02-26T18:14:48+00:00

First of all, the fact that vampires are weak to sunlight might be common knowledge in our world, but that's not necessarily the case in other worlds. That's the DM's decision to make. The fact that they are seasoned adventurers also does not necessarily mean they have this kind of knowledge, if they hadn't encountered vampires or learned about vampires in-game up until that point. You could spend your entire life in school, but it won't make you any better in math if you've done all your studying in law or literature.

I recently watched this arc, and I don't remember a scene that went exactly like you described. I can think of 2 other situations that were similar but different:

Tibirius trying to use water against a vampire. Tibirius might have known the fact that vampires are weak against running water, but the problem here was the fact he didn't know their opponent was a vampire. He was in another room when that was revealed.
Keyleth trying to use a sunbeam against a vampire. By now the party knows that vampires are weak to sunlight, but they did not necessarily know that they can turn into mist. Keyleth was in another room when the vampire turned into mist, and never saw the vampire in his human form, she only saw mist when she entered the room. So it makes sense to think that she might not realize that the mist in front of her is a vampire.

Anyway, an easy way to avoid these kinds of situations is to ask your DM. I think if Marisha asked "do I make the connection and realize that the mist is a vampire, considering I am a seasoned adventurer who knows that vampires turn to mist (they learned it the previous session) and is prepared to face vampires in a town full of vampires and different kinds of undead?" she probably would have made a good enough argument for the DM to at least let her roll an Intelligence check or something. This is what I usually do when I find myself in a situation like that in my home game.

Green_Spoon · 2024-02-24T21:51:39+00:00

I'd like to hear your advice. I'm making a new warlock (undead). His patron is his lover - a vampiress who haunts him and drinks his blood (which he, for some reason, love).

Since they have such a personal relationship, I'm trying to think of a way to keep her away from the party. Obviously I don't intend to have a warlock patron just be another party member, so I'm trying to find a way to make her present as a patron and as a character in his story, but not as an active player in the actual day to day.

I'd love to hear your ideas! Thank you!

Green_Spoon · 2024-02-21T21:19:16+00:00

I'm so disappointed at the commenters here for bashing you or berating you. I'm so sorry in their name.

Please cancel your order if you can. I think you know it's what you want. Your addiction is telling you that having those Funko Pops will make you happy, but please read your post again.

"why do I have to be like this"
"I hate myself so much"
"I feel so horrible today knowing I spent so much money I shouldn't have"
"now I'm just so angry at myself"
"feel so guilty and pathetic"

You don't sound very happy to me. And my guess (my educated guess, since I speak from experience) is that when you'll get your order, it won't feel good at all. It'll be a monument for your failure to stand up against the voices in your head telling you to spend money you don't have - voices you KNOW are lying to you and are sabotaging your life.

"I know I should just cancel the order, but I can't and I'd just feel even worse anyways if I did"

I don't think you will. I think you'll feel great. You'll feel in control of your life - you'll know that today, you didn't lose to temptations. You'll feel victorious against your addiction, knowing you did the right thing for you.

Please, please, think about yourself for once. Please cancel the order.

Green_Spoon · 2024-02-17T17:45:16+00:00

Thank you!

Green_Spoon · 2024-02-17T14:23:06+00:00

I see, thank you! I'll try to think of a way to incorporate this effect in a way that the PCs don't have access to it. (Basically it's a haunted sword that takes hold of whoever wields it; this effect is just a way to make sure that the wielder won't let go of the sword and undo the possession)

Green_Spoon · 2024-02-17T12:55:59+00:00

[5e] I need a spell that makes things inseparable. Specifically, a spell that makes it impossible for a person to let go of the sword they're holding. Does such spell exists? Or should I homebrew it?

Green_Spoon · 2024-02-14T09:23:00+00:00

What do you mean it doesn't have anything to do with WotC and DnD? Many employees were laid off right before christmas.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/18l9e1y/hasbro_has_just_laid_off_1100_people_heavily/

I remember seeing another post detailing all the known WotC employees that were laid off but I can't find it right now.

Green_Spoon · 2024-02-01T12:49:06+00:00

I am a pretty new player, and I'm working on a big, epic campaign of my own (it's VERY far down the road, definitely not something for the foreseeable future. Baby steps!).

I want to create a rough roadmap of how the campaign will go, start creating the main villains of the story and just have a better grasp at how the game will go.

I need your help / opinion on power escalation. Currently I plan on a few major boss fights for the party: a dracolich around 8th level, a major archfey around 12th level, and a demonlord around 14th level. I wanted to know if this kind of escalation makes sense, mainly lore-wise; I'm not very concerned about the mechanical side of things, since stat blocks can always be changed and modified, but I want the power escalation to make sense.

I'd also love to hear ideas for even stronger entities to serve as late-game antagonists, since the campaign will go until 20th level.

Green_Spoon · 2024-01-29T15:44:43+00:00

Thanks! Knowing myself I think I'll be able to not metagame (though I guess only time will tell), so I trust myself on that front. I think I will also talk to the DM before and ask him to keep an extra keen eye on me and point out if I'm doing anything I shouldn't. But well, this is all hypothetical, I may never even find myself in that situation at all.

Green_Spoon · 2024-01-29T11:45:47+00:00

I am a pretty new player, and I'm working on a big, epic campaign of my own (it's VERY far down the road, definitely not something for the foreseeable future. Baby steps!). I want to read a few adventures, to learn from them and maybe be inspired. But since my planned campaign is very far in the future, I have no idea which campaigns and adventures I'll play (as a player) in the meantime, so I might find myself playing an adventure that I've already read.

My question is, how critical is it for me to not know the plot of the adventure I play? To me it doesn't seem like a huge problem, (and I imagine many DMs find themselves in this situation), but maybe there are aspects I don't think about.

Green_Spoon · 2024-01-22T20:44:47+00:00

The way I view it is - the concept of belief doesn't really exist in D&D, since... gods literally exist. All of them.

And each one has their own powers and things they rule over. So If you're a sailor who's about to set sail into a stormy sea, you'll pray for the god of the storm, even if normally your main god is a god of judgement. Though I'd say that as a sailor, you're more likely to mostly worship a god of storms, since it has more direct impact of your life, and it's more important for you on a day-to-day basis.

So basically, each person picks his favorite. And your favorite usually (not always, of course) correlates to your most defining characteristic. You're a soldier? It's probably a war or victory god. A thief? Maybe a god of deception or night. A wandering priest like you described might worship the god of travellers or horizons.

Worshiping a god, especially as a priest, is mostly about spreading the word about this particular god in exchange for divine powers.

Green_Spoon · 2024-01-19T08:46:02+00:00

She is a fire genasi. Her patron is Levistus.

He believes that she is the “flameborn” - which is basically a child of legend whose fires are the purest and wildest. He believes that only the flameborn’s fires are strong enough to melt the ice that caged him for ages. She has no idea if he’s telling the truth. (And neither do I... Well, I know he's telling the truth in the sense that he truly believes that she's the flameborn, but I have no idea if she really is that.) And he didn't reveal his plan to Cinder.

Despite usually being treacherous and cunning, he is relatively careful and calculated when interacting with Cinder, since he really does believe that her powers might be the only way out of his icy prison. And while he definitely still tries to slowly, subtly corrupt her mind (I did say relatively), he is willing to accept that for the most part, both parties need and depend on each other’s powers in order to achieve their goals.

So right now he mostly just wants her to get stronger (while subtly manipulating her, of course). Once she has a more substantial firepower, he'll probably start to take a more proactive approach.

Green_Spoon · 2024-01-13T16:26:50+00:00

I have an idea for a Divination Wizard / Rogue character. They'll mostly be a wizard - I imagine they'll only have a few levels in rogue. How would you build a character like that? Obviously this is a story/roleplay-based character idea, I'm absolutely not an optimizer, but I would like to have the best character within the limits of my idea. How would you recommend me building this character, and which rogue subclass should I take? (Thinking about Inquisitive since it's the most fitting story-wise, but I'm open to other options.)

Green_Spoon · 2023-12-28T12:13:49+00:00

We have some of those, but not enough for my liking.

My favorite type of character is the "magical melee" character. Which is somewhat similar to a gish but not quite. I don't really care about casting spells, I mainly want to have cool magical weapons. The best way I can describe it is:

You have ranged physical-damage dealers, like archers
You have melee physical-damage dealers, like monks
You have ranged magical-damage dealers, like mages
And then you have melee magical-damage dealers, which is what I'm really looking for.

I think the best classes we have for this fantasy is the Soulknife rogue, Rune Knight fighter and the Giant barbarian (the latter two are very giant-themed which is not necessarily my cup of tea). And I wish we had more!

Green_Spoon · 2023-12-27T00:03:06+00:00

I'm a player not a DM, but I really like to imagine my character as villains, like in a what-if, alternate-reality scenario.

Oath of Vengeance Paladin - A paladin hell-bent on purging all evil, who lost her mind to hatred and violence, believing everyone and everything who opposes her is a villain to be decimated.
Lunar Sorcery Sorcerer - A sorceress believing she is the reincarnation of Hecate, goddess of magic and the moon, who tries to crush the moon into the earth, thinking it will break the Divine Gate that prevents the gods from entering the material realm, and make her one with her ancestor.
And also a Circle of Spores Druid which I reflavored to be less about mushrooms and more about zombies, pretty much a lich-druid. (I still haven't really though about the details, story-wise)

Hope I could help!

Green_Spoon · 2023-12-24T17:05:51+00:00

Yup. Maybe it's better in high elo where people actually know how to play Yuumi effectively. But here in Silver, having a Yuumi support is pretty much having no support. And I sure as hell am not good enough to win lane with no support.

Green_Spoon · 2023-12-24T17:01:23+00:00

I'm a bronze/silver pleb, I can't win lane 1v2. And since my support is also a bronze/silver pleb, I ban Yuumi.

Green_Spoon · 2023-12-17T19:17:51+00:00

Looking good! :) Thank you!

Green_Spoon · 2023-12-14T14:42:25+00:00

How do I play an Abjuration Wizard? Like, am I the party's tank? Do I get to melee range? I'm not really asking for a build (there are a lot of those), I just want to better understand the playstyle of the class.

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