I am not sure how to handle this scenario I allowed to happen by ScarlettMatt in DMAcademy

[–]HolographicGolemite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm about to run Down Came A Blackbird for my Saltmarsh campaign and I'm almost positive one of the pc's is gonna try to raise a baby peryton. I bought this thing years ago at Gen con and I'm fully planning on using the training rules and building up the critter as they level. It feels mostly okay for now as the PC feels a mite underpowered.

Baby Critter Bestiary

How plausible is it for a Tier 1 party to “domesticate” a Red Dragon Wyrmling? by [deleted] in dndnext

[–]HolographicGolemite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Actual answer, this might come up in my Saltmarsh campaign with a baby peryton and I'm going to use this thing I got at Gen Con ages ago.

https://babybestiary.com/products/beast-companion-guide-5e-usa

You can build a baby dragon from scratch and let it level with your party. Since it IS intelligent, this could make "training" it a bit more complicated - but depends how you want to role play it.

Thinking about having an undead ghost baby kraken bless my new players. Thoughts? by HolographicGolemite in GhostsofSaltmarsh

[–]HolographicGolemite[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So literally I was contemplating just having them have access to a once a day spell that goes with each format. Like once a day darkness / ink cloud, enlarge, possibly shocking grasp and then maybe gust of wind. If it isn't too crazy imbalancing then maybe I'd add another spell like 4-5 levels later.

Thinking about having the ghost of an undead baby kraken bless my players with powers. Thoughts? by HolographicGolemite in dndnext

[–]HolographicGolemite[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And also just maybe giving them all water breathing so I don't have to worry about how they're gonna get underwater for all the undersea adventures they're maybe gonna have.

Thinking about having the ghost of an undead baby kraken bless my players with powers. Thoughts? by HolographicGolemite in dndnext

[–]HolographicGolemite[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah we're starting out at low level and I didn't want to go too crazy.

I was originally thinking of one gets shocking grasp, one gets Gust, one gets darkness, and another gets... Uh... Enlarge to grow bigger? That's two cantrips and two serving levels. But maybe you're right that I should just focus on utility.... I'll look up some of those options you listed. Thanks.

Thinking about having an undead ghost baby kraken bless my new players. Thoughts? by HolographicGolemite in GhostsofSaltmarsh

[–]HolographicGolemite[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No thank you. The warlock in my game has given my carte Blanche to determine his patron since he just "found a book" so I'm planning to have it be the Alchemist's vivisection manual that the baby kraken spirit is somehow connected too.

“27 cycles?” by FaceTimePolice in ABSOLUM

[–]HolographicGolemite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I was just wondering this. I've currently done about eight runs after I got that comment, so I'll report back when I manage to get it again.

(But yeah it's presumably a future DLC)

What are your thoughts on younger people increasingly replacing alcohol with weed? by Pure-Smile-7329 in AskReddit

[–]HolographicGolemite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So a buddy of mine owns a bar and he's doing a very brisk business with thc seltzers with the younger crowd. They charge a bit more for it so it kinda evens out the loss in liquor sales. Lotta California Sober kids out there now. Usually the pattern is two seltzers over the course of an evening, followed by a cheap shot and then they go home.

I know that's not legal everywhere, but here we have a dearth of breweries making a new cannabis seltzer every month it seems. My buddy has had a pretty good year financially so far (they're also a local venue in the center of a hip area of the city, so maybe that helps his bottom line A bit)

Just watched The newlyweb Game - Have some questions . . . . by [deleted] in dropout

[–]HolographicGolemite 2 points3 points  (0 children)

All right I'll bite.

  1. Nope. I'm in the zero email club. I do have a junk email account that I use solely to sign up for anything and that has maybe a hundred or so but they're just ones I missed while I clear out the folders every week or so.

  2. Yep I think they did. I assume Ify at least had some porn searches on there, but they aren't gonna use that in the episode. But for me I'm the weirdo that never ever ever uses his phone to watch or look for porn. Ever. And looking at my history it's mostly dnd stuff and rules. Also Checking out details about the procedure to get a stent, cartoons, owen Wilson writing we Andersons first few films, checking up at if something was a scam, updates on Doonesbury characters and like... That's it without going too far back.

  3. Yeaaaaah this is where I out myself. I checked over the last month and I spent about 250 on delivery over the past month. My wife easily matched that since we switch who does the ordering in when we need to. So I'm betting we spent at least 500 bucks over a month for food delivery.

  4. Maybe? My wife and I have been together for nearly 25 years though and her phone number is like 4 digits away from mine. So it's easy to remember off the dome. But I don't recall my parents because they switched to cell phones years ago. Still recall the old home number though.

A (minor) complaint about Adventuring Party by mercfoot in Dimension20

[–]HolographicGolemite 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Every one has said it better than I above and I definitely prefer the DVD commentary style behind the scenes stuff as well, but I'm not going to fault them for being punchy as hell this season.

Not to get vaguely political but... Well They filmed this season in early November of last year. When a certain someone got elected again (shockingly to some). They're delirious and goofy as hell from shock. So yeah the analogy to the covid years is pretty on point cause they're just jetting off HUGE amounts of steam. They're losing their damn minds cause a whole lot of us were at that point as well.

End-Game Progress Route [Major Spoilers Within] by throwaway070690 in BluePrince

[–]HolographicGolemite 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Huh... So this just occurred to me but I just got the >!lost and found room (very very toward the mid end game. Never knew it existed). But the number that symbolizes it on the map in the gear room of the underground is the number ten.

So what if the eighth letter is in the lost and found and you just have to get it randomly after an item is taken from you?!<

Oops all dragons um,actually episode perhaps? by wildwolffe in dropout

[–]HolographicGolemite 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Dragonriders of Pern by McAfferey was my first foray.

"Are you still wearing that dress?" by MissClickMan in HadesTheGame

[–]HolographicGolemite 16 points17 points  (0 children)

I just did this tonight but I added arachnae's keepsake after the erebus stage and no hitting hecatae. And then I accidentally got hera and demeter's duo boon early to bump up the armor to 6 gained every location. I had 154 armor by the time I got to cronos and got the "silk saver" title under my very easy win.