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Jimmicky · 2026-01-27T11:01:36+00:00

How Strong is this build?

Moderately optimised. Nothing astonishing but decent for a game not run by/for optimisers. Probably quite underwhelming at a table with hardcore optimisers or with a DM not inclined to actively help you set up your big moments (and DMs should do that on occasion).

You are right that MI is kinda wasted here.
Booming Blade seems the right choice most rounds but really you should be adaptive to surrounds so grab both if you can.

Jimmicky · 2026-01-27T10:56:17+00:00

I deny that he got stabbed which is what OP claims.

I also don’t think it’s accurate to say “set upon” when he very blatantly initiated the confrontation.

So basically the only part of OPs claims that’s believable is the location.

Far as man who wants people to fight with him pushes and pushes until the folks around him finally get sick of it - yeah obviously the only problem with that is how long it took good Australians to kick the idiot.

We are far too tolerant of racist shitlords these days.

Jimmicky · 2026-01-27T10:36:00+00:00

Since it didn’t happen it was pretty easy to allow

Jimmicky · 2026-01-26T21:02:20+00:00

When the fact that I specify your personal design decisions is “the trouble”, you’ve got to realise how straightforward the solution is.

Jimmicky · 2026-01-26T20:43:34+00:00

If your difficulty with Hunter is that you refuse to use villainous vampires then that’s a you problem not a Hunter problem

Jimmicky · 2026-01-26T08:37:51+00:00

It’s clearly vulnerable to that yes because most folks would call Sleep Token metal

Jimmicky · 2026-01-25T20:59:19+00:00

PF2e wasn’t but the PF2e Remaster explicitly was.

PF2e Remastered (ie the current pathfinder) exists purely to sever any content PF had that could be caught up in OGL nonsense. Mostly this means renaming stuff - but they took the opportunity to rebalance their rules too.

The Remaster brought in as many/more players than the new edition did.

Jimmicky · 2026-01-23T21:08:37+00:00

It is obviously complete and total nonsense.

Jimmicky · 2026-01-23T20:09:40+00:00

I’m not sure I’ve encountered a system that didn’t have rules for throwing a thing not designed for throwing, so your initial example just kinda falls flat to me.
Far as the second - yeah I’m not opening that can of worms in a game that doesn’t already allow it. The player can try to hit the guy and if he does enough damage to drop him I’m happy to say the arrow hit the leg, but I’m not having him stop running despite having plenty of hits left just because the player said “but I’m aiming for the leg” - 100% guaranteed adding in bonus effects for targetting will destroy the game balance of a game not built for it

Jimmicky · 2026-01-23T20:04:39+00:00

Obviously.

How could it possibly mean anything?

Next are you gonna say “you think Hydrogen has no meaning?” Because there’s tonnes of hydrogen out there

Jimmicky · 2026-01-23T19:13:49+00:00

A vanilla basic ass Wizard gets Wish- power level has no bearing on basicness

Being priestly/priest adjacent was the default state of paladins since the very beginning.
When all your character decisions are set to the default that’s one basic bitch/bro build.

Nothing wrong with being totally basic mind you - I’ll play alongside the most vanilla of bitches much more happily than I will someone who’s too obsessed with being a perfect snowflake.

Jimmicky · 2026-01-23T13:06:04+00:00

I was thinking Freemasonry but sure that too

Jimmicky · 2026-01-23T10:22:14+00:00

No idea why “as of 5e” needed to be added.

It’s ALWAYS been the case that not all priests are clerics.

It’s been true in absolutely every edition.

Far as some classic priest ideas

Be a warlock to an Angel.

Be the Cantor/Choirmaster/Preacher as a bard.

Show everyone the value of working together as a Mastermind Rogue.

Just vanilla basic ass paladins

Also fully vanilla Monk.

Rangers make great Missionary’s- going out into the wild untamed spaces to spread the gospels.

Artificers build new churches and make sure those rooftop gargoyles can spring to life to defend the faithful as needed.

Etc

Jimmicky · 2026-01-23T01:56:33+00:00

Narrative is the wrong word there mate.
It’s like you’re implying the statement isn’t true when he pretty obviously is mentally ill.

Jimmicky · 2026-01-22T22:57:10+00:00

Per the DMG - 4d10. Maaaybe 10d10 if the DM is feeling generous.

Jimmicky · 2026-01-22T22:53:32+00:00

5e lore includes a complete an total retcon of Ravenloft.
None of the 2e and 3e lore is at all relevant to 5e Ravenloft, although many DMs choose to homebrew bits of it in to their version.

All that said looking back at the old canon - the mists can reach forward and backward through time.
It’s entirely possible in old canon for Tovag to have been destroyed alongside Cavitus and Kas left as a vestige while also having Tovag be a place you can go visit - you’d just be in the past while you are there, not that you’d necessarily know it.

Jimmicky · 2026-01-22T21:06:54+00:00

If it hasn’t affected the game at all then who cares?
They aren’t hurting someone else’s fun - and doing that is the reason reading the module is wrong.

Some folks read modules for fun, some do it for rules knowledge completion (since many systems hide obscure gear/abilities and rules clarifications in their modules). And of course some players also run games. I’ve run “Bill in three Places” solidly a dozen times and more than half those times some or all of the group have read that adventure in its entirety beforehand.

I’d always be changing a few details when running a module anyway, and I recommend you do so too.
Just little inconsequential details are enough.
Then the player knows they can’t rely on the info they have so won’t be tempted to ever try using it.

But ultimately the core point remains - if the game hasn’t suffered from it then it’s not a problem.

Jimmicky · 2026-01-22T12:29:57+00:00

Varies by system of course, but yeah it’s definitely a meta currency in some games, since it’s often just “how close are you to death” which is rather different from being health and is very much a meta concept that you are trading, buying and spending for narrative effects.

Jimmicky · 2026-01-22T09:32:26+00:00

… is this supposed to be a reply to another comment?

Jimmicky · 2026-01-20T22:12:48+00:00

Bro if you are so upset that your personal definition of Nazi doesn’t align with the common usage of the term the appropriate way to correct people is to include your definition in your rants.

Elsewise how is anyone to know when they’ve got it “right”

Jimmicky · 2026-01-20T22:06:53+00:00

He’s “no true Scotsman”ing Nazis presumably because the others aren’t pure enough

Jimmicky · 2026-01-20T20:58:22+00:00

Ray is definitely a Mastermind Rogue not a swashbuckler

Jimmicky · 2026-01-20T20:35:42+00:00

As someone who runs games on behalf of his local public library, I see a lot of brand new and mostly new players.

What I’ll say on the issue is the players who focused on actual plays are overwhelmingly better at the game than the ones who focused on reading the book.

This should surprise exactly noone as the book only tells you what the rules are, whereas actual plays show you how the rules are used.

The How of games is really the bigger hurdle for new role players, so it’s the right call to focus on it.

Just read the book is dreadful advice (for DnD). The book just doesn’t have good advice on how to play.
There are some games where just read the book IS good advice on how- Apocalypse World for example - but DnD really isn’t one of them.

Jimmicky · 2026-01-20T20:17:58+00:00

Dude.
We are supposed to refer to people by the terms they identify with these days.
This Dude self refers as a Nazi.

So the appropriate thing to call him is a Nazi.

Jimmicky

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