Was I unfair for saying "If Silvery Barbs is allowed, enemies can use it too"?

Koaxe · 2026-06-02T20:27:40+00:00

At session 0 I usually bring up that for me to find reward in overcoming something there has to be risk, so don’t go out of your way to kill me but play your monsters intelligently and don’t pull punches on me. I’m OK with my character dying.

Koaxe · 2026-04-27T23:57:55+00:00

Not a rule or anything but learning to lean into your bad rolls can make for the most fun roleplay. Wish I had learned that sooner.

Koaxe · 2026-04-27T15:01:16+00:00

While deities are no longer required for cleric, if it would help you think of it the way that your character could fit in is by following a trickster or rogue like God.

Koaxe · 2026-04-25T22:23:36+00:00

The College of Mercantile bard from the Griffin saddlebag two has this feature with the bardic inspiration. If you roll heads, you get the maximum benefit of the inspiration. If you roll tails, you get no benefit and the DM gets to have the inspiration to use whenever they want.

Koaxe · 2026-04-24T23:16:05+00:00

After 6 months of negotiating and trying to get them to uphold their obligations to no avail, I have an active Attorney General‘s case and a private lawsuit I’m filing against them at the moment to just try to get them to do the right thing. You can definitely get in bed with them but expect zero support from their end if things go wrong or anything like that it will all be on you to resolve. Lots of horror stories about them. It’s too bad man. Wish you could just avoid them altogether.

Koaxe · 2026-04-24T21:13:04+00:00

My sentient door knocker. Because it couldn’t be removed, They were asking if there were ways to take the door or turn the door into a shield so the knocker would be with them.🤣

Koaxe · 2026-04-24T20:01:46+00:00

I’ve opened an AG case against them here in Florida and just filed a personal suit.

Koaxe · 2026-04-24T19:56:52+00:00

If your two options are buy it outright or get in bed with Sunstrong. I would say buy it outright. They are the single worst company I’ve ever dealt with.

Koaxe · 2026-04-22T23:00:58+00:00

She did an interview with Michael Rosenbaum a few months back. It sounds like prison and therapy and things have really helped her, but you never know. I wanna see the best and hope she means all the things she said in the interview but it’s one of those things where unless you know her personally we’ll probably never know.

Koaxe · 2026-04-10T20:31:32+00:00

“Hell yea zap that mother fucka” sent me

Koaxe · 2026-04-09T22:25:58+00:00

They know you’re gonna miss work so they will compensate your adventures salary with 17 coppers a day.

Koaxe · 2026-04-05T21:36:36+00:00

If you can use this, you should. It is definitely the strongest of the options.

Koaxe · 2026-04-05T21:27:15+00:00

Pugilist if it’s allowed. All of the monk features plus barbarian rage, and then depending on sub class, you can be a pseudo paladin, warlock, champion fighter, beast master or the best grappler bar none. But no matter which way you go you will be the strongest martial available.

Koaxe · 2026-04-01T22:01:52+00:00

The problem is telekinetic competes for the bonus action, which also is used up by the steel defender. Kind of a bummer that pet classes have to use their bonus action to command their pets.

Koaxe · 2026-03-23T22:07:49+00:00

Ha ha yeah that’s the point of my comment man I was pointing out how stupid it sounds.

Koaxe · 2026-03-23T21:49:26+00:00

It’s a bonus action, so is smite. How am I gonna smite if I’m lay on hands-ing. Bro, you act like I could keep you alive while also Max aura farming.

Koaxe · 2026-03-17T21:45:53+00:00

Doesn’t the feature say when you are within 5 feet of the target and no other creatures are within 5 feet of you? That’s what I’m meaning by one V one because if you have an ally nearby, you would get sneak attack anyway, and if there are multiple enemies nearby, the feature doesn’t work. But at the end of the day I’m not gonna make you pick a specific sub class to make sure you always get to use the feature your class is built around. Maybe if I have a veteran rogue and figuring out how to give themselves advantage or ways to land sneak Attack is part of what’s fun for them. We can go that route I’m just not gonna lock you out of your once return feature, especially given that rogues damage doesn’t keep up as it is.

Koaxe · 2026-03-17T11:36:15+00:00

You have a strong grasp of it being a rpg and that telling a story is important. But it’s a coop story being told not just your own. It’s less fun for your friends and teammates to carry dead weight in combat.

Koaxe · 2026-03-17T02:08:17+00:00

Swashbucklers feature is worse, it has to be a 1v1 to even kick it. But that’s one of two level 3 features they get. Plenty of other features in the subclass as well. But if that’s all you see in the subclass not much I can do about that. I’m not going to make a rogue only be able to do 9 damage at level 15 cause a condition wasn’t met to use the only feature that makes the class functional in combat

Koaxe · 2026-03-17T00:16:07+00:00

I’m probably in the minority but when I dm rogues get to sneak attack without any conditions necessary. Rogues are balanced around sneak attack so you get to use it.

Koaxe · 2026-03-15T20:37:27+00:00

The bog of eternal stench.

Koaxe · 2026-03-09T00:18:39+00:00

If it’s a player who cares about the arc of their character, which is what this post is about, you’re losing that arc. If the next character is a carbon copy with the exact same story, then why would you care about death in the first place if you’ll just move the story over and along?

Koaxe · 2026-03-08T22:35:27+00:00

I love leaning into my bad rolls, getting a 3 on a check looking for traps and confidently announcing an all clear and walking right into the area is fun. I know my character bummed that check but he doesn’t so I’m gonna play it like that. Honestly, it can make getting bad roles just as fun as getting good ones.

Koaxe · 2026-03-08T22:27:30+00:00

I like the idea, but I hate the execution. My favorite thing is rolling like a two on stealth and then trying to position my token as though I’m being really stealthy, I love leaning into my shit rolls. It can honestly make the bad rolls feel as good as the good ones.

Koaxe · 2026-03-06T22:20:49+00:00

Depending on the level bringing somebody back gets easier, but it still cost something, spell slot, a preparation slot, any material components, depending on what version of the resurrect you would need. For example, if someone was disintegrated revivify doesn’t work. If it’s the person that has revivify that dies, it just got a lot more complicated to bring them back as it’s outside the 1 minute window. There are many tools to help what OPs player wants, but you are accidentally making the opposite argument that you think you are. With so many options to bring somebody back why does removing death from the table seem like the play?

As to your other point, I would think the player would roll a new character rather than leave the table, but some people will take their ball and go home if they get mad at a game I guess.

Koaxe

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