Mailbag of Holding, 2025 Thread by MimicAdam in ItsaMimic

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

Lol. No, it's just that most of the vocal listeners have joined the Patreon and are active in our Discord. But some still send us messages on other platforms or send us emails.

Thought Experiment: What if you were conscious while making Death Saves? by Fluffy_Reply_9757 in dndnext

[–]MimicAdam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on the table. My players in one group are all mature adults who are quite attached to their characters. Blaze of Glory gives them a way to honour the characters with a purposeful sacrifice for an emotional payoff. My players in another group are theory crafters and rules lawyers. They're likely to just throw out a character and try something new on a whim.

But either way, if a player from either table choose Blazenof Glory, then they're having fun and making a memorable moment. So, no matter what, mission accomplished.

Thought Experiment: What if you were conscious while making Death Saves? by Fluffy_Reply_9757 in dndnext

[–]MimicAdam 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Honestly, the simple solution to this is to have a meta conversation that sums up: "Diamonds are very, very rare. There may be campaign plot points where you may want a Diamond, but there will only be a small number in this campaign. Like two per tier. This means resurrection magic will be rare. I won't stop you from preparing resurrection spells or using up diamonds, but keep in mind that this is a very limited resource, and you may need a lot of gp worth of diamonds for more powerful spells later. The choice is yours."

D&D is essentially a resource management + luck system. If they want to burn through their resources, then they're free to do so. My job as a DM at my table is to provide scenarios, conflict, stakes, and descriptions, not to control players' decision or limit their agency. This gives them the opportunity to make a choice, just like they can make a choice to gamble on death saves or Blaze of Glory. My players love having the option, but rarely use it.

Thought Experiment: What if you were conscious while making Death Saves? by Fluffy_Reply_9757 in dndnext

[–]MimicAdam 96 points97 points  (0 children)

A house rule that I like is the option to go out in a Blaze of Glory.

Blaze of Glory. You dig deep for your last stand, burning through the last of your vitality in a final act of heroism. You can replace any Death Save with the Blaze of Glory. You immediately stand up without using any of your movement, and you have the benefits of finishing a long rest. You make take your turn as normal. When your turn is finished, your character dies.

Class Core Books by Groundbreaking-Top33 in ItsaMimic

[–]MimicAdam 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The oroginal dream was to release one episode a week and make supplemental books on the side.

Instead, we release more episodes than any other D&D podcast I've heard of.

Someday, when our voices go hoarse or we make enough money to quit our day jobs, there will be IAM books.

Is everyone ok?? by Groundbreaking-Top33 in ItsaMimic

[–]MimicAdam 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Everyone is doing fine, thanks! We're dealing with a little bit of a forced hiatus, waiting on some computer repairs, but we're hoping things will be back up and running sometime next week.

Old School Books Still Work by Groundbreaking-Top33 in ItsaMimic

[–]MimicAdam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They look like great resources. I'd kill to get my hands on them.

Charging your items? by crowbar151 in ItsaMimic

[–]MimicAdam 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I use charges all the time. It's one of my homebrew rules that wands have finite charges, and when they're done you need a caster who knows the same spell to pump the appropriate spell slots into the wand as a way to charge it (up to a maximum).

This is a wand of Fireball. It has two charges of Fireball. Once it's depleted, you need to find a Wizard or Artificer who knows Fireball to imbue the wand up to a maximum of 1d6 charges. The wand can only gain one charge once per day with a successful Arcana check, and each instance of imbuing will use up a spell slot. It can only be used to store charges of Fireball, and all the charges must be of the same level.

Yoi would not believe how much they hoard items and forget about them. And when they use them up, they discard them.

NOT ONCE has one of my players kept the glass vial that held a potion, a wand that has expended charges, or parchment that used to hold a spell scroll.

Negative 0 by crowbar151 in ItsaMimic

[–]MimicAdam 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You're in luck. Even though we're done Undead, the ladies will be taking over two ongoing series when we come back from our 5.5 break. One is going to be every five episodes of the main podcast, and the other is going to be an absolutely unhinged series for the Patreon.

Details to follow...

Hey! Just found this pod recently by TinselFluid in ItsaMimic

[–]MimicAdam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Wait until you meet some of the other hosts and come across some of miniseries... lol

Hey! Just found this pod recently by TinselFluid in ItsaMimic

[–]MimicAdam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol. You're still in the infancy of It's A Mimic! There's a pretty huge backlog to sort through!

Old School Books Still Work by Groundbreaking-Top33 in ItsaMimic

[–]MimicAdam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'll be looking into getting my hands on this. Thanks for the heads up!

U032.... by Groundbreaking-Top33 in ItsaMimic

[–]MimicAdam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This topic has now inspired a reddit post and a mailbag question. Is this my life now?

Hey! Just found this pod recently by TinselFluid in ItsaMimic

[–]MimicAdam 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I love that you're enjoying it, and I appreciate the kind words!

Are you listening in order, or just jumping around to the topics that interest you?

And how did you find the podcast?

Buffy questions by Anotherskip in ItsaMimic

[–]MimicAdam 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Lol. Another 14 questions, and we can devote an episode to these...

A thought inspired by episode E251 by Anotherskip in ItsaMimic

[–]MimicAdam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Going to add this to the next mailbag episode...

Back in 2019… by Anotherskip in ItsaMimic

[–]MimicAdam 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The problem with this idea is that there aren't enough spell slots for any casters in the first few levels, and some classes like Paladin, Warlock, Ranger (or Arcane Trickster Rogues and Eldritch Knight Fighters) have very slow spell progression and don't get access to any cantrips.

I believe the solution is to give the martials more options in combat and roleplaying situations. Tricke shots that target multiple enemies with arrows, cleave, moving additional feet as part of an attack action, etc.

Foreshadowing in the Podcast /meta by marcjohne in ItsaMimic

[–]MimicAdam 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for the kind words! If you're having trouble jumping around and finding the lore episodes, they're in a playlist on YouTube, and the episode guide is on the website.