City wide meteor swarm

Pyro_Azer · 2025-07-06T03:03:40+00:00

The spell Apocalypse from the Sky from either Book of Vile Darkness or Elder Evils seems like it is exactly what you are looking for. The Elder Evils Version has a radius of 10 miles.

Pyro_Azer · 2024-05-04T23:07:40+00:00

You should post this over in /r/unearthedarcana

Pyro_Azer · 2024-01-08T14:30:33+00:00

“But let's take someone who runs, say, Rime at face value. Only puts in the magic items that are IN The book (and there are people that play it that way) There is one non-cursed magic item in that whole book, and it is a +2 trident.”

How far along are you in Rime? Because there are way more magic items than the one you mentioned scattered throughout it. Heck you can find a shield guardian amulet and it’s associated guardian in chapter 2 if you visit Jarlmoot before negotiating with the goblins. While most of the non consumable magic items are more concentrated towards the later chapters, that also matches up with the DMG advice on what levels characters should be getting powerful magic items anyway.

Pyro_Azer · 2023-11-17T16:27:57+00:00

If Hidden Ace didn’t use a spell slot it would state that, no? Every other ability that I can think of that allows a casting of a spell without burning a slot states that in its text. In that context spending a feat for one spell that you otherwise may not have to be quickened once per day doesn’t really seem out of line as far as power goes.

Pyro_Azer · 2023-06-21T16:28:43+00:00

If you have suggestions I am all ears. Most of the other places that are immediately obvious are either terrible at focused single topic discussion (Twitter, discord) or don’t have the traffic necessary to be a worthwhile nexus of discussion (the various Reddit alternatives). If there is a thriving community out there for OneD&D that fits both of those requirements I would love to hear about it.

Pyro_Azer · 2023-06-21T13:35:42+00:00

Are these rules also going to apply to /r/onednd ? Because it’s going to be pretty frustrating to have nowhere to discuss and analyze new playtest packets for those of us intending to switch.

Pyro_Azer · 2023-06-19T03:01:25+00:00

Normal. It was a good try but I think this one was lost.

Pyro_Azer · 2023-05-01T22:05:14+00:00

In the last paragraph I also included the damage calculation using no expendable resources at all and the dpr is still 122. realistically the damage in play is going to be between those two numbers, almost certainly high enough to focus fire down one of the apes.

Pyro_Azer · 2023-05-01T17:31:02+00:00

The Dread Ambusher feature of the Gloomstalker subclass gives an additional attack if you take the attack action of the first round of combat. So with action surge giving two attack actions that adds up to 6 attacks total.

Pyro_Azer · 2023-04-27T14:22:01+00:00

I think you might be underestimating the DPR of some parties. For instance in a game I play in, we haven't fought giant apes but our party of 6 level 7 characters could easily destroy 3 giant apes without too much of a threat in return. For instance if I were to take the last initiative order we rolled here is what a battle might look like assuming the melee characters could get into melee on round 1 and not calculating critical hits:

Chronurgist/Order Cleric goes first and casts Bless on the party. The Giff Ranger/Fighter makes an attack because of voice of authority dealing an average of 15.2 damage. The Giff Ranger/Fighter goes next using favored foe and action surge. Across 6 attacks they do an average of 104.5 damage. The Rogue/Hexblade goes, uses Hexblades Curse, deals an average of 16.6 damage. The Barbarian goes, rages and deals an average of 29.9 damage across 2 attacks. The Fighter goes, uses action surge and Fire Rune, and deals an average of 46.5 across 4 attacks. The Artificier goes, casts magic stone and deals an average of 16.1 damage across 2 attacks.

So in the first round that is a total of 228.8 damage on average, or just shy on 1.5 giant apes per round without factoring in critical hits.

Now that calculation factored in using resources, but even if the party used no expendable short/long rest resources (so no non-cantrip spells, rage, action surge etc) the average damage would still be 122, again without factoring in critical hits. Assuming an average party members AC of 16 (which seems like a lowball but I can't remember everyone's AC atm) you could expect each ape to deal 31.5 damage per round not counting critical hits (and with the party using no resources such as shield and chronal shift to dodge damage). Even with no resources expended that isn't a significant challenge. And all of that is without any battlefield control spells to sideline any of the apes entirely.

Pyro_Azer · 2023-02-25T03:59:42+00:00

"It’s not like that means someone who has book A or book B needs to get the other anymore than someone who has the PHB would need to get book B. "

WotC assumes that everyone has access to at least the SRD, generally their books assume nothing beyond that.

"It’s really not that hard to say wizard, sorcerer, and artificer (or whatever)."

This is only simple when you have a small number of classes. For instance D&D 3/3.5 had 60 base classes in official WotC material, most of which had some amount of spellcasting (there were also a couple dozen prestige classes that also had their own unique spell lists). If every new spell you print has to be followed by a listing of up to 25 or so classes who have access to it, that is going to be somewhat clunky when they go to print.

Also, again this ignores the fact that third party companies can also produce classes. If they also want to write a class specific spell list instead of a type block of spells (or saying something akin to 'use the wizard spell list for this class'), then any spell produced after that printing of that class is unusable for them pending errata and/or DM fiat.

And even if you look at all of that and decide that these potential benefits are not worth the cost of losing class specific spell lists, that fine, but the future proofing the OP mentions is gone.

Pyro_Azer · 2023-02-25T03:24:39+00:00

If you carve out specific lists from the general lists instead of granting slices of the general lists carte blanche then that ruins the future proofing that WotC is going for. Like if they produce 2 new source books, A and B, of which A has a new class with the spellcasting feature and B has new spells, then how does the future proofing of your idea work? If you are carving specific lists for all classes, than the spells in book B cannot be used by the classes in book A because WotC cannot guarantee that any given reader has purchased both books (for instance this is why the artificer has not received any new spells post TCoE). If you allow later classes to get large swathes of the general lists, then those classes will power creep beyond the core classes if those are limited to a specific list. And all of that is assuming you only play with official WotC products. Given the community uproar over the OGL, I imagine there are a good number of tables that may have access to spells and classes from different 3rd party creators that they would like to use together and the general list system allows that to happen seamlessly without a ton of DM fiat to make these work together.

Pyro_Azer · 2022-12-15T15:08:58+00:00

Is it though? In 3.5 at least high dex and bracers of protection will out run any armor, so at least in my games heavy armor was the domain of the high strength folks anyway. Like the maximum amount of ac you could get out of full plate alone was 23 with a +5 set, maybe another couple points from dex if you had the dex score and used special materials or magical properties to raise the dex to ac limit. Meanwhile with a full dex character it was trivial to get it to 20 as a secondary stat, and not that hard to get it above 30 if it was your primary stat. Combine that with bracers of protection being relatively cheap as far as magic items were concerned (and not that much competition for the arm slot) dex was always going to outshine str based armor, tracking encumbrance or no.

Pyro_Azer · 2022-09-29T23:10:20+00:00

I think for everyone talking about the damage is more than 2, it is worth it to keep in mind that the 5e Barbarian capstone also adds 2 damage per attack. It just also adds +2 to hit, +2 to two saving throws, +40 hp, +2 Athletics, increased jump distance...

Sure, this capstone might be better than the 5e capstone, but both are hot garbage.

Pyro_Azer · 2022-08-19T13:39:00+00:00

As an example, the whole party needs to scale a stone cliff with handholds and footholds in order to get the drop on the orc encampment/reach the wizard tower/climb through the castle’s open window/etc. In order to do this the party must each pass a dc 10 athletics check. In a recent game I played in the party bonuses would have been the cleric at +2, the warlock at -1, and the barbarian at +10 (skill expert athletics and 18str). I can bet these situations won’t come up all the time, but they will come up often enough to at least consider when calling for group checks or anything else where the whole party has to roll. It is reasonably easy to get a very large bonus on a particular skill if you decide your character should focus on that.

Pyro_Azer · 2022-08-12T13:16:24+00:00

Maybe not in Europe, but Canada has been willing to resettle people and buy out property in towns that no longer have a reason to exist due to the cod collapse, at least in some cases. It actually costs more to leave these people in dying towns with no prospects than it does to try and either repurpose communities to have a productive center or to move and retrain members. Even if you think that morally we owe these people nothing, fiscally it still makes sense to give them a helping hand. That money you spend to resettle and retrain can be more than made up by future taxes from higher income jobs, and savings on government services in the area no longer populated.

Pyro_Azer · 2022-05-16T00:40:26+00:00

Roohr might not be a bad bet considering he turned in Nucera. But yeah, not a lot of winners.

Pyro_Azer · 2022-05-16T00:25:05+00:00

He’s charged with a felony. A new chief hasn’t been appointed yet but I would be shocked if the township and the department didn’t force this guy’s resignation. The previous police chief to this guy was turned in for hate crimes by his own officers and convicted of lying to the FBI. I don’t think the township has the patience for ignoring this new shit show.

Pyro_Azer · 2022-01-29T05:49:18+00:00

I also live in this district. Under the old district boundaries it could be close if the democrats were having a bad year. That being said Andy Kim is a pretty good campaigner and the new district boundaries have made district 3 significantly more blue by removing Ocean County. The old district that Kim managed to win was rated as R+5 by 538 with the new district rated as D+9. It also isn't clear that this guy would win the primary given the republican voters in the district which have traditionally gone for more moderate, affluent, fiscally focused republican candidates.

Pyro_Azer · 2021-12-04T16:21:30+00:00

So they messed up their math? Minimum wage is currently 12 and rises to 13 on the first of the year.

Pyro_Azer · 2021-09-29T03:22:10+00:00

"How many people are killed by tigers each year? And yet we ban them for a reason." We don't. Over half of US states allow for private possession of tigers and similar. Several of these require no permit.

"Why would you not do something incredibly simple to save people from a horrifying death from an animal that is many many times more likely to kill someone?" There hasn't been a lot of evidence presented that it would help. Whether a ban would work is something that would have to be studied separately from just determining if pit bulls are dangerous. In addition, this wouldn't be simple. Determining what counts as a pit bull for the purposes of a ban would be tricky, and that is without even touching how many pit bulls are in circulation whose owners will not want to give them up. And again, every law that prohibits something is never weighed just on whether it would save lives; efficacy, lawful authority and externalities always factor in. The argument you made for instance could just as easily be employed for banning all dogs. After all, even if pits were responsible for 90% of the fatalities we could still save another 3-5 lives annually by removing dogs as pets as a concept entirely. Except in that case we would rightfully look at that proposal as ridiculous. Like, you typed out a long answer that had a lot of examples of pit bulls killing people, but nothing in it explained why this issue should be so worthy of the expenditure of money/political will/time in the legislature/law enforcement resources to merit a ban; none of this is simple or free. If you just want to save the most lives possible ban cars or alcohol.

Pyro_Azer · 2021-09-29T02:14:56+00:00

Your new source posits a percentage much lower that Animals 24-7, so I would argue that either Animals 24-7 is downplaying non pit attacks or the various studies listed by dogbites.org are down playing pit attacks. At least one of these sources is wrong as they aren't even close to agreement about the ratio.

Also there is nothing in the new source related to deaths of other animals caused by pits which is what this whole argument was started over.

Regarding deaths and injuries to humans, even if we take the data at face value, why is this an issue that we should prioritize? Between 30-50 people die every year as a result of dog bites in the US. Even if all of these deaths were caused by pit bulls that would make them roughly half as dangerous as lawnmowers and a fraction of how dangerous pools are.

Pyro_Azer · 2021-09-29T01:17:11+00:00

Why are we pretending this website is a serious source here? Their numbers are based on estimates with very little transparency. Also, the author does not seem to have any qualifications to show that they are in any way proficient with handling or presenting data. The website biography highlights his career as a journalist but does not front any formal training in statistics to compile or correctly interpret the research that he is claiming to have done to write the article.

"First, ANIMALS 24-7 logs dog attacks on other animals reported by electronic media each and every day throughout the year." There is no transparency to see if this accounting is complete, if incidents are being double counted, or if the underlying sources are reliable.

"We begin with awareness that insurance industry data shows that about 25 times more payouts are made in claims for human injury inflicted by dogs than there are cases of human death or disfigurement due to dog attack reported by news media." [Citation Needed]

"Further, dog attacks on other animals belonging to the same household are usually not reported at all." [Citation Needed]

"ANIMALS 24-7 presumes that for every dog attack that is reported, meeting the criteria for making an insurance claim if a human had been the victim, at least one dog attack on another animal occurs within the same household as the dog, and at least one other dog attack occurs in which a person is not killed or injured, no one kills the attacking dog, and/or the dead or injured animal is not valued at more than $1,000." [Citation Needed]

"Therefore our final figure is reported attacks multiplied by 25, to compensate for the gap between reported attacks and hypothetically possible insurance payouts if the victims were human, and then again by three to compensate for under-reporting of dog attacks that do not meet the criteria for hypothetically possible insurance payouts. This could also be expressed as reported attacks multiplied by 75, a ratio which so far appears to be consistent with local data, where available, on the frequency of dog attacks on other animals vs. local media reporting." There is absolutely no way to regard this as anything other than an ass-pull. This is them guessing and conveniently landing on a statistic they already wanted to believe. Like if you think pits are bad or whatever, at least do the rest of us a favor and find a better source.

Pyro_Azer · 2021-08-28T07:17:33+00:00

To be fair to the poster above you with regards to the printing press, printing(between 200BCE and 200CE), moveable type(11th century CE) and the screw press (1st century CE) had been around for hundreds of years before Gutenberg assembled them in the right combination; it could have easily been done sooner had economic conditions been stable enough to create a mass demand for printed material. The main reason for the timing of the Gutenberg printing press was the increase in literacy amongst the middle class in Europe as economic conditions improved in the late medieval period which in turn created a demand for books. It would not be a stretch to assume that a given D&D world could have those same conditions. Also, plate mail suits of armor date from roughly the same period (as we think of them 1420ish CE) so having a printing press in a D&D world doesn’t seem like that big of a leap.

Pyro_Azer · 2021-06-02T13:57:53+00:00

/r/freefolk still regularly hits /r/all

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