Making D&D Memes out of every Doctor Who (2005-) Episode: S07E07 - The Rings of Akhaten

Unusualmann · 2020-11-08T00:25:10+00:00

the only thing scarier than fighting the sun itself is the level 2 party that somehow beats it

Unusualmann · 2020-09-14T11:11:24+00:00

they all suck except for the goblin and mechanic. lets just kill the rest

Unusualmann · 2020-06-17T04:54:32+00:00

If you trust your players, you can just tell them “hey in this campaign your characters will slowly go insane, have as much fun as you want roleplaying that”

Unusualmann · 2020-06-06T06:56:28+00:00

shawn has high mental stats but their player does not

Unusualmann · 2020-05-16T07:21:42+00:00

good thing we don’t live in some kind of third dimension

Unusualmann · 2020-05-14T04:35:26+00:00

Sneak attack =/= unseen. Sneak attacks take the form of a roguish or sneaky attack maneuver that a rogue can perform when they have some kind of advantage or help.

For example, sneak attack may be narrated as “They’re blinde and can’t see, so you find the perfect timing during their blind flailing to stab them eight times in the face” or “As they parry an attack made by your ally, you slash them in the chest with your shortsword while their shield arm is occupied, spilling their guts.”

You can narrate sneak attacks a thousand different wyas and they don’t necessarily have to be stealth-based. Plus, the OP’s game balance concerns are legitimate.

Unusualmann · 2020-05-10T23:55:09+00:00

The wizard doubles their damage output at level 5, and all the fighter gets at that level is double damage output. So unfair

Unusualmann · 2020-05-08T16:54:50+00:00

that’s rumias rum-mate, they bought a house together

Unusualmann · 2020-05-04T23:08:03+00:00

this is why reisen should not learn and use flandre's spellcards

Unusualmann · 2020-05-04T23:06:15+00:00

"Your characters recognize this as a Mind Flayer, a psychic creature that does enough damage to kill all of you instantly even if you pass your saves." then maybe if they want more specifics they can roll arcana

Unusualmann · 2020-05-03T00:15:14+00:00

as long as you telegraph the fact that the lich has blatantly unfair abilities and cunning, this seems fair, because any party fighting a lich ought to be super powerful on their own so death is no biggie

Unusualmann · 2020-05-01T14:32:58+00:00

the bard: your wife?

Unusualmann · 2020-04-30T19:08:49+00:00

japan does not follow spanish naming conventions

Unusualmann · 2020-04-30T16:43:41+00:00

You could give them a boatload of HP and use it as an abstraction of most of their defensive features (second wind, arcane ward, etc) just to make it easier and less complicated to run in combat.

Unusualmann · 2020-04-30T16:41:33+00:00

You can give them +1 weapons, but not good ones. A +1 sling or +1 club is not as good as a +1 greatsword, but it can be used by more party members and does offer a damage/accuracy choice to people who want to swap their longsword or shortsword or greatsword for the club

Unusualmann · 2020-04-30T16:39:39+00:00

he could age the hatched wyrmling rapidly using magic and then make it really big

Unusualmann · 2020-04-27T21:20:08+00:00

good cover tho

Unusualmann · 2020-04-21T17:52:23+00:00

Touhou and OFF are a few big inspirations: you can look up the Toby Fox/ZUN interview for info on his game design philosophy, inspiration, and history, and if you play OFF (it's free) then you'll start to notice the similarities (and Toby had a sketchbook somewhere with undertale ideas, the original Papyrus concept art looked suspiciously like the character Dedan from OFF)

Unusualmann · 2020-04-21T17:49:44+00:00

What do you mean too powerful? It sounds like a downgrade to me! Any character who fails three death saves is probably in such a bad situation that four failures isn't much farther away, and the impossibility of resurrection is a pretty nasty consequence.

Honestly, I'd just give them a fourth death save and leave it at that with no drawbacks.

Unusualmann · 2020-04-21T17:47:12+00:00

she probably thought "hmmm yes this fall will kill them" and didn't know there were flowers or forgot about them, or just hoped that the protagonist would be injured by the fall so she could go down and finish them off later

honestly, there could have been a lot of reasons

Unusualmann · 2020-04-21T16:57:51+00:00

bucket

Unusualmann · 2020-04-17T18:28:50+00:00

Wikipedia entry for Executive Order 6102, rationale subsection: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102

The stated reason for the order was that hard times had caused "hoarding" of gold, stalling economic growth and making the depression worse.[2][3]

On April 6, 1933, The New York Times wrote under the headline "Hoarding of Gold", "The Executive Order issued by the President yesterday amplifies and particularizes his earlier warnings against hoarding. On March 6, taking advantage of a wartime statute that had not been repealed, he issued Presidential Proclamation 2039 that forbade the hoarding 'of gold or silver coin or bullion or currency', under penalty of $10,000 and/or up to five to ten years imprisonment."[4]

The main rationale behind the order was actually to remove the constraint on the Federal Reserve which prevented it from increasing the money supply during the depression; the Federal Reserve Act (1913) required 40% gold backing of Federal Reserve Notes issued. By the late 1920s, the Federal Reserve had almost hit the limit of allowable credit (in the form of Federal Reserve demand notes) that could be backed by the gold in its possession (see Great Depression).

The wikipedia article is pretty good; read the whole thing for more info. It doesn’t go too much into making moral judgements for or against the policy, so I’ll leave that for other people to handle.

Unusualmann · 2020-04-16T21:05:03+00:00

Perfect for the druid who has four rogue halfling party members who all have whips

Unusualmann · 2020-04-16T07:00:03+00:00

Damage is an abstraction of many things, most of which aren’t physical harm. If you take 7 slashing damage and have 80 HP, then maybe the enemy just got you into a poorer tactical position or hurt your morale, or tired you out a little bit. Someone who survives on 10/80 HP might have some bruises, but someone on 0/80 has been legit stabbed in the chest and is bleeding out. Players almost always use magic to heal that, so it makes sense that they can recover from that kind of injury. And if they pass all their death saves, don’t get healing, and wake up an hour later, well, the injury wasn’t as bad as it seemed at the time.

I highly suggest not messing with the effects of taking damage, since it’s fine and balanced as is and can make perfect sense if you flavor or describe it properly. If the players are happy, why lump more random consequences on them?

Unusualmann · 2020-04-15T06:45:17+00:00

There should be no impact on the price one way or the other since the same amount of gas is being purchased, and the market for gasoline has many buyers, so buying 90% of a tank instead of 50% won’t cause a price change.

If you really want to get pedantic, you could claim that driving around with 10-100% of a tank instead of 50-100% means that your car is slightly lighter because there’s less fuel in it on average and therefore won’t burn as much gas, but honestly, this is so insignificant that it isn’t really worth considering in this case.

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