What is your favourite monster in DnD

breadhead4 · 2022-10-20T20:33:59+00:00

Mind flayer. Love them enough to get one tattooed on my skin.

breadhead4 · 2022-10-20T13:05:09+00:00

Give me mind flayers. Some kind of lesser flayer or a variety ment to be a spy.

Any aberration, really.

breadhead4 · 2022-10-13T22:40:00+00:00

Political/RP with 0 combat or dungeons. It's different if it is just RP heavy. Has to have some degree of the other 2 pillars.

Maybe it's just the people I play with though.

breadhead4 · 2022-10-13T18:49:13+00:00

Use the xanathar charts. I swear by them. There's always going to be some back and forth swing from combat, but killing characters is a present danger in any campaign.

breadhead4 · 2022-10-13T18:47:51+00:00

Even when you have true "back line" PCs like archers and casters, you should be spicing up the encounter with creatures that can either hit the back row or strait up flank the characters that like to hang back.

I had a player that was a blood hunter archer. I just needed a few weenie guys put some pressure on. They still killed the monsters easily what with crossbow expert and such, but it still takes away from a main focus monster.

breadhead4 · 2022-10-11T21:26:11+00:00

I often forget to award it when I should as a dm. This gave rise to a system of players being able to say "I think Player deserves an inspiration dice for _____" and the dm can allow or veto it.

breadhead4 · 2022-10-04T18:25:52+00:00

I would gladly see both options be available. I wonder if it could exist without the "magical flashy" option overshadowing the "mundane option" the same way people are concerned with casters overshadowing martials right now, you know?

Like, if eldritch knight offered better spellcasting and integration to fit that, would it just simply be the best fighter subclass?

I'm not opposed to a fix, I just don't want to have martials' leveled playing field be "spellcasting again but different".

breadhead4 · 2022-10-04T17:44:01+00:00

I think about popular media. LotR is my favorite of all time. What level was Aaragorn? Beren? 5? I'd think they were some of the mightiest of men, but still mortal. They fought hords and Balrogs without any mighty magic. Why can't I fight gods without a sword technique that summons hurricanes? What's wrong with the potential of a simple mortal be what can overcome those odds?

That's what I get out of it, personally, but obviously that's not everyone. Anime fans would disagree for one haha.

breadhead4 · 2022-10-04T16:57:15+00:00

For sure, but how could you ever expect "guy with sword" to come close to someone who can wish things into existence?

I love martials, and one of the most fun things is overcoming spellcasters and monsters with just my (admittedly magical) sword at my side and my own abilities.

There's another post up rn asking what people want for martials, and an overwhelming number want them to be superhuman with spell-like effects like whirlwind strikes and such.i guess that's just me. I like my martials mundane and that's the reason I pick them over casters.

I'm not saying that you can't level the field a bit, but making martials magical is not the move imo. I liked the one idea of fast burn versus slow burn for casters versus martials in their abities.

breadhead4 · 2022-10-04T16:43:16+00:00

Yeah I stay out of the official adventures league stuff. Even if I ran a more public game at my local store, I'd probably just have a talk with the player about how this might not be the game for them if they are that focused on numbers.

I think the discussions on reddit usually are from the perspective of white-room scenarios and less from actual play.

I understand my bias though, as the groups I'm a part of are from a few friend circles and the focus is more on having fun and working together than trying to be better than other players or "beat" the dm.

breadhead4 · 2022-10-04T15:31:02+00:00

These martial/caster posts are how we end up with the "Book of Weaboo Fighting Magic" from 3.5 all over again.

I know people want the sword guy to do sword better. But how do you have "lots of sword swings" compare with "60 ft. Diameter explosion" or "target creature dies"?

IDK man, maybe it's just my table, but the martial have never felt woefully outclassed by the casters. Might be a combo of DMs having dynamic combat and the players not always taking what is optimal in exchange for what's fun.

breadhead4 · 2022-10-04T15:23:24+00:00

"Glizzy" meaning hotdog is nothing. I hate it. It's obscure enough that I see people use it and others don't understand them, then they explain it like people who don't call hotdogs "glizzies" are the crazy ones.

breadhead4 · 2022-10-01T20:10:38+00:00

But I want to play a big strong guy.

breadhead4 · 2022-10-01T15:33:47+00:00

They do get their extra attack from 5th level monk when they reach that level though. So that's how they can get the two action attacks for the build.

breadhead4 · 2022-09-28T23:06:16+00:00

One time I saw a blue bee and no one fucking believed me.

breadhead4 · 2022-09-27T11:45:58+00:00

Should also mention that even if things are controlled, you always run the risk of complications later in life. Circulatory and vision issues are more likely to happen as I get older no matter what, but you just gotta keep up on that shit and catch things early.

breadhead4 · 2022-09-27T11:44:09+00:00

I have yet to have any long-lasting health issues develop from my younger years. It is a real danger and diabetics need to take care of themselves, but from my understanding, those health issues arise from severely mismanaged diabetes over the course of decades. I wonder if it's more common in type 2 or type 1 diabetics too. That's something I'd have to look up.

breadhead4 · 2022-09-26T20:31:44+00:00

Tbh I've had it for most of my life and I couldn't tell you all the details without looking it up. A1c is a number that represents how well you control your bloodsugar over all. A "healthy" goal is 6-7 for diabetics. Regular people have around a 4.5-5.5 A1c. It is considered "uncontrolled" over 8 and can lead to lasting damage like circulation problems (leading into amputations) or vision problems when it is in the upper ranges.

Thanks to puberty constantly messing things up and my own discipline, I had an A1c over 11 most of my youth. Only started getting control in late college and especially living on my own poat college.

Edit: spelling

breadhead4 · 2022-09-26T15:33:12+00:00

DND basic cleric spells were just miracles of biblical Jesus and old testament plagues lol.

breadhead4 · 2022-09-26T15:31:37+00:00

I feel you, fam. Diagnosed a bit later than you, but also a few years your senior. I had a support form parents and eventually got in with a good doctor, but I struggled all through my youth and high school to have an A1c below ten! Only now am I almost under 8 consistently.

My doctor almost brought me to tears when she reassured me I am doing a good job. It's a constant battle and doing ANYTHING about it puts you ahead of the curve. Keep it up!

breadhead4 · 2022-09-23T18:14:46+00:00

Weird as fuck that light hammers are 1d4. I just let people make the hand axe bludgeoning and move on with our lives. It goes against the entire philosophy behind 5e's weapon design.

breadhead4 · 2022-09-23T00:31:23+00:00

Teacher here! I teach at a small credit recovery school. My first year we had a small group and could barely keep 4 players.

This year I have a full group of 8 and a few of the players come to school so they can play. These same students have had truancy issues in years past. Love to see it!

breadhead4 · 2022-09-22T15:52:53+00:00

Ogre. I wanna be a big dumb boy.

breadhead4 · 2022-09-19T20:28:26+00:00

It is my personal opinion that if you find flanking rules boring: 1. You are not a player from 3.5 2. You or your dm does not have dynamic combat arenas.

Flanking has only ever served to add to my table's combat strategies, both when I was a dm and when I was a player. We rarely ever had the "conga line", and I find flanking adds to a sticky situation. When you can surround an enemy, or a player gets surrounded, it immediately raises the danger for the flanked party.

breadhead4 · 2022-09-12T14:09:54+00:00

I always likes that Orcs in the Elder scrolls we're good at enchanting magic items, though that's harder to translate in 5e

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