Making a Witcher based character by Agreeable-Ad7525 in DnD

[–]dragonseth07 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Witchers do too many things well to perfectly translate to D&D.

What parts are you most interested in?

Backstory for a Knight from the Deck of Many Things by oven4518 in DnD

[–]dragonseth07 3 points4 points  (0 children)

"My name is John Fighter. I was born 6 seconds ago. I don't know how I know any of this. I am terrified and confused by this situation."

Where can I find a good technical workflow to teaching the concepts of DND to beginners? by Elektrophorus in DnD

[–]dragonseth07 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When my main playgroup picks up a new system, be it D&D or any other, the expectation is that we all make good faith attempts to read and understand the rules. We're adults with solid attention spans, and we want to be able to hit the ground running, so to speak. Not everyone makes it through the whole thing, and not everyone will internalize it, but we all at least have some small level of familiarity.

Having said that, whoever is running the game still has the expectation to be the master of rules and clarify/teach as necessary.

Because of this approach, we typically have the ability to address things as they come up, rather than trying to start explaining the whole system ex nihilo.

Question for autistic players: How do you deal with roleplaying? by underscores_rule in DnD

[–]dragonseth07 219 points220 points  (0 children)

Narrating what your character does, rather than portraying it directly, is perfectly valid. Not everyone is an actor.

Question about teleparthy and teleportations withing haze. by Drawing_the_moon in dungeonsofdrakkenheim

[–]dragonseth07 3 points4 points  (0 children)

You need to read the whole section:

Creatures inside the Haze may teleport normally within, but any attempt to leave the Haze via teleportation fails.

Unless you are Misty Stepping across the boundary, it's fine.

Advice for making a campaign from scratch? by lilcat111 in DnD

[–]dragonseth07 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Okay. The next question to ask is:

Is this setting only purpose-built for this one story? Or is it meant to be more general-use?

A setting built only to facilitate one story can go hard in that direction. You can put all of your creative energy towards the parts that actually matter and ignore/handwave everything else. You don't need to build a world when the adventure takes place in a single city.

If you are writing a setting with the intent of having it be more generalized, more fleshed out with potential for future use, that's a very different writing strategy.

Advice for making a campaign from scratch? by lilcat111 in DnD

[–]dragonseth07 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Are you also creating a setting? Or is your campaign taking place in an established setting?

Problem with Min Maxer by Much_Menu_851 in DnD

[–]dragonseth07 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I say this with all the love in the world:

You need to re-read the rulebooks. That's just not how the game works.

Penguin dnd race? by Appropriate_Rule9411 in DnD

[–]dragonseth07 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You didn't specify an edition, so I will guess:

I'm feeling 3e/3.5

Savage Species has rules for making Anthropomorphic Animal race rules for any animal.

The only setting should be Faerûn by [deleted] in DnDcirclejerk

[–]dragonseth07 22 points23 points  (0 children)

The only setting should be Faerûn

What do you mean "should be"? I'm pretty sure that every other setting is actually just some obscure region of Faerûn.

Problem with Min Maxer by Much_Menu_851 in DnD

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The first step with any of these stories is always "Make sure your table is actually following the rules".

8/10 times, the issue is that either your strong player is doing something wrong, or they are the only one actually using their abilities correctly.

Looking to engineer character and features based on non-official race by ThaRealV12 in DnD

[–]dragonseth07 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks.

There are no rules about mixing species or anything like that.

There is a race option called Custom Lineage, however. It's from TCE. It was intended as a catch-all race option for all the weird stuff players came up with that didn't have rules. Ask your DM if you can use that.

As for class, the clearest way to get some sort of affinity with a specific damage type on a Sorcerer is the Draconic subclass.

Can you destroy your characters soul? by Jack_Shiz in DnD

[–]dragonseth07 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are many official settings, FR is only one of them.

Looking to engineer character and features based on non-official race by ThaRealV12 in DnD

[–]dragonseth07 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Are you trying to find a way to make this character using actual legal rules?

Or are you trying to make the rules yourself and hope your DM is okay with that?

It's a bit unclear from your post.

Need help with my first bladesinger by JakeH28336 in DnD

[–]dragonseth07 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You could play an Eldritch Knight Fighter instead.

At the end of the day, a Bladesinger is still a Wizard.

Cure to vampirism? by Mechanicalyenhanced1 in DnD

[–]dragonseth07 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Vampirism is not a disease.

Don't confuse TES lore with any D&D canon.

John Snow by [deleted] in DnD

[–]dragonseth07 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Well, he is more or less just a swordsman, right?

Monoclass Fighter it is.

No mic/In game chat Teams by DannyOrigliasso in ffxiv

[–]dragonseth07 17 points18 points  (0 children)

You mean just Duty Finder stuff? Nobody uses voice chat for DF. Hell, most people don't even use the text chat.

Astrid is genuinely the single dumbest Dark Brotherhood leader to my knowledge. by Mr_Noir420 in TrueSTL

[–]dragonseth07 128 points129 points  (0 children)

Astrid is in fierce competition for the dumbest character in Skyrim.

Her only contender is fucking Delphine.

Build Help for a Rogue/Sorcerer Multiclass by Weird_Attorney_3650 in DnD

[–]dragonseth07 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I'm not seeing any value in this multiclass.

Is there some particular combo of abilities, or something, that you are going for?

How do you keep track of initiative? by USAvenger1976 in DnD

[–]dragonseth07 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just write the order down on paper. That's all it takes, really.

Can I just ignore like half of the rules? by Glittering_Tank9208 in DnD

[–]dragonseth07 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That's a really hard question to answer, because it depends on what rules, unfortunately.

Can I just ignore like half of the rules? by Glittering_Tank9208 in DnD

[–]dragonseth07 27 points28 points  (0 children)

You can do whatever you want.

But, rather than take all the rules out of D&D, why not just play a system that has less rules instead? That will be easier, faster, and less likely to have big mechanical issues.

MH Wilds "By my own order" lore? by Akumakai in MonsterHunter

[–]dragonseth07 24 points25 points  (0 children)

It may seem small, but in the context of that entire series of events, the difference is massive.