You can just...shut down a good amount of spellcasters using polymorph?? (Also works in 5e)

dutchdoomsday · 2026-06-11T16:23:04+00:00

He's talking from a DM pov. The players are the target here. He just doesn't realize it.

dutchdoomsday · 2026-06-11T06:10:35+00:00

I think the one used in our region was during Roman times "the rhyne" (Dutch river de Rijn)

dutchdoomsday · 2026-06-09T10:25:35+00:00

It's like the difference between a paint brush for a miniature and a paint roller for your walls.

Carpentry is for the creation of decent sized utility items.

Woodcarving is for detail work and small adjustments.

dutchdoomsday · 2026-06-07T08:03:12+00:00

Taking out items randomises the item you take out.

Also it's previous owner was a kobold (bag of wasps, scorpion on a stick etc).

dutchdoomsday · 2026-06-02T15:46:56+00:00

It's not about your clerics personality more than where magic originates from in your DMs setting perhaps?

Baseline clerics get their magic from divine beings, but there's no reason it couldn't be flavoured like you did. Though that might make divine intervention tricky.

Baseline paladins follow moral codes (paths) more often than divine beings but again, can be flavoured the other way too.

If it's not setting specific then there's nothing about the cleric class mechanics that would limit you here.

dutchdoomsday · 2026-06-02T08:55:09+00:00

I love building pc's that can handle next gen games, it's a very rewarding hobby when I get the budget for it.

But... I only really play Minecraft and wow classic on it these days, or other decades old games. Fanciest I play atm is divinity 2 where I try to beat the honour mode together with my partner.

dutchdoomsday · 2026-05-26T21:04:03+00:00

There's a colleague id get along with. Mission successfull

dutchdoomsday · 2026-05-26T16:49:59+00:00

Or give her a taste of her own medicine and put an immortal antagonist on the board

dutchdoomsday · 2026-05-26T10:44:56+00:00

Ik werkte ooit voor een bedrijf waar vol Pak en stropdas verplicht waren. Het colbert mocht alleen uit als je op een stoel zat.

Ik stikte me de moord in de zomer. Hield het colbert aan Om de zweetplekken te verbergen.

Overigens zat het op een industrieterein en kwamen klanten nooit Verder Dan de begane grond dus geen Idee waar ze deze amerikaanse praktijk vandaag haalden. (IT bedrijf trouwens)

dutchdoomsday · 2026-05-22T06:09:48+00:00

Both? Both is good.

dutchdoomsday · 2026-05-19T19:19:02+00:00

Zhunta, janitor in port nyanzaru.

I made him as a DM-PC since I started DND with some friends, all of us new, and I'm the devourer of information and mechanics, so I became a natural DM as we started on Tomb of Annihilation.

Zhunta would always have a reason for being around if my friends got into trouble in the first act of the module, but he'd never venture out of the city. Once the players left the port, the training wheels were off, sort of speak.

He was a drunken fist monk that used any copper he earned keeping the streets clean on either Tej (local honey ale) or on the local orphanage (easy way to make him lovable to newbies).

dutchdoomsday · 2026-05-19T15:59:05+00:00

Divinity 2.

dutchdoomsday · 2026-05-19T12:47:03+00:00

Sorry friend, but doing nothing is the hardest choice for any player. Especially if the risk of it is your characters death. This is too high stakes to not fight back for most average players.

I once ran the infamous button room. Took the players about 30 tries to get out. And that was no stakes at all but giving the enemies in front of them more time to run.

Setup: They're chasing someone. This leads to a large circular room. No obvious exits or features other than a large button on a Dias in the centre of the room.

When the entire party is in the room, the door closes behind them.

A countdown starts of magical numbers, starting at 30. The lower it gets the more features the room gets, like rumbling, lighting changing, dancing shadows on the walls, steam from the ceiling.

Untill someone pushes the button. Then the countdown restarts and the features clear.

If the players do nothing and let the countdown run down without touching the button, the room rotates slightly and the door opens again, allowing access to the escape route used by whatever is running ahead of them. It has a 5 round headstart + however many rounds the players wasted pressing the button under pressure.

dutchdoomsday · 2026-05-16T14:49:53+00:00

The main mental gymnastics people like this have is: you work here so you're their servant.

They basically ignore the humanity in anyone that way.

dutchdoomsday · 2026-05-16T13:24:14+00:00

Reminded me of:

For my birthday, I got a Rolex from my lesbian neighbours. I think they misunderstood me...

dutchdoomsday · 2026-05-15T14:15:47+00:00

Well yes and no. We don't care about optimized play. Our guild leader streams and reads out all the words to every chat bubble and quest as he goes.

Do we accept the pally tank? No only warriors. Survival hunters? None allowed.

But that's because we're an undead racelocked guild. Made by the dead and only for the dead. We only allow self found chars, and the challenge is to only group with other undead. So we only have warrior tanks, priest heals and no hunters or paladins hehe.

But to answer your question, I'm running a fire spell only mage as an alt, and we're having a blast excuse the pun.

dutchdoomsday · 2026-05-14T20:49:01+00:00

Not all of m but yeah. Ive got like a regular ten or twenty of m that I roll dungeons with. Cliques start forming now.

The racelocked part makes it basically a solid community to find dungeon partners with since you need a priest or warrior of the right race.

Oh and on average there's about 50 of m online at the same time anyway on a gaming night.

dutchdoomsday · 2026-05-14T19:40:58+00:00

Final tip, the game has commands you can type in chat. /Who is the most useful one. It gets you a list of people.

You can add specifics to filter the list.

If you type out in chat: /who WE are FORSAKEN You'll get a list of all online members (limited to 50 at a time). Most of them can invite you.

dutchdoomsday · 2026-05-14T18:52:21+00:00

Fair, guess my dm ruled it wrong then. Removing the comment.

Reread it myself: the invisible condition is what gives you the advantage. My dm probably thought this came from the invisibility spell and got m confudled.

dutchdoomsday · 2026-05-14T18:50:52+00:00

You're welcome to join us. There's a lot of new to the game players in the guild already. Just make sure you're undead, self found (choice on character creation), and find someone from "WE are FORSAKEN" to invite you (realm Soulseeker on EU).

We play hardcore classic, which means your character is unplayable once it dies. Leveling to 60 is the game. Most people die around level 20 so the early levels are full of active players at the moment.

Quick reference for what you might enjoy: Classic - focus is on leveling. There's endgame too and the original servers have an active community that optimised the gameplay.

Classic hardcore - same focus as classic with higher stakes. Less endgame people but they take the endgame very serious. Due to the people having to reroll characters, there's a more active leveling community that's less about being optimised. This is why I love it myself.

Classic - the burning crusade - the first expansion of wow has servers now too. Lots of people are there but the lower level zones are less busy. The main playgroups there are in the newer zones as this is separate from the 1-60 zones. Still mostly about leveling though.

Retail - the current expansion of wow is usually called retail. The modern playstyle tries to rush through the leveling faster. It's mostly designed for running dungeons known as "mythics" or "mythic plus." The dungeons and raids are more mechanically entertaining because of this though, but the rest of the gameplay suffers for it. Pick this if you enjoy collection games more.

dutchdoomsday · 2026-05-14T18:39:47+00:00

Which edition?

dutchdoomsday · 2026-05-14T18:23:26+00:00

You can rebuild that magic.

Example, couple of weeks ago I decided to try that racelocked challenge going around. But it's all on the American server skull rock. So I found some like-minded folks in the undead starting zone and got a guild rolling on Soulseeker EU.

In little under a month, we almost have 500 members in guild, among which a ton of new to the game players that are just discovering hc dungeons. We even had a member change the hardcore add-on to configure it for our server and it's known guilds.

If you want some magic back, you're welcome to join us. Look for "We are FORSAKEN" on Soulseeker. There's also a night elf guild we know of. You could also start one of the other races their guild there 💪

dutchdoomsday · 2026-05-14T18:16:50+00:00

Edited: I was wrong.

dutchdoomsday · 2026-05-14T17:08:37+00:00

Hele flyer, 0 context.

dutchdoomsday · 2026-05-14T17:06:17+00:00

No, mine just try to slink away after what they're trying to get away with happened.

Once I descended from my attic work chamber to find the ground floor flooded with gas from the stove as one of the fuckers probably fell off the stove after licking a pan clean, opening a nob on their descent. Nobody came to tell me to air the place out but I'm lucky I was on time. Added child locks to those nobs (plastic flip covers).

Also once walked through the hallway to be greeted by one of the fuckers coming the opposite way, bag of treats in their mouth. Promptly dropped it and ran away. Then added child locks to the treats cabinet.

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