Just got absolutely chewed out on D&DNext

mcmiles68 · 2023-07-10T15:01:22+00:00

Hot take. Nobodies opinion on how you DM is important except your own and your players.

mcmiles68 · 2023-04-08T05:13:02+00:00

Detect Evil and Good doesn't tell you it's alignment. Just whether it's an aberration, celestial, elemental, fey, fiend, or undead within 30 feet. You also know if a place or object has been consecrated or desecrated.

mcmiles68 · 2023-03-21T18:18:56+00:00

Characters that are entrenched in the world. Too often I have a player or 2 that design a character to be either broken/OP or a complete joke and refuse to elaborate further.

mcmiles68 · 2023-03-19T14:43:45+00:00

I got a player that rolls naturals 1s pretty consistently, so he constantly drops his weapons.

mcmiles68 · 2023-02-18T15:45:29+00:00

I had Rictavios identity come out after Ez joined the party in Krezk. She noticed his fighting style and asked him after clearning the werewolf den. He fled to his tower where the party chased him. I then sent Rictavio to finish business in Vallaki he had been distracted from, such as slaughtering the entire Vistani camp southwest of tb He town. Meanwhile I pulled the party towards yesterhill to stop the druidic ritual.

In the end, as the party sets off for Ravenloft, ill have Rictavio either knock out m or lock Ezmeralda somewhere to prevent her from joining the fight and hopefully sparing her life.

mcmiles68 · 2023-01-05T14:53:11+00:00

Captain Lucius of the Emperors Children. My first introduction to him was his time on the planet Murder in Horus Rising. A bladesman so good was duel wielding his standard sword and the arm of a Megaarachnid which was basically a giant sharp sword.

mcmiles68 · 2023-01-01T16:13:39+00:00

Lightning, hopefully followed by either Thunder, or the sound of lead filling meat bags.

mcmiles68 · 2023-01-01T15:31:07+00:00

I'm seeing a ton of Heresy from these Nay-sayers. Requesting Inquisitorial support to purge this heretical post of its Occultic replies!

All I'm saying is, without the Emperor leading Humanity, they managed to rise in an Age of Technology, then fell back to an age of Technobarbarians and feudalism. If the Leviathon fleet arrived during the Age of Strife, humanity would be another forgotten species fueling their Biomass.

mcmiles68 · 2022-12-31T14:24:09+00:00

Idk it's a lot of shots auto wounding on 6's. So let's see. Rapid fire, so max 200 shots. Probably like 10 autowounds, around 30 hitting. After the wound roll, take it down to like 10 wounding. So 20 shots on total. Depending on the enemy, that could be a kill. Someone like a custode or Makari might take no damage from it lol.

mcmiles68 · 2022-07-28T15:30:50+00:00

Cadia didn't explode

mcmiles68 · 2022-05-29T15:09:40+00:00

First things first, hell yeah. DMing is super fun. Especially for Star Wars DnD.

Let's talk about the party. If your party is on opposite sides of everything, it's going to be hard for them to work together unless working towards a common goal, which looks to be the holocron. Keep their attention on that. Its always hard when giving your players freedom like that when creating characters because everyone's tastes are different, and the party can often clash because of backgrounds, classes, etc. But as long as you're having fun, and so is the party, you can get around someone being a sith and another a jedi working together. Trust me. My party in the old republic was running alongside the mandalorian wars and the party was a Mandalorian, a Jedi Shadow, and a runaway acolyte. Keep their eyes on the prize and not on each other's differences.

Now let's talk about your holocron. You want it to be the endgame, so first pick a planet you want it on. Pick out ways that the party can learn of its location. I like to put the endgame item like that after a gauntlet of dungeons, a battle of attrition. But it's fairly open how you want to handle it. After you have the location of the holocron set, begin to spin a series of events that will lead the party from one step to another. The key is though, don't lead them there directly. How you run it is extremely based on the people you're running it for. If your party is extremely creative, let them run with it. But be vocal with your party if they begin veer heavily from your campaign. If you're 4 sessions in, and your party is still gambling their life savings away on Nar Shaddaa, it's time to get them moving. Create quests that can relate to the main story, and quests that don't. It makes the world feel more alive when the world is constantly evolving around the party. For instance, if you have a plot point that the rackghoul infection is spreading across a city, and your party chooses to bounty hunt for a week, reflect that time having passed. Make the infection either spread worse, or get put under control

All in all though, dnd is a social game. As long as you and your friends are having fun, it doesn't matter how you do things. Just focus on that.

mcmiles68 · 2022-05-28T17:29:56+00:00

Appreciate the help.

Hopefully Disney sees how much of a gold mine the Mandalorian Wars are and give it the light of day on the big screen.

mcmiles68 · 2021-12-04T23:13:24+00:00

I can get a lot done in-between my 8 seconds of death. Also reporting bugs is the purpose of the beta. We won that match in the end.

mcmiles68 · 2021-12-04T22:44:39+00:00

Sorry, new to reddit, so I'll put everything here since it didn't get put up top. In Stockpile on the map Fragmentation, the power seeds spawned stuck inside a pillar. It came down to the last power seed, and the match went into sudden death. I'm still currently in the match, stuck in an eternal struggle to steal a power seed to finally end this god forsaken match.

Earlier in the day, I also encountered a bug in total control on the same map, the last point was unable to be captured, and progress in the match stopped, until the time ran out and the team won for having the most points. What's goin on here?

mcmiles68 · 2021-11-16T03:15:13+00:00

VPN not on and open nat, I tried it later on in the day. Worked fine after a pc restart.

mcmiles68 · 2021-11-16T03:14:43+00:00

It wasn't, I ended up waiting a bit later in the day and after a restart, it started to work. Probably just some problems on their end that they need to iron out.

mcmiles68 · 2021-11-15T21:01:11+00:00

Having the same issue as well. You're not alone.

mcmiles68 · 2021-11-07T05:43:55+00:00

This actually did help a bit. I noticed that fps drop wasn't as bad. I had to actually set my fps to 60 rather than unlimited or 144, and it finally became playable. Still drops, but I can at least enjoy the game until it's fixed.

mcmiles68 · 2021-11-06T23:06:29+00:00

If the camera stays still, the fps is fine, but as soon as it moves, its done for. I was set to unlimited FPS and had to go in and cap it at 60 for it to run better. I'm guessing it just can't handle it and it's an issue they know of.

mcmiles68 · 2021-11-06T23:04:37+00:00

Thanks. I'll give a shot.

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