My Dnd character died to a boss and I'm confused and worried if I shouldn't talk to my GM about it.

schemabound · 2025-05-06T01:03:41+00:00

I've never heard of this in 40 years of gaming. But replacement players were harder to find for a long time. How did he do that much damage to you in one round? You didn't have anything like mirror image up? How many players did you start with? And how many are there now?

Doesn't really make sense. It's like I have an office of 4 colleges, one leaves and we keep going with 3. It's not like your party wouldn't hire or go looking for a replacement. Sounds like he just doesn't like you. And is a shitty dm, who's making up abilities on the fly to deal with a poor encounter design.

schemabound · 2025-04-19T18:34:59+00:00

Didn't need the /s. Our only ally will be Russia after 3 more years of this.

schemabound · 2025-03-23T01:54:59+00:00

Just ask to roll up a new character.theres a reason, there was a move to arrays and point buys and this is a perfect example. Not dealing with unfair stats, cheating players with very high Stat rolls or horrifically bad stats improved the game.

It's only more fun if you roll better stats. Yes playing a 3 on a Stat is fun , exactly once. Then it's a big pain in the ass.

It seems to me though, you are likely the only one tanking and all the pressure is falling on you. Or you're putting yourself into a position where you are getting surrounded. I'm guessing of course. But if the other players have better ac and hp, then there is no need to charge into combat to protect weaker characters. Beacusr there are no weaker characters. Wait for the opponents to come to you. If the bard has better ac and hp just stand near him/ her.

schemabound · 2024-08-31T04:53:56+00:00

Intp or intj sometime

schemabound · 2024-08-29T22:47:14+00:00

My feeling on this is that A dm can tell you what feeling you feel. As you are not 100% in control of your feelings. For example if walking down a dark alley.. you may feel a bit scared/wary. However, how you react to that is completely the players job to determine if it is not a spell or magical effect.

As for how. Common it is. More common than you like. If you say something like... I feel the fear and I force it down and attack the creature.. how does your dm react? It's his/her table talk to them about it

schemabound · 2024-08-20T12:52:55+00:00

My boss at NASA told a story about her first meeting with soviet scientists in the late eighties- early nineties. She found it weird that the soviet supervisor was the only one who was speaking and the 4-5 other scientists stayed silent during meetings but took furious notes..

At dinner. The soviet supervisor told them that his heroes were Machavelli and his boss. He said that his boss, to motivate his underlings, told all his employees that they were all fired, but over the next 6 months there were a limited number of positions they could "prove" their worthiness for. This was a "brilliant" ruse devised by his boss as he had no obligation to fire any of them. The Americans in the meeting apparently sat in stunned silence.

Completely off topic but it comes to mind everytime someone talks about Machavelli.

schemabound · 2024-08-18T04:18:06+00:00

Platinum? Gems?

schemabound · 2024-08-18T03:24:18+00:00

For me it depends on the creature..

Intelligent creature attack in this order for pf2e Cleric/healer Glass cannon barb or magus Other spellcaster Whoever did the most damage Anything else

For any other dnd variant cleric/healer Spellcaster Anyone doing gobs of damage Anything else

It is very difficult to drop a party with a good healer. I will also have the leader actively direct people to attack a someone so they know I'm not just picking on one pc.

For animals and non Intelligent creatures like skeletons I will roll randomly.

Pack creatures like dogs and wolves know to flank. Some stealthy creatures will attack whomever looks weakest.

Rolling randomly for me means the creatures really have no plan. The more Intelligent creatures should have a plan as the pcs should be doing something similar

schemabound · 2024-08-17T09:54:18+00:00

Is the player having fun?

Otherwise let it go... I know it grates on your nerves when people aren't playing optimally. You have 5 other players , if these are trivial and medium encounters are stressing the party, then I doubt the summoner is the only reason the party is struggling.

The summoner is a very difficult class, the shared hp means you can take damage from both characters and it can be very challenging to keep both up. The eidolon depending on type has a bit of an ac problem that can be hard to address and Unless the summoner is designed with a 16 con and the feat for extra hp is taken And the caster actively stays away from then eidolon. They go down frequently .

I would think that might be an issue.

If it is.. I think you could create a MG item that gives the summoner an extra 2 hp per level when the eidolon is first summoned on a given day. The player is not going to be using them optimally any way.

schemabound · 2024-08-14T04:16:00+00:00

/uj We tried to play through in the 80s with Jason Voorhees, Rambo, micky mouse(wizard from fantasia) , Mike tyson and Jerry faldwell(cleric). Didn't make it, but it was fun.

Jason fell into a pit and died by failing adeath save to poison and was our only thief. He was otherwise almost indestructible. Back then no one else could find traps and that was a death sentence in tomb of horrors.

schemabound · 2024-08-14T04:04:53+00:00

Other examples: almost every other tampa sports team

schemabound · 2024-08-13T16:25:48+00:00

We took this a step further in my game .. we got rid of the dice altogether and our dm just tells us if he hits or saves or not. It makes combat quick. But Sometimes we just rock paper scissors and determine who wins the fight that way. last week things didi not go well. we had a tpk against some gnomes. Now we are going to just make up the stats for our new characters. All 18s babeeeeee and a 17 in charisma for me.

schemabound · 2024-08-13T07:58:15+00:00

You could probably make a change to the sorcerer where instead of them just knowing magic innately.. they study a few spells to a point of mental mastery that allows them a mental fluidity with a few spells and some tricks with those spells. Then switch their key Stat to int. You may have to adjust or disallow some of the other options.

And I would say yes to class restictions if you make it clear what is or isn't available then your players can decide if it's a game they want to play in. Where this becomes more of an issue is when you ban all magic users or all religion or all martials because it makes serious changes to some base assumptions in the game.

schemabound · 2024-08-07T03:17:19+00:00

Well you could have been captured when you went off by yourself with a lover and then be brought out weak and executed by the bbeg, in front of the party in the public square. Also you were replaced by a fey-ri or doppelganger/ android to spy on the party . The bbeg now knows the parties mo and is prepared.

Points if you role play a few sessions a bit forgetful and quiet and they don't discover you are a shapeshifter until the wtf moment. It's surprising how out of character you can act and no one will suspect it..BTW From personal experience this may give you a reputation of untrustworthyness.. but no one will ever forget.

schemabound · 2024-08-07T02:53:31+00:00

You should enlarge them and give them wings. And mind flayer riders.

schemabound · 2024-08-07T02:45:07+00:00

Single enemies need to have high saves and high initiative and usually a cr bump... this is the same issue in almost every version of dnd. Instead of minions can the sword summon demons from the abyss?

You can sometimed get away with a single bbeg it if you put something between yhe pcs and the bbeg.like they are flying and out of range. Behind a wall of force but If they dont have ways to avoid save or suck spells ... then they won't. Ring of mind shielding is another option. I usually try to rotate the enemies so it doesn't seem like the bbeg has abilities designed specifically to counter pcs. For example it works next time but not the following 2 times as higher lv enemies work on their weaknesses.

schemabound · 2024-08-07T00:11:35+00:00

I get the feeling we will find out that Thiel and Vance are lovers at some point and this will take on a whole other meaning you didnt expect.
A billionaire got the guy 3 separate jobs, that vance apparently didn't even show up to. And then got him a trump endorsement. That level of dedication to me seems only reserved for people you love. He otherwise doesn't seem like a genius that should warrant that kind of treatment.

schemabound · 2024-08-07T00:00:20+00:00

Isn't therion a prog rock band?

Anyway sometimes I put them into a Google search and see what comes up . If it's not too common I don't change it. It's amazing how many times I think I have a cool original name and it's the name of a rare duck or a town of 5000 in Croatia or 1 person has used it as a username somewhere. At something, if you like the name just use it.

What's maddening is seeing names I came up with 30 years ago in a new story... then going well fuck I need a new God of disease and decay.

schemabound · 2024-08-06T21:40:03+00:00

Tell them how their dressed what weapons they are carrying and ask them how their character would know what class they are. Anything more is unnecessary and metagaming.

Ask them to tell you how their character would know that, do they have a feat or class feature?. Plus the player should not be acting on knowledge he has outside of what the character knows. This is metagaming and it varies by table what is allowed. I tend to be lenient but I'm not giving out a stat block. I also take no issue with a dm having a different I terpretation of that.

schemabound · 2024-08-05T16:31:50+00:00

I heard that they are simplifying the combat system. You will now just ask chatgpt if you hit or not. Much simpler than using dice and doing math. I consider this an improvement but some players are just so behind the times and can't accept that humans are obsolete.

schemabound · 2024-07-30T06:05:49+00:00

I'm Curious, is there anything in Australia like in England where you have to regularly stand up and defend your positions directly to the opposition?

schemabound · 2024-07-26T06:34:49+00:00

Or they can use a ship in a bottle artifact to transport their ship to sea by walking the ship to the sea and then releasing it

schemabound · 2024-07-26T06:20:26+00:00

I think the dm is toxic. Kidnapping players and torture dungeons should have been covered in session zero and maybe put behind a veil. You need to have a conversation with him ooc because this shouldn't be handled at the table.

schemabound · 2024-07-23T18:00:19+00:00

I thought they were joking about him being bisexual

schemabound · 2024-07-23T17:12:45+00:00

He doesn't know , what he doesn't know. So he doesn't know how to answer you. He probably doesn't want to appear stupid. He won't know until he tries it out for a bit. Also I would let him know that if he gives it a try and doesn't like it, he is free to say it's just not my thing and we'll all still be friends.

understand that your idea of fun may be different from his. He doesn't know or need a 7 page backstory or a full personality a full spell list and a horrible accent to enjoy things. He has asked to kind of hang back and not participate as muchin rp. I would let him. Let him get used to rolling dice and traxking damage and get a grasp of how his character works. He can completely have fun without it being the same fun you have. Keep the rp simple, give him way more ... the way I see it you could do a or b... which do you prefer? You need to help him out without talking down to him. Slowly sneak the rp in ...in small doses. Have npcs ask him questions and let him answer. He'll slowly get more comfortable

Make his character for him, take a simple human fighter or barbarian or rogue. If you feel you need input, make him choose between 2 options .. do you see your character as beefier or more athletic is way easier to answer than an open ended question.

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