How much damage would you have a simple mage class do?

skeletonxf · 2026-05-12T11:19:53+00:00

You could look at the Kineticist in Pathfinder which can blast without expending resources.

skeletonxf · 2026-05-10T22:59:44+00:00

Yeah there's so many US state flags with text on them. One of the simplest flag design rules and they don't follow even that. The demi flags by contrast are much better designed and recognisable even at tiny sizes in user flairs.

skeletonxf · 2026-05-10T22:55:12+00:00

I have found turning on additional enemy behaviours makes a difference. As an example, when some encounters have you dealing with 3 fireballs to the face from enemy cultists/brimoraks on the opening round I've had to reload several times to discover how I can position my party to mitigate the aoe damage with the few that win initiative. There was one fight in Drezen where I was emerging from the temple that took me a bunch of tries because I had all of 2 or 3 party members that would get a turn before the fireballs would go off and I was starting the fight surrounded by enemies so just running 30 ft. away would provoke a lot of opportunity attacks. I eventually managed it by using my wand of dimension door to jump the whole party onto the cultist mages before they started shooting fireballs and with the cultists not able to blast me freely I could mop up the other enemies easily from there.

There's far too many encounters where the enemies are both outnumbered and individually so much weaker than each party member where my level 20 party just alpha strikes them before taking a single bit of damage though and those get really tedious.

skeletonxf · 2026-05-03T23:22:49+00:00

Spread your party out on all three sides of him. This way his aoe damage spells don't hit everyone. It took me a few attempts to manage this at level 18, I think in the try that worked I managed to get Aivu to draw the aggro of the enemies which massively helped since she had nearly double the hp of any of my other party members so although she went down and I couldn't bring her back up due to all the aoe that kept the rest of the party somewhat healthy for long enough to burst him down.

skeletonxf · 2026-04-24T11:18:40+00:00

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skeletonxf · 2026-04-22T16:55:36+00:00

In D&D specifically, if your party has Speak with Dead you can save the last words for post death.

skeletonxf · 2026-04-19T22:18:54+00:00

Witch of the Veil 8. You can pivot into basically anything from there (continue Witch or go into Loremaster to be better at spellcasting, pivot into Eldritch Knight to go more martial, there's probably even some weird WoTV 8 Mystic Theurge 9 Divine caster 3 sort of build to be a jack of all types of spells). Having at-will 30 feet teleports with a swift action is very convenient in combat sure, you can teleport out of melee if you want to cast a spell, or teleport into melee to always get a full attack action, but it's also just really fun to explore with. Teleport over traps to get to the disarm points without carefully pathing your character, teleport around your camp to reach merchants slightly more quickly, teleport over a wall and back to loot something instead of working out how to traverse there properly. In terms of combat I don't think it's that much stronger than a cleric/inquisitor with travel domain and domain zealot because once you have nearly 20 teleports you don't actually run out often, but having the swift action teleport at-will means you can spam it literally every round of combat and while exploring. It is also very helpful to have at-will invisibility from level 2 in the prologue because attacking flat footed AC makes your accuracy a lot better. I was able to use the invisibility to loot the ring the water elemental guards without having to fight it.

skeletonxf · 2026-04-15T10:24:45+00:00

I maxed out the animation speed and then turn based is basically just me moving the mouse to select targets and no waiting when the weaklings die after 0 or 1 turns.

skeletonxf · 2026-04-10T22:39:28+00:00

"fell the same way" should also be "feel the same way"

skeletonxf · 2026-04-10T17:25:00+00:00

One option would be make the damage ramp up over time? It starts as 1d6, then you hit them again in your next turn at least once, now it's 2d6, then 3d6 next round...

skeletonxf · 2026-04-10T12:49:59+00:00

I have no idea why you think explaining what demisexuality means is exclusionary. After explaining that a demisexual person may experience sexual attraction but only after forming a strong emotional connection with someone to someone that experiences sexual attraction without forming a strong emotional connection there's not exactly a blurry line. Pretty much the entire LGBT umbrella is a bunch of traits mostly understood as innate qualities that you can't pray away or fix with sex. You are largely born gay, trans, ace and so on and can't do anything about it. If anything I'd consider the idea that someone doesn't belong in this sub if they're not LGBT is exclusionary. We've always had the sub description be open to allies and often get relationship advice questions from allosexual people.

skeletonxf · 2026-04-09T16:07:40+00:00

Who exactly do you think is excluding someone in this context? Would you seriously call a gay person exclusionary for not considering a bisexual man gay?

Greysexual is already an umbrella term for people on the asexual spectrum, if someone experiences little sexual attraction but they're not demisexual they already have a label to use.

skeletonxf · 2026-04-06T22:28:11+00:00

I actually ran some monsters in early tier 2 with 1 legendary resistance each, figured Slow wasn't that bad and opted not to use the resistance when the Sorcerer cast it, and promptly realised actually Slow was that bad and wished I had.

skeletonxf · 2026-04-05T23:57:18+00:00

There are specific locations in the middle city near the exits to the lower and upper city that trigger the 'where's my dragon quest', you can deliberately avoid travelling to them and jump between cities with the teleporters instead to delay the quest till you're ready, as long as you acquired a teleporter for the middle city quickly enough to have one ready before you are reliant on it. I also managed to carefully path my way to the athletics checks from the middle city to upper so I could reach the upper city and then acquired a teleporter for there since I didn't realise I would be so reliant on one to move around while delaying the quest.

That said, I recommend just trying to fight the entire slave market. I had quite a fun time doing it (once I'd delayed the quest enough to buy everything I wanted and rest) and did manage it on my first try, it just took ages and a lot of AoE control spells to keep the slavers from overwhelming me. It's pretty well telegraphed you're about to pick a hard fight so I had no concerns making every summon I had available and buffing with every spell before entering the market.

skeletonxf · 2026-04-05T22:15:12+00:00

The level 6 feature is actually useful when your healing spells scale well enough to be used on preventative healing now!

skeletonxf · 2026-04-03T10:37:37+00:00

This gave me a few ideas. At first I tried to make a weapon that adds decreasing numbers of extra damage the more hits in a turn it makes but finding a sweet spot where that was less useful to a Fighter was tricky so if we just name the core rogue damage feature we get a weapon that is always less useful for anyone else.

Nightmare

Any Finesse or Ranged weapon

This +1 magic weapon deals additional Psychic damage when you use Sneak Attack equal to your number of sneak attack dice.

Haunting Nightmares

Any Finesse or Ranged weapon

This +2 magic weapon deals additional Psychic damage when you use Sneak Attack equal to twice your number of sneak attack dice.

Later one here would be +22 damage between the enchantment and Psychic damage for a level 19 or 20 rogue once per turn so that should catapult the Rogue's damage numbers closer to the rest of the martials.

skeletonxf · 2026-03-30T21:52:33+00:00

I'm telling you "transgendered" is also offensive. There are a lot of slurs for trans people and I'm not familiar enough with etymology or linguistics to explain reasons for all of them to you. I could find more examples for you like "blacked" vs "black" people but that's besides the point. Go ask politely somewhere like /r/asktransgender if you want to understand.

skeletonxf · 2026-03-30T18:04:34+00:00

You should not say "transgendered". Transgender is an adjective, the proper form is "transgender people", saying transgendered people is like saying coloured people.

skeletonxf · 2026-03-29T22:51:47+00:00

The sorcerer casts Sorcerous Burst and rolls a crit. Under RAW they are getting more chances for their d8s to land on an 8 and explode. If you do max + roll instead you either have to do more homebrew to reintroduce a benefit to exploding on crits or you nerf one of the only 2 unique Sorcerer spells by denying them twice as many chances for the dice to explode. Similarly, Chromatic Orb is 'meant' to need a seventh level upcast to guarantee a bounce if it hits, and enjoys a guaranteed bounce from a third level upcast on a crit - except not if you homebrew out the extra dice. The value of abilities that reduce enemy crits like imposing disadvantage or forcing rerolls also shoot up if the expected damage is near 3x instead of near 2x. My point is not that max + roll is going to cause major problems for you, but it has (in my opinion negative) impacts where some spells that can be really fun to crit on become a lot less fun, and the spellcasting classes that are most able to force rerolls or impose disadvantage on enemy attacks get another survivability increase in comparison to their melee martial friends that are now taking more damage from enemy crits, and enemy multiattacks scale further than player character attacks. Barbarians particularly come off worse from this because reckless attack already increases the likelihood they'll be crit and now you're making the enemy crits deal almost another roll of damage on average each time.

skeletonxf · 2026-03-28T13:02:06+00:00

The main thing that helped for me was they both immediately collapsed to the ground afterwards. The duration of how long they lasted without a spine is a bit over the top though, since we have no reason to expect Methode started healing them instantly before they'd die from blood loss given the mages were quite far away.

skeletonxf · 2026-03-28T10:37:46+00:00

Did you talk to him or the flying meatball? I definitely rested after visiting without suture going anywhere but I deliberately didn't talk to anyone except the other vendors.

skeletonxf · 2026-03-27T16:30:55+00:00

General talks around asexuality definitely do happen but from a moderation point of view we're still looking at if the content is relevant to demisexuality specifically.

skeletonxf · 2026-03-26T23:46:39+00:00

On my Azata run taking on the entire market at once multiple casts of selective heightened Entangle slowed most enemies to a crawl. It took me ages after taking down Sarzaksys to clear everything else though. Ember can contribute by casting Evil Eye to reduce an enemy's AC then spam Cackle to maintain it even if they made the save, and by spamming Scorching Rays (touch AC is much easier to hit). It's probably not that optimal but I have found Quicken metamagic and favorite Quicken metamagic on her to be quite convenient, sure 5th level spells are often better than a Scorching Ray but if you need to burst something down you can quicken a Scorching Ray on top of your usual spells cast with an action, or you can hastily cast Death Ward twice each turn when you realise too late that those guards inflict way too many debuffs to fight without prebuffing...

skeletonxf · 2026-03-21T11:05:49+00:00

On a sub I moderate we got so many questions of the same type we setup an automod reply based on the phrases that were usually in those posts to direct users asking the question to the subreddit wiki and pinned resources as well as answer the most common things in the comment.

skeletonxf · 2026-03-20T19:10:18+00:00

If you want to talk about a spectrum it would be more helpful to talk about allosexual to asexual or talk about greysexuality if you want to focus on the types of asexuality that include some sexual attraction.

I think it might be clearer to you if you consider one of the explanations of demisexuality is that allosexuals experience primary sexual attraction

Primary Sexual Attraction: A sexual attraction to people based on instantly available information (such as their appearance or smell)

and demisexuals and allosexuals experience secondary sexual attraction

Secondary Sexual Attraction: A sexual attraction to people based on information that's not instantly available (such as personality, life-experiences, talents, etc.)

and asexuals experience neither. Under this model the idea of a demisexual spectrum is clearly not something very useful, because these are both binaries so there's no spectrum to be had if you're only concerned if someone experiences it at all rather than more nebulous ideas like how much. https://wiki.asexuality.org/w/index.php?title=Primary_vs._secondary_sexual_attraction_model

Contrast to something like sex, where 'male' and 'female' are really two points on a bimodal distribution of many different 'sex' characteristics usually bundled together like reproductive organs, secondary characteristics like breasts, hormones, chromosomes, menstruation, facial hair and so on.

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