D&D Meta Thread

[Joy]

Adjustments have been made, thank you Tamamuwu. The only item left outstanding is the swap of Cat and Alice's positions.

To clerify, I automatically used Alice's ability for extra movement at the cost of 1 ki point to make it 25 feet instead of just moving her exactly 20 ft as Tamamuwu suggested. Cat had extra movement left.

I will adjust my cheat sheet to include possible damage modifiers with the weapons so I don't forget them again.

[Kashtan]

nice work Tamamo! i wouldnt have noticed anything except Yulyas extra radiant dmg. we are all learning here so keep your eyes open!

still damn if he didnt have misty step we would have gotten him with Cats sentinel feat. Yulyas the only one who can keep up with him unless he teleports every turn. so what do we do now? i think all Alice and Cat can do is shoot him with poisoned arrows. the main burden is on Yulya. how many mp do Yulya and the crystal have left now? im still unsure. can you break down the spells mp cost? we still gotta learn that boost thing.

[Kashtan]

the massive blunder thing greatly worries Yulya bc its most likely her she has the most options.
if the guys a druid even when hes a werewolf he has high wis. no point in using toll the dead on him. Yulya could use 2x sacred flame but he appears to have high dex as well.

[Joy]

It's so hard to watch you snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

>the boost thing

If you have a slot available, you may boost any lesser tier spell to that slot. Remember that Yulya has 2 2nd-tier slots and 8MP. There are no slots for 1st-tier or Cantrips, they are limited only by MP available.

You may, using a focus, boost above to a slot you are not otherwise capable of casting, this would be any spell you are capable of casting.

It would automatically use the highest tier slot you have available.

It would cost the level of the tier, so for Yulya, boosting to tier 3 would cost a tier 2 spell and a focus with 3MP.

However, unpredictable results may occur because you are not proficient in that tier.

You may however, use a focus to cast a spell to a tier you can cast without a slot available, such as right now, Yulya could cast another 2nd tier spell using the focus with 1MP left over, that 1MP would be considered extra energy and will not be wasted. However, even though you could reasonably cast a 2nd tier spell, there is a chance that it can go wrong because you are effectively overloaded because there are no more 2nd tier slots.

It would cost no MP at this point.

You cannot use a focus to cast a spell as a use action, but you can use a scroll in this way which is another way to cast more than one spell per turn, but you only get one use action.

Having 3MP left, Yulya can cast one spell, she couldn't cast a tier 3 boost at this point because the focus would need 4MP, 1 for the up-boost to tier 2 and 3 to boost to tier 3, but if you cast Sacred Flame and said you wanted to use the Focus to boost it, there is a small chance you will get more than you expected in a good way and in a bad way. I consider this a very fun mechanic and potentially amusing.

She has one use left on her ring of quick casting, so she could cast twice with or without the focus. She could also attack him directly with her mace or even attempt to grapple him.

Remember that filling a focus is a simple action that consumes your mana. You can freely add MP to a focus. There is a feat that allows you to remove it like a battery to replenish your own MP which has the advantage of not having to expend the whole focus at once.

If you are completely out of MP, you can still use a focus to cast. Focus in this case is used to describe a gem with mana stored inside.

[Joy]

the massive blunder thing greatly worries Yulya bc its most likely her she has the most options.
if the guys a druid even when hes a werewolf he has high wis. no point in using toll the dead on him. Yulya could use 2x sacred flame but he appears to have high dex as well.

As you have been shown, he has +3 WIS and +3 DEX so feel free to use Toll of the Dead for extra damage. His magic resistance isn't specific to WIS.

Even I didn't know he had +3 DEX until I calculated his save. Ashley didn't know either obviously.

The next massive blunder... well...

[Alice]

Thanks for correcting that, Tamamo!
We better state exactly where we want to go.

There still was a major mistake from my side, not Joy's fault. With 20ft normal movement I should have been able to make an unarmed strike. There was no need for Step of the Wind. Damn, I could have hit him with Hand of Harm.

To be clear I can always dash as bonus action. This uses no Ki point. Only 2 bonus actions per turn use Ki points. I know it's confusing but here's the breakdown of my actions from PHB:



Flurry of Blows free:
1 bonus unarmed strike

Flurry of Blows for 1 Ki point:
2 bonus unarmed strikes

Patient Defense free:
bonus Disengage

Patient defense for 1 Ki point:
bonus Disengage + bonus Dodge

Step of the Wind free:
bonus Dash 80 ft

Step of the Wind for 1 Ki point
bonus Dash + bonus Dodge + double jump distance

My max. movement is 120 ft (40 as action and 80 as bonus). This does not use Ki but uses all my actions.

So how much more difficult in addition to already difficult terrain are those rocks between the werewolfbeastmasterdruid and me? Without additional penalty I could reach him with Step of the Wind (no Ki). But I could only hit him with my spear this time. Can Nixie reach him? We could flank.

I don't see Yulya's mistake yet. He's got resistance to all magic so it's not ideal. If Nixie and me can reach him, she should cast Emboldening Bond on us. Then with the Ring Toll the Dead. How much MP does she have?

[Joy]

Just try to explain what you want to do. I thought for sure you should have had another strike on him but Monk logic will take more time for Bear brain.

Yulya has made no mistake.

There is no Nixie here.

I can tell you that Ashley Panther will attack him with pounce, she has 50ft movement so 25 over difficult terrain.

There is no extra-difficult terrain here.

She has 3MP and a 3MP focus

[Τamamo]

Alice already committed the worst blunder, I didn't even notice the elephant in the room from all the other mistakes.
Since you reached the beastmaster with you normal movement, you could have hit him with your spear, twice with Flurry of Blows and once with Hand of Harm for 2 Ki points!!!

Cat can't attack him this turn because she used Feline Agility last turn. That was dumb. Alice gave up her bonus attacks for nothing last turn and Cat her extra movement. We gotta learn from these mistakes.

So what do we do?
I agree Alice and Ashley Panther gotta flank him with Ashley trying to grapple him. Alice has 40 ft movement with step of the wind and can easily reach him but no bonus unarmed strikes again.
I don't know enough about Yulya's spell options. She could use Emboldening Bond on Alice and Cat as an action. Or Toll the Dead twice with the last use of the ring?
Cat will grant Alice HP with Life giving Force, dash 30 ft and just stand there waiting for him to attack someone or try to flee. Let's see if he can Misty Step again.

[Joy]

I will say that if I had noticed he had Misty Step available, he would have already been long gone, so Blunders are okay if everyone makes them.

[Joy]

Cat, I recommend you consider the Charger Feat when you level up next. It allows an attack as a bonus action after a dash.

[Alice]

And the first thing we do when we get to civilization is to buy two polearm weapons for Cat and me. Another unnecessary oversight not to have them.

I will say that if I had noticed he had Misty Step available, he would have already been long gone, so Blunders are okay if everyone makes them.

I guess it would be boring without it but I still have neither excuse nor explanation for my mistake. I knew I could reach him with my normal movement, no idea why I thought I could not use my unarmed strikes.

I don't know if Emboldening Bond is worth an action, we already have advantage and Bless. Yulya should use an attack spell instead!

I'll go here!
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Nice move by Ashley btw, I'm glad she got outta there without dying!
But that means she left her stuff and clothes over there. Male bandit could steal her panties now.

[Kashtan]

hey you all can reach him? that changes a lot.
so can Yulya cast another lv2 spell though she used her 2 spell slots? she had the great idea to cast SILENCE on him to prevent him from any verbal spellcasting. no more misty step. if Ashley grapples him he wont get away again. then one last Toll the Dead with the ring. maybe boosted with the last mp?
im not sure if that boosting isnt too much it will become ridiculous at some point i mean she dealt 44 dmg rn. what if she's able to boost Toll the Dead to lv10 or something?

Yulya will move S of the werewolf to flank with Alice while Ashley flanks with Cat.

[Joy]

[Kashtan]

so Alice and me (actually Yulya) are not paying attention but Cat is? now im really curious.  what are we missing? Yulya says he may be leading us into a trap but theres no going back now

[Alice]

Is it that we're within attack range of the winter wofls? They can't get Yulya because she's flying and yeah I could go further S and attack him from 1 square S of him.

If it's something different I guess it's something we can't know a priori, Even if Joy probably believes so.

 Also I'm retarded but not that retarded. I was right from the beginning, the reason I had no unarmed strile was simply because I used my bonus action to disengage from the wofls. I forgot that. To be fair, I'm usually posting here after midnight dead tired shortly before going to sleep. I have no time for D&D during the day. What kind of strategic masterpieces do you expect from me?