D&D Meta Thread

[Joy]

The time was given, I said lunch as an example of a meal. Again I can't get away from the Bear brain. I wonder if all those drugs before and during his surgery did something permanent.



I don't have that readily available, please look at the scene where the meat was given and presume 1lb per meal.

[Alice]

I do think Tamamo meant it the same way. Time to eat, whatever time it is. We're not in Great Britain here!
To be fair, we only got the initial amount of dog meat, not how many Cat cooked for breakfast. I assume 4 lbs. Gotta update the inventory, it's quite a mess. We gotta thank our human Pinatas, they dropped some nice loot!

Now the suspense peaks. What will happen to the unfortunate prisoners? Stay tuned for our next episode!

[Joy]

[Kashtan]

the bastards are annoying tbh. i hope Ashley panthers growl helped that guy to understand the situation hes in. how long will it take Yuly to rest? she needs to cast a lv2 spell.

[Joy]

Hm, according to the rules you need to rest 8 hours to get your slots back but I always thought that was silly because it pretty much forces a party to long rest after each battle. So l believe I allowed all potential slots to reset after a short rest (1 hour) but your full MP will take longer. Yulya only has 6 MP it's not going to take 8 hours to replenish 6 especially since it rounds up.

For this rest only, let's say 2MP per hour, all slots, back after an hour but obviously after an hour you will only have 2MP but this means after an hour she could cast 1 2nd tier spell and legally cast one 2nd tier spell using her focus.

[Alice]

Stalker Jesus will get a restraining order if he invades my privacy. Go watch other people masturbate or something!
Btw most of the bots seem to have given up. We're down to a few hundred from several thousand being online at the same time. Campaign thread has over 2M views. 99.9% from bots for sure.

recovering all her Ki points but still has 0/3 reflect actions and will require 7 more hours to recover the rest of those. Cat has 22/35 HP now and will recover her Rage point tomorrow morning but has 2 left (3 per day).

Can you pleease put all your special rules in your rule book? I'm seriously losing track of it all.
So I can only deflect 3 attacks per day? That's a bit harsh. I thought that regenerates with my Ki points?
Rage normally also regenerates 1 use per short rest. No more?

Well I guess it's interrogation time now!

[I presume you looted him which would include his brooch which he called his symbol.]

Certainly. If it wasn't for this cold I would have tied them together butt-naked. That would have been entertaining but haa, we can't have any fun here. I still say we should send them back naked. theey should make it that far it's less than -10°C

[Joy]

We agreed your reflect points would be separate from your ki points but would replenish after a long rest. They are pretty OP.

If you wish I can consider relaxing that requirement but for reference you for defeated pretty easily a 175% encounter after a 200% encounter. If I need to boost to 250% just to make it interesting then your EXP will raise too fast. I already defined the dragon at level 4, I think you won't find it very difficult at level 5. Level 5 is the transition to mid-game where the feel of the game is different. I think I'd rather only allow that 3 times per long rest. Your other ki point abilities replenish 1 every 1/2 hour.

I believe I can incorporate the newest negotiations into the rule book, I wish to organize it better as well.

According to the PHB:

Once you entered the number of rages stated in the table, you have to finish a long rest to regain the full number of rages

Did I say once a day? I think AI lied to me.

>send them back naked

Send them back to the mine so they can regrop and prepare the orc hoard by telling them your weaknesses and strengths? Hmm. Interesting strategy.

Sending them literally anywhere else is certain death if naked. A rather cruel and unusual death at that, certainly not something an evil aligned character would think to do, no. /s

[Τamamo]

Yes, obviously you regain all your rages after a long rest but it says one per short rest. We can argue whether Cat rested because somebody needs to watch that guy. So how does Rage work out of combat? Cat needs to rage now so she can intimidate the bandit with Primal Knowledge using her strength for intimidation.

How can we 'send' the bandits anywhere? Unfortunately Yulya can't teleport them to another country so we assumed they'd return to their stronghold if we set them free. We cannot prevent that unless we set our camp in front of the gate. And even then they could probably be rescued from the sides with  ladder. We cannot lay siege to them in this weather conditions. Also sending them out there without gear, food or shelter is also a death sentence. Are we supposed to give them back their weapons as well so they can hunt? Maybe even some rations?

[Joy]

If it says 1 per short rest than it is. Yes I will count the last hour as rest for Cat.

You can rage out of combat, I'll allow it to last a minute.

The disposition of the bandits is always an issue. Bear's team has let some go and killed some depening on what's best based on the situation.

Imagine if you were set free a day from the nearest town in your warm clothes, snow = water. Exhaustion may occur from lack of food and sleep. If they just push through to town they will likely make it. Outside the cold affected region, they could survive well enough.

So if you let them go with their clothes and fur-lined gear, they'll survive even without weapons if they're smart about it. Bear's team has done this multiple times, it's the starting from nothing, in a bad spawn, survival scenario.

If you fed them, that would counter one level of exhaustion, it will improve their odds, but together you can assume they already have good odds.

Ultimately you will choose bssed on your own moral compass.

[Kashtan]

will depend on their attitude and answers. Yulya will never allow killing defenseless human prisoners but how they are released depends on them. you still didnt explain how we could prevent them from just going home. theres a blizzard out there and we cantkeep them from entering their stronghold. ofc they should go to some other town. if they are smart.

[Joy]

>just going back into the stronghold
>they could be helped over the wall
>they will help the orc hoard against us

You're giving me so many great ideas!



If you're asking me how I'd handle it?

Well, given your inventory and lack of a need for organs or body parts, plenty of food, lack of appropriate soul gems or soul capturing device... no, I don't want to sway your decision. You say I'm playing the game for you then you want me to tell you all the answers.

[Kashtan]

>just going back into the stronghold
>they could be helped over the wall
>they will help the orc hoard against us

You're giving me so many great ideas!

wait you didnt even consider this?
why would they walk through wilderness for days when their stronghold is just a few meters away? ofc theyd go back there. nevermind Yulya will handle it. it all depends on their answers.

[Joy]

Sure now that you suggested it, so maybe incentivize them not to?

[Alice]

The girl won't. The guy will have to make up his mind. Let's hear what he's got to say.
I'm already salty that you foiled my plan once again. This is not my day. I was denied my werewofl fur coat and now also bullying the female bandit is cancelled because she cooperates anyway. Good for her. We will save the Cat interrogation method for another time.

We agreed your reflect points would be separate from your ki points but would replenish after a long rest. They are pretty OP.

If you wish I can consider relaxing that requirement but for reference you for defeated pretty easily a 175% encounter after a 200% encounter. If I need to boost to 250% just to make it interesting then your EXP will raise too fast. I already defined the dragon at level 4, I think you won't find it very difficult at level 5. Level 5 is the transition to mid-game where the feel of the game is different. I think I'd rather only allow that 3 times per long rest. Your other ki point abilities replenish 1 every 1/2 hour.

The issue is that I have only 3 uses over which I have no control. You decide when I deflect. So it's likely that 3 deflections will be done in the first encounter leaving none for subsequent ones on the same day. Well, I'm not fond of having 5+ encounters per day anyway, first because I think it's ridiculous and second because we burn out fast. We have an enormous damage output for a few rounds, mostly thanks to Yulya but we can't keep that up for long. Frankly I have no idea what we do now, we actually needed a full rest to regain our strength before we can even think about storming that stronghold.

On the issue of too much EXP and progress, I already gave you strategies to starve adventurers of EXP, money and drive them crazy. Don't use dumb high-profile enemies full of loot that are walking pinatas like the slavers or the werewofl-druid. Use clever small fry that hits and runs. Even if downed it barely gives EXP or loot, but it's very effective in wearing out adventurers. You can easily take down a high-level party with a bunch of goblins utilizing ambushes and traps. They are literally the Viet Cong or Taliban of monsters and highly underrated. Be happy I'm not the DM...

[Joy]

My character achieved level 5 and I was a rogue with backstab, surprise bonuses, huge potential damage in the first round, disengage and hide as bonus actions, and lots of feats. I had only two daggers but they had bleed damage. I had no real ranged weapon because you don't throw your only weapons away and I had to do the sort of tactics you say, but I don't think it's particularly satisfying to be on the receiving end of that. I managed to take down a higher level hunter with that, against a dragon I wasn't extremely useful but I did help. I was also susceptible to being one-shotted by almost anything because I took a handicap on HP and low armor class didn't help but I had bonuses and feats that situationally helped that. When we fought barbarians I realized that alone one could take me, I needed a tank to distract them and even my tank, Bear as a ranger, was taken down by them. Rage is very OP against normal weapons.

If you were DM, I'm sure it would be a different game.