The D&D thread

Arbitrary said:

I've been out of the loop but do people now want to roll characters? How many dice per stat? My first DnD characters were made using 4d6 roll six times place in order. By the time I had moved on to 3.0 the DMs I knew were up to 5d6 roll six times place them anywhere. The point-buy in 4th edition has problems but I was pretty sick of rolling by then. What do the roll and point by systems look like now?

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I fucking love rolling, that's why I do it. My last DM let us do 4 dice, drop the lowest and no stats could be under 10, I think. I actually didn't know about the no stats under 10 part so I had a couple of low ones until deep into the campaign. I once had someone who wanted me to do a point buy after I had rolled the character because he thought I cheated. So I rolled again in front of him and got better stats. I also roll for HP when I level. I have a whole ritual with practice rolls where I weed out the dice that are rolling like shit, then get a feel for a pattern and go "OK this one's for real". Doing all that I get the same rolls as anyone else, but I got to roll my dice like 100 times and think i get better results.

Djay said:

With that said, I started reading the Dungeon Crawler Carl books and they just started a kickstarter for their RPG, which will be supported by a couple of the VTTs...I just don't think it's going to be released by the time we finish DotMM. I'd love to run that, though.

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I was going to suggest the DCC stuff. It should be out in a few days shouldn't it? The backer kit campaign is about to end. I bought in on the backerkit and I want to play it but as I understand, you don't get to roll as much so I might not like it. There was an unofficial version out for a while they were playing on discord and I'm assuming it's the same game.

Here's a google doc with the unofficial version rules.

bigmark268 said:

This ones for the crafters. So we had our pf2e game this past weekend. We killed a Bida and i managed to get 10 bida scales. Anyone have any idea what to make with these?

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I haven't played PF, but this seems like a fun question. How big are the scales and what classes are you? 10 seems like a lot.

Could you craft a sentient whip that can use the 8 coils ability? Assuming you can make an item sentient. In D&D I would suggest making the whip and animating it with a spell. the DM would have to agree that the item has a special property saying when it's animated it gains the 8 coils ability because typical animation spells don't allow for anything like that.

It looks like it has interesting non combat abilities. Could you craft a wand that gives you recall knowledge with a +26 dc? Having not played PF I don't know if that's as strong as it sounds to a D&D player.

Perhaps another wand that gives you nondetection or some shapeshifting ability.

Consume all 10 in a ritual to permanently hide a settlement. No concentration required.

Make a mask that gives you the bida's +15 perception, darkvision, and scent.

Just make random armor that give you resistance to sleep, paralyzed, acid, and poison.

Make a blunt weapon that can optionally grab and constrict anyone hit with it. Maybe dont bother with the grab, that sounds messy. Just do the extra bludgeoning damage from the constrict. You whap them, and it wraps around and also constricts.