Friday, February 26, 2016
This blog still lives, i just forgot about it.
I'm getting back into D&D, it's been about 2 months since I updated this. Sorry about that. Will start updating shortly.
Monday, February 2, 2015
Absolutely core stuff
Here's links to just straight up core materials.
Lose your copy? get it here.
https://mega.co.nz/#F!pEMCBCiD!58AJsfX_Ggh_fYzUfFExMg
(I claim no ownership of any of these, everything here is from wizards of the coast.)
Lose your copy? get it here.
https://mega.co.nz/#F!pEMCBCiD!58AJsfX_Ggh_fYzUfFExMg
(I claim no ownership of any of these, everything here is from wizards of the coast.)
Sunday, February 1, 2015
My own personal links for use or for giving out.
https://app.roll20.net/join/640428/Fija3w
This will bring you to the roll20 campaign that I currently have set up. Only people I know personally should request to join, please.
https://mega.co.nz/#!REMmRbga!3TjyqUwh34BuPFv6caLB1PRdFEDGqbUU9JeSVdtHVrU
Actions you can take during your turn, including the things stated in the Dungeon Master Guide.
I'm personally letting people use all of them, apart from maybe marking targets.
https://mega.co.nz/#!ZYtnTBYQ!G-xxKX71IWg131F_pye_rqbYiM27gY7jxTGPNFp87_o
Summaries for every class in the players handbook. Not exactly the best looking thing, but it's really handy to have around to see exactly what each class is capable of without sorting through anything.
https://mega.co.nz/#!8M1nBbJS!uozpCR8WrZJDHfDSrv7bkkZJA_QkpMB7zqDmOex2ABI
A crib sheet for 5th edition. If you are just starting, a lot less should confuse you after reading this.
https://mega.co.nz/#!RdthkBQJ!Bjz2e2CN0f3TJ2E2NeMJY-rjuP8qdIPQDcqQWmtXhNk
A spell list for every single class in the Players handbook. Insanely good, as it give the names with hyperlinks to the spell description.
Wondering what each class can cast? Unsure if you can have 4 different characters of the same class that have no overlapping spells?
You can check that out right here.
(Single class PDF versions available upon request, for those that don't care about the rest of the party, or like things to look a little more like the source material.)
https://mega.co.nz/#F!YUtwSR5R!kttnN6V4a-KYryy_0KoWAw
Rules! Specifically, A rules summary, the free rules given out by wizards of the coast, and the rules for adventurers league as a player. I still don't understand the league thing, but the DM has his own ruleset to deal with that I'll get to at some point.
For the most part, you might only have these to glance over at any given time, but I'm giving all of them as it never hurts to reference things in more detail, especially in conjunction with all the other stuff I've linked/will be adding to in this blog.
This will bring you to the roll20 campaign that I currently have set up. Only people I know personally should request to join, please.
https://mega.co.nz/#!REMmRbga!3TjyqUwh34BuPFv6caLB1PRdFEDGqbUU9JeSVdtHVrU
Actions you can take during your turn, including the things stated in the Dungeon Master Guide.
I'm personally letting people use all of them, apart from maybe marking targets.
https://mega.co.nz/#!ZYtnTBYQ!G-xxKX71IWg131F_pye_rqbYiM27gY7jxTGPNFp87_o
Summaries for every class in the players handbook. Not exactly the best looking thing, but it's really handy to have around to see exactly what each class is capable of without sorting through anything.
https://mega.co.nz/#!8M1nBbJS!uozpCR8WrZJDHfDSrv7bkkZJA_QkpMB7zqDmOex2ABI
A crib sheet for 5th edition. If you are just starting, a lot less should confuse you after reading this.
https://mega.co.nz/#!RdthkBQJ!Bjz2e2CN0f3TJ2E2NeMJY-rjuP8qdIPQDcqQWmtXhNk
A spell list for every single class in the Players handbook. Insanely good, as it give the names with hyperlinks to the spell description.
Wondering what each class can cast? Unsure if you can have 4 different characters of the same class that have no overlapping spells?
You can check that out right here.
(Single class PDF versions available upon request, for those that don't care about the rest of the party, or like things to look a little more like the source material.)
https://mega.co.nz/#F!YUtwSR5R!kttnN6V4a-KYryy_0KoWAw
Rules! Specifically, A rules summary, the free rules given out by wizards of the coast, and the rules for adventurers league as a player. I still don't understand the league thing, but the DM has his own ruleset to deal with that I'll get to at some point.
For the most part, you might only have these to glance over at any given time, but I'm giving all of them as it never hurts to reference things in more detail, especially in conjunction with all the other stuff I've linked/will be adding to in this blog.
Saturday, January 31, 2015
Sorclocks, as of yet the most obviously broken thing in 5e.
How it works-
Round one it isn't special because that's spent casting the Hex. Round 2 it does great damage. Round 3 it pulls ahead of most damage specialists, and the target dies. Repeat from round 1.
At character level 5, the monk does 2d8+2d6+16 with a flurry, up to 5 times on a short rest, 15 times a day with two rests a day. That's an average of 32 a round, 96 in 3 rounds, good for 5 encounters in a day.
The sorclock comes online for the first time at level 5, dealing 2d10+2d6+8 twice on the following rounds. That's 26, 52, 26 or 104 in three rounds. The works only against a single target. The sorclock has 3 sorcery points and 10 1st level slots and 2 second level slots with the same rests. It takes a bonus action to restore Sorcery points so it takes one more level to be able to quicken two rounds in a row. This leaves enough to quicken 8 times a day and have one slot left over to cast the Hex which lasts up to an hour. This whole thing works much better at level 6 or 7, honestly.
>Anyway, the dps isn't the sole issue. It also blatantly does the warlock's thing of few spell slots, lots of eldritch blasts better than a pure warlock, without fail.<
How to fix it-
Eldritch Blast becomes a class feature of Warlocks again instead of a Cantrip. This solves a lot of little problems like a few creatures being immune to warlocks-and-only-warlocks. While they're at it, Hunter's Mark and Hex can become class features and not spells requiring concentration too.
This is pasted directly from 4chan, and I have to agree with this.
Round one it isn't special because that's spent casting the Hex. Round 2 it does great damage. Round 3 it pulls ahead of most damage specialists, and the target dies. Repeat from round 1.
At character level 5, the monk does 2d8+2d6+16 with a flurry, up to 5 times on a short rest, 15 times a day with two rests a day. That's an average of 32 a round, 96 in 3 rounds, good for 5 encounters in a day.
The sorclock comes online for the first time at level 5, dealing 2d10+2d6+8 twice on the following rounds. That's 26, 52, 26 or 104 in three rounds. The works only against a single target. The sorclock has 3 sorcery points and 10 1st level slots and 2 second level slots with the same rests. It takes a bonus action to restore Sorcery points so it takes one more level to be able to quicken two rounds in a row. This leaves enough to quicken 8 times a day and have one slot left over to cast the Hex which lasts up to an hour. This whole thing works much better at level 6 or 7, honestly.
>Anyway, the dps isn't the sole issue. It also blatantly does the warlock's thing of few spell slots, lots of eldritch blasts better than a pure warlock, without fail.<
How to fix it-
Eldritch Blast becomes a class feature of Warlocks again instead of a Cantrip. This solves a lot of little problems like a few creatures being immune to warlocks-and-only-warlocks. While they're at it, Hunter's Mark and Hex can become class features and not spells requiring concentration too.
This is pasted directly from 4chan, and I have to agree with this.
Wednesday, January 28, 2015
"homebrew" shenanigans
First off, I say Homebrew in quotations as all of these ARE OFFICIAL or made/built off of from an official developer of D&D, the creator of ebberon, keith baker.
Artificer class-
http://www.enworld.org/forum/5earchetypes/showentry.php?e=71&catid=popentries&orderby=views
http://www.enworld.org/forum/5earchetypes/showentry.php?e=71&catid=popentries&orderby=views
No you cant switch to this until I get the rules down.
Yes that means you.
Learn anything relevant to this class if you play it, keep a notepad handy if necessary. I know very little about the class, and will straight up ignore class abilities unless you say you have them.
Warforged race-
http://keith-baker.com/extra-life-hacking-the-warforged/
http://keith-baker.com/extra-life-hacking-the-warforged/
MEMORIZE THIS IF YOU PLAY ONE.
I know jack all about warforged.
Playing as races in the Dungeon Master Guide-
As a case by case basis.
For example, if your character was killed by a red dragons fire, I'll consider letting you play as a skeletion of yourself. Good luck playing a spellcasting class that is unable to speak, though.
In general, the more absurd the class is, the less likely I will let you play it until the group is a high enough level that the racial bonuses are less important.
Shit we can do-
96- "villainous" class options, oath-breaker paladin and death domain cleric
270, side initiative, each turn takes a side in any order they wish, everyone on each side rolls a d20
with no bonuses
286- aasimar race- celestial variant to teiflings
269- plot points- campaign fuckery (not to be used with premade campaigns at any cost)
268-guns (exceptionally unlikely) the fuck do you think guns mean
mob rules- easy no dice rolling for hoards of creatures, 250. really nice.
Monsters as NPCs or players: 282. probably gonna be only NPCs, have another source for players upon request.
Traps- 120
HITTING COVER
When a ranged attack misses a target that has cover, you can use this optional rule to determine whether the cover was struck by the attack. First, determine whether the attack roll would have hit the protected target without the cover. If the attack roll falls within a range low enough to miss the target but high enough to strike the target if there had been no cover, the object used for cover is struck. If a creature is providing cover for the missed creature and the attack roll exceeds the AC of the covering creature, the covering creature is hit.
With this rule, characters can give cover for other characters from ranged attacks, but run the risk of being hit if they have low AC.
CLEAVING THROUGH CREATURES
When a melee attack reduces an undamaged creature
to 0 hit points, any excess damage from that attack might carry over to another creature nearby. The attacker targets another creature within reach and, if the original attack roll can hit it, applies any remaining damage to it.
If that creature was undamaged and is likewise reduced to 0 hit points, repeat this process,
carrying over the remaining damage until there are no valid targets, or until the damage carried over fails to reduce an undamaged creature to 0 hit points.
For example, if your character was killed by a red dragons fire, I'll consider letting you play as a skeletion of yourself. Good luck playing a spellcasting class that is unable to speak, though.
In general, the more absurd the class is, the less likely I will let you play it until the group is a high enough level that the racial bonuses are less important.
Shit we can do-
96- "villainous" class options, oath-breaker paladin and death domain cleric
270, side initiative, each turn takes a side in any order they wish, everyone on each side rolls a d20
with no bonuses
286- aasimar race- celestial variant to teiflings
269- plot points- campaign fuckery (not to be used with premade campaigns at any cost)
268-guns (exceptionally unlikely) the fuck do you think guns mean
mob rules- easy no dice rolling for hoards of creatures, 250. really nice.
Monsters as NPCs or players: 282. probably gonna be only NPCs, have another source for players upon request.
Traps- 120
HITTING COVER
When a ranged attack misses a target that has cover, you can use this optional rule to determine whether the cover was struck by the attack. First, determine whether the attack roll would have hit the protected target without the cover. If the attack roll falls within a range low enough to miss the target but high enough to strike the target if there had been no cover, the object used for cover is struck. If a creature is providing cover for the missed creature and the attack roll exceeds the AC of the covering creature, the covering creature is hit.
With this rule, characters can give cover for other characters from ranged attacks, but run the risk of being hit if they have low AC.
CLEAVING THROUGH CREATURES
When a melee attack reduces an undamaged creature
to 0 hit points, any excess damage from that attack might carry over to another creature nearby. The attacker targets another creature within reach and, if the original attack roll can hit it, applies any remaining damage to it.
If that creature was undamaged and is likewise reduced to 0 hit points, repeat this process,
carrying over the remaining damage until there are no valid targets, or until the damage carried over fails to reduce an undamaged creature to 0 hit points.
Friday, January 23, 2015
Refrence materials- Unfucking believably helpful.
http://character.totalpartykill.ca/5e/
http://whothefuckismydndcharacter.com/
http://whothefuckismydndcharacter.com/
Two random character generators.
Having trouble deciding what your next character will be for another campaign?
Your character just died and you're completely crushed and cant be bothered to make something?
These are your source.
http://crobi.github.io/dnd5e-quickref/preview/quickref.html
The BEST reference. Constantly being updated with new things. having trouble remembering shit you can do? DM or one of your abilities inflicts a status you are unfamiliar with? have this in another tab.
http://www.mediafire.com/view/uuk7ks8hfw8oidq/RPG_cards.pdf
Cards for literally every single spell in the spell book (so far). Playing in person? Print these suckers out, cut them out, and slam that shit on the table when you cast the spell. Have a literal deck of shit you can cast.
Not playing in person? screenshot these and make any document type you wish picture, pdf, whatever of just the spells YOU care about. Print them out anyway, have something physical and carry them around with you.
Rules on:
http://community.wizards.com/forum/rules-questions/threads/4148631
Stealth.
http://community.wizards.com/forum/player-help/threads/4142801
Grappling.
http://community.wizards.com/forum/player-help/threads/4130721
Reactions.
http://community.wizards.com/forum/player-help/threads/4133666
Multiclassing a slight bit "level dipping" (biased)
http://community.wizards.com/forum/player-help/threads/4161871
Things that affect ability checks in any way.
Getting the most out of your game.
Guides to getting the most out of what you aim for in D&D, and some side rules that are forgotten or unclear.
http://lookrobot.co.uk/2013/06/20/11-ways-to-be-a-better-roleplayer/
A helpful guide to how to roleplay well. Look at this shit, if you look at nothing else on this list.
http://zenithgames.blogspot.com/2014/08/5e-guide-to-guides.html
>Caution- extremely minmaxing, with very little regard for roleplaying, at least for the class guides.
Worth taking a look at anyway.<
JC is one of the creators of 5e. His words are the rules as intended (RAI) for this edition of 5e.
http://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/2sl963/rules_often_forgottenmisremembered/
Easilly forgotten or missed rules. Check this out, seriously.
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bwe9mtdZ7AWXc1VwYU5tUTBodjQ&usp=sharing
an "ultimate" compilation of D&D recources. I'm currently looking at it, but I'm shit with drive, so this isn't exactly my prefferred method of obtaining new materials. Look through it as you wish.
http://lookrobot.co.uk/2013/06/20/11-ways-to-be-a-better-roleplayer/
A helpful guide to how to roleplay well. Look at this shit, if you look at nothing else on this list.
http://zenithgames.blogspot.com/2014/08/5e-guide-to-guides.html
>Caution- extremely minmaxing, with very little regard for roleplaying, at least for the class guides.
Worth taking a look at anyway.<
1) Do foes larger than a grappler auto succeed? JC: That part of the feat is an error. It refers to a playtest version of the grappling rules.
2) A druid in beast form uses his or her proficiencies, except when the beast has the same proficiency with a higher bonus. [druids are not proficient in natural weapons] The intent is that the druid uses the bonus in the beast's stat block for any proficiency the druid lacks.
3)As with most bonus actions, you choose the timing, so the Shield Master shove can come before or after the Attack action.
4)The intent of Pact of the Tome is that the chosen cantrips become warlock spells with Cha. as the spellcasting ability.
5) does the dueling fighting style work with sword and shield?" JC:It sure does!
6) "does a player using the polearm master feat add strength to the damage roll of the bonus attack?" JC: Yep!
7) "RAW,would a monk/druid retain Unarmored Movement while shifted?" JCYes.
JC is one of the creators of 5e. His words are the rules as intended (RAI) for this edition of 5e.
http://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/2sl963/rules_often_forgottenmisremembered/
Easilly forgotten or missed rules. Check this out, seriously.
https://drive.google.com/folderview?id=0Bwe9mtdZ7AWXc1VwYU5tUTBodjQ&usp=sharing
an "ultimate" compilation of D&D recources. I'm currently looking at it, but I'm shit with drive, so this isn't exactly my prefferred method of obtaining new materials. Look through it as you wish.
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