[QUOTE=ElusiveBadger;49585347]what's the best way of learning 3.5 dnd more efficiently than dictating the player's guide
I've been taking notes for four days and I'm only just to bardic spells, I just wanna get started and dm a proper game already because I'm sick and tired of our dm I mean he's a good guy and everything but he refuses to read the books or use a battle grid or have like a cohesive ultimate goal to a campaign just a setting and some npcs who don't have proper character sheets, and lets our only super knowledgeable player rip shit apart because he's the only one who knows anything and I basically can roll skills and that's about it and aaaaaaah
I just want to dm the damn game for once but I don't want to wait like ten years before I'm able to[/QUOTE]
Read what you need to, for example you do not need to learn spells until you actually plan on including and using them on your npcs. Even then you only really need to have a general idea of how they work since you'll have the book near at hand. Once you learn the basic action resolution mechanics for things like initiative, combat, skill checks and difficulties as well as how to balance/create encounters you're pretty much set. The only shit I know from GMing D&D 5e for a couple of sessions about magic were the spells that the cleric was using regularly and the like 6 spells that my npcs had access to and things went smoothly enough.
The best way to learn how to GM, is to GM. Your first session will probably suck when you look back at it a year in the future and you'll have made a whole pile of mistakes, but players should be forgiving and most of the time the mistakes you see go unnoticed. Unless of course you're completely clueless on everything and spend the entire session reading.
A fear of mine is that if i spend time writing character backstory, my pcs will ignore or kill said NPC.
But i don't want to be too obvious with "maybe you should spare her because she may be important". Any help?
The trick is to never get attached to NPC's until the PC's get attached to them
It worked for most of the characters in my Rogue Trader game
Didn't really work for Shadowrun but I never expect anything in my shadowrun game
[QUOTE=jackattack;49587303]A fear of mine is that if i spend time writing character backstory, my pcs will ignore or kill said NPC.
But i don't want to be too obvious with "maybe you should spare her because she may be important". Any help?[/QUOTE]
Also if they kill them before they know anything about them you can always recycle the backstory and quirks that made you like that character since no one will ever know but you.
[QUOTE=Vengeful Falcon;49587475]Also if they kill them before they know anything about them you can always recycle the backstory and quirks that made you like that character since no one will ever know but you.[/QUOTE]
But can you live with that guilt, the crushing shame from having fudged the game, cheating the very gods of these fictional realms of your imagining?!
yeah probably
[QUOTE=SiberysTranq;49587388]The trick is to never get attached to NPC's until the PC's get attached to them
It worked for most of the characters in my Rogue Trader game
Didn't really work for Shadowrun but I never expect anything in my shadowrun game[/QUOTE]
That's the idea, really. My antagonistic mega-bitch magical girl, who was nothing but cruel to the party, was assaulted with kindness on all fronts so much that she broke and eventually became a himedere rather than just an enemy.
I created a recurring enemy to bother them at the most inconvenient times and they made her a friend. Like, you have honestly no idea how stubborn they were about befriending this bitch. At one point she superheated the tea in a PC's cup so hard that the cup exploded and the PC's hand was covered with third degree burns. Gritting through the pain, that PC then returned the extremely valuable stolen magical metal to this NPC - metal which that PC stole and held onto for weeks - then paid for both their drinks and walked away.
That's some dedication.
Can anybody think of creative weapons/objects that would be good im certain instances? That immovable rod is a good example!
[QUOTE=Valon Kyre;49588589]Can anybody think of creative weapons/objects that would be good im certain instances? That immovable rod is a good example![/QUOTE]
A magical metal device that propels small metal pellets out at high speed. I can think of a use or two for that.
[QUOTE=Chronische;49588679]A magical metal device that propels small metal pellets out at high speed. I can think of a use or two for that.[/QUOTE]
A gun?
First time playing Fate core and boy, the game feels weird as shit. Maybe because I'm too used to systems like SPECIAL, D&D and savage worlds.
Also I don't like how to PDF is organized, couldn't even find initiative rules :v:
[QUOTE=leonthefox;49588806]First time playing Fate core and boy, the game feels weird as shit. Maybe because I'm too used to systems like SPECIAL, D&D and savage worlds.
Also I don't like how to PDF is organized, couldn't even find initiative rules :v:[/QUOTE]
FATE is one of those systems I [I]really[/I] want to try, but will probably never get to.
Up there with Don't Rest Your Head, because of the whole "You define your own capabilities, but you don't apply hard numbers to them", which is the main issue I had with Mutants and Masterminds.
[editline]22nd January 2016[/editline]
Granted, I wanna play DRYH a bit more, because the dice system for it, despite being weird, is still less weird than fate dice.
In my opinion, at least. :dog:
[QUOTE=Rats808;49588922]FATE is one of those systems I [I]really[/I] want to try, but will probably never get to.
Up there with Don't Rest Your Head, because of the whole "You define your own capabilities, but you don't apply hard numbers to them", which is the main issue I had with Mutants and Masterminds.
[editline]22nd January 2016[/editline]
Granted, I wanna play DRYH a bit more, because the dice system for it, despite being weird, is still less weird than fate dice.
In my opinion, at least. :dog:[/QUOTE]
Well I'm playing a jojo bizarre adventures hack of fate core, physical and mental stats have numbers, and the powers granted by stands don't have any numbers, I thought "Oh that's pretty cool, people won't be all the time failing while using their fabulous powers all the time", now I'm confused as shit of how this actually works.
[QUOTE=leonthefox;49588973]Well I'm playing a jojo bizarre adventures hack of fate core, physical and mental stats have numbers, and the powers granted by stands don't have any numbers, I thought "Oh that's pretty cool, people won't be all the time failing while using their fabulous powers all the time", now I'm confused as shit of how this actually works.[/QUOTE]
I meant regarding Aspects, specifically. IIRC you don't give your aspects hard numbers, even though you give a loose rating to some skills, in FATE core.
DRYH fits what I mean a bit better, though. You give yourself 2 'talents' during character creation, one of which is something exceptional but mundane("I'm the fastest guy in the office!" or "I can crunch numbers better than anybody else on earth!"), the other of which can be as ridiculous as you want. Some examples from a companion book they put out are you/your character saying "Fuck" literally amplifying things("I can jump high as fuck"=You can literally jump past pluto if you want, "Shut the fuck up"=They will never talk again), and a Teddy bear voodoo doll-thingy that can mayhem(It gives an example of twisting the bears leg to make the subway crash, and another of ripping off an eye to cause a massive blackout).
A few weeks ago I grabbed a calendar because it was a new year and I thought I might organize myself.
I used it to organize my XCOM campaign, because it takes place in 2016. I make good life choices.
If using a reaction to make an attack, do you only get one attack regardless of your level?
[QUOTE=slayer20;49589579]If using a reaction to make an attack, do you only get one attack regardless of your level?[/QUOTE]
In 5e? Yeah, I think so, unless you're a Fighter.
Or another class that gets bonus attacks as a class feature, if there are any.
[QUOTE=Rats808;49590688]In 5e? Yeah, I think so, unless you're a Fighter.
Or another class that gets bonus attacks as a class feature, if there are any.[/QUOTE]
Rangers and Paladins also get extra attacks.
No, Attacks of Opportunity are always a single weapon attack.
I'd like to dedicate last night's game to Alan Rickman
miss ya Al
[editline]23rd January 2016[/editline]
I made my party foil the nefarious terrorist scheme of the Chiss Criminal G'rube'r as he and his friends took hostages in the Bastion tower in Coronet city
today on 5e
mistakes were made
The one time I'm unable to show up to a session, the party almost gets TPK'd. Wonderful.
Sent my DM a quick summary of my character backstory and motivation because he was pretty high the last time I explained it. Kinda realized that all the relevant info could be condensed down to about 1 paragraph and that letting him fill in the details would be better.
I uploaded my custom race to the [url=http://www.dmsguild.com/product/171840/Felidae--Custom-Race?src=newest&filters=0_0_45428_0_0_0]DMsGuild[/url]. Let me know what you think.
3.5 master race
Also I went out and bought a HUGE dry erase grid map. Going to have lots of fun drawing dungeons and stuff on it.
This sessions of pathfinder
The party comes across a small village in a world full of horrible monsters where not much civilization exists. They let them in on the promise that they run a quick errand for the Captain, who runs the town. They do so, come in, repair their weapons (Barbarian chipped his fighting some vines, somehow) and then set out to do the errand, which was to find a missing patrol. They find the patrol being eaten by some scavenging monsters, scare them off, and inspect the bodies.
The necromancer believes the wounds are sword wounds. They go back to town, and talk to the Captain. They carry the bodies back into the middle of the town, then they notice no one is around. Suddenly, the blacksmith comes out from behind some buildings, and the town's militia draws weapons on them. Blacksmith is leading a mutiny against the Captain for some horrible choices he made at some point.
Then, the Butcher (the wealthiest man in the village, has a monopoly on all the food coming through town) shows up, snaps his fingers, and the militia turn on the blacksmith. Then the party, of course, murders everyone except the Blacksmith and the Captain, chopping the butcher in half. The Ranger then, of course, decides to take the town over for himself, and attempt to arm all the villagers and make his own army to go fight off the monsters attacking his home.
The ranger is having trouble figuring out how to arm and armor 80 villagers, and then train them, all the while keeping them fed.
Don't know how this is gunna work out.
[QUOTE=slayer20;49594397]I uploaded my custom race to the [url=http://www.dmsguild.com/product/171840/Felidae--Custom-Race?src=newest&filters=0_0_45428_0_0_0]DMsGuild[/url]. Let me know what you think.[/QUOTE]
Dmsguild is basically all dandwiki-tier garbage while also costing money. I'm not going to pay money to get access to a random cat-person race.
[QUOTE=IrishBandit;49594528]Dmsguild is basically all dandwiki-tier garbage while also costing money. I'm not going to pay money to get access to a random cat-person race.[/QUOTE]
It's pay what you want.
Just type "0" in the little bar there and hit download.
not too long ago the fighter in our party lost his greatsword after being captured by cultists (he had to leave for a while, and thats how we wrote him back in). Things got interesting when we reached the top of the tower we were in and he saw his sword on the back of the main baddy boss of the dungeon. He proceeded to grapple the leader, drag him over to the edge, hang him over the edge, and threaten to drop him if he didn't give back his sword. The leader laughed and he dropped him. The leader was, it turns out, a wizard. Who knew featherfall. So as the wizard boss started drifting down the fighter leaped off the tower, grabbed the wizard midair, and they both smacked into the ground. The wizard ran away and the fighter got his sword back. And we were all annoyed at him and the DM because the DM, surprised by his actions, focused on him for a while before we actually got started with combat (it was a surprise round)
Our party druid tried to convince me to take Champion for the crits on 19, and since I'm Half Orc I could have had mad crit damage thanks to Savage Attack. I chose Battlemaster instead because it sounded more interesting. During a combat encounter the magical helmet I picked up activated and sent my character into a blood rage. I ended up charging our druid and attacking him. I rolled a 19.
We were both very happy I chose Battlemaster.
[QUOTE=Mellowbloom;49591760]today on 5e
mistakes were made[/QUOTE]
so in no specific order
- we pissed off a dragon by casually just fucking walking into its hoard and stealing an arrow of green dragon slaying (it was a green dragon)
- the paladin broke a magic sword but then it turned into a different magic sword
- the bard invisibly walked up to a bandit captain and attempted to steal a sword, from a sheathe, on his back. He turned around and literally eviscerated her
- we got confronted by a 15ft guardian construct a wizard made. It didn't attack us while we were at a certain distance, so I just casted Mold Earth beneath it until it was trapped
- I rolled a nat20 on a constitution save and still got hit for enough damage that 5 more damage would have killed me via massive damage from full hp
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