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The warlock I had in one of the Games i'm in died recently so I had to make a new character. DM allowed me to make a taller than usual Half-Elf cause I'm making a Battlemaster Fighter who Uses a greatsword. He's 6'4 and 234lbs and Jacked as hell :v: Hopefully he will fair better than my warlock did. The DM had a houserule that under level 5 you are allowed to auto revive but you are sent to the closest town from where you are and don't get the exp you would've in the fight. I was like nah fuck that shit I'm gonna make a fighter cause before this our party was 3 Ranged attackers (me being one of them) and A Druid that beast shaped most of the time. We need another melee/tank.

Eww actual xp handouts.

I just use milestone progression in my campaign. Just easier that way for me.

[QUOTE=slayer20;52546071]My kobold bard might die next week :( Party came across a magical well that was filled with some golden light. I looked inside to see if there was anything in it, and upon reaching my hand inside the well and pulling it back out, I started to glow. The glow-y light slowly creeped over my body until it reached my head and then I couldn't breathe. Another party member cast darkness around me which dispelled the light, but only temporarily. A couple minutes after I left the darkness cloud, the glow-y light came back and started suffocating me again. That's where we left off and none of us have a way to really dispel magic.[/QUOTE] keep casting darkness until night?

Playing around with Aces & Eights and I managed to accidentally recreate the "You brought two too many" scene from Once Upon A Time In The West, although with a more protracted gunfight. I wish there were more westerns out there. Hopefully A&E 2nd edition lightens up on some of the absurd simulationist bits of the first one.

[QUOTE=jackattack;52546532]I'm planning a masquerade party session tomorrow, in which the party has to pull off a mini heist and also break into a secret prison under the estate. Problem is i don't want to make the method of acquiring the key too easy, nor too difficult. I've written a few methods, steal the guards files, seduce the lords wife, stuff like that, but i'm worried about the players not figuring it out. I've had a similar experience last year, when during a Star wars: Edge of the empire game i had gmed i put in a murder mystery i thought was pretty simple (the butler did it, killed his accomplice the mechanic to cover his tracks). There was evidence everywhere but they still dicked around, accidentally destroyed evidence, spaced the body and resorted to accusing the perfectly innocent Pilot who had a recording proving that he was flying the whole time. Should i have a contingency plan?[/QUOTE] You should always have a contingency plan. Are the players aware they're going into a Heist scenario? Making them aware of that can make them see everything in a different light. If one of the players wanders off, as they're wont to do, have them see someone get dragged into the prison. Estate staff complain that the recent rain-fall has meant they've had to cover the ventilation for the 'cellar', but it's only temporary and needs shoring up. Someone needs to fix the Dumbwaiter, it's stuck on the top floor and nobody wants to carry all that soup down so many stairs into the cellar. Have these conversations be happening between staff, the players will only get the information by listening in, and if they realise they're being watched then the staff will hush up and bustle away. The players then have to find these little opportunities throughout the Estate. It also can't hurt to figure out ahead of time just what a blackpowder keg/plastic explosive/magic conflagration would do to the structure of the Estate. Just in case.

[QUOTE=slayer20;52546071]My kobold bard might die next week :( Party came across a magical well that was filled with some golden light. I looked inside to see if there was anything in it, and upon reaching my hand inside the well and pulling it back out, I started to glow. The glow-y light slowly creeped over my body until it reached my head and then I couldn't breathe. Another party member cast darkness around me which dispelled the light, but only temporarily. A couple minutes after I left the darkness cloud, the glow-y light came back and started suffocating me again. That's where we left off and none of us have a way to really dispel magic.[/QUOTE] Well filled with light? Touched your body and now is covering you? Suffocating? I think I know the problem: You're 'light wet' and the more light that touches you, the wetter you get. Clearly, you need to 'dark dry' yourself off before you 'light drown'!

[QUOTE=_Maverick_;52547366]keep casting darkness until night?[/QUOTE] The only darkness spell we had access too was from a Drow, which she already used it on me. But yeah I'm just gonna make a kobold burrito next session.

We're going to need a visual recreation of that.

[img]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/182150228806336523/345740893761830912/unknown.png[/img] My rolls in a fucking nutshell. (Shotgun blast from Zeitgeist)

Could be worse [t]http://i.imgur.com/KWxdlOf.png[/t]

Really a great feeling when your players really respond to something. They're having a lot of fun with the whole party/gala thing, really getting into the espionage. Makes me feel proud you know?

[QUOTE=RearAdmiral;52565247]Could be worse [t]http://i.imgur.com/KWxdlOf.png[/t][/QUOTE] That's our paladins rolls in a nutshell :v:

[Media]https://youtu.be/D3OllWSRhuI[/media] For those out of the loop, Matt Colville's website for finding D&D adventures has launched finally. He has over 500 logged adventures/modules so far from various sources submitted by users so far.

So I tried the Kobold Burrito thing, but it didn't work. I was still suffocating, so the next plan was to just try and rub the stuff off. That didn't work and the glowy water started to spread to the thing I was using to wipe with. We found out the liquid was kind of viscous-y so someone splashed some water on me, which allowed me to breathe temporarily. Then our druid used Create Water or whatever and basically dumped a bunch of water over me, which cleaned me off completely. We haven't finished the dungeon yet, but I got a Wand of Lightning Bolts and an amulet of stabilization or something along those lines.

Going to be rolling a 5e sorcerer, and I'm very torn between Wild Magic and Draconic Bloodline. The randomness of Wild Magic sounds really fun, but I also like the extra AC and health and damage that DB provides. Also, wings. But also being an edgy dragon shitlord.

a few months ago, my half-orc who i play on a neverwinter nights online server had fox cunning cast on him. what followed was memorable, and since then, every time he goes to the arcane tower to venture with wizards (or wizzy-sprinklers as he calls them), they cast fox cunning on him so they're able to understand what he's saying i decided to make a painting that kind of conveys the feeling i get sometimes while roleplaying a half-orc with a newfound "humanity" and outlook on mundane things. my friend michael lewis wrote a description for it: [quote][I]“[/I]Here’s a good use fer that new brilliance, orc-blood! Go figger out why a sword’s better than that big-arse greataxe o'yours!” Walking through the Arcane Tower hallways, even as the mocking words echoed in the whirling hallways of his mind, he contemplated their truth… and the clumsy way they were said. Is that what -he- sounded like, before the spells? No matter. Dropping heavily into a chair in the supply room, he reached out for a blade, taking up one of the self-filling goblets. Examining the cutlass, a weapon he always had thought was weak and pointless… Pointless, a cutlass doesn’t need a point, it slices! His mind leaping on the pun and toying with it like a sparkling rock. A diamond, his memory effortlessly found the word for him. He shook his head for what felt like the millionth time to clear the distractions, and once more to stop wondering what a million really was. He downed the goblet, ignoring his own mental advice to sip and savor it. He had always drank to get drunk, now he just wanted to slow down his too-busy mind.“[/quote] [t]https://68.media.tumblr.com/db0be1e84ef6ce65c42d5e493b92f3a5/tumblr_ouotgdSlXN1snm6fco1_1280.png[/t]

That is some damn good art.

So I got to use a trap I've wanted to use forever: a magic item sitting in a hoard of coins that casts True Polymorph onto those who touch it. The true polymorph effect transforms the victim into a coin which is added to the pile. The Paladin managed to find the coin his sister was transformed into and kept wailing "My sister is a coin... my sister is a coin" over and over. Good times.

[QUOTE=Archimedes;52570746]So I got to use a trap I've wanted to use forever: a magic item sitting in a hoard of coins that casts True Polymorph onto those who touch it. The true polymorph effect transforms the victim into a coin which is added to the pile. The Paladin managed to find the coin his sister was transformed into and kept wailing "My sister is a coin... my sister is a coin" over and over. Good times.[/QUOTE] This sounds like the kind of instant death trap I would have fallen for without a second thought a few years ago. :thinking:

[QUOTE=Archimedes;52570746]So I got to use a trap I've wanted to use forever: a magic item sitting in a hoard of coins that casts True Polymorph onto those who touch it. The true polymorph effect transforms the victim into a coin which is added to the pile. The Paladin managed to find the coin his sister was transformed into and kept wailing "My sister is a coin... my sister is a coin" over and over. Good times.[/QUOTE] this is too good <_<

[QUOTE=Archimedes;52570746]So I got to use a trap I've wanted to use forever: a magic item sitting in a hoard of coins that casts True Polymorph onto those who touch it. The true polymorph effect transforms the victim into a coin which is added to the pile. The Paladin managed to find the coin his sister was transformed into and kept wailing "My sister is a coin... my sister is a coin" over and over. Good times.[/QUOTE] Reminds me of the trap our DM used, which, in retrospect sounds too extra: A room that had a pile of tresure in the middle, but every single coin was a mimic coin, every single weapon in there was wielded by ghosts, the walls are closing in, and the ceiling flew away revealing a thousand bats. The best part? Mimics and ghosts revealed themselves right after we opened the door. The door was still open and easily closeable 10/10 lost our edgelord rogue

[QUOTE=efefe4842;52574038]Reminds me of the trap our DM used, which, in retrospect sounds too extra: A room that had a pile of tresure in the middle, but every single coin was a mimic coin, every single weapon in there was wielded by ghosts, the walls are closing in, and the ceiling flew away revealing a thousand bats. The best part? Mimics and ghosts revealed themselves right after we opened the door. The door was still open and easily closeable 10/10 lost our edgelord rogue[/QUOTE] I'm honestly surprised the door wasn't a mimic too and tossed your asses into the room.

Oh man. As a GM, sometimes it's tough to play the villain fully. I almost TPK'd the party this session, and two PCs died. The two PCs was the original characters from session 1 to now the 27th. I'm so happy I recorded this session because of all the hype, sadness and just general emotions everybody felt in this. They were fighting "Torshak the Lord of The Frozen Jungles", a white adult dragon that had been banished to the feywild as a young dragon, and got eventually twisted and modified by the Feywild as he made that part of the feywild into "The Frozen Jungles", until the BBEG transported him back to the material plane and became a top priority enemy for the party. It was an intense fight, but the two PCs literally died because both crit failed their death saving throws... Damn that was such a shock when it happend. One of the dead players drew this, and we are all heavy with the feels. I'm really proud that I have been able to create a campaign and a party where everyone is so attached but it hurt for me as well, just as the party loves eachother I too love their characters. So when they say the deaths feel like gutpunches in my campaign I relate. Anyway, here's the art. [T]http://puu.sh/xbIZu/90562dfdc4.png[/T]

All this emotional art wants me to post some art from one of the campaigns I'm in but all I've got is this. [t]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/292839227027357696/347599670484271114/BEE_RIDER.png[/t] Bottom line is the Barbarian of our party has a cloak of feathers, which when a feather is pulled out has a random effect, this has two uses a day. In the middle of a fight with the big bad of our particular story arc, he yanked one out, being teleported a kilometer in the air. Not one to have something like that stop him, he yanked out another one, causing a swarm of giant wasps to attack him, a few grapple rolls and a natural 20 on animal handling later and our good friend made his way safely to Earth by elbow dropping the big bad from 10m up by jumping off his wasp.

[QUOTE=kobalt;52582492]All this emotional art wants me to post some art from one of the campaigns I'm in but all I've got is this. Bottom line is the Barbarian of our party has a cloak of feathers, which when a feather is pulled out has a random effect, this has two uses a day. In the middle of a fight with the big bad of our particular story arc, he yanked one out, being teleported a kilometer in the air. Not one to have something like that stop him, he yanked out another one, causing a swarm of giant wasps to attack him, a few grapple rolls and a natural 20 on animal handling later and our good friend made his way safely to Earth by elbow dropping the big bad from 10m up by jumping off his wasp.[/QUOTE] My only regret is that I have but one rating allowed per post.

i too have art not nearly as exciting though [t]http://i.imgur.com/cDluhfV.png[/t]

im a baby player who's only been to like 4 sessions by now, but I gotta say that Pathfinder/D&D is really wonderful. Like a lot of people on FP (I would imagine) I've grown up with my head practically jacked in to my computer and into various online communities since the age of 10; online gaming, social media, all that stuff was my bread and butter growing up. But in recent years I've been finding myself appreciating more and more actual in-person interaction, away from the phones, movies, and other distractions we fill our lives with. I feel like a mini-luddite. it's just that there's something so nostalgic about sitting at a table and playing a game with basically no electronics. it feels a lot like being a kid again playing board games with my cousins and parents. it's really nice to cast off the insane information-fueled world we live in and wholly and completely get absorbed into something of our own social creation. i'm really digging it a lot. been watching critical role in the background while I paint my minis, and have been trying to build me and my partner's characters up in concept and mechanically. started watching Matt Colville videos as well, and I'm getting more and more into the idea of DM'ing myself (which my DM has been pushing me to do, he says he thinks I'd do well - honestly I think he wants me to take over for him lmao) this feels like one of those hobbies that can really change you as a person on a fundamental level, and I'm really glad that I finally cracked and started doing it.

[QUOTE=BrickInHead;52583374]this feels like one of those hobbies that can really change you as a person on a fundamental level, and I'm really glad that I finally cracked and started doing it.[/QUOTE] it can, man. my table has such great people in it. i've had players who kind of began hating eachother irl, because they wouldn't talk about whatever issues they were having, get close because they were playing dnd. baby steps, they would begin telling eachother how they could improve their behavior as players on the table, to prevent cross-talk or just habits that kind of bothered eachother. this slowly became a back-and-forth "self-improvement" thing and they actually adapted these criticisms into their everyday lives. it's really amazing. i love my players. [QUOTE=kobalt;52582492]All this emotional art wants me to post some art from one of the campaigns I'm in but all I've got is this. [t]https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/292839227027357696/347599670484271114/BEE_RIDER.png[/t] Bottom line is the Barbarian of our party has a cloak of feathers, which when a feather is pulled out has a random effect, this has two uses a day. In the middle of a fight with the big bad of our particular story arc, he yanked one out, being teleported a kilometer in the air. Not one to have something like that stop him, he yanked out another one, causing a swarm of giant wasps to attack him, a few grapple rolls and a natural 20 on animal handling later and our good friend made his way safely to Earth by elbow dropping the big bad from 10m up by jumping off his wasp.[/QUOTE] fucking hell. :v:

I wanna give Starfinder a try but I just know that finding a group near me is gonna be a fucking pain in the ass. Yes, I know Roll20 is a thing, I just infinitely prefer playing at a table.