• sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    6 days ago

    … Has anyone ever just mandated an all Druid party, allowing for hybrid classing…

    … and then just basically done an Animorphs campaign?

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          I mean, dude claimed to assume everything about gnomes was an antisemitism. Dude was not Jewish, dude collected 1930s German memorabilia if you follow. Did not find that out until later. I do not want to go on and on, this guy is (most likely) not here to defend himself but his behavior was atrocious, including taking advantage of the session to make advances on everyone he was attracted to at the table whether they were in committed relationships or not.

          If I had a halfway decent gm who made in-game racisms against gnomes, cool! I don’t really like when players do the in game racisms tho. I have had, uh, immature players who fall back on real world racisms when the well of creativity runs dry and that’s a red card

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            5 days ago

            The GameMaster’s barely disguised projection of “actually, you’re racist!!!”

            including taking advantage of the session to make advances on everyone he was attracted to at the table whether they were in committed relationships or not.

            Wait, what?

            Oh god.

            Ah yes, the DnD dating service, producing God-tier cringe on a regular basis since at least the 1980s.

            Holy shit, I’m just… now I’m just seeing a Funkopop wall, an actual literal family heirloom Nazi flag, a trillby called a fedora, an AppleJack body pillow, a pre-prepared argument for why body odor is actually attractive…

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            That’s just weird, especially considering goblin is an actual dogwhistle and dwarves were literally Tolkien making an extended Jewish metaphor.

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    6 days ago

    When they try the “have the druid wild shape into a horse and sell it for some quick cash only to change back under cover of darkness and flee” trick, have the buyer wait until the rest of the party is out of earshot and say “you poor thing! A fine beast like you and they’ve never had you shod! It’s cruelty, is what it is! We’re going right over to the farrier without delay!”

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          Your worn items just kind of morph into your body when you wildshape. You don’t have to strip naked to go from humanoid to animal, for instance.

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              Yep. One (high level) druid trick is to move tons of loot by wildshaping into an elephant, loading up with giant saddlebags, then wildshaping into an eagle to fly to the destination. The loot is recovered by the druid wildshaping back into an elephant

              Or more practically a druid’s bear form might wear armour that is too heavy for their normal form to carry

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    Ain’t it that RAW you just turn back into a humanoid with the same health as pre-wildshape?

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      6 days ago

      Yeah, but then you become a lone druid in a castle surrounded by guards.

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      In the 2024 rules you don’t take the animal forms HP so the druid in this case could easily tank that hit from Igor since they still have their base hp and you need to be at least level 8 to have a form with fly speed so plenty of hp in that pool.

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        3 days ago

        For a few years we could have Con as a dump stat. Not before or after though

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            BG3 rules had circle of the moon druids be tanks. Likewise in 3.0, but 3.5 and 5.5 both broke wildshape for tanking unless you can take a shape with high dex or high natural armour, or you have high enough point buy or lucky enough rolls to have wis, con, dex