With proper use of metamagic, every spell is potentially like five different spells. Poindexter over here might have two dozen different named spells written down in his diary, but I know two fire based spells and I can make each of them do about eight different things, half of which aren’t even fire damage.
It’s the difference between writing down a recipe, and knowing how to cook.
Don’t let my people monopolize that accent! It’s a beautiful accent, in my opinion. Shame about most of the folks it’s attached to. Most people hear a southern drawl and their mind goes right to white supremacy rednecks, which is unfortunately not incorrect of them to think. I wish we had some popular well educated folks to bring that sound to the larger populace so that it isn’t such a red flag.
Much love and good luck. I’m from Louisiana but I don’t live down that way anymore. Been hearing a lot about what the local gov is up to recently though. Things are getting rough down there. Worried about you guys.
I don’t want to up and tell you your home isn’t safe for you, but I do advise keeping an eye open for opportunities elsewhere. There’s a reason that it’s difficult for you to find public LGBTQ+ groups down there. Don’t get so tied down in the bayou that you’re a sitting duck, know what I mean?
In the meantime, you’re not going to be a fan of this advice, but discord is a good place to find communities. It’s a long shot, but if you find a server you like with good folks in it you can ask around and see if someone knows someone who knows someone.
Good night, good luck 💜
I lost a run the other day to a series of events, one of which included me (in-game) finding and eating enough psychedelic fungus to trigger a shift in reality, which transmuted all smoke in the universe and any created thereafter, into acid. Like carbolic acid, not the fun drugsy kind.
Acid, naturally, eats through all creatures and materials in the game world, including many things you’d consider otherwise invulnerable, until it evaporates - into flammable gas.
Therefore any time an object or material caught fire (which is often, with or without player interference), it would quickly consume anything below it for several meters while feeding itself with flammable gas and spreading to any new flammable materials it uncovered.
The world very quickly became a very large mess.
Local board game store is a good bet
Elemental type coverage isn’t really his thing, that’s for the nerds to worry about
On one hand, we have Wilhelm - court wizard, politically savvy, intelligent, keeps a library of useful spells bigger than your mom and never casts the same spell twice in a day.
On the other hand we have Chad Thunderballer, international man of mystique, thrower of nearly infinite lightning bolts, wielder of the forbidden school of Metamagic, slayer of dragons and thots alike. Unless that dragon is blue or bronze.
Landry from the game Tyranny is one of the best examples of scholarly Bard I’ve ever come across. That game was underappreciated.
And America had inflatable tanks during WWII to take attention off of real units. I love dunking on the Russian military as much as the next guy but this is just a good common sense move. The enemy keeps striking your targets? Install fake targets, make their lives just a little more difficult.
It’s vulnerable to dispelling, and I’d argue anything else that Wall of Force is also vulnerable to, i.e. Disintegrate.
Still busted, but it’s not immortal.
And yes, rules as written you can fire arrows through it so long as those arrows are inside the area of the Hut when you cast it.
Naturally. Using Arcane Mark, so it doesn’t wash off.
We may be evil, but we aren’t chaotic. A professional has standards.
I play a cleric in my party. Previously, we’ve been asked to recover and return a certain plot-important NPC who didn’t exactly want to be transported…
We killed him, transported the corpse, handcuffed it, and then raised him at the destination. It’s a lot easier to transport a body than a live half-elf who is actively trying to escape.
Or its weirder, older cousin, Earth Defense Force
Just because you’re in prison forever doesn’t mean there isn’t further punishment that can be doled out. Officially, solitary confinement is a pretty catch-all punishment for misbehavior, and extended stays in solitary can and will drive humans insane. Like, nonfunctionally insane, can no longer interact with other humans without extensive therapy. Unofficially, prisoners can get the shit kicked out of them on the regular by gangs of guards, or specially targeted for constant “random” shakedowns, have rumors spread about them among other inmates, the list goes on.
For non-lifers, you can always get time tacked on. For lifers, you can paint a target on yourself for guard harassment or lock yourself into solitary until you’re no longer a human being. And the constitution enshrines slavery as being specifically allowed as punishment for a crime in Amendment 13, so unfortunately the prison is well within its rights to do so and punish for noncompliance.
These are important questions that will be asked by your players if they haven’t gone there already. DMs, pay attention. Have a solid argument planned out beforehand or suffer the consequences. The thirsty, withered consequences.
Personally, I argue that Create/Destroy Water can’t target a creature therefore get fucked, cast it somewhere else or pick a different spell. Why that is, scientifically? No idea. Same reason you can’t Revivify a kitchen table. Logic dictates that you could turn it back into a tree, in practice nothing happens. It’s A Secret To Everyone™
Not deadly, just displacement-y. It dumps you into the Astral Plane in your physical form but deals no damage.
Now the effects of the Astral Plane on an unprepared non-spellcaster can be pretty deadly. But that isn’t the boom’s fault.
The Ricky Bobby school of RPGs. If you ain’t first, you’re last.
How could I forget about Dolly Parton! I should be ashamed. The world could use a few more of her.
I did appreciate the story, thanks. And that’s about exactly how I expected it happened, lol. Minus the hikers, I wouldn’t have guessed that, but I can imagine exactly how it sounded when they told you to watch out for them bars!