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[Gentlefish]

Yep a tabletop games general thread. Talk about your games, build funny characters, talk about the physics of games, General Thread Stuff.

Just uh.

Play nice.

[Gentlefish]

Stories of Legend:

(Off-thread)

Spoiler: Super Mario Monk (click to show/hide)

So, I calculated how much of a Jump bonus Mario would need to jump as obscenely high as he can if he were a D&D character.

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First, I heard that in the first game, he could jump 27 feet up.
This means our target DC is 108. We can assume that since it is difficult to get
Mario to jump as high as possible, he takes a 20 to reach 27 feet.

DC REMAINING: 88

Second: Best case scenario is that Mario is a level 30 Monk
with (via ability score increases) 26 STR. This gives him an innate +6 to Jump.

DC REMAINING: 82

We can assume that Mario funneled every skillpoint he could into Jump
for a total of 33 and put at least 5 into Tumble for the synergy bonus.

DC REMAINING: 47

Monks get a +100, if memory serves, speed boost at level 30.
Every 10 extra feet someone moves gets them +4 du
 to a running start, so Mario has a total of +40 to his check.

DC REMAINING: 7

Almost there!

We can assume that Mario's hat is a +6 Hat of Strength,
based on the usual +6 items.

DC REMAINING: 1

Oooh. So close!

Mario just needs a pick-me-up.
The random timer for the levels in the original is a good idea.
If we assume that the timer is actually a measure of how long a casting of
Bull's Strength is working on Mario (and that he needs the spell to live or
something), then for the duration of the level, Mario has +2 STR,
bringing the STR modifier up to +7.

DC REMAINING: 0

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

TOTAL JUMP MOD: 88
tl;dr: I proved that if you min/max a Monk out the wazoo, you can jump 27 fucking feet straight into the air.

Wut.

[Gentlefish]

So for my story, now that nice formatting is out of the way,

I was playing with a group I've been playing with for a while as a Crusader in the prepackaged adventure, "The Red Hand of Doom". Essentially, giant hobgoblin army and worshippers of Tiamat.

Anyway, we're infiltrating an old keep being held by a forward scouting party of said army. The wu-jen casts us a smoke ladder to get to the top of a tower. The staircase is an open spiral down to the bottom, and we can see a bugbear down there, obviously the leader because he has his own room.

So, I get to thinking, we've got the drop on the guy, right? Why not get the drop on him? I as the DM how high we are, and he says it's about fourty feet. I tell him I want to skydive onto the bugbear. He makes me roll a Jump check. I'm untrained and I'm wearing full plate.

I make it and the bugbear sorcerer is squashed like a bug.

[Kadzar]

PTW

And since I'm doing that, I might as well mention that I'm currently looking for a good martial arts system. The criteria I'm most interested in is players being able to make up their own techniques, sorta how D&D wizards have spell research, but it should take more to get these things off than having an open spell slot for the day.

[Orange Wizard]

pee tea double yew

[Jalak]

My first proper D&D campaign, a few years ago. 3.5 ruleset

I'm a fighter with a party of about seven other players. They're all practically veterans, save for my brother, a rogue. So were all just travelling along a road with our pack-mule in tow when we notice a narrow hole just off the side, with a weird blue glow coming from it. Being the curious types, we immediately tie off a rope and start descending down, one by one. Things don't go so well as half our party start failing their climbing checks and go tumbling down a lot further then they should. It is soon discovered that the cave itself was very steep, practically empty and the blue light was actually from a crap-load of boring fluorescent fungi.
Since everyone was having such a bad time moving around down there, I decided not to follow and just waited by the mule while the others sorted themselves out. This turned out to be both very lucky for the mule and bad for me, as a dozen or so kobolds suddenly swarmed over the hill, heading straight for me. As everybody was now stuck in that cave and tumbling down beyond the ropes length, I was pretty much reduced to fending them all off by myself while they tried to scramble back out.
Eventually, my brother managed to climb out of a different hole, halfway between me and some of the kobolds I'm shooting at with my bow. I end up accidentally hitting him three times.

[tahujdt]

pee tea double yew

[Redzephyr01]

pee tea double yew

[Neonivek]

Yeah I am pushing this back alive...

We need a thread that doesn't quite need to be starved into non-existence.

Anyhow...

I am currently trying to make my first attempt at Call of Cthulhu but don't quite understand how to run it successfully yet. I know I can never get the horror element to get off well but the investigation one is an entirely different manner.

I think what I need to do is research into the many adventures posted for the system over the years to get the general idea of how to do a more freeform.

My favorite being specifically investigations that are rather isolated to houses or small communities.

I think the key is allowing multiple ways to find out the same solution while allowing the players the possibility to delve deeper.

[Kadzar]

If you had asked a month ago, I would have recommended backing the Silent Legions Kickstarter. You can still get it when it comes out, but you missed out on the preview PDF and the discount.

[Neonivek]

I need more solid examples then rule systems. Preferably with layouts, rolls, and stuff.

Though I should keep my eye out on Silent Legions.

[Orange Wizard]

Seeing as this thread isn't actually dead, I'll post this little idea I had.

Spoiler: Generic Fire Wizard (click to show/hide)

In my (IRL) D&D group, it's unnervingly common for people to burn things. Whether or not we actually managed to follow through with it, setting fire to things is always a suggestion... Burning down the Sunless Citadel  because the cleric didn't trust the sticks on the ground, burning a city guard barracks to rescue an imprisoned party member, burning a pirate ship, burning a castle to kill a (suspected) werewolf, burning an entire dimension because the paladin lost his pants to a zombie (don't ask)... the list goes on.

I started to think "just how much burning could a first-level character do?"
The obvious answer is to play a warlock and use some fire invocation, or buy a shitton of oil and firestarters.

The less obvious answer is a wizard who can cast Scorching Ray at CL 7 and spam 2d6 fire blasts every round.

...

To start, you're going to need to play a human. This qualifies you for the regional feat (assuming your DM is fairly lenient in this regard) Bloodline of Fire. It gives +2 to your CL when casting Fire spells.
Of course, we're the wizard class. Play a specialist Evoker (I know), or even a focussed specialist (perhaps, see below).
Next, Precocious Apprentice, and learn Scorching Ray. You could choose another spell, such as an orb of some sort, but this spell gets more d6s per CL.
Precocious Apprentice means you have your chosen spell available to cast once per day, which is enough to qualify you for the Fiery Burst reserve feat. It gives us another caster level for Fire spells, in addition to the 2d6 fiery bursts that we can use for free assuming we haven't cast Scorching Ray on a given day.
Finally, to knock our CL just that last bit higher (so we can get the bonus ray at CL 7), we take the feat Reserves of Strength. This grants up to 3 bonus caster levels when casting a spell, but stuns you for an equal number of rounds (or deals damage if you can't be stunned).

Finally, depending on your reading of Precocious Apprentice and the Focussed/Specialist text, you can turn your one bonus 2nd-level spell slot from Apprentice into three, but this is stretching it a little...

[Gentlefish]

You say wizard, but how about a human wu-jen/bloodmage?

[Orange Wizard]

Because I'm a wizard. Also, it's kinda hard to multiclass at level one.

[Sensei]

To start, you're going to need to play a human. This qualifies you for the regional feat (assuming your DM is fairly lenient in this regard) Bloodline of Fire. It gives +2 to your CL when casting Fire spells.

Where did you even find that? Is that DnD 5 stuff?