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[Kagus]

Additional note: A Tempest Cleric 2/Mountain Druid 5 can launch a 1/day guaranteed max-damage lightning bolt at CLevel 7, something an Evoker Wizard would have to wait until CLevel 14 to do.

Actually its 1 per short rest.

Ah, yes, my mistake... So actually more often than the CLevel 14 wizard, unless you feel like eating 2(+)d12 irresistible necrotic damage.

[scourge728]

Additional note: A Tempest Cleric 2/Mountain Druid 5 can launch a 1/day guaranteed max-damage lightning bolt at CLevel 7, something an Evoker Wizard would have to wait until CLevel 14 to do.

Actually its 1 per short rest.

Ah, yes, my mistake... So actually more often than the CLevel 14 wizard, unless you feel like eating 2(+)d12 irresistible necrotic damage.

what would happen if you were playing something immune to necrotic damage?

[Grim Portent]

what would happen if you were playing something immune to necrotic damage?

Overchannel deals necrotic that ignores resistance and immunity.

[Mephisto]

That's also getting into homebrew territory anyway. Last I checked, no PC races had necrotic immunity. The closest you'd get is the Aasimar's resistance or one lone mention on a random forum somewhere about necromancers maybe getting something at high level.

[Grim Portent]

The Planeshift Vampire races are also resistant, but that's as much as anyone gets. The only damage type pc races can be immune to is poison as I recall.

[Mephisto]

I'm sure some of you like cheap books and grim darkness.

[Egan_BW]

Mmm, heresy.

[Kagus]

Ooh, that really lubricates my servos... Might have to grab some stuff.


In a quick 5e-related question: Dear DMs, how do you handle giving advantage versus giving +points to a particular challenge? Like, how would you define when to give a +4 flat bonus to an ability check, versus giving the player advantage on the roll for that check? Or, for that matter, reducing the target DC? Does an NPC's drunkenness mean that they're easier to seduce (lower DC), that the bard seducing them is going to be more successful (flat bonus), or that the odds are in the seducer's favor (advantage)?

[pikachu17]

In 5e, you are only supposed to give advantage and disadvantage. DC is how hard it is to do, so I'd lower the DC.

[Grim Portent]

Dis/Advantage can be averaged out to a +/-5 difference to the roll, but 5e was built with bounded accuracy in mind so bonuses to the roll itself can be wonky sometimes so the advantage mechanic is used instead.

For seducing a drunkard I'd probably go with an opposed test of some kind, probably Charisma (Persuasion) vs Wisdom (Insight) with the drunk having disadvantage. I might give the drunk a passive Insight the same way as characters have passive Perception and use that as a fixed target DC and just take away 5 for their disadvantage though.

[Persus13]

Grim described what I'd do mechanically, but I'd also probably be more interested in the bard's approach in terms of giving advantage/disadvantage than the drunkeness of an NPC.

[scourge728]

I wish I had people around me who could play dnd

[Jimmy]

Got any gaming stores that sell D&D stuff nearby? They'll often have some kind of LFG notice board, or at least know people who have groups they run. Or you can tell them you're interested in starting a group and checking if there's any interest.

For example, my local town has two gaming stores that run groups. One is a general tabletop gaming store, catering to WH40K and D&D, the other is a store that sells anime and manga, but opens later each night for gaming groups and TCG players. Both let you book a table for free so long as you pay for some snacks that they sell.

[scourge728]

is there anything in the rules that prevents a gnome/kobold pc from casting enlarge/reduce on themselves to reduce their weight, casting mage hand, grabbing themselves with the mage hand and flying themselves around a battlefield, raining projectiles down on the enemies

[wierd]

12lb total limit on weight moved?

12lb is...  Well... it's not a whole lot. (remember, it's not just them, but also their pack. And clothes.)