u/AscendentDragon

ok, I didn't know how to write this, so i'm just going to write it as best i can, so i've been playing a DnD campaign and weren't using the new 5.5e rules and this was a friend's campaign and we had a solid group of players, 4 of us in total.

everyone:

Derik: warlock dragonborn

Loki: Kobold sourcerer

Niro: human artificer (rules lawyer)

myself: Dragonborn paladin of Tyr.

we've all basically maximused and minmaxed the hell out of our characters and we were quite high level, all of us had reached level 10 and we were fighting a devil so i was being smart and because i was playing a paladin with a couple fighter levels i decided to do 2 divine smites then action surge and then 2 divine smites, but Niro interupted everyone. for a little context to why this is so important, Niro was someone who you'd call a know-it-all and was often wrong, anywho, so Niro piped up.

Niro: "you can't do that, divine smite costs a bonus action like your other smites"

me: "um, no it doesn't"

Niro: "actually it does

we were all used to Niro's bullshit so DM got one of the books out and opened it to the Paladin section and put his thumb right at Divine Smite

DM: "here's the entry for Divine Smite, where does it say it costs a bonus action"

Niro: "um, it doesn't need to, its a smite, its implied"

Derik: "you're arguing with one of the offical books? you're always like this man, why don't you give up and just say, i am wrong, you always double down"

Niro: "but i'm not wrong"

DM: "i'm allowing it"

Niro quieted down and so i rolled my damage dice and it was nothing to write home about, for those who want to know i rolled 1, 3 & 4 on the fist divine smite, the second was 3, 6 & 2, the third was 5, 1 & 1 the final was 3, 7 & 2 anyway this was when Niro piped up again

Niro: "why are you rolling a 3rd dice? divine smite is 2d8"

me: "divine smite increases 1d8 on fiends and undead"

Niro: "no it doesn't"

at this point i don't know if he was intentionally gaslighting me or if he was cheating or something because i pulled out my own players handbook and showed him where it said 2nd level was 2d8 and adds 1d8 if its used on undead and fiends.

'Niro: "then why are you using the lowest level possible"

me: "our enemy is a fucking Cambion not Mephistopheles himself.

Niro: "so?"

me: "i'm saving all my upcasts for whatever comes next if there's a bigger boss"

Niro: "why bother"

Loki: "if you don't stop Niro i'm gonna have my Kobold throw his frying pan at your head, you do this every session and its annoying"

the DM basically was annoyed because my friend was trying to run a campaign and he had been itching to put the narrative masterpiece he crafted out and play it to the end, Loki, Derik and i were hooked because we didn't know how the narrative was going to end however Niro decided that after we took a 30 min break for pizza and some drinks that he would peak at the DM's binder full of notes, which he had been keeping since we did a chaotic neutral campaign 1 time, and DM caught him peaking in the binder.

Niro was kicked from the campaign because and DM approched us.

DM "caight Niro looking through my binder, i suspect he's been cheating. should i permanently ban him?"

we all agreed and Niro was banned from the group, DM didn't really talk about it because outside of DnD Niro and DM were friends, and put an emphisis on were because DM ended his friendship with Niro due to Niro not returning an expensive mini he borrowed for the campaign only for Niro to throw it at him in tantrum he decided to throw over getting kicked. recommended my friend who's character they mainly play is a dragonborn warlock and since then we had fun even if DM had to adjust scaling to handle 2 warlocks and one sourcerer with me being the only martial based character and unofficial tank thanks to my 19 con. since then campaign has been smooth

edit: i mispoke, we weren't using 5.5e we were using release 5e, my friend hates 5.5e due to all the changes that break the system a bit. and also bad advice on resource management in what was basically a ruin teeming with undead and lesser devils

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the companions started as a small army of 500 nords strong or so the books say if they are even reliable due to the fact nords have an oral tradition predating written history, however they also during the second era were much more then sellswords for hire as they had established other strongholds like fellowstone hall and the crypt under Shor's stone, it was also at this time that the companions accepted all including mages into their organisation and even had the distinguished position for mages simply known as sages, and did not care for one's race, or if they use magic or not, the dicline was drastic by the 4th era Fallowstone is but a cave no one ever visits as the buildings there have long since rotted away, an obvious cave-in happened at shor's stone sealing off the cript and the compainions were reduced to sellswords by the 4th era acting like the fighters guild which incidentally during the 2nd era had a hall in every city in skyrim. what was the cause of the companion's decline?

so, everyone thinks Marrok died and was resurrected by Morgan however when Dathomiri use this twisted force power, the ressurected are mindless like classic zombies and Marrok spoke, i fundamentally disagree with this, after re-watching Star Wars the Clone Wars recently, i think there is a better explanation for the green smoke. i believe Marrok not only survived the imperial era but thrived, when the Inquisitorius was disbanded i believe Marrok was the sole survivor and went into hiding in the outer rim viewing the empire as treasonous and taking up work as a merc on some insignificant world no one has even heard of in the greater empire and then he met Morgan Elsbith. by that point Marrok was no longer in his prime, its doubtful he learned enough during his time as a jedi if he was a jedi in the past and if he were he was a padawan or a knight, and wouldn't have mastered the ability to augment his body with the force and so Morgan Elsbith took him to Dathomir where the Ichor is at its most potent and she used the same magiks or similer magiks to reverse or mitigate the aging process on Marrok's body and likely enhancing his physical abilities so he could fight like he could in his prime, and as a result he pledged himself to her service for the gift and we all know when Dathomiri enhance the physicality of another using magiks, when they die the Ichor used leaves their body as green smoke, Savage Opress being a notibly physically enhanced Dathomiri warrior whos body released green smoke when he died.

considering the zombie-like behavour of those resurrected, both Star Wars the Clone Wars and Jedi: fallen order both featured this as well as Thrawn's Necrotroopers after they were ressurected, also the ressurected created by the Dathomiri witches are unphased by being impaled or cut apart by lightsabers. the evidence of Marrok being physically enhanced is stronger then him being basically a zombie