Jus' a think I've been a bit obsessed with.
Say a player cast the Light cantrip on an arrow and tried to shoot a specific square with it, one without some creature or object beyond "the ground" to aim it at.
A: Attack roll? Some other roll? Just declare success happens?
B: If roll, how handle fail?
Am Curious.
Basically, what's some homebrews that going into your first game with them you thought they would barely matter or possibly even not come up period, only to then prove so drastically impactful that it might have even felt like playing a different system at times?
How much impact would it have were it possible to add 5 minutes to a Ritual Casting of a Ritual Spell to cast it one level higher, able to add 5's of minutes up to a level 9 casting?
Too powerful? Not even worth bothering with? Somewhere between?
Delayed Blast Fireball held for the whole minute, does it fizzle because concentration wasn't "broken", just ran out, or does it still blow?
I've my interperetation and preference but this just Feels like the kinda thing I've called wrong before so I figured best to jus' ask.
Edit: Thanks all for the sanity check.
Silly question!
What spell do you consider the funniest spell?
What's some homebrew rules you and those you've used them with have much enjoyed that far as you can tell would leave many asking "Why do you care enough to even make rules about this at all?"?
Player uses Blink spell, then on subsequent turns does a Ready Action with the trigger "if I enter the Ethereal Plane", what's some actions that'd be possibly worth Readying as such?
Am Curious.
Curious what y'all like least about your favorite class.
Fifth Edition, rod of security has a 10 day recharge.
Does that begin on *initial use*, or does the 10 days only begin passing once everyone's been returned from the extraplanar paradise the rof sent them to?
Sorry if question dumb, I also dumb sometimes so sanity checks help sometimes.
Curious what mechanics y'all think are left underused and not made as relevant as you'd like as frequently as you'd prefer.
Basically:
1: Do any existing books have uses for Maintaining Concentration that do not relate to Magic?
2: Have you ideas for not Magic related uses for Maintaining Concentration, that aren't covered already in 1?
Am Curious.
As per title, what's some rpg mechanics you find get a lotta hate or at least confoundment as to why they exist that you find actually fun and typically well-justified?
Where do you find fun despite most finding none there?
Personally, I actually like having stuff like ammo and rations to personally keep inventory of, as opposed to it being waived off just because "it only matters if you hit literal zero and we aren't going to LET that happen".
Trying to better envision a D&D thing, think seeing what a burning oil puddle looks like would help.
Surely there's some knockoff Mythbusters who did that at some point and posted it online, right?
When, for Specifically You, are there so few rounds the battle feels like an annoying roadbump you'd rather have had glossed over, or so many rounds your patience starts to wear thin, and around where do you feel you're most satisfied?
As someone who *suspects* their preferences are on the higher end, I'm curious what y'all think.
What's some genres of games you feel went from "you can hardly browse the new releases without finding like a dozen of this" down to "I can't remember the last time a game like this came out"?
Since Public Domain and Copyright Law and all that are Legal matters, I'm wondering if there's many known cases of things being taken out of the Public Domain from some legal ruling or change of system or somesuch.
...more specifically I'm imagining a story where "The Public Domain" is a Location and due to Legal Nonsense people begin disappearing, and I feel like real world cases of stuff being ripped out of the public domain might serve as some inspiration.
For example, Majora's Mask's 3 day countdown.
Basically I wanna see what there is to explore with "long time time pressure", with having time ticking away but have so much that instead if being panicked reaction checks you're trying to balance time spent doing as you decided with time spent doing deciding.
Less "scrambling to put out the fire", more "spending my last few days before I don't have any day ever again", if that makes sense.
Personally:
After someone calls the girls homunculi, Blossom decides she identifies quite strongly with the term, and even comes to like thinking of herself as a "bug-eyed freak".
Bubbles manages to become friends with The City Of Townsville, as in The Location Itself. She even seems surprisingly capable of holding active conversation with the city.
Buttercup steals Mojo's Antidote X formula so she is allowed to join professional fight competitions and accidentally discovers that training with her powers off causes that training to be amplified a lot when she turns her powers back on with a bit of Chemical X.
Princess and her dad moved to Townsville to escape Princess' mom, who is A Very Bad Parent.
Mitch lives with ONLY his grandma and nobody else, and *technically* speaking she kidnapped him.
Whether purely by default or via some option like a universal HP multiplier or even just making a reverse glass cannon build if that is the best I can get, I'm looking for turn based battles that drag on some.
Worth ⅕ of a Copper Piece, made by seeing the trade gooda and that 50 of a coin is worth a pound bar of that metal, then seeing iron in the trade goods.
You can buy a single sling bullet, and maybe if for some reason a caster player decides to not use a focus and also not grab a component pouch the uncosted material components for some spells could be priced in Iron Pieces?
Realistically prolly not mant tables that even care to go lower than Gold, but the idea made me smile and chuckle, though I guess feel free to share if you have ideas for actual reasons to use this.