So I'm not running the full DC20 Experience yet, but I wanted to steal the way actions work immediately for my 5e game. One question I had was, if repeatedly attacking causes disadvantage on latter attacks, does casting spells that cause a save get around that, or does it grant adv on the save or something else? Thanks!
Are there any open online groups that organize AL games? maybe discords?
I'm pretty happy with how writing up my players adventures across Arcadia into a playable format for others is going, and I'm looking into commissioning some covers and possibly maps (both battle map scale and larger, reference scale). I'm curious if we have anyone on the subreddit here who'd be interested in participating. I will find an actual, non-insulting payment and royalties, but this would be my first project so scale expectations accordingly.
My party just did the ending of Fires of Dis and traveled to Arcadia with the gate town of Fortitude (Yes "with," not "from," it's a great ending); now they're off to explore what happened to Nemausus as part of the Discovery adventure from Planes of Law. Here's what I wrote up for part one of their adventure, their encounter with an Acolyte of the Lightning King who first suspects, then requests aid from, the party. I'd love feedback
My party have taken to the expediency of keeping a small colony of Cranium Rats in their Walking Castle. They hand out Squeakers to NPCs they meet as they travel around the Outlands, so that they can have a good form of communication, Outlands-wide.
Personally I love this and plan on developing the colony hive mind as it slowly grows and achieves sentience; if you have any thoughts suggestions on developing this NPC, I'd be grateful. I especially like the idea of playing up how the colony mild would start immature (Child-like), with only a few dozen rats serving as it's grey matter, and it would slowly mature as the rat population grows. What sort of encounters could the players have that would demonstrate this process? How can we give the PCs opportunities to influence it's development while it's young, either for good or ill?
For reference, this Walking Castle is the one from Turn of Fortune's Wheel. Aside from the party, it has Zaythir, the Githzerai monk from ToFW living in it, and after rescuing Garmundi from "Doors to the Unknown" (basically, he's a barmy Sigil street preacher dwarf of Aoskar who's now wanted by the Athar and Harmonium) he was moved to the Castle to keep him safe.
One feature that VTTs should theoretically be able to offer that makes them superior to a physical table would be smooth way to handle the problem of "Oh crap the fight is heading off the edge of the map." We (as DM) should be able to click on the edge and click some buttons to add extra rows or columns. They wouldn't have any map or art on them (maybe just give the DM an option to pick a background color from some basic presets, over a grid), but it would still be a massive improvement.
As the title says, what do people do for ship combat rules, especially if you're running a mainly 5e game?
In the kobold press cosmology, are the fey wild and showfell separate things, combined, or something else?
In the adventure the Great Modron March, there's a couple paragraphs on the various non-modrons who begin following the March as it goes around the great wheel. I've reproduced them at the end of this post, but some are joining to try to turn Modrons rogue, or learn about them and the march, some just looking for something fun to do, and others still following the first two groups selling them supplies. I'd love to have some sort "random" encounters with the March Followers, if anyone has any suggestions? Mainly thinking about while the march is in the Outlands, and the PCs have a walking castle they are following along in, fyi. Here a few ideas I had so far:
A Xaositect "prog Troubadour troupe" that plays music that sounds a bit like a mix of acid folk and King Crimson to "awaken" the modrons.
A down-on-his-luck wizard, following along and casting Magic Mansion at exorbitant rates for those sick of roughing it.
A Sensate painter, who is practicing by painting the modrons themselves.
A Wagon manned by the Heralds of Dust collecting bodies from followers who die along the march. Seen spending a lot of time suspiciously close to...
Toddy's Sweet Meatpies, selling fresh meat pies daily despite no obvious source of ingredients.
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"Obviously, something as momentous as the Modron March - especially an unexpected one such as this - draws a lot of attention. As the March travels the Great Ring, folks begin to follow it. Some see it as a pilgrimage to learn a great truth, and some see it as a big moving party. Others trail the March attempting to make a name for themselves by mere association.
Plenty of berks, particularly Xaositects, accompany the March and try to make the modrons turn rogue. They assault the modrons with diatribes on individuality, they attempt to overload their senses (they call it "showing them the beauty of chaos”), and they reason with the automatons and try to trip them up with logic. None of these efforts ever work. Whatever the true dark regarding rogue modrons, one thing definitely seems to be true: No one can make a modron go rogue.
’Course, as the March continues, even more folks follow along - making a little jink by providing the original followers with food and supplies, joining in the “party,” or just coming along because they have nothing better to do."
The Map Browser in the Maps VTT went from running slowly and laggy on my Alienware gaming PC to now running smoothly on my "emails and spreadsheets" laptop. Massive improvement to performance, and change in layout (two columns!) and a search feature and huge improvements too. Really nicely done!