u/vergilius_poeta

What is everyone excited about? Any new interactions/combos of note?

I thought the Magic Initiate "chain" that gives you another 1st and a 2nd from the same spell list was pretty good. A way to get Pass without Trace onto non-Druid/Ranger casters, or a way to get both Shield and Mage Armor onto someone. It seems better than the Fey Touched/Shadow Touched/Vampire Touched feats, with the added restriction of having to have taken Magic Initiate as your Origin feat.

The Combat Familiar feat also looked decent, though I'm maybe most excited about the corresponding Origin Feat that's Magic Initiate for Find Familiar (but no cantrips) plus Tough for your familiar. So tired of my familiar dying to a single *passed* dex save.

The Enchantment Adept feat looks like a way to finally play a mind-controller in a practical way.

Hi all--I only play a little bit of LoG (I mostly play and DM Adventurers League) and I am not as familiar with what's available. Hoping you good folks can tell me if there's any modules I should be keeping an eye out for at conventions.

My guy is basically Fantasy John Brown. He's from the Flinty Hills (willing to retcon this to the Yeomanry) and he got a late start at adventuring. It's not his first career. What he's seen of life has led him to Trithereon, and to an abiding hatred of slavers and tyrants all over Oerth. He aspires to become a full-fledged Knight of the Chase (https://greyhawkonline.com/greyhawkwiki/Knights_of_the_Chase).

I've already played "A Town Called Hommet" and "Darkness in Nulb," and plan to eventually play "Ruins of the Moathouse," which looks to be the conclusion of a trilogy of Elemental Evil cult adventures. Yes? But before that, it would just be thematically appropriate if I got my subclass after an adventure that fulfills the requirements to become a Knight of the Chase: Knights are made by Clerics of Trithereon after accomplishing a great deed in Trithereon's name.

I'm also on the lookout for adventures that award magical longswords or spears, the weapons favored by Knights of the Chase (in homage to Trithereon's own armaments).

I had an extremely munchkin-y level 4 Human (Variant) Twilight Cleric I built under the 2014 rules with the intent of keeping him level 4 forever, to pull out whenever I needed to carry a group through a module. Point buy. Had 16 in WIS and 18 in DEX after level 4 ASI. Variant Human feat was Crossbow Expert. Used a shield in the offhand, which you can't do any more with how they changed XBE.

His deal was he's from a wealthy family, green/wet behind his ears/in over his head. Armor too shiny, boots too clean. Hates vampires, deathly afraid of vampires. Would introduce himself as "[character name], vampire hunter...eventually."

I only have a few of my 2014 characters left to update, but all the others I at least know what I want to do with them. This guy, not so much. How should I rebuild this guy for 2024? Vampire Hunter origin feat is a given, but beyond that I'm not sure. Do I get Tough as the second Origin feat (from 2024 Human), or Magic Initiate for True Strike?

I originally built him to be the strongest tier 1 character you could make, but I kind of like the gimmick I gave him after the fact, too, and wouldn't mind the rebuild leaning either way.

Do I drop the shield and stick with the hand crossbow plan, double fisting crossbows this time? Is there something else I could be doing that's more munchkin-y? More thematic?

In my area, I'm seeing a lot of 27"-ers (especially Trinitrons) made in the mid-to-late 2000s that have both s-video and component inputs. All of the 20" sets (which is the size I'm after) seem to only have composite and/or RF inputs. Was is just not common to see sub-27" sets with s-video and component? I had thought a 27" set would be too big (I want to be able to put it on a "standard" AV cart, rather than shelling out another $90 for a larger one), but if what I'm looking for just doesn't exist I may have to change the plan.