sorry if you’ve answered this before but I’m curious why you chose to have Order of the Profane Soul Blood Hunters cast warlock spells but still use Wisdom as the spellcasting ability? Because an additional Stat to focus in makes the order very difficult to enjoy. Wisdom is a secondary ability score for the BH, so it’s a mechanical choice
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) January 26, 2018
You can download Blood Hunter class here:
http://www.dmsguild.com/Blood-Hunter-Class
Excuse me @matthewmercer ? how would a Warforged bloodhunter work? Would that work at all? Asking for a potential character 👀 A multitude of ways, if you want to get weird and creative! Imagine a warforged who's system runs on the blood of other creatures, and must drain the bodies of living beasts/slain enemies to ingest and incorporate/use their features with. There's one!
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) January 17, 2018
You can download Blood Hunter class here:
http://www.dmsguild.com/Blood-Hunter-Class
Been a while since I’ve posted a roleplay warmup because my home game has started a new campaign! We’ve gone back to older, simpler warmups from previous weeks. Players struggle to answer questions like “what decision do you most regret?” when they just got 2nd-level spells. 😅 I generally like to start campaigns with easier, more surface-level roleplay warmup questions. Things like:
– What's your character's favorite season?
– The last meal your character ate?
– How does your character prepare for bedtime?— Justice Ramin Arman (@justicearman) February 25, 2022
These kinds of questions are like player worldbuilding. I sprinkle in things that help me as a DM but also get the players more comfortable with improvising, like:
– Who is one of your character’s childhood friends?
– When was the last time your character treated someone poorly? Then, after players have had time to feel out their characters and make some decisions, I start asking them questions that make them think more dynamically about their characters or their philosophies. I try to relate these to the themes of our current campaign.— Justice Ramin Arman (@justicearman) February 25, 2022
For example, when we were running Descent into Avernus, I asked the question “Describe your character’s own personal hell.”
I also subtly ask questions that might get the characters to see the villain’s point of view (if they’re sympathetic) or foreshadow future events.After a few months of playing, then I can start to ask my favorite type of questions: the ones that invite players to consider how their character has changed!
Moments of joy, decisions they regret, unfinished business. People or places they want to see again.
It's awesome. ❤️
— Justice Ramin Arman (@justicearman) February 25, 2022
I love this and might do a version of it for my Avernus game! Yay! That makes me happy. My favorite RP warmup from that campaign was asking basically how Avernus had changed each character's appearance. The players really leaned into it—rusted armor, jagged weapons, sickly skin and damp hair. It made the whole table feel 666% more metal.
— Justice Ramin Arman (@justicearman) February 25, 2022
I gotta know, how is Chetney’s AC so high? I get the +1 to AC from the wolf form, but how does he have 18 AC as normal.
Loving the show by the way! His “Offhand Mallet” is a flavored shield, and he’s technically wearing a breastplate. 🙂— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) January 21, 2022
@JeremyECrawford can you counterspell a counterspell?
— The Questionable DM (@QuestionableDM) March 28, 2017
Counterspell counters the casting of a spell. Counterspell is a spell, so it can be countered. #DnD https://t.co/EFNzpQVe4P
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) March 28, 2017
@JeremyECrawford surely if it's a spell duel, the action economy kicks in? Unless there's a 3rd spellcaster?
— Dave W (@makapala) March 29, 2017
The action economy is always a factor in combat and spellcasting, unless a rule says otherswise. #DnD https://t.co/blpx3rD8xQ
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) March 29, 2017
@liviotupiWhen you hit with an OA you interrupt the movement. The move is wasted or he can resume his move with the same action? Can resume
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) January 21, 2017
@MetalAdventuresIs there any upper limit to player A.C. in 5E? No.
— Jeremy Crawford (@JeremyECrawford) March 27, 2017
Every party needs a wild card. Someone to poke the statue, open the door, or pull that sword from the pedestal.
Otherwise, you'll leave the dungeon wondering "what if we had taken the gemstone from that skull?" instead of what character Rick is going to play next.
— Justice Ramin Arman (@justicearman) April 5, 2022
I ran a game at @D3atSea where the table were discussing what to do about a dangerous looking portal of black liquid nothingness.
Whilst they talked I went and stood by a player and said quietly “No one is looking at your character…you could touch it.”
*boop*
72 damage I ran a sister table playing through a leg of the same plot. Their black liquid nothingness came in the form of sticky, putrid goo. One of the players’ characters ate the goo.
HE ATE THE GOO.
10 minutes later, he vomited up a Small-sized void ooze that almost killed him.
— 🏳️🌈Amanda Hamon🏳️🌈 (@amandahamon) April 6, 2022
Rule #1 of tabletop: *never* eat the goo
— Justice Ramin Arman (@justicearman) April 6, 2022
