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[The Wandering Wizard Savant]

Yes!

D&D is fun!

Currently I've been helping my friend find ways to abuse the cantrip shape water.

[Potato's Wit Cobalt Guard]

Ha, you play D&D? I don't do that, I stay home and read. Who needs socialization when you have Brandon Sanderson?

[Telrao Shardbearer]

32 minutes ago, Ookla the Forgettable said:

Ha, you play D&D? I don't do that, I stay home and read. Who needs socialization when you have Brandon Sanderson?

That is certainly true

Although, I do play D&D with my youth group. Very entertaining - although we are not very far into our campaign that we started in April  The DM wants us to get together over the holidays tho, so maybe we'll get to find out who a random dude we found in a cave is (argh grammar)

[NerdyAarakocra King's Wit]

@Ookla the platypus can you show me the homebrew stuff? Magic sleep bombs seem like a fun magic item.

[Being of Cacophony Arbiter]

@Ookla the NerdyI'm not the DM to be clear. I'm just a player. I'll ask my DM about seeing the homebrew stuff. He's added a bunch of items, enemies, allies, etc. etc. They are pretty awesome. There are a lot of homebrew classes and races, my DM's stance on it is, "If I pass it off as balanced, it can be in the campaign." Right now we have a custom race (Cazian) and a custom class (Judge) though we will probably get more soon.

5 hours ago, The Wandering Wizard said:

Currently I've been helping my friend find ways to abuse the cantrip shape water.

Oh no... Quick, write down the best ways to do it. I definitely won't use it in my campaign... 

Question: My DM already nerfed me multiple times and I'm still overpowered. what do I do?!!!! 

Answer: I made a second character!!!

Don't judge me, I made my decision on what class to play based purely off the names (this is my first campaign) and I play a ranger. I said don't judge me. I can feel you judging me. My other character is a bard because I love music. and now my bard is a tank with over 100 health. How does this always happen to me?

4 hours ago, Ookla the Forgettable said:

Ha, you play D&D? I don't do that, I stay home and read. Who needs socialization when you have Brandon Sanderson?

That's what I used to do. D&D is fun, you should try it.

[NerdyAarakocra King's Wit]

12 minutes ago, Ookla the platypus said:

@Ookla the NerdyI'm not the DM to be clear. I'm just a player. I'll ask my DM about seeing the homebrew stuff. He's added a bunch of items, enemies, allies, etc. etc. They are pretty awesome. There are a lot of homebrew classes and races, my DM's stance on it is, "If I pass it off as balanced, it can be in the campaign." Right now we have a custom race (Cazian) and a custom class (Judge) though we will probably get more soon.

Yeah, that seems amazing.

If you want something fun to use while DMing or to show to your DM, try this monstrosity of a poison that I made a while back. It's quite fun...

Also, Monks can run up rain. Facts.

 

[Aes Sedai Spinner]

29 minutes ago, Ookla the platypus said:

That's what I used to do. D&D is fun, you should try it.

See here's the problem; if you don't have a group of friends to do it with and your family is into it, you never have a chance. 

Especially when the only people you know who play it think laughing at you is a great hobby.  *cough cough @Ookla the platypus*

[Being of Cacophony Arbiter]

36 minutes ago, Ookla the Nerdy said:

Also, Monks can run up rain. Facts.

WHAT!!!!!!!? How? Tell me!!!

And that poison looks really cool. I need to show that to my DM.

20 minutes ago, Ookla the Ta'veren said:

Especially when the only people you know who play it think laughing at you is a great hobby.  *cough cough @Ookla the platypus*

I don't laugh at you. I don't laugh at anyone. I'm nice.* Why would you say that I like to laugh at you. I am very hurt.**

*mostly and always to those who deserve it.

*Like, actually though. That hurts me on an emotional level.

[Lord Gregorio Misting]

I've never played D and D. I do listen to some funny podcasts though. Definitely more of my thing to listen to the story anyway. Any of you heard of The Damage Guild or Make Believe Heroes?

[NerdyAarakocra King's Wit]

3 minutes ago, Ookla the platypus said:

WHAT!!!!!!!? How? Tell me!!!

And that poison looks really cool. I need to show that to my DM.

9th level monks get an ability that says that they can run up vertical surfaces and they can run on water. Therefore, you can run vertically up water!

I'm glad that you enjoyed my poison.
That's such a weird thing to say...

Edited November 23, 2022 by Ookla the Nerdy

[Being of Cacophony Arbiter]

1 minute ago, Ookla the Nerdy said:

9th level monks get an ability that says that they can run up vertical surfaces and they can run on water. Therefore, you can run vertically up water!

I don't think that works how you say it does... but I'm still gonna try it with my DM whenever I make a monk.

2 minutes ago, Gregorio said:

Any of you heard of The Damage Guild or Make Believe Heroes?

Nope! Who/what are they?

[Lord Gregorio Misting]

3 minutes ago, Ookla the platypus said:

Nope! Who/what are they?

Two pretty good D&D podcasts. The Damage Guild is better but they're both funny and cleaner than most D&D podcasts.

Edited November 23, 2022 by Gregorio

[NerdyAarakocra King's Wit]

5 minutes ago, Ookla the platypus said:

I don't think that works how you say it does... but I'm still gonna try it with my DM whenever I make a monk.

It's mostly a meme, but a lot of DMs use it just for kicks and giggles.

Or you can be like me and create an Aarakocra Sun Soul monk that has roughly the capabilities of M-Bot

[Being of Cacophony Arbiter]

WHAT!!!!!?

Yeah, I can imagine.

[NerdyAarakocra King's Wit]

Aarakocra monks may or may not be slightly absurd.

[Being of Cacophony Arbiter]

maybe...

[NerdyAarakocra King's Wit]

Quite possibly.

[Being of Cacophony Arbiter]

But 17th level way of the open hand monks can insta-kill anything in two turns, so...

Monk may just be a tad ridiculous.

[NerdyAarakocra King's Wit]

3 minutes ago, Ookla the platypus said:

But 17th level way of the open hand monks can insta-kill anything in two turns, so...

Monk may just be a tad ridiculous.

Open hand actually is pretty bad.

You're a fragile class. You won't insta-kill that often, so you're using your turn to deal 10d10 necrotic.

Compare that to Kensi, which can spontaneously make +3 weapons, or Sun Soul, which has amazing range.

[Being of Cacophony Arbiter]

yeah, I know. But I do a lot of research before I make a class (I do now, not when I made my previous characters) so I know what I'm gonna do. I'll figure it out. And I don't have a phone, so I can't look at all the available class routes most of the time. I only get the few they show in the book. And people said that bards were fragile, but my bard has the most health of my campaign and fairly good armor too, so...

[NerdyAarakocra King's Wit]

Whoever said that bards are bad was lying. They're amazing.

[Being of Cacophony Arbiter]

not bad, just fragile. and yeah, they are amazing. It astounds me how my bard is both an attack and support class. Another part of the homebrew is that our ability modifiers can go up to 10 (or 11, but that is voluntary because it gives bad side effects, similar to savantism now that I think about it) so now my bard has +10 charisma. She's quite powerful. And we never stop leveling up. After level 20, our hp only goes up every 2 levels and at some point it only goes up every 3 levels and so on and so forth. I'm not sure about spell slots. I don't think my DM actually does them, I think he just lets us cast whatever, whenever (besides maybe really powerful spells). I usually still do my own spell slots and base my turns off that. My bard has a spell (heroism) that allows her to give 15 temporary hit points at the start of the targets turn after touching them on her turn. Oh, and also Flame Strike. (Look it up. It's cool and pretty good.)

[NerdyAarakocra King's Wit]

26 minutes ago, Ookla the platypus said:

not bad, just fragile. and yeah, they are amazing. It astounds me how my bard is both an attack and support class. Another part of the homebrew is that our ability modifiers can go up to 10 (or 11, but that is voluntary because it gives bad side effects, similar to savantism now that I think about it) so now my bard has +10 charisma. She's quite powerful. And we never stop leveling up. After level 20, our hp only goes up every 2 levels and at some point it only goes up every 3 levels and so on and so forth. I'm not sure about spell slots. I don't think my DM actually does them, I think he just lets us cast whatever, whenever (besides maybe really powerful spells). I usually still do my own spell slots and base my turns off that. My bard has a spell (heroism) that allows her to give 15 temporary hit points at the start of the targets turn after touching them on her turn. Oh, and also Flame Strike. (Look it up. It's cool and pretty good.)

Nice. I run a Githzerai monk. He has a homebrew item that lets him take an extra actions for a minute at the cost of getting exhaustion. With double dashing, unarmored movement, and a useless subclass feature, I flew across a 600 foot pool of lava.

That was fun.

[Being of Cacophony Arbiter]

yikes! I have a base monk made but haven't used her yet. Her unarmored defense (with shield) is 20. It gets worse if she wears armor.

[NerdyAarakocra King's Wit]

1 hour ago, Ookla the platypus said:

yikes! I have a base monk made but haven't used her yet. Her unarmored defense (with shield) is 20. It gets worse if she wears armor.

You can only use shield with unarmored defense for Barbarian. Monk can't use shield and unarmored.