Frustration

Ah a homebrew and serious campaign. A perfect time to play my joke character who is a cleric to Santa Clause. I might be able to do something, that entirely depends on what's going on with me when this gets started.

Honestly the larger size of shardblades is in my mind nothing but an advantage. I made a thread recently about one YouTuber who made a giant foam sword for mock combat, and the size alone allowed him to easily beat his opponents.

"First mission already? Alright, let's get going."

Gonna be real I forgot that those things even existed. They're alright, I wouldn't go out of my way to eat them, but they aren't horrible.

Not just that, but when it comes to the survival of a species men are quite frankly more disposable. Losing one male hurts a population a lot less than the loss of one female.

Alright, funny story. I was thinking about this and the failed rpg systems I had tried to make previously, and I kind of played with the idea for a while, and then I suddenly found myself making an rpg system again. So I guess I'm doing this too now.

Well I was off by about 15 minutes.

But you would agree that they are all virtues?

By whom? Hotly contested implies that the ones in favor are vehemently in favor (which is true) and those that aren't are vehemently against(which is not). Starspren are probably only rare in the CR, because there aren't stars there.

Logic spren are rare, but that doesn't stop them from being platespren.

Or the Cognitive Realm, which is also called the land of the dead

Yeah, I've noticed that you either play DND as intended, or it all just breaks down. I'm probably going to have to check Pathfinder out at some point in the future. I've also given some thought to taking another stab at making my own system, now that I know a little more.

Yes, though he is also playing human, so they could have been 29's. Oh definitely, one of the problems another DM noted was that their AC outpaced their HP, so when you put them up against creatures with a high enough attack modifier to actually hit them they ended up dying in almost one attack. I actually made a stat block for a vampiric half-dragon tarrasque litch that I want to use when they get to higher levels.

Well you have 30 dex and con and then grab a shield and have the Barbarian's Unarmored Defense feature. Your AC is 10+10(Dex)+10(con)+2(shield).

Alright, this is an update from this post here I know @NerdyAarakocra and @Cash67 wanted to see it, let's @Voidus too, just in case I finally finished with the encounter. Yes, I know it's been four months, but schedualling is hard. So I decided to make the encounter a little bit harder, and split it up into multiple parts, first the party would be ambushed by multiple kobolds, a dretch, and if they stumbled into one of the traps a blight(which they did, and ended up with a vine blight on their hands). They were then able to make it too the fortress where three kobolds with crossbows stood on top of a wall and fired down on them, the door was locked and they had to break in. I kid you not they took a grand total of 0 damage by the time they finished with all of that. Then, came the kill chamber, fifty feet by five the entire thing covered in oil, caltrops and ball bearings, ten kobolds lining the hallway, behind arrow slits, with three flying kobolds above behind murder holes, and a fighter in plate with a shield the polearm master and sentinel feats, and a Warlock with Repelling blast at the end of the hallway. The fighter kobold starts the round off by lighting the hallway on fire, which will burn for 2 rounds dealing five fire damage any time a creature entered or started it's turn in the flames. Things go wrong instantly. The barbarian rips a door off the front and holds it in front of him to push the ball bearings and caltrops out of the way. He has an AC of 32, and enough movement to just run down the hall, turning the entire encounter into a joke. I have only three chances, the flying kobolds above have nets, if I can manage to hit him with one I can halt his movement. And I did, I managed to crit on the last possible moment, and prevent him from clearing more than three squares. After that fire and eldritch blast took care of the door. And despite all of that the players still moved through the fight. Turns out the lowest AC was around 17, and they all had +8 or higher to hit. The fighter kobold dies almost instantly, and the warlock has to run away, left with only a few hit points. The rest of the kobolds die over the next couple of rounds, but are fortunately able to deal a decent amount of damage before they die. The players break out into the courtyard and face down a minotaur skeleton that I gave the maximum number of hit points to, with two gargoyles, and two more kobolds coming in for assistance. Finally, after I dealt three crits in the courtyard alone, I manage to down two players, but by that point all the enemies have been defeated. All in all I learned some very valuable lessons. Raw stats alone can effectively make players several levels higher than what they should be on papper Turns out that having a tank that can't be hit by anything short of a crit, with +10 to all saving throws makes it really easy to tank unreasonable amounts of damage. I'm still stunned that they were able to take this, and am going to have to think up some other horrible things to do in the future, but I say it was definately worth it.

Honestly Meganium deserved a paradox form. It fits the prehistoric theme so well.

A spike wouldn't be able to hold that much charge, they fill up just like metalminds do.

Oh please do that would be great.

You're really on top of things, I look foreward to seeing how this turns out.

So @Invocation how is this going so far? Also I think greater weapon variation would be nice, and not just different names, but crit rolls, crit damage, damage types, utility uses etc. Especially utility, spells have a lot of utility but tools and weapons really don't in most systems. Armor could also use a rework, in reality plate armor is virtually immune to any slashing or piercing attacks, but doesn't do a lot against blunt force. Likewise most of the time wearing armor doesn't make you harder to hit, but rather reduces the amount of damage you take. I also note that a lot of systems have racial features, but no way to determine the benefits of being mixed race, like a dwarf/elf or 3/4 human 1/4 orc.

An Elantrian, a Bondsmith, and anyone with a Dawnshard and another invested art. Those are the only ones I can think of.