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== Jack’s Spellbook #335 The Resurrection Spells ==
There are five spells in #dnd5e that can raise a creature from the dead: Raise Dead, Reincarnate, Resurrection, Revivify, and True Ressurection. I’ll be reviewing them all together today.
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There are five spells in #dnd5e that can raise a creature from the dead: Raise Dead, Reincarnate, Resurrection, Revivify, and True Ressurection. I’ll be reviewing them all together today.
#dnd #dnd5e #ttrpgs #JacksSpellbook
Each spell has its own costs, requirements, and drawbacks for bringing a creature back to life. I'll be reviewing them in ascending order of power.
Revivify is a 3rd-level spell that costs 300 gp worth of diamonds and resurrects a creature you touch that has been dead no longer than a minute, raising them to life with 1 hit point.
== Jack’s Spellbook #334 Pyrotechnics ==
Pyrotechnics is a spell that's almost good, except it requires a preexisting nonmagical flame to do anything.
#dnd #dnd5e #ttrpgs #JacksSpellbook
Pyrotechnics is a spell that's almost good, except it requires a preexisting nonmagical flame to do anything.
#dnd #dnd5e #ttrpgs #JacksSpellbook
You choose a 5-foot cube of nonmagical flame within 60 feet and create either Fireworks or Smoke.
Fireworks cause each creature within 10 feet of the fire to make a CON save or become blinded until the end of your next turn.
Fireworks cause each creature within 10 feet of the fire to make a CON save or become blinded until the end of your next turn.
Smoke creates a 20-foot-radius sphere that goes around corners. The area is heavily obscured and lasts for 1 minute or until dispersed by a strong wind.
== Jack’s Spellbook #333 Purify Food and Drink ==
Purify Food and Drink's effect is so specific that the vast majority of players won't ever get the opportunity to cast it.
Despite its rare usability, it's very efficient at what it does.
#dnd #dnd5e #ttrpgs #JacksSpellbook
Purify Food and Drink's effect is so specific that the vast majority of players won't ever get the opportunity to cast it.
Despite its rare usability, it's very efficient at what it does.
#dnd #dnd5e #ttrpgs #JacksSpellbook
This 1st-level Ritual affects all nonmagical food and drink in a 5-foot-radius sphere centered on a point you choose within 10 feet, purifying it and rendering it free of poison and disease.
This spell allows you to eat bad meat or poisoned water without getting sick, as well as potentially restoring a whole family's store of poisoned food with only 10 minutes of Ritual casting.
The monthly Saturday #DnD5e game went extremely well again. Everyone leveled up to 2nd level, and they set off into the wilderness to find a dungeon whose location was kept secret from them, but was being transmitted to the wizard's apprentice they had with them.
The dungeon is guarding the Eye of Vecna. I took a page out of 13th Age and made it a Living Dungeon, one that was created specifically to move from place to place to keep the eye hidden.
In keeping with my name-dropping of famous D&D people, when the party started digging to find out who created the dungeon, they discovered that it was initially created by Tasha.
First off, I'm glad that Teos is posting these summaries, I really appreciate it. I'm really kind of perplexed at some of the decisions, and lack of decisions, going into this development so far. #DnD5e
This year, WotC has amazed me in multiple, very different ways. The OGL situation was so bad, and they deserve all the crap they get for it, but it also really needs to be noted how far they retreated when faced with an angry fanbase.
The other way they manage to amaze me, however, is how many times they seem to be repeating similar mistakes they made in the rollout of D&D 4e. And it's strange because I don't even think there are many people left at WotC that made those decisions at the time.
Just me, sitting here pondering what it would be like to model an NPC in #DnD5e as a tactical fighter by giving them resistance to bludgeoning, slashing, and piercing damage if they have a weapon in hand.
But also let PCs make an ability check whenever they hit the NPC to figure out their defenses, which would also remove the resistance.
It's something I've kind of thought about in the past as well, using temporary hit points as a measure, with a character resetting their temp hit points on their turn because they are "back on their game."
1/20 Let’s look at the budget of a TTRPG project and break it down! Hope it’s helpful and you release lots of cool TTRPG stuff! I also hope it helps ensure paying collaborators fairly (or even great)!
#DND #DND5e #TTRPG #Pathfinder #GameBudget #GameDesign #RPG #GameDevelopment
#DND #DND5e #TTRPG #Pathfinder #GameBudget #GameDesign #RPG #GameDevelopment
2/20 Here’s a sample budget, based on the brilliant @jefftidball’s Budget Template v1.1:
• Google Doc: bit.ly/3lIrP3T
• Excel: bit.ly/3Kc2hW8
So start with a title. Easy enough.
Thanks to the late Brian Dalrymple for sharing this so many moons ago.
• Google Doc: bit.ly/3lIrP3T
• Excel: bit.ly/3Kc2hW8
So start with a title. Easy enough.
Thanks to the late Brian Dalrymple for sharing this so many moons ago.
3/20 So first things first—the word count expenses. Unless your project is stock art or maps, this is likely the most important expense. Let’s say you think there will be 800 words per page, without art. Let’s say 10,000 words total. It will then calculate…
One interesting aspect of looking at the #OneDnD playtest documents is that it makes me realize things that I didn't fully process in all the years of running #DnD5e. For example, I knew the Artificer is a class that is very dependent on its subclasses for its identity.
It never struck me how true this was for druids as well. The core druid is a very thin framework on which to hang subclasses, with the subclasses doing a lot of heavy lifting. This became even more true as subclasses started using Wild Shape as a player currency for abilities.
What's even more interesting about THAT development is that we're seeing a lot of One D&D developments that come from recent design, like from Tasha's forward, but Wild Shape as currency for non-wild shape stuff comes in pretty early.
Dear @DnDBeyond,
I've restarted my #DnDBeyond Auto-Subscription.
But I want to add feedback I was unable to give in the survey (it bugged out). This is going to be quite a thread with praise and critique for you and some explanation into why and how and what to expect.
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I've restarted my #DnDBeyond Auto-Subscription.
But I want to add feedback I was unable to give in the survey (it bugged out). This is going to be quite a thread with praise and critique for you and some explanation into why and how and what to expect.
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You yourselves know best the kind of disaster the #OGL 1.1 / 1.2 / 2.0 rollout was. This has cost you A LOT of goodwill with the community and turned swathes of us permanently away from your products.
But you've decided to do better. Thank you for that.
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But you've decided to do better. Thank you for that.
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I'm sure you received lots of feedback and combed through the noise on social media and in your survey. But after not being able to take that survey, I'd like to add my 2 cents and a little extra to the voices, maybe it'll help you make better, yet profitable decisions.
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Just to make a clear statement, since I've got a podcast talking about #DnD5e with @orikes13 and @Thelight101, I love D&D 5e. It's my favorite iteration of the game so far. We started the podcast because we love the game and have fun playing it.
I am not going to support WotC until they take steps to make their position less hostile to the community and more permanent. But I've still got a lot of material, and I'm still looking forward to a lot of exciting 3rd party material.
If you look at the campaigns I've run in D&D 5e, outside of running games for the Adventurers League, I've run Storm King's Thunder, then run a campaign of my own set in @KoboldPress' Zobeck.
Unpacking a whole lot of data around #dungeonsanddragons
Last week I wasn't expecting to study the implosion of the Dungeons & Dragons brand owned by Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro Gaming.
#Hasbro #wotc #criticalrole #wizardsofthecoast #dnd5e #dnd #ttrpg #pathfinder
Last week I wasn't expecting to study the implosion of the Dungeons & Dragons brand owned by Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro Gaming.
#Hasbro #wotc #criticalrole #wizardsofthecoast #dnd5e #dnd #ttrpg #pathfinder
As a company Wizards of the Coast did over a billion dollars in revenue last year.
After one week of brand damage millions of dollars have been shaved off this revenue and it appears to be getting worse day by day. It will likely evolve into double-digit percentages.
After one week of brand damage millions of dollars have been shaved off this revenue and it appears to be getting worse day by day. It will likely evolve into double-digit percentages.
Just on Youtube there were 500+ videos covering the topic this week. Fan creators and influencers generated over 10M views across hundreds of videos that generated millions of hours of view time and 110K+ comments spreading to every other platform.
For anyone who is migrating to #Pathfinder2e from #dnd5e, I've been running adventure paths for almost a decade now and have read through or ran all the 2e adventure paths. TLDR they are all extremely high quality, but have pros and cons. Here is a quick review of them: 1/x
Age of Ashes: The first adventure path released in 2e and a quintessential adventure. While I enjoyed parts of this adventure, they hadn't quite nailed down encounter balance yet and it can get *very* lethal. 2/x
Extinction Curse: This path is kind of broken into two separate parts, both of which are really good but don't really play well with each other. The initial premise of a traveling circus run by the PCs is great but gets abandoned halfway through for a very interesting plot. 3/x
So i finally got my hands on the full legal text of the OGL 1.1, and now I can safely look at all of its parts, and how they would affect me as a publisher (and other small publishers) #DnD #OneDnD #dnd5e #wotc
Starting from the top, they really go out of their way to define commercial and non-commercial.
especially when it comes to KS and patreon
especially when it comes to KS and patreon
"If you’re giving your work away for free, on Patreon or otherwise, and asking that people support your work if they enjoy it, that’s not commercial. But your work must be given without strings attached if it’s going to be considered “noncommercial.”
I don't like to use this account to talk outrage, so I've been mostly quiet about the #dnd5e situation the past few days; I've been way too pissed to say anything productive.
I've finally settled enough, so, here's my🧵: why this is a disaster for everyone, WotC included.
I've finally settled enough, so, here's my🧵: why this is a disaster for everyone, WotC included.
It's not ambiguous why this is happening: WotC shareholders demand growth, and D&D's growth has slowed. How could it not? They captured a colossal market share over the past 5 years, and the pandemic only amplified that, with people playing online.
However, we saw this with Netflix, too. They captured basically their maximum market share during the pandemic, so in practice, they had nowhere to go but down, and everything started burning as a result.
Anti-consumer policy became the only way to keep that growth going.
Anti-consumer policy became the only way to keep that growth going.
So I'm seeing a lot of Monolithic "WotC doesn't want to do this" or "WotC doesn't care about this" comments in regard to a lot of trending points of conversation, and I think, once again, it's important to point out "WotC" in these instances isn't a monolith.
The people in charge of the profitability of the company have their goals, the people in charge of marketing the brands of D&D and Magic want certain things, and they want those things in context of the brands, not the specific games.
The people in charge of the actual game development and the success of the specific games want different things than all of those other folks, and have to balance those desires against what gets set as a company priority.
Reading some commentary on Banishment to day got me thinking about the classic trope of banishing something to another dimension, and how to express that in #DnD5e
The tricky thing is, banishment in most stories isn't a "the caster snaps their fingers, says a word, and their gone" kind of thing. I may have recently been reminded of this watching the Willow series on Disney Plus.
On one hand, you could fix this by just making the casting time longer, but having one spellcaster in the group dedicating their action to casting a spell for a longer period than most fights take doesn't seem like fun, or fit the playstyle.
Finally, finally got to play #DnD5e again tonight after being sick last time around. I'm probably going to jinx myself, but I'm feeling pretty good right now. At any rate, we had a few developments.
The PCs were trying to free a group of clerics that had been kidnapped by zealots of Ba'al, and each of the clerics had a magical trapped lock on them based on the Arcana of the Deck of Many Things.
Each cleric had a card's symbol that was antithetical to their religion showing, and they needed to be moved to the opposite of those symbols in order to free the cleric without triggering the trap.
Finished up Chapter 4: Shadow of War in Shadow of the Dragon Queen. I'm going to dance around some spoilers in this section while trying to say something meaningful about it. #DnD5e
We have more thematic echoes of the original adventures, in this case a situation not entirely unlike the arrival at Thorbardin. We also get an NPC foil in the veil of Theocrat Hederick or Derek Crownguard from the original series.
This section has a number of missions to complete, as well as two main locations to explore, and another encounter that can be played out that happens in the middle of a larger battle.
There is a whole lot into going on the the most recent UA, so we're on episode three of @BrandesStoddard and @DMSamuel look at it, and I'm here for it, because #oneDnd is now taking up an inordinant amount of my brainspace. Don't be ADD online and have things you care about.
Anyway, since I've got three blog posts on this, as well as potentially mutiple episodes of @Thac0wA looking at this as well, I again don't have TOO much to say about this episode, other than that Brandes and Sam have some great insights into this.
Brandes and Sam dive into some discussion of if #dnd5e will be supported in the future on D&D Beyond, and the wider philosophy of digital "ownership" of material. I think this is an important discussion to have.
So, I have some #DnD #dnd5e thoughts:
TL;DR: MAKE SPELL LISTS FOR YOUR SETTING! 🎨
They are great at tying mechanics and flavour together, while also giving you a greater understanding of the setting you are in. They require a bit of work though.
Long 🧵👇
TL;DR: MAKE SPELL LISTS FOR YOUR SETTING! 🎨
They are great at tying mechanics and flavour together, while also giving you a greater understanding of the setting you are in. They require a bit of work though.
Long 🧵👇
So, a short explanation for the uninitiated:
In D&D each player character has a class. Some classes have access to magic spells. Which spells are available to you is dictated by a class spell list.
In D&D each player character has a class. Some classes have access to magic spells. Which spells are available to you is dictated by a class spell list.
Any given spell is associated with one or more spell lists. So there is some overlap, but each spell list defines the capabilities of its corresponding spellcasting class.
We can argue back and forth all we want about whether CR in #dnd5e works but in the end it comes down to this:
Players and Monsters are asymmetrical
As such, there will never be a perfect metric of Encounter Balance. It'll always be horseshoes and hand grenades
So what to do?
Players and Monsters are asymmetrical
As such, there will never be a perfect metric of Encounter Balance. It'll always be horseshoes and hand grenades
So what to do?
As designers (of player options, monsters, adventures, etc.) we have a skeleton key:
Playtesting
Nothing will tell a better story than actually using the content as many times as possible and aggregating the results, turning dials, testing the results, and concluding.
Playtesting
Nothing will tell a better story than actually using the content as many times as possible and aggregating the results, turning dials, testing the results, and concluding.
As DMs its not so simple. The point of CR/Encounter Balancing tools is to be able to ad hoc playable material outside of what is published.
What we need is better guidance into what goes into CR and Encounter Balancing, so we can better see where we stand.
What we need is better guidance into what goes into CR and Encounter Balancing, so we can better see where we stand.
Thread #application #JDR 1/7 :
Dans ce thread, tu trouveras mes 3 applications favorites pour le jeu de rôle.
#pathfinder #wh40k #kult #shadowrun #warhammer #cthulhu #dnd5e #dnd #roliste #geekgirl #geeklife #geek #dice #gamemaster #roleplaygame #maitredujeu #jeu #logiciel
Dans ce thread, tu trouveras mes 3 applications favorites pour le jeu de rôle.
#pathfinder #wh40k #kult #shadowrun #warhammer #cthulhu #dnd5e #dnd #roliste #geekgirl #geeklife #geek #dice #gamemaster #roleplaygame #maitredujeu #jeu #logiciel
Thread #application #JDR 2/7 :
Tout d'abord, j'aime beaucoup ambient-mixer.com pour les ambiances dans les parties de JDR. Plutôt utilisée en physique, elle est assez modulable pour correspondre à mon idée d'ambiance pour certaines scènes.
Tout d'abord, j'aime beaucoup ambient-mixer.com pour les ambiances dans les parties de JDR. Plutôt utilisée en physique, elle est assez modulable pour correspondre à mon idée d'ambiance pour certaines scènes.
Thread #application #JDR 3/7 :
Ensuite, j'utilise énormément YouTube pour les musiques en partie et maintenant je couple YouTuble avec watch2gether dont j'ai parlé dans mon premier défi JDR - The Sprawl sur le blog (jdr-et-roliste.fr/the-sprawl-jdr…).
Ensuite, j'utilise énormément YouTube pour les musiques en partie et maintenant je couple YouTuble avec watch2gether dont j'ai parlé dans mon premier défi JDR - The Sprawl sur le blog (jdr-et-roliste.fr/the-sprawl-jdr…).
Lady Eagleshield has become a very fun NPC in my home #dnd5e campaign. Tonight she will be giving my players this silhouette portrait so they can keep her close. Thanks again for bringing her into existence @TheEdVerse ! Link to make this 👇
#realmslore #dungeonsanddragons
#realmslore #dungeonsanddragons
As an NPC, I like playing her as a mixture of between Julia Child and Foster Florence Jenkins. Most people know Julia Child, but may not know Foster Florence Jenkins, in which case I suggest watching this fun film
#dnd5e #dungeonsanddragons
#dnd5e #dungeonsanddragons
Anyways, if you wish to make this #dnd5e prop, then here is the file
docs.google.com/presentation/d…
#dungeonsanddragons #realmslore #dnd
docs.google.com/presentation/d…
#dungeonsanddragons #realmslore #dnd
Doctors and Daleks, our #dnd5e conversion of Doctor Who The Roleplaying Game, is out this Tuesday! So I thought I'd share some insights into what has changed from #dnd, what's the same, and what we've brought over from the Doctor Who RPG
Just like regular DnD, you'll pick your Species and Class. For Species, you can choose from Human, Sontaran, Silurian (Welsh or Wenley Moor), and Time Lord. There are no preset Ability Scores, you can choose those yourself, but there are recommendations (such as Str for Sontaran)
Time Lords get more bonuses than other Species, such as access to SRD spells like Telepathy and Augury based on their level. But don't worry, the GM chapter contains advice on having a Time Lord in the party and keeping things fair
