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2022-01-07, 09:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hilarious things you've found in RAW?
I think the distance penalties for listen are a sign that nearly everyone in D&D needs hearing aids. By raw you need to make DC 10 check to understand what someone is saying within ten feet of you, and the DC goes up by one for every ten feet. You can't hear an active battle across a football field.
D&D Commoners aren't poor isn't so much ha-ha funny, although I think it's pretty fun to point out how advanced the healing of D&D is and also how dangerous the diseases in setting are. IRL, even quite contagious diseases don't usually strike people into bedrest in 5-7 business days. But Cackle Fever, Shakes, and Slimy Doom will either kill you or put you in a coma within a few days and they all have saves a commoner is unlikely to make. In 3.5, communities without two trained healers are likely to lose half their population if any disease rolls through town but ones with two are basically unstoppable, because even a Heal 4 + skill focus (Heal) means nobody's dying of anything short of an attack from hell.Vincent Omnia Veritas
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2022-01-07, 11:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-01-07, 12:49 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Wandering in Harrekh
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2022-01-07, 01:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hilarious things you've found in RAW?
And it gets worse (by RAW). That 1/8 HD thing a wizard cooked up last Tuesday and is now showing to the world? Anyone with any training in the appropriate Knowledge skill can tell you lots about it, its habits, etc. The Great Wyrm dragon that has demanded tribute in princesses for the last umpteen generations? Almost impossible for any but the best to have any clue about it. Color (despite flying in for its prize every 10 years)? No clue. Habits? Wants? Yeah, totally unknown.
Note that this is even true (by RAW, although this is disregarded by any sane DM) if the character making the check has been interacting with the creature continually for decades. Because the only way to know if you know something is to make the check, and failure means you never knew it. Heck, the dragon themselves can fail the check to know about themselves (again, by RAW, even though this is absolutely absurd). What do I eat again? No clue.
And as someone grows up and gets more powerful and more famous...they get less-well-known and less knowable.
Bear lore is one reason why these fixed-by-HD/CR DCs to know things is silly. Rarity/obscurity and combat power are completely decoupled at the universe level, and DC should reflect the former, not the latter.Dawn of Hope: a 5e setting. http://wiki.admiralbenbo.org
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2022-01-07, 01:18 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hilarious things you've found in RAW?
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2022-01-07, 01:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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2022-01-07, 01:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2015
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Re: Hilarious things you've found in RAW?
There's always that classic DMG quote (pg 41, under "Experience Penalties")(emphasis mine)...
While awards can be used to encourage behavior, penalties don't serve to discourage bad behavior. They usually onlt lead to arguments and anger. If a player behaves in a way you don't want him to behave, talk to him about it. If he continues, stop playing with him.Characters I've enjoyed playing for more than four sessions:
Falgar the Swiftblade
Revain Sumeth, Whip Fighter Extraordinaire
Malvin Firel, Cleric of Corellon, Destroyer of Undeath
Vongur Dorent, Primeval Champion of Poverty
In defense of the Vow of Poverty
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2022-01-07, 02:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hilarious things you've found in RAW?
Originally Posted by SRD
By RAW they rocket towards the nearest "ground" surface, travelling the intervening distance instantly. Whether this counts ship decks, the ocean floor, or only dry land, the results are likely to be hilarious.Originally Posted by Darths & DroidsOptimization Trophies
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2022-01-07, 02:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hilarious things you've found in RAW?
I like to imagine that the penalty to ranged attacks is because the character is prone in the dictionary sense (face down) so have to shoot through their legs or something.
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2022-01-07, 04:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hilarious things you've found in RAW?
A creature with Jotunbrood that changes into a creature with swallow whole can be tiny and still eat a medium creature alive.
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2022-01-07, 04:24 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hilarious things you've found in RAW?
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2022-01-07, 04:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hilarious things you've found in RAW?
Crafting things requires raw materials worth 1/3 the price of the thing you're crafting. If you want to craft some flour, the raw material you'd use is grain. Thus, 1 cp of grain can be crafted into 3 cp of flour. Seems straightforward enough - except that 1 cp of grain weighs 1 pound, while 3 cp of flour weighs 1.5 pounds. From this we conclude either that D&D millstones are magical or that D&D flour has a huge amount of grit in it.
On a related note, a D&D setting has no need for farmers. The Survival skill lets you find food for yourself in the wild with a DC 10 check, and you can provide for 1 additional person for every 2 points by which you beat the check. Even a neophyte forager (4 ranks, skill focus) can provide food for three people in addition to herself when she's able to take 10 - a level of food productivity that the real world didn't reach until the early 20th century. An experienced forager can do much better.I made a webcomic, featuring absurdity, terrible art, and alleged morals.
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2022-01-07, 07:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hilarious things you've found in RAW?
In my opinion, "identification" and "combat potential" (ie CR/HD) are completely separate things and don't scale the same at all.
You can have very high HD creatures that are super obscure (most aberrations, things that only exist in one piece of one setting, etc).
You can have very high HD creatures that are super obvious (the arena champion, a god, etc).
You can have very low HD creatures that are super obscure (this one-off thing that was created 35 seconds ago and only exists right here, etc)
You can have very low HD creatures that are super obvious (sheep in Wyoming).
"Difficulty of identification" is entirely a setting thing, and should be based on how common they are in that particular area + how frequently and in-depth they appear in common lore sources. Generally, identifying it should come with a set of basic combat-related information. Ie "It's a wolf, it runs in packs and is a carnivore" vs "it's a leopard, it's a solitary ambush predator". Depending on commonality, I could see even quite a lot of combat information. Everyone knows that the arena favorite uses a vorpal sword named HeadHunter and is immune to XYZ--after all, people have tried that on him in the arena in the last 43 battles!
You should also be able to extract information without identifying the creature, based on some kind of logic/perception-related check after observation. Things like "it's got big heavy plates and lumbers while it moves and big fangs that drip something that makes the ground sizzle. It's probably got a lousy Reflex save, high natural AC (and low touch AC), and extra acid damage on its bite."Dawn of Hope: a 5e setting. http://wiki.admiralbenbo.org
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2022-01-08, 07:06 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hilarious things you've found in RAW?
Having listened to my mother trying to get my dad's attention (or vice versa), 3e's system for listening feels very realistic.
And for another one I recall from the dysfunctional rules thread--creating a wand of Identify requires the crafter to drink fifty glasses of wine while making it.
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2022-01-08, 09:44 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-01-08, 09:49 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-01-08, 11:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hilarious things you've found in RAW?
Characters I've enjoyed playing for more than four sessions:
Falgar the Swiftblade
Revain Sumeth, Whip Fighter Extraordinaire
Malvin Firel, Cleric of Corellon, Destroyer of Undeath
Vongur Dorent, Primeval Champion of Poverty
In defense of the Vow of Poverty
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2022-01-09, 06:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hilarious things you've found in RAW?
Spider-Man’s costume exists as a psychoactive skin in MIC. (and I think in the srd too but they’ve helpfully removed the description of a red and blue body with white eyes)
That little easter egg broke me a little, as I can’t stop occasionally trying to build spiderman now that I know that exists. It’s exorbitantly expensive and you’re better off with a dragon compendium Thespian’s Mask to look like you’re wearing a full body costume of that sort for cheapish, but now I know it’s reasonable to rod of ropes swing my way into being a spectacular wall crawler with just items I find it hard to feel like playing ‘normal’ characters at the moment, as that’s just funny.OI YOU! Join this one Discord where people talk 3.5 stuff! Also chicken infested related things! It’s pretty rad! https://discord.gg/6HmgXhUZ
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2022-01-09, 06:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hilarious things you've found in RAW?
Pathfinder's vigilante has an archetype called the wildsoul, sort of representing various animal themed superheroes. One of the options is basically Spider-Man's ability set.
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2022-01-09, 02:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hilarious things you've found in RAW?
1. Rounding rules mean all than <1 is count as 0. I mean - no such thing as DC 10½
2. Sentient items are literally "creatures without any HD"
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It's "Jotunbrud"
Swallow Whole:
Originally Posted by SRD
Originally Posted by SRD
This ability is completely independent of Size category - even by default they already able to burrow into creature of the same size category as they are
But what if this vermin somehow got bigger - say, because of application of Titanic Creature (or Kaiju) template?
They still would be able, by the RAW, to burrow into a creature of any size, and stay inside until either they want out or host is dead
(Also, in case of Symbiotic Creature template, Vermin guest will grant it's burrow SA to the host - even if the host is a dinosaur)
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2022-01-09, 02:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hilarious things you've found in RAW?
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2022-01-09, 04:32 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hilarious things you've found in RAW?
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2022-01-09, 04:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hilarious things you've found in RAW?
⚣ Tanuki in the Playground. ⚣
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2022-01-09, 08:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hilarious things you've found in RAW?
The talismans of ultimate good and evil. If I remember their RAW correctly if you and the target meet all conditions it is an insta kill on anything.
I would be a procrastinator, but I keep putting it off.
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2022-01-10, 01:42 AM (ISO 8601)
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2022-01-10, 01:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hilarious things you've found in RAW?
Do we count there April Fool things - like the Adamantine Chef PrC, which have such CFs as Summon Death Salad or Summon Pie Fiend?
Spoiler: Pie Fiend
Or how about some blatant (but never officially corrected) typos - like with the Eye of Gruumsh in Epic Level Handbook:
This lump of rock has a marquis-cut black sapphire set in its center, making it appear similar to a large eye. Ore legends claim that the rock is actually the petrified eye of Gruumsh himself, put out ages ago by the elf deity Corellon Larethian. Elven sages scoff at this story, insisting that Corellon destroyed Gruumsh’s eye completely.
Nevertheless, the Eye of Gruumsh has great power, particularly in the hands of one of ore blood. If possessed by an ore, it grants a +6 enhancement bonus to Strength and Charisma, and the ore’s darkvision range is doubled. Nonorcs who possess the Eye gain a +2 enhancement bonus to Strength but take a –2 penalty to Intelligence and Charisma.Spoiler: I wonder if it matter which kind of ore...
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2022-01-10, 01:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hilarious things you've found in RAW?
In my sig is a thread on the Long Arm of the Law. In there, I discuss a few mechanisms to initiate a grapple from range -- sometimes as far as hundreds of feat away. As per the grapple rules, you would then either immediately move into their square (flying hundreds of feet through the air with blurring speed), or drag them hundreds of feet into your square if you have Improved Grab.
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2022-01-10, 02:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hilarious things you've found in RAW?
Originally Posted by Darths & DroidsOptimization Trophies
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2022-01-10, 02:51 PM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by ShurikVch; 2022-01-10 at 02:53 PM.
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2022-01-10, 03:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Hilarious things you've found in RAW?