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  • Sleepless One@lemmy.mltoRPGMemes @ttrpg.network•Skill checksEnglish
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    6 days ago
    🤓 Pedant mode activated 🤓

    🤓 Erm, ackshually, a natural 20 only increases the degree of success by one. This means, for example, if someone rolls a 20 on an attack roll, the total with modifiers is 28, and the defender’s AC is 30, the attack will be bumped up from a failure to a normal success, not a critical success. 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓

  • Sleepless One@lemmy.mltorpg@ttrpg.network•What's your favourite "I have to do what you told me, but not in the way you wanted" story?English
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    9 days ago

    In a campaign I’m in, my party had to investigate a region outside of a city that was giving off malicious vibes. We ended up finding the source of the vibes and discovered that a member of the city’s 5 person ruling council is collaborating with mindflayers to sacrifice the city. The party makes its way back to the city and wants to figure out how to present that information while still remaining credible. It really didn’t help that we accidentally killed the captain of the guard who was sent with us to investigate (some of us rolled critical failures on attack rolls while fighting earth elementals and ended up hitting him for a lot of damage instead, and then he got crushed by a rolling boulder trap).

    When we went in front of the council and other townfolk to present our findings, we hit an additional snag when we discovered that we need to present our findings while standing in a circle that allows the compromised council member to read our minds. Our paladin had a bright idea; she put the thought of the treachery we uncovered at the front of her mind and cast Command at the evil council member with the word “confess”. The councilor failed his saving throw, but the DM didn’t want us to get out of it that easily. The dramatic order captured everyone’s attention and someone asked the council member what he had to say. “I… I… I… sometimes wear women’s underwear”. While surprising to the townsfolk, it was ultimately irrelevant to the them, and the council quickly (albeit not incorrectly) pinned the death of the guard captain on us.

    The evil council member got to cover his ass while putting heat on the party and guards started swarming the room to arrest us. All but one of the party members managed to get away, and there was a several week period of time where the one who got caught was separated from the party and had to roleplay a jailbreak.

  • Sleepless One@lemmy.mltoMemes@lemmygrad.ml•The Marxist Alignment ChartEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Someone else already pointed out the issues with D&D style alingnment. Even following D&D alignment, I would think Lenin’s and Stalin’s positions would be swapped. Most of Lenin’s time active as a revolutionary was overthrowing the tsar, which definitely went against the law. Much of Stalin’s time as a revolutionary was as general secretary of the new society the revolutionary workers and peasants built, so he was operating within the law. If this was limited to Stalin’s work before the founding of the USSR this would make more sense, but people on this chart come from a bunch of different times.

  • Sleepless One@lemmy.mltoRPGMemes @ttrpg.network•If spells were written how my players use themEnglish
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    29 days ago

    I have a friend who plays a sorcerer who abuses the hell out of Mold Earth, Shape Water, and Create Bonfire. RAW most of the things he gets away with shouldn’t work, but the DM rarely calls him on it. His most egregious attempt was when he tried to basically part a sea Moses style by casting Create Bonfire and expanding the flame with Control Flames, intending to evaporate all the water occupying the space of the flames. This was too much even for our otherwise pretty lenient DM.