It's a real problem in D&D 5e, which is why so many people have tried to address it. I highly recommend looking online for resources. There are sites that can randomly generate inventories for magic shops and they fix 5e's poorly designed price bands for magic items as well.
I think that sane magic items still works for you. All you have to do is apply a multiplier to cost. So give a 50% off or 75% off. Or give them a lot more gold. If you think they should be able to buy 4-5 mid tier items, then see what that costs, and make sure the gold or gold cost works.
This feels like some pretty egregious PR talk. If you're actually walking into this movie blind having seen none of the prior films you wouldn't know who Wolvie is, why it's significant Hugh is still playing him, who DP is, who anyone with DP at the start were, or any of the other references in it to MCU stuff and Fox stuff for that matter.
That's all reasonable, but I feel like the focus is backwards. It seems you're overly concerned with the mechanical balance between different group patrons compared to the narrative and thematic impact of a group patron. Whether a party has a strong or a weak patron, as DM you always have the ability to create challenges of an appropriate level. In fact, many parties (probably most) play D&D without group patrons and their experience is balanced just fine (well... as fine as 5e ever is).
For what it's worth the vast majority of games I run are without group patrons... or at least not mechanically official ones, and you're right they're fine. I just found the small amount of perks a bit disappointing since my players were so excited to play PIs.
Eberron's form of Airship is very setting specific. Only the gnomes have a specific method of catching trapping elementals in dragonshards, only truly primal elementals work for with this method, and only House Lyrandar Dragonmarks can even pilot them.
Because weaving spells and melee is done better with the Eldritch Knight? I want a Fighter that dabbles in magic rather than a Mage that swings a sword.
Literally everyone refered to as "god" in OP, from Enel to the Celestial Dragons, has been depicted as terrible fucking human beings. While the D. Clan, our protagonists and "heroes", are called enemies of God.
My understanding of this is that if you do what they did in endgame and time travel without changing the future you exist in the same timeline and that timeline stays intact (I.e. the sacred timeline), but when you go back in time and do anything that changes the future a new timeline splits off. And Loki is what allows Deadpool to create new timelines. So the rules changed thanks to Loki.
Agree with all of the above. I felt that the film presented the Fremen as more gullible than the book did. In the book, they followed a literal "chosen one", a genetically-engineered messiah with god-like prophetic foresight. The film seemed to push more the angle that they were primarily following him due to manipulation and gullibility.
I'd bring back Outsider as a Type. Having only fiends and celestials while Planescape is now part of 5e again is just off. There are plenty of other Planes that have more than just those two types, yet we're apparently constricted to them, constructs, and aberrations.
It also should be noted that Disney seems to have a tendency to just burn money when it comes to special effects. Barely any forethought or planning just do it, if it didn't come out right do it again.
Dune was also clearly lead by a team with a vision that had an idea of how they were gonna pull it off, not just an overworked cgi department going on the whims of disney suits after lord knows how many rewrites and adjustments. That's why it looks so much better for so much less.
Hot take, I'm not crazy about the human tank build for Batman. Wasn't crazy for it when they went that direction with Affleck either. I prefer Batman to be more like a Ninja Detective, so a slicker build for evasiveness.
I'm pretty sure there's a grace period. If a cleric of a god dies, there's a grace period before they're logged as dead. I think it'd be pretty unfair for Brennan to put them in the last stand with it intending to be a TPK (unless they go absolutely crazy with it) and then use that to kill Cassandra.
The Rat Grinders using underhanded technicalities is their entire gimmick. Forcing the party into a situation where Kristen, the only Cleric of Casandra, basically has to die so that Casandra will turn into the Nightmare King is exactly the kind of plan Kipperlilly would pull.
Sure the rat grinders use technicalities at times, but I don't think the way it works is that the moment Kristen dies, Cassandra immediately dies and becomes the nightmare king
To be honest with you, even I don't know why I gave it that much damage. However, I do plan on there being some beefy enemies in the future, so it may come in handy.
I think it'd just be better if you gave the dagger stacks. Expend a stack to cast a smite spell as a bonus action. Regain hp equal to damage when doing so. Stacks return on next dawn.
It's a real problem in D&D 5e, which is why so many people have tried to address it. I highly recommend looking online for resources. There are sites that can randomly generate inventories for magic shops and they fix 5e's poorly designed price bands for magic items as well.
The one magic item price catalogue I've found everyone likes and refers to is that of "sane magic item prices."
I think that sane magic items still works for you. All you have to do is apply a multiplier to cost. So give a 50% off or 75% off. Or give them a lot more gold. If you think they should be able to buy 4-5 mid tier items, then see what that costs, and make sure the gold or gold cost works.
5e Magic Shop seems like a very useful shop, I'll give it a look!
This feels like some pretty egregious PR talk. If you're actually walking into this movie blind having seen none of the prior films you wouldn't know who Wolvie is, why it's significant Hugh is still playing him, who DP is, who anyone with DP at the start were, or any of the other references in it to MCU stuff and Fox stuff for that matter.
That's all reasonable, but I feel like the focus is backwards. It seems you're overly concerned with the mechanical balance between different group patrons compared to the narrative and thematic impact of a group patron. Whether a party has a strong or a weak patron, as DM you always have the ability to create challenges of an appropriate level. In fact, many parties (probably most) play D&D without group patrons and their experience is balanced just fine (well... as fine as 5e ever is).
For what it's worth the vast majority of games I run are without group patrons... or at least not mechanically official ones, and you're right they're fine. I just found the small amount of perks a bit disappointing since my players were so excited to play PIs.
Impersonating the other gods, appearing to their cults, and making silly or nonsensical declarations.
Eberron's form of Airship is very setting specific. Only the gnomes have a specific method of catching trapping elementals in dragonshards, only truly primal elementals work for with this method, and only House Lyrandar Dragonmarks can even pilot them.
Because weaving spells and melee is done better with the Eldritch Knight? I want a Fighter that dabbles in magic rather than a Mage that swings a sword.
I second the point about multiclassing. Hexblade Warlock - Eldritch Knight is actually alright, even if they don't share spell casting mods.
I've used:
So Im Sama wants to send a flood to cleanse the World again.
Literally everyone refered to as "god" in OP, from Enel to the Celestial Dragons, has been depicted as terrible fucking human beings. While the D. Clan, our protagonists and "heroes", are called enemies of God.
My understanding of this is that if you do what they did in endgame and time travel without changing the future you exist in the same timeline and that timeline stays intact (I.e. the sacred timeline), but when you go back in time and do anything that changes the future a new timeline splits off. And Loki is what allows Deadpool to create new timelines. So the rules changed thanks to Loki.
The truth of the matter is that Endgame's time travel, and MCU's multiversal rules in general, were ill-conceived in the first place.
Nah that’s a lie. I’m sure everyone else in this series is super cool and not annoying at all. (I’m scared.)
I mean if you've made it dressrosa you've already experienced a lot of it lmao
A mage does magic. Typically, it's a wizard, but I believe there's no exclusivity there.
This is helpful.
Now I think an Archmage can be a wizard or sorcerer.
Do you mean that's it's meant to look like the Fremen could have been easily manipulated by any skilled trickster?
No, they could've been manipulated by any sufficiently powerful opportunist that told them exactly what they wanted to hear.
Agree with all of the above. I felt that the film presented the Fremen as more gullible than the book did. In the book, they followed a literal "chosen one", a genetically-engineered messiah with god-like prophetic foresight. The film seemed to push more the angle that they were primarily following him due to manipulation and gullibility.
I think its a good angle to take, mind you.
I'd bring back Outsider as a Type. Having only fiends and celestials while Planescape is now part of 5e again is just off. There are plenty of other Planes that have more than just those two types, yet we're apparently constricted to them, constructs, and aberrations.
Are you just ignoring elementals, fey, and abberations?
Fey and Elementals are beings of the inner planes. There isn't a "fey" outerplane to my knowledge.
Reshoots; all cgi; salaries; reshoots; Covid
It also should be noted that Disney seems to have a tendency to just burn money when it comes to special effects. Barely any forethought or planning just do it, if it didn't come out right do it again.
Dune Part 2’s budget was $190m. Disney needs to do better.
Dune was also clearly lead by a team with a vision that had an idea of how they were gonna pull it off, not just an overworked cgi department going on the whims of disney suits after lord knows how many rewrites and adjustments. That's why it looks so much better for so much less.
Do you imagine someone who can't have seen the movie yet has much to offer you on that front?
The current RT score is made up of reviewers who were given an early screening. This is usually done this way. User reviews ain't even available yet.
Hot take, I'm not crazy about the human tank build for Batman. Wasn't crazy for it when they went that direction with Affleck either. I prefer Batman to be more like a Ninja Detective, so a slicker build for evasiveness.
I'm pretty sure there's a grace period. If a cleric of a god dies, there's a grace period before they're logged as dead. I think it'd be pretty unfair for Brennan to put them in the last stand with it intending to be a TPK (unless they go absolutely crazy with it) and then use that to kill Cassandra.
The Rat Grinders using underhanded technicalities is their entire gimmick. Forcing the party into a situation where Kristen, the only Cleric of Casandra, basically has to die so that Casandra will turn into the Nightmare King is exactly the kind of plan Kipperlilly would pull.
Sure the rat grinders use technicalities at times, but I don't think the way it works is that the moment Kristen dies, Cassandra immediately dies and becomes the nightmare king
I definitely think it fits into all of the Rat Grinders plans.
GW bringing back the squats, except they are completely different, is a betrayal of the audiences trust.
Depends on the NPC honestly.
NPC was supposed to be a normal farmer. Sorry I didn't clarify, I edited the post.
In your shoes, I'd probably ask "Why isn't this random farmer afraid of a monstrous man beast"
The true answer is to become an ork cause GREEN IZ DA BEST COLOR YA GIT
Life steal aside, why on earth does it do 5d6? That's just stacking sneak attack on top of their sneak attack lol
To be honest with you, even I don't know why I gave it that much damage. However, I do plan on there being some beefy enemies in the future, so it may come in handy.
I think it'd just be better if you gave the dagger stacks. Expend a stack to cast a smite spell as a bonus action. Regain hp equal to damage when doing so. Stacks return on next dawn.
There's kind of a lot to the question so let's go bit by bit
Zoro can produce the most mature cream cause he got that wide chest