Critical Role discussions (and other DnD pods/shows)

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  1. Odin

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    well i have two points here

    1. always roll for stats
    2. you can get two to 16 with proper feat selection
     
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  2. RonBurgundy

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    1. Not in AL/Westmarches (which are the pick up games I have available around here.)
    2. Valid, but does limit your build. I love sharpshooter/GWM type feats. Or with my divination wizard, luck, so I have portent and luck lol
     
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  3. Odin

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    not really feeling c1 post year break tbh
     
  4. DuckD

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    Keep going
     
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  5. Illinihockey

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    Ya business picks up pretty quickly
     
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  6. Illinihockey

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    their first encounter with Vecna is the closest to a TPK they ever had. First encounter with the laughing hand probably the second closest

    C1 and C2 spoilers
     
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  7. Odin

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    kraken(/spoiler]
     
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  8. Illinihockey

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    good call
     
  9. LuPoor

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    Everyone found out at the end of last session that the halfling bard in the party is the lycanthrope and murderer they've been looking for. Should make for a good next session.

    Also one of my players swapped a vial of his blood for some mithril chain. I know i need to punish this person for giving away blood like that. Any ideas
     
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  10. RonBurgundy

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    Every night have player roll wisdom save. Someone is scrying on him every night. Just let him be tortured knowing someone is watching him.

    Maybe this magic user sends creepy mutated creatures to attack it at night, maybe the creatures bear messages telling the PC to come meet the magic user.

    Maybe eventually this leads to them finding out someone the magic user is a old lonely hag who then gives them a deal or quest line, etc.
     
  11. DuckD

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    Finally all caught up on Campaign 2! Starting on one-shots now. Just started Search For Grog.

    Now I need to figure out how to watch live on Thursday. I think I get a free Twitch subscription because we have Amazon Prime.
     
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  12. LuPoor

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    It's free to watch on Thursday.
     
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  13. Odin

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    im on c1e114. gonna watch search for grog/bob, dalens closet, terry's thing, and the br before rewatching c2
     
  14. RonBurgundy

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    Search for grog>search for Bob>dalen’s closet>the tary brigade.

    Grog’s bunions and flagons one shot might be my favorite one shot, either that or the Christmas one shot.
     
  15. Odin

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    well that 9th level counterspell is the saddest thing to happen on the show
     
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  16. Illinihockey

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    You could see Sam just die inside
     
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  17. RonBurgundy

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    Had you been spoiled on that before the episode? I remember watching it live and just being stunned at how amazingly clutch it was and not really realizing what was happening at the time before figuring it out.
     
  18. Odin

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    yes but it was long enough ago that i had mostly forgotten
     
  19. DuckD

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    "You leave when Burt Reynolds SAYS you can leave!"
     
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  20. Odin

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    "and everyday that raven comes to vists"

    i'm not crying, you're crying
     
  21. DuckD

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    Just finished The Search For Grog

    When they get Grog's soul back in his body and Travis immediately rolls back-to-back natural 20's and kills the demon. Poetry.
     
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  22. RonBurgundy

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    Mercer is an amazing story teller.
     
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  23. DuckD

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    Played yesterday and discovered the joy of casting Heat Metal. No attack roll. No saving throw. Just automatically does damage with a chance to disarm or cause disadvantage. Even got two kills using it lol
     
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  24. Odin

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    100% travis will be an order of the lycan blood hunter in c3
     
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  25. RonBurgundy

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    Reading through the blood hunter class, I really think Tallesin had one of the worst possible builds with Molly.
     
  26. LuPoor

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    Pls no blood hunters ever. Overcomplicated muddled mess of a class
     
  27. Odin

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    yeah most of them are...a lot. lycan isnt too bad though.
     
  28. RonBurgundy

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    While I was at home with Covid and couldn’t sleep at 3AM I was on dndbeyond making random ideas I’ll never play, but a dex based archer blood hunter order of the Mutant seemed fun and not awful.
     
  29. LuPoor

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    No I'm sure there are plenty of very strong builds within the class. I just think the class has way too much going on, and i would never want to play it.
     
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  30. Odin

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    my biggest issue is half of the subclasses would work better as subclasses for other classes
     
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  31. LuPoor

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    Mercer's homebrew in general is pretty meh
     
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  32. RonBurgundy

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    Echo knight is super good imo.

    will say was not super impressed by Percy’s gunslinger class but it could do good damage, feel like other fighter classes would have been better though, and Molly was as ineffective of a character as has ever been played on CR.
     
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  33. RonBurgundy

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    Yeah. You could easily make them amazing ranger subclasses or fighters.
     
  34. Odin

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    there's a monk in my game who is about to start multiclassing into echo knight. shoud be really annoying for the dm.


    my biggest problem with d&d is i think of a new build daily that i really want to try out but will never be able to.
     
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  35. LuPoor

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    The warforged undying warlock in my game just started a multiclass into grave cleric. Going to do a 2 level dip. He's a masterpiece of a character.
     
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  36. Odin

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    grave cleric is a really fun class to play
     
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  37. Illinihockey

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    Arkharn’s barbarian/paladin multiclass is nasty. Can go reckless to get more crits the Devine smite to rack up huge damage. Also get to half damage but also be able to lay on hands to keep your HP up and get party members up
     
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  38. Odin

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    my group is building broken level 20 characters to do battle royales when we dont have enough to run our normal sessions/if the dm needs to take a week off. my current build is:

    hill dwarf with 20 con and tough feat
    sorcerer 5 for haste and metamagic
    bard 10 for psychic blades
    paladin 2 for divine smite
    fighter 2 for action surge
    cleric 1 for heavy armor
    bloodfury tattoo for crits on 19 because we get 1 legendary
    eldritch claw tattoo for 15 foot range on melee
    destructive wave and steel wind strike from magical secrets

    1d8 from weapon, 5d6 from divine smite, 3d6 from booming blade, 5d6 from psychic blades, up to 9d6 from searing smite, 4d6 from bloodfury tat
     
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  39. RonBurgundy

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    I have played less than 50 hours of D&D, and I have this problem.

    honestly the cliche of 4 hour standard sessions is just too fucking long for my schedule to ever make work.
     
  40. DuckD

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    My forge cleric is level 4. At some point I want to multi-class into fighter, probably only a 3 level dip. I like to melee attack and getting action surge would be nice. I also like the idea of going Eldritch Knight at level 3, mostly because of the weapon bond. The idea of being able to magically bamf your weapon to you at any time is pretty sweet. Could potentially use his hammer as a ranged weapon that way too, and just bamf it back to his hand.

    I do have a question about multi-classing though: at level 5 a lot of the damage cantrips (like say, firebolt) go up one die in damage. Is that based on COMBINED level, or level in that particular class? For instance, if my level 4 cleric multi-classed to Eldritch Knight (cleric 4 fighter 3) would his first firebolt do 2d10? Or would he need to take 5 levels of fighter/Eldritch Knight for that?
     
  41. Odin

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    its character level not class level
     
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  42. DuckD

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    Does the fighters multiple attacks work that way as well?
     
  43. Odin

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    you can only have one extra attack even if you get that feature from multiple classes. fighter gives extra attack additional uses, but say you get it from fighter and also paladin you still only get the one extra attack.
     
  44. LuPoor

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    No. Need to hit fighter 5, or everyone would take a 1 level fighter dip
     
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  45. Odin

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    fighter is already probably the best dip. stacking extra attack would make it a must have.
     
  46. LuPoor

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    Either fighter or hexblade
     
  47. Odin

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    tbh i dont understand the love for hexblade
     
  48. LuPoor

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    Getting to dump STR as a stat is real nice. Can move all those points to CON and get real beefy
     
  49. Odin

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    i guess i always go with dex weapons for the ac so i never think about all of that
     
  50. Odin

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    which site are they using?