• NannerBanner@literature.cafe
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        7 months ago

        You guys start out as lotr heroes? I guess we’ve always liked the ‘aaaah, I’m about to die and I have no magic items!’ campaigns. I know it’s not “true,” but it always feels like we get better roleplay by having people not be able to just be big, bad, can’t-be-hurt-by-the-guards folks. Every time I’ve been in a different group where people get powerful, arrogance over ‘npcs’ is inevitable.

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          4 months ago

          I think that’s actually makes sense. The PCs should feel stronger than most NPCs past a certain point. The DM should still humanise the NPCs best they can, but I actually like it that (with enough power) it’s an actually choice to still care about the people beneath you in terms of strength and that’s cool to see. (Even better though if it actually takes a while to get their.)

  • Skyline969@piefed.ca
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    7 months ago

    This is why I suggest every caster either has note cards for their spells or a tablet with their spells bookmarked.

    It’s fireball. It’s just gonna be fireball. Just roll your 8d6.

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      7 months ago

      Yeah, you make a personal spellbook. No PHB spellbook. That way you only have 4 or 5 pages to thumb through. If you can’t devote that much personal time to the campaign, you can’t devote that much time to the campaign.

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        4 months ago

        Online sheets work really well with this. All spells on a single page, each one readable with one or two clicks.