Tabletop Roleplaying Games (D&D, Pathfinder, CoC, ETC.)

[strawberry15]

That should not have been why he fell, given he willingly knew and consorted with this demon by actually agreeing to these trials and risking the damnation of six souls in the first place tbh. Consigning his peers to that fate is a knowing act of evil for the sake of convenience, and he is willingly associating with an evil entity. The oath is pretty clear that both are verboten, and this is where his deity would've taken his powers IMO.

no i mean he fell because of those but i held the act of felling for the dramatic effect lol. he could have felled at any moment, but i wanted to go for the gasps.
I am not a person that would have grey zones in my games. I am a bit old school. Demons decieve, they are worthless, corrupt etc. I do not want an possibility of them actually helping the party (even for their own benefit) and i do not wish them to give anything positive to the game. But they are there to decieve and manuplate so i must also give that illusion.
But you are right maybe i should have let him fall earlier, the dramatics are not a priority for an adventure, at least not in this way.

 

[Adamska]

no i mean he fell because of those but i held the act of felling for the dramatic effect lol. he could have felled at any moment, but i wanted to go for the gasps.
I am not a person that would have grey zones in my games. I am a bit old school. Demons decieve, they are worthless, corrupt etc. I do not want an possibility of them actually helping the party (even for their own benefit) and i do not wish them to give anything positive to the game. But they are there to decieve and manuplate so i must also give that illusion.
But you are right maybe i should have let him fall earlier, the dramatics are not a priority for an adventure, at least not in this way.

Best part is you still could do the rest of what happened anyway. Mainly because you could just bullshit them that he is okay with risking your souls, therefore that's why his god is angry with them and cover that plot point up until the end.

And then just do the rest, with his adoptive son and everything, as the final line in the humiliation conga. Then makes him falling absolutely pointless and even more painful.

 

[strawberry15]

Best part is you still could do the rest of what happened anyway. Mainly because you could just bullshit them that he is okay with risking your souls, therefore that's why his god is angry with them and cover that plot point up until the end.

And then just do the rest, with his adoptive son and everything, as the final line in the humiliation conga. Then makes him falling absolutely pointless and even more painful.

You did it better than me! If only we have talked about this 6 years ago i would have done it!

 

[Scream Aim Fire]

The playerbase doesn't need "more options." There are so many official races in 5e a DM has to limit the race options lest their party comes out as a line of freakshit.

Can agree with this; there's so many races that it's impossible to keep track of them all, and it would be nice if the devs would maybe trim the list to make things a bit easier to follow. Seriously, more than half the races are basically useless, and I don't even know anyone who's ran most of them.

Here's a question: what do you like so much about the Ardlings?

As I mentioned previously, the main reason why that they gave an opportunity to play as a dog race; genuinely retarded reason, but that's it. On my personal side of things, I had an idea for a Lupin character back in 3.5 years ago, but I never ran the damn thing; was wanting to run it in 5e with my group, but... well, I'll explain further in a bit.

If they were integrated in the game, what abilities would you want them to have?

If you ask me, I'd like to make them more similar to the Shadowbound Beasts/Beastmen race from Elden Ring, i.e. Maliketh, or the Egyptian gods like someone else mentioned. Leaning a bit more into the "monster" side of things compared to Aasimar; maybe flavor the Cleric spells to be more akin to the Bestial Incantations from ER, focusing more on monstrous damage rather than general utility.

Basically, something more "focused" that feels more like playing as an actual monster, and not as... well...

I think they look cool but see their abilities as generic and uninspired.

Ardlings are indeed gay, retarded niggers.

This fixation on gay sparkle angel dogs though is really fucking furfaggy, though.

Definitely this; they feel WAY too much like sparkledog DeviantArt shit in their current iteration. Tons of wasted potential, honestly.

On the separate note of "why no dogman race?" it's not exactly that difficult to just homebrew something.

Believe me, I'd love to homebrew a race into the game; I've got the above-mentioned Lupin character from 3.5, and another guy in my group had an idea for a Werewolf Paladin character. Unfortunately, out DM doesn't allow for homebrewed races; no idea why, other than him wanting to stick with "official" races in current DnD. It's not like I could just jump to a new group, either, as all my other local tables tend to have some flavor of woketard in them. I'd rather play DnD with a group of personal friends than with a group of dragon furries and fags.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

If I had a DM that acted like Halfling hobbies. I would've got up and left the game at midsession. DM that hates PC death is one thing. But DM that thinks combat is boring? Why the fuck you are even playing Dungeons and Dragons in the first place? She is a big fan of Eberron. Of course. Is there a genre hipsters ruined more than Steampunk? You can tell she is a Critical Role tourist. She thinks dinosaurs in Dungeons and Dragons are a new thing unique to the Eberron setting. Bitch thinks Eberron is the darkest D&D setting.

 

[The Ugly One]

But DM that thinks combat is boring?

Women don't think hacking your enemies to death with swords and battleaxes sounds cool, news at 11.

 

[Deus Exica]

Why the fuck you are even playing Dungeons and Dragons in the first place?

These are theater kids who watch Critical Role and want to play Critical Role, DnD is just the unfortunate excuse they need to get together and have their amateur improv drama sessions.

You want to see what kind of game these people actually want? Look at Daggerheart. That game basically has no combat or the threat of death mechanically.

 

[Joshua Connor Tomar]

See that's just straight up bizarre to me. All of the stupid shit WotC does with the game and they shy away from furfags? If there was one way you could potentially make money off of selling pozzed gamebooks it would be to shill to those people, they toss fistfuls of money at whatever will acknowledge them. Confounding business decision.

Gotta sell it as paid dlc in there live service platform. You don't get to play as a furry unless you spend the money. The Vore feat is 5 dollars extra.

 

[White Slaad]

If I had a DM that acted like Halfling hobbies. I would've got up and left the game at midsession. DM that hates PC death is one thing. But DM that thinks combat is boring? Why the fuck you are even playing Dungeons and Dragons in the first place? She is a big fan of Eberron. Of course. Is there a genre hipsters ruined more than Steampunk? You can tell she is a Critical Role tourist. She thinks dinosaurs in Dungeons and Dragons are a new thing unique to the Eberron setting. Bitch thinks Eberron is the darkest D&D setting.

There is no D&D setting more misunderstood than Eberron. It's not even steampunk (but it's close enough at a glance). I didn't play when it released in 3e, but the only people who care about Eberron today are retarded genderspecials. This is a setting precision made for the sole purpose of putting Player Characters into dungeons and wild adventures: there is nothing that exists for a reason other than to have a DM make something out of it. All this content and it's just a vehicle for trannies to harp on what pronouns a changeling or warforged uses. It's hard to be an Eberron fan.

 

[LovisXVI]

Bitch thinks Eberron is the darkest D&D setting.

Fucking Greyhawk is darker. Golarion is darker! Very much coming off as having looked at only one setting, maybe two with the other one being Remembered Realms.

 

[AnOminous]

On the separate note of "why no dogman race?" it's not exactly that difficult to just homebrew something. Give them a +2/+1 in whatever stat you think appropriate, advantage on perception checks based on scent and possibly a tracking ability, two proficiencies, and call it a day. This fixation on gay sparkle angel dogs though is really fucking furfaggy, though.

The main problem with animal people isn't the races themselves, it's that it's already nearly impossible to keep out furry troon degenerates from turning into the player version of the Whizzard and inflicting their horrible perversions on everyone.

 

[iScream into the void]

maybe two with the other one being Remembered Realms

Woman probably played Baldur's Gate 3 and decided that had everything there is to know of the Remembered Realms.

Bitch thinks Eberron is the darkest D&D setting.

 

[EleventySeven]

The main problem with animal people isn't the races themselves, it's that it's already nearly impossible to keep out furry troon degenerates from turning into the player version of the Whizzard and inflicting their horrible perversions on everyone.

The solution to this is to only allow animal people races of things furries don't like. I allow sasquatch-ape people and frog-men as races in my game which, even if I wasn't playing with other kiwis, would preclude pretty much every furfag on the internet. That and I made my sneaple (snake people) more people than snake.

 

[Sargon's wife's son]

Yeah, that's what's so baffling about the devs cutting the Ardlings; yes, they didn't have much in the way of being unique, but they were otherwise perfectly fitting for DnDEI, and they would've at least given the playerbase some more options. Hell, it's not like there haven't been copies of the same race in DnD 5e beforehand; there's three separate crow/raven races in 5e already (Kenku from Multiverse, Ravenfolk from Ebon Tides, and Corvum from Humblewood). Granted, there are a few differences between each, but... well, it shows that WOTC isn't above re-using the same general concepts over and over. I could see a slight rework of the Ardlings making it in, so why they axed the race... yeah, I got no idea.

He's already existed it they will call wolf folk lion folk cat folk lizard folk think I was old as third edition.
Also I feel kinda lame because I've been rocking the exact same character archetype since I started playing DND seriously dragon sorcerer I don't mean Dragonborn mean literally dragon sorcerer.

Then again I really don't know good way of trying to get out of a game I've been in for 5 years now.


I swear if I have to sit through one more session of divinations I'm going to kill all of my friends how about we do some divinations how about we just do something rather than do divination divination divination divination divination.


I don't know I kinda just wanna see the game to the end and we've already invested half a decade in it

also I let my players in the few games I've ever DM played whatever race they want as long as it has an intelligence above 5 you can play it is what my DM who is the greatest DM I think I've ever met sad I only ever got to play like 20 sessions with the guy the guy didn't even need prep time he could literally spin up an entire campaign in his head run it for six hours straight and then go for another six hours the man makes Matt Mercer look like a chump.

Big bulky Jewish guy like he looked like the Haman is the best way of describing him.

He's like one of those guys who is looks like he's fat but it's all mostly muscle seeing the guy who left like 350 like it was nothing.


Sadly I lost contact with him about a decade and a half ago still one of the best DMS I've ever met

 

[Adamska]

Bitch thinks Eberron is the darkest D&D setting.

Athas would like to kick down your door, enslave you to work in the copper and arsenic pits and then drain you of water so someone more worthy of life can replace you.

 

[Quintus]

It's hard to be an Eberron fan.

Can confirm.

Athas would like to kick down your door, enslave you to work in the copper and arsenic pits and then drain you of water so someone more worthy of life can replace you.

You beat me to it lol. I'm not sure if Darksun is the darkest setting. But if it isn't, I'm not sure what is. It's literally the setting were evil triumphed over good and the world is slowly dying because of it.

 

[Snekposter]

The Vore feat is 5 dollars extra.

Make it $50 if you really want to rake in the dosh.

 

[Scream Aim Fire]

Bitch thinks Eberron is the darkest D&D setting.

I'm a Curse of Strahd fan myself.

Gotta sell it as paid dlc in there live service platform. You don't get to play as a furry unless you spend the money. The Vore feat is 5 dollars extra.

So, they turn DnD 5e into FAPP? Or Fursona? Or that one Werewolf: the Apocalypse game I had a long time ago?

At this rate, I could see WOTC doing something like that.

The main problem with animal people isn't the races themselves, it's that it's already nearly impossible to keep out furry troon degenerates from turning into the player version of the Whizzard and inflicting their horrible perversions on everyone.

Pretty much the main reason why I only play with a few friends of mine these days; easier to tard wrangle, especially since we meet in person, and we all know each other pretty well.

The solution to this is to only allow animal people races of things furries don't like. I allow sasquatch-ape people and frog-men as races in my game which, even if I wasn't playing with other kiwis, would preclude pretty much every furfag on the internet. That and I made my sneaple (snake people) more people than snake.

Any other races you'd recommend? Call me curious.

 

[Battlefield2142EU]

Fucking Greyhawk is darker. Golarion is darker!

Athas would like to kick down your door, enslave you to work in the copper and arsenic pits and then drain you of water so someone more worthy of life can replace you.

I'm a Curse of Strahd fan myself.

Want anyone more proof of how badly WOTC neutered Ravenloft as a setting? She makes Ravenloft videos. It's Halfling Hobbies' second favorite setting, yet she is clueless that Ravenloft is supposed to be a dark setting. She complains Ravenloft isn't dark or scary enough at times.

These are theater kids who watch Critical Role and want to play Critical Role, DnD is just the unfortunate excuse they need to get together and have their amateur improv drama sessions.

They are not even good at being theater kids. Back In the day, people made fun of the Vampire the masquerade fans for taking role playing too seriously. With costumes and homemade sets. Critical role era theater kids are just telling sex and fart jokes with gnomes and halfling characters.

 

[BlankSpaceBaby]

To be fair, the latest incarnation of Ravenloft isn't dark. It's just current gen furfag/tumblrfag/Deviantartfag nonsense with zombies and ooooo added in.

The original 3rd and 3.5th ed Ravenloft, all the stuff I still have, can be too edgy to the point of comedy at times, but they have everything that has been shaved away in present day Ravenloft.

1. Vlad Drakov doesn't go around raping peasants and acting like a Feuhrer, it's now Vladeska Drakov being the worst evil girlboss ever.
2. Adam's existential crisis in Lamordia is now changed to some lesbian undead golem fleeing her psycho lesbian ex (perhaps the realest nod to real life here).
3. The stereotypical rapist horny feral black guy darklord of Valachan is now a girlboss wanting to protect her own people by killing everyone else.
4. The Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson ripoff is now GHEY GHEY GHEY and one of them is in a wheelchair now YAY.
5. The haunted Weathermay-Foxglove twin sisters are now sassy black Buffy types.
6. Ivana Boritsi's addiction to love and sexual excesses is now reduced to her being a totally unappreciated SUPER genius girlboss that knows everything and anything and she's like so mad because no one respects her because she is a WOMYN ugh totally...
7. Jacqueline Reiner's complex and very human fear of being alone and wanting to be loved is reduced to her being a classist psycho that launches the black plague now and then to SHOW the peasants who's TOTALLY the boss.
8. Gabrielle Adarre's complex feud with her own son, the product of rape at the hands of an incubus, and how she is actually the kinder of the two evil forces in Invidia? Gone. Invidia is now Blumhouse domain; she's a suffocating overprotective mommy of a demon child.
9. Nearly every female, good or evil, is described as a genius in the 5th edition Ravenloft supplement, and it's so stupid.
10. The only domain that gets an upgrade is I'Cath, because the original is just shit and here it is given a delicious cosmic horror remake. Everything else is a straight-up downgrade or completely demolished to become dumber and less complex. Well, except for Barovia. Strahd is Strahd, but that domain is actually quite tame compared to some of the ones that come after.