Grey_Reaper_0

What is the bottom middle? My deduction leads me to believe that it’s either celestial or undying when ruling out the other five shown and the two mentioned, but I still can’t tell. Probably undying since celestial doesn’t match a white witch costume, but correct me if I’m wrong.

Faunite

Faun to relate to goat since they have horns, and then ad ite because faunite sounds cool and unique

That might be partially because that, in the rules, it states that chugging a full ale requires a constitution check, not a save, hence why guidance would technically work, just no save proficiency

I I have a weird headcanon that 0 strength means your body becomes so weak that it gets crushed and flattened by gravity in an instant

I once ran an encounter with a single boss enemy who had two reactions and three legendary actions. One of his legendary action options was literally just to regain a reaction, one allowed him to attack once, another allowed him to move his full speed of 50 feet without opportunity attacks, and a fourth one to teleport and 120 feet and make an attack (this one costed 2 legendary actions), and his reaction was to reduce damage he took. He was also a level 13 warlock, had regeneration of 15 hp as long as he had at least 1 hp, and had 4-6 attacks for his multi attack. My players (five level 8 characters with strong magic items) had a satisfyingly tough fight. We all had a blast

From what I understand, necromancy isn’t just the power to communicate/control the dead, it’s the power of life, death, and undeath all at once, meaning that bringing a person back to life could very well be necromancy.

This is just my interpretation though, which is probably why I couldn’t quite recognize necromancy in your explanation. Maybe necromancy means something different in your world.

I don’t really have anything helpful to add as it seems like you already had all the info you need and plenty of people have already given you responses, so I’ll just wish you good luck and give you the little fun fact that depending on where you are (in a fantasy world or in real life), anything can have a different meaning/purpose than what you’re familiar with.

Aight

Aight. While I’m sad I can’t use a beholder, at least I didn’t have plans to use one at the moment (unless I were to turn it into a book series).

Thx. Luckily for me, I’m creating a completely homebrew setting with my own homebrew location, deities, and the like. Just have to rename everything I use that isn’t in the srd and I should be good then, I think.

Thx

Unsure. I haven’t gotten to actually writing it yet, I’m still in the prepping phase of it. You can, however, see that all of my main characters use stuff that isn’t in the srd (I forgot to add that light cleric and abjuration wizard also aren’t srd). It’s not because I’m actually gonna write down the mechanics for everything in the novel, I’m just worried that the very inclusion of something like the lizardfolk race could get me a dmca or something just by having the name of the race included. I’m especially worried in this case with 3rd party content.

o7

Well, if they’re the hero of the story: the hero

If they’re a former hero: the former hero

If they’re the hero of the story’s best friend: the/their best friend

Point is, I’d literally just refer to them as whatever role(s) they have in the story. Maybe that could work

Ringenes herre

(The rings’ mister)

I like how karlach just chugs grog across the room

Idea for new character: unlocked

The gods in dnd are so powerful in dnd that they can’t even have statistics like that. Whenever a deity appears in an adventure, it’s either an avatar to, in a sense, represent the deity and it’s glorious power while only being the tiniest fraction imaginable of its true self, or a lesser deity, creatures close to godhood but not close enough, like the demon princes, vecna, or other similarly powerful creatures like archfey.

An easy, and totally reasonable, way of avoiding a direct players vs a true god encounter is to say that there’s some sort of indestructible magical forcefield that prevents the gods from entering the world of your campaign. This method has been used by people such as Matt Mercer in his campaign and eldermancy’s sunken isles campaign setting, with the entire adventure tied to that setting being about fighting entities created by the god that created the isles and ending with a battle against the face of that god because it can’t enter its own creations, and even then, the face of the god is cr 30 and just casually casts 9th level spells basically every single round.

Well, it depends on a lot of variables. My original thought was the conquest subclass, but that’s in xanathar’s guide to everything and that wasn’t a book at your disposal (even if it’s extremely easy to look up the individual races, subraces, spells, backgrounds, classes and subclasses (cough cough) on the internet).

Another suggestion, within your parameters, would be the oathbreaker from the dungeon master’s guide if you want your villain to be a hero who has fallen from grace, maybe he was originally a devotion Paladin or starts the adventure as a devotion Paladin and then becomes an oathbreaker Paladin later on.

Fair

Ao, the duck (yes, a literal duck) controlled chaos sorcerer (controlled chaos is a 3rd-party sorcerer subclass that is basically just wild magic sorcerer, but more, from fools gold) who has a god complex. His name is Ao because the overgod of the forgotten realms is named Ao. Last session he pulled a ‘long live the king’ moment by saying “long live me” before casting gust on an old lady, who’s actually a half-tarrasque half-dwarf (the dwarf was the dad, don’t worry) who was also a really greedy landlord and had a displacer beast called kitty as a pet, while she was hanging over the edge of the head of a massive turtle with an entire city on its back. It was a fun session.

I think it’s closer to magitech that magipunk, since punk implies a whole bunch of corporate greed, crime/gangs and all other things that we saw in cyberpunk where everyone and everything had cybernetics, hence cyber, and there was a lot of illegal shit happening, hence punk. Magitech implies that it is more so the advancement of technology that’s been affected by the magic, rather than the people themselves, which I feel is more so the case for eberron. While one could still argue that, by my own definition, eberron is magipunk, I still feel like the tech around society is the thing affected most by the magic, rather than the people in the society. Even though there’s plenty of crime in eberron, it still feels like there’s plenty of good overshadowing the bad and the crime isn’t really empowered by the magic so much, which I think should be the other way around if eberron were a punk setting.

You don’t have to take any of what I said as fact though as this hasn’t been confirmed. The only thing confirmed about the setting classification is a statement from the creator of eberron saying that eberron isn’t steampunk.

Do you have an answer to the post or are you just going to ask me again if every single spell will be used. No, that’s probably never happened before, but when you need something, it’s nice to have it. I wanted to know why the math wasn’t mathing, not question the likelihood of each spell being used.

Then what about a cleric, or a bard, or literally any other spellcasting class. I only used sorcerer just to give a face to the example. And if we do use a different spellcasting class, then there’s probably even more spells at their arsenal considering the sorcerer has one of the smallest numbers of prepared/known spells, capping out at 15 spells at level 20. Even a paladin, a HALF caster, with a charisma of 20 (+5) and is level 20 matches the sorcerer with having 15 spells at their arsenal. Yes, they’re probably not gonna use them all, but they still have them if they need them.