Characters get sick very regularly actually. Whenever the player can't make the session, their character comes down with a case of Neo Positronic Cascade Syndrome, N.P.C Syndrome for short (it sounds better in my native tongue).

Better idea, role play the reposessors. Think they're just going to give up that legendary battlestaff?

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My Dragonborn Bard bathes at every opportunity. Just last session, he bathed in glacial water - fortunately, he's a Silver.

Ohh this a good idea, you could spice it up as a punishment from a God(or a random high powered being) of disease, since the players keep being murder hobos and killing everyone and everything without properly disposing of the body’s properly. Thus annoying them enough to curse them with a tough disease.

Haha agreed! I'm super looking forward to seeing the shenanigans my players get up to once the MM comes out and they can mess around in my new world!

Two words, discworld

Earl Sinclair from Dinosaurs.

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I'm sorry your table disbanded as someone who doesn't get to play i feel like that would hurt some. Im glad you got to play as the berseker barb though they can be very fun! I like me warforged claric 🎉😅

Havent watched yet but My go to santa build is a genie warlock (undine) multiclassing into bard (creation). I played them for a Christmas one-shot last year Get a magic bag and the ability to pull out presents for your party, plus your attacks have some Christmas cheer (cold damage)

Id say intelligence over charisma bc hes not great at social interactions

I think this all depends on which doctor you want to play as.

Bard does make sense considering their reputation for crazy lovelives and the whole river song saga

Int or charisma works, but his Charisma comes from his years alive and intelligence, i personally do int then Charisma

I would lean towards INT due to the years of study it takes to become a doctor, then leave it up to the player how they want to RP the character. Do they want to be like House (deceptive and rude)? Do they want to be like DJ or Turk from scrubs (goofy and fun loving)? Let them choose. If you’re building a class/subclass, I wouldn’t worry about the character’s personality.

Im of the opinion of wisdom

Rise of the Guardians' interpretation of Santa was dope, he'd be awesome to play in DnD

I built a couple of L20 christmas themed characters last year. A tiefling warlock based on Krampus, a witch based on the italian christmas witch, and a gnome something based on the swedish christmas elves. I'm not sure what I did with santa, and I woefully ignored the X-Man himself, the worlds favourite cleric who cast revivify on himself. That being said, ew new rules and ew ai generated image on thumbnail

The saint one, as in the wonderworker? Would be interesting. Definitely a paladin, smiter of pagan temples and ressurector of children

Awwwww!

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Imagining Santa as a Barbarian is both hilarious and terrifying. I mean, in concept, thinking of him as some kind of Arcane or Divine Mage makes sense (especially if he's some kind of Wizard or Cleric), as he's usually portrayed as having paranormal attributes and esoteric powers through various means when his feats aren't being totally explained away as advanced or supernaturally powered technology, but a Barbarian...I just picture his speeding from house to house like a madman on cocaine in a Barbarian Rage with "Ace Of Spades" by Motorhead blasting. Besides that, one interesting idea for Santa that is related to tabletop games is Dimension 20's The Unsleeping City and it's interpretation of Santa as a high level Wizard who clones himself to reach various houses across the planet, but some of them malfunction and are sent to New York under the guise of cosplayers and are rounded up by various esoteric hunters to prevent them from harming locals.

no not really, but i am commenting to boost your video

why not a Krampus yet?

I need all of their stats now! Christmas is coming up and a santa battle sounds awesome

Read the dresden files series by Jim butcher. It'll help u out

Legendary actions would be my first take. Many magical items/potions seems fitting since he's known for having lots of gifts. (this would bring the added bonus of a serious loot drop if he's taken down.) Magical backup. Elves, Reindeer, Living Snow beings.

Make him a fairy species from “Monsters of the Multiverse”! A “glittering mist”(snow) surrounds him, or he smells like “fresh brownies”(cookies). He’ll be fey, and can fly. He can use Druidcraft to snuff out and re-light chimney fires. He can use Enlarge/Reduce to shrink down tiny enough to fly down the chimney, as well as grow to medium size when he needs to make an appearance. Class should be Artificer! The dudes a toy maker! One of his infusions is obviously a Bag of Holding. For subclass, go either Battle Smith with a Reindeer Steel Defender, or Artillerist with toy guns and cannons. Background has gotta be the Guild Merchant variant of the Guild Artisan, because you get yourself a “mule and cart”(reindeer and sled).

NOOOOO not the wizard feet!

Depends on level of magic and what effects you want. Don't focus on barb use eldritch knight, Sorladin, or Hexadin.

That seems eminently reasonable.

I saw an interview that goes over this. That along with other design choices, was done in order to structure the book better for newer DMs. Something along the lines of not wanting to overload new DMs with optional rules and instead provide advice for them. The interview was done by XP to Level 3. It was a good watch.

I have no Idea the implications of Such a situation 😂 . Hope you have fun. Never played but Always thought it would be interesting to try sometime. God Bless

Just putting this idea in my notes file

I use it as written personally because in reality it is so hard to defend against attacks from two opposite sides at the same time. The trade off is, my enemies do it too 😂

Middle ground flanking + 2

I do flanking but rather than advantage I give +2 to attack rolls, but still count it as advantage for sneak attack for rogues

I removed theAction, Bonus Action, Movement, Free object interaction, and Dialogue during combat I made it to were each party member just has 3 actuons during combat If you want to move 60 feet and attach a monster you can or just attack 3 times in a rom you can The down side is if you do the same thing an another action in your turn you loose and action your next turn from exhaustion Exp. Fighter moves 60feet and attacks, well he exhausted himself from moving with super human speeds he looses a action his next turn to catch his breath while still being able to fight

I added that each player gets one inspiration at the start of every session. They can earn additional in sessions but they're not kept at the of play. Really got my player wanting to spend and earn inspiration. And was less strain on me remembering to give inspiration. Also inspiration is spent as a reroll after a dice result. Can think of not having it now.

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I think you meant to say races

Thanks for going over each Ancestry. That was very helpful!

The only part that gets me is they announced they are removing all the 5e spells from dnd beyond. They told us all the new would work with the old and for someone like me who only started dming a year ago it's upsetting to feel like I finally have a grasp on all the tiny rules and flavor text of these spells but now their being changed forcefully. I am still very excited for what they're doing with druid/paladin and to look at all the new resources that we previously didn't have but to remove the spells from dnd Beyond seems like the wrong direction imo

Right?! Worse comes to worse, we’ll just stick to 5e. Once they come out though, I’ll try a few campaigns with them and discuss it with friends and decide if they’re worth sticking to

1/3 movement speed, remove bonus action, holding breath = minutes equal to con modifier, lightning spells aoe is doubled or can conduct for equal effect to all creatures within 5/10 feet depending upon level, fire spells half aoe but explosive spells more damage due to force dmg. Depends on context and player lv though. 👍

running a campaign with water combat, i would set up currents that players could use to advantage/disadvantage that would double/ half movement speed, magical fire does half damage as its snuffed out and lighting has a chance to be conducted through the water hitting another target.

in _depth,_ you say?

If you wanted to keep it simple maybe try adding the slowed condition from the slow spell. “An affected target's speed is halved, it takes a −2 penalty to AC and Dexterity saving throws, and it can't use reactions. On its turn, it can use either an action or a bonus action, not both. Regardless of the creature's abilities or magic items, it can't make more than one melee or ranged attack during its turn. If the creature attempts to cast a spell with a casting time of 1 action, roll a d20. On an 11 or higher, the spell doesn't take effect until the creature's next turn, and the creature must use its action on that turn to complete the spell. If it can't, the spell is wasted.” To give underwater races a boon you could always forgo the above debuffs, or increase/decrease certain attributes for everyone else (Such as a higher ac negative).

Ive never needed an outside source. If both sets of combatants have no swim speed, then there are rules for movement underwater. Magic is still magic and still acts how it is supposed to, aka fireball still casts underwater and lightning bolt does not dissapate throughout all the water. Weapon attacks have a RAW too. Breathing/holding breath underwater has RAW. It feels difficult for the players because fighting underwater without the training to do so would be difficult. Its supposed to be an alien combat to land dwelling adventurers, the same as land combat would be for water dwelling entities. It sucks to be a ranged weapon user underwater. Because it does. Just like irl if you make a fishing bow, you cannot aim at the fish you see under the water; you have to aim infront of where you see them because of refraction. As you are cutting through a denser medium than air when underwater, so weapons are difficult to use. You dont need a fancy remake of the RAW to make it easier for your players.