How DM's react to what Class you play in Dungeons and Dragons

[@neb985]

In my experience, a DM is usually not involved when the cleric starts hating the rest of the party lol

[@TheGodlikeDragon]

I can confirm that too. Cleric is one of my favorite classes. And the Barbarian is requesting a lot of me, why can't they ever play the Path Of The Zealot subclass? At least then I will not have to spend 300 gold every time I bring them back to life

[@fredericdmk5356]

@@TheGodlikeDragon make the rule that whoever gets revived has to pay for the next gem

[@gaelofariandel6747]

@@fredericdmk5356 I play a Forge Cleric Warforged whose damaged body parts heat up & "reform" as if being repaired in a legit forge. His understanding as to why people are always needing him to heal them so much and why it looks so different baffle him. He's not dumb at all (int 10) but socially clueless & awkward (cha 8). As such he does eventually get that rule/annoyance.

[@magenstaffarts]

Can confirm, my trickery cleric actually secretly hates most of the party except the rogue (actually intelligent) and the Warlock (who he admittely has the hots for). The artificer runs in headlong into fights because he's a ball of angry tiefling and the Druid went Moon-Moon the first time he wildshaped, and the fighter, he's kind of had a grudge toward for a long time because he got food poisoning from the fighter's cooking.

[@derrmeister]

I don't even know why my Dragonborn Cleric is the only good character in an evil group...

[@potatoalsopotato8378]

when i was first starting out i asked a friend "how do i play rogue?" he explained quite simply that, "all you do is convince the DM to let you use sneak attack, then use sneak attack - you'll be fine" and i was fine.

[@zoe1315]

As someone who dms for a rouge… *felt*

[@TheTruthx58]

I literally just described that to one of my players, your job as a rogue is to parlay with the DM to let you use your sneak attack.

[@mr.chimichanga6947]

really not much convinving needed. play a ranged rouge and have at least one melee character in the party = unlimited sneak attack

[@unterbm]

Our Bard gave my rouge foresight for a boss battle recently. The amount of damage I did in that encounter was ridiculous.

[@morganchurchill5193]

Just make a Swashbuckler. That combined with the new Steady Aim feature means there are practically no situations in which you don’t get Sneak Attack. It’s in the RULES, DM!! Hah!

[@mandykarevicius9746]

"Oh wow, you're playing a Wizard? Nice... And now he's dead." *Necromancer* Excellent...

[@wisppandemonium8106]

Necromancer: *dies of 1d4 wizard subclass damage*

[@Havok91]

Mr Burns approved

[@kingzecromatic]

*Necrophile* : even better

[@novadust6195]

I love being a wizard! I haven't died once and have acidification trolls so hard it gave them PTSD

[@noahdepoister5610]

Despite having the lowest hp my wizard never went unconscious and became a running joke after he cleared encounters by himself using thunderwave. He also kept the party in line by slapping them.

[@Calithecalico1031]

My first ever character was a half elf bard. My first roll was to escape jail. Knowing nothing about the history of bards, I say “I seduce the guard.” DM just lets out a deep, deep, deep sigh.

[@Alice_Wonderlust]

It's just a natural psychic feeling bard makers get. It's normal.

[@meapickle]

​@@Alice_Wonderlust is it, is it really? Yeah it is

[@vanixiii5657]

Its in our blood...its our natural instincts

[@chad8767]

Any high charisma character should try that, unless they have another good angle. When I started playing TTRPGs I tried playing high charisma character and was SO SHY that it just never worked, the DMs wouldn't let me get by on just a roll, they wanted me to say something. But eventually Bard became my favorite class and I love playing the face, flirting your way in or out of a confrontation is just a very useful tool you have at your disposal.

[@lukasperuzovic1429]

Thats how my Bard got married to a lovey female Litch and is Co-Overlord of the Realm. DM made me retire that character after that, as he became the new BBEG

[@talleywa5772]

"Cleric, why aren't you healing?" "Because I don't need to heal you if the enemies are dead first." *Laughs in lvl 4 inflict wounds crit*

[@bretsheeley4034]

"Ah. You must be from Eorzea then."

[@jemm113]

@@bretsheeley4034 no joke I want to DM an Eorzea/Hydaelyn campaign at some point!

[@g80gzt]

Just to put this into perspective upon glancing Inflict wounds is a 1st level spell (from the very get go) that does 3d10 necrotic. A crit doubles the amount of dice. Upcasting Inflict Wounds adds 1d10 per level. so 3d10 1st level, becomes 6d10 4th level, becoming 12d10 on a crit. like, 66 damage easy

[@sethclark6593]

@@g80gzt Then all you need is a Grave Cleric to pal up to and everything goes to hell on a critical hit.

[@justapuffin7303]

my friend plays a cleric and they somehow ended up getting Toll the Dead as a cantrip and our DM was basically like “0_O you have what now”

[@Jamfullife]

I'm playing a peace cleric right now and my DM was so happy about it, but what he didn't realize is that my cleric considers death the ultimate peace

[@konahrikdov6901]

Hahaha! XD Tell me how did it go~ >:)

[@BlueTemplar15]

Soooo... you're the Peacemaker ? kzbin.info/www/bejne/rHPYnqBtor6HlZI

[@howardbaxter2514]

That’s like Nuclear Gandhi.

[@konahrikdov6901]

@@howardbaxter2514 ahh man Nuclear Gandhi is the best. Lol XD

[@Not_Skynet2044]

So, you're Ultron

[@benp1815]

You don’t NEED a storyline to make your Cleric hate the party. They’ll do it naturally after the third combat encounter.

[@Cpt.Str4ng3]

Had the session zero a few days ago with my tempest cleric and i cant wait to murder all of them.

[@uniboyo3320]

My cleric hated me since session 0

[@diegonunez3492]

If they're a healer, it happens naturally

[@nikhilbhavani981]

@@diegonunez3492 they’ll probably hate y’all more if they AREN’T a healer. I ain’t your healbitch, I’m a killer of the highest order.

[@_somerandomguyontheinternet_]

That late in the game, huh? Your cleric must have incredible patience.

[@writingalias4401]

"No, you can't have a short rest, yet!!" As a Warlock player, i laughed very hard for about twenty seconds.

[@Cpt.Str4ng3]

After that you needed a short rest.

[@tcgcomics]

same here 😂 im a warlock main yet i dont need that many short rests

[@anneott7796]

Then you needed a short rest?

[@leoallison6807]

i dont take many short rests, i just run with my slightly superior movement speed with wood elf and the mobile feat while spamming eldritch blast behind me

[@yaoi4134]

I played a warlock where I somehow got my long rest down to 2 hours it was glorious

[@brandongalvan6603]

DM: "You do realize that you will have to make ridiculously high Tinkering checks in order to make what you want to craft, right?" Artificer: "Oh, no. It's fine. I multiclassed into Forge Domain Cleric."

[@DeusMachina_EXE]

Haha tool expertise and lucky feat go BRRRRRR

[@kanevivi]

Jokes on you! I'm tinkering into soup inspired spells and potions.

[@royalfool0230]

@@kanevivi Oh, like Giovanni Potage?

[@kanevivi]

@@royalfool0230 yes!

[@TheDjMoo]

"Well see, that's why I multiclassed with divination wizard after level 7 of artificer, started with a stone of good luck for my uncommon magic item, and took the lucky feat from my variant human feature." Seriously though, the artificer in one of my games has a +25 to all tool checks at level 10.

[@raynmanshorts9275]

DM: "Avoid anything he can seduce at all costs." Bard: "I do love a challenge."

[@galinichop7757]

The bard in my party managed to seduce a door open. Nothing is safe from these menaces

[@thevillainofyourstory1928]

… they fvcked the water god to win the fight, it was a nat 20 and tbh it was pretty funny

[@voldlifilm]

"How's the door doing?" "It's locked?" "No no, I mean... How's it doing?" "SERIOUSLY?!"

[@Upstart051]

Imagining the bard breaking the fourth wall and seducing the DM…

[@Ajehy]

Just seduce the Druid. I hear they’re an animal in the sack 😝

[@AidanWR]

"Avoid anything that can be seduced." I've seen enough rolls to seduce doors that I know that's not happening

[@yuki97kira]

That door do be looking sexy

[@Grey_Shard]

Yeah, if the player hears that - it will be taken as a challenge.

[@patricksmith6680]

Make the door a mimic, problem solved. Forever.

[@silence___]

@@patricksmith6680 mimic becomes flesh light

[@danielstephens1185]

More than one way to get wood, I guess. Just beware splinters?

[@Chris-tw4gg]

My very first DND character was an elven ranger. He was very useful. The majority of our campaign was in forested areas. And guess who had favored terrain in forested areas? This guy.

[@WE_DONT_LIE]

Me with cancer mage build i swipe away the forest with 60 strength

[@thestranger954]

Yeah, Rangers can be super good depending on the game. It's always important to talk to your DM about this stuff before jumping into a class dependent on specific scenarios.

[@TheTdroid]

"Ranger bad" is a funny meme, but they are legit more powerful than all 4 classes without spells if you pick good spells on them. Their main problem is that their non-spell class features get real bad real quick after lvl 5.

[@brandonbrowning8723]

@@TheTdroid’m sorry I couldnt hear you over my 8 attacks in six seconds

[@TheTdroid]

@@brandonbrowning8723 Oh wow, you can take 2 attack actions on level 20. Soo impressed. I'll just be doing things like: - Creating surprise rounds with Pass Without Trace - Conjure Animal - Control the battlefield with spells like Spike Growth - Hard-countering many caster enemies with Silence - Going Barbarian levels of tanking with Stoneskin - Potentially deal 30d10 with Steelwind Strike And a whole lot more + utility + whatever I get from my subclass. Yeah, no. Fighters are not good. By the time their damage is okay, it has long since stopped mattering compared to control, defense and utility.

[@mitchellenderson7194]

“Wait, you attack him how many times?” Five. Once for each level.

[@lordtyrant1638]

Fighter mains let's goooooooo

[@KitArch]

YEAHHHH!!!

[@delphy2478]

fighters and monks are my favorite class because i love playing as a blender

[@jediknight1294]

Open fist monk ftw

[@lorenzojongste6766]

Meanwhile I am a fighter paladin more or less for the sake of LORE

[@reeneperson4088]

It was my first time playing a wizard and I used a spell and said summon ostrich. Everyone looked at me like what the hell. The dm looked it up and the ostrich actually has some good stats. My dm said I don't like it but am intrigued. Honestly I said that as joke and did not expect him to say yes, but with that said I murdered all the goblins

[@aidankeane8971]

I mean, they are basically feathery raptors

[@definitelynotanAIchatbot]

Australia somehow lost the Emu War, so it's not implausable.

[@WhiteScorpio2]

Did the druid ride the ostrich?

[@charlsearowland9746]

@@definitelynotanAIchatbot I clicked just to say this and it makes me immeasurably happy that someone beat me to it.

[@TheBerylfly]

I don't understand why your DM didn't like it. As someone who DMs, this sounds incredible.

[@plasmakitten4261]

Wizard escalates from "dies to a paper cut" to "functionally immortal without even reaching level 20" in the fucking blink of an eye. Most level dependent class by far lmao

[@sua8638]

Wizards in a nutshell : that went from 0 to a 100 real quick

[@RawBlue]

I was just gonna say my wizard was basically a demi-god before becoming a demi-god. After narrowly escaping death 5 times against a demon army we escaped into MMM and I spent a week creating a simulacrum army (you can't make more than one, but if the simulacrum has the spell simulacrum you can make them indefinitely) and our group came back and 1 shotted the whole army including it's general with about 15 simultaneous meteor swarms. If you get creative with wizard it can get a tad ridiculous

[@heckmeck4087]

@@RawBlue Got smth similar planned for my wizard. He´s alive for almost a year now, barely escaped the death 5 times. Also he´s the only one left from the basic group, so he outlived 3 barbarians, 2 rouges, a cleric, 4 fighter and 2 paladins. I am now capable to summon a greater deamon and planar bind him to me for 30 days. Also he met a lich and a demi-god who will help him to become a lich in the next few years. He is able to gather all the recourses needed in no time and because of his background of being a wizard teacher traveling the whole world to visit as much libraries and universities as possible, he also have powerful wizards at his side, wich will also help him to endure the ceremony to become a lich. Also he got infected by a wereboar with the lycanthropie curse and will be capable to transform into a wereboar at anytime. In the wereboar form his strength rises from 7 (-2) to 17 (+4). So he is then able to deal max damage in ranged attacks aswell as in meele attacks. Bonus: He already got an Elven Chain wich rises his AC from 12 to 16 and in the wereboar form he again gets a +1 bonus to it. All that in combination, makes him so powerful that my DM would like to kill him, but he cant because he´s the groups favourite (they even wrote songs about him) and they protect him at all costs. One of them even engaged a pact to protect the wizard. And he´s not only the groups favourite, also most of the NPCs like/love him, so his lost would be one of the biggest bummers to this whole campain. All that makes the wizard as immortal as a PC can be.

[@Twister133]

Hit lvl 2 as wizard and pick school of divination: pre roll 2 dice each long rest and replace a roll with one of them. Get a NAT 1 to give to enemies and a NAT 20 to succeed in a task

[@Clovis5119]

@@RawBlue Simulacrum creates an exact copy, including your current spell slot status, and requires you to expend at least a 7th level spell slot. And because the copy you create cannot regain spell slots, that means your copy doesn't have a 7th level slot available to cast Simulacrum. If you wanted the copy to be able to cast the spell as well, you would need to cast the original Simulacrum at an 8th level or higher. At that point in the game most players are ridiculously powerful.

[@lucaswickmansound]

I was playing a fighter/monk multiclass and I cannot tell you the fear my DM got when I was granted haste, and said “I’m going to action surge, and use flurry of blows” The enemy was dead after the third attack but I just kept going to make a point

[@defeatstatistics7413]

Honestly yes, I was a fan of my monk/cleric multiclass that used Spirit Guardians and Patient Defense

[@Liex09]

Everything exists with its opposite, we must remember death so that we can understand the value of life, seek to live life correctly and beautifully and prepare for death in the best way. Sometimes we must remember. Transitory life.. -is the translated text

[@teddyzorro]

Gotta have your seven page Muda, them's the rules

[@alexmartinez5859]

Currently, role playing a werewolf barbamonk. The barbamonk itself is broken AF if you can convince the DM for both forms of Unarmored Defense (like I did). My AC is a 21 without the full moon which gives me a 23, plus whatever fun stuff I have for defense.

[@chrispilcher2024]

I see you picked the ranger, I also see that you made them a duel wielding drow, how original, with a panther companion too, daring today aren't we?

[@The23rdGamer]

Squidward Tennisballs moment

[@SophiaAphrodite]

Disadvantage in sunlight seems like a dumb racial choice as a pc

[@drizzitdude]

Too bad no one ever picks drow because of sunlight sensativity.

[@loganblamires446]

Your party is now made entirely of Drizzt Do'urden clones. Have fun!

[@dontmisunderstand6041]

@@SophiaAphrodite Almost nothing ever happens in broad daylight. It sounds like a lot bigger downside than it actually is. The darkvision alone will, on balance, more than make up for the sunlight sensitivity.

[@firnen_]

Rogues with expertise and Reliable Talent be like: "Ah, I rolled a Nat 1!" "So you're failing your check?" "Nah actually it's a 22."

[@creldest]

22? Thats so low! Play a Bard-Paladin-Fighter-Ranger to have a range of 44~62 on persuade checks!

[@thedrunkengreybeareddwarf8431]

@@creldest the hell

[@VillainousMuse]

1s are always a failure at my table, regardless of arithmetic. There is ALWAYS a chance for failure, no matter how inclement

[@LordShadowZ]

​@@VillainousMuse That's the thing about Reliable Talent though. Even if the dice says you rolled a 1, you didn't. It's actually a 10. Otherwise it's not reliable.

[@VillainousMuse]

@@LordShadowZ Doesn't matter to me, you can roll a 2 and up and it'll count as a 10. 1is *always* a failure. I'm happy to allow the player to use their reliable talent to mitigate the failure as not a CRITICAL fail but it will be a failure regardless.

[@WingComTheLion]

"But DM, I promise I won't build a nuke... Just a mass soul-sucking device to power the magic items I want to craft."

[@beetehotraroy3468]

Why is Acererak in your party?

[@fubar9629]

@@beetehotraroy3468 hey hey, im just a warlock and hes my patron... (my tomb of annihilations campaign atm)

[@lucaswinsor4469]

Oh, I was just going to build a device that absorbs dragon breath (and other effects) to be later fired out of an alchemical shotgun.

[@derekstein6193]

"I'm just going to create a magical battery that charges via ambient fear... and it blew up. Last time I visit Barovia..."

[@sethb3090]

You know you've reached peak artificer when the nuke is the means, not the end

[@Kitten_Mother]

Today I learned that my dad used to play D&D! He gave me all 8 of his books (he used to have 3 time that much but someone stole them 😒) and one of them is a collector item. He even has leveled a couple characters to IMMORTAL! His favorite is a minotaur named Torath. I love my dad, I hope to learn about dnd from him when he can teach me.

[@Grox44]

Wdym leveled to immortal?

[@Izbiski_]

​@@Grox44BECMI D&D, or as it's more commonly known as 1E, had sets of books for the game, the fifth set had rules on Immortal Levels, where a PC attained (demi)godhood, all EXP was converted into a Power system, and the prerequisites were massive, it required a minimum of level 30 to attempt. So an Immortal character took a lot of investment to get to. I didn't get to play 1e, but my old friend has a campaign that's hit the Immortal tier and they tell me that I've never played true D&D until I run a BECMI game.

[@Grox44]

@@Izbiski_ Wow that's really cool. Have a site for these rules? I would want to play a really long campaign with this. Didn't know the actual game had rules for over the level cap.

[@Izbiski_]

@@Grox44 I have very old and battered booklets, no website unfortunately.

[@darthrevan6544]

@@Grox44he means that his dad played either 1e or 2e and the system was completely different then what you see today. 1e and 2e also had you managing a realm and when you hit I believe lvl 40ish you were considered an avatar of your diety I think once you hit 80 you were considered a god. Oh and also a 1 was a critical hit instead of todays 20.

[@skrilllfury2120]

I’m a DM and one of my players decided to multiclass as a Druid/Monk. We’ve settled on calling him The Drunk (Druid/Monk) and I… it feels like a take a shot every time he punches something as a bear.

[@PoochMG]

kung-fu panda build sounds kinda epic

[@Bacillus4]

Is his character name Nicolas Cage?

[@partialbullet2215]

I’m just thinking about Kuma from Tekken

[@marcodaddario3965]

He's exercising his right to bear arms.

[@Draliseth]

As someone using a druid monk who is effectively Swamp Thing but loves to drink in the campaign (and while playing), I approve this.

[@kevinskinner4986]

How to actually play a paladin. DM: Turns out that the hosts of your dinner party are vampires. Me: "Does my god have any particular teachingsregarding vampires?" Rolls Knowledge: Religion DM: No, they have no particular hatred for them, and may have small amounts of sympathy because their desire to create family clans could be argued to embody her portfolio of Community. Me: Am i aware that they have broken any laws. DM: Not that you're aware of, no. Me: Am i aware of any harm they have caused or planned against any innocents in the area. DM: No. Me: Then I go back to my food for now until a new development occurs. I'm a paladin of the goddess of law, not good. I can't go around smiting people just because they're assholes.

[@stephenflint3640]

If Sam Vimes can stomach a vampire in his Watch, and in his City, and in his general vicinity, and not drive a stake into their hearts and then sweep their ashes into the Ankh River; then your paladin can sit quietly at the dinner table making small talk.

[@ViveMeorLeti]

My paladin and her party kinda did this by accident one time. We met an old lady who lived in the woods, and we were super on guard. She invited us in for dinner, and we made sure the stew definitely wasn't poisoned or made out of people. From the old lady's muttering we concluded she had decided not to kill us because we were pleasant and polite to her. Delighted that she wasn't going to attack us, we finished our food, made our goodbyes and left. It honestly didn't occur to us until later that we had basically gone "Oh, you only eat rude people? Well, that seems entirely reasonable, couldn't possibly fault you for that. Have a lovely day and keep up the good work!"

[@the5destroyer]

I'd do that as a Paladin Player anyways, I mean the golden rule: Don't start any shit, and there won't be any shit.

[@thetattooedyoshi]

"I can't go around smiting people just because they're assholes." I see you did not join the true church of CONQUEST

[@the5destroyer]

@@thetattooedyoshi Someone's Playing a LE Inquisitor and not a Paladin.

[@s4ad0wpi]

"Make the cleric hate the party" Don't worry, the party can do that on their own.

[@sethb3090]

I'm not even a cleric, I'm an artificer, we're at level 3, and I already resent that I use 2/3 of my spell slots to cast Cure Wounds (because literally no one else in the party has heals)

[@lorenzojongste6766]

Meanwhile my cleric is being treated like a princess (She is a child. Make the cleric a young child and you'll be loved instead! Also she is mute so no one has a reason to hate her as well. Bam)

[@shadowfiresword]

The trick to that is to pick a cleric that can do stuff while Also keeping the party alive. I personally found with my murder happy party last campaign that a tempest dwarf works wonders, though admittedly I got above par when rolling stats. Out the gate with heavy armor, a super high hp for lvl 1 from my con and racial bonus (13 hp from a d8 is not shabby at all), let me tank, reactive damage belch out lightning, bonus action healing word, and normal action attack. Shit got even better when I multiclassed to warlock so I could learn wizard ritual magic (was magically carrying the party since they were all stab orientated) and few things bring a look of suffering to a dm's face like trying to hit the 'heal bot' at 20 ac who auto counters with armor of agathys and then belches lightning at them.

[@kirbywithaknifeisawesome6028]

Power move: play as the only person in the party…. ;(

[@drumlessons833]

@@kirbywithaknifeisawesome6028 Solo Cleric: **hates self** IT ISN'T WORKING

[@RedWizrobe]

I'm currently playing a Paladin who constantly tried (and failed) to win over monsters through acts of compassion, eventually snapped under the pressure and broke her divine oath, so I feel incredibly _seen_ by this video. I am, however, proud to say she never threw it back for the real ones, nor for anyone else.

[@Liex09]

Everything exists with its opposite, we must remember death so that we can understand the value of life, seek to live life correctly and beautifully and prepare for death in the best way. Sometimes we must remember. Transitory life.. -is the translated text

[@virraell2514]

my paladin constantly trying to "talk it out" with everyone. i do think he will want to kill his party in the future tho

[@virraell2514]

my paladin constantly trying to "talk it out" with everyone. i do think he will want to kill his party in the future tho

[@JohnDoe-df7bl]

Player: I wanna play Mystic. DM: Get out.

[@danielbernhardt1327]

A perfectly understandable response.

[@Soraking007]

Theres a good ass reas9n it never made it past unearthed.

[@lordhelmchen3154]

I know the basic classes, their abilities and so on and got most of the jokes here, but could you please explain what's the deal with Mystics? I know basically nothing about them.

[@franthehunter7441]

@@lordhelmchen3154 They are completely broken, too many features that can be combined to be op af

[@Tsukiy0mi_moongod]

@@lordhelmchen3154 good universal class is Jack-of-all-trades. Mystic is ace-of-all-trades.

[@achimsinn7782]

On the Ranger: So - What's your favorite terrain Hunter: Mountains DM: OK, let's avoid mountains, then.

[@lorenzojongste6766]

little did he know. the forests were the favorite terrain.

[@BlackfeatherMain]

@@lorenzojongste6766 In fairness, the DM asked for "your favorite terrain", not "your Hunter's Favored Terrain". As such this would be what is classified as an Epic Gamer Move

[@sunray501]

Next step is to convince your DM that with gear, you and your friends can climb anything 😁

[@bluesknight9216]

;-; I went with mountains and we have done nothing but walk through forests, I got the short end

[@beastwarsFTW]

Me: Underground. DM: Well you going to be on the surface the whole campaign Me: I have a dig speed, all ground has underground under it.

[@werd3426]

"Avoid anything that can be seduced" -So bard, you wake up in an endless void. It's "walls" are white, and you don't even know if you are floating or standi- -Can I seduce the void? -OH GOD DAMMIT

[@erikburzinski8248]

Bard rolls nat 20.

[@THG-3141]

The void turns sticky

[@royalhydra9790]

If it seduces the void, couldn’t you make the void eat him, or make it harder for it to leave?

[@jongameaddict]

"You rolled a Nat 20 to seduce the dragon. Roll for your anus circumference!"

[@zemorph42]

I legitimately laughed out loud when I read this. Thank you; I haven't had many reasons to laugh recently.

[@paupau2299]

The "make the cleric hate their party" is kinda accurate 😂 when I DM'ed for a one shot campaign, I made my friend's companion NPC a chaotic genius who always puts herself in harm's way, so now my friend has to babysit them AND make sure to defeat an evil deity of shadows on the side 😂

[@Liex09]

Everything exists with its opposite, we must remember death so that we can understand the value of life, seek to live life correctly and beautifully and prepare for death in the best way. Sometimes we must remember. Transitory life.. -is the translated text

[@PanzerYeena]

DM: "Who hurt you?" Blood Hunter: "I did."

[@marmato9332]

Lol

[@guitarjake4481]

Nobody, kiddo. I hurt me. I also hurt marbles. I feel worse about the marbles.

[@swiftstrike4044]

@@guitarjake4481 so did you raise Jason Todd?

[@guitarjake4481]

@@swiftstrike4044 Might've done.

[@coffeeaddict9847]

MARBLES HURT ME

[@mushmonkey15]

As a Blood Hunter player, my DM actually asked me verbatim "Who hurt you?" after I explained some of the character's specific gimmicks

[@100madmic]

is it bad are blood hunter is the healer?

[@artistsan3344]

@@100madmic blood hunters are not particularly healers, it's hard to explain but from what I've heard from one of my old buddies is that they hurt themselves to hurt others.

[@oinkytheink1228]

@@artistsan3344 That just sounds like a masochist

[@artistsan3344]

@@oinkytheink1228 I mean you're not exactly wrong-

[@celeridad6972]

@@artistsan3344 God I wish I could play dnd, sounds like so much fun

[@solsticegaming4551]

Ah yes. The fighter. The "I hit him 72 times" class. Fun thing is that my first ever D&D character was a fighter that wound up having four +5 dancing greatswords that could each attack four times along with my eight attacks. I made my DM crap a brick house when I solo'd a dungeon boss cause my party members needed to heal.

[@Something.amiss5401]

Can you please tell what Subclass of Fighter you used? 😮

[@inf3cted194]

Please, be more specific so I can copy this later.

[@eston3418]

Anyone else waiting for answers or is it just me

[@edwinvanooijen7749]

Yeah no, I call bs on this one, for one as a fighter you can only attune to 3 items (dancing sword needs attunement), second you cannot attune to the same item twice and three a fighter can only get 2 extra attacks not 7. And even if it is due to multiclassing, you would need lv 5 paladin, lv 5 ranger, lv 20 fighter, lv 5 barbarian, lv 5 blood hunter, lv 5 monk, lv 5 pact of the blade warlock with thirsting blade evocation to get a total of nine extra attacks, however since the lv cap is at 20 you only get 4 extra attacks for a gand total of 5 attacks

[@Liex09]

Everything exists with its opposite, we must remember death so that we can understand the value of life, seek to live life correctly and beautifully and prepare for death in the best way. Sometimes we must remember. Transitory life.. -is the translated text

[@CrizzyEyes]

"Hopefully he doesn't do anything _too_ basic!" *Several hours into the first session* "Alright so I use my 18 strength to roll the 2 ton boulder down the hill that I set up a day in advance for specifically this battle"

[@QuantemDeconstructor]

Chris Redfield type beat

[@Documentoh]

Chris "Boulder destroyer" Redfield

[@stevenyoung9738]

Wizard: "look at what they have to do to mimic a fraction of my power"

[@WE_DONT_LIE]

​@@stevenyoung9738 cancer wizard with festering anger look what god needs to mimic a fraction of my power

[@emetanti]

Sisyphus has had enough.

[@PohatuEudyptulaMinor]

The druid casually passing over a collection of what I can only assume are Pokemon or MTG cards was hilarious

[@JohnPeacekeeper]

Definitely going Moon Druid

[@molybdaen11]

"I can morph into a electric rat. So I can fight monsters with physical resistance, escape stronger monsters and rescuer my party from imprisonment."

[@JohnSmith-bn5mi]

I have a full folder in my computer of the stat blocks because my DM refused to let me do druid unless I provided them in advance. In retaliation, I became a shepherd druid. Face my 16 giant owls pumped with aoe heal spells on a BONUS ROUND! YOUR WYRM CAN'T FLY AWAY! THESE FUCKERS SWOOP! ONLY TARGET ONE AT A TIME!

[@ThatGuy_212]

I completely spaced on it being a binder of animals for the druid. I thought it was an example of a person over complicating thier character. Your deduction makes far more sense.

[@mcparks1968]

Everyone at the table laughs at my 38 page character sheet for my druid.

[@dragonair2013]

Rogue makes the DM quit trying...But Clerics make GM's trying null.

[@marmato9332]

Now that's a good way to put it

[@cubing7276]

Arcane trickster go brrr

[@hoopthornseaweed]

Ah a profile picture for a man of culture

[@intangerbline3683]

Thank you for your wisdom, Kusuo the Birb God.

[@EridanAmpora311]

@@inker6405 i have this same question, i just started a rogue

[@Maggiestock33]

“Wait you attack him how many times??” My main being fighter I have never heard of something more relatable

[@Liex09]

Everything exists with its opposite, we must remember death so that we can understand the value of life, seek to live life correctly and beautifully and prepare for death in the best way. Sometimes we must remember. Transitory life.. -is the translated text //

[@thefirewizards8481]

I'm in a campaign where I'm actually a semi-bulky wizard, and the dm cannot stop being happy that I don't die every combat encounter

[@Aeon1989]

I know! My Wizard has an Elven Chain so my AC isn't reliant on Mage Armor. Ive been able to make it to level 8 lol

[@archer3813]

Ah yes... 27 AC Bladesinger... Easy to killl indeed with AoE.

[@Anegor]

@@archer3813 "roll me a con saving throw for the blight xd"

[@Casino220]

@@Story_Sandwich Yeah, that's one of the 3 best multiclass options in the game though. Give a wizard heavy armor, sure, but is it really still a wizard? There used to be rules that your spells could fail in armor for a reason

[@ari_dexel4288]

@@Casino220 yeah you can’t cast spells while wearing armor you ain’t proficient with. Now that being said watch a pc pull out their 20 Con Mountain Dwarf Abjuration Wizard.

[@IceMetalPunk]

DM: "That's like... 500 feet away, so if you start walking now you can--" Monk: "OK, I'm there, I hit him with my staff." DM: "Wh--goddammit, why are you so fast?" Druid: *Laughs in Transport via Plants*

[@casbienbarr]

Transport via plants is such an odd concept

[@Tustin2121]

Fighter: *Laughs in longbow* Tabaxi Rogue: *Laughs in Feline Agility*

[@tigerwarrior1787]

Barbarian: *Laughs maniacally during a Hasted Rage*

[@northernstar7443]

My gremlin of a dragonborn rouge: *laughs in being somehow stupidly op due to dumb luck and being fast as hell*

[@cinderschitt]

Warlock: *Laughs in spell sniper eldritch spear*

[@Corbz_Art]

You know your day was worth it when one shot questers posts a new vid

[@woofergranade2044]

In my party the cleric and Paladin looked on in dismay as the Druid tried to make friends with whites and devils… it was *an* experience.

[@strongerthanever2039]

That is SOOO TRUE!!!!!

[@fireking5221]

And quits when you choose your favorite class

[@christophertaylor5992]

On top of that A CORYXKENSHIN VIDEO

[@somedude780]

And as the rogue snake man appeared in the city he slaughtered two drunk men and said "lucky bastards"

[@kimberlymark553]

We did the Lost Mines of Phandelver campaign, our entire team was some level of chaotic, and it was everyone’s first campaign. I was a rogue and me and the wizard proceeded to deal about 3/5 of the damage required to defeat/kill a dragon before it could even attack us.

[@FCNMike1]

Me (also rogue) and my wizard in that campaign thought about using dynamite to destroy the structural integrity of the tower, since the other 7 PC of our party weren't there that day and we completed most the stuff. It was killed instantly due to the weight of the tower collapsing on it. It was such a cool experience.

[@Liex09]

Everything exists with its opposite, we must remember death so that we can understand the value of life, seek to live life correctly and beautifully and prepare for death in the best way. Sometimes we must remember. Transitory life.. -is the translated text

[@enderbaggins2668]

Half our party got killed by the dragon in that campaign *way* before we were actually supposed to fight it. It was flying off in the distance, and it roared, and our kenku, instead of dying, decided to roar back. Luckily, my character’s backstory was basically “kidnapped and raised by a powerful fey wizard that tricked me into giving him my name” and so the DM was able to have the wizard revivify me (though the dragon had carried me off to its lair because I “smelled interesting,” so I had to escape by myself), and also, the wizard made a posthumous deal with the kenku (other party member that died) and he gave the wizard his name in exchange for being brought back to life. So, deus ex machina but with Consequences 😂

[@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong]

"Are you gonna be so lawful good that it hurts everything around you or not even act like a Paladin?" Jokes on you, because I can do both: Meet Ricky, the bandit-turned-Redemption-Paladin who's entire purpose is to use his 20 Charisma and Persuasion proficiency to turn every single combat encounter with sentient beings into a high-stakes therapy session!

[@scolack123]

Sounds lame and boring

[@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong]

@@scolack123 Lmao k

[@kacpero02]

I would backstab you

[@christopherpoet458]

​@@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong Nice play! Imo. I like seeing some out of the box creativity with basic classes. The group I DM has been very fixated on Third Party Classes.

[@funnyvalentinedidnothingwrong]

@@christopherpoet458 Third party classes are fun, but sometimes its nice to just see how you can twist around the basics into something unique.

[@Daz0n]

"Make the Cleric hate its party..." One-shot, you don't even need to *try*. They'll just naturally develop a pile of seething anger they keep under lock and key. Smiling all the while and acting happy even as they consider the practical use of Hold Person and a cup of water.

[@eon928]

This sounds suspiciously familiar... And bittersweet :(

[@Daz0n]

@@eon928 Yeah. A reference to a great little Kobold Cleric, undoubtedly loathing the bull-headedness of a certain Fire "Genasi" Samurai Fighter.

[@robinthrush9672]

I like my party, I'm just tired of the DM rolling criticals to negate my 23 AC.

[@TheR00k]

I know my group is good at teamwork when no matter how much the cleric hates the others, he heals them

[@salvadortoscano2534]

@@Daz0n I wish we could've seen more of them before the DM went full psycho on his female players -_-

[@zantosender3348]

Playing a Blood Hunter was more painful for me than the DM on account of me not knowing how to play a Blood Hunter. It's just been accepted at this point that my character is a smooth talker and good planner but cannot be relied in a fight.

[@gamergirl209]

That's kind of incredible actually

[@dhampir_days]

yeah blood hunter is a bit too complicated for my small cleric brain but DAMN does it look cool

[@SMon42]

Hopefully you wont use a blood malidict that drops you to 0 hp. You might be shish-kabobed by a enemy's sword, and die. (Yes, yes it is)

[@SirGrimm]

Really good class when you get the gist of it tbh, versitile in a fight as well as NPC interactions, even allows you to invoke disadvantage on your enemies when they go t ohit you or party member, as well as causing all forms of conditions. Recommend them, plus they are edgy.

[@alessiomusolino4642]

@@SMon42 *Glaive.

[@YouWillBeHappyOrElse]

You're clearly a good DM. Most I've encountered regard "LG paladin" as a speed-run challenge to force the character to fall.

[@Liex09]

Everything exists with its opposite, we must remember death so that we can understand the value of life, seek to live life correctly and beautifully and prepare for death in the best way. Sometimes we must remember. Transitory life.. -is the translated text ////

[@gasriel3066]

In a campaign were I'm an artificer, I accidentally built a death orb that's also a nuke, ended up using it to kill a full grown false hydra, leveled the entire village.

[@krisantusliang9595]

there were still civilians in it?

[@gasriel3066]

@@krisantusliang9595 didn't save everyone, it was a very chaotic neutral campaign where we did whatever the fucks we wanted.

[@X-SPONGED]

"my le bomb le killed people?" type beat

[@Leandros_Kales]

How do you acidentally build a death orb is my question

[@ethanbrown2019]

​@@Leandros_Kales bruh was tryna make a death cube

[@elliedereyna5014]

I literally cheered when one player out of about six decided to be the healer. She never heals anybody. Just sits and judges.

[@rachelguderjahn2231]

Sounds normal.

[@waitwhat1029]

... that is a cleric who is done with y’all’s crap. 🤣😂🤣

[@baileyface54]

Honestly no one needs to be a dedicated healer in 5e, which is cool. It's good to have someone with some healing for sure, but a dedicated healer rarely finds a right balance for their build. It's usually either you feel useless at least half the time, or everythings so crazy you can't really keep up. Why I like Celestial Warlock. You're still a warlock doing warlock things, but you got some emergency healing in your pocket that doesn't burn other potential resources. You can even do some big heals if you need to and haven't used your limited spell slots on murder yet since your last nap. Warlock is a lot of fun in general. Anyway, I could talk more about it but after typing this I think I need a short rest...

[@dhark0n332]

@@waitwhat1029 me:Heals the party and keep everyone alive and deal a lot of damage with inflict wounds Party:Let's make him a dog because he like eating alive beings Me:Make a nice plan using what i have (Wisdom =Using your inteligence efficiently while intel=Knowlodge) Party:He is stupid but not an idiot Me:Make a Bone-Merangue Party:He is just a dog trying to play smart Me:Don't heal them during combat because they treat me (Character) like a dog Party except rougue who just say "Y'all fucked" and vanishes in thin air (Stealth Nat20):Surprise pikachu face

[@graftednormalcy1376]

My party all made characters independantly. Not a single dedicated healer, but everyone could do a little healing through races or subclasses

[@Mr.Ford3350]

I keep a running count for how many times I can successfully get my DM to say "I fucking *hate* druids." Top score is eleven.

[@FaerieWithAHalo]

It’s that low? Step up your game!

[@Adza2007]

I assume the score is kept per session? Because 11 times in a session is somewhat impressive, 11 times in a campaign is rookie numbers

[@Mr.Ford3350]

@@Adza2007 The most spiteful utterance of that phrase I got was when I cast spike growth in front of the town gate when the party was defending it from attack by a roving goblin army. It was one of those "supposed to lose" fights. Needless to say, I got the most kills that night

[@Grimm-A]

I mean Depends on how the class is played, you can hate them for being op or hate them because, even tho they are a sentient wolf, when a druid is a wolf, they act as one

[@Krzysztorf]

I'm doing the same thing, just with monks :)

[@HavonaDagenheart]

As a cleric, I made my party hate me with my crippling gambling addiction

[@Liex09]

Everything exists with its opposite, we must remember death so that we can understand the value of life, seek to live life correctly and beautifully and prepare for death in the best way. Sometimes we must remember. Transitory life.. -is the translated text

[@cataciudad9938]

I just joined a party as a bard. According to the DM, they were scheduled to fight a witch and it's monster companion. Most of the players couldn't make it, there were only 3 of us playing against the witch. My bard rolled 3 nat20 and persuaded the witch to be our ally and gift us valuable geodes

[@septiczambie2314]

Stonks

[@gaburelmesmo3824]

Me when someone plays Ranger: "Yup, Time to change all enemies to goblinoids and all terrain to desert!"

[@TalesStahl]

he told you that his favorit enemy is a kobold and his favorit terrain is a forrest didnt he?

[@Psychoginjaaa73]

Little do you know, hes using the tasha’s ranger

[@nightsflameoutdated3864]

Jokes on you I always mark Goblins, and Orcs as my favorite enemy’s.

[@jf_kein_k8590]

You were expecting a Ranger, but it was me, a Fighter with a bow.

[@noblesseoblige319]

Oh behalf of a frequent ranger, THANK YOU

[@SugarSpice07]

My first D&D character was a half elf Ranger. I didn't realize that was a frowned upon class until halfway through my first campaign. My sister was playing a rogue and pointed out to me just how OP it was compared to me. Edit: Also, our wizard was a dragonborn who would insta-burn all the enemies in our path before they even touched her, our cleric was the team mom, and our bard thoroughly hated life and hardly ever attempted to seduce anything.

[@hyperion8431]

Get a high as hell dex and you can punch holes into anything

[@Liex09]

Everything exists with its opposite, we must remember death so that we can understand the value of life, seek to live life correctly and beautifully and prepare for death in the best way. Sometimes we must remember. Transitory life.. -is the translated text //

[@Mediados]

Everyone: Making fun of the Fighter Meanwhile, the Fighter: stabs the dead body another 5 times

[@indrickboreale7381]

Fighter is the best archer

[@JohnPeacekeeper]

Fighter multiclassed with Bladesong Wizard for Self-Haste: *Multi-hit intensifies*

[@Darasilverdragon]

Rune Knights are absolutely amazing bunch of spell-like bonus actions and reactions to fill out your turn with, most of which help protect you or the rest of your party, and a major class ability that's great for filling hallways and providing cover while also getting bonus damage

[@maxdeyorik192]

t w e n t y e i g h t s t a b w o u n d s

[@Asianladylover4l]

Crossbow expert + sharpshooter + 11 level fighter = 4 attacks regularly and 7 in a burst with action surge dealing about 18 damage per hit (without a magic weapon) so about 72/126 if all shots hit not including crits.

[@redstonecasey4713]

"How are you going to build a nuke this time?" Oh, please. As if I'd spend all that time quarrying and centrifuging Uranium ore just to build a bomb capable of flattening a city? No, it's railguns and large-scale thermobaric bombs for this Artificer!

[@casbienbarr]

Hell, kinetic bomb that shiz

[@hogfry]

"Thunder cannons are large electricity powered guns." How I convinced a DM to let me make a rail gun that fired shortswords :)

[@blood-redeemeddragon]

The Peasant railgun.

[@hogfry]

@@blood-redeemeddragon no I had a trebuchet for launching peasants.

[@blood-redeemeddragon]

@@hogfry oh joy

[@whistlerdan7718]

Ah yes, the 5e Rogue, every DM's nightmare: - Sneak attacks that can end intricately designed encounters in just one turn - Evasion that raises a middle finger to both the DM and the party because you survived an AoE - A level cap that lets you succeed rolls just because you say so -And roleplaying opportunities that can derail a campaign

[@adamwhitman5308]

If you know you have a rogue in the party, and you design an encounter that can be ended by a single big hit, then it wasn’t intricately designed. (Not to mention that rogue damage output is on par with other classes, it just FEELS strong because it either does all its damage all at once... or it misses)

[@darwinxavier3516]

I cast Greater Invisibility on the rogue.

[@MrSamulai]

-Good. The less we have to waste time fighting, the more we get to play. -Good. Party wipes are stupid. -Good. It allows for some great "hold my beer" -moments. -Good. Derailment should be the norm, not the exception. If everything just happened regardless of what players do, I wouldn't need players.

[@raeishimura]

Ah, I loved the insane torment my Rogue caused my DM. She did get wise though and saw that the huge damage was single target and started mobbing us with groups, but those bosses got skewered quick. Surviving almost everything because I could just evade was her nightmare for bosses because I could win any war of attrition, and he was a bit more of a mix of Jack Sparrow and Han Solo. Laid back, devil may care sort. His personality was the exact opposite of the typical Tiefling Rogue, and he is still one of my favorite characters

[@techbeef]

@@raeishimura sounds pretty generic rogue

[@NeedleNight]

My first character was a Wood elf Ranger named Ogmee. My DM hated me so much that he said “the dragon burns Ogmee to crisp, instantly killing him”

[@brentage5000]

"Avoid anything (the bard) can seduce at all costs." So avoid any and all interactions with any creatures or beings in any state of life or death? Gonna be a quiet game...

[@erikburzinski8248]

Bard attemts to sudduve the dm and rolls nat 20.

[@riseofevillink]

Try avoiding that when you got someone who can cast bestow sentience. I've seen a bard seduce a chair.

[@brentage5000]

@@riseofevillink stool, rocking, or ottoman 😄

[@riseofevillink]

@@brentage5000 a good o'l fashion dinning chair. To make things even better the character themsleves was also only a couple of inches tall.

[@techbeef]

@@riseofevillink bard can't seduce if I never let the roll for it

[@DragoSonicMile]

Player: "So, I home-brewed my own cla-" DM: *clicks real shotgun* "LEAVE."

[@Marcelelias11]

Still gonna be less broken than Mystic, I bet.

[@JohnPeacekeeper]

And then there's me, who picks up Chef or Peasant as Homebrew Classes

[@lorenzojongste6766]

@@JohnPeacekeeper A chef. Proficient in cooking. Instead of fighting he COOKS the enemy alive. Peasant. Never...Ever...Stand in front of a peasant with a pitchfork. Those things have pierce damage you don't even wanna know x3

[@JohnPeacekeeper]

@@lorenzojongste6766 That's actually not far off The Chef does buffs and heals for days and can cleaver and pan enemies And Peasant Class is a fucking tank... That yes, is MEAN with a pitchfork xD

[@litletrickster5260]

@@lorenzojongste6766 just play artillery artificer with cooking utensils as your foci and reflavor your spells as some sort of cooking technique. Your cannons can be cauldrons

[@yourbellboy]

i have only ever played a single session of D&D, but this DM just nailed the totality of my lifetime as a Monk

[@jeremiahsmith916]

This is literally the life of a low level monk 😂 (And after lvl5 it’s the same but the fist now has a “stun” written on it in sharpie)

[@roanoke7551]

dude same.

[@droideka1890]

I. CAST. FIST. *quivering palm*

[@jeremiahsmith916]

@@droideka1890 this makes monks sound like street-smart version of wizards, and honestly, I'm here for this

[@xellanchaos5386]

Falcawn... PAWNCH!

[@Bhaliack]

Ive played barbarian so many times at this point im cursed, every time ive tried playing a different class, the campaign unexpectedly ends for whatever reason. The dms ive had both find it funny when i submit knowing that im just accepting my fate as barbarian but they always worry because i make the most unpredictable monster of a character, one moment im gulping down every stew on a table, the next im blabering on about my plot to kill asmodues because i think it would be funny if i somehow managed to pull off the impossible. One moment im meerly working in a tavern, the next im half way in the process to becoming a lich whilst living in a equivalent to a porta potty. Mmm then there was a time where i had an npc companion who died and my dm enforced the fact that they arent relevant to the story and they are gone for good, so my half orc thought it wise to win a fighting tournament to gain popularity, then find someone who could send me to the astral plane so i could blindly float around trying to find a way to avernus which i assumed was where my companion was (who i knew for only a few ingame days). I eventually found my way there, having abandoned everyone in my group, fought through all kinds of creatures including a powerful demon, only to learn that this companion was well and truely dead and there wasnt any hope in bringing him back in the first place and so i just left hell and went business as usual. Man i change when i become a barbarian, it takes over

[@Liex09]

Everything exists with its opposite, we must remember death so that we can understand the value of life, seek to live life correctly and beautifully and prepare for death in the best way. Sometimes we must remember. Transitory life.. -is the translated text //

[@SillyBilly-w7s]

I want to play a barbarian that’s traveling and writing poetry to send back to his wife, so she can sell a book with it and he can retire with her….but you’re giving me ideas .

[@Iamnotpicky]

DM: Oh, nice, a cleric to support the party and be the wise voice of reason. Cleric of light: I'll bring the light of dawn to you... oh, you're a heathen? Burn, heretic! Paladin: Bro, chill.

[@noahkrg680]

facts

[@sourbat8669]

And of course the cleric is secretly gay I'm only half joking

[@Jewish_Juggernaut]

The paladin would encourage his party to purge heretics in holy fire.

[@outbreakperfected5704]

BURN IN HOLY FIRE

[@RegenWasTaken]

As a Cleric of Light *you have no idea how accurate this is*

[@Xylarxcode]

We frequently have to 'bribe' our cleric just to keep him around and do some healing. We allow him to walk away with more than anyone else gets to loot, he allows us to do stupid things and live to talk about it. It was, perhaps unsurprisingly, one of the first lessons I learned both as a player and as a DM. It doesn't matter what you try to achieve or how prepared you are, you'll never be completely ready for all the stupid shit people wanna do and no one feels that pain more than the guy who's responsible for keeping them alive. Hence, the only way we can get someone to play any kind of healer is to stack them with more loot or face an early grave.

[@gregoryeverson741]

i do the cleric/rogue, use scolls and wands, who wants invis and haste in 1 round?

[@arvurebantra7639]

My old school (way back in D&D 3.5) grumpy ass Dwarven Cleric was so tired of the party's crap after a few sessions that the only reason he stayed to heal was because he felt that if he didn't, the entire party would either kill themselves, or kill an entire village. Can you guess which one eventually ended up happening when I missed a session?

[@Hadeshy]

First session of our current game. We saw rats. I said "I shoot an arrow" DM looked at me "Are you sure? Your physic is terrible, your character background is LITTERALY about being bad with a bow" I nodded "How else am I supposed to hunt? With magic? And burn them? Don't be ridiculous, I don't eat cooked meat. So I shoot an arrow" *roll the dice* critical failure DM: You shot the tank. He hates you now.

[@flyerton99]

@@arvurebantra7639 I feel sorry for the cartographers that had to remove the villages from the maps they've painstakingly made.

[@jeshonloonskin4176]

@@arvurebantra7639IM guessing they destroyed a village when you missed the session

[@an8strengthkobold360]

Dear my fellow DMs, please think about the implications of a player seducing a dragon. It is a beautiful opportunity for some weird Disney villain sh*t. If they seduce a dragon that doesn't change how it views them, it just desires them. A maybe it locks them in a giant bird cage to keep for their own enjoyment. a white dragon migth turn them into a ice statue to preserve their beauty. Maybe it decided to imprisons them in it's layer and treats them like a doll dressing them up for it's own amusement, get weird with it.

[@elieli2893]

I was always kind of "huh?" about the seducing a dragon-joke of how the seducer will be insta-crushed, since, y'know. Dragons are canonically great shapeshifters. They can look like whatever they please. Not to mention, they're pretty much as good at procreating with any other race as humans are, if not better. Some tiktok was talking about how bards aren't the ultimate playboys, the dragons are, and now I'm very tempted to make a dragon bard xD

[@raditzace]

@@elieli2893 the only thing that gets more sex than a bard, is a dragon bard.

[@clayxros576]

@@raditzace When a dragon decides it likes mortals, they dont hold back.

[@clayxros576]

@@InsertUsernameHere_a Assuming the party even wants to

[@banann_ducc]

Ive always seen the “I seduce” “Roll con save” “Why?” “Male dragon” Scenario floating around the internet

[@mnspstudioLOST]

"I took the liberty of filling in my own death saves while writing up my back story. There's no way I lived over wizard school. So here's that Aarakocra grappler build as my backup."

[@Liex09]

Everything exists with its opposite, we must remember death so that we can understand the value of life, seek to live life correctly and beautifully and prepare for death in the best way. Sometimes we must remember. Transitory life.. -is the translated text ///

[@Pundamental]

I'm DMing for a party that consists of a kobold swashbuckler rogue, a barbarian monk combo, a circle of the moon druid, a tempest domain cleric, and a bard. Combat is so broken I have to use cr 6-8 monsters just for a balanced fight. I feel this.

[@blackandwhitecats4243]

I'm wondering what's your own reaction after the PC's gave you the class they are playing.(:

[@jamesdosdall8391]

Dude that party sounds like a walking nuclear weapon. So much POWER! All you need now is a Paladin and you're set XD

[@OnetastyJoe]

I really enjoyed my b'onk. Its crazy how good those classes work together if you have the stats for it.

[@JW-452]

i have a similar party, they trounced my first two fights, and killed the bbeg, in zero sessoin, started at lvl 10, im pulling out the big guns, and going to start using area denial like crazy just to slow them down. im constantly afraid that they will either massacre my minions, or i will tpk them when i finally get an enemy group powerful enoght to be a threat

[@Casino220]

@@JW-452 Oh, that's spooky, yeah. If you have copies of or access to their sheets, you could singlehandedly run a test during prep for at least the big fights.

[@TheKeller101]

My DM always says not to call the Cleric just a healer. To prove a point, he told of a time he played as a Battle Priest, supposedly, his party wasn't aware of what that was or he didn't tell them. One character asked for heals during combat and he was like "No, no, I don't do that."

[@russelllahna2268]

One of my characters is a bard/rogue. Me saying "Aw, I only have a +4 to that" is a trigger phrase to make my entire group go completely feral on the Discord call.

[@Dan-fw2db]

Oath of Vengeance Paladin, very flexible on what "Lawful Good" can entail. Crucifixion is not out of the question.

[@Liex09]

Everything exists with its opposite, we must remember death so that we can understand the value of life, seek to live life correctly and beautifully and prepare for death in the best way. Sometimes we must remember. Transitory life.. -is the translated text ////

[@dhampir_days]

"alright, a healer!" me, making an offensive cleric who worships a god that thrives on blood: yeah, healer :)

[@salgutierrez4710]

They heal the enemy from living

[@derekstein6193]

@@salgutierrez4710 Death really is a cure-all. Disease? Gone. Injury? No problem. Madness? Fixed. Debt? Don't need to pay back (except student loans). Death will cure all that ails you. Get your death, today!

[@markissleepy]

I hear you. I've been pretty much the full time DM for the last 40+ years but on the rare occasion someone else DMs for a session, I almost always play clerics and not one of them has ever been healing-focused. They are just a great class in every edition and forcing them into a healing role eliminates a lot of great options. But then I have never been a big believer in the idea of balancing party roles that started developing in second edition and became a standard way of looking at the game since third edition - if everyone wants to play wizards or everyone wants to play rogues or no one wants to play those classes as DM I am totally cool with it - a big part of my job is creating opportunities for the party the players actually created to have cool adventures, not to design for some some theoretical "best" formation.

[@jacobdagun3670]

It's called "preventing future damage".

[@netsuad]

I have a half-orc war cleric, hes only gonna stop swinging and blasting to heal you if your down on the grouns

[@BlackfeatherMain]

You forgot the response to "literally anything homebrew", which is "so how exactly are you going to turn this into a min/max power trip where you do the entire campaign by yourself?"

[@Cutie_Amor]

thats just a cleric not built as a healer

[@marcgarrett4401]

Half dragon/ half giant fighter with fire breath.

[@Chaotic42Kami]

Buddy of mine invited us to play a homebrew he'd spent two years planning. He made various classes, feats, skills, items, etc. First session he had us fight his BBEG with a plan to kick all of our asses and send us to the pre-planned start of the campaing. First mistake he made: He'd rolled the BBEG instead of just making him an "immortal object". To be fair he rolled him at level 10, so our group of "new" level 1 scrubs would be completely outmatched...but, by rolling him, he gave him defined stats and a finite set of HP. Second mistake he made: Another buddy of mine and me were not particularly veteran D&D players, but are pretty good at arguing and veteran YGO players (a.k.a. Rule Lawyers) and he had sent us all a copy of the prepared classes, rules, etc. So, my buddy chose a rather bizarre homebrew class that was a sort of mix between Cleric, Druid and Bard (a.k.a. An unholy mixture that basically focused on healing and buffing and debuffing) and I chose the DMs second biggest mistake. Third mistake made (a.k.a. Second Biggest Mistake):...he made a class that was supposed to be an OP class at higher levels but with loads of demerits at lower levels that was kind of a mix of Fighter, Rogue, Monk and Barbarian. Super short-range but capable of rapid movement and short range teleports starting at level 5. However, one of his homebrew races had a racial ability that basically doubled movement speed and range at the cost of AC and restricting armors to light class and weapons to small ones. Fourth mistake made (BIGGEST MISTAKE): As his campaign story went, each of our characters started with an enchanted piece of gear, chosen by us from a list he gave us, that we would "awaken" during the campaign but could use at level 1 at a disadvantage to activate their effects, and that even once "awakened" would not always activate. Mine was a dagger that, once boiled down, could inflict "insta-kill" on enemies my level or lower or inflict "unhealable wounds" (a.k.a. 2d8 "Bleeding" dmg on a failed CON Saving Throw and half that on a successful one every turn) and a "curse" (that boiled down to a disadvantage to all Saving Rolls and a lower AC). You can probably guess where this went. Thanks to my buddy buffing and a pair of Nat 20s on activating the effect of the dagger, not to mention abyssmal luck on the DMs part when rolling the BBEG's attacks, we chipped away at his health untill he tried to disengage and my buddy activated his own "artifact", which was supposed to be an amulet that "trapped" an injured creature, fiend or undead that tried to flee from combat and could then be summoned as an add for the user or deleted to make way for a new prisoner (basically a godsdamned pokeball) and the DM rolled a Nat 20 and a Crit 1 on the Saving Throw, which he had to take seeing as the "curse" of my own artifact was still in effect. So, since he had been very specific about his BBEG being a "True Demon", ergo a fiend, we had literally caught the equivalent of Mewtwo just outside Pallet Town when we just had a lvl 5 Starter Pokemon. Needless to say we were never invited back to play D&D with him ever again.

[@TheRawrnstuff]

@@Chaotic42Kami Huh. You give someone extremely broken shit and they break the game. Weird. I must say, did _not_ see that coming.

[@CivilChev]

@@Chaotic42Kami That's easy. After letting the party create all sorts of mayhem by summoning a literal demon into the mortal realm celestials descend upon the party to give them a simple warning; "Adventurers, if you continue to summon this demon you risk destroying the seal that protects your realm from becoming conquered by outsiders. We will only ask of you once, surrender your pet or face the consequences." Of course to make things fair have them rolled using the same rules as the BBEG was but give them a couple more tricks up their sleeve like dealing insane damage to demons. If they win the combat and continue to use the demon then it opens the flood gates for more demons to start wrecking havoc. If they comply and turn the demon in, have the angels give a reward before telling the players that due to their shenanigans it's very possible lesser demons have already found a way in and it's up to the players to deal with them. Of course this was just my initial reaction after reading what happened; after thinking about it more I'm sure there are many more ways the campaign could have been saved.

[@Reddotzebra]

DM: "So how do you plan on escaping this submerged prison cell, not to mention dealing with the Aboleth guarding..." Gnome Druid: "I cast stone shape, then I cast stone shape again, and transform into a giant octopus. The Aboleth has a +20 bonus to spot me but if I settle down on the bottom and focus real hard on looking like a piece of seaweed on this rock here my bonus to hide will completely negate that, plus I can jet away with a faster swim speed than it can follow, for all time, since the rules say nothing about needing to hyperventilate to use that mode of transport, which is why octopuses prefer to slither along the seafloor in real life."

[@cloaking111]

DM: huh, learn something new every day. I believe you on your word that you can make that happen. Let's check back in with you in half an hour while the rest of the party figures this out.

[@wizwarrior5530]

I like your druid style. Ahh brings back good 2nd ed memories... thanks.

[@gingerinajacket8519]

How do you cast two spells in the same turn

[@seth_skates7336]

I love the punch in the face when The Monk comes up

[@Liex09]

Everything exists with its opposite, we must remember death so that we can understand the value of life, seek to live life correctly and beautifully and prepare for death in the best way. Sometimes we must remember. Transitory life.. -is the translated text //

[@The.Nasty.]

You literally can’t avoid combat with a Barbarian… I remember my DM trying to talk me out of attacking a giant hand that was sticking out of the ground… I ignored all his pleas, struck the hand, it turned out to be a small part of a dark god, and I was immediately turned into a statue. My group carried me around in the bag of holding and made fun of me for like 3 sessions.

[@yourneighborhoodxenos]

Yeah... I play Pathfinder and I GM some games, but I chose my first barbarian class a few years into playing TTRPGs, going with the 3rd Party "Wolfshifter" barb class, which basically takes a standard Barbarian, adds some shifting aspects of nature classes, and turns your Rage Ability into a type of "werewolf" transformation... She also rolled 2 stats below 10, which I shoved right into INT and CHA... I justify it all with a "raised by wolves" backstory. Between her sheer stupidity, lack of understanding of society and other people, and her being an absolute unit from LVL1, she has caused more than a few issues in-game, but the table loves our party's dynamic. I actually murked a very awesome Silver dragon as her, despite knowing as a player that they're good, because she (and me as a player) had no idea it had helped another Player Party in the same universe, so when she saw the dragon transform in the town fountain from a fish, she just went for it solo with no questions asked. Now that is her water bowl, and she calls herself the "protector" of that town for "rescuing" them 💀

[@RomanvonUngernSternbergnrmfvus]

@@yourneighborhoodxenos I play a dwarf axe idiot it’s mostly just a Barbadian with spiky armor but it’s simple concept can be pretty useful. we had to home brew stronger and better spikes but that aside, covering the armor in poison/holy water and other interesting stuff kept it viable and made anything that tried to do melee with me think twice. Sadly I am the forever Gn now, I miss my axe welding hedge hog dwarf. He was from a hill clan thanks to his ancestor bringing dishonor to the clan and could speak the language of demons as well as common. The fact he could speak to a wild beholder was a bit too funny, the fact my guy could brew booze that gave off light and made mushroom clouds when ignited was even funnier, the fact I created a brewing cartel and over threw a lord with a int of 7 was something I’ll laugh about till I die.

[@jonathanwells223]

Really, no saving throw? What an asshole.

[@The.Nasty.]

@@jonathanwells223 I actually passed the saving throw… that’s why I was a statue, instead of being incinerated immediately upon touching the hand 😅

[@rajder656]

as someone who barely just had their first session a barbarian in our group within first hour almost start 2 fights with the villager (and lost a fight with a chicken )

[@hunterfay9817]

The artificer one just gets me every time, especially since it’s inevitable that an artificer player will attempt to dominate the world with magic warfare

[@sethb3090]

My artificer isn't like that. What he IS like is a spell sniper artillerist with enough CC to hit an adult dragon for three or four rounds before it can even get into breath weapon range, let alone melee range.

[@hunterfay9817]

At times I forget how horrifying the artillerist truly is in the right hands

[@lorenzojongste6766]

Meanwhile a warlock in my team made a deal with demons is the mafia leader of pirates is tied with murders wants to overthrow the nobility as a noble themselfs (they want to stop noble's from ruling so revolution!) And meawhile Is a loving mother who keeps the daughter safe (which is my character they adopted)

[@kayleighshikari161]

Hehehe my artificer is an alchemist who's basically just become the city doctor and is a pacifist lol. He's been spending the past few weeks just curing a plague.

[@dull_demon4717]

@@lorenzojongste6766 sounds about right for what I imagine a warlock mother to be

[@jaimetheone9150]

A Rogue and a Cleric enter the tavern... DM: Leaves the room.

[@Cpt.Str4ng3]

Cleric and Rogue after shit goes down; Lets give them another minute.

[@c.b.-]

My first cleric was multiclass cleric/rogue, alignment neutral-evil. Problem is the party never caught on to the alignment, so they never understood why loot went missing and prisoners kept dying in captivity. Such a shame.. luckily the party's wizard was a necromancer so the skeletons were put to good use. 😁 It took an amazing amount of _good-characters-not-paying-attention_ for that group to hold together.

[@perl7789]

Reminds me of my first character. A halfling druid named Rose (yes, I know, unoriginal, but my favorite game at the Time was The Legend of the Dragoon). My first campaign, our DM asked who would lead into the dungeon, and I said I would (I was only 15 at the time). Ten minutes in, and I get told to roll for a grapple. A great horned minotaur came charging out if the wall. I rolled a 20. The minotaur went back through the wall holding his private parts, leaving a ball hanging off my helm. She was, and still is, my favorite character. I just turned 32 a few months ago.

[@BobBob-qq9xn]

Aren’t druids so fun bro!? It’s always good to see others who like them too hehe

[@Liex09]

Everything exists with its opposite, we must remember death so that we can understand the value of life, seek to live life correctly and beautifully and prepare for death in the best way. Sometimes we must remember. Transitory life.. -is the translated text //

[@SillyBilly-w7s]

I’ve only ever played dnd once, and I didn’t finish the campaign.(DM was living with us at the time, moved away) but there’s a group at the library that I am quite excited to try out my goblin druid on lol. (He eats anything, everything, and whatever is around. Will probably have him cannabalize someone)

[@waterdrinker90]

At this point, I'm just happy when player pick a class/race from the core books without a perfectly min/maxed plan to multiclass and be good at everything.

[@rudelwolf1591]

i get min maxing when it comes to combat, but i find it extremely boring when it comes to roleplay. I never understand why some people want to run the campaign by themselves. I had that happen to me once, because the other players were pretty shy newcomers to D&D, so i was kinda forced to run the party, even though i tried my best to include them. and it got pretty boring very fast. i mean, the whole point is having a diverse party, with different characters good at different things. If i want to do everything myself, i could just play a typical rpg.

[@proffesionalidiot5994]

Um...

[@kernunnos]

@@rudelwolf1591 Um...

[@mlmn3080]

What's the point of playing a character who isn't good at what they're supposed to be good at?

[@DDespicable]

What do ppl not roleplay with their min max characters? I have a bunch of min max ideas I want to play and I plan to role play with them.

[@claytone.9706]

"Oh a Sorcerer huh?" "No, you can't have Fireball at Level 1"

[@Morzi23]

wild magic sorcerer: yes i can... wait, why is it coming to me?

[@HaydenX]

"Oh...a bard. Interesting choice for my Goblin Mines campaign. Quick question: What exactly is 'Affinity: Shortstacks' and why is it written on your character sheet?"

[@ocal123]

lol

[@TheTdroid]

Oh no...

[@thecluckster3908]

Wait what does that mean?

[@jordananderson2728]

@@thecluckster3908 the Bard has a skill/advantage for fucking greenies, if I'm understanding properly.

[@cooltrainervaultboy-39]

@@jordananderson2728 what if these are more akin to the Goblin Slayer goblins?

[@Kat_dragon]

0:25 accurate. I’m a cleric, and I am a healer.

[@VivaLaDnDLogs]

Foolproof plan to get the Cleric to hate their party: introduce them to the party.

[@waitwhat1029]

Truth

[@lorenzojongste6766]

My cleric is loved.

[@luciaanna407]

I'm playing a fighter-warlock so the "NO YOU CAN'T HAVE A SHORT REST YET" hit me good

[@johnathanmartin1504]

It hits with moon druids too at low levels (that's how you get your wildshapes back).

[@Greyshadow_17]

Understandable, same here but with just the Warlock lol

[@billykid6745]

Player: *gives Mystic character sheet* DM: Right let's see oh *reads character sheet* congratulations you are the DM now

[@shadowbrookshire2832]

As a bloodhunter I felt this in my soul

[@Liex09]

Everything exists with its opposite, we must remember death so that we can understand the value of life, seek to live life correctly and beautifully and prepare for death in the best way. Sometimes we must remember. Transitory life.. -is the translated text //

[@azoth9875]

So someone in the group I'm in created a character they nicknamed 'Beyblade' for a one-shot. It was a Gnome Fighter that duel wielded greatswords and whose preferred method of attacking was spinning. I'd say a good fifth or so of the one-shot was spent with them rolling for damage, just because of the sheer number of times they could attack. I can't remember specifics, only that it was a _lot_ of d6's. My memory of it is hazy, but I vaguely remember it being some 20+ d6's per turn from them.

[@django3422]

... in 5e? Or an older edition?

[@azoth9875]

​@@django3422 Yeah it was 5e. I'm very new to DnD so I have no idea whether it was actually an allowed build, or if it was just allowed because it was a silly one-shot.

[@django3422]

@@azoth9875 Allowed is a term very open to interpretation with D&D. But yeah, that's some ridiculous homebrew. Fine in a daft one shot, causes issues in campaigns.

[@joehicks929]

@@django3422 tbf you can hit more than 20d6's in a turn without homebrew pretty easily, duel wielding greatswords sounds wild but the actual dmg doesnt sound insane

[@django3422]

@@joehicks929 Duel wielding greatswords just flat out isn't possible without homebrew, so there's that. I'd also disagree that it's "easy" to be achieving that level of damage. Sure, it's quite possible for some classes to go nova and deal 150 or more damage with a single crit. But it requires specific builds, investment and time to get to such a point.

[@DeathTheManiac]

The wizard one hit too hard. I was always one hit away from death in every single fight since our rogue (the only one who ever noticed enemies beforehand) never told the party of them, which resulted in us getting ambushed. Which somehow almost always resulted in me getting hit and surviving barely, the rest of the fights were spent far away as possible. Or I never even got to fight, like the one time we infiltrated a ship, a drunk pirate accidentally hit me as I was climbing aboard and he fell with me to the water, now, we had water walking on so I didn't actually sink entirely but the pirate did try to drag me down regardless... and managed to grapple me at the same time. So the whole fight I kept being dragged underwater where I almost drowned and then the water walking would overpower the weight of both of us and pull us over the surface, rinse and repeat until i managed to kill him after an epic battle.... only to find out that the rest of the party had cleared the ship a long time ago and were just watching and betting on which one of us would win.

[@admirali.a.6175]

damn

[@supriseddragon6737]

I'm sorry but that's hilarious, I couldn't help but laugh.

[@noisepollution4473]

yeah I just imagined a wizard and a pirate trying sloppily to drown each other as the wizard's spell keeps activating and making it all futile and that is an incredible image

[@arvurebantra7639]

Ok ok but at the same time... THAT WIZARD WAS A BADASS? Like yeah it sucks that he kept getting whacked and put into those scenarios... but also he actually survived that? No seriously that's actually its own weird badassery.

[@jonanderirureta8331]

How could you not know what were the rest of the party doing? Aren't you all in the same room??

[@Deadpool-ri3rq]

The "you're attacking how many times now?" got me because it's so true fighter is underrated

[@petrusv8752]

fighter is basic, not weak. sometimes people forget that.

[@hazukichanx408]

Greater cleave, was it? Where you kill a foe, then get another attack from that, which in turn grants another attack if it also kills a foe, until you run out of foes within your weapon's reach... My kind of class, really.

[@argos-ir7zn]

@@petrusv8752 the sword is rly basic the pointy side in the enemy cheast, and works all the times,plus yo can learn magic and..tachan you sword now is a light saber

[@rudelwolf1591]

@@petrusv8752 so true. I mean, while the ranger really isn't all that great, the main reason he seems so weak is because fighter can use basically all his features with ranged weapons. a fighter with a bow just deals way more damage then any ranger can.

[@jackhilton4285]

​@@petrusv8752u can play battle Master it has some useful combos like features that monk have.

[@tomerorlevi1673]

Sorcerer: you say my power isn't urned, I say it's natural talent

[@Liex09]

Everything exists with its opposite, we must remember death so that we can understand the value of life, seek to live life correctly and beautifully and prepare for death in the best way. Sometimes we must remember. Transitory life.. -is the translated text /////

[@thatcrazyguyeveryonelikes4197]

Dm: "Rangers can track, guide, and find food and water for the party." Me: "So can a minotaur with his racial abilities. Now I rage and gore the goblins."

[@firestorm165]

I'm looking at the stats right now, they have horns, goring rush and hammering horns. Nothing to do with anything you just said

[@adameves5970]

Yeah, we have a minotaur in our group. It's nothing like you described.

[@thatcrazyguyeveryonelikes4197]

I was thinking about 3.5e minotaurs. So they cant find food and water, which I thought they could. But they can track, can't get lost, and are never caught flat footed.

[@amateurishauthor2202]

Better yet, you can pick the Outlander Background and have it covered TWICE over

[@SophiaAphrodite]

Who allows a minotaur as a pc?

[@slanner1894]

I mean, the seducing thing can be taken care of by taking a roll into context. Ie., if the player rolls to persuade the Emperor to give you their throne (assuming the players have not done anything to set it up so this actually makes sense) a high roll means that the emperor thinks it’s a very funny joke and decides not to kill you. Also mages are quite survivable if played well.

[@MurasakiTsukimaru]

Me: "I'm actually your long lost (checks king's age) brother! Don't you remember me?!" King: "Hahahaha! You know, I do need a new court jester. The pay's rather good."

[@propheinx2250]

For the love of god, don't try to persuade a king for his kingdom if you've a noble born backstory. There's no way a king could take that as a joke.

[@dennisddt1146]

Yep, that's the way I describe it myself.

[@basmbee4325]

I personally like playing Eladrin wizards, as the dex and int boost are no joke early game, and misty step can get you out of a sticky situation pretty easily. Let's you survive long enough to get a few more spells, like spider climb which let you stay out of the way for most damage. The one long campaign I played, I had a level 20 wizard with misty step for his second level at-will. I could keep out of reach of basically anyone. Worst case worse, at will magic missile, run, and teleport. Over and over and over.

[@newtonianlaw3249]

…. And seduction just makes a person want to sleep with you… not that it will happen immediately… and especially in combat, after they broke into the creatures house

[@natedog1433]

“Wait, how many times do you attack him?” “Yes” “Ok, well I guess he’s dead.”

[@blockeontheleafeon]

"Do you plan on being so Lawful Good that you actually hurt everything around you?" Well yes, but actually no.

[@tempusimperious5962]

>Artificer >wants to make a nuke >clearly hasn’t watched enough anime to know that there’s better solutions, such as a cyborg terrasque

[@AzraelThanatos]

That's better than the reaction the DM had to the alchemist artificer in one group I played with. His ideas made nukes seem far tamer and was more into skipping the N on the NBC threat card, and researched far to much of it to have the rest of the party be comfortable there.

[@tempusimperious5962]

@@AzraelThanatos what kind of weapon did your artificer want to make??

[@AzraelThanatos]

@@tempusimperious5962 He kind of went into the biological and chemical nightmare scenario...starting with irritants and trying to weaponize a lot of nightmare crap. At one point he was trying to convince the DM that his character could create ebola...

[@tempusimperious5962]

@@AzraelThanatos jesus that guy sounds messed up

[@AzraelThanatos]

@@tempusimperious5962 It was...I was extremely glad when he stopped showing up for games.

[@mcdoogles2495]

As a DM, I am always excited for a few classes: Warlock - Because I LOVE playing with patrons and really tugging at the strings of the party's overall goals and the warlock's duty to serve whatever messed up entity they contracted with. Cleric: I love being able to include religious context into my campaigns and so many great RP moments come out of it. Barbarian: Because I love to improv on the spot, and with a barb in the party, you never really know whether a benign, friendly encounter will suddenly break out into combat. Or just go so hilariously sideways that any preconceived notions you once had for how the conversation will likely go is just thrown out the window.

[@StudleyDuderight]

I don't play D&D but it sounds like playing a cleric is like playing a medic in Squad, or being a medic in the real world. You'll never meet a more jaded and overworked group.

[@settingsun5582]

Imagine a medic, which can DECIMATE the opponents, and everyone outside the field thinks that they are just heal bots, even though they can do immense damage. That is basically cleric.

[@StudleyDuderight]

@@settingsun5582 Maybe I'm reading it wrong, but it looks like you got offended by my comparisons.

[@ambrosiogiovanni6952]

It's mostly because Clerics aren't healers. Clerics are the D&D most OP class, they can fight decent, they can nuke, etc... Depends on build. The class was nerfed on 5e, but it's still pretty powerful.

[@joshuagross3151]

Worse. They're also typically uber-religious.

[@Roadkill3333]

"NO YOU CAN'T HAVE A SHORT REST YET" This is so accurate

[@Liex09]

Everything exists with its opposite, we must remember death so that we can understand the value of life, seek to live life correctly and beautifully and prepare for death in the best way. Sometimes we must remember. Transitory life.. -is the translated text //

[@Roadkill3333]

@@Liex09 w h a t

[@MarxSoul2001]

Fighters are underrated. Sure, they may not get any **fancy magic** or anything, but they sure are damn good at what they do. And what they do is hit things until they die (and tank damage). "Wait, you attack how many time?" indeed....

[@ogre589]

I believe the phrase "HIT IT VERY HARD" comes to mind.

[@izaakburningham3188]

And then you get the Eldritch Knight for if you STILL want that fancy magic. Fireball anyone?

[@ESparkAster]

Fighters at every session of D&D EVER: We hit it very hard many times!

[@Jagermeizer]

I play an arcane archer fighter, with skills such as grappling, burst, curve, necrotic arrows are just a few of the list. I also have a third arm legendary item that lets me perform another bonus action or attack.. although I need to roll 1D6 and if I land a 6 then I roll a 1D12. Based on those results something bad happens. I took my own eye out one time. And another my third arm just started throwing my items around the field.

[@shythespider5126]

"Fighter is underrated" The most commonly used class I do still agree that fighters have a bit of a bum rep but they sure as hell aint "underrated"

[@Dracas42]

"Oh he just throws it back for the real ones..." got me good xD Also I feel that "Oh you made a backup wizard aaand his three failed death saves are already filled in!"

[@rileyodonnell8867]

I don't get it.

[@CancerCowboy420]

Same. Throws what back?

[@Alegrog]

Sleepily laying in bed getting ready to fall asleep. Out of no where Monk punch scares the shit out of me.

[@ahstiasummers5583]

When I had my party go against an incubus, I had the incubus charm the party Barbarian against them. It was fun to turn the party DPS against their allies

[@jadedandbitter]

That's gay bro

[@Sabrina_Tea]

@@jadedandbitteri mean its an incubus a literal sex demon

[@alexisauld7781]

@@jadedandbitter Oh no! Anyway~

[@Liex09]

Everything exists with its opposite, we must remember death so that we can understand the value of life, seek to live life correctly and beautifully and prepare for death in the best way. Sometimes we must remember. Transitory life.. -is the translated text //

[@MizantropMan]

As a beginner DM, I really disliked how the warlock my close friend was playing had so few spell slots on paper. So what I did? But of course, I made it so the reward for finishing the very first adventure was a set of indestructible gauntlets that cannot be removed and grant an additional 5th level spell, in addition to talking to him in a voice only he could hear and constantly whispering to "let go". Because what could possibly go wrong?

[@cjchess1]

as a warlock myself, I thank you on behalf of all warlocks. You will be the last one sacrificed.

[@talltroll7092]

Wait, Warlocks have spell slots? What are they for, casting powered up Eldritch Blasts, or something?

[@manuelbardina]

@@talltroll7092 they're for sorlocks to get more points for quickened eldritch blast. And nothing else

[@lovisericachii4503]

must be 1 broken warlock... considering machine gun eld. blast build with pact of tome -> book of secrets. Also, hexblade is a thing...

[@user_.b]

@@talltroll7092 they're for turning invisible