How I Do Character Creation in D&D

[@MADMEKWURRWAZZA]

Gunslinger turns into slinger

[@midnamidnightwhisper7529]

I mean, that's historically accurate in terms of how deadly slings were

[@The_Yukki]

Character idea... gunslinger but they sling guns

[@Azimii]

@@The_Yukki cassidy from overwatch has a voice line about that

[@oz_jones]

Beat me to it

[@MagiofAsura]

Slings are pretty crazy in real life. David and Goliath is kinda unfair if David is at range with a sling and a rock.

[@AirYosukekun]

Thinking quickly, my character is able to make a makeshift gun using only a stick, some horse hair, and a gun

[@Fella_friend]

Or better yet style the gun as a mechanicalized sling shot the artificer crafted by using an infusion to make a piece of wood vibrate which pushes the gear to coc the string back and shoot out a stone ball bearing. Boom ancient gun slinger, give them magical weapon gains through carved tunes and blessings as the dm

[@travisperkins9920]

Calm down Dave.

[@okkoheinio5139]

​@@Fella_friend a crossbow but slingshot. a crossslingshot?

[@Chara_Dreemurr1]

​@@okkoheinio5139hello dapper snek

[@CreativityNull]

So Anti-Macguyver?

[@jamiemellor2871]

'Unless you have a really good way to justify it' *rolls nat 20 persuasion*

[@macewindu3492]

*slowly hands the DM a bag of chips*

[@adamsharp9081]

​@@macewindu3492 what kind of chips

[@thespaceman8231]

@@adamsharp9081only the best 😘

[@The_scrongler1978]

@The Spaceman so pringles

[@Infiniteomnitrix]

​@@The_scrongler1978 no spicy lays are number 1

[@alphathehedgehogx96]

I am playing a Twilight Cleric And I can entirely understand why DMs would ban them

[@TheAusar]

I have one in a mini campaign at level 3, and my encounter balance was a bit off, when I noticed, once per short rest this guy can nullify the damage of my creatures, if i spread it, for an entire encounter. I am going to have to adjust to that.

[@RocKaFella57]

They are bullshit lol

[@CharaDreemurr_TheyThem]

My DM allows anything lol Peace cleric here, that can also fly-

[@nerochaos99]

I can see why it gets banned, but I don't because it's not that big of a deal.

[@lorenzomariasantini]

I am too and is not really broken. Onestly is just a cleric. I do not get why is banned. Not joking and looking for a serious explanation

[@sovest555]

I mean, a prehistoric Gunslinger would likely be an ace with a sling...

[@TheAusar]

That's just a slinger, without the gun.

[@sovest555]

@@TheAusar I mean, isn't that the point for that setting?

[@Fella_friend]

Or they use two cross bows that shoot bearing and they’ve crafted a crank on the side for the reload. Or there an artificer and infused a small fire spell to create combustion in a stick of bamboo

[@DanielMWJ]

​@@Fella_friendcranks are too advanced for prehistory. Even sinew ballistas are from the ancient historical era.

[@Fella_friend]

@@DanielMWJ cranks could work though for fantasy history. After all you have things like nimblewrites

[@svenabel2987]

For some reason I just has this scenario in my head where a player walks up to you asking about greenlighting some homebrew so you're like "okay no problem, which one do you want?", and the player is like "okay so I found this really cool content creator..." and they show you something from Laserllama or Kibblestasty and you are like "bitch what about my work???" (Bonus points If you make it into a skit with a french rant at the end)

[@MonkeyDM]

to be fair both these guys are great creator, and I hired Kibbles to help me on my book steinhardt's haha

[@svenabel2987]

@@MonkeyDM agreed, can't wait for both Steinhardt's and Kibbles' Kickstarter stuff to finally arrive

[@joshuaguzman6211]

The prehistoric gunslinger could actually be a Battlesmith who stumbled on some strange black powder and used it to make a shoddy boomstick.

[@adrher1999]

A gunslinger that uses that one pistol from Rust that you keep hammering a rock onto until it shoots

[@ajjessen5236]

"If we are playing in a prehistoric setting don't bring a gunslinger" Captain Kirk: "And I took that personally."

[@bonzwah1]

IMO, if the twilight cleric is the only support character in the group, then it’s not toxic. It’s only toxic because it often invalidates support features from other characters. But I’ve got a twilight cleric in my campaign and my players have a good dynamic where they seem to consider the twilight cleric’s features as “our features” and it’s actually really fun for everyone if you have one super powerful support character. The only Person it’s unfun for is another support character who is being overshadowed

[@galdeveer]

It would be cool to see a flying race where their wings are their arms meaning they can't use items while flying.

[@dm_curt]

Aaracokra, if you use the Fiend Folio art.

[@Godzillawolf1]

I think one way to bypass broken things is to give inuniverse and incharacter reasons to limit them until the other characters catch up. I'm playing an Aarakocra in my Dragonlance Campaign, but we gave her a character reason not to fly too often early on (she's a gravekeeper, a profession that requires her being on the ground and in caves a lot, and thus makes her uncanny valley to her species, so she covers her wings and rarely showed them). She never actually flew openly until level 4 despite us starting at level 1, and at present in the campaign, she's only spent one combat flying, and it was to do nothing a character couldn't have done by climbing around in the forest canopy (in fact our Arcane Fighter was also up there the entire combat). The agreement with the DM was that I don't use her flight openly until level 5, when the Fly spell would be available, which seemed fair as we're using post nerf Aarakocra. Not only did this keep her balanced, but it also resulted in her spreading her wings and flying openly for the first time a big moment.

[@raptorokc]

Always thought it's interesting that a lot of dms ban flying races.

[@nicmalugin9287]

There difficult to work around and it’s something a lvl five wizard can do for an hour Infinitely at lvl 1

[@adamb7505]

My Dm allows them but makes it so you cant abuse it. Right now im playing a Druid Owlin Healer and its amazing.

[@sulfur3684]

its either you dont have the enemies able to target them or the player will complain about enemies targeting them

[@JuanCarlos-qr9gd]

In my party we almost never play variant human or we never chose the most broken subclasses (we even play mostly martials cause are the ones we enjoy the most), but still we tend to power creep the campaign with magic items, pacts with gods, etc.

[@Fella_friend]

Made a gunslinger with 3 levels in artificer and he made his guns but as a mechanical contraption to heat up metal pushing the gear to sling out a stone ball bearing. Fun time

[@Akari-br7ci]

I mean technically you could make a type of gun in a prehistoric setting, if you have some black powder and some kind of casing. Obviously not as presice or powerful as pistol but it technically works.

[@nmf0]

I don't ban anything anymore because I'm too soft and give cool stuff to my players and it breaks the game anyway. But hey, they like it and as long as we're all having fun that's not a problem.

[@nmf0]

Might still consider banning silvery barbs because that spell kinda makes combat more boring imo. Thought I'll discuss this with my players first.

[@coreymeredith4001]

​@@nmf0 Just give your enemies silvery barbs, give them a taste of their own medicine lol

[@howlindamusic4948]

@@coreymeredith4001 please no lol had to go through that with my party

[@HurtboxTV]

Only thing I ever banned as a first time GM was lucky. Other than that it was cool, went with a cool stat rolling method and had fun playing with a group of strong characters

[@wearegeekoclock]

@@nmf0 At my table we just nerfed it so that they have to use the new roll, not the lowest.

[@buildawall5803]

Having a +17 like in bg3 is so fun at level 4 i get 20 in any stat thx auntie Such a petal

[@MrThejunkman]

I have found that rolling stats individually can lead to unbalanced builds so I just up the standard array or roll stats and give every player the same number block. Let them put a +2/+1 or +1/+1/+1 whenever they want so that they don’t have to worry about “oh no my half orc isn’t great for playing wizard”

[@archertreloar4806]

In Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, one of the expansion books, it actually begins with rules about Customising Your Origin, which does the exact stat-changing for races thing you described, as well as other stuff like changing skill proficiencies. It’s pretty cool!

[@DrackenSlayer]

My group came up with the idea of everyone individually rolls one set of 4d6 (drop the lowest number) and those become our stats. We still get the fun of rolling for stats and everyone comes out with the same base statline

[@bulldozer8950]

What my group has done is we roll, but anyone can use any of the stats rolled. If any of the numbers are really high sometimes we’ll bring it down (ie no numbers below 12, or double 17s or something. We learned this after the very first time we played when I, and I’m not shitting you, rolled like 18, 16, 16, 14, 12, 12. That bard could do anything with ease.)

[@Sh1ranu1]

I usually start at lvl 4 So I run point-buy [6,16] so you can have the +2 race and +2 from lvl 4 And have a sort of item list where you can take on disabilities to use points to buy magic items

[@bl4q1c3]

last time I DM'd, I had 1 rule that was more important than the others, but it was fair for everyone. "we start at level 3". this way, you get what you need and what you've learned, and it's a nice way to get to level 5 in a few short quests and / or side quests. another rule was, if you're gonna bring snacks, make sure you bring enough for everyone else. most parties thought that was stupid, but others had fun with it, even putting it into the gameplay on our long/short rests. stay frosty!

[@donaldhanning1359]

I'm my group's DM & Twilight Cleric is my FAVOURITE Cleric subclass 😂

[@rowanbowers5743]

The Gunslinger "I see, we're in the viking Era." "INDEED!"

[@ITSJUSTMEFORNOW]

That runescape music still slaps

[@benjaminmoloney4719]

I normally have all stats start at 0, then say it's a 79 point buy with each point being worth 1 point, with a max of 20 in any stat. They also get the 3 extra points to stats from Tasha's rules lol I don't limit anything, and if anything seems broken, I'll actually buff other players to make sure everyone feels powerful. And at this point, I plan for the campaign to run up to level 30 where I'll just tell the PCs to multiclass however they want

[@mroffice8166]

Me, loving Aarakockra and birds in general: YOU HAVE TAKEN EVERYTHING FROM ME

[@eliyoutuber2770]

Kenku

[@mroffice8166]

@@eliyoutuber2770 Kenu are legitmetly annoyibg as shit to play tho. I wnana be able to talk normally, and not instanlty become the meme character of the group

[@stonelion99]

​@@mroffice8166 Then talk normally. Maybe it was gifted a voice in return for a favor by a powerful being. Maybe it just, has a voice, no explanation needed.

[@mroffice8166]

@@stonelion99 Dat is not how my GM rolls, he likes lore accuracy for the races. Since it is like a genetational giga curse on the kenku yo be like that, I doubt he would allow such a thing at low level to mid (which is where flying at lv 1 is an issue)

[@purplexus]

@@mroffice8166I’m pretty sure, as of MPMM, Kenku lore has been changed so they are able to talk and think like any other race. They just have very good mimicry, forgery, and memory skills.

[@idcgaming518]

Id play an artificer for that ancient campaign, and just dr stone my way through things.

[@SkillfulLim3]

What is the rework human? Just curious for future

[@MonkeyDM]

I'll make a video about it :)

[@SkillfulLim3]

@@MonkeyDM very much appreciated!

[@dominicleclerc1343]

I personnally remove variant human or races. Take basic human and don’t allow any feats at character creation. Humans can get a feat at their first ASI, any other species at their second.

[@Mystibump]

@@dominicleclerc1343 So... you nerf everyone because VHuman is so good?

[@SortableCrayon3]

@@MonkeyDM When is the reworked human video coming out? I can't find it anywhere on your channel

[@martymartin5302]

I remember I was in a campaign and someone was a gunslinger. As it turns out, the Chinese actually developed a very early version of a gun. It didn’t fire bullets, but crossbow bolts. It was called the Chinese hand cannon. My DM allowed this, but the weapon had to be a rifle type, as rifles have less ammo and longer reloads than other guns of the fighter gunslinger.

[@jonathonmulka8735]

I say the same exact stuff to my players with the exception of flying races. Personally I don't think they are broken unless they are abused which goes for everything in dnd. :p

[@AlexPeter9582]

As someone who is such a Forever DM that I have yet to play DnD as a Player…yeah, this helps with the inter/post-session headaches.

[@jonnyofalltrades6620]

As a DM myself, the advice has been heeded.

[@littlebigbiddy]

Started a new 5e campaign and was looking to play monk. The subclass way of the ascendant dragon caught my eye and I immediately had an image if a graybeard like background. But they give you the opportunity to change your damage type to poison, lightning, fire, acid, or ice at level three as well as giving you a once per turn dragon breath. Absolutely insanity.

[@starhalv2427]

As long as players are equal in roleplay, they don't have to be equal with stats

[@alainsmoors4956]

In the group i play in we use point buy, but we add a rule to give a feat and the score on the increase levels. It makes the characters versatile and a bit stronger. It also gives the opportunity to get 2 20's in stats at later levels to make most characters hard hitting but not lacking in other stats.

[@CHKW100]

Any changes to custom lineage considering it gives a feat as well? Also chronurgy wizard completely outclasses other wizards, any thoughts to that?

[@Sephiroth517]

How about forcing that bonus feat to be selected in a list you, as the party's dm, created and which essentialy only containt the feat that have no straight impact in fights. So, if taking PHB feats only, the list could include Athlete, Actor, Dungeon Delver, Durable, Healer, Keen Mind, Linguist, Mobile, Observant, Skilled, Tough and Weapon Master. Would still provide a variety of upgrades, just not the most impactful combat-wise...

[@geeg178]

Even the characters you are attached to might slowly be tortured and have their mental state deteriorate as they are forced to watch all of their friends and family slowly die Infront of them and then they get released after you put the idea that they could have saved them into their mind so they live on with guilt and trauma thinking that it's all their fault as you sit back and watch them slowly go more and more insane until eventually they snap

[@sanechsanech7798]

Hi! How do you reworked "variant human"? i think it is something interesting😊

[@zombotany3443]

I imagine incorporating the gun slinger would be something like this. (Name) is from the future and is a seasoned battle veteran. After hundreds of battles won, they grew bored. They tried giving themselves a handicap, but they would still get bored at some point. So they went to the past to see if they could take on prehistoric creatures, taking only 50 bullets and one shotgun shell in case of an emergency as their handicap. Running out of ammo would mean using alternatives, like pistol whips or making slings to be a sling slinger! Though, the cost of time travel was all their battle experience, they still have their memories of the strategies they used in battle. Something like that.

[@TheCrafterHero]

oooh im interested in the different version of variant human now. How does it work?

[@rulynewt1492]

I feel like the most important thing said here is “we are all playing for fun, DM included” because I feel like that sentence is normally uttered when players are being unfair to each other or rules want to be “tweaked”. I feel like being a DM is weird. I haven’t DMed a lot but it feels like a group of friends looking at you and you having the task to provide for them, so to speak. This idea actually gave me the idea to include some stuff into my games where I myself are involved too. I’m still new to DMing and I find what I was doing fun but I feel like the gameplay was focused way more on the players than the DM and maybe instead on 90-10 I’ll split it 25-75 assuming I have however many players. I love the idea of RPing and want to create irl interactive content for me and my players

[@tshirt_]

I ban all that you said with the addition of chronurgy wizard. that shit's busted. and by doing that I also give players a reason to choose graviturgy (or transmutation which I allow) wizards for the dunamancy spell list.

[@dominustin5926]

I completely agree, I’ve banned Chronurgy in my games too

[@nicolipeacock3413]

It depends on what level you're playing to. Up to level 10 chronurgy wizards are powerful but not broken. Once they reach level 10 however...

[@wearegeekoclock]

I don't ban anything that can be reworked

[@tshirt_]

@@wearegeekoclock I'm against reworking existing subclasses, at least I'm against nerfing them. I'm scared to make them too bad. I like buffing other things for my players though

[@brianswope6323]

ohhh your one of those dms

[@SpinX522]

Time traveling gunslinger

[@Tsequiri]

I'm curious as to why peace cleric is banned for you? It's strong, but not gamebreaking in my opinion.

[@teaz3139]

You can stack it with Bless, the Autognome or Halfling pseudo-lucky feats, and Lucky itself. As well as Portent.

[@MonkeyDM]

If you want a full breakdown of why, you can read it here: rpgbot.net/ban-5es-peace-domain/

[@purp4168]

I didn't know 20s weren't allowed, so I managed to get 18 in strength and 20 dex, but my other stats were 10s, so it balanced. Except I was a monk, so had amazing attack and defense.

[@DontHurtMeSir]

If you're a monk, why waste your 18 on STR instead of WIS or even CON

[@orelyosif5852]

Wait, Peace Cleric? Why they though? They aren't that broken

[@manospd3351]

wait for the peace cleric to cast bless and have a familiar that can store up a spell and your party giving it Bless too... Also, the channel divinity with haste on them is broken

[@hipopotamodata9932]

​@@manospd3351dude banning the familiar casting bless is easier making 2d4 what is not that crazy considering this is one of the only things he can do and takes 2 actions to do so Also makes impossible to use in the holl party because is your proficiency bonus And you can use the channel divinity just once right? When you use the action for balm of peace u can heal 2d6+wisdom just for that turn even if you can heal all the party using haste still is not that big And u can accidentally heal a enemy

[@hipopotamodata9932]

Even if it is 3d4 that would be just for 3 party members what is pretty good but also balance because protected bound even though is interesting, is also really depends of the situation

[@waleedbaidas281]

The way my DM handles flying races is that until a certain level (For us level 3 but it’s up to your DM of course) the character is only allowed to use their wings for gliding, maybe helping them dodge an attack and controlling themselves if they fall. Until they reach the predetermined level they are to weak or in proficient with their wings yet to use them to fly completely. I think this works well for us at least, my friend who I got into dnd made an aarakocran beastmaster ranger and him having wings and being able to fly made certain situations more fun and a little easier to navigate. For example for the first 6 levels we played through “The dragon of ice spear peak”, and if you don’t know there’s a quest where your party must help another ranger by the name of Falcon out, and I’m not sure if this is how it’s supposed to be played or if it’s just how my DM did it but he had a small army of orcs attack Falcons fortress/lodge at night and while fighting them off our cleric came looking for us after leaving Phandalins bar (He missed the day we got the quest and being a partying drunk is apart of his character so it worked out). So while we were in the back of the lodge fighting off orcs he was in the front wondering why the front door was unlocked, he then gave my character a call on the sending stone my character gave him( I’m an artificer and we house ruled it so sending stones worked like phones) as we were talking he accidentally got the attention of the orcs on his side of the building so I send over my friends character to help him as he was the only one able to get to him quickly. He gets there to see 5ish maybe 6 orcs attacking our cleric and he then got the idea to try and scale the walls of the lodge to get him and the cleric to safely and a high vantage point for attacking the orcs, because we were only recently level 4 he still wasn’t strong enough with his wings (He could barely lift himself) so he helped the cleric climb up the walls by holding onto him and flying up as the cleric climbed the walls, they succeeded the orcs tried throwing their javelins and axes to no avail as the ranger and cleric sniped them from above. Over time he’s gotten not only better with his wings but also with his strength allowing him to carry one medium sized creature with him as he flies. Our party is now level 15 going on 16 and I have taken over DMing so I can run a campaign based around one of the other characters in our party the DM is playing my character and because my campaign is under water (The party member is an Atlantian Prince) my friends character can’t fly underwater but can use his wings to boost his movements like a dash or dodge action or just for some extra swing when he might want to stab something with an arrow. All in all that’s just how my group handles flying races and it’s why I was surprised to find they were banned in most peoples games, obviously every game is different and should be treated as such but if there’s someone who wants to use a flying race maybe this is how and maybe along with the designated level where they can start fully flying you can add a clause saying that they also have limited flying time like winged boots.

[@AlastorNahIdWinRadioDemon]

D&D is as much a game of luck as it is of skill. Now, roll 4d6 and combine the 3 highest numbers of them

[@SaintofFables]

Gunslinger is a member of a party in the future that got flung back to prehistoric times after he and the wizard went on a bender. He uses his knowledge of fire arms to craft his own gunpowder and forges his own bullets and every bullet he uses is precious as it takes considerable resources to make and he uses a bow and arrow as a back up. I would probably rework several abilities to be stronger to compensate his lack of ammo. It would be hard to play and require a lot of scrounging for saltpeter, charcoal, and sulfur with successful nature checks. As well as the forging of the bullets. But if someone wants to play a time traveling cowboy that much I’d allow it.

[@saltypork101]

The other thing you should do is ask the power gamer nicely to play a support class. You can still power game it, but it will make the whole party feel powerful rather than left in the dust.

[@Veelofar]

Honestly, this. I had a min maxing power gamer in my group that I introduced this idea to with a simple argument “all those buffs just on you seems less efficient than spreading your power across four players, right?”

[@saltypork101]

@@Veelofar Exactly. Some of the most powerful PC abilities in the game are control spells. That combined with the fact that players don't typically enjoy being resented for doing too well makes these types of characters a natural fit for players like this.

[@UnholyGsus]

I understand why certain things could be banned in games but I like my games to be fun for my players, I'll put in the extra work to deal with difficult minmax shenanigans and powerful classes.

[@dominustin5926]

You either suffer the issue of the rest of the party struggling because you made things more difficult due to the min-maxer, the min-maxer feeling specifically targeted by the enemies which ruins their fun, or that balancing combats is generally less fun for you

[@joaquincobas2223]

Ok so we were in a volcanic cave, made a campfire with charcoal over a bunch of sulfur. A bat showed up and we were so drunk we tried to cook it alive, it got so scared it shat over the campfire and flew away. We didn't have a way to extinguish the fire so we peed on it. The cave entrance was facing east so the whole thing dried with the morning sun There, gunpowder

[@DerakosZrux]

Love it. I also like balanced customization. I let my players pretty much swap out or modify anything about their race, class, abilities, weapons, armor and spells as long as it's balanced against vanilla 5e. One of my favorites is a necromancer who turned Dragon's Breath into Breath of Decay which allowed himself or anyone he could touch to spew poison from their mouths and the poison effect could only work if they end their turn in the poison. He mostly used this and zombie grappling to have a low level version of Cloudkill. Pretty fun.

[@thebrawler4486]

I hate it when dms ban stuff. I have literally never banned anything at my tables. I can work around it if it gets bad, but for the most part my players care more about big damage numbers than anything else so I anticipate nothing and am constantly disappointed nonetheless.

[@DontHurtMeSir]

I was surprised that there weren't more of these comments. It's pretty easy to take advantage of Silvery Barbs as much as the party. Just have a session of Mirror Mode encounters and people ease up on the cheese-factor pretty quickly.

[@chicksandwich]

As a DM i have a lot of hats to wear, dont really want to expend brainpower working around annoying "Magic the Gathering" like interactions. Thats why I dont run 5e

[@jiminkpen9750]

The biggest thing I have found about silvery barbs is that it takes away cool moments from the game. Crits are always cancelled out and they create scary moments if pcs are hit by one. Or if your pc crits and its cancelled by an enemy spellcaster that's a feelbad moment.

[@jaydenw9803]

I FEEL that last bit about prehistoric games... My players wanted to be an artificer and a Vedalken respectively when I pitched the idea of a prehistoric campaign to them. I was kinda just dumbfounded by their choices, and had to work with them both one on one to get ideas that were more setting friendly.

[@asdfjoe123]

Imagine a game so broken you're banning official whole categories of first party content.

[@cockman8437]

imagine caring

[@cpl.targrein1793]

The game is supposed to be fun for everyone. Playing around something is no fun for a DM and the player who will feel targeted.

[@nightxsabbath]

So much for my Owlin Divination Wizard, though one house rule i use for flying characters is that they can fly, but until 3rd or 5th level (depending on campaign lethality) they have to land at the end of their turn or fall due to their wings not having built up the necessary strength

[@The_Lord_of_Cryptids]

What's the issue with Var. Human not getting a free feat? It's certainly not a broken ability like flight, and it leads to more character and build diversity.

[@glaba24]

Another way my friends and I do it cause we enjoy high power shenanigans is we make everyone roll a set of 4d6 keep highest 3, until we have 6 rolls. Then we add those all up and make that the point pool where the players can allocate them however they want with the restrictions of no stat can be over 20 and none can be under a 3. Seeing the various min/maxed builds is p funny and how some people finagle some stuff.

[@qualitynotincluded]

The way a lot of DM’s cower in fear of Silvery Barbs is just hilarious.

[@chillycharizard5985]

I actually really like the idea of a gunslinger shot back in time with a revolver, it's a really strong weapon but only has six shots until he learns how to make his own bullets and has to constantly upkeep his gun in a world without the technology to easily do so

[@redhead3dranger964]

I do have a human gunslinger. His backstory is that the world in the future has no more resources and people live in giant oxygen bubbles until they learned how to time travel. His original mission was to travel back into the past to collect resources and establish a gateway back into the future so that his time line could harvest the materials of the past. If you watched a show called Terra nova then that's the idea I used for this character lol

[@firedrake110]

My favourite way to determine stats for a group is still to have everyone roll for a full block (4d6, drop low, reroll1's), then everyone can choose from any of the rolled blocks. If someone has a 17 or 18, they might get chosen by a few people, but if someone has like four 14-16's, that also draws everyone in lol

[@MrMilkandOreos]

Just enjoying the RuneScape score in the background, reminiscing about when I first started. 😊

[@deecliff6896]

Sounds like i would absolutely hate being at your table

[@akivamann-robison3644]

"unless you have a really good way to justify it" to me is the mark of a good DM. not having your rules be hard and fast, and allowing for lots of creativity from your players!

[@maxwellfarris5410]

A really good example of a gunslinger fitting into a medieval-ish setting is the glass cannon podcasts run of pathfinders gaintslayer. One of the characters is a dwarf gunslinger inquisitor who, after his whole clan got wiped out by a organized clan of giants, was found by another dwarf couple who where only there to plunder what his late parents had left him. GUN!but they decide to take the baby, and He grows up not knowing his true heritage until one day he decides to run from home, drugging his adoptive parents and stealing GUN on his way out.

[@danielbickford3458]

I have seen the argument to the effects of no flying races until the spellcasters can cast the spell fly. which usually happens around 5th level so.

[@BobTheGodly]

Aarakocra penguin adopted by flying Aarakocra. He thinks he can't fly due to a curse. His only goal to undo the curse and fly back to his family. Don't make him a mage either that's too easy. Heavy armor cleric.

[@aidansharp5244]

I’d say allow flying races, but if a player wants to be a flying race they have to either A. Work for it: Say for example, a winged Tiefling looses their wings in a battle, and as a result has to find a way to restore them, so they take up the path of a cleric for a few levels till they unlock healing magic powerful enough to restore their wings. Or B. Give something up: maybe something like having less points to spend with point buy, or loosing other features from their race.

[@maïasmusique]

I am in love with how Pathfinder limits these options by deafault by just maing them Uncommon or Rare. You can still take them, you just need DM buy-in for a lot of spells and ancestries outside the Core Rulebook.

[@williamklemp3764]

My gunslinger slings rock-like bullets from his "+1 sling of returning".

[@tacg1773]

Just thought of this on the spot. Flight exhaustion, Flying races start with two empty points by default. taking an action to start Flying and that takes one point of FE,(Flight exhaustion) leaving one point left to spend elsewhere, and it can be linked to one of you're physical Stats say dex. And every time it's Increased by 3 you getand extra EP can go to 2 to 3 to a max of 5. And when you spend all you have to land and left vulnerable, and if you're still in the air you fall and take fall damage. Once you land it takes 2 turn for one point of FE to decrease and you can only start to fly again once all EP is gone Could have probably worded this better

[@asailijhijr]

My gunslinger is a time traveller who is stranded in the past and has affluenza putting her at level 1. She has a finite number of bullets for the whole campaign and the DM can make any bullet misfire or squib for 'plot reasons'.

[@flameblade3]

I do a couple weird things with my player’s character creation. I pretty much let them do stats however they want, whatever way they wanna do them, hell if they want to use a really high standard array I have they can. To me, no one is overpowered if everyone is. Secondly, I do this fun little thing I call “character quirks”, where each player has the OPTION to basically make a custom level 1 feat that has a backdraw of equal or greater magnitude than the bonus, like dealing more fire damage but being weak to cold damage. The character quirks tend to be related to the character’s personality, goals, backstory, all that, so the quirks allow the characters to feel way more personal and unique to my players, a character with nothing but the quirk changed could play completely differently

[@Galus999]

I'm still old school and roll stats. Nobody in my main group has complained since 1985 so it works

[@RocKaFella57]

All it takes is for someone to roll a 13, 12,12,11,10,10 array for a long campaign. Yeah it's cute for a few weeks until everything is failing and you don't want to be a moon druid

[@Galus999]

@@RocKaFella57 I've don't it more than once. It didn't kill me

[@RocKaFella57]

@@Galus999 yeah you'll be fine. It's just limiting in boring to do during your valuable free time imo

[@sulfur3684]

good for you, the one-shot my group tried it in one guy rolled 13,11,10,10,9,8 and we decided that there is a reason we use point buy.

[@silverdirewolf6440]

Had a DM run an 'Ancient Roman' game, had to sit out a few weeks for work but I heard all about the campaign from the other players. Ancient Rome had no roman monsters, just hordes of undead despite weeks of play. Finally my character is introduced. Half-orc monk, in spandex and a luchador bull mask. If he wanted 'Ancient rome' with no monsters or themes but had none, neither did I. :)

[@FoxyGekkerson]

If you’re a DM who wants an alternative dice roll method for stat generation, I recommend 2d6+6. It has a higher floor than 4d6k3, and a higher ceiling than Point Buy.

[@solidshot7849]

One of my favourite ways to make a low tech gunslinger is a red dragonborn with a blowgun

[@surgeseraphim7741]

Hell, you seem like a fun guy to play with. Silvery barbs and flying races are so fucking annoying. To the point my dm has to make specific encounters around it. The guy with silvery barbs uses it sparingly because he understands, so that's fine. But I don't think I need to explain why he needs to make encounters specifically for the aaracockra monk who brags about how they can get 560ft movement speed

[@godjoey1]

I was taught a system for Ability Scores, 18d6 reroll 1s, 3 dice per Ability Score spread as desired. My players really like it.

[@justg5018]

That Aarakocra Twilight Cleric in the corner: 😢

[@g80gzt]

I used a fixed array - 16, 15, 14, 12, 10, 8. Can trade up to 2 points around, such as having two 10's (2 points taken from 12), but also two 16's (2 points added on 14). Maximum of 17. Minimum of 7. (At base - before any source of ASI) And, free level 1 feat within reason, such as not going GWM PAM etc. Something flavorful like Chef or Telekinetic that you wouldn't otherwise use a limited opportunity for.

[@TheTrueJevil]

My old DM did strictly homebrew. Races, classes, feats, items, you name it. Now, this tended to make us very powerful. In exchange, he held NOTHING back. We had to face a tarrsque at lvl 11 and were expected to win. And we did.

[@theladyivy]

FUCKING THANK YOU! No one EVER does point buy even though it's 100% better for everyone.

[@mestreinvoker6108]

On my campaigns, I like giving more stuff to make them feel powerful, so I give two ASI as a bonus, one at 1st and another at 4th level, use standard array and can't start with more than an 18 on a score. Either way, it's two more feats or +4 bonus at 4th level, an option that I find better than other character creation options (builds with feats get online earlier without stagnating scores)

[@wesi.g.2915]

I do everyone starts at level 3. They get to choose one uncommon item or 2 common items of their choosing. Any. And yes, including whatever you're thinking of, as long as it's official content. We do a 1d20 roll for stats with no reroll. Homebrew is encouraged as is any homebrew that isn't broken and I okayed. And if it's something from another time period, I just have them make a backstory where they got sucked into a portal or wormhole or whatever and they landed here in this universe. Bag of holding is actually my most banned item. My players have been really good at exploiting it. Or making it explode with another bag of holding.

[@thatrandomtsundere3476]

I use sticks that really look like guns and make noises with my mouth “pew pew pew” in order to cast my spells I have to have a stick and I have to shout “pew or bang” depending on the spell

[@Lordgrayson]

Personally I like an epic fantasy kind of setting, So my games go from level 1 to level 20. They have a very generous rolling system for both stats and HP. And my players start with a free feat(although variant human and custom lineage are banned because people only take them for the feat anyway. I instead use the expanded Marked subraces for humans)

[@Yo_shy057]

Ok so im a kinda new dm but my players are really Creative , one has come with a dagger that can transform into a Toyota corola and his second weapon is a microwave

[@Notd20]

You mentioned point buy and I know another cool way to have balanced, but fun stats. I joined a dnd group a short while ago, and my dungeonmaster told me of a houserule he had. In his campagnes, the players don’t roll for stats, and they don’t use point buy, instead they roll a number of sets with stats. So if you’re done, you have like ten sets, and every set has six numbers. And you choose the best one. This makes sure, the game is balanced but not boring. I wasn’t familiar with this way of rolling stats before, but it works really well. I like your videos, bye

[@Dotexclamationmark]

Gunslinger but instead of a gun it's that fish that spits water with surprise accuracy

[@girf4233]

Could you explain the homebrewed human? Sounds really interesting!

[@williamgoyette517]

I mean I don’t get the issue, you give up so much for the feat. Like lizardmen get a really good unarmored defense buff, halflings get immunity to rolling ones, half orcs get to crit crittier. All things that I would say are balanced as a feat. Humans just give you choice

[@LemonMoon]

If my players are rolling for stats, what I’ve done is they all roll one part of a stat array that they all use. This works better if you have 6 players, but you can just have some people roll multiple times. Or you can have each player roll a full stat array and the party uses that instead. You still get the fun of rolling for stats and your party has the same starting point.

[@weetniksjimmy]

Flying races are easy to deal with

[@camerontroscianiec5320]

The hardest part about flying races is having places that defend against attacks from above in a place where there are no flying races

[@captainkoala641]

This makes…….complete sense

[@bluu7964]

I like the idea of making a bowgun like in the monster hunter series. It’s basically a fancy giant crossbow.

[@malachiXX]

I have to agree with you. When I setup an Earthdawn game, I have a set of House Rules that I give to all the players and one of the rules involves second classes (disciplines). A character begins with 1 class and there are rules for learning a second class, and even a third. However, the Game Master has the right to disallow certain combinations that would be unrealistic power building. As an example, a warrior gains the most durability in the game. It makes sense, they are the tanks. So why would a player decide after 1 or 2 levels, to suddenly become a magic user? Well now they have access to magic spells and still retain the high hit point level of the warrior. As a GM, you better have a really good logical reason why you would need to suddenly take up spellcasting when melee has been your life up to this point. The main difference between Warriors and Swordmasters is finesse. A Warrior is all about efficiently killing his opponent. A Swordmaster is all about defeating his opponent with style. If it can't be done with flare, there's no point in doing it at all. For that reason, Warriors in my game can't under any circumstances take up the Swordmaster discipline or vice versa, just so they can get Taunt and Riposte to add to their repertoire; (or Acrobatic strike, Gliding stride and Downstike by becoming a Warrior).

[@dizzygnome6698]

Mann I hate cutting out flying races though! Owlin and Arakocra are 2 of my favorite species! My 3rd is kenku, I just love birbs 🐦

[@AMagicalTortoise]

Had an Aarakocra Sorcerer. My DM avoided dealing with my flight by making most combat encounters take place in low-ceiling dungeons.