Underwater RPG Rules | It's What Our Characters Would Do

Grace and I talk about the inevitable slog of "water levels" and how maybe, just maybe, it doesn't actually have to be so sloggy. Then we give away some goodies from Only Crits!
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[@davidjennings2179]

I've never run underwater (barring a brief encounter with a river crossing and a water elemental but there was an on-land option so I don't count it). However, I have run an encounter with suffocation. It was a druid and paladin tag team as they were trying to sneak into a castle the rest of the party was imprisoned in. First, the paladin casts command using the word "exhale". Now, you know where this is going but to me, and the knight they were fighting, that didn't seem to cross the "your command is directly harmful to it" line....at least not until the druid wild shaped into a giant constrictor snake and began to squeeze the life from them. I enjoyed them thinking outside the box and how to use their abilities. I'm a strong believer of being a fan of your players when they do cool stuff, so I rewarded them for it. It's not something I'd want them to spam though

[@brothertaddeus]

With regards to choking: while an airway choke may take minutes, a blood choke takes only about 10-15 seconds to fully incapacitate. Source: army grappling training, where we got to "experience" being blood choked first hand.

[@461weavile]

@Bob, regarding the holy water idea, only the molecules that were blessed remain holy water. Releasing the holy water submerged in the ocean would quickly dilute the holy water, so this specific usage of the holy water as a spell component, you have a brief moment before the holy water becomes indistinguishable from regular/ocean water. Generally, spilling holy water into other water will functionally reduce the holy water to regular water, because any person in our world would be unable to distinguish which portions of the water are holy and which are regular. (You could argue that God might use some of that lost/misplaced holy water for something in the future, but it's not like God needs to gather one of those molecules to do whatever He's going to do. Given that,) holy water which is mixed with regular water not only becomes indistinguishable from regular water, it becomes functionally identical to regular water. (Disclaimer: I'm not a priest, but I got an answer from a priest and restated it for the context.)

[@461weavile]

Excited to listen to this episode. My homebrew has a significant number of aquatic races. For the few groups I've run so far, they've all been groups that live in the air, not in the water, so I haven't had to flesh out the underwater uniqueness yet.

[@EyeOfEld]

You actually can swim in plate armor. People have done so on modern times with reconstructions.

[@Stickyickyslapshot]

I won!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thank you sooooo much!!!!!!!! I'm not worthy!!!! You two are amazing!!!!!

[@minimoose7890]

Congratulations!

[@Stickyickyslapshot]

@@minimoose7890 thank you! Very kind of you

[@BrunoFernandes-ty7mf]

I didn't realize that the comments on that poll would be the ones chosen randomly to be read in the podcast. So i was just talking about how i was happy about the subject for the video, and about my game, without the intent to be something interesting to be read hahahah Sorry for the long comment without much substance to the topic XD And sorry for the bad english also hahaha Another great episode, made me think more about the importance of making the rules simple! And am excited for the next main channel vid!

[@Stickyickyslapshot]

Thank you for answering my question!!!!!!!!🎉😁😁😁😁

[@morrigankasa570]

If I was to play in an Underwater D&D Campaign I would play my: Chaotic Neutral Female Sea Elf Storm Sorcerer Far Traveler background Character!

[@sketchasaurrex4087]

I use a die next to a mini on a 2d map to mark every 5ft below water they are. It's not visually stunning but it works well at my table. I do keep track of food, water, and ammo that my players have. I get that most people who came in with 5e don't track stuff like that but it's something I keep a close eye on.

[@Lurklen]

I try to track those things, but I have a big party. Mostly, at lower levels we are more concerned about it, and at higher levels it stops being relevant. I do the same stuff for water, or I use flight stands as though they were flying.

[@sketchasaurrex4087]

@@Lurklen I usually have 6 players

[@Lurklen]

@@sketchasaurrex4087 My smallest group is 5. Normally I'm running 8. Most I've run consistently is 10, which I can't believe I pulled off in 5e for like 2 years. Weirdly I found it easier to keep track of everyone's stuff when there were 10 of them, no idea why.

[@sketchasaurrex4087]

@@Lurklen that's really impressive

[@Lurklen]

@@sketchasaurrex4087 Lol, Thanks! I think it's mostly impressive we somehow manage to get that many people to commit to a game regularly. It mostly grew out of not being able to say no, and people wanting in to a game. But in spite of the difficulties, people seem happy to stick with it, so we must be doing something right! That said, I don't really recommend more than 5 or 6. It is really tough to manage, and frankly my smaller game has more rewarding role play and the like (not to say it doesn't happen in the big games, but it's more of a punctuation to a session than a central facet of play). I don't know if you find this, but I find I really have to be on _my_ game, and control pacing, keep the spotlight moving from player to player, or things kind of start to fizzle and peter out. Whereas with like three or four players, everyone is pretty engaged and does a lot of that for me.

[@sqoody7invegas625]

Bob do you have a discord so that when new podcasts are available I'm following that announcement channel and it posts on my server as well?

[@Stickyickyslapshot]

@ the Pope 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@vincepale]

I'd play Little Mermaid TTRPG lol