John S

It was a Magic Monday night. Won the prerelease with a rakdos Azula deck. And picked up two commander bundles with amazing promo pulls.

#MagicTheGathering

Wait... so if I already own it on Roll20, I *get* to buy it again on Demiplane?
Hard. Pass.

Today's Encyclopedia of Magic Secret Lair Drop at each card's current lowest market valuation from TCGPlayer. $266.10 in card value.
#MagicTheGathering #SecretLair

Bladesinger (Wizard): B+
Not much to see here. WotC took a great subclass and just updated it for the new rules.
Changed out the Song of Victory to give you attacks instead of Int bonus to weapon damage - which is good, because at this level, you're likely in a "spells first" approach.

Spellfire Sorcery (Sorcerer): C
I find none of these abilities interesting except for the level 18 Crown of Spellfire - which is almost too little, too late.
I thought of making a Heightened metamagic Counterspell build. But with 2024 statblocks, PCs just aren't seeing that many spells cast at them.

Scion of the Three (Rogue): S
Broken build, here we are. This Rogue claps. Teleport and attack as a Reaction? Hello. At level 3?? Good gravy. Everything about this Rogue screams "kill the enemy" and proceeds to follow through.
My only complaint is Myrkul's cantrip selection: who's using Chill Touch?

Winter Walker (cont)
This subclass gives. Good spell selection. The best Hunter's Mark adaptation, and just solid all-around abilities would make me consider playing a Ranger past level 10 (which no other Ranger subclass does).

Winter Walker (Ranger): A-
As much as I'm not a fan of the '24 Paladin, the Ranger got shafted. Entirely reliant on a not-great-feature Hunter's Mark, which requires Concentration, whick locks the Ranger out of their only interesting spells. And the single worst capstone ability in the game by far.

Oath of the Noble Genie (Paladin): B+
I'm not a fan of the 2024 Paladin. I think smiting as a bonus action is a mistake (could easily have limited it to once per turn). That said, I think the Noble Genie is fun with a variety of abilities that don't lean too heavily on each other.

Banneret (Fighter): A
This charisma-based fighter is an amazing leader who buffs and supports their team from the front lines. The only not-completely-amazing ability is Bolstered Rally - as the 60' range will only come into play rarely.

Knowledge Domain (Cleric): B
Again with not many subclass bonuses, but this does some work. Gives the cleric some uniqueness - and when taken with Divine Order: Thaumaturge at level 1, makes the Cleric the undisputed master of Arcana and/or Religion.

Ranking the subclasses from Forgotten Realms: Heroes of Faerûn.

College of the Moon (Bard): C-
Perhaps limited by Bards not getting many subclass bonuses, this just feels "meh". Blessing of Moonlight needs a recharge ability - upcast it, or spend spell slots or hit dice or something to get it back.

My friend group has an alcohol-names only Kobold party:
Whistlepig the paladin
Hendriks the druid
Jaeger the barbarian
Talisker the warlock

This guy looks like Fireball the wizard

Once they figured out that Fantasy Football is just roleplaying for jocks - they decided we were all in it together.

Warlock for your work with coffee.
Druid because plants and animals.
Bard for your ability to spin stories.

I think the best thing that encapsulates that would be a Wild Magic Sorcerer with the Entertainer background.

If you recognize that it's a problem, then why don't you offer us the opportunity to set it off by default? Or stop turning it back on if we copy a game where it's already off. Or enable Jumpgate. Or do anything, really.

We're only on day 12, and just realizing how much we don't know! Just got to the Abandoned Mine.
Why are our notes for this game more detailed than my D&D session notes?

Excited for the Sunderfolk launch tomorrow. Played in the beta, so much fun!
Pyro & Rogue for life!
@sunderfolk.com #SunderfolkTreasure

If you're going to show the Save action, you should probably use the correct attribute.
strength_save_mod - not just strength_mod (same for the others)

But otherwise, glad to see that templates are being employed now.

Sung to the tune of "Favorite Things" from the Sound of Music

Agree that it's "pretty, but barely functional."

It's very hard to set up new adventures outside the packaged, existing ones - at least not that look anywhere near as good.

Using a whole new kind of character sheet.

And I hate auto-rolling - I wish it was a setting I could enable if I want.

Just move up to the Blob of Annihilation... it'll totally be okay.

Me + my first commander

Desktop warrior kitty judging me for not continuously petting him.

The inauguration-day blues have not let up.
I need tomorrow to be a better day.

And Gamehole Con!

Looks like I'll be DMing there for a certain bald dude.

Right? So weird...
Oh, and isn't giving out the exact same thing they gave out last year.

That depends - can I easily use those maps with the lighting in Roll20?

Man... I really want to hire a guest NPC to play in two sessions to portray Newmy, an elf ghost that my party is trying to free from an infernal contract that keeps her bound beyond death.
#DMProblems #DnD