There's always a bit of a laugh when players ask "Can I cast [touch spell] on my self?" and I say "yes, you can touch yourself." But why not the reverse? Is there some lore reason why you need your own magic coursing through your own blood for Self spells to work?
My first thought is maybe making Self spells into Touch spells is unbalanced. But spending sorcery points and a spell slot (both limited resources) to do a cool thing prevents abuse. Two sorcery points for range (first to upgrade from Self to Touch, second to upgrade from Touch to 30ft).
There' been many times when I wanted to cast Mage Armor on an ally (e.g. escorting squishy NPCs).
This week I a player asked if he could cast Misty Step on an ally. I think Vortex Warp or Dimension Door does what he wanted to do. But Misty Step is shorter range than either, and a bonus action.
Is there any reason why there isn't (official/canon) metamagic that changes Range: Self to Range: Touch?
Reach spell in PF1e/PF2e and Distant spell in D&D 5e/5.5e expand range and make touch spells 30ft, but don't apply to "Range: Self."
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SPLASH DOWN DAY 🚀
this is why I put coins or other small objects for scale! so many people outside the hobby don't realize how tiny!
Wisdom from C. S. Lewis:
If we are all going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb when it comes find us doing sensible and human things—praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts.
Maple cookies on the far side 😋 🇨🇦
We love you too, Artemis 😭
NASA: amaze amaze amaze, thank you Reid 🤩
Crater Integrity and Crater Carroll, loud and clear 🫶
NASA: copy heart, copy bracelet
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Last night I dreamt I bought an entirely new 3d printer when I really just needed a new nozzle. Then I spent an inordinate amount of time trying to cancel the order.
I feel like this is a metaphor I need to unpack.
YES!!! Definitely one of my favorite villain monologues of all time!
Hey! Uh, keep practicing your art.
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OMG THE MOIST VON LIPWIG I NEED HIM
WHAT!! Where did you get these models? Are there STLs???
I'm older than the SNES and grew up on NES. Guess I'll buy my tombstone 💀
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In every long term campaign I've run, my players have ended up with some kind of egg.
A silver dragon egg. A giant spider egg. A zaratan egg.
BG3 has owlbear egg and Githyanki egg.
What kind of eggs should my players find next?
Similarly, I've noticed players who send me backstories or art or other "extra credit" stuff between sessions, their characters (unintentionally) sort of become the Main Character. I just have more plothooks to spotlight them.
Do you think having players create two characters during session zero, so they always have a backup character prepared, makes it easier for them to be braver and risk death?
I definitely feel less bad targeting players who have backup characters as a GM.
Latest issue of National Geographic features a story about spider silk, which reminded me of the time my druid players turned themselves into spiders and had their friends braid their silk to make silk rope.
One of my players is on a maternity leave haitus. The rest of the party is continuing on the main quest while her character got teleported away on a Play-by-Post sidequest.
And I gotta say, as a professional writer and a professional GM, play-by-post is some of the most fun I've had in a while! 🤩
I don't have a point. I'm just reflecting on my players' choices. I'm really enjoying DMing a Cleric right now, because the gods add an interesting layer of lore, and would love more Paladins and Warlocks. And people always say Ranger is the worst class, but MOST of my players have been Rangers.
Fighter is notably missing too, and I wonder if that's a misunderstanding of the class as "boring" or "basic."
Artificer is missing too, but that's not in the core PHB.
Wizard and Warlock are both missing. Do people simply not get that far down the alphabetical list?
No one has ever chosen Paladin or Warlock. Only players steeped in D&D lore from the novels or BG3 have chosen Clerics. I worry people don't want to play with gods or demons simply because they don't understand them. Or they have their own real-life religious trauma or opinions on religion.
I'm a Rogue main, and I probably steer new players towards Rogue during character creation.
Sorcerers and Bards make sense too, because I run roleplay heavy games where social skills are valuable.
Four of the five Rangers joined wilderness exploration campaigns, so that's wise survivalism.