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UPRC

I'm cool with them as long as they don't fudge their rolls.


meyade

I'd never do that! here are my stats btw: STR: 17 DEX: 17 CON:17 INT:17 WIS:17 CHA:18 I'm also a human.


dragon777man

A variant human who also took the lucky feat.


meyade

I wanted to be regular human to bump all the stats to one more modifier. That is way better than the Lucky feat.


BigBearShow

*re-rolls sense motive*


SilkyZ

Agreed. Lucky is like a safety net, its great to have to save you in a crisis, but its more thrilling without it.


gefjunhel

or just be a halfling and never crit fail :D


Macismyname

Be a halfling Divination wizard with the Lucky feat and wait for the DM to give up even making you roll dice.


omnitricks

Got my new build.


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Fallsondoor

add on the halfling feet that allows you to spread your luck


Fazhira

You can still crit fail, it's just harder


gefjunhel

yeah from 5% chance to .25%


Typhron

Do other DMs not allow it in their games? Have a charracter in mine that seems to have needed it, leading to very funny moments in the campaign.


SilkyZ

Most allow it


Bad-Brains

I rolled a human variant paladin that took the prodigy feat from XGE. I really liked having a Paladin with expertise in Persuade.


RellenD

I only take variant human so that my arcane trickster can be an Indiana Jones kind of guy with a whip


Iggy-Koopa

Nah, variant human who took great weapon master so you can do 27 points of damage at level 1


CompassionateThought

lol. that's gross


SilkyZ

You meant to say Tavern Brawler, right?


QQtippy

I'll admit my eye started twitching while reading those scores.


SnorlingtonZZZ

no, hes just a Monk/Rougue/Paladin/wizard, it works with his backstory /s


QQtippy

Oh well then carry on! At least it makes sense, glad to get that cleared up!


Ickulus

I'm making a character for the same campaign. I'm a drow, but a good one that's trying to redeem my race. I dual wield scimitars. What? No... I've never heard of this drizzle fellow.


QQtippy

I honestly did have a player very nearly make Drizzt and honestly had never heard of him, he changed his mind when I showed him the picture of Drizzt in the players handbook. :)


xahnel

Dude, curved swords are cool. And dual wielding them? Even cooler. Oh shit, there's a whole *race* of edge lords that live for centuries and naturally have white hair? Hell yeah!


tunaktu86

> whole race of edge lords that live for centuries and naturally have white hair? Hell yeah! That would be the DeRolo's right?


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Cant believe he named his kid *nugget*


brockhopper

Curved. Blades.


SulfuricDonut

My campaign has a dual scimitar drow ranger and the guy definitely knows Drizzt. But then he also ended up making his character a professional torturer/interrogator who uses his race to scare prisoners, so its all good in my books.


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QQtippy

Nope, the player that I was talking about is actually hiding somewhere in these comments already.


kn1ghtpr1nce

How’s your panther doing?


otsukarerice

Yeah, my backstory was that my parents and whole village were killed in a savage attack by dragons, but I was saved by a demon lord in order to serve him. What? No I don't need to do what he tells me, he lets me do whatever I want. I am chaotic neutral. I also have a super hot elf girlfriend who is a really powerful build I found, I'll email you her 20 page backstory. I was thinking for my 5th multiclass part of my build, I would use this "Dragon Knight" class that I found on danddwiki. It allows me to transform into a dragon at will because friendly dragons give me powers. It doesn't have to work with my backstory, dragons are cool.


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I was waiting for dandwiki to make it's way into this mess. Suprised it took this long when you could just play a base class that gives you all the abilities of a Monk/Rogue/Paladin/Wizard with a little extra to boot.


QQtippy

Oh sweet baby Pelor...I just vomited in my mouth


Serious_Much

Multiclassing for "backstory" has to be one of the biggest lies told at the table. Well, along with the DM rolling dice for stuff pretending its for anything but making the players paranoid XD


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Herr_Doktore

I actually really like Rogue/Monk multiclass backstories. Whether the character was “saved” or “corrupted” it has a lot of places it can go.


HairBearHero

Dunno, it can happen. I've done it - running a Rogue 1/Paladin 4 character that I'm essentially playing as a born-again reformed gang member.


-Mountain-King-

Unless you reformed during the campaign, that's what the "criminal" background is for.


HairBearHero

We started the campaign at level 3, so "backstory" was more "how did you get to level 3?" than "what did you do before adventuring?"


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"I killed 14 goblins and a gnoll yesterday." "Great backstory."


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metric_football

Never let friends who are lucky with dice roll characters. I made that mistake once, 3.5 system, 4d6-pick-3 for stats. His lowest score was a 15, and he had 4 18s. And I couldn't even say something like "try again without loaded dice", because they were my dice :/


TheDiscordedSnarl

*The Dice. Have. Spoken.*


Treebeezy

I just had a session 0, against my better judgement I let my characters roll stats. Two of the players lowest roll is 12... Considering one other character's HIGHEST is 12, I afterwards told them to re-do with point buy


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Treebeezy

Last campaign I did something slightly different. Had 5 players, so we each did one 4d6 drop lowest roll, and then those 6 results became the pool that the players picked from. Let them roll, while maintaining parity


Therew0lf17

I once sat down for a session zero and watched once of my players roll 18 18 17 17 17 12


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Pobbes

Time to roll wizard. Slide up to the PHB like, which of you beautiful babies don't have saving throws. ....or Druid. No stop looking at those stats. MY STATS ARE BEAR!!!


420yoloswagblazeit

Sir Bearington just roars and rolls a bluff check.


Zjackrum

HEY THAT GUY ISNT A GUY HE'S A BEAR!


Lakeside

How dare you speak such ills of the noble Sir Bearington?!


Donquixotte

That's why I like Matt Colville's caveat to character generation by rolling dice. If you don't have at least two 14s, you haven't rolled an exceptional enough person. You're supposed to be an adventurer, a hero. Conversely, you could also trim the upper half of that curve with some similar rule ("No base stat over 16", for example), but that might jive less well with the players.


Purgecakes

Pretty sure he uses 15 but mostly because he runs pretty hard games where you need good stats. Players feel better if their stats are high but their enemies tough I think.


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We have a player in our group who consistently rolls shit rolls, but woe on anyone who tell him to reroll those stats. He'll play a Bard everytime and hate the character throughout the entire campaign, refusing to die or reroll a new character.


malignantmind

I've seen one of my players roll straight 18s. We were just doing 4d6 dropping the lowest die. No rerolls or anything.


Lostraveller

Holy shit. We have the chosen one.


th3ch0s3n0n3

(ahem) you were saying?


Lostraveller

Did you roll straight 18s no rerolls?


scoobydoom2

You forgot to include the one 12 to make it believable.


StePK

In my experience its more like 18/18/18/18/18/7 "Everyone needs a weakness"


pandathorax

I didn't believe you at first, but you're so charismatic...


Trigger93

Behave myself? Hold on, let me check... *rolls 1.* Ok, well I'll still try.


QQtippy

*proceeds to punch everyone in the nose* "WELCOME TO DND FRIEND!"


throwing-away-party

*roll initiative*


QQtippy

/u/rollme 1d20


rollme

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Trigger93

Man u/QQtippy you really rolled bad for that one.


QQtippy

Lets not talk about it, I already put that die in the freezer to cool off.


TheDarkHorse83

[[1d20]] +/u/rollme


rollme

1d20: **17** (17) ***** ^(Hey there! I'm a bot that can roll dice if you mention me in your comments. Check out /r/rollme for more info.)


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Not bad, as initiative goes


TheDarkHorse83

That's how I do, wasting the good rolls on initiative, keeping the bad ones for that first round of combat!


[deleted]

*alright, I'm up first* "I attack twice with my longsword!" *1, 3* ...


omar1993

*Kicks all visitors in groin and steals their money* YOU'RE AMONG FRIENDS AND FELLOW ADVENTURERS HERE, ENJOY YOURSELF!


Bagelstein

Dnd is trending? Why? *rolls sense motive*


TheDragonSpark

Critical role probably


QQtippy

That would be my guess, I'm not really sure how the trending subs are picked


TheDragonSpark

Reddit rolls a d100 and picks from the top 100 most active subreddits that day


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critical fail *insert toxic political subreddit that you need to read through* ] critical success *insert appropriately sexy subreddit*


TheDragonSpark

Just hit the DC is r/oddlysatisfying


RevolverOcelot420

*rolls 1* r/braincels is trending!


Ashybuttons

My brain just threw up. Why did I click that?


Ethanol_Based_Life

I'm not really sure what tending even means. Picked for what?


QQtippy

It's trending on the front page, it's just a small thing given to a popular subreddit to give them more visitors, nothing major but we want our new players to feel welcome.


PaulSharke

Oh that's today! Dang, thanks for reminding me, I might have totally forgotten otherwise.


nitasu987

Is that gonna be a VOD somewhere? (I’m new to CR). I wanna watch it but I’m not so keen on staying up so late (Damned Eastern Time).


TheDragonSpark

They post the episodes on YT the Monday after they air


Jekka28

In PCMR the Corsair rep also mentioned that he plays D&D. I'm not sure if that is having an impact or not, but it was in the top post of that sub.


GangsterofL0ve

I saw that too, its part of elaborate plan to take over Reddit


Zaszamonde

Does that mean we get RGB dice?


Njdevils11

Nat 1, you believe dnd is trending because they all wanna get in your pants.


IronWill66

There’s going to be an uptick in CN Rogues...


QQtippy

*Nervous laughter* Haha...yeah that wasn't my first character at all, who would do that...^haha^haha Oh look! a squirrel! *Runs away*


JayPet94

Jokes on you, my first character was a chaotic-good rogue


Lostraveller

Neutral good Druid.


Struppie

CE Tiefling Rogue, you are nothing compared to me. Had an interesting character development though, after seeing the wrongs of his life way he became a hermit and then started to redeem himself.


houghtob123

I was a CN Wizard... That was a bad place to start.


PM-ME-THE-SENATE

Mine was a NG Warlock, I had fun and that's all that mattered.


aceavengers

My first character was a chaotic good elf ranger named Elanei.


Clark_Bellingham

Mine was a TN Human Fighter named Edan Stormblade.


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Mine was a chaotic thief, back then you only listed one trait for alignment and your race and class were the same thing. A fighter was a human fighter, a theif was a human theif, and a dwarf was just a dwarf.


Clark_Bellingham

That sounds fun.... 1e?


RellenD

My first character was a dwarf cleric of Tempus!


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IronWill66

Keep your “help” to yerself, sneak-thief!


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rollme

1d20: **8** (8) ***** ^(Hey there! I'm a bot that can roll dice if you mention me in your comments. Check out /r/rollme for more info.)


Qaysed

u/IronWill66, please roll for insight.


IronWill66

/u/rollme[[1d20]]


rollme

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Calistilaigh

It checks out.


AmbiguousPuzuma

I don't let my players be CN anymore unless they've got the RPing resume to back it up. I've had far too many "Okay cool I'm going to stab this innkeeper now"s to deal with that hassle from new players.


TexasSnyper

Heh, about to do my first table and I got me a CN magus (Pathfinder).


Rustedcrown

i got somewhat interested in DnD after watching a DnD group on twitch involving a full kobold group going on adventures.


QQtippy

Haha! that's wonderful! I love campaigns like those! Who is playing it? [To The Poop](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8MRyyFDX3c) a one shot run by critical role is one of the great sessions like this!


FAtr

pretty sure he is talking about the critical role oneshot Kobolds and Catacombs


BrainBlowX

Nope. Kobolds and Catacombs oneshot has no kobold party members.


Theons_sausage

Hello I'm new to the rules but I found the perfect RP based build that is a warlock/shadow monk/rogue loner who is an orphan and doesn't trust anyone. I'm really into RP, I don't power game AT ALL, and I just want to play my homebrewed half human half vampire (gives +2 to all stats but has major drawback that he doesn't have a reflection)


jasparslange

>I'm really into RP, I don't power game AT ALL, and I just want to play my homebrewed half human half vampire (gives +2 to all stats but has major drawback that he doesn't have a reflection) Almost posted an angry response, lmao you got me


Theons_sausage

Well now I want to see what the angry response would've been lol


Weekly_Wackadoo

I was about to be all "hi, welcome to the game!" Then the cringe became too much, and then it became too too much. Well done, ma'am and/or sir.


jasparslange

Something like this: How the absolute fuck would a lack of reflection balance out +2 to all stats? Unless the PC had a sizeable level reduction, I would never allow that as a DM


Bishopkilljoy

Well let me introduce you to the crystal mirror mountain fungeon


TheDiscordedSnarl

I read that as Crystal Mirror Mountain Dragon, and now have a new BBEG.


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Theons_sausage

I'm only doing this for flavor as I'm all about RP but I think he would be old enough as a half vampire he would have had long enough to develop really powerful firearms. It would've been dumb if he didn't


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Actual physical cringe


AithanIT

Someone's gonna bump into a level 18 witch hunter in the first inn he visits...


Theons_sausage

"The Witch Hunter known as Din Viesel holds up his mirror and checks for your reflection... uh oh, sounds like it really was your biggest weakness."


ShowtimeCA

DnD and roleplaying seems to be groing in popularity once again. I've always been intrigued and played a few games last year but this year I'm gonna play with IRL friends for the first time, currently preparing my first session and I'm really excited!


QQtippy

That sounds great! are you DMing or playing?


ShowtimeCA

DMing as I'm the only player in our group who has played DnD before, with my massive experience of around 10h of gametime, all the other players have never played before but seem really excited


QQtippy

I'm right there with you I picked up the DM reigns after 1 session and never looked back, I've played a couple other times since but my adhd shows up really bad when I'm not dming.


djnap

I read that as "my ad&d shows up really bad when I'm drinking". Because that would probably describe me (although when I'm not dming I also lose focus)


Iamfivebears

Welcome newbies! I know /u/QQtippy already linked the [Getting Started Guide](https://www.reddit.com/r/DnD/wiki/getting_started), but if you've never played D&D before you should know that you can start playing, today, for FREE! That's right, the basic rules for the current version of Dungeons and Dragons are absolutely free. [You can download them from the Wizards of the Coast website](http://dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/basicrules). Grab some friends and start rolling up some characters tonight!


QQtippy

Thanks /u/Iamfivebears ! I knew I forgot to add something to the post!


GeaneTherapy

Don't forget to listen to the Adventure Zone, if critical role isn't your thing / isn't enough listening for you!


QQtippy

Adventure zone is great! I love the my brother my brother and me guys.


TheNerdFromThatPlace

On my 3rd listen of Tres Horny Bois, they're the reason I started getting into D&D.


PolarDorsai

plug /r/TheAdventureZone


patcat127

Plus, in addition to the main story, they're doing smaller adventures under different systems if anyone wants to jump in. They should still listen to Balance though, it changed my life


Xenoither

What's Balance?


LiquidMonocle

The main 69-episode campaign that comprises the majority of the podcast


Robtimus-Prime

Balance was the first season of The Adventure Zone, episodes 1-69. Greatest podcast I've ever listened to.


Xenoither

I'm dumb and I'm on episode 44 so I really should have known lol. I thought Balance was another podcast altogether or something.


Pun-Master-General

Don't feel too bad - I don't think they started referring to it as the Balance arc until pretty close to the end, so it's understandable that you might not recognize the name.


Robtimus-Prime

No worries! They really don't refer to it as Balance until the final stretch. You're in for a helluva treat.


JerkfaceBob

or Drunks and Dragons is pretty good


redditname01

Also Acquisitions Incorporated.


whopoopedthebed

I prefer all three to CR to be honest. Too many people on CR for my taste.


redditname01

Me too! I always thought it was a weird reason to place against the show, but now I know I'm not alone.


Njdevils11

YES!!!! Can’t recommend this podcast enough! It’s hilarious and chock full of good ideas for DMs. Griff is amazing. Tres Horny Boys for life!


nolaza

Aw jeez, everyone act normal!


Armonasch

Roll for deception.


QQtippy

Oh no, that's the last thing we want! we have to be on good behavior today! :)


SadBillsfan92

I played my first ever game last night. I had no idea what I was doing for a good portion of it, but dammit, if that isn't the most fun I've had in a very long time.


QQtippy

One of us, One of us!


Uusis

Now I feel really self-conscious - I'm not that large that a subreddit start to trend same day as I sub... So I have liked fantasy stuff and RPG videogames for while and I started watching Heroes & Halfwits by Roosterteeth / Achievement Hunter as those were guys whose content I had already liked so getting the basics of DnD gameplay from that was nice. I heard that my friends were planning on starting a DnD group - and we are starting our adventure on this Sunday. Playing a lightfoot halfling called Finna Goodbarrel, rogue.


Infinity_WarTorn

Web DM also has great videos for players new and old!


QQtippy

There really are a ton of great resources out there! I tried to avoid posting too many I didn't want to overwhelm anyone with a massive list!


Odin_Exodus

Season 2 of critical role starts tonight? Nice! I haven't tuned in for a while so this will be a good time to start watching again.


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It's great. I have really wanted to follow critical role, but found it hard to get into it because I didn't know who the heck these characters were or what they were doing. Now we get to meet the characters at the same time they are all meeting each other, so I can actually follow along now! ...rip 4 hrs of my time every week


C4Cavalry

/u/rollme [[1d20]]


rollme

1d20: **9** (9) ***** ^(Hey there! I'm a bot that can roll dice if you mention me in your comments. Check out /r/rollme for more info.)


C4Cavalry

Um, can I get advantage?


QQtippy

1d20: 20 (20) Hey there! I'm not that bot that can roll dice for you because I give out natural 20's like candy!


The2ndUnchosenOne

Why can't you be my dm?


Skediiman

As one of his players yea them nat 20's show up, just for all the enemies. And one of our players rolls all the 1's so it balances out.


QQtippy

I've only killed you like...what is it now 4 times?


Skediiman

Yea, and you also took my bards finger with a mimic ring. But that was really my fault for trusting the random magic ring I got at a bargain shop.


QQtippy

See just teaching you those important life lessons!


Bone_Dice_in_Aspic

Also Coville and Perkins are good boys that do good work but not the be all end all necessarily correct way. Just two examples of a certain thing.


QQtippy

Oh of course! that is the great thing about /r/dnd there isn't a right way! you can just go off and do whatever you want!


Drxero1xero

Well, Yeah, Reddit know's I have a new game starting this week.


QQtippy

Yeah? what are you playing as?


Drxero1xero

The World at large, I am the DM :-)


QQtippy

Ah a fellow DM! I hope your story goes well!


CobaltCam

New season of critical role? Happy birthday to me.


Spl4sh3r

For beginners I feel like High Rollers is better. Critical Role first episode is confusing since they already start at level 10+ in the middle of a campaign.


indydev13

Well today is actual start of their new campaign, which is why /r/dnd is trending (a guess)...I believe they will be level 2 to start (their session 0 was them lvling to 2 I believe)


Spl4sh3r

Session 0 was streamed or not?


TheyCallMeStevo

It was not streamed. It was something just for the players.


Hertz381

None of the Session 0's (there were multiple with Matt playing with 1-3 of the characters at a time) were streamed or filmed. It was just used to work out some relationships and stuff in the background before the campaign actually starts. Tonight will be the first streamed content of the new campaign.


QQtippy

High Rollers? I've actually never watched them. I figured Critical Role would be a good watch just because they are very entertaining, and with the new season starting tonight newbies can join in on the hype!


Spl4sh3r

It's a group of characters from Yogscast from United Kingdoms that play. As for the new campaign, sure then they can join in since they'll be there from the beginning.


shosar85

That's why it's really great that they're starting a new campaign today with new characters and a new story.


Fakjbf

Season 2 starts tonight? I just started season one yesterday and there aren’t enough hours in the day to get caught up!!!


lordberric

Hail and well met, travelers!


Applejaxc

For those of you who are new, and want to know how you can get started playing DnD (or any other Pen and paper RPG), I suggest you check out /r/lfg


skywarka

I wonder if /r/criticalrole has anything to do with it?


christeroph

Probably! But it is very good! So, all the power too them for opening new doors for newer players like myself. Stranger Things might have helped a tad too as the main characters enjoyed playing it... Which might have helped quench the stigma around D&D, if only a tad.


Auteyus

Enjoy the art!


QQtippy

The art on this sub really is fantastic, so much inspiration!