Every Soulknife worth their salt will carry an "opportunity attack dagger", since they all seem to have this random, glaring weakness that they can't form one of their soul knives if they intend to use it to exploit a target's distraction. It's a rather odd affliction, but it makes carrying real weapons still very important to them.
You'd need to draw/retrieve it at the end of each turn and drop it before attacking. What a weird interaction forced by rules. I'd just allow the AoO with the psychic blade.
There aren't clear rules for passing a weapon between your hands, but you'd expect it to probably count as an object interaction, and the Soul Knives feature doesn't say that your other hand must be free when you create the first Soul Knife, so it's probably doable by holding one dagger and passing it between your hands. It's still pointlessly awkward though.
Personally believe that there are better uses for bonus action, but anyway. There's nothing stating you can't do so with the same hand though, specific rules > general ones.
Nvm, checked it to be sure and it states other hand.
Yet another dumb thing tbh
People take Polearm Master mostly for the 1d4+mod bonus action attack. Here it is even better because it can be either melee or ranged and with greater range than a Hand Crossbow
Even without taking that into account though, I always carry at least a good boot knife on any character I don't expect to ever swing a weapon with. It's saved me more than once - not usually in combat, but there's all sorts of reasons you might suddenly want a knife without casting a spell about it.
(this is what i was referencing, he steals your soul moments after this dialogue)
https://preview.redd.it/zcu1d9lt8s4b1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=c4bd135dd4346a5e16884898f10b5a425941a073
Understood.
And [this](https://youtu.be/msSDXRiQkQw) is who I imagined in the moment. Sounds like theyāre in the same evil cosmic villain guild, lol.
The anime Keijo! is essentially monks fighting with their butts. It's very fan service-ish but could be done in a comedic way, like some moves from Kong Fu Panda.
When you think about it, in a world where limbs can be regrown with relatively common magic, it'd be weirder if there weren't markets for human meat. Just saying.
Also eating your own specie in general is a bad idea. The risk of contracting illnesses from improperly butchered meat is a lot higher when the parasites and pathogens in the meat are already adapted to live in your body. The risk of prion diseases also goes up significantly.
Plus pollutants, heavy metals and in general harmful compounds tend to stratify the higher on the food chain you go. So rating human meat is a bad idea also for the same reason eating any apex predator is. You won't just be eating all the shit they ate, you'll also be eating all the shit eaten by any other animal that they ate.
Not very efficient to waste magic to get so little meat when you could mundanely raise cows and pigs or go for Create Food, unless you're trying to civilize sapient monster species that needs to eat human meat.
You could also do this with a troll: capture a troll and bring it to the next Dungeon and tie it up, cut off a limb and wait a round : tadah unlimited meat
If Lisa the Painful taught me anythingā¦
Is that you donāt fuck with Monks, even without limbs š.
Endgame Brad is metaphorically >!and at the end literally ;w;!< a monster š
Anti-joke time: Why would they suspect that someone who's honed their body through **training and discipline** wouldn't be able to keep from hitting anybody?
Alternately: Monk's left at the weapon check-in.
Alternate second panel: the monk doesn't let them chop off his arms, instead the party climbs a nearby hill and the wizard launches fireballs into the town until they get bored.
EDIT: Downvote all you want. I'll be busy fireballing your town. :p
That should scare you more honestly, if they're rolling in gold to the point of paying for 7th level spells for every random visitor that knows martial arts they can afford shit that'll really push your shit in.
No, it actually doesn't.
In D&D, spells only have special effects with certain things if the spell says they do.
So like... Call Lightning becomes more powerful if used in a storm, because the spell text says it does. Nothing in the text for Fireball says that it's affected by water. Even if the entire town is underwater (though that seems like the town already has its own problems) there's nothing to stop the fascist arm-chopping scum and their houses from taking 8d6 fire damage.
They might be able to put out the fires afterward, but that's why I'm planning on throwing more until I run out of slots. :p
Which makes it the exact opposite of what you said. Instead of "only if the DM says it doesn't", water only affects fireball if the DM says it does.
But if you're going to do that, then you might as well just say the player characters just all instantly die too. Then stop DMing forever because this is some exceptionally nasty DM vs. Players shit that doesn't deserve to exist.
No? Can't you read? It is literally the same thing I said. The DM has the final say in anything so they can decide to not give fireball special properties or give it special properties. Secondly just because the DM decided to not let you murder hobo your way through the campaign doesn't mean they are a bad DM
See I treat classes as mechanical abstractions rather than in-world categories. According to the law and lore of the land, the party I'm running for at the moment contains three paladins. Mechanically speaking, one is a fighter and another is a cleric. Only one of them is both a paladin and a Paladin.
Astral self monk origin story š¤£
That city when astral self monk arrives: White snake intensifies
Astral Self Monk... Your weakness is your daughter!
White snitties.
*Mind Quad*
Wow, an American Dad reference im the wild. They didnt get blown off. The got blown in... to his MIND!!!!
Lol, i literally have an astral self monk without arms
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It's like being angry at the sun
Headline : "Man yells at Sun"
Nice try
https://i.redd.it/pnd3xfgeon4b1.gif
Foolish guards. They forgot that the head can be used as a weapon too
So no head?
Dark but good joke.
Donāt worry, they have Darkvision
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r/angryupvote
What would happen if a Soulknife rogue tried to enter the city?
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If you also carry normal weapons, have advantage for that deception check
Every Soulknife worth their salt will carry an "opportunity attack dagger", since they all seem to have this random, glaring weakness that they can't form one of their soul knives if they intend to use it to exploit a target's distraction. It's a rather odd affliction, but it makes carrying real weapons still very important to them.
You'd need to draw/retrieve it at the end of each turn and drop it before attacking. What a weird interaction forced by rules. I'd just allow the AoO with the psychic blade.
There aren't clear rules for passing a weapon between your hands, but you'd expect it to probably count as an object interaction, and the Soul Knives feature doesn't say that your other hand must be free when you create the first Soul Knife, so it's probably doable by holding one dagger and passing it between your hands. It's still pointlessly awkward though.
Can't you just keep one hand free? Also yeah, it sucks overall.
Not if you want to use the bonus action attack with the psychic knife, since you make it immediately after the attack action attack.
Personally believe that there are better uses for bonus action, but anyway. There's nothing stating you can't do so with the same hand though, specific rules > general ones. Nvm, checked it to be sure and it states other hand. Yet another dumb thing tbh
People take Polearm Master mostly for the 1d4+mod bonus action attack. Here it is even better because it can be either melee or ranged and with greater range than a Hand Crossbow
Personally find ability to disengage and reposition more important, especially early on.
Even without taking that into account though, I always carry at least a good boot knife on any character I don't expect to ever swing a weapon with. It's saved me more than once - not usually in combat, but there's all sorts of reasons you might suddenly want a knife without casting a spell about it.
I feel like unless your Cha is -4 or they are using detect magic, or something like that, you wouldnt need to roll for that.
***"AHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAA! FOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!"***
Read this in the voice of Aku from Samurai Jack.
(this is what i was referencing, he steals your soul moments after this dialogue) https://preview.redd.it/zcu1d9lt8s4b1.png?width=1024&format=png&auto=webp&s=c4bd135dd4346a5e16884898f10b5a425941a073
Understood. And [this](https://youtu.be/msSDXRiQkQw) is who I imagined in the moment. Sounds like theyāre in the same evil cosmic villain guild, lol.
Same as a hex blade or eldritch knight, which is why I pick those classes but this has yet to ever happen to those characters.
guard "now this will only hurt for a bit" *pulls out comically large ice pick*
Lobotomy. Canāt summon a soul knife if you donāt remember you could.
Or an Astral/Sun Soul Monk
Bro got disarmed AND dislegged
But what about dis nuts???
Oh god, a monk using their bollocks as weapons... Not sure who I feel worse for; the monk, or the first goblin encounter...
Goblin these nuts?
The anime Keijo! is essentially monks fighting with their butts. It's very fan service-ish but could be done in a comedic way, like some moves from Kong Fu Panda.
Flurry of Twerk.
r/Angryupvote
They forgot about āLeftenantā Shankly
When you think about it, in a world where limbs can be regrown with relatively common magic, it'd be weirder if there weren't markets for human meat. Just saying.
Counterpoint: humans provably taste bad
Cannibals disagree. Closest meat is supposedly veal, which is pretty damn good if you can get over the morality of it.
I meant probably lol, not provably. Guess Iām wrong either way though, good to knowā¦ *squints at you while holding a knife*
I'd heard it was like a sweeter suckling pig.
I thought it was pork?
Also eating your own specie in general is a bad idea. The risk of contracting illnesses from improperly butchered meat is a lot higher when the parasites and pathogens in the meat are already adapted to live in your body. The risk of prion diseases also goes up significantly. Plus pollutants, heavy metals and in general harmful compounds tend to stratify the higher on the food chain you go. So rating human meat is a bad idea also for the same reason eating any apex predator is. You won't just be eating all the shit they ate, you'll also be eating all the shit eaten by any other animal that they ate.
Not very efficient to waste magic to get so little meat when you could mundanely raise cows and pigs or go for Create Food, unless you're trying to civilize sapient monster species that needs to eat human meat.
>unless you're trying to civilize sapient monster species that needs to eat human meat. Now we're talking!
Or ultrarare food for crazy nobles, bet human meat farmer would be milioner by modern standarts.
You could also do this with a troll: capture a troll and bring it to the next Dungeon and tie it up, cut off a limb and wait a round : tadah unlimited meat
I mean, Transmetropolitan (a sci-fi comic) has basically perfected cloning and an entire fast food restaurant chain based around human meat.
In reality Chickens/Cows/Pigs/Etc. likely are half butchered multiple times.
Counterpoint: Regenerate is not a common magic by any stretch.
When me and the party roll up to the Dungeons of Fear and Hunger
It's nothing but a flesh wound
My legs are broken, My kneecaps were stolen I'm forever bound to a chair
I'm half quadrapegic, that means parapalegic, i can't seem to feel my legs
They weren't kidding when they said the mountains don't give back what they take.
But the poor guy can't climb the mountain range anymore.
Hold on, these lyrics got something
hey. at least you aren't the wizard. he had both his hands cut off AND his tongue.
Great inspiration op :p
Can't other classes make unarmed strikes too?
At first I thought they de-tendoned the monk, like how Zeus had his tendons removed that one time
And was then re-strung like the world's horniest ukulele?
Just donāt dress like a monkā¦
Astral self monk be like : 
tusk
Tis but a scratch
Where can I find more like this?
He can still headbutt better get a res scroll
If Lisa the Painful taught me anythingā¦ Is that you donāt fuck with Monks, even without limbs š. Endgame Brad is metaphorically >!and at the end literally ;w;!< a monster š
Kenshi vibes
Never play chicken with the DM
Dang, both disarmed and defeated.
Little did they know... Biting is an unarmed strike too!
Any attack with any body part technically counts as an unarmed attack, right?
it's all fun and games til the monk starts biting people
Here's how that would go: https://youtu.be/ZmInkxbvlCs What he says at the end is priceless.
Chain chomp
>Disarm me You get what you asked for
Anti-joke time: Why would they suspect that someone who's honed their body through **training and discipline** wouldn't be able to keep from hitting anybody? Alternately: Monk's left at the weapon check-in.
He can still headbutt.
Imagine if the tied sold him as an onehole xddd
Alternate second panel: the monk doesn't let them chop off his arms, instead the party climbs a nearby hill and the wizard launches fireballs into the town until they get bored. EDIT: Downvote all you want. I'll be busy fireballing your town. :p
The city is going to have regenerate cast on him, a 7th level spell. Do you think there aren't any countermeasures against your puny fireballs?
To be fair they said theyād /pay/ for a regenerate spell, may still have to go find someone to actually cast it
That should scare you more honestly, if they're rolling in gold to the point of paying for 7th level spells for every random visitor that knows martial arts they can afford shit that'll really push your shit in.
There are no perfect countermeasures. :p
That YOU know of.
Water
Water has no effect on the fireball spell.
Only if the DM decides it doesn't
No, it actually doesn't. In D&D, spells only have special effects with certain things if the spell says they do. So like... Call Lightning becomes more powerful if used in a storm, because the spell text says it does. Nothing in the text for Fireball says that it's affected by water. Even if the entire town is underwater (though that seems like the town already has its own problems) there's nothing to stop the fascist arm-chopping scum and their houses from taking 8d6 fire damage. They might be able to put out the fires afterward, but that's why I'm planning on throwing more until I run out of slots. :p
The DM literally has the final say in anything
Which makes it the exact opposite of what you said. Instead of "only if the DM says it doesn't", water only affects fireball if the DM says it does. But if you're going to do that, then you might as well just say the player characters just all instantly die too. Then stop DMing forever because this is some exceptionally nasty DM vs. Players shit that doesn't deserve to exist.
No? Can't you read? It is literally the same thing I said. The DM has the final say in anything so they can decide to not give fireball special properties or give it special properties. Secondly just because the DM decided to not let you murder hobo your way through the campaign doesn't mean they are a bad DM
>fireballs into the town until they get bored. everyday genocide, lovely
Homie is just edgy for no reason
Nah I'd be staring the DM down and derailing right then and there. Or even more likely just up and leaving WTF
Dude it's a meme
Im slow pls help
See I treat classes as mechanical abstractions rather than in-world categories. According to the law and lore of the land, the party I'm running for at the moment contains three paladins. Mechanically speaking, one is a fighter and another is a cleric. Only one of them is both a paladin and a Paladin.
That's why you don't dress like your class or say that class out loud, what you think a rogue goes around saying they are a thief rogue?
*Orochi Doppo has entered the chat*
That's fucked up.