#dnd gish

[gothyanki]

Thinking about Commander Urlon (a man who exists even less than the average BG3 character) in a not-at-all-feral way once again.

[jkcorellia]

you have to go pretty far out of your way in DnD 5e to build a melee/tanky/frontline sorcerer, but one thing I think is cool about the game is that it can still be done

Like I just built a Githyanki draconic bloodline sorcerer and honestly? Pretty cool. Just a 13 CHA so that I can dump points into CON and STR, using a greatsword (thanks Githyanki) and medium armor (thanks again Githyanki) to spam Booming Blade or Green-Flame Blade as required (and spending sorcery points to quicken either cantrip for pseudo-Extra Attack). Spells would focus on things without attack rolls or saving throws: Absorb Elements, Shield, Misty Step, Far Step, Enhance Ability, Haste.

The character would need to focus ASIs on Constitution (and the Tough feat) to keep up with tankier classes in HP but you can do that. You're never going to compete as a pure frontliner against a barbarian or fighter but you can fake it by spamming Shield, especially if your DM plays ball by putting relevant magic items (i.e. AC increasing items, a greatsword that does extra damage a la Flame Tongue).

What's my point, besides "sorcerer gish isn't impossible"? Well, I guess it's just to show a cool thing you can do in DnD 5e. DnD detractors are often quite right in their critiques but also? This shit still slaps.

[cwunchi]

ok what I'm thinking for derrada is something like. swashbuckler rogue / divine soul sorc / efreeti genielock. probably like a 3/1/1 -> 13/6/1 (or maybe 14/5/1)

[sunfishluver]

low quality mixed media dnd concept art with fandom shit to fill in blank spots

[honkbird]

Tbh this is why some people REALLY love deep simulationist systems. I know people who love GURPS specifically because it has rules for literally everything under the sun, and want that framework to build off of and inspire them to other things. D&D certainly inspires me to play ,,, a specific archetype because otherwise I'm worthless if the DM is following CR

im confused about the dnd 5e hatred. yall arent just ignoring rules that are dumb? ur dm actually follows every single thing in the book for real?

if you have to ignore some of the rules for the game to be good then the game is not good

[bayleaf-2]

So IIm happy to announce that Lyras playlist is gonna get a lot happier lol

Now I just have to find fitting songs

[blackfinchart]

Have some DnD character art I made a while back

Thyra, my Lawful Evil lightning Gish Princess who wants to take over the world.

Featuring two alive and loving parents, an extremely bizarre sense of integrity, and a real zest for life and also slaying both man and beast.

I don’t play RPGs much nowadays but in all the time I did she was one of my favorites

I hope you like her

[daisychainsandbowties]

i’m doing it i’m doing it DND CLASSES FOR THE WARRIOR NUNS

you will laugh initially but LISTEN - Mother Superion is a bard. she’s a battlefield control champ with a bit of healing (a BIT) and before you think ‘she would not fucking etc. etc.’ consider this - she’s a College of Whispers bard. it is creepy as fuck. she gets in ur head, she deals psychic damage. she’s out here main casting confusion, hold person, mass suggestion, geas. dissonant whispers to give you a nosebleed with a goddamn look. a bard is about swag in any colour scheme and MS is out there wearing black and making you haemorrhage without touching you.

real quick on yas and michael. LOOK i want to make yas a cleric or a druid but i am loathe to give her a high wisdom score. my girl has no sense of direction. so i’m going to make her a wizard purely because it happens every campaign. your wizard has no spells your wizard is trapped in a small room with a melee fighter your wizard is FUCKED. your wizard somehow beats the fucking shit out of that dude and walks out with three missing teeth and a shit-eating grin. this is the yas arc. so, wizard. BIG on utility. i could even see her as an artificer honestly like a bit of artillerist or she could have a metal wolf i wouldn’t stop her. michael is a barbarian but he’s the totem of the bear so when he rages he takes half damage from everything except psychic damage. champ.

cam is a rogue. she’s rogue-coded. she’s a little guy with a hand crossbow. assassin OR perhaps actually a bit of arcane trickster. message, mage hand, a bit of prestidigitation but she’s read the RAW (rules-as-written) and she is exploiting the fuck out of that cantrip. she is dealing 8d6 sneak attack damage and using a feat to shoot again with her bonus action. or you’ve been sneak attack damaged x2 because surprise and so you are dead and she’s bonus action hiding w her sneak ability modifier of +14.

don’t argue lilith is a hexblade warlock. what the fuck else? she’s your archetypical Gish rocking a longsword and fuck it i’m just going to give her magic initiate or something so she can have the primal savagery cantrip for the claws and the teeth. she’s pact of the blade. i can and will have her be a paladin base and multi class into warlock to make an overpowered mess of a stat block but she’s maining charisma and she got constitution to the roof tiles. her eldritch invocations are devil’s sight, agonizing blast, armour of shadows. Eventually I wanna say master of myriad forms just because alter self straight-up slaps and I want lilith to do whatever she wants (god forbid women)

shannon is a paladin. classic paladin exactly like the one my mom always insists on playing and she too forgets she has any spells except hunter’s mark and smites but she’s the only reason the party is alive her AC is 19 from the get-go her fighting style is defence +1 ac and she’s got the sentinel feat. sword and shield or shield and morningstar. poured all her point-buy into strength and con but acts like she’s got an intelligence score of 25 at the table. genuinely the most likely to make the dm tear their hair out bc she wants to talk to every NPC and she’ll fully encourage everyone else to do the stupidest shit

mary has me conflicted. on the one hand she’s an obvious pick for artificer but i dislike that class & mary is too precious to me SO instead let’s give her that sexy sexy gunslinger fighter subclass. yeah she made you homebrew guns into your setting no she isn’t sorry about it. took close-range fighting style so she can be ANYWHERE on the battlefield and hand people their asses. she can snipe but she has a tendency to rush into rooms, immediately trigger all the traps, and then laugh her ass off while climbing out of the pit of spikes like that painting of the naked woman coming out of the well. sometimes the traps set her on fire and she refuses to use her action to put it out. she WILL sacrifice her action bonus action movement argue w/ the DM over what counts as a free action if ANYBODY gets dropped to 0 and is making death saves. fully does not care who has healing word she will book it to her fallen comrades, action surge the shit out of her turn because ‘in this life!!!’

now. ava is obviously i don’t take criticism she is Obviously a wild magic sorcerer. my girl is out here using tides of chaos to get advantage on stupid fucking rolls like she’ll use it to win drinking games or to charm the lock into opening or to tie a guard’s bootlaces together and then in the middle of a fight she’ll roll a 7 or 8 on a d100 and cast fireball centred on herself. sometimes she breaks the fourth wall and the spotify playlist of ‘dnd fight music’ will play out of nowhere and the party is just so used to it they don’t even bother to prod at the fraying fabric of the universe. ava wants all the fire spells she’s got fire bolt she’s got shocking grasp she definitely has minor illusion AND mage hand doesn’t care if there are better utility cantrips (aside from prestidigitation not really anyway mage hand is aha your too sexy!!). she will not multi class she wants those high levels spells we’re talking dimension door, fireball, FUCKING FLY (she twin spells fly on her and bea and most days will waste all her 3rd and 4th level spell slots on 10 minutes of what she calls ‘we stay silly time’). but also she had a surprisingly high int score so she learns how to ritual cast and learns alarm and conjure steed and a bunch of good utility spells and it makes bea So Proud. just wait until she learns Animate Objects and can fuck up enemies beauty and the beast style. ava as sorcerer is bespoke. send tweet.

bea. i’m so emotional. i want to make her a blade singer wizard so bad. BUT i think her int modifier better serves rogue. along with dex she can have dual short swords she can use a longbow she can dagger dagger dagger (i’m giving her boots of haste because i love her). but i’m multi classing her with gloom stalker ranger. hands down the best ranger & thematically so so sexy. assassin rogue with three levels in gloom stalker. yes my soul wants to give bea magic but RESIST because she’s cool as she is she’s surrounded by magic users and YET she is still the MVP of any fight. she has dark vision she has sneak attack you bet ur ass she is meticulously planning how to get surprise in every encounter and she does. typical rogue sneaks ahead of the party and dispatches 7 enemies by herself. bonus action dash/ hide but also loves her team because sneak attack loves an ally within 5feet. guys she’s terrifying ava loves casting haste on her and watching her just go batshit. she’ll use uncanny dodge every damn turn if she had to she automatically halves the damage off ava’s self-combustion wild magic bullshit. ava can cast fireball right next to her and bea will succeed the FUCK out of that dex save and take no damage.

(these nuns are making me worse every day but there u go dnd classes for my babies)

[supermitskifan1234]

Worldbuilding stuff because it’s my page and I decide what’s on the autism itinerary. Here’s the general lore and the major Gods of the DnD Campaign I ran for a few years :3

The Prime Pantheon = The collective name for the Gods who defeated the Fallen Pantheon and thus ended The Ragnarok Event. They are the highest council in the universe, not directly interfering in mortal affairs and instead working through networks of smaller deities.

The Fallen Pantheon = The collective name for the Gods who were defeated in the Ragnarok Event and scattered to personalised prison planes. Recently they have been spreading corruption throughout the planes.

The Moirai = The three Goddesses of Fate, unaligned and neutral deities who live through people prophetically aligned to cause great change. The only entities able to truly see into the future.

The Prime Pantheon;

Hyperion, The Rulemaker (Elder God of Order, Balance, Law)

Metanoia, The Seawarden (Goddess of Sea, Storms, The Death in Natural Order)

Skadi, The Feywarden (Goddess of Nature, Fey, The Life in Natural Order)

Gish, The Virtuous (God of War, Holy Conquest, Strategy)

Pax, The Heartmother (Goddess of Emotion, Connection, Peace)

Bahamut, The Platinum Dragon (God of Metallic Dragons, Constitution, Charity)

Ogma, The Knowing (God of Magic, Intelligence, The Known)

Arubani, The Light Maker (God of The Sun, Creativity, Redemption)

Vul’Lugh, The Iron Forge (God of Invention, Human Creation, Craft)

Plutus, The Blue Blooded (God of Wealth, Economy, Merchants)

Az-Zuhara, The Everbeauty (Goddess of Fertility, Earthly Pleasures, Desire)

The Fallen Pantheon;

Falak, The Endless (Elder Goddess of Entropy, Disorder, Instinct)

Isfet, The Hooked Spine (Goddess of Needless Violence, Paranoia, Wrath)

Asmodeus, Lord of The Nine Hells (God of Hell, Punishment, Sin)

Tiamat, The Scaled Tyrant (Goddess of Chromatic Dragons, Hoarded Wealth, Thieves)

The Writhing Queen (Goddess of Monstrosities, Birth, Evolution)

Arustar, The Hidden Chance (God of The Moon, Undeath, Dark)

Koss, The Ivory Eye (God of Magic, Intelligence, Secrets)

Lolth, The Mistress Weaver (Goddess of Spiders, Manipulation, Drow)

Surtr, The Harbinger (God of Decay, Corruption, The Horsemen of The Apocalypse)

Akahaast, The Winged Madness (God of Consumption, Greed, Steed of Falak)

Grimm’d, The Tortured Prince (God of Hatred, Sterilisation, Deific Power)

The Moirai;

Clotho, The Spinner (Goddess of Fate, The One who Spins Thread of Life)

Lachesis, The Allotter (Goddess of Fate, The One who Measures Thread of Life)

Atropos, The Inexorable (Goddess of Fate, The One who Cuts Thread of Life)

The Dead Gods;

Gaia, The Cycle (Elder Goddess of Sky, Sea, Earth and The Cycle of Life and Death)

The Twilit (Elder God of Time and The Cycle of Night and Day)

The Grand Owl (Elder God of Magic)

Ioun, The Grey Drake (God of Dragonkind)

[fastasyoucan1999]

hellauuurrrrr <33 ok so list 5 things that make you happy, then put this in the askbox for the last 10 people who reblogged something from you to get to know your mutuals and followers.

hiii x

my little morning routine!! <33 drink coffee and listen to music and stare out the window. there is nothing better

my lovely friends who i spent last night laughing with !! we say we play dnd but what we really do is Not that we just say words to each other and hang ourselves on our own incomprehensible humor

reading <3 shes my gf. had no time the last few months to read but its been so nice lately to sit around and read from sunrise to set

SPRING!!!! OH MY GOD ITS SPRING FINALLY

the sidney gish merch my brother got me!!! i've a new crewneck and tshirt <3 and he sent me a video of sidney saying hello to me. which was mortifying and also wonderful

[thumbsart]

Backstory, Sword, Staff, Masterpiece, Screen

Backstory: My first PC was an alchemist/gunslinger half elf. She was the black sheep of a family of elf wizards (one of whom, her half-sister, was another PC) because she went into magical chemistry instead of higher maths. She was also nearly the only survivor of that adventure because everyone else walked into a trap and she was chilling with her rifle way in the back.

Sword: Depends on edition but generally ranger or paladin.

Staff: Gish.

Masterpiece: My current PC, a bladesinger wizard.

Screen: High Rollers is what got me back into DND so I think I'm legally obligated to say that one. I don't watch actual plays that often though.

[avantguardisme]

25, 37 & 71 😄

25. already answered! it's "what do you want from me tonight" by sidney gish and it's fantastic

37. Wet Dream by Wet Leg! hey look at me. look at me. go listen to this whole album immediately. wet leg is one of my top artists this year (only behind mitski and pinegrove) and for good reason! i listened to this album on repeat for like a week at one point, and this is probably one of my favorite songs off of it. tbh i think the only reason this song isn't higher on my spotify wrapped is because i was listening to the whole album on repeat instead of just this one song

I was in your wet dream Driving in my car What makes you think you're good enough To think about me when you're touching yourself?

71. Saw You In a Dream by The Japanese House: a song that is both really good and which i also feel like i've listened to wayyyy too much just because it's on several different playlists i've listened to a good bit-- notably a tgaa playlist that i've previously mentioned and an older playlist about one of my dnd character's weird romance with the guy who was supposed to be his mark (whoops)

You were the sweetest apparition, such a pretty vision There was no reason, no explanation The perfect hallucination

send me a number 1-101 and i'll give you a song!

[jkcorellia]

Addicted to Gishes Exhibit #546: I was building a hypothetical PF2E Investigator (creating character builds helps me wrap my head around mechanics) and I proved unable to restrain myself from giving them Arcane Sense for Detect Magic, Arcane Tattoos for Shield, and a magus archetype. I am lost. Irredeemable. Go on without me.

[khorneschosen]

Lol nah fam, I just realized that you need an antagonist to be able to post this much cringe like if you posted this without someone like me to justify it, you'd be one of those leftists. You know the kind, the kind that have to frame their entire conversation or meme in news speak (only news speak is meant to make language so simple that it becomes unusable. Your intellectuals do it so that nothing can be understood fully).

Also that it seems like your only real tactic is that of creating more and more things to argue about till the mass makes it no longer worth it on my part. Which isnt a fallacy, but its so bad faith it may as well be because its an argument to the man, to my patience rather than my reason. To believe that to defeat me, is the same as to defeat my ideas.

I believe that tactic is called "gish gallop". If you like to examine it further.

But if you are up for a challenge, we can avoid that bit (well more than a bit of dishonesty, I have read this reply, and my goodness you are naughty) of dishonesty on your part by only focusing on one issue, whether dialectic materialism is mysticism. You get to talk about your core epistemology, and I get to have a conversation with someone operating in good faith. We capitalists call it win win or mutual profit.

And after all that is where we disagree fundamentally.

Ill let you define it in your own words to start off.

How you define mysticism and dialectic materialism.

And if not? Not, I have cosplay for a dnd character I am working on which I prefer so much more than to reply to a mid wit.

[willyouhaveme]

Hi! It's your swiftie pride gifter again. I hope you had a good weekend!

What are your favourite ships and fandoms you're in? (shows, books movies, etc.)

Also who are your favourite artists other than taylor swift?

Talk to you soon!

Hello friend !! Sorry for getting around to this a little bit late! I had a pretty decent past weekend! I have to warn you (/lh) with at least the other fandoms it is going to get a bit niche! I also have a sideblog where I post about other fandoms that aren't music related ( @katvantassel ) !

The two main other fandoms I'm in are shipwrecked comedy (who make literary and history inspired comedy/drama videos) and unprepared casters (a dnd podcast) ! I love both dearly and the communities with them! Alongside those, I enjoy classic books (I just finished p&p), poetry, musicals, and coming of age or animated movies! I also have a letterbox acc that I can share if u want :) when it comes to shows, I do have a few favs or ones that mean a lot to me but I haven't been watching them too much recently haha but most of the time they tend to be shows thay feature sapphic characters !

My music taste mostly covers the indie/ alt pop , rock, and folk scene so a lot of those musicians I listen to! Some of my favs that come to mind tho are lucy dacus (and boygenius), sara bareilles, tessa violet, orla gartland, the regretts, mxmtoon, haley heynderickx, Sidney gish, kacey Musgraves, muna, and more!

[dracotheocracy]

Omg what is the tiefling triad that sounds so fun

the tiefling triad are a trio dnd OCs of mine! i've talked a little about two of them here before- innes, avarice, and veracity

innes is a high functioning alcoholic trying to unravel a conspiracy after he was wrongfully implicated in it for killing his surrogate father (which he did not do. but he kind of wishes he did). the details of the conspiracy keep changing because i can't decide on any of the worldbuilding details for this planet i'll be honest

avarice is a bounty hunter that's been chasing him down for the better part of a few years. she's pretty highly regarded in that scene throughout practically the entire continent and was originally in it for the money, but is maybe beginning to develop a moral compass

veracity is kind of playing a game of cat and mouse with both of them. he's a private detective who investigates murders and a few of his cases of interest are related to murders either innes or avarice have (allegedly) committed

class-wise they're a bladesinger, and hexblade, and a spirits bard respectively. innes and avarice are also part of a gish trio with meredith muirgil, a sea elf swords bard who used to be in the navy but committed treason

i'm not sure i'll ever turn this into a fully coherent story but the idea is that they're all more or less working towards a common cause and gradually realize that and form alliances. by the third act so to speak they'd be working together to defeat the BBEG and all that jazz :)