#game break

[dungeonmalcontent]

High level spellcasters in 5th edition d&d automatically win any combat encounter by doing nothing.

I've talked about the magical girl transformation chamber strategy, which I think is fun and balanced (because of the cost and the time it takes to set up and then the time it takes to activate). This is not that fun.

To be frank, it might not even work. It's complicated and involves a tiny bit of word twisting.

This is the contingent nuke.

As soon as you have a 7th level spell slot, upcast glyph of warding at 7th level to spell glyph store a contingency spell which triggers when a creature walks over the glyph of warding's glyph (I imagine you have to place the contingency component on the glyph and the creature walking over it would have to collect it). This is where it gets complicated, a contingent spell remains active for 10 days but "you can use only one contingency spell at a time. If you cast this spell again, the effect of another contingency spell on you ends." But by using a glyph of warding to subvert the self target requirement, because the glyph casts the contingency spell (not you, per se), and the contingency spell is no longer being cast on you (the glyph setter-upper) and so it can stack.

But then there is the matter of the contingent spell. Contingency only allows spells which target the "caster", as in spells with a range of self. And there's a few good spells for this. I really like destructive wave for this (because it a big aoe), but that's a difficult spell to get on a character that also knows glyph of warding and contingency. But the very easy solution is lightning bolt.

So. A 13th level wizard. One 7th level slot to glyph, one 6th level slot to contingency, and one 5th level slot to store a contingent lightning bolt (upcast) or a destructive wave if you can manage that.

And this is why it's a nuke, if you haven't put the pieces together already. For every set of three slots you use (as outlined above) you create a glyph on the ground which lasts until dispelled. Walking over that glyph causes it to stack one stored lightning bolt or destructive wave (which will trigger on your preferred condition, such as "the creature stands within range of and faces a specific creature"). You can walk over... a lot of those over the course of 10 days. So, say, you spend months prepping glyphs in a warehouse and then walk over them all at once, you have that many contingent spells which will trigger all at once on their shared trigger.

Just imagine. You stand in front of the king. You turn to face him. 80 5th level lightning bolt spells erupt from your body all at once. 800d8s of lightning damage. An average of 3,200 lightning damage to everything in a 150 foot line in front of you. Assuming average damage and all successful saves, that's still ~1,700 damage. And bare minimum (assuming your target doesn't have evasion) that's still 400 damage.

You would rip a hole through space time.

Total gold cost: 136,000 gold in materials and a trenchcoat big enough to hold 80 small figurines in the pockets.

Reasons this would not work:

There's a couple of reasons your GM might not allow this rules wise. Here are the ones I see right away.

+ "You can use only one contingency spell at a time." This line is the contingency spell is not particularly clear. The structure of the paragraph would lead you to infer that you can only benefit from one contingent spell at a time, however the phrase "contingent spell" could also refer to the spell being stored for later use and "use" may refer to the act of casting. Under the circumstances outlined above, you might end up sputtering out one lightning bolt every round for 80 rounds if they can only go off one at a time rather than all at once. However, this contradicts the prior paragraph of the contingency spell which states that the contingent spell activates immediately when it's conditions are met.

+ "You can use only one contingency spell at a time." The "you" is a little ambiguous as I've set this up. Because it's set up with glyphs acting like little autonomous mages, the you is generally supposed to be the glyph. But I. Could also be the glyph setter or the creature walking over the glyphs. And this could make it complicated because depending on how you interpret the phrasing, it could not work on you (the glyph setter) or not at all because the creature walking over the glyphs becomes the "you".

[cardo-de-comer]

low-poly, ps1-ish Batter

[phantom-palace]

sitting here… mute as fuck..

[eastgaysian]

[lotus-pear]

bugs when you lift up a rock

[the-sketches-lair]

I can't help, but wonder...

[definetelynotdepressed]

god cursed me into seeing this image so im making it everyone elses problem

[skyberia]

workarounds to having a vampire as your partner in crime

[tariah23]

The manga industry, especially JUMP, needs to hurry up and do away with weekly scheduling for mangaka. There needs to better regulations put into place for their health and safety because this is pitiful. Two weeks - monthly updates should’ve already been the standard for the manga industry at this point. These money grabbers will only continue to put the lives of these artists at stake for the sake of capitalism unless some serious changes are implemented.

[owldart]

They figured he was an angsty TEEN not an angsty THIRD GRADER

[itskeisy]

🚨 BREAKING NEWS!! 📰

A new Hunger Games novel will be released on March 18, 2025.

"Sunrise on the Reaping will revisit the world of Panem twenty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Fiftieth Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell."

The 50th Games is canonically won by Haymitch Abernathy, District 12's second victor and Katniss Everdeen's mentor.

[gingersnapped]

"Sam is probably my only friend in this town..." emergency sleepover time in the mountains after local small town emo and skater boy played too much solarion chronicles and lost track of time

[ohnonotthehorrors]

Can I... talk about the theory that winners help craft the next game?

Because, and I really can not say this enough, it puts So Much into perspective.

Everything starts out Normal. Three lives, simple, cut and dry, there hasn't been a winner yet. No one to help craft the game. (And there's something to be said about how simple it really was. Not even a real expectation of the world becoming pvp or combative. No idea of the war to come)

Then Grian wins. The green killer, the man who vowed his first life to the one whose life he took. The next game the boogie man is born. A mechanic that allows and, in fact, demands, a green kill. People can trade lives back and forth, currency and debt wrapped up in one. (can we still be friends? Said the red partner. A life time later and reds are hostile, alone. Maybe it's an answer: No. Not anymore)

Scott wins this time. He refuses to play the game. He will not kill his team, he will love and he will do so fiercely and with all of himself. The next game people are attached through to their very souls. Every bit of damage to one soul is done to its twin. There is no boogeyman. (There is no way for a widow to be left without their love)

Pearl wins and she wins a blood bath. Spent the game draped in red, only wolves for company. Sitting in her tower, shivering in ice, maybe she wanted it to end. To see where it would. Limited life rewards you for killing, limited life has a clock tick tick ticking down, you always no how long you have. A curse yes, but a blessing too.

Now It's Martyn's turn.

And what a turn it is.

Keep your secrets, says the disloyal man, keep them well. Everything hurts, everything Matters, says the man fracturing with every loss. (What if we could love each other without hurting? Says The Hand, who never wanted to be coated in blood)

More importantly, Martyn has always seen the watchers below the surface. Now, they're right here in front of him. Something that could almost... be rebelled against, no? Something that someone else could finally point to and say: hey, hey isn't that familiar?

[barabones]

Submissions are officially open!

Crips for eSims for Gaza and Connecting Humanity have already done so much work bringing Internet access to the people of Gaza, but the need for funding is constant. So we are very proud to announce the submission phase of our upcoming eSim bundle on Itch.io!

Do you have a game, zine, or hell, anything else published on Itch? We would love to have you for our cause!

Submissions will be open from January 27 to February 10th!

[zorangezest]

3/3

i've been getting a couple asks if redraws were allowed and yes! i love seeing how my art is interpreted in different styles, go for it!

previous laserbeak

phew! that's a lot of drawing...i'm going into hibernation now...

ive been working on this project for close to a month and i have to ask: what was your favourite moment?