That's why I play paladin. I have one spell worth remembering and it's a delete button.
Ok I play paladin because even in my fantasies I just want to be a hero who has the power to help people
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That's why I play paladin. I have one spell worth remembering and it's a delete button.
Ok I play paladin because even in my fantasies I just want to be a hero who has the power to help people
Ok I play paladin because even in my fantasies I just want to be a hero who has the power to help people
I hate being the person that quietly judges people who clearly chose paladin type classes for the power rather than for the class fantasy, but I just can't help it sometimes
Class mechanics are a perfectly valid reason for playing a class. I love paladin in 5e while the pf2 equivalent is less appealing to me because I'm not as much into playing tanks as damage dealers. No matter what class I play I like to play big damn heroes or damaged women struggling to be better.
Can I use my sneak attack? No? Damn. Ok does an 8 hit. What does before modifers mean?
what i love is when the DM hasn't read the rules on how sneak attack works, so when you ask if you can use sneak attack they always say no.
Ouch, ow. Stop, please
This is why I suggest every caster either has note cards for their spells or a tablet with their spells bookmarked.
It’s fireball. It’s just gonna be fireball. Just roll your 8d6.
Yeah, you make a personal spellbook. No PHB spellbook. That way you only have 4 or 5 pages to thumb through. If you can't devote that much personal time to the campaign, you can't devote that much time to the campaign.
I don't give a shit about how large is the room
This reminded me of a time our rogue fell into a pit trap that had a pair of mimics down there. The first turn it was clear the rogue was going to die without some help and nobody wanted to join them in the pit of dying. Me and the other sorc looked at each other, "hey rogue, you picked improved evasion right?", fireball o'clock
Did the rogue make it?
They did! Improved evasion is so OP we were way less of a threat than getting Eiffel towered by mimics
swing a sword four times
My group: "You guys make it to level five before the campaign falls apart?"
sigh. i miss thac0 sometimes. not often, but sometimes
I miss Thac0 because its fun to say.
Thay-co. THAYE-Coooo

I know this may be a joke, but I have used timers to great effect in the past. One instance comes to mind:
My players were looking for a missing child. They suspected a kidnapping. The Druid had transformed into a wolf, and was using scent to track the suspected kidnapper. The trail led them to the edge of a lake. In the middle of the lake, they could see a man in a rowboat. He had rowed out to the middle of a lake, and was in the process of dumping a squirming sack overboard. The players heard my description of how the sack hit the water, floated for a few seconds while it thrashed around, then sank below the surface.
The players fell into analysis paralysis. Would it be best to row out and stop the kidnapper? Focus on retrieving the sack that obviously had the kidnapped child in it? Risk splitting the party to do both simultaneously? While they were bickering about what to do, I quietly started a timer and set it in front of my DM screen. It was a not-so-subtle “you’re all wasting time arguing while a child is literally drowning” reminder.
The party saw me set the timer down, a silent beat passed as the realization hit, and then the entire party immediately sprang into action. Everyone piled into the rowboat on shore, while the paladin was asking to make a strength check to shove off and get the boat into the water. He rolled a natural 20, so the boat skipped a few times across the surface before the warrior took over rowing with a constitution check. He rolled a natural 19. They made it to the middle of the lake very quickly. The Druid wildshaped into something aquatic (I think a dolphin?) to go diving for the child, while the warrior and sorcerer piled into the kidnapper’s boat to prevent his escape. While all of that was going on, the paladin was making constitution saving throws to swim out to the middle of the lake (in heavy armor, I might add) to be on standby in case the child needed healing.
I didn’t actually intend on using the timer for anything. But the simple fact that I had it running pushed them into action. It was a powerful reminder that their characters wouldn’t have the time to fully analyze the situation and arrive at a plan of action by committee.
Meanwhile, the necromancer is standing on shore saying, "I really don't want to get my robes wet. Take your time, bring me the kid, and I'll take care of it."
Plan your next turn before it’s your turn!
I did but then the sorcerer changed the whole situation with his bullshit!
I think this whole situation improved considerably when everyone became invisible. See? No one is around now, combat complete

Hilarious! Appropriating this for redistribution!
~~sorcerer~~ DM
I'll also spot you that turn one is generally basic bitch shit.
It's turn seven, when the wizard has gone through six prior Save or Sucks only to find out the DM has introduced another creature on which none of them work that they're fumbling around for options.
This almost never works out because by my next turn, the battlefield is completely different than what it was when I ended my previous turn.
I am utterly perplexed as to why people keep posting this image with text that implies that we're supposed to sympathise with the mass murdering serial rapist.
Always seen this meme format posted, no clue what it’s supposed to be from
It's from Jessica Jones, a very, very good show. David Tennant plays a man with mind control powers who uses them in all of the worst ways you can possibly imagine. It's technically a Marvel comics thing, but the creators were given total carte blanche and went deep into the absolute nightmarishness of the subject matter. It's basically a mix of detective noir and horror. Tennant and Ritter both deliver incredible performances and the show really plays with the abject terror of living in a world with superhumans in it. It's like a version of Invincible that refuses to ever undermine the horror by cracking a joke.
Tenant does such a good job with the role that I legitimately had a hard time watching him as other characters for a while after. Kilgrave is so fucking vile on so many levels, but is still a fully fleshed out awful character by the end, and Tenant absolutely nails it.
It's a ridiculously good performance and I think it really shocked a lot of people who only knew him from Doctor Who.
I've always said that it takes a genuinely good person to play a truly repugnant villain, and by all accounts that's Tennant through and through.
From Jessica Jones, the guy has a superpower where what he speaks is treated as a command by the one hearing it.
It only implies that if you've watched the show. Otherwise its a picture that says 10,000 words.
The fact that people see the emotion over the lore just shows the acting was good IMO.
They aren't familiar with Kilgrave and just make the meme based off the image and their interpretation of it
i just assumed it was the Doctor ranting at someone at the end of an episode
“NOW, JESSICAAAAA!!!”