As a DM, I love when my players absolutely love or gravitate towards an NPC I made. So many times my players latch onto an NPC and it becomes their mascot. It also works really well as a tool for plot hooks or to give players engaging side quests to chase.
Here’s an alternative take based on how I’ve played a druid in a multi-year campaign:
The druid can pick whatever animals they’d like, but:
Each animal type can only be chosen once.
The chosen animal should be thematically appropriate for the environment (e.g. don’t choose elk in a desert or snakes in the arctic).
My DM let me choose whatever animals I wanted except for dinosaurs. I didn’t want to abuse that by spamming 8 wolves every encounter so I came up with these self-imposed restrictions to try to make things interesting. I think that the “each animal can only be used once” limitation in particular was very interesting because it gave the spell longer term strategic implications as well – “is this encounter scary enough that I want to burn one of my stronger summon options”.
My flavor for the restriction was that, since the animals are actually fey spirits, they didn’t like being “taken for granted” and always summoned in the same form. They would only respond in the way you ask if your need was truly great
Here’s an alternative take based on how I’ve played a druid in a multi-year campaign:
The druid can pick whatever animals they’d like, but:
Each animal type can only be chosen once.
The chosen animal should be thematically appropriate for the environment (e.g. don’t choose elk in a desert or snakes in the arctic).
My DM let me choose whatever animals I wanted except for dinosaurs. I didn’t want to abuse that by spamming 8 wolves every encounter so I came up with these self-imposed restrictions to try to make things interesting. I think that the “each animal can only be used once” limitation in particular was very interesting because it gave the spell longer term strategic implications as well – “is this encounter scary enough that I want to burn one of my stronger summon options”.
My flavor for the restriction was that, since the animals are actually fey spirits, they didn’t like being “taken for granted” and always summoned in the same form. They would only respond in the way you ask if your need was truly great
I’m sorry. I didn’t actually test it! It works without pay. I guess I was a little sensitive knowing that Spotify is taking open podcasts and bringing them behind their service.
I always try to find the RSS feeds and support podcasts that way.
In case you don’t feel like reading the “spider web” feature, here is the TLDR: You can cast the web spell once per rest without using a spell slot. When cast in this way, it counts as non-magical.
My players just had a meeting with a dragonborn crime lord. Before they met the boss, they were led in by an elf who was sort of the majordomo for the establishment.
Two “seasons” ago, the barbarian picked up a little figurine of an elvish soldier made out of pewter. It was absolutely just the product of a random trinkets roll table, and she’s been carrying it ever since.
She decided that she was convinced that it looked uncannily like the elf who brought them in, and at the end of this tense meeting with someone who, by all accounts, is a dangerous and powerful person in the city, she slides the figurine across the table to him. “I think we both know who this looks like. Give it to them, won’t you?”
She’s a pretty new player, and I love the kind of non sequitur stuff that she comes up with in RP situations.
I have one large playlist busted into sections. Actual film soundtracks sprinkled around lighter ambient electronic, castlevania stuff in the middle and getting progressively louder and spacier. The idea was to avoid lyrics and also the oft heard kick/snare “unn-tiss”. It’s a tribute to The Perfect Spotify. Please enjoy.
Bears, wolves/direwolves, giant eagles, hell the druid in the game I run summoned an auroch and rode it into combat once. I limit it to beasts the player has encountered personally or would reasonably know enough about their anatomy to summon, and then just limit what I expose them to.
As far as preventing cheesing with 8x small beasts and turning the battlefield into chaos? I recommend enemies with AOE attacks to clear the field.
They are making significant changes to every single class, all the old subclass splat books are no longfer valid, and there will be a new phb to buy which replaces the old one. Sounds like a new edition to me!
Nothing is ever invalid in dnd, You can adapt and use content from anything ever released it just takes work.
As far as if it’s an edition or not, it’s wotcs own view that this is not a new edition just an update of 5e, so if anything it’s more of a 3.5 situation
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