Someone found the middle ground between the extremes

It is a very strong class when you have a fire mage in your team

Genuine GenV character

If anyone wants to do a dr. Farts style campaign let me know. I would love to ref a zany to the max campaign. Be warned that dr. Farts may have to contend with the likes of Detective Vague.

I’m sworn to carry your burdens

MFW ex quipped that out in *that* moment when my mind was fumbling to think of complex math problems, baseball commentary, "Margaret Thatcher on a cold day", etc. *for their benefit*. Oh, the sparkle in their eyes was certainly telling, but I'm not sure if they expected it to work *quite* so well, or so immediately. FAFO, I guess?

My dm never let me play as a terrasque

Dear DMs: if you take yourself too seriously, I will murder you.

I've had a lot of DND players, often people that exclusively play DND, tell me they like it that way. They like that there's basically no rules for conflict outside of combat. "Just talk it out" and "we're here to *role play* stop looking at your sheet". Personally, not my taste. If we're just going to "talk it out" I feel like we should write a book instead. That or actually rip out the stunted social rules in DND. That would help the annoying thing where the real life Sales Guy brings his whole personality into his 8 Cha Fighter. But I also think a lot of those people have never really played anything else, and like dnd's "barely any rules" better than whatever fantasy they're imagining. I like that games with working social rules can let someone who's shy or quiet play someone socially powerful, just like a physically weak person can play a strong barbarian.

Rogue is worse. I played a rogue for a while and it didn't really deliver a great experience. Every combat was "I shoot, move, cunning action hide". Scouting was largely outclassed by the wizard's familiar, and even more so the pact of the chain familiar. Splitting the party is tedious and risky. One GM tried to make a system to abstract scouting- you'd make some checks and get information and maybe trouble. But that guy liked PbtA way more than me, and it clearly influenced his design, because pretty much every time you used this system something bad would happen. I don't play these games to be a fuck up. I want to be exceedingly competent in my niche. I guess some of that is up to individual GM style, but I think some of it is on the system itself.

What are you going to do, fart on them?

I would let you, but only as a lawful good peace cleric

Suggestion can be twinned if need be

The people who want to do 1500 dmg/turn probably want to be playing 3.5

Way better as an npc. There is no man straight enough to straighten out a campaign with daily Armpits Esquire. She’s the cherry on the top of the cherry on top of the cherry on top of the sundae

give them stage 3 pink eye

Doctor Farts: ooo! i leveled up and got cloudkill!

Unless your DM is a stickler for the updated 2024 rules, then in that case it can't, because they changed Twinned Spell to require that the spell let you target additional creatures when cast at higher levels, which Suggestion does not.

A significant part of the culture that has formed around 5e is about "having it all". And usually by ignoring the (admittedly weak) rules that do exist, rather than exploiting actual gaps. So, you can frankenstein together a caster that has martial proficiency in armour (or even melee weapons), with the only compromise being your capstone abilities (which often are very expendable). And then you can metagame away your shitty social abilities by "roleplaying". I'm not going to defend 5e -- I genuinely think it's a poorly made game, and place the blame for that entirely on the execuitives -- but the reason why so many people refuse to try something else is because they like the exploits that they *believe* exist, even though they are totally socially constructed.

Beyond disappointed that none of our resident fart accounts have commented in this thread. Clearly the clarion call of the wind broken by the fart golems haven't yet echoed deep enough into the halls of lemmy to reach their noses. @Fartswithanaccent@lemmy.world @Fartographer@lemmy.world @I_fart_glitter@lemmy.world @Satansmaggotycumfart@lemmy.world