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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

I miss Thac0 because its fun to say.

Thay-co. THAYE-Coooo

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

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.

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

I cast Fireball, make it go boom!

I did but then the sorcerer changed the whole situation with his bullshit!

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.

A d20. 🤷‍♂️

It's ok it's a TV show and he was just acting.

Always seen this meme format posted, no clue what it’s supposed to be from

They aren't familiar with Kilgrave and just make the meme based off the image and their interpretation of it

by level 10 you should already know what spells you took and what they do at minimum

As often as not, the control wizard is trying to figure out if they can drop the AoE template to just hit the bad guys. Blaster Casters tend to have less of a problem because every turn is "Does it have fire resistance? Yes: Magic Missile / No: Scorching Ray"

The really annoying wizards are the Summoners, because "it's my turn so let me add another 1d4+1 turdlings to the battle field and take 6 attacks with the gumbas currently out here".