FYI Berserker is one of the republished classes in the 2024 rules, new version does not have exhaustion when you end your rage anymore.
It’s in the free rules so anyone can read it here:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/free-rules/character-classes#Barbarian
In theory, sure. But not with OP saying “Nah-uh” to everything. There’s just no fun to be had.
And I really enjoy arguing about game mechanics, just look back at me talking about that insect swarm/animal shapes nonsense people who know nothing about the game came up with.
I’d say I’d agree but there is no stretching here, you’d have to rule that a creature that is missing every part of its body is alive. You’d also have to rule that a pile of dust has a maximum HP of more than 0, or else you’d also be dead instantly.
You’d never get a death save, your already dead.
But no disengage as a bonus action, or disengage & dodge or dash with 1FP
No deflect attacks (1d10+dex+Monk level reduction in damage as a reaction)
No evasion(no damage for dex saves that would do half on success, half on failure)
You also only get your pseudo-extra attack when you expend a bardic inspiration, which is gonna be limited per rest, and requires you to be in melee when you expend the die.
Your also not going to scale your dex before your cha, so your to-hit is going to fall behind enemy AC even at level 1.
Well memed, but it’s no fun to try to argue with someone who will take everything in bad faith, even as a joke.
Being in melee might be a little tough, at least single class. Probably depends on the table
D8 hit die, no shields or shield spell, AC might be higher than studded Leather if you play point buy, standard array your gonna miss out on feats but it probably works out
Studded Leather: 12+dex CoD Bard Unarmored Defense: 10+dex+cha
What else would they use? Thats what’s available
Because they can build more capacity based on a long term contract with the utilities.
“Maple leaves could soon be as valuable as gold”
Well if it’s seaworthy, it will be on the sea instead of in it.
Yes, this is what I live for.
Some of the conjure spells don’t give the stat blocks in the text of the spell, they list and link to the creatures you can summon as it wouldn’t make sense to list them all with the spell. There are usually more creatures than what’s listed, it depends on what creatures were around when it wasprinted, but it does give you stat blocks if it expects you to have a creature
Bag of tricks is particularly bad example as it only summons those monsters which are listed, which is more restrictive than most conjuration spells, and is an item.
Evard’s Black Tentacles and Cloudkill also summon a persisting damaging effect like insect plague does, but I still wouldn’t let you animal shape those.
Unseen Servant doesn’t even summon a full creature but it does list some stats and I’d probably rule you could animal shape as it at least has HP and AC to go off of.
Where in insect plague does it say it summons a swarm of insects? It doesn’t. If it did, it would that it conjures a swarm of insects and hyperlink the monster listing. It repeatedly referrs to the magical effect as either the sphere or the area.
Insects plagues effects also don’t line up the stats of swarm of insects,
4d10 damage, 20ft radius sphere, con save for half damage, cannot move
vs
medium sized swarm of tiny creatures, melee attack +3 to hit, 4d4 damage or 2d4 when >= half hp, can move 20ft
This actually brings up a good point…
How many insects are in a swarm? The stat block doesn’t actually list an amount, so how many (Large or smaller creatures) are going to appear?
And aren’t they going to to appear in the same space, since the swarm is copnglomerate medium creation, that would be several large creatures in one 5x5 space, would they even survive? Or are you going to be raining chunks of horse all over the battlefield?
Even if you said a 20ft radius sphere, there could potentially thousands of locusts in there. If you rule that they all move to an unoccupied space, your most likely going to cover your entire map with horses, horses fall and everyone dies.
On the range, I was just being precise about the real distance, but now that you mention, the druid would have to be within 30 feet to start the combo. Unlike actual summon spells, you have no way of communicating with or commanding the swarm of insects to fall. It can’t speak, with no listed languages and too low intelligence to learn one. Insect Plague is a magical effect with no senses whatsoever, and can’t move.
This loops back around to the whole “willing” part of animal shapes. Swarm of insects has no way of being willing or even communicating it’s willingness to be transformed. You could try charming the swarm of insects, except that they are immune to the charmed condition.
They are also immune to being knocked prone, so you can’t use that to make them fall as you might for another flying creature. Really they are immune to most other conditions, I can’t see one that would let you circumvent the inability to be willing or just mechanically make them fall.
There is no hard rule for one creature falling onto a other. There is however an optional rule in Tashas that states:
If a creature falls into the space of a second creature and neither of them is Tiny, the second creature must succeed on a DC 15 Dexterity saving throw or be impacted by the falling creature, and any damage resulting from the fall is divided evenly between them. The impacted creature is also knocked prone, unless it is two or more sizes larger than the falling creature.
Without this optional rule, we have no RAW or RAI way of determining the damage this would even cause.
Weight and size do not matter for fall damage, so you would actually be better off using medium creatures as you could hit large or larger creatures multiple times. Elephants are still really funny, although I would have used cows.
The worst part about all this combo that clearly does not work is that it uses a 5th and 8th level spell slot from two different PCs, or one over multiple turns, to do something that you can completely RAW using one 3rd spell slot to cast.
Conjure Animals lets you summon eight CR1/4 creatures, in an unoccupied space with a range of 60ft. Normal falling damage is 1d6 per 10 feet fallen, round down. So one conjured creature could be 5d6 damage. If you have a huge or gargantuan target, or multiple targets, this could be as high as 40d6. That would be enough to kill any gargantuan creature below CR11 assuming average HP.
Sorry if this is incomprehensible or too long, I wrote this over a couple hours in between errands and making dinner, but I did enjoy going over everything that goes into this.
TLDR: You wouldn’t polymorph a fireball.
Basically nothing about this works.
So first off, the insect plague isn’t a creature at all, it’s just a magical effect that appears like a bunch of locusts. It has no hit points or AC or Saving throws or any other game statistics.
When spells do summon a creature of some sort, they list a creature type, a maximum CR (or how many of each CR) you can summon, how to determine their initiative, their disposition towards you and your allies, what happens when they get to 0 Hp and what happens to them when the spell ends.
Animal shapes needs a few things to work that we don’t have here.
First off, the spells says to choose any number of willing creatures to transform, but we don’t have creatures, we have a magical effect. How could you say a magical effect that has no intelligence, will, thoughts, and lacks the ability to communicate in any way is “willing”?
Animal Shapes states the effect last the duration for each creature or until it drops to 0 HP. After that, it states that the creatures assumes the HP of the transformation, and then returns to its original HP when it’s transformation drops to 0 and any excess damage applies to the original form, but the insect plague doesn’t have any HP.
In between the information about HP, it states that it’s game statistics are replaced by the creature choosen, other than alignment and it’s mental stats. What game statistics? Insect plague doesn’t have any. What happens when one of the (Large or smaller creatures) is in the air and has no mental stats? It would either totally unable to act, or dead depending on how you interpret ability scores being zero. If it’s dead right after it gains it new form, it reverts to its original form, so again this just doesn’t work.
The worst part about this combo, is that you could probably do this, just not using insect plague. A couple of the conjure spells summon intelligent or even sentient creatures who could at least be interpreted as being willing. Find one that can fly, send them up in the air, and ready shape animals to cast then they are 30ft away. Note that that doesn’t mean 30ft up, you have to account for horizontal distance as well.
Stop it, get some help. Post spell combos that work.
Until someone invents a magi-tech furnace and those people have to turn to others means to make money
Jokes on them, I’m into that shit
I assume someone who is currently generating AI porn is running a model locally and not using a service, as there is absolute boat loads of generated hentai getting pised every day?
Is revenge porn illegal federally? Not that that would really matter, a state could still not have a law and have no way to prosecute it.
Given there was some state that recently passed a revenge porn law makes it clear your just wrong
On Snapchats ToS: Lucky never ran into the first point personally but as a teenager I heard about it happening quite a bit.
The second point is literally not enforced at all, to the point where they recommend some sort of private Snapchats which are literally just porn made by models
Don’t know how well they enforce the last point
Half the reason I’m going to Wizengard is to meet some witches lol
Catch me and the gang in Wizengard
Ability score, although a couple of species can also do that
Depends on the setting, some have other half species
That’s a good question, both are eating pretty good in the 2024 rules.
I’d probably have to math it out to see what actually would have a higher eDPR.
Champion is gonna have more attacks, higher crit chance, heroic inspiration every turn
Berserker is gonna do rage damage every attack, plus frenzy damage (rage damage bonus # of d6s to the first target each turn)
I’ll do the math when I get a chance