I saw some love for this rule going around, so I made a video about it: the PHB Variant Rule: Skills with Different Abilities. What’s your favorite/best/weirdest example of using a skill with a different ability? https://youtu.be/F7GeX_Czv54 #dnd #dnd5e Charisma (Investigation) for "gather information!"
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) June 13, 2020
My vision is STRONK
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) June 13, 2020
@TheEdVerse With the shadar-kai now (again) a sprt of fey, what would folk call the shadow-touched humans that live in the Underdark and among the Netherese? Especially looking for a Netherese name for them.
— friendly local fallen angel 💕 (@cali_keftiu) March 28, 2020
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“Shadar-kai” IS the Netherese term for shadar-kai, adopted directly from their own term for themselves. Some other humans of Toril call them “shadow fey” or even “shades” (confusing them with the undead creatures, or even the 2)
…Shadovar: citizens of Thultanthar or “Shade”). A human sage of the Sword coast would probably use “shadow fey” when writing or speaking in public, feeling that this term is most precise. Any fey would probably think that…#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 28, 2020
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…“shadow fey” is too broad a term for the shadar-kai; they would take it to mean any sort of fey ‘touched by shadowstuff’ or ‘of the Shadowfell’ or both. Some Sword Coast and Heartlands adventurers call them 4)
…“pale dark skulkers” or worse. There’s also a more general Netherese and fey term, “arkai,” which means ‘dangerous fey’ (kai = fey, and ara = means dangerously capable) that often gets used where humans might say ‘monster.’#Realmslore— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) March 28, 2020
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“THAT sounds like a cue far too good to pass up. You scum.”
Those words come from a silken-voiced, hard-faced woman in splendid black-and-red-snarling-dragons-adorned armor, now standing in the guardroom doorway with a loaded…#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 11, 2020
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…and levelled double heavy crossbow in her hands.
“ROYAL scum, to you,” corrects the King.
Wolf and Chantratha roll their eyes without bothering to look at each other.#epicfantasy 3)
The woman in armor looks at the King of Neverune. And sneers.
“Ah. That would explain why the likes of you stands in this fine but doomed company. Hmph. Hardly worth getting out the gilded regicide war-quarrels.”#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 11, 2020
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“I…have I just been INSULTED?”
“DEFINITELY a king,” the woman says. And triggers her crossbow. Both quarrels, one a hair after the other, as she shifts aim. Heavy war-quarrels snarl, at point-blank range.#epicfantasy— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) April 11, 2020
With all the chaos, my inner clarity is often hard to find, but miniature painting over the pandemic has helped me recenter myself (and expand my skill/learn from others). Just finished my @kingdomdeath Dragon King, and the process has been weirdly therapeutic. I am thankful. pic.twitter.com/SdFyqg0fUq
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) October 19, 2020
Through a busy week, I finally finished painting the @kingdomdeath core minis with this dangerous looking fucker who I am very much (not) looking forward to fighting. pic.twitter.com/TglLaPph2J
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) September 18, 2020
Painting is my one late-night therapy hobby, so what little free time I have, I often dedicate to painting to calm myself. Been doing that for years. 🙂
— Matthew Mercer (@matthewmercer) September 19, 2020
I have a question on the Gloves of Thievery: “While wearing them, you gain a +5 bonus to Dexterity (Sleight of Hand) checks and Dexterity checks made to pick locks.
Is that just for Sleight of hand pick locks, or ANY Sleight of Hand checks? All Dexterity(Sleight of Hand) checks for any purpose, plus also any Dexterity check (most commonly going to be using your thieves’ tools proficiency) made to pick locks.
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) June 11, 2020
The ride into Hell, From D&D: Infernal Tides #2
Issue #1 out next week!
Color: the incredible @SebastianArtist
W: @JimZub L: Neil Uyetake #dnd pic.twitter.com/ig5piSij0A— Max Dunbar (@Max_Dunbar) December 5, 2019
Part 4! the final line art all cleaned up and ready for @SebastianArtist, who had an incredible amount of work ahead of him, which he absolutely rocked.#makingcomics #dnd pic.twitter.com/PT7O95sxaD
— Max Dunbar (@Max_Dunbar) December 5, 2019
For those who are interested in seeing some process shots:
Script by @JimZub #makingcomics #dnd (1) pic.twitter.com/xPv3vaM4QH— Max Dunbar (@Max_Dunbar) December 5, 2019
given that the only example of a swordcane is found in Curse of Strahd for 5E, would that be the safest bet for intuiting it’s function should we wish to use it for a player weapon? Using that would be fine, personally I'd call it a rapier, and smacking people with the entire cane would be a club or maybe a mace (so d4 or d6 bludgeoning).
— Dan Dillon (@Dan_Dillon_1) July 12, 2020
I think my group may have misunderstood Debts: is the debt supposed to be we borrowed the 200gp for extra starting gold or is it supposed to b 200 gp to solve a problem? It’s supposed to be that you need 200 gp to solve a problem; you aren’t supposed to start with extra gold.
— Keith Baker (@HellcowKeith) February 12, 2020
