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Forge cleric friend capable of using:

"Channel Divinity: Artisan's Blessing​


Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to create simple items.


You conduct an hour-long ritual that crafts a nonmagical item that must include some metal: a simple or martial weapon, a suit of armor, ten pieces of ammunition, a set of tools, or another metal object. The creation is completed at the end of the hour, coalescing in an unoccupied space of your choice on a surface within 5 feet of you.


The thing you create can be something that is worth no more than 100 gp. As part of this ritual, you must lay out metal, which can include coins, with a value equal to the creation. The metal irretrievably coalesces and transforms into the creation at the ritual's end, magically forming even nonmetal parts of the creation.


The ritual can create a duplicate of a nonmagical item that contains metal, such as a key, if you possess the original during the ritual."

Reduce a very thin 45lb circular disk
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Can also upcast catapult and shrink bigger items for more hilarity
 
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Indyocracy said:
Forge cleric friend capable of using:

"Channel Divinity: Artisan's Blessing​


Starting at 2nd level, you can use your Channel Divinity to create simple items.


You conduct an hour-long ritual that crafts a nonmagical item that must include some metal: a simple or martial weapon, a suit of armor, ten pieces of ammunition, a set of tools, or another metal object. The creation is completed at the end of the hour, coalescing in an unoccupied space of your choice on a surface within 5 feet of you.


The thing you create can be something that is worth no more than 100 gp. As part of this ritual, you must lay out metal, which can include coins, with a value equal to the creation. The metal irretrievably coalesces and transforms into the creation at the ritual's end, magically forming even nonmetal parts of the creation.


The ritual can create a duplicate of a nonmagical item that contains metal, such as a key, if you possess the original during the ritual."

Reduce a very thin 45lb circular disk
Catapult
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Can also upcast catapult and shrink bigger items for more hilarity
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I'm a creation bard, so I can make that stuff myself. I think it's a 2nd level spell slot though if I do it more than once a day. I didn't take reduce/enlarge. I should re-evaluate my spells and see if I want to pick it up.
 
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I'm a creation bard, so I can make that stuff myself. I think it's a 2nd level spell slot though if I do it more than once a day. I didn't take reduce/enlarge. I should re-evaluate my spells and see if I want to pick it up.
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Yea without reduce enlarge options are more about using the enviroment, just remeber what you launch also takes the damage.

Locked door? Launch the handle/lock
Makeshift barrier in your way? Launch a support beam
Toss alchemist fire or a fire source into a window or chimney that is out of reach to try and smoke enemies out
Technically a net needs slashing damage to break not bludgeoning so you could toss a net to dmg and restrain but run that by your dm cause that is some rules lawyery chicanery
 
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Oh man so I'm about to wrap up my friends paladin arc. It's been 11 months and next month will be the last part.

We're doing the temple of the dead God from tomb of annihilation.

So he had larloch sever his arm and replace it with a necrotic energy spectral arm months ago. So he'll be using it to pull a sacred sword from the atropals dead mother god. Which will then fuse with his arm and puriy it to radiant energy.

Then we'll fight the atropal and then maybe acererak in another demiplane.

Meanwhile we also recovered a nether scroll for larloch. Who has our essences in a bit of a strangle hold currently.

Should be fun I hope lol
 
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Cool, glad tp hear your campaign is still going strong. My group had to take a break because of some real life shit one couple had and... that was like a year ago at this point. I'll probably end up just starting a new game and DMing myself in a few months to get things going again.
 
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We are nearing the end of our campaign. I can't remember how many years ago it started, but of the original 6 players and the DM, there's just me, my wife, and the DM left. We have replaced players with my niece, my nephew, and and another friend of the DM. Niece and nephew had both been wanting to play D&D for a while. So we are 4 newbs with 1 experienced player and an experienced DM.

Funny thing is, my niece liked it so much she joined another campaign with the DM and his friend and is dating the friend. She introduced him to the family at thanksgiving and me and my wife were like, oh yeah we've known joe forever. He's a lot of fun.
 
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We are nearing the end of our campaign. I can't remember how many years ago it started, but of the original 6 players and the DM, there's just me, my wife, and the DM left. We have replaced players with my niece, my nephew, and and another friend of the DM. Niece and nephew had both been wanting to play D&D for a while. So we are 4 newbs with 1 experienced player and an experienced DM.

Funny thing is, my niece liked it so much she joined another campaign with the DM and his friend and is dating the friend. She introduced him to the family at thanksgiving and me and my wife were like, oh yeah we've known joe forever. He's a lot of fun.
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It's really is hard to beat the experience of having a long run tabletop campaign with your friends or family. Never played with my family but typically my close group of friends that I've known since high school and college.

As far as some video games can be especially if they're multiplayer with the group, we all still prefer to roll some dice.

I just know life gets complicated and it becomes infinitely more difficult to keep a campaign running. I think that's why our campaigns are pretty light-hearted and trying to make certain everybody just has a fun time for a few hours. Gone are the days of doing a 10 or 12-hour session and being pretty serious about it, but also drinking beer and barbecueing all day.
 
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As far as some video games can be especially if they're multiplayer with the group,
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I started playing MMOs because of a RL buddy. He played with his wife and another RL friend. We grouped for years. But I didn't follow them to the next MMO when EQ2 went into the crapper.
 
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It's really is hard to beat the experience of having a long run tabletop campaign with your friends or family. Never played with my family but typically my close group of friends that I've known since high school and college.

As far as some video games can be especially if they're multiplayer with the group, we all still prefer to roll some dice.

I just know life gets complicated and it becomes infinitely more difficult to keep a campaign running. I think that's why our campaigns are pretty light-hearted and trying to make certain everybody just has a fun time for a few hours. Gone are the days of doing a 10 or 12-hour session and being pretty serious about it, but also drinking beer and barbecueing all day.
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Never give up on the group when it's friends and family. Yeah sure it'll take a break here and there. Sometimes even for a few years. But it always seems to come back. The big part is always having someone who is willing to ask. Cause it always takes on a life of its own.

And like everything. The group goes through changes. You may not even have any of the original members.

Like my group which is all rl friends. We've been playing the same chars for I want to say 14yrs now. There's been maybe 12 to 16 of us. Wives, brothers, sisters. We still have 4 original members. One of which just returned after a 9yr hiatus.

He came back and was lvl 6 while our paladin is 22. It makes for a wild dynamic.
 
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Never give up on the group when it's friends and family. Yeah sure it'll take a break here and there. Sometimes even for a few years. But it always seems to come back. The big part is always having someone who is willing to ask. Cause it always takes on a life of its own.

And like everything. The group goes through changes. You may not even have any of the original members.

Like my group which is all rl friends. We've been playing the same chars for I want to say 14yrs now. There's been maybe 12 to 16 of us. Wives, brothers, sisters. We still have 4 original members. One of which just returned after a 9yr hiatus.

He came back and was lvl 6 while our paladin is 22. It makes for a wild dynamic.
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Dude you're preaching to the choir, but I hear ya.

We ran stuff for so long, back in college we played middle-earth for a couple of years straight doing multiple campaigns. I ran a D&D campaign for a year.

I just know the last D&D campaign we've played, everything was going pretty well, but I was laid up after my accident, and my buddy who was the DM ended up having to move and got crazy with work, and we ended up having to shelf everything or cancel it. Remember the very last session was just kind of crappy, which normally isn't his style but he had a lot of stuff going on, so nobody was going to bust his balls. He's run some super memorable campaigns that to this day we all still will joke about or make reference to. That's part of the fun of the whole deal, some people that don't play tabletop don't understand just how memorable those moments can be.

Looked at other online systems, because we were using roll 20 but it's interfaces pretty wonky, and I've almost pulled the trigger on fantasy grounds, but we've been doing so much sword and sorcery, I'd honestly like to shift over to something like RIFTS or even Call of Cthulhu. I don't think I can get either of those games on that system, and physical tabletop just isn't an option with everybody living across the country now despite all of us going to high school and college in Texas.

Point being is over the years we always end up coming back and somebody says hey why don't we get a game going again, and we typically do, it's just everybody's getting older and have kids and responsibilities and what have you. Gone are the days of being able to spend 10 hours with your buddies just having a blast and adventuring in whatever world.
 
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Dude you're preaching to the choir, but I hear ya.

We ran stuff for so long, back in college we played middle-earth for a couple of years straight doing multiple campaigns. I ran a D&D campaign for a year.

I just know the last D&D campaign we've played, everything was going pretty well, but I was laid up after my accident, and my buddy who was the DM ended up having to move and got crazy with work, and we ended up having to shelf everything or cancel it. Remember the very last session was just kind of crappy, which normally isn't his style but he had a lot of stuff going on, so nobody was going to bust his balls. He's run some super memorable campaigns that to this day we all still will joke about or make reference to. That's part of the fun of the whole deal, some people that don't play tabletop don't understand just how memorable those moments can be.

Looked at other online systems, because we were using roll 20 but it's interfaces pretty wonky, and I've almost pulled the trigger on fantasy grounds, but we've been doing so much sword and sorcery, I'd honestly like to shift over to something like RIFTS or even Call of Cthulhu. I don't think I can get either of those games on that system, and physical tabletop just isn't an option with everybody living across the country now despite all of us going to high school and college in Texas.

Point being is over the years we always end up coming back and somebody says hey why don't we get a game going again, and we typically do, it's just everybody's getting older and have kids and responsibilities and what have you. Gone are the days of being able to spend 10 hours with your buddies just having a blast and adventuring in whatever world.
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Oh dude I fuckin hear ya.

Once you make a crew. There's no breaking it up. Which is amazing.

Sometimes at parties or when all the friends are around together. I get to hear them all telling their own "war stories". Those are some of my personal proud moments.

But the memories and bonding. Ain't nothing like it.

One of my friends wanted me to do a huge thing for his bachelor party one time. I recreated the entire plane of hate in dwarven forge across 2 8ft tables. There was like 12 or 14 of us playing that night. It was epic.

But somthing I'm also doing. I've been the DM the whole times since we played 3.5e. So I've saved all of the paperwork from all of our adventures. And most of thr nightly notes. So when we are finally done with our Chars when we are all lvl 30 and we inevitably move onto 6e. I'll be making a campaign guide to give to everyone that's played over the years.
It's already gotta be over 100 to 150 pages including maps and pics of dwarven forge dungeons.
 
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Oh dude I fuckin hear ya.

Once you make a crew. There's no breaking it up. Which is amazing.

Sometimes at parties or when all the friends are around together. I get to hear them all telling their own "war stories". Those are some of my personal proud moments.

But the memories and bonding. Ain't nothing like it.

One of my friends wanted me to do a huge thing for his bachelor party one time. I recreated the entire plane of hate in dwarven forge across 2 8ft tables. There was like 12 or 14 of us playing that night. It was epic.

But somthing I'm also doing. I've been the DM the whole times since we played 3.5e. So I've saved all of the paperwork from all of our adventures. And most of thr nightly notes. So when we are finally done with our Chars when we are all lvl 30 and we inevitably move onto 6e. I'll be making a campaign guide to give to everyone that's played over the years.
It's already gotta be over 100 to 150 pages including maps and pics of dwarven forge dungeons
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I figured we weren't the only dorks that would make references to somebody's characters amazing feet or horrible blunder from a campaign.

I remember I was at one of my best friends engagement parties up in Plano, TX. Is soon to be wife and very not long after ex-wife had a pretty good looking friend that I have the hots for. It got cold that evening and she didn't have a jacket where I had nice leather one, and lent it to her while we were all out back smoking cigars.

She started rummaging around in my pockets, and pulls out a folded up piece of paper that I did not even realize was there. Opens it up, and it was the character history that my buddy had written out for my Rohiram warrior when we were starting our epic MERP campaign. She looked at me and said what the hell is this, and I said I'm a goddamn Rohiram warrior, then just started talking about our epic campaign, and other buddies started chiming in, hey you remember when someone so made that upended critical when we were fighting whatever. Everybody proceeded to BS for a bit about how much fun we had.

Got laid that night but she was pretty batshit crazy, as was my buddies the wife who was even crazier as we all found out.

This was probably back in the very early 2000s, and dungeons & dragons or tabletop RPG stuff wasn't en vogue like it is now, but you owned that shit because it's a fun hobby, and always makes for great times and long-lasting relationships with friends.
 
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