megane_kun

This! The only time I had my bard perform (use performance) is when I was trying to solicit help from someone, but telling the plain truth (as my character has been doing so far) would put the party at risk, so I told the DM:

I will tell the story as if it were an epic tale told across generations of bards. Can I use performance for this?

The DM allowed it. I rolled the die and got a fairly high roll. The person I was asking help from was so moved they swore they'd help the party with the utmost of their abilities.

Besides, the DM has just told the table the same story (targeted to my character, but the rest of the table had a listen), and it's just annoying hearing me recite that same story they just heard from the DM (who is far better than me at telling stories).

The only time I acted out in character (in the main story in that campaign, and that other time was debatable, as it's more of a caricature than in-character) was in a fairly impromptu scene between me and another character. The rest of the table, including the DM, was just too shocked at the impromptu act. In hindsight, it played out like one of those romcom anime scenes. And I came out of it all: "wtf was that?!"

I always thought "PM" stands for "Personal Message", which is more or less an okay description. You send a message to someone "personally", not in-person, but close enough, I suppose.

I used to ask people to tell me if they need healing, but I found it easier to just keep track of it all myself so that I can plan when to switch roles from buff to heal.

Combat encounters usually have me bringing out a calculator and a sheet of paper where everyone's hp is being tracked.

Target is one creature the caster can touch (can be self). The target can make a wisdom saving throw against the caster's spell save DC. If successful, the spell ends without having any effect on the target. Otherwise (or if the target chose not to make the wisdom saving throw), the target will immediately taste some really well-made lemonade gin mojito that will linger for as long as the spell is in effect.

For every turn the target takes after this, the target will have to make a constitution saving throw against the caster's spell save DC. A successful constitution saving throw will restore one first level spell slot. A natural 20 will increase the spell slot level this spell will restore. A failure will end the spell. A critical failure will cause the target to deplete all of their spell slots and the spell ends. Every turn increases the save DC‌ by one.

In one campaign, we started out using tokens of some kind on a battle grid. However, as the campaign went on, we stopped using it. For most part, it went okay. However, keeping track of where everyone can sometimes be too much. In particular, my character, whose modus is either hiding or healing, sometimes both, lead us to a situation when even I forgot to inform of our DM that I was hiding behind a huge statue that fell over. I was too busy keeping the rest of the party alive that I forgot where I was. Thankfully, when it was brought up, our DM just asked me to do an acrobatics check to confirm that I managed to roll out of the way and another check to see whether or not I kept myself hidden.

Keeping track of everyone's positions also became less important because our DM got a bit more lax about imposing those area of effect rules.

Same. I bought a cheap set when I began, but I've bought a handful of D6 dice mostly for sneak attacks. Currently, all of my dice can still fit in a 2"×2" cloth drawstring bag.

It's been a while since I played D&D though.

I expected someone to make this joke, but this still made me chuckle. Thanks for the laugh!

Good point. Thanks for telling me.

Well, what can I say? I'm as cringe as you say I am. Tell me more about myself.

The joke was that for those who knew about it, it's downright disgusting, as you've very graciously pointed out. Also, the pike is an attempt at a pun. I actually didn't think of it being phallic until you pointed it out, so, thanks!

Not sure if it's at all relevant here, but this reminded me of a character for a one-shot (more like a side-story to a long-running campaign) that I made. He had a pretty serious and "edgy" backstory: his parents died when he was very young and was taken in by his grandfather. After the grandfather died, he was passed off along several relatives until he found himself in an orphanage, where he eventually became too old for it, and went on to be an adventurer.

However, the character was modeled on Pico of Boku no Pico (and its other sequels). I gave him polearm mastery (because, long and pointy things), and I wanted him to carry a "pike" but for more practical reasons, I just gave him a halberd. Continuing on with the extended joke of a character, I have him have a height of over 6 feet, and a bulky, well-built body (out of a lifetime of manual labor, ofc). And to top it all off, I played him as a sweet innocent boy, liking ice cream and being huggy and an overall bundle of joy to be around.

Not everyone in the table got the joke, but the look of the faces of those who knew, priceless! It did play quite decently though, which is a huge bonus.

Seems like some follow-up work is in order. I've seen at least one person not see the point (that it's on Lemmy). They failed their knowledge check (arcana, or history? IDK)! Maybe someone can lend them some bardic inspiration?