Questions tagged [party]
For questions about composition or interplay of a character party in-game. For questions about interactions between the players at the table instead, use the [group-dynamics] tag.
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How does my bard solve the problem without admitting he lied?
So, in my current campaign, the party has just gotten together and is trying to help out a convent that burned down. I'm playing a charismatic bard.
The DM promised us we wouldn't die unless we did ...
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What could the party do to make up for the lack of a cleric?
The party has recently lost its cleric (the player and the character). Supposing no one intends to switch character or heavily modify their build - even if there are some chances to retrain - what ...
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How to defend allies as a Fighter at level 1?
At first level, the chance for death is fairly high especially for the squishier members of the party. A fighter comes with high hit-dice, a self-healing ability, and starts with chain mail and a ...
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Is it appropriate to bring a player character back after they had been "killed"?
A player character "died" in battle early on in this current arc I'm DMing, and I had already decided that either this character would be in pursuit by the big bad or would be taken captive. ...
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Translating in-game between player characters without breaking the game's rhythm
(I struggled to find a "decent" title that encapsulates the issue at hand, so if you have a title idea that fits the question better, I'll gladly take it over the current one)
I recently had ...
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I have a suddenly small party and I was running a longer campaign, how do I handle this without giving up the campaign?
I am a DM with general experience, I am not a beginner, and I am certainly not an expert. My DnD group initially started as your typical four people, all casual friends, then one of the members had to ...
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How can I facilitate a faster pace of play?
I'm DMing a group that was supposed to run a small campaign, maybe 4 sessions long. But it's taken us over 10 sessions, and we aren't even halfway done. I run a party of 5 2nd level players.
There's ...
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Should all classes get the same number of magic items?
Should all PCs should get the same number of magic items regardless of class?
I’ve been hearing a lot lately about imbalance between martial classes and caster classes. I’ve heard that magic items are ...
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How to give the party a reason to work together without hard railroading? [duplicate]
This is my first real attempt at DMing, so the lack of ideas might just be normal, but I thought I'd ask anyway.
To be clear: the party is working together now, but I would love to find a way to make ...
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How can I, as a GM, make players with different playstyles be more moderate?
I'm a GM for this group of players playing Pathfinder 2e, and we're playing an adventure where they are supposed to be city guards. Now, one of the players is taking it to an extreme level of ...
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Journey Roles when traveling through a mine (specifically Mines of Moria)
I am going to run a group through the mines of Moria in a The One Ring game and I am unsure how to have all the roles work in such an environment.
Basic plot is that this group was hired by Balin to ...
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Spread out AC or consolidate?
Imagine a Party with 4 characters. Each one has different AC:
14 AC/48 HP (squishy caster)
15 AC/50 HP
16 AC/50 HP
17 AC/54 HP (the tank)
The Party picks up a Ring of Protection +1. Who "should&...
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Rules for learning new skills in D&D [duplicate]
Are there any rlues for learning new skills and abilities?
I wonder if a character can teach his skills other party members.
Let me present some examples:
Let's say I am playing as wizard and I want ...
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Considerations for assigning Constitution buff within the party
We've recently acquired the manual of bodily health, which grants a permanent +2 to Constitution score.
What are the optimisation considerations (e.g. increased HP, better at maintaining concentration)...
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How should I play my character (who is motivated to betray the party) and keep the game fun?
My friends and I are playing a custom quest where our goal is to stop Asmodeus from reaching god hood. However, my problem is that I am playing a Warlock (Lawful Evil) who is evil and worships ...
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How to deal with a schism in the party, relating to criminal activity?
Myself and 5 friends (one of whom is DM) are playing Warhammer. Increasingly, 3 members want to engage in criminal activities like burglary and robbery, while myself and another party member are ...
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How can I optimize my build for large (10+ players) parties? [closed]
I plan to soon join a 5e group with over 10 PCs in the party at any given time. Are there any feats, builds, classes, etc that can be used to capitalize on this very large party size?
This may seem ...
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Is there a mechanic for lowering a character's level for a new campaign?
The Planescape campaign that I am DMing is reaching its end, and we are about to start a new one that is going to follow the previous one, starting from 1st level.
In the new campaign, I would like ...
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How to avoid splitting the party when dealing with a conflict of interests
In the campaign where I'm currently playing, a majority of the PCs worship the same deity and knew each other prior to the start of the campaign.
One player, however, is playing a character who was ...
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Saving a character that does not fit in the party
I've been playing in a Warhammer campaign for about 7 month with my friends.
I created a character that I thought would be interesting for me to play, as I planned to play him for a long time and I ...
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What's the name of the role of characters who buff teammates?
In a RPG party, if
Tank → Front line in case the party should be dealt damage
Damage Dealer → Deals damage to enemies
Healer → Heals teammates
etc.
… what's the name of the role for ...
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How can I meet the needs of players in a party whose characters have opposite alignments?
I am currently DMing a Star Wars D&D campaign.
One character has a backstory that includes 'setting orphans on fire'. Needless to say, he is a murder hobo and a Sith. One of my other characters ...
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Should I discourage a group of players from all playing the same class with very similar builds?
Concerns I have
Traditionally the D&D party has been a Cleric, Fighter, Magic User and a Thief.
Adventures have been balanced around the traditional party composition listed above.
Players ...
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How can I get a resolution to in and out-of-game actions that made me uncomfortable?
Two of our players' characters have had (since the beginning) a very 'pig-tail pulling' relationship from day one. One is a high lady, the other a rougher sea-man. Little fireballs aimed at armpits, ...
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How to balance encounters after the loss of the frontline fighters?
I've been running a pathfinder game for some time. Up until now I think I have done a fairly good job of balancing encounters, the party is about to reach level 7 and there have only been 2 deaths but ...
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How can I integrate a Chaotic Evil character into a Good-aligned party without disrupting the party dynamics? [closed]
I have had a recent interest in playing a Chaotic Evil character, but most campaigns I have run into are decidedly not Chaotic Evil-aligned. The Chaotic-aligned parties are usually also Good-aligned, ...
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How can my new character avoid being a role-playing handicap to the party? [closed]
I play D&D-5e online on Roll 20 with a friend and some of his friends.
Background
Recently in the campaign, a member of our party (neutral alignment) (ab)used his position of power among ...
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Can I be a Circle of the Moon druid and still be the only healer of the party?
I'm in a party of 5 others + me, with a rogue, ranger, paladin, warlock, and fighter.
I love being a Circle of the Moon druid, but also I feel the obligation to fill the healer role (a bit of ...
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How many characters using PHB rules does it take to be able to have access to any PHB spell at the start of an adventuring day?
I originally read this related question as wanting to find out how to have a party with access to every spell during an adventuring day with as few members as possible. It turned out that the linked ...
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Which classes are needed to have access to every spell in the PHB?
If a party wanted access to every spell in the PHB, what is the minimum number of PCs needed and which classes would those PCs need to be?
To clarify, I mean the potential to choose from all spells ...
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Is this party balanced [closed]
So I have a party consisting of the following characters
Variant Human Battlemaster Fighter (Urchin Background) (Archery Fighting style)
Variant Human Abjuration Wizard (Sage Background)
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Supporting role: Group efficiency vs Table "fun balancing" [closed]
I'm playing a cleric in a 4-player group along with a paladin, a warlock/bladesinger melee multiclass, and a rogue. The paladin is level 5 and the rest of us are level 4.
The table uses stat rolling ...
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How can I play a serial killer in a party of good PCs?
A character of mine has died in a game - the "do no harm, break no law" type of paladin - and I wanted to switch it up. I want to play a serial killer type, who believes what he's doing is not wrong, ...
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Is a multi-guild party manageable?
I'm trying to write a campaign in D&D 5e, using the Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica in order to appeal to my players. (They really love MTG, and the VTM-y feel of the book.)
Sadly, they don't want ...
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Will it cause problems in a campaign if everyone in the party has the same high stats and the same low stats?
My friends and I have made a campaign and intend to start soon but everyone has been instructed to make their characters in advance which we are sharing with each other on D&D Beyond. We are ...
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Can a Paladin, Sorcerer, Wizard, and two Druids handle Storm King’s Thunder? [closed]
I’m somewhat new to D&D and so is the group I’m in. We’re gonna start playing Storm King’s Thunder soon, and I was wondering if we’re gonna have any trouble with our party. We have myself as a ...
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How can I play a supportive-style Polearm Master Fighter?
This is a follow up to this question. I will start with the party context: We are playing Princes of the Apocalypse in a huge party, composed of: Tiefling Sorcerer, Human Dual-Wielder Ranger, High Elf ...
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A player is unhappy that people are playing the same class. Did I do something wrong?
How do I deal with people choosing the same class? Can people do it? I have one player who doesn’t think so and is really unhappy about it and is telling me I have to figure out why they should care ...
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How to run a diverse campaign without a magic user [closed]
So right now the party I'm going to GM for wants to be 3 Soldiers (vesk, orc, android; sniper, ?, armor storm) and 1 operative (vesk; ghost). No one wants to be a caster. They're pretty deadset on ...
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How to avoid favoritism when only one PC pulls on plot hooks?
I've been DMing a campaign for a while, and it has gone great. Unfortunately, I've noticed a trend in my style that I'm struggling to nip in the bud.
The whole party works together rather cohesively,...
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Is not helping a dying PC party member a bad thing? [closed]
One of our PCs was down and "bleeding out". It was my turn and no enemies were left alive, I chose not to help my party member due to me believing that my character doesn't care enough due to his past ...
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Is it up to the DM or to the player to "fix" a tone problem in the group?
Playing in a friend's campaign and the other PC is difficult to play against, to the point that it's frustrating me both in and out of character.
The DM and I are playing a high-magic, god-touched ...
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I feel like my PC isn't important in a campaign
I've been playing in this campaign for a while and have been in the spotlight quite a few times, but I feel like the DM is prioritizing 2 PCs over mine.
The group: It fluctuates since this is a ...
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How to Handle Plot Based Party Divisions [closed]
I'm participating in a Pathfinder campaign that started with four characters:
A, a utility mage arcanist (played by myself) that will eventually take item creation feats
B, a tanky melee fighter that ...
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Is there always a "designated" person to lead/move the party?
After have played only a few session (actually 5 sessions of 2-4 hours) I've noticed something that I found quite strange.
In our group we are 4 players: I (Newbie), A (Experienced), B (Newbie like me)...
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How can I "unify" a party mid-campaign?
In the beginning of our Pathfinder campaign set in Eberron, I used two gimmicks to bring the party together:
An afternoon train wreck with a zombie attack that night, forcing everyone (players and ...
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How do I keep a party together without railroading?
Our campaign is off and running and is going really well. This is a large party, 8 in all. Things were going great until they got to one of the main cities.
Since they've entered, they've been given ...
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How to handle levels when adding PCs between Lost Mine of Phandelver and Storm King's Thunder?
(If it's not obvious from the title, answers to this may have Storm King's Thunder spoilers, and possibly a couple Lost Mine of Phandelver spoilers.)
Some background
My regular playgroup consists of ...
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How can I keep a game running smoothly when two of my players decided to pick the same class?
I'm DMing a game in 5th edition for a group of people whose experiences in D&D range from "zero" to "very little." Two of my players, one with no experience and one with about one session's worth, ...
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Why is it necessary to have a balanced party? [closed]
As I've been reading around the site, I've noticed a ton of questions regarding a balanced party. Also I've seen many questions regarding if something will "imbalance or unbalance a party." I'm still ...
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