Sticks to Snakes
Yes, Sticks to Snakes is in D&D 5E. However, it’s no longer a spell you can cast. Instead, it’s available as an action for the Yuan-ti race, which Harvey just happens to be playing as.
Happy Halloween!
Yes, Sticks to Snakes is in D&D 5E. However, it’s no longer a spell you can cast. Instead, it’s available as an action for the Yuan-ti race, which Harvey just happens to be playing as.
Happy Halloween!
I only just learned of this comic today, and proceeded to binge the entire thing within a couple of hours x3
Absolutely in love with this, shame I only learned of it today
Harvey plays the long game and it pays off handsomely. Such a brilliant turn of events! And note how he completes the quest successfully while causing maximum chaos. This is how I preferred to play characters in computer role playing games but it was always a mixture of frustration and amusement at being praised as a hero in the end.
Last panel: Ness has the big prize! 😉
Wow, twelve panels. Is this a first for this webcomic?
Given that a 5e vamp regains 20hp per round and the average damage of a cloudkill is 20 (and thats only if they fail the save, which is unlikely to happen every round) they should be fine. Just wait it out.
Pardon 22 dmg
And also, because i am an insufferable pedant, i must point out that they can simply walk up the stairs a bit or into another room of the castle.
Alright sorry, i’m done now
Exactly what I thought! Does the poisonous cloud somehow fill the entirety of a massive castle like that?
Or is this vampire just some eccentric person who bought a tiny cabin, themed it up to appear like a castle, and called it that?
Find out in the next episode of [anime title here]!
It would fill a twenty-foot sphere, going around corners and through gaps (travelling down and away from the caster if possible), though not through solid surfaces. It would also heavily obscure the area, meaning that them finding a way out would depend on knowing where the exits are or fumbling around for them. If this is an off building, e.g. mausoleum, there may be no other rooms directly accessible or at least none that aren’t hidden.
That said, I prefer your idea ^^
That’s barely seven metres in diameter. They need to get three and a half metres away from the source. They could definitely find a wall, walk to a door, and step through, it’s a really short distance.
Whoops. Thanks for pointing that out. I worded myself wrong, sorry.
You are correct that that would be small: I missed typing the word radius(this is because when playing the game with familiar players I use shorthand speech, and I forgot this is a comment section). Its 20-foot *radius*. So ~12-meter diameter.
My argument however was that depending on the room, there may be no visible exits. If it’s just the vampire’s resting place in an off building, it may be that there is only the one door. So “walk to a door” might not be an option.
Also, “feet” in D&D don’t tend to sync up perfectly with IRL, but rather “what is a nice number of (usually “5-foot”) squares to divide rooms into so that it looks about right, and works with gameplay?”
I think they‘re spawn. 10 HP regen, not 20, but I assume their levels are decent (Harvey lvl 9+ for cloudkill, barring shenanigans/feats). If so, they would still last a bit. (They are new though… might be a modded spell and vampire– which’d explain conversion without being slain and buried to rise the following night)
Don’t think they could outwait 10 minutes (100 rolls). Bad luck only needs to happen once or twice (20 regen would be a lesser risk). You may be right that about escape though.
Of course, a better choice would be to knock out Harvey, since Cloudkill is a concentration spell 🙂
Man if only Harvey was this big brained in some of his other schemes, he might actually be able to steal peoples’ souls xD
Ym aaaactually- vampires are immune to poison and thus cloudkill no longer affects the vampires
Actually, despite being undead, vamps have no immunity to poison in 5e. Not even resistance oddly enough. Just necrotic and BPS from non magic weapons
They changed that from 3.5/pathfinder?
Yep. You’d think a creature with necromantic energy replacing organ function would just laugh at poison, but guess not. Hurts them just the same as a breather
lol
“You know the Poison Spray cantrip. You can cast Animal Friendship an unlimited number of times with this trait, but you can target only snakes with it. Starting at 3rd level, you can also cast Suggestion with this trait. Once you cast it, you can’t do so again until you finish a long rest. Charisma is your spellcasting ability for these spells.”
No. Yuan-Ti does not have Sticks to Snakes. Nor is it a spell in 5e.
Dunno why you felt the need to lie about it.
http://dnd5e.wikidot.com/spell:sticks-to-snakes In case you wanna double down on it.
Right; always ***-u-me it’s a “lie” and not just a mistake. Sheesh..
Actually, you are incorrect. While you and Tim agree (though your wording sounds like you are correcting him) and are correct that it is not a spell in 5e (“However, it’s no longer a spell you can cast.”), Tim is correct that Yuan-Ti can still use it.
Yuan-Ti *Purebloods* cannot use it, but both Yuan-Ti Abomination and Malison (Volo’s guide) can! Both have Sticks to Snakes as action options as Tim described above. Neither Nicole nor Harvey claimed Harvey was playing a Pureblood.
If Harvey wanted to play a Malison or Abomination, then per the DMG, Nicole could whip one up.
Consider the following: Nobody cares.
5e got so many expansions and books and whatnot that there’s bound to be some ruleset that allows this.
And if not? Well, they’re playing homebrew.
They’re already homebrewing, see that peculiar longbow “rule”.
Case in point. Thank you.
But where’s the vampire’s bottomless pit he was preparing?
Would be fun if Harvey fell in it on his way back to town.
I’m guessing Harvey’s character was either a Chaotic Evil, or it’s jut plain Harvey xD
I gotta say that was clever of how they killed the vampire, and Harvey’s plot twist to get everyone else killed.
It sure took ME by surprise! 🙂
thankfully cloudkill is concentration and that many players should have no trouble knocking a failed con save straight out of a wizard lol
Some games are like that…one player somehow makes a total party kill.