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Nature is brutal. It’s UNNATURAL to limit oneself to eating things with less nutrients. Being one with nature means you kill or be killed, and only the fittest survive.

Now the difference of philosophy here is that the structure humans have created is much more unnatural than that. A druid would agree that going out into the woods with a bow and shooting a deer is fine. But going to a restaurant and ordering chicken that was raised in a barn, for the sole purpose of consumption, is wildly unnatural.

My party fought a purple worm recently. It devoured the cleric. Then the sorcerer used polymorph on it to turn it into a frog, which caused the cleric to get squeezed out of it like toothpaste in a tube and shot out of it and collided with the cavern ceiling, taking ‘fall’ damage. Then the cleric used divine intervention (successfully)… as a divine avatar they swooped down and crushed the frog between their hands, releasing a tidal wave of venemous worm viscera to wash over everyone causing them to take massive poison damage. Great fun :D

In terms of your plan, drilling a hole in the rod may cause it to lose function. Also a general rule about polymorph is that there needs to be room for the transformation, and a general rule for invalid creature placement is that creatures take a small amount of force damage and are moved to the closest available space. As your DM I’d probably say you couldn’t end polymorph early while it’s in the rod, and if you lost concentration or the duration expired, it would be shunted next to the rod and take 2d10 force damage.

Actually what I’d like to do is have the worm trapped in the rod, make you believe it died, and the next time you used it the worm would appear.

You have to do it many times to weigh the average

More like charisma save, DC 0

30 ft range, requires willing creatures, targets can become large or smaller (elephants are huge)…

This was the DM when I intentionally nestled myself inside the shambling mound

A human beastmaster whose spellcasting focus was a tiny awakened shrub (which was slightly on fire) and had a flying snake pet.

He was a Pokemon trainer. “Cindertwig, use your Thorn Whip! Now, Create Bonfire!” “Flython, do a Poison Fang attack!”

We only had one very short combat for the 1 shot.

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Expertise doubles proficiency bonus, so it can’t be odd–so the +9 is both proficiency bonus (x2) and ability modifier. Since bardic inspiration is a d10 here, the characters are level 10-15, so PB is +4 or +5. It seems OP’s character only as a +1 charisma mod. Or, less likely, the character is lower level with a +3 PB and a +3 CHA mod grouping with a higher-level bard.

Pomme de Terra

Ratfolk: somehow worse than both rats and humans at everything

That’d be 5e’s History and Arcana, respecitvely.
I’ve gone back and forth on the way 5e does it. Making it simple is nice for newer players (fewer choices, those picks are broader). I still prefer 3.5’s big granular list. Not sure how Pathfinder compares.

In 5e, a religion check isn’t to see how well you commune with your God. It’s how well you know any given god’s traits, domain, followers, plane, etc.

Uber religious knockoffs of other popular games with a reverence for dragons and a prevailing theme of self-loathing

Palworld then

If you can take your time? No check.

If the ground is coated in oil and a kobold is about to throw a torch down from a higher level, and the cocky wizard is now struggling for his life, a moment that is vividly remembered three years later: absolutely make a check

Me the experienced player as a sorcerer that doesn’t actually know a troll’s weaknesses: Hmm, I’m not going to cast Burning Hands because there’s only one monster, so I’ll cast Hold Person instead! You can thank me later, party :D :D

They could learn fireball a few different ways, but definitely not a typical bard thing.

Dang, all we did was burn down a slaver camp.

I’ve used Synthesizer V Studio and the clip in the video definitely showed that’s what they used.

It looks like they should be disclosing ALL the tools they used to make this. Probably part of the TOS of the other programs too.