found a homebrew version of the race so there is a playable version out there on the wiki

i guess I'm kinda off topic but do anybody know a good website to stream newly released movies online?

@Marcellus Orlando Ehh try Flixportal. You can find it on google=) -brodie

@Brodie Gianni Thank you, signed up and it seems like they got a lot of movies there :D I appreciate it !

@Marcellus Orlando You are welcome :)

Good stuff.

Sylvain Cousineau I had one fallow the party as a cabbage seller, and they never questioned it till almost very end of the game, they were stocking up on supplies for the last boss fight in a small remote village near the big demon's cave and our Sorcerer cast dispel magic and so the illusion faded they killed it and then they found out from a notebook he had on him that proved him to be a spy for the big bad and so it was ready for everything they could do, so I designed the demon around countering everything they could do, they did win in the end but it came down to our Ranger who's left leg and right leg were broken taking a blessed dagger from our downed Rouge's belt and throwing it, roll a crit btw, right into the demon's eye

kevin lytle Rakshasa's are already Devils. These guys don't check old Dragon magazines like a cool dude named AJ Pickett does here on KZfaq. They are basically the Nine Hell's soul brokers.

@@kingstewy Rakshasas aren't straight-up devils, but came from the Nine Hells, making them a fiend.

Appreciate your continued support.

Thanks for the input. We'll get that squared away.

Obscure? Obscure = Destrachan, Crimson Death, Steel Predator, Orcwort, Choker, Metalmaster, Zorbo... These two AREN"T obscure at all.

Thanks for the encouragement. We have discussed other systems as we've played many over the years. Numenera, Exalted, Warhammer 40k & fantasy, White Wolf, etc. All of these are on the table for future shows.

+Luke Good Take a hacksaw to it and cut out what you don't want to use. Seriously, it's your game and any module you run should be molded to fit your group's playstyle(s). Be sure to replace any clues/leads in parts you cut so the PCs won't lose any vital info though. If you feel the city is too crowded relative to it's size then increase the scale of the tunnels between areas or add empty rooms to the map.

I believe Jim purchased his copy of the SCAG just the other day. I'm excited to have a look. Content will most likely follow.

+RoglRoglRogl I just got finished reading the SCAG yesterday. Lots of fun ideas in it so we'll definitely do a show on it.

+James Davis Awesome! I've been looking through it. planning on integrating it into my current PotA game. Where's your video for this week? :-P I've been checking in all day to see if ya posted it yet.

+RoglRoglRogl Our benevolent producer releases the videos according to his divine whim. Who can say when he will bless us with another show.

+James Davis haha. understood. Well I look forward to it. Thanks Jim!

Ahh...the old perception checks are slowing the dungeon crawl to an imperceptible crawl problem. (Rimshot) Have the DM throw random monsters at the group until he (hopefully) realizes y'all don't have the time/resources to actually check every nook and cranny. Bumping around a dungeon makes noise and noise attracts monsters. If that fails to get the message across, suggest one check per passageway/room. Not all dungeons are created equally deadly and until you find a trap-filled "utopia" it's not necessary to comb the floors and walls for traps.

Interesting up until now wev been assuming that perception checks for traps are pretty much scan the room for your eyes and only take like a minute

Pruitt's advice is good. Especially if you like the "dungeon as mythic underworld " style of DnD. Dungeons are a dangerous place and a party should spend as little time in them as possible. Here are two other options: 1) give him 1-3 really big, complex traps that he needs the rest of the party's help to overcome. Make these bad boys worth some XP and let them be a chance for the skilled characters in the party to shine. The Grimtooth's Traps books for prior editions are good sources for encounter-style traps. Running traps this way lets you involve everyone in the trap disarming game and gives him a moment to shine. Don't use simple, Save-versus-damage traps if you're going this route. 2) sit down and talk to him about how this one thing is dragging down play. Let him know he only needs to make one Perception roll per room/hallway not every 5' square. Alternatively, have him make a new roll every "scene" of play. The thing here is to let him know, player-to-player, that you don't require a roll for every step to check for traps. Hope this helps!

You actually have a passive perception stat which is used for that.

Was gunna say the same. Passive perception checks are the thing you need here. *he* doesn't roll trap checks. *you* roll trap checks for him with his passive when there are traps to detect. Same for hearing distant things or to see if important small details were visually noticed. For anything like that, the DM rolls the check, usually in secret, using the passive perception check. Technically there isn't even a roll. The passive check is a predetermined static number you compare against the DC of the thing, you can do it in your head.

No, no immunities, but that's not to say that it cannot have a minion spell caster helping it out!

They are in Texas. I know your comment is 2 years old and was probably answered, but just to be sure.

Excellent question. I think the RAW answer has to be "no". The spell states "if the creature casting a spell..." which means the spell is aimed at the creature. Thus Rakshasa immunity would kick in.

It works because you're targeting the spell. You 'counter' the 'spell'. You don't 'inhibit' a 'creature'. Hence counterspell and not inhibitcreature. You can also see this from the fact that the spell's level matters. If you were targeting the ability of the creature to cast a spell, it wouldn't matter what level spell they were casting. But when you target the spell, the higher level it is, the harder it is to stop it. Which is what the rules reflect.

Even if it doesn’t say that counter spell can be upcasted, I would totally allow it to be cast at 7th to get past it’s immunity

Yes, rakshasas are essentially tough sorcerers with a +10 deception, immunity to non-magical weapon damage, 110+ hit points and vulnerability to piercing damage dealt by good creatures. At will they can cast: detect thoughts, disguise self, mage hand and minor illusion. So they're master infiltrators that can read minds and suss out secrets about the party (and everyone else). 3/day each they can cast: charm person, detect magic, invisibility, major image and suggestion. Forcing others to do their bidding, staying out of sight and fool people with illusions. 1/day each: dominate person, fly, plane shift, true seeing. Meaning they can escape, won't be fooled by illusions and can stay out of range from melee. They can even turn the party on itself as it makes its escape back to Hell. In melee they have a cursed claw attack that prevents you from gaining the benefits of a short or long rest until the curse is lifted, which can really challenge a player to properly manage resources until they find a cure. They also only get affected by spells of 6th level or lower if they want to. So your party Wizard can hit a rakshasa with a Disintegrate spell and the rakshasa will just laugh at him, because the spell has no effect, or shrug of a Flame Strike from the party cleric like it was a gentle breeze. Cast at 7th level+ or marvel at your own impotence :P Counterspell and dispel magic really shines against them though, because those spells don't target the rakshasa (they target the spell). They're a great villan to throw at players who start getting cocky and maybe are able to cast up to 7th level spells, because now all their usual go-to spells do nothing and they have to adapt or flee. It can make for great "Oh... shit!" moments when some weak looking manipulative guy they're confronting leads them into a trap and turns out to be way tougher than they'd ever expect. And on top of that they come back from death, unless you kill them in the Nine Hells, and now they know the players secrets. They're just a great recurring big bad evil guy (BBEG) that can even challenge a higher level party. As a DM you can also throw in minions, since a rakshasa is the kind of creature to surround itself with underlings and maybe even a shield guardian to back it up. I mean, by itself, it doesn't have many attack options. It's primarily a manipulator that fights only when cornered. I hope this was of some help to you.

Daniel Mårtensson So I know this comment is a year or more old but god damn that’s a lot of good info.

technically counterpart effects the spell not the monster... so... as a dm I'd say no. it still has an effect and follows the same rules.

Yeah that makes sense and I would agree with that, since the target of counterspell is the spell itself not the creature.

The spell specifically mentions "a creature in the process of casting a spell" and then has conditions such as "if the creature is casting a spell of X level". So the spell is involving the casting creature - thus the Rakshasa spell immunity would prevent Counterspell from working.

Daniel you're leaving the most important part of the rule out of your quote. _(Almost conveniently so I might say)_ "If the creature is casting a spell of X level" "...its SPELL fails and has no effect." Not; the creature is unable to cast the spell, or the creature is stopped from casting the spell. The spell itself fails and has no effect, because your counterspell targeted it. Look at it like this: Suppose you are in the process of playing football, and I want to interrupt your process of playing football. When I run up and take away the football. Did I at any point "target" you? Now if the football is a regular ball I automatically pick it up and run off, if the football weighs (for some reason) 100kg I have to make a check. But if I succeed and run off with the ball, I have countered your football playing, but at no point did I target you.

Wot?

Tieflings themselves aren't really infernal creatures. They are humans from ancestry that in the past have been influenced or imbued or however you want to put it by infernal genetics, they're basically a human variant from the Material Plane. You're basically being a 'D&D racist', just because a tiefling is born with certain genetics, doesn't mean they're evil aligned. Rakshasa on the other hand are fiends from the Nine Hells, they originated when devils freed their essence from their bodies to more easily access the Material Plane and eat humans, and as such are inherently evil aligned creatures.

... Your argument just doesn't work. Just because you can't think of (or don't know) more mythical creatures and races from western mythology, doesn't mean eastern has more of them. It just means you are more familiar with them. For example you left out the complete range of monsters from; celtic mythology, norse mythology, greek/roman mythology.. and far more. You almost literally just listed the Warhammer Fantasy races and said "that's all western mythology has". Which isn't true in the slightest.

i know western about { celtic mythology, norse mythology, greek/roman mythology Slavic whole media full of them } i just showed list as example }but asur range {collocation of many types characteristic demons}cover large scale of western monsters demon race like greek Minotaur counterpart is Mahishasura en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahishasura , Hydra and all his kind of demon have large scale of eastern counter parts like 8race of nagas chines dragon ....other , Cerberus counterpart swan companion of kal bhairav... , Chimaera vs narshingh ,yali , Cyclops vs kubhkaran , Echidna vs matasy, phoenix vs Chinese Fenghuang, indian and east asian creature gadura persian Simurgh Huma bird . hardly few demons which don't have a eastern counter part { some creature normally consider as western mythological creature but that is incorrect like ghoul , ghoul is originally Arabian mythological creature} name it any creature name and appearance and habit i supply you many counterparts{real mythological creature which mentioned in religious ancient texts and folklore not modern fiction which inventing new names . }

TheLastTrinityOmega Ewww

He said in the werewolves episode that he wasn't. That was actually one of the first things that he was asked about.

Stephen, in case you hadn't figured this out, Dungeons and Dragons is fantasy. The Forgotten Realms aren't a real place on our Earth. So while the monsters are definitely "borrowed" from our own mythologies/religions/cultures, you don't have to portray them exactly the same way and build them completely true to and based in our real world religions or mythology. Portraying them differently isn't a "lack of respect" nor is it "butchering". Were not writing a history or anthropology textbook here.

I totally agree! Why not do in depth with it? The more you know the more real you make your game for your players. Why not have a Naga be slithering around in a temple or desert ruins or even be an object of worship? That sounds fantastic!