According to Mearls & Crawford, the elf still needs 8 hours of rest to get the full benefits of sleep.
Q: does Trance allow elves to get the benefit of long rest in 4 hours instead of 8?
A: nope, they still need 8 hours of rest, but spend only 4 of it zonked out. -M
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> A long rest is a period of extended downtime, at least 8 hours long, during which you sleep or perform light activity: reading, talking, eating, or standing watch for no more than 2 hours of the rest period.
So, sleeping is unrelated to long rests.
Sleeping may, optionally, be performed during long rests.
So let's take this and run with it: the advantage of being an Elf or a Warforged is you can sleep, then prep your spells, and maybe perform easy rituals, and so on.
If the people who need to do daily prep in your group are Elves or Warforged, then they're ready to go as soon as you are.
And they might have also taken the time to perform maintenance on some of the group's equipment, cook some meals, and so on, in their 3-4 hours of waking rest.
@BESW well, if we consider 'setting the meat up to stew' as one activity, you could get that done in less than an hour... and return to rest... and be fine.
@BESW i am only a level 4 sandwich chef, i have not yet reached the higher echelons of 1 hour+ sandwiches
@Miniman he probably gets away with this on SO because there's always several people in a happy rush to answer any question at all, regardless of its quality. "sure, I'll answer your multiple entirely separate questions."
yeah amassing reputation on SO is at once easy and hard. I don't have the time to spend to do it, but if you're willing to delve into it in volume you can do quite well there
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@waxeagle Not tomfoolery, but that's a totally different kind of toast. Cold toast is condimented after cooling, while toast moitié is condimented and then cooled. It's much trickier, as the jam can't be allowed to settle too much.
There are some who feel soggy toast is acceptable, but for me it's only appropriate in toast mou where the slice is almost floating in its own condiments.
@BESW yes, since i was under the impression that roles such as 'the best man' existed in order to have someone other than those being married available to lead the wedding
i.e. a few people who can duck in and out and take responsibility for the ceremony going smoothly
"Best man" replaced "groomsman" in, according to some sources, the early 1800s.
While sources which attribute "best" to be referring to the person's fighting skills usually refer to kidnapping women from other villages.
So attributing a Scottish phrase from the early 1800s to systemised rape just sounds like a particularly nasty bit of racist smear.
Almost every time you hear a bit of etymology that "illustrates how different things were" or "how far we've come" or anything like that--it's a clever-sounding backwards attribution made to further a point or just sound smart.
...none of the sources attributing a violent origin to the term give any specifics regarding where or when it originated. Anything that goes "It was a long time ago in an unspecified place!" [wild handwaving] should be laughed at.
For a while I was thinking of making a world/setting, where any superstitions the player knows, are rumours the character has heard. And then deciding which is "accurate" on a case-by-case basis, either beforehand or on the spot.
> They never washed their boards and a lot of times worms would get into the wood.
A lot of them give me a mental response of "this sounds like baloney" right before I read it, but this one cued that three words in.
People in medieval ages knew an awful lot about cleanliness, and the importance of keeping things clean, and free of rot and pests.
(heck, even the thing about people only bathing once a year is twaddle: often people had a perfectly good lake or river available if they cared to use it)
@waxeagle I think that Robertson fellow is quite content with having insinuated the only reason we might need him to split up the questions is that he's smarter than us, and sees no need to further engage with the situation.
@Lord_Gareth agreed, Even though I don't think I've read the 5e PHB cover to cover yet, I've digested basically all of it short of intimate details of the classes and spell lists at this point. Things that seem easy for me...aren't for folks who haven't been rabidly answering questions about it for a couple of months now
and I didn't understand a damn thing in the D&D 3.5e book, other than there were spells and classes and i could play a barbarian and they had low armor and hit things hard and had this cool rage thing
like at all. Wasn't til we started playing D&D years later that I started to understand how RPG worked...and that was mostly due to an "older cousin" type who had played before and understood what was going on (not actually my cousin)
I'm this close to leaving an archly-worded comment about insulting the answerers instead of following basic Stack guidelines not getting his question answered any faster.
[holds thumb and forefinger up about three inches apart]
When we're dealing with people from other Stacks who come here for the first time, it often feels that they have more learnt bad habits than people from free-for-all forums.
@BESW I think this Stack has a greater culture of enforced civility as a direct response to how divisive RPGs are; that is, we know we're assholes so we work hard to be nice.
But in all seriousness, the hostility and elitism of RPGs as a hobby are known factors. It seems logical that steps were taken in the creation of this Stack to counteract that.
And whatever those habits are, they work well enough there, or... if it's SO.... everything's awful and everyone's occupied with so much awfulness that anyone's ability to do anything about it is very limited
But when it's someone who learnt awful un-Stack-like habits from another Stack, they get to throw around their righteousness and tell us we're Doing It Wrong, and it takes a whole new level of awareness before they modify their behaviour.
other sites are very different, like a moderation team that doesn't really care much about deleting comments and would rather not in a lot of circumstances
@doppelgreener I'm definitely a fan, there are at least 2 stacks that I'm far more qualified to participate in than this one, but the quality level here is too high for me to go anywhere else
@Miniman both sites in my areas of expertise are crummy. There's Stack Overflow, and then there's User Experience, where very few answers actually involve the levels of professional rigour I expect.
He says that the rules should only be enforced on non-trivial topics, and anyone who knows anything would think this is trivial. The inference is inescapable.
@Miniman for some value of excellent? "which is better" didn't really have much in the way of requirements leading to wishywashy "this is why you pick X this is why you pick Y" type answers
i.e. not necessarily any accusation of idiocy, so much as working from an assumption Brian had a lack of understanding of the topic (since we are not omniscient and do not understand all RPGs)
I just think that it might not be correct to assume he's belittling anyone
and after his question remains closed for a while, it might soak in that no, it's not going to get reopened in this state
Velothiid I had an idea for a campaign Velothiid I call it Velothiid Rise of the Kender Lords Velothiid It's exactly the same as Rise of the Runelords Velothiid except instead of getting souls from sinful individuals Velothiid they get souls from kenders Claudius_Maximus Does it involve kender genocide? Velothiid Yes Velothiid How did you guess
Nevermind. My buddy has been grilling me about getting a dang shield for my warlock build, and stacking effects on a shield, shield spikes, and gauntlets for +15 AC. He's telling me about this semi-official errata source too. Finally found this bloody semi-official errata and it says IN RED LETTERS that a Swordsage doesn't get their Wis bonus to AC if they use a shield!
And it says NOTHING about them having proficiency with shields.
I've been telling him Swordsages don't get shields for a solid week. =_=
On top of that, a Warlock Glaivelock build is using a glaive, a 2h weapon, so no shields. his response? "get an animated shield"
He's fixated on me getting a shield. Now he's telling me not to take swordsage at all (even though it was his idea in the first place to do so...) and take warblade instead...
ELDRITCH GLAIVE Least; 2nd; Blast Shape Your eldritch blast takes on physical substance, appearing similar to a glaive. As a full-round action, you can make a single melee touch attack as if wielding a reach weapon. If you hit, your target is affected as if struck by your eldritch blast (including any eldritch essence applied to the blast). Unlike hideous blow (Complete Arcane 134), you cannot combine your eldritch glaive with damage from a held weapon. Furthermore, until the start of your next turn, you also
it forms your eldritch blast into a glaive you can use to attack, and that glaive stays until your next round. you can get your full BAB when using it and you threaten people with it.
You're wielding a glaive, regardless of what it's made out of, it's a bloody glaive. you can apply feats relating to glaives to it because it's a glave made out of physical energy
Regarding the recent question "Which material has errata or been updated?".
It was closed by several heavy users as a duplicate of "How do you tell if a D&D book is 3.0 or 3.5?".
The questions are not the same, but the latter question happens to have a very long answer that contains the answer...
I love that he asked a meta question about a question that was about writing an answer.
And that his question was "is there a complete list of errata somewhere?"
@BESW I'm looking for a system thats fairly easy to GM on the fly. It looks as though that is what the entire system is designed for. Admittedly, I've only given the SRD for it a brief skimming.
@NiteCyper That is not a denial or confirmation of sarcasm in this case :-)
From what I've seen, DW requires a lot of beforehand system mastery on the part of the GM, but once you're in the game it's as you describe. And for players there's really not much system mastery necessary at all.
I recently wrote a tongue-in-cheek article about role playing games in our student publication. "Role playing, also known as rope or devil worship, is a hobby that combines elements of games, acting and pretend play."
According to Mearls & Crawford, the elf still needs 8 hours of rest to get the full benefits of sleep.
Q: does Trance allow elves to get the benefit of long rest in 4 hours instead of 8?
A: nope, they still need 8 hours of rest, but spend only 4 of it zonked out. -M
From: http://www.e...
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Regarding the recent question "Which material has errata or been updated?".
It was closed by several heavy users as a duplicate of "How do you tell if a D&D book is 3.0 or 3.5?".
The questions are not the same, but the latter question happens to have a very long answer that contains the answer...
