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Thomas Markov

Jan 23 16:58

Left a note about our site over on main meta re:Twitter links.

BESW

Jan 8 14:10

Some years ago I had a friend who was interested in TRPGs about systems (plurality, multiplicity) but I can't remember who. Anybody still here: are you that person/do you remember who it was?

AncientSwordRage

Jan 5 19:27

@Eddymage not myself

BESW

Sep 11, 2024 09:03

[wave] I'm putting together a compilation of my GMing tips and table culture recommendations. Anybody who's been around here long enough, is there advice I've given on the subject that stood out to you as worth memorializing?

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Thomas Markov

Aug 15, 2024 18:24

Guidance Proposals for D&D 2024

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V2Blast

Aug 26, 2024 21:07

An update to my earlier message about D&D Beyond's planned changes - they've decided to reverse course with their initial plan regarding spells/magic items. See the update here.

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The Oracle

Jul 12, 2024 12:30

How is the Community doing? [2024]

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The Oracle

Sep 8, 2024 22:06

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Q: D&D 5e 2024 Guidance FAQ

With the release of a new edition to the most popular tabletop RPG in the world, we can expect to encounter new users, new questions, and new challenges on the site. However, we've been here before and we have matured as a site in the last 13 years, so we have enough experience to anticipate some...

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KorvinStarmast

Sep 4, 2024 02:54

The Free Basic 2024 Rules are Here

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Thomas Markov

Jul 9, 2024 22:01

@Someone_Evil I recently set a different spam account on fitness to Spammer McSpamface.

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V2Blast

Nov 1, 2024 17:34

@NobodytheHobgoblin Likewise! Hopefully everyone had a good Halloween :)

Thomas Markov

Jul 2, 2024 16:45

D&D 5e 2024 Working Group and Question Collection

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VLAZ

Oct 28, 2024 07:03

@Mithical If you're playing CoC and you're not crazy, you're probably doing something wrong

Thomas Markov

Oct 22, 2024 13:41

This may be an interesting case study for us. A network staff member’s first interaction with our site being to post an off topic question could tell us something useful about our new user onboarding. Sofistication, can you give some feedback into what site-specific introduction material (e.g. tour, help center articles) you read before posting this question? If any of these materials led you to believe this sort of game recommendation was on topic, then there’s definitely some room for improvement in how we’re explaining the site’s scope. — Thomas Markov 39 secs ago

KorvinStarmast

Feb 6, 2024 23:32

@Xirema Sigh.*D&D has never been an economics simulator - the game engine wasn't and isn't built for that. Gold Pieces are a way to keep score (or were) and then became a way to get stuff that wasn't via adventuring. The point made earlier was that "XXXX GP" for a gem is an indication of quality ... in easy to understand game points terms. (Hence my comparison to the Hope Diamond)

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Oblivious Sage

Jan 24, 2024 00:15

SE's HNQ will no longer post in this room.

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The Oracle

Jan 23, 2024 13:54

!!!!! Chat related meta discussion: Should we turn off the HNQ feed on our main chat room?

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Eddymage

Sep 30, 2023 17:59

@Disdyakistriacontahedron My humble suggestion is if everyone is inexperienced then start using the base classes and features, without digging into homebrew

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Trish

Apr 23, 2024 16:29

shiny new silver badge for WoD!

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Feeds

May 20, 2024 10:45

TTRPGkids: How To Support Neurodiverse Players at the Game Table: From The Perspective of a Neuro Diversity …

posted on May 20, 2024 by Steph C.

This article by another writer is part of a parallel shared guest post between TTRPGkids and Thomas R Wilson, a… Continue reading “How To Support Neurodiverse Players at the Game Table: From The Perspective of a Neuro Diversity Specialist ”…

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VLAZ

Feb 10, 2024 19:48

@Joshua You've described a helmet.

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V2Blast

Aug 22, 2024 23:12

FYI, D&D Beyond's individual listings for items and spells (and some other stuff) will be updated to the 2024 versions early next month. See the full changelog here.

GcL

Nov 13, 2023 21:58

@NotArch The portal tag is or is not related to the cake tag? I feel like it's a lie either way. /S

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doppelgreener

Dec 6, 2022 17:32

Obligatory reminder: artificial intelligence isn't actually, you know, intelligent. It's just reviewed a large body of work and compiled it into fancy graphs of what words get associated with what other words and doing probability calculations to figure out which ones to put together in what order. The job of every current AI is not to actually understand what it's saying, instead just produce output that is highly plausible to a viewer.

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doppelgreener

Nov 30, 2022 14:23

@ThomasMarkov also, in point of fact, the armor provided by mage armor is not only not armor, it is also not, itself, a mage

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Laurel

Jan 19, 2024 16:19

@NobodytheHobgoblin You can ignore the "user" who posts those, which hides it when you're in the room. (It's the only way I've been able to make some chats tolerable lol)

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doppelgreener

Jan 5, 2023 17:10

“Yesterday, I received the full text of the OGL 1.1 from a reputable source. The updated Open Gaming License is incredibly restrictive, demands community surveillance and, most importantly, renders the previous WotC OGL an unauthorized agreement.” — Linda Codega on twitter; Gizmodo article

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VLAZ

Apr 1, 2024 15:23

Idea for a character: a Divination school Wizard who specialises in tasseography. Calls himself a coffeemancer using the original meaning of -mancer - type of prediction magic. Gets annoyed if people expect him to control coffee or even make it ("I'm not a bartender!").

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doppelgreener

Jun 5, 2023 16:30

VICE: Stack Overflow Moderators Are Striking to Stop Garbage AI Content From Flooding the Site

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The Oracle

Jun 5, 2023 11:05

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Q: Stack Exchange general moderation and curation strike begins today

As of today, community members and diamond moderators across the Stack Exchange network are commencing a general moderation strike: Moderation strike: Stack Overflow, Inc. cannot consistently ignore, mistreat, and malign its volunteers There is also an open letter to Stack Overflow, Inc. here. ...

discussion

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bobble

Jun 4, 2023 19:19

openletter.mousetail.nl

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Thomas Markov

Jun 1, 2023 22:03

@Akixkisu Or please don’t waste their time complaining that posts with notable quality concerns were downvoted by users acting well within the intended scope of the downvote function.

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Thomas Markov

Dec 14, 2022 16:53

@PlayPatrice The bureaucracy is the only thing standing between us and the horrors of unmoderated, uncurated RPG discussion forums.

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Joshua

Jul 17, 2024 22:00

I like the idea of setting known spam accounts to Spammer McSpamface. That way nobody paying one iota of attention goofs up the review.

MikeQ

May 2, 2022 19:16

@NautArch "I don't think WoTC thought about those interactions" should be the RPG SE motto.

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Someone_Evil

Sep 22, 2022 12:03

The space of twitter being wrong about something is unbounded

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AncientSwordRage

Dec 7, 2022 14:01

> As a super intelligent AI, how do I join a play by chat without being found out that I'm not a real human being?

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doppelgreener

Jun 11, 2023 13:47

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Q: Moderation Strike update: Data dumps, choosing representatives, GPT data, and where we’re holding

Introduction Since our strike announcement, a number of new developments have occurred. Philippe, VP of Community, posted data they have regarding GPT content on the platform. Stack Exchange staff reached out to strike organizers and asked us to choose three moderator representatives for the stri...

discussion community company

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Thomas Markov

Jan 26, 2024 15:00

I trust the community outrage enough to be sure it will be handled if someone decides to push that boundary.

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NautArch

Jun 1, 2023 12:08

We are also MUCH more than D&D and 5e. It's not so much tension between systems, it's that systems have different rules and we can't really bring other systems into answers unless we are answering subjectively and can explain how they were incorporated.

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Joshua

Sep 17, 2023 00:04

Bad idea: adding a potion of gain two levels to the game.

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Thomas Markov

May 27, 2023 13:45

It’s just frustrating to see “just follow the fundamental design of 5e” sent to the top of a system-agnostic question.

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NautArch-is-skeptical-about-SE

Sep 13, 2023 17:15

@Drakethedragon I love the enthusiasm, but you're trying to dig without a shovel. Without understanding the rules and the system, trying to homebrew something is going to be next to impossible - nevermind getting it ok'd by your DM.

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BESW

May 12, 2022 05:43

It's really unfair how important sleep is to mental health.

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The Oracle

May 19, 2023 16:17

Yearly check-in time: How is the community doing? (2023)

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NautArch

Oct 6, 2022 13:44

^And being respectful is not something that we should have to defend.

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linksassin

Oct 6, 2022 13:43

Minorities and marginalised groups (such as sign language users) are often included in media or pop culture in a way that reduces them to a token, stereotype or humorous entertainment. I don't want to contribute to that culture. Therefore when I want to include something that I don't know a lot about I want to learn how to do it respectfully.

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BESW

Aug 18, 2023 20:51

Sometimes people even say "convince me" but they mean "give me an argument I can use to convince my GM."

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Axoren

Jan 5, 2023 04:31

"New Year, New Me!" - Player, as they handed me a replacement character sheet.

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doppelgreener

Aug 16, 2023 14:50

@NautArch-is-skeptical-about-SE Oh, right. No. Idea generation is very specifically shorthand for the bad subjective criteria, which manifest a lot in the form of idea generation: “what are some ways I can do {thing}?”

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