I would hope you wouldn't agree, it's your position! In spirit both are ways to reward people for engaging in the story in a meaningful way. However in one circumstance you allow somebody to give that reward to somebody else even though that other person didn't do anything to deserve it, and in other circumstance you don't.
@NautArch, there's nothing to do to make it less opinion-based. As far as being a 5e answer, it -is- a 5e answer, as much as it could possibly be made one.
@godskook It's as much a 5e answer as me going into a pathfinder question an answering it based on my experience with 5e would be a pathfinder answer. We definitely appreciate wanting to help answer a question, but you need experience with the system to give the kind of expert answer that the stack cultivates.
@godskook I disagree. the question isn't about "should I let players swap roleplaying rewards around" The question is about a very specific mechanic, defined by a particular game system, and to what extent the rules define how it can be used.
That reminds me of the time I found out, for Pathfinder, that Warforged characters can't use the vanilla Barbarian's rage feature but they could use the Unchained Barbarian's rage.
In general, being familiar with the game being asked about is appreciated by the community. Many issues are affected by a game's philosophies and the attitudes instilled in its playing community, if not by the mechanics themselves. This means even if an issue is not particularly steeped in that game's issues, it often (perhaps ironically) takes expertise in that game to know to what degree that is the case.
Lack of familiarity with the material thus undermines a reader's ability to have confidence in an answer's capacity to be useful, meaning it's more prone to be received poorly, no matter how technically correct it is.
> For the purposes of effects targeting creatures by type (such as a ranger’s favored enemy and bane weapons), androids count as both humanoids and constructs. Androids gain a +4 racial bonus on all saving throws against mind-affecting effects, paralysis, poison, and stun effects, are not subject to fatigue or exhaustion, and are immune to disease and sleep effects. Androids can never gain morale bonuses, and are immune to fear effects and all emotion-based effects.
But yeah, you couldn't have a vanilla Android Barbarian. Or rather, you could but they wouldn't able to do the thing Barbarians are known for and what you would use to identify a Barbarian.
Or you could rage but you wouldn't get the stat bonuses!
Yes. There's additional maintenance charges because there may or may not be a camera and other recording devices in there. We aren't allowed to legally know or disclose for sure.
It's good to see voters showing up suddenly. Yesterday we had fewer ballots than last election (last time we had “1,809 voters were eligible, 723 visited the site during the election, 446 visited the election page, and 324 voted”). Today though the numbers are almost starting to cross the line into more than last election: “3,005 voters were eligible, 706 visited the site during the election, 748 visited the election page, and 313 voted”.
The 'We Be Goblins' chain of adventures Paizo put out for free some time back has been a hit with my group....
Second adventure.. the four goblin heroes find their clan annihilated by adventurers.... so they go to the next clan over. They have no chief. They're immediately suckered into a series of trials to become their chief.
Test 1: Everybody gets 3 arrows and a bow. Seagulls will be released from cages in 3 waves. Most birds shot down wins. Results: 4 observer goblins shot (partial credit due to laughing), 2 seagulls, 1 tin can, and a tree.
Test 2. A bunch of plankboards are laid over a swamp with posts. 12 posts have Stirges tied to them on a 5ft tether.. And you have to wear HUMAN BOOTS. A test of agility, balance, and melee finesse.
Goblins line up on the starting line, except one. He adjusts his boots, does some knee crunches.
thunder stone goes off, 3 goblins run. The last one rumages around in his possessions.
The rogue gets a quick sneak attack skill due to high initiatve....
@Adam i'm pretty sure the answer is you have 1 reaction to give. If you use it on one OA, then you're done until the start of your next turn. But I can't be sure unless they clarify what's going on.
Agreed. though I'm a little concerned that they won't return to the question since they have something to run with in the comments. We'll find out eventually
I mean, you're not trying to get around a hold or anything. It was just a slip of the keys as it were. But the answer is in the comments now, so if they only care about the first thing that they see, they might just take that answer and run with it.
@NautArch Yeah, we try to avoid that. It feels helpful, but the end result is that it results in a more questions that don't get fixed and get auto-deleted, which is way less helpful in the long run.
(If the Q gets split and cleaned up and it's taking more than a few minutes to reopen it, feel free to ping me here and I'll jump on it. I'm just not watching that post right now.)
@Dan B Not sure if you are up on chat, but the Mordant's Need (two books) by Stephen R. Donaldson is a good fictional treatment of the teleport/ambush trick, and its lethality.
@KorvinStarmast He's most probably not up on chat, or you would have got the autocomplete for the name and it would most probably have been spelt as the system expects, which is @DanB
@nitsua60 I think I'm weird in that it's not the XP that matters to me, it's levelling, feeling like my character is improving, and seeing the story progress. The XP is the product of those things, but it's not what's important ot me. However, if I don't feel like I'm moving forward and there's no XP to fall ack on, that'd suck.
@NautArch Hi, having read Mordant's Need over 20 years ago, I recall the teleport/ambush attacks described in that book and have remembered them since. Donaldson is a very good writer, though his books are awful 'introspective' in tone. I only read the first Thomas Covenant trilogy.
And was grateful that mordant's Need was only two books. Kept it from dragging.
Much to my son's frustration, I never finished ME 1 since I got impatient with the user interface. No, I have never liked the FPS view; too many flashbacks to bad flight simulators back in the 80's, and headaches therefrom.
@Adam Yeah, I think I figured out his question (and I didn't answer it!). We'll see. As for his first, I'm not sure if it's a "read the book to me" question or if it'd be good to have up here. I think it's the latter and would be helpful and a rep generator for him to get into chat.
After today's posts about teleportation, I want to write up a retired Wizard who has founded a shipping company via Teleportation Circles. I'll name him Fehd Ecks.
@NautArch I don't know if you want to include them in your answer but there are some UA articles that have things that give additional OAs under certain circumstances (I know of the tunnel Fighter fighting style, and I think one of the fighter archetypes from their UA had some)
@NautArch I can't think of anything, and yeah I think Tunnel Fighter is considered pretty broken (especially with the Sentinel and Polearm Master feats)
@NautArch At level 18 I don't think it is as broken since by that time many creatures have some ranged options or reach so it is easier to avoid triggering the attack. Mind you it is still good (especially in enclosed spaces), but I don't think it is broken
@Adam I wouldn't be surprised if they has some sort of 'Player's Options' book soon. We've had a few things from UA in the SCAG, but nothing since then
@SmokeDetector Well, the fact that this person had the insight to post this on RPG.SE (as opposed to Gardening.SE or something) shows at least some marginal research effort.
Well that was exciting. Yeah, going to leave it up after cleaning. It's potentially a good pointer to some of our canonical questions about what the heck D&D/RPGs are. (Also worst case might help smoke out a troll, best case they just have an unfortunate idea of what makes a good first impression.)
Ooo, I should bring this up to my DM since I'm using the Arcane Archer.
You get magical arrows at will and Arcane Shots are still 2/rest but they improve in effectiveness when you hit 18th level.
By "magical arrows at will", I mean that you can convert nonmagical arrows to +1 magical arrows when you fire them but they turn back to nonmagical after hitting or missing the target.
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We ended our last session in a bit of a pickle, and I need to generate some ideas on how to handle it. Fortunately, the situation is very simple, but the timing is a little immediate.
Anyway, (I'll draw a diagram for this) the situation is that we are stuck in a canyon, backed up against a river. We can't get across, and we have an army blocking our escape. We can't climb out, because we have caravans.
What we need to do is find some way to thin the herd before they attack, so we have some way of managing them in combat. Either by creating some kind of chokepoint, or by reducing their numbers
@Shalvenay Like I said, we can swim across fine. It's not torrential or anything, but if we cross, that means we leave the caravans, and we just can't do that
@Ben ah. yeah, river depth is a big deal then -- fording something like the Platte (too thick to drink, too thin to plow) is way different than say the Missouri
I'd probably get the ranger to make a survival check to declare something about the canyon's structural stability, have the barbarian and fighters do strong-man stuff to mess with a weak spot, and then ask the sorcerer to do a long-range pew to set off a rockslide on top of the army when they arrive.
