@daze413 Isn't it? Apparently when* SE switches over to CommonMark it won't be necessary anymore (only quote blocks joined by > instead of blanks will be shown as joined), but for now it's the only way to force a break. (*“eventually.”)
@daze413 IME you do run creative and engaging combats, so I have no trouble believing that when character-I-care-about meets real-chance-of-devastating-loss, it gets even better!
@daze413 They're mostly minor, since CommonMark is just a standardisation of what's currently being used. Part of the reason it's coming “eventually” is not wanting to break hundreds of thousands of posts, so we should have forewarning about anything important, too.
I think the quote block handling of blanks is one of the bigger changes we'll even notice, and that lists will be able to be written with parens like “1)” instead of only dots like “1.” (though they'll still render with dots; better than now, where they just don't become lists at all).
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"Bated" is a shortening of "abated," as in "reduced or lowered."
...unless you're quoting Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: Embarrassed Proofreader Edition. In which case, carry on.
Or, I suppose, Geoffrey Taylor. In which case you get +2 Obscure Reference points.
> Sally, having swallowed cheese Directs down holes the scented breeze Enticing thus with baited breath Nice mice to an untimely death. - Geoffrey Taylor "Cruel, Clever Cat" 1933
ah. I'm actually kind of stuck on the two partially formed campaigns rattling around my head
one of them has me scratching my head figuring out how best to involve the PCs in what's intended to be one of the major plot threads (an appellate trajectory court case involving legal interpretation issues with a half-baked tax decree)
the other is more of a "who do I want the PCs to be?" problem -- the idea is a hobgoblin army marching across disaster-ravaged elf lands on a relief mission, but I'm not sure how best to fit a small party of PCs into that concept
No idea about the first one, but plenty for the 2nd. They could be a small scouting squad sent ahead. Or maybe they were part of a battalion that lost and they are the only survivors.
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@MikeQ sure, and yes! chat is the Stack's brainstorming facility even
@MikeQ I was thinking that you could have a couple of hobgoblin scouts who run into a couple of elven scouts early on in the campaign and wind up sort of "pushing out" from the early meeting into the ravaged lands...what could the disaster be, though?
@MikeQ I was leaning more towards natural disaster -- more of a thousand-year, "hand of the gods" sort of thing than something that the elves would see coming. a supernatural disaster of some sort is plausible as well, though
@MikeQ yeah -- what I know so far is that it needs to be pretty wide-scale (vs a localized disaster such as a tornado) and needs to basically ruin crops as well as towns/small cities
In The Fifth Season, a period when the magnetic North pole wandered led to widespread crop failure because birds and insects couldn't migrate properly.
@MikeQ there are survivors of course -- elves as well as animals (although whatever took out crops also damaged the food chain as well)
@BESW that would be...quite intriguing to say the least
whatever it is though needs to not impact the hobgoblins too badly though for whatever reason (otherwise they'd be too busy dealing with their own can o' worms to help the elves with theirs)
Another Season was caused by oceanic eruptions during monsoons, increasing humidity and obscuring the sun for half a year. This caused intense fungal blights which wiped out entire species of food crop.
(The conceit of The Fifth Season is that the world is unusually geologically active, and every so often they endure a disastrous "Fifth Season" of some sort which tends to knock society back on its heels.)
I'd suggest acid rain. If hobgoblins live in caves and can eat mushrooms or retreat to the Underdark, they won't be much effected--but societies that live in wood and metal and rely on exposed crops, will be devastated.
...I once saw a typhoon that had barely any rain, but picked up salt from the sea and the winds drove the salt into everything the typhoon passed over.
At first there didn't seem to be much damage, and then three days later all the plants died.
Aha - okay, how's this: Most of the elven forests draw water from underground rivers. Something has infected the water, causing the plants above ground to wither and/or mutate.
(or, something has stopped the water - it's a drought)
@MikeQ those would be the prime races of the campaign world, if you will (I could see room for an outsider showing up from overseas after receiving word of the disaster somehow, though)
Yes, right. It's plausible that a non-elf would be in the elf lands at the time.
What else happens in the campaign? Could this disaster happen again soon (possibly somewhere else)? Do they have to defeat the person/spell/thing responsible?
Or is this more of a Walking Dead situation, where the disaster is basically a given, and the conflicts are between characters who are reacting to the situation? (Example: villain is someone trying to take advantage of people who suffered the disaster)
At this point you have a lot of options, lots of ways to explain and implement the disaster itself. VTC too broad, need more detail.
But structure-wise you have 3 options: 1. The disaster started and is continuing. 2. The disaster happened, and it will happen again (unless stopped). 3. The disaster happened, and people are trying to get back on their feet.
@MikeQ That's pretty much what I'm talking about; it's a riff on Great Ork Gods, in which players control both Orks and the Ork gods who hate them.
Difficulties are determined by the god presiding over the action your Ork is taking, and how much that god dislikes your Ork in particular, and whether any other gods are willing to spend Spite to make things harder for your Ork.
(Spite is earned by a god whenever an Ork succeeds on an action presided over by that god.)
Orks compete to be the most Orkly Ork, with displays of mayhem and stupidity.
@nitsua60 Just incidentally, this question got closed (rightly), but because it's a migrated question, the querent can neither edit nor comment to try to get it fixed.
(This sort of thing is what you get for being a mod who's often in chat.)
@godskook i'd make a script that inserts a css override. i can also do that with a plugin like stylish, but having a script might give me a bit more control, e.g. the ability to embed a "dark theme / light theme" switch in the sidebar.
@godskook yeah actually that sounds like a good way to do it. :) have a .darktheme css that gets toggled on/off at the body, and make everything a .darktheme whatever css definition.
I have a character that benefits greatly from the Run Like Hell dare, but I want to remake the character with less (or no) levels in gunslinger. How else can I gain that Dare?
Just the effects would be fine. Specifically, I'm interested in the ability to automatically detect the presence of ene...
My reading of "Run Like Hell" is that it doesn't grant any detection abilities. Given that he wants us to REPLICATE this ability, seems to me that valid readings would be important here.
@doppelgreener, save yourself some long-term trouble, if you do it this way
I don't have my DMG on hand, but I think there is some advice in there about rolling in the open versus behind the screen. Or at the very least, hiding information from the players versus letting them know it.
@BESW that's kind of what's in my answer. I can add some more details to match the DMG rather than what's in my head.
yeah, i've basically covered those bits. I think the reference is enough for them to read more in-depth. Otherwise, I'm basically copying 1/2 a page of information.
@godskook rearranged it a bit :) Personally, though - i like visible rolls. Whenever I see my DM roll an attack/save behind the screen I just don't trust it.
@BESW Not actually familiar with Lovecraftesque, other than seeing it mentioned here in the chat. I probably asked about it before, but don't remember any details, sadly.
@Magician When designing a LCQ scenario, you come up with a theme which won't be stated in the final workup but helps keep everything coherent during design. Then you define the shared PC: name, role, reason for being there, source of strength, and personality trait. Then a handful of NPCs with name, role, and additional details as needed. Define the location/era with a little evocative detail.
Choose the Special Cards which let players break the rules in a specific Mythos-y way, and provide a dozen sample clues.
The Specimen card is, of course, the partial or complete fossil, bones, or preserved body of a creature unknown to science which, as the story progresses, is implied/shown to still be alive today.
In Part 2 and beyond, that can include injury, mutilation, and death caused by the creature.
@godskook Proportional responses aren't working. Especially when there are TV programs about doing it. See all the shipwreck hunting/artifact hunting/etc. shows.
@godskook Treasure Hunting. Whether it's looking for spanish gold in a shipwreck off the florida coast, or artifacts in an ancient Egyptian tomb, or digging for artifacts on public land.
And doing those things without any scientific method to preserve context
@NautArch, yours is not even the USUAL definition(based on wikipedia) of the term "treasure hunting" let alone the one I'm familiar with. Hence the linguistic calibration so far.
@NautArch, and coming at it from a different point of view, preservation costs resources, and this world has PRECIOUS little of that, given that avg global income is a mere 15k/year. I'd want a more nuanced and cost-effective approach than "preserve all the things!".
@godskook Well, you don't need to treasure hunt, either. That's a huge waste of resources. You don't need to remove/preserve (which is difficulty and costly), but you absolutely do need to go about excavating properly. If you can't afford to do it well, you shouldn't do it just because you can.
@godskook Because people are idiots and love the idea of finding treasure. And the 'easy buck.' It's exciting. It's adventure. Why do people send out scam emails? Same reason. Same effect. Same outcome.
Actually, just realized something, "very little is actually ever found"? If they're not finding things, how're they offending your sensibilities in handling the things they're not finding?
@godskook Not finding the treasure doesn't mean they haven't found a shipwreck (or grave/tomb/whatever.) The means they use to look for treasure in those places is generally pure destruction in search of loot.
as an example, a common tool for shipwreck treasure hunters is called a "mail box." It fits over the prop and directs the wash straight down, blowing apart whatever is below it (generally, the shipwreck itself). They then go and sift through looking for doubloons.
@BESW Is that love craft 1000 word short story contest still active?
@NautArch Whenever I see my DM roll an attack/save behind the screen I just don't trust it.and by it, i mean him What has happened to RPGs? DM rolling behind the screen (sometimes for no purpose) was part and parcel to the games for decades. (Traveler, C&S, D&D, Runequest ...)
I had to laugh at this The means they use to look for treasure in those places is generally pure destruction in search of loot - Right, the standard D&D expedition. 8^D
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I prefer most rolls to be open, and selected rolls not. There is a variety of "unknown" that an exposed roll will reveal, which can screw up tension and mystery.
@NautArch A simple and possibly mutually beneficial position might be to offer reasonable "discovery" prices for finds that are deemed "worth" proper excavation? Probably too simple to be implemented, actually.
@godskook Sadly, it's much more complicated than that. SHipwrecks are tricky because of the whole international waters thing - but think of it like a pyramid/tomb in Egypt. Is anyone in modern times cool with someone tossing a couple of sticks of dynamite into one, searching through rubble and hten maybe selling what they find?
@godskook Well, there's destruction of property, but most countries don't look kindly upon someone blowing up their cultural resources. Shipwrecks have an origin, but the wreck itself is international, which allows looser restrictions that normally stop land-based treasure hunting.
It's also an issue that shipwreck is also basically a grave. ANd grave desecration generally isn't cool. But no one thinks of it like that - they think of it as TREASURE!
pretty much I find no reasonable excuse to do this. It's currently 'legal' just like what the early archaeologists did was 'legal'. But it's not right and eventually the restrictions we put on doing this on land will include the water.
@KorvinStarmast I guess it's a loaded question - I feel that's when the dice rolls get hidden from us. When a big spell effect will disrupt an encounter.
@NautArch Random thought in relation to this question: This is one of the questions that might be opinion based (as someone voted to close), but the asker does not know that it is opinion based. As such, a valid answer could be "It's opinion based" and still make the question itself valid.
@NautArch, no idea. I personally prefer your answer, but I won't actively downvote his because they're not really different, except for writers' style.
thedarkwanderer appears to be trying to get a zoning ordnance passed to shut down cheese shopping. (See comments under my cheese tag question, which flopped)
But that answer is now in good company, among compadres who do not judge base on up votes, but upon being among the dairy divas. Edic is etic misspelled and is TDW being erudite.
@NautArch, why don't you delete that answer? Your own conversation from the follow-up chat suggests you no longer agree with your own answer, so why keep it?
@godskook hmm, that's a good question. I don't think it harms me(much) to have it up there and that the requirement to allow non-stop strenuous activity getting hand-waived bothers me? And while I like to be right, I don't really feel wrong here. I'll take the downvotes when they come :)
@KorvinStarmast I also think if you don't embrace cheese when you're trying to do a build that clearly is using loopholes, then you also should accept it if people judge for you doing it.
@Adam She's got the right idea! Was at the store yesterday picking up dinner stuff and they had some Grana Padana out that was ridiculously good. Shaved some with lemon zest over grilled asparagus.
I had a girl friend in Va Beach who hated my use of the term "toe cheese" for that which was between my toes. This due to her love of cheese. So I switched to referring to such growth as "dairy products" which got me an eye roll but fewer objections.
Negative, toe jam never entered the lexicon albeit both of us were Beatles fans. Oh, by the way, sometimes I feel like a complete greenhorn. My base assumption is TTRPG. Well, not all tables are made of wood, some are made of facebook Looks like my brilliant answer backfired ... or the group was doomed.
@KorvinStarmast, does assuming TTRPGs are not using online mediums make you an Electrician? Or an electrist? Or maybe a technologist? These new-fangled terms....
@godskook Lud·dite /ˈlədˌīt/ noun noun: Luddite; plural noun: Luddites a member of any of the bands of English workers who destroyed machinery, especially in cotton and woolen mills, that they believed was threatening their jobs (1811–16). •a person opposed to increased industrialization **or new technology** "a small-minded Luddite resisting progress"
@NautArch I think you're answer on the homebrew channel divinity is correct. Though it could be improved with a reference and comparison to an existing channel divinity which relies on concentration and has a specific time cap attached. I believe the Trickery Channel Divinity requires concentration and is limited to 1 minute.
For sure. I just mean that I think it would be easier seeing the logic if there was also a comparison saying something like: "If it had a time limit it would be like this published CD which says '...Yadda Yadda concentration up to some time' or the like". Makes the logic trivial to follow.
Normal activity, such as moving and attacking, doesn’t interfere with concentration. The following factors can break concentration. @Adam, yeah, not asleep is the key.
@KorvinStarmast The vibe I get is that people feel that by answering all these questions himself, and having them be treated as rules with as much validity as the books, it undermines some of the DMs power to make rulings at the table.
And yet Crawford's consistent refrain, even written in multiple tweets, is that the rules are there to serve the DM. I do not agree with the "undermine" concept.
Personally, I agree with you Korvin. I too think having JC answering these questions is pretty much entirely beneficial. Especially since they have made it very clear that the DM is still the final arbiter, and the tweets are just there to help them make informed decisions
@NautArch Earlier this month I saw a Twitter thread about how awesome it would be to have an Indiana Jones sequel series about Short Round (played by Donnie Yen) breaking into museums to return items to their cultural owners, while Shia Lebeouf tries to stop him.
@Adam, point being, I can totally see why people would get agitated that creators are making low-effort rulings that seeming make the rules less functional, regardless of how "optional" the flag them as.
I think it's pretty unfair to to call them low-effort rulings. I doubt that JC is just spitting answers out on a whim. He isn't trying to poison his own game, he's trying to help people.
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