Phoenician gold earrings, with a pendant in the form of a Horus falcon, and a basket (linked by two rings). From Tharros, Sardinia. c. 7th- 6th century BC
[Antiques Roadshow]
Do you see how your shadow turns toward the doll irrespective of the light? She'll do quite well at auction, but that's the least of your problems now
@Skyler ah. the dungeon's a minotaur's labryinth with a twist. D&D 5e. 5th level char, point buy or rolled stats (your pick), you'll be joining a hill dwarf cleric and a kenku rogue
btw i am right about that part of rerolling for stats below 8 right
cuz i think if you rol a 7 or lower usually your character starts to not function properly right
@Shalvenay I'll assume single class is wanted rather than multiclass right? Feats on ASI allowed? If you want your players to help you test in a certain style feel free to give some directions
@Skyler feats are fine, the party's basically "grab whatever and go" character-selection wise. a MC char would be acceptable, although I will admit single-class would keep things simpler
Meds, sleep, fluids. That's what momma (The Missus) has offered as my treatment. I think she's right.
@nitsua60 In re your I have some training in sitting at a table with six slightly-varying versions of the same text in front of me, slowly cultivating quietude in my heart and searching for inspiration have you read Mere Christianity by CS Lewis?
@KorvinStarmast Oh, certainly. I've got most of Lewis sitting at arm's reach when I'm at my desk. Absolutely love Mere Christianity, but it's been too long since I've read it. (Probably going on 15 years.)
@SevenSidedDie I had a player once vociferously arguing with me that the 3x reduction in their bow's range when indoors made absolutely no sense. So we went outside, grabbed a bow and arrows, and set up a 50-yd target. "There's a reason it's called archery" is how the conversation went....
@trogdor I feel like you see that with formations of archers loosing on an advancing formation, but the lone archer shooting at a target, Kevin Costner-Robin Hood-style... usually perfectly horizontal.
well day 1 as a Level 5 Bard was a big success though I did have a lot of bad rolls that could've made it even better. But Calm Emotions easily subdued 3 witches that we startled, and Clairvoyance let us see passed a magically sealed door and know that we were seriously outmatched for the other side at the moment.
> Totally a wizard. Once per scene you may claim that a single mundane effect, caused by you, is actually magical. Attempts to disprove this claim are opposed by a passive +4.
> I was a terrible person. (aka The Eleanor Shellstrop) Once per scene you can get +2 on a skill for the rest of the scene by describing, in flashback, how you once used the skill to make someone miserable.
Does anyone with the D&D 5e starter set wish to handle this question? Seems like a basic explanation of AC and where its involvement in attack is described in the starter set is all that's necessary.
I have only ever possessed a single Sonic comic, one from the 90's, and I went through it at some point searching for all the spots characters were talking and their mouth was actually open, and I think I only counted like, three spots. All the other panels they were :T with a speech bubble.
After '07, the art and writing took a drastic turn for the better, since Sega started paying attention to it after the fiasco that was their '06 video game.
@Shalvenay Hey you! I found a legal-interpretation example in some online forum RPG. (I was looking for information on the Waddenzee covenant in Ars Magica and stumbled over it in a forum thread where a troupe is travelling there.) Wanna hear?
Haven't used it either, but it's somewhat similar to Roll20, in that it's just a platform to run games. You still need a DM and other players. But a lot of resources are included for you
@GreySage I mean, technically the rocks only do 2000d6 bludgeoning damage, but it's the players own fault for entering an area where rocks can be dropped on them.
Personally I'd argue that Trancing is a form of Concentration. Although you're correct on nothing interfering with Trance RAW/RAI, "Casting spells" for more than 2 hours is considered a Long Rest breaking event. Note that if you cast a spell with a casting time of more than 1 action, it uses your concentration.
Now that doesn't preclude Rage.. Except for the fact you can't Rage and Cast spells. This could be argued because it takes a certain kind of concentration, but that's a weak argument overall.
Actually scratch that: "A barbarian’s Rage makes concentration impossible but has no effect on spells, like spiritual weapon, that don’t require concentration."
So yeah, again, I realize the Almighty Word of Crawford has been spoken, but it seems contrary to the existing rules.
@kviiri Hmm, so you're saying that because it has the qualifier "early" that there are other things that can make it end? Which doesn't seem very persistent :)
@Randomorph that's kinda my thought as well. GO ahead and put that on my question around strenuous activity (which is wehre I was kind of leading in my question.)
@Randomorph If they are the same thing, the you can say that they may preclude, yes. Or, you can say that by virtue of being the same thing -- if A = B and B = C then A = C -- therefore a trance can still use rage as the focus
@MikeQ I think we're using some equivalances. It's clearly not equal because you don't have to make checks on getting damage (although it does maintain by receiving damage)
@MikeQ They are on the same level of mental occupation and focus. One is pouring your whole mind into some spell/ability/etc, the other is pouring your whole mind into combat.
@Randomorph hmmm. THta's a pretty fine line that you can concentrate through a trance, but not through the remaining 4 hours to keep a longterm concentration spell going (like Hunter's Mark.)3
@Randomorph I get that. I'm just saying that's weird. Why allow it to pass a trance, but not a LR? When would you ever need to trance without taking the LR?
I think Jeremy just looked at the Trance rules and figured "Hey nothing prevents it from Trance" but missed out on the fact that even concentrating on watch for more than 2 hours invalidates your rest.
Your last bolded sentence is a direct contradiction
" Raging (and by extension, Concentration) cannot be done during a Long Rest for longer than 1 hour, or in a more generous ruling, 2 hours, without breaking a Long Rest."
I'm not seeing those as mutually exclusive. If you've taken the long rest, you get the benefits. If you can concentrate through a long rest, you hvae taken the long rst.
You may be able to concentrate through a long rest, because nothing (except unconsciousness) ends a Long Rest. But that does not mean While you concentrate you can actually take a Long Rest and gain its benefits.
But in this case, in order for it not to be true, you have ot make an assumption that Concentration counts as something more than it says it does. It also means that when upcasting Hunter's Mark (and burning a 5th level slot), you also can't gain rest benefits. If you're expending that type of resource, I'd personally allow it. It doesn't seem to be gamebreaking and it does somewhat follow the rules around concentration.
Yesterday was my last day of work at my former employer. I brought a box of chocolates and tried to leave without a big fuss because I probably would've been overwhelmed by all that.
Wound up taking some of my former colleagues to the pub because I'm so bad with goodbyes :)
One of them, actually my former boss, is an RPG guy. He invited me to play with him someday.
@NautArch That would seem to be the current ruling. Considering that long rests now require sleep, and sleep requires you to go unconscious (as far as the game's mechanics are concerned), unless you don't need to sleep to long rest, you won't be able to concentrate through it all.
@Adam Right, and that's the edge case we're discussing. Trance forgoes sleep. It's not that Concentration is 'strenuous" which negates maintaining it; it's that you need to remain conscious which you can do with Trance.
Oof. I'd forgotten how different the voting standards are in this community than some others. Just asked a question on one of the tech sites and got a -1, no comment.
Around here, even a noob question that needs some work (even duplicates) are likely to get to +5 or so.
@NautArch I mean, the flip side is that around here, anyone with <1000 rep is new, whereas on other sites 500 rep might mean you've been around a while and asked/answered some pretty good questions. So it's tough to say that either style is objectively wrong... but I think I prefer our way.
@Randomorph Your argument makes sense if you were casting a spell with a 1 hour casting time, but actively casting a spell is not the same as maintaining a previously cast spell using concentration. Casting a spell with a longer cast time can use concentration, but you can also concentrate for up to 23 hours 59 minutes with some spells and never cast any other spell in that time
I think it has something to do with the ratio of active participants to questions. Around here, people tend to stick around, and look at other questions, even for systems they haven't played, and thus become part of the community and weigh in on a lot of things. On superuser, the people who actually answer questions are a much smaller fraction of the traffic.
You argue that because casting spells with a longer casting time requires concentration, and because casting spells can end long rest, then concentration must also end a long rest. That logic doesn't follow.
It's just as valid that maintaining concentration is as light an activity as reading.
@NautArch It's the line of defense against the multitude of users who want to use the technical sites for work or homework help. These users are not interested in being part of a community and attempts to explain what's wrong with their questions often are futile, and frequently cause abuse hurled at the commenter for daring to criticize their question.
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RPG.SE's atmosphere is markedly different - you have no "help vampires" here because almost no one depends on RPG knowledge for anything they deem crucial.
@Randomorph based on the way that sentence is written, I'm pretty sure it means you can't keep watch for more than 2 hours, not that you can't do any of the stuff in the list for more than 2 hours
that's ambiguous at best. It could equally be reading or eating or talking or 2 hours of (standing watch) as much as it could be 2 hours of (reading, eating, etc.)
It also tells us that the developers intended those rules really only matter when the party has to actively give up on a rest.
However, the errata'd long rest rules are completely unambiguous and agree with your interpretation. So, even though I think it's stupid that in a 10 hour rest, I could sleep for 6 hours, but reading for 3 hours after that makes it so that I no longer benefit, I must concede.
@Adam Oh I agree it can be a bit silly, if they put in the extra time to sleep, I'd say it's fine to get the long rest. But I also think it's incredibly silly you can be half-conscious and maintain a spell, while meditating (see focusing) on your Trance
Considering that a wave hitting you on a boat could break your concentration.
While you're full conscious, even if you were expecting it.
@ACuriousMind I can see how homework is an issue, but I'm pretty sure at least 3/4 of the stackoverflow questions and half the superuser questions are for work help... like, that's the point, no?
I.e., Are there statements by the writers/developers describing why Dex bonus is now on damage done as well as to hit rolls, breaking the precedent of versions 1e-4e?
Part B to this question, is that I really would like their opinion on why this does not make Dex bonus OP, relative to STR. For ...
@SirTechSpec The problem is not inherently with people asking for homework/work help. The problem is that many ask these questions without showing any effort whatsoever, or any understanding of the site's rules, and simply expect the solution to their often ill-posed or underspecified questions to be served to them on a silver platter
The first time you comment on such a question hopeful you can help a new user out and receive "just answer my question, <expletive>" in return, you shrug. The tenth time, you grit your teeth. The hundredth time, you stop engaging and just downvote without exposing yourself to that. It's not ideal, but that's how it works.
@nitsua60 Well, I'm a mod so that I get the abuse, not the other users :P
I leave comments on many new posts, and it's depressing how rarely I see anyone actually trying to understand the problem and improve their posts. Good examples do exist, but at least in my subjective perception they are drowned out by the many who simply don't care
At least on other sites, downvotes on meta often mean you disagree with the proposed action, not that the post is a bad thing to bring up. That's why there's no rep on meta. Except meta.SE, which is another beast entirely :P
@kviiri That's where meta voting can sometimes be hard to draw much meaning from. I know there are plenty of times I've thought "I'm really glad somebody raised this, and they put their legwork into this post, and I disagree strongly with the conclusion they draw." I can't say I've consistently upvoted or downvoted or abstained in those cases.
I.e., Are there statements by the writers/developers describing why Dex bonus is now on damage done as well as to hit rolls, breaking the precedent of versions 1e-4e?
Part B to this question, is that I really would like their opinion on why this does not make Dex bonus OP, relative to STR. For ...
