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12:16 AM

Well I'm exhausted

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A: How should this homebrew class be rebalanced?

I've got a lot to go over so I'm going to break it down by level. I do a lot of homebrewing (including full classes), so I will walk you through some of the balance checks I do on my own work (usually I build a class based purely on flavor and what sounds cool and then bring it into line with the...

This took me about two hours to plan out and another hour to write

RIP wrists

trogdor

Yeah I have that problem very often when I post here

I take a while to think of it, take a long time to write it, and I think often times I then make it longer than it has to be XD

@doppelspooker oh just saw this now, what stack is that from?

Shalvenay

1:16 AM

hey there @nitsua60?

nitsua60

1:40 AM

@Shalvenay hey-ooo

Shalvenay

@nitsua60 see the back room, btw

nitsua60

[shuffle shuffle shuffle]

The Oracle

2:15 AM

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Q: Why was this homebrew question held as Too Broad?

This recent question was held as Too Broad, but it just as narrow in scope as many of the other good homebrew questions are. It provided one homebrew creation and asked for an evaluation. We've left many questions just like this open: Is this homebrew terran race balanced? Is this homebrew whip...

Ruse

3:07 AM

@DavidCoffron Even though I really do think the question is too broad, I still wish I could answer it xD

Joshua

3:58 AM

This is just bugging me; I can't seem to find any way other than becoming a lich to attempt star travel.

Ben

@Joshua Buy a spacehip?

Joshua

@Ben: At medieval tech level?

Shalvenay

@Joshua what, Spelljammer wasn't invented over where you live? :P

Ben

@Joshua What system are you using. Lol

Joshua

I agree lol. Been trying to find a way to pull it off in D&D 5e.

Ben

4:01 AM

Well, there is a section in 5e that can accommodate "future" tech in game.

Joshua

I got one assuming a chaotic lich is possible. (It is at lvl17 by true polymorph)

Shalvenay

@Joshua as long as you don't wind up taking a wrong turn at the outer planet and finding an entrance to Nova :P

Ben

I believe it talks about lazer weapons... and I once had a game with a giant autonomous robot bird

And Warp travel is a whole other ball game

Joshua

@Ben: Warp travel is simply not available; I'm plotting it out the hard way.

the amount of delta v in a wand of fly is ridiculous

Shalvenay

@Joshua just how much delta-v are you getting out of that thing? XD

Joshua

4:06 AM

100km/s

Shalvenay

@Joshua that's pretty decent :)

at least for getting off your rock

@Joshua going to need something to get some lambda (i.e. a significant fraction of c) if you're going to go interstellar w/o a warp drive tho

Joshua

my original plan was to take a backpack of them and hope my aim was good

if I find a target planet with a moon without an atmosphere I can get on its surface easily: feather fall doesn't care if you would hit the surface with a high lambda

Shalvenay

@Joshua heheheh.

Joshua

I haven't found any stupid tricks to get an actually high lambda in a reasonable amount of time though; 100 wands is believeable, 10,000 is not

general plan: shove one of a pair of teleportation rings into a bag of holding and take it with me

I only need to make the interstellar journey once

Shalvenay

4:23 AM

@Joshua probably a good idea to set up a stargate, yeah

Ben

7:19 AM

Off to Darwin... Where the heat is hot and humidity is hotter!

Ghiojo

10:13 AM

Tmw someone tries to sell some oil thing in a D&D forum.

Should that be considered a compliment because they considered that the forum is big enough for that? xD

Also @doppelspooker Morning Doot

kviiri

@Ghiojo My guess is that they latch to sites discussing "magic", "spells" or somesuch.

Ghiojo

Lol

kviiri

We also get quite a lot of phony witch doctors who say they can cure your HIV or make someone fall in love with you.

Ghiojo

Kek

doppelspooker

10:31 AM

@Ghiojo doot!

Good morning! o/

nitsua60

12:51 PM

\o

Carcer

doot

Mike Q

|-o-| (-o-) |-o-|

nitsua60

Is that a squadron of TIE fighters coming my way?

Carcer

@MikeQ >< >< ><

Mike Q

@nitsua60 Stay on target!

nitsua60

12:53 PM

Two fishes making out?

Carcer

@nitsua60 two fighters and a TIE interceptor, excuse you

nitsua60

Oh, no--X-wings.

(Still making out, though.)

Mike Q

|-o-| = = X--

pew pew

nitsua60

@Carcer Yeah, I've never (cared to) know the designations of all the various ships.

One big-triangular-ship's as good as another, in my book.

Mike Q

there's the X-wing that's X-shaped, the A-wing that's A-shaped, and the B-wing that isn't B-shaped

nitsua60

12:55 PM

Gotcha =)

Carcer

@nitsua60 I can remember four kinds of TIE craft, because I played the old TIE Fighter game yonks ago. Fighters, bombers, interceptors and defenders

don't forget the Y-wing!

Mike Q

which is kinda Y-shaped

Carcer

yeah, that one makes sense.

nitsua60

I also never got terribly interested in military hardware IRL, so I don't have those brain-shelves to store the info on.

Carcer

and isn't the Z-Wing an X-Wing except that the things don't actually open into an X?

Mike Q

12:57 PM

shrug... I used to know all this from spending hours in Star Wars Galactic Battlegrounds

nitsua60

> In class descriptions, "you" sometimes refers to players, sometimes to characters. This is patently clear from reading almost any paragraph in any class description. As an example, look at the second paragraph of Tides of Chaos:

you roll on the Wild Magic Surge table immediately after you cast a sorcerer spell...

The first "you" clearly refers to the player, as the table is absolutely a metagame construct. The second "you" clearly refers to the character, as the player doesn't actually know how to cast any spells.

@KorvinStarmast on second thought, I'm starting to come around to the idea of the surge table being an in-game object =)

[Sorcerer does something OP]
[Sorcerer pulls out journal where they've kept a log of "ways to blow off excess energy", picks one at random.]

Mike Q

Ah, the eternal TTRPG question of "How much are the characters aware of the game mechanics"

The Oracle

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Q: Why did this question allow one answer after hold but not mine?

I was in the middle of writing an answer to this question when it was held for being a duplicate. (This meta is not about the duplicate status, just that it was and still is held as of this meta.) Once the question was held, the SE interface refused to let me post the answer I was already compos...

support specific-question

nitsua60

Also, congrats on the reordering in the top 10, @KorvinStarmast! (I'd noticed a month or so ago that this was likely coming, but it looks like it happened recently?)

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