Practically speaking, Helsinki is a city of about one million residents, because it's also the urban center for the people of the neighboring "cities" of Espoo, Vantaa and Kauniainen that are just collections of suburbs not unlike the ones in the outskirts of Helsinki. Except Kauniainen because it's just a single suburb.
The administrative boundary in between is rather arbitrary, in a sense.
@kviiri Same with New York - the Greater NY Metropolitan Area encompasses parts of New York State, New Jersey, and Connecticut
The city and state lines are less important than the commuter rail and automobile bridges that allow the "bridge and tunnel" crowd to commute into New York for work
USA is big enough for there to be a lot of countryside, yup. I learned that by failing several times in Geoguessr :)
...but I still haven't really thought about that also being the case for the East Coast. In my (admittedly warped) perception it's always been a very densely populated area.
@SPavel Incidentally, on the same trip I went to London, I went to this little village of Port Isaac... which is where Doc Martin is filmed.
@goodguy5 THe problem with allowing Shield as Armor, is that it means for instances where you don't want a shield to be armor (like a spellcaster) then they can't.
ahh. I get it. I'm not sure if it makes it OP or not, though. For the unarmored defense options, that feat can be a pretty big deal for bounded accuracy reasons.
@SevenSidedDie OK, that makes sense, what I did in the review queue in order to help a new member maybe get the answer closer to SE some others saw as too far off target. Thanks. (and also thanks for explaining the format thing). The answer was coming from the "get the most out of the char" view where the question was coming from a DM, not player, PoV.
@NautArch As far as I can tell, the general sentiment is that a Shield does count as armor (for the purposes of failing cast spells while not proficient with them), but I haven't been able to find a supported yes/no on the question.
@GreySage I think it's more accurate to say that "armor and shields can both count as something you're not proficient in, for the sake of casting spells"
@Rubiksmoose fiiiiiiiiine. Seems like a terrible answer, but so be it.
@goodguy5 Not trying to be a jerk btw, but I've been noticing it a LOT recently and it is not what the comments are for
@goodguy5 I mean I wouldn't put just that in an answer really. But comments such as those (which are working towards a solution to the problem) belong in answers.
@goodguy5 well my comments to you were more focused on not answering in the comments. You don't have to write it as an answer of course. And you might find that it does indeed make for a poor answer that is up to you.
but within the context of rules of any game, whether D&D or QUAGS, the SE format is for answerable questions. "the rules say this but i think this" isn't a good answer.
I studied French in comprehensive school, and I found it a bit funny that in French, "y" is considered to be the "Greek i". Only quite recently I learned that this dates back to the Roman conquest of Greece, when "y" was added to the Latin alphabet for use with Greek loanwords.
@kviiri My favourite bit in Stargate Atlantis is when the aliens are confused what a "zed pee em" is and McKay has to explain that it's the same thing as a zee pee em but his people pronounce Z differently than the Americans the aliens have been dealing with so far
@GreySage Very good point. Those are always incredibly frustrating. "I disagree with the rules, please validate my opinion" is how they often come accross.
@GreySage but I see what you're saying about requiring proficiency to cast. But I'm not sure that makes them the same. Just that you ahve to be proficient in shields to cast witha shield and with armor to cast in armor.
@NautArch The problem is that the Spellcasting section calls out "wearing armor you're not proficient in" (paraphrasing) as stopping spellcasting. Honestly it makes sense that Shields should count as armor there, but then they don't count as armor other sections that specifically call out armor.
@GreySage the Crawford tweet in my answer might satisfy you, but it is not expansive. He just says no. They definitely could have been more explicit here.
@goodguy5 Compare Fighting Style: Defense and Cast a Spell: casting in armor. Both say armor, one really means just armor, the other probably means armor or shields.
@Rubiksmoose That is a recurring problem I have with Crawford tweets, he answers the exact context, but doesn't elaborate to give guidance in other situations.
When Elemental Adept refers to a 1 on a die, it's referring to the number 1, not the digit 1 that appears in other numbers. #DnD https://twitter.com/Houdini0110/status/950935699297103872
By volume
So, accorcing to this, pig meat has a density of 0.93 g/ml, a 10x10 cube a Large creature can occupy holds 9.29 m³ of snake, this means a 8.63-ton snake.
By weight
If you go by the "weight" defenition for size the Large snake will be between 500 lbs. and 2 tons, in metric 225 to 200...
So, he calculated the max mass of snake that would fit in a 10' cube. Then he got the lower and upper bounds (500lbs and 2000lbs) from the book's description.
Then got the length's of snake that correlate to those weights.
Therefore the "answer" to "how big a snake can I shapeshift into?" is: "Practically, between 20 and 40 feet. However, theoretically a snake of 80+ feet could fit into a 10' cube"
@goodguy5 I think my problem with that answer is that it's a real-world physics answer that is generally irrelevant to D&D. What matters mechanically in the vast majority of cases is going to be size category. We don't know how much a Frost Giant weights, but we know what size category it is (even though it is significantly taller than the category defines as the space it can control.)
In a mountainous environment such as the one frost giants inhabit, plants and animals are small and close to the ground, winds are powerful, ground is uneven, and stability is all-important. I would envision frost giants walking almost like gorillas, using their legs and one arm to anchor onto the terrain and using one arm to wield a tool or weapon.
@SPavel quite possibly :) I'm trying to think of cases where actual height/weight matter and those seem to be pretty edge cases. Like carrying capacity, or just a DM call on whether or not you could do carry out the body of one or something.
Storm giants live in isolated refuges so far above the surface of the world or below the sea that they are beyond the reach of most other creatures . Some make their abodes in cloud-top castles so high that flying dragons appear as specks below. Others live atop mountain peaks that pierce the clouds. Some occupy palaces covered with algae and coral at the bottom of the ocean, or grim fortresses in undersea rifts.
@SPavel Few people realize that when Newton said that, he wasn't being metaphorical. He literally stood on the shoulders of a storm giant as it clubbed his critics at Cambridge into submission.
@NautArch It's a simplification of "Here are where the important bits are". That's why reach is usually larger than the creature's space, like a huge dragon with a 15 ft body and 45 ft wingspan.
If you're familiar with Dark Souls, you should know that a creature's hit box =/= the creature's actual position. They are, at best, loosely correlated.
@MikeQ or any Bethesda game (cough fallout cough). Of course there you are lucky if the creature is where the creature is supposed to be much less their hitboxes XD
@Yuuki I wouldn't want Newton as my DM. Too mercurial.
I was referring to opponents who approach from the front, seem to be a safe distance away, then suddenly they're backstabbing you with a refrigerator-sized greatclub
I'll admit that the comment about hitboxes is more applicable to enemy weapons and not enemy bodies
Honestly I wasn't very gud at it either, but I became okay enough to get through it a few times. At first I absolutely hated the game, but once I learned to accept the constant character death as a form of entertainment, I realized that I got better at it.
@MikeQ I'm fairly happy piddling about in Witcher 3. Still only level 33 so a lot of gameplay left. And I'm waiting for the DLC on Fallout4 to drop to 75% on a sale :) to play that.
@KorvinStarmast That looks like a good catch--thanks for asking/bringing it up. I saw that flag come in and gave it too-quick a read. (cc:@SevenSidedDie)
@nitsua60 No worries, the answer did need some work to fit the question, and I think I can see how some of the reviewers felt it was "too far from the target" on that score.
Heh, I guess this question isn't Players vs DM after all, based on the querent's update.
@MikeQ based on his latest edit in the question, it appears like "that one annoying thing my wife/girlfriend/boyfriend/significant other does that I wish I could change." Can this marriage be saved? :)
@Rubiksmoose My wife sometimes reads FB posts from her dental hygienist FB group out loud to me until I can't take it anymore. Which is about two sentences. And so we find earplugs to be a great invention.
@NautArch I actually was soooo hyped for Fallout 4 and was even one of the ones who was "defending" it from all the critique. But in the end it just wore away at me how shallow the game was. I never finished.
Before I abondonded it (but as I started to tire of it) though I started playing W3. And man, that game just blew me away. Like you said, stories, world, combat all of them well done.
When I bought Diablo II I got a small kit that allowed you to try to play Diablo II as D&D. (3.0, I think). Maybe it was the expansion set. Been a few years.
Ugh. I have tried to start and complete Mass Effect twice, but I just don't like FPS. My son is a bit frustrated with me, because he feels that ME is one of the better Video games ever.
He likes the story and the permutations of your choices.
@KorvinStarmast I haven't tried Mass Effect, either. But I've been a Fallout fan for a while. I do still really enjoy the world and the character building in it.
and the combat in it is still really fun. And I thought it was pretty gore-filled until witcher started cleaving arms and bodies.
I tried to explain to him that the isometric mode, third person I like versus the FPS mode, gives me headaches. Same problem in WoW, but if I limit WoW to 1 hour sessions, max, we can play a bit together.
I can Play League of Legends for a coupole of hours on end ... though I am not very good at it.
@NautArch oh yeah and BTW I'm not knocking you liking it. It just wasn't what I was looking for/wanted it to be (even though I was a Fallout fan since New Vegas)
@Rubiksmoose I can get that :) I also generally don't play these games on very difficult settings. I dont play them to get frustrated at combat, I play them to escape into a world where I"m a hero :)
@KorvinStarmast I mean, I am sure there are some people who didn't hate it? but for me it was a lot of callbacks to stuff I had done before without changing any real outcomes in the game
Listen, if I wanted my life choices to boil down to which color light I preferred, I would've opened up the CORSAIR products page not play Mass Effect 3.
a friend of mine explained that the thing he was most disapointed about was that he spent the game gathering a multi-alien-race-fleet of ships to fight the big bads and then it didn't mean anything at the end of the game
Honestly, an "out of nowhere" villain is fine for a new series entry, but it's a different case when some players might go "oh, it's that guy" just because they paid some more money.
Based on the last decision you make in ME1, you get an extra conversation where "we have dismissed those claims" and a radio broadcast about fleet balance
my memory of exactly which one some missions were could easily have bled together
but either way my point was I liked the games
buuuuut it was also disappointing that there was not the kind of continuity in choice that was hyped up/promised or at least that I was led to believe there was
I liked how you could ram a Geth juggernaut with the tank, jump out, shoot it while it was struggling to stand up, then jump back in the tank and run it over again
> Today I made an executive cleric decision and had everyone in the party cut their finger off and take turns wearing our ring of regeneration so if any of them died and the body couldn't be retrieved I could use my rod of resurrection on the finger. Now our keep has several pickled finger jars labeled with our names.
Question: does resurrection allow you to keep all your memories since the finger was severed or do you only possess the memories up until that finger was severed?
@Yuuki memories and soul are so often left completely unaccounted for in these kinds of spells, but I would say that memories stay with your soul. And your soul would return to the severed finger with all of its memories intact.
@Rubiksmoose It would be really interesting to play a campaign where your party woke up in a church after resurrection and it turned out you guys were some band of legendary heroes that died in some battle against the BBEG.
Alternately, there's a really long period of time between "legendary hero" and resurrection so a lot of the stuff your characters supposedly did are now basically myths and legends.
Alternatively, they could have been a band of BBEGs and have no idea of their past. Do they follow in their old footsteps or do they start anew down the path of good?
Ooo, I think I found a variant question that I could post on Stack Overflow!
> What happens if two clerics try to resurrect the same person at the same time but with two different fingers in very different locations? Race condition?
@Yuuki We played that once. We sort of just "woke up". Some G-Man dude met us and told us we had stuff to do, and in return he'd tell us about our previous life.
The campaign got cut short after only a few sessions though
By volume
So, accorcing to this, pig meat has a density of 0.93 g/ml, a 10x10 cube a Large creature can occupy holds 9.29 m³ of snake, this means a 8.63-ton snake.
By weight
If you go by the "weight" defenition for size the Large snake will be between 500 lbs. and 2 tons, in metric 225 to 200...
