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Ben

12:08 AM

Had my first pathfinder game this weekend

Shalvenay

@Ben how'd it go?

also hey there @daze413

Ben

Still getting used to the finer details... But i

daze413

@Shalvenay o/

Ben

Still getting used to the finer details... But it was a lot Of fun

daze413

howre things over there?

Shalvenay

12:12 AM

@daze413 fine here, as for you?

daze413

ok over here. Just DMed an AL-ish game for the first time the other day

Shalvenay

@daze413 ah, how'd that go?

daze413

the module was kinda wonky, it had traps that could deal 3d10 damage against 1st level players, and the only encounter was against a non-official creature that is too strong

Shalvenay

@daze413 oof, sounds like a badly designed module indeed

how many folks went splat?

daze413

none. Several DMs went to the organizers before the game and we all agreed to change some things XD

Ben

12:32 AM

I need an app or something to help keep track of my spells & uses

Am a druid

daze413

@Ben I draw circles with a pen on my character sheet then just shade them with a pencil to signify that something was used

Actually came here to look for either @nitsua60 or @KorvinStarmast, I am embarrassed to say that I still don't get what you're trying to tell me in this answer rpg.stackexchange.com/a/124927/23064

Ben

Uses aren't so hard to track. But as a druid I can freely choose from any spell selection in the druid spell list, once per day.

So I'm constantly writing them down, the rubbing them out, lol

daze413

12:54 AM

what if you write them all down and place like a check mark or something (maybe a circle) next to them to signify that they are prepared

Ben

That would be a simple solution :)

Ben

1:05 AM

Might set up a Google Doc with a bit of smarts in it... Create a short list or something as a reference

KorvinStarmast

@daze413 When it comes to a plain English reading of the word berry, it is an object. That removes confusion. That's what I was getting at. It is an object that is conjured by that spell, and for a finite period of time, it has a magical property. After that, it remains a berry but without magical properties.

Look at the end of the spell description. The berry doesn't disappear, it remains a berry. A berry is an object.

As a spell, it is a bit of an odd duck.

Shalvenay

hey there @KorvinStarmast

KorvinStarmast

@aHl hello Shal

@Shalvenay Last night was fun, thanks. I am still puzzled at why Discord started for me so well, and all of a sudden died. When I went back to regular plug in headphones, problem solved.

daze413

@KorvinStarmast ahh I think I get what you mean now

Shalvenay

@KorvinStarmast strange, yeah

KorvinStarmast

1:19 AM

It's not a big deal, but until I pondered on "dn't retain their potency" bit it had not occurred to me that the berry remains after the magic wears off

@Shalvenay I hope that next time all discord problems will be zero. I will discuss with my son my config issues Ever since the latest windows patch/update my audio has been odd and weird. Both.

trogdor

@KorvinStarmast it's weird, I have had very few problems with Discord until (my) Saturday

Shalvenay

@KorvinStarmast yeah, it'd be nice if these sorts of things Just Worked for once

daze413

@KorvinStarmast are you using a dell laptop, by any chance?

KorvinStarmast

@trogdor was yours buggy to?

trogdor

Then (my) Sunday with you guys I had the same problem again, except I couldn't fix it

KorvinStarmast

1:21 AM

@daze413 I am using a sager

trogdor

@KorvinStarmast yeah everyone was super quiet

I had to crank up my main volume to just barely hear you all comfortably

And I cross checked other things

KorvinStarmast

The last time my son and I messed with it, we had to mess with the bose headphones drivers ... but this time that wasn't it ... I think. scratches head

trogdor

My volume was great everywhere but Discord

I have no idea what was causing it

KorvinStarmast

@trogdor my youtube volume has gone bad in my speakers, soft, but not my headphones. Odd stuff since the patch.

trogdor

YouTube works just peachy for me

As do all my games

KorvinStarmast

1:24 AM

@trogdor Ah, but now we have a bard who can sing for us. :)

trogdor

Lol

KorvinStarmast

OK, I need to finish the journal entry for last night. Visit with you all later, be well.

Joel Harmon

@trogdor Some operating systems allow you to change the volume of particular applications. Some applications independently allow you to change their volume. Did you check both?

Shalvenay

it's rather funny that I'm having an easier time of it on Linux :P

trogdor

@JoelHarmon I checked on Discord itself,... Not on my computer settings

Joel Harmon

1:26 AM

@trogdor shrug

trogdor

I'll go in there when I get home and see if I somehow did that Saturday,.... Fixed it temporarily somehow,.... And had the issue again Sunday

That's one reason it's so weird, I fixed it easily the day before and it then came back the next day with a vengeance

Joel Harmon

I occasionally run into problems with my wired headset at work if the cable is twisted. I assume there's an internal connection that's not as solid as it should be. So, jiggle all the hardware?

trogdor

The hardware is fine, or should be, I have no issues outside of the Discord app

I can poke around at it though, I have plenty of time for that after work

Joel Harmon

Well, good luck.

trogdor

1:46 AM

Mmmhmmm

nitsua60

3:47 AM

@JoelHarmon That sounds like an electronics-suitable successor to the "percussive maintenance" method my dad always favored for mechanical systems =)

@daze413 I think I may end up with a bit of a different take on it than @KorvinStarmast. I agree with him that a berry's an "object" in the plain-English sense. And I'll concede that 5e doesn't try to strictly define terms like "object," leaving us to our common sense. So I'm with KS that I think your line "Goodberry isn't an Object (in the game's terms)" isn't a great one. Because nothing is an Object in 5e, though there are objects aplenty.

But my more-pointed point in my comment was that I think the potion of healing shows us that the designers knew how to limit the provision of something like a goodberry to another: look at how they word the potion's "or administer" clause. Since goodberry doesn't have that I'd personally lean away from charging a "whole" action to administer a goodberry. Though I'll admit that both arguments from omission and from "well, they should know what they're doing" are on the weak end.

SmokeDetector

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] URL in title, bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, blacklisted website in body, blacklisted website in title: mumybear.com/keto-complete-forskolin/ by user45385 on rpg.SE (@doppelgreener)

trogdor

@nitsua60 yeah not sure I want to get violent with equipment I payed for XD

@SmokeDetector wow on roll today

Miniman

7:09 AM

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Q: How can 3 level 11 PCs kill an Ancient Red Dragon?

Our party consists of a Vengeance Paladin with a Holy Avenger, a Pact of the Tome Great Old One Warlock, and a Pirate. We're all level 11 and we've got a few minutes before a Ancient Red Dragon comes for us. He is going to talk first, but if that fails I'd like to have a plan to try and kill it. ...

Answer: Use your hilariously overpowered homebrew class to its full potential and your victory is basically guaranteed.

Helwar

7:29 AM

@Miniman There are a lot of wrong things with this question and probably deserves being closed but... Are all those snarky and/or sarcastic comments needed? T_T Then we complain about new user experience...

BESW

@Helwar Flag for mod attention.

Miniman

7:42 AM

@Helwar Not needed on the question, but I needed to say it - that's why it's here not there.

HellSaint

@AVeryLargeBear let's be fair

that question is not "Similar"

it's completely a duplicate

A Very Large Bear

You are not wrong, I was just trying to strike a friendly tone

And since I cannot VTC, I figured there was no point in saying duplicate, since y'all got that covered, and it doesn't necessarily help the asker.

Wibbs

@BESW Indeed

HellSaint

@Helwar For clarification, my comment was not supposed to be snarky/sarcastic. I really mean it.

I actually wrote a 3 paragraph answer explaining the answer You don't.

I didn't post it because it was going to be closed anyway though

@Miniman yeah, I didn't read it with close attention, but a class getting 3 features in a level and getting a feature with every ASI seems really, really wrong.

Helwar

@Miniman it wasn't directed to you :) You didn't comment on the question but here :)

HellSaint

8:00 AM

I mean, if the devs did anything right in balancing their monsters and encounters and writing the DMG, then a 11th level party of 3 PCs should not be able to defeat a CR 24 monster (heck, this would give them an entire level) - although I have never tried it, and I do understand that we have some hilarious thought experiments on 1st level parties killing Tarrasques

Miniman

@HellSaint Don't worry. That's nothing compared to what some of those features actually do.

Helwar

@Miniman It's dandwiki. You don't need to read the content to know balance is not a word in their vocabulary :P

Miniman

@HellSaint Incidentally, I can't be bothered writing my own answer to the tiefling damage type question, but neither of the existing answers has covered a really important issue. The question mentions slashing, which is wildly different in its implications to any of the other damage types listed. Up to you whether you want to add something about it.

HellSaint

@Miniman I'm reading it. "and you deal bonus damage equal to your proficiency bonus per hit"

@Miniman I thought about adding "Extra note on Physical damages"

But I'm not sure what else I should add there

Miniman

@HellSaint I think it's worthwhile. Almost nothing is immune to magical physical damage, and resistance to any physical damage type is a huge deal.

HellSaint

8:04 AM

oh yeah, he also wants to change his resistance.

not only the damage done.

yeah, adding it

Carcer

I wonder how well the question "What even IS programming, anyway? I don't understand computers" would go down on stack overflow

A Very Large Bear

We could find out :P

BESW

Luckily such transliterations between topics are not how the Stack judges quality.

Carcer

no, but I am curious how what is essentially the same question would be handled by different stacks

as long as "shows zero research effort" is still considered one of our criteria for quality though that question doesn't rate very well

BESW

Yes, but that's quality rather than topicality.

And to be fair, "what is an rpg" gets some very unhelpful results in Google.

HellSaint

8:10 AM

I think it depends a lot on the X of "What even IS X"

Many people come to RPG.se because they don't understand what the heck RPGs are and want help. SO, on the other hand, is usually frequented by people that are already programming.

One important distinction is that while RPG might be a profession and programming might be a hobby, these are edge cases. The "usual" is RPG = hobby, Programming = Job.

Carcer

true enough

HellSaint

@Miniman added a note on that. The Dueling Ace feature from the Pirate Homebrew is just amazing. You get 1d6 for every attack, and if the enemy does anything that is not targetting you or themselves, you get +Prof, and advantage. Might as well simply instakill it.

At least its HD is 1d8. I almost thought it would be 1d20. Kappa.

Drag and Drop

8:32 AM

Hi, @all! Quick question: How the cardboard things that gm has in front of them to block player vision on his note is called in english ?

Helwar

@DragandDrop DM Screen

BESW

Gamemaster's screen

A gamemaster's (GM) screen, also called dungeon master's (DM) screen, is a gaming accessory, usually made out of cardboard, used by the gamemaster to hide all the relevant data related to a tabletop role-playing game session, hiding them from the players in order to not spoil the plot of the story. == General description == Very often the front side of the screen just displays an illustration, usually related to the game's subject. The reverse side is most of the times filled with tables, rules and other useful gaming data. Some role-playing games have an adapted name for their gamemaster's screen...

Helwar

8:52 AM

@BESW that's better :)

Drag and Drop

thx I had an hard time figuring it out. Basic things are sometimes the hardest one.

BESW

9:59 AM

For tonight's dinner I'm making Bob's Red Mill Vegi Soup Mix in a rice cooker with onion, black pepper, bay leaf, soy sauce, and calamansi juice. And I'm steaming diced potatoes and carrots in the steamer on top with some more pepper.

Carcer

skimming that read as "Bob's Red Pill" and I got a bit concerned

BESW

[amused]

Bob's Vegi Soup is pretty great. I like using it for pastry fillings and burger patties too.

It's a little bland on its own but that's the point.

Joel Harmon

11:16 AM

@nitsua60 That's pretty much exactly right. I learned the same phrase from my dad. Apparently, when applied gently, that was actually an effective technique for older tube TVs.

KorvinStarmast

11:59 AM

@JoelHarmon my experience with tube TVs as well, though "tap" rather than "smite" would be the action taken. :)

> now the most common fix is "turn it off, turn it back on, see if that works."

doppelgreener

the IT crowd method :)

trogdor

12:18 PM

lol

it's really a useful method

I fix like 95% of my tech issues with it

sometimes the other 5% doesn't get fixed though

sometimes

nitsua60

12:40 PM

@HellSaint are you in the DDAL DM's group on facebook?

@trogdor Those are when it's already unplugged, right?

trogdor

no

those are when I have to do something else to fix it, and I either figure it out or don't

nitsua60

(95% of tech-fixes in physics labs where' I've worked involve tracing cables to see what'd been unplugged and then not re-plugged.)

SPavel

@nitsua60 Have you tried turning it off and on again?

Oh, I see that you have

Carry on

nitsua60

@SPavel Physics? Yes. It didn't go very well. And they revoked my physicist's license.

SPavel

12:57 PM

@nitsua60 Now you are an unlicensed physicist? That's basically a mad scientist's background story.

nitsua60

Left this comment on @hideandseek's problem-player post:

There's a lot here: good answers may come your way, but I'd encourage you to also stop through Role-playing Games Chat when you've got five minutes--a lot of people there have experience dealing with troublesome, or even toxic, players in constructive ways. — nitsua60 ♦ 44 secs ago

(In case I'm not around if/when they stop in.

trogdor

@nitsua60 lol,.... that happens every once in a while at work, specifically for the Ethernet cables

nitsua60

@trogdor Yeah. Patch-panels are too easy to completely FUBAR if you're not paying really close attention. IME.

trogdor

it's just odd to me

like,... everyone loses internet when the cable that gets unplugged goes down

no one in there likes it when that happens

so,..... why is it that it doesn't get fixed when someone apparently unplugs it?

Obviously that's a rhetorical question but

It's not a bad one either

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