"character arc? uh. character arc. good question. yes, uh. well, here, let me go to the whiteboard. basically, you can calculate a character arc if you know approximately how much they weigh, and how fast they're moving when they're fired from the cannon."
@KorvinStarmast I bought them from a local shop, so I'm not sure where to get them... a quick search has turned up this ThinkGeek link however they apparently no longer carry them.
"basically, if something happens that a prior event can't explain at all, that's called a plot hole. you fill those with a combination of wizards and spackle."
"what?"
"wizards. you put a wizard in it to explain it, then you cover it with spackle and sand it flat."
@Ben Also, some games I play expect you to have a lot of dice of particular colors, so you can roll a lot of d6s at once and use them for different things.
Like DRYH has you roll up to three colors of dice and whichever color comes out highest means something different happens.
"this one was his favourite. He never believed in... Uhh hang on (reads the inheritance form) ahem... 'dice voodoo', but this one was always his preferred dice"
Though if you want some dice to actually keep in the family... norsefoundry.com
Fortunately everything on there is just too expensive, so I just can't do anything with it haha
So now there is 3 things I want when I am rich: 1. White Power Ranger Custom Fitted Suit 2. A home theatre 3. A set of those dice. Probably one of the gemstone sets
@Ben Re: number two: one of my "my own house" goals is a room with a ceiling-mounted projector on a swivel, so it can point down at a table or over at a blank wall.
Barbarian. It'll be a con asi (+2). Currently he wields 2 battleaxes (Dual Wielder feat), but recently came into the acquisition of a greatsword (see previous discussions) the downside is that at some point he will need to hand it back.
@Ben Ultimately, Martial Adept lets you use one maneuver per rest, which I don't think is truly worthwhile. It's something you choose because you think it'd be fun, not because it'll truly make your character more powerful.
Sentinel is very party and DM dependent, and only you can judge whether it will actually do anything in play.
I'd lean towards the Con, myself - especially since, at such high levels, Con saving throw spells are a real threat. Although that brings me back to Resilient(Wis), which would help patch your (presumably) greatest weakness.
In somewhat unrelated news, Trogdor the Board Game has a pretty great "so you've lost" process for a co-op game.
I don't think you could really adapt it to anything but a oneshot RPG because of the relative timescale. (you're all cultists of Trogdor trying to influence him to burninate the countryside. When you lose Trogdor breaks free of your control and rampages for a while before leaving, via pulls from the NPC move scatter deck; if his rampage burninates the countryside you have still technically won.)
In the final battle of CoS, my Monk was surrounded by enemies and was at low HP. He was saved by a wizard fireballing him, since Monks can ignore damage on successful dex saves after some level
The closest I go is müsli, but I almost never have that either --- I overwhelmingly prefer rye bread. Fruits or fruit juices with vitamin C are a preferred drink because it helps with iron absorbtion
and water afterwards to dilute the acids of the juice
@Miniman Oat milk is my fave, I often have it for supper
@Miniman here in Finland, the demographic who is averse to calling it (or letting others call it) milk are generally "reactionaries" against the green wave, who are ironically also grumpy about other forms of prescriptive naming the EU or other legislation has enforced
@kviiri It's not like that for me (at least I think). I just see milk as a specific animal by-product. If we can call any creamy substance milk, why not refer to fruit as eggs?
I just dislike it when people pretend their distaste for "hippie food" is purely motivated by linguistical purism they never exercise outside that particular issue. Especially if they oppose such purism elsewhere
So I'm working on a game that's got (to my knowledge) a novel mechanic; at least as far as tabletop roleplaying goes.
So the central game mechanic is essentially lifted from Yahtzee: characters want X of a kind or a straight of X dice in a row, but they also need to do this Y times in a particul...
This question got me wondering... how integral do people see the randomization thing to a system/hobby as a whole? Do new system designers feel somehow embarrassed to borrow the die mechanic from another system or something?
@Miniman Definitely, and I can understand that when the randomization mechanic has a thought-out reasoning in shaping the game
But that question isn't exactly the first time I've seen someone present a randomization mechanic whose main design motivator seems to be novelty
And I'm really a fan of trying out different randomization mechanics, and trying to find uses for under-exploited ideas --- "mini-decks" being my personal favorite :)
Anyway, what I wonder is, do people feel they have to come up with the coolest wildest most excitingly unique die mechanic when they start designing a game?
like how you start thinking you should put all the powerful cards in your deck, and eventually grow to learn you should like, keep some cards out of the deck for the sake of keeping it slim and working towards a goal?
I think I never learned that in MTG but after moving on to other stuff, like Slay the Spire, and Space Food Truck, I've gotten way better at the principle
...Netflix has just recommended that I would like to watch Crime TV Shows such as One Punch Man, The Flash, and Jessica Jones. It is technically correct.
I can't comment on the specific question, but if an answer is found to solve the problem the asker is facing, surely the acceptance of an answer is the appropriate reaction? Accepting soon doesn't seem to be inherently unacceptable as far as the stack code of conduct is concerned.
@vicky_molokh I'm there on this. If a newish user fast-accepts my answer which is the only one extant I'll often leave a little "thanks for the accept, please know that if another answer comes along which helps you more you have the ability to unaccept mine and accept another."
But I'm not trying to insinuate that they shouldn't accept something helpful.
am I correct in my understanding that a medium character can wield a large longsword (2d8) with disadvantage in one hand (2d10 if twohanded), according to the guidelines in the DMG (pg 278) for oversized weapons?
@vicky_molokh Nah I saw that music documentary by the Foo Fighters. If you get massive hands, you don't even need nunchucks. You just slap the heck out of the attacking ninjas.
DM decision, but probably 2d8+1d4+STR damage at disadvantage
Lager weapon means more damage
The Ogre's Greatclub attack does 2d8 + 4 damage according to its statblock.
The rules in the DMG say that:
Big monsters typically wield oversized weapons that deal extra dice of
damage on a hit.
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@goodguy5 I'm not sure disadv is enough of a penalty honestly. Anybody with a way to get any sort of adv would be able to cancel that out and then potentially use this to allow much more damage or utility than intended.
When I click on the review queue button, it shows
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I previously had access and I am wondering if this is just saying that there are no queues that need to be reviewed or if it's a bug?
TBH, I don't see why a character couldn't wield a two handed weapon in one hand. Just because the weapon has two hands doesn't mean the character needs to hold both of them at the same time. Weapons don't get lonely. Unless they're sentient I guess...
Still I'm not sure I would allow it at my table. It isn't allowed by RAW and insta-kills are not really something fun to introduce to the table outside of the designed options already there (especially since they can be used against the PCs as well).
It might still actually be feasible though if you change them into a chunk of sodium or the like.
I corrected it to solid oxygen even before you finished replying. You didn't notice. (O8 red oxygen is solid but even more explosive than liquid oxygen)
@illustro although at 14th level I would hope the wizard would be something more powerful than a bookie! I know wizards are fond of books, but that is taking it to another level ;)
The presence of magic in this world makes me think that the highest paying gambling pits are somehow protected by anti-magic fields. Not that mechanically I think it would actually do anything here.
Would Law or Chaos be more likely to support honest games of pure chance? On one hand, Chaos is all about random events, but on the other, Law is about things happening truthfully.
I started thinking about this because I was considering ways to stop Divination wizards from abusing casinos, even with Anti-Magic fields. I figured contracting some outsider would be effective, but then I wasn't sure which kind would be interested.
I figure an outsider with a homebrew ability could detect whether someone was manipulating the odds, either because they are being deceitful or because the "true" randomness is being violated somehow. Just my mind amusing itself.
Been doing some number crunching. This is probably obvious, but anyone planning to gamble should ensure that their average ability check modifier on all 3 checks be more than +5.
Curiously, the average matters a lot more than anything else: an especially good modifier paired with an especially bad modifier will (mostly) cancel out, though having 3 +6 checks is better than a +4,+6,+8.
@GreySage Hire your own diviners, and have them foresee how much each patron is going to win. Anyone who walks away with more than that is not allowed back in.
Maybe the floor security people walk around scanning for magic, and alert the diviner in the back room to do a full divination on that guy in back in the red cloak.
The rules used in that post about Divination Wizards is [mostly] cribbed from the actual rules.
> The character makes three checks: Wisdom (Insight), Charisma (Deception), and Charisma (Intimidation). If the character has proficiency with an appropriate gaming set, that tool proficiency can replace the relevant skill in any of the checks. The DC for each of the checks is 5 + 2d10; generate a separate DC for each one. Consult the Gambling Results table to see how the character did.
Gambling Results Result Value 0 successes Lose all the money you bet, and accrue a debt equal to that amount.
@Xirema I'm unsure what the "2 successes" effect means. If you bet 100 you now have 150 or 250? In other words, are you keeping what you bet plus winning that amount*1.5 or simply getting back what you bet plus half of that?
DM decision, but probably 2d8+1d4+STR damage at disadvantage
Lager weapon means more damage
The Ogre's Greatclub attack does 2d8 + 4 damage according to its statblock.
The rules in the DMG say that:
Big monsters typically wield oversized weapons that deal extra dice of
damage on a hit.
...
When I click on the review queue button, it shows
There are no review queues available to you
I previously had access and I am wondering if this is just saying that there are no queues that need to be reviewed or if it's a bug?
