@Rubiksmoose The five CSA's that can establish their own CSO's are the DNI, DOE, DHS, DoD, and NRC. The CSO for the DoD is the DSS, which is responsible for NISPOM implementation and FSO certification.
CSA reminds me of Kaiserreich which has uses the popular "second American civil war" trope; Combined Syndicates of America in the North, American Union State in the South :)
In France, that would be Conseil Supérieur de l'Audiovisuel, aka "You can't* broadcast that on TV cause children are watching". I'll make a wild guess and assume it's not the right answer in the context
CSA ranges from left-wing democratic to Stalinist-if-he-existed-in-this-timeline, Union State has a wide variety of possible alignments including Huey Long's republic where every man is a king, or a state prioritizing free business over everything else, or an extremely conservative state that puts Gilead to shame.
And then there's the Federal US which may or may not be a military dictatorship temporarily or permanently...
Derpy - Yeah, I've seen some things on them. Anyone that works underwater typically has a hard life. I think the one I saw was on deep sea rig welders.
@JohnP 28 days living in an iron coffin under the sea, and when you finally finish your work turn... you have to go on for days doing progressive decompression while STILL in that coffin to be able to return to a normal environment
@JohnP You are giving me flashbacks to when I was working policy stuff in the Navy. shudders I'll be back after a shot of rum ... since it's national Talk Like A Pirate Day
@Derpy sounds like fun. We had a training module about 40 years ago in New London called "USS Buttercup" that was all about leaks and patching pipes that are bursting with water as your compartment filled up. Good fun. Good Training.
@JohnP However, there were times where my paladin was on their steed (move of 60with warhorse, 90 with pegasus) and cast Haste. Could double move and have steed use their extra haste action to disengage.
Scary af when i'm dropping the damage I drop and could get away with impunity. Kiting paladins.
@Sdjz I mean, if there's a player Barb and the DM has allowed it for them, then all bets are off.
Hmm, may be worthwhile to add to your answer, @Sdjz, that there may be some required metagaming by the DM to make this work. How would the Gnoll pack leader know a PC was about to die?
Both Eldritch Knights (a subclass of fighters) and Arcane Tricksters (a subclass of rogues) pull their spells from the wizard spell list, albeit in a limited way. The way in which they do this is by only being allowed to choose spells from the evocation and abjuration schools, in the case of eldr...
I think I may have come down harder on GaelL's question then I meant :(. I was trying to add another comment that we've gotten lots of questions like these before and folks answer them (myself included). Just weather the downvotes/upvotes as normal and get the answer you're asking for.
@NautArch I think you didn't do anything wrong here. From what I've seen I think that user seems currently to be very prone to reading comments and taking them as commentary as to their self worth.
I don't think there's anything we can do about it (the user might be going through some hard times personally for all we know), but if people have the slots for it, I think it might pay to be Extra Nice to this user whenever possible.
@Rubiksmoose Yeah, I was trying to get the 2nd comment in, but will bundle it faster next time.
I voted to reopen, because it's definitely something useful to have, but I did downvote as a 'do this for me' question. I've downvoted and answered those in the past.
Yeah, I think we ought to keep it in mind, but obviously still vote your conscience as far as votes as closing and rules enforcing of course.
I left a comment on the post hopefully explaining a bit. @NautArch please feel free to correct me (and I'll edit accordingly) if you feel I misrepresented what you said/feel.
@JohnP Well, I don't think that is a safe assumption at all. We've had higher rep users than that quit for various reasons. Not that quitting is a bad thing. Sometimes if something is not being healthy for you walking away is the right call.
@Rubiksmoose Heh. I do think it's a bad question, but not a closeable one :) And I've said, I've answered bad questions before. But OP is also self-answering it - which is great!
Ok, if it’s a bad question, why undelete it ? I got that it was bad so I deleted it. I saw it got undeleted so I hurried to self-answer it before someone else would leave a snarky answer commenting on my laziness or similar. And yes I did take the comment personally, as the way I have been educated is “I do bad = I am bad”.
There's some users that don't like those kinds of questions, but those questions are perfectly valid on this site, and that's not a universal opinion here.
I do think there's a few steps you could have taken to try to make the question more appealing, since there's some users that tend towards viewing those kinds of questions as "do my homework for me" types of questions (obviously we don't get that here, but the spirit tends to remain), but the best solution there is to A) eat the downvotes, and B) post your own answer to show you made a good faith effort to solve the problem yourself.
And speaking as someone who has seen a share of my posts downvoted because I'm the only one who was right and everyone else was wrong they didn't see the value of my very niche, esoteric, and rules-lawyery questions, it's probably best not to put too much emphasis on whether people like your post.
As for my reputation, it doesn’t represent much. I’m still pretty much a newbie user, I have just asked more than 200 mostly irrelevant questions over a few years, which has had the effect of giving me a “moderator” title I don’t deserve.
There's no binding policy on how votes should be issued beyond "upvote stuff that's worthwhile; downvote stuff that doesn't show research or is unhelpful", and because that stuff's so subjective, it often comes down to "do I like/dislike this question"
Obviously, it's good to post stuff that everyone finds useful (which will accrue a lot of votes) but if you're good faith trying to ask questions you'll find useful or think other people will find useful, then you're doing fine.
A caster usually gets the ability to cast a Power Word Kill spell only at level 17. The HP of players and monsters at level 17 are significantly higher than 100. The player can’t find out the exact number of HP of a monster, and he has only one attempt.
What benefits does this spell have to mak...
I’m looking at my list of questions from the oldest ones up, and it’s mostly super specific things that less than 1/10000 of 5e players might even care about. It’s pretty depressing. In retrospect, most of these questions should have just stayed in my head.
@GaelL Well, we're not here to cater only to the most broadly applicable topics possible. If we were, we'd have no system tags, we'd only talk about dnd-5e and pathfinder, and questions about other game systems would be forbidden.
@GaelL I'd like to apologize if I came off inappropriately in my original comment. Questions here are just questions. I typically downvote ones that fall into the "look this up for me" category, but I have also answered them. Just because I didn't like the question doesn't mean it doesn't have a place. I'm just one user and I definitely don't see things the same way as others do here.
@GaelL - I read through quite a few of your questions. They are not fluff, and are a valuable contribution. 20+ upvotes are not trivial, nor are they fluff. They are interesting.
I voted to reopen your question @GaelL, because it's still useful information to have. What's hard with these types of questions also is that whenever something new comes out, it may need updating. And I'm not sure (read: I don't think I have) updated the answers that I've provided before.
We've talked several times on here and there are times we disagree, and times we don't.
And again, that's okay!
The goal here is to be a place where folks can ask on-topic questions and get on-topic answers. As long as those things are happening, then that's a win.
@GaelL You just need to dissociate the downvote from a critique of you personally. That took a long time for me to adjust to in the beginning stages of my career on SE.
Also, there is an amount of noise with regards to (down)votes. A lot of highly voted posts also have a couple downvotes. Other way too, but those are rarer and less interesting.
@V2Blast !!!!!!!!!!!!My Winged Tiefling Monk is finally AL-valid!
Technically!
(only after level 5)
That's actually kind of a curious decision. I've been ruling in my campaigns that if anyone takes Aarakocra or Winged Tiefling they wouldn't be able to fly until level 5, but I didn't think the AL organizers would reach that level of permissibility.
Still the PHB+1 rule though. I get it, but it still cuts off some of my other really fun builds, like my Lizardfolk Spores Druid. =(
I'm currently running Out of the Abyss, and my group is about to encounter a mage with a description that says
If the characters become hostile, [the mage] orders
them to depart, lest they provoke the wrath of his
all-powerful master. If attacked, he uses his globe of
invulnerability s...
@GaelL Just as a point of reference, you Qs and As have reached almost 400,000 people. That is a lot! And, on a personal note I've enjoyed so many of them. After all who else is going to ask about all those interesting questions about nets?
I'm late to the chat on the topic, but I really like your questions @GaelL
Really precise scenarios and edge cases are the usually hardest ones to figure out, since the rules don't cover them well, and so they get the most out of Q&A from a broad user base
They also require and reward intimate knowledge and thought about the rules and rules systems more broadly. In essence, that those sorts of questions might come up and sometimes do probably promotes and improves the ability of users here to answer more questions
The base movement speed of a gnoll flesh gnawer is 30 feet, and if it activates rampage by bringing a creature to 0 hit points, it can move an additional 15 feet for a total of 45 feet during "normal" combat.
But is there a way that rampage could be triggered for the flesh gnawer after it gains ...
The term "soul", despite being widely used, isn't well defined in 5e. Do all living creatures have souls, or having a soul is a characteristic of specific types of creatures?
The only hint I've found so far is from the Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes:
A nabassu can eat the soul of a creature it ...
A caster usually gets the ability to cast a Power Word Kill spell only at level 17. The HP of players and monsters at level 17 are significantly higher than 100. The player can’t find out the exact number of HP of a monster, and he has only one attempt.
What benefits does this spell have to mak...
I'm currently running Out of the Abyss, and my group is about to encounter a mage with a description that says
If the characters become hostile, [the mage] orders
them to depart, lest they provoke the wrath of his
all-powerful master. If attacked, he uses his globe of
invulnerability s...
The term "soul", despite being widely used, isn't well defined in 5e. Do all living creatures have souls, or having a soul is a characteristic of specific types of creatures?
The only hint I've found so far is from the Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes:
A nabassu can eat the soul of a creature it ...
