I have a bigger problem with it than that the similarities are superficial, some have used it as an excuse to hate 4e as a system without even trying it
XD
I don't mind if 4e isn't for you, but don't tell me my favorite D&D is bad based off of a comparison like that lol
I was like that at first, but with pathfinder and 5e. I saw it like: "Oh my god the crybabies can't handle a little change" Took me a while to try both and although pathfinder was too 3.5 for me, i fell in love with 5e so...
And actually it had balance issues late game but nothing people who tried it for one game night would see,... Unless they ran into something like Irontooth
Irontooth was stupid and should never have been designed that way XD
@trogdor Huh. It makes sense from a game design perspective, but I can see how 4e's critics felt that the rest-cooldown mechanics resulted in very static environments
Anyway, in 4e you typically healed the most by using your healing surges, and while leader classes could typically heal, the most accessible healing was taking a rest, which let you spend surges
Also, healers replenished healing powers with rests too
So if you don't give the party rests between two fughts they are down encounter powers and are probably more beat up in between fights than they should be
If you do that like, 3 times they might just die from 3 normal encounters
No joke
Heck that could happen from just two back to back encounters with no rest
The flip side though, was a whole resource management thing with powers and surges
the one campaign I was a player in, the dm kept making minions run when everything was clearly against them. My character wanted to finish them off because what you say happened, they alerted others! But everyone else was Lawfull stupid and didn't let me throw the man axe in the back
Especially since milestones (one milestone every three encounters) replenished some resources and you could even get features that got better the more encounters you had before a long rest.
@mprogrammer The locket is a charm of protection. It tried to eat the explosion to protect its owner. It, uh, didn't work so well. But now there's an explosion inside it, and it will only let the explosion out if it won't hurt anybody. You could just leave it propped up on a stone block and it'll fall open when everyone's cleared the blast radius, or acquire enough fire resistance that [reasonable]d6 can't hurt you.
It gives advantage on the next saving throw it reasonably could, but getting it to give its contents up willingly has officially attained Rigamarole Status and happens over a long rest, or a short rest if you have a really good idea.
The main map of the area in Episode 2 contains effectively 2 floors. A series of hallways and rooms on the top floor and a large cavern as the bottom floor.
The main hallways are about 15 ft wide.
Can he fit?
The Paladin's Oath of the Ancients Level 20 Elder Champion feature states:
Using your action, you undergo a transformation. For 1 minute, you gain the following benefits:
At the start of each of your turns, you regain 10 hit points.
Whenever you cast a paladin spell that has a casti...
@kviiri Well said and it is not even your native language. kviiri, rox!
@Helwar yeah, this
@BESW For your consideration You made a very interesting post on Meta SE a few weeks back ... and now they hired "someone new" ... interested in your thoughts on that thread ...
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In a universe adjacent to our own lies a world known as Runia. This world, once peaceful and idyllic, is now threatened by a monstrous being from its prehistory. A group of adventurers known as Whiskey Company have risen up to do what they can to fight this entity known only as Nagat. They have trekked far across the mortal realms in search of the shards of Barrinoth, the Titan of Justice, in hopes of returning him to his full power.
@trogdor Yeah, if you're interested in rules for DnD-5e, DnD Beyond has the Basic Rules + SRD as well as everything else (though you do have to buy modules and whatnot to use/view them in full. In particular, here is the section on "Short Rest"
@Medix2 I'm not particularly interested in 5e rules, i just wondered if the short rest time in it was the same as in 4e
But its not because of course they can't be seen to overtly reference 4e in any way in 5e in order to avoid the horrible terrible taint of 4e (sarcastic voice)
One thing that bothers me. They obviously took ideas from 4e because they thought those ideas were good (thats not inherently bad or what I'm complaining about) but they definitely tried to make it all look like it's own 5e thing in an attempt to distance 5e from 4e because of backlash against 4e
What's more some bits of it just don't feel like fits in 5e but like they still wanted to add them in anyway (at least from my biased perspective)
At least from my experience, 5e did away with the rigorously balanced and similar classes of 4e for a much more all-over-the-place type of game where half the time the resolution to a question is "ask your GM". It did away with a lot of nitty-gritty rules and exact mechanics (like 4e's skills being incredibly defined). Not saying that was good or bad, just some major change
The rule of Conjure Barrage is stated as:
You throw a nonmagical weapon or fire a piece of nonmagical ammunition
into the air to create a cone of identical weapons that shoot forward
and then disappear. Each creature in a 60-foot cone must succeed on a
Dexterity saving throw.
But I am...
The Player's Observation
One of the choices for Take A Powerful Blow is (Basic Moves sheets/book p71):
• you lash out verbally: provoke a teammate to foolhardy action or take advantage of your Influence to inflict a condition
The book text then explains that if you choose this "lashing out...
@NeutralTax I think that you should feel perfectly entitled to tag questions that do relate to specific published adventures appropriately and those tags should not be removed
I don't think you're going to get that put on the same pedestal as the system tagging
For example, a 12th level character produces an effect that has "x'/level" area of effect. Can the character control the size of the area of effect, or not? It would be nice to have a quote of where it is specified, if possible.
I'm thinking about having my players use apps to keep track of their characters since they're kind of new. How do the available character sheet apps compare in terms of:
Requiring additional source books be purchased in-app
Having poor performance or user interface
Having bad mobile apps in ge...
This is a very, very broad question. “Compare all the products that exist in this range” is a big ask, and it's not a question with a best or correct answer available.
> You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face. Chatty, open-ended questions diminish the usefulness of our site and push other questions off the front page. [...] If your motivation for asking the question is “I would like to participate in a discussion about ______”, then you should not be asking here. However, if your motivation is “I would like others to explain ______ to me”, then you are probably OK. (Discussions are of course welcome in our real time web chat.)
"Compare all the possible character sheet apps" is not a practical and answerable question based on an actual problem you face. It is however an invitation to a very big discussion.
I suspect you're asking us to do an app comparison because you want to make sure you have a character sheet that serves some specific use case. This is because you're having a problem managing something, and your current options aren't cutting it, and you're pretty sure picking up an app is your solution. Tell us what that problem is and ask us how to resolve it.
Otherwise, if it's just "I kinda want to use an app, talk to me about those" then it's not really stackable.
fight club is basically just a digital character sheet
I'm thinking of recomend they use apps character sheets as leveling up takes a lot of time since many of them are new. We also don't have the most amount of time to play when we do. None of them own the books , so we spend a lot of time passing around the books
@goodguy5 I don't. I haven't built a D&D 5e sheet. I tend to make liberal use of borderless tables with no cell spacing/padding to help me lay out sheets, and would absolutely have to for D&D.
I wouldn't try to emulate any kind of compact gridded layout we see for printed sheets. Those have space constraints a doc does not.
So things that would often be split into columns and grid sections on those, I'd just list out in normal text on a doc.
@NeutralTax do you level up mid-session, or specifically at the end of sessions, or between sessions?
If that is a thing that tends to take a long time and drag on, you may want to do what one of my groups does: just manage advancement in the time between games. Of course it normally gets left until the day before the next game, but it still leaves room for discussion during the week and giving a clean finish to the gaming session.
@NeutralTax That's definitely something to avoid then except for groups consisting of players that are very experienced and comfortable. If you might hit a level-up milestone during the session, I suggest leaving the actual level up to the end.
@Carcer i'm curious, what manufacturer is that? samsung? another?
i work on phone apps pretty often, so it's good to learn about specific weird behaviours ahead of time, before we're scratching our heads and wondering what's going on
@NeutralTax So then "I want to use some digital management for $reasons. But a lot of the subraces my players use are behind DNDBeyond paywalls that we don't want to pay to breach. How can I achieve $reasons without paying what DNDBeyond is charging?" (Note that you started with "I was going to ask my players to use dnd beyond." Which implies a reason, and that reason would be good to share.)
@NeutralTax I have that problem when I've got any media going and my phone's in my pocket, then a text comes in. It "wakes" the screen and the jostling of my leg against the screen can cause all sorts of mischief.
You see this phone? Is more like brick. Once I was tried to be mugged by man with knife. I pulled out my phone and beat him into unconsciousness with it. Is good phone.
The theme I have in mind specifically that causes my question is that I want to ask for item ideas I can drop into a DnD 5e campaign that are easter-egg items for star wars, but nothing as blatant as, say, a lightsaber.
I know on other Stack Exchange sites, "Idea Generation" type questions are n...
@trogdor I wish we could have kept going, since at 6th level another neat feature for your Paladin would have unlocked, but such is RL. (It took me a while to grok your initial frustration with how the 5e PHB organized class features in one area and spells in the other, but as I was introducing a friend to 5e last year I had an "aha" moment).
@Sdjz That's actually exactly what I need. Because time zones are hard, can I ask you what time it is (for you) right now? I think it's 4pm, but idiot daylight savings grumble grumble....
I'm just making sure that I'm not going to miss a call I'm setting up for tomorrow by an hour because of time zones. (I may miss it because I'm forgetful, or something interferes, but I don't want it to be time zones that screws me up.)
I was driving home and thinking of NPCs to add to the campaign. I came with an Aaracokra that looks like a vulture, circle of the spores druid... And then noticed that if they use wild shape... they can no longer fly...
I know it might not seem so fun if I just write it... but I was chuckling all alone in my car
Basically it was becoming clear that IT costs were unreasonably high in Australia, for no other reason than because IT costs were already high in Australia and everyone was benefitting from leaving them that high.
It was still in popular awareness that someone had figured out that if you wanted to buy Adobe Photoshop, rather than buy it in Australia, it was cheaper to buy a return plane ticket to the USA, buy it there, and come home with it.
@KorvinStarmast I don't think so. It was really unsatisfying to watch. Our politicians hardly grilled them at all, just asked questions and accepted the answers. With the right experts asking the questions, the enterprises being questioned could've been called out at multiple points and skewered on their own claims.
Specific to Adobe though, they've pushed the envelope too far and people are starting to jump ship to other extremely good modern competition like Affinity editor suite.
People are increasingly not wanting to put up with Adobe's BS, and doing so is becoming increasingly optional.
There's things like: - adobe's subscription costs becoming unreasonable - the cloud-based platform beginning to incur too many problems, like that day the graphics industry ground to a halt because Adobe's servers weren't working - adobe talking about taking actual legal action against people who were using older, non-subscription, versions of Adobe software that those people had legally purchased years ago before Creative Cloud had become the only option
> Adobe this week began sending some users of its Lightroom Classic, Photoshop, Premiere, Animate, and Media Director programs a letter warning them that they were no longer legally authorized to use the software they may have thought they owned.
“We have recently discontinued certain older versions of Creative Cloud applications and and a result, under the terms of our agreement, you are no longer licensed to use them,” Adobe said in the email. “Please be aware that should you continue to use the discontinued version(s), you may be at risk of potential claims of infringement by third part…
Today on Obscure Alignments, "I'm Good Evil. I cast Reincarnation on people who've recently died glorious and fulfilling deaths and turn them into baby gnomes."
@Helwar BESW's told me about it from time to time. He's talked about how, say, if you own two of the editors, and you're working in one editor but need to do something the other editor does, the other editor's tools are simply available in your current editor. You don't have to launch application or switch context.
This is because they've actually created them all in-house from the ground up as integrated editors, compared to Adobe's suite which was just assembled from various externally purchased software suites all reskinned to look the same.
@Yuuki That may count as necromancy. Babies have a lot in common with undead - low intelligence, uncoordinated movement, incoherent speech, constant stench
@Yuuki I must disagree, as death isn't by itself evil. It is a part of the natural order (at least in D&D world, I am not going to get into RL philosophical issues in that regard ...)
@Helwar I was making a not-very-good-joke .. and I have a long standing (and perhaps irrational) dislike of gnomes in D&D that reaches back to AD&D 1e.
I have a friend that confuses "good" for "obscure".
He'll find these like swedish rap bands and think they're amazing (sometimes they are), or an old ROM for an NES game that only made 100 copies. stuff like that.
And then he'll poo poo popular things that are good because he's resisting their popularity
not that I'm saying you're the same as this person. Just that it's all under the umbrella of "hipster mentality"
Oh I'm not like that. IT's more that in uni I got half of my teachers pestering us with GNU and open software, the other half pestering us on how Apple is better for design, and everyone hating on normies using windows... So I stubbornly stuck with the normies using windows
There are enough mainstream television shows with at least one "D&D episode", in which the characters are skeptical of nerd hobbies, and then in the next scene they all love it
because it was convoluted and I know all of the players personally and that most of them would hate it.
Like, you had to have physical colored tokens corresponding to schools of magic (kinda) and you could find tokens in your adventure and store them in a little real world satchel.
While all cool and a great thing for YOUR player/character to do, imposing it as "this is how magic works" is a step too far.
There's an spanish show about cops, there has been an arc involving people that play D&D and some pranks they have to do as "penance" for losing at the game... Also an "expert" shows up and teaches the cops to play. Brings up a boardgame and starts speedballing questions like if hte cop was playing on a mud
@Yuuki The existence of a convention only makes it "conventional" in the most technically correct sense. And I'm really entertained by that play on words.
@Helwar no worries, I now have to remember who it is from Brazil that I was thinking of , might be a forumite from GiTP and now I have (for weird brain reasons) fused you both into a single being ... I'll get the unfusing process now... here, you'll need to wear eye and ear protection ...
From what I've heard of the video game, everything happens asynchronously, so you'll have to keep pausing-unpausing if you want some semblance of ordered turn-based combat. Or install mods.
The main map of the area in Episode 2 contains effectively 2 floors. A series of hallways and rooms on the top floor and a large cavern as the bottom floor.
The main hallways are about 15 ft wide.
Can he fit?
The Paladin's Oath of the Ancients Level 20 Elder Champion feature states:
Using your action, you undergo a transformation. For 1 minute, you gain the following benefits:
At the start of each of your turns, you regain 10 hit points.
Whenever you cast a paladin spell that has a casti...
The rule of Conjure Barrage is stated as:
You throw a nonmagical weapon or fire a piece of nonmagical ammunition
into the air to create a cone of identical weapons that shoot forward
and then disappear. Each creature in a 60-foot cone must succeed on a
Dexterity saving throw.
But I am...
The Player's Observation
One of the choices for Take A Powerful Blow is (Basic Moves sheets/book p71):
• you lash out verbally: provoke a teammate to foolhardy action or take advantage of your Influence to inflict a condition
The book text then explains that if you choose this "lashing out...
For example, a 12th level character produces an effect that has "x'/level" area of effect. Can the character control the size of the area of effect, or not? It would be nice to have a quote of where it is specified, if possible.
