TRPG General Chat

12:00 AM

Nah, I was just noticing that the hand crossbow is the only non-thrown ranged weapon that can benefit from Hexblade's CHA damage. Oh and the sling.

Blowgun too, but it does 1 damage so kinda ignoring it.

Net does no damage but can you do 0+CHA untyped damage?

I doubt it.

V2Blast

No

Crawford has (unofficially) clarified that things that don't do damage in the first place can't do "extra" damage

at least that's the intent

I don't think that ruling's in the Sage Advice Compendium

Indeed, it's not in the SAC. Crawford confirms it here (SageAdvice.eu link for context because the original tweet was seemingly deleted): sageadvice.eu/2015/04/15/net-attack

twitter.com/JeremyECrawford/status/586414191495393282

Ben

12:41 AM

Morning all, how are we today

trogdor

Pretty ok

It's the first work day of the week though so i can't quite say fantastic :P

Ben

I had a huge weekend. Had games night on Friday straight after work, a Gatsby themed party on Saturday night, and then a full day out at archery on Sunday.

I am exhausted, and I was out of town for work all last week, so there's so much to do today

trogdor

My weekend was mostly staying at home trying not to go crazy

XD

Ben

Of the two, well, I wouldn't swap them cos it was the most fun weekend I've had in a donkey's age, but I have a few things I have been working on that I just haven't had the time to do haha

A couple of stories, a few game systems

V2Blast

1:18 AM

quiet weekend here

KorvinStarmast

2:51 AM

I went to an oyster festival saturday night. Did yardwork today. Cooked Mrs Starmast dinner. Helped out at the homeless shelter saturday morning. And most importantly, worked with V2 on his character! 8^D

Ben

Sounds like a productive weekend!

nitsua60

West Wing Lord Marburry whiskey cures

►

Ben

3:18 AM

@nitsua60 whiskey helps the world go awound.

Ben

3:44 AM

Or at least give you the illusion

Hot RPG Questions

7:29 AM

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Q: What happens if an Arcane Archer fighter's Banishing Arrow hits a mounted combatant?

I’ve an Arcane Archer character who chose the Banishing Arrow option for the Arcane Shot feature. In our campaign, we often come across hobgoblins riding worgs. I’m having trouble interpreting what will happen if I banish the hobgoblin. If I wanted to really put a thorn in the side of the en...

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kviiri

7:53 AM

Does anyone else read non-RPG stacks and get the "tsk, missing system tag" gut reaction to posts?

Just had that looking at a physics stack question about Moon... although I guess the Earth-Moon system is a system too. (wasn't tagged as such though)

Akixkisu

8:27 AM

@V2Blast To what reason did you change the fan abbreviation to the official abbreviation? rpg.stackexchange.com/q/166055/44723

V2Blast

9:14 AM

@Akixkisu That was just personal preference, mostly because that inconsistency between the two questions annoyed me a little :P

Feel free to change it back if you want

Hot RPG Questions

9:41 AM

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Q: Would it be better to target a rider or mount with a banishing arrow?

I’ve an Arcane Archer character who chose the Banishing Arrow option for the Arcane Shot feature. In our campaign we often come across hobgoblins riding worgs. If I wanted to really put a thorn in the side of the enemy, when the mount and rider are charging into combat, would it be better to ta...

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Akixkisu

@V2Blast it is fine, regarding the message in Dice rollers, that was cognitive dissonance anyway (it was asked on Feb 10; my brain translated 2010 - which is why I flagged it after deletion time transpired, wrong channel and false call to action)

kviiri

9:58 AM

Hm, I'm going in the subplot loop thinking about my (maybe) upcoming DnD campaign

Suddenly I realize I've made a side-quest plotline that'd be a good seed for a campaign of its own, but the main campaign content is still quite bare outside the side-quest in question.

So if I de-coupled the side-quest, I'd have to start over x)

Akixkisu

10:31 AM

@kviiri I tend to run sandboxy games, unless asked otherwise, and this happens frequently. Generally where te players want to be is where I put my focus.

kviiri

My game is not going to be very sandboxy, at least in the usual sense

I'm hacking a sort of RPG-strategy game hybrid out of 4e

Akixkisu

10:50 AM

The one that you are running for your wife?

kviiri

Yes, hopefully. Although there's still a huuuuge amount of troubles to resolve before we can actually start x)

Eg. where do we find players

Akixkisu

12:01 PM

When looking at a bounty id, is there some way to see what the bounty's type and text was?

Sdjz

Where are you getting the bounty id from?

Someone_Evil

@Akixkisu Go to the question's timeline, it should at least give the bounty type

The id listed on the "bounty awarded" entry is just the question id

Akixkisu

@Someone_Evil where in the timeline do you see the type?

Ben

12:16 PM

So, I have hit a conundrum in my current game.

Akixkisu

@Sdjz from an external query that sorts by bounty gain.

The id is created by the query, so the point of using that is moot.

Ben

I could ask about it on main site, but it does involved a rather dark choice, so I'm not sure if I could ask it

@Akixkisu moot*?

Akixkisu

@Someone_Evil ah, it makes sense that I didn't see it for an old bounty where a different bounty system was in place, problem solved :)

@Ben or a mood.

Ben

Lol

Akixkisu

Same mood as preparing seitan in this "new" way that I read in an article.

It combines the worst of steaming and boiling.

Thus it is catapulting itself at the top of worst ways to prepare seitan, toppling using an oven at 200°C, with ease.

Hot RPG Questions

12:32 PM

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Q: Are there stats for a generic fish creature?

I've been looking everywhere for stats for generic fish stats. Fish like trout, bass, carps, and ones of the like. I don't know if there are any already out there and I can't seem to find any in the Monster Manual. I only have the 3 core rulebooks so I'm not sure if there are other stats out the...

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KorvinStarmast

12:47 PM

@Ben what do you need help with, Ben?

Ben

So the situation is that my character was recently discovered to be a clone. We all decided to go rescue him.

Autocorrect haha

KorvinStarmast

hah, that had me puzzled to be sure. :)

@Ben Wait, what game system is this clone in?

Ben

Savage worlds

KorvinStarmast

Ok, with you so far

Ben

So, my character is an ex-military dishonourable discharge. Sent to secret military project to remove that discharge, which ended up with super powers.

KorvinStarmast

12:51 PM

The original PC is somewhere else, and his clone + the rest of the party is going to go look for him.

Ben

Yeah

KorvinStarmast

I get a vibe of "evil version of Captain America" but I may be missing a beat there

What's the dark part that's bugging you?

Ben

So we went to this facility. It was overrun with failed clone experiments, leading to all sorts of part spider, part man creatures.

KorvinStarmast

Cool, mad scientist / tech meets Dr Moreau.

Ben

There was a situation which led to a 50/50 vote. My character has a history of "losing control", and has had situations where he ended up killing people, simply because I legitimately forgot to use the "non lethal" option (which is a thing)

In this situation, the vote was going nowhere, time was of the essence, so I took the dark path

One players response was to immediately kick me from the group, because I made the active decision to kill someone we didn't know, that was on the brink of death, in order to save my original

To clarify - not from the IRL group

From our vigilante hero group

Carcer

1:00 PM

seems like standard vigilante hero drama

AncientSwordRage

I'm not seeing a dark part yet

Ben

The dark part was the decision

AncientSwordRage

@Ben I think you could still ask that on the main site, but whats the question?

Ben

How to deal with it. It was an in-game decision, but I think it got a very real life response

AncientSwordRage

@Ben You'll need to articulate the RL problems it caused. Do people not what to play with each other any more? Is there something else that needs to be addressed?

KorvinStarmast

1:10 PM

@Ben was this due to them feeling that you were meta gaming? Was that the objection?

ALso, what does this mean? One players response was to immediately kick me from the group how does one player eject you from the group?

Ben

So I made the decision, and the reaction to kick my character from the group, I believe, was more real than in game. I have no real clue why.

AncientSwordRage

or is the question now "how do we continue playing as an IRL group, if in game we aren't in the same group"?

@Ben have you asked the person who 'kicked' your character?

KorvinStarmast

@Ben We have a wizard in our group who has messed up any number of situations with his "patience my a$$, I'm going to kill something" as the other PCs are doing the RP or dealing with various NPCs.

Ben

Their reaction was to constantly challenge me about the decision. "Your character is military; I think you're misunderstanding what that means" and so on

Haven't spoken to her yet about it

KorvinStarmast

@Ben OK, so you have a group of fellow players who are telling you that you are role playing your character wrongly. Is that the problem?

Ben

1:17 PM

I think so? Also maybe that they are having an extreme reaction to an in game situation

KorvinStarmast

Immersion can be a good thing -, over identifying with in story characters is IME a problem in itself. (Or can be) It's a two edged sword.

Ben

@KorvinStarmast my guy?

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