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Q: How can I balance this purposefully weak player character?

2:11 AM

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I'm DMing a 6 person campaign in 5E and one of my players made a Warlock that is dreadfully sick, but is bolstered by the Undying Warlock patron. How can I balance giving him mostly temporary hitpoints as a more flavorful replacement for normal hitpoints? For instance he might only have 4 HP but ...

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Q: Does Dimension Door up, then Feather Fall work as I expect?

My character wants to impress a person by teleporting 500' up with Dimension Door together with them, then casting feather fall to spend the next almost a minute (500' / 60' = landing on 9th round) admiring the scenery and conversing privately. Does this work as expected? My own thoughts: Di...

dnd-5e teleportation falling

Adeptus

@Medix2 They are, if you have access to XGtE

Q: When would someone in a Sculpt Spell's 'pocket of safety' take damage?

2:35 AM

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According to an Evocation Wizard's Sculpt Spell class feature, they can create pockets of safety that allow the chosen creatures to: ...automatically succeed on their saving throws against the spell, and they take no damage if they would normally take half damage on a successful save. I...

dnd-5e spells wizard

2:48 AM

@Adeptus Which I don't have

Q: If a spell caster loses concentration on greater invisibility, and an opponent has readied a reaction, what happens first?

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As an example, both the spellcaster and the opponent ("the archer") have 1 hp remaining, so whoever completes there action first will knock the opponent unconscious. The spellcaster casts Create Bonfire, On the archer's space. However, The archer has readied an arrow targeting the spellcaster fo...

dnd-5e spellcasting readied-action concentration triggered-actions

3:10 AM

Well now I'm just utterly confused... I can see the Xanathar's Eldritch Invocations, but not in incognito, but I can't see any spells from Xanathar's

Anybody know how to check what you have access to on DnD Beyond?

Q: Does the "higher level spell slot" clause in Globe of Invulnerability do anything?

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The spell "Globe of Invulnerability" says, in part: Any spell of 5th level or lower cast from outside the barrier can't affect creatures or objects within it, even if the spell is cast using a higher level spell slot (PHB p.245) Interpretation 1: For example, Fireball is a level 3 spell, so...

dnd-5e spells spellcasting

Novak

3:40 AM

So here's a question: Is a new question a duplicate, when the previous question and accepted answer relied on no-longer-canon Jeremy Crawford tweets?

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Q: Is zero damage considered to be actual damage?

In D&D, are effects from damage applied even if the damage is zero?

dnd-5e

Q: Does a monk's Step of the Wind affect High Jump or just Long Jump?

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At 2nd level, monks can spend a ki point to use Step of the Wind: Step of the Wind You can spend 1 ki point to take the Disengage or Dash action as a bonus action on your turn, and your jump distance is doubled for the turn. What is meant by "jump distance", exactly? The rules on Jump...

dnd-5e class-feature monk

4:26 AM

@Novak If the answers rely on such tweets, it is a duplicate and the old question ought to be bountied so new questions can answer it without relying on such tweets. If the question itself relied on such tweets... I'm less sure honestly, though I think it should still be marked a duplicate and bountied and answers would say something like "your premise is flawed..."

Q: Would Swimming be a Dex or Str Saving Throw

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Im making a small challenge for my party on the way to a Dwarven camp. While travelling they encounter a 20ft wide river that they must cross. I'm just gonna improvise the whole thing to give them some creativity in how to solve this problem. My question is what happens if they fall in? The rive...

dnd-5e saving-throw encounter-design

Q: Do you have to have seen a tree in person to use Transport Via Plants

6:56 AM

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Transport Via Plants says You must have seen or touched the destination plant at least once before. If you used scrying on someone and see a plant that could be used for the spell can you teleport through that plant?

dnd-5e spells

Adeptus

7:41 AM

@Medix2 I don't know how to see a list of everything you have access to, but if you can open Xanathar's from the Sources menu, then you have access to it.

kviiri

8:04 AM

I hope you don't hold it against me that I answered the mathy question without real RPG context. I felt the probability trick I pull out there to make re-rolls a bit more tractable has value for this community so I wanted people to see it :)

8:42 AM

Well I guess I get to wonder why I can open Xanathar's from the sources menu but every single chapter/section link goes to the "Add to Cart" page...

Hmm.. appears to be true for all the books

8:53 AM

For myself and others this link to the hat of wizardry works whether you own Xanathar's or not and this link to the hat of wizardry works only if you own Xanathar's. Is this not a problem?

idk... maybe it's a result of whatever this Gnomengarde thing is

Sorry, I'm probably just overreacting, I'll get some rest and probably figure it out in the morning

@Medix2 The hat is part of Dragon of Icefire Peak which is currently available for free (see here and here)

RedRiderX

2:02 PM

@Someone_Evil I'm running Dragon of Icespire Peak right now but I have the sudden urge to instead run whatever Dragon of Icefire Peak would be

I guess the pack just includes Eldritch Invocations for some reason, odd

RedRiderX

Maybe an active volcano, but it's also a White Dragon's Lair so it's spews forth like some strange kind of frozen lava?

Maybe the air itself freezes to the point where it runs down the mountain as molten air.

Hmm, molten implies heat.

@Medix2 Is it possible that someone else is content sharing the Sourcebook with you?

@Medix2 Where are you seeing the invocations?

Shalvenay

@RedRiderX perhaps its something whose phase diagram has gone all whonko, where it actually melts when things get colder and solidifies when things get warmer?

2:21 PM

@RedRiderX Other celestial bodies have precipatory systems with things other than water. IIRC Titan has methane rain, lakes, etc.

Shalvenay

worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/a/68103/3097 << kind of like the "dip" in He3's phase diagram you see in this post here

Also, liquid oxygen makes things burn very, very much

RedRiderX

Right I think the gases in earth air could totally be liquefied through cooling, I'm just trying to think of a better adjective then "molten"

Maybe "liquid" is good enough

@Shalvenay Ooh that's super interesting

2:44 PM

@Someone_Evil On the Warlock page

@RedRiderX idk, but my marketplace section and all that stuff says I don't own it. And I can't open anything else from Xanathar's like subclasses, feats, items not from Icespire, etc...

And then on the Warlock class page I can see things like "Cloak of Flies" but I can't see them if I'm in incognito or signed out which, yeah idk

I don't see any XGtE Invocations here when not logged in

@Someone_Evil Yeah the same occurs for me, so then.. I somehow have access to only the Invocations despite my account saying I have access to nothing, am not in any campaigns, and have not bought anything?

You are sure you haven't bought or redeemed something and forgotten about it? (check account/markedplace)

I think I'll just try making a new account and seeing if they're there, should've thought if that earlier tbh

Yeah I checked, the entire thing says I've done nothing

If you need access to DDB stuff, there might still be room in the chatizen campaigns for that purpose

Q: How do I mathematically find this distribution?

3:14 PM

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I roll 10d6. I can then reroll any ones or twos. Then, I can reroll any ones. What is the distribution of the number of sixes I will have?

statistics

Feeds

6:29 PM

doppelgreener has added an event to this room's schedule.

doppelgreener

Just marking RPG.SE's tenth anniversary :)

Q: How should I work with a player that doesn't take it seriously at all?

7:12 PM

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I am a GM and I really need advice regarding one of my players. I play with my group a campaign with FATE rules in a postapocalyptic dark and gritty homebrew world which is mainly horror based, written by a good friend and myself about 2 years ago, which I also GM'd for another group. I give my ...

gm-techniques problem-players

BESW

9:45 PM

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10:03 PM

Could I get a reality/sanity check? For me This answer comes across to me as incredibly blunt and abrupt. Is this just a me thing?

BESW

The last paragraph with "good play" is a bit judgy.

I thought that and the title were kinda... Iffy? idk, I'm perfectly happy with this being a "Medix2 struggles with intent over the internet" situation since I'm not the best at that

doppelgreener

It's not just you. I'm not sure what to do to revise it.

This is ... a common trend in DaleM's answers.

I've revised it.

And left a comment. Please flag for moderator attention if you see answers with a tone that seems judgemental/dismissive and otherwise likely to make the querent feel foolish for having asked their question.