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12:34 AM

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KorvinStarmast

@Ben In vino veritas, so I decline on this occasion.

V2Blast

@nitsua60 I'm in a ton of servers, but I just don't read most of them, and I don't actively participate in the ones where there are a hundred new messages in a channel within half an hour.

Ben

@KorvinStarmast mine comes from sleep.

But, I wouldn't say "truth" per se. Just crazy ideas

V2Blast

@NautArch Yes. :P

nitsua60

1:03 AM

\o/ \o/ \o/ \o/ \o/

(That's me and 4 faculty kids celebrating our successful quarter peal tonight! At a distance, of course.)

@KorvinStarmast what do you think about "what's your view on whether and how moderators represent sites to the broader SE community" as a better wording?

Hot RPG Questions

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Q: Planning to use 1 arrow to hit a second target if it misses the first target

I've read a lot about "shooting the other enemy" and how enemies don't occupy the entire 5ft square; however what I can't find is the following scenario: I intentionally position my character to have a straight line with two enemies. I'm aiming for the first one but in case it misses I want my...

Adeptus

1:21 AM

WotC's freebies have jumped from the DDEX1 series to the DDEX5 series

Ben

1:57 AM

WE also had our first game of No Thankyou Evil! on the weekend with the boys. They youngest (6) got bored near the end, and decided not to play anymore, but the eldest (8) really enjoyed it.

We think it's great for both creativity and imagination in them both, and potentially help with focus and problem solving too :D

Thanks again for the suggestion @BESW!

BESW

Are you going to change anything up for 6 next time?

You're welcome, I'm glad it's good for you!

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Q: How long does it take a wizard to change just one of their prepared spells?

Suppose my 10th-level wizard wakes up from a good night's rest and, using all 20 points of his Intelligence, he realizes that he needs to change his spell list a little. It's time to retire Magic Missile, and prepare Fireball instead. The other 14 spells (with a combined spell level total of, say...

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Ben

@BESW I think since it was the first game, I was a bit rusty, and managing it wasn't overly smooth. I think once we get into the groove of it things will change, and we told him about the fun and development he missed out on, so fingers crossed he'll be able to stay a bit more focused next time.

BESW

Maybe a shorter play time would help?

Ben

Could also use character cut outs and do a map for the visual element

@BESW Oh it was very short already. the only reason it took more than half an hour was cos it was everyone's first time.

BESW

2:01 AM

Ah, okay.

A very broad and your-mileage-may-vary rule of thumb is that a pre-adolescent kid's attention span is three to five minutes per year of age, so half an hour may be pushing it a bit for a six-year-old. But kids don't generalize well and you know your kid's attention span.

Familiarity definitely bumps up attention capacity though.

"Rusted Swords & Nice Boys: Gender in Sleepaway" (article by Brie Beau Sheldon for Thoughty)

(unrelated to above conversation)

Ben

Yeah. We tried the "everyone has a turn; then move on to the next bit", which did work well, but I think if anything the only reason he lost interest (which was just right to the end) was because not much really happened?

nitsua60

@Ben When my youngest was 5-6 and the kids wanted to do (age-appropriate) RPGing, she and I would sometimes play her character "together." That way she could have (from her perspective) a lot of daddy attention, she could wander or come back, and we could play as long as the two bigger siblings liked.

Ben

The "Queen Bee" sent a letter to help find her friend. She explained what he's like (what he looks like, how he behaves). They arrived at "dragon snot falls", they asked about the odd device (small puzzle, and everyone had a go at puzzle solving and dodging out of the way of the water). Spoke to the fortune telling frog, investigated the cave (6 year old left) they saved their friend then headed back home.

Ben

3:02 AM

The Ultimate ''Lilo & Stitch'' Recap Cartoon

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BESW

Ummm. Content warnings: cartoon blood, gore, death, sudden loud music.

Ben

Hmm. Fair.

Feel free to take it down

linksassin

3:33 AM

@Ben How's it going? Did that corruption system of yours ever see the ... well not exactly light of day but you know what I mean?

Ben

It is slowly getting there.

Had a lot of changes in life lately so I haven't really had much time to work on it

Xirema

Oh dear. I have.... News.

D&D news.

I'd like to call it good news, but I can't imagine any world where it's actually good news, and I'd like to call it bad news, but it's so low stakes (and yet high stakes!) I feel like it would set the wrong tone.

The campaign my Barbarian was in ended after we returned the Lizardfolk's ancestral home back to them, and one of the players announced he was starting a new campaign and invited us all in.

So I went to him and asked if I could bring my "Sorcerer that pretends to be a Fighter" character to that campaign.

And... for some terrifying reason, he said yes. 😳

linksassin

@Xirema Surely that can only be a good thing if that is what you wanted. What level will you start at?

Xirema

@linksassin Level 5. And it's important to understand that things I want are very rarely good for anyone other than myself. 😜

linksassin

@Xirema That's a possibly concerning self-effacing statement.

Xirema

3:46 AM

At any rate, I've tuned the character as much as I'm able. She gets 6 spells and 2 metamagics, so I've picked up haste and mage armor to give herself the AC and # of attacks of a fighter, and subtle spell so that there's no evidence when she casts spells (provided they don't cause other visible effects).

linksassin

Do the stats actually work out alright? I'm planning to have a high level sorcerer BBEG hide in the party as a low level fighter in my campaign at the moment.

Xirema

@linksassin Well, she rolled a natural 17 for dex, so with Drow, that's bumped up to 19 and then at some point she'll get the extra +1 ASI to get that up to 20 (for her level 4 ASI I instead gave her the War Caster feat to improve Concentration checks).

It would be very bad if haste wore off in the middle of a fight. 😜

linksassin

Probably still likely to happen fairly often.

How are you going to play off not attacking for the round you are casting your buffs?

Xirema

@linksassin On a normal hit, it's a ~6% chance, since +5 Con Saves with Advantage rolls 10+ the rest of the time.

linksassin

Or as you going to quicken every time?

Xirema

3:50 AM

@linksassin I pull out a Light Crossbow, and excuse it by pointing out that crossbows only permit one attack per attack action if you don't have the feat.

linksassin

@Xirema How long do you think you can keep up the ruse?

Xirema

I think it'll last 30 minutes into the first session before something goes wrong.

I am going to turn the Drow sunlight sensitivity into a boon though. Since I'll already have Disadvantage on attack rolls in sunlight, no one will think it's weird if, when I equip a shield in sunlight, I'm attacking with Disadvantage (Sorcerers do not have Shield Proficiency)

I do have to drop the shield if I actually want to cast spells, but it doesn't impede concentration.

linksassin

@Xirema Doesn't War Caster mean you can cast with your hands full? Or does the lack of proficiency negate that?

Xirema

@linksassin Yeah, Armor Proficiency says "if you don't have proficiency, you can't cast spells".

Now, personally, as DM, I've ruled in the past that stuff like subtle spell can override stuff like that, but that's not RAW, and I can't assume any other DM would permit that.

linksassin

I probably would allow it too. You're already playing a suboptimal build no point to nerf it further.

V2Blast

4:53 AM

@Adeptus Ah, thanks: dnd.wizards.com/remote/freematerial

> DDEX5-01: Treasure of the Broken Hoard: Five 1-hour mini-adventures for levels 1-2—available now for free for a limited time (through May 11).

A famous relic hunter seeks adventurers to help her find caches of treasure hidden by the now-defeated followers of the Cult of the Dragon. Her maps and notes may lead the way to great wealth—or a terrible death. And do other parties have designs on the treasure as well? By Shawn Merwin.

Last Thursday's free stuff was DDEX1-14 (free to own if you get it through May 6) and Dragon of Icespire Peak (temporarily freely accessible on DDB, Roll20, and Fantasy Grounds through May 30), and a set of Waterdeep backgrounds/wallpapers (.zip). Seems Friday just had a free coloring page, which there's one of every day.

Hot RPG Questions

9:23 AM

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Q: How much time does putting an item inside a Bag of Holding take when you are fighting?

In the Bag of Holding's (Dungeon Master's Guide pag. 248) description it is stated: Retrieving a specific item from a bag of holding is a move action — unless the bag contains more than an ordinary backpack would hold, in which case retrieving a specific item is a full-round action. I am wo...

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SmokeDetector

9:41 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (86): Origin of 'Air-Breathing Mermaid Charm' by Marie Harold on rpg.SE

doppelgreener

12:23 PM

So, that's new.

We've had spam promising to turn you into a vampire or a werewolf.

We haven't had spam promising to turn you into a mermaid before.

KorvinStarmast

@nitsua60 That's more concise. It's also the kind of "discussion prompt" that I think the question are intended to be.

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