Also I hope you didn't think I was poo-pooing your answer. I'm still actively thinking about everything but I think yours was a well-considered take. My comments were more on the minor side of disagreement about that one point is all.
If it's "gandalf in D&D" that's probably POB, if it's "I want to achieve these mechanical goals and constraints" that's a fair build question. If it's a computer or a house you got the wrong stack
@doppelgreener I know somewhere KRyan has expressed that char-gen questions should either be very broad/vague or very defined. And it's the in-betweens that can't be answered ... I should really go find wherever that was said since I had never thought about it before
Build him by feel
SevenSidedDie has an excellent answer about why there's no definitive Gandalf build, but I think we can talk constructively about how to go creating a Gandalf build.
You want to "recreate Gandalf from the books" "in D&D3.5 terms." You can't, not precisely. D&D isn't a good fit...
@ThomasMarkov I'll check it tomorrow, as long as the three-hour break between two professional development sessions is actually a break, not a three-hour work period I just don't know about yet!
We have a player who is playing a Fighter with a level of Warlock, wielding a polearm, and they say they should be able to get the initial opportunity attack from Polearm Master when a foe enters their reach, then if the foe continues to move in they proc the Tunnel Fighter opportunity attack, wh...
If there's anyone running a Golden Sky Stories table online sometime in the near future, would it be possible if I could take a backseat and spectate? I'm thinking about giving it a try and would like to see how it's played.
@linksassin lucky! I wish it was earlier so I wouldn’t have to speed read the book club book for tomorrow (it’s about a thousand pages and I totally forgot about it until about 23.5 minutes ago)
A good charop question is either very specific or very general. If you fall in between you've entered the no mans land of gimmie the codez.
There are 3 types of char-op questions that fall into the "good" category in my mind:
I'm 90% complete and I need help making the final selection or two. ...
yeah. as a basis, it means activities (usually repetitive) which we do for self-stimulation. for normies, that can often mean things like clearing their throat, drumming their fingers on the table, clicking their pen, bouncing one's leg, etc. for someone on the autism spectrum it gets more associated with its own set of things like hand flaps. ADHD needs it also, it helps as an attention sink.
(because if we weren't distracted with that thing, we'd be even more distracted with something else entirely)
yeah I know some people in the Autism Spectrum, such as myself, like touching or tugging on something, certain fabrics are very stimulating, I actually kinda like certain metals
especially if they get cold
in fact,... almost anything that's cold is instantly stimmable to me
I can't really explain why, it's just a thing
XD
not frozen though, just cold
frozen things suck to touch, as I'm sure most people won't disagree with me on
if i'm gonna have my brain completely forget what i'm doing and instead pay attention to something else several times a minute, it might as well be a TV show that's right there, which won't have me move away and will make me notice "oh yeah, work"
and in general this stuff helps it not do that to begin with
that being said, I have some co-workers who used internet privileges to do decidedly un-work related things all day and were at times barely productive at all and didn't even try to hide it
I am somewhat sympathetic to the attitude taken after that to reduce that kind of activity
@ThomasMarkov Yeah, it's a tricky one. But if you're going to suggest that they might still be a different creature it probably needs support. Otherwise, it simply is another creature.
I'm not actually sure there is much of a case for "it's still your old buddy".
And basing the methods off an answer that also required DM adjudication is tricky.
@NautArch Perhaps seconds was closer to two minutes. I got the "this is not accepting answers" literally (actual literally) seconds before hitting submit
But I'm not sure I agree with szega that it's defined enough. As with most list questions, it's more of a "hey, I see there's something here. Can someone go and find all the examples I'm asking about for me?"
@NautArch Yeah and that's not close-worthy at all to me. Especially when some people don't have ctrl-f as an option; other people will literally be better at finding other examples. I do believe that it would've been nice if the OP had done more research trying to find more examples and said they did that
And that's what great about the stack, we can all vote our conscience!
Heh, I think for Tomb of Horrors I'm going to give players Carte Blanche in character creation on picking their own magic items. Probably a very rare, a rare, and 2 uncommons. or something.
Oh just wanna say @NautArch I don't think they're off-topic but that doesn't mean I think they are particularly good questions either. Always best when the OP has done prior research themself. I also don't know if I've been here enough to get a feel for topicality since I mostly just go "does it fit in one of these pre-defined boxes?"
@Medix2 oh! I thought that was what you were linking to. But I am interested in more of that question (even thought I don't think it really matters.) If you are doing something with a known mechanic, that mechanic will tell you. THe fact they didn't look up concentration was weird.
@NautArch Yeah I ignored the class features like "Barbarians can't use Danger Sense while Incapacitated" cuz like... who would possibly expect the incapacitated condition to tell you something that specific
@NautArch But yeah what I got: Incapacitated: Can't flank, can't cause disadvantage to nearby ranged attacks, can be automatically grappled/shoved; Invisible: Can always hide; Prone: Doesn't describe how crawling actually works, flying and mounted movement are weird; Unconscious: Can be stabilized; Grappled: The Grappler moves differently.
The more I think about it, the more I think it's too broad. The game is built on combining things. You start with the mechanic that's discussed and then reference anything that it talks about.
They just never looked at the concentration rules when the issue was about concentration.
So I just got acquainted with the existence of Rings of spell storing. I was wondering if I had Beacon of Hope and Sanctuary stored in it, could I use the ring to cast both spells in the same round or would it count as 2 actions instead of 1 action and 1 bonus action ?
@AncientSwordRage kindasortanotreally. I'm just changing the link to the same item to a more legitimate source. Not that roll20 is legit, but they have mistakes in formatting that are meaningful.
@ThomasMarkov Roll20 capitalizes unnecessarily and creates issues because of that
I'm fairly certain there was a question in the past that linked to 5e materials and was closed... but I don't think I'll be able to find it. Perhaps it just linked to other 5e questions
Here's the question I look at frequently which kinda shows that there's no easy wording... An answer uses the complicated "if you cast (or will cast) a bonus action spell (cantrip or non-cantrip) in a turn, no other non-cantrip spells (even ones using the action from action surge) can be cast."
@NautArch There is no option more consistent sans spellcasting (what the OP requested). Since there are no bludgeoning finesse weapons, that is the only option where almost every attack will meet the criteria
@DavidCoffron Off the top of my head, there is also the hexblade, and i'm betting there are some others out there, too. Especially if we have to parse through the UA and newer content.
(battlesmith requires you to be using a magic weapon but also by that point the Infusion feature has given you an option to make whatever weapon you're wielding permanently magical so that's barely a restriction)
Yeah that's fair. I know I've heard people say that questions that ask answers to be lists are not especially different from other sorts of questions... optimization and honestly just some rules questions can have their answers completely changed by errata and new books (hi Crawford)
@ThomasMarkov I meant to get back to that one and kinda gave up
@Medix2 True; it's just some lists are changed by almost every book. Like imagine if we had a question "What are all the spells?", or worse "What are all the official spellcasters?"
@ThomasMarkov I almost feel bad for our GM when things like that happen. *plans awesome encounter* ... *Players absolutely obliterate it in an unforeseen fashion*
@Medix2 Yeah... It took me a few years when I started DMing (back in AD&D 2e) to get over that disappointment
Recognizing that the game can be enjoyed (and is enjoyed the most by me) as a story-telling exercise with fun mechanics makes the unforeseen exploits of the characters more epic than how it used to feel cheap before I thought of D&D that way.
@Medix2 My DM and I have had to work through this. I think my crossbow expert/sharpshooter bard is fun. For him there was a learning curve for balancing encounters.
He did not have fun the first combat we had after I got shrphshooter.
Things are much better now that our paladin is consistently dealing more damage than me.
@ThomasMarkov Hey, even with 11 years of DMing, I had a player that brought that combo to the game, and I had to adapt drastically. It is so strong, and makes the normal solutions to glass cannon builds harder to implement since it can be used from so far away.
@Medix2 One of my favorite characters I built was an Oathbreaker Paladin/Wizard who was a pacifist, and summoned demons to do the fighting for himself.
Why is the following statement valid, and how can I break it down so that it is easier to understand?
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
They saw the man with the binoculars. Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. What book did you review without actually reading? More people have been to Brazil than I have.
That sentence is particularly just evil. You can say it to somebody and it sounds perfectly valid and then you wait some amount of time and they go "wait what?" Is it linguistically grammatical? Who knows
@AncientSwordRage I'm working on the assumption that the phrase as written should be meaningful and informative. To be meaningful and informative, it seems it must not be parsed the way you are parsing it here.
@AncientSwordRage In that case, the second have is redundant. If we assume that every word affects the meaning, we have to guess that it means something else
@AncientSwordRage But the verb is used twice because you can't use a verb in both an auxiliary and non-auxiliary way without typing it twice. E.g. you cannot type 'I have been to Brasil and two pencils in my pocket', you should type 'I have been to Brasil and have two pencils'.
@DavidCoffron there's often sentences that contain extraneous words, phrases, and clauses. <---like this one is missing 'extraneous' in front of each list item
List questions, list questions, whatever is a list question... Still mad/salty about the prescribed definition just not matching at all with the expected (and used) definition
The point of the phrase is that it sounds perfectly valid at first and then you think about it and it just breaks itself apart into meaninglessness or things people wouldn't say
In rhetoric, zeugma ( (listen); from the Ancient Greek ζεῦγμα, zeûgma, lit. "a yoking together") and syllepsis (; from the Ancient Greek σύλληψις, sullēpsis, lit. "a taking together") are figures of speech in which a single phrase or word joins different parts of a sentence.
== Definition ==
In current usage, there are multiple and sometimes conflicting definitions for zeugma and syllepsis. This article categorizes these two figures of speech into four types, based on four definitions:
=== Type 1 ===
Grammatical syllepsis (sometimes also called zeugma): where a single word is used in relation to...
The sentence "If he's an "ancient, angelic guardian of hope," you're going to build him differently than if he's a "crafty and manipulative magical hobo."" is a treasure of the english language.
@KorvinStarmast I went to upvote the answer after reading and was confused and upset when I couldn't. Then I figured out it was locked of course, sadly for BESW's rep ;-)
@MikeQ I am doing an after action report on myself for the last encounter you all had, and I finally get what I saw differently what you saw when you were trying to find a way to crawl onto the ceiling through the doorway. Spider on the wall/bulkhead of the ship above the door, and then try to get through the gap between ettercaps' head and top of door frame. I should have asked for more description (yeah, it was crowded) but in retrospect, that could have worked.
A good charop question is either very specific or very general. If you fall in between you've entered the no mans land of gimmie the codez.
There are 3 types of char-op questions that fall into the "good" category in my mind:
I'm 90% complete and I need help making the final selection or two. ...
So I just got acquainted with the existence of Rings of spell storing. I was wondering if I had Beacon of Hope and Sanctuary stored in it, could I use the ring to cast both spells in the same round or would it count as 2 actions instead of 1 action and 1 bonus action ?
