@BESW It might be, but it doesn't sound like it. It sounds like "One of my players came up with a concept, so I wanna see if I can mess with him" and not in a good way.
I wanted to know whether Magical inspiration used for damage triggers Mote of Potential's Attack:
Magical Inspiration:
If a creature has a Bardic Inspiration die from you and casts a spell
that restores hit points or deals damage, the creature can roll that
die and choose a target affected by th...
Heya, I’m around for a brief minute (6 more, by screen time limits, if you want to be exact), and I have a strange question that won’t work on rpg.se and might be weird to ask on law.se
Basically, does wotc have legal protections against using a name that follows the “thing-ampersand-alliterative-creature” naming pattern?
If I wanted to name a blog, that I might eventually make money off of, say “Lace and Lemures” could WOTC sue me or hit me with copyright or trademark infringement?
And is this a question I should ask over at law.se?
A clay golem has an action called Haste that is thematically similar to the spell of the same name but mechanically rather different:
Haste (Recharge 5–6). Until the end of its next turn, the golem magically gains a +2 bonus to its AC, has advantage on Dexterity saving throws, and can use its sl...
@NautArch Let me propose a hypothesis - the asker doesn't like them, or, someone who dislikes the norms this 'community' has developed as regards players who aggrivate their fellow players decided to strike a blow for the MyGuys.
@AncientSwordRage I think the confusion from OP thinking it's not a dupe is that the target uses the word "attacks" when the question is about "spells and other effects requiring sight", not "attacks" in the game term sense.
the reason I asked is that it became different opinions on IF it would work, my question is taking the premise that it works and working backward for possible effects — Ayden s1 min ago
@ThomasMarkov the DB probably looks like a dogs dinner and/or they realised people never looked beyond the first 35 results because they had contrived examples
They apparently are even going to implement the ability to filter by subclass, which I take to mean that you can filter what spells are added to the spell list for Fiend Warlocks
but yeah, you can't exclude spells available to x class
The only spells I ever remember being exclusive is Hunger of Hadar, Simulacrum, and Wish, and I always forget what other ones are exclusive. Being able to look that up would be helpful
While you're at it, you probably should know about R.O.U.S's. They're one of the secrets of the fire swamp, and if you want to live comfortable there for quite some time, you're going to have to know about them.
@ThomasMarkov TBH, for most of those, they seem like spurious votes I'd rather just let expire.
Especially in the cases of the "Bad" answers in the queue that were voted for deleting: I'd rather bad answers stay, instead of being deleted, unless there's something actively abusive about the post (spam, harassment, etc.) that merits deletion.
does stuff like have the lights in the living room sync colour with the TV display, the lights in his bedroom/office are set to change colour at various times of day as a sort of low-key alarm/time reminder
(he is a software engineer so I don't know how much of this is stuff that you can just do with hue already and how much is stuff he wrote to tiffle their API)
@Carcer I've always had issues with long lived IoT devices. They've been difficult, if possible, to update. It was specifically a problem for a bunch of lights and cameras installed on the exterior of our building. Vendor "solution" was to turn off wifi and put them on an internet inaccessible private network.
Which is fine for people that have the skills to do that, if a bit of a pain in the butt. For most consumers, they don't even know they've got vulnerable equipment happily chirping out it's presence.
20k users can vote to delete answers with a score of -1 or lower (at any time, I believe), but the voting lacks a check to see if the answer is an accepted answer. IIRC, accepted answers have to be unaccepted before being deleted, even by mods, so such a delete vote should be disallowed completel...
@NautArch The first thing to see if you can do is find instructions on how to update the software or firmware of the devices. If you can find that, that's a good sign for the near future. The second issue is betting that the device will be supported by the vendor for the lifetime you expect to operate it.
@GcL The Hue stuff seems to have had the update issue on v1 (they announced they will no longer be updating and turned off internet access to the hub.) But they have said the V2 is 'future-proof.
Grain of salt, of course.
Also looking at the Wyze stuff to play around. THat's MUCH cheaper.
that's why I'm leaning more to just playing around with the Wyze stuff. I don't get everything i want, but it's a much cheaper entry and I won't be upset if it stops working.
It seems fine to me, although I suspect that the answer is "He was transformed by a Whish, which doesn't have to follow the same rules as, say Polymorph"
All we really know is that the end result is that he's an otter because of the Wish spell, which basically tosses the rules on the floor, lights them on fire, and dances on them.
Well, wish was used at least to make the effect permanent. I honestly have no idea whether he had the Archmage statblock while he was an Otter but before the wish spell was used
The likely scenario is this: He polymorphed into an otter by some means. The polymorph wore off. He then decided that he enjoyed being an otter so much that he wanted to be one permanently. Since any normal sources of polymorphing don't allow spellcasting, he Wished to be transformed into an otter while retaining his ability to cast spells.
I feel like Chris Perkins probably said to an intern passing in the hallway, "hey make an interesting background for an archmage and email it to me in 5 minutes" and then didnt flesh it out past that.
Remember that the books specifically call out that a DM (or author in this case) is allowed to change spells on their lists for other spells of equivalent levels
@ThomasMarkov Pretty sure the in universe explanation is "He's a wizard who cast Wish on himself to be an otter forever because he liked being an otter"
The author tells us what makes Traxigor different from a typical Archmage. It lists all of the differences between his statblock and a regular Archmage statblock. wish is not mentioned. That's my point, but I think I'm just kinda done now
And I think the question is asking for answers to mention those options and address the fact that there are no other sources/citations to pull from which... I don't think the current answer does
But we do know that Wish was used to facilitate him being an otter mage, and since he's effectively a Wizard, it makes sense to attribute the casting to him.
@ThomasMarkov fair, but odds are there isn't since this is the first mention of him that we know of.
@Medix2 Well, not overly surprising, I don't think a single NPC has had a spellbook listed in their gear in 5e, except for maybe one of the ones from one of those old module remakes.
That's not many mentions considering how long 5e's been around, although I'm sure that search doesn't cover everything
And it seems that at least 4 of the 7 are from Rime of the Frost maiden, which indicates to me that they only recently realized they hadn't been including them, or perhaps they had different authors for that book who still think of spellbooks as relevant loot
Which, BTW, is kind of a big oversight IMO. It kinda sucks to be a wizard who's hole thing is having a spellbook with a big selection of spells that they can change daily and never get the opportunity to actually capitalize on the feature.
@RevenantBacon Id blame DMs before blaming Wizards for this one.
When considering playing a wizard, I'd say something like, "Hey DM, I'm thinking of playing a wizard, but it sure would suck if I never got to take advantage of the feature that let's me copy spells into my spellbook. So tell me now if you;re going to be stingy".
The thing is, Wizards should already be including spellbooks in loot tables. How many pre-con adventures are there? And spellbooks are, as far as we can tell, only mentioned 7 times total, and over half are in the same adventure.
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Wizards has absolutely dropped the ball on this one.
I'd especially blame Wizards because 5e brought lots and lots of new players to the game, which means it also brought lots and lots of new DM's to the game, many of who it probably wouldn't have occurred to these new DM's that spellbooks were loot.
I know that spellbooks are important loot for a wizard to expand their spell list, but I've been playing D&D for almost 2 decades. Some of these new DM's have only been playing for a few years
And without a precedent to show them that spellbooks should be included as loot, odds are good that they won't think of it on their own
Never mind. I'm going to let it go and talk about my Feng Shui one-shot. So I had semi-planned the final big action sequence to be storming JPL in Pasadena (where the bad guys had built a magical portal to the moon in Jack Parsons' old office) so that we can have an epic kung fu battle on the moon. As it worked out, none of that happened.
But when they discovered that the bad guys were trying to get to the moon, one of the players said "We should just go to JPL and steal a rocket" and I busted up laughing at the accidental foreshadowing.
I've read and reread Learn a Spell several times, and I just don't understand it.
For a wizard, it makes sense - the wizard adds the spell to their spellbook. But for both of the other options, I don't understand what effect it has.
From the feat:
If you have a spellbook, Learning a Spell lets y...
They were nice enough to get out of bed at 6.30 to meet up with me, so that was greatly appreciated 😅
On a separate topic, I might be late to the party on this, but I just realized that with the win + . option to add emojis, that makes things of r🐘s much easier to point out
@Yuuki Soulsborne is a perfect example. "See that ogre that's twice your size vertically and 4 times you size horizontally? Once he's dead, you'll be able to kick him a round like a pool toy"
So my Forge Cleric Warforged character in my new game is a hit. He's Lawful Neutral, so he follows the rules to a T... but that depends on how you explain the rules.
I caused more problems for the party than a chaotic evil rogue in our last game. Everyone loved it XD
Rule 1: We don't look at other people in this bar, it attracts unwanted attention Me: [Looks at the floor when confronting the Dragonborn KnightGuard and telling him to leave us alone]
Rule 2: we do not draw our weapons here. The rule of "first drawn" means you're looking for a fight. Me: [Yells out "FIRST DRAWN" when the head of the assassin's guild moves to protect their mark when clearly approached by another party member]
Been busy as heck. The only reason I'm having an actual conversation rather than doing my usual drop in/say hey/drop out is because I'm out of town, with nothing to do except wait for a meeting. Lol
It is a work trip, but I'm just waiting on them, so I have nothing to do until they're ready. Accommodation fully paid for, food and fuel covered, I get to sit around until they're ready to meet with me.
@linksassin Pretty much haha
They even booked out the master suite for little old me
At level 6 when you get the ability to teleport to other bonded creatures to take their incoming damage do you get to know the damage value before you teleport?
For instance Player 1 is bonded to Player 2. If Player 2 is attacked by a goblin wielding a shortbow and the goblin rolls a successful ...