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12:43 AM

@AncientSwordRage yeah. Great taste, but awful execution.

&D by Superdillin. &D, a solo RPG about a dragon named Andy

Genesis of Legend Podcast Episode 295: "Integrating the Natural World" Recorded at Metatopia Online 2020 Presented by Jeeyon Shim, Meguey Baker, Jason Morningstar.

Hot RPG Questions

Q: Using Relentless Rage after Rage Beyond Death?

Can a Zealot Barbarian use Rage Beyond Death, kill all the enemies (while at 0 HP) and then use Relentless Rage (or Relentless Endurance) to go back to 1 HP and thus avoid death?

AncientSwordRage

12:59 AM

@ThomasMarkov send like JC assumed we all just hated it though

Maybe the community at large did, but that's not the impression I got

Thomas Markov

Getting some serious rant vibes from this answer.

MikeQ

Go home, answer, you're drunk

Thomas Markov

@MikeQ what seems to be the occifer problem?

BESW

1:21 AM

AncientSwordRage

1:32 AM

@BESW quiet day on the stack, eh

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BESW

4:46 AM

@AncientSwordRage If I un-ignore dnd-5e, I get 37 more posts out of the first 50.

I have 29 tags ignored, but [*dnd*] accounts for 43 of the 49, and the others are [pathfinder-1e] and [dungeons-and-dragons]. Out of the 50 most recently asked questions, the only one that isn't either D&D or the thing that people turned to when D&D changed too much, is an off-topic question about video games.

Bardic Wizard

5:31 AM

@bobble I’m guessing you’re trying to solve it or something then, so I’m not going to spoil anything, but at choir rehearsal Thursday, a couple of us were discussing how some words are really common in hymns and others aren’t (finding “glory” is easy, “she” is nigh impossible unless you’re using VF, in which case it drops to being very hard to find). So I’ve been thinking for two or three days and finally figured out a version of a book code that works for hymnals.

That led me to make a puzzle and post it

But yeah, it’s abnormal for me so I can see why it’d be weird

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Hot RPG Questions

6:33 AM

Q: Could Touchsight be used to feel the presence of the microscopic or nanoscopic?

Touchsight allows you to feel your surroundings, and ignore invisibility and darkness and other visually obscuring effects. It also allows you to detect and pinpoint all creatures within range. And it allows you to discern objects that you have line of effect to. The discussion came up wondering ...

dnd-3.5e powers psionics mshrpg

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AncientSwordRage

10:28 AM

@BESW that's a little disappointing

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KorvinStarmast

12:47 PM

@AncientSwordRage I am very happy with the result. My feedback on the survey was "this isn't what to spend dev time on, it's a mess" and other words to that effect

AncientSwordRage

@KorvinStarmast do you think it would be possible to make it work by starting.over or is it a non-starter?

KorvinStarmast

@AncientSwordRage Uh oh, owl folk? Please, no.

Someone_Evil

I think you need to start some volume of the class design again to make it really smooth

KorvinStarmast

@AncientSwordRage It was a non starter; I think that Crawford's idea on feats tied to the colleges might work, but I am also sure that WoTC is trying to fuse the two brands of D&D and M:tG and keep trying to figure out the 'best fit' for that.

AncientSwordRage

@KorvinStarmast that's not promising

Feats might work...

I'm never sure if UA is for balancing or guaging interest

KorvinStarmast

12:52 PM

@AncientSwordRage It's my opinion that if they want to fuse M:tG and D&D, they need to rebuild the D&D magic system up from scratch based on the M:tG color system, and that will become D&D 6e- get rid of "magic schools" and build it up (with balance also a metric) using the five colors from M:tG. Organic, and some work, but I think it would work.

@AncientSwordRage both

Which of course leads us to Red Mage jokes, see 8 bit theater as a reference .... 😁

AncientSwordRage

@KorvinStarmast I think it would be better as two separate things

@KorvinStarmast I look forward to it

KorvinStarmast

@AncientSwordRage the two games, yes, that's what I prefer, but I also know how corporations do things with brands ... 😛

AncientSwordRage

And if we're cribbing from MTG let's fix targeting as well

KorvinStarmast

@AncientSwordRage Naah, just hand out a deck of many things to each player at the beginning and play! 🤣

AncientSwordRage

I see you woke up today and chose chaos

KorvinStarmast

1:04 PM

@AncientSwordRage some days, chaos is needed to stir the pot. Other times, a wooden spoon will do, and on other days, there is no spoon

Thomas Markov

Is this comment too on the nose

Since we're insisting this isn't a system recommendation question, I've removed the part of the question that is requesting system recommendations. — Thomas Markov 21 secs ago

Glazius

1:23 PM

@KorvinStarmast Oh, right, he casts the spells that make the people fall down.

bobble

1:40 PM

@BardicWizard Oh no, it's not my kind of puzzle at all (crossword/grid deduction). I keep an eye on all new puzzles for moderation purposes, however

AncientSwordRage

@KorvinStarmast very Ursula Vernon

I'll take that phrase in a t-shirt please

bobble

You're not the first to assume I was trying to solve a puzzle that I noticed, however

Thomas Markov

2:18 PM

TIL that D&D 3.5 had a feat called Mad Foam Rager and that 5e is way less creative with their feats.

Hot RPG Questions

Q: Is there a way to play Ars Magica but without the troupe/companion/grog mechanics?

I've owned the sourcebook for AM5 for years, and finally found a group that likes the creativity of the magic system as much as I do... but they (and I, personally) really dislike the 'multi character' aspect of the system (i.e. having magi locked away in labs for 3 months so a player has to play...

spellcasting ars-magica-5

KorvinStarmast

2:47 PM

@ThomasMarkov The spaghetti tossed against that wall stuck.

@AncientSwordRage There is a little bit of "the Matrix" in that quote as well. 😁

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Thomas Markov

4:14 PM

I've flagged this answer NAA.

Its author voted to reopen the question, left a comment stating that it was clearly not a system recommendation question, then left an answer that was recommending a system without explaining how changing systems would solve OP's problem.

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GcL

5:19 PM

@ThomasMarkov That was an answer to the question as originally posted. Somebody yanked half the premise out from under the answerer.

Thomas Markov

@GcL The answer was posted 2 hours after I deleted the portion of the question asking for system recommendations. So yeah, I yanked the premise out, but it definitely was not out from under that answer.

GcL

Good point. The timestamps don't lie. They should have hit refresh sometime in those two hours.

Thomas Markov

@GcL But even if system recommendation questions were on topic, this is still not a good answer. It doesn't tell us how it solves OP's problem. It's just "try this other system".

NautArch

Why can't you just simply trust that it's correct. I mean aren't we experts? /S

Thomas Markov

5:34 PM

@NautArch I don't trust users with less than 300k rep.

Helwar

6:16 PM

@ThomasMarkov I'm not trustworthy! :P

GcL

6:36 PM

@Helwar That's because you're worth your weight in puns, and everyone knows puns are not held in trust.

Helwar

omg haha

AncientSwordRage

@KorvinStarmast it works though

Thomas Markov

7:05 PM

The more I think about simulacrum, the more ill conceived it seems to me.

NautArch

@ThomasMarkov pretty sure the answer to that is going to be /shrug.

GcL

@ThomasMarkov I saw it used as a decent plot device to give a party a taste of fighting a weaker version of the BBEG many levels before fighting the actual one.

NautArch

@GcL ooooh, that's pretty cool.

And very much leaves as "is this the only one?" feeling with the players, too.

GcL

It was also a big clue to, "you're eventually going to be fighting a high level spell caster" ... so you know... prepare for that.

The real BBEG was the snow the simulacrums were constructed from all along.

@ThomasMarkov What plot device are you using a simulacrum for where you need it to remember things?

Or another way of asking is, "Do simulacrum dream of frozen sheep?"

MikeQ

Simulacrum: Do you want to fight a snowman?

GcL

7:20 PM

@MikeQ There should be a ban hammer for ear worms.

Thomas Markov

7:54 PM

Q: Moderators can undelete answers to deleted questions

When a question is deleted, this automatically deletes all answers as well. However, moderators are able to undelete answers, as I did for science here (screenshot for <10k users). This leads e.g. to the timeline and revision history of the answer being visible to all users, and the answer appear...