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12:24 AM

@BESW Dahl is super icky and there are better Gene Wilder movies out there.

I read his autobiography before I encountered any of his fiction or its derivatives (small school library, I read everything in it at least once), and ah. that certainly gave me a lens on his work that my peers didn't have.

nitsua60

12:56 AM

@KorvinStarmast I would say a happy ending, but we old married guys know: happy doesn't have to have an ending =)

Hot RPG Questions

1:08 AM

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Q: Can an arcane-only caster make use of a Prayer Bead of karma?

In a group we were discussing about the strand of prayer beads and if an arcane-only spellcaster can, somehow, make use of the Bead of karma. Can such a character use the bead? If so, what ways are there to use it? The beads would have been activated already, so it's just a matter of using them. ...

linksassin

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AncientSwordRage

1:23 AM

@bobble any opinion on the newer version?

bobble

@AncientSwordRage I think I've seen it (also multiple times in settings not of my choosing) but I can't remember anything

BESW

That... sounds accurate.

bobble

There are lots of kids movies/TV shows I've learned to loathe after being forced to see them many times over, on the assumption that "kids like this kind of thing" etc.

Also early to mid 2010s pop music. Dear goodness, I was trapped in a van with that stuff every week for years

AncientSwordRage

That sounds unpleasant

I've definitely got strong memories of the first one, not so much the second

KorvinStarmast

1:52 AM

@nitsua60 true 😁

@NautArch he wrote a book about his experiences as a pilot in WW II. Worth a look.

James and the Giant Peach it ain't.

AncientSwordRage

2:24 AM

@BESW I've just remembered that I had seen something horrible about him but I can't (and likely don't want to) remember what

Bardic Wizard

4:44 AM

@Axoren Thanks for the general numbers — it’s not anything more than “idea that fits the tone of this world that maybe would be cool”, so I’m thinking it’ll be a longer term research project but now I have a starting point!

@nitsua60 I have thoughts on your library rpg thing

So I’ve done it for over a year now through our library and there’s a lot of things that you can think about when planning/discussing it

First — my experience is as a gm mostly but also a player briefly, running games for people my own age. That’s probably the big difference between our situations cause I’m the players’ equal, at least when we’re not actually playing and usually when we are

It’s hard when you’re older/younger than the players and especially if you don’t have respect cause they’re going to treat you differently (I get around this by a, being the same age, b, having done this for a long time and having dealt with shenanigans, and c, there’s a librarian there all the time who everyone respects)

So some of the stuff I thought about will be different for you, but I asked a bunch of questions of myself and others when I was starting my whole experience doing this — that got it down to a specific proposal on the logistics front and a useful start on the gameplay front

Another thing — for my library the job of person-handling-logistics and person-running-game are different. If that’s true for you then you need to communicate a lot

Bardic Wizard

5:21 AM

I just braindumped all the questions I remember asking/discussing/arguing about/ thinking about into a google doc, and you can look through them here if you want

Hot RPG Questions

6:46 AM

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Q: Prestidigitation and amount (volume) of material

I posted this question in the comments for the Prestidigitation cantrip on DnD Beyond, but I'm thinking that's not trafficked frequently. I'm curious how DMs have interpreted "1 cubic foot" for this cantrip. My take is this is different than, for example, a 5-foot cube (Minor Illusion) in that i...

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Amethyst Wizard

8:11 AM

I petition this question to be reopened - rpg.stackexchange.com/q/165241/53875

It is very much on-topic

“Off topic” being the unjustified closure reason

It is on topic becauseits a question about a peculiar rule in an rpg

Really would take some bizarre argumentation to convince otherwise

BESW

8:30 AM

If it got re-opened, it'd immediately get closed as a duplicate of the question you claim it's not a duplicate of: the answers to that question make it clear that you can recover one-half of your ammo, rounded down to the nearest whole number. One-half of one rounded down is no ammunition.

As there's an established precedent for leaving questions closed if there is reason to close them, even if the close reason given is inaccurate, I don't think there's much of a case here.

So we don't even have to get into legislating whether all questions about RPG rules are inherently on topic for rpg.se (they aren't), and whether this question itself is on topic (in its current state, probably), because the question doesn't reach the point where that matters.

If you want to make a case for it not being a duplicate, do it in meta.

Decisions like that don't get made here.

Amethyst Wizard

Somehow the closure reason has changed to ‘not suitable for this site’. I

BESW

It says "off topic" for me.

Amethyst Wizard

Hmm wierd

BESW

And close reasons are wacky anyway. It usually posts the reason given by the majority of voters, so a five-vote close can have been closed for four different reasons but only show one of them.

The Oracle

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Q: Do questions have to pose an ‘actual problem’?

Statements such as “not an actual problem” have been posited as criticism of questions and closure justification. Is it true that every RPGSE question must pose an ‘actual problem’?

discussion policy

BESW

8:46 AM

Oh come on, that's just this question again.

Amethyst Wizard

Its a different question

BESW

It is literally taking one of the two original questions and asking it separately, and divorcing it from context to turn it into an abstract question rather than one rooted in the life of the site.

Thomas Markov

9:08 AM

@AmethystWizard I made a small edit to the question, it is definitely on topic now, it unfortunately it is also a duplicate of the other question you linked.

That said, I’m not sure why you’re concerned about it being open or closed, you’ve accepted a well received answer, it seems the matter is solved already. I’m not sure what more you want from additional answers.

As for the meta post, I have voted to close it as a duplicate.

BESW

Play Cancer Away is asking on twitter for "current or former cancer patient[s] who [are] in to table top roleplaying games," to join their "group of patients and supporters who want to gather to support each other through creativity and fun."

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doppelgreener

11:33 AM

@BESW last voter breaks ties, so it could even have been closed for five different reasons but only show whatever reason the fifth & final voter picked!

Someone_Evil

@doppelgreener Not if they're all different apparently, then it chooses the first vote as the reason

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A: How does the system determine which one close reason should be displayed on a closed question, given the close votes?

After intensely studying the system's patterns and analyzing information from various posts, I've found that the system selects the close reason to be displayed in this manner. Once a question reaches the necessary amount of close votes, the top-level selection phase decides which one of the five...

doppelgreener

@Someone_Evil oh huh

wild

TIL

AncientSwordRage

12:12 PM

That is wild

Why would you steal and re-upload a game with so many community copies: twitter.com/wundergeek/status/1432885033916899329?s=19

Medix2

12:29 PM

@ThomasMarkov I read "prevent" as "provoke" :facepalms:

Thomas Markov

hahaa

Medix2

I'm wondering whether "you can move up to 2 feet horizontally for every 1 foot you descend." actually uses your movement...

BESW

@Medix2 Only you can provoke forest fires.

Thomas Markov

Doesn't say, so it seems it doesnt.

Dont features that use up available movement say that they do that?

Akixkisu

They should.

BESW

12:38 PM

It looks like it's a subset of falling-based movement, so unless otherwise stated it should be related to movement speed (and other movement-based rules like opportunity attacks or whatever 5e calls them) in the same way that falling is?

Someone_Evil

@ThomasMarkov I think most of those are you spending movement for something other than moving

Thomas Markov

@BESW That's a great way to look at it.

Falling doesn't use your movement, and this feature is modifying how you fall.

Thanks @BESW, I think you nailed it there.

Akixkisu

Usually the phrase is "cost" of movement.

Medix2

I thought it was "expend"?

A the whole "costs an amount of movement equal to ___" thing

Akixkisu

dndbeyond.com/sources/phb/adventuring#SpecialTypesofMovement

Some features use different phrasing.

Medix2

12:41 PM

dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/…

Just the link, but free

Thomas Markov

@Akixkisu Well yeah, because why would you use consistent language to refer to the same thing? That would be totally bananas.

BESW

That'd be too much like 4e, obviously.

Akixkisu

That is why you use editors who aren't writters of that piece.

Also that.

Medix2

I mean, there's a major difference between each foot of movement costing twice as much and a feature just costing X movement

AncientSwordRage

@BESW obviously

BESW

12:43 PM

(Which is also why my reading would be wrong: it's drawing too much on my experience with 4e text conventions.)

Medix2

Well, time for the first day of grad school to begin

BESW

The safe answer to this sort of thing in both 3e and 5e seems to more frequently be "Oh, we didn't think of that."

@Medix2 Woooo!

Woo?

Medix2

Probably the former XD

Akixkisu

I wish you a enjoyable and supportive environment for the program :)

Thomas Markov

@Medix2 I've been through it, hit me up if you have questions, need advice, or want to vent about it.

Akixkisu

12:54 PM

When you manage to hit the edit button, but you are too slow to submit.

Is it a US program?

Glazius

@BESW "Why not discuss it vigorously on the Internet for several weeks with no clear resolution? That should help give us exposure I mean help you figure it out."

NautArch

Last night I learned two Ropers are more than capable of TPK a 4 person party of 8th level players in 5e.

BESW

@Glazius "The strength of our system is that our inconsistent and gappy text forces GMs to become game designers themselves! Then they can post their work on our proprietary shop that grants us the rights to their material."

(Sara Thompson's one big ask about re-using the Combat Wheelchair material, is to never ever post it on DMs Guild.)

BESW recommends some books

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