I've been looking through the rules and found the Ready Action confusing. According to the PHB pg.194 it states that the ready action can be done using a reaction, setting up a trigger, and proceeding with that readied action if the trigger is to occur (Or ignore it). It also gives rules on how ...
@doppelgreener I understand what concerns you, and I think that @AncientSwordRage found the perfect quote describing your fears. My intent was not to create a ranking with the best jokes, but simply to collect them in a meta post, in the spirit of Purveyors of fine cheese!
To be fair the idea was great, I did think of the cheese collection as well when I saw it. Tis a shame that the concept doesn't really work in this situation.
@Eddymage I understand and expected as much being the spirit of it, just that meta doesn't let us have one without the other. Like, Scryfall does collages and I'm delighted when I see people respond well to them on social media, so I get the desire, but there's additional layers here.
This is one of those things where meta just applies the wrong tools for its job.
@Medix2 The Stack Exchange devoted years to developing an interface and infrastructure to enforce an epistemology that values pithy independent responses to clear, precise problems. This interface and its accompanying infrastructure actively discourages discussion, ambiguity, and accompaniment.
@doppelgreener Let's see how it will evolve, we can see what community and mods think about my post. I f it causes more problems than fun, it is ok for me if it get closed.
This recent question prompted this answer, to which a comment asked "Where are you getting your quotes from? I cant find them in the PHB".
In attempting to source the putative rules quotes, I stumbled upon this intriguing page. It is a complete Spanish translation, and not a bad one at that, of ...
Obligatory reminder: artificial intelligence isn't actually, you know, intelligent. It's just reviewed a large body of work and compiled it into fancy graphs of what words get associated with what other words and doing probability calculations to figure out which ones to put together in what order. The job of every current AI is not to actually understand what it's saying, instead just produce output that is highly plausible to a viewer.
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AIs have some value in producing novel correlations between plausible outputs, but they're not producing anything specifically truthful, only something plausible.
Context
A player amidst one of the groups decided to try his hand at DM'ing for the first time, it's going relatively well despite teething trouble (primarily from a mismatch of expected ideas after forgoing a session 0 against multiple people suggesting it).
Skip forward a few sessions and level...
@ThomasMarkov of course... the scare quotes I used clearly weren't scary enough by the sounds of it... I don't agree that 'it's wrong' makes it VLQ either
@doppelgreener I fed some context and a story excerpt into the Chat GPT a few days ago and it came up with some genuinely interesting and unique additions to the story
the clearest one was that there's two siblings that have a rivalry, and one has left home to be an inventor, and that the other sibling has a close bond with their younger cousins. The AI correlated that one addition to the story might be that the inventor sibling sent toys home to the younger cousins and it made the stay-at-home sibling jealous
They posted an answer saying basically the same thing Groody's, Ryan's, and my own answer said 15 minutes after we had posted ours around the same time.
It got downvoted for being late, but they were working on it for a long while, stuff like that happens
His. I'm considering undeleting it, but it didn't seem to be a popular answer (it got 2 downvotes in the time it took me to realize and respond to wheatley that other people had reached the same conclusion.)
I feel like my answer focused more on a self-contained answer based on the crux of the dilemma; it's established that instantaneous effects don't wink out when brought into an AM field, so the real question is
@TheFallen0ne There's nothing wrong with having multiple answers reach the same conclusion.
We typically only worry about "duplicate" answers when an answer is posted long after the others and it truly does not contribute any novelty to the discussion.
> As she continued to go over the receipts, she caught snippets of conversations from her cousins, who were arguing over who would get to play with the new toy Fridmar had sent them from his travels. Fin couldn't help but feel a twinge of jealousy at the mention of her well-behaved brother, who had left home to become an artificer. She and Fridmar had never gotten along, as he had always been too critical and controlling for her liking.
I meant to post that earlier, apologies for the huge gap
Thanks. I upvoted everyone else's too. Originally I went right along and deleted it because I felt other people either showed more detail or more concisely got to my point, but I do appreciate the advice, @ThomasMarkov . Ryan definitely hits the same premise more thoroughly, I feel, now that I've had a chance to see everything that was posted while I was making my post.
Busy day, there were a lot of people ready to hop on this one. :-D
I have an idea I'd like to share with the class (yes, that's apparently the best opening I could come up with)
(For D&D 5e) I've been thinking about adding an ability; Luck
I've seen blind rolls and the like come up from time to time, and I like the idea of codifying (some of) those, and allow it to interact more with the rest of the system
At least our table has been using Intelligence (Investigation) for rolls to loot the room/bodies/etc. and while a number of those checks maybe shouldn't have been called at all, splitting it off to Luck (Scavenging) has a real appeal
Does anyone have experience with additional ability scores? (I'm aware of the DMG options, and while I don't like Honour nor Sanity for ability scores, the template for adding looks reasonable)
Beyond having to explain it about twice per player, one of the bigger issues I foresee is that character sheets don't support it, which means might have a lot of cognitive overhead
