TRPG General Chat

Q: Is there any support for combining Pact Magic with Magic of Incarnum?

3:29 AM

I am looking for anything in Dragon Magazine or 3rd party material that supports combining Pact Magic from Tome of Magic with Soulmelds from Magic of Incarnum.

dnd-3.5e

5 hours later…

Q: When targeted by a Nightcrawler, can a Monk get rid of Finger of Doom effect by using Stillness of Mind?

8:32 AM

The effect of Nightcrawler's Finger of Doom skill is: The nightwalker points at one creature it can see within 300 feet of it. The target must succeed on a DC 21 Wisdom saving throw or take 6d12 necrotic damage and become frightened until the end of the nightwalker's next turn. While frightened ...

dnd-5e monsters class-feature monk conditions

3 hours later…

11:07 AM

This user's posts are nonsense, and have a 99.9% chance of being AI generated, and they're already suspended for a week on Worldbuilding: rpg.stackexchange.com/users/80573/melton-poxymori

Already voted to delete.

I've downvoted, voted to delete, and flagged as spam their only remaining post, after the last one was similarly deleted.

Is this our second AI generated nonsense poster, or is it just the second one I've seen?

11:22 AM

This is the third poster ive suspected of AI

In other news, I am currently experiencing a serial voting attack, that is, serial undownvotes.

huh

that's kind

Not getting upvotes with them, just undownvotes.

Hmmm just observed another user got an undownvote.

And two more users with undownvotes in the last hour.

There is an undownvote spree going on

And I do believe I’ve just figured out who it is.

@doppelgreener what the policy on serial undownvoting?

11:52 AM

@ThomasMarkov i don't believe there is one

there's automated reversal of serial upvoting because it adversely inflates someone's reputation, and of serial downvoting because it adversely damages someone's reputation

but this is just ... undoing actions? i don't expect there's any problem or policy around that

12:05 PM

@doppelgreener and last remnant gone

@ThomasMarkov users getting nuked undoes their votes, doesn't it?

@Trish it can, but it shows up on rep timeline as “user was removed”.

These are just showing up as undownvotes.

@ThomasMarkov oh right...

12:49 PM

they're also not coming all at once, just one by one, so it's a person reviewing some of their downvotes and changing their mind (which is nice)

Akixkisu

1:21 PM

For some reason I can't quickly find the dupe target for this question about starting dnd-5e rpg.stackexchange.com/q/204623/44723

Q: I'm at a loss with “Dungeons and Dragons.” How does one play it, anyway?

1:48 PM

I don't think we've handled this before.

Relevant but not necessarily a dupe:

191

I'm no gamer at all, so this could be like a very silly, basic question for you guys. The thing is that I always read about "Dungeons and Dragons" game (not the video game, but the normal game to play with friends that are actually gathered together). And I would like to know how to play it. I'v...

dungeons-and-dragons new-players

Q: What do I need to run a D&D 5E campaign?

I have GM'd several RPGs before that are not D&D (Fate, Deathwatch, Star Wars). We first tried to play D&D using the 3.5 edition and it went horribly — too many books and too many options with no idea of where to start. I have been told that 5E takes care of all that and is easier and more fun s...

dnd-5e new-players books system-introduction

I think we're past the stage of the first question—they know what D&D is, they just don't know how to get started playing it—and the second question is part of the picture, because that's the stuff they might need to run a campaign.

finding-other-players is also relevant

C. Ross

2:36 PM

My players lost their notes on their loot, at least what was in the party kitty. I can't remember this ever happening before

3:02 PM

can you all remember what the order of magnitude might have been? that might be easy to remember, if not the exact amount

C. Ross

Yeah, it was only on the order of 100gp, I am debating whether to help them out and give them retcon that much. They have some money from a more recent adventure, so the current state isn't game breaking.

Worth a question, or too subjective?

probably a lil too subjective

but like, i'd just give it to them

round up to the nearest hundred, they found some extra coins stashed away, no big deal

trust them not to make a habit of it

@C.Ross That's a sidequest. They notice their loot bag is gone. They investigate.

C. Ross

@ThomasMarkov they already have too many side quests...

3:32 PM

@Trish That was me and I never pulled the trigger on that trade.

@KorvinStarmast yea, and like it seems: they are about to go even lower.

@doppelgreener I am sure that we can thank Chatgpt (or a similar bot/AI) for our new annoying entrants ...

@KorvinStarmast welp, time to ban ChatGTP then.

@Trish There was a discussion on that topic at SE meta, not sure what the latest is.

@KorvinStarmast "each substack has to decide"

3:42 PM

OK, I'll propose that we ban it. Let me see if we have a meta. @Trish

@KorvinStarmast we haven’t had a meta about it yet.

here is my post about at meta.fitness. Same logic applies here.

Someone_Evil

I'm pretty sure most of the AI answers have already been removed from rpg as a LQ thing (the output of an AI with clearly no human curation is LQ)

3:58 PM

@Someone_Evil Your comment on that new question ends mid sentence...

I think, "...because clearly there lay arguments"

Someone_Evil

Ending there was intentional, does it not scan?

Yeah I don't get it lol

Q: Should this stack ban ChatGTP?

@ThomasMarkov We do now, amigo. 😁

The Oracle

Over at SE Meta the guidance to date is that each sub-stack needs to decide if we should ban the ChatGTP. RPGSE Meta is the correct format for arriving at a consensus for that. Stack Overflow has banned it. RPGSE does not have a per site meta entry in this thread. If nothing else, this Meta will...

discussion policy

@Xirema you're up, go get 'em

Someone_Evil

4:01 PM

@ThomasMarkov Homage to "there be dragons" I suppose. Keep away, there are things to avoid

Ah, okay.

@Trish Thank you for the prompt, it got me to the SE meta so that I could add a few useful links to the RPGSE meta that I posed.

@Someone_Evil It works for me. 😎

5:05 PM

wow, I just realized, we got not a single question about Hc-Sunt-Draconis... (sp?)

Q: Is Heightened(4th) Silence spell balanced?

5:49 PM

Second level spell Silence can be heightened to 4th level description is as follow: Heightened (4th) The spell effect emanates from the touched creature, silencing all sound in or passing through a 10- foot radius and preventing any auditory and sonic effects in the affected area. While within t...

spells balance pathfinder-2e house-rules

2 hours later…

Xirema

8:03 PM

@ThomasMarkov I don't know there's a lot I can say without just copying my answer from meta, lol

@Xirema That's the spirit!

Xirema

8:23 PM

Alright, I wrote an answer. 😛

1 hour later…