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Joshua Aslan Smith

19:02

hmm

wax eagle

19:17

you haven't been asked for your address yet, have you?

Joshua Aslan Smith

no I havent

@waxeagle though yeha they are running out of time

I guess werent not going to do anything site overhaul wise either at this point

wax eagle

@JoshuaAslanSmith not unless SE has more up their sleeve than they've shown so far

To me, so far this looks like a missed opportunity

whether that's on our mods, or SE, I'm not sure, but we don't seem to have any mods driving things for sure

Aaron

19:34

So I have a question about comments

wax eagle

rest of my thoughts belong in the bar, not here

@Aaron whats up?

Aaron

Context

Q: Pathfinder: Why is summoning undead evil?

My Question is: Where can I reference the RAW as to (1) that summoning undead is always an evil act, and (2) why summoning undead is always an evil act? The background is: Some of the players in my game keep coming up with the theory that they can make an army of undead and only use it for goo...

Would a comment that could help the situation but not answer the question be appropriate? Such as pointing out this class d20pfsrd.com/classes/3rd-party-classes/kobold-press-open-design/…

wax eagle

@Aaron probably

Aaron

@waxeagle Ok. I remembered some Meta questions about comments and relevance so wanted to ask.

wax eagle

@Aaron as long it's not an answer, a helpful link can be good

just posted a meta Q, hopefully we'll get some information

Aaron

19:41

@waxeagle I went ahead and commented if you want to add a link to it in the meta

Commented on the question.

Aaron

19:56

Is Alchemist the best PAthfinder buffer class?

Joshua Aslan Smith

@waxeagle Thats the thing it could be either way but I know all 3 mods have been pretty sparse as of late, this reinforces my petition that we get some new blood in

wax eagle

@JoshuaAslanSmith yeah, my feelings exactly

Joshua Aslan Smith

people tamped down on my trying to get things moving I started as early as I did because i knew social inertia was a factor

Aaron

It seems like it would be. You can spend one round and buff the entire party with specialized buffs as long as they spend the time to drink their potions. And then you can 'cast' a general buff on everyone.

Joshua Aslan Smith

hmmm might need to revisit that meta post, but maybe wait till after the launch since we'll have our hands full

The Oracle

19:58

Q: Where are we with potential 5e promotions?

It seems like we're stalled out here with any potential 5e promotion. Where are we, what's going on behind the scenes? What can we as a community do to help? With the first release slated for Friday, it would be helpful to know what our schedule looks like.

discussion site-promotion

Aaron

@waxeagle Where did your question go? I don't see a meta question.

wax eagle

@Aaron caching

@JoshuaAslanSmith yeah, wait til after the 5e launch

Aaron

@waxeagle Erm. Meta has a delay?

wax eagle

@Aaron the front page is cached very aggressively, if you click on "Questions" it will usually be there

Joshua Aslan Smith

good question

Aaron

20:03

I don't see it.

Joshua Aslan Smith

I mean we might be able to cobble somethign together for the front page

in the time left

I dont know what sort of vetting process that would have to go through

GMNoob

The "Launch" is on thursday...

Joshua Aslan Smith

"Your unofficial resource for D&D 5e Questions and Answers" is the best thing to come to mind that probably wont involve laywers

we could trawl for some CC artwork that looks right

GMNoob

fixed the question for you :)

Can't we use the 5e press release images?

Joshua Aslan Smith

ehhhhhh?

GMNoob

20:10

The type of stuff you see in articles like these: escapistmagazine.com/news/view/…

Joshua Aslan Smith

@waxeagle just got an email from the RPG.SE

wax eagle

good deal

Joshua Aslan Smith

hmmm 6-8 weeks is a ridiculously long ship time lol

welp canceling amazon preorder

@waxeagle I think thats pro-forma from a general form though, since the email itself actually talks about getting it to me before launch? so before the 15th at least

wax eagle

@JoshuaAslanSmith yeah, it's probably their swag form

Joshua Aslan Smith

@waxeagle let me know if you were chosen, if somehow not I'd definitely extend an invitation to you to be one of my online players for the RPG.SE game I plan to run on roll20.

wax eagle

20:24

@JoshuaAslanSmith cool, would love to

they are playing through the starter set tonight at 7

(EDT)

wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd/news/liveqa06302014

Joshua Aslan Smith

First thought: Spoilers, 2nd thought: Im gming this could be incredibly useful

Im hoping starter set and basic have much much better rules writing/editing

wax eagle

aye, planning to run it at least once myself

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The Oracle

23:51

Q: Add "how to get started in roleplaying games to the FAQ". Also, start a FAQ?

We get questions from excited users who want to get started with roleplaying games, but mostly what we do is shut them down. Me and my girlfriend wanna start playing where do we start? I want to take part! Also, we don't have an obvious FAQ. There's http://rpg.stackexchange.com/help and http...