Also, are you aware that two armies, Austrian and Russian, were mobilizing east of the Rhine while Wellington's coalition with the Prussians was trying to catch Bonaparte before he took Brussels?
@SPavel I'd need to look at a map of Europe in 1815, since a lot of the spoils of the 1814 campaign were still getting settled after Napoleon accepted exile.
@Spavel Hmmm, in real history, the Napoleonic/Revolutionary Era wars began in 1793 before Napoleon got noticed by the council ...
The Levee en masse happened when Prussians (and Austrians IIRC) and Bavarians came west to deal with those French who were stirring up the ancient regime ...
It' was the opening move in the Revolutionary Wars, because it was an attempt to restore the Bourbon Monarchy. Napoleon didn't get noticed until some years later, after Toulon IIRC.
Alternative campaign: You play as a Russian peasant conscripted into the army, the entire game is marching to Paris and by the time you get there, Blucher already got Napoleon
Features neither dungeons nor dragoons but you do get a nifty pike
@Rubiksmoose I am not the only person who makes these reasonable requests for the asker to put a modicum of effort into their questions.
You might want to add a quote saying what button 4 does from the Cube of Force entry in the DMG; off the top of my head I can't remember what the buttons do... EDIT: I posted seconds after you comment and didn't see it, but including a DMG quote would still help your question. — NathanS56 mins ago
You sure didn't get scolded by me, and you won't, because I spend considerable effort with people trying to get badly written questions improved.
Where did I say it was Required? Did you read something into what I wrote? I made a request, and I used emphasis, since this user has not been very good about clarity in questions.
@KorvinStarmast I mean I definitely do too. I workshop question with people via comments and chat all the time. I don't have a beef with you and am not questioning your credentials or anything like it. I am simply trying to understand and have a discussion about if that was reasonable or not. If I am wrong then it would be more of the same and another lesson learned for me. This is me trying to learn from a more experienced member
Some people need to be advised in a different style than others that putting some research and effort into a question significantly improves results.
@Rubiksmoose I am not as hidebound nor as rule bound as some who participate here. Each person with a question to answer/problem to solve is their own case, and each brings something different to the table. Some people need to be taught how to interact more effectively.
@Rubiksmoose That's right, I am asking this user to stop being so vague in question asking. With Good Reason.
I have found that those who take the effort to identify what rule or text or lore or concept is confusing them get better results, and there is less guess work in arriving at an answer.
Listen, right now you are coming across as angry and I'm not sure if that is correct or if that is directed at me, but all I am trying to do is have a discussion.
@KorvinStarmast I would be lying if I said that I was not also frustrated by the same thing honestly. I was thinking about asking something related to it on meta, but I need to do a search through first to see if any other things already answer my question.
also I don't want to open a meta against one user.
@SPavel bad questions get bad answers, and sometimes lots of them. Sometimes bad questions are bad for other reasons such as inexperience which warrant correcting IMO.
@SPavel I have never been a fan of the SE norm of down vote and leave no reason why. As I discussed with mxy a few years ago, it smacks of the Anonymous Coward syndrome from the early days of the internet. I do understand why the SE model uses that, but it has a side effect that leaves a bad taste in the mouth of a lot of users.
I have seen those discussions on all five SE sites where I participate regullarly
The responses boil down to "what's with the hit and run down vote and no feedback on how to improve question/answer?"
@KorvinStarmast If the question is obviously bad, and you ask the asker to improve it, and the asker does not improve it, and you downvote, and the asker asks 'what's with the hit and run"...
@SPavel I think that is generally the sentiment yes. On the other hand, if you downvote, correct, and then they do make the changes, you have just created a more effective (potential) member of the community right?
@Spavel maybe they are not cut out for Stack? Really? I had nearly that exact interaction early in my time here. :p I wasn't going to change my question before I got the courtesy of a response as to what was wrong with it.
@SPavel I read the whole comment, and My reply was to the whole thing. Are you suggesting that me, having that initial reaction, wasn't cut out for this stack?
@Rubiksmoose I do wish there was a notification of some sort for "the question you downvoted might have been improved" but it would probably be hard to balance it between useless and annoying
@KorvinStarmast Agreed. I try to think of every new user from the perspective of me when I started which was utterly clueless about the site and just wanting an answer.
@KorvinStarmast I am suggesting that your example has nothing to do with what I said since you changed what was wrong with your answer when someone told you and I clearly said "and the asker does not improve it"
@SPavel Actually, no I didn't. I disagreed with the person. I also got short with them in a comment and got a mod message about not doing that. (From SSD IIRC)
It is clear to me that we should always attempt to tell people when they do something wrong or that could be improved. Because, more often then not, I find that people make these mistakes not out of malicious intent or laziness, but out of ignorance.
from another SE, this is one answer that's been downvoted several times and I have no idea why https://lifehacks.stackexchange.com/questions/10531/how-can-i-prevent-pee-from-flying-off-target/11396#11396
@KorvinStarmast I do apologize if I come across as overly legalistic sometimes and even in this specific case. I am trying to learn not only the rules but also how to interact as a community here.
I get that because it's not explicit a DM doesn't have to, but I really wouldn't suggest picking up the feat if they don't.
Yup, but that's part of it. If you've waited enough turns before using it, that's part of the strategy. SOmetimes you're lucky, sometimes you make your own luck!
@KorvinStarmast I just sent out a linkedin message for a job to someone and they're response was "Hello thank you for the interest but I am not looking for kinky opportunities". I'm pretty sure kinky was supposed to be LinkedIn.
Ah, cutting words. Yeah, the usual ruling is that the player gets to see the roll and the result of the roll, but not modifiers, before making the call to use it or not.
It's a rather awkward power in practice. I had to always remind my GM that "hey, I have a use of Bardic Inspiration left, so roll openly"
@kviiri yeah, i've had DMs in our rotating group (even though we've asked everyone to DM with the same table rules) who didn't want to expose the die. So I had to guess on whether or not to use it. It makes it a lot less fun.
Trying to keep AC (or other DCs) secret is a rather misguided thing in general. In most cases the PCs ought to have a pretty good idea about whether the opponents they're fighting are easy or hard to hit.
"But metagaming", sure, but I think keeping mental notes about which rolls hit and which didn't is a far worse form of that than just... well, knowing the number and getting to concentrate on something more entertaining.
A character should know that they missed because they bungled that axe throw, vs they executed it perfectly, better than at the axe throwing olympics where they got first place, but the axe bounced harmlessly off the enemy, who laughed, picked it up, and ate it
@SPavel Yeah but I mean like, REALLY obvious. In the sense that I literally told them that "it's way too quiet here. I'll be damned if this isn't a trap."
"We know that the old soothsayer warned us that if we go into this cave, there's a magic seal that will explode our heads... but what could this cryptic warning mean?" -gets head exploded-
I try to use the Apocalypse World philosophy of "no gotchas". Players are free to get their characters in trouble as much as they like but I try to never make it because of them having inadequate information.
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Turns out most of the time the players want their characters to be in trouble, who would've known!
I wonder if it's possible to write an RPG about eating tide pods - you use peer pressure to convince the other players to eat tide pods while resisting their own attempts to make you eat tide pods
As soon as someone eats a tide pod, the entire table loses
a few days ago the internet discovered an australian/NZ/UK candy called Pods (that has existed for about a decade) and went nuts thinking it was a brand new kind of candy capitalising on the tide pods meme (no actual relation)
So, in preparing for my campaign for a PbtA game called Masks (young superheros centered RPG) I've had questions that I've had a hard time finding, but found elsewhere.
Would it be worth potentially asking them here and then self-answering if I don't get responses? Or is it not worth even asking because of the low to non existant population of people on this SE that play/can answer this question?
@SPavel so close! Powered by the Apocalypse (based loosely on Apocalypse World's rule set).
@SPavel A show my 3 year old daughter watches featured Quetzalcoatlus. It made me happy to know we live in an age where dinosaur information is so abundant. And badass
You can become a truth seeker, which to my knowledge was never officially updated. The requirements are easily met (nonevil, base attack bonus +5, three feats, and two skills).
At 1st level, a truth seeker learns two of the ten psionic combat modes.
This option is superior to the prestige c...
but my first very successful answer only came a month later
Be an NPC, not the GM
The GM, as an entity, must be infallible to a certain degree, because he is the PC's conduit to the game world. If he says the party meets an NPC, the party is now reacting to this NPC. If he says here there be dragons, the party stocks up on burn ointment. Players are like...
Mostly you see the Timeless trait (Astral, Feywild)
>TIME ALONG THE GREAT WHEEL Within the D&D cosmology, time flows at a normal rate, and all planes have normal time trait. Planes with the flowing time trait or the erratic time trait change the game too dramatically for most players' tastes. The only exception to this is the Astral Plane, which is a timeless plane for purposes of aging, hunger, thirst, and natural healing.
@goodguy5 if you are DMing for this, you could always just say that X plane has time run differently than the material and it would be true for your world. though I have not thought about any repercussions of this.
@SPavel "aging, hunger, thirst, and natural healing" one of these things is not like the other...
@goodguy5 Coming in here to ask would be the right way to go about that - or going off to do the research yourself so you can put together a full answer.
@goodguy5 have you read the meta post on it? It is quite informative and helps a lot to understand why the system can't deal with answering in the comments
@NautArch I saw the tag, and laughed about it. I'd literally never heard of hackmaster. And since it happened to be 5e and I had been thinking about dnd5e, my brain made the leap for me.
You should not answer in comments. Not partial answers, not full answers. Not "leads on" an answer. Not "I would answer but I'm tired/just woke up/am drunk so I'll just say this..." These will be deleted. Answer in answers.
Answering in comments does the following things.
It bypasses quest...
@Rubiksmoose actually, it seems at first you can only have those three cantrips in it, which let you cast at will if you have the book. Later, you can take an invocation that allows you to put rituals in it. That seems to imply that without the invocation, you can't add anything to it at all?
@NautArch that is correct with what I'm seeing currently. However, I take that more as a restriction on what the warlock can learn more than what you can physically scribble into the book
@NautArch oh another way to think of it is that you are following the rules for both classes. Warlock says you can write spells in a book and wizard says you can write spells in a book. So writing them in the same book doesn't seem like a strectch.
You should not answer in comments. Not partial answers, not full answers. Not "leads on" an answer. Not "I would answer but I'm tired/just woke up/am drunk so I'll just say this..." These will be deleted. Answer in answers.
Answering in comments does the following things.
It bypasses quest...
