So you would need consent from a parent or guardian before you could use detect evil on a child under 16, if you are interested in recording the result of the spell.
@kviiri well I think the meta drama comes about as a result of a compromise in security. We want updates and details on a specific issue, but there's no way to tell if the edits are from the original question asker or someone using their account. The whole system comes crashing down at this point. I wouldnt call it a mole-hill.
@PremierBromanov Edits can always be judged case by case. Security breach or no, an edit that changes a question's meaning substantially can always be rejected.
Should we reverse the duplication on this: Can I cast Blade Ward and then make my monk unarmed strike with a bonus action? and make Can a monk make a bonus unarmed attack after using shocking grasp? the duplicate?
The newer answer is much more fleshed out and seems a better Q&A to point to.
@kviiri right but how are we to know the validity of any claim? If someone edits the question as saying, in this example, "The girl didnt seem bothered by it", can we judge that? These are facts we can't validate. Maybe the girl really was upset by it, but someone sneakily added the small fact that she was "okay with it". These types of things we cant judge as accurate. details of a conflict are not ours to judge
@PremierBromanov Yeah, you're right about that, but I mean... we can simply block the account for ToS violation, without assuming bad faith, and tell the user to be more careful the next time.
Right now there's deleted stuff as well as an account compromise. The fact is everyone's better with the account suspended, including the people who were using it.
@doppelgreener Yeah, unless the advice to get help IRL was ignored ... (I thought @GreySage laid out some good advice, but I am seeing it from a third person perspective)
@Rubiksmoose I've edited my answer for the Monk bonus action question to add that the answer doesn't change if the spell makes an attack roll, so now it actually answers the original duplicated question, in case the dupe is reversed.
@PremierBromanov This is one of the reasons we have moderators. Moderators are here for cases just like cases of a rules violations and site misuse. And have elevated ability to deal with these things.
@HellSaint thanks! That is a big help. I didn't consider that honestly.
@PremierBromanov I guess we're talking about different scales of the issue. I think the site can handle misuse and it's no biggie. The issues described in the posts themselves are of course serious biz, but issues that we, as anonymous strangers, can only do so much about.
The best we can do is try to not let our site worsen the situation through malicious use.
Community notice: This has been rolled back, bounties refunded, and locked down for the moment, due to their account being compromised. — SevenSidedDie ♦30 mins ago
Lets not make it bigger than it is: an account was compromised, the community noticed, the moderators locked it down to give the user an opportunity to resolve the issue.
@HellSaint I wonder if Empty Hand Monk + Magus would do it. Pick up a cabbage, use it to deliver empowered shocking grasp. By RAW, the cabbage is unharmed.
I think he was just saying it was best not to start a conversation that would lead to speculation more than reprimand you for saying anything speicifally
@goodguy5 It seemed to be from the perspective of the groper, and it wasn't very interesting. Basically just "I didn't do anything wrong, and now people are being mean".
About the suspended account thing, I'm actually impressed that this is so uncommon here that it becomes such a ruckus. Most forums would be like "welp one more banhammer, keep things going". Let's chill and let mods do mods things.
@Anaphory I like that the Norwegians celebrate their Constitution on their national day. It feels somehow more connected to modern virtues than celebration of monarchs or independence.
(I learned that from watching Skam, the Norwegian TV show)
I've never been this far north, and it's only 60⁰N. I still find it strange that the sun hasn't set yet, and will be up again by 4am, and there will barely be twilight in between.
1 Colossal dragon, dual wielding gargantuan dragons, each dual wielding huge dragons, each dual wielding four-armed sahuagins, each quad-wielding four-armed gargoyles, each quad-wielding halflings, each dual-wielding awakened cats, each dual-wielding awakened mice, each dual-wielding bees. All are empty hand monks, dipping into titan fighter or jotungrip barbarian.
Can Eldritch Blast be Twinned? is currently listed as a duplicate of Does a sorcerer's metamagic work for non-sorcerer spells?, but the answer to that question is not correct for this one. It seems to me like it should be either reopened and answered as-is or listed as a duplicate to Does twinne...
I love how Jemisin, like Okorafor, laughs at, and writes books which actively oppose, attempts to categorize stories as science fiction or fantasy or afrofuturist or anything else.
@Yuuki actually the magma layer wields the crust. If I disarm the earth did I just discard all of the crust 5 feet adjacent to the exposed lava ball that was earth?
@SPavel I had a rather entertaining conversation about the latter with a self-proclaimed science fiction fan who was rather disappointed that the genre is so heavily dominated by the "magic-laden mock scifi" that is Star Wars.
I prefer the Laundry Files for Charles Stross. I want to believe that magic does exist, turns out it's just math, and we've made practical applications for it. By the way do not solve the mandlebrot set, things live in the bottom of it and it makes them angry.
Overall, I don't like "science fiction" as a genre descriptor because it tends to only describe a very vague set of qualities a work has, usually stopping after the setting.
Context
Recently, we got this question about Wizard spellcasting. It was closed as a dupe and, from the OP comments and my answer being accepted, it's clear that he was carrying over a concept from Pathfinder to the 5e which was simply wrong.
This problem is pretty frequent, see this confusion ...
Though now I want to play a Nick Cage Rakshasa character, who can take on the form of any creature but always has the same face rather than the backwards hands
Anyway. Stupid official D&D adventure put two dragon eggs in the dragon hoard. In the hoard of the dragon who is the final boss of the adventure. Hence, now I have players who want to know what they can do with two dragon eggs, and I have no idea.
One wants to raise a dragon. I'm ok with that, dragons take a lot of time to grow. He knows and he doesn't care, its' just a thing he'd like to write into the future history of his character.
If a Rogue gets Sneak Attack when the target has an enemy within 5 feet and a Swashbuckler gets Sneak Attack if the target isn't within 5 feet of any of the Swashbuckler's allies, does that mean they can basically Sneak Attack all the time?
This question is somewhat related to Can you get Sneak Attack with any weapon as a Swashbuckler?
One of my players is a Swashbuckler Rogue, and we debated if he could use the Sneak Attack on every attack with the Rakish Audacity ability (from the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide):
In additio...
@KorvinStarmast I had an hilarious exchange yesterday where I had that druid 1/6 taunt, crypt something, and he tried to kill it with Leeroy. Like, play and attack. Without remembering that the drakelings boosted the crypt creature's health.