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KorvinStarmast

01:16

@trogdor Yeah, it was a fun movie that was a good story. And I will admit, both my wife and I are huge Sean Connery fans (the voice of the dragon) that helped

Pixie

01:27

Ugh. I'm having to do math. By which I mean look up a calculator specific to what I need, become confused, do research, find math other people have already done (which I should have thought to do to begin with), and then recheck it with the specific calculator because my initial calculation was way off.

(I suddenly became worried whether settlements of the size I thought could fit in my hexes at the scale I had made them. Yes, they can. :P)

KorvinStarmast

02:08

@Pixie Yes We Can! :) Glad it worked out.

Shalvenay

hey there @KorvinStarmast

ravery

@KorvinStarmast -- I just rewatched it. excellent movie :)

Shalvenay

hey there @Nandoviski, welcome to the RPG.SE lair :)

nitsua60

02:24

@MikeQ the only time I care about alignment is if we're doing law-chaos as originally conceived: actual sides in an actual conflict between forces that want a universe that works according to predictable rules (like gravity, spell slots, &c.) and that want a universe that spins off into madness in every direction. That have their own secret languages and that try to infiltrate others' groups and thwart each others' plan for the future of the universe.

ravery

Since it requires a Twitch account to view any content not in the basic rules, should we be linking to D&D Beyond? It seems that for most people the link is useless, unless they have or create a twitch account

Volo's, Xanthar's, PHB, MM, DMG all restricted content.

nitsua60

[citation needed]
I'm not saying I doubt you, though. I'm saying "I *need* that citation. Because I want to read more things like this."

BESW

Dec 11 '14 at 10:24, by BESW

Also I have found this essay on garlic's magnet-nullifying properties which discusses how the kind of thing a fact is influences how obvious its truth value seems.

ravery

rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/126122/…... the champion link

nitsua60

@ravery I feel like there's already a meta on this. [rummages]

20

Q: Stance on using D&D Beyond for references?

With the release of dndbeyond, and seeing it used a few times around the site, I wanted to ask if we have (or should have) a policy regarding using direct links to a paywall shielded website, instead of referring to physical books. Naturally, we encourage pasting in the relevant text in case of ...

ravery

02:32

Possibly, but I've seen a few edits to question, and once to an answer I write that added links to restricted content

nitsua60

@ravery For me the question there is whether the edit made it any harder for someone with a physical reference to follow your question/answer. As long as it didn't then it's an unambiguous improvement, IMO.

trogdor

@KorvinStarmast I like Sean Connery well enough but my brother really likes him a lot, or at least used to

ravery

@nitsua60 -- no it did not harm the questions/answers, but for me didn't add to it either. I realize Volo's and Xanther's content is probably difficult to find, but the majority of the standard books are in freely accessible SRD's

trogdor

I don't know if he cares as much for him now

ravery

@trogdor -- he was good as 007

trogdor

02:38

I barely saw him as 007

ravery

@trogdor yeah that was 1980 or so, perhaps earlier

hard to remember that far back

trogdor

Yeah slightly before my time that

ravery

@trogdor no 007 since has been as good

trogdor

I'll take your word for it

nitsua60

@ravery "for me" is the key there, IMO. It didn't harm it for you, and there certainly exist people for whom it improves it to have the link vs. not. So it's a win.

trogdor

02:43

I liked Peirce Brosnan as bond but I don't know how popular that idea is

XD

nitsua60

@ravery No Bond has ever been as good as $USERS_FIRST_BOND, unless you started with Lazenby.

ravery

@nitsua60 rodger dodger

@nitsua60 True, I am likely biased in that assessment

but Connery did have that flair that fit the role so prefectly

nitsua60

@ravery I feel like Bonds and Doctors follow that law. For me it's Roger Moore and Tom Baker =)

I assume you mean this flair:

ravery

Yeah, I like the earlier Doctor's also

pinterest.com/pin/697424692268861362 no one can do it like he can

Miniman

@nitsua60 The user(s?) obsessively adding it everywhere is a bit much, though.

nitsua60

02:49

@Miniman Is there someone on an edit-crusade? I haven't really seen the site today.

I see someone who's maybe done about a half-dozen on the front page right now--is that the one?

Miniman

@nitsua60 Aye. Not spamming them, but there's been a heck of a lot of edits consisting solely of a link over the past few weeks...maybe months.

ravery

@nitsua60 -- yep, the first three post in new questions

trogdor

How odd

But yeah personally so far I like the old who doctors a little better than the newer ones

ravery

@nitsua60 - and he's the same that did the previous ones I noticed

trogdor

Though I have seen very little Capaldi

nitsua60

02:53

Interesting. Looks like it's been a bit of a project, somewhere between 6 and 12 a day, and spaced out a bit.

Miniman

Personally, when it's happened to something of mine I've undone it. I wrote an answer based on the wording in a book, I don't need a link to words I haven't read that are often subtly different.

trogdor

And none of Jodie yet at all either

Miniman

Also, if I'm being honest, I dislike DNDBeyond on a personal basis and don't really want it touching my stuff.

trogdor

Lol

I don't personally like someone editing the content of my posts

ravery

I don't mind spelling corrections, but when they start rewording it ...

Miniman

03:00

I mean, no, great, a 3rd way to buy books I already own in a digital format because WotC is completely clueless about digital tools. Love that.

Love it.

trogdor

There are some great grammar edits and stuff like that, but content edits, I feel, should at least come with a courtesy question Like, "can I edit this part?"

@Miniman XD

Oh god the disdain

nitsua60

@Miniman Medium 2 being VTT?

trogdor

The earned disdain

XD

Miniman

@nitsua60 3 ways to buy books I already own: Fantasy Grounds, Roll20, and DnDBeyond.

They come up with a new one about once a year, I really look forward to it and preorder everything I can.

ravery

Though, roll20 let's you put in any content you want. It's what I play on

Atleast for the 5e sheet, it is completely customizable

Miniman

03:06

They all let you add any content you want. They all also "let" you buy all the content you already own in book form.

ravery

well roll20 gives you the 5e. Fantasy give you 3.5e sort of.

Miniman

Roll20 gives everyone access to the 5e content that's free (the SRD), but you have to pay to access anything else.

Not sure what you mean by "give you 3.5e sort of".

trogdor

That sounds "wonderful" cough cough cough

XD

ravery

@Miniman -- creating a game doesn't give you the content, but there is a premade that has the 3.5e content....I guess if I paid a subscription I might get it

roll20 give you the 5e SRD regardless if you pay, but there are some additional perks for paying the basic subscription

Miniman

@ravery FG doesn't do subscriptions, you buy the books in the form of modules that let you use the content.

ravery

03:15

@Miniman - I thought there was a monthly cost also, "buy a license"

then you have to buy the modules for 5e

Miniman

The subscription is for access to program features, the modules are separate.

That said, it's barely usable without the subscription features, so...yeah.

KorvinStarmast

03:37

@Miniman I tend to feel as you do about the link project ...

@Shalvenay Sorry I missed that hail, I was doing other stuff on the pC at the time ...

PhiNotPi

@kviiri I haven't added any other mechanics yet... but I probably should. There are plenty of other changes from our normal play style, mainly in that I will be paying much closer to the party's equipment and to resource gathering/use. For a food gathering example, this means walking through the steps of figuring out where a specific plant could grow, identifying the plant, gathering it, meal preparation (avoid eating diseased things), and then keeping track of resource depletion on a map.

I have found some homebrew content online which could add an alchemy component, among other things. Contains a list of herbs listed by biome and also describes what potions can be made from which combos. I don't want to have to teach my players a whole alchemy system though... so it might be the case that I tell them what they can make as they find herbs.

Nandoviski