@Ben mind just linking a few? I've got a tickle in my brain that we've said something about "homebrew this for me" but can't remember what. (Maybe we say they're off-topic, maybe we list out what they should have to help us do it well, maybe I'm just imagining things?)
I want to know if there is a good homebrew somewhere for dnd 5e. I see that we've revised our game recs policy, so I was curious how this extends to homebrewing. Is that something i can ask about here? If so, how can I ask it correctly?
To be more specific, I'd like to ask about armor rules. Mos...
I've recently noticed a couple questions that seemed like "make me some suggestions for this homebrew idea I had". I voted to close both as an off-topic Shopping/Recommendation request, as to me they both seemed like asking for recommendations and idea generation, which is clearly off-topic here....
We have 2 questions (this one and this one) that are asking for answers to homebrew up a class for them.
To me this seems like it's both very broad and entirely opinion-based. I can't see a way to judge answers objectively. Since there's 2 of them, I figured it was worth checking with meta.
Are...
What's the stance on asking for feedback on house-ruled material? In my particular case, I wrote a couple of generic moves for Tremulus (they can probably be extended to AW/DW), changing the wealth system, and wanted to ask if the community could spot any potential pitfalls with them.
This may not be the best question in the world, but I like being on a site where we ask questions like this and it is considered normal. Can a centaur thief wear magic pants?
Can anyone help me understand the "secondary" ability on a weapon?
Like, for example, one PC has a Katana that can inflict an electric pulse on an enemy, which, should they fail, cause them to be Shaken (though if they are already shaken, this does nothing)
Do we have a question on effects of lycantropy in DnD 5e?
Two of our characters were infected by werewolves yesterday and it turns out lycanthropy has only positive effects in 5e if you resist it... some curse, we thought! Except then I read the full chapter on lycanthropes which adds that it's impossible to resist the curse on full moon. I wonder why they omitted that from the infobox.
I'd like to ask and answer this myself, but it might be a dupe.
Also really look into this line in the Monster Manual: "The DM is free to decide that a change in alignment places the character under DM control until the curse of lycanthropy is removed."
This makes werebear and weretiger easy to see for PCs but the others are less workable if you use that rule.
But that's besides the point because the infobox doesn't really have anything on the full moon bit either, it sounds like the lycanthropy is just a voluntary deal
@kviiri Probably if you rule as intended, but RAW I think you count as a lycanthrope anyway (and thus get the benefits). Certainly worth the question (I didn't see it on the stack or remember it)
I think Once Upon a Time (which does this Fantasy Kitchen Sink thing with fairy tales) had a rather interesting take on Little Red Riding Hood and bloodthirsty wolf-beasts.
@doppelgreener Just trying to understand here, since I have been adding tag excerpts. Are the tag excerpts I have been putting up good, or can I do more to clarify when the tags should be used?
The warhammer tag has a number of questions that are asking about a very wide variety of topics. They range from Warhammer 40,000, the Warhammer game rather than a tabletop RPG, and questions about Warhammer Fantasy. We already have wfrp, wh40k, rogue-trader, and others that cover most of the War...
@AVeryLargeBear mostly fine except for the one about drow, and I edited the "many settings" on half-orcs to "some settings" (it's pretty much just D&D and those directly inspired by it).
@KorvinStarmast I'm not even through the first season and I already feel it's one of those series that's going to go VERY downhill with seasonal rot :P
And well. I think it's poorly paced, anyway. The plot progresses too slowly for my taste
@kviiri Yeah, it's built as a weekly show that has commercials every so many minutes on TV, and part of why we threw up our hands and gave up was pacing. We preferred to wait for it to be on Hulu, watch two or three episodes, and then wait a few weeks for another fix.
@kviiri You might alternately enjoy the FABLES comic series, which has a similar thing but (a) it's done better (b) it has an uphill gradient of awesome
Basic premise of FABLES: A community of characters from various fables in history is busy living in New York, localised within a small number of city blocks where their protective charms keep humans from looking too closely. They live in exile from their homes, where several centuries ago The Adversary began a war to overtake all the worlds.
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@doppelgreener As a non-2500 rep user, what is the best way to suggest a tag synonym? Should I raise a question in meta, flag a question in the tag and put it in the description, or ask in chat?
@Rubiksmoose Very kind of you, thanks. :) I hope that questions on a few of the other spells arise, the comment about "sequester" is an intriguing interaction
@KorvinStarmast I will indeed ask follow-up question(s), I'm just giving it some time to allow other people to answer as usual (though I do like your answer there, very clear and sound logic)
I'm very much hoping that it is not the latter. Given how terrifying and impossible to kill fleas are at their current size. I would very much not like to find out how it scales lol
it's been a while since I was engaged in the mainsite, should I just go ahead and reword the question for the asker so that I can answer it or what do I do now?
> I have no problem figuring the things I want to talk about, but just getting the correct adjectives in my head is often incredibly time consuming and impossible on the fly.
"How do I describe stuff?" literally has entire books on the subject, and "environments" and "creatures within" is almost everything we will ever have to describe in an RPG, and "describe it better" is not very specific.
This is something I struggle with as a DM and I'm really trying to improve on :( I just forget to describe things the way I want to: in a vivid and exciting and clear way. It rarely leads to problems (eg misinterpretation) but often leads to missed opportunities (eg the players did not understand they could do this or that).
In light of that, here's what I might do in your shoes: leave a comment checking with the user if they're really just asking about how to work out the adjectives they need to describe on the fly because they have trouble assembling it under time pressure, and ask if you can reword their question to that effect. If they do so, reword it, then leave another comment checking with them if that's OK and represents their issue well.
@Szega It's fine if a subjective answer doesn't work for everybody, that doesn't make it POB. Solely answered by a person's opinion (and not experience) is what makes it POB.
I'm master spy basically. In combat I try to talk us out of combat otherwise I end up throwing darts, hypnotic pattern, or burning a dimension door to save someone
this is my first character that's gotten that high
I've got 20 Charisma, no feats, and 14 Dex. I'll be increasing Dex now that I've maxed out Charisma. Wanted to get my DC Spell Save up as quickly as possible first
The weapon tag is not currently a synonym of the weapons tag. The tag synonym guidelines state that
If you know of common, alternate spellings or phrasings for [a] tag, add them here so we can automatically correct them in the future. For example, suggest “bike” as a synonym for bicycle, or “...
@eimyr If you feel so inclined, your comment here could include an offer to perform such an edit yourself at the end of it. (by reposting the comment with that tacked on, and deleting the old one, ofc)
@eimyr have not played the CRPG, and after reading up on "Fuzion Basics" I am wondering how the mechanics resolution works out in terms of the flow of play. Looks a little GUrpsy, but that's not a bad thing.
@KorvinStarmast I'm not going to look up anything re: Witcher TTRPG until it's out. I'm somewhat lukewarm towards it despite the Witcher being one of my favourite things in fantasy
@Sdjz i looked at that one but the banish only happens if the enemy is below 50 health. That's a big gamble to guess where they're health is. If you Banish Smite and they're at 52 you just wasted a 5th level spell
well bad example cause that would trigger since it would knock them below 50 but the point is the banish part is a big questionmark. I try to avoid random
As an aside, I've never read comics before doing research for my superhero campaign, but man I read through Ms. Marvel and it is good like really good.
I don't think it's really a subject for the main questions area, it's too subjective and discussion drive. Open a chat? But how would poeple find that?
My question/suggestion is pretty straightforward. The alternate-class-feature tag seems to be very narrow and rarely used, and it has no tag info so it's not clear how it's different from the existing and more commonly used class-feature tag.
Should the alternate-class-feature tag be merged with...
Actually, I should probably go to bed instead of chatting :-/ Have an excellent day, night, or whatevery you people prefer to have in the next 12 hours or so!
This question just got asked with a specific mention of experience with substance editing, and a request to not be edited.
(Due to past experiences on this site, please do not edit my original posting with valid context)
However, I believe that much of the context is not as important as the...