From an IT perspective, it's terrible. It "assumes" a lot. From an end-user perspective it's fine, because all that technological mumbo-jumbo is all hidden away
I mainly wish it didn't wipe out all my personal files that one time after an automatic update
Thankfully I have that stuff backed up but it's annoying at best
I even found every setting I could to tell it not to update without warning me first but then it started harassing me every other time I opened the computer :/ Microsoft doesn't make completely user freindly settings
@trogdor Well, that much is understandable. Not only do updates bring in new features (which Windows 10 now survives on - there are no more "Windows-X" variants coming out), they also help keep your security up to date in order to protect you from threats
You can schedule them to happen at a regular time, but some are more important than others and need to get done.
What I would like to see is a feature that automatically shuts down your PC after regularly scheduled updates. That way you can leave your laptop/PC on, then it runs the update, and shuts down your PC
@NautArch Ring of Jumping, Ring of Feather Falling, Quiver of Ehlonna and Horn of Valhalla
And while it is rare enough, sometimes it inconveniences me to have my computer turned on for update length of time after I was just trying to turn it off
And then after that the next time you turn it on it will probably take extra time to finalize the update too
My problem with this is mainly, again, my lack of control over deciding when it can do this
I understand that in order to update it has to take some time, but I want to have more control over when that is,... And Microsoft ethier doesn't consider that or doesn't seem to care
Weird question: Does D&D5e has the cup volume measure? In other words, if someone uses cups in a homebrew content, does he need to explain the measure (2 cups = pint, cup = 4fl oz).
@Shalvenay Good question. I'm making a homebrew (I found it a very entertaining activity) about foraging (I have abandoned the idea of the vampire for a while). Characters are able to butcher creatures for meat in pounds but I also want let them to collect the blood. In order to not make a new table with values, I was thinking to replace the pound measure for meat to something for liquids. I find a pint too much and a vial too little, so I was thinking in a cup (half of pint and double of vial)
I love that weird measures (pint, vial, cup, pound, ounce, etc) which USA and UK has!
I'm still wondering what will I do with the homebrew content after finishing it... I must quickly gain experience as a player in order to jump to DM and be able to use all this stuff! I love it!
@PeterCooperJr. Yes, I know, I accidentally wrote that wrong in the chat. I you read below you will note that I said it is the double of a vial, which has 4 fl. oz.
@PeterCooperJr. And I'm using the US measures (or at least I think), D&D also use US measures, right?
@NautArch if you've got a sec, I wonder if you'd mind checking if your last flag shows as "helpful" or not? I ask because I didn't touch the flag; I did delete all the comments, since OP made edits to incorporate Miniman's and my suggested clarifications. So I'm curious how the site thinks I mod-handled your flag.
I was just writing a two-line e-mail and couldn't think of the right way to end the second sentence. I looked at the screen and GMail had, in grey, found the perfect words. That's the singularity, right? The singularity's here? I can take the afternoon off?
@nitsua60 lol, sometimes it is helpful that it Auto completes words for me, more often though,... It takes a word I've already finished and spelled right and deliberately used for it's meaning and decides it needs to switch it with a word more commonly used after the word right before it
I'm not really sure what parameters it uses to decide to replace a word
@nitsua60 my assumption is it draws from a database of words used by everyone, and therefore invalidates usefulness to everyone because not everyone uses the same words in the same places
But it also takes words I know I have used before but that I have not used often and uses those to replace words I do use more,..... So really I have no idea
Well, if I drop the Horn of Valhalla, all my stuff costs 22,000. Ring(s) of Jumping, Feather Falling, and Protection, Quiver of Ehlonna, Immovable Rod, Bracers of Defense, and Gloves of Swimming and Climbing
Then I have the Fire Giants belt, 2 x Battleaxes +2, Goggles of Night, Longbow +1 and Cloak of Protection
@MikeQ I mean, if you ask all of those questions about a specific monster, like that question, that's probably fine.
@MikeQ Do whatever you want, recalculate CR from scratch afterwards, playtest.
5e CR is even less robust than previous editions.
Fortunately, part of that lack of robustness (robustitude? robusitity?) is because it's incredibly forgiving. As long as your encounters are even vaguely within the guidelines, your players should be fine.
If you want to actually, yanno, challenge them, you'll need to aim high.
Yeah, I learned a lot about encounter building from a certain published campaign, which had 3 encounters interspersed throughout it with the description "here's a budget. Go nuts with it, and don't be afraid to massively exceed it. These are serious attempts at killing the party, and it's ok if they succeed."
The closest I came to a TPK, the party was able to survive when they changed their goal from "kill all the enemies" to "get everyone within 5 feet of the cleric so they can escape with Word of Recall".
@Miniman Pathfinder, second session - TPK cos an enemy had the "blur" spell (roll percentile. 25 and lower negates all physical damage). It was 100% effective.
@Miniman Oh, yeah. I run the numbers on an encounter about once a year, I'd say. Usually out of curiosity. "Oh, that didn't turn out at all the way I thought it might. Wonder what it was...."
Ok, I noticed the MM doesn't have many spellcaster NPCs. Is the DM expected to build casters using PC class levels? What if they're monster NPCs with extra abilities?
Ah whoops I forgot to mention that part, sorry. I figured it would simplify things (relatively speaking) if players just started with standard 15/14/13/12/10/8 array
@Ben Looks rather good to me, with mostly one caveat: if you want to go with heavy armor, you need one extra Strength (or two if you want a modifier increase too)
Iirc chain mail suit is the only one that works with Str less than 15
Side note: the combination of gestalt with standard array is triggering some weird cognitive dissonance for me. @MikeQ I'm curious, what level of optimization are you planning for?
@Miniman None whatsoever. I don't expect my game to be super difficult. I'm more interested in seeing what wacky combinations the players come up with.
@Miniman Gestalt allows for both class features at every level. For this game @MikeQ has said that you can take the ASI from one class, and then a feat for the other
And both Fighter and Sorc get an ASI at level 4
[Double checks the rules] ...Yeah
So it works out still lol. Don't scare me like that! XD
Keep the focus on a chain attached to your wrist. You can let go of the shield without dropping it (assuming your DM actually knows how Shields work IRL) and grab the focus.
@Ben Well, bear in mind the lift capacity of Mage Hand is 10lbs. It has a lot of cool stuff it can do, but it is limited to whatever effort a literal toddler is capable of exerting.
@Ben Any spell that involves an attack or a saving throw, you'd be looking to use as a sorc - Int is gonna be even less important for you than every other EK.
The only one that really grabbed my fancy as a whole was BM
So, for anyone that watches Brooklyn Nine Nine, there's an episode where Boyle and Jake have a Groom and Best Man day out. Boyle calls Jake his "Big Beautiful BM". Jake seems uncomfortable with this nickname
I never knew why, but I decided to look it up on urban dictionary. I understand now.
@MikeQ Yeah. Since I'm going with the Fighter/Sorc, I was thinking of using a focus instead of the component pouch - just to allow myself to cast some spells with my hands full.
So I was just wondering - if I made the focus the hilt/pommel of my sword, would that allow me to cast with my hands full?
RPGNow is being retired. Its pages will redirect to DriveThruRPG. Very little is changing: they have been the same store for many years except for their front pages being different “windows” into that store. One of those windows is just getting bricked over.
"RPGNow always presented the more "indie" face of the industry" and apparently its sales numbers have been dropping consistently (or maybe in comparison?)
In the 12 years since RPGNow and DriveThruRPG merged, the growth of RPGNow has tapered off constantly, while DriveThruRPG has continued to grow strongly, year over year, since it launched in 2004 ... RPGNow rarely draws new customers or publishers and sells less than one-tenth the volume of titles purchased on DriveThruRPG
@kviiri “On a 7–9, the MC hesitates, flinches or stalls, because they have to think of a worse outcome, a hard bargain, or an ugly choice to offer to you.”
@KorvinStarmast You don't occasionally get a 100-pt. day from ten upvotes on seemingly-unrelated and inactive posts? I always assume a day like that comes from someone "discovering" me and that one of the ways that can happen is when someone first clicks on that "top 2%" link in someone's profile.
@nitsua60 Hmm, not sure. I know I get rep capped sometimes on a popular question, I hadn't really noticed the other thing. My votes on that mode you mention tend to dribble in a few at a time.
@kviiri Your boss notices your momentarily empty screen and assumes you're looking for something to do. They start talking about the upcoming corporate audit and oh god you'll be locked in a windowless room with regulations binders for hours unless you can come up with something better to be doing right the heck now. So what are you doing?
@nitsua60 As long as you don't take a share of the rep lost to rep capping. It is well known that that rep goes to feed the ancient and unknowable SE overlords.
I'm pretty good with my logic, the thing that keeps nagging at me though is: they literally errataed this spell, why didn't they add the single word needed to bring it in line with intent?
Was the construct thing supposed to bring it closer? It does kind of make it closer, but not really. Did they forget? JC had actually previously indicated that this was explicitly on their list of things to errata.
@ColinGross So, I think this is an interesting discussion and I've actually been meaning to point you in this direction before since you had wondered about levels of specificity
But I don't see there being any general rules at play here actually.
I don't know. Haven't really thought about it much. It specifically calls out a manner of restoring hit points, but doesn't exclude other methods in the same description.
Seems like given the chance to errata the description, that could have been done.
The point is that the intent is clear though. If literally any other healing option is available there is no point in giving the simulacrum that ridiculous option to heal for 1 HP per 100 gp.
Hit point recovery can only happen through the alchemical process
If the simulacrum is damaged, you can repair it in an alchemical laboratory, using rare herbs and minerals worth 100 gp per hit point it regains.
Repair not heal
First note that this does not say heal it says repair. Though ...
@Grosscol. I like your answer the best on that "monsters too high for our party" question. I don't feel like typing my own. Could I spitball an idea off of you, if you'd like to use it?
It seems like the players and the DM are on different pages regarding the "do you guys assume you can beat everything or do you have to run away sometimes?" question
That's the advice/marching orders that was given to me, and I just blanket apply it all over the place. Neutral language is kind of tough for native US speakers to come up with though.
@goodguy5 I concur. I wonder if it wasn't the DM illustrating that running away or non-combat is something that needs to be considered or actively looked for.
@goodguy5 But it's something that should have happened before hand to avoid the situation. There's got to be a related question and answer we could point to that expounds upon the subject.