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V2Blast

9:05 PM

@ColinGross do you mean in search results? because you can exclude tags from those, I'm pretty sure

also canada geese are actually demons from hell

Colin Gross

@V2Blast How many tags do you need to exclude to get rid of D&D posts? The answer may surprise you!

Yuuki

It just keeps on giving.

Xirema

I assume Tag Groups is a solution that has already been properly shot full of holes, yes?

illustro

@ColinGross Surely it's rpg.stackexchange.com/…

Colin Gross

@illustro a mere 8 tags to ignore!

BESW

9:18 PM

[tag:*dnd*]

Colin Gross

@BESW pathfinder

BESW

And dungeons-and-dragons, and a handful of others, but the vast majority will go byebye with *dnd*

illustro

-[dnd] -[pathfinder] -[dungeons-and-dragons]

-[*dnd*] -[pathfinder] -[dungeons-and-dragons]

so three...

Yuuki

-rpg.se

fixed, no more dnd questions

illustro

lol

Colin Gross

9:23 PM

@illustro Just need some wild card matching there... now is it a regex engine or grob or some bespoke wildcard matching... lemme go look up yet another syntax to parse.

Ender Look

Quick question. Any idea of something a bit stronger than skeleton who could be found in a sarcophagus but weaker than a mummy. Like 1/2 or 1 CR instead of 1/4? (D&D5e)

Colin Gross

@EnderLook minotaur skeleton

zombies are also surprisingly resilient despite their low stats as they keep... getting ... back ...up! Stay down!

Ender Look

That is 2 CR :(

Colin Gross

Also, you can increase the challenge of an encounter by upping the number of enemies. Low CR and stupid enemies can be pretty satisfying to trounce for some groups. Just keep the action moving.

Ender Look

@ColinGross Yes, but the map has only 2 sarcophagus... so I want to put the same amount of enemies in that room

Yuuki

9:28 PM

@EnderLook skeledecaton.

Colin Gross

@EnderLook Two sarcophagus means two royalty. They should have at least a small retinue of retainers. Who is going to feed them grapes AND fan them in the afterlife. I think you've got a charitable view of the capacity of minions.

illustro

@Yuuki dndbeyond.com/monsters/warhorse-skeleton

Ender Look

@ColinGross oh, sorry. I didn't mean sarcophagus, I mean coffin

Colin Gross

I like that. It would be entertaining if you didn't reskin it and left it as an actual horse skeleton.

Yuuki

@EnderLook Give them cleavers so you'll have coffins and hackin'.

Colin Gross

9:31 PM

@EnderLook Sarcoffinagus

Rubiksmoose

@EnderLook coffin? somebody need a lozenge?

Colin Gross

@Yuuki casting Vic's Vaporous Ointment!

Ender Look

? Isn't lozenge an aspirin?

I have that

so they are coffins, not sarcophagus!

Like you can see, not much room to add more coffins

illustro

Have them be deeper than the usual coffin with a skeleton and a skeleton warhorse that comes riding out of the coffin once opened

Colin Gross

@EnderLook You can stack bodies in a coffin.

Also, magic

Ender Look

9:35 PM

@illustro That sound very interesting!

Colin Gross

Just a coffin full of bones! Like wtf... then they start animating... then everyone's like oh no! animated bones!

It'll be a relief when it's just skeletons.

illustro

Also take a leaf out of Waterdeep: Dragon Heist:

For centuries, the major mausoleums here have each been connected to an extradimensional space where the dead are taken, mourned, and interred.

Yuuki

Or you could have four skeletons like so: two torsos and two pairs of legs.

illustro

(Note, the above is background given in the module...not an actual spoiler for the content)

So coffin includes an extra dimensional space from which they ride out from

Yuuki

@illustro So Coco but the living know about it.

illustro

9:38 PM

Alternatively....an army of warhorses and skeletons rides out of it...welcome to the apocalypse!

Colin Gross

@illustro You should probably put some foreshadowing in other places the PCs encounter

Kinda a jerk move to be like, bam! infinite closet full of bad guys! without them having been able to contemplate the possibility beforehand.

illustro

lol

Colin Gross

Also, that can lead to the "aha!" moments after the fight.

illustro

Oh I agree

However a choice fireball when it opens will deal with a lot of those

queue background music Welcome to the Jungle

i think I have my next idea for a one shot

grins evilly

Colin Gross

@illustro If you're far enough away to fireball. That frequently leads to, "Mr. Caster, we need to have a serious talk about what I meant by friendly fire."

illustro

9:42 PM

...true

V2Blast

lol

illustro

However, send in your rogue and have your conjuration specialist wizard perp fireball for the moment anything evil jumps out

rogue takes no damage due to evasion

skeletons take much damage

or even better be a multiclassed rogue/conjuration wizard and do it all yourself

#munchkin

BESW

@EnderLook "lozenge" is a diamond shape, usually a long and thin one. It's come to be synonymous with cough drops because they're so often shaped like a long, thin diamond with rounded corners.

Ender Look

@BESW ohh, interesting!

GreySage

@BESW I have only ever seen square lozenges. Not that that means anything

Xirema

9:47 PM

@illustro I'm in a party that has an Ancients Paladin and a Rogue in the same party. The number of times we call for our Rogue to draw aggro on all the mobs in the room and then drop AOE spells on top of her is.... more than 0.

Best case scenario, the Rogue takes 0 damage. Worst case, they take 1/4 damage.

AND they have bonuses on all their saving throws.

BESW

V2Blast

10:01 PM

"a small medicinal tablet, originally in the shape of a lozenge, taken for sore throats and dissolved in the mouth."

per google

the main definition being "a rhombus or diamond shape."

V2Blast

10:21 PM

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V2Blast

10:52 PM

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IT'S HERE