My home warranty company sent a repair guy out. He took one look at it and said "yea. we're going to have to replace the whole thing. They don't make any of those parts anymore."
Is this a read the book to me type question? Or just a "Hey, i'm wondering if something like this is out there, can someone do all the work to find it if it is?"
it's a "the rules should say this to be in keeping with themselves, but it is worded this way instead. Is that a deliberate design decision or sloppiness?"
It's directly after them answering that other question.
yep
Where they removed this part of their answer:
However, the section on "Stabalizing a Creature" states:
The best way to save a creature with 0 Hit Points is to heal it. If healing is unavailable, the creature can at least be stabilized so that it isn’t killed by a failed death saving throw. You can use your action to administer first aid to an unconscious creature and attempt to stabilize it, which requires a successful DC 10 Wisdom (Medicine) check. A stable creature doesn’t make Death Saving Throws, even though it has 0 Hit Points, but it does remain Unconscious. The creature stops being…
"However, if you would die due to failing death saving throws, you don’t die until your rage ends, and you die then only if you still have 0 hit points.
It seems an oversight to me. If I was running anything short of an AL game, I'd ignore it. Even in an AL game, I'd likely ignore it and report it to whatever body exists for such things.
@goodguy5 Or it was the intent that while you get this feature to keep on keepin' on, you can't stabilize. You already get the benefit of continuing on but still making death saves. And you've still got your Relentless Rage as well that staves off the death saving throw start.
So first, you need to have failed the Relentless Rage saving throw, then this kicks in. Adding on stabilization makes the barbarian pretty darn powerful.
@goodguy5 I'm not. By forestalling death with Relentless, and then further forestalling with Rage Beyond Death, and then adding on no longer needing tomake death saving throws outside of damage, you are prolonging the life of the barb even further.
levitate is more of a problem for other creatures that don't have ranged options. Most PCs do.
it's a ton of fun. Feels very Jedi.
I haven't broken out Blindness yet and it's feeling kind of a waste. But i've been rolling poorly for initiative and monsters are usually just after my turn.
so I don't want Save, then re-save before my party mates can do something.
@NautArch The trigger would be the enemy creature of your choice having their turn; or "performing an action"
preferably, your DM would allow you to just use "ending their turn" as a trigger, but worst case is using the next monster's action as a trigger works as well.
@goodguy5 That isn't a clear in-game trigger. We usually try and stick with doing something like that rather than metagaming in this particular ready action case.
But I'd generally know what it does and could say either "attacks" or "casts a spell".
But it also means I can't have a concentration spell going first (which I may)
> monster A takes their turn > your trigger is Monster B doing literally anything because they go in initiative order after Monster A, you know that monster A has gone.
> profit
Because if you base your trigger off of monster A, it could still be their turn after the trigger.
@MikeQ Well, at the kickstarter site I got a chuckle out of the last line. Also my cat sits on my keyboard a lot which is a real difficulty and I want you to know that. It's an ongoing challenge and makes it hard to type. I don't have a solution to this problem
Monk Way of the Long Death - Would the time between being reduced to zero hit points and the expenditure of the ki point to go back to 1 hp qualify as being conscious, zero hp and unstable?
> Mastery of Death Beginning at 11th level, you use your familiarity with death to escape its grasp. When you are reduced to 0 hit points, you can expend 1 ki point (no action required) to have 1 hit point instead.
@goodguy5 Yeah, i think it's okay given the constraints they've asked for. But i'm also not sure how it isn't opinion-based. THere isn't really a gauge, but i'm not sure it needs one, either.
@goodguy5 @JohnP I saw that, but wasn't sure it was because once you're at 1HP, you're no longer at 0, and until you've done that, you're at the normal conditions.
@goodguy5 But you're not conscious during this. THe expenditure of 1 ki is a metagame moment to bring you back. But before then, you're at the normal 0HP/unconscious/unstable.
@NautArch I deleted that answer. That'a already what I did the few times I was a dm, and it's already what he does. Not sure what else he would be looking for other than more ways to describe it.
@NautArch I undeleted it, and supported it as much as I could. Still not sure what they are looking for other than "how many ways can I describe a bruise?"
tl;dr it has to do with a comedy webcomic that tried to take a turn at drama/tragedy (via one of the characters having a miscarriage) and wasn't well-received because it was pretty heavy-handed about it
Anyways, it's a bad thing and I really should stop making references to it.
I don't suppose anyone wants to check my Question on StackOverflow? It's RPG-related? :) I'm looking for tips on writing a good question, as much as answers :)
For my Game App, I have a table of Data (one of many).
It currently has 40+ columns, one for each Profession (fighter, rogue, wizard etc), and skill_name.
Each row (40+) contains the skill name, and a String representing the Cost of that skill for each profession.
To normalise this data, I shou...
(I have not enjoyed Tennant in everything he's done. I think he doesn't have good control without a really firm director and he's got some REALLY bad directors and awful scripts in his past. I think he's getting better, though.)
(For example, whenever his Hamlet got excited, he just turned on the same manic-pixie-dream-girl mode he used for the excited Doctor. That version of Hamlet made a lot of... choices... though so I can't be sure that's a problem with Tennant's inability to distinguish between characters, or his director asking for that choice.)
It's frustrating because he's got a lot of potential but his Doctor only has three modes (sad, manic, angry) and he only used one of them for Harry Potter. His more recent work is a lot more nuanced--Jessica Jones and Good Omens were solid. I'm gonna watch Broadchurch some time, partly because I think that's a turning point in his maturity and control as an actor. I even enjoyed him as Professor Honeycut in TMNT, though they definitely had him perform that as a Doctor Who reference.
But his Doctor Who is... hobbled by production and direction choices, I expect, as much as by his relative lack of control. Ten is my least favorite Doctor because he's too human and that's not Tennant's fault.
Ten feels strange to me when I think about the fact that he literally lived for only a couple of years. Nine had some amount of unknown time between the end of the Time War and the beginning of New Who. Eleven had that timeskip bit where two hundred years or something passed. Twelve had the same thing timeskippy bit as well, IIRC.
TMNT2012 started out veeery slowly as an episodic monster-of-the-week thing, but after New York got [spoilered] at the end of season two everything kicked into high gear. Season three had great character work, and seasons four and five were just awesome.
The last I heard of TMNT was that Michael Bay movie.
And they got rid of noses or something that resulted in the uncanny valley.
@BESW Of the new Doctors, since I haven't really watched much of old Who, I actually think Matt Smith's is my least favorite Doctor. Although it's been awhile since I've watched Tennant's run so there could be some rose-colored glasses there.
@Yuuki It's difficult because they've both got some great and some clunker scripts, and both don't get written and directed to their best advantage. I try to distinguish between Tennant/Smith and Ten/Eleven, because the Doctors have strengths and weaknesses independent of their actors.
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I really don't find him appealing and I actively avoid stuff he's in because I didn't like him as Ten so it just soured me on him completely
Matt Smith is amazing at being old and weary, there are actors three times his age who can't do it as well. He didn't get a lot of opportunity to showcase that talent and I think I would've preferred it if he had.
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He had a interesting way of going from omg bounce to omg old and has seen too much and too many.
Oh yes, Nine was great even despite having some really questionable stories in his single season. Eccleston absolutely nailed being inhuman without being impersonable.
And I believed Rose's chemistry with him much more. Davies' strength was his character work, but it turned into a weakness when he couldn't let certain characters or character beats mature naturally.
And then Moffat... wanted everything to be fantasy fairy-tale weirdness, but also had a compulsion to explain everything, and that didn't mesh well at all.
My headcanon is that Rose got bored with the Meta-Crisis Doctor because he was too human and too Donna, and broke up with him, and in an attempt to regain his alien mystique he became the Valeyard, obsessed with stealing back the Doctor's regenerations that he felt were rightfully his.
I really enjoyed first-season Rose, she was an interestingly flawed character: selflessly compassionate to strangers, casually cruel to intimates. She didn't really grow though, and I was glad they wrapped up her story in the next season...
...then she kept coming back. See above re: Davies not being willing to let character arcs play out naturally.
@Yuuki I would have loved to see a Capaldi/Mackie team under a different showrunner, I think it would've been amazing if all the writers weren't hobbled by Moffat's grand sweeping vision.
And then the raging ranting foam-flecked out-of-control desperation in "Dalek," and the weird toxic masculinity thing with Mickey that was so impossibly petty, and "Just this once, everybody lives!" (Moffat's a good writer on other peoples' shows, he just shouldn't run his own because then he never finishes anything properly), Nine packed so much complex character work into a single season, and a believable arc for the character also, just such good work from everyone involved.
Tennant, Smith, Capaldi and Whittaker have all been great additions to the role who brought their own unique aspects to the character, but I can't say any of them had the sheer emotional range Eccleston could do just with his eyebrows and facial expression.
@JohnClifford I think Whittaker can do it, but she's not got a lot of opportunity yet because everybody's so worried about broadcasting the new character in broad strokes.
There's some bits in Attack the Block that are just golden let-the-face-do-the-talking moments for her and she nails it, and that was years ago, she's got a lot more experience now.
I'm trying to think of a way to answer Eternallord66's settings source question in a way that isn't just "find a book that covers the setting you want to know about and read it".
What are the main differences between the Druid class in 5th edition vs the Druid class in 3.5 ?
For my Game App, I have a table of Data (one of many).
It currently has 40+ columns, one for each Profession (fighter, rogue, wizard etc), and skill_name.
Each row (40+) contains the skill name, and a String representing the Cost of that skill for each profession.
To normalise this data, I shou...
