Actually, I'm reconsidering that claim that I'd pay for a curated collection of DMsGuild products. I don't really want full "modules" from people. I want ideas. Preferably, contained on one page. Good thing I kickstarted this guy: http://www.trilemma.com/ !
Unfortunately too many monetized PDFs on DMsGuild are clearly not playtested (and probably not proofread either). Some aren't even the uploader's work, e.g. compiled lists of community-sourced suggestions.
<Tangent> our Rolemaster game just got shunted back another couple of weeks #catHerding Gonna be a 1-2 year campaign, so not a major issue ... but we're champing at the bit to get started ...
@nitsua60 But you won't understand my "new unique idea" unless it is spelled out over 40 pages of nuanced detail! It's really good, and not just a rewrite of Hamlet! I've improved upon it!
Y'all, off topic but I work at a call center and one of the biggest rules is that we're not supposed to leave our computers unlocked if we walk away from them for any reason. One way we try to teach people this is by flipping their screens. Normally this is no big deal they either don't get their screen flipped or they unflip it and move on. Well... I flipped a coworker's screen or rather tried to and the computer immediately blue screened...
@BlackSpike Spelling and grammar errors are usually permissible. I'd expect to see them even in legit published material. With this community-created stuff, there are bigger issues with the content, like unfinished sentences or nonsense statements
@MikeQ True. The odd mistake will always slip through. And an Author -should- know their System ... but a Full, Decent proof-read can get time-consuming (read: expensive).
@Powerdork An example from (old, but "professionally published") was Necromunda (games Workshop). A fire-bomb gave the target a Condition: "On fire". There was no reference in the rules anywhere to what this condition meant.
(Can't speak for DM'sGuild content, as I haven't read any)
Thousands of years ago, the space Liches travelled between the stars. But in their pride and folly they reached again for weapons of war and battled each other and broke planets in their madness. But they held this world sacred. There is rumor and legend of a grimoile, The Tome of Star Flight that holds a secret of terrible power that the stars can be ours again.
@MikeQ Yeah. DMsGuild and /r/UnearthedArcana are slightly better than dandwiki in that homebrew is clearly marked (...by being entirely homebrew/third-party, basically, except for what official content occasionally appears there) - and more importantly because they have some sort of feedback mechanism (even if the OP doesn't respond to it or refine accordingly, others can see comments/reviews). But it's not inherently higher-quality in any way.
There's no minimum threshold of quality to publish on them.
@Powerdork Ok, it seems I've deleted some of the big offenders. However I did just come across a homebrew item (in a list of many items for 5e ) that deals "cont/cort" damage. This term doesn't appear anywhere else.
So, say you are a Wizard, level 15+. You can cast 8th level spells, and so can your level 15+ Cleric friend. Wizards don't have Earthquake on their spell table, but the Cleric does. Can you add the Cleric to the Glyph of Warding, and have Earthquake be the spell casted by the Glyph, provided that...
@JoelHarmon usually its the other way around with that sort of thing -- my English is fine, but the code? not so much....especially when its the vendor's fault :P
We are making a college board game, and would like to know if we can use a few monsters from dnd to make our game. We don't use the same name as you do, just the images from online and the books.
I did two unusual things considering my usual laissez-faire-pas approach to arts and crafts and household chores and folded an entire magazine into compost waste bags. We now have surplus for about a few weeks, yay
I was going to make just one bag like I usually do but this magazine was stapled so easily I got into the grooooove
@kviiri yeah the problems in the game can sneak up on you, i didn't know I had been running out of dirt (which I was dependent on for food) until it happened and dupes started starving
That's sorta why this time I started using bristle berries for food
So if I have ratios wrong I could be pointlessly destroying dirt
Also I love that dirt is a precious resource ❤️
Anyway, I have 4 arbor trees for my pips, and don't want to cull my pips obsessively, so it's possible I have too many trees making food for them/ too many pips
@kviiri they are but I need more than they provide XD
It doesn't
They sit on each other and share germs but they don't share type
Unfortunately
If they did I would be so set
Actually though
I can't believe I didn't think of it sooner but maybe I just should stop purifier use and transfer all polluted water flow to things that use it specifically
It's going to be a whole mega project in itself but I can tap a second Clean water source with less heat and use all polluted water I have on things that use it specifically and that might make me set
I set up all my water stuff before over half my farming projects
I'm thinking of restructuring the base to be more atomic in design with less multi-purpose rooms, to facilitate redesigns where I have to flip everything to a new location
I take a lot of design inspirations from Factorio which has some elements in common with these other builder games, although it's much, much more geared for optimizing very large-scale production instead of worrying too much about things like "sustainability" in the resource use sense.
In Factorio, sustainability is more like "do I need to re-do this if I want ten times more of this stuff"
Thereby it encourages scalable construction: it matters little if your chip plant outputs 20 or 25 chips per second because at some point you're going to need a hundred chips a second and then it's just a matter of whether you have four or five units side by side :)
Adapting the same principles to ONI might work in some cases and I think the game even encourages it to some extent
I want to try out Factorio at some point but I've been waiting patiently for it to be released and also would love to wait for a sale
in ONI there is definitely a bigger focus on sustainability
and building a system you don't have to mess with before moving on to a new project
but there's definitely an element of re-factoring things and producing more of something because you need higher numbers for a new project
I can't for the life of me figure out why I would need so many water geysers but maybe eventually I'll take more than 6 dupes and will need more food and oxygen production
@trogdor I think it's a very good game already, but it requires accepting that a large part of the game is realizing that you've built something inefficient and need to re-do it
I think it's a fine game now but assuming they haven't released it because they are still tweaking and adding things means I would rather go through learning it when it's mostly done
The rules for lair actions say:
On initiative count 20 (losing all initiative ties), it can use one of its lair action options. It can’t do so while incapacitated or otherwise unable to take actions. If surprised, it can’t use one until after its first turn in the combat.
If a creature with...
@kviiri It feels rude somehow, to "steal" the first answer when they have the answer, but didn't know they are allowed (and encouraged) to self answer.
So for the spell Demiplane, it states:
Each time you cast this spell, you can create a new demiplane, or have
the shadowy door connect to a demiplane you created with a previous
casting of this spell.
Does this mean that you can, for example, create demiplane 1, then on the next castin...
I mean, I don't generally support scope-limitation to single, fixed n-ary decisions in politics of real world or website alike, but we can have the flexibility of both choosing what notice to use, if any, and taking that discussion in to account whether to use even that, without having to mix threads.
@kviiri Oh, sure. I am half-tongue-in-cheek wondering if some answers need an asterisk linked to boilerplate saying something along the lines 'all words are produced by experiences; all experiences are my own' as a warding talisman. ^_^
(Yes, I know that in practice, such warding talismans don't necessarily help at all.)
@vicky_molokh Yeah, I personally feel we're making users jump through hoops --- yes, for a good reason in a way, I just don't think vetting for answers with/without keyword accomplishes that reason.
It plays a bit too well into the "stack exchange cares too much about formal correctness" meme for my taste.
And trust me, nobody would like a clear line more than me and (I suspect) the rest of the mods. We have to deal with the flags on this issue after all, and it can be quite difficult to know what to do with them.
You're taking show too literally :) show by telling us about the experience. Understanding not just the idea but the pros and cons from experience are what I think more important
@NautArch I fear this boils too much to "insert these magic words into your post or get deleted".
What's there to stop me from claiming I've tried this and that and that it worked this way? Okay, if it's clearly non-sense or contrary to others' experiences, I'll get downvoted a bit, but that's true for messages without the "I tried this" disclaimer too.
But anyone can just lie about experience. We can't prove that someone has or hasn't tried something at their table.
It seems odd that if someone is asked to provide some personal anecdote to back up their answer, they could simply fabricate a story, and suddenly that makes the answer better
Show is more and better than tell/state. An answer can state expertise/experience without including the limitations, pitfalls, subtleties of an approach and thus not be as useful as one that has included those, but which does not state experience.
I guess answers to subjective questions should do two things: give a proposed solution, and discuss that solution (based on theory, logic, and/or experience)
@Someone_Evil That makes sense. If an answer is explained logically and clearly, it doesn't make a huge difference whether they also mention their personal experience
@NautArch Would reasoning have been a better word? My point was that if you explained why/when your solution should/might work then that is valid, because it let's a reader decide whether it might work for them
@MikeQ But how do you present a solid argument for a subjective recommendation? That's the problem with these soft questions. We can hypothesize about what to do, but it's where the rubber meets the road where it really matters.
@Someone_Evil I still want to say no. I think i'm holding a harder line here, but I think it's for the overall improvement of the site. I also don't think that focusing on a few bad apples 'gaming' the experience required bit is a reason not to do it.
@MikeQ That's my position as well. If it's a good or fine experience for the reader, maybe don't pester the answerer. The perfect is the enemy of the good.
I think i've said my piece and we're talking in circles at this point. There's a fundamental disagreement on the practice that's been rehashed on meta several times. Another is fine, but at some point we have to agree to disagree. I think I reached that point :)
Folks can keep putting up unsupported answers and be fine with it, but folks will also continue to ask for support. And the world turns.
@MikeQ If you're making a subjective recommendation on something, how are you supporting it without referencing your own experience or something you've seen? Theory is not evidence.
@NautArch I would start by assuming the answerer is drawing on their experience in gaming and life. Then I would ask myself, "do I think this answer a bad experience for the reader?"
@NautArch True, it's a goofy example, but I've seen similar patterns in the edit histories of questions where the answer was asked for experience. Mentioning experience starts to seem like a formality.
@GcL Not to mention, I personally think so too. I've been on the site long enough to both grow disenchanted with the initial glamour and to see the point in many of the stricter parts --- but sometimes I feel that if I were to stumble upon the site now, without prior experience, I couldn't bother with it.
@NautArch And you're assuming people post pure guesswork, and upvote things because they like how it sounds even if they don't know it's true. That's not exactly good faith either.
@NautArch Maybe. I'm less concerned about users gaming the system, and more concerned about bad answers suddenly becoming acceptable because of some anecdote
@NautArch We're not asking about showing work. The good subjective just says something that you've actually experienced. Not that you have to explain it.
@NautArch I think most people answering questions are doing so in good faith and based on their own experience. Pestering them to certify that is the case simply to meet a guideline seems like a poor plan to me.
@GcL experienced, or seen. It doesn't have to be personal. It can be a 3rd party, but bringing up that example seaparets it from generating an idea to reporting on an idea and how it went.
This answer won't discuss the policy or why we do it, that's well covered elsewhere. It will take the Good Subjective/Bad Subjective policy as gospel and explain how to give Good Subjective answers and Back It Up! specifically.
First, per How do we ask and answer subjective questions?:
Answ...
Is this what you meant by 3rd party from mxyzplk's answer? "Q: Do I have to have personally done that exact thing? A: No, your two options are experience or citing a reference. That could be a book, it could be "Matt Mercer did it in a session in this video and here's what happened..."
It reads like good advice to me. I guess all references like that are 3rd party experience.
@GcL Yup, and it still requires some level of support beyond presentation of an idea. Maybe I wasn't being clear, but Mxy's answer is what I'm looking for.
kind of a bummer that resides in a duplicate question, but them's the breaks.
I still disagree that it's necessary and sufficient for good answers. There are good answers that don't do those things. I think the good subjective is a fine tool to fix a poor answer that would benefit from it.
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@Rubiksmoose @V2Blast - Considering his last edit about how to "mess with the DM", not sure the question should remain open: rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/157117/…
@JohnP I linked some related questions. Couldn't find a good example question about antagonizing other players before jumping ship from a game, although I could've sworn I've seen such questions before.
My base's oxygen production is currently 6 Algae Terrariums in various states of off and on. I put 4 Deodorizers around them and the Polluted Water that the terrariums output off-gas into Polluted Oxygen which is then purified to pure Oxygen by the Deodorizers.
Out of curiosity, does that ever happen around here? Someone posts a problem-player or problem-gm question, and then someone else from that table responds to it?
This question for Pathfinder about how to use the Sense Motive skill is marked as a duplicate of this question for Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition about how to use the Insight skill.
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@Yuuki So you guys geeking out about the game convinced me to buy it, and I accidentally stayed up last night until 2 in the morning trying to stave off a slowly escalating ecosystem collapse in my colony. XD
We are making a college board game, and would like to know if we can use a few monsters from dnd to make our game. We don't use the same name as you do, just the images from online and the books.
The rules for lair actions say:
On initiative count 20 (losing all initiative ties), it can use one of its lair action options. It can’t do so while incapacitated or otherwise unable to take actions. If surprised, it can’t use one until after its first turn in the combat.
If a creature with...
If someone asks to stealthily open a door but rolls poorly, can they just choose not to do it, and let someone else open the door?
This answer won't discuss the policy or why we do it, that's well covered elsewhere. It will take the Good Subjective/Bad Subjective policy as gospel and explain how to give Good Subjective answers and Back It Up! specifically.
First, per How do we ask and answer subjective questions?:
Answ...
Related question: Is it balanced to replace a musical instrument proficiency from my character's background with an artisan's tool proficiency instead?
I'm designing a Wood Elf Outlander Warlock (in D&D 5E) who only has one hand. This makes my arm nearly useless. As an Outlander, I am proficie...
This question for Pathfinder about how to use the Sense Motive skill is marked as a duplicate of this question for Dungeons & Dragons, 5th Edition about how to use the Insight skill.
While these systems may seem similar enough and the advice offered by the answers may be of interest to the Path...
