@BlackSpike Right, and you want to wire that up to the UI so that changes in the UI update the class values and vice versa. "Data binding" is that problem. Unfortunately I don't know enough about Android to give you a good recommendation.
@Glazius Yeah, that's what I'm trying to do. Click a Button, update the Class. I can do it long-hand (separate OnCLickListener on each Button, or one listener across all Buttons ith a big "Which Button did you press" Switch/Case), but trying to figure a more elegant way.
Right. Does this page make sense to you? https://developer.android.com/topic/libraries/data-binding The key part, I think, is this: <TextView android:text="@{viewmodel.userName}" />
You worry about keeping your UI current, the library worries about updating the original class based on the UI.
@Glazius I'll see if I can mash something together to test ... I'm afraid i'm one of them "read a few tutorials, trawled SO, thinks he's a Developer" types :P
I fix domestic PCs for a living. <tries not to rant about printers>
@Glazius thank you for the way you asked. It means a lot when someone says "did you know about <this>?" rather than "Why aren't you using <this>?!?"
@BESW but it achieves the better signal to noise ratio, which is a worthy goal. That said, since we have so many participants for whom English is not their native language, there is a baked in obstacle to effective participation for at least some of those participants if the reception of any question is tied to "how well did you ask it." But I believe that that barrier was originally constructed to keep the so called "Help Vampire" issue at bay.
@BESW The core basis for this entire network existing was expert answers to challenging/difficult problems. Yes, things do change over time. You and doppel goaded me into posting a meta on the bad new user experience, or had you forgotten that? You know how I feel about the hostility and hazing endemic to SE sites.
And yes, signal to noise is arguably a "worthy goal" but there's more than one way to achieve it and I don't buy "ends justify the means" arguments that ignore the collateral effects. Signal/noise goals are not mutually exclusive with treating users like valuable individuals.
@Glazius I had not. I can do that. (slight tangent: I used to live in wales, and wearing a "I'm learning welsh" badge got you a LOT of respect if you mangled some Welsh Language, whereas mangling it, without the badge could raise peoples' hackles!)
While the optimizer in me loves the idea of the UA spell versatility to swap out cantrips/known spells, it really does minimize the power of the wizard and minimize decision making about a spell list for the known spell casters.
Here, I'll quote myself to you from that meta replay I made that put seven into attack mode ... > *What needs to change?* *Each new user needs to be treated as a person, not as a name connected to a question that may or may not meet our usually accepted style of how to ask a question*
If you don't buy the "ends justify the means" argument, why frame your response as "but it achieves a worthy goal"? And you seem to be really upset about me... agreeing with you that "help vampire" is a bad form? I'm very confused.
@NautArch Let me work on that, OK? I am enjoying a delicious bowl of warm home made soup that Mrs Starmast prepared on this cool, wet, windy day using turkey stock I made last weekend.
@BESW Yeah, we aren't doing this agreeing on principles thing very well, are we?
@BESW Stack is not meant to be 'friendly'. It is meant to produce Answers to Questions. (with emphasis on formal, research, citation). As is often pointed out, The Stack is NOT a forum! (Does that sound right?)
@BlackSpike yeah, that is correct. Or at least, that's the intention. (and I nearly wear my fingers out in the Christianity.Se mod queue over the frequent lack of formal, research, citation )
Mmm. And revering the forms of academic rigor without understanding their function, is an entirely different problem that... honestly most of academia struggles with also.
The fact that most experienced Stack users struggle to refute the "but I can just lie" rebuttal to GSBS is... indicative of some major epistemological problems.
On RPG.SE, we deal with a fair number of questions that don't have a strict, objectively correct answer. Some game rules questions do, but we also have a good number of questions about how to run a game, how to play a game, which game meets certain criteria, how to handle issues within gaming gr...
@BlackSpike I work and socialize with Indigenous academics, and it's really fascinating to see Indigenous academic epistemologies alongside colonial ones.
Different ways of knowing mean different ways of showing rigor.
@BESW As I say, it's an area I struggle to enter, as my Big Bro considers me an Ant, compared to his Mighty Knowledge on the subject <my phrasing/implied, not his!>
@BESW Even though you don't meta much anymore, do you think it's better than the old one? It may be that Naut and I are the only two who like it well enough ...
They've both got good bits the other doesn't have. A mashup, modified for modern learning, would of course be best.
Given that a FAQ is probably most used for its how-to material rather than its why-so material, the newer one seems better if only one of those two options is to be used.
Not sure if this is from the recent change to question reputation (I should probably read more on that), but I am currently not getting a notif in the upper-corner when something gets upvoted, neither for questions nor answers
@KorvinStarmast yeah. Unfortunately I haven't seen much interesting stuff, there hasn't been too much info released yet, so all the videos are just talking about speculation haha.
@Medix2 it might be to do with rep balancing? I don't really know, but I had one answer upvoted, but also a user was removed, so I also lost 20 rep at the same time
So since I'm technically on -10 rep for the latest updates, it won't show in the normal notification
I'm already aware, as per Are there price lists for magic items, such as the Bag of Holding?, that 5e was designed with the assumption that magic items are not to be bought or sold willy-nilly. This doesn't happen to be true in my setting.
I'm also aware, as per Do magic items really cost at lea...
Prove constant exists such that a function is uniformly continuous
For my answer to this question, I got an upvote after a few minutes. However I didn't see it until I checked because it didn't show up in the achievements. I did get reputation for it.
The second upvote is recorded as one upvote...
For 5e questions, is there an established way to deal with questions about the power of the DM? It seems to me that "can the DM do x" is a fairly basic question that doesnt need to be answered for every example of x
@Ben Heh, they will have an update in Feb, but it won't be released "for some time" and I have a running joke with my son about Blizz release dates. They rarely made on ... so... I think they stopped announcing them.
@jgn I'd say not. Take each question and situation and answer it within its own context.
@jgn the hardest thing for some people to do is to let go of previous editions when dealing with 5e. I certainly had some tripping over based on my mostly old school experience, and people with 3 and 4 e base lines ran/run into "the same word doesn't mean the same thing" in a lot of cases.
Likewise with "DM" role at the table, as the rule books describe it.
I got some good advice a few years ago at GiTP forums: "Approach 5e as though you never played before" and "just forget what you thought you knew" ... and build 5e understanding from the ground up.
And then fold in previous experience once the core of the system is familiar. That helped me A Lot.
@KorvinStarmast A lot of misunderstandings with 5e rules come from people trying to apply knowledge from older games systems instead of just reading the rules. I definitely agree with that advice you recieved!
Every answer to "can the DM do X" boils down to "regardless of the rules, yes". Would it not be productive to have a single answer and then close all the others as duplicate?
I have been repeatedly told that the question asker's context and situation isn't important and shouldn't be considered when answering the question. It seems like that quote is saying that a lot of opinion and leads to a lot of repeated effort.
There seems to be a lot of anti-rules or at least anti-RAW sentiment here that seeps into everything
@jgn For my money, this site's users over the past few years have become overly rules focused (perhaps this format trends that way) so you and I are looking at the same thing and seeing something different.
@V2Blast I think BESW's idea for a mash up into a better FAQ might be worth pursuing
@jgn I'd say this isn't accurate, because you can provide a rules citation for something like "the DM does whatever they want, and can change/override any rule(s), though they ought to use this power sparingly".
Sure, that rule would be cited often, but I frequently (cough cough) end up citing the encounter creation rules, then apply them to the specific context of the querent.
@JoelHarmon sure, but every single answer on every question in that vein first has to state "regardless of the rules the dm can do what they want". The nuances of that are never really discussed because answerers jump straight to their opinion on resolving that particular issue. The core question of "what do I do when my DM does something I don't like" isn't really addressed in a generic sense.
@KorvinStarmast As have I haha. It's fun, piecing things together, but the downside is that there is a fair few gaps here and there, so it can be hard to get a proper picture sometimes
@JoelHarmon There isn't really any fundamental difference between these questions, the answers are all "The DM can, here's some opinions on what to do". Rewording questions to eliminate the redundant part may help, but it's like having 30 questions on "how do I attack with dagger/sword/spear/bow/etc"
@KorvinStarmast We had a game of Dark Heresy, and when the first PC death came around, the DM ate the character sheet. It was odd, but it broke the tension for the group a little.
I mean, technically the DM could just turn D&D into checkers, but that's a gross violation of the whole premise of why everyone else showed up to the table.
@jgn It seems like what you should do is reply with a comment asking whether the DM's rules reworks are the problem, or the symptom of a social problem, and encourage editing the question to make it more explicit either way.
I guess I still don't have a handle on the point of this site. Last time everyone was telling me it was all about the Q&A db quality, and that helping the asker is secondary at best.
@Someone_Evil There's less tension there than the juxtaposition implies; for example, in the case of an unclear question or unsupported answer, improving the quality of the question and answer will also better help the asker.
We try to provide actionable solutions to specific challenges faced by individuals, but only in ways that make those solutions accessible to all future users who will face similar challenges.
@trogdor I'm guessing the rural equivalent of a "princess" type.
is the star wars tag appropriate here: https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/159510/is-this-homebrew-oath-of-the-jedi-paladin-subclass-balanced-compared-to-the-offi
@Glazius But in this case there very much is tension since it necessitates tacking large prtions of opinion to an answer that has been repeated many many times
@goodguy5 It's a question about a jedi themed subclass. Jedi are a part of star wars so I added the tag. Someone searching for "[dnd-5e][star-wars]" should find that question. You are welcome to disagree with me (this is not a hill I will die on), but that's why I put it on
@goodguy5 Probably not needed there; the tag's for questions about the setting (as related to RPGs), or the "style" of Star Wars but that's not clearly defined. Whereas that homebrew seems inspired by Star Wars but presumably intended for general use?
idk
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In a universe adjacent to our own lies a world known as Runia. This world, once peaceful and idyllic, is now threatened by a monstrous being from its prehistory. A group of adventurers known as Whiskey Company have risen up to do what they can to fight this entity known only as Nagat. They have trekked far across the mortal realms in search of the shards of Barrinoth, the Titan of Justice, in hopes of returning him to his full power.
I've not seen comments on this interpretation, so what can anyone tell me about enemies picking up arrows shot out of the hut and shooting them back in (albeit at obscured creatures inside)? Do those arrows get a pass since they were inside the hut when cast?
@jgn Most "can the DM" questions aren't really about the rules; certainly most of the D&D questions aren't. It's a common misconception that if you're playing D&D and are dissatisfied with how the DM e.g. spawned Tiamat's previously undocumented sister 3amat in a blind angle, there must be something in the rules to deny that possibility. There isn't. But your dissatisfaction is still a problem and you can get help articulating and solving it.
@Glazius Yup, as discussed, the answer to the question is cut and dry. What they are looking for isn't that question, it is just busywork/noise that needs to be addressed pointlessly.
@trogdor Taylor Swift was a big chart-topping country singer until her 2012 album Red, which began a transition into the pop charts that she solidified with the 2014 album 1989.
@Glazius In what way is it good to have dozens of questions, each with multiple answers, which each have to state "the DM can do whatever despite the rules"? This is a truth for the entirety of dnd, not just 5e. It's like having to debate what a "turn" is. These are such low level concepts that they apply to the vast majority of questions.
@jgn The simple existence of other questions or answers doesn't change what's needed to be a quality answer. Questions can be closed or duplicated, but you should always answer as though the entire rest of the site will be deleted tomorrow.
I thought the policy on duplicate questions was more like "mostly duplicate" or "close enough" rather than "100% matching"? Or is that more the pragmatic side where as "we answer what is asked" is more philosophical?
Questions can share many elements without having similar solutions.
I've made a lot of rep off variations on "Don't be a jerk, your friends are more important than the game, talk it out instead of using game mechanics to solve friendship problems." But they're all customized to the situation, not copy-pasted.
Same principles need explaining, different actionable solutions are required based on those principles.
The Suggestion spell has a verbal component, and is described as :
You suggest a course of activity (limited to a sentence or two) and magically influence a creature [...] that can hear and understand you.
The Subtle Spell metamagic allows a sorcerer to cast a spell without any somatic or v...
I did retroactively get about a dozen rep-caps, it looks like.
Looks like HICC picked up legendary on the retroactivity.
(That's the "last" badge I'm keeping an eye on. It would be my most-rare, and it's the only badge I don't have that's rarer than ones I do. But I'm totally not exactly the target for SE's gamification protocols....)
@nitsua60 Well get that +20 then. Shouldn't take too long :)
@NautArch I think it looks very well balanced. Maybe a little underpowered in the top end, but the spell list makes up for that in my eyes. Working on an answer
Although it is very MAD with Wisdom for domain, Charisma for spells, and Strength/Dexterity for weapons
I had a chance to buy the game Lankhmar when I was in college, but this was before credit cards were a thing in my life and I didn't have the cash. If I had been smart, I'd have offered a small down payment and asked them to put it away. As it was, I came back the following day and it was gone.
@DavidCoffron the spell list is definitely a BIG power increase. But the channel divinity stuff is kinda underwhelming when that's often a pretty good option for paladins.
@Gwideon Well, most small settlements probably wouldn't have an inn, not having enough travellers passing through to make an inn viable/worth the investment.
@goodguy5 actually, the only spell that's a really nice to have is catapult. Paladins don't really have a ranged option, and this gives them a very very nice one.
@NautArch I feel I kinda need a sunny day every now and then, apart from that no strong preference. I recall last year around this time, it was super foggy and rainy for weeks at end. When the sun finally came out people flocked to the south side of the building to admire it.
@goodguy5 I might suggest adding the alignment knowledge to Divine Sense rather than a separate CD. That's a big resource cost for nearly nothing usable.
@Gwideon Ah, okay. I guess it'd depend a bit on the location. In major cities you'd probably have both, but a small wayside settlement would probably have an inn to serve travelers.
@goodguy5 oh, you could combine the 15th level into the Channel DIvinity they ahve now. That makes it much more useful. Not sure i'd keep the psychic damage resistance. Maybe that's part of the 15th.
@Gwideon I am not a proper historian, but thinking more about inns vs taverns, I think the distinction wouldn't always be too clear because most Medieval European people didn't have very high standards for privacy nor lodgings. Keeping a dormitory of a few straw mattresses on the attic seems like a small investment even if they get rented only occasionally and the main source of revenue would be selling food and drink.
@kviiri I think you were spot on about regional need. Outside of that, i doubt there's a standard. It's about whether or not they want to deal with overnight guests or just serve drinks/food.
@Gwideon Of course! My only personal caveat is asking that you go through several drafts before asking for feedback. It's unfair to those you're asking if you haven't put in the initial editorial work.
ANd make sure there's enough content for us to be able to give you good feedback.
While there are 'group' ways to write, it is often a very personal endeavor. Asking for feedback at each step may do more harm than good in terms of your own improvement.
I mean, you just started on this a couple days ago, it's a bit early.
I'm just kinda stuck at this starting line for my next paragraph. I'm trying to describe the rest of the party but everything i start with doesn't quite feel right.
@Gwideon I hear you, but that's writing! You've got to sit down and try stuff. And then try something else. Then rewrite and do it again. It's a long process.
@Gwideon There is an old guideline to writing: Show, don't tell. It's not a rock-solid rule, but reading a few novels or comics, or watching a film or two with that in mind might give you ideas how that rule relates to the introduction of characters.
"Tell me about that adventure you did with so-and-so"
"Who was that kid you saved? Wasn't it one of <paladin-name>'s relatives or something?"
Though, your mileage may vary depending on the group.
Session zero almost always has a "you're a group, I'm not going to tell you how or why (that's your decision), but I'm not dropping you in a tavern together to figure your lives out"
Considering how dangerous an adventurer's life is, I think a realistic alternative to "you all meet in a tavern" would be "you all meet in the emergency ward"
@Gwideon Yeah. Taking inspiration from other mediums is of course possible but it's smart to always apply some foresight --- not everything that works well in a movie works well in a novel, and vice versa.
I'm just trying to write this out by this point. I probably won't go into full on editing mode until I finish my story. I'm gonna try and get all of the chapters written. The annoying part is that I started in the middle of this campaign so I can't just start at the beginning. I'm starting where my character came in but I don't have much from the parties previous adventures.
Figuring out how you best write is just as important and difficult as the actual writing. Some writers like to use outlines. Others just start writing. Others still may use some sort of mind map.
But if you're having trouble envisioning how everything connects and where it goes, coming up with some sort of outline or visual guideline before you actual start the actual 'writing' bit (note that an outline, etc. is still writing) may help.
@Medix2 with regard to that familiar magic item question, you may want to address that familiar's can't attack. Not so much an issue with gust of wind, which requires a saving throw, but if an item allowed them to cast a spell that requires an attack roll, i don't think that'd be a kosher option.
I'm already gonna have to do a bunch of rearranging (especially when it comes to the dungeon crawls) so it maybe best to figure out how I'm gonna be changing stuff.
Vampiric Touch says,
The touch of your shadow-wreathed hand can siphon force from others to heal your wounds. Make a melee spell attack against a creature within your reach. On a hit, the target takes 3d6 necrotic damage, and you regain hit points equal to half the amount of necrotic damage d...
Prove constant exists such that a function is uniformly continuous
For my answer to this question, I got an upvote after a few minutes. However I didn't see it until I checked because it didn't show up in the achievements. I did get reputation for it.
The second upvote is recorded as one upvote...
I've not seen comments on this interpretation, so what can anyone tell me about enemies picking up arrows shot out of the hut and shooting them back in (albeit at obscured creatures inside)? Do those arrows get a pass since they were inside the hut when cast?
The Suggestion spell has a verbal component, and is described as :
You suggest a course of activity (limited to a sentence or two) and magically influence a creature [...] that can hear and understand you.
The Subtle Spell metamagic allows a sorcerer to cast a spell without any somatic or v...
Vampiric Touch says,
The touch of your shadow-wreathed hand can siphon force from others to heal your wounds. Make a melee spell attack against a creature within your reach. On a hit, the target takes 3d6 necrotic damage, and you regain hit points equal to half the amount of necrotic damage d...
