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00:01
Now I'm imagining a PC who's horribly paranoid that everything is a mimic and sneaks up on everyday objects because of that ONE TIME they were right
"Sneak Attack is about hitting it in 'the vitals', so can I Sneak it in a weak spot?"
"Sure, roll Craft"
Hmmm ... Mimics don't have Blind Sight, or Tremor Sense, just darkvision
Well, mimics or things like animated armor/table etc...
@BlackSpike I mean, you'd have to roll pretty poorly on stealth to have the chair notice you
@Someone_Evil true!
"As far as you can tell, the Chair is unaware of your presence ... roll Sense Motive to check if it is Bluffing you!"
"Hmm... you think the chair starts shuffling away from you"
00:18
All the other Players: "It's just a chair, Dave! What is wrong with you?!?"
00:52
What is the difference between <b> and <!--- ---!>?
@Medix2 The latter is an empty html comment
And the former?
@Medix2 The opening tag for bold. If you meant <br> it's a line break
Hmmm, no I meant <b> since it seems to behave identically to the comment thing.
@Medix2 It seems to just be any poorly resolved html that has that effect, you can do the same with <i> and <a> for instance (which are opening tags for italics and links respectively)
00:57
Yeah I think I'll accept that I'm not gonna understand how the html stuff works ever
One of the many mysteries of markdown
Since I had though <br/> was equivalent to hitting the enter key, but apparently it's not
@Medix2 Sort of? If you're familiar with latex, it's equivalent to \linebreak
Yeah that just seems to work weirdly with blockquoting
In what context?
01:00
Kinda hard to show since you can't share questions...
@BlackSpike Splitting a block quote (example in q)
@Someone_Evil OK, in the context of SE Questions. Dont' know what format/system SE uses. Not HTML.
Yeah still trying to figure out when you need > and when you don't
@BlackSpike It's called Markdown
@Medix2 Start of a paragraph, generally
@Someone_Evil I've heard the term. I got confuzzled after learning (early) HTML, and then phphbb/bbcode, and markdown and wiki and others turned up, all "improving" things, and it all slid off my poor little brain.
01:05
Yeah I'm just fiddling around in an "Ask a question" trying to figure it out, but man some of the things are really weird
@Medix2 tbh, i get very lazy ... if I'm asking in rpg.se, then I'll try, and I'll use the provided WYSIWYG/clicky-buttons, but "proper formatting" is not what I'm here for. I'll put some effort in, but ... if my question is rejected on "bad formatting" grounds, was probly not a good question :)
@BlackSpike Oh yeah, this isn't really to properly format things, though I have been wondering how to do small linebreaks between blockquotes which I now know. Mostly just curiosiity
If I'm asking in "bbcode.se" (wherever that is. SO?) then I'll tend to put more effort in :)
I wish you could invite people to look at a question before you post it XD
The formats/frameworks all seem to move too fast for me ... I'm still learning java/android, and now Kotlin is the thing. And I should be using "volley" and "retrofit" ... unless I talk to the "why don't you just do it all in emacs?" folk ... :(
/rant
01:15
@BlackSpike #rant FTFY, gotta be trendy
@Medix2 trends come and go. If I stick to my guns for another 5 years, i'll be back in fashion! (that's what I've been telling myself for 15 years, anyway! :D )
Ya know, I've always been scared about ending parentheticals with emoticons and whatnot, but now I see just adding a space fixes everything
@Medix2 Learnt from much trial and error. main lesson: throw a few spaces in. Also useful for manual list/bullet 1) ... 2) ... 7) ... 8) ... <-- smiley! ... 9) ...
I mean, what harm can a few spaces do? We're all good with random white-space? tabs, four-space, doesn't matter? :D :D :D
<one of my old rants> I joined Computers to get away from Dogma, as Computer Code is SCIENCE! No arguments based on Tradition and "that's the way it's done" ... we find the Best Way, the Right Way, and that is the one that "wins" ...
#facepalm #howWrongIWas
*gestures towards Code Golf*
replies with a very different gesture
Yeah, Code Golf fascinates me, as it is completely beyond my comprehension. I kinda get what it is, and how/why they do it ... but ... good luck to them ... I'll be over here, watching from a distance
01:32
Yeah same, It's truly scary when something gets reduced down to 1 2 or 3 bytes
yeah ... I often wonder how much is "cheating" .. .like using external libraries, or pre-defined functions, ... but not my area, so I don't know
But then I really like Procedural Generation (as championed by 'Elite' planet/culture generator), so I kinda see it ... kinda ...
I cut my teeth on Sinclair. 1k -> 16k, how do you write anything in so little space?!? and then we all got Powerhouse Workstations (133MHz PII) ... and now we got to fit everything on a tiny Mobile ... and we just offload it ... and so the cycle turns ...
02:16
@JohnP A French teacher asked me today if I might cover her class. I mentioned that the entirety of the French I know comes from Dressed to Kill, and she wisely looked elsewhere.
Ou conduit le autobus?
@Yuuki We generally avoid migration. The argument for it seems to be when there's a good question that would be on-topic elsewhere and it has good answers and votes that would be good to preserve. Otherwise, yeah: just close it here and post anew elsewhere. (And migration for the former reason, IME, happens in consultation with target-site mods.)
@JohnP Argh! I had that box!
02:35
@nitsua60 they have lots of them (no pun intended) for 16-32 each.
03:26
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Q: As a DM, how can I ensure that everyone feels involved when only a single player is driving the story?

AndrendireI've ran into a bit of a dilemma with a 5e campaign that's soon coming to a close. It's been running for about a year, and one of the primary goals that I had when I started the campaign was to focus as much as possible on the journey of each player character in my party. Unfortunately, as story ...

 
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Q: Boss fight issues

Evoker of MulmasterSo, as you may have seen from my earlier question about this campaign, I am a DM in a Star Wars D&D campaign. The climax of a long series of adventures is a fight with a Sith Lord. After watching several YouTube videos on how to create top-notch boss fights, one thing was consistent- have a v...

 
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Q: Can a rogue's sneak attack feature be used on objects?

Himitsu_no_YamiThe Rogue's Sneak Attack says Beginning at 1st level, you know how to strike subtly and exploit a foe’s distraction. Once per turn, you can deal an extra 1d6 damage to one creature you hit with an attack if you have advantage on the attack roll. The attack must use a finesse or a ranged weapo...

 
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22:21
Huh just found this question about adding the [dwarf] or [dwarves] tag. Kinda funny that it's [status-declined] and yet now the tag exists
Does anybody know if there's a way to search for questions that used to have a certain tag?
@Medix2 Not that I know of
Also, is there a clear distinction between these two questions, as far as others can tell?
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Q: What overpowered combinations would be available if I allow a bonus action to be used in place of a standard action?

PurpleVermontIt has come up in game a couple of times that a player might want to cast a spell that has a casting time of 1 bonus action using their "main" action (if they have another bonus action they also want to take on that turn, such as giving bardic inspiration, or controlling a Bigby's hand, etc.) On...

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Q: Which balancing issues, if any, would arise from allowing PCs to spend actions on bonus action features?

onewhoI understand that RAW, features/spells/etc. that require a bonus action (e.g. Bardic Inspiration or Healing Word) cannot be used with a regular action instead (see this question). However, what would be the long-term ramifications and effects on game balance if I were to instead allow PCs to use...

They seem kind of like duplicates, though the comment on the latter that links to the former calls it "Another relevant question, not quite a duplicate".
is it just the caveats that make them distinct?
the former says:
> if I house rule this, I would rule that any bonus action can be taken as a regular action instead; however, I would not allow the same type of bonus action to be taken twice (so no giving bardic inspiration to two allies on the same turn, for instance).
And the latter says:
> For the sake of narrowing this down a bit; I'm only asking about ramifications when allowing player characters to do this, no need to take NPCs or Monsters into account. I don't use the variant rule of feats either, so no need to consider those as well.
22:43
@V2Blast I definitely think the small caveats make them different questions, though the answers under each are definitely useful for the other
Is it alright to go removing tags I don't think are useful and that appear on 1 or 2 questions?
I'm wondering whether I should just stop worrying about tags (which exist, which should exist, which are and aren't used). They seem complicated and inconsistent
23:04
In general, you don't need to worry about most tags unless they seem to be causing problems. If it's totally clear that a tag is redundant or necessary, then go ahead and remove it. If it's not clear, feel free to ask about it on meta - though the answer you'll often get is that no action is needed, if you don't point out a problem there.
There's just some, idk, interesting(?) things I've found. Like the number of 5e-dnd questions with [charmed] but not [conditions]. And then [fear] and [unconscious] are tags but not [incapacitated] or [stunned], yet [blind] has been used with [conditions].
And then the fact that [battle-master] is a subclass tag but I can't find any other 5e subclasses that have tags at all, despite there being 52 "arcane archer" [5e-dnd] questions, 9 with "arcane archer" in the title.
Some is definitely from the massive challenge presented by different systems having similar names for different things and different names for similar things. And then some of it is, well I'm not exactly sure, I'll just say interesting
Though I don't think any of that causes harm, so yeah, may be best just to leave it be
Surely is useful not only to AD&D5e topics?
23:20
I absolutely think it is useful. Did I say it wasn't?
Just odd that there are questions about the charmed condition in 5e-dnd that don't have the [charmed] tag and do have the [conditions] tag. There are also ones that have the [charmed] tag and not the [conditions] tag
@Medix2 Also, uh, are you prowling through my posts in search of a tag to kill? Because this seems to be a second hit in a very short amount of time.
Now I'm "prowling through" every tag that doesn't have a description and is on 5 or less questions
That . . . reads like a clear way of not giving tags a chance to 'grow up'.
I'm not doing anything to them
23:26
I'm looking at them, and most of them are just systems or system-specific tags that I can't provide an adequate description for
Just kinda funny when looking at some of the meta saying things like "We don't need tags for subclasses" and then there exists
Sorry, probably should have made clearer what I was actually doing, mb
It's OK, I probably misread some of the statements.
I'm definitely more used to sites where having all applicable tags the goal. But then SE limits you to 5 per question (though often that's enough). Still trying to figure out what to do with some of the stuff. Like is having and both used on the same question redundant or necessary?
It's not like there's a strictly enforced ruleset, more of a folksonomy.
Yeah, I guess I'm getting used to that as opposed to other sites I'm accustomed to
@Medix2 To be fair, for some of these things, they're subclasses in 5e but were a different thing (e.g. a class of their own) in past editions
23:36
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Q: Should there be race-specific tags?

nitsua60I think I created the [Half-Orc] tag today when asking Does the half orc's Savage Attack work when wild shaped? It made sense to me to tag it, as it's a feature unique to the Half Orc+Druid combination. 'If I'm going to tag it Druid, why wouldn't I tag it Half-Orc?' I thought. A few moments late...

No-one ever put a positive answer on it, nor (as far as I know) did anyone ever raise a new question. People just went ham with race tags.
To be fair, one of those people was probably me :P
Obviously we shouldn't put race tags on questions that just happen to mention it, e.g. as part of their build. But I don't really see any downside to including a tag for the race when the question's specifically about a racial trait of that particular race, or the lore of that race, etc.
Also worth considering that norms and community opinions may have shifted over time, especially as the userbase changes. I only joined the site... 3 years ago, as of January 20th
@V2Blast I mean, you can see my opinion. I do think that in general, there's recently been an enormous amount of tags created and placed on both old questions and new without any meta-ing, and it does concern me a little.
I mean, folksonomy, etc, of course.
But I do think that there's usually value in having the discussion.

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