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1:27 AM

@Powerdork I don't see how that answer = D&D favoring a particular setting? 5e has mostly stuck to the Forgotten Realms, but Crawford's just talking about spells and magic in general for the most part. He says in the linked video that "spells draw on what in some D&D worlds is called the Weave", which is basically raw magic given structure. He doesn't say the Weave is a thing in every setting that works the same way in every setting.

Joshua

How to annoy your players: the Druid who doesn't believe in weather control. Every day he casts predict weather. If the actual weather doesn't match, he casts dispel magic to get rid of weather control. If the players use weather control within five miles of him ...

V2Blast

You mean the control weather spell?

lol

My Lancer game today got cancelled due to another player having a family emergency of sorts

Joshua

1:48 AM

Hmm; after reading this reddit.com/r/DnD/comments/6a8vio/… I should have encountered a Quarut already.

Medix2

@V2Blast I'm genuinely unsure whether "an emergency of sorts" is better or worse than a regular emergency, hmmm

Joshua

better

nitsua60

@Medix2 emergency of sorts:

StackSort connects to StackOverflow, searches for 'sort a list', and downloads and runs code snippets until the list is sorted.

V2Blast

2:29 AM

@Medix2 Lol. Well, less "emergency", more "needing to be there for family".

Hot RPG Questions

2:50 AM

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Q: Drawing from the Deck of Many Things with a Simulacrum

Tl;dr: Can I use my Simulacrum to draw from a Deck of Many Things and if yes, what restrictions do apply? Longer version Imagine the following situation: You have gotten a Deck of Many Things and successfully identified it with an Arcana check, so you know what you got your hands on. Since...

NeutralTax

3:04 AM

@nitsua60 xkcd is always appreciated

nitsua60

I may have to create a deck-of-many-things tag and go on a spree just so I can ignore/hide all these questions.</minirant>

@NeutralTax I've always wondered if someone ever tried to implement StackSort.

NeutralTax

@Carcer I enjoy the idea of breasts in places they don't belong, like on tables and doors

I got a splinter under my nail. That was not fun let me tell you.

That top comment was in reference to "unnecessary breasts" Realized it sounds weird out of context. Also in context as well

@nitsua60 gkoberger.github.io/stacksort

Yup its a thing

nitsua60

@NeutralTax From my n=1 test, I'm going to say "wow."

NeutralTax

3:19 AM

It works suprising well

nitsua60

It accessed 21 different answers; 19 didn't have compilable code, the first failed to reorder elements, and the second sorted the list.

21 lookups and 2 attempts? That's not too shabby.

NeutralTax

i wonder how hard it would be to sabatoge

I summon the mightly C'htmlu

V2Blast

@NeutralTax lol

@nitsua60 yep

V2Blast

3:49 AM

so

I've been using a Roll20 macro or sorts - specifically a global damage modifier - for my Rogue's Sneak Attack damage (in my Wednesday night streamed game, if you're curious)

it works fine on regular hits

but for some reason, it always rolls too many dice on crits

It's simple enough - I have this as a Global Damage Modifier (which you can enable on the Roll20 5e OGL sheet from the character sheet settings): [[@{Level}/2]]d6

so, basically, we were level 16, now we're level 18. so on a hit, when I have that damage modifier checked, it now rolls 9d6 for Sneak Attack damage on a regular hit (displaying it separately from the regular damage roll of the weapon of 1d8+5[DEX]+3[MAGIC] (it's a +3 magic weapon))

On a crit, it correctly rolls the base weapon damage dice twice, displaying it as X + Y, where X is the result of 1d8+5+3 and Y is just 1d8. For the Sneak Attack damage dice, if it displays as A + B, where A is the result of (18/2)d6... B always seems to display the result of 18d6 instead.

It doesn't seem to matter how many sets of parentheses I put around the bit before d6 in the global damage modifier; it always rolls twice as many dice for the second set of Sneak Attack rolls on crits as it should. I've tried every solution out there to make this macro work right, but nothing works.

The easy solution, of course, is to give up on this macro and just type in 9d6 instead of trying to have it auto-calculate based on my level. (Especially when we hit level 19 and it stays at 10d6 forever.)

but it's the principle of the thing, dangit! :P

Anyway, I'm considering asking if anyone has a solution for this on mainsite... But I fear it'll just sit there unanswered forever, and I'm not sure it is solvable if it's just a bug on Roll20's end

Powerdork

4:15 AM

How are you rolling attack and damage together? / How are you rolling critical damage?
I'm tinkering with a rogue I threw together in the charactermancer and not seeing the button to output attack roll and damage roll together.

If it's a macro, toss me your macro and I'll troubleshoot

Oh, it's about clicking the button on the chat feed, I see.

V2Blast

4:37 AM

Never used Charactermancer (but know of it/what it does)

and yeah

click the attack in your attacks list (or enable the macro bar in the Roll20 game settings, in the top-right of the page when in-game, then drag any attack from your attacks list to the macro bar and rename it. that's what I do). then click the name of the attack in chat itself to roll the damage

as I mentioned for global damage modifiers, you can enable that from character sheet settings, then add in whatever you want that will go on top of any damage roll you make from the sheet (including via macros tied to the sheet).

(there are global AC modifiers, attack modifiers, ability check modifiers, and saving throw modifier options in the settings as well)

So I have Sneak Attack set up as a global damage modifier (...even though, realistically speaking, I really only end up needing it on my main weapon since it almost always hits)

Powerdork

cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/602849376120995842/… this is the best i can get, and i got it by setting the second damage type up

V2Blast

My "macro" for it is above: [[(@{Level}/2)]]d6

Powerdork

Plug [[floor( (@{level}+1) /2)]]d6 into the second damage type and you'll get something like what I set up above, which is pretty much the best you're going to get. They made global damage modifiers multiply on a critical hit, so they're already not following the 5e rules, and they don't give you a mechanism to bring it in line.

The real best thing you can do is submit a pull request or whatnot on github or otherwise reach out to roll20 staff, but in the meanwhile, use the left sneak attack number on a critical hit.

There's even a toggle in the edit menu.

Or better yet: Every time you land a sneak attack, echo the text of the ability Sneak Attack from the class features box, and replace 1d6 with [[ [[floor( (@{level}+1) /2)]]d6 ]]

> an extra [[floor( (@{level}+1) /2)]]d6 ([[ [[floor( (@{level}+1) /2)]]d6 ]]) damage

(I cut the stray left paren)

Xirema

5:13 AM

I would just like to state for the record that I win, on the basis that I needed to cite my own question to help one of my players figure out how to get their Action/Bonus Action spells to line up correctly.

V2Blast

5:47 AM

@Powerdork Haha, yeah, there's plenty of workarounds, just was wondering if there's a way to get it to work as-is as a global damage modifier. Thanks for the attempt :)

Hot RPG Questions

6:57 AM

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Q: Where in Sphere-Space is Telene?

For context: Telene is the world from the Dungeons & Dragons Campaign Setting known as Kingdoms of Kalamar, published by Kenzer & Company. I have most of their 3.X compatible materials, but I have been unable to find if, and where, Telene resides within the "Phlogiston" of the 'all encompassing'...

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Carcer

8:18 AM

@V2Blast in fairness the PHB does feature this sidebar which basically says "yeah the weave is everywhere that's how all magic works in D&D"

V2Blast

9:10 AM

> The spellcasters of the Forgotten Realms call it the Weave and recognize its essence as the goddess Mystra, but casters have varied ways of naming and visualizing this interface.

Carcer

@V2Blast but it states that the thing that the weave describes is universal

V2Blast

true

I don't know much about what other settings are like

Carcer

historically I'm sure quite varied

whoops gotta go to work

kviiri

9:33 AM

Yeah, it indeed sounds like they mean the Weave (as the concept) is universal, although different settings might have different interpretations or names for it.

AncientSwordRage

10:12 AM

@V2Blast I'm coming from a different perspective based on how tags are handled. Flight feels too 'meta' and I'd have thought a dnd-5e-movement would cover that case. YMMV though

@Helwar shout out for the dragon born \m/

Hot RPG Questions

1:02 PM

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Q: Can a Loxodon PC wield a 2-handed sword and a shield

Could a Loxodon in full plate armor with tower shield in one hand, wield a greatsword with the other hand and their trunk?

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NeutralTax

3:12 PM

@AncientSwordRage Is there any reason it has to be specific to 5e?

GcL

@AncientSwordRage What? no love for DragonLance's draconians?

kviiri

Imagine if Drakon was called something like Kitty. We'd have Kittynian punishments.

AncientSwordRage

@NeutralTax because it's specific enough to be useful to the question

@GcL before my time 😲

nitsua60

3:54 PM

@GcL As a playable race? Not really =)

GcL

@nitsua60 To be fair, that whole setting was difficult to make playable. My recollection was that it was highly lethal.

nitsua60

@GcL I just ran a few of the DL modules a couple of summers back--we had a bunch of fun with them. (Ran them in 5e, but I just ran it from the 1e modules converting on-the-fly.)

rummages

homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/HJZyttvDg7 was our set of conventions to play Krynn in 5e.

GcL

@nitsua60 Did you base that on the book with Tanis on the front?

nitsua60

@GcL Autumn Twilight, you mean?

GcL

@nitsua60 The AD&D book. The dragonlance book I remember playing from had Tanis on the cover of the rule book.

nitsua60

4:02 PM

I... have no idea what those special attacks of Goldmoon's are. And I have no recollection of writing them?

@GcL I've got the original modules DL1 through DL12 that I was using; I created the document from my recollection, my old Player's Guide to the Dragonlance Campaign, and probably some googling?

GcL

4:18 PM

@nitsua60 Found it. drivethrurpg.com/product/162788/Dragonlance-Adventures-1e

NeutralTax

4:46 PM

Is there anything I need to change or clarify in this question?

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Q: How to guide my players into realizing they have multiple options available for an encounter?

For my next session with my PCs, I'm planning to have them witness an attack on an NPC that's intended to hook them the adventure. The plan is for the party to encounter his daughter, who also has a target painted on her back. I want the players to be making choices throughout the adventure, whet...

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doppelgreener

@NeutralTax related to the question but not revising it, something to consider is that D&D itself is leaning heavily on your players to choose combat. It's a system built such that violence is the best solution to most problems, especially ones where violence is already happening. Even when it's not the cleanest available solution, it's the primary means of advancement so you're incentivised to engage in it anyway.

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