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3. Toby. Several variations. Ex-Militia Dragonborn Fighter/Vagabond Elf Fighter/Teifling Fighter/Sorc Gestalt. Pulled off "rule of cool" moments flawlessly. Hated by all GMs due to overly ordinary name, which added to the character.

4. Sam. Garbage Truck driver. Survivor. Nothing else needs saying.

5. Tommin Olivae. Green Dragonborn Monk. Aka: Green Power Ranger.

Worthy mention: Kulkhus Athak. Lvl 20 Barb/Fighter. Used potions of growth and was optimally underlevelled; relying on artefacts to boost stats. Had 10 base Str.

And finally the crowd favourite: Grug Grug the Orc Barb. 6 Int. Played by my grandmother in a one-off. Will forever feature in any and all future games due to her amazing roleplaying.

MikeQ

1:13 AM

@Ben I would like to hear about Grug Grug

It was one of my first times DMing, so I had a friend do up the PCs, all in 3.5 and a one-off dungeon. All the usuals: The halfling rogue; dwarf fighter; human paladin; and the Orc Barb.

We handed out the characters at random, and my grandmother (who is in her 90s) go the Orc Barb; Grug Grug. This was her first time playing D&D, and she decided to play it smart by not getting overly involved, so as to not slow anyone down. She rolled the dice when she was told, and did her job well

When we explained all the stats, we pointed out that Grug Grug was not exactly smart. He had issues spelling his own name kinds of intelligence. And the result was adorable. He was dim but so loveable. Made friends with everyone and stuck by his friends (cos he didn't have many).

When the Rogue was in trouble, Grug Grug would try and resolve the problem diplomatically. Which failed miserably, but only in that the attempt turned out more like intimidation than diplomacy.

2:00 AM

2:14 AM

Oh god the memes

Lol

I'd allow it XD

I would throw them out of my game

King K Rool is not a D&D character :P

@trogdor What about a Boss..?

Lol

Honestly I'd probably accept it as a character or a boss, but its definitely very silly

As long as you aren't making constant Donkey Kong or Smash Bros references

I might actually kick you out if you did that XD

As you enter the final cavern of the lizard den, you can see all of the jewels and gold that the lizardfolk have been hoarding, glimmering gently in the faint torchlight.

As you look around the room, you see the shadows shift, and you hear a slithering sound as you see a long tail being withdrawn. You follow it, to see a 10 ft tall, muscular and heavily scaled lizardman. Its head spines seem to create a crown-like shape on its head

It hisses at you menacingly, flexing and standing to its full height, almost at 15ft. It roars and leaps at you, clearly intent on using its body, weight and size as its weapon. Roll for initiative!

Cough. I'll be right back [starts scribbling stat block notes]

2:31 AM

I summon a giant monkey to fight him

@trogdor I had a situation where this happened. I got turned into a Giant Ape by the Bard to fight a horde of enemies. It was amazing

MikeQ

Make it a kensei monkey, and they can wield a +3 banana

And you know, maybe a couple other smaller monkeys and a rhino

@trogdor You're only fueling my imagination lol

throws himself out of the game " you were warned !"

Lol

BESW

2:45 AM

3:15 AM

homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/print/CC2Ifj5F

3:57 AM

Wonder what the odds are that AmethystWizard's in an argument with a rules-lawyer at their table right now?

Medix2

If so I'm genuinely surprised somebody is tracking ammunition, and then applying the half ammo rule, and then saying you can't choose which half you get

Meanwhile there's this: rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/134202 and their answer doesn't seem to be very liked

If you really were to implement firing half regular ammo, half magical ammo, and argued you should be able to loot only the magic ammo ... That's so gamey, the GM has every right to veto it

Oh. Yeah. That's... something going on that doesn't resemble my experience of "fun with friends playing pretend elves."

4:14 AM

What about pretend lizards? :P

banish

(roll +CHA)

Lol

I would but i don't know my cha value

Then I guess it's likely 2d6+3dF?

BESW

@trogdor I have 3 cha! You can have one, that way I can still cha-cha.

Lol

Also,... 2d6 plus 3df? Huh?

How is that how anyone rolls for a stat?

4:29 AM

When you're trying to play pretend lizards, anything goes!

XD

@nitsua60 as to the chwinga, they were originally pulled from a deep crevasse in between the twin peaks of the Cheek Mountains

@trogdor (Actually, it was just me going with a DW-style "roll +CHA" which would be 2d6+CHA, but then using 3dF to model the likely modifier of an otherwise-unknown stat.)

@nitsua60 And if you substitute the term "gators" for "lizards" your comment makes even more sense, on the bayou.

@KorvinStarmast Guess what?

4:31 AM

@nitsua60 That is my response to your recent question. 8^D

Guess "what?"

What I can't figure out if it was from the Mearles Mountain range or not.

Guess: "what?"

@nitsua60 That's what!

Anyway, it's late, I am off to bed. Trip to Austin tomorrow.

Q: Can we look at the contrast, here?

Safe travels.

The Oracle

4:36 AM

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Just posted my first question using a tag that has a tag-warning in a while. Saw this: I don't know much about accessibility, but I'll bet that's a pretty low contrast ratio by any measure. I didn't even notice it come up, and only because I ADD-style tabbed over to chat for a sec and then cam...

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(I'm really sad he never said "what.")

Lol

He said what several times but not by itself

I would have taken that

XD

Ok he only said it twice but still

@trogdor That's good. I drop my banishment.

Lol

What?

XD

@trogdor Chwinga butt!

Q: Can an ordinary whip be poisoned?

5:12 AM

(aggressively rolls eyes) :P

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I'm running a whip-wielding ranger/rogue, and I'm wondering if it's possible to poison a whip, both from a rules standpoint and as a practical matter. Rules-wise, there's this from the DMG: Injury. A creature that takes slashing or piercing damage from a weapon or piece of ammunition coated ...

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7:29 AM

@VictorB It's from this recent UA on psionics, for reference: media.wizards.com/2019/dnd/downloads/UA-PsychicSoulPsionics.pdf

Medix2

8:03 AM

You know @V2Blast is online when ^

hola

@NeutralTax Note that there are no DDB "codes" included with any physical D&D 5e product by WotC other than the Essentials Kit. (Beadle and Grimm's also sells, essentially, luxury "Platinum Edition" box sets that include the adventure itself, a code for the adventure on DDB, and other stuff: physical handouts used with the adventure, maps, minis, etc.: beadleandgrimms.com/platinum-edition

Medix2

In all honesty, I'm regularly impressed by the effort/dedication you put into the site and keeping it clean and all the rest, so thank you for that! I know it's also lots of people besides you, so a big thanks to all of you guys as well!

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Q: Can animal-like playable races wear shoes/boots?

As for D&D Beyond, I'm generally a big fan, but I also don't own much physically. (Just the PHB, Xanathar's, and Ravnica because they were on sale on Amazon... and the Starter Set, though I got that before anything else because it's how I got into D&D).
As goodguy5 said, you can recreate stuff as private homebrew if you're willing to take the time. (Private homebrew is automatically shared with anyone in a campaign with you on DDB, even without a subscription.)
You could also buy only the character options you want a la carte, and the price of the full book would be discounted by what you'v…

@DavidCoffron Unfortunately that sheet also includes all the SCAG and Xanathar's spells (non-SRD content) so I'm going to have to delete that message.

@doppelgreener Ooh. That's awesome. I've heard people praise it but didn't know that. Now I wish more app suites were like that...

@GcL It's still not ubiquitous - most people I mention it to, even my age, don't know what "D&D" is if I mention the name - but it is increasingly becoming known.

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I was attempting to make a Hero Forge character today and came up with a question. I was making a Tabaxi and it wouldn't let me put shoes on because of how their model's feet are. Now that may just be a restraint on the site, but I was wondering if there was any RAW precedent for the more anima...

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Not identical but related.

@Medix2 <3

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Q: Is there any Major Mechanical advantage of Drow Elf (full) VS Drow Half-Elf?

Looking at racial features, half-elf Drow seem to have all the "best" features of full drow, with none of the downsides. Past the "Drow weapon training" is there any major befit to a full Drow Elf over the Half-Elf Drow? The Full Drow Elf racial features are: Keen Senses, Fey Ancestry & Tr...

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Q: Do centaurs suckle from horse nipples or human nipples?

Reading the conversation about centaurs earlier, I thought of this image:

but in the process of googling I somehow found this worldbuilding.SE question:

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This has been puzzling me, because if the human half needs human nutrients, then suckling from the human nipples makes sense. But the horse half needs different nutrients, so which set of nipples makes most sense?

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AncientSwordRage

@V2Blast yup, seen before, still disturbing

BESW

9:15 AM

Affinity's really good! My only major complaint so far is that Affinity Publisher can't produce fully ADA compliant PDFs. Their video tutorials are quite comprehensive, their online documentation is solid, you can access the functionality of Photo and Designer from within Publisher without switching programs, both Photo and Publisher have built-in integration with *three* royalty-free stock photo services...
Their desktop programs for Mac and Windows are equally good and their iPad versions of Photo and Designer (Publisher for iPad slated to come later this year) are completely redesigned f…

It's not free, but even after I bought all three desktop programs and both iPad programs, I was saving money compared to an Adobe Cloud subscription after four months because the Affinity programs aren't subscriptions!

They import .psd and .ai files quite well, and while their .indd importing is still very much in beta, opening any InDesign file that's been exported as an InDesign-editable PDF gets it reconstructed and it does a solid job.

A lot of indie TRPG designers are using Affinity, and a number of medium-size magazines and other companies are making the switch.

If a client wants me to work with Adobe files, I'm just gonna charge 'em extra for the subscription and the pain.

That said, there are a lot of solid free alternatives depending on what you're after--especially if you're only looking for a raster drawing program or photo editing. The more you get into vector and layout, the more you need to pay for quality.

I designed all my recent game material on Affinity software, it was a great way to learn the system without having a client breathing down my neck.

Oh, one minor but irritating complaint: the video tutorials and documentation are great, and well subtitled, but they have no searchable transcripts.

Q: What data about meta has eluded Stack Exchange until recently?

12:25 PM

@Medix2 see also:

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In the recent blog post there is the following paragraph (emphasis mine): Opinions and feelings about the best way forward are extremely valid things to consider, but the devil is in the details data, too. We’ve spent a lot of time re-examining how we look at engagement on meta in terms of th...

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Based on nothing but intuition, I assume most sites follow the patterns described in the top answer there.

doppelgreener

1:30 PM

Somebody predicted a while back that the all-new™ improved™ Stack Overflow Executive Leadership®, after having successfully fired/alienated most of the people holding the place's institutional knowledge, will, over the coming years, step by step, incredulously rediscover the things that Jeff & Co. had already discovered and built into the way the site works back in 2009. Looks like we're at step "having a Meta is in fact important even though it is really really annoying to have one" now 😄 — Pekka 2 days ago

I still haven't gotten over this comment

It's gold

@doppelgreener And the wheels, they go round and round - and they keep getting re invented.

Someone_Evil

1:47 PM

It's always easier to see the downsides to an (old) compromise