@doppelgreener for the record, it could be a different bolt, as well.
now that I'm thinking about it, I'm less sure of that. For some reason, in the moment, I was very sure that the ammunition recovered was in a sort of quantum state until picked up.
But it very clearly says "recover half your expended ammunition", so the ammunition must be ammunition that you expended.
what's the average duration of a piece of ammunition? I can't think of the type of function I need.
I think that the average lifespan of any given arrow is 2 uses. but I can't prove it other than adding the sum of halves (1 + .5 + .25 and so on)
After a bit of a headache, I have an answer to a specific part of the question.
Since the other answers clearly define whether or not ammunition is reusable (yes) and recoverable (yes, you get half back), I'll leave those to this one sentence.
However:
Is there any guidance on how long an arrow...
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yeah this is it
I just clicked on the link like 4 hours ago and didn't look into it... And I just did :P
@doppelgreener Go for it. I'm done with that line of questioning until OP just says what's on their mind. (See four different posts by them on the same theme.)
@V2Blast Yeah sorry, I'm just not in the mood to go hunt down 14 various Q/As throughout the site just to answer one question by needing to back up a lengthy series of unrelated claims... Though I could just say "the stones aren't melee" and be done with it, that just feels disingenuous
Apologies, that probably came off more harshly than I'd have wanted it to. It's... been a long day so I think I'll just take a break for now. Good luck with the magic stone questions and whatever else
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Looking at the RAW for Minor Illusion (PHB, page 260) and other questions, I recognize that Minor Illusion is very limited in its ability to move on its own or change its appearance. However, I'm wondering if the illusory object can be carried or worn as demonstrated in two examples:
I want to...
@goodguy5 Expected value is a convenient way to approach this. If you consider that each arrow was lost (-1) or recovered (0) at an equal chance, the expected amount of arrows expended per actual attack loosed is -0.5
Expected value is ofc not always that "expected" --- in this case for instance one won't expect literally losing half an arrow per attack. But approximately so after several attacks, sure.
Just finished binging the rest of Kipo and the Age of Wonderbeasts. It's a new Netflix animated series. First few episodes were charming and good, but I was not expecting the direction the story took. Definitely recommend it.
Expected values are a perverse pleasure to me. I generally hate averages as they're more often than not somewhat misleading despite sounding like... well, the average result. Which they are for many things, but not really (in the intuitive sense) for others.
But on the other hand, expected values have so much mathematical convenience that make them a simple blunt weapon to bash open the skulls of many a problem with :-)
@Medix2 No worries. I just don't think it's true that throwing stones from magic stone is its own action or otherwise separate from the Attack action. (I think the first half of your answer was fine as written - I just disagreed with the idea that you couldn't use the Attack action with it.) At the very least, it seems like hurling them with a sling clearly uses the Attack action, even if you're mechanically making a ranged spell attack. I could be wrong there, though.
@BESW This evokes an old memory, btw. I have something of a ~programming background since childhood. I missed the C64 era narrowly, but my father was a computer professional and enthusiast (by his limited standards for "enthusiasm" in general --- he is not a very excitable fellow unlike myself)
So I got some idea of what programming is from a very young age. My first practical experiences with it, save for some really simple things done with Visual Basic or something, was making games with... maybe Game Maker?
Btw as a computer scientist I will death glare into utter annihilation they who say it's not "real programming" because it's graphical menu stuff.
Cease your logical gate -keeping!
Anyway, I digressed. It had different operations for arithmetic, and of course being somewhat precocious in math I realized that you wouldn't really need separate plus and minus operators because adding a negative number is the same as subtraction. Nevertheless, I was quite torn on which operator I actually wanted to use, and wound up confusing them and feeling silly about it all the fricken time.
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Can you cast Magic Stone on 3 pebbles as a bonus action, throw a stone as a main action. Then on your next turn, throw the 2 remaining pebbles? That is, throwing the first pebble as your action and the second as your bonus action, using the Two-Weapon Fighting rules (PHB pg. 195; emphasis mine)
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I recall some rules in earlier editions where if you miss with a touch spell, it's "held" and you can try again on a future turn. Does that rule exist in 5e, and if so, where it is?
I'm guessing I'm just missing it, but I couldn't find it in the PHB. Thanks in advance!
Hi all, I was looking for recommendations for 'small megagames' and since recommnedations are off-topic I thought I'd ask here. Does anyone have any experience with games in the spirit of 'Watch the Skies' which can be played with 10-20 people? Thanks!
@asph Chat tends to be quite slow over the weekends and I'm not sure how many have experience with that type of game (can't remember it coming up as a topic) But I'm going to put a star on that question, which should help people see it and hopefully someone will come back to you on it. Otherwise we maintain a list of forums you may wish to try if you haven't already
Hey, I was looking at a Shadow Monk's Shadow Step, being curious about what would happen if you were carrying someone. According to some of the answers I found, the result would be no, as you cannot teleport someone with you.
However, does that also mean that if you were fighting on a cliff at night and an enemy grappled you, you could effectively throw yourself off the cliff (with the person holding on) and shadow step immediately to a space you can see on solid ground, causing the enemy to fall to their doom?
@BESW sometime ago you shared an essay about orcs and racism in dnd, if you still remember where to find it, then I'd appreciate it if you'd share it again.
After a bit of a headache, I have an answer to a specific part of the question.
Since the other answers clearly define whether or not ammunition is reusable (yes) and recoverable (yes, you get half back), I'll leave those to this one sentence.
However:
Is there any guidance on how long an arrow...
Looking at the RAW for Minor Illusion (PHB, page 260) and other questions, I recognize that Minor Illusion is very limited in its ability to move on its own or change its appearance. However, I'm wondering if the illusory object can be carried or worn as demonstrated in two examples:
I want to...
I recall some rules in earlier editions where if you miss with a touch spell, it's "held" and you can try again on a future turn. Does that rule exist in 5e, and if so, where it is?
I'm guessing I'm just missing it, but I couldn't find it in the PHB. Thanks in advance!
