@Someone_Evil Derp, I read Points of Interest as Points of Light. The description is fine, but slightly odd capitalisation threw me off (or messed with my ability to read)
@Medix2 Yeah. It has all the ingredients for long-lasting high-heat flames, I reckon --- the original "Rogue" and its immediate followers have lots of features that are unusual for modern video games, and the whole classification attempt is a retroactive attempt to pin down which of those features defined the genre. And of course we're talking about fandoms that fell into relative obscurity, suddenly to see their term being "appropriated". No wonder emotions fly high at a few points.
heck, I almost don't play Diablo III anymore since I have decided that a card game like Hearthstone is more entertaining - in that I can have a short or a long session depending on what little time I have. (And my son can give me tips on strategy, he's really good at playin a rogue)
I generally would like to see more shots at game concepts that have been dominated by a single franchise be re-visited, with new takes on the mechanics and such. Like Civilization, for example --- it's the only major turn-based strategy franchise with the concept of guiding a nation/state from the ancient age to the near future, with an (ostensibly) holistic take on running a country.
@Medix2 I dunno, is it? Many games feature some sort of technology progression, many games allow taking control of a real-life empire and lead them yourself. Extending the timeframe to cover all the known periods of civilization seems like a rather natural conclusion.
@Yuuki You remind me that I need to play some LoL this weekend so that 1-I can remember how and 2- so that I can figure out how the passives work again.
I am not jumping from Hearthstone. I like the game.
Which is the only commercial game that has ~exactly the Civ concept from outside the series plus its spin-offs that I know. Outside of commercial games, there's also C-Evo and FreeCiv, but the latter is meant to be a clone.
@Yuuki the last time I built a change to one of the heroes I prefer, the passives worked differently than they do now ... yeah, it's been a while. I almost need a tutorial.
@KorvinStarmast For items? There are passives (which are just passive effects and stackable), unique passives (that you can stack with different items but not with the same item), and named passives (that don't stack at all).
But since you mentioned Stellaris, I'm frustrated that they're STILL not adding proper support to playing an arbitrary "fractured civilization" at the game start
@Yuuki I remember a few years ago using GP as a top lane bruiser; I think the barrels were supposed to help him do that, but I wasn't great at barrel management.
@NautArch Hmmm yeah I don't think I have much besides what's been mentioned. Maybe maybe the following games: Shiness, Ori and the Blind Forest, Just Cause, and Transistor.
@Yuuki Hmmm maybe I should get back into it... Mostly just played Karma (anywhere) when I used to play
Nin'Zar, the imp familiar, likes its cushy new assignment serving a Pact of the Chain Warlock. So, it wants to help its master as much as possible by using the Help Action when its master casts Scorching Ray.
The spell description for Scorching Ray says:
You create three rays of fire and hur...
@NautArch Legends...that was the sort of spin off/background series? Lamut, etc? I don't think I ever read it, and I tapered off the series somewhere around the Demonwar saga, not sure I ever finished it all.
@NautArch Ok, that's right. Kind of parallels the first war with Kelewan. Yeah, I didn't read that, and I didn't read the Kelewan series Daugher of the EMpire, etc either.
So far my copy trail for these files consists of VM in network A to another VM in Network A to a VM in Network B to my jumpbox in network C, to my linux box in network D to get it to my laptop. What a pain.
Lich can imprison a soul in its philactery:
A creature imprisoned in the phylactery for 24 hours is consumed and destroyed utterly, whereupon nothing short of divine intervention can restore it to life. Monster Manual pg. 203
The phrase 'nothing short of divine intervention' intrigues me be...
I have this great character idea. A sorcerer with a high str score, wild magic, with indigo tattoos on his everywhere. Variant human, lightly armored feat. Believes a God blessed (he says cursed) him with his power.
Like it just feels wrong to have a player come to me and say "Okay, Jackie drew The Void; I cast Wish, and my wish is 'Jacqueline Firestorm is released from the prism and her soul is placed back in her body'" and I respond with "Nope. Wish can't do that."
@Xirema My main gripe is that Wish feels like it's ideal for this earth-shaking narrative stuff while not really working like earth-shaking narrative magic ought to in my view
I guess my Headcanon for wish is that it's invoking a touch of Divine magic, i.e. "The DM might twist it to screw you over at their discretion, but it can do anything a God can do". So if there's a magical tarot card that can imprison your soul so mightily that even a God cannot free you, that elevates The Deck of Many Things into being an object that itself either was created by a god or is inhabited by a god.
I can't help comparing Wish to the rituals of Dungeon World, where the Wizard can do pretty much anything but it requires all the stuf plot-significant magics require in fiction
@RandomDudeWithAKnife sure, but light armor feat then becomes less interesting because that's based off Dex which is becoming a dump stat, right? But as Kviiri, said, if optimizing your actual build isn't necessary, then you have a lot more freedom for unusual.
@Yuuki You must also make sure you hide that you have ever written this scroll, otherwise people might expect you to read PHP. Doing so will re-apply these conditions.
@KorvinStarmast tbf why do we need any humanoid race when any other humanoid race exists? I know nothing about MTG, but it's all about how they get differentiated both mechanically and in terms of lore...
@NautArch Nice. The encounter builder currently in beta for everyone, or the combat tracker that just got released into alpha for subscribers? I've heard the latter is pretty barebones so far but then again it just got released into alpha...
@V2Blast Depends on whether the term "race" is limited to physical aspects, or also accounts for differences in culture and background. Mechanically leonin are categorized as "cat", but lore-wise the term refers to cat-folk from specific planes.
@MikeQ I mean, mechanically they're not categorized as "cat". They're just categorized in our heads as cats because they're clearly based on lions in some way. Mechanically they haven't been categorized at all in 5e because the book's not out yet :P
Yes, I'm talking in MTG terms to demonstrate the difference in how MTG and 5e categorize things. Another example: MTG categorizes loxodons as "elephant", whereas GGTR (5e) has them as humanoids.
Sure, but I'm just pointing out in response to Korvin's point (of why we need a new race for them when tabaxi exist) that the fact that leonin are cat-people doesn't really tell us anything about whether the tabaxi stats could just have been used for them or if the new race's stats will be substantially different. D&D 5e's concept of race does indeed account for ancestry, culture, and a few other concepts.
@NautArch We play on square grids, but exclusively because I'm compelled to draw dungeon maps that neatly align to the grid, which I'm realizing is an instinct I need to train out of myself.
Oh, i get why! It's just clunky for me. And that radius question about spirit guardians really highlighted it. Looks like it's 15' away? Nah, that's 20.
Except spirit guardians is apparently also weird because it measure from the outside of your entire controlled space instead of from one point... *grumble grumble*
Yeah that's fair. The only things I don't like about hex are having less movement options, (though this does mean less enemies can surround you at once) and moving around an object requires more movement on hexes than it does on squares
They aren't big things by any means. And most of my complaints about either are actually just complaints about games including both square and circular shapes, when grids of any kind won't support both
@NautArch Yeah and that's where I have to rethink my visualization of space. Something taking up one square is very different from taking up one hex (at least in terms of the movement required to maneuver around it)
For instance, getting to the opposite side of a blocked square requires 3 movement on squares and 4 movement on hexes. For 2x2s they change to 5 movement vs 6 and then 7 vs 9 for 3x3s
In my head they're equally valid, just different. That said, gotta love hexes for anything with snaking paths or vehicles (such smoother turning!)
Is the specific-question used on Meta when your question is about multiple specific questions?
I'm just realizing we have a good chunk of questions on square-grids, and mapping circular effects onto them in 5e-dnd, but as I'm writing this I'm thinking they might not be duplicates, there's just a lot of them
@Medix2 Yes, it'd be appropriate on those too. It basically distinguishes questions about issues relating to specific questions from, e.g., questions about overall policy.
Question: should I be flagging old "please don't answer in comments" comments?
On the one hand they are old comments, and are (usually) calling out specific users. On the other hand they are informing visitors of something not to do and typically on questions that have prompted such comments already
My character exchanged a crossbow for a longbow from a Weapons Workshop he came across.
By replacing the crossbow, would the attack bonus stay the same ?
The crossbow had a damage roll of 1d6 + 6 piercing damage.
Would the Longbow's damage be just 1d8 or 1d8 + 6?
The fighter's dexterity is...
So apparently Arcane Archer is not supposed to require magical arrows to work (for its Arcane Shot feature to work). That makes it, function normally..?
I've noticed what I consider a trend to include whether or not character choices (Classes, Subclasses, Feats, Qualities, etc) are a "good" choice either in comments or frequently as part of an answer. Sometimes the comment/Answer goes into more detail while other times it is simply labeled a bad ...
@V2Blast But not corrected in the sense of clarifying the mistake in an official fashion, say an errata document. Only quietly fixed in new printings (presumably)
Nin'Zar, the imp familiar, likes its cushy new assignment serving a Pact of the Chain Warlock. So, it wants to help its master as much as possible by using the Help Action when its master casts Scorching Ray.
The spell description for Scorching Ray says:
You create three rays of fire and hur...
Lich can imprison a soul in its philactery:
A creature imprisoned in the phylactery for 24 hours is consumed and destroyed utterly, whereupon nothing short of divine intervention can restore it to life. Monster Manual pg. 203
The phrase 'nothing short of divine intervention' intrigues me be...
My character exchanged a crossbow for a longbow from a Weapons Workshop he came across.
By replacing the crossbow, would the attack bonus stay the same ?
The crossbow had a damage roll of 1d6 + 6 piercing damage.
Would the Longbow's damage be just 1d8 or 1d8 + 6?
The fighter's dexterity is...
