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12:27 AM

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Q: At which levels, if any, can a Warlock use a Spell Scroll of 6th Level or Higher?

Suppose for the sake of argument a Warlock of indeterminate level finds a scroll of plane shift. Plane shift is indicated as being on the Warlock's spell list [PHB, pg 210: Warlock Spells], so would this Warlock be able to cast the spell through this scroll [pending a successful Spellcasting Ch...

V2Blast

12:51 AM

@Someone_Evil Only the Essentials Kit physical box set has included a DDB code. No other physical D&D products have included DDB codes (though I'm sure DDB would like to make that happen). The Beadle and Grimm's "platinum edition" luxury box sets (by a third party) include the physical adventure, a DDB code, and physical maps and handouts from the included adventure, but those are pretty pricey.

@AncientSwordRage As Someone_Evil said, they're separate products. DDB is owned by Fandom, and is a separate company from WotC, owned by Hasbro. There's an explanation of the distinction and their business models here. That said, you can manually recreate most official options as private homebrew if you're willing to take the time/effort.

Alternately, you can buy just the parts of a book (e.g. races/subraces, subclasses, magic items, monsters, spells, etc.) that you want to use in the character builder and the other toolsets on DDB; if you decide to get the full book later, its price is discounted by the amount you've already paid for the parts of the book you've already bought.

NautArch

@V2Blast You just have to name them something very different :)

V2Blast

@Medix2 I think some system-based shenanigans on SE's part are involved in doing that for the community-ads posts.

@NautArch No? You can name them exactly the same, as long as it's private. You just can't publish other people's content (among other things) as public homebrew. Your own private homebrew is automatically shared with anyone you're in a campaign with on DDB, even without any kind of subscription.

NautArch

@V2Blast oh! that may have been it.

I really wish I could help a user out with their questions, but I just don't understand the system enough to do so.

but they're painful for me to read

user15026

1:10 AM

I am reading a really good short story anthology right now, called Mother of Invention, its a bunch of short stories about AI and robots, and it challenges the ideas that so often these sorts of stories are focused on cisgender men. I've read the first three stories, and they've all been really, really good. goodreads.com/book/show/40723086-mother-of-invention

V2Blast

@doppelgreener I vaguely feel like there's a separate 5e question about that same thing, but maybe I'm just misremembering.

NautArch

@V2Blast I think that was the Usain Bolt question for lowest level speed equivalent?

And by the way, if this question gets reopened, I hope that bronta\osaurusanswer returns.

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Q: What is the lowest level at which a human can beat the 100m world record (or: the presumed human limit) without using magic?

Optimizing a character build for ridiculous Movement in order to break the sound barrier or even the speed of light is a well-tried source of fun with numbers in DnD. Such speed optimizations usually incorporate lots of magic and possibly additional help by allies. But I'd like to learn more abou...

dnd-5e optimization movement

well, i butchered that edit

*brontosaurus

V2Blast

@NautArch Uh... the message relevant to the one I'm responding to is this one:

5 hours ago, by NautArch

Should this question get the 5e tag?

Which has nothing to do with movement/speed.

NautArch

@V2Blast well, i'd like to the brontosaurus again anyway :)

trogdor

1:34 AM

@BESW wait what now?

BESW

@trogdor Something about the way you can see that the clouds are three-dimensional as they pass overhead, so you can tell they're drifting around the curve of the globe?

nitsua60

@kviiri Sounds about right:

Circle Limit III

Circle Limit III is a woodcut made in 1959 by Dutch artist M. C. Escher, in which "strings of fish shoot up like rockets from infinitely far away" and then "fall back again whence they came".It is one of a series of four woodcuts by Escher depicting ideas from hyperbolic geometry. Dutch physicist and mathematician Bruno Ernst called it "the best of the four". == Inspiration == Escher became interested in tessellations of the plane after a 1936 visit to the Alhambra in Granada, Spain, and from the time of his 1937 artwork Metamorphosis I he had begun incorporating tessellated human and an...

trogdor

@BESW ah ok

I've never tried to see that the earth was round, I've always just believed it

Also if i look up at the sky now I also can't compaire it to other places because I wasn't paying that particular kind of attention there either

Yuuki

@trogdor Do not try and see the earth, that's impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth: the earth is round. Then you'll see that it is not the horizon that curves, it is only yourself.

BESW

If you've got good eyesight and low air pollution, the simplest way to see it directly is to watch tall ships on the horizon; you see the bottoms of them are hidden by the horizon while the tops are still in view.

trogdor

1:41 AM

@Yuuki is this a reference to something?

Yuuki

The Matrix.

trogdor

@BESW I mean, my eyesight isn't the best XD

@Yuuki aaahhh ok

XD

NautArch

@Yuuki there is no earth

Yuuki

@NautArch yeah, i'm tired of all these flat earthers compromising on the real truth, i'm the only one who sees the reality of things: i'm a null earther

trogdor

Lol

NautArch

1:43 AM

@Yuuki shadows on the wall.

trogdor

Well technically there is an Earth, we just aren't presently on it

Also does anyone have the program to download language skills, I would totally love that thanks

XD

NautArch

@nitsua60 Love your treasure hunt for old logos!

nitsua60

@NautArch It's probably rep-abuse, to offer a bounty on a question that I'm seriously intending on not awarding. But I'm not too worried =)

NautArch

@nitsua60 flagging for a mod

also trying to find logos

nitsua60

@NautArch declined it.

Honestly, two minutes' on google/WP and I could do it myself, but maybe someone out there's looking to hit Epic?

AncientSwordRage

1:53 AM

@V2Blast very insightful, thanks

NautArch

@nitsua60 what's epic? and got one.

nitsua60

@NautArch oh, c'mon... you think that cropping's worth 100pts?

=D

@NautArch 40 repcaps, IIRC?

<humblebrag>been a while since I got it</nothumblebrag>

NautArch

@nitsua60 psh. I didn't even know I had it :P

BESW

Sandy Pug Keyboard Sale! A sale hosted by Sandy Pug Games. Each item 50% off! or buy everything for $14.99! My keyboard is dying and I need it to do all the stuff that I do! Pls buy my games so I can buy a keyboard and keep making games + good tweets!

RevenantBacon

@BESW What is all this stuff?

BESW

2:03 AM

It's TRPGs by Sandy Pug Games. You can read about them on the sale page, or in this twitter thread.

nitsua60

@NautArch I (finally) picked up Legendary when they pushed the change to questions' value and retroactively applied that. It felt kinda cheap.

Joshua

Homebrew stuff can be really unbalanced.

BESW

Imaginarium by momatoes is a cooperative storymaking game for 2 to 9 players, where you build a story through the revelations of the major arcana. Taste the storytelling secrets of tarot through a sandbox RPG that isn't afraid to throw twists at you. Easy setup, no-holds-barred setting creation, freedom to build your story...if the tarot cards are amenable to your twisted plans.

Adeptus

@Yuuki Food for thought in my world I'm building...

NautArch

@Joshua homebrewing is hard

Joshua

2:16 AM

Somebody's idea: artifact that can make temporary objects real and change the underlying identity of a polymorphed object or creature to match its current form, several times per day. Even though it can't make magic items permanent, if you can't break a campaign with this you're not trying hard enough.

Yuuki

@Adeptus oh, credit to @BESW for pointing out that essay to me

BESW

Oh, if we're talking about that, I'll also re-up my mention of Carly M. Ho's The Thousand Cousins as my favorite fantasy setting in terms of handling orcs and other humanoid "races."

Shalvenay

@BESW I may have to pick this one up, it seems quite intriguing

Yuuki

2:32 AM

I wonder what effects it has on someone's psyche when, in a world everyone has powers that are supposed represent your character, their power is either copying someone else's power or negating powers. Like what would it do to you to realize that your special ability is copying what makes someone else special or making other people not special?

Ben

<del>Morning</del> Afternoon all

I dunno.

Glazius

@Yuuki I believe the canonical answer is that you're shaped like a friend? youtube.com/watch?v=aPouHBYs6IY

nitsua60

@Ben ~~three hyphens~~

Ben

3:05 AM

~~like dis~~

We got there in the end

Ben

3:29 AM

So, I got two days off this week! I used one to visit family in Brisbane, and the other to add to one of my stories. My short story about time travel now has a "Chapter 1".

[Spreads hands] "The existentialism in time travel"

Lol

RevenantBacon

3:40 AM

Anyone got any recommendations for a program/website to build city maps with? I'm working on a campaign that mostly takes place inside of a single city

BESW

I'd be inclined to pick an appropriate historical city that has maps in any of the increasing number of museums and archives that have made their collections available to the public online.

nitsua60

^^

Adeptus

4:20 AM

@BESW and anyone else who would like to help - I want some feedback on my ideas re orcs for my worldbuilding... is this the right venue for that or is there somewhere else we should take it?

* ~~want~~ would like <- I don't mean to sound demanding

Shalvenay

@Adeptus if you don't think its apropos here, we could use the NAB, or just ping me in PM on Discord if nothing else works, I'm eager to hear what you've cooked up

BESW

4:38 AM

@Adeptus Either the NAB, a separate chat room, or Discord. I can't guarantee fast replies though.

Adeptus

Let's go to Discord

Medix2

7:19 AM

@V2Blast Just wanted to say I'm glad you took a shot at that Drunken Master Monk question. I saw and wasn't sure if I was ready to write an answer linking together eight other posts with differing opinions on the timing of bonus actions, whether there's a distinction between taking and using an action, the meaning of "immediately after", and how Crawford weighing in (and reverting prior statements) affected that all

I may still end up writing a big long post discussing all the angles I see in the question but I'm glad somebody took a shot at what I would've called a mess of disagreement.

V2Blast

8:22 AM

@Adeptus Chat is fine too, whether you use this room or you make a dedicated chat room for it.

@Medix2 tbh I think it's a waste of effort to try and re-answer questions that have been addressed elsewhere in your answer to this one... to the extent that such issues matter for this question, just link to the existing question(s) and summarize their consensus (if any) instead of trying to reanswer the linked question here. (I'm just going off your description of your approach in that message, I haven't actually looked at your answer if you've written one :P)

Medix2

8:45 AM

@V2Blast Oh yeah that's actually a really good point. Hmmm, yeah I could (and probably should) do that. Well, assuming I do anything, since I'm liking your answer more and more

Carcer

9:15 AM

man, reading the 1e DMG sure is a blast from the past

> "The less intelligent players who demand to play monster characters regardless of obvious consequences will soon remove themselves from play in any event, for their own ineptness will serve to have players or monsters or traps finish them off."

kviiri

@Carcer Definitely not promoting a toxic gaming culture x)

BESW

V2Blast

lol

kviiri

9:34 AM

Maybe the real friends were the monsters we killed along the way.

BESW

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(Lampara Games is a friend, I helped them with a couple of the games on sale!)

V2Blast

Ooh, a sale with a playlist? Interesting

BESW

Yeah, a lot of creators are taking advantage of how itch allows Spotify embedding.

Akixkisu

9:57 AM

love me some 5e "Your elf character has a variety o f natural abilities, the
result o f thousands o f years o f elven refinement."

AncientSwordRage

10:08 AM

> Community PSA. DDB currently has a sale advertising $8 off any book with the code NOTTHROWINGAWAY, which is already pretty cool, as there are some books that are only $9.99. But I wanted to test it on some other books I had in my cart that were only $1.99 or $4.99. Turns out those were FREE

Akixkisu

10:21 AM

@AncientSwordRage does the code work once?

Akixkisu

10:34 AM

@AncientSwordRage also, doesn't seem to work anymore, the lowest that those get is 1.99.

Carcer

10:51 AM

@kviiri that's just the most egregious part of an entire page about why monster characters are stupid and humans are best and only idiots would want to not be a human

AncientSwordRage

11:01 AM

@Akixkisu Not sure, I've not tried it

Sdjz

11:14 AM

It seems the lowest that the final total can get is 1.99 but adding in any book that is less than $8 still lowers the total by the full $8 meaning you can add all sources that cost less than $8 to further lower the price on something else. Feels like exploiting an oversight on their part though

Akixkisu

Oh, so it applies once per entry?

Sdjz

Once per source book entry

Individual monsters and things like that don't count

Akixkisu

Yup, that seems iffy that you can basically buy all less than 8$ books + 1 30$ book for a total of $3.94.

Carcer

11:31 AM

alternatively, defeat capitalism comrades

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Akixkisu

@Carcer also very true.

Mythic Odysseys of Theros for $3.94. sounds like a good deal.

And since pre-orders make books successful you even do something for the company ;)

BESW

12:11 PM

The #TTRPGSafetyToolkit has received some quality of life updates! KiennaS details them in this Twitter thread.

KorvinStarmast

1:14 PM

@Carcer Unlike 3.xe tools for templates and the LA, 1e didn't have a tool that mechanically fit the monster PC in. The general guidance was "give it a try" ... the author was very explicit in establishing that the world (or at least their world) was humano-centric. That's hardly toxic if everyone playing the game is human. What's been interesting to watch is how over the years people have pushed the edges of the box outward effectively. The box isn't square anymore (if I may offer a pun)

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