@Medix2 I had the same gut reaction, but I wonder how much of that is that they are operation on a different visual axis to the old ones (we are used to) and that we will become used to it (as with any change)
@Someone_Evil That's a fair point. I just don't like that they are no longer incredibly differentiated from regular text. Granted on this site in particular our quotes are often rules quotes and not quotes of actual speech acts, so that's certainly affecting my opinion somewhat
@Yuuki Mine too. My first character was a Cleric of Avandra, listed in the PHB as the "God of Change". We jokingly agreed on that meaning the small denominations you get after paying for something with a larger denomination. I came up with some impressive faux-theology why Avandra found it desirable.
@KorvinStarmast I'm not against change per se, but I'm of the opinion that if we are making a change, then it should make things better not worse. This change makes posts like this one (rpg.stackexchange.com/a/166045/36850) harder for me to read.
@illustro Yeah I'm just wondering if, as was mentioned earlier, it being harder to read is simply because it is a change and is different from what we're used to, having nothing to do with the actual change itself
For so it is written in the Sacred Books of Avandra: behold the miserly, who pay the shopkeeper in silver and copper, and when they do approach the poor, who thrust out their hands and plead for alms, refuse to provide? Will they not say: "I only have gold upon me, and surely I would be ruined were I to toss around coins of gold as alms!"
@Medix2 It's because there isn't enough differentiation between the quoted and unquoted text. I spend a decent amount of my working time reading reports from financial regulators and other companies. Where a piece of regulation is quoted it is very important that it be differentiated
But you, my children, shall pay the shopkeeper in gold, so that you may spread the wealth wide in copper and silver, and provide bread and ale for the thousand rather than swan meat for the one. Such spake Eric, the servant of Avandra.
They generally do this by severely indenting the quoted text (or italicising it). This change doesn't do enough to differentiate the two types of text
There is a reason we've used indentation in printed text for quotes for so long, it's good at what it needs to do, differentiate and highlight something different
@illustro I would agree, I just doubt my own ability to judge these things, though you seem aptly qualified to do so. I do think the new quotes look better when there's rapid-fire back-and-forth in-and-out of quote and non-quote text, whereas before it was yellow rectangles with little bits of text in-between them. But that's... a really small gain
People appear to be voting to close very old questions that were not off-topic when they were originally written (and haven't been bumped up in the question list for years): rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/253/…
@illustro All good. Again, thanks for speaking up in a well reasoned manner. (I've begun participating in the meta review queues ... sigh ... it's nice to see a solid answer like yours)
@goodguy5 Sorry to randomly drop that question and the dip out. It seems like an interesting mechanic, that why I asked.
@Yuuki Normally, a called shot is a full-round action, but there are feats that reduce this, one feat makes you able to take a called shot in place of any single attack on your turn, then there's an upgraded version where you can replace all of your attacks with called shots on your turn.
As I understand it on the old questions thingy, there's no call to go hunt for it, but do close if it comes up (you come across it or it is bumped to the front page) but try to limit the rate at which they are brought up (so as to not drown out the normal activity)
Unrelated, it seems weird to me that a question that has been on the site for nine and a half years suddenly got closed for being off-topic. like, you would think that if it's been around for that long, and it actually was off-topic, it would have been actioned sooner
@Someone_Evil close-voting doesn't bump stuff up the front page though
@RevenantBacon it was not off-topic at the time it was posted. It has retroactively become off-topic because our rules about what is and isn't off-topic changed
@Carcer So would you like it to be full of boring, old, harmless questions that need to be closed but mostly as a matter of tidying. That sounds like a great way to teach me to ignore there being questions in that queue.
Had a good recommendation for a modern setting with fantasy elements but the question was murdered and I can't message the user, what a uniquely troublesome situation
@Medix2 We decided to split homebrew review off to its own tag (which is at least useful for filtering out questions). The retagging was a bit of a mess
@RevenantBacon It should be closed because it is off topic so we don't want new answers for it. It isn't important to get it closed (because it wasn't drawing answers), but once we're aware of it, it should
@Akixkisu Ah, makes sense. I figured, but I only saw that you deleted the second message but not the first (and I didn't see a flag on it when I looked, so maybe it was dismissed by someone else)
This is the only rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/11357/… question tagged with sound-effects that is on topic. It has a working link in a comment that directs to a 2012 article, which is pretty neat.
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@Akixkisu There's a certain amount of old questions which aren't tagged as we'd (or at least I) would expect with how we tag things now. Fixing that is quite useful as it makes them more findable for those of us who use tags when searching
@Ben I think this would be fine to ask on mainsite if you want (there's no rule against "dark" questions), as long as you can clearly articulate what you're asking.
@Someone_Evil exactly, though closed:no might be the most effective operator when searching through old stuff due to the necessity of phrase searching.
But I've been warned for that, so it is not a thing that I do anymore.
I generally don't edit things that aren't on the active page or linked to anything on the active page.
In "Eberron: Rising from the Last War" under "Constructed Resilience", it states the following as a bonus:
You don’t need to sleep, and magic can’t put you to sleep.
and it goes on to say
Sentry’s Rest. When you take a Long Rest, you must spend at least six hours in an inactive, motion...
@V2Blast We had a question about an assassin (or maybe the question was on GiTP, I can't recal) who tries to sneak into the enemy general's tent and kill him while he is asleep. But the enemy general is like a 15th level Fighter. Someone ran the numbers and the assassin could not do enough damage in one strike to kill him. But one of the things that we were wrestling with was how to make surprise fit.
With surprise, the assassin gets that surprise attack (and the sleeping general does nothing' but then it's "initiative roll" and the "assassinate" function only works if the Assassin's initiative roll beats the sleeping general's roll)
Not sure if someone has figured this out - we seem to run into the Rogue/Assassin 3rd level skill being kind of quirky due to how the surprise thing works in 5e ...
A feat is an optional rule that replaces ability score increases as you choose. A feature is something you gain from taking levels. So an ability score increase is a class feature, but a feat is not.
@Powerdork I guess you could say they are traits though I really don't imagine people strictly think of those as separate things. "Benefits from your class are features but benefits from your race are traits, totally different" seems a bit iffy / semantic
Well, you gain features from levels; your increasing training in a particular field offers you new benefits; you specialize in a school of magic because you reached 2nd level as a wizard. But a trait is something you just get because you have a particular quality; an elf just has darkvision, even if they're not a 1st-level elf.
shapechange says "You retain the benefit of any features from your class, race, or other source" and I really don't think that means you don't keep racial "traits"
Look, in 3e they established that features and traits are particular things and were very definite about what those meant. In 4e, they mostly kept the same meanings. In 5e, now, though, they let the meaning of game terms degrade, if what you're telling me is true.
A monster with the Innate Spellcasting special trait. and a monster with the Spellcasting class feature that has a spellcaster level and spell slots. That is what one can lawyer.
The kraken has the following three actions (bold emphasis mine):
Bite. Melee Weapon Attack: +17 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 23 (3d8 + 10) piercing damage. If the target is a Large or smaller creature grappled by the kraken, that creature is swallowed, and the grapple ends. While swa...
First post here, so I apologize if I am breaking some conventions I am unaware of.
I am currently running a group of six people through Tomb of Annihilation
Spoiler Alert (follwing text may contain spoilers)
The campaign is decently well. The group of players is slightly rockier than what I'...
In "Eberron: Rising from the Last War" under "Constructed Resilience", it states the following as a bonus:
You don’t need to sleep, and magic can’t put you to sleep.
and it goes on to say
Sentry’s Rest. When you take a Long Rest, you must spend at least six hours in an inactive, motion...
First post here, so I apologize if I am breaking some conventions I am unaware of.
I am currently running a group of six people through Tomb of Annihilation
Spoiler Alert (follwing text may contain spoilers)
The campaign is decently well. The group of players is slightly rockier than what I'...
