I'm trying to make a button that selects a few cells in 2 columns, and marks them somehow (like changing color or writing something in them, so they can't be selected in the next randomization)
The demiplane spell creates a door that leads to another plane of existence:
You create a shadowy door on a flat solid surface that you can see within range. The door is large enough to allow Medium creatures to pass through unhindered. When opened, the door leads to a demiplane that appears ...
Also I would have a couple of tables with player roles, and I'd like to just write the names somewhere and randomly assign them
I've seen magic done with google sheets, like character sheets for rpg games that autocalculate everything, so I'm guessing this isn't especially hard to achieve, but I dunno
It's to play secret hitler... The players are assigned randomly usually, and then every turn they have to draw from a deck of cards so I wanna fake that via randomizing wich cards are selected and taking them out...
All of that can be done manually, but I kinda wanna try and make a google sheet that makes it automagically, so the role of director is not cumbersome and my friends might be liable to want and take the mantle
Yep. To simulate a deck of cards, rather than select a random card each time, it's easier to pre-randomize it and then increment the index of "top" card every time you draw.
So you start with a column of X elements, and then shuffle it. Now your deck is randomized. Then "draw" the first N elements (which can be a column of N player names), and set the counter to N+1.
Given 99 randomized bottles of beer on the wall, you take one down and now 98 remain, and you can't take the same bottle twice. Random selection without replacement.
hummm no, that is selected by the players themselves, isn't it?
I just want to assign the roles (fascist, liberal, hitler)
like... you open the google sheet, have a dropdown to select how many players, write their names, click a button, and "liberal" / "fascist" / "hitler" appears in the cell to the right of the player names
Easily? Not with formula. You can intentionally make a condition that doesn't call anything else until the correct number of inputs are present.
E.g. You could have a field to enter the number of players, and then a conditional to require the length of the player names column match before calling the randomization logic.
I want to make a character that uses two daggers, but I know that a character using daggers would not be as good as a character using shortswords or almost any other weapon. By "good", I mean approximately the same damage output as other characters. He uses daggers because I thought a character t...
@trogdor I mean DnD "GOOD" basically stands for "Genocide Of Ogrish Demihumans"
Hmm, that's actually something that gets me thinking. Dungeon World has a move for carousing: spending the lööts you've acquired for a great feast and revelry, and getting new contacts and possibly trouble for it. Where's the equivalent move for good works? Characters who'd sooner build schools and clinics for the less-affluent species of the world might find it useful
I've always fancied playing characters who invest their gains to society somehow, and that might be something that should, in an AW engine style, have a bit of mechanical attention to work the best.
(Dungeon World is designed as a simulator of D&D-like stories in ways that may be more humane for the table, but part of simulating D&D-like stories is upholding rather than challenging the injustice of the status quo.)
@BESW Aye. I brought it up because of the disconnect: in our games, both spending money to carouse and donating to charity are popular "black holes" to pour money in for no purpose apart from shallow RPG (shallow because it never has any impact beyond the immediate scene). So it's particularly jarring how it mechanizes one but not the other
@kviiri btw, I have not yet read most of the rules (or most of the Commander class description), but to your knowledge, how does the Commander play, and how hard is it to get a grasp of as someone who hasn't played 13th Age (and has played 5e :P)? @KorvinStarmast feel free to weigh in too if you've read the Commander class description.
@kviiri Interestingly, most moves involve some mechanical benefit like marking Bond or restoring Rascality, but Build? it just improves your Home and that's considered benefit enough.
@V2Blast The Commander seems loosely based on 4e Warlord. The basic core mechanic of the class seems to be that you have Command Points, which you can use to grant your allies buffs on their turns. You gain more Command Points by participating in the fighting or by spending your action to muster them (which gives more points but you don't get to attack)
I didn't read the class too carefully yet, but the design intent seems to be that you can pepper a few points around every combat but don't "dominate" your allies too much
@BESW Yeah. There's a bit of difficulty in portraying works of charity well in a mechanical sense, because it kinda devalues the idea if its main purpose becomes too transactional.
@V2Blast Just a sec, I'll look up a few example abilities
For note, I own only the Core book of 13th Age and the 13 True Ways supplement, so if you find other sources pls don't regard them as canonical x) I don't intend to enlarge my collection and don't want to study more
@V2Blast Examples of Commander interrupt actions: - 1 point: Allow an ally to pop free from an enemy as a Quick action (normally it's a Move action iirc?) - 1 point: Allow an ally to Rally (self-heal with a Recovery) as a Free action - 2 points: Allow an ally to re-roll an attack (and use the new result)
(these are leveled so not all are available initially, but they can be buffed by feats)
In addition, Warlords have Tactics. They're essentially powers that buff an ally or the whole party either immediately or over time
You get a particular number of commands and tactics based on your level, and get to divide them between Commands and Tactics as you choose.
Similar to how Bards get to choose between Spells and Songs
I'll have to read it a bit more at some point but it sounds like something I'd be interested in trying out (mostly because it's not a thing in D&D 5e right now)
You gain 1d3 command points when you hit with a melee attack, it can be improved by feats. The alternative to leading from the front is "Weigh the situation" which uses the standard action but gives 1d4 points instead. Both have their own feats that improve upon them further
Notably the first one, in addition to providing less points, only works on a hit. Warlords deal damage on miss too, like many 13th Age classes, but if an ability like that triggers on a hit it must actually hit
Etherealness lasts for 8 hours and doesn't require concentration:
You step into the border regions of the Ethereal Plane, in the area where it overlaps with your current plane. You remain in the Border Ethereal for the Duration or until you use your action to dismiss the spell...
A Short Re...
@V2Blast If I was not the GM I'd make a monk, I love those forms they've got. Or Sorcerer, with their breath weapons and chain spells. Seems both fun and unpredictable, but in an enjoyable way
@nitsua60 Aah, given that I've got two cousins and an aunt (and a sister in law) who were educators, I'm not buying that for a minute. :)
@V2Blast OK, I'll need to take a look at that later. Wife is going a bit frustrated with filing stuff on line and getting time outs, so it may be a day or so before I can try to "grok" the Commander kit/build.
@KorvinStarmast Ugh... that's even true for my own self. "You know that's totally unnecessary to worry about?" I say to myself. "You shut your face hole and let me worry about what to worry about," I respond to myself.
@KorvinStarmast My cat's either don't understand English or really don't care about what I have to say. Probably both now that I think about it.
@MikeQ I would recommend Magical Kitties Save the Day!, but it doesn't look like there's a way to get in on the early release pdfs anymore and the game doesn't ship until august. However, it is a highly entertaining system for "yes, and..." style of collaborative story telling broken up into scenes.
Blood in the Water (Tome of Battle, p. 86) states:
While you are in this stance, you whip yourself into a terrible rage. When you score a critical hit against an opponent, you enter a near frenzied state from the sight and smell of blood. You gain a +1 bonus on attack rolls and damage rolls. ...
@KorvinStarmast Thanks. You're making me blush. (Though I will say: if your cousins and aunt are anything like most teachers I've met, they probably work harder than me!)
@GcL It's true that a lamentable fraction of people confuse face time for "work time" in this career. Then again, I have two summer months off for no good reason, so I try to keep my head down.
@nitsua60 My experience was only with mathematics and computer science. My recollection was that the hours for the time off didn't balance the time grading papers and other overhead. This was especially so if you count the time as overtime.
Okay, so as I said, my group went from 3, to 5, and now to 7. They are finishing up an encounter but moving somewhat shortly onto a new one that was just supposed to be Medium. (3 level 8s vs a CR 7 monster)
Sorry... had that backwards. The table says that should be hard, but in practice having that many actions available to a coordinated group should trounce the encounter pretty quickly.
Just the probability of crits with so many attacks makes it difficult to win against superior numbers.
I found it useful to give the higher CR creatures minions instead of adding another monolithic target. They get better bang for their AOE buck and found it satisfying to lay waste to a swath of enemies. Or terrify the minions away with some non-combat tricks.
@NautArch Larger groups should attract more attention from more powerful predators while scaring away the small stuff.
@GcL yea, but then I'm basically rewriting the module. I was hoping to make it easier on me :P
Like there's a room with a bunch of Flesh Golems in it. I can add more of them (which narratively fits) or I have to come up with something else. It's also not a big room.
Small spaces are problematic for big groups. Especially with the 5' square thing. I usually narrate cramped fighting in a theater of the mind style with very little maneuvering available. However, that's probably not the way to go for a big group in regular sized spaces.
I think you probably have too many players for canned material. Most max out a 5 players.
So I'm looking at the rules for multiclass spellcasters because there was a QA about it that I thought missed some information. I swear there used to be a rule that said how to factor spell slots if you're multiclassing and have something like Eldritch Knight (ie. base class doesn't have spell slots but subclass grants a few later) you add 1/3 of your level in those classes to the total but I can't find it now.
All I can find it this
> Spell Slots. You determine your available spell slots by adding together all your levels in the bard, cleric, druid, sorcerer, and wizard classes, and half your levels (rounded down) in the paladin and ranger classes. Use this total to determine your spell slots by consulting the Multiclass Spellcaster table.
That question you marked as a dupe tho. The actual question isn't answered in the question it's a dupe of. (it doesn't go into the 1/3 spellcasters but OP specifically called out one of the 1/3 casters)
actually, looking at it more closely, it was asking about spells known so I think we're good
This is why I need sleep -.-
I just realized, do we not have a question about multiclass spell slots at all? I was looking for one to make sure it was good (since I spent all this time staring at the rules) and I'm either blind or there isn't one or I'm really bad at searching (probably the last one tbh)
The half and third casters don't do anything with multi-classing when it comes to prepared/known spells IIRC. Though they do impact spell slots and I wish we also had a big question explaining multiclassing spell slots
No problem. Interesting side note, I just made a level 20 example character to show the different multiclass spell slot calculations and it only totaled up to a level 8 spellcaster lol
I've now closed some more questions and cleaned up my original question so you can look there for what things have already been asked about spell slots. (Well, the ones I found at least)
I think including the actual table would be helpful, you could also talk about how the spell slots can be used and not just which ones exist. But that would require a change to the question itself...
If I am trying to intimidate someone by casting earthquake centered on myself, do I also need to make the dex save to not fall prone? Or, am I not at risk?
I don't understand why people thought my question was a dupe. Spell slots and spells known are clearly different if you take the time to actually read what the question is lol
Yeah same... The nearest thing to a duplicate is probably "Multiclass Spellcaster: Do the involved classes share the same pool of spell slots? which doesn't actually ask about how you can use the spell slots nor how to determine which ones you actually have. Though I don't know that your question, as stated now, asks those things either (which one's you can use and how you can use them - shared pooling)
Though the shared pool question could just be left open (and removed from your answer) to answer that part of the question since, well, it already answers exactly that part
It's a lot of inter-related stuff but at least 8 of the questions in my Meta question are answered by yours so maybe the edge cases and links above should just be left open and don't need to be addressed in your answer/question
I wasn't really sure how to proceed which is why I asked the Meta question...
@Medix2 I just updated with a lot more info. Tell me if it needs anything else (and if needed, how I can reword the question to make everything fit together)
@Himitsu_no_Yami I believe you're calculation for EK + AT is incorrect. It should be 3 + 5/3 + 4/3 + 4/2 = 3 + 1 + 1 + 2 = 7 (EK and AT are divided separately) as gone over here
Maybe using the quote "Once you have the Spellcasting feature from more than one class, use the rules below. If you multiclass but have the Spellcasting feature from only one class, you follow the rules as described in that class." could help somewhere, but I'm unsure
@Himitsu_no_Yami More correct for min/maxers! I like the spellcasting is a tough discipline so you round those levels down before you add them. Also makes going full spellcasting class more valuable.
@Someone_Evil No more, please. The existing ones and their variants are more than enough to keep the option space open enough. I don't want another 3.5e
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I was looking at the piercer and noticed that it's attack not only has a Hit outcome, but a Miss line as well that is both fun and fits the attack. My sources are all hardback (not D&D Beyond), so I don't have an easy way to search through them, but as far as I can tell, the piercer is the only c...
The demiplane spell creates a door that leads to another plane of existence:
You create a shadowy door on a flat solid surface that you can see within range. The door is large enough to allow Medium creatures to pass through unhindered. When opened, the door leads to a demiplane that appears ...
Etherealness lasts for 8 hours and doesn't require concentration:
You step into the border regions of the Ethereal Plane, in the area where it overlaps with your current plane. You remain in the Border Ethereal for the Duration or until you use your action to dismiss the spell...
A Short Re...
Blood in the Water (Tome of Battle, p. 86) states:
While you are in this stance, you whip yourself into a terrible rage. When you score a critical hit against an opponent, you enter a near frenzied state from the sight and smell of blood. You gain a +1 bonus on attack rolls and damage rolls. ...
If I am trying to intimidate someone by casting earthquake centered on myself, do I also need to make the dex save to not fall prone? Or, am I not at risk?
