@GcL Well, I think I went a little too hard in the battle for Blackrazor. Party is seriously depleted and now they want ot long rest (after two short rests to identify and attune to items.) 2nd short rest activated the random encounter, but I may just let them long rest without encounters.
It also didn't help when the dwarf who took Blackrazor responded physically to the other character who wanted it.
@GcL I don't encourage PvP in parties - I encourage teamwork - but now and again it makes narrative sense. But man, that development is fraught with risk. It really depends on the players on whether it's OK to let it ride, or if as referee I call an official time out. Very player / group dependent.
@NautArch Yeah... it's a shitty mechanic that can promote PvP. Drop the sword down a chasm and be done with it. I can see it making good story telling for an experienced group of players that know each other and the DM.
@goodguy5 Except when a random encounter comes up and there are two wights coming down the hallway.
I may make it one just so they trounce it and start the long rest. But I'm a bit worried about the long rest. Technically, I roll 6d12 every hour (with a 12 being an encounter)
It might not be able to kill stuff without a soul. Now I'm going downstairs to grab my DMG.
@KorvinStarmast Oooo... actually, blackrazor doesn't damage undead. Instead it heals them and damages the wielder. Also grants temp HP when you kill something with it.
@GcL hmm, interesting. I wonder if that does affect Blackrazor's desire. I guess that's why it doesn't give the tempororary HP for killing constructs/undead.
@NautArch Looks like missing out on souls only produces a conflict per the sentient items rule. Those have a bunch of outcomes listed in addition to the "you must pursue my purpose"
@KorvinStarmast Don't think there's an issue. Wielder takes 1d10 necrotic, target gains 1d10 HP. If this drops the wielder to 0HP, Blackrazor consumes it's soul.
@Rubiksmoose not as many bubbles this morning (now Day 4...again.) BUt fed it.
@NautArch Well I'll have to see how mine does. My first starter was from a pretty strange recipe compared to most, and it failed to raise two loaves of sourdough (which I eventually sort of saved by re-raising with commercial yeast.
So far in new starter (<24 hours) a tiny amount of bubbles, no rise.
The one I used before basically had you perpetually making dough and having it ferment like that. Instead of most recipes where you create flour soup basically.
Ironically though the "failed" loaves, after being rescued, where the best loaves of bread I've ever made. Though...that's not at all a high bar.
Considering almost all the attempts have been fairly awful.
Not over the weekend. But on a whim I checked the Target website, and 3 stores that showed as "out" yesterday showed inventory today.
So, I toddled over to the closest, they started with 10 and were down to 4, 40 mins after store opened. I got one, and in the time it took to check out he had 3 more calls asking if they had them. He refused to hold any and refused to give an exact # (Store policy prohibits inventory checks currently). He was a nice guy.
@nitsua60 The Curse of Strahd game I'm in is run through TTS. TTS has DLCs for a few specific games, and there's a ton of community-created resources and such free on the Steam workshop.
@Rubiksmoose Sorta. It's also a sanity saver for my wife, since normally she takes the kids to the science center, zoo, etc and now they are always home. Kids are a little stir crazy.
@V2Blast That's my recollection and impression of it. Used to have to do with the negative material plane in AD&D... thus the dreaded level draining wights
@NautArch I have a huge amount of actual ancestry, Ann is more lithuanian but competed in Irish dance for 20 years and now teaches it. So, she grew up in the Irish community.
The middle names are irish/family names as well. Oddly, my dad's middle name and her dad's middle name are the exact same and spelled the same way, Rea.
Opportunity attacks have their long way in the world of tabletop games and D&D in particular. 3.5e/PF both had an exhaustive list of actions which can or can not trigger an OA.
5th edition simplified things a lot. One single trigger left:
You can make an opportunity attack when a hostile cre...
@JohnP Like... 4.5 billions years of ancestry stretching back in an unbroken chain of inheritance and struggle back to a single self replicator common to us all. You definitely have a huge amount of ancestry. /S
@GcL I did a couple of those ancestry dna tests. Draw a line pretty much across the bottom of france over to just past the scandinavian countries and then up. That's 100% of my ancestry, with something like 55% british isles, 25% danish and the rest "Broadly northwestern european".
I don't need to take a DNA test to be told I'm generically South Asian. (Maybe a tiny bit of European ancestry due to historic colonization of parts of India...) :P
IIRC in most cases 23andme doesn't even provide useful breakdowns beyond that for people of non-European ancestry
@Shalvenay hehe, not sure if this will amuse you, but how an acid spitting dragon "works" was offered here. Maybe not the best world building ever, but fun to work through that problem and engineer a solution.
@V2Blast What if John's .2% unassigned is due to alien blood related to alien abductions around the time Stonehenge was completed, or even back when they build that place in Southeastern Turkey. Yeah, "history" channel had the "stonehenge was designed by space aliens" and "that mountain in Croatia is actually a big pyramid" show on the other day.
@KorvinStarmast I wonder if you could do it in two parts. I don't know why the OP asserted it was impossible. I don't recall enough organic chem off hand to sort out a biologically copacetic way to store a Cl04 compound. But if you could, mixing that with HCl gives you a rather nasty strong acid.
@Xirema Only major change I can find (that isn't just fixing obvious typos or mistakes) is the nerf to Healing Spirit. There's a few other minor balance adjustments (I did see a creature in OOTA have its Passive Perception increase from 21 to 29!) but nothing groundbreaking.
@GcL So three of the Errata are first-time printings, so they don't need comparisons to older versions.
And the PHB errata, as usual, puts [New] next to anything that was newly added for that specific errata, which was only two items clarifying wording for the Arcane Trickster's spellcasting, and clarifying the effect of Heavy Weapons on small creatures.
I still feel like their "designer intent" should be codified in the text itself.
Like, they clearly want stuff like dragon's breath to be disqualified ("The spell lets you make a roll of any kind that can affect more than one creature before the spell’s duration expires"), but the text of the feature still doesn't do that.
Though there is a wording error, maybe. It says you can't twin a spell if "it can target an object" but things like firebolt can target an object, I just don't think they meant to say that you cannot twin firebolt, though hmm, maybe they did mean to prevent twinning firebolt
Funnily enough, it still doesn't clarify warding bond
If I ever get a player that wants to twin spells, I think I'm going to house rule that any are fair game until they try to take more than the two bites at the apple they're allowed... then both instances of the spell fail. Want to do something neat that you can now affect two creatures with? sure. Try to be clever and rules lawyer it... spells fail.
The weave is averse to metamagic rules lawyering in this universe.
OK, I'll have to think through that, but it may make the plumbing more difficult, not less.
@Someone_Evil Hmm, for oxidizer is the desire to end up with a fire breathing dragon, or just really strong acid?
Oxidizing properties KClO4 is an oxidizer in the sense that it exothermically transfers oxygen to combustible materials, greatly increasing their rate of combustion relative to that in air. Otherwise such mixtures simply deflagrate with an intense purple flame characteristic of potassium. Flash compositions used in firecrackers usually consist of a mixture of aluminium powder and potassium perchlorate.
@KorvinStarmast I think @GcL was going for it spitting a solution which is both acidic and oxidative. Nitric acid is a classic of that genre of liquids
I'm wondering how to use Anydice to calculate the following:
Roll 3d6, treating all 1's as 2's, you may reroll each die once, so we do this if the roll is below the average.
So 3d6, can reroll each dice once, and we'll reroll on 2 and 3 because its below average.
I've given it a go, but I'm not...
Opportunity attacks have their long way in the world of tabletop games and D&D in particular. 3.5e/PF both had an exhaustive list of actions which can or can not trigger an OA.
5th edition simplified things a lot. One single trigger left:
You can make an opportunity attack when a hostile cre...
I'm wondering how to use Anydice to calculate the following:
Roll 3d6, treating all 1's as 2's, you may reroll each die once, so we do this if the roll is below the average.
So 3d6, can reroll each dice once, and we'll reroll on 2 and 3 because its below average.
I've given it a go, but I'm not...
