So far we've only got the characters down, haven't done any gameplay yet
But we've got a good balance for the party. We've got a techy-repair droid, our "People" person (bureaucrat/scoundrel), A jedi, and my character is a mix between Han Solo Jango/Boba Fett, with some minor force abilities
To whom it may concern: I just found out the blurb for the new D&D book very strongly implies it has more content than it actually does.
> Select one of the new races for your character—such mythic peoples as the leonin or a satyr.
Those are the only two new races in the book.
> New subclasses include the Bard’s College of Eloquence, masters of oratory; and the Paladin’s Oath of Glory, an affirmation of destiny laid out for you by divine providence.
Those are the only two new subclasses in the book.
What I don't understand is how you do them so quickly. It takes me 3-4 minutes to edit a post with links and formatting and you seem to be able to do it in seconds.
@Miniman Yeah, they had this issue with the marketing even a while back. Some people were confused by it saying something like "new character options, including the College of Eloquence for the bard and the Oath of Glory for the paladin", but Crawford had then tweeted that those were the only new subclasses (no reprints of others, either).
@linksassin Haha. Most stuff in DDB I've looked up already, and the formatting is easy cause I use the built-in keyboard shortcuts
(Ctrl+L for links, Ctrl+U for bulleted lists, Ctrl+O for numbered lists. Ctrl+I and Ctrl+B are obvious :P)
@Medix2 Yep! I think I mentioned that in response to someone (maybe @Himitsu_no_Yami ?) asking why I (sometimes) switched links from that second format to that first format. Basically that it was easier for me to add relevant links using Ctrl+L, and then it felt weird to have just one link (i.e. one that was already in the post, inline in that second format) in a different format, so I'd change it for consistency.
I was once doing the inline links manually, when I first came from reddit - before Reddit ever had a WYSIWYG editor (or a redesign) - so my old answers probably use that second format. but since I discovered the shortcuts, it's been so much easier
I did google to confirm the names and Google suggested this snippet from a result:
> So typing Markdown is almost always faster than writing with a rich text editor, especially when you start getting into things like links or bulleted lists, which either make you use the mouse or force you to memorize a complicated sequence of keyboard shortcuts.
which made me laugh because even though SE doesn't have a rich text editor only, the keyboard shortcuts are way faster for me :P
@Miniman Ooh, on DNDBeyond I can go to "sources" and see that's been released. That's nicer than searching amazon for "Wizards of the Coast" as an author and trying to suss it out....
@Miniman Which makes the marketing a liiiiiittle more palatable. Given that the book contains centaur/leonin/satyr/triton/minotaur, you could buy it and not be too shafted if you didn't already have three of those races from other sources.
Ugh... I bet that "nautical adventures" bit is lifted from Saltmarsh, too =(
I do remember liking a bunch of the monster-work, but being disappointed in the hoplites.
@Miniman Yes, you can actually do this for any book on DDB. Though the level of detail of the overall table of contents may vary by book. (E.g. SCAG's table of contents is fairly generic and doesn't tell you about any of the included subclasses, subraces, or spells - just the first half of the backgrounds. Xanathar's has a much more detailed table of contents, showing a level of subheadings below each section heading.)
(also I assume you meant "now", not "not")
@nitsua60 nah, it's just a few sections of adventure hooks/ideas. there's a sidebar that touches on how detailed you want ship mechanics to get, suggesting you don't need to get too detailed by default but directs readers to GoS for more nuanced rules
> That said, if you’d like to add nuance to your nautical adventures in Theros, the book Ghosts of Saltmarsh provides more information on ships, hazards, and environments at sea as well as tables for use with nautical encounters, mysterious islands, and other marine features. The galley presented in that book might also make a fine vessel for your adventures—once your players give it a name worthy of their legend, that is.
anyway, there's a table of 10 one-sentence ideas for adventure goals for adventures at sea, a paragraph on how to involve recurring NPCs in a campaign that keeps changing location, another table of 10 kinds of mystical island environments they might come across, a table of 10 sorts of inhabitants they might find there, magical properties the islands might have, and a table of 12 underwater adventure plots
D&D Beyond also offers any images that are "top-level" for viewing/download without an account or purchase or anything, so for example anyone can go to Dragon Heist and get the big maps of Waterdeep.
It seems agreed upon that Centaur player characters (from Guildmasters' Guide to Ravnica & Mythic Odysseys of Theros) can wear, and benefit from, magical horseshoes (of speed/of a zephyr).
But what about other types of footwear: slippers of Spider Climbing, boots of speed, etc? Could a Centaur p...
@PeterCooperJr. oh yeah, I forgot that they started linking (some of) the maps from the TOC now. All their images are accessible without being logged in if you have the URL
Would it be a decent question to ask for a comparison of races between two sources? It seems super straightforward and almost a "just read the book" scenario but I don't own one of the books and I'm curious how things might have changed
ah it appears I was mistaken about it anyway. I was going to ask about Centaur versions in the Ravnica and Theros books for D&D 5E, but it appears the Theros book doesn't even have a Centaur race
What's odd to me, is I own the Eberron Wayfinder's guide, but when I look at the new Eberron book, if I own a component it says "view" or something like that next to it, indicating that I already own that part.
I'm in the shared campaign on DDB that Nautarch hosts, and someone in that group owns the book, so I have access to the whole thing currently. But I don't own it myself, and can't share it with players in my games, so it still shows up in the marketplace for me
@G.Moylan Alas. It looks awesome, but I'd be curious to hear from someone who has played it. Especially if I understand their tastes as I do many people in here :)
@vicky_molokh-unsilenceMonica ah ok, I wrote that edit from memory, so if there is anything else to add please feel free to. I think it's 95% there as a good answer. I'm still a little confused over 1e and 2e, as well as 20th and 5th anniversary editions, but that's probably my own comprehension rather than an issue with the text itself
In other news, I can finally read my pre-ordered copy of Mythic Odysseys of Theros and I'm loving it. Especially the underworld stuff. It reminds me of Geist: Sin Eaters.
@AncientSwordRage My familiarity dwindles as CoD goes on. While I did read 1e core mechanics thoroughly back when they were new, I forgot a lot, and I am not up to date with 2e mechanics and lore aside from minimal second-hand accounts. I know G-M became officially part of the wider setting in 2e, but not much detail. I do know this was met with some dislike in the fandom.
@vicky_molokh-unsilenceMonica my understanding was it went oWoD →(breaking change)→ nWoD (some of the splats) → God-Machine Chronicles → nWoD becomes CoD 1e→ CoD becomes 2e
As for the mechanics, I thought very little changed between 1e CoD and 2e? I much much preferred nWoD over oWoD and likewise for CoD
@AncientSwordRage If so, the deletion came with no comment that would convey the knowledge. Maybe because of awkward phrasing? I added the AWoD disambiguation and rephrased the top bit to look (hopefully) more appropriate.
@AncientSwordRage That was the intent, yes. I ask because there are too many fiddly bits in a system I'm not familiar with, so I don't want to remove things that shouldn't be, nor bother preserving things that have been dealt with (not that there's much cost to there being a chat room)
Purging all of them is also an option if they're all dealt with to the extend they will be
(My impression is that dedicated chats just hide a slow discussion like what's going on with WoD/CoD over the week; they're nice for long fast-paced ones though.)
@AncientSwordRage This and some lower Hunter comments may be worth keeping.
Mostly because they seem to hold useful additions, but I'm not sure how to integrate them smoothly.
There are various badges that say you must "maintain a positive question record"; does that mean that if the record stops being maintained you basically go back to square one?
since it's been so long and he probably won't realize it, I decided to change up the encounter a bit since it was so unfair (16 CR 1/8 enemies vs 4 level 1 characters, of which none have any healing and only two have range)
I healed my player's characters up a bit and killed off another enemy
For the badges Curious, Inquisitive, and Socratic, you need to ask varying numbers of well-received questions on different days. You also need to maintain a "positive question record"
On Stack Overflow, I have enough well received questions for the Curious badge, and am almost there on Math SE....
As in, I want to know the question score which equals (total questions - negative questions - closed - deleted)/total questions
If that number is above (or equal to) 0.5 then you count as having a positive question record; I'm wondering how close I am to not having a positive question record
The score is (total questions - negative questions - closed - deleted)/total questions according to the linked meta. You could probably get that out of the data site.
^^ gets you close. But it's not seeing deleted, so if those are a significant proportion of your contributions... then I just don't want to know you, man =)
@nitsua60 I don't know why it would only get the recent ones. Deleted posts are still visible for some, so I assume the entries in the tables are still around.
@GcL Just that only the last 60 days' deleted questions are visible to a user through their own profile, so I suspected that there must be a permission somewhere, and maybe SEDE's also respecting that?
I will say, @Someone_Evil @linksassin, I do miss the diamond menu. Now I have to get to meta through the front door hamburger menu, like everyone else. And I don't even get a one-click preview of the questions!
Likely a result of how they got developed in the first place. Some people wanted something to help them do a specific thing. Sometimes those turn out to be generally nice.
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@nitsua60 Something different from just having a "newest" tab open? Oh wait... that would only track questions and not answers... hmmm there really isn't a way to track "newests posts" is there :( Custom filter? Is that a thing?
@nitsua60 You will be happy to know that I took that idea that you had (heavily armored, mine had breast plate and shields) and applied it to some NPCs (Veterans, think?) a few months later; I ended up with a squad of 11 blind Hoplytes who served a medusa. They rather vexed the party during one particular battle. I gave them 20' blind sense IIRC. I'll send you the stats when I get to that PC, see how it compares to what you threw at us.
one of my screens has so many tabs on it that it literally can't fit anymore, if I try, they go off to the side and can't be clicked on until I close another one
@nitsua60 Maybe I can't find any posts with a DeletionDate. Just running a query for posts where the DeletionDate IS NOT NULL doesn't turn up anything.
@nitsua60 do you know the Id of a post that was deleted?
Figured it out. The deleted posts get moved to their own table: PostsWithDeleted
The Planar Binding spell is a 5th level abjuration with verbal, somatic and material components and a casting time of 1 hour that allows the target a Charisma saving throw. If the target fails the save, it "must follow your instructions to the best of its ability".
Are the instructions specified...
To me, Hypnotic Pattern seems quite strong for a 3rd Level Spell. The main reason I think so is that it can affect a huge number of targets, and a creature that fails the saving throw will not get another chance and may very well be taken out of the picture for almost the entire combat encounter....
Is there a post on how meta policies/rules/guidelines posts work? Like when a question has multiple competing answers is the highest scoring one just taken as the one to be implemented?
@Rubiksmoose If anything I'd say it was this question just since it's unclear to what it really is, especially since whichever answer gets accepted doesn't really mean anything, it's just whichever gets the most votes I guess?
@Rubiksmoose I kinda wish we'd stop calling them guesses and just call them edits. Since guesses implies there's a "absolutely sure non-guess" option imo
@Medix2 well we've been operating as a site under the first policy. And the most recent Meta confirmed that. But yeah that is a bit confusing having those two answers be so close in voting and (as you say) the checkmark not meaning anything here.
@Medix2 and there's nothing really pithy and specific that seems to work as shorthand
@Rubiksmoose Actually, probably work forward-linking that older one? (Putting a line at the top saying "this is an older discussion supplanted/augmented by [new one]" and then an <hr>.)
I wonder how much of that problem is the fact that so many of our questions only have that tiny, near invisible tag as the explicit indicator of game system. I mean we even edit it out of titles. If only we had some way of telling posters this before they post it... (self promotional, I know)
@Someone_Evil I often wonder whether coloring system tags and/or making them always be listed first would do anything, though IIRC both have been requested
I'm kinda surprised there isn't a tag colour thing in the site seeing as SO has language tags which seems like the thing you want to highlight, but maybe they never had much of a problem with it
@Medix2 I think there's a caching thing going on
Possibly due to synonyms
There's no way to see whether a question has been posted with the synonym of the tag, is there?
[amused] There are more than 300 psionics questions, but only one of them is visible to me because of my ignored tags. And that one is closed because it doesn't have a system tag.