@NautArch I mean, I would be hesitant to make that statement personally. I don't think it would be beneficial necessarily to punish people following site guidelines just because only one person happens to be doing a lot of it (as long as they are doing it responsibly). I wouldn't want someone to not protect something obviously in need of it because they are worried that they have been protecting too many questions for example.
As long as we all understand the way the tool should be used after this, I think the number of users doing the protection shouldn't be something we force.
But maybe I'm missing something?
Anyways, I think the point you suggest could ideally be integrated into a larger answer, but you certainly could try to float that idea alone if you wanted.
My first questions to you would be: how could we possibly control who does what? and how much is too much? And what if nobody else is doing it?
Right, take some (representative) questions as case studies on meta. Then there'd be a community project which goes through the rest. I'd suggest they make a chat room (name idea: "The Protection Racket"), log their decisions in a spreadsheet (this is co-op. thing too), and take any sufficiently borderline things to meta
Did we ever rerun the query to include the questions unprotected after the SEDE update, btw?
@AncientSwordRage I'm assuming that's off of my question, and that's pretty close to the meaning I'd intended. By "table" I mean a specific gaming group engaged in a specific, ongoing game (that's how I've seen the term used around here the most)
@AncientSwordRage That would be pretty interesting too, though maybe not for a question here. Slow lookup times is a significant drain on table-time, and it's not fun
@Rubiksmoose Ok, let me try to cut to the concern: Are we sure the list in the spreadsheet is up to date, and that questions haven't been unprotected since the SEDE data they are based on (which is updated on sundays)
@Someone_Evil Ah, yes I am fairly certain. At the time I ran the query there was only 3 questions left protected on the entire site (even according to the query). So, there wasn't much left to update after that.
@Medix2 So I'm going to ask for categories that would or would not be ttrouble
> I'm looking for categories (with non-exhaustive examples) of spells by their impact on being made ritual-castable. e.g. "Instantaneous Direct Damage spells - pointless, and no better for being cast as ritual. Healing Spells - Broken, as now anyone who has access never prepares these"
@AncientSwordRage Are you interested in immediate, mechanical consequences (class X becomes more/less powerful), or broader gameplay consequences (the adventuring day will generally become longer and involve fewer encounters)?
You could ask it as "What are the ramifications of letting all spells be cast as rituals?" Though keep in mind that benefits certain characters and classes FAR more than others
@AncientSwordRage I'm trying to think in terms of answer scope-- the former will be a longer, more intricate list (fireball ambushes, as per @yuuki's comment), while the latter will have to do with player choices (more people will take caster class levels and the ritual caster feat)
@Rubiksmoose Yeah, that's fine. It was more that the user seemed to double down rather than accept the idea that doing something massive like that was not a good call to make on their own.
@NautArch "I could add more info, but then i feel like iโd be limiting the creativity of a potential answer, eventually i will answer myself after the bounty is gone if there is no answer." and "Thank you for your answer, in the caves i think there are a couple groups working together, providing why adventures might want to kill them beyond them just being generally evil will help improve this answer."
He's taken the opinion bits out of the question and just added them back to the comments.
@NautArch "It's... Shorthand. For straw-polls, GTKYs, discussion threads and the like. Questions that are geared toward creating responses, not answers..." v.s. "Any question that asks for a list"
@NautArch A consensus probably wouldn't be reached in meaningful time?
@Medix2 Ah. I'm not sure I'm in total agreement. For me, a list question is a defined list of some size (bounded vs unbounded), but really all it is doing is asking for someone else to do a bunch of legwork.
Because then all you're doing is just putting up something you thought of and haven't answered the whole question. But i think i'm in the minority on this.
@NautArch I think I'd downvote L.A. based on the traffic alone, but that's just a problem endemic to many big cites... so probably not. I don't think there are many cities that I would downvote.
In particular: "Since 2012ish โlist questionโ has been outdated terminology; it's frequently misunderstood to mean questions answered with a bulleted list"
@GcL Dont think so. Theyre asking for "an intriguing reason for them to be there and for adventurers to root them out." So I dont think "most common cause of conflict" is what theyre looking for.
@NautArch Oh sorry I switched over to the "How long does the starter kit module take" thing that somebody mentioned in a comment under a completely different question. I was just surprised to see is open
@NautArch Yeah I'm thinking the inherent requirement of "you must have done this module" is enough of a requirement where not every single answer is correct
This question about spells that are on the ranger spell list and not on the druid one had some contention early on, but its voting has settled down now. Some were saying that it was easily researchable, while others were saying it was not and therefore valid.
Is this bounded list question accept...
But also, I've disagreed with my own posts before, it's a weird moment. The flip side is reading a post and going "oh my gosh yes!", and upvoting it only to see "you cannot vote on your own post"
@ThomasMarkov I debated tidying up my old answers cuz some of them are poorly formatted based on what I've learned now but I don't think the edits are really necessary. While looking at those old answers there were certainly a few that I was surprised I wrote XD
@NautArch I just used "list question" to mean "a question that asks for a list", wow, today sure exists
Oh no, the Meta tag for list questions describes them as question that are answered by lists, I might just give up XD
I already wrote an entire essay in the designated section about what's wrong with the metamagic feat, so please be gentle (or be positive to balance my comments out, lol)
I found a Wikipedia page on dragonlance bestiary, but i don't know how trustworthy it is. But this question really seems like they've done zero research.
@NautArch also, relevant to your answer, pirates are known to spend time on land, and have bases on lands, and, you know, not generally spend their entire life at sea. and what's more iconic than a pirate cove
The list of Dragonlance creatures attempts to list the races that can be found in the Dragonlance setting.
== Dragons ==
According to the Dragonlance Campaign Setting, dragons are the original beings of Krynn, born from the world and the elements. The dragons of Krynn are distinguished from other dragons because they take active roles in the fate of the lesser races.The dragons of Dragonlance appear much as their counterparts in other Dungeons & Dragons worlds.
=== Chromatic Dragons ===
The chromatic dragons are red, white, green, black and blue varieties of dragons. They are evil an...
@BESW A friend with ADHD says this is in fact called stimming. Stimming also comes up in autism in some more specific ways, but stimming is something everyone does to some extent (like drumming their fingers on the table) and this is stimming also.
@NautArch dragonlance. The goblinoid races have a different dynamic. Similar to how it is in Eberron. At least, that's something I recall thinking when I first read the Eberron setting.
@GcL I think that's what OP is saying. The 3.5 module monsters don't fit. The list was from the original 3.5 and they are trying to use it in Dragonlance.
I mean, this feels like a read the book or workaround to buying the book.
Though I'd be interested to see whether our bounded list questions eventually get a complete list in one answer or not. If the former, probably not a huge issue.
I sepcifically asked about whether questions with various answers listing single solutions should be combined into one answer listing all the solutions, and was told no
For reference, Detect Magic snippet:
you can use your action to see a faint aura around any visible creature or object in the area that bears magic, and you learn its school of magic, if any.
Warlocks have a few unique weapon options. I am interested in what exactly does Detect Magic show for t...
@NautArch Again, I'm aware that there exist many similar questions and I think that it is anwerable (or at least could garner some interesting responses from the experience of users here). This particular one got some intense pushback, and I don't really want to deal with the stream of resistance; other users may have different experiences and preferences
@HellSaint After reading you answer on the goat wildhsape question I had this image in my mind of a couple skeletons checking wikipedia on their smartphones to verify the goats behavior.
It was a joke saying that the DMs were the ones looking for goat behavior (as they would be the ones mostly interested in that), and that you have called them/imagined them as skeletons
@Someone_Evil Yeah I'm tempted to agree. There are just some weird feature requests like completely removing the ability for non-diamonds to protect things
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@NautArch In my estimation, having a bounty shouldnt mean we apply different standards. The question should be closed. Ill work on a meta post if I have time, but feel free to do one of your own.
@ThomasMarkov I don't think a Meta post could come to any sort of consensus in a reasonable amount of time since the bounty ends soon enough. It'd be interesting for if this ever happens again though
@ThomasMarkov I think the standards still apply just sometimes they can't be applied without getting diamond mods (though closing is the only case I know of where bountied questions act weird; you can't bounty a closed question and you can't close a bountied question)
@NautArch Sancho says Don Quixote, here is your lance. ๐ฉ
@NautArch I have played in that module, and run it, and I'm not wasting my time to answer that question even if it reopens. My only answer would be 'just do it and quit farting around' - but I am having a very grumpy grognard kind of day today. Dental work does that to me.
@Medix2 true enough
@ThomasMarkov and you have my axe ...
@doppelgreener indeed, but I just realized that 'cove' is a Brit slang word for something, and it's driving me nuts trying to remember what it is ... or is that Aussie slang?
It is suggested (by the DMG) to account for defensive options by assuming increased AC, e.g. +2 AC for magic resistance.
I would like to give some of my monsters the spell mirror image as part of a spellcasting / innate spellcasting trait. There is precedence for this: the Alhoon, the Faerie Drag...
@NautArch Close Quarters Shooter is an odd one too. Seems too powerful to me. Its a portion of Crossbow Expert, Sharpshooter, and the archery fighting style rolled into one fighting style.
You are trained in making ranged attacks at close quarters. When making a ranged attack while you are within 5 feet of a hostile creature, you do not have disadvantage on the attack roll. Your ranged attacks ignore half cover and three-quarters cover against targets within 30 feet of you. Finally, you have a +1 bonus to attack rolls on ranged attacks.
I am looking for ideas on how to defeat a flour trap. As a rogue, I rely on sneak attack to really damage my foes. The plan for taking on the BBEG is the party will make me invisible with our wand of Greater Invisibility. However, I know the enemy has set up several flour traps and uses telekines...
Yeah, I've got to update mine a bit more. I think I"m still missing some stuff. Debating on rolling for gold or just taking the average. I'll probably roll.
@ThomasMarkov That's... whaaaaa? L1 variant human with +8 to their bow attacks that ignore cover? (Not even assuming point-buy, there, just standard array.)
For reference, Detect Magic snippet:
you can use your action to see a faint aura around any visible creature or object in the area that bears magic, and you learn its school of magic, if any.
Warlocks have a few unique weapon options. I am interested in what exactly does Detect Magic show for t...
