I might look for public games on r20 for the mod, none of our group seem to want to DM that; I have it, but nobody bit and I've been DMing a bit of late.
@NautArch more. EB is at least dynamic in that you can modify it in minor ways, and firebolt is a bit more versatile in what can be done with it, giving it more potential than a spell just that lets you huck a rock at someone.
It's boring because it doesn't let you do something that anyone else can do, and it doesn't really make you much better at it than you likely already were
Honestly, if Magic Stone let them count as light weapons and allowed you to make melee attacks with them, I'd like to make a raving lunatic that brains people with Magic Stones.
Against a dragon, you need a bard and a long bow .... no, wait, you need Bard of Laketown and a long bow with a special arrow and a raven who talks to archers ...
@Axoren Web will restrain them for one round, then webs goes away. So cast web on them they are restrained (Dragons don't have great dex saves) and their speed = 0 so they fall. But the next turn, web wears off and you either have to cast it again or say "well, that was nice"
20d6 won't usually kill a dragon and I don't think you have 500' range on web. ;-) But we did hit a young blue dragon with it and that really shortened the fight.
My aunt was a librarian, she sent that (mouse/cookie) to us when our daughter was two or three. I still have it; we intend to read it to our grand daughter as she gets more verbally able ....
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I still reference if you give a mouse a cookie a lot
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I liked the other ones in the series (if you give a pig a pancake, if you give a moose a muffin, etc) but the original is still best.
This reminds me I should read another story to the internet. (I periodically pick something from my collection of kids books and read it on video and post it to Facebook for my friends.)
@RevenantBacon It's in the books; they picked it for whatever reason they picked it. I won't try to guess at the balance between logic, verisimilitude, and realism that they were going for.
At this point, I doubt it. All one has to do to put some teeth into the falling damage is apply the DMG optional rule on massive damage; any time you take over 50 HP damage in 1 hit you are dead or at 0 HP ... (can't access DMG at the moment) 20d6 averages out to 70
@Axoren I'm not saying the rules say it. I'm saying that the symbolic resonance of "the restless dead are unable to rest" is strong enough to be a satisfying world element. It's fairy-tale logic for a fairy-tale world.
@MarkWells Then it should take longer than an hour for adventurers to recover from losing 99% of their blood at level 1 since medieval medicine was so awful back then.
I prefer drawing lines in such a way that the subject is easier to perceive. That super abstract stuff is fine, but really difficult for me to get at first glance.
Making it so that zombies can't attune cannot be justified by fantasy physics because of all the other things that fly in the face of it. It would be more fair to have a gameplay reason for the decision to stop zombies from attuning.
@Axoren Ahhh yes. The zombie rest conjecture: the zombie at unrest will remain at unrest until acted upon by a sufficient force and they fail their saving throw.
@Axoren I needed a cleric to cast it at level 6, but now I'll have to resort to another caster. A warlock will suffice ... except that their levels cap at 5 ... and I don't do Eberron (other than the artificer one of my PCs has)
Right now, I don't have a good reason for a wizard to do it (very few wizards in my world get that high in level) but maybe a coven of hags could?
I think a covern's spell list goes up to level 6 or 7 ... hmmmm....
@Axoren hmm, can't DDB at the mo, does a coven (three) hags have major image on the list? I would expect so, illusion is one of their strong points, hags that is ...
@GcL Hmm, 5e lore, how associated to the Negative Material plane are undead? In older editions, IIRC specters and Wraiths had a direct link to negative material plane. Is that gone now?
@Axoren The D&D combat paradigm is that you haven't necessarily lost any blood when you're at 1 HP. Actually losing blood (like to a vampire bite) causes maximum HP loss.
The only OD&D Paladin I remember playing with had one, but he preferred his Holy Sword; IIRC< it allowed him to "Order undead hence" or something like that
@GcL No, here it is, from Greyhawk ... "Paladins of 8th level and above dispel evil (spells, undead, evil enchanted monsters, and the like) simply by ordering it hence, and they detect all evil at a range of ...
This sentence, right here, about the original Paladin - They will associate only with lawful characters - and its successive versions of the same in other editions, has caused no end of trouble ... glad 5e stopped doing this
ugh, My grandmother got targeted another "Grandparent" scam. "grandma it's me, <insert trouble>. Please don't tell mom. I need <insert money amount> for bail or whatever."
@goodguy5 i meant the grandparent scam specifically, that's something a bit more recent, i think. likely because we're at an inflection point in technological progress
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I get a lot of support calls at work from older people who go "I got this email that is threatening me/someone I care about is it legit" and I am like nooooo don't click it don't call anyone don't do anything delete it.
Oh, you got tricked by a snakeoil salesman? That sucks. better luck next time.
Oh, a snakeoil salesman found out a sliver of information about you and used it to wage emotional warfare so that you would give them your money. Let's get the pitchforks
It's innocuous enough that a real person isn't going to be upset (barring certain groups that I don't want to talk to anyway). but weeds out bots and cronies looking for english speakers
In The New Order: Last Days of Europe (a really grim-dark alt-history cold war mod for HoI IV) there is a Japanese shrimp boat whose seizure by the United States, due to malconfigured AI weights for event outcomes, would frequently cause nuclear exchanges due to rampant escalation.
@KorvinStarmast i made a Druid entertainer-background once that wild shaped into a fox. F. I. Socks was very good at talking fast and only spoke in rhyme so that the party threw things at him/me for it
@MarkWells The outline tenets of their oath in 5e is a good starting point; a more detailed oath can certainly be worked out between DM and Player to fit their game world and context.
@BardicWizard snort
@Yuuki My mother in law fell for one last month, it took my son a couple of days of working what he knows about computer security and what my sister in law knows about banking, to minimize the damage.
@kviiri I find that somewhat funny. There was an educational game, a role playing game of a sort, that we used to play in high school government/history/social studies class called Dangerous Parallels - it was in the 1970's when nuclear war was a daily threat. One of the outcomes the referee (the teacher) could report to us was, if we really messed up the dimplomacy, was "OK, and you've just started World War III" -
It was related to some of those "model UN role playing games" and seminars ... I think those are still popular in some educational circles.
IIRC, it kind of modeled the problems caused by the UN / Korean War juxtaposition
@KorvinStarmast To be more specific, TNO is about a world where the three superpowers of the 1960's are the United States, Japan, and... Nazi Germany. (guess who won WWII in this timeline)
And there's a sinister influence in the German sphere of influence trying to push the world closer and closer to nuclear war, motivated by ideological reasons that are so bizarrely perverse even the Nazis squint at it.
@KorvinStarmast I was always jealous of those, having seen them a few times in American TV shows. The closest we had was a mock political discussion about expanding nuclear power we had on the ninth grade, where I was assigned to represent the Swedish People's Party... that has no hard stance on nuclear power.
When it was my turn to argue, I said something along the lines of "We don't really have a problem with this, but this approval shouldn't be taken as an endorsement of expanding the nuclear sector beyond this" except I jumbled all the words and it sounded extremely clumsy
@KorvinStarmast Ah no no, a true politician's answer would've been closer to "Every reactor gets measured on its own merits. This is not a matter of policy to us"
OTOH, the Swedish People's Party is for Swedish-speaking Finns, who occasionally don't speak fluent Finnish... maybe I was just accidentally in-character?
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There are few things in D&D 5E on which the consensus is as overwhelming as on the fact that True Strike is an extremely poor cantrip. As discussed in many places, the main problem is the action economy. As this answer to a similar question puts it, casting True Strike is not so much a benefit as...
International Talk Like a Pirate Day is a parodic holiday created in 1995 by John Baur (Ol' Chumbucket) and Mark Summers (Cap'n Slappy), of Albany, Oregon, U.S., who proclaimed September 19 each year as the day when everyone in the world should talk like a pirate. An observer of this holiday would greet friends not with "Hello, everyone!" but with "Ahoy, maties!" or "Ahoy, me hearties!" The holiday, and its observance, springs from a romanticized view of the Golden Age of Piracy.
== History ==
According to Summers, the day is the only known holiday to come into being as a result of a sports injury...
I have heard along the grapevine that at some point, Dragonborn can get wings and/or a tail. But I haven't been able to find anything on it. I have looked through the Player's Handbook, and I couldn't find anything in there about it.
So do Dragonborn get tails or wings at any point? I know they ...
someone could leave an updated answer to the question, and/or comment on an answer suggesting it be updated to account for EGtW, but I don't think it'd warrant question being updated.
Yeah, I misspoke. Or said question meaning thread/Q&A. My intent wasn't with where that info should go (obviously into an answer), but more on whether it should be put there for visitors (of which there have been 52k)