@BardicWizard When I was in eighth grade, one of my classmates thought a really great lunch was Triscuits with enough Tabasco to make 'em a bit soggy. She liked it, and nobody stole her lunches, ever.
But I'm guessing your school trip was a bit short on the demographics whose mothers keep a bottle of hot sauce in their purses.
Sometimes I put a bit of Tabasco on Triscuits with cheddar cheese, but I prefer to use my own custom mustard.
(Yellow mustard with Worcestershire sauce, wasabi paste, sesame oil, garlic, ginger, honey, black pepper, and whatever else seems like a good idea at the time, including Tabasco or hot chili sesame oil.)
There are two kinds of spicy things: stuff like varying chiles and other spicy peppers that I’m able to handle because I grew up with them, and everything else, which are all too spicy for me.
Cholula - we discovered it in So Cal about 30 years ago. It's been in our cupboard ever since as a standard item. (Right next to the worchestershire sauce)
To be fair, you're feeling the same existential dread that chemists and physicists were feeling a hundred years ago.... Probably means at least you're comprehending the gravity of the matter =)
I need Combat Casting as a prerequisite for another feat.
I really do not want to waste a precious feat slot on this terrible feat, particularly since I should have enormous Constitution.
Therefore, I want to get it as a bonus feat. The best I can find for this is becoming a 2nd-level duskblade, ...
I was reading the Channel Divinity abilities of the Oath of Vengeance of the paladin and under Vow of Enmity, it says
As a bonus action, you can use your Channel Divinity to choose a creature within 10 ft. and gain advantage on attack rolls against it for 1 minute or until it drops to 0 HP or fa...
I've just been reading a 5e RAW Facebook group... So apparently, by a strict reading, See Invisible doesn't remove the dis/advantage granted by the Invisible condition... 🤔
@Adeptus yeah, things get weird when you ignore multiple sources
like the handbook is just one static part of the game
people have asked me in the past "Why don't you just follow the Quran and ignore the hadiths" (equivalent of ignoring various books in the bible).... "And I'm like, the quran only mentions 2-3 of my 5 daily prayers!
I know it's really tangentially related, but it was the first thing that came to mind
@trogdor Not a very close analogy/metaphor though. 'Observation' in quantum context doesn't mean the same thing as it does in casual interaction between thinking entities context. There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding coming out of equating the two (like people asking what happens if you remove the scientist from the room and then observe the recorded sensor data later).
@trogdor What gets me is that the Android system, when I got it, was very easy to use and intuitive for me. As they keep changing various UI features, I make errors in usage until I learn the new thing, but the actual function has not changed. Annoying as all get out.
@ThomasMarkov You listed all of the things that influence advantage on saving throws for Charisma, and IIRC, being a gnome is one of them. Perhaps ... not being an item. The comment was also a bit tongue in cheek
@Someone_Evil also, i could take this one to meta, but what is the mod process when you request no further hammers witout a meta discussion, but a hammer falls?
Maybe depends on what side of the argument the mod lands on personally, though it shouldn't matter too much. Pretty sure locked questions can't be answered either
@Someone_Evil I guess I could see that, but if that layer should be included in answers to the original, it seems like then it wouldn't be a new question. Understanding how to determine "should" is the hard part.
@ThomasMarkov and usually that means bounties
if answers don't adequately answer, we ask for more
@ThomasMarkov One could argue that it's the answer to the general question not covering an obscure edgecase where there is an additional layer (because your class and spellcasting class/list isn't the same)
@Someone_Evil Deleted my comments on that stay-at-home support question. Keeping my close vote for now, but may retract later if no other answers that make it more opiniony-.
About Rogues: my nephew played an assassin in our first campaign (2014/2015). His latest rogue is the scout archetype, which he likes much better. AT is a great kit; lots of versatility. (And with access to shadowblade, even more lethal)
I played so many thieves and rogues over the years (previous editions) that I find no motivation to play one again. (That said, the base Rogue/Thief is a pretty well designed package for adventuring: exploring, combat, and social encounters. Nice all around utility)
@ThomasMarkov wait, that’s a subclass? Which base class? I have literally never noticed that before and SCAG was one of the first additional books I bought
@ThomasMarkov It's features need a rework, IMO, as there is some potential in the concept.
There's a nice recent thread at GiTP with some good ideas on how to improve it. User Man_Over_Game (who used to post here as Daniel Zastoupil) has collected a good combination of improvements. Sadly, nobody at WoTC seems to have taken notice, or they don't return his calls. 😁
@ThomasMarkov Fighter, Soldier background, after mass demobilization of the King' army. (I met a lot of wandering veterans hitchhiking back in the 70's ... see also an on film example in Johnny Rambo from the Movie First Blood)
There's a current case of an infrequent problem: Why is Donjon offline?
Dakeyras's answer was a response to a question that was once there. It was made in good faith, and is a helpful answer.
The part of the question it was responding to no longer exists, and if the question were asked in this ...
@Someone_Evil pretty much all of the ones I commented on.
Maybe Lukas'. Not sure on that one. SUpport was added, but not good support. "source includes the word" isn't necessarily a good support. use doesn't mean contextually relevant.
@JohnP I've done some similar work. You might take a look at Ren'Py to see how they approached it. There's also glux? gulx? for looking at another older approach. Are you planning on making a MUD?
@ThomasMarkov Meta has all the qualities of asbestos. Adding to the mass or disturbing it both seem like poor choices to me.
Candidate for closure: Can an Arcane Trickster or Eldritch Knight with the Magic Initiate feat (picking the wizard list) use spell slots to cast the chosen 1st-level spell?
Dupe Target: Can you cast a spell learned from the Magic Initiate feat using spell slots?
Is this question asking specifical...
Candidate for closure: Can an Arcane Trickster or Eldritch Knight with the Magic Initiate feat (picking the wizard list) use spell slots to cast the chosen 1st-level spell?
Dupe Target: Can you cast a spell learned from the Magic Initiate feat using spell slots?
Is this question asking specifical...
@GcL Not necessarily. Mostly to see if I can recreate the mapping system I had, I thought it was nice at the time. If I like it, then I might look at a more modern system that allows for more than "go north. Get sword. Kill dragon. Win game"
@ThomasMarkov Nope. It wasn't much of a war. No flames. Not even swears. Not really a conflict even. Maybe better characterized as a few mildly confused fish.
@ThomasMarkov Probably just consider the dupe a good dupe and leave it alone to get a satisfactory answer. Maybe throw in a comment about "related to..."
@NautArch Close all duplicates, to me, is ham handed. Also, by what criteria something is determined to be a duplicate is not defined or explained much in the /help pages.
Taking a look at the revision history of the question, "Can an Arcane Trickster or Eldritch Knight with the Magic Initiate feat (picking the wizard list) use spell slots to cast the chosen 1st-level spell?,
you will notice six gold-badge open/close actions. You might be tempted to say "looks kin...
@TheOracle A different way of looking at that might be, "what do we expect a new user to do?" and then "what should be done to improve that new user's experience here?"
So they ask a question, then the experts notice it's already been asked. They leave a comment explaining it's already been asked. The user still doesn't have an answer.
So wait for someone else to benevolently bounty the other question?
I'm arguing for having simplified the whole thing by editing the original question to meet the answers it had. With no input from that querent in years, that seems fine.
We had an ambiguous very old question. It contained both a very general lead and body. But then included a specific case. Absolutely no one had yet answered the general question and all focused on the case.
Given that the querent of the old question never said "hey, you're missing the big question and just answering my example!", I think it's reasonable to assume that they just wanted their case answered.
I'm having a difficult time distilling that check of the older question into a succinct guidance that could get stuffed into a help page somewhere. Check that the older question can't be modified to better fit it's answers and avoid being a duplicate of the newer question?
Just discussing this specific case, because it's specifically special.
In a general case, if someone new asks a question and it's a duplicate, we should do what we always do: mark it as a duplicate, explain it, and inform that dupes are good.
If the question should answer their case, the process is to mark as a dupe and tell the answerers on the old one that their answers are incomplete.
If a question asks "what are the available RAW actions in 5e" but someone only discusses the Attack action, and then we get another question about "Can I ready an action", we should close that as a dupe and remind folks to fully answer the first question.
That seems like a succinct procedure. Expect new user to ask question without answer. Redirect to older question without answer yet. Add comments to each existing answer asking the each answer poster to update their answer to include the specific case.
Although, that doesn't put the old question to the top of most user's landing page queues.
@NautArch Is adding a bounty to the older question an expectation? If so, who is expected to do that?
@NautArch Essentially update the edited timestamp so it shows up in questions with recent activity. Otherwise, you're relying on only existing answer posters to see the comments on their answers.
If one of your best friends and closest companions dies right before your very eyes and your first thought is "now I can loot his magic sword", you might be an adventurer.