@Medix2 I’m not following. The meta post probably should have been made two closures ago. I present a case based on how I see the current state of affairs, which as you may observe, is somewhat different from the state of affairs I tried to create through various moderation actions. I didn’t create any evidence; myself, Naut, Purple, V2, Doppel, GcL, and Darth’s actions led to the current state of affairs, and I evaluated the results based on established criteria for what makes a duplicate.
My preference would have been explicitly narrowing the scope of the old question to be consistent with what it had implicitly been all along and leaving the new question as a stand-alone question in its own right. But it’s neither here nor there, we have to work with what we’ve got now, and what we’ve got now is a duplicate question.
@ThomasMarkov I just think some of you answer is using evidence you yourself created... I don't know how else to explain that
You use the fact that the general case already has an answer addressing the sub-case as evidence that they are duplicates. But whether or not answers to the general case should have addressed the sub-case at all was never asked or covered
Maybe I'm not making any sense, or am simply in the wrong here; but it feels weird/off to me
The longsword deals 1d8 slashing or piercing damage. The scimitar deals 1d6 slashing damage with the forceful and sweep traits. At first glance, it seems that the scimitar might break even for damage with the longsword only when there's a reasonable chance of hitting a third or more attack in a t...
@Ben I put off an extended paragraph for like a week and it’s due tomorrow so that’s added to the math homework I barely understand, the Spanish homework I don’t want to do, and the choir homework that I don’t feel like singing
@trogdor Well that was an interesting thought... Nihilism is the opposite of existentialism. Another word/phrase for nihilism is "navel gazing"; which I, and my sister do a lot. For christmas (as a gag gift) I bought her a hand mirror to "gaze at her navel with ease"
So if you're an existentialist, would you need a magnifying glass?
> Heisenberg is driving Schrödinger and Ohm down the highway when a cop pulls him over for speeding. Cop: "Do you know how fast you were going?" Heisenberg: "No, but I can tell you exactly where we are." Well, the cop finds that sort of suspicious so he decides to look in the truck. "...did you know you have a dead cat in here?" Schrödinger throws his hands in the air. "I do now!" After more lip of this sort, the cop decides to take them all down to the station, but Ohm resists.
@BardicWizard I find it helpful to get a change of scenery, to snap myself out of my current mood/mindset (e.g. "Ugh I have too much work) and establish a better one ("If I knuckle down, it'll be hard and frustrating, but I'll get it done.")
Did you have an old school book with those tables in the back? Mine had some abbreviated lookup tables in the back. Funnily, now I have an entire 200 page book of those as piece of decor.
@GcL On a separate note, your presence reminded me that I think I'm happy with where my Corruption system is at.
Just needs some playtesting and some potential balancing.
Oh and I need to reword the Afflictions. I've suggested that minors are flavor text/RP inspiration, and major are only minor mechanical changes, which don't match up to the examples I've prvided.
@BardicWizard Math is funnily enough almost second nature to me - it's systematic and logical, and I hate it so I avoid it at all costs. Linguistics on the other hand is the exact opposite. XD
@GcL As in I don't physically change form and I don't get any movement speed, change hit points, or anything that comes with wildshape except for access to their specific attacks.
"Runaround" is a science fiction short story by American writer Isaac Asimov, featuring his recurring characters Powell and Donovan. It was written in October 1941 and first published in the March 1942 issue of Astounding Science Fiction. It appears in the collections I, Robot (1950), The Complete Robot (1982), and Robot Visions (1990). "Runaround" features the first explicit appearance of the Three Laws of Robotics, which had previously only been implied in Asimov's robot stories.
Artificial intelligence researcher Marvin Minsky said: "After 'Runaround' appeared in the March 1942 issue o...
what with the robot endlessly circling the selenium pool
I recently found out a bit more about William Clayton’s editorship of Astounding Stories and Super Science, and it really helped me understand the popularity of Asimov’s dry thought-experiment brand of science fiction as part of a backlash to Clayton’s complete disgust for any scientific elements in his fiction at all.
I weren't trying to suggest any action for the specific main site question. We can leave that to the specific meta. And I'd give the specific a bit more time to mature before acting on it, but sufficient maturity is not a fixed value
Yeah, mostly. Part of what I wanted to get across was that whether the specific should be covered by the general is a decision we make (decide versus discern). If we don't communicate that (because we don't recognize it, haven't got the theory or terms for it, or whatever reasons), things get messy. And it's much easier to start working on the problems (if any) once you've disentangled them
WHich was why I posted my comment on why I was closing, but a lot ofthis was also changing of minds and lack of other communication across both questions.
Yeah, as far as I can see it's a case with slightly more than normal going on, but where the discussion around it didn't happen in comments so they're obvious and then it looks messier than it really was
On the other hand, I got to handle my first ContestedDupe autoflag, so check that off the list :)
@Someone_Evil although the final close/reopen did have a comment. Just a shame that reopen happened outside of meta, even though you had requested that to stop.
Assuming there is no magic holding it aloft and it doesn't have the ability to hover, when a flying creature is knocked prone, it falls.
What happens if the creature was flying over a body of water? Can it effectively use its movement to "stand up" on its next turn and resume flying, or does it e...
Yes.
The conditions for the target having disadvantage on the next saving throw are spelled out in the Eldritch Strike feature description:
you hit a creature with a weapon attack
the spell triggering the saving throw was cast before the end of your next turn.
Naturally, a spell cast before you...
@ThomasMarkov isn't this asking if they get caught by hold person, fail the save. Then the EK hits and gives disadvantage on saving throws, does that apply to all the subsequent saving throws?
> At the end of each of its turns, the target can make another Wisdom saving throw. On a success, the spell ends on the target.
@ThomasMarkov Pretty sure the intended use case is: Swing sword, then do spell next turn (or as bonus action), rather than: cast spell, then beat on to prevent from saving vs that spell
It could make a difference because the bonus shove can knock the target prone. If that's done before the "Attack action" attack, then that could give advantage on the attack roll.
The image of someone running and knocking an enemy down with their shield before attacking is much better than someone running in, attacking, and then knocking them down.
Oh. Huh. Actually the wording is fortunately ambiguous.
> If you take the Attack action on your turn, you can use a bonus action to try to shove a creature within 5 feet of you with your shield.
Once you "declare" the Attack action, you can resolve the actual attack rolls anytime on your turn, right? So... forget what I said earlier, a character with this feat could definitely use the shove before their first attack.
A frightened creature A is standing horizontally or vertically next to the source of its fear B.
The creature can't willingly move closer to the source of its fear.
Can A freely circle B, for example to flank them or to attack another of its enemies, or to pass them with impunity in a 10' hall...
I can't believe we had two independent questions asking if they can take different versions of Spell Sniper to double their range repeatedly. Every time I see something like this I'm tempted to stick a cheating tag on it.
Fun fact for anyone who wants to tweak falling damage in their game: Human terminal velocity is about 120 MPH(flat fall, arms out) to 180 MPH(head first, arms in), which translates to 176-264 feet/second or 1,056-1,584 feet per round, and takes about 12 seconds to reach from rest. In the first 6 seconds, you'll be fall around 400 feet
@Yuuki Reminds me of an old Foo Fighters music video where the protagonist has nunchuks, and then is like, "why would I use nunchuks when I've got these giant hands!"
@NautArch I thought you were going to try, mark as dupe, comment on every answer of referred question asking to address the specific case, edit question to update timestamp, and possibly add bounty if you're feeling helpful.
Answering two different versions of the same stackexchange question will result in an answer that is doubly correct. The answers stack together, hence the name.
@NautArch I think it would revitalize old, yet relevant questions. Kind of like the central upwelling of bubbles in a freshly poured glass of Guinness.
i mean, I'm nearly 100% sure all PCs are humanoid, but I don't konw if it's been explicitly stated and I don't own the Ravnica hardcover to see what's in there vs dndbeyond.
Player characters get handled differently. That's been the case for a long time, no? I recall 3.5 playable monster rules did similar edge case handling things.
@MikeQ I recall the 3.5 ones being the same. Great at low level, but didn't match up in late-mid tier play and were woefully behind prestige classes in late game.
That's true. But that just sounds like "Minotaur doesn't specifically say it's not humanoid" which you already argued?
Hmm, I suppose there's the angle of "This line from the PHB allows us to conclude that all races, from any books ever, are humanoids. This is the very rule Centaur and Satyr specifically override which Minotaur does not"
Having PCs be non-humanoid does muck with the balance a bit as the lower level effects, such as hold person, can't target them. If you're playing that they're not humanoid, one would have to account for this.
A creature can have more than one type? E.g. fey, humanoid ?
I was wondering whether in the official published materials, or in Unearthed Arcana, there are any creatures that have multiple types (for instance, creatures that in their description it says they are both Fey and Beast).
I appreciate any examples of such creatures - or, if none exist, confirma...
Centaurs have the Fey trait (Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica, pg. 16):
Fey. Your creature type is fey, rather than humanoid.
What does this mean in terms of gameplay? I know that certain spells, such as hold person, require a humanoid target, so a centaur wouldn't be affected by that spell. ...
@vicky_molokh-unsilenceMonica They'd lose out on humanoid-only buffs, and would also be subject to effects that target fey. Protection from Evil and Good, Hallow, etc. The linked question above has more details.
To make it less human-centric, we can consider the cases of "goblinoid", "elvenoid", "dwarvenoid", "bovinoid" (for minotaur-like creatures), etc. This all generalizes nicely to...
Since you say "you have to be within 5 feet of the target to make a melee attack" and the other says "You can make the 'melee' attack because the spell says you can, regardless of distance"
So I'm wondering if there are other example of "ranged" melee attacks ...
Background
This question was prompted by this question about the relation to the rogue's uncanny dodge feature and being able to see the attacker when spiritual weapon is used.
Question
When a creature is subject to the magic melee attack of spiritual weapon what is considered to be the attack...
I had thought that since increasing the range of BB doesn't do anything unless you also increase your reach, you could do something. But that's likely an artifact of the spell requiring a melee attack with a weapon
I accidentally told a friend I was a tomato today, for some reason involving trying to form a sentence in Spanish when I wasn’t thinking, and now I have been dubbed the Game Masher instead of the Game Master
@BardicWizard I once tried to explain in spanish that I preferred my steak medium rare. What I actually said was something like "I like to eat meat soaked in the blood of the hood".
The sentence was supposed to be “I ate tomato soup for lunch”, but apparently I have no memory for vocabulary while trying to eat my lunch and it came out “yo soy un tomate”
The Tortle's Natural Armor ability says:
Due to your shell and the shape of your body, you are ill-suited to wearing armor. Your shell provides ample protection, however; it gives you a base AC of 17 (your Dexterity modifier doesn’t affect this number). You gain no benefit from wearing armor, bu...
I do a lot of hobby crafting for tabletop gaming that involves painting miniatures and building scenery (think model railroad hobbyists). In this craft, there is a lot of need for washes of different sorts that fill in crevices and crannies for developing shadowing and texture. I have some temper...
the question How many Joules does strength values ten through twenty estimate to? a lot of negative votes and was voted to be closed very quickly... and I don't understand why.
What could be done to improve the question about Joules of energy required to lift in-game objects?