There’s about a million styles of lace so I’m asking about (say) bobbin lace or reticella or needle lace or Irish crochet lace, not about the materials (I’d say like weaver’s tools for making it or something else with the appropriate thing for the style)
Although there’s actually 2 types of knitted lace: knitted lace, where the holes and decreases are worked every row, and lace knitting, where the holes are only worked on the right side of the work.
In all honesty, if it's not in there, add it in. Someone would have the bright idea to make something so fancy. "You know what would be better than silk? Silk threaded with gold and woven into intricate designs! People would definitely pay some good coin for that!"
Leatherworkers have weaving tools, so they could be inspired by their tools and make more delicate/intricate versions
If a Stars Druid/Grave Cleric multiclass were to use a Cure Wounds on an unconscious creature at 0 hp, and they designate that creature as a target of their Chalice form's healing ability, does that mean they receive 16+double wisdom mod healing, or 8+1d8+double wisdom mod healing?
Circle of Mor...
At level 9, the Rogue's Phantom subclass (Tasha's Cauldron of Everything) gets the 'Tokens of the Departed' feature, allowing them to create 'soul trinkets'
When a life ends in your presence, you’re able to snatch a token from the departing soul, a sliver of its life essence that takes physical ...
@AncientSwordRage Am yet to investigate the ADD/ADHD situation, and I am unfortunately dealing with a situation with the kids that is reaching a breaking point... need to find a solution on how to get them to listen, think, and not break the rules (i.e. don't get out of bed and watch tv at 4am).
Yeah. They're 6 and 8 so impulse is currently taking priority. But I'm trying to get them to overrule that with their decision making (which is currently non-existent). Basically just waiting for my broken record to start playing in their head. "Thinking... Don't get out of bed... rewards for doing the right thing... Thinking... Don't get out of bed... rewards for doing the right thing..."
As an example, a level 6+ bladesinger wizard/11+ fighter character takes the Attack action. Are they able to use a cantrip? How many attacks do they get?
When a bard learns a Magic Secrets, it counts as a bard-spell. Of note, should they abandon any Secret-spell at later level, he can only replace it with one from the BARD list. Lord Crawford actually did rule-rulings on this, so this is clear: replacing one's Magic Secrets is easily done, it is j...
The Ghost ability Possession (Recharge 6) gives this guidance:
The ghost now controls the body but doesn't deprive the target of awareness. The ghost can't be targeted by any Attack, spell, or other Effect, except ones that turn Undead, and it retains its Alignment, Intelligence, Wisdom, Charism...
I'm about to start running a campaign and one of my players wants to start as a wizard and multiclass warlock as well. I had already started creating a fairly powerful half-fiend (originally to be a big enemy much later on). I know that fiends can be patrons, but would a half-fiend be powerful en...
I know there is a question Do you add your ability modifier to damage for the Soulknife's second attack? with reply being "Yes you do because it is not two weapons fighting". This is not if, but why.
Recently I encountered this problem while playing Soulknife and pretty much my entire group was l...
I'm genuinely surprised at how it's turning out! I thought there was a sea change happening, but this voting is very different to the question being revisited
I mean, I expected difference in this direction, but this is a lot more difference in this direction than I expected
It's a pleasant surprise, since I think being able to move in this direction will help the overall QOL of people on the site
We've been moving in only one direction for a long time, and I see this as part of us being able to negotiate something more workable for the community, whatever that might be
I really love the idea of 'lighting arrow' for my Firbolg character but it's a ranger only spell but I wasn't planning on taking that many ranger levels... Any ideas
@RevenantBacon This is actually an interesting example of the etymological fallacy, since humans are tetrapods but not quadrupeds (even if both words have the same literal meaning of "four feet")
His exact words were "Hint: language doesn’t give a shit about normative prefixes. Biannual means twice a year. Except when it doesn’t. Why do you think humans are classified taxinimically as quadrupeds when we gots two feets?"
And I informed him that we are in fact, not quadrupeds
Yup, sounds like they've confused with tetrapods all right.
To my understanding quadrupedism is not a taxonomic term at all, it's a descriptive label for a mode of locomotion rather than an attempt to categorize species by heritage.
@RevenantBacon Not really --- they both mean literally "foot". One is Latin, one is Greek. The way it is is due to convention of usage, not the etymology.
I've been under the understanding that biannual and semi-annual are both commonly used to refer to both events that happen twice a year, and events that happen once per two years.
Fun fact, by the way: after doing some googling on the term "chakraborty" I encountered in a video game, I learned the English word "wheel" and the Sanskrit word "chakra" are doublets (direct descendants from a same ancestor word)
@ThomasMarkov Assuming that neither child is born prematurely, it's actually impossible. On the other hand, if one is born a month or so early, then it can happen
but the odds of having a child, and then immediately concieving as soon as the next egg is available is also very low
@ThomasMarkov I suppose it depends. Likely a DM call. But the character has to be able to perceive it in order to be a valid trigger in the first place IIRC
> When you or another creature you can see within 30 feet of you makes an ability check or a saving throw, you can use your reaction to add your Intelligence modifier to the roll.
Artificer's Flash of Genius
A saving throw is a trigger for the reaction.
So the ability explicitly references player meta knowledge
For those kinds or triggers I'd say yes, because obviously there is no way for a character ever to be able to perceive them. I guess it gets trickier if the trigger is something that specifically is in fiction though.
So for example, as a DM I'd allow that even when the creature was making an ability check secretly.
@ThomasMarkov Except that most things that trigger saves have obvious causes, such as a dragons breath weapon, or a falling rocks, so it's not always meta knowledge
What's that series @BESW does on real-life stuff that's way more amazing than fantasy? Because I just learned that reindeer change eye colors with the season.
Preliminaries.
Some reactions have triggers which are tangible events in the fiction of the game. For example, feather fall's casting time is:
1 reaction, which you take when you or a creature within 60 feet of you falls.
This is something tangible within the fiction: feather fall's trigger is ...
@AncientSwordRage Enough Watchers paladins in one room can make an anti-scrying bomb.
Get 10 15th level watchers paladins to guard important meetings that you dont want to be scryed on. If somebody scrys and the save succeeds, the scryer takes 20d8+50 damage.
Right, but and time those memories or backstory become relevant, you the player gains immediate knowledge of those events (because you just made them up)
Like, if my orc swashbucklers backstory hasn't been written yet, theoretically, he "knows what it is", but since I haven't decided what it is yet, I don't. Once I do decide, I gain immediate knowledge of what it is.
Really, quantum wasn't the right term. It's more relate to time
The character "knows" the information, except the information doesn't exist, so the character can't know it until you decide what it is, then they retroactively knew that information all along
But then, you gain that information immediately upon the character gaining that information.
These are characters that grew up their entire lives in a fantasy world, I'm sure there are many things they know that the player does not know. The player is not forbidden from that knowledge, it is just not known at the time.
If the player doesn't know it, then neither does the character. The knowledge literally doesn't exist until the player decides that it does, then once they do, it retroactively exists in game, but the character doesn't actually gain the kowledge of it before the player does.
I don't think we disagree, I think it's just semantics. I say my character knew from past experience that trolls need to be damaged with fire, for example, while you'd say they retroactively knew it once I know that they knew it.
Things that are absolutely gross in my house and left over from pre-thanksgiving prep: potato peels, pomegranate pith, leftover buttermilk from the turkey brine, and my little brother’s shirt. Things that I love about thanksgiving: mashed potatoes, pomegranate seeds for snacking, and seeing my family eat turkey. I think there’s some kind of correlation between how wonderful something is and how much of a pain it is to clean up
@BardicWizard yeah I struggle with this on a day to day basis, although I will say that I have also learned how to do some things that I really like that take far less prep
random weird question: For a campaign, I want an elf to explain to a bird-person that they are a human shield. Except...well, the phrase "human" shield makes no sense for them to use. Any ideas on something less specific?
hm, although it kind of changes what it means in context
to be more specific, a set of circumstances is causing the bird person to take on all the damage another npc takes in their place, regardless of where they are
and that other npc is using that to use the bird person as a human shield
Devil’s Sight says “You can see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 120 feet.”
Does this mean that if you are blinded, casting darkness on yourself (or otherwise removing all light) will let you ignore the blinded condition?
Sometimes there's changes in the way prep is done which can help, like peeling the potatoes directly over the bucket we'll be taking out to the compost.
As an example, a level 6+ bladesinger wizard/11+ fighter character takes the Attack action. Are they able to use a cantrip? How many attacks do they get?
Obviously every year is annual. Every two years is biennial. Does the English language have a term for every 18 months?
Preliminaries.
Some reactions have triggers which are tangible events in the fiction of the game. For example, feather fall's casting time is:
1 reaction, which you take when you or a creature within 60 feet of you falls.
This is something tangible within the fiction: feather fall's trigger is ...
Devil’s Sight says “You can see normally in darkness, both magical and nonmagical, to a distance of 120 feet.”
Does this mean that if you are blinded, casting darkness on yourself (or otherwise removing all light) will let you ignore the blinded condition?
