There's some great "I can hack these transit units but if I do anything dramatic with them I'll cause a pileup with civilian casualties" scenes in Murderbot Diaries.
@JoelHarmon Ernesto Oroza coined "technological disobedience" to describe the modern application of the resolviendo attitude codified in Con Nuestros Propios Esfuerzos during Castro's "Special Period in Times of Peace." A piece of technology is created for a specific purpose, and resolviendo requires disobeying that intent: looking at a piece of technology and seeing it not as an object with a particular purpose but as component parts temporarily combined to accomplish a current need.
The one dragon encounter turned into a two dragon encounter thanks to a die roll. Wild fight, but the party eventually prevailed. Thanks to a web spell and a failed save.
by the dragon
"The dice are fickle" and the Monk rolled three crits in a row during one attack sequence. First time I've seen that.
I have a request for some feedback: can I get other RPG players’ opinions on this essay I’m writing? I’m thinking about starting a blog for my adventures in fibercrafts, RPGs, and life, and this is written with that in mind
Planting one of the 3d4 beans from within the magic item Bag of Beans gives this result about 10% of the time:
A nest of 1d4 + 3 eggs springs up. Any creature that eats an egg must make a DC 20 Constitution saving throw. On a successful save, a creature permanently increases its lowest ability s...
@HotRPGQuestions oh wow, I was doing some math on this. Assuming you DO in fact make your CON20 save on every egg and your GM allows you to craft these bags of beans, it would on average take you 12 bags of beans to get the 48 points you need (assuming point buy). Those 12 bags would cost about 24,000GP and 120 work weeks using XGE rules (60K GP and 2400 days using base game rules), which is significantly less than doing the same for 24 stat manuals.
And here I was thinking I could do a frame challenge on saying this would cost more to do than if you use stat manuals
Thomas: 48 is enough to get six stats from 20 to 30. Also Thomas: "The coadjoint orbits of compact Lie groups each carry a canonical (positive definite) Kähler structure, famously used to realize the group’s irreducible representations in holomorphic sections of appropriate line bundles."
meta. I've been part of the RPG SE community for a few months now I think, but I'm still learning the ropes and I consider myself new. This is my first time asking on meta and I apologize in advance if I made any mistakes while asking this question.
When browsing on mobile, I noticed a few questi...
@ThomasMarkov A players stats can't go above 20. Other creatures, such as monsters and divinities, can go up to 30. I believe in the egg question, several creatures were mentioned specifically.
@RevenantBacon Caveats are usually handy in a discussion like this ... and I think the comment about "how to you maximize the egg beans is a good and fun cheese kind of question to ask. If someone else won't, I may later but currently have tasking ...
The telepathy spell states that you must be on the same plane of existence which this question asks about. And then this question asks the same thing in more words
this is one of the less egregious examples but we get a bit overzealous about dupe closing sometimes - just because a question can be easily reduced down to a fundamental that is answered by another question doesn't necessarily mean that it should be considered a dupe
And we don't have users actively going out asking questions that are fundamentally the same but technically different knowing they won't be closed either so...
@Medix2 I think it changes the question away from what the querent was asking for, but the already-accepted answer was written in a way that it answers the edited question as well. So it seems fine to me
What's the protocol on a question being edited in a way to invalidate existing answers, anyways? I don't remember (this is not a reference to your edit, Medix2)
@Carcer Lol, of course. I didn't state it clearly. I have an answer which is no longer relevant after a substantial edit to a question. Deletion seems like the only real next step, but a comment irritated me so I'm being reluctant to do so immediately
That's easier to justify if I'm making sure that's the right next step
Planting one of the 3d4 beans from within the magic item Bag of Beans gives this result about 10% of the time:
A nest of 1d4 + 3 eggs springs up. Any creature that eats an egg must make a DC 20 Constitution saving throw. On a successful save, a creature permanently increases its lowest ability s...
@ThomasMarkov What are we blaming Medix for? Can I throw in on that pile? I have a cat that is unhappy about "never being fed" and "never being petted". Can we add that to Medix's tab?
@Upper_Case In this case, I think the question is at least more focused, so I think'd be best answers adjust for that. I'll be doing it to mine, for yours I suppose it'd need to be edited to fully answer the question or delete it if it's not worth the effort
This post originates from this question, but is not about handling that question. I will summarize the transpired events for context.
The question is about a specific rule and at its core about whether that rule allows for a ridiculous scenario. It used an example which appeared to "break" that...
@Someone_Evil It's not worth it, I think. It was a "for completeness" answer under the original question, as other answers had already covered the optimization paths at that point. It's more pique about the comment, as I find that user's behavior in comments to be generally poor. But that's not worth much, I suppose. I'll delete it later, when I have time
@ThomasMarkovI figured that was your take on the interaction, based on the fact that you would rule that way, I just thought it would be helpful to point it out for the sake of others.
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@ThomasMarkov Another question where I just want to ask "Is there a reason this shouldn't work? And the answer is just "Because somebody said it shouldn't"
I would like to make a race of raptor people for my world: The Mitarn.
Mitarn
Your are a member of the Mitarn race, a species of sapient maniraptorans (Raptors). Mitarn seek to live in harmony with nature, using tooth and claw to survive.
Racial Traits
You have a number of traits stemming from y...
For standard usage of the Detect Thoughts spell,
"If the creature you choose has an Intelligence of 3 or lower or
doesn't speak any language, the creature is unaffected" (PHB, pg 231).
Additionally one may use the Detect Thoughts spell to detect the presence of creatures they can't see, however
"
This post originates from this question, but is not about handling that question. I will summarize the transpired events for context.
The question is about a specific rule and at its core about whether that rule allows for a ridiculous scenario. It used an example which appeared to "break" that...
For standard usage of the Detect Thoughts spell,
"If the creature you choose has an Intelligence of 3 or lower or
doesn't speak any language, the creature is unaffected" (PHB, pg 231).
Additionally one may use the Detect Thoughts spell to detect the presence of creatures they can't see, however
"
