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1:12 AM

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Q: What are the objective issues with dice sharing?

Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, page 141 says the following (emphasis mine): Common in-game limits include - but are not limited to - [...] Common out-of-game limits include unwanted physical contact, dice-sharing, dice-throwing, shouting, vulgarity, [...]. All of these make sense to me, except...

AncientSwordRage

2:32 AM

@CaptainMan there's no way to judge between the answers

Thomas Markov

@Someone_Evil Might be a good idea to remove the dice question from HNQ.

@HotRPGQuestions also this question still very obviously opinion based and should be closed.

AncientSwordRage

3:16 AM

@ThomasMarkov I disagree. It's not my opinion that some people are germophobic etc. That's a fact, some people are.

Joshua

speaking of list question, I just thought of the possibility of trying to find the lowest level way to destroy the world

the problem will probably come down to how to define out-of-level magic artifacts

NautArch

4:19 AM

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8:02 AM

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Q: With Blind Fighting style from Tasha's Cauldron Of Everything, can you cast spells that require a target you can see?

Blind Fighting, as phrased in Tasha's Cauldron Of Everything, contains additional wording beyond the description of mere Blindsight. The entry for Blind Fighting reads: You have blindsight with a range of 10 feet. Within that range, you can effectively see anything that isn’t behind total cover,...

dnd-5e spellcasting fighter invisibility blind

Zachiel

11:27 AM

@Powerdork @Shalvenay @ErikOttosen Heya! I have seen the chat where you were planning characters for a D&D 4e dungeon crawl. Picture me curious, was this the first D&D 4e game for any of you? If so, how did you like the ruleset?

TheDragonOfFlame

1:43 PM

Ugh all those domain questions...

Zachiel

What about them?

Thomas Markov

2:19 PM

No commentary on the features.

Just lists the features with no details about what is concerning, what the goal is, etc. I’ve voted to close them.

NautArch

2:43 PM

I'm not even sure that they created them...

Zachiel

Well, the goal seems to be comparing them, in power, to the official ones. It looks clear enough to me. Do we really need anything more specific? The thing that worries me more is that they could potentially attract opinionated answers.

NautArch

@Zachiel Couple of issues there: 1)It's not clear that this it their own homebrew content and 2)we do have guidelines on how to ask homebrew - and that includes explaining why you made it, your own assessments of what may be problematic, and some direction to us as to what to look for.

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Q: How can I ask a good homebrew review question?

I'd like to post some homebrew material I've made, and I want people to review it so I can ensure it will work well. How can I ask a good question like this? What are our guidelines for handling these questions well as an asker? Return to FAQ Index

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Zachiel

Good. I'm not going to check (I'm bad at balancing content) but I hope that's been linked to the querent.

NautArch

@Zachiel They've been linked - both recently and historically. Not their first rodeo on homebrew review.

and all those domains really feel like "what if we designed subclasses that could replace all the other major classes!"

Thomas Markov

3:25 PM

Gosh, if those subclasses are paid material and they aren’t the author the questions need to be deleted.

NautArch

@ThomasMarkov Yeah, i'm not sure, though. I did find a Chaos domain as well, but that one clearly wasn't the same.

However, that user has in the past posted a bunch of different homebrew review simultaneously.

so it could still be theirs.

Shalvenay

@Zachiel it was the second 4e game I've attempted, and the first one where I've actually gotten to play at all. char creation poses a rather steep learning curve coming from other editions, but once I got past that, it was actually fairly smooth sailing -- it really didn't feel that much different from 3.5e or 5e once you were in the thick of things

nbro

Does anyone know the name of the game described here? (Please, tag me so that I get a notification)

Someone_Evil

@nbro Not an RPG by the looks of it

Zachiel

4:06 PM

@Shalvenay oh, really? With its restricted multiclassing and list of options tied to each class instead of a pool of options where some classes pick some and some other pick some other (I'm thinking spells that can be a lv3 cleric spell and a lv4 druid or wizard spell) I wouldn't have thought it could look steep. What were the biggest hurdles to you, if you don't mind expanding?

Shalvenay

4:50 PM

@Zachiel the power system takes some getting used to during the creation process

(granted, playing a caster, it's less of a curve, I expect, than playing a martial)

also, magic items in 4e seem to work a bit differently

Zachiel

5:11 PM

@Shalvenay Ah, yes, only one enchantment per weapon/armor/neck slot item and no ability boosts

Powerdork

6:13 PM

@Zachiel This was the first time for two of the three friends I invited. I'm going to post some chat snippets from them

> TheDragonOfFlame (GM): I don't find 4e bad, but it's complex. 5e had trouble with doing a big powerful thing, missing and being... oh, that sucks.
> Bost: Haha, I don't find it bad either, I don't even think its THAT complex, it's just... different, and new, and we only had one chance to get it right.

> Alaron: I dunno, if I got to try it more and got more used to it I think I'd like it for a more High Fantasy campaign.

(the friends being Alaron and Bost here)

Zachiel

6:33 PM

I can second the feeling that it's really good for high fantasy. Both of those players are coming from 5e, right?

Does 5e do the "all you need to know about the enemy is in his statblock" thing that 4e introduced? PF and 3e sometimes drive me mad XD

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