@trogdor We have some people who get upset when anything is not reduced to a minimal mechanically sufficient form. "Why do I need toes when I already have fingers, which are strictly better?"
I try to let it go, in accordance with the ancient proverb, "Your kink is not my kink but your kink is not bad." I am, however, very bad at letting things go.
It's well known (and confirmed by designers) that warlock's Devils Sight invocation lets them see in darkness (including magical) but doesn't help in dim light. I've just read Truesight & it only talks about darkness not dim light. So depending how the DM reads it, a creature with Truesight but not Darkvision could have disadvantage in dim light.
Grammarist on "casted": "Many people object to casted, but that doesn’t change the fact that it is catching on and not likely to go away soon."
Personally I'm in favor of allowing forms that avoid homophone confusion.
A Greeblin's Journey by Thomas Novosel. A solo journaling game about a travelling creature called a Greeblin. They have become unsettled from their home and are now travelling for the first time in a world they have never explored. The road is strange and not nearly as kind as their bed, but they had to do something. They had to go somewhere. Temporarily more expensive to fund finishing the game and making a print version.
I so wanted to answer that question with a few paragraphs describing the newly cratered moon and the country blasted to dust and the rumor that the stars themselves are become weapons and then say not enough
Ah I see. Well, I stand by my previous statement, but in this context your statement makes more sense.
I'm in a bit of a muddle at the moment. I have the stress of managing business decisions at work (which at this point in time have been sidelined due to decision changes), looking forward to playing a 5e game this weekend, stressing over managing our 7 and 9-yo's behaviour, and being both excited and terrified about the process of buying a house
Yeah. I judge my parenting by how I was parented, and I believe I turned out fine. But not everyone is the same; it doesn't have the same effect, it can be done better, it can be done worse. The best we can do is find a way to help everyone find the middle ground
@KorvinStarmast yeah, my thing is that I can't really get the things I want in a house long-term by buying a house, but I'm probably quite weird in that regard
@Shalvenay The situation is that my parents bought a house (since they're very well off in the market). Long story short, it's a rebuild after the previous building fell down... the rebuild was never finished off, but it's got all the walls and the roof, so we're paying (and working) to finish it ourselves, and then we've got an agreement with my folks to purchase it off them.
My warforged has the name "Hammer" (cos he's a forge cleric, and carries a warhammer).
But thought it could be cool if he carries a shield too, and whenever people call him the "hammer and shield", he corrects them that his name is just "Hammer"
Hurr hurr
He also carries a skull of unknown origin, but has an attachment to it. So maybe he can say "no, it has no name. It is not named 'shield'."
I have 2 players who will be playing tabaxi twins, they have a really good backstory and have asked me is there is a way they could have some sort of a link, so if they are not together and one is in trouble the other has a chance of knowing something might be wrong.
I am considering a simple per...
@BESW I really dislike how it sounds, but my favourite issues people have with language is when an old form comes back, and they treat it like a neologism(?)
And I really need grammar pedants to understand just how much of standardized English happened artificially as forms of nationalist or classist propaganda.
@AncientSwordRage It's not like it was with the deprecation of the end-of-word Ъ, for example, when the change was standardised across printing houses by the governing body.
Isle and Island come from different sources, for instance, and used to be Ile and Iland (?). The original latin for Iland had an s, so they added TO BOTH! No care for the original source of the word
@AncientSwordRage It's not as weird if you're educated about the etymology, but, judging by discussions with native speakers, there are issues with obtaining such education in school.
Just look at RP and Mid-Atlantic, for 20th century examples of variants broadly and effectively enforced as "standard" by non-governing bodies.
(just the name RP is --to borrow an excellent term from JW Lewis-- invidious, and its continued use can probably be attributed largely to yet another canonizer, Fowler.)
@AncientSwordRage Well, actions of questionable intelligence do happen in this area as much as in history in general. Nonetheless, study/knowledge thereof is a good thing overall.
The entire American publication industry is so standardized that the style guides one must learn to navigate it can be counted on one hand, and people will die on the smallest of hills over claims of the objective superiority of utilitarian differences between them based on assumed application.
I once nearly got caught in a fistfight between two editors over whether or not a poem's use of a series of periods needed to follow a style guide's rules for ellipses in prose.
@AncientSwordRage I'm not sure what you mean. I'm not a language-reconstructor, I don't know what methods are used to evaluate the most likely pronunciations of words back in the day. Are you stating that the methods are badly designed?
in the video it explains that one of the -um+b words (crumb, dumb, thumb) etc used to not have the b, but the b was added stylistically to resemble latin, and they added a b to a few others for funsies
I keep remembering something I heard from someone from an island where their Indigenous language was used conversationally, about a neighbouring island where the language was not in conversational use. He said that the other island was so much more focused on spelling, because they didn't speak it; that people more fluent in the language could recognize the written words with nonstandardized spellings but people without that fluency needed to memorize the symbols.
And then I think about how when I moved to South Carolina, people couldn't understand me and I couldn't understand them, and it had less to do with regional syntax or localized vocabulary than with simple pronunciation.
@AncientSwordRage Again, if I'm understanding you correctly, I'm not thinking that's surprising. People are inconsistent even in deliberate choices, plus English pronunciation seems super-drifty across time and space (for whatever reason), which probably makes matters worse.
Once I got my ear adjusted, the big challenge was the major regional variances between different counties, gathered together in the city or the campus.
The difference between towns half an hour apart was more dramatic there, than it is here.
@BESW I'm currently really interested in languages, to the extent of planning 1-2 conlangs and I'm finding reading about non-european languages and cultures really interesting and eye-opening
@kviiri I think so, but in the written form
as well as @ maybe originating as E-ach A-t, and the 'a' got encircled by the 'e'
This might get a little fiddly, but I was curious how people would rule on this aspect of Phantom Rogue's level 13 feature, "Tokens of the Departed"
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
form: as...
@ThomasMarkov I find this humorous, because I distinctly remember at one point that the stance was "Unarmed strikes are melee attacks, but not melee weapon attacks"
@NautArch I think it is a smart solution to point the querent in the right direction and show them a question that they can use to adjust theirs if it doesn't answer their problem, so while formally not the best solution, it is practically a great solution.
@Akixkisu That's why i don't feel a need to reopen. But it really doesn't seem like an identical question. Identical answers, maybe. But not a duplicate question directly.
But it is helpful, and between those answers and Thomas', they've got good direction
Apple bait and switched me due to an error on their side about an appleTV subscription. And now that i've signed up, the only way to cancel is to actually download itunes.
@NautArch I am waiting for the druid in our campaign to tell us "badgers? we don't need no stinking badgers" but setting that up might be a little tricky ...
I'm running the Storm King's Thunder campaign, and we are at the portion where the PCs get an airship to travel around in. For the most part, they have had fun with the different weapons and enemies they have faced; however, I find that one or two spellcasting PCs have been using spells such as m...
Given the context of the question, it sounds like the players found a good combo of using mind sliver to impose -1d4 to an enemy's saving throw vs polymorph.
So mabye polymorph the Roc into a non flying creature while it is not over the airship
Which it would then change back to a roc after hitting the ground, and with a 120ft fly speed should be back in action in 2-3 turns at most unless the ship is a thousand feet or more up.
@ThomasMarkov Storm Kings Thunder is a 5e campaign, I don't think it's a remake of an old campaign from a pervious edition, so that should be clear enough for a 5e tag, no clarity needed
The operative issue almost certainly involves the party having ample spell slots available to cast Polymorph regularly in combats. I'd bet money that it comes down to a fully-rested party more than anything else
In any case, that's often the culprit behind encounters that play out too easily for the PCs than DMs expect: fully-rested parties punch above their weight, all else being equal
@Akixkisu Uh, yes it is? They've specifically identified the product that they're using, namely the 5e adventure Storm King's Thunder. That's explicit product identification
Until the author provides follow-up details, it's probably best to dismiss this as another case of someone designing too-easily exploitable challenges and blaming it on the players
Frightened talks only about DCs:
[...] You take a status penalty equal to this value to all your checks and DCs [...]
Compare it to Clumsy:
[...] You take a status penalty equal to the condition value to Dexterity-based checks and DCs, including AC, Reflex saves, ranged attack rolls, and skill...
@ThomasMarkov Where a party uses good team work, yes, disad on saves is a big deal. We had a few cases where I used bane that amplified the other two casters in the group quite a bit.
Now that Im thinking about it, a canonical, "My players just reach 7th level and can cast polymorph. What strategies can I use to balance encounters against this?" might be a good thing to group think into a stackable question.
@ThomasMarkov It was facetious. Also, it doesn't matter where it's explicitly stated so long as it's there (though obviously someone would add the tag were the system defined only elsewhere)
@ThomasMarkov lots of missile weapons in enemy hands means lots of concentration checks for the caster ... that's one way to do this. (See also how Boromir was taken down in LoTR the book and the movie)
Our Druid has recently gotten access to the polymorph spell and has started polymorphing the opponents I so lovingly crafted for our (well, mostly my) enjoyment. (So far, he has been turning them into rabbits, not yet killer whales.)
Now, the canonical response to a polymorph is to reduce the pol...
Btw, in previous years @Rubiksmoose have done a stats comparison for the year in moderation roundup, but I doubt they'll complain if anyone else picks up that mantle. Anyone feeling up for that?
If we can get just a bit more detail, I'm fairly certain I can pinpoint the problem and suggest a few possible solutions. I mean, I'm already pretty sure I know two of the problems, too few enemies, and also insta-death from falling 1000 feet, but I want a few more details before I make a response so I can be sure.
So, within the Chwinga statblock, which can be found in Tomb of Annihilation and Icewind Dale: Rime of the Icemaiden, this ability appears:
Magical Gift (1/Day). The chwinga targets a humanoid it can see within 5 feet of it. The target gains a supernatural charm of the DM’s choice. See the Dunge...
If I have a PC that has natural armor giving 13+Dex if he wears no armor, will proficiency have any effect on that (or does no proficiency exist for natural armor)?.
Yarnspinner by Abe Mendes. A framework for long-term play.
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