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KorvinStarmast

01:42

@NautArch sometimes, I crack myself up

The Oracle

01:58

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Q: Are we misusing the Homebrew Review discussion?

We have a popular Meta discussion, How can I ask a good homebrew review question? The highly-rated, accepted answer has a number of very good ideas. Any question that follows all of that guidance is almost certain to be a good question. However, I have noticed an increasing number of comments tha...

Ben

02:14

[wave]

KorvinStarmast

@Ben \o Listening to Jethro Tull, 1977 live performance. That's a level 20 bard ...

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Q: What happens when an aboleth enslaves another aboleth who's enslaved a werewolf?

I was doing a monster battle with some of my friends and there were two aboleths, aboleth #1 and aboleth #2. Aboleth 1 had a werewolf under control using their enslave power, and then aboleth 2 took control of aboleth 1. Can aboleth 2 now control the werewolf under aboleth 1's control?

dnd-5e spells monsters charmed

Ben

@KorvinStarmast Very nice.

KorvinStarmast

Jethro Tull Live at the Capital Centre 1977

►

Ben

I am perusing youtube as a means of distracting myself from the work that I don;t want to do and summoning the effort to finish making my instant noodles for lunch

KorvinStarmast

02:20

hehe, don't we all do that now and again?

Ben

Unfortunately my inner highschooler has resurfaced, because the reason I don;t want to do it is because I've been spending all of my effort on other things, and the work is due at the end of the week 😂

KorvinStarmast

Well, that happens to us all also. 🤣

Ben

I am however looking forward to a radio interview I'm doing tomorrow. First time on the radio, and talking about our local Archery Club that we (my family) created

KorvinStarmast

huzzah! Go Ben!

Ben

Pretty exciting :D

Joel Harmon

03:32

@RevenantBacon I'm late to the party, but consider just forwarding the original email to your boss. State how long you think it would take you to learn to do it, how long to then actually do it, and what your next few tasks are. Then ask how to prioritize your workload.

A. B.

06:08

Remind me how to do a heading in a Stack Exchange answer, somebody, please?

Mithical

06:22

@A.B. ## Text

Xirema

@A.B. There's three levels of headers, prefixed with the pound (hash) sign (#). One gives you a 1st level header, which is the biggest. 2 gives you the 2nd level, and 3 gives you the 3rd level, the smallest. It has to be the first thing on the line, and there has to be a space between the pound sign(s) and the text that's supposed to be the header.

# First Level Header
## Second Level Header
### Third Level Header
#Improperly Formatted and won't render correctly
#### Forbidden Fourth Level; Stack Exchange won't render this out of fear

I understand that screen readers are designed to interpret headers as sections to disambiguate between, so generally speaking you should only use 1st level headers unless you've written a 2000 word essay in your answer and it legitimately has varying levels of detail and organization.

A. B.

06:55

:-D

Thanks very much! I have only got one level in my answer, I just wanted to put a one-sentence answer to the question as a heading.

AncientSwordRage

11:53

@Xirema I think the other point is that there's already H1 elements on the page, so they should be avoided in general

I think there've even been requests to make # give a h2

Thomas Markov

12:10

Is there a chat for SEDE?

I found it.

AncientSwordRage

12:30

@ThomasMarkov YOU DID?!

Thomas Markov

I DID!

AncientSwordRage

And then you shared it with chat, right?

Thomas Markov

I did not. Would you like the link?

AncientSwordRage

@ThomasMarkov yes pelase

Thomas Markov

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Hot RPG Questions

13:15

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Q: Can a wizard prepare new spells while blinded?

For a wizard, preparing new spells at the end of a long rest seems to require studying their spellbook (emphasis added): You can change your list of prepared spells when you finish a long rest. Preparing a new list of wizard spells requires time spent studying your spellbook and memorizing the i...

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AncientSwordRage

@HotRPGQuestions I'm imagining the classic blindfolded gun disassembly/reassembly scene from films

Thomas Markov

13:31

@AncientSwordRage I can do that lol

AncientSwordRage

@ThomasMarkov but can you prepare new spells while blinded?

NautArch

@AncientSwordRage I don't think I'd rule to nerf the wizard in this case.

AncientSwordRage

13:47

@NautArch seems smart not to

NautArch

I mean, if I want to stop the wizard from preparing, I'll prevent the long rest

AncientSwordRage

14:02

I can see someone in session 0 saying "I really want to play with my dependence on my spellbook, so feel free to work that in" and then it's on the table as a possibility

NautArch

Oh yah. If they're interested in that level of management, then lean on in.

Rats, totally missed an opportunity to capture my players last night. Didn't see that option until later in the fight.

AncientSwordRage

14:49

@NautArch I'd love it if you actually meant using rats to capture them

NautArch

@AncientSwordRage close! Spiders.

AncientSwordRage

Spiders! would make a good exclamation

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Q: Etymology of the "Rats!" exclamation

rat (...) rats, Slang . (an exclamation of disappointment, disgust, or disbelief.) (source: dictionary.reference.com) Where does this meaning/usage of "rat" come from?

etymology

NautArch

15:04

@AncientSwordRage somewhat unsatisfying answers there.

Xirema

15:23

@AncientSwordRage That's actually a pretty important point: I'm guessing currently it's setup to use <H1> for level 1, <h2> for level 2, and so on?

Because if so, it may actually be better advice to tell people to use L2 by default in their answers and avoid L1, if the goal is to provide better accessibility.

AncientSwordRage

@Xirema that is the current advice AFAIK

NautArch

15:50

Is it not possible to clear 'your' editing tools queue?

For non-acted on items?

Someone_Evil

I don't think so. You can change the time scale it looks at so there's only more recent stuff, but it isn't really a queue as such

NautArch

That's too bad. WOuld be a nice feature to keep your work queue clean.

Thomas Markov

16:12

@Xirema I default to H3 unless I absolutely need two header sizes.

I also have a user script that reduces H1 to H2 and H2 to H2.5

Xirema

@ThomasMarkov I mean, I prefer to use L3 as well because I think the other header sizes are too big most of the time. I'm guessing though if the goal is accessibility, we should be using L2 by default.

NautArch

@Xirema TIL

Imma pin that for a bit.

If y'all see any good subjective-experience answers, please let me know. I'm bountying them in an attempt to raise the profile for how to answer well subjectively.

Thomas Markov

@NautArch Can I post my own :P

NautArch

@ThomasMarkov YOU GET NOTHING

but yes.

Thomas Markov

My usual "exemplary" subjective answer is my ruling on spirit guardians

NautArch

16:26

In that case, it was a no friendly fire rule even if no one was around when cast?

Did other spells have friendly fire? Like fireball?

Or just not spirit guardians?

Thomas Markov

The ruling was specific to spirit guardians.

NautArch

16:38

Gotcha. I dig it. Bounty up.

BUt seriously, if anyone else comes across any, please ping me.

Thomas Markov

Im looking for some

Thomas Markov

18:09

ngl, I have an itch to purge all links to sageadvice.eu from the site

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[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at end of answer, potentially bad keyword in answer, potentially bad keyword in username (63): What is the full list of official D&D settings? by Chikita Isaac on rpg.SE (@Rubiksmoose)

Thomas Markov

That's some spam.

Is the sickening radiance question showing up at the top of y'all's front pages?

AncientSwordRage

@ThomasMarkov weiiiird

Thomas Markov

Okay there it is. I modified it 8 minutes ago and it just showed up on my feed

Carcer

in third place

Someone_Evil

18:20

@ThomasMarkov Blame Caching

Carcer

@Someone_Evil it's always caching

Thomas Markov

Can we update this answer to include Ravnica, Theros, and Wildemount?

Someone_Evil

Imma say just edit it

Thomas Markov

yeah thats what i mean lol

KorvinStarmast

Well nuts, did the UI for RPGSE change again? This teams thing just emerged on my left hand margin of the main page ...

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Thomas Markov

18:31

yall care if I just edit it?

@KorvinStarmast YES ITS BEEN MESSING WITH ME ALL DAY

KorvinStarmast

@ThomasMarkov So it's not just me. Thanks. 🙂

Someone_Evil

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Q: Stack Overflow for Teams is now free for up to 50 users, forever

Today we’re launching our Free plan on Stack Overflow for Teams. We know that sharing knowledge and async collaboration is critical to companies and teams of all sizes. We also know people need a good sized group and time to see the impact and value of a platform like Stack Overflow for Teams. Ou...

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Carcer

it looks the same to me

Someone_Evil

There's why :)

How does it look for those who aren't members of a team?

(Since it's bugging you I assume it might be louder than if it's a team link there)

Thomas Markov

I'll get used to it. It's annoying because it's different. There's something in the corner of my eye that wasnt there before and it bugs me.

Thomas Markov

18:50

I think that setting question is a great candidate for some group work

There's a lot of improvement that can be done to it

Organize by edition, list sourcebooks, link to materials (where applicable), etc.

SmokeDetector

19:25

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer, pattern-matching email in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (262): Can you become a vampire from the kiss of a succubus? by Mark Glotfelty on rpg.SE (@Rubiksmoose)

Glazius

21:16

Okay, potentially silly question time. Are emojis a good idea in answers? Like if I'm making a FATE answer, can I describe a sample die roll as ➕➕➖➕ ?

Peter Cooper Jr.

21:28

@Glazius Well, I probably wouldn't downvote an answer myself just because it used emoji, I suppose. I'm really only familiar with Fate Accelerated, but I'm not sure if heavy versions of the symbols are typically used in discussing it. Unless you're just describing how to add up the total of dice, I thought usually the specific individual dice didn't matter in Fate-style games so I wouldn't think it'd come up that often.

Joel Harmon

21:41

@Carcer and @Someone_Evil shouldiblamecaching.com

@Glazius I immediately suspect screen readers won't deal with this nicely.

Glazius

The emoji names read out as "plus sign plus sign minus sign plus sign"

Glazius

21:55

And I suppose just try not to make any examples involving white square button, 🔳

Peter Cooper Jr.

Though it seems to me like Fate dice should actually be labeled "+1", "0", and "-1", but there's a lot of history to the dice that get used in gaming and it's probably too late to change anything now.

Glazius

is how it's detailed in the rules

AncientSwordRage

@Someone_Evil makes me want to make a team even though I dont' have a reason

Someone_Evil

That happened to me too :)

AncientSwordRage

@Someone_Evil I might give it some thought first : )

SmokeDetector

22:53

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer (162): Could the Hold Person spell be cast as part of a speech? by Baba Tunde on rpg.SE (@Rubiksmoose)

Hot RPG Questions

23:47

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Q: Does resistance to a damage type prevent similarly named conditions from applying?

Creatures with resistances take half the damage from an attack of the type it is resistant to. But what happens if a condition is applied? For example, if someone with poison resistance gets poisoned condition, without any actual damage.

dnd-5e conditions resistance

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