My question is inspired by this question: How can I make an Echo (or any Object) invisible?
I was about to answer it by saying that the invisibility spell would work. However, on second thought, it's not clear to me that that's actually the case.
The description of the Echo Knight fighter's Manif...
@AncientSwordRage not sure I’ve written one like that, but every time an echo Knight question gets asked I want to answer “let’s just all agree that the echo knight requires lots of DM homework and stop asking about it.”
All Dungeons and Dragons edition I'm familiar with have its Cleric character class. Apparently, D&D Cleric is a trope of its own.
Many D&D "clerical" spells were still inspired by popular fantasy tropes, like priests' blessings and healing hands. However, the Create Water spell seems to stand ou...
@AncientSwordRage Still not sure I'm following you. At a brief glance those questions are generally better fits for your site than ours (origins and inspirations can be a bit hard here sometimes), and I'm not sure what kind of linking you mean. And FWIW the origin of Warhammer would have its origin in board games
@AncientSwordRage Oh, you mean on RPG.SE pointing to SFF.SE?
Personally, I'd not have specific questions show up on other sites. It seems likely to generate more confusion than it's worth. I wouldn't mind you having an ad with what you can handle, but just a question that looks on topic but link off site rubs me the wrong way
One thing I'm keeping in mind is that we occasionally get mainsite questions posted to meta (from newer users) who don't realize they've changed sites, and I can see that getting worse if we're doing that kind of promotion
I'm playing a variant human fighter with the Aberrant Dragonmark feat who just hit level 10.
The Aberrant Dragonmark feat lets me choose a 1st-level spell from the sorcerer spell list and cast it through my dragonmark. The Greater Aberrant Powers optional rule for the feat also grants a chance to...
@KorvinStarmast TBH it's probably just best to ban the whole Wildemount book. There's some nice stuff in there, but there's also a lot of poorly written garbage
Recently, our DM asked us to create an alternate character in case ours is killed. So I want to play along and create a Chultan fighter from Port Nyanzaru who's sent by the merchant princes to help a group of adventurers lost in the jungle. My DM likes that idea very much and approved it. However...
Requires a spell that takes 1 action and it can only be level 1 or 2 (strangely no cantrips allowed)
Just checked
The only balancing factors on the wizard ability are the 1-hour limit to activate or lose the spell, and the requirement of having spent a spell slot, so you can't stuff a ritual spell into it, and of those, the second is the only real limitation
@RevanantBacon not gonna disagree; I don't use it at all but I did drag Order Domain Cleric from the DDB site and save it to a folder. Wait, that might have been Ravnica that came from ... I do use the blood hunter NPC in the game I currently run. As a bad guy, they are pretty fun.
@NautArch Actually, following up on a few of those listed references, I think that is the entire answer for the list. Some stuff could be elaborated on, e.g. the object in the closet is an empty hat box that corresponds to a top hat in the optional pre-adventure for curse of strahd.
Both the box and the hat are mundane items in both texts, so the question of what happens when you put them together is covered by V2's answer.
@ThomasMarkov I'm not so sure. I mean, all questions ask for answers, and those answers which rely on experience rather than a review of published material can be classed as "ideas"
A question like "How can I make an encounter challenging when the enemies are way below a CR that can challenge the party?" seems pretty stackable, and there are lots of questions like that
I feel like we must have a canonical answer about generically increasing combat challenges. There aren't that many generic approaches: more enemies, better tactics, enhancing stat blocks, environmental hazards, impose penalties on PCs...
While there are a great many number of ways to make an encounter "more interesting", this is an XY question. They're asking about "more interesting" but what they mean is "more challenging", which has different types of solutions.
Because they are assuming that for a fight to be interesting, it must also be challenging
And since kobolds are weak (and thus, not much of a challenge), they must therefore not be interesting.
@GcL Oh it is broad, but that's the price of a generic question/answer on the topic. For kobold's it's pretty easy (hit and run with ranged weapons, set up opportunities to mob opponents with Pack Tactics). I feel like a lot of DMs run a lot of monsters more or less identically, which leaves a lot of room for tactical improvement
The Monsters Know What They're Doing is a great book for sure though. I refer to the blog all the time
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@NautArch I considered posting it as an answer, but without knowing which was which (which I did not know), it feels like it'd be a pretty useless answer :P
(I'll leave the flag for another mod to deal with)
In this question there was a question of how to make an encounter more challenging.
I noted the example of Tucker's kobolds, where you lead the people to monsters, use cover, set traps, and use explosives and such and so low level people can hurt PCs.
Naut noted this.
How does that work when the...
@RevanantBacon bruh, I had a department manager ask me how to save a website as a book mark. I go over there and it was an email address, not a web site.
@Upper_Case I really wish I had the chance to provide an answer on the question, because nobody else had talked about something missing from this list: consider the context and stakes of the conflict. This isn't the party stumbling over kobolds in the middle of nowhere - it's kobolds raiding a populated area, with lots and lots of soft targets for fire, poison, and explosives. That's a situation with the potential for a way more complex and memorable encounter.
@sptrashcan I understand the feeling, but it's probably just as well that you didn't have the chance to answer. The specific form of the question makes it hard to write good, stackable answers. Even a good answer may not be a good SE answer
@sptrashcan That's definitely a valuable observation. The question (or at least the question I assume is buried in the X-Y problem there) is a decent one and has a good chance of getting re-opened after some light edits
@RevanantBacon my dad works in IT support... Whoooo boy
"computer doesn't work" → not plugged in
"microwave broken" → was put on for 50 minutes to cook a small pie
"copy and past to another computer doesn't work" → copied on one computer, unplugged mouse and plugged it into another computer and then expected it to paste
The copy-paste example reminds of the time that I finally got my mom to understand how a USB stick worked, which was by pointing out that it's, well, a bus! The data gets on the bus at one stop, and then gets off the bus at the destination. Years of not understanding anything about computers, but that one analogy broke through.