@ThomasMarkov huh. hmm, we often try to discuss with OP what they actually mean with comments and don't seem to go (too) toxic there... That is... we also stay away from stuff that belongs to another land and time its topics and stuff like racism...
@ThomasMarkov we don't need to discuss Leechery and such, and unless someone tries tobring it up, no need to comment-lock. That's unless we discus Hirudinea, bloodleting as medicine and of course humanoid Haemovores. Then we discuss leeches of the (somewhat) acceptable type.
Leech: parasitic worm; Vampire. Leeching: adding Leeches to a body to draw blood.
A user claimed the question was a good question because we could provide good, edition agnostic answers, then that user provided a 5th Edition focused answer and claimed an edition-agnostic answer would be waste of everyone's time.
This isn't meant to inflame, and is kind of the opposite of an answer (that is, it's a chat-only topic), but are there any editions of D&D in which access to a magic-using class is limited by some fundamentally innate capacity for magic? Outside of Sorcerer
I'm not well versed enough in pre-3.5 editions to know, but one example would resolve the discussion completely
Right, but the assertion is that it doesn't matter because there is no edition of D&D in which the suggested constraint applies
Citation of all settings and editions for each magic-using class does seem unwieldy and not terribly valuable, and an expert-derived statement that "this never is a thing" seems like it needs more support, hence the drive for a specific setting and edition
Maybe, but this isn't a lower question. This is a real question, in a real setting, in a real edition. Those factors matter for this particular querent.
And that would be a very long way around to get to an answer.
Oh I agree the question is under-specified (and I suspect the querent is a drive-by user, who will not return to interact with the question in any way), and it would be better to get the additional information
But my understanding of the question so far is something like "in D&D are character classes a thing?". It's still going to be a better question with sufficient detail, but the answer is still "yes"
Citation on such a (contrived) question would be irritating, though that doesn't necessarily excuse not providing any
I wonder if we could put any predictive analytics together to mark out users that post a single, underspecified question and then disappear forever
@Upper_Case I'mnot one to 'change' a question so it' 'stackable.' without the querent's engagement. They posted a question for them, not a question that we need to try and 'fix' so we can answer it.
That always rubs me the wrong way and emphasizes our need to gamify helping.
Alan Mills' answer was, to me, not idea generation but another of saying "it's up to the DM."
Then we started getting idea generation answers and it didn't really stop.
@Upper_Case So for me, working to try it and get it answered isn't what's important. What's important is figuring out what the user's actual problem is so we can solve it.
@Upper_Case Nah. That's all good. You can decide whether or not you think it should stay up. If ou believe it should, then it should (unless it gets downvoted to oblivion or flagged.)
Your answer does say what to do in particular, it's guidance for how to think about it.
@NautArch Falconer has a good reasoned answer, pointing out the pros and cons of his approach. Passable. Upper_Case argues the rules, using the "GM is always right". Which is all supported by the rules. Darth Pseudonym argues with the rules for the feywild, as does HuepfDaSau, but then we all have "idea generation"
@NautArch Again, I don't disagree. And I'm not trying to stir anything up, just express what I think is the counterpoint on the table: there is no edition or setting in which the querent's issue is... an issue. It's a frustrating question
I just don't understand the belief that experts don't need to support their answers. BESW said some great things earlier about that, but it's currently boggling my mind.
I’m playing DND 5e, the rage ability states that the effect ends early if your turn ends and you haven’t attacked a hostile creature since your last turn or taken damage since then.
Does this mean that the Barbarian has to DEAL damage to an opponent, or just use an attack action in general, and t...
@AncientSwordRage I don't have the evidence to back up a proper answer, but from subjective experience that phrase either means (literally) a motivated donkey or (in American lingo, at least) callipygian. The pun's meaning could be ambiguous.
I recently encountered this image, stated to be the flag of Niobrara County, Wyoming:
It was posted specifically as an "eye hurting flag"; that is, it was noted as especially ugly. I know many strange flags exist, but several elements of this strike me as possibly fake:
The foreground of the fl...
@Trish which happens because they can be overly harsh on answers
Perhaps you can have someone be confused, and then the character clarifies: "I didn't say they had an ass that won't quit, I said they were an ass that won't quit." — Hellion9 mins ago
@AncientSwordRage I haven't heard the specific "won't quit" phrasing, but Lizzo has a song where part of the chorus is "Thinkin' bout how it's gonna feel when I got that ass that don't stop", which, both in context of the song and Lizzo's overall vibe with her music, is definitely not about being a stubborn hard worker
@AncientSwordRage She's a pop star, nothing likely to come up that's inappropriate! Lots of her music is that generic "yeah, I'm hot and cool and independent, what about it!" sort of feel-good genre. No more of a concern to google than, I dunno, Britney Spears.
Point is, I think the more common usage of "an ass that won't quit" is to comment on appearance, even if it doesn't make a whole lot of sense. (See: "dumps like a truck" from Thong Song. I don't know how that's meant to be a compliment, but the context of the song makes it very clear it's positive.)
It is not.
I emailed Niobrara County clerk Becky Freeman to ask. She responded:
No, it is not the official flag of Niobrara County.
Niobrara County does not have an official flag.
@AncientSwordRage I don't know why you're so opposed to clearly legitimate spellcasting services. That covers, like, 10% of all questions on the stack!
@AncientSwordRage I'm pretty sure it's just that one song-- the context is "she's got dumps like a truck, a booty like what", so not exactly the pinnacle of poetic verse. But sometimes people will refer to a person as having a "dumptruck", to compliment them on the size/shape of their butt. Very strange.
@AncientSwordRage Mostly I'm not sure how being likened to a dumptruck became a positive thing, but I guess being a brick house is also not inherently something that sounds flattering? Such is the nature of poetic language, I suppose!
I would like to use these three feats, but I'm not sure how they work together.
Aggressive Block
You push back as you block the attack, knocking your foe away or off balance. You use your shield to push the triggering creature, either automatically Shoving it 5 feet or causing it to become flat-...
If a character had levels in both Sorcerer and Cleric, and had the Twinned Spell Metamagic ability and the Death domain Reaper ability, would they be able to use twinned spell if one of their intended targets was within 5' of another creature who was not an intended target?
I believe this is a di...
When the content of a question is about firearms, then a firearms tag applies, even if the querent doesn't know that they are called that, and if the querent doesn't know that rules for them exist already, then pointing the querent towards those is in their best interest - the content is relevant not the degree of the information that the querent has when asking about something.
(I think arguing that the content of the question is that the querent doesn't know that their rules exist already doesn't meet support via that stance on meta-tagging - that is one of the things meta-tagging discouragement is about)
The optional-rules tag is also not akin to a tag like [requires-reading-optional-rules], so I'm pretty lost about that line.
I also don't see how the optional-rules could be a meta-tag as it is both well-defined, and stands on its own.
The content is the optional rule and its elements. The querent merely lacks the knowledge that it is an optional rule already and proposed it as a house rule.
> The reason meta-tags are a problem is that they do not describe the content of the question. They describe some other aspect of the question, like the author’s skill level, or the author’s motivation for asking it, or generally what “kind” of question it is (poll, how-to, etc.).
Just because I disagree that doesn't mean that there is no merit to it, I'm clearly showing interest in your argument, but I don't see how this particular part exactly applies to it.
well like: the querent is asking about a house rule they made. if the game author pronounces a rule in a forest, does that mean any house rule questions that happen to connect to it become optional rule questions?
the fact it's got anything at all to do with any optional rules is totally coincidental, and it's not all that surprising an optional rule for anyone to intuit, whether a GM or the game authors
when we start tagging as [optional-rule], we're tagging by somethign that is not in the content of the question, and we only know that because we know the answer to the question.
we're tagging based on external connections we've made that are substantial to the answers, not to the question.
if the GM decided this house rule a week before Tasha's came out, it'd be a house rule question. If they decided it this week without knowing Tasha's came out, it's still a house rule question. If they this week had read Tasha's and asking about Tasha's, it'd be an optional rule question.
The fact they don't have Tasha's, haven't read Tasha's, and don't know this optional rule is in Tasha's, makes it no different from a situation where Tasha's basically doesn't exist
It's nothing to do with the motivation, it's the entire substance of the question
I'd like to roll up the ability scores for my Dungeons and Dragons character. But I'd also like them to be balanced (and slightly better than average).
Typically, a character's stats are created by rolling four 6-sided dice, adding together the three highest results, and doing this 6 times. A 6 s...
If the Herschel crater was caused by an impact, why does it have a mountain at its very center, its peak up to 5 mi (8 km) in elevation?
I recently encountered this image, stated to be the flag of Niobrara County, Wyoming:
It was posted specifically as an "eye hurting flag"; that is, it was noted as especially ugly. I know many strange flags exist, but several elements of this strike me as possibly fake:
The foreground of the fl...
It is not.
I emailed Niobrara County clerk Becky Freeman to ask. She responded:
No, it is not the official flag of Niobrara County.
Niobrara County does not have an official flag.
