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linksassin

00:09

@ThomasMarkov Because it isn't the kind of question that displays our site well. I read the question and my instincts were telling me that was the the kind of thing that is a thinly disguised rant or posted while OP was upset and the actual issue is unclear. From experience those types of posts attract the kind of network attention we don't want, low quality answers, sensationalist drama. Often we would end up protecting or removing from HNQ anyway. So I pre-empted it.

And I'm going to follow that up with a polite request. Please don't make a habit of double checking and following up on mod actions. We take action where necessary to the best of our judgement. Please trust that if I do something I had a good reason. I'll try to be as transparent as I can, but having to explain or justify everything I do doubles the workload of mod activities.

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BESW

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BESW

01:17

Lay On Hands Jam hosted by Alfred Valley. Want to make a TTRPG that uses real-life activities for action resolution?

Hot RPG Questions

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Q: How to handle breath weapon recharge when combat is interrupted?

I have a question about monster abilities that recharge, like a dragon’s breath weapon. Is the ability considered “charged” on the first round of combat, no roll required? If the answer to that is “yes,” what’s to prevent a dragon from swooping down from a great height, breathing fire on a party,...

Hot RPG Questions

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Q: Is there any lore regarding the calendar of Sigil?

For the sake of keeping track of my campaign, I've been looking for any guidance regarding the structure of a year in Sigil. In my searching, I've found a wiki page associated with a Neverwinter Nights roleplay server, but this page doesn't have any sources listed. I'm aware that the time of day ...

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Hot RPG Questions

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Q: Can Transmute Rock to Mud be cast on both ceiling and floor if they are within 40 feet of each other?

The level 5 spell Transmute Rock of Wizards and Druid can be used to Transmute Rock to Mud: You choose an area of stone or mud that you can see that fits within a 40-foot cube and is within range, and choose one of the following effects. Transmute Rock to Mud. Nonmagical rock of any sort in the ...

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Medix2

11:45

Do closed questions no longer enter review queues after their first edit?

Finally found something on it, I guess it's body edits only

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A: Lots of questions in the reopen queue

On September 6th, 2013, the automatic triggers for putting questions into the reopen queue changed. They were tweaked repeatedly over the years and, as of December 20th, 2019, a closed question will automatically be added to the reopen queue when it is... ...Edited (body edits only) within 70 da...

Apparently if you were one of the people who voted to close a question, your edits can't send it into the review queue

Akixkisu

@Medix2 if you are curious about my recent edit, I exploited a review-queue feature to prevent it going into the queue.

Medix2

Apparently you didn't even have to since you voted to close it

Also, what sort of exploit?

Akixkisu

It is not an exploit, it is exploiting a feature. That of the checkmark in the queue, whether the edit resolves the original problems of closure.

Medix2

12:00

I would 100% say exploiting a feature is, by definition, an exploit XD

Akixkisu

The feature is working as intended :)

Medix2

But yeah TIL I can edit questions I close freely

I kinda want to test this to see if it's really true ngl

Akixkisu

What part do you want to test?

Medix2

Whether editing questions I close voted less than 70 days ago actually doesn't send them into the review queue

And apparently if I edit a question and that edit sends it into the review queue and then I cast a reopen vote on the question, I actually remove it from the queue 0_0

I truly don't understand that design choice

KorvinStarmast

@AncientSwordRage Feature request?

Medix2

12:12

Oh they fixed this behavior, yay source

KorvinStarmast

@linksassin If I may +10 to this, offering the diamond mods our good faith in their judgment is not a big ask. They don't need back seat drivers.

Medix2

Okay finally found an update post with presumably current reopen review queue behaviors

Gosh I wish we could bounty on Meta

Akixkisu

Sorting bookmarks would be a feature that would save so much time.

I feel like I can bookmark 30 things in total and any more bookmarks make the search more complicated.

Medix2

12:30

Yeah I gave up on bookmarks and just keep my own list

Thomas Markov

@Medix2 If a question asks "are there bad things Im not thinking of here", asking "are you allowed to [bad thing they didnt think of]" isnt a clarification question, it's an answer.

Medix2

I cannot, in good conscience, put that as an answer when I don't know if it works in the first place

But I will go edit my comments now to be less, idk, sneaky?

Akixkisu

This is not a homebrew review the querent is asking about hombrewing in a design space.

Thomas Markov

I deleted some of my comments.

Akixkisu

And those questions are on-topic.

Thomas Markov

12:44

@Akixkisu Right, but we can't move the goal posts with such questions.

NautArch

Which question?

Thomas Markov

@NautArch the "brief stun" question.

@Akixkisu I posted an answer outlining a potential abuse based on what the question had, and then OP edited in a clarification saying "you cant do [what TM's answer says]"

Akixkisu

@ThomasMarkov I think that your rollback was appropriate.

Medix2

If we leave the question as-is and say that there isn't any exact text yet, I think it's probably fine

NautArch

I think giving them a chance to update is fine, posting the answer may have been premature.

Thomas Markov

12:49

@NautArch I'll wait for them to respond with a feature text or to state there isnt one yet before doing anything else.

AncientSwordRage

@KorvinStarmast at some point

Thomas Markov

k i moved the goal posts back to their original position.

G. Moylan

@ThomasMarkov put that thing back where it came from, or so help meeeeeee!

NautArch

13:08

Argh. Should they ask a new question or update the original. THey sure seem like the same question.

AncientSwordRage

@G.Moylan duhm duhm duhm 🎶

Thomas Markov

tbh, let's just delete the old one.

G. Moylan

@AncientSwordRage It's still a work in progress

Thomas Markov

anyone else okay with just deleting the original and moving on?

Seems like the easiest route.

NautArch

I'd just update the original, but that's my opinion.

We did ask for more details, and now we have them.

Thomas Markov

13:12

That's fine too.

NautArch

My Mad Mage group fumbled their way into what looks like a TPK last night.

Thomas Markov

@NautArch As in, it would take some Deus Ex Machina nonsense to not kill them?

NautArch

@ThomasMarkov Pretty much. I had thought about capture...but they had basically wiped out the other drow settlement and are not well-liked.

They also have are persona non grata with Xanathar's Guild.

Just going into the dungeon and getting down to the level they are on is dangerous because of the enemies they have made.

They're currently in a 5' wide hallway with Black Tentacles between them and the Drow and Insect Cloud on the other side. One of them went through the tentacles but no others did. That one went down to a drow crossbow bolt poison.

And they're all lined up in that hallway...for the drow mage who has lightning bolt.

Medix2

13:43

@ThomasMarkov "Casters with dex save spells using your action succeeding as the trigger for their readied spells." Wat?

Thomas Markov

Say you have the stun for one turn action.

Medix2

You can't ready a spell and use your action

Like, the stun takes your action and so does Readying, so you'd need two actions, right?

Thomas Markov

On my turn, I ready my disintegrate for after your stun move succeeds.

Two people.

Medix2

OH

Thomas Markov

One stuns, the other readies.

Medix2

13:44

Teamwork, the bane of my existence

Thomas Markov

@illustro did you change your profile image to a different color and pattern?

also dont those images have a name?

Medix2

Gravatar? Hash?

Thomas Markov

@bobble what are the default profile images called

We should get a definitive answer when they log in.

Medix2

I mean, I'm fairly certain it's gravatar

Thomas Markov

Ah, yes, that's it.

doppelgreener

13:51

@Medix2 well you can bounty on meta.se!

Medix2

@doppelgreener Yeah, I just wanted to bounty this one, ended up just writing my own answer

illustro

@ThomasMarkov I've never set a profile image, so I have the default one generated by the network. However I access the site from work and home, and work happens to have a VPN in a different country (which I understand is one of the criteria for the stack gravatar implementation). As a result my profile image changes regularly on it's own.

doppelgreener

@Medix2 well, now i also wish i could bounty meta

Thomas Markov

@illustro that's pretty neat.

bobble

For one April Fool's it was a unicorn generator

The standard is an Identicon

Medix2

13:57

@doppelgreener Yeah I already upvoted this feature request from 7 years ago too

bobble

It poses a small privacy risk (Using Gravatar, not that feature-request)

@ThomasMarkov how would you rate the bobble look-up service? Giving five stars will help us reach more happy customers! ;)

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Thomas Markov

@bobble Well, I only have 1 star to give, but if I had 5, I would certainly give 5.

BESW

@bobble How many stars to reach the unhappy customers?

bobble

14:17

@BESW turns out it takes no stars to disappoint people!

illustro

@bobble Very true, and were I in a situation where that privacy risk was unacceptable to me as a user I would set an unchanging profile image that I found on the web and leave it at that :)

Medix2

14:42

@ThomasMarkov FWIW, I do agree with your Berserker Axe answer; just noting that other people don't

Thomas Markov

pretty sure I ave an answer that points out an exception case...gotta find it.

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A: Does the Blood Spear require attunement to gain the +2 bonus to attack and damage rolls?

It requires attunement. You have quoted the relevant rule: Without becoming attuned to an item that requires attunement, a creature gains only its nonmagical benefits, unless its description states otherwise. Since the Blood Spear requires attunement, and it doesn't state the +2 bonus can be ga...

Here it is.

doppelgreener

@Medix2 and now i have bountied it (fittingly enough)

AncientSwordRage

15:43

@bobble you're now at 6/5 stars

also that message id of 59151111 is very satisfying for some reason

Thomas Markov

16:28

@AncientSwordRage one more star for a perfect score!

G. Moylan

@ThomasMarkov I thought that was 5/7

Thomas Markov

Yeah I had my fraction upside down.

GcL

17:19

@NautArch dungeons are dangerous, yo. Sometimes adventurers die.

NautArch

@GcL I've recommended they roll up new characters and have them ready.

@ThomasMarkov No reading ahead!

:D

Thomas Markov

@NautArch You forget I have run half of this adventure and Im a mod at r/rimeofthefrostmaiden. I've read through the adventure before, but have mostly avoided reading ahead again since joining your game.

NautArch

@ThomasMarkov I did forget.

Thomas Markov

Most of the details have fallen out of my head though.

I remembered that Auril had four tests, but I didnt remember what they were or how they worked.

NautArch

Kinda bummed not be rolling wild magic anymore. But Jayson wants a bit of that unknown in the engineer buid.

Thomas Markov

17:26

@NautArch did you add the maneuvers to it?

NautArch

@ThomasMarkov Yeah, I've got about 6 schematics and 3 crossbow customizations right now. Trying to come up with more ideas.

The short rest/long rest refreshes narratively are him tinkering to get it working again.

homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/5fPMxUgXN2Q1

Akixkisu

17:54

@NautArch Are you planning for non-combat schematics?

Hot RPG Questions

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Q: Pact Boon and Find Familiar: Will changing from Pact of the Chain to Pact of the Tome affect your familiar's form?

I'm currently playing as a Warlock, and at 3rd level I picked Pact of the Chain as my pact boon. I then, using one of the special forms provided by Pact of the Chain, summoned a Sprite familiar. At 4th level I plan to use the optional rule Eldritch Versatility to change from Pact of the Chain to ...

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Thomas Markov

@NautArch checking it out now

GcL

@HotRPGQuestions The answer fails to address the serious issue with Warlocks of "where does the familiar sit in the cart?" It's a sign of skill and care for a warlock to leave a little comfortable nook among all the items. Sadly, some warlocks just aren't good at pacting, and especially so for long cross country trips.

Medix2

@ThomasMarkov I would think that exhaustion and mind-control are not very similar effects?

At least, not any more different than disease and max HP reduction, which we also have questions on

NautArch

18:10

@Medix2 @ThomasMarkov I agree it's not a dupe, just related. S'okay to reopen?

Thomas Markov

sure

Thomas Markov

18:27

ugh I feel so dirty for including a JC tweet in an answer.

NautArch

@ThomasMarkov Then don't?

Thomas Markov

@NautArch Nah, it was a decent enough case.

totally ambiguously written feature.

NautArch

That bit I agree with :)

Thomas Markov

And I prefaced the section with "if you care" so that people like you could ignore it.

NautArch

@ThomasMarkov Now I have to downvote.

AncientSwordRage

18:36

@ThomasMarkov "it removes the quote or it gets the hose"

Thomas Markov

@NautArch this link doesnt work for me

GcL

@ThomasMarkov You're quotation hygiene must be extreme if JC is dirty feeling. We could re-calibrate! I've got a bunch of political tweets you could use instead if you really need to feel like you've been swimming open mouthed in the sewer.

Thomas Markov

works on my phone lol

NautArch

@ThomasMarkov weird

Thomas Markov

Just had an answer accepted from last december.

GcL

18:43

@ThomasMarkov Probably got lost in the mail. The post office and commercial shippers were having difficulty last winter.

AncientSwordRage

@ThomasMarkov is it worth sourcing that quote/sword name?

Thomas Markov

@AncientSwordRage Oh, yeah.

Not sure of the page number, I dont have HotDQ in print.

AncientSwordRage

@ThomasMarkov just dropping the adventure name in would work

FR fandom page suggests 93-94 but I'm not sure.

G. Moylan

@AncientSwordRage DnDBeyond might say

AncientSwordRage

@G.Moylan you'd need it on there though, right?

Thomas Markov

18:49

@G.Moylan nah

AncientSwordRage

Ooh I have it on dndbeyond

G. Moylan

@ThomasMarkov many entries cite their source and page number at the bottom, I've "cheated" many times and used that info

AncientSwordRage

dndbeyond.com/magic-items/hazirawn

G. Moylan

no page number D:

AncientSwordRage

@G.Moylan no but it could be linked for now

KorvinStarmast

20:36

@GcL and some days the warlock's wisdom teeth are impacting ...

@ThomasMarkov think I got one recently from a few years ago

Hot RPG Questions

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Q: What are the implications of this very short stun ability?

In the process of homebrewing, I came up with this rough outline of an ability: As an action on your turn, you can speak words of rebuke. Creatures [in the area] must make a Constitution saving throw [against a specified DC]. On a failure, they are stunned until the end of the turn. The primary...

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nitsua60

21:04

@ThomasMarkov I've got it in print--what are you looking for?

Thomas Markov

@nitsua60 page number for the hazirawn magic sword.

G. Moylan

21:27

what about page number in the Tyranny compendium book?

Hot RPG Questions

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Q: What happens when you are not attuned to the Berserker Axe and you take damage while wielding it?

So the scenario is that I have a barbarian who's just picked up a Berserker Axe, without knowing what it is. They have NOT attuned to it. From my reading, they get the +1 bonus to attack and damage rolls. They do NOT get the max hp increase. Now, because they haven't attuned to it, the curse is n...

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