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01:51

Q: Can a Beast Barbarian jump 57 feet at level 20?

So I was just wondering whether I'm reading this correctly. Path of the Beast Barbarians get the level 6 feature "Bestial Soul" which has the following option: When you jump, you can make a Strength (Athletics) check and extend your jump by a number of feet equal to the check’s total. You can m...

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05:12

Q: Can you use hero points to reroll flat checks?

The rules regarding hero points say: [...] You can spend your Hero Points in one of two ways. Neither of these is an action, and you can spend Hero Points even if you aren't able to act. You can spend a Hero Point on behalf of your familiar or animal companion. Spend 1 Hero Point to reroll a ch...

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Hot RPG Questions

07:40

Q: RAW/RAI does 5e allow me to prepare my movement to avoid damage?

So, what I'm asking is based on the (potential) ability to move through the target's legs, for example. This does require the target to be at least one size larger than the one carrying this out. So: The (medium-sized) creature carries out their action(s) - attacks, spells, bonus actions etc. Th...

dnd-5e movement advantage-and-disadvantage action-economy facing

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doppelgreener

09:07

@NautArch decades in, a wandering wizard encounters the Great Astral Saddle Gyre, consisting of nothing but phantom steed equipment bags of holding, some burst, all the way to the horizon. A dispassionate white paper is written on the issue which alarms and concerns a great many readers.

@Shalvenay you know, when I wrote that I thought of how you'd get a kick out of this :)

AncientSwordRage

@doppelgreener the uncomfortable astral truth

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doppelgreener

13:34

@Phoenices kingdoms weigh the considerable cost of replacing the spell against the much lesser cost of keeping things going. Sure, the salamander invasion seems like it might be any day now, but surely it won't be this decade will it?

AncientSwordRage

Tada!

AncientSwordRage

13:57

I dislike how some of the lines above are laid out but there doesn't seem to be a good fix

KorvinStarmast

14:42

@AncientSwordRage That's a pretty useful chart, will share with my players

AncientSwordRage

15:16

@KorvinStarmast thanks!

Let me know if they find anything unclear

KorvinStarmast

@AncientSwordRage how will I know whether it's unclear or illusory? 🤣

AncientSwordRage

16:08

@KorvinStarmast 🙃

AncientSwordRage

16:32

in The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, 17 mins ago, by xkcd

Squinting at a graph is fine for getting a rough idea of the answer, but if you want to pretend to know it exactly, you neeed statistics.

thought you might appreciate this, but didn't want to super ping you

I was going to ask "I wonder if there's an R function to perform the operation on the right (expert method, tip the graph sideways"

KorvinStarmast

@AncientSwordRage OK, I'll get out my French Curve and take a closer look ... 😮

bobble

@AncientSwordRage for graphing I mostly know ggplot2 ... stackoverflow.com/questions/48323534/…

AncientSwordRage

16:53

@bobble that cool!

I'd be tempted to ask about rotating a 2d plot in 3d... but I don't know enough to even put together question

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KorvinStarmast

19:06

@ThomasMarkov @nitsua60 @NautArch Looking for a gut instinct on this one: does the spell cloudkill work underwater in D&D 5e? My sense of verisimilitude suggests no, but maybe it does?

AncientSwordRage

19:24

@KorvinStarmast interesting question

KorvinStarmast

That it can be dispersed by a gust of wind is part of why I ask the question ... maybe treat it like fire and offer advantage on saving throw or resistance? Or just "it doesn't work"

Thomas Markov

@KorvinStarmast Dispersed by a strong current.

MikeQ

Would cloudkill underwater just be a cloud of toxic bubbles that works the same way?

Thomas Markov

@MikeQ I'd make it just a cloud of particulates.

Not unusual for there to be clouds of particulates underwater.

AncientSwordRage

19:39

@ThomasMarkov sounds fair

Thomas Markov

@AncientSwordRage Actually, yes, you can simulate that effect by just manipulating your axes.

KorvinStarmast

20:19

@ThomasMarkov The fog moves 10 feet away from you at the start of each of your turns, rolling along the surface of the ground. The vapors, being heavier than air, sink to the lowest level of the land, even pouring down openings OK, either it sinks, or maybe treat it as degraded, the way that firebolt/fireball/wall of fire would be. Takes a ruling in either case. @MikeQ Yeah, bubbly water gets up your nose but it's bad for you, not like champagne?

Didn't we have a question about fog cloud working underwater? Will check..

MikeQ

Which is heavier, a kilogram of air or a kilogram of water?

KorvinStarmast

I was born at night, but not last night. 😉

@MikeQ Heads up, I just learned from Guy and Bron that with Laz and Seven unaivailable due to RL conflict, we reconvene on 05 Dec. Arrgh, we left on that cliff hanger last time ... such is life.

As is ever the case, scheduling RL games has a DC of 30+ ... sometimes.

@ThomasMarkov That's a good adaptation, yes, since air is a fluid ...

Mithical

20:38

@KorvinStarmast Not just RL games, even virtually can be a problem...

AncientSwordRage

@KorvinStarmast I'm now imagining a bunch of low level mages using Mold Earth to sink a big enough hole to contain Cloudkill

KorvinStarmast

@Mithical Well, this one is on Roll20, maybe I should have said "scheduling games has a DC of 30+ thanks to RL intruding"

AncientSwordRage

@KorvinStarmast Mithical speaketh the truth

KorvinStarmast

@AncientSwordRage Yep. That would nicely replicate the gas warfare of WW I which is what inspired Cloudkill in the first place (it sank into trenches and fox holes and bomb craters and killed many thanks to that feature) 😥

AncientSwordRage

@KorvinStarmast trenches are actually what made me think of using mold earth

Also, it looks like for some uses multiple castings of Mold Earth are much better than Move Earth.

Hmmm if cloudkill is a sphere of radius 20ft, how does that work with the fact is sinks?

KorvinStarmast

20:57

Since it moves, what it does as a practical effect is fill in any hole 20 feet deep or less in its path ... roughly

AncientSwordRage

Without losing any radius?

KorvinStarmast

??? I'd expect the blob to deform a bit and then roll on forward in the next turn or so.

AncientSwordRage

But say it rolled over a grating I to the sewers... Does it all sink down?

Also a hemisphere of the same volume looks to be ~40ft in diameter, which fits my mental picture better....

KorvinStarmast

For the sake of simplicty, it retains its general cohesion unless wind disrupts it, so a bit dips down and then moves along with the rest of the cloud as that big blob moves forward. Alternately, you can get more granular and reduce radius by a few feet if you so like. Let's not overcomplicate this; I've done enough harm asking about the water bit, and have some good ideas to move forward with.

AncientSwordRage

This is like my favourite bit of D&D though 🥺

Although I probably say this a lot about different parts of D&D 🤔

My problem with it remaining spherical is that at the outer 5ft (so 20-15ft from the center) those squares won't have any Cloudkill in them