Speaking of existential crises, the reason for my procrastination is due to investing too much hope far too early in a potential project that fell through before it even took off. So feeling a bit down, and therefore avoiding production in a passive aggressive manner.
Doing a shield and one hander and feel like most of the time since Paladins don't get many slots I'll be using some combination of Bless, Compelled Duel, and Divine Favor.
shortlist would be Cure Wounds, Protection from Evil and Good, Purify Food and Drink, or Thunderous Smite
Well, thinking about it like this: a paladin isn't a caster. They have the ability to cast spells, to help turn the tide in battle. They're a warrior first.
That's why the list of Paladin's "spells" aren't that impressive when you compare it to a warlock or wizard
I'd pick Protection (CAST PROTECTION!). It's a lot more useful than Purify, and by the time you need purify, you can probably just wait for after a long rest to change spells @Ryan
@Ryan dont worry too much about picking spells correctly as a paladin, most spells on their list are simply excuse so the designers didnt write a pool mechanic so paladins can smite a limited amount of times per day.
Yep, they shine when the GM puts an encounter with 2 mummies against the party, one of them nearly kills a party member, then the paladin walks to them and pulverizes one of the mummies with smite.
@Shalvenay Ah. Local feng-shui experts (or shamans) do those for us (worry about heating and lighting), no engineers required. I noticed they have some method in their madness, as long as it isn't spirit/ghosts/haunting business
One thing to consider is that building your character for the game you're playing is more often than not, not going to work. Imo, the GM should build a campaign built around your characters and their abilities.
@Shalvenay Well, ok, we do need engineers. But these guys usually just take advantage of any natural wind/light that your prospective home can get, is all.
@Shalvenay Let me dispel those rumors and tell you that they are all true. Got shocked by the water heater several months back, have been showering cold ever since
For example, if you're constantly delving through dungeons full of traps and locked doors, with a party full of orc barbarians, no-one is going to enjoy that.
that would be like getting hit on every monster encounter, or getting surprised on the first round. Remember, traps are like monsters, but if you disable them without any effect, they are monsters you have rolled a d20 and instant killed. Except only one character is having fun disabling them.
Background:
I live in Metro Manila, Philippines where the electric distribution company, Meralco, delivers split-phase power to residential buildings. Our old (1980s) Meralco service drop consists only of 2 conductors, both phase conductors, and no neutral conductor. Phase-to-phase voltage is 24...
@daze413 his answer assumes the reader knows a lot of things, but later he explains some of it.
"a common misconception is that current wants to return to earth. No, man-made current couldn't care less about earth, it wants to go back to source. In this case the other pole of the transformer secondary. It will use all possible paths to do that, in proportion to their conductance (1/impedance), including humans." <- win
as if the device has no on/off switch (i.e. draws power as soon as you plug it in), or is plugged in while the on/off switch is on, it is normal for a spark to form between plug and outlet as plug is plugged into outlet -- this is a contact make/break arc, similar to the ones found in switching devices
Occasionally it might spark when you plug in a normal plug into a socket, but if it does it constantly, there are more than likely issues with the socket.
Electricity is always live, and always wanting to move. Give it a reason to jump (or arc, or "spark"), and it will. Turning powerpoints off before/after you connect/disconnect something will remove that ability, because the powerpoint is no longer receiving power
Thought: Given that Glitterdust infamously has the caster use a handful of glitter as a material component, could any adventurer with an actual handful of glitter create an identical effect, regardless of their ability to cast Glitterdust? Maybe just with a different save?
It's a relic of earlier systems.
From the "Dungeonomicon:"
Material Components: A Joke Gone Way Out of Hand
Material components are a joke. I'm not saying that they are metaphorically a joke in that they don't act as a consistent or adequate limiting factor to spellcasting, I mean that...
Under the rules for contests it says that anytime you wish to do something that is opposed by another you make a contest ability check. Later in the combat rules it says that you can use a shove action to impose the prone condition or to move your opponent 5 feet by using an ability score contest...
Thought: Given that Glitterdust infamously has the caster use a handful of glitter as a material component, could any adventurer with an actual handful of glitter create an identical effect, regardless of their ability to cast Glitterdust? Maybe just with a different save?
"Where did you become a Druid?" "While wrestling a bear and using every part of the animal, Mother Nature smiled down upon me" "No, like a physical location" "South Carolina" "Specifically out of [list of Druid lands]" "The backwoods of Canada" "But it isn't a real-world setting" "Mountain Forest" "[cursing like a half-orc sailor]"
Here's my new Glitterdust homebrew: "Glitterdust Cantrpi for... whatever f_____g caster class, I don't even care Like really have a Brabarian use it or something Components: Verbal Somat... you know what no just ground mica because meme
Cantirp for... whatev class, like barbarian or something idc Componetns are verbal somact... no just ground mica
this spell destroys and creature that has eyes in a five feet radius for every level of spell slot it can destroy an additional creatureded and at level 4 it does'nt need teh verbul component anymoar
were done hear"
is that better
except with more statements about the reader's mother spread throughout, and the first non-title line is a link to their Naruto fanfic
(Nothing against Naruto fans, but...)
Just look on the bright side: it isn't hosted through Wikierrrrrr I mean FANDOM powered by Wikia
Look, I'm sorry, but I can't hold anything other than contempt for a website where the official description is
@daze413 Yeah, I guess. You occasionally see a "curator" in the comments, but it reads like a nine-year-old trying to defend their parent(s)'s political beliefs
@daze413 "invade"? This isn't a 4chan raid, this is a horde of proofreading, among other things Wizards and other game companies pay a lot of people a lot of money to do normally.
@daze413 But enough people with enough buckets will eventually either smother part of the inferno or, hopefully, just clear out the forest and turn it into a parking lot for a new FLGS.
Idea: go to every blog site that offers free subdomains, and make a dandwiki.[site].[tld] that's exclusively filled with D&D SRD material released under the OGL
Also, do some hardcore SEO just to give it that extra shove.
As to people wondering why I was hating on my one player for taking a Gnome for their SOR/BRD, it's for much the same reason as this guy:
@Papayaman1000 People love making sideshow characters, especially in the early awkward phase. It's effective to ask them if they'd rather play as Han Solo or C3PO
The fact that it seems to ignore you (a decent-rep user) editing it, and just jumps for the brand-new OP of the answer, probably does not help the issue.
I swear, every time I step into HQ, I end up seeing something hilarious
The last time a diamond and I got into a bit of a slap-fight as representatives of our respective chats
They were using high-level spells and techniques at me; I dropped a JS fork bomb
good times
Add a latent interest in AI and machine learning and you get somebody who loves that project and should probably spend a weekend reading about it and looking through code
In machine learning, it's typically a good idea to feed a lot of examples of edge cases to an emergent AI so it learns how to deal with them
Eventually, with enough examples of a keyword used in a positive light, if Smokey were an emergent A.I., it'd probably begin learning to avoid false positives on that keyword more often
I'm not sure about Smokey's specifics, though, so...
Here's an interesting file that I'm sure there's more of somewhere
> Great Ork Gods is an indie role-playing game - an anarchic game of savage and violent Orks and the cruel and fickle hand of the Gods that watch over them. Grab a beer, a handful of d10s and get ready to stiff your mates, burn buildings, kill anything that moves and smash stuff for fun.
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Hm. Can anyone point me towards guidance on how to actually create a chat event? I understand we don't want a separate meta for each event right?
@Miniman How'd you get proficiency with CON STs? > Note that, for most spellcasters, you'll need a level of Fighter to get a fighting style. If you do, it's worth taking it first for extra proficiencies and proficiency in Constitution saving throws.
@BlueMoon93 That's why, if you're a spellcaster taking a fighter level, you take the fighter level first. Because it gives you prof in con saving throws.
Never heard of it? That's probably because it's still in its playtesting stages, but here's the run-down:
Great Ork Gods is an indie role-playing game - an anarchic game of savage and violent Orks and the cruel and fickle hand of the Gods that watch over them. Grab a beer, a handful of d10s...
Encounter concept: a malicious haunted house at the edge of town which all citizens avoid for rumours it's full of malicious ghosts carrying knives and moving furniture. In reality the house is just full of Unseen Servants doing their best with ordinary (but eternal) house maintenance in a dilapidated household given the limited instructions they had before their owner passed away.
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It's like the Tucker & Dave Vs Evil of haunted houses. (Really, the ghost carrying that knife was just an unseen servant trying to set the table for their new visitor.)
A friend and I were working on a joke scenario set in a Hag's mansion that's full of all sorts of puns. The living room is actually living, the guest room is actually just visiting, the stairwell is an actual well that stares at you, the drawers draw, the grandfather clock is an actual grandfather, the ceiling sails, and if you ever need to buy something, you should contact the cellar.
@doppelgreener I'd at least let them find out that the veil is unusual at that place, making spells echo. That might actually add to the spookiness when the party casts spells and they are behaving differently.
@doppelgreener The hard part is, most of the best (and worst) puns we came up with are in English, but we came up with some pretty good Finnish ones too. Easily resolved by falling back to our group's semi-established convention where Common is Finnish and Elvish is English, though. The Hag just likes polylingual humor ;)
@godskook The Finnish word for chandelier is literally "ceiling crown", I think there's plenty of fun to be had with that too. Might serve as a gentle introduction to the hag's mindset.
@BanjoFox One day I noticed we were getting new neighbors in our house and I stayed to chat with them for a moment when they were trying to fit their sofa in through the door. It was a really tight fit and they struggled to get through. Eventually when they gave up I couldn't help commenting... "So close, yet sofa."
After asking this question (Functionally, how does Power Word Kill work?), it was suggested to me in the comments that I may instead want to ask how Power Word Kill compares to other level 9 spells.
I wanted to know if questions of this type are:
a) On-topic - while I am tempted to say yes, sin...
@BESW Those were the times which I think this chat is most active. That'd be around 8PM, my time, setting the event a little earlier works well for me, actually
@kviiri have you tried using it? I just started it in a new game last week, so don't really feel like I've got a big sample yet. (But I do like it, and I may use it in AL this fall.)
@nitsua60, AngryGM doesn't go into what happens if the DM constantly rolls the pool instead of adding a die at the 5-dice mark, and how that relates to hours.
"RAW" of his article suggests that this behavior would result in the PCs being stuck within a time loop. Obviously not intended, but worth pointing out for the purpose of fixing.
Grit in psychology is a positive, non-cognitive trait based on an individual's passion for a particular long-term goal or end state, coupled with a powerful motivation to achieve their respective objective. This perseverance of effort promotes the overcoming of obstacles or challenges that lie within a gritty individual's path to accomplishment, and serves as a driving force in achievement realization. Commonly associated concepts within the field of psychology include "perseverance", "hardiness", "resilience", "ambition", "need for achievement" and "conscientiousness". These constructs can be...
The Big Five personality traits, also known as the five factor model (FFM), is a model based on common language descriptors of personality. When factor analysis (a statistical technique) is applied to personality survey data, some words used to describe aspects of personality are often applied to the same person. For example, someone described as "conscientious" is more likely to be described as "always prepared" rather than "messy". This widely examined theory suggests five broad dimensions used by some psychologists to describe the human personality and psyche. The five factors have been defined...
Although the solution is simple: make an anonymous account and never post identifying details. If the stack disallows such things, only log onto the stack with your anon account via Tor.
Well it's not like that. I want to speak about a specific person, but I don't want other people to see what this person thinks about them. And this chat is logged.
In the article he acknowledges this limitation, and brushes it away as an artifact of inaccurate time keeping. The only way this would happen is if the PCs kept doing loud things every time slice.
"Because of the slight variation due to Complications removing token from the Time Pool and the possibility of characters rushing, the actual number of tasks accomplished in an hour may vary slightly. This accounts for the imprecise nature of time tracking"
I think he revamped the whole time pool thing 2 or 3 times in the course of a month, so we could be looking at different articles
OK! Just obsessing over progression tables for all my PCs so I don't have to spend 45 minutes every level-up finding out what they get only to miss half the really good abilities!