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2:46 AM

@Shalvenay Thoroughly enjoying the current game in the back room. I assumed it was inappropriate to chime in. But @Sora's last move was awesome.. "OOOOOOHHH DAMN!"

Shalvenay

@linksassin I'm glad you are XD it's turning out interestingly, very different from how I figured

4:22 AM

Morning all

@kviiri Afternoon. How's it going?

@linksassin A bit of worn-down feeling from moving house over the weekend, and mildly conflicted feelings regarding yesterday's election results. Going to help my parents clear my grandfather's estate today, so probably won't be feeling any more refreshed this night :P

Gee... that's a tough couple of days. Which election?

Finnish parliamentaries

Can't say I'm up to date on Finnish politics. Is it a bad situation or simply not the result you wanted?

4:28 AM

Not a bar, but plays one on TV

I'm not a place to unwind after work, but I play one on TV.

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^ I already posted a bit of commentary there

→ 2 messages moved to Not a bar, but plays one on TV

Apologies @BESW Thanks for cleaning up our messes :)

Q: How does the Nova's Burn power work at the 7-9 level?

6:25 AM

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In Masks, Novas have the Burn power: Burn When you charge up your powers, roll + conditions you currently have marked. On a hit, hold 3 burn. On a 7-9, mark a condition. On a miss, hold 2 burn and mark three conditions. Spend your burn on your flares. You lose all burn at the end of...

powers powered-by-the-apocalypse masks

V2Blast

7:07 AM

A reddit thread asking for people's favorite non-D&D games: reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/bdcw87/…

8:12 AM

@V2Blast and as expected.... someone did reply "4th edition".

Q: What are the options for player characters to create traps?

10:59 AM

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The ranger and rogue in my game were asking about setting traps in preparation for a battle that was coming. Another player is convinced rogues can make traps because he saw it happen in D&D sessions online (in streams). But the only information about making traps that I can find seems to be addr...

dnd-5e crafting traps

trogdor

11:09 AM

@Derpy har har, :/

11:59 AM

Is this the harder and probably more chaotic version of Lupus in Tabula?

(also, please ignore the wrong ping - wasn't meant to be a reply)

12:48 PM

Seriously love printing dungeons as pamphlets. There’s something really awesome about having a physical copy in this format https://t.co/848XPUyvSf

Tweeted by mogibeargames on April 15, 2019 at 12:20 AM

"Solar System Die Drop Table!" by Saker Tarsos on Tarsos Theorem.

1:08 PM

BTW, seems Lupus is just a localized name. The original game I was thinking of is Mafia / Werewolves

I have a question I want to ask, but I can't think of a way to ask it that's not vtc-pob.

Should monsters gain <s>xp</s> experience points for overcoming encounters?

Obsolete operating systems are terrible rewards.

Someone_Evil

@goodguy5 There's probably an argument against them doing so, as then a Beast Master's companion should be gaining levels (which is RAW doesn't)

@goodguy5 game/system?

1:14 PM

5e @nits

I don't think I've ever run a game in any system (with the hilarious exception that proves the rule of Roll For Shoes) where monster XP was based on anything except what I wanted it to be for the sake of the challenge I was orchestrating.

So is the monster an ally of the party?

nono, like, if the PCs lose the battle

Or are you saying that if the miniboss rebuffs the party, they could gain XP and maybe even level up?

Gotcha.

yes

I know that there's no raw to support it (or at least, I think not)

1:16 PM

While I've used that sort of notion (esp. with humanoid recurrent villains) I've never felt like mechanizing it in that way.

Not for me. The miniboss levels up or not depending on whether I want the party's return to be a challenging rematch, or a vengeful curbstomp.

My usual method is to make the narrative/list of what this person would do but for the party's presence, then periodically look at that to see whether I think it makes narrative sense that Dr. Doom has made progress toward X or gained resource Y in the background.

And party interactions definitely play into that.

Totally, that's a great strategy. but it's not... XP.

@goodguy5 what has you wondering about implementing this system?

that "do PCs have a CR" question.

1:20 PM

Ahh. The CR of a PC is the average level of 4 other PCs it would take to kill six of the first PC in a day without serious risk of death, no?

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=)

Wait a minute... how many clones does Paranoia give you?

1:43 PM

@nitsua60 I believe it's a sixpack.

1:54 PM

yep, BESW is right - it is a six-pack.

and if your master is felling particularly kind, that means that the last one is a clone of a clone of a clone of a clone of a clone of you.

Q: Does a PC have a CR (relating to polymorph spell)?

2:36 PM

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I was discussing the spell with my DM relating to this question Can a Wizard polymorph low-level PCs into over-powered beasts? about the polymorph spell. According to Polymorph's description, The new form can be any beast whose challenge rating is equal to or less than the target’s (or the...

dnd-5e spells polymorph

Q: What is the longest distance a 13th level monk can jump while attacking on the same turn?

3:15 PM

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Context During last session in a game that I GM, the party got attacked by monk NPCs from the trees. In the heat of the moment, the person who was playing a Warlock and got targeted by the monks (he was flying mid-air) convinced me that jumping distance is only 10 feet when doubled. It didn't ...

dnd-5e monk

4:04 PM

Watching the HNQ feed makes me thing the "velocity" term in the hotness equation is too twitchy. When we have a question with 4 upvotes and one +2 answer hit the HNQ... that doesn't really seem right to me. What do you-all think?

Someone_Evil

@nitsua60 It seems maybe less like "hot questions" and more "recent, real questions"

Xirema

@nitsua60 That's been my sense, but I'm not sure how the frequency of our questions showing up on the feed compares to other stacks.

Q: Which sites appear most often in the Hot Network Questions list?

4:21 PM

It's high. [rummages on meta.se]

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Is there any data about which Stack Exchange sites have their questions end up in the Hot Network Questions list the most? In particular: What percentage of hot network questions comes from each site? What about all-time, this year, this month? What percentage of questions from each site end...

discussion hot-questions statistics data-analysis

Yuuki

4:45 PM

@nitsua60 Worldbuilding at 6.9%? Nice.

Xirema

@Yuuki Nice.

Rubiksmoose

5:07 PM

@nitsua60 definitely. I think it is way too sensitive.

Someone_Evil

@Rubiksmoose I'm so glad you edited that, as I was really struggling to see what relevance turkeys had to his situation..

Rubiksmoose

5:25 PM

Hahaha I almost left it because it was a pretty funny typo.

6:04 PM

The Notre Dame burning down does a lot to drag down my spirits, but at least it's giving me a lot of perspective on the significance of me scratching the closet door while moving house.