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Q: Can a pet cat attune to a magical item?

1:20 AM

Could I attune a magical item to my pet cat? There don't appear to be any base requirements for attunement.

trogdor

2:13 AM

@HotRPGQuestions only to the cat collar of annoyance

Q: Deck of Many Things. What happens if you don't declare any number of cards and just start drawing?

In the Dungeon Master's Guide the description for the Deck of Many Things contains the following. Before you draw a card, you must declare how many cards you intend to draw and then draw them randomly. It doesn't say what happens if you don't declare anything and just start drawing. So what...

dnd-5e magic-items

BESW

3:11 AM

Just played a game of Roll For Shoes in which an overprepared robot navigator, a cheerful T-Rex skeleton pilot, and a goth delivery mouse with an Aliens-style power loader, delivered a package of glitter to Jack Skellington as part of his attempt to understand Valentine's Day.

Q: How does Hand of the Apprentice interact with rogue abilities?

3:41 AM

My Arcane Trickster took the Universalist School (as a wizard). Which has the Hand of the Apprentice ability. Since it does meet the 30 feet requirement for range, can he use his Sneak Attack with the Hand of the Apprentice ability? He also has Finesse Training (from unchained rogue) with th...

pathfinder-1e rogue sneak-attack

nitsua60

4:29 AM

Whoa--just got my newest "most rare" badge. It had been [mumble mumble] for a while, which only six people had. But the published-adventures bronze tag badge: turns out there's only three of us =)

Guess it's really time to stop paying attention to that particular metric.

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6:11 AM

@nitsua60 How did it happen that Combat is a rare badge, given that there's a system on this site which is very much about combat and has a huge following?

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V2Blast

7:24 AM

probably because it's too general a tag for most of the questions about the system in question, if I had to guess - usually "attack" fits better than the more general "combat"

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Q: Does a Barbarian stack rages while raging or does he reset his rage?

12:23 PM

If a barbarian enters a new rage while he is raging do the rages stack on top of each other or would his current rage just be reset? I think the rage would be reset because its closest equivalent wildshape resets rather than stacking when it is used more than once. I believe this to be the case b...

dnd-5e barbarian stacking rage

Q: How are the cards determined in an incomplete deck of many things?

1:23 PM

In the description for the deck of many things magic item, there are two possible outcomes for how many cards are in the found deck: Usually found in a box or pouch, this deck contains a number of cards made of ivory or vellum. Most (75 percent) of these decks have only thirteen cards, bu...

dnd-5e magic-items

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Q: Does a Rogue's proficiency with a Rapier apply to the Spiral Rapier?

3:23 PM

Does a Rogue's proficiency with a Rapier apply to the Spiral Rapier?

pathfinder-1e weapons rogue proficiency

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Q: Are there balance issues when allowing attack of opportunity against any creature?

7:02 PM

As shown in this question and answer, I am confused by the terms hostile and enemy. So I was wondering if in my own game I could simply remove the requirement hostile from the attack of opportunity, because I think there it is particularly useless. PHB p195: You can make an opportunity attack...

dnd-5e house-rules opportunity-attack

V2Blast

7:55 PM

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Yuuki

8:16 PM

V2Blast

lol. seen that one several times :)

8:32 PM

8:44 PM

does anyone here knows hot to play vampire dark age 20th aniversary? aaaaaaaaaaand is willing to help a very confused soul to make a character?

9:03 PM

@Helwar I know WoD in general so can guide you through the basics, but I'm in the middle of a different campaign at the moment and will likely shut down soon after it's over. So . . . would you be willing to wait until tomorrow for the help, or is it urgent?

not urgent at all!

thanks

I can try to answer some bits briefly now, but am unreliable in terms of availability.

my thing is I think I chose the most complicated of them all :P Everyone else seems easy peasy to do. You just distribute whatever points you are given.

But I'm making a Tremere, those make magic, I don't get how that works at all

Well, in the editions I remember, Tremere magic works only slightly differently from a normal Discipline (it has secondary Paths, but you shouldn't worry about that so early, and has Rituals which . . . admittedly I'm not sure how you buy those, as I've contradictory memories of those).

Are you having trouble with the Thaumaturgy / Blood Magic specifically, or do you also have more general questions?

it's mostly that and not really knowing how the flow the game is

mainly... shall I expect a huge income of "blood reserve" points? or should I be conservative with those? etc...

or, is really important not having a lot of phisical attributes? like all the others have at least fortitude, potency or things like that

9:31 PM

@Helwar If you mean blood points (each of which is equal to a pint of blood), that largely depends on (a) how does the Storyteller approach hunting (strictly, loosely, zoomed in or not etc.) and do you have a good hunting strategy.

@Helwar Well, this is WoD, so presumably Dexterity is still a godstat.