Played Call to Adventure last night rather than the usual RPG session. It was a bunch of fun. (Once I got over my grumpiness at thinking I was going to be playing one thing and walking in to another.)
@NautArch Well, @miniman and I once had an extra-planar adventure where souls were sent to an alternate plane, and when they finally gave up on trying to find their reason for existing in this place, they turned into slugs. So, there's no hard rule that hell only serves hard tacos.
@Miniman It's definitely the sort that you could imagine banging on hard enough to make it a chargen game for a ttrpg. Or as an interstitial (you've all gone off for a few years, what happened while you were away?) session for a ttrpg party.
This is a bit challenging to phrase, so I'll use an example.
A human wizard with the Tavern Brawler feat gets fed up with a unruly Gnome and snaps off a heavy gate post to stab him with. The DM rules that the post is similar enough to a pike to use its damage dice. Is the Wizard proficient i...
@DavidCoffron Well, I don't see anything wrong about what Liesmith's answer says. Though NautArch says it does rely heavily on Crawford's tweets, the larger argument it's making is that nothing in those quoted tweets contradicts what the rules say, and thus it seems to be a logical ruling that indicates rules intent. (Personally, I also think it's just correct - it's how I've always understood those rules.)
@DavidCoffron Because nothing says you pick the class the spell slot you create is associated with - It's simply a spell slot of a certain level, not associated with any class. It's neither a "Spellcasting spell slot" or a "Pact Magic spell slot" (or a "sorcerer spell slot" or "ranger spell slot") - it's just a 1st-level spell slot (or whatever level).
@nitsua60 Oooh, seems interesting.
I spent my Halloween evening helping my friends make D&D characters for the campaign another friend plans to run :P
There's some regional variance and orthographical controversy. If you pronounce it like Johnny nobody's gonna laugh.
(If you say "half a day" we'll give you credit for trying.)
...I'm trying to find footage of when Bill Clinton said it on his visit in 1998 but I'm just coming up Joe Cunningham and Julian Aguon singing the anthem.
I think that's a good approximation, yes! And if you want to go Swedish Swedish, as opposed to our Moomin Svenska, you still need to spice it up with some melodic intonations :)
Interesting how many greetins around the world derive from the same concepts
Peace and health seem to be recurring themes
And servitude, too --- both the Swedish tjänare (which I've picked up from my coworkers) and the Italian ciao derive from expressions meaning "at your service"
I checked that kia oro taken literally refers to good health, which is common with how we Finns greet each other. There's something really warming about humanity being so connected by these wishes for very basic good things for our friends, like good health or peace.
I've been playing Tomb of Annihilation lately and asked my DM for his thoughts on using Unearthed Arcana material. He said he was cool with it which got me thinking. I've been interested in trying out the Revived Rogue subclass but then I realized ToA has the Death Curse as the big driving plot p...
The Circle Of Wildfire UA has the feature Enhanced Bond, with this text:
The bond with your wildfire spirit enhances your destructive and restorative spells. Whenever you cast a spell that deals fire damage or restores hit points while your wildfire spirit is summoned, roll a d8, and you gain...
> This article discusses how Asian martial arts stereotypes fit into orientalist dynamics, in which the Western gaze rewrites and reduces Asian experience to a cool violent thing for white consumption. I also point out how imperialist, exploitative attitudes complicate real-world martial arts practice. Finally, we’ll go over practical guidelines for representing Asian martial culture in your creative work.
I have just bought a new RPG called Polaris so I looked up the polaris tag on the site to see if there were any questions about it. All of the results appear to be for another game called Polaris which is very different.
My question is how games with the same name can be tagged so that you can t...
There was a report that presented a certain poorly-defined ethnic group as having vastly more homicide perps in proportion than the general population does... except since our police doesn't classify race or ethnicity, the data was based on unreliable matching by name. And the ethnic group in question is relatively small, so the seemingly huge number of homicides per year, when all maths are done, boils down to something like three perps, overall. (not even three per year...)
Sadly quite many people, even within the academic community, pay their respects to the raw concept of "statistical fact" without really considering the truth behind the statements made in the statistic. I mean, there are many cases where the raw numbers are misleading (that's why we have p-values, t-tests etc) as well as many cases where a completely unbiased experiment not only can but is likely to produce an untrue result, eg. the Sharpshooter fallacy.
Well I tried to hand out candy, but we only got a single trick or treater XD. My neighbor said that it was more ToTers then she's seen in 4 years (not a single one).
But it was still fun. Watched Harry Potter and have a couple of parties this weekend.
Sharpshooter fallacy is particularly evil because it is often impossible to discern from just the result (because usually only the interesting results are published)
@Rubiksmoose I'm kinda unsure of what to do right now. I've been listening to a bunch of castlevania music and it's really making me want to play one of the games but I don't have any castlevania games
@kviiri That's disappointing. For my university statistics class, like half the material was "here's how you can lie with statistics" to attempt to avoid that bias towards statistics
@BESW On the topic of Asian characters in media suddenly revealing martial arts, I remember a moment in Star Trek 2009 when Sulu whips out a collapsible sword. I get the feeling there might have been some actor override by John Cho maybe because he totally pulled out a katana-esque weapon but claimed he had training in "fencing".
There's um a lot of stories of players trying to do um inappropriate things to another persons character or an npc and it kinda just makes me think WTH. Um I guess um that's the more problematic portion of the community reeling it's ugly head.
@Rubiksmoose Yeah, that was roughly the other half of the class. It was mostly an overview of "how you can misuse statistics" after we went over the basics and math parts (how to do standard deviation, getting a p-value, etc)
@BESW whats a good way to check what you'd want Goblin App to be like? Quick check looks like 1 Ship (with a few Stats), 2-5 gobbos (a few stats), Toothiness. Junk. Maybe some notes. Each can have +/- buttons to adjust.
@nitsua60 Has anyone tried sending the burliest guy they have into the basement, stripping down to an armor bikini, raising a sword, and proclaiming that he has the power?
It worked most of the time on this one cartoon documentary I used to watch.
Well, that's how you get a really angry vampire lord. Probably should have tried a controlled experiment with a tepid bath or a sauna first. Maybe should have consulted the scientist!
As part of the Tarokka card reading, this is one of the possible allies (under Strahd's Enemy, p. 17):
This card refers to Arabelle (see chapter 2, area L). She gladly joins the party. But if she returns to her camp (chapter 5, area N9); her father, Luvash, refuses to let her leave.
However...
Pathfinder had a magical girl archetype for the vigilante class. It has a feature called "Transformation Sequence". Sadly I never got to see it in play.
Quick suggestion needed: game to run tonight, med-sized (say, 10) group, no power/lights. Players will almost certainly not be familiar with it. I have two hours to familiarize myself/prep.
Go!
(Dread is the only idea I have. Have never played it.)
Plenty of sample stuff out there, unless you have a scenario in mind. Here are some for a scenario called "Dread and Breakfast" with four marquee roles and an arbitrary nu
@NautArch Just out of curiosity, how often did your group cast Heroism for the "immune to fear" benefit? Until the spell ends, the creature is immune to being frightened That seems to be of use in the "Fight an Ancient Dragon" problem where the DC for the save versus Fear is 21
I may skip questionnaires and just have each kid choose a horror-movie archetype (a la Cabin in the Woods) We've only got an hour to introduce the game, play and get back before a curfew.
Several mechanics use the terminology "at any time", but it isn't clear what exactly that means.
Concentration
You can end concentration at any time (no action required).
Alter Self
At any time for the duration of the spell, you can use your action to change your appearance in this way...
Colludium One is a bundle of 15 roleplaying, story and live-action roleplaying games of every genre. Each is created by a small press publisher with a passion for game design. You can purchase it on itch.io or DTRPG.
@nitsua60 I don't think you can search by specific material component from the spells listing, but you could search for "diamond" in the general DDB site search and then narrow the results to spells?
...nope, that only searches the body text (spell description)
Hmm... It looks like the bundles aren't identical across platforms. itch has 15 things included, DTRPG has 17. Aberrant Allies: Aberrant Codex 5e, Species Archive: The Belaran (Pathfinder 1e), Circles of Power, Lonely Timbers, Sad Robot, and Watch the World Die are in the DTRPG bundle but not itch. No Love's Land, Orizuru: a half-formed thing, Loveland, and Across the Waves to You are in the itch bundle but not DTRPG.
This is a bit challenging to phrase, so I'll use an example.
A human wizard with the Tavern Brawler feat gets fed up with a unruly Gnome and snaps off a heavy gate post to stab him with. The DM rules that the post is similar enough to a pike to use its damage dice. Is the Wizard proficient i...
The Circle Of Wildfire UA has the feature Enhanced Bond, with this text:
The bond with your wildfire spirit enhances your destructive and restorative spells. Whenever you cast a spell that deals fire damage or restores hit points while your wildfire spirit is summoned, roll a d8, and you gain...
As part of the Tarokka card reading, this is one of the possible allies (under Strahd's Enemy, p. 17):
This card refers to Arabelle (see chapter 2, area L). She gladly joins the party. But if she returns to her camp (chapter 5, area N9); her father, Luvash, refuses to let her leave.
However...
Several mechanics use the terminology "at any time", but it isn't clear what exactly that means.
Concentration
You can end concentration at any time (no action required).
Alter Self
At any time for the duration of the spell, you can use your action to change your appearance in this way...
