@GcL Yeah you get the "I try it anyway... hope I get a nat-20" people
@Someone_Evil Oof. That's a tough one.
I don't think there is any answer that will please everyone for "what is a civilization". Any group I exclude will want to be included, and wherever I draw the line, larger "civilizations" will say "why did you include them?"
Well, it used to be that you could put ranks into skills so you could justify high lore checks with "well, I purposefully spent time to study this thing".
Like in Civ 4 they considered "Native American" a single civ, even though in the past they've done individual tribes like Iroquois and Sioux
(although Sioux wasn't really a good representation of the Sioux tribe, and kind of crammed together stereotypes between a wide range of tribes in that region)
Who invented fried food? Probably just pick the first three groups of people that independently invented frying things in fats. I feel like they deserve it.
So I need to thank whomever gave me the DMing axiomatic advice "Give the players enough rope to hang themselves with". Because with the conclusion of the one-shot campaign I ran, it really paid off in spades.
Long story short: The Paladin exited the campaign by accidentally getting themselves teleported to one of the layers of Hell after barely managing to get one of their party members out of a room full of poison.
(Followup on the issue of "Vehicles (land or water)" not appearing in the Tools table on DDB: The basic rules now include that row as well, matching the basic rules PDF (and the PHB): dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/equipment#OtherTools)
I could do 3 per time period - Ancient: Maya, Greek, Egyptian Classical: Roman, Persian, Incan Medieval: Mongol, Mali, Ottoman Renaissance: France, Polish, Mughal Colonial/Industrial: Spain, Britain, Indonesia Modern: U.S.A, Russia
@Xirema We recently had a Paranoia game with a laser sword of indefinite lenght. Basically, as long as the light manages to stay coherent. We ended up destroyng 15 sectors of the Alpha Complex, Friend Computer was not pleased.
@Medix2 I disagree that they contradict. Crawford's clarification specifically says, "You can interrupt a multiple-attack action with a bonus action/reaction only if the trigger of the bonus action/reaction is an attack, rather than the action." The trigger of TWF's bonus-action attack is "an attack"; the phrase "as part of the Attack action" simply restricts which kind of attack (that is, one that's made as part of the Attack action) can qualify for TWF's bonus-action attack.
I've been thinking of writing up my current 5e campaign, but my Word and Google Docs drafts don't seem very fun. Does anyone have any tips on software to use to make a homebrew campaign book look "official", especially with page layouts?
@nitsua60 I'll keep an eye out for them, I'm keen for recommendations. My planning documents alone are well past six pages, even not including maps and special item descriptions
@KorvinStarmast Look, all I'm saying is, DMs should be more willing to give their players Very Rare items at level 3. I gave the Paladin a Bronze Horn of Valhalla (summon ~14 CR2 Berserkers to fight for you) and a Figurine of Wondrous Power, Obsidian Steed (summon a CR3 Hell Horse that can sometimes teleport itself and its good-aligned rider straight to Hell, no return trip), and everything went fiiiiine. I don't see what everyone gets so worried about.
@Zachiel Cartographer's Guild + print shop? I once had to wait more than an hour at a print shop because someone had a rush job, which the shop staff did all of the physical work to print and assemble
@Zachiel I do flat tokens made of paper clay. Paint by whatever method is convenient for you.
If you need multiple copies of the same token, make your prototype first. Apply some vegetable oil after it dries. Press fresh clay to make a negative impression. Let negative dry. Apply some vegetable oil to the negative. Use it as a stamp to press out a bunch of copies.
Takes a few hours, but you can get it done while watching a movie or listening to some music.
I know Drow love their sapient slaves, but what about less intelligent creatures to keep as pets or livestock, or other purposes. Is there any official word on this for 5e or even previous editions?
@V2Blast Fair trending to middlin, but last night took the missus out for dinner. 31st anniversary. Beautiful walk in the moonlight on the beach after din din, so last night was a gem. Night sky was crystal clear.
@Eternallord66 I would change the header to say "The RAW is unclear", with sub-headers for the arguments for and against permitting this. Otherwise, I think it's a better answer.
@Eternallord66 For answers, it's useful to begin the answer post with #, the H1 header, as it makes the site make a lot more sense with a screen reader
The question title automatically gets rendered as an H1 tag. So subsequent answers that start with H1 appear to be separate documents which makes separating out separate answers easier.
@Eternallord66 They probably mean text-to-speech software, which reads text on the screen out loud. Such software has trouble with untagged formatting. Visually, a header that's been made bold and large-text manually looks the same as a header which used a format style to do the same thing, but a TTS program can't tell that manual formatting indicates a new section; it CAN tell that if you use a style.
@Upper_Case It looks like you work with a lot of visuals, so I'd recommend grabbing Affinity Photo also. They work together better than The Competition (Adobe Indesign and Adobe Photoshop) and buying both of them costs less than three months of Adobe subscription.
(the trifecta is completed with Affinity Designer, which is dedicated to drawing/painting your own new visuals)
@Rubiksmoose From what I've learned with clients, consistency is the biggest ask. And we can't give that, because everybody's formatting their own answers.
I have not seen this question when searching, although someone here might be able to point me to it. I found a related one here
Situation: PC walks into a room and wants to investigate to find any clues or whatever. They roll a 5 and lets say +3, which results in nothing. However, as a real pers...
There are a lot of different screen readers with different levels of complexity and capacity, there's no one formatting trick to make them all work best. But the person using the program can adapt to whatever a given site's tagging structure is, so long as it's tagging consistently.
@Rubiksmoose Hah, yeah. Sometimes the groupmind is useful, but I'm getting so much better results from the smaller, more aggressively curated spaces I've recently found.
"4 Exercises for Better Understanding Your Writing," by Dee Pennyway. Here are four exercises to help you unlearn some of the lessons that you might have been taught by creative writing or English professors over the years, which may or may not be helpful to you now that you're writing your own work. There's no one right way to write.
"Flying Games," by Jay Dragon, is a collection of 8 short RPGs (and an editorial) based around themes of consent, weather patterns, dreams, and (of course) flight. These games aren't intended to be played. That's never been their purpose. Instead, like most games you'll read, the purpose is to imagine your relationship with them. These games are an invitation, to imagine impossible things. Will you accept?
"Making Parties Matter," by Goatmeal Games is an addon system for D&D 5e. Sometimes social encounters should bear more weight than a single die roll, especially when there are important NPCs involved. Making Parties Matter introduces new mechanics that will allow more utility in adjudicating social encounters. What can the characters do to setup the roll for better results, and what kinds of results should they even expect?
yeah. In particular I've was recently invited to a server dedicated to RPGSEA and sworddreamers, and it's been really nice to find a space where I don't have to repeatedly explain my context from the ground up at the start of every new conversation.
Their support is a big reason why Traveling Librarians happened.
@Medix2 Technically, it's a front end for an accessibility infrastructure that takes input from a bunch of different communication channels... but I only had to use it for web browsing. A lot of students use it for their email and messenger as well.
"Jellicle Jam" hosted by Adira Slattery, Fen Slattery, therealalexflanigan, and Jeff Stormer, starts in six hours. Cats (2019, dir Tom Hooper) and Cats the Musical are both definitely pieces of media that have been created by human hands. Lets make more media based on them!
I know Drow love their sapient slaves, but what about less intelligent creatures to keep as pets or livestock, or other purposes. Is there any official word on this for 5e or even previous editions?
