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Q: Does Armor of Agathys work for melee spell attacks?

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Armor of Agathys (PHB 215) states: If a creature hits you with a melee attack while you have these hit points, the creature takes 5 cold damage. Since it doesn't specify that it has to be a weapon attack, does it also work for melee spell attacks? Specifically, would it work against Spirit...

2:08 AM

@V2Blast Yeah my concern with that was that this "dark choice" was the active decision to shoot and kill an NPC. I don't think that sort of "violence" should really be advertised on the main site. While we do have a 14 (15?) plus user base, I don't really want to go into the details of it all

Especially because there's no guarantee all users are "of age"

Q: Can a Shifter Druid use its racial Shifting feature in Wildshape?

3:31 AM

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The Shifter race from Eberron Rising from the Last War has the Shifting ability: Once per short rest as a bonus action, you can assume a more bestial appearance. This transformation lasts for 1 minute, until you die, or until you revert to your normal appearance as a bonus action. Druids ha...

dnd-5e druid wild-shape racial-traits shapeshifter

Powerdork

Hm. I don't like how there's only one close reason shown for a question regardless of how many close reasons were attached to the various votes.

Shalvenay

@Powerdork yeah, that's a known infelicity of the underlying platform. it's not the greatest, and I think there's a meta thread floating around about it already

4:44 AM

Went to get lunch, got completely drenched in the process, now I'm back in the cool, dry AC

Let's hope I don;t catch a cold. Again. for the 3rd time this month. Lol

5:37 AM

That would definitely suck for sure

Catching 3 colds in 1 month is called a "hat trick"

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And if you catch 3 colds with the Mirror Shield, you can launch it back at Twinrova

Lol

Q: How can you learn to wildshape into a Stench Kow?

6:23 AM

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In search of the elusive Stench Kow... In Volo's Guide to Monsters there is small appendix allocated to "Assorted Beasts", which includes the Cow and variants: Ox, Rothé and Stench Kow (VGtM, pp.207-208). In the description of the Stench Cow it says that they are native to the Lower Planes. ...

dnd-5e druid wild-shape

kviiri

@MikeQ Hat sick

6:43 AM

Maharhar is surveying interest in audio media packs: "Would RPG people buy a media pack of recordings of people chanting spells, grunting as they take hits, and other voice work for their games?"

So I posted my question, after thinking about it a bit more and fleshing it out a bit. I don't think it will affect the feedback I got from the discussion last night, but it might be a worthwhile question, since it's not about the game, it's about the player to player interaction

@Ben Eh... I don't think that's a problem, as long as you avoid any, uh, graphic descriptions, and include a content warning at the start of the post if you feel it's necessary. But I don't think your example is really any worse than most of the stuff people ask about from RPGs (especially re: murderhobos).

Fair point

Up to you, of course :)

@trogdor I now smell like wet dog. XD

6:59 AM

@Ben Doesn't a wet dog smell pretty much like a dry dog? Enthusiastically and with much invasion of personal space?

@BESW PRetty much, but you notice from 5 feet away, instead of up close.

kviiri

Dry dogs smell three times as much as ein dog.

Wet dog smells different due to a chemical reaction between water molecules and dog molecules

The -ine suffix of "canine" indicates that dogs are alkaline

@BESW that's one of many things I unfortunately hate about dogs, they think they have the right to get up in all my buisness to smell stuff

XD

Hey, you're the one with all the inviting smells.

7:13 AM

I hate it though

it's not even my choice to be covered in cat fur man

You should tell cat fur man to mind your personal space

His cat fur powers are needed elsewhere

lol

I would but cat fur man just really really likes me

like a lot

kviiri

7:38 AM

@Adeptus Yeah, I had no particular love for the game either, except it had a sense of boldness that I appreciate in many old games

8:23 AM

@TheOracle So, when is the deadline for the votes on this system tag policy question?

@vicky_molokh-unsilenceMonica I don't think we normally have voting deadlines on these things, we just kind of let them run until it looks like a consensus is reached

@Carcer I'm asking because in the days after the question was posted, it seemed as if a consensus was reached, with results radically different from what we have now.

8:44 AM

True. Though initially there were no/few competing answers (and even KRyan's answer has changed/expanded substantially since it was initially posted)... Given those new answers and edits, and with more people seeing it and voting on it over time, it's interesting to see those trends change.

I'm interested to see the discussions continue and see how things play out.

Thus the question about deadlines, because it's possible to keep saying 'well, this is it, the stable state is reached' as well as to say 'things changed before, they will change again, wait some more'.

@vicky_molokh-unsilenceMonica I think there is a minimum length of time to let the question run so that people can have the discussion about it and different views can be presented

Generally, based on my history with the site, it's premature to announce stability in a meta post's outcome until a week has gone by--partly because it's unreasonable to expect even active participants to check meta every single day, and we should give people time to reflect in order to make clear, thoughtful answers.

like, at least a week, so you catch everyone with regular browsing patterns

jinx

Yeah, a minimum of a week seems reasonable, but I'm interested in how long it's considered long enough to be safe about treating the outcome as stable.

As in, the reasonable high end, not low end.

Q: Star Wars Lore: a Request for Explanation, and Either Migration or Reopening

8:50 AM

you're right, it is subjective and an outcome that seems obviously stable to someone isn't necessarily actually stable

we should have a policy where we don't treat policy question results as consensus until the OP explicitly says they are

The Oracle

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I've had this question about sources for price benchmarks for typical items/services closed as off-topic. I would like to request either one of two actions, or an explanation of the logic behind what seems to me to be an inconsistent treatment of between similar questions. The inconsistency I s...

support specific-question on-topic migration

As for a "now it's settled," well, nothing's ever permanently settled with meta. But to consider a major policy outcome actionable on mainsite, I'd generally avoid a flat maximum and instead look for something flexible like, say, three days of no significant activity after the first week.

In practice, it's usually pretty clear when the community's said everything it's got to say, so long as we wait at least a week.

Yeah, I don't think it's likely to fluctuate as dramatically after more than a week or two.

AncientSwordRage

9:27 AM

Ahoy everyone

I have been reading through sorcerer subclasses, and the Aberrant Mind (from UA) seems pretty wild