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But I mean, do any classes features in 5e rely on it?

Ben

Not really? Since the skills are universal there is no skill that a class "relies" on, it's more situational.

@Ben that's true, I just like the idea of a character who has lots of acrobatics involved, and there doesn't seem to be that option?

@AncientSwordRage Not unless you want to go play Pathfinder. Canny Mongoose was one of the fun Rogue builds I liked.

Someone_Evil

@AncientSwordRage What form are you looking for the acrobatics in?

12:07 AM

BTW:

Swen Vincke and the Baldur's Gate 3 team at Larian Studios did an AMA on Reddit earlier today.

12:20 AM

@Someone_Evil ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

12:34 AM

Monk & rogue are more acrobatic-ish than other classes, I think

Thief's Second-Story Work ability, for example

Uncanny Dodge, Evasion...

Shalvenay

1:54 AM

hey there @Joshua

Joshua

I managed to misread this question as rpg.stackexchange.com/q/166199/22420 as what happens if the warlock manages to kill the otherworldly entity. With 17 wizard levels, ...

Hey Shalvenay ...

@Ben There might be a little exception there for rogues, since one of the qualifiers for SA is to have advantage, and one of the ways to get advantage is to be hidden, and a rogue (once they've Cunning Action) can Hide as a bonus action, and the Hide action explicitly calls for a Dexterity (Stealth) check....

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Joshua

@Shalvenay: A theorem. 1) The abyss has enough souls to hold their bodies together when whey would explode if planeshifted back to the material plane. 2) The finiteness of the material plane permits only a finite number of souls to exist. Therefore, the abyss does not fill its plane.

Shalvenay

@Joshua lol

@Joshua somehow, I'm not sure if 2) quite holds

Someone_Evil

There are a few other examples of class features using skill checks, but not many. Inquisitive (Rogue) uses Wisdom (Insight) to guaranty sneak attacks against a creature (if it fails to contest with Charisma (Deception))

Joshua

1:59 AM

@Shalvenay: 2) holds because there is night.

Anyway, I prefer the model of each planet has its own abyss on the same plane. I'd call it the abyssal plane but that's already taken.

If you think D&D is unbalanced, try Harry Potter. They teach the most dangerous of all magics to first year students without a care.

Ben

3:32 AM

@Joshua [cough] d4chan [cough... cough... coughing fit]

KorvinStarmast

3:52 AM

@Axoren Oh yes they were. Beautiful Balloon was a big hit of theirs. Up Up and Away was very popular, by 5th dimension, when I was in junior high

@Axoren youtube.com/watch?v=HfxqQmWtGNM

4:30 AM

D&D Beyond's player-focused app - including character management functionality - is currently in alpha testing for current subscribers (whether Hero or Master Tier).

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@KorvinStarmast I remember a version of Up Up And Away was used in TAA airline ads in the 80s (and maybe earlier)

Q: Can you use an action/attack granted by a spell while in wildshape?

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Some spells like Investiture of Flame, Investiture of Ice, Investiture of Wind, Investiture of Stone and Dragon's Breath have effects that grant a damaging spell-like Action. Is it possible to cast the spell on yourself and hold concentration then wildshape and use those Actions? I'm aware that t...

@V2Blast Yay! Something that's been asked for since launch...

They were originally planning on adding it to the current app, but decided to leave that as a compendium reader and instead develop separate apps focused on the DM experience and the player experience. This is the latter of those :)

I can see pro's & con's to separating it like that. I guess it lets you only install the parts you want.

I've got some Play Store credit (earned from Google Opinions) but I never have enough for a whole book in the Compendium app. If the character builder lets me buy piecemeal like the web version does... they may get a lot of my money, a little at a time...

4:50 AM

will definitely make more sense to allow piecemeal content purchases once the player app is available for everyone

Q: How does AC scale with character level?

6:30 AM

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In D&D 3.5, I know that base attack bonus scales with level. How does AC increase over levels to meet it? I know saves do, so there should be some kind of AC thing? Is it done more with HP, or is there something I'm missing?

dnd-3.5e character-advancement armor-class defense

Q: How can you make character creation simpler?

9:40 AM

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I DM for some players who aren’t that into the game. My question is this: can I somehow make Character creation less writing heavy, and quicker and simpler for my beginning players? Each player has had to make at least three different characters, due to a new game being started or character death...

dnd-5e gm-techniques character-creation new-players

10:20 AM

might want to add one of the links in this answer to the blacklist

11:33 AM

@Akixkisu we don't actually have that blacklist anymore. :(

Welp. Decided to buy the 13th Age sourcebook.

I seldom buy things on a whim, but now... well, the opportunity was there.

in good news that is somehow also bad news: we reached a point of simply nobody hitting that blacklist for so long that the system decided it was no longer needed and deleted it

i'll see if i can reinstate it though

Q: How is the magic within a sorcerer different from the magic permeating everything else such that they naturally cast spells and most do not?

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The Raw Magic section (PHB 99) for the sorcerer states: Magic is a part of every sorcerer, suffusing body, mind, and spirit with a latent power that waits to be tapped. while the Weave of Magic lore (PHB 205) states: All existence is infused with magical power, and potential energy lies...

dnd-5e lore sorcerer

vicky_molokh- unsilence Monica

@doppelgreener it can just,.... do that?

"screw you fleshbags, I'm not needed anymore so I'm retired now"

@kviiri I think it's worth it, 13th Age was very fun when I played it, I will say I only played it once though

like one session

not even a full campaign, but I think it was pretty good

Hey, AIs want vacations too! ^_^
Sometimes they get fed up with needing to hang around . . .*needlessly*.

11:44 AM

@trogdor I... hope it will be good even if I play it only zero times x) if you know what I mean

Inspirational reading and that jazz.

@vicky_molokh-unsilenceMonica XD lol

@kviiri that's fair too, use it for what you use it for XD

11:57 AM

@trogdor apparently yes!

I was wrong all along! Skynet is upon us! XD

it makes sense: blacklists are a little bit expensive to check against. it's easy for a human to know when a blacklist is needed, but hard for a human to know when it's unnecessary. so you might as well have the system look out for pointless blacklist items and drop them.

it doesn't make as much sense in this specific case since we know there will never be a legitimate use of those domains for the next decade even if nobody's hit them recently

@trogdor My counselor once told me: when you do something that was hard for any reason, reward yourself with a kind thought or occasionally a thing you want or a treat.

The book was the thing I wanted.

:>

@kviiri nice

@doppelgreener ah so it has like, systems it is supposed to have built in to go "ok this hasn't been used, so now we can stop taxing those resources on the blacklist" ?

@trogdor yep. it keeps track of the last date that blacklist item was actually hit, and if it's long enough ago, it drops it.

12:02 PM

fair enough I guess

which is a great thing! when we first created that blacklist it was being hit pretty regularly, but then eventually our site went so long with nobody attempting to link to piracy sites that the system just decided the blacklist was obsolete.

... except, er, then we didn't have a blacklist anymore for the next time

but yeah also,... we have some pretty persistent particular addresses that probably aren't going to stop spamming us, IE the like, vampire offers and the voodoo seers and love potion people XD

still, it's a nice kind of problem to have. "people are linking to piracy on our site so rarely we have to back up the blacklist just in case the system thinks it's useless now!"

@trogdor oh, yeah, absolutely. though, that's not something this particular blacklist handles.

ah ok XD

@trogdor They say the Finnish education system is great an that but how come I can't get a PhD but some vampire guy is a doctor

12:06 PM

lol

stack exchange sites have a built-in blacklist utility: it's things you simply can't write in your post. if you try to submit a post with that content... you just can't. the system tells you, hey, your post contains this stuff we don't allow, change it.

oooh so people haven't been trying to put that stuff in posts then

that is pretty nice

smoke detector (our spam bot) is handled by Charcoal, a totally separate organisation that'll scan posts after the fact, and which is 100% focused just on spam. since piracy sites like dndtools just never get linked in spam, that's not Charcoal's problem.

Just a hunch, but I would guess that DnDBeyond greatly reduced the appeal of casual piracy for DnD.

That would fit the similar pattern with Spotify vs music piracy and Netflix vs movie piracy.

I agree

@trogdor yeah exactly :)

Charcoal keeps its blacklist items forever (FOREVER) so that's not a problem with them

12:09 PM

ah that's good XD

@Someone_Evil I'm guessing the question could be formulated as "Can I make use of acrobatics during combat?"

Someone_Evil

@AncientSwordRage Yes, creatively. Class features which adds additional skill checks on top of the normal combat buts up against some of the design ideas for 5e

@Someone_Evil that makes perfect sense

and yet I want to do something creative and mechanical with it still

1:19 PM

Hallo

Bye

okay

Since the CiViD19 pandemic is sensitive and stressful to many, and sparks a lot of discussion, kindly try to keep conversations about it in the Coronavirus chat room.

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1:52 PM

Im back.

I finished session 2 of out of the abyss yesterday.

JohnP

2:09 PM

@RandomDudeWithAKnife If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.

b@JohnP I am the abyss

What if the real abyss was the friends we made along the way

JohnP

@RandomDudeWithAKnife Oddly, I just changed the name/slogan of my self defense teaching business to something similar.

2:24 PM

What if the abyss is us, and we are the abyss

2:35 PM

@RandomDudeWithAKnife what if the abyss is the friends we met along the way?

@AncientSwordRage what if we never made friends?

@RandomDudeWithAKnife the thing is, if thats true we have a lack of friends... and abyss of negative friendship...that is the abyss

@nitsua60 what about poop coffee?

no wait, that's civet 19

2:56 PM

What about those stealthy group of 20, after they lost one?
Or is that Covert 19?

They retired and started dressing up in bright colors, calling themselves Vivid 19.

@Yuuki Not going to lie: that was a pretty strange inbox notification.

=D

@nitsua60 Not any stranger than seeing a flock of ravens outside your window. No wait, that's 19 corvids.

It'll help out with those 19 groups of witches.

Wait, that's 19 Covins

3:37 PM

@nitsua60 Thank you

Thank @kviiri--I plagiarized it from them in the NAB =)

hello btw

4:02 PM

Ahoy. (sidles back from the knife nervously)

Pulls out a whetstone and begins sharpening my dagger while glaring at nitsua60

*The sound of the knife running against the stone intensifies

@RandomDudeWithAKnife why does your knife have feet?

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I suppose so it can compete in a footrace against a stone.

4:21 PM

@Yuuki the knife doesn't have feet, the stone does.

@RandomDudeWithAKnife well that jokes got legs

@AncientSwordRage no, the stone does

lol

My dnd character finding a revolver: the must be one of those fancy crossbows

Is there a way to make a revolver crossbow that's as good as or better than a repeating crossbow?

@goodguy5 that is called an assault rifle

disagree

4:26 PM

bet lol

I bet you i internet points

I bet you 300 robux

I'll bet you all my robux

how much you got

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4:32 PM

same

Great, so we're both all in

yep

actually, I bet you double that

and a scroll of summon lesser demons 9th level

MikeQ

I bet you 2000 neopoints

I bet you this stone with feet

*it has 4 of them

Carcer

@MikeQ a paltry sum

you couldn't even buy a half-decent sword with that

4:50 PM

I now almost have as many votes cast as helpful flags - feels weird.

are you on the parenting stack?

Are you a mother flagger?

btw, @Akixkisu how did that Vagabond game ever go?

@MikeQ What if it's a ghost cop?

@goodguy5 I think I flag appropriately. It went great, your guide was very helpful (even if it was a once and done thing).

^_^

@goodguy5 I don't know how people usually read answers/questions, but I always read the comments. So naturally I flag a lot of things that were edited into the a/q.

Though some comment sections are just a mess rpg.stackexchange.com/a/166149/44723

A nice feature would be if you could directly invite a user who is showing signs of prolonging the discussion into a chat that imports the previous messages.

Instead of only making that available after some threshold.

JohnP

5:08 PM

@Akixkisu You can do that by pinging them and adding a link to chat directly. Otherwise the system will also prompt for it after a certain amount of messages, and you can always flag the comment thread for moderator attention and they can move it to a chat room.

@JohnP yes, but I'd be really nice if instead I could click a button.

If you @ the user, then only their and your messages are moved.

The rest of the log isn't.

Q: Is poorly balanced homebrew considered "low-effort"?

@Akixkisu (and we thank you for that!)

@Akixkisu Seconding @JohnP, a custom flag that says "from here on it's pretty chatty; I'd love to keep helping, can you chatify the thread?" is very useful and is very easy to act on.

The Oracle

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It's fairly well known that homebrew is a rather... contentious topic on this stack. From what I've noticed during my short time here, it looks like homebrew questions get a significantly higher number of downvotes compared to other questions. While I understand why people generally dislike home...

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