From rpg.stackexchange.com/a/133574/22420 "What are going to do; call hell's customer service department?" No; but I'm going to make them wish they had one.
How exactly do you calculate changing a Line into a Cone?
I am asking for the purposes of the Shape Breath Metabreath feat. As the feat says:
If you have a line-shaped breath weapon, you can opt to shape it into a cone. Likewise, if you have a cone-shaped breath weapon, you can shape it into a l...
@ThomasMarkov my recollection is no one is actually sure why exactly are grapes so surprisingly toxic to dogs (though of course we might have converse evidence for particular compounds in grapes)
I decided that if I'm ever sent back in time and become a pirate, my name would be Barbamigas, which simultaneously would mean Beard Friend and Crumb Beard
Maybe we need a meta Q&A about whether the optional and expensive source books should be assumed when evaluating if a question is well-researched. i.e., can we fairly expect that all askers must first consult the rules text if the rules text requires them to purchase optional source books? In this case, is it fair to expect that everyone who asks dnd-5e questions must purchase a copy of the DMG, Tasha's Guide, and all the other books?
"Thing from the DMG is insufficient for my objective for these reasons, is there any other material that gives guidance for doing this" is a better question.
@MikeQ Yeah.
Nobody is voting to close the question.
It's answerable.
It's just not a great question in its current form.
"Shows lack of research effort" is a perfectly valid reason for a downvote.
There's at least two kinds of easily confusable questions here though:
I hear the DMG has rules for X. I don't have the DMG. What are the rules for X?
Are there rules for X? What are they?
#1 is a deeply problematic question that asks us to engage in violating copyright: the person should buy...
I don't see this as a simple read the book to me thing, either. This is trickier DM stuff, and not everyone understands the DMG or how to use it - that's a big part of why we're here. I mean, there are some RTFBTM questions, but this doesn't quite seem like it.
@KorvinStarmast If you feel like it's downvote worthy, that's fine, but citing specifically where in the DMG answers can be found is an answer. THat's all I was really saying there.
@Mitch I too am beginning to feel like my norton has been flogged for too long. I have been patient, made suggestions, given advice....the example sucks, but for some reason the OP is fixated on it. I am done with this and VTCing....is it possible there is a spam element here? — Cascabel27 mins ago
The sidebar at the foot of page 225 (section dealing with 'Making Monsters') refers as follows:
Oh yeah, dead and
ghostly is disturbing.
That gives it the
Terrifying tag and I’ll
give it the move “show
the true face of death.”
Where do I find that move detailed? Or is it a Custom Move?
I'm not super familiar with it, but it might be an example of (or related to) crytyping (which is mostly around on tumblr-sphere which now includes a swath of twitter IIRC). Here's my source on it, the mention is around the 3:20 mark
As a DM I want to build immersive and memorable, but also logically coherent world. So I have question about races.
What are the rules for mixing the races?
For example,
Is it possible to be half elf half gnome(elf and gnome parents) ? Can I mix everything with everything or not and why?
If so, w...
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@BESW definitely some good strats here re: sticking it to trolls -- teaming up on them and repeatedly, yet calmly, bashing their trolling with factual info forces them to escalate, which gives you a much stronger stance to report them to the platform
I've recently heard it posited that the best thing you can do in response to someone arguing you in bad faith is to ask them why they hold that position and try to convince you; take you for a walk in their paper mansion and try not to instantly fall through the floor.
(In the context of online / new media discourse about irrelevant topics like Potato Head.)
There's always nuance based on where the conversation is happening (don't flood the victim's mentions), how public it is (private conversations can be more about rehabilitation, public conversations should be more about educating the audience and supporting the victim), etc., but ignoring trolls is always going to silence their victims and give them space to escalate and recruit.
Some topics (especially when the subject is whether or not a person or category of people deserve human rights) shouldn't be publicly treated as something that might have a point, at all.
Which is why calmly correcting is a more universally useful tactic than providing a platform. The goal is to NOT give them an opportunity to try and persuade the audience.
(The nature of the engagement changes dramatically if it's a private conversation; you're not concerned about it turning into a recruitment speech, and they're more likely to be able to admit they're wrong if they aren't in front a crowd, so it's more productive to focus on rehabilitation in private, and more productive to focus on deplatforming in public.)
@BESW yeah, the other factor is that while on major platforms, most troll encounters are basically random encounters AFAICT (not saying that different folks don't run into them at different rates), it's possible that some arenas may have persistent "house trolls" that continue despite extreme levels of deplatforming (Techdirt's infamous ootb comes to mind), and knowing the local rules of engagement can be helpful in those circumstances
Aye. And pay attention to the victim and the context of the initial contact. There are demographics who get specifically targeted on platforms where people outside those demographics only get random encounters; similarly there are specific terms and phrases that get targeted.
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A white guy on Twitter and a Black woman on Twitter, posting the exact same content, are going to have dramatically different levels of harassment, and the nature of the harassment will be notably different as well.
There's at least two kinds of easily confusable questions here though:
I hear the DMG has rules for X. I don't have the DMG. What are the rules for X?
Are there rules for X? What are they?
#1 is a deeply problematic question that asks us to engage in violating copyright: the person should buy...
The sidebar at the foot of page 225 (section dealing with 'Making Monsters') refers as follows:
Oh yeah, dead and
ghostly is disturbing.
That gives it the
Terrifying tag and I’ll
give it the move “show
the true face of death.”
Where do I find that move detailed? Or is it a Custom Move?
