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1:15 AM

"Cosmic Horror in Sailor Moon: A #thread" by JMYaLes on Twitter.

The Bad Time Game Jam! Hosted by Urania Games. Welcome to the Bad Time Game Jam, where the only ones having a bad time are the characters you put through the ringer! This is ALL ABOUT making good games about having a Bad Time, using the handy dandy Bad Time Game SRD!

SmokeDetector

2:38 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Link at beginning of answer (34): What options do I have for changing my character's sex? ✏️‭ by user41728‭ on rpg.SE (@Rubiksmoose @ThomasMarkov @linksassin)

Thomas Markov

@linksassin did you ask over in charcoal hq yet?

linksassin

@ThomasMarkov Yeah, apparently when any answer on a page is edited it rescans the whole page.

in Charcoal HQ, 2 mins ago, by Ryan M

@linksassin One of the answers on the page was edited, which triggered the page to be rescanned.

Thomas Markov

Neat.

AncientSwordRage

3:10 AM

@SmokeDetector false positive

Shouldn't trigger again now?

Henna Gaijin user199525

5:06 AM

Ну а как Вы расцениваете АНТРОПОСОФИЯ? Это,по Вашему ближе к науке?.. Или всеж к религии?

BESW

5:39 AM

Baths: Part of a Study on the Life and Culture among the People Inhabiting the City of Meilanakanjan by Buko Juice Games. A bite-sized culture bit complete with a couple of random tables

Bardic Wizard

6:51 AM

@nitsua60 you have a good point

@Someone_Evil I’m working on it as a measure of magical ability of the caster, kinda like an engine’s power/ability to do work where it’s measured in what’s technically a derivative w/respect to time but has been given a name

If I can figure out the conversion between spell slots and joules, there’s probably a constant/coefficient that gets used there too

BESW

7:28 AM

Full Court by Caro Asercion, Janie Jaffe. A tabletop game of impossible speed

ARCANUM is the online SRD for ARC: Doom Tabletop RPG which just had 1,800+ community copies added for its digital release. Slay the Apocalypse.

DAI Shugars shared on twitter the opening spread for the upcoming ARCventure "Carry On, Wayard Weapon" by Pam Punzalan and Cy Vendivil.

AncientSwordRage

10:20 AM

@HennaGaijinuser199525 it's a no to Russian speakers here as wel I think, but the religion/science question is done for now I hope.

Hot RPG Questions

10:44 AM

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Q: One of my players placed their eldritch cannon inside the mouth of an enemy. How should I handle the attack?

As stated in the title, one of my players has put their eldritch cannon (Artillerist Artificer) inside the mouth of one of the enemies in their current encounter. I'm struggling to figure out how to handle this situation. I'm thinking it should be a auto-critical hit, but should it kill the enemy...

Hot RPG Questions

12:28 PM

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Q: What happens after Clone?

I have literally never played D&D before. I’ve just been doing some “research”. Feel free to criticize me. So I’ve been looking at necromantic spells and I noticed one called Clone. As I understand it, it makes a clone that is stored elsewhere to mature until the caster dies, at which point the c...

dnd-5e magic new-players necromancy

Joel Harmon

12:42 PM

@BardicWizard If you want something a bit more fungible and non-linear than spell slots, you could base Thaums on the Spell Points variant rule on DMG 288-9.

SmokeDetector

1:08 PM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in body, bad keyword in title, bad keyword with email in body, messaging number in body, potentially bad keyword in body, +1 more (330): +27603483377 POWERFUL LOST LOVE SPELLS CASTER MAMA BASHIIRAH‭ by Mama Bashirah‭ on rpg.SE (@Rubiksmoose @ThomasMarkov @linksassin)

Thomas Markov

1:52 PM

@nitsua60 @Someone_Evil Can you guys disambiguate the date in the header of this question? "September 3, 2021" is unambiguous, "3/9/21" is March 9th in the States.

(apparently you cannot flag anything on a locked post)

@Someone_Evil thanks

goodguy5

2:14 PM

This question is interesting to me; I don't think it will ever be reopened, but I'd like to talk about it.

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Q: D&D 5e - How do I beat a Level 20 Wizard PC as a Level 20 Fighter PC

Me and my friend are dueling Level 20 PCs(No Multiclassing). I choose Fighter and he chooses Wizard. Can you guys suggest me builds or tactics I can use against him so I can win? Edit: So in the duel we are allowed to have only 3 Uncommon, 2 Rare, and 1 Very Rare Magic Items. As for the dueling a...

dnd-5e wizard fighter

Thomas Markov

@goodguy5 An incompetent wizard beats a competent fighter every time.

goodguy5

Bow fighter, for sure. right? Gotta deal with that pesky flying.

well, yea

Thomas Markov

2:27 PM

@goodguy5 I dont really have any takes more interesting than that lol

goodguy5

Equipment

Very Rare: Oathbow
2 Rares: Gem of Seeing ; Wand of Viscous Globs
3 uncommons: Cloak of Protection; Bracers of Archery; +1 Arrows.

Thomas Markov

@goodguy5 Sharpshooter + Crossbow Expert with a +3 Hand Crossbow

goodguy5

BattleMaster:
Disarming Strike (drop your spellbook); Trip Attack

@ThomasMarkov I was thinking the extra damage from oathbow would outweight that

Thomas Markov

3:01 PM

@Someone_Evil Are you able to make non-bumping edits?

Someone_Evil

Nope. Why?

Thomas Markov

Your edit isn't showing on my front page on meta

Someone_Evil

That would be because the question is locked

Thomas Markov

Ah.

It shows on the active questions tab, but not Home.

Someone_Evil

Ah, same obscuration as with sufficiently downvoted questions then

Joel Harmon

3:04 PM

@goodguy5 I don't think the spellbook per se matters in combat, as the spells are already memorized (though there may be a special spell book granting +N or something)

Thomas Markov

@Someone_Evil Did you see my flag about locking that other dgts post?

@JoelHarmon we may have a question about that

@JoelHarmon Cant find one, but I think you're right. The relevant item would be whatever the wizard is using as a focus (or component pouch).

But not every spell has M components so that wouldnt necessarily limit them.

Joel Harmon

The focus/pouch is a good call.

Someone_Evil

@ThomasMarkov My first instinct was that it shouldn't be necessary (and doesn't stop it being linked), but I'm waiting on a second opinion

Joel Harmon

There's also the option of going Eldritch Knight, which (without looking) I think gets silence on your spell list, which could be useful.

Someone_Evil

Gets you all the wizard spells up to 4th, right?

Joel Harmon

3:15 PM

Something like that, but I'm not sure whether you'd have to choose it or not.

Joel Harmon

3:26 PM

I think if you can disarm their focus or component pouch, silence them, and grapple them, they'll be unable to cast spells. With a high dex fighter, you might win initiative, then use an action surge to do more per round? You should also be able to get a familiar, who might be able to help steal their stuff while you're grappling them.

Thomas Markov

3:52 PM

@Someone_Evil My thinking was that a banner with "Obsolete" was the strongest message we could send.

@JoelHarmon Grappled doesn’t affect spellcasting.

Joel Harmon

@ThomasMarkov Huh. I thought it also prevented somatic components, but apparently not. I think you'd still need a grapple to keep them in a silenced area, though.

Thomas Markov

> A grappled creature's speed becomes 0, and it can't benefit from any bonus to its speed.

This is the only effect of Grappled (the other two bullets are end conditions)

Restrained doesn't even prevent Somatic components.

Paralyzed, Stunned, Incapacitated are the only ones that prevent casting.

(and Unconscious, Petrified)

Joel Harmon

4:08 PM

Directly, or via "no actions"?

Thomas Markov

@JoelHarmon Both.

They all inflict Incapacitated, as well as stating that the afflicted creature "cannot move"

Or speak.

There is no inbetween condition, unfortunately.

Joel Harmon

4:31 PM

Since the most potent condition is "dead", I wonder if an Arrow of Slaying would be worthwhile. My napkin says the expected bonus damage (33) is just a bit under half the expected HP of a Con +0 wizard (72.5).

goodguy5

5:29 PM

@JoelHarmon that's what I was trying to think of

Restrained was why I picked the wand of viscous globs.

@JoelHarmon Eldritch knight seemed like a cop-out. "well, to beat a wizard, I must become part wizard"

And then we have to consider what magic items a wizard preparing for a fight with a fighter would use

goodguy5

5:46 PM

It's too bad that a ring of spell turning is legendary, because that would be useful

Joel Harmon

6:20 PM

@goodguy5 You always become the thing you fear most.

I was also pondering an item of antimagic field, possibly toted around by a familiar that always used its reaction to follow the wizard, but I can't immediately think of any legal items that make such a field.

Thomas Markov

@JoelHarmon Danoth's Visor lets the wearer cast AMF.

(the exalted version)

ooooh now thats weird.

@V2Blast That edit you just made pushed that question to the top of my home page.

But on refresh it is gone.

V2Blast

@ThomasMarkov Which one? On Meta?

Thomas Markov

@V2Blast Yeah

V2Blast

I guess it looks like it bumps the thread to anyone who has the question listing open, but it doesn't actually appear at the top of the page on refresh?

Thomas Markov

@V2Blast Yes

V2Blast

6:26 PM

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Someone_Evil

@ThomasMarkov That's caching

Thomas Markov

@Someone_Evil Is it?

Someone_Evil

Oh, wait it's still a locked q, nvm

Thomas Markov

@bobble Any bug reports on this?

bobble

What are the specifics?

Thomas Markov

6:36 PM

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Q: Questions auto bumped by the Community User even though they are locked

https://serverfault.com/questions/159509/printer-on-different-networkip-range-can-i-print-to-it This question on Server Fault was just bumped to the front page like any other question that has no upvoted answers and is a bit old. The thing is, it's been locked. Shouldn't these be treated as "clo...

bug status-bydesign community-user bump locked-questions

I think this is the same thing.

bobble

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Q: Homepage "active" questions sorting glitch

There seems to be a small bug that can cause inconsistent order of the active questions list on the homepage: This is the first time I see that. This was on electronics.stackexchange. The inconsistency was already there a few seconds before I refreshed the page and took the screenshot, but was...

bug sorting homepage

Akixkisu

@ThomasMarkov It is a unique thing with locked posts.

Thomas Markov

Well, no, thats about user -1 bumping...

hmmm

bobble

@bobble for the non-locked non-bumping due to caching

Joel Harmon

6:48 PM

Obligatory shouldiblamecaching.com

V2Blast

7:33 PM

Probably related/the cause:

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Q: Bumped locked question is not visible on web, but visible in apps (or anything using the API)

According to this bug report, bumping locked questions to the homepage is by design. I disagree with this, but my question is about a different, but related, issue. A couple of times (and today is one of these), I noticed that a locked question that is bumped to the homepage is not visible on the...

bug api bump locked-questions question-lists

Confirmed that the API does show it as recently active (currently in top 3). — Awesome Poodles Oct 21 '18 at 18:52

Hot RPG Questions

7:49 PM

1

Q: Speeding up spell copying

All that time and money spent on copying spells into one's spellbook! Sure, while the rest of the party is all like woohoo look at that pile of gold we're rich! what will we spend it all on?, but we wizards know that we'll be stocking up on ink and spell components. But it's not the cost, it's t...

dnd-5e spells wizard

AncientSwordRage

8:07 PM

@V2Blast the edit to the title could have been an answer. It'd still shown up in texts searches if you mentioned the API, and it had the tag already

V2Blast

8:24 PM

@AncientSwordRage My main reason for the edit was to try and clarify what the main problem was (i.e. not the old discontinued apps, but the API itself) - before I added the [status-review] tag to it so it could get looked into ;)

AncientSwordRage

@V2Blast I guess I thought it was clear, and I thought the guidance for old issues was to post answers or new questions to show that an issue was still relevant/needed clarity not an edit

But I've pretty much given up now 🤷🏻‍♂️

> Locked question "bumped" by Community bot doesn't appear at top of homepage on web, but does appear at top in apps/the API

> Bumped locked question is not visible on web, but visible in apps

It would have been better (?) to make a new question, close the other as a dupe, then add the tag...?

Hot RPG Questions

8:41 PM

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Q: How does the spell Reverse Gravity affect creatures with spider climbing?

I understand that such a question is rather left up to the DM. However that can come as a situation "DM against player" (which is not good but sometimes inevitable). So I'd like to know your interpretations and avoid being prejudiced. Reverse Gravity (emphasis added): This spell reverses gravity...

dnd-5e spells monsters movement

Feeds

8:52 PM

Needles & Nilbogs: Magical Physics (and Mathematics) part 1: Gaming the (spell level) System

posted on January 13, 2022 by Bardic Wizard

This is the first part of a complex project I’m working on for a number of unrelated reasons (sort of a bet, sort of a dare, and then I got really intrigued…) that has to do with the real-world physics of D&D5e magic, and translating magic to physics equations. The goal is to be able to write something that looks like it could be a chapter out of a physics textbook, but for D&D magic-us…

Exempt-Medic

9:16 PM

@AncientSwordRage Not sure if the Sentinel question is a dupe because Mobile specifically includes the line "whether you hit or not" which the answers there disagree about

Thomas Markov

9:27 PM

@Exempt-Medic Yeah, I hit leave open for this reason.

AncientSwordRage

@Exempt-Medic the answer says that they count as attacks, and that's all that matters for sentinel though?

I'm happy to defer to an expert though

Exempt-Medic

10:09 PM

@AncientSwordRage Agreed, but I'd say it's good to have a clear-cut general case; the questions need to be the same and Mobile is a bit exceptional

AncientSwordRage

@Exempt-Medic maybe edit the mobile question to be about the main problem then?

AncientSwordRage

10:24 PM

@Exempt-Medic or edit this one to be about attacks and hits?

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Q: Does grappling count as a hit?

Grappling is described as a "special melee attack" that replaces a single attack in the Attack action. There are a number of features and abilities that may be activated when one combatant hits another. For example Wrath of the Storm states: When a creature ... hits you with an attack ... ...

dnd-5e attack grapple

V2Blast

@AncientSwordRage No, it'd only make sense to post a new question if it were a new issue (i.e. different from the existing issue report), or if it were an existing issue that was fixed and then broke again. There's no need to make a new post about the exact same issue that was reported before. (If I did make a new post, it'd just rightly end up getting closed as a duplicate of the existing post.)

Given that it looks like this aspect of the API works the same way it did when the issue was originally reported, I don't see why it'd warrant a new post.

@Exempt-Medic Mobile also specifies "a melee attack", whereas Sentinel just says "an attack". Potentially a minor difference, and in this case it doesn't really affect the answer, but it may (or may not) affect whether or not the community thinks the question is "the same".

AncientSwordRage

@V2Blast ahh gotcha I just reread the guidance post

> Old requests that have previously been declined can be reposted as new requests if you have something you can point to as a switch in the platform or culture that would render the previous reasons for declining obsolete.

Phoenices

11:51 PM

I got all of my uncle's old D&D books for Christmas! Not sure how to get through them.
Also, the 2e MM and Priest Spell Compendium are awesome!

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