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@Matthieu It can be a way of generating revenue through ad campaigns. Hosting ads that, at least in part, pay based on number of views. Converting views to revenue collected from hosting advertisements.

Along that vein of investigation, I found a nice answer regarding choosing to fail a save. I liked it because it went through save by save and illustrated which are conscious contests a creature could choose not to participate in.

@Someone_Evil I've reviewed those. The problem of saying it's a saving throw that automatically succeeds is conditions like stunned are more specific rules that would make creatures immune to prone auto-fail the strength saving throw against a trip.

Is there are reason that compels you to play D&D 5e where immunity is an automatically successful saving throw, and do cases where more specific automatic saving throw failure effects come up?

In practice, it's more important as immunity is a pretty general rule, and if it means automatically succeed at a save, then there are more specific rules that cause auto-failures that would undermine immunity. E.g. tripping a stunned water elemental.

I suspect it does not. Conceptually, a saving throw is an effort or chance to resist an effect while immunity is not being able to be affected.

In a comment thread, a question came up regarding immunity and saving throws. Specifically, does immunity mean automatically succeeding a saving throw?

@TheOracle This seems like a very round about way of asking, "why did one of my questions get downvotes?"

What virtual table tops do you all use?

@order There aren't rules for it specifically. In practice, you can see torch or lamplight from miles away so long as there isn't stuff in the way.

@order For an extreme example, stars can be seen from a great distance. They don't illuminate anything around you, and actually can be best seen when you're in total darkness.

@Rubiksmoose Pretty good. Going to lament the mild winter in a few weeks when the mosquitos begin to show up in force.

@Rubiksmoose How have you been?

@Joshua Sounds similar to conjure elemental then immediately dropping concentration

@KorvinStarmast Sure

Does anyone here run Western Marches style campaigns?

@Trish How durable are the results? I found unseenservant.com that looks like it fits the bill, but haven't used it myself.

@Shalvenay yeah, somebody should write a little js plugin for resolving a simple tag to a random dice value based on the NIST randomness beacon.

@Shalvenay If you're using something like Discord, a dicebot would be a good idea.

For simple rolls, could just have the players type in the result and provide the link as proof. Could also require all genuine rolls happen in a specified dice room with a corresponding description.

@Shalvenay I concur. It also doesn't handle embedding the output of complex commands... e.g. implementing great weapon master + great weapon fighting. It shows up fine in the rolz dice room, but the embed doesn't show a result.

@Shalvenay e.g. rolz.org/info?6raklnqdhs:ln5csvlc

@Shalvenay Like providing permalinks to roll results? rolz.org provides permalinks to the log and has some embedding support.

@Laurel Thanks for that tip. The channel is readable again!

@VLAZ I would expect a markov model to choose a series of words to perform even worse than an llm, so I expect I'd like the result even less.

Not a fan of AI generated content of any sort.

@Joshua LD50 is the amount that results in death 50% of the time. Usually for drug or material studies, but in this case it's aggressive kobold exposure.

@Trish I used to run simulations to determine the LD50 of kobolds for my player's characters. Wasn't as useful as I hoped it would be, but similar line of thinking.

@AncientSwordRage I played a modern flavor or skinning of the game. Was a nice medium between shadowrun and D&D

@doppelgreener And they get in the way of replying to a person... even if the chat is more asynchronous these days.

@AncientSwordRage Palladium is a system I haven't heard in a long time. I think the last time I played that must have been in the early 00's

Given the lack of activity in this channel, it might be better to turn off the feed. It currently makes it look like this channel is an attempt at making an RSS reader, and spreads out the human chat quite a bit.

Read this question and really hope the OP goes down the rabbit hole of taxonomies.

@NotArch The portal tag is or is not related to the cake tag? I feel like it's a lie either way. /S

@HotRPGQuestions I like a lot of these answers save for the weasel words like "probably" or "most likely". I like it when answers take a clear stance and show the evidence for it.

Eh. I don't like that feat as it's written. A little bit of clarifying text would have made it nicer.

Further research and I think this is just a busted ass feature. As written, it's a magical object that lets the creator of it just cast a spell from it.

It's also the way it's dissimilar from spell storing objects. I think I'll put up an answer with the reasoning and references.

I think the best evidence I've found for it not acting like a scroll is the casting cost.

@Kerrick It's not terribly dissimilar from the Artificer class abilities, but does seem very strong for a feat.

That, card-o-mancer feat is written very vaguely. Neither the intent nor implementation details are clear.

The feat reads very much like a spell gem or ring of spell storing. The difference there, is that the spell gets cast into the gem/ring.

Although, that does seems rather powerful in addition to the additional prepared spell and casting as a bonus action.

@Kerrick Regarding, hidden ace, it's behaving as a spell scroll or other consumable magic item in that you aren't using a spell slot. It's essentially a personal daily spell scroll.

Oh, the new Book of Many things.

@Kerrick Where's that from?

@Catija It's less combat focused because combat was simplified and there's less volume of material dedicated to it. It's still a system where the majority of the text is about combat or getting to combat.

Also good practice for the GM to practice "yes, and.."

Orc and pie is few times a good scenario to go through all the stuff on the character sheet. Try to get the pie once using each ability on your sheet or a skill associated with it.

@KorvinStarmast One thing I did like about 5e was that the fighter got made into a fun class to play.