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Can anyone make extended discussion chats?

@Pyrotechnical I was trying to distill it down to be generally useful. In my game, a bard climbed down a 20 ft hole while the rest idled about in the room. One guy stood in a corner, 30 ft away from the hole. This of course was the wizard with Alert feat. So down in the hole, three flameskulls attack the bard.

Well Markov's recommendation was basically do include them, they just should roleplay based on what their character knows.

Though I do appreciate Thomas Markov's answer in clarifying how they are handled the same.

I felt like it was a unique situation given the proximity of the party to each other, but the answer to both is the same in how to handle it.

I see it now, thanks

Yes

@NautArch How can you see who reopened it?

I edited it to explain how it was different. I am not 100% clear on how the rules work here though so I might still be wrong. I am sure a dozen users will be by to tell me if that is the case.

My question was reopened!

I guess I'm just beating a dead horse here though.

That is, unfortunately, what happened in my game too. The Alert guy rolled like a 25 on his initiative, went first, I told him he didn't see or hear any enemies. "Uh, but we're in initiative and I can't be surprised". He was in the middle of the party walking down a flight of stairs.

I take that back, it does seem to make things worse for you if you roll high on initiative.

though it does mean you end up going after your entire team

@Odo When I worked out some sample initiatives on paper, it seemed like rolling high for initiative vs low doesn't really matter because either you rolled too high so you "miss" your first turn before the enemy attacks but you go first on the next round, or you rolled low so you get to respond to their attack, but then next round you're below them.

I think it would be metagaming to ready an action for a threat that can not be perceived as existing.

So you'd say the enemy can fire a shot before initiative is rolled?

"What happens when your group is victim of a surprise attack but you can't be surprised?" answers the case where a player can perceive an enemy exists. My question is one where the player is unaware the enemy exists.

Yes it was two different situations I encountered in my game.

Is there something I should do to fix my question? Or just accept that I messed up and search more next time before asking?

I don't understand. Hasn't a mod closed it for being a duplicate question? How can it be no longer a duplicate question in the future? That doesn't make sense.

Doesn't it harm my reputation on the site to be stupidly asking duplicate questions which have already been answered?

Since my questions have been ruled duplicates, should I delete them?

I think I saw a Star Wars or straight Star Trek hack of L&F.

What is GoG?

I've wanted to try it or one of its mods, but I feel I'm not experienced enough yet as a GM to tread so boldly off the beaten track of pre-written modules.

@doppelgreener Have you used Lasers and Feelings for more than just a one shot?

@doppelgreener What RPG systems do you play?

@doppelgreener what sorta offenses? :D

@doppelgreener The Help does have advice on how to vote: "Voting up a question or answer signals to the rest of the community that a post is interesting, well-researched, and useful, while voting down a post signals the opposite: that the post contains wrong information, is poorly researched, or fails to communicate information."

@doppelgreener Should answers that are not RAW be downvoted?

Personally I'd hold the opinions of one of the lead designers in high regard, whether or not they are sanctioned by Wizards of the Coast LLC as official D&D rulings is unimportant to me. The rules to D&D are whatever I decide at my table anyways.

Whose advice is held in higher regard?

Is there as much animosity for Jeremy Crawford?

Why do people hate him so much?

and errata maybe

Don't many of his opinions make it into Sage Advice which is accepted for Adventurers League play?

can't easily lose a tattoo at least lol

My first time making a Cleric in Pathfinder, I spent a lot of time just reading over equipment and what you can buy, and stumbled on the tattoo option which I thought was awesome because you can lose the symbol, but you can't lose a tattoo.

@doppelgreener you edited my answer on the cleric holy symbol. Thanks for that, it flows much better with the quote. Still not sure why it got downvoted 3 times since it seems relevant to losing holy symbols.

Thanks!

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