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Also fingerprints are not exactly reliable - there are a lot of common things that can happen which will make it impossible for them to match a print. thedailywtf.com/articles/Cracking-your-Fingers

My specific situation is, an NPC disguises themselves as someone else, when should PC roll for it and what check is it?

What I mean is, let's say I use INT roll to decide the quality of the forgery/disguise, but how can others detect it? Intuition? Passive perception? Investigation? ANd when do they roll?

Okay, so what's the disguise and forgery opposed with in DND5? There is this Q but it's not covered there: rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/62606/…

@Someone_Evil Oh, thanks. I might've never seen the word written before (or I only saw it used as segway) and since it's pronounced the same (for my ears at least)

But anyway, I am way too uneducated to participate in this conversation, 'night!

So even if it's arrogant it still can have a good outcome

And then I'd view conversation about Twilight's vampires canonicality in vampire-verse a great segway into discussion about how there can be no canonical definition of a vmpire

Are there really people out there who have serious conversations about whether whatever's monstertype are real monstertype?

To be fair pretty much every truth-seeking process presents itself as the only correct one

But is that inherent problem of scientific things or just people being casual or full-blown racists?

That's fair enough

That's a lot of different aspects. Do you mean those in context of fiction or life in general too?

@BESW Why?

That kind of sounds like a lot of popular fiction is rooted in cultural appropriation

And then another media depiction comes which becomes popular enough that it once again changes how an average person thinks of the monster?

I am still kind of trying to decipher this sentence: "There's always a general gestalt sense of a monster in the cultural consciousness, which rarely matches any specific media depiction accurately."

I think I am too uneducated for this conversation

My question about whether vampires are animated corpses came from your statement that in modern media vampires and zombies are animated corpses. I think it is possible to reduce it to a single objective truth in this context, though probably the answer will be "yes and no because vampires are milked so much right now there're too many variants in pop culture at the moment"

That... I am not sure what to think about this information

Hm, are vampires animated corpses though? I'd think a vampire is a kind of not fully alive person with superpowers

That's exactly the reason I'd read it. I usually dislike the old stuff and I often consume it for meta reasons. Did so with with Nosferatu and Hitchcock's Vertigo

I should read Dracula one day now that I think about it.

(if that's not obvious I am being facetious in good spirits)

So you're saying vampires are actually zombies but with a different cultural upbringing.

@BESW I say the human will be undead.

There is something liberating in rolling all the dice in DND combat

Why do I even care if it's possible, I can just make it so, my players are about as knowledgable about horse physics as I am

@NautArch Okay, that makes much more sense than whatever I imagined, thanks. If the bounty hunter had another horse, is it physically possible to tie two people on the horse such that they don't fall and are immobilized? I'm guessing yes, but I only ever saw it in questionably historically accurate movies I think so I am curious

When I look at the definition of haunches it's buttocks + thigh combined, so I can't image how to use that information to carry a person, heh

@NautArch Can you explain how it would look?

How would a bounty hunter "carry" the targets alive to their destination if he travels by a horse? Make them walk on foot behind the horse? Rent a carriage? Get them tied on another horse?

Thank you!

And if you're proficient in perception your passive perception also gets the proficiency bonus?

For 5e, if you're proficient in a skill you can add the level-based proficiency bonus to it, correct?

@PeterCooperJr. Haha, that's fair. I might've looked at beasts my players were unlikely to meet and had wrong impressions. Looking at the stats of low-CR monsters it seems like something easy to come up with on the spot. But, I'll run with pre-existing enemies for now

@MikeQ Gonna do that. Thanks all!

@PeterCooperJr. That's a good website, I feel like any monster I looked at previously online had 3 times as many numbers displayed, but this? I can pretty much write it all down easily in my notes and not feel like I am getting lost

I am yet to run a single round of one and haven't touched DND in 5 years or so

Oh right, I am thinking strictly about combat at the moment

So the hard way - use preexisting monsters as basis to get the better feel for how the numbers interact and learn to ballpark from there. That's fair, but that leaves me with another question - what stats do I need to write down? Atk, AC for combat, 6 stats for saving throws, anything else?

Or should I just take the hard way and study some monster stats for appropriate challenge rating? In that case, there seems to be a bit more work than in 3.5 - here I need AC, Attack and 6 stats (for saving throws) where in 3.5 there were only three saving throw stats

Is there some tricks for ballparking monster stats in 5e? I don't have monster manual nor plan to buy one, I prefer to just come up with stuff on the spot

I have a question about DND 5e - back when I ran 3.5e I just approximated stats of enemies because I had a pretty decent intuition for what values are what challenge. The problem is I usually played with players who were level 5+ so they weren't as fragile. The question comes next

@Someone_Evil MOre like campaign/setting design tool and I guess campaign runner?

Anyone here used World Anvil before?

THat was a fun end for a campaign. My characters saved the world but had to go to a different world and took a couple of cool NPCs with them. Then they changed into elves in the new world, spent a few days getting Geased into servitude by a rich woman who apparently owned the NPCs that came before them and they managed to kind of get in touch with one of them and escape. And thus we transitioned from Fate to Dnd

OR maybe non-realistic? I mean it wasn't meant to look and sound like real humans would in our universe, but rather something slightly bizarre and off. Kinda like Lynch's works but without the horror aspect

@GcL It was very pleasantly non-naturalistic

In my family of 2 + toddler we spend about 1200PLN monthly on food (just food, not including sweets and non-edibles), which is just slightly above $300 per month. Even if you disregard the kid that's still $150 for food per person, and we still manage to buy decent quality stuff.