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  • I have to say that so many of the complaints about WotC rules writing come down to willfully ignoring context and similar phrasing. Yes, they should be more consistent and clear and mot name general ranged feats with weapon specific names or contradict themselves in their rules “clarifications.”

    A sentence out of context is not the gotcha that people seem to think it is though, and that joke is old and played out.


  • This is one of those situations where the context is clear but they switched the wording to be about the weapon in the context of proficiency for the third bullet point. Ranged attack description, ranged attack for first two bullet points, and then ranged weapon for the third.

    So if you ignore all the context and expect them to repeat “ranged weapon making a ranged attack” in every single sentence then yes, it literally says ranged weapon in the third bullet and not ranged attack.


  • Damage dealing cantrips are pretty much guaranteed to one shot commoners and have a decent chance on low HP enemies.

    Create water would have a lower chance if it was created in their lungs since they could cough it out, and at best get disadvantage for a round. Unless they were in a limited space where they couldn’t get their head out, then it would drown them like putting flammable substances on them and then throwing a Fire Blast.

    All that said, I wouldn’t allow them to make water in the lungs because it doesn’t fit the theme of the spell any more than being able to cast Create Flame inside the lungs.





  • How drunk is too drunk?

    This kind of situation is something that is extremely fuzzy to define, but has some easy implications for how people should be taught to handle the situation.

    If you are drinking, know your judgement is impacted. The same applies for others.

    If you know someone is not normally interested in you, assume they will still feel the same when they sober up and don’t try anything while they are drunk.

    If you are interested in a stranger while drunk, know your judgement is impacted and you are likely to misread cues so error on the side of caution. Better to miss an opportunity than to completely misread their intentions or miss signs that they are past their ability to make decisions.

    Past that, aim for obvious signs of consent because once again, you are drunk and will probably misread their nonverbal cues.

    To be honest the best outcomes came from listening to good friends who recommended for or against hooking up with someone because they were not the one looking to get some.





  • Generally stuff like that is held against someone when they didn’t even know their dad died, or didn’t realize that that particular person would overreact by being reminded of something that doesn’t seem associated.

    Basically, caring far more about someone’s reaction than intent (or lack thereof) that accidentally upsetting someone is breaking a social norm.