If I take a feat that gives me a certain origin but I already have a specific racial origin, do they stack or is my racial origin replaced?
Case in point: Calistar the Eladrin is a fey creature, but he wants to take the Haunting Shade feat, which says "Your origin changes to shadow if it isn’t ...
In D&D 4e can you target an area spell on an area that is not visible.
For example a rogue uses an ability to give total concealment over an area, can a wizard cast fireball centered in that area of darkness?
I think the consensus on meta is that we don't want to allow that kind of question ("Lets make content"), but I see only one close vote on the question
... I think it mainly revolves around the "Not a question" argument, we create content to answer questions all the time (SO, here, everywhere else; code is content; design is content)
but I think your question might be analogous to the hated plz send teh codez questions on SO.
This is a comment I left on the original question:
Would you say the question "What are
properties that when added to a magic
item bump its effective level up by
one?" is within the scope of this
site? Would that be a valid community
wiki question? That (and several
closely relate...
What you're asking is: "Is the content ok and it just needs to be reformatted, or does it belong here at all?"
OK. I guess I'm not seeing the difference between asking "Does adding a property of -2 init change the effective level by -1?" and putting it into a collection off the bat...
(I don't DM or have DDI or Dragons so I have no idea if that mechanic is published or not... which I think is why the created content argument bugs me.)
My only problem with it is its broad scope. In my experience, the broader scope the question - even worse are "here, put cool new magic items here" - are worthless because you get answers of such wildly varying nature and quality that no one actually uses them.
Yours is scoped a lot more tightly than that, but still... I guess as a CW, it's OK, but needs to be restated in the form of a question - my concern is that suddenly the peanut gallery craps out a huge raft of "grimoire" threads all of which will suck.
BTW: @CRoss: Thanks for all the work you do as Mod (and the other mods too, mxyzplk!). I appreciate you seeking me out and working through what the community/site is about.
If we wanted a user generated content section we could add a Wikia wiki as an adjunct - might be a better format for stuff like that
or "partner" with an existing one. It might be interesting to do that on the "discussion forum" side as well - "want to yap, go see our partner forum site rpg.net" for example
agreed. SE is a specialized format for specific applications. I don't know why people end up feeling all butthurt about it. "Why can't I use the one tool for every single thing I want to! What if I want to play a game online using SE? The Gm can vote my answers upa nd down if my actions succeed or fail!!!"
On the Role-playing Game site we have a problem in that users will not vote to close a question, even if they they say it doesn't belong.
For example this question:
A Grimoire of Magic Item Curses and Boons
Has three downvotes, several comments saying it doesn't belong (from users over 500...
Loads of good movies though! My reports are going up (pretty late, I'v eonly gottne 2 of the days blogged up) on my usually-rpg blog mxyzplk.wordpress.com
One of the biggest problems I have as Game Master, (going on 30+yrs) is in portraying NPC and Monsters in any RPG. Is there a good resource for becoming a better 'actor'?
Instead of just saying... the monster or NPC acts like or says blah, blah, blah... I prefer to act out the part whenever I ...
Seems like I should be able to figure this out on my own ... yet here I am :)
Example, I returned from lunch to find my reputation went up 35 points. Cool! However, I'd like to know specifically which questions/answers of mine got notched up (or down) during that period.
Is there an easy way ...
Situation:
An elf summons a creature
The summoned creature misses with an attack.
Is the elf allowed to reroll the attack using his Elven Accuracy racial power?
Inspired by a post on EnWorld.
This is a comment I left on the original question:
Would you say the question "What are
properties that when added to a magic
item bump its effective level up by
one?" is within the scope of this
site? Would that be a valid community
wiki question? That (and several
closely relate...
One of the biggest problems I have as Game Master, (going on 30+yrs) is in portraying NPC and Monsters in any RPG. Is there a good resource for becoming a better 'actor'?
Instead of just saying... the monster or NPC acts like or says blah, blah, blah... I prefer to act out the part whenever I ...
Seems like I should be able to figure this out on my own ... yet here I am :)
Example, I returned from lunch to find my reputation went up 35 points. Cool! However, I'd like to know specifically which questions/answers of mine got notched up (or down) during that period.
Is there an easy way ...