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2019-09-05, 03:45 PM (ISO 8601)
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Avatar by linklele. How Teleport Worksa. Malifice (paraphrased):
Rulings are not 'House Rules.' Rulings are a DM doing what DMs are supposed to do.
b. greenstone (paraphrased):
Agency means that they {players} control their character's actions; you control the world's reactions to the character's actions.
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2019-09-05, 03:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1178 - The Discussion Thread
As a sepia snake sigil need to be read, and a gelatinous cube isn't literate, that just couldn't have worked at all.
But then again, most "clever ideas" by PCs fall into the "not thinking it through" category by default.
Note that the smoky confinement spell (Complete Mage) is much more useful for this kind of things.Spoiler
DM: At the end of the meal, the innkeeper is bringing you the cheese plate. Roll for initiative.
PC: Excuse me, what?
DM: I said, roll for initiative. They like their cheese really ripe in these parts. They have the ooze type.
"Excuse me, but... is it a GOOD or a BAD thing when the DM can't help bursting into laughter every time he hears the phrase 'level-appropriate encounter'? No, just curious..."
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2019-09-05, 03:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1178 - The Discussion Thread
Avatar by linklele. How Teleport Worksa. Malifice (paraphrased):
Rulings are not 'House Rules.' Rulings are a DM doing what DMs are supposed to do.
b. greenstone (paraphrased):
Agency means that they {players} control their character's actions; you control the world's reactions to the character's actions.
Second known member of the Greyview Appreciation Society
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2019-09-05, 04:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1178 - The Discussion Thread
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DM: At the end of the meal, the innkeeper is bringing you the cheese plate. Roll for initiative.
PC: Excuse me, what?
DM: I said, roll for initiative. They like their cheese really ripe in these parts. They have the ooze type.
"Excuse me, but... is it a GOOD or a BAD thing when the DM can't help bursting into laughter every time he hears the phrase 'level-appropriate encounter'? No, just curious..."
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2019-09-05, 04:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1178 - The Discussion Thread
The Giant says: Yes, I am aware TV Tropes exists as a website. ... No, I have never decided to do something in the comic because it was listed on TV Tropes. I don't use it as a checklist for ideas ... and I have never intentionally referenced it in any way.
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2019-09-05, 04:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1178 - The Discussion Thread
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Mage avatar by smutmulch & linklele.
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2019-09-05, 05:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-05, 05:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1178 - The Discussion Thread
Last edited by Squire Doodad; 2019-09-05 at 05:16 PM.
An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
See my extended signature here! May contain wit, candor, and somewhere from 52 to 8127 walruses.
Purple is humorous descriptions made up on the fly
Green is serious talk about hypothetical
Blue is irony and sarcasm
"I think, therefore I am,
I walk, therefore I stand,
I sleep, therefore I dream;
I joke, therefore I meme."
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2019-09-05, 06:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1178 - The Discussion Thread
This was the version from Unearthed Arcana when that book was first released. I don't have the book, but as I recall, the spell could be written as a symbol, or could be cast directly on a creature.
I may be misremembering that it was SSS, but it was definitely some kind of time-stop effect that could be cast on a creature, and the creature could be seen within, albeit with some distortion. SSS is the only thing that I can think of that would fit. It was one of several spells from that source that -- used creatively -- were much too powerful for their supposed levels.
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2019-09-05, 08:53 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-05, 09:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1178 - The Discussion Thread
Ah, {Scrubbed}, page 56. The stasis lasts indefinitely "until the caster releases the dweomer or until a dispel magic spell does so", there's no duration limitation on how long the glyph remains active once it's drawn, and it can be drawn on a surface to be triggered when it's "touched or gazed upon". One could wallpaper a room with them. Got spell resistance? How many rolls until you fail one?
Last edited by jdizzlean; 2019-09-06 at 05:15 AM.
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2019-09-05, 09:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1178 - The Discussion Thread
Last edited by jdizzlean; 2019-09-06 at 05:15 AM.
An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
See my extended signature here! May contain wit, candor, and somewhere from 52 to 8127 walruses.
Purple is humorous descriptions made up on the fly
Green is serious talk about hypothetical
Blue is irony and sarcasm
"I think, therefore I am,
I walk, therefore I stand,
I sleep, therefore I dream;
I joke, therefore I meme."
-Squire Doodad
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2019-09-05, 11:48 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1178 - The Discussion Thread
Given the XP requirements for making scrolls back then, the GM should say no to stocking up on your own, unless you've made a new sheet for each level and saved the old ones. Unlike later editions, you can lose levels from spending too much XP.
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2019-09-06, 12:39 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1178 - The Discussion Thread
At that time, there wasn't an XP cost to making scrolls, or at least there was nothing in the DMG about it. It was time-consuming and expensive in terms of ingredients.
As for the Sepia Snake Sigil specifically, one could cast it on a piece of paper (or other small item), stuff the paper/whatever away someplace, and then pull it out and display it or stick it up on a wall or whatever. Not quite as good as a scroll, but much less trouble and expense. As I said, for a 3rd-level spell, it was grossly overpowered.Last edited by bunsen_h; 2019-09-08 at 12:42 PM.
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2019-09-06, 04:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
See my extended signature here! May contain wit, candor, and somewhere from 52 to 8127 walruses.
Purple is humorous descriptions made up on the fly
Green is serious talk about hypothetical
Blue is irony and sarcasm
"I think, therefore I am,
I walk, therefore I stand,
I sleep, therefore I dream;
I joke, therefore I meme."
-Squire Doodad
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2019-09-07, 08:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-08, 04:52 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-08, 09:22 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1178 - The Discussion Thread
An explanation of why MitD being any larger than Huge is implausible.
See my extended signature here! May contain wit, candor, and somewhere from 52 to 8127 walruses.
Purple is humorous descriptions made up on the fly
Green is serious talk about hypothetical
Blue is irony and sarcasm
"I think, therefore I am,
I walk, therefore I stand,
I sleep, therefore I dream;
I joke, therefore I meme."
-Squire Doodad
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2019-09-09, 05:07 AM (ISO 8601)
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2019-09-11, 11:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: OOTS #1178 - The Discussion Thread
Especially with Belkar right there!
http://www.giantitp.com/forums/showt...6#post15476516
I know I'm stealing this from someone else. But it's SO FUNNY
Zweisteine quoting Razanir:
"I am a human sixtyfourthling! Fear my minimal halfling ancestry!"
From: Razanir
Bagnold could be one sixty-fourth halfling.