So while I’m always happy when people are criticizing D&D Beyond in particular or proprietary platforms in general, in this particular case it’s actually against the rules-as-intended to play a 2014 Oath of the Ancient in a 2024 paladin shell.

(All house ruling aside, of course, and heaven knows I love house ruling and how house ruling is an argument against D&D Beyond.)

2014 oaths that do not have a 2024 version are still legal in the 2024 shell, but for oaths that do have a 2024 version, you’ve got to play the 2024 version if your group is playing D&D 5.24.

The reason for this is that some of the updated subclasses have nerfs or that features from them have been moved to the shell or otherwise taxed. Or, even the ones that have been buffed have the same issue in some sorta bid for table balance.

I cannot pick the 2014 version of things I own if they’re in 2024 content I don’t own

The intent is that it should work like this:

I cannot pick the 2014 version of things regardless of ownership if they’re in 2024 content regardless of ownership.

If Beyond platform ownership enters the equation, the Beyond team has messed up.

(Again, the word “legal” is a little silly in a game like D&D which works best when groups can change any rule, mash up editions freely etc. So please don’t shoot the messenger here. I don’t agree with WotC’s decision here. I just remember them announcing that this was how it was going to work, even at the table with all physical books and no Beyond.)

@JackbyDev@programming.dev @dndnext@ttrpg.network

@lovestha@mtgjudge.social

So in the end I am safe from Ghyrson shooting me with his autostubs? Then we played it right.♥︎

@halo@idiomdrottning.org @mtg@mtgzone.com @xgranade@wandering.shop

Thank you! The issue is that Ghyrson and the goblins do their damage simultaneously (3+1-1=3, but if that’s 2+1 I still get shot but if that’s 3+0 I don’t).

@xgranade@wandering.shop @mtg@mtgzone.com

As I noted in my patch message and in the previous post, behavior gets a li’l weird when someone leaves mml-enable-flowed on (the default!) but forgets to turn on use-hard-newlines (not the default! And since it’s buffer local, it needs to be turned on every single time, for example with a hook).

So with these two settings kept at their defaults, separate paragraphs will get flowed together with my patch! So I sent a new version of the patch to the same #71017 thread that’ll auto-harden according to markdown semantics as a dwimmy fallback.

@emacs@lemmy.ml

I like settings where the players can play parties from all kinds of factions. I’ve seen 'em roll up members of the same cult their last party faught against etc. This isn’t a complete answer but just one more li’l contribution to the thought palette around this.

What I did was use tokens for inspiration and saying “you can have as many as you want and then cash in all of them to get advantage”. That worked well.

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There’s a lot of extreme content on the Fediverse (such as harassment).

I love DWIM ♥

So often I find myself humming http://www.poppyfields.net/filks/00029.html (even though that’s an anti-Interlisp song, I just love the “superlisp” part).

Not sure. There’s a lot of kinda creepy stuff on here 😰

best: play games with them

Yes! I was just about to say the same thing.

It’s something most boardgamers really want, it’s something that they can’t buy, and it’s lower impact on the planet than buying a bunch of plastic and cardboard.

Yeah, Fedi definitively wasn’t ready and it was a big disappointment for many who had been oversold on it. And there’s a lot of harassment and spam issues that only affect some users so those who haven’t encountered a lot of that would be like “Fedi is so great and perfect and safe”.

There are ways to use Fedi in a good way but it took a lot of trial and error to figure out.

@RedditMigration

I know, right? And I’ve had that group since 2014 and our most recent campaign was 254 sessions and if even players accustomed to that kind of brutality wasn’t into the “weeklong healing” rule, that’s saying something about how beyond brutal that rule is!

@smeg @dndnext

Wouldn’t be the first Diablo TTRPG.

@rpg@ttrpg.network

I love Carcassonne and play it often but I don’t like putting a bunch of expansions in. I have three versions: South Seas, The Castle (a.k.a. Zamek), and Mists over Carcassonne, I play them separately and that way I think they end neatly and satisfyingly. My last game of Zamek with @smorkin came down to the last tile drawn!

@iAmTheTot @boardgames

It usually happens because a character died and that player started over with a new level-one character.

@smeg @dndnext

If D&D had only been a series of fights, it would’ve been the same thing, but the revolt happened when one char was doing fun fun village stuff and exploring and social interaction while the other char was healing up from bloody wounds in an inn bed for a week. I think they were only like three or four levels apart.

Now we use https://idiomdrottning.org/oh-injury instead for our HP realism purps. (Basically HP is fatigue/hope/destiny.)

@smeg @dndnext

I’ve tried it! The players revolted because I was running mixed-level parties and this system exacerbated the issues inherent in that (low-level chars need to rest more often than high-level chars in the same environment).

@smeg @dndnext

Aber das gilt nur für stabile Paare und Polyküle. 🤷🏻‍♀️

Yes, I got that, that wasn’t the weird part. The weird part is why the matcher is searching char-by-char backwards in the first place as opposed to skipping match-by-match.

I’ll use “\b\w+”, that seems to work well. \W\w+ was not good since it caught the spaces.

(Thanks for your patient repeated replies, BTW, I don’t mean to come across as ungrateful.)

@0v0 @emacs