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I'm helping a new DM learn the 5e rules, and I'm not sure I gave him the right advice last night. Assume the following scenario: A green hag and 4 bullywugs are lying in wait in a dimly lit temple. They plan to hide and ambush the unaware players as they enter. How many stealth rolls should...

You can't sense someone in a box unless they're making noise, whether you saw them go in there or not (unless the lid's still open, in which case you can still see them). And from the point of view of the observer outside the box, how do I KNOW you're still in there, if you aren't making any...

I notice that every time you talk about hiding during combat, you seem to automatically incorporate moving to a different position. In the magician's box scenario, the only difference between the person taking the hide action and the person NOT taking the hide action was that the hider was...

What is the difference, in that example, between someone who moves through the secret trapdoor and goes elsewhere and then sits there using his action to hide, and someone who moves through the secret trapdoor and goes elsewhere and sits there without using his action to hide? In both cases...

I notice you completely ignored this: So, are you?

You're changing the definition of "you" to mean the person accused of harassment. That wasn't how I was using the term, nor was the comment I was responding to, as far as I can tell. You're not really disagreeing with what I said. In order for the word "harassment" to mean anything more than...

If the word "harasment" is supposed to have any agreed-upon meaning at all, then yes you do. Otherwise, I can claim that your posts are harassment, and no one can disagree because that would simply be more harassment. Do you accept that you are harassing me? It's because ENworld has a clear...

And who is doing that, exactly? Nuance is actually a thing. It's possible to be aware of a problem and at the same time prefer a solution that is not easily abused.

I've seen it on both sides, but I think in many cases it's unintentional. One person posts about groping, another posts something about rape threats, another posts about people feeling offended, and in a busy thread like this it quickly becomes confusing which reply is to which problem. I...

I wasn't suggesting that either. It might help if we're clearer about what kind of complaints and consequences we're actually talking about then. Someone making a dick joke is a far cry from someone being groped, and talking about both interchangeably is bound to lead to confusion (not saying...

There's also the Gregory Elliott case, which was specifically about using anti-harassment laws as a weapon against someone. He was recently found innocent, but not until after losing his job and spending 3 years banned from using a phone or the internet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R_v_Elliott

The difference comes down to the consequences involved. In the case of a single noise complaint, there is no real consequence, so it's not particularly important to ensure that the complaint is genuine. If the complaint would result in the person being evicted from their room, then it becomes...

I agree with a lot of your post. But just to be clear, you're not suggesting that it should be a crime to include rape scenes in a game, are you?

It absolutely is one-sided. Most people will chuckle or groan at this. Now imagine if it were the same male gamer taking photos next to women who were exposing skin and took photos without their knowledge. That would fall under sexual harassment, would it not?

That response is a bit ironic in a thread like this, isn't it? Setting aside the question of how one person's posts keep "the rest of us" from discussing harassment or anything else, there seems to be a pretty high number of posts about harassment in the thread...what should be discussed that...

Which says absolutely nothing about whether it actually IS okay to do so, as you implied when you first used it as an example. Some folks apparently "feel it is okay" to grope cosplayers, but we don't condone that.

No, that's not quite right. In our hobby, we have a minority of people harassing other people, a minority of people condoning such behaviour, and a majority that either speak up against it, or are unaware of it. In her opinion. She fails to mention how she knows what their intent is. I...

Actually no, not if I'm actively trying to keep track of them, and they stay in my line of sight. But I wasn't really talking about combat, where it's easy to imagine a character's attention being drawn somewhere else for a second, during which any character could theoretically hide. But what...

As I understand it, the reason a character who is heavily obscured could attempt to hide, even if the opponent is looking their direction, is because observers are basically blind to them. Can a wood elf who is lightly obscured by nature attempt to hide while someone is looking in their...