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Sorry, Team Infiltrate! I tried to get to you this morning (and yesterday morning, and last night, and...) but I ran out of time before work. Hopefully this evening!

Pikki shook her head, "Don't think so! There's Dragon's Treasure! You can't steal Dragon's Treasure! You try, you die!"

I think a Short Rest is reasonable. A Long Rest probably not so much. They may be working those kobolds hard, but the humans involved are not going to stay up there all night. (It's about 4:30pm, 5:30pm after a short rest). I'm not so much worried about charisma in this case - you're not trying...

Maybe give me a couple of sentences here on what you have in mind, because I honestly can't think of what you're getting at. You indicated the wrong way and she told you (and Urgan) "No, up there." If you're trying to get her to describe the whole purpose of the place, she simply doesn't know.

I mean, you can look at it that way, I guess. Personally, I see them as simply two different ways to mechanically represent what amounts to essentially the same thing in the world's fiction - some people use a type of magic that harms the world. They do it because it offers them power and they...

Team Caves Merrick, Shamal, Torhak, Urgan, and their kobold guide Pikki sat at the far side of the cavern away from the writhing tree-creature, and close (but not too close) to a stagnant pool. While they rested, Urgan asked about the tunnel downward into a worked stone vault. Pikki, who either...

I'm fine with the 10-minute ruling. (I mean, I'm fine with whatever ruling our DM decides, but I'm saying that I think 10-minutes is a fair compromise).

Team Lake The group worked toward securing the transportation structure, starting with Loklafd throwing a body through the archway, saying, "In the very least, if it is not transported, it might trip up anyone who arrives." The body did not activate the transporter, but Darius was able to...

I fully expect them to do just enough of that to make it enough of a valid argument that we can debate it for pages and pages here, but I also expect them to do what I would consider a perfectly adequate job of presenting the world so that I can play it just like I did in the 90's - by ignoring...

That's some wild use of hyperbole there!

If so, that's some terrible use of wording on their part. For the most part, 2024 did a decent job of clearing up wordings on things for QoL purposes, but every once in a while (and twice for Stealth!) there's something silly like this.

I think if we start going into the weeds on "the character" this will get out of hand, because she's also a very specific individual and not a species at all.

It removes the exclusivity of that aspect, sure. I don't think I ever suggested otherwise. Are we meant to think of three bullet points as an exhaustive list of what something is and isn't?

Agreed. It's one of the reasons that I think the gender argument is so inherently flawed. I mean, I would, yes! I spent a whole bunch of time combining different birds and cats into a whole slew of species of Griffons, for example. (My hummingbird cheetah griffon being a fast example!) If I...

I'll take one of them out. Pact of the Chain allows you to cast it as an Action, without a spell slot. It's crazy, I know! You do, however, still need the incense.

Yeah, we're just not going to agree on this. You seem to think that something not being exclusively a thing makes it not that thing, and I don't know how you can consider that to be superior logic. At any rate, I didn't come here to argue with you about medusae. But this isn't really about...

Your reasoning is absolutely bizarre to me. The medusa is still a female creature. Just because it is also a male creature doesn't change that! It might not exclusively be a female, but it still can be. Your description: Snakehair, Stoney-eyes, female STILL EXISTS AS A THING. It has not been...

If your first argument was that it removed the Maedar, I'd have given that to you. But it sure as heck didn't remove "female" as a part of Medusae!

I call bologna on this whole line of argument! Yet again, you're trying to say that adding "male" to the list somehow removes "female* which it explicitly does NOT. Your list is not somehow now: Snakes for Hair Petrifying Gaze Nothing It's... Snakes for Hair Petrifying Gaze Female Also...

I've run it, too. The only thing that stood out to me as particularly different from the original was Female Solamnic Knights - and that didn't bother me. So what.