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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8746057" data-attributes="member: 18">Nope, it's a re-roll.Read the text for Lucky:&quot;Immediately after you roll a d20 for a d20 Test,* you can spend 1 Luck Point to give yourself Advantage on the roll.&quot;Bold mine. It's a re-roll, like I'm suggesting this should be. Sure, they're phrasing it as giving yourself Advantage, but that, I'm pretty sure, is a balance measure to prevent people getting &quot;double Advantage&quot; - you obviously logically cannot use Lucky if you already had Advantage on the roll because they're calling it that.But it's a re-roll, because it's after you roll, thus after you see the number. Whereas Inspiration demands you pick before you roll. I'm suggesting changing to be like Lucky.Sure.That's why I'm not really advocating for clarity of language. I'm suggesting any and all example backgrounds should be not called generic stuff like &quot;Guard&quot;, but as someone else suggested, should be, &quot;Trinxie Bigglebottom, Town Guard&quot; - i.e. a specific name. Combine with with a bold text reminder (maybe put it in a box too!) that Custom backgrounds are default, and we're cooking with gas. But the names will be so off-putting even the dimmest people will FINALLY register that &quot;Oh, these are only examples!&quot;.So it is on the writer. I've had to do stuff like this.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8746057, member: 18"] Nope, it's a re-roll. Read the text for Lucky: "Immediately [B]after you roll a d20 [/B]for a d20 Test,* you can spend 1 Luck Point to give yourself Advantage on the roll." Bold mine. It's a re-roll, like I'm suggesting this should be. Sure, they're phrasing it as giving yourself Advantage, but that, I'm pretty sure, is a balance measure to prevent people getting "double Advantage" - you obviously logically cannot use Lucky if you already had Advantage on the roll because they're calling it that. But it's a re-roll, because it's [I]after you roll, thus after you see the number[/I]. Whereas Inspiration demands you pick before you roll. I'm suggesting changing to be like Lucky. Sure. That's why I'm not really advocating for clarity of language. I'm suggesting any and all example backgrounds should be not called generic stuff like "Guard", but as someone else suggested, should be, "Trinxie Bigglebottom, Town Guard" - i.e. a specific name. Combine with with a bold text reminder (maybe put it in a box too!) that Custom backgrounds are default, and we're cooking with gas. But the names will be so off-putting even the dimmest people will FINALLY register that "Oh, these are only examples!". So it is on the writer. I've had to do stuff like this. [/QUOTE]

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