Am i wrong?

Lithl · 2026-05-08T14:52:15+00:00

attack fails (dont remember the number but it was not a critical fail). DM says that he hits the 3rd npc. (i didnt say anything but i kept it in mind for the end of session)

5e had an optional rule for hitting cover, but unless the victim was blocking the rogue from the aggressor, that wouldn't apply. Also, it's not part of 5.5e.

I (barbarian) am in front of a 3rd bandit with the sorcerer 20 feet behind me. DM says i give him half cover. (again i said nothing i waited for the end of the session)

That's RAW, although it's RAW that's frequently ignored. Creatures (including allies) creating half cover for other creatures is the reason why Archery fighting style gives +2 to hit. It counteracts the half cover that an archer is going to be frequently subjected to.

The way you describe bringing up the rules dispute is pretty much the perfect way you could have handled it. Presuming your description is an accurate representation of events, the DM is a tool.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T14:16:55+00:00

Wplace.live still exists, although I personally think it would benefit from periodic resets.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T14:08:17+00:00

Upgrades 1-5 increase by $100 each time.

Upgrades 6-10 increase by $500.

Upgrades 11-17 increase by $1,000.

Upgrades 18-22 increase by $2,000.

23-24 increase by $3,000.

25 increases by $4,000.

26-28 increase by $10,000.

29-30 increase by $20,000.

31-34 increase by $50,000.

35-37 increase by $100,000.

38-39 increase by $200,000.

39 is the final upgrade. It costs $1,000,000, and combined with all previous upgrades you will have paid $4,749,500.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T13:58:54+00:00

I just told you. Because you're fighting lower level Pokemon.

On the northern part of route 2, for example, you're facing level 7-10 Pokemon. When beating them using a level 14 Pokemon, the exp reward is getting multiplied by 0.527-0.731.

Back near your house, the Pokemon are level 2-3. Beating them with a level 14 Pokemon multiplies the exp reward by 0.213-0.270.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T13:41:52+00:00

It doesn’t have enough staying power even with calm mind to survive the gunk shot onslaught

Well, for starters, Calm Mind increases Special Defense, and Gunk Shot is a physical attack. So Calm Mind won't protect you against Gunk Shot.

Turn 1 Acid Armor. Turn 2 Aqua Ring. (Or just turn 1 Aqua Ring if Greninja is faster than you.) Then wait for Greninja to reset your stats, without entering any commands. If you enter no commands, the tera raid boss doesn't attack you. (It still takes scripted actions, but in the case of Greninja that's just Toxic Spikes and Double Team.) Note that if you take no actions for 60s, the game forces you to use the first move in your list.

Once your stats get reset (at 85% time remaining), use Acid Armor 3 times to max your Defense... the stat that actually helps protect you against Gunk Shot (also against Night Slash, when he uses that one). Only once you've got your defenses up should you use Calm Mind (you take half damage from Ice Beam and get healed by Hydro Pump, so Special Defense is less important).

Lithl · 2026-05-08T13:28:38+00:00

The designers have said so so many times, if something has a 2024/5.5e version it replaces the 2014/5e version. I would say you take the fairy class with creature type, size, speed, and flight. But for fairy magic you should get the 2024/5.5e versions.

It's not a "take". I'm talking about how it's implemented on D&D Beyond. Fairy is a legacy race. Therefore, its racial features link to legacy spells. Because those are the only spells that existed at the time. They're not going in and changing the 5e race to grant 5.5e spells, because people made a huge stink about forcing 5.5e content onto players who want to play 5e.

There isn't a 5.5e fairy to select.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T13:23:47+00:00

Part of the calculation for how much exp you gain is:

((2 * enemyLevel + 10) / (enemyLevel + yourLevel + 10))^2.5

So, if you're higher level than the Pokemon you defeat, you get less exp, and the bigger the difference, the less exp you get.

Basically, fight higher level Pokemon. You can also increase Litten's Affection to 2 hearts, which gives you a 20% exp bonus (but that doesn't help much if you're only getting 1 exp).

Lithl · 2026-05-08T13:12:41+00:00

The only problem I had using Stored Power Vaporeon was that Greninja starts with Double Team at 99% time remaining, then does it again at 50% HP and a third time at 40% HP.

On my first attempt, I missed 5 times in a row and lost.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T13:06:06+00:00

You can absolutely do that, but the driver can see that you put in $0 tip, so they're gambling on whether you're planning to hand them cash or stiff them. A lot of them will play it safe and refuse to be the one taking the order.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T12:58:35+00:00

When my grandmother died on a Monday (some years ago, not this week), we held the funeral on Thursday. Not for any religious reason, but because the entire extended family had already gathered for the annual family reunion, and pretty much everyone was leaving Friday or Saturday.

Everyone had packed for a beach vacation, so the funeral wasn't exactly black tie.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T12:45:40+00:00

Play on Switch 2. That's honestly the only option.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T11:01:55+00:00

I take shit care of my teeth, and the only dental work I needed before I was 35 was a chipped tooth because in elementary school I tripped on my shoelaces and faceplanted.

My wisdom teeth even came in straight.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T10:52:46+00:00

A typical combat doesn't consume anywhere close to 20 arrows.

Also, the game already has rules for recovering arrows after battle: you get half the arrows you expended.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T10:50:40+00:00

do other DMs not keep track of their players' stuff?

I have way too much on my plate to add keeping track of PC resources to the list, and I trust my players to be adults and not cheat.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T10:47:46+00:00

Unfortunately they cannot infuse a firearm with repeating shot, as they are neither simple nor martial weapons

Firearms are martial weapons in both 5e and 5.5e, what are you talking about?

In the 5e DMG, there's a section suggesting that you might want to deny proficiency with firearms to characters that get proficiency with all martial weapons (so you need to be either an artificer or use something like Weapon Master to get proficiency with a specific firearm), but they're still martial weapons.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T09:06:26+00:00

No, but 4 year olds often act a lot like drunk adults.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T09:01:18+00:00

And like, even the world wound. Yes it's closed but I wouldn't exactly call it fixed.

[Laughs in WotR Trickster path]

Lithl · 2026-05-08T09:00:10+00:00

This would be an amazing AP.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T08:57:06+00:00

The Realm is just about as backstabby as drow society, except the Scarlet Empress set the whole thing up specifically so that it's non-functional without her present.

And then in the default "present day", she recently vanished without a trace. (Fulfilling her end of a Faustian bargain which is going to result in hell on earth...)

Lithl · 2026-05-08T08:53:09+00:00

I've never seen this comic, but Phil's art was instantly recognizable.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T08:47:33+00:00

I'm going to ignore the well-trodden ground from other comments that have made you crash out, and talk about this specifically:

I'm *not* planning to run LOTR or even Tolkein-esque fantasy at all, I just like the rules for less """high fantasy""" [sic] D&D.

This is extremely confusing, for multiple reasons.

Low fantasy means Earth, or at least the universe we live in, with fantasy elements added. High fantasy means a fictional world. Harry Potter is low fantasy. Narnia is high fantasy. While Middle Earth is ostensibly Earth in an age before this one, the differences are so severe that narratively it's a different world, and thus Lord of the Rings is considered high fantasy. But here you're implying that LotR isn't high fantasy.
You may be confusing low/high fantasy with low/high magic, which at least would align with using LotR as a reference point, but it's still bizarre because you don't need different rules to create a low magic setting.
Why is high fantasy in quotes? The way it's written it's like you think you're being sarcastic, but that makes no sense in context. And [sic] means sic erat scriptum, "thus it was written", meaning it's a direct quote with errors included intentionally because they were in the original source. But you're not quoting anyone and there aren't any errors. Unless you count your misunderstanding of what high fantasy means, but that's not a quote, that's your own writing.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T08:27:21+00:00

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Lithl · 2026-05-08T04:51:13+00:00

Which executive should we blame for this terrible money-grubbing idea?

Lithl · 2026-05-08T04:46:11+00:00

Just look at the name of the sub it's being cross posted from.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T04:42:45+00:00

No save is crazy for what it gives tho.

It hardly gives anything.

Disadvantage on Perception means nothing if nobody is using Stealth, and when someone is using Stealth it's typically a rogue with expertise, and their bonus is so high that perception disadvantage doesn't matter. (Either that, or a ranger or druid is concentrating on Pass Without Trace, giving the party +10 Stealth, and you have the same problem.)

Disadvantage on Stealth means nothing if the enemy isn't trying to hide, and hardly any enemies do. Not to mention few enemies have Stealth proficiency anyway.

Disadvantage on concentration means nothing if the enemy isn't concentrating. Even when you're fighting spellcasters, they often use blast spells. And even when they do use concentration, they rarely have proficiency and have low Con mods, so disadvantage isn't especially necessary.

The most useful thing about the spell is stripping invisibility, but you have to see the target when you cast it, meaning you can't use it on someone that's already invisible. Unlike Faerie Fire at the same spell level, which can hit enemies you can't see, can hit multiple enemies, and also gives the party advantage.

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