Timeline for Has a designer clarified whether using your class features are optional? [closed]
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| S Aug 8, 2018 at 4:08 | history | closed |
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| S Aug 8, 2018 at 4:08 | comment | added | mxyzplk | I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is a designer reasons question, declared off topic in rpg.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/7964/… | |
| Aug 8, 2018 at 3:59 | comment | added | Mark Wells | I don't see why the question asks specifically for out-of-band comments from the designers. Are the actual rules not good enough? | |
| Aug 8, 2018 at 0:52 | comment | added | HellSaint | While the question is on-topic, different from designer intent, it's too close to that kind of question to be good, imo. Are you interested in how the rules actually work or simply knowing what the designers said? The latter seems a bad question for current RPG.SE. | |
| Aug 8, 2018 at 0:20 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 7, 2018 at 22:39 | comment | added | Man_Over_Game | I was not expecting this question to be so controversial! 4 upvotes, 5 downvotes, has been closed and reopened without me doing anything for either side. Crazy! | |
| Aug 7, 2018 at 21:50 | history | reopened |
Wibbs Quadratic Wizard Carcer Pyrotechnical enkryptor |
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| Aug 7, 2018 at 18:21 | history | edited | Rubiksmoose | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 7, 2018 at 18:17 | comment | added | Man_Over_Game | @Rubiksmoose Correct. | |
| Aug 7, 2018 at 18:17 | comment | added | Rubiksmoose | @DanielZastoupil: So, to be extra clear, the answer below does not answer your question at all correct? Because you are only looking for that quote? | |
| Aug 7, 2018 at 18:16 | comment | added | Man_Over_Game | @Rubiksmoose Specifically from a designer. I know that there's no rulings in the books that I'm basing this question off of, but I am almost positive there was a Sage Advice or a Tweet that has this exact information. I just realized, though, that it might have been a Reddit post from a while ago. A Reddit post that likely has since been deleted (they did some reorganizing of their DND stuff and a bunch of stuff got deleted, jerks) | |
| Aug 7, 2018 at 18:13 | comment | added | Rubiksmoose | In order to even potentially reopen this we need to know: Are you only looking for designer quotes ruling this? Or are you willing to take answers that rely only on whats in the book and/or logic? Right now it is really unclear. From my reading, you are only looking for that quote, but the answer(s) below don't address that at all. What are you looking for? | |
| Aug 7, 2018 at 17:45 | review | Reopen votes | |||
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| Aug 7, 2018 at 17:11 | history | closed |
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| Aug 7, 2018 at 17:03 | answer | added | Quadratic Wizard | timeline score: 10 | |
| Aug 7, 2018 at 17:03 | comment | added | David Coffron | If your question is just "does anyone else remember the designer saying this?" then it's not a great fit for the site. | |
| Aug 7, 2018 at 16:57 | history | edited | Man_Over_Game | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Aug 7, 2018 at 16:55 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Aug 7, 2018 at 16:54 | comment | added | Man_Over_Game | @Slagmoth Nothing to do with advancement. Can I choose to just not use a feature I already have? | |
| Aug 7, 2018 at 16:49 | comment | added | Slagmoth | So to be clear you are not asking about when you advance in a level whether you can choose to gain that feature rather whether in a given encounter or circumstance can you choose to use it. Is that correct? | |
| Aug 7, 2018 at 16:44 | comment | added | Man_Over_Game | Passive, mostly. Most of the ones with "may" are usually ones that expend some kind of resource, so it's usually a tactical choice not to use it. But what I'm looking for is a little more unorthodox. I vaguely remember someone asking about ignoring a feature, and someone providing an official comment that you can just simply "choose" not to use that class feature at that time, since being a class is, in a sense, your character's choice. | |
| Aug 7, 2018 at 16:39 | comment | added | Slagmoth | There are a number of class features, some say "may" others are passive, to which are you referring specifically? | |
| Aug 7, 2018 at 16:36 | history | asked | Man_Over_Game | CC BY-SA 4.0 |