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== The Many Adventures of Balancing ==<br />
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Hey, I came to discuss my race, the [[Daemonii (5e Race)|Daemonii]]. I have heard the criticisms you’ve posted in the discussion pag and have heard them since day one. The reason I left it alone is because, honestly I was suprised to see that it got nominated and was thinking to myself, “Really? Wow.” When I created it, it was mostly just a means to experiment rather than something I was trying to make avant garde, which probably is why the lore is not very interesting and and why it seems to be so powerful. However, the transformation trait wasn’t a part of the origional idea. Someone else randomly make the race even more overpowered than what it currently is! They gave it the transformation trait, made the {{5a|con}} score increase 2 instead of 1, gave it a resistance to necrotic damage, made it able to be Large or Medium, and made the claws do 2d6 slashing instead of 1d4! I brought most of it back to the original idea, but kept the demon form for some reason (I don’t remember why). Having seen the critiques posted in the discussion section, I’ve removed the demon form trait, but that is all. I wanted to discuss with you how else to fix up the race, before doing anything else; alternatives for traits, ways to balance them, and more interesting lore, that sort of thing. —[[User:Dinomaster337|Dinomaster337]] ([[User talk:Dinomaster337|talk]]) 8 March 2018 (MST)<br />
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== Sumarbrander (Jack) ==<br />
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Dear Geodude671, I have added the link to the website I found the image in. Will this suffice?<br />
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== Would you like to do some collaborative worldbuilding? ==<br />
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Please leave me a a message [[Discussion:Who's up for some fun worldbuilding?|here]] if you're interested! [[User:Quincy|Quincy]] ([[User talk:Quincy|talk]]) 18:06, 9 February 2018 (MST)<br />
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== Premature and speedy deletion ==<br />
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Yowza, Geodude. I was drawn, as I am often am with speedy deletions, to the history of the [[Tuna and sweetcorn]] page. It's been brought up before that we should, at the very least, wait a few hours for the editing to stop, before placing any IRR templates on an article. Yet in this case, with an article that seems to me like was a ''potentially'' ideal (and, given time, could've been a viable and possibly even funny) candidate for [[Template:April Fools]], you've speedy deleted it, under the snowball clause, a total of [https://www.dandwiki.com/w/index.php?title=Special:Undelete&target=Tuna_and_sweetcorn eight minutes since its last edit]. I have no issue with taking a strong arm to articles, but I feel that, not only is placing improvement template on an article that is being actively edited pretty jarring to the editor, and placing a deletion template on an article being actively edited is pretty upsetting, but literally speedy deleting it without any real reason such as policy violation, mid-edit. I mean, I get it, the page was bad, but were I that editor, that would just make me quit a site, on the spot. Unless I'm somehow massively misconstruing the situation, could we please chill on the immediate, jarring, and almost kind of insulting, interruptions of new editors trying to get to grips with things? --[[User:SgtLion|SgtLion]] ([[User Talk:SgtLion|talk]]) 03:21, 11 February 2018 (MST)<br />
:While I do frankly think the page was spam, it still shouldn't have been deleted as the author may have been in the process of changing/completing the page. Another issue I just recently noticed was in your selective use of the snowball clause on the wiki. "If an issue does not have a snowball's chance in hell of being accepted by a certain process, there's no need to run it through the entire process." is what [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Snowball_clause Wikipedia] has on the snowball clause. If this clause where to be enforced, someone can raise concerns about a page and add the delete template to it and if the reasons for adding the delete template were agreed upon the page, the page can be immediately deleted according to the clause. Since, this clause seems to go against the [[Help:Spirit_and_Intent|spirt]] of collaborative work on D&D wiki, might I suggest that the clause not be used again in favor of other alternatives?--[[User:Blobby383b|Blobby383b]] ([[User talk:Blobby383b|talk]]) 06:04, 11 February 2018 (MST)<br />
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== Hey, Geodude! This may seem like an odd request... ==<br />
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But can you please temporarily restore [[Improved Guard (5e Feat)]] for me? Pretty please, with sugar on top? [[User:Quincy|Quincy]] ([[User talk:Quincy|talk]]) 21:04, 12 February 2018 (MST)<br />
:Sure, here you go. — [[User:Geodude671|Geodude671]] [[File:chatmod.png]] ([[User talk:Geodude671|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Geodude671|contribs]] | [[Special:EmailUser/Geodude671|email]]) . . 21:20, 12 February 2018 (MST)<br />
::Thank you very much! [[User:Quincy|Quincy]] ([[User talk:Quincy|talk]]) 21:30, 12 February 2018 (MST)<br />
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== Colonel ==<br />
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{{colonel}}<br />
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You've been coloneled for coloneling me and/or ConcealedLight for ConcealedLight threatening to trout me for trouting ConcealedLight for trouting DraconicMan.--[[User:GamerAim|GamerAim]] [[File:chatmod.png]] ([[User talk:GamerAim|talk]]) 05:38, 13 February 2018 (MST)<br />
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== so common courtesy is no longer a thing and variant pages for overpowered versions are no longer a thing? ==<br />
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Hello Geodude671,<br />
I am Drakonsblade. I find it interesting and rather rude that you find it appropriate to change things about someone else's work without even saying a thing to them first, or giving any kind of constructive criticism to help them develop as creators or writers at all, to my other point I was lead to believe that overpowered variants were allowed when I originally came here to make my race and even in the help precedent page it says and I quote<br />
"'''This is the "D&D Wiki". Not the "elitist D&D game design hobbyists wiki". We expect quality workmanship and civil discourse, not theoretical system mastery and snobery. We should work together to improve each others work, not only for the good of the wiki as a whole, but for the good of ourselves and each other as fellow hobbyists and wikians. D&D is an extremely flexible game, and that's a good thing. Above all, promote fun through kindness. Unless someone is actually acting in bad faith, there's no need to get all serious and bent out of shape'''.<br />
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This wiki is our collective table. These people you are interacting with are your allies- maybe even distant friends. Treat them like it." and yet you feel the need to enforce '''YOUR''' vision upon someone else's hard work time and effort. That disturbs me because it greatly differentiates from what that page says.--[[User:Drakonsblade|Drakonsblade]] ([[User talk:Drakonsblade|talk]]) 10:35, 16 February 2018 (MST)<br />
:I judged [[Drakoniant (5e Race)]] to be too powerful, and I attempted to de-power the race to a point comparable to the first-party races while still keeping the spirit of the page. They still have a faster land speed than most other humanoid races, they still have a natural weapon, and they still fly. <br />
:I sincerely apologize if I seemed "elitist" when I made this edit. However, I did judge the page's use of {{tl|Design Disclaimer}} to be inappropriate. As you have stated in the design disclaimer itself, "this race is not balanced by 5e" and per [[Help:Improving, Reviewing, and Removing Templates]] "This template is not justification for broken...design, nor is this template intended to identify pages as being...broken." Thus, {{tl|needsbalance}} or de-powering of the page is appropriate. — [[User:Geodude671|Geodude671]] [[File:chatmod.png]] ([[User talk:Geodude671|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Geodude671|contribs]] | [[Special:EmailUser/Geodude671|email]]) . . 11:09, 16 February 2018 (MST)<br />
::I will never lie on this part in particular "this race is not balanced by 5e standards" that is entirely and wholeheartedly true and that's because it is made and balanced via compromise with logical thought and reasoning and some 5e standards. By logical reasoning, my race, as well as any race that at minimum stands at 7ft tall, should logically be as fast as a wood elf since the length of the gait is actually much larger than most elves, humans, and tieflings, etc. this doesn't even touch on the fact that my race is digitigrade and I don't honestly feel like launching into a whole different speal about the differences in speed between the two types of legs that I already went into in my disclaimer but I digress. While a wood elf is fast due to their inherent magic. As to the flying, their flying works just like a dragon's does they build up the physical and magical strength required to lift themselves into the air with their wings, their flight speed was set at level 5 because that allows for them to build up the physical strength as well as the magical strength required to lift such heavy being into the air. This entire thing up to now hasn't even touched on the fact that you deleted the "base" page which I tried to upload under an OP variant page without so much as a word in the discussion page you literally looked it over, saw it was my base race and pressed delete, there wasn't even a deletion tag assigned to it before you deleted it. '''YOU''' made no effort what so ever to try and talk about it with me, and while it 'may' be within your rights as an admin to do so it is also the actions like this that make you out to be an "elitist".--[[User:Drakonsblade|Drakonsblade]] ([[User talk:Drakonsblade|talk]]) 11:48, 16 February 2018 (MST)<br />
:::[[Drakoniant(variant) (5e Race)]] was deleted without following the proper process because it was nearly identical to the old, deleted version of [[Drakoniant (5e Race)]]. I wasn't the person who deleted the original page, that was SgtLion. I did add {{tl|delete}} to the page, but the page sat there with no objection to the deletion template for nearly a month. — [[User:Geodude671|Geodude671]] [[File:chatmod.png]] ([[User talk:Geodude671|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Geodude671|contribs]] | [[Special:EmailUser/Geodude671|email]]) . . 12:17, 16 February 2018 (MST)<br />
:::: The new page or the old page because the variant page wasn't up there anywhere near as long as a month? on another note what happened to allowance to put up overpowered versions of the race in variant pages? last time I was here that was allowed wasn't it?--[[User:Drakonsblade|Drakonsblade]] ([[User talk:Drakonsblade|talk]]) 12:30, 16 February 2018 (MST)<br />
:::: on a sperate note what is the point of homebrew if not to make things different from the standard game?--[[User:Drakonsblade|Drakonsblade]] ([[User talk:Drakonsblade|talk]]) 12:34, 16 February 2018 (MST)<br />
:::::The page that had a deletion template for nearly a month is the old, deleted version of [[Drakoniant (5e Race)]].<br />
:::::Yes, the point of homebrew is to alter or add on to the standard game. In general, though, the new content being added in should "fit in" with first-party content already in the game, because you're creating content for an existing game rather than making a game of your own. Here on the wiki we have a general consensus that we should be enforcing balance, because this makes content fun for everybody at the table rather than just the one person playing it, and it lets people browse the site with an understanding that content is likely to be suitable for their use. We have standards on this wiki that content must adhere to (even if it sometimes takes a while for those standards to be enforced). If you want to keep your race in its unbalanced state, you can move it into your userspace, where other users are not allowed to edit, except for administrators to remove content that breaks sitewide rules (per [[Help:Behavioral Policy#User Pages]]). If you do not know how to do this, I or another user would be willing to help you or do it for you. — [[User:Geodude671|Geodude671]] [[File:chatmod.png]] ([[User talk:Geodude671|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Geodude671|contribs]] | [[Special:EmailUser/Geodude671|email]]) . . 12:56, 16 February 2018 (MST)<br />
::::::: Thank you for informing me about moving it to my userspace, I was unaware of that possibility and would like to ask for your, or someone else's help in transferring it there. P.s. sorry about the late time of this post.--[[User:Drakonsblade|Drakonsblade]] ([[User talk:Drakonsblade|talk]]) 00:57, 17 February 2018 (MST)<br />
::::::::To store a page in your userspace, you create a subpage of your userpage. For example, I have in my userspace [[User:Geodude671/5e Pages Needing Balance]]. The actual name of the page is "5e Pages Needing Balance," but the "User:Geodude671/" portion of the title designates the page as being a subpage of [[User:Geodude671]]. If you want to move [[Drakoniant (5e Race)]] to your userspace, click the "move" tab at the top of the page and change the title to [[User:Drakonsblade/Drakoniant]] or something similar. You will also need to remove all categories from the page so that it doesn't show up on automated lists like [[5e Races]]. — [[User:Geodude671|Geodude671]] [[File:chatmod.png]] ([[User talk:Geodude671|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Geodude671|contribs]] | [[Special:EmailUser/Geodude671|email]]) . . 07:08, 17 February 2018 (MST)<br />
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== Humanoid and "x" types ==<br />
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There's been a lot of lobbying for FA votes so I thought I would finally try to partake and noticed Earth Giant getting a lot of attention; figured lets check it out. Giantkin trait is pretty awesome I think and it is just like the Chimera's Monstrosity thing. Would it be better to flavor these like Fey Ancestry of the elf? It would coincide with first party content that has only humanoids as well. Just something I found curious and thought it could be food for thought. [[User:BigShotFancyMan|BigShotFancyMan]] ([[User talk:BigShotFancyMan|talk]]) 14:13, 16 February 2018 (MST)<br />
:Hey, for some reason I didn't see this before. That's an idea, I suppose, and I would like to see what you come up with. The traits that give "humanoid and x type" are mainly there for flavor and to make sure that a race is affected by an effect that they reasonably should be affected by (for example, a succubus character should be affected by things that specifically target fiends) while not making the race immune to a bevy of spells that target humanoids specifically (for example, ''{{5e|Hold Person}}''). — [[User:Geodude671|Geodude671]] [[File:chatmod.png]] ([[User talk:Geodude671|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Geodude671|contribs]] | [[Special:EmailUser/Geodude671|email]]) . . 17:02, 4 March 2018 (MST)<br />
::In regards to Earth Giant specifically, I'd recommend designing around high hit points, strength, athletics and perception. The race design is already done but these four elements exist in the monster manual giants except for athletics on hill giants. <br />
::The succubus idea, I'd rather give "Succubi Charm" per long rest, may cast charm person as the spell. Both ideas draw on the races lore or heritage vs giving them the creature type. <br />
::These are just my thoughts on race design and trying to keep things closer to 5e first party content. I don't think there's anything wrong with what people have done assigning to creature types to races, yet. "dun dun dun" lol [[User:BigShotFancyMan|BigShotFancyMan]] ([[User talk:BigShotFancyMan|talk]]) 09:51, 6 March 2018 (MST)<br />
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== The Minotaur not having the one size lager skill ==<br />
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Hey I was planing on using the Minotaur race for my next character mostly cause when a friend of mine recommended me this race it had this skill formerly know as power build "You count as one size larger when determining your carrying capacity and the weight you can push, drag, or lift" I was wondering what the reason was to removing it? {{unsigned|Buddy18181}}<br />
:I removed it because I made the race Large-sized :) — [[User:Geodude671|Geodude671]] [[File:chatmod.png]] ([[User talk:Geodude671|talk]] | [[Special:Contributions/Geodude671|contribs]] | [[Special:EmailUser/Geodude671|email]]) . . 16:56, 4 March 2018 (MST)<br />
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== Oath of censorship. ==<br />
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Thanks for restoring it.</div>2601:247:C300:3729:74D3:6A88:F03F:456D