May or may not be an actual room in a castle, but there’s often going to be one or multiple cesspits. This could literally be simply a pit under a garderobe/bathroom or it could be a walled and enclosed space, but if present it would be serviced regularly by gong farmers.
More detail: The cesspits will usually be placed outside the walls (and away from the water storage) of the castle and the garderobes were often placed in the outer walls with a shaft leading to the outside of the castle.
I use Stable Diffusion daily. I’m vehemently against people spouting nonsensical fear mongering against AI. But I completely agree with the author here: a company using AI-generated images in a published book that they charge money for is despicable. AI should be a tool artists choose to use to enhance their workflow, just like Photoshop and tablets. It cannot and should not replace them entirely.
I had no idea that Hasbro had done this. Have they released a statement trying to justify this, or are they just hoping that nobody will care?
Not from comicbook.com, but close. Looks like you’re right: just more anti-AI nonsense. I wonder if there was this much vitriol when Photoshop first released.
I’ve heard art student friends 20 years ago talk about how digital art isn’t real art. I’ve also heard from them that in art history (although I can’t confirm) that oil painters had a similar opinion of acrylic painters.
Do you have a teleportation circle or a portal? A teleportation circle is like a star trek teleporter your velocity is matched with the destination on arrival no cannon.
If you have horizontal portal then sure you could drop a Boulder down such a shaft but I would be careful as this is open to exploit.
“Velocity is matched with the destination” : that makes sense, but do you have a citation?
The character’s are time-traveling, are only 6th level, and a single permanent tele circle takes a year, so I’m not fretting too much about being exploited by the players. Plus, it’s a good group so I think we’d work it out.
Here’s an idea. Let’s replace the DM with a computer to lead the module and make other decisions. While we are at it, we can digitize the module and program it directly into the DM. The module and the DM can be combined with a digital display so that there is no need for dry erase markers or theater of mind. Finally, to save time, we can automate the dice rolls with random number generators run directly by the DM/module computer program.
Think about that! Your favorite role playing games, fully integrated into a computer! The future of gaming.
Anyone who thinks this is a “maybe” isn’t paying attention. For the record, this is going to suck such massive donkey balls.
Don’t forget: from the people who literally thought 4E was the low-effort key to even more profit: bringing WoW to TTRPG format. What’s not to like? 🤦🏼♂️🤢
its certainly not going to be good. Having used AI in various way to augment my campaign, it is POSSIBLE to be used well, but Hasbro has given zero reason to believe they can do it
There’s an in-world story in the Stormlight Archive about exactly this. The emperor of an island nation is so fearful that no one dares enter his tower. They are generally totally peaceful, but brutally murder anyone that makes a mistake, because their “Emperor won’t suffer failure.”
The characters in the story go to confront the emperor because they can’t stand for these murders, and find that the emperor is just a desicated corpse because no one has been into the tower for like 50 years. The island is thrown into chaos as the people are forced to come to terms with the fact that they’ve been killing each other for decades for no reason.
Damn I got really excited about this idea and then your comment made me realize all the players at my table know Warhammer better than I do and would get it immediately
Don’t be discouraged! As a player, the only thing better than an entirely new fantasy concept is one that I’m familiar enough with to recognize and role play my spin on it! I’m sure your players will enjoy spotting the similarities and a appreciate whatever you do.
When you put one existing thing in your game, it’s stealing. When you mix two existing things together and put the resulting mixture in your game, it’s called being creative.
The canon keeps it pretty ambiguous whether or not he’s actually alive IIRC. Several of the alien races refer to him as a “corpse emperor”, and obviously human sources in-world are unreliable. Either way, since he hasn’t actually been seen for 10,000 years, the effect is the same as OP describes.
Like I said to the other person, don’t hesitate to use it just because someone else has done it first. As the quote goes: “Good writers borrow, great writers steal”.
As I understand it - Basically it’s assumed he is kept barely alive to keep the astronomicon (the beacon for warp travel) working. Some people think he is a perpetual (someone who can revive after death) but if he leaves the throne the warp in Terra won’t be kept in check anymore and will be lost. Most likely they’d lose the ability to travel the warp as well.
The Emperor’s body is physically about as dead as you can get, but he is such a powerful Psyker (read: magic user) that they keep his body alive on life support in order to harness the powers of his brain. The life support system (Called the Golden Throne) is so demanding that they literally need to provide him ~1000 human sacrifices per day, specifically people with psionic/Psyker capabilities.
However, a huge amount of the Empire’s logistical infrastructure depends on him, since his mind provides a beacon (called the astronomicon) that allows ships to navigate the Warp (another dimension, full of Eldritch horrors, useful for FTL travel, similar to D&D’s astral plane).
Most of the empire has become convinced that the Emperor himself is a living God, that he is omniscient and can enact his will around the galaxy. They are somewhat justified in this as well, since praising the Emperor is an effective way of repelling demons (IIRC this is just because believing in anything with enough zeal will repel demons).
Also, as soon as someone begins to doubt the divinity of the emperor, the chaos gods are able to start influencing/corrupting them, so it’s generally considered a dick move not to praise the emperor. Agnosticism, atheism, and even just having your own interpretation about the imperial cult literally represent a threat in the same way a terrorist might.
I must have spent hundreds of hours on BG I and II some twenty years ago. I’ve resisted trying the early access version, I want the full experience. I hope it lives up to my expectations!
This is a great reminder as I prep for an upcoming campaign. I’ve never heard of Sly Flourish but I like the way this was presented; I’ll have to read up some more. Thanks for sharing!
The 4e minion with this exact adjustment you describe is precisely how our our table handles it.
My players love it when I throw swarms at them - an epic pile of miniatures on the table, carving a swathe through your enemies… it’s great power fantasy stuff, and a nice way of emphasising how powerful leveled characters are.
I once decided to give all my players a single minor magical item at lvl 1 just to help their characters settle into their roles.
The Ranger got a quiver of elven kind (guaranteed 20 non-magical arrows per day)
The wizard got an indestructible spellbook (no need to worry about losing spells)
The monk/rogue a cloak that made it easier to conceal his identity
And the hobbit-like bard... a dagger of warning.
I thought they'd appreciate the LotR nod. Except I made a campaign of intrigue, where the baddies were hiding in plain sight. I dreaded that damn dagger. Somehow, through sheer luck, the bard immediately forgot about it after their first encounter. It never came up again.
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