Probably mostly bots. Apparently there is several hundred thousand bot accounts and admins have been purging them. Seems like new users were made to make it appear as if Lenny was growing exponentially
That graph showing a sudden massive uptick all at once across so many instances? Crazy.
From the post, it seemed that the intention was not to inflate the numbers alone, but to have the bots sit around until needed. It makes me mad that someone jumped on that so fast to set up all those sleeper bots.
The subscriber count you see is based in the instance you are on. 7000+ subscribers are from lemmy.world. The bot accounts people complain about are on unsecured instances. We haven’t seen proof of any activity from them and they wouldn’t show up in the subscriber count here.
Haha, my table almost had a party wipe in a combat which started with the mage and the bard out front… And continued with the bard running further out front to use Thunderwave.
The dude who made this is a DM of mine. He almost wiped the party with an NPC casting thunderwave trying to support them. We sort forced him to make this :D
I know at least one is getting frustrated with combat because he can’t roll to save his life.
Yeah, that's a feature of 5e combat, not a bug. It's what makes me despise combat. I miss three times, wait 20 minutes for my turn to come back around, miss three more times, wait 18 minutes, and then combat is over.
Some of us are just cursed. The only workarounds I've found so far are:
Specialize in making the DM roll saving throws, rather than me rolling attack rolls. A spellcaster who focuses on save-for-half spells feels so much better (because even when the monsters pass the save, the player still get to feel useful).
Specialize in party buffs and reaction spells. They don't have to roll anything to Enlarge or Dragon's Breath their friends, and they get to feel like they helped. Also, never underestimate how good it can feel to make a Counterspell bot. Even if the bad guys start upcasting their spells and your player always fails the check, they still made them waste a higher-level spell slot than they'd have used otherwise.
Halfling Divination Wizard with the Lucky feat. Three re-rolls, two portent dice, and rerolling all 1s once really helps brute force one's way through being cursed. And it's not broken when people like us play it, because we end up finally managing to get around the same number of successes that non-cursed people get normally.
Notice that none of these solutions are possible with pure martial classes. Steer your player away from those, maybe even let him make a new character. Martials are totally at the mercy of the dice.
My ultimate solution was to switch systems and play FATE instead. But that's an extreme reaction to an extreme level of frustration.
Sounds like it’s time to steal the concept of minions from 4e. Minions are specifically meant to help players feel powerful while still posing a credible threat.
Annoying to see that the same ghettoization of AI art is going on here as was on Reddit - AI art is forbidden from the "art" community, and lumped in over with the "AI" community that also handles every other kind of AI stuff. At this point it should be pretty clear that whether something is "AI" or not is not as relevant a division as what kind of AI thing it is.
AWESOME! Keep it up. I ended up doing a quick 2 session DM fill in for my crew while our main DM was on vacation. 2 years later and we have yet to finish my homebrew campaign that came from it.
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