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team purp forever. You look at the number on top to see what result you got on every other die, why change for d4s?

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steiner’s theme from ff9

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thanks little pal, I can always count on the dogctor of time

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make shitty artwork on purpose, its cool

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I played a shadowdancer in full plate that always used stealth for initiative once. She was practically invisible, but with the implacable CLANK CLANK CLANK precluding a heavy THWACK to start off every combat. it was pretty reliable strat all things considered.

it was ironically our swashbuckler who was the bane of all stealth attempts, as they were just so unlucky with d20 rolls

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in 2e, its a pretty big difference. A failed stealth check bumps down your stealth status to “Hidden” (What was that noise? Who’s footprints are these? etc.), while a crit fail makes you full on “observed” (Tony Tony Chopper style.)

The Assurance: Stealth feat is the lynchpin in many a clunky fighter’s exploration kit, since it will pretty much never critically fail, giving them time to hide somewhere or get help from a sneakier friend.

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Todd Howard more like Todd Coward

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Its so cool that the state of minnesota all collectively decided that they loved one piece and made smoker their flag.

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I’m on the complete other side of the meme, give my wizards crossbows and Locate-City bombs, please

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we call those kobolds

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throw phone out window

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Doors are a solved issue, just bust out the ol’ dwarven lockpick. Or in laymans terms, an adamantium warhammer.

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being a bandit in a world of wizards must suck ass. If they suddenly stop invading your hideout theres an 80% chance they’ve spontaneously invented a new warcrime that triggers when you walk through the door to investigate, or they’re just taking a spellcaster siesta.

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You can get eminent domain’d or your house could be destroyed by natural disaster, house fire, etc.

New GM: Player wants a new character early in the game

We’re 3 game sessions deep into a Vampire the Masquerade chronicle. I’ve just heard from one of my players that they feel like they’ve put a bit too much of themselves into their character, and they’re starting to get uncomfortable with it. As such, they’d like to roll up a new char sheet and bring their current...

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That early on, you can just roll a hard mulligan.

Do a full character retcon, introduce the new character as if it were session 1, and maybe touch on how this character would have behaved over the last few sessions, then bam. Just keep running as normal.

You must pick a point in human history before the 1950s to be spend the rest of your life in. What era and place would you choose?

You would still have the same age, gender, personality, skin color, etc. and you would be able to speak at least one local language and would know basic information of the era and place. Your family, social standing, and such would be randomly picked.

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Caveman era. Give me a heavy rock and a cave and ill make do somehow.

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I am begging you, please just drop magic full plate, lmao

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Modders were too scared to develop the forbidden Schlongs of the Sword Coast mod, so Larion did it themselves

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My consciousness is sustained with a careful balance of caffiene and adrenaline. If I stop drinking coffee and fix my anxiety disorders, I will probably die from the many years of accumulated sleep debt

masimatutu, to fediverse en-gb

Mastodon has the responsibility to promote diversity in the Fediverse

I love the Threadiverse. Compared to the microblogging Fediverse’s sea of random thoughts, Lemmy and kbin are so much easier to navigate with the options to sort posts by subscribed, from local instances or everything federated. You can also sort by individual community, and then there are the countless ways to order the posts and comments (which are stored neatly under the main post, by the way). That people can more easily find the right discussions and see where they can contribute also means that the discussions tend to be more focused and productive than elsewhere. Decentralisation also makes a lot of sense, since it is built around different communities. All that’s needed is users.

Things were going quite well for a while when Reddit killed third-party apps, prompting many to leave and find the Threadiverse. However, it is quite difficult to entertain a crowd that has grown accustomed to a constant bombardment of dopamine-inducing or interesting content by tens of millions of users, if you only have a couple hundred thousand people. This is causing some to leave, which of course increases this effect. The active users have more than halved since July, according to FediDB. The mood is also becoming more tense. Maybe the lack of engagement drives some to cause it through hostility, I’m not quite sure. Either way, the Threadiverse becoming a less enjoyable place to be, which is quite sad considering how promising it is.

But what is really frustrating is that we could easily have that userbase. The entire Fediverse has over ten million users, and many Mastodonians clearly want to engage in group-based discussion, looking at Guppe groups. The focused discussions should also be quite attractive. Technically we are federated, so why do Mastodonians interact so little with the Threadiverse? The main reason is that Mastodon simply doesn’t federate post content. I really can’t see why the platform that federates entire Wordpress blogs refuses to federate thread content just because it has a title, and instead just replaces the body with a link to the post. Very unhelpful.

The same goes with PeerTube. There are plenty of videos on there that I am quite sure a lot of Mastodonians would appreciate, yet both views and likes there stay consistently in the tens. Yes, Mastodon’s web interface has a local video player, but in most clients it is the same link shenanigans, may may partly explain the small amount of engagement. This is also quite sad, because Google’s YouTube is one of the worst social network monopolies out there, if not the worst.

And I know some might say that Mastodon is a microblogging platform and that it makes sense only to have microblogging content, but the problem is that Mastodon is the dominant platform on the Fediverse, its users making up close to 80% of all Fedizens. It has gone so far that several Friendica and Hubzilla users have been complaining about complaints from Mastodonians that their posts do not live up to Mastodon customs, and of course, that people frequently use “Mastodon” to refer to the entire Fediverse. This, of course, goes entirely against the idea of the Fediverse, that many diverse platforms live in harmony with and awareness of each other.

The very least that Mastodon could do is to support the content of other platforms. Then I’d wish that they’d improve discoverability, by for instance adding a videos tab in the explore section, improving federation of favourites since it is the dominant sorting mechanism on many other platforms, and making a clear distinction between people (@person) and groups (!group), but I know that that is quite much to ask.

P.S. @feditips , @FediFollows , I know that you are reluctant to promote Lemmy and its communities because of the ideology of its founders, but the fact is firstly that it’s open source and there aren't any individual people who control the entire project, and that the software itself is very apolitical. In fact, most Lemmy users both oppose and are on instances that have rules against such beliefs, so I highly encourage you to at least help raise awareness on the communities. Then, of course, there’s kbin, which isn’t associated with any extremism at all. As a bonus, it has much better integration with the microblogging Fediverse, but it is a lot smaller and younger, and still very much under development.

Anyways, that was a ramble. Thanks for hearing me out.

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yeah this is my first time seeing someone using it unironically and it feels grody

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human baby skin, saved you a click

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seasons greasons

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The 3 Bs, baby. Blizzard, Bioware, and Bethesda.

Blizzards dead to me, Bioware fell off after dragon age 1, and Bethesda refuses to take its limiters off anymore (no drugs)

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The only thing I can remember from inquisition is trudging through some high level desert looking for high level rocks (which very blatantly cut their drop rate from earlier zones) so that I could make an armor and weapon that still sucked and looked like pajamas.

also that the party loves to litter

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ah fuck, i gotta do the evil dishes again.

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i am telefragged as my head is now inside of a table

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spotube rule

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They did! Our GM at the time was super into the stuff they were putting out.

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All skeletons are friends until proven otherwise (they are very quick to prove otherwise)

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well what are you going to do in a tight corridor with a scimitar? Gotta have your spear for those situations. And when you’re up against an animate rock monster, nothing beats the big iron mallet.

Tumblr sheds Post Plus subscriptions as the platform downsizes (www.theverge.com)

TL;DR: Tumblr is discontinuing its Post Plus feature, allowing creators to charge for content, starting December 1st. This decision follows a leaked memo about downsizing due to struggles in meeting usage and revenue targets. Post Plus, introduced in 2021, didn’t meet expectations, leading to its discontinuation. Existing Post...

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Tumblr is still around???

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I’m a fan of the funky paralysis and lingering damage over time ones

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Oh that is clever, I tried doing something similar with a smokebomb alchemist once but never got the smokesight from hobgoblins so it was pretty much only useful for hiding, not shooting from.

Yeah, Investigators can sometimes be pretty feast or famine but they definitely flex more than I initially figured.

I've decided that I'm no longer just going to steal mostly workable maps for my campaign. I'll just make shitty stuff *quick*.

Here are two random encounter maps I made in an afternoon. I can put these out pretty quickly, so its kind of perfect for a sandbox game like the one I’m running. Keeps things fresh, even if they’re not as pretty as something produced professionally....

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They’re pretty simple, I just throw them together in gimp. The Gaussian Blur and Stroke Selection tools do a lot of heavy lifting.

For example, the shrubs are just 70-140 pixel wide pencil dabs with the Random Angle dynamics on, then I select them with the magic wand selector and Stroke Selection with a pencil brush. The shadow underneath is just a Gaussian Blur of a copy of the original dabs, but with the original magic wand selection cut out.

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no, because i make these for fun

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comments totally count rule

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self aware matter

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slop is an aesthetic ive recently got into. everyone should post their garbagecore creations, its cool.

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Isnt that like, the entire conceit of a king?

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Redrazers does some good work, but i just cant quit darthmarth’s autosheets

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Hey, it’s that dog

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I will go out of my way to avoid purchasing things ive seen an advertisement for

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Tyrannosaurus rex

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