Khrux @ Khrux @ttrpg.network

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My understanding it at 'he' is the bot.

As soon as the bot is first deployed, it immediately says "Elon is gay". The final message here means it says this somewhere ( such as on twitter I presume), not in response to anyone or anything but just totally un-prompted.

Biden slams the Palestinian genocide as "a little too much".

I'm fond of both, infact fantastic four may be my favourite thing to come from superheroes and basically only watched Narcos when it released because I liked Pedro Pascal. I dread this project.

Half of those were me and my 2014 hellish Skyrim setup.

From level 5-7, I could see myself throwing a dozen CR 1/2 hobgoblins at a party looks a.

At level 9, a CR 5 boss, a pair of CR 2 lieutenants and 8 CR 1/2 minions would also be a fun fight. I'm pulling both these numbers from page 68 of Forge of Foes, a great 3rd party suppliment.

If I suspected the PC was itching to use fireball, I'd give them a killer use for it soon after they hit level 5, such as the aforementioned 8 wide, 4 deep phalanx of hobgoblins that could be incinerated in a single blast from this. If you're not familiar with lightning rods, if the idea of specific things to make the PCs feel cool, undead for the cleric to turn, mundane archers for the mink to deflect, or dense, weak enemies for the sorcerer to fireball. The mother of all lightning rods is the one you set up soon after they get the ability to show how it shines.

Also if you use the minion rules such as those created by MCDM, then at basically any level, those mooks will be instantly killed by this effect, it's great empowerment for the player and if it's budgeted for in your encounter creation, not fun spoiling.

It aired against House of the Dragon which really shower it's mediocre writing. I'm a huge Tolkien fan and generally sceptical of most franchises but honestly I think in a vacuum, the show is fine.

Compare it to Witcher, even season 1 which is fine is probably on par or worse than Rings of Power, it's just that LotR is a strong franchise and it was easier to compare to multiple better competitors.

Conjure animals may be mechanically powerful but it's impact on pacing and round time may as well deal psychic damage directly to the table.

You'll run into the same power with every spell that limits creatures movement, and I'd say for a 4th level spell, that movement limitation is about right.

I think the difference really comes if fireball would reliable actually kill your opponents and if that's your objective.

A phalanx of hobgoblins have 11 hitpoints each, so their half damage on a success is still likely to mean they go from full to dead in a fireball. Hypnotic pattern would probably still take out 3/4+ of them, but now you and mop up the incapacitated creatures.

Hypnotic pattern is more versatile as it's humane and can be used to achieve multiple objectives, but when it's life or death, nothing kills like fireball.

I feel that they can't just jump out of it, as that basically just nullifies the spell entirely, I generally imply the plants are actually grabbing people.

As for pulling out their crossbows, at level 5, enemies are already begining to move from humanoids with equipment to unique creatures. A wereboar or ettin for example doesn't have any RAW ranged weapons.

The spell is also absolutely amazing to pair with another Spellcaster with consistent AOE damage such as moonbeam or ideally sickening radiance or cloudkill. That's the real army killer as once the spell is up, you can take cover and let them be microwaved while they can't reasonably counter you.

If you don't experience any of the reprocussions, would it even do anything?

A huge portion of the internet want to fuck this guy, brave words. I do agree though.

Charles has literally lobbied ministers to change spending plans to go against the NHS in favour of homeopathic remedies. People have likely died from cancer directly due to his decisions and in my opinion, lol is a suitable response to that karma.

Celestial video games: Beautifully polished, graphically perfect games that define visual benchmarks for years to come. No interesting content under the surface.

Devil video games: Competitive deck builders that are always receiving nerds and buffs that seem to only harm you, where everyone always seems a little better than you.

Demon video games: Horribly un-optimised sandbox creation games that people only use to cause massive destruction.

Fey video games: Absurd dating sims that exclusively feels like the creator simultaneously has never spoken to anyone romantically in their lives and also fucks.

I can't tell if counter strike would be a human or hobgoblin video game.

This is it for me, I basically don't use those keys daily and can access them via a function key when I rarely need them, so I'm gonna prioritise the aesthetics and compactness.

I often find that blog post, which I thought was it's origin, reads too much like a creepypasta for me to enjoy.

If you wanna de-metagame the same idea, share it in world as folklore then 'break character' to gush about it.

If the players dig deep enough about the false hydra they 'discover' they'd find it's a rumour spread by the person who also spread the folklore in world, perhaps they're a serial killer or supporting some form of underground railroad or something.

The only thing this doesn't fix is the root issue of "if you know there are people disappearing, then it's not a false hydra".

To be fair I'd just rule in favour of the players the first time it comes up. If they want it as a silencer with the prerequisite of putting it over someone's head, that's cool because the enemy will struggle and make it difficult.

If it's debut was from an enemy doing it to a PC who said they'd yell extra hard to call for help, I'd probably ask for a skill check and say the sound does pass through.

From then on, I'd just keep that ruling.

I can't really check my overall playtime but once again I'm being sucked in by Minecraft.

As a teenager it was my default game and if I could see my playtime I recon it's 5 times higher than my next biggest game which was Skyrim at about 500 hours across both editions. When I was a teen, I'd adored how I could just get lost in this peaceful, lonely world.

For the last 6 years, I've been trying to play more innovative indie games that I can broaden my love for the medium, but every now and again I yearn for the mines. It's basically the only game I can enjoy after day of work too.