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I've seen an explanation somewhere that I likes which is super speed and super reflexes are like tensing two different muscles.

You can make your body move at 10x speed to run across town (even 2-3 speed makes you faster than the fastest humans and 5* is like a car going quickly), then you use your reflexes 3 times faster to make that superspeed feel like only 3 times your natural speed. You can also seperate them in other ways like buying yourself time in an exam by speeding up your thinking without actually increasing your muscle movement.

Your mental and physical speed being like tensing muscles also means you can have them kick in like a withdrawal reflex. As the air pressure changes before an explosion or bullet hits you, you involuntarily crank your limit to 50x speed (or whatever is required) to dodge.

It also has the obvious weakness of being exhaustable. It's worth mentioning that 10x speed is absolutely enough to do most superhuman abilities, and 3x speed makes you basically better than most humans, not just at running but also dodging and punching, and it's absolutely up to the storyteller to decide if such a low speed multiplier exhausts said speedster or if they can maintain that indefinitely like the muscles we use to stand.

I wouldn't call it a soulslike really. Beyond being an over the shoulder melee game, it's more of a classic PS2 era adventure game.

I picked up En Garde recently because I absolutely adore the tone, setting and swashbuckling duelist vibe.

It's a little flat for me, I don't feel like it has achieved the character fantasy of being a swashbuckler in the mechanics, instead I'm basically kicking boxes into people and stabbing them again and again.

The DM of my current game is literally in the same boat as you, we've gone into tier 3 and he's asked for a hiatus because wrapping up the complex web of all of our side adventures, plus our own lives making us all exhausted for games needed reworking.

In the meantime we've just played Alics is Missing which was a blast, I'm looking forward to our DM being ready to restart but only when he's ready.

Weird question but as someone who has never owned a reptile, do they feel love and kinship like mammals do? I always picture their reptile brains as very logical and without any emotion except maybe fear sometimes, but I could be totally wrong on that.

A gargoyle (crafted as a construct to protect a religious order) in the campaign I'm currently in is called Emet, which to my understanding is how אמת is pronounced (translating to truth). In the myth, removing א from their name makes it מת, death, and the golem dies. The pronunciation changes from Emet to Met and I'm always a little interested to see if this will pop up in some from in the game.

It's pretty difficult to build a 5e powergamed character without homebrew or playtest content. I've genuinely never seen a build I'd consider so wildly out of whack from the rest of the party, even concepts people have made, and even then, they require specific magic items.

I'd just give character targeted magic items to the weaker players to bring them to the powergamers par, while rewardinng them with socially interesting magic items then sharpen the teeth to my monsters a little.

No butthole 😔

I always thought he wanted to be the Steve Jobs of the gaming world and never found his signature product to sell his success.

It absolutely wasn't an opportunity but I respect it none the less.

Also the bladesingers extra attack feature at level 6 is kind of designed to synergise with cantrips like booming blade and green flame blade.

I feel this. I watch about 8 Foodtubers on and off and babish now feels very generic because basically everyone is a take on him.

Two things in his favour are his decision to use being the largest to platform others was really good and although that diluted his channel by making fans of the person stop watching every video, and also the fact that if I'm actually looking for a specific cooking guide and I see a babish video, I know I can follow it reliably and have a tasty end product.

I'd say 2016 but I feel like the reality is every year I remember most clearly is the most year ever.

I still say gopiss girl on a weekly basis when someone leaves to pee, and I think that meme was probably 4 years ago by now.

It's pretty hypocritical but at least it's closeable with a continue reading button.

I couldn't find any report of a death but here is a credible source that it's possible. Sperm whales are particularly rare of course, and intelligent enough to probably know it's deadly, so it's no surprise it's rare.

Fun fact, sperm whales can generate a sonar click at 230dB. Decibels are a logarithmic scale so increasing by only a few dB is basically double the volume.

A sperm whale may swim past you, think you're interesting and give a little click to scan you, and basically stun or kill you instantly.

Wilder option which is definitely hard to mass produce:

A truncated tetrahedron like this but with wireframe corners, so it rolls like a D4 but there is a clear upward face.

D100 with 25 of each option lover right here

This is what I don't understand about people who eat food. Unlimited international access to traditional recipes and exotic vegetables, meat and other ingredients. New combinations of flavors and techniques available everywhere.

So you create the hotdog? I mean how do you even measure success? Perfection would still be a hotdog!