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Oops, said the quiet part out loud again.

'Normal D&D character' is an oxymoron.

I knew this year's awards were a joke the second I saw Starfield nominated for (and subsequently winning) 'most innovative gameplay.'

Reminds me of a friend who plays with two custom spells on quickslots the first chance he gets to make them. The first he calls "JUMP GOD" and the second is "I HATE FALL DAMAGE" with 2-300 points in jump for 1s and a couple seconds of feather fall, respectively.

Who needs fast travel?

SOMEBODY STOP THE DAMN MATCH!

"Anyone else think a lot of liberals feel this way?"

/r/Conservative, "Flaired users only."

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I can almost guarantee this was some stupid marketing exec's idea. Someone had to write the code that interprets that you're watching an episode that someone else has available for streaming. Any software dev worth their salt would have seen this request and said "This is the dumbest fucking idea I have ever seen in my life" and they probably had to make it anyway because it pays the bills.

...Is the 'harsh wake-up call' that they need to look for a better employer? Asking for your employees to push themselves harder is what we in the business call "Whining."

I've heard "because I like the sound of dice hitting the table."

I mean, the point of the special is to find meaning in the holidays regardless of the rampant consumerism, but the impact of the message is dampened a bit by Hallmark putting out new charlie brown Christmas tree ornaments every year.

That said, it's also okay not to have holiday spirit if you don't find anything about this time of year meaningful. For many who aren't practicing Christians, it's a time to be with family because most companies tend to give days off anyway, but for those of us who have cut ties and don't see the significance of decorating and whatnot, it's perfectly fine to enjoy the time off without feeling festive.

It's worth noting that "Encounter" doesn't necessarily mean "Combat," but the 6-8 encounter day is definitely bullshit. I think that framework is held over from very early releases, and if you want an idea of what a 6-8 encounter day would actually play like, Tyranny of Dragons' "Flames over Greennest" module pushes players to exhaustion with that many encounters before a punishing boss fight that you're intended to lose, and it's definitely not fun, especially because those caster classes just do not have the slots to spare at level 1.

It's clear how SR/LR resources evolved from daily/encounter powers in 4e, and that was a much more elegant way of handling resource expenditure, even if it did make all the classes play kind of the same.

Yeah, they got super lazy with magic item economy in 5e and justified it by saying "you can play this game without the expectation of magic items!" Like bullshit, you just didn't want to deal with the hassle of pricing items correctly to the point that there are items in lower tiers that are functionally the same or better than items in higher tiers. (Ring of warmth vs ring of resistance is an egregious example, but if you look hard enough you'll find more.)

Can't get that sweet sweet ad revenue if your content isn't 100% in line with advertising expectations. God forbid there are any deviants on a site that positioned itself as weird and quirky for the first decade of its existence.

Almost as dumb as Nintendo patenting the concept of a sanity meter and then not fucking doing anything with it since Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem.

Yeah, I don't think there's a restaurant on Alberta that doesn't have at least a little of this aesthetic.

That said, Pine State is worth the asking price and I'll kill on that hill.

A warforged officer with a built-in set of calligrapher's tools meant to be a relay for orders and memos from command to pass to the troops. They become a bard and call their act "Printer Jams."

Investigators said they aren’t certain exactly how Kelly got his hands on the drugs. Records show Kelly had been tasked earlier in the day with destroying drugs seized by another police officer that morning.

🤔🤔🤔

That's because you have more agency in D&D than you do in real life.

Can't long rest more than once per 24 hours.