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Of course, if you know you have a seer in your party, you can plan ahead and come up with some prepared scenes. They don't neccesarily have to be predicated on what's going on near the players either; they could, for example, foresee the bbeg tormenting his captives - get some flavor about how evil he is, maybe some plot-relevant information to use later, but it doesn't actually depend on which level of the dungeon they're on or whatever. Obviously, this depends on the details of exactly what spells they're using and in what system.

Crazy characters in general. It turns out mental illness makes it really hard to work collaboratively on stuff, who knew :/

People like to subvert tropes but don't always understand those tropes and why the purpose they serve, so their subversions don't necessarily serve a counterpurpose.

You like kissing garlic bread don't you (eating is a lot like kissing right)

There is a huge stage influence. Just look at how 90% of the planets are a couple of boulders in front of a cyc.

The funniest part of this is the last panel. Why is DS9 moving at warp get down from there

Not with that attitude

Pretty sure Johnny Bravo is a Barbarian.

EDIT: On second thought, he may be a druid. Just based off who he can and can't persuade.

"And thats why we all eat honey and knock over eachother's trash cans at the monthly Care Festival!"

Unless you count roast elf

Humans breed like mad. We got other platoons.

Sugar refining is grody

It's only wasted time if people didn't have fun. And sometimes a bit of misdirection makes the actual challenges more fun, too.

Ohhhhh....kayyyyyy

"You can't fuck if you're dead" what's to understand

Different strokes for different folks. And I'd be very careful about using assumptions of "what DnD was designed for" as a guide for how everyone ought to play now. To quote Terry Pratchett by way of Captain Carrot, "Gold and muck come out of the same shaft." It's more important to understand what kinds of fun your game can deliver on, and how, so that you can tune it for the maximum enjoyment of your table, than it is to determine in the abstract how it "should" be played.

Well, yes, more precise information is always going to make your decisions easier, so of course less makes it harder. That's not necessarily a bad thing though; perhaps your DM is just running the kind of game where you need to make those calls based off something diagetic to the game, like their combat descriptions ("You shoot the orc square in the chest but the arrow shatters harmlessly on his armor!") or monster research or something. Or perhaps it's the kind of game that thrives on drama, and you just gotta take your shots sometimes and let the dice fall where they may.

And yeah, theoretically it feels bad to waste a buff on an enemy you'd never be able to actually hit, but because you don't know the numbers, you don't know you could never hit. You're faced with a big scary monster, you try to hit it and can't, you run away. The arc of that encounter is the same regardless of which abilities you used. It only becomes relevant if the DM decides to hit you with another encounter, which presumably they only do if they think your lacking-that-ability would make for another exciting narrative moment. In which case, you'd only be screwing yourself out of that dramatic moment if you'd conserved your ability. It all just depends on what kind of game you're at, whether it prioritizes the gamist mechanical rewards or the narratavist dramatic rewards.

Likewise, sometimes you're going to "waste" your buff on some overkill, but you won't know that either; you'll simply be told "Bardman McBardo's inspiring music gives you the vigor you need to waste that guy" and get to feel good about winning your encounter. The emotions average out.

So you pitch the die in the jar and tell the dm "this ability procs if I fail."

Reminder for anyone reading this, Wim Hof is a charlatan, his "method" has resulted in many deaths, and he once apparently stuck a public fountain up his ass to avoid talking to his son.

What would you consider sincerely fun, no pretending? Would any of those activities be something you could share with loved ones? Boom, party.