ProfessorOwl_PhD [any] @ ProfessorOwl_PhD @hexbear.net

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Rick Riordan's various series might catch your fancy - they're really young adult fiction, but they're still a good read. They cover Greek, Roman, Norse, and Egyptian mythology from the perspectives of the god's half human offspring, bringing the mythology into a modern context while retreading the old myths.

Sorcerer's can manifest from the smallest element of ancestral magic, they don't need to inbreed.

Go and reread your comments. Look at what you've actually been saying. Here you're reminding me it's actually more complex than I described, after claiming it's incredibly simple. In your past comments you flipped from "it's easier to modify a game than learn a new one" to "actually I like putting more work in than if I just got a game that works".

You're not actually arguing that there are any benefits to the rule, you're just flipping through positions trying to justify using it. Its perfectly fine to say that a system doesn't actually do what you want and to find a system that does - there are plenty of OSR games that are very similar to 5e while adding those extra edges you're looking for - but right now you're adding a bunch of extra complexity that is suitable for high crunch systems, not simple ones like 5e.

Lets go through the actual steps:

• Roll a death save
• choose an action
• calculate new exhaustion level (which is completely different to the exhaustion mechanic that's already in the system)
• roll relevent attacks etc at new penalty

So not super complicated, but definitely much more complex that.... basically any other way of dying. When added to all your other homebrew rules it doesn't matter if nobody cares until they reach 0hp, because the flip side is that they have to learn another new rule once they reach 0hp.

Meanwhile though, dying has moved from a serious problem to a non-condition: there are some mild penalties for acting, but overall? You still have all your actions, just at a slightly slower, still costless, move speed. Players lose little for entering it, so are going to be much less inclined to avoid it, while monsters are now encouraged to double tap - it would be very stupid to walk away from a PC just because they've been knocked prone, even if their actions has an additional cost now.

You're adding elaborate "adaptations" to your reliant robin to stop it tipping over instead of just cutting your losses and buying a car with 4 wheels. Spending lots of your time on something doesn't make it better than what's already out there.

That's literally what I'm saying - when you're adding this much complexity to dying alone (because nobody runs 5e with just the one piece of homebrew rules), it would actually be easier to just play a system with more crunch by default and a complete rules set. It is more work for players to have to ask you/for you to tell players about each of your homebrews than to just use a system that already has the rules you're looking for.

It's a lot harder to get your head around the first TTRPG you play than any after, so changing system really isn't a big deal.

Jesus Christ just play 3.5 if you're going to make it that complex.

My Eladrin Paladin would definitely get interpreted as a himbo, when he's actually quite intelligent, just a very impulsive thrillseeker. He knows full well every most of the time he walks into a trap, and he delights in it.

If we say Israel and you hear Jews, it's not us that are antisemitic.

I didn't realise it was strange until my sister complained about it being incomprehensible gibberish, but I listen to podcasts at at least double speed.

One of the characters on the Hideous Laughter podcast Interlude episodes had long pauses between words so I kept speeding it up until they stopped bothering me. Then everything else sounded weird at normal speed and I'd get bored during the pauses between people speaking, so now they're all on 2-2.5x speed.

Mine just stood stock still staring at people for 24 seconds before starting a conversation, detecting good/evil/law/chaos. Made for some very fun roleplay.

My highschool made us use fountain pens for "real" work and I cannot stress enough how shitty and obsolete they are. They skate around the page and any slight mistake can quickly turn into a multi-line mess. They're almost impossible to transport without making a mess, and if you don't use them often enough they just dry out and you have to dig out a new ink cartridge.

They're probably bourgeoisie decadence, too.

How is the UK not the occupying force there? The Falkland Islands are nowhere fucking near us.

Yeah, I did look, most of them I've never seen before. Its a big list, but it covers a worldwide range of companies - most of them are specific to only a handful of countries. For dog food I can choose Harrington's, Pedigree, Butcher's etc, for sweets there's Mars, Haribo, Barratt etc - I really get the impression that you're thinking of the Big 11 companies, which are almost impossible to wholly boycott.

White brands are a different case, but I don't even bother with off-brands of stuff Nestle makes, so I'm pretty sure I'm safe.

Stop exaggerating. I live in the UK and avoid all these brands with minimal impact - drinking fresh coffee ends up being cheaper than instant, there are plenty of supermarket and non-nestle brands of sweets, dog foods, water, soap etc.

You can't avoid capitalism, but a single company, even as big as Nestlé, is very doable. It just requires a bit of mindfulness when shopping

Actual, literal, Hitler-loving Nazis are included at the table. I'm sure you're familiar with the expression about 10 people at a table with a nazi.

Here's a BBC article from 2014 about how Russia is completely overstating the nazi presence in the country, they just give neonazis citizenship and Azov have 3 Nazi symbols in their logo.

Here's another one about Right Sector, an ultranationalist alliance and one of the players in the 2013 Maiden coup.

How about this incident where thousands of Nazis demanded recognition for the Nazi aligned UPA?

Funny how all the Nazis immediately disappeared when Russia invaded though. Almost like one of those whitewashing things.

Jesus Christ. 20 years ago my chem teacher used to tell me about the bad old days of having to do this, that it's still happening today is horrifying.

I know, people are just a lot more willing to accept explosions if you say it's an experiment

It's me, I decide, and I decided nazism was bad a long time ago. You really need to get with the program dude.

20mph zones are generally around schools or heavily pedestrianised areas. Children are going to die as a result of blanket removal of 20mph zones.