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I've never gotten to cast it (not yet anyway)

The biggest problem with casting Mighty Fortress is that you need a game to go to 17th level so you can learn Wish

Yes, I know it's an 8th level spell, but if you think that I'm coughing up a diamond for a temporary home you're out of your mind.

They're £1 a piece over where I am, me and my brother literally always joke that they're the number one indicator that the economy is in shambles (Edit: And yes, I remember them being 5p each)

I don't think the immigrants are to blame. They make a really easy target for politicians to blame, but... I mean, we both saw Boris Johnson campaigning for his fucking life on 'SAVE THE NHS SAVE THE NHS, JUST LET ME BAN ALL IMMIGRANTS AND RESTRICT HEALTHCARE SO I CAN SAVE THE NHS' and then he didn't give the NHS any money or support or investment, he just slipped a an absolutely fat bonus to all his tory friends and big businesses.

We should have invested in ourselves, yes. Just, please don't be fooled into thinking we invested into immigrants. 'We' (the Tories) invested into the offshore bank accounts of the 0.1%.

I mean, I was pretty young at the time, but good god even I can see how we've been obliterated by inflation. There's a specific chocolate here in the UK, a tiny little one for children called Freddo the Frog. Just a little cartoon chocolate frog, nothing fancy.

Their price has multiplied by a factor of TWENTY in the past 20 years. And I know pretty damn well that the amount everyone is getting paid has not increased by a factor of 20. Sure this is just a small irrelevant little chocolate bar and other things have inflated less, but like. It's probably the easiest thing to notice.

But yeah also playing in the street or taking a bike ride around town with your friends was a thing when I was a kid. Sure we were all probably a nuisance, but these days... I don't think I've seen anyone playing outside in ten years. The places we'd ride bikes got bought up and removed. And even the idea of allowing children to play outside feels... socially unacceptable.

Also early Youtube and Facebook were COMPLETELY different beasts that just didn't have the millions of hours of design work put into them to suck people in and keep them there. Oh, and flash games were a really big thing too if you wanted to play on the computer. They were amazing. And big-name games were in a really good spot, paid DLC and the pay-to-win blight hadn't really started, and stuff like World of Warcraft, LAN Halo, and other games you could play over at a friend's house were at their peaks from a social point of view.

...I know nostalgia is a trap, but god, it really isn't hard to think of things to be nostalgic for from that time, and I was only born in the very late 90s. At least I've got plenty of friends online these days though.

Oh that sounds pretty awesome! HotDQ/RoT was the first experience I had with DnD and I was the DM, I couldn't escape constant thoughts that

-There were no dragonborn in the module

-There were barely any dragons in the dragon cult

But that said the module does still have some good concepts! Your cleric, were they helping Tiamat achieve her goals? I'd love to hear more, if they were a pro-dragon adventurer.

My party's Cleric meeting Tiamat:

Aerospace manufacturing; the apprenticeship paid for me to do exactly the courses and qualifications that I'd need for the manufacturing (instead of me having to pay to do those things) and had a guaranteed job at the end so long as I passed said courses. Way easier than a full college or university degree and I was making money the whole way through.

Can confirm, not going into higher education and getting an apprenticeship was the bar none best decision that I EVER made.

All my friends who took the college/university path are trapped under crushing debt and struggling to find jobs that pay anything, let alone pay decently. College isn't the be-all and end-all it used to be.

EU being based as always. I have to admit it's pretty damn rare they let me down.

The +16 Persuasion Silver Dragoness one of my players made (+6 cha, Expertise, level 13 total. Playable dragon template) is extremely funny because there's an entire evil organization trying to convert her to working for them and she's convinced 2 of their 5 top brass that instead of her defecting to them, THEY should defect to HER. The others are more firmly evil but honestly it's by far the funniest way to deal with the mafia I've ever seen

Gotta say, I'm a blue collar who also builds sensitive machinery, have been doing so for six years now.

There is a VERY sharp divide in how well I consider myself to have mastered certain aspects of the job.

Someone fucking kill me: I'm doing this job for the first time and I'm having to spend ages sifting through our processes that may not be documented in enough detail to do the job perfectly. The job is legally safe because I'm following the rules but god I don't like it. Takes about three times as long as a 'normal' task.

This is fine: I've done the job enough to know how everything goes together, what torque to use where, and if there's anything I should really be doing that isn't in the instructions, or if there's an instruction mismatch.

Mastery: I can not only do the job, I actually understand the explicit purpose and function of everything I'm putting together on an intimate level, and can use my knowledge of that purpose and function to make god damn sure that what I'm putting out is top quality. As probably the least sensitive example of this, this is stuff like knowing that the particular brand of no-mixing-needed paint we use can sometimes develop a sediment layer of its' pigments on the bottom that requires you to mix it with a stick for the paint to perform properly, and that you can tell when the paint is experiencing this issue because it'll be off-colour due to the lack of pigment; and if you don't resolve this issue the paint won't adhere to surfaces correctly and is liable to flake off.

I've been doing this for six years and there are only a handful of aspects of my job I consider myself to have complete mastery over. I don't think I'm the best worker out there, not by a long shot, but to me the idea that you can just lose and replace your workforce when dealing with complicated machinery is about as stupid as the notion that AI can replicate the human mind (It can't unless you abandon the von-neumann computer design).

Excellent news.

I'll take five, gonna pop out and buy them a miniature trench coat later so that I can stack them up and call them Tinymat.

Hot damn. So I kind of understand why the Russians would dismiss this as a lie or a threat because yknow. War in Ukraine, Trump, etc, relations are bad to put it politely.

But can we talk about what kind of terrifying flex of power that is from US Intelligence? It's one thing to predict a terror attack on your own soil- sure your citizens quite rightfully won't like the privacy violations, but the national authorities are going to help you; so if your intelligence agency is worth the name it should stop most attacks.

But can you imagine having information access that's so damn good you can not only predict a terror attack in a nation that has an extremely vested interest in not letting you know what they're doing because they're running a war that you (and everyone else) don't like, but you feel completely confident TELLING THEM, which could risk your information sources if they're not properly hidden. This is like the Foreign Intelligence equivalent of being so far ahead of your opponent in a game that you start giving them sincere advice on how to play so that they don't get thrashed too badly.

For quality, I think it would be quite sensible to include figures from a few other countries. These findings mean very little when they lack context; we need to know how they compare to other big economies like the US, UK, Germany, Italy, Russia, China (if you can get accurate data on Russia and China), and Japan.

MASSIVE Dwarven energy. This image is the closest you're going to get to seeing a bunch of children of the mountain sitting in their tavern, discussing their metalworking (hobby cars and bikes) and drinking brews that could atomize a human liver with a single sip.

Anyways I think these guys are cool

Good homebrew you can pillage? My calling.

https://homebrewery.naturalcrit.com/share/liOJvZSBDaur

Have fun!

Aw, RIP. Guess time comes for us all in the end, and I hadn't been watching for nearly a decade. Congratulations for lasting as long as you did.

On the contrary, this is a great way to teach a player that making a Perception check when they enter each new room is a really good idea, and allows you to establish how you run said checks (how easy it is for players to give Help for skillchecks, whether or not you allow rerolls when the party has time for it, what circumstances the players are allowed to make checks under, etc)

Having highly motivated players makes it ten times easier to get players to learn the rules, learn how to handle the game's rules quickly and easily, and to get them to all become genuinely invested in the story you're telling.

After a little thought, this doesn't surprise me at all.

Name me ONE other Republican candidate that's actually gotten a decent number of articles about them in national newspapers. They've run into the exact same problem as the Tories: They've kicked anyone who's actually a competent and charismatic public servant out of the party, because said people were getting in the way of their ability to enact unbelievably stupid racism upon the nation.

And unless you have Trump-level skills at grabbing headlines and becoming a problem that makes itself worse... Well, how the hell are you going to become a relevant force that people are going to vote for, when you have no charisma, no skills, and no ability to compete with Trump for headlines? Even that Florida governor who manged to stay in the news for a few months for his racism couldn't keep up with Trump's unending torrent of bullshit and new stories for long, and if you can't keep up, I can't imagine republican voters would throw in with you over your competitor.

McConnel is unfortunately making the most competent move he can for someone that wants to cling to power at any cost (especially cost to the american public): Endorsing someone who'll avoid splitting the vote and actually killing the Republican party.

Hmm. Detect Magic might be a good shout; dragon eggs ARE magical. Also depending on if your DM uses Draconomicon egg sizes or modern, then the size of the 'rock' might be a giveaway. (Modern eggs are always 4ft long and 3ft wide, Draconomicon eggs are 1ft long for White, Black, Copper and Brass, 2ft for Green, Blue, Silver and Bronze, and 4ft for Red and Gold). Also remember, gem dragons like to use Stone Shape to just seal their eggs inside walls, because good luck finding them in there before they hatch. The kids can break their way past some stone easily enough.

Still, props to that DM. They've created a player that's going to exhaustively examine every last bit of their dungeon, because they know the reward will be worth it. That's how you get your players engaged and invested for the long haul