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  • I hate bounded accuracy so much. Although the crux of this issue is a DM asking for checks when the aren't really necessary. This is probably fine in combat but isn't really needed outside of that context.

  • It is! Though I've ignored that in my games because I feel like recall knowledge is a little limited. I allow one attempt out of combat to recall knowledge, allow repeated checks in combat to identify creatures, and don't don't give incorrect information on a crit fail. The last bit is why I don't bother making the rolls secret.

  • I think this is a totally fine method tbh.

    This is one of those things I love about PF2. There is the Secret trait on quite a few different checks, which means the GM rolls in secret.

    We play virtually so players initiate the roll but the result is blindly sent to the GM. Great example of this is stealth checks - there's no "oh, I rolled poorly so just kidding I actually only barely move".

  • Responded above but mostly the "every night" bit. That's not how cycles work. Not saying a woman can't be getting constant creampies but that's not exactly automatic when someone is trying for a baby.

  • Mostly the "every night" part. There are only about 6 days a month when women can get pregnant iirc. And unless she's getting a random train of dudes, there's pretty significant diminishing returns on repeated loads (not that they hurt, mind you). It's just kind of a childish comparison.

  • Gotta be Into Free which was the original main title music from Dragon's Dogma.

    It was removed for Dark Arisen for reasons I am unsure of, so it isn't even something you can experience without mods.

    It is wildly different from the rest of the game's music but still connected in a way, and sets a very different vibe. Great game, great music.

  • I think the worst part about this starter pack is that, not only is it mostly useless garbage, new players (who this targets) have no idea this is mostly useless garbage. They surely don't even know you can only equip one of these weapons at a time, let alone that they are far from meta.

    D2 is just the absolute most miserable experience for new players and Bungie consistently makes it worse. It's baffling. Meanwhile, they try to milk their veteran players more and more every season by offering more for money, less for free, and making the game more of a grind.

    The best part about Destiny 2 is it has personally put me on a hard line against any kind of live service game for the foreseeable future.

  • Nah, this totally makes sense. Revivify costs 300 gp, which is about 5 months of work for a skilled hireling (or 4 years for an unskilled one). Laws are only for the poor.

    If you convert to the relative value of labor instead of the real life value of diamonds, it's probably something like $40k to $60k to revivify someone. Seems like enough cash on hand to somehow get away with murder.

  • It is straight up delusional to believe we could just flip a switch and not have cars anymore. And I also notice you still haven't provided an actual solution outside of "just use trains, bicycles, or walk."

    Whenever I see takes like this, I just assume they aren't from, or maybe have never visited, America. The majority of the country was built on the assumption of travel via automobile from public transportation (or the lack thereof) to urban planning to housing. For the country to function without cars, it would require massive renovations to rebuild cities vertically, install a vast and complex rail system, and completely alter the culture of work and trade. And we can totally do this, but it will be very expensive and take a very long time, and to suggest investing in EVs in the meantime is somehow foolish because it doesn't fully solve the problem is a bit dense. You can do both at once, not that we are, to be fair.

    Fully investing in sustainable public transportation and infrastructure is something that would have to take at least a decade, even with absolute maximum commitment. So, yes, anyone who thinks that you can "just switch to trains, bicycles, or walking" is incredibly naive and absolutely fantasizing. Not suggesting it can't be done but we have to live in reality where cost, labor, time, and public interest are factors and those make "just" doing it a bit more complex.

  • I love the childish smug energy of this comic which simultaneously suggests merely mitigating a serious problem is inadequate and also provides no proposed solution whatsoever. If solutions which have compromise because they are rooted in reality are a problem, I suggest finding a way to live in a world of fantasy.

  • I think that's possible and can certainly be your head canon or what you run at your table.

    That said, I believe the connections between the two are entirely due to the githyanki's enslavement by the illithids. Learning the wrong lessons from their oppressors is a sad, but not unbelievable, outcome. The note about aboleths is interesting but I'm not familiar enough with their lore to effectively speculate why they would not know about illithids - perhaps they just didn't come into contact with them until the height of the illithid empire.

    This kind of lore stuff is why I stick to homebrew tbh