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I know the feeling, but it leaves plenty of time to get a drink and snack.

I can't seem to find the reference, but I think an echo of this made it into 5e, where the offspring of orcs and other races were always half-orcs.

If your first-level halfling is wearing plate mail, you may be playing Red Box D&D.

Yep, this is basically the "Evil is the Absence of Good" argument, and you could do way worse.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Absence_of_good

Goth girls are drow.

Makes me miss RoleMaster's Deflection, with it's +100% DB (+20 AC) instantaneous spell.

Since may spells would take 3 rounds to cast, Instantaneous was pretty clutch.

That's the DM's wife.

In high school, Mom was always pre-empting game nights with visits to Aunt So-and-so or whatever. "You can play your game any time."

These days I play 2 or 3 times a week. But I can stop any time I want.

Why not just you Elvish for Elvish?

Trick as old as the game Wizardry.

It's often better than making them fight their way back up.

Yeah, good old joke. But made even better with geek speak.

The fact that many men, religious and otherwise, happen to be circumcised in a country where many Christians live does not make it part of the religion.

Why would I believe your unsupported claims that are contrary to lots of evidence, my studies, and my own lived experience?

I hope you learn one day that making generalizations about groups of people based on your own vague notions is neither good nor kind.

If you think they’ll be too simple then it should only take your players about 20-30 minutes to solve.

That being 15 minutes to tell stupid jokes, and 15 more to burn down the building and leave.

Provide some evidence for your claim, then.

A major point of the quote I provided is that Christians are not bound by such strictures on dress, diet, mold remediation, etc., set forth in Leviticus, Deuteronomy, or elsewhere in Hebrew Scripture (which the early Christian church adapted with some changes to be the Old Testament).

I myself have been to a lot of baptisms, and there's never been a circumcision involved. It's not on me to prove a negative though…where's your evidence?

Ares, the God of Special Operations.

"Where I heard that" is from the Christian Bible.

Consider Philippians, Chapter 3, Verse 2.

Philippians 3:2 in Other Translations

2 Watch out for those dogs, those people who do evil, those mutilators who say you must be circumcised to be saved.

Because not everyone knows this stuff: this is text from one of the Epistles (Latin for "letters") which are attributed to Paul of Tarsus also known as Saint Paul the Apostle. Apostle means one of the chief disciples of Jesus Christ. The Epistles provide instruction to early Christians on how to organize their churches.

@Archpawn@lemmy.world posts another relevant passage.

What made you disagree?

It's specifically NOT a Christian thing, although many Christians are circumcised for non-religious reasons.

Or step it up a notch. (And ya gotta wait until this comes up in conversation.)

Session 1: My Chaos Paladin tells party his goddess' name is Beth.

Session 2: Find magic sword, name it Beth.

Session 3: Tell party my goddess wants to be called Kate now. (Chaotics, ya know?)

Session 4: Explain that the goddess is OK if I still call my sword Beth, but I should name the next one Kate.

Session 5: Utter a vow of enmity: "For Kate's sake I stick my last Beth at thee!"

Really the DM ought to toss out names, reacting to the actions of the party, and just see what sticks.

My NPC's will start recognizing the party by their recent exploits, such as "The Heroes of Phandelver" — or "The Butchers of Phandalin," as the case may be.

If the players want to "rebrand" the party, that's just another quest goal. Always attainable, but you can't murder-hobo your way to being beloved by the countryfolk.

One PC I play is one of "The Orange Cart Heroes" (the DM's invention) after a minor but very public encounter. That's fun. It doesn't matter that our later exploits ought to be more noteworthy.

The meme is right: Asking the players to name their team typically ends up like the end of Mystery Men where every idea is worse than the last. The good idea comes from the journalist talking to them.

True Polymorph's duration is "until dispelled" if you concentrate for an hour. (That's hidden in the spell description.)