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[Lanefan]

This thread mirrors my typical game sessions almost perfectly in one respect: a perfectly good experience disrupted and ruined by food talk.

 

[Lanefan]

So, unpopular opinion time:

PvP rocks as an accepted part of the game; and if you-as-player can neither stand the heat nor bring it, get out of the kitchen.

 

[Aldarc]

Maybe.

I suspect if we compiled a month of at-home dinners from posters around the US, it would be difficult-to-impossible to guess who lived where. In contrast, if we had enough Mexican posters, I think their differences are more stark.

In any case, it's a matter of degrees; I don't think there's a binary test we can apply to see whether or not the US truly has regional cuisines.

I suspect that if you did the same for countries in Europe, such as here in Austria, you would potentially come to a similarly false conclusion that these places lack regional cuisine because you can find Wienerschnitzel in Northern Germany or Flammküchen in Vienna. Or you look at what people are making at home in their kitchens here in Austria and they are making Italian food, ordering Indian food or pizza, and eating döner kebaps for lunch. I could definitely imagine engaging in some special pleading that finds excuses for places you would otherwise claim have regional cuisine while ignoring actual regional cuisine in the United States. I don't think that the spread of other cuisines across the United States somehow erases the existence of distinctly regional cuisines in the United States.

 

[overgeeked]

All discussion forums should have a built in die roller. When posters get into a repetitive argument loop they should have to roll. High roll “wins” whatever point they’re stuck arguing and they move on from there. This “win” lasts a day or two to give others a chance to post without the thread being flooded by intractable nerds with too much time on their hands.

 

[Faolyn]

To bring it back to D&D...

Remove damage cantrips! Make wizards throw darts again!

I'm working on a thing (which I will probably never use, but oh well) where the only attack spells casters get are the damaging cantrips. I don't mind casters getting to go pew pew; I just don't want them to throw fireballs.

 

[MGibster]

If that were true, the French would have been unstoppable.

For a while, they were. And le McDonald's moved in...

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I suspect that if you did the same for countries in Europe, such as here in Austria, you would potentially come to a similarly false conclusion that these places lack regional cuisine because you can find Wienerschnitzel in Northern Germany or Flammküchen in Vienna.

Comparing the cuisines of two Germanic countries is kind of cheating, but even then, Austrians still eat a lot more Hungarian-derived dishes than Germans do. A more fair comparison would be to look at a month of meals that a French person eats at home versus a month of what a German eats at home. They will be clearly different.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

All discussion forums should have a built in die roller. When posters get into a repetitive argument loop they should have to roll. High roll “wins” whatever point they’re stuck arguing and they move on from there. This “win” lasts a day or two to give others a chance to post without the thread being flooded by intractable nerds with too much time on their hands.

It is extremely weird that ENWorld doesn't have a die roller. I would have thought there would be some worthwhile free plug-ins that would handle it.

 

[J.Quondam]

1 dice, 2 dice, 3 dice, 4 dice = a handful of dice.

1 die, 2 die, 3 die, 4 die = a TPK

Why must English be so durn ornery?

 

[Willie the Duck]

Remove damage cantrips! Make wizards throw darts again!

I am all for not having cantrips if one's vision of magic is rare, powerful, and non-trivial. However, I never felt that it was particularly thematic for the default action of wizardly types when not letting loose with one of their precious spell resources was throwing darts (or burning oil, or daggers when that's all MUs could use, or crossbows in 3e). If wizards shouldn't be casting a spell every round, there should really be something else that they should be doing with those other rounds (dodge action works, added rules for someone staying back and just observing, leadership-boosting-hireling-morale, etc.). Not sure what, just don't find darts to actually be better.

Bring back 4E style rituals. Adding time and gold costs to powerful spells is balance the way Gygax intended!

Don't know about Gygax intention, but I certainly think that wedding all spells to the quasi-daily slots and 1 round-1 hour casting times left a lot of design space open (even counting the existing expensive components or aging/xp costs or week of downtime afterwards). That spell that the big bad cult is attempting to cast which will upend everything (that the PCs are attempting to thwart)? -- make it effectively like crafting a magic item -- weekslong process, expensive and vulnerable components, assistants who can be intercepted or suborned. This would be a good spot to put spells like Wish and Planar _____, but also allow spells like Earthquake or Control Weather with scopes as big as the genre fiction sometimes has without it being completely unbalancing once it is in the PC's grasp.

Enworlders should rule D&D like the elite rule over society. We are the best at judging what should or should not be in D&D!

Wait, you don't? Is that why I've never seen you at the lodge meetings. Wait, no, forget I said anything.

In Catholicism, at least, that’s not an issue. I’ve actually asked a canon lawyer about this- it’s why we can eat vegetable soups made with beef or chicken stock, fries made with beef or duck fat, etc.

Makes as much sense as beaver tail being 'fish' for Lenten dietary purposes.

All discussion forums should have a built in die roller. When posters get into a repetitive argument loop they should have to roll. High roll “wins” whatever point they’re stuck arguing and they move on from there. This “win” lasts a day or two to give others a chance to post without the thread being flooded by intractable nerds with too much time on their hands.

You mean give other intractable nerds with too much time on their hands a chance to post, right?