Recent content by Dioltach

The companies that make machine translation software have been saying the same thing for two decades. They keep throwing money into their marketing, and people who aren't translators believe them. I predict the same thing for AI. (Although the publicity about some of the worst AI blunders seems...

I like the idea of brokers. A more or less shady NPC with all the right connections, who can locate a particular magic item for a fee, and broker a deal between the owner and the PCs.

I've run an all-drow evil campaign. It was fun for a few sessions, but you can imagine the problems. Whenever we take a break from our long-term campaign, we revert to our halfling adventures. Barbarian, two fighters, a ranger, a rogue and a bard. All 1st level, but with various boosts and a...

There's a furniture maker and a floor layer somewhere having a heart attack too.

Show a little respect.* Her name was Aleena. * By which I mean respect for the millions of teenage boys who mourned her death.

Looks great! But who calls their baby daughter "Furiosa"?

I read an old Dan Dare comic where they team up with a Navy captain in a submarine, and DD says something along the lines of, "Your problem is trying to keep the pressure out, we have to keep the pressure in."

I feel like I'm drunk and trying to follow a normal conversation, but being unable to make the logical connections. I have absolutely no clue what that riddle is supposed to mean. "Power without wisdom yields wisdom"? Am I the only one who's completely stumped?

You mean... LLCs have to satisfy formalities? You can't just tag "LLC" behind a business name? Who knew!

What I want to know is this: what precisely are the stronger orcz intimating? And when do they intimate something, and when do they just command?

Isn't NuTSR in bankruptcy? Are they still allowed to trade during the process?

They're right, though: 5m is a fair sum. Quite a hefty sum, in fact.

I was 50 for the first month of the year.

The other day I had a Cuba Libra that, besides the usual coke, rum and lime, also had bitters and limoncello. It vanished very quickly.

Dara O'Briain makes it completely unrealistic. That's why it's so funny. I won't embed the video, but here's the link (pretty NSFW): https:// www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XXrbXE6Dyw