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That's a weird interpretation. The problem is the system. A capitalist political economy requires that capitalists maximise profits, those that don't cease to be capitalists. Capitalists who fail to naughty word over workers with LLM will be bankrupted and become yet another worker being naughty word over.

"Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind" Although i believe the first prophet was Samuel Butler, with Erewhon. The bit Frank Herbert got right is it was not a tyranny of thinking machines but that powerful people used the thinking machines to subjugate the rest of...

On the DM end, my base is the a5e books. I rarely use o5e creatures but i do use lots of Kobold Press, MCDM, and Monty Cook Publishing creatures. They all work fine. Even creatures converted from the Cypher system.

Silver was also associated with running water. As opposed to "dead" ponds, which could be a way into the underworld in Germanic and Slavic cosmology.

Yep. And the inverse too "From hell's heart i stab at thee!" That's why the merchant the PC swindled can cast scry.

I'm certainly hoping that captains Ludd and Swing ride out once more.

I just closely read the banner introducing the new website. Apparently it is only for "some" customers at the moment. With the implication that it'll be rolled out for everyone. I recall that for me the dmsguild shifted over several days after dtrpg. I was pretty sure it was the Owen bundle...

OneBookShelf recently changed their website, ending batch downloads - unless you use their app. I am sick of my devices getting cluttered by scores of proprietary apps trying lock customers into corporate walled gardens. So i am not going to use it. Which means that purchases with lots of...

If your GM allows it, the best schematic is for a generic level 1 spell scroll. Them make consumable magic items for all the utility spells that are great in the moment but might only come up every ten sessions so you can't justify memorizing them each day. As mentioned above, emergency...

What W'rkncacnter said. In play, the difference is that infusions are free but you only get a few of them each day and they stop working after a day. Whereas crafting is expensive but you can have an unlimited number and they last - so you can sell them. My players have been crafting a lot of...

IN RE: bards OP? I've got players running bards in a couple of long running campaigns. The queen bee berserker sharing her rage abilities with the whole front line while the bard sings harmony of pain to disadvantaged attacks against the front line... can be challenging. But i still don't...

Jacob Vardy updated a5e magic item animal components with a new update entry: a5e magic components from AG, T&T, Stranger Sights, DDG, and GPG 0-16 Read the rest of this update entry...

Magic item and spell components that come from creatures in the game. For when the PCs are looting their bodies. Includes the precious stone types listed in T&T. I also included some sources for magic inks, since spell scrolls are probably the most common magic item crafted but i didn't find...

Done. Or at least the first version is done and posted. https://www.enworld.org/resources/a5e-magic-item-animal-components.1638/ I don't think you would have to kill a sentient being to create anything in T&T. The smiths might be asking nicely for Awakened Tree bark. But a great deal would...

Jacob Vardy submitted a new resource: a5e magic item animal components - Who to kill to get (x) magic items Read more about this resource...