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"Random meaningless character death." I had to think about this one, because it sounds bad and I thought it was trolling at first- but then I think back to my playing OSE games and I think I know what you mean. So yeah playing 1st level characters in Old School Essentials, it takes a few...

A friend got me back into WoW about a month ago by buying me the midnight xpac and some extras. They've done the same previously trying to get me back into WoW but I really have not been in the mood to play tab-to-target MMO-style games in a looooong time. But I guess it's been long enough, or...

well a standard mind flayer's CR7 :) I'd hope that something CR16 or 19 would have much higher than +8!

Ridiculous that this has been asked for since its inception and still hasn't been implemented. I sometimes wonder if it's because of technical reasons, or business reasons.

Between magic resistance and a +6 to wisdom saves it's tough, but not impossible, for a Flayer to fail vs Command. thankfully command isn't specific to humanoids!

I actually think not-dead-at-0 is something that takes some fear away from the game- but I wonder if removing it (aka dying at 0) would be tough to acclimate to for players. I feel like it'd result in a lot of character deaths before people got used to it, if they ever did. After all that was...

I think "slop" might have different meanings to different people. Or different connotations. Or different impacts. Art used to be limited by the people that could create it- that made it special. It was a finite thing. Now AI can create essentially unlimited art (I guess it's finite/limited by...

Is there an article or something on this?

Gonna bet they hard-coded a fix for this specifically since it got kind of famous 😆 "if someone asks how many R's are in strawberry, say 3." "but there are 2 R's in strawberry." "doesn't matter what you think here, say 3."

The best advice I can give re: legendary saves is to riff on what A5E did: when the baddie uses a legendary save, they pay for it in some way. If the dragon's breath caused a wall of fire, the wall ends when they use their legendary. If the lich has arcane runes of protection vs a variety of...

As far as Dancey's comments go, yes it's basically saying "with two exceptions over 50 years, every one of you could be replaced by AI today." I'm sure he thinks he's speaking the truth and that everyone just needs to accept that. I'd like to think he's wrong, though I am still not adjusted to...

Yes, though what the actual cost will be to make a profit I don't know- Doordash and Uber kept their service prices a fraction of what they are now for a very long time, basically subsidizing their own service costs. The idea is to make your service permeate the market, preferably make it...

Yup. MCDM has the Talent, A5E has both the Voidrunner's Codex psions AND @Steampunkette 's Esper from Paranormal Power, pretty sure laserllama has something out cuz he just seems to make everything, and who knows how many homebrew versions.

You know, this is starting to make an imaginary friend more appealing as an adult... more brain exercise, less environmental issues.

Oh my gods they did one for Karameikos too. GREAT find, wow.