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  • Final box (low Res I made this exclusively with the samsung gallery app). But not being silly, I had basically no dragon lore for my setting which was really really full of cunning strategists with powerful abilities. It made the most sense to simplify dragons into the top tier forces of nature with no spellcasting and near beastial minds, but still capable of destroying a town with that alone, because that's what my world was lacking.

  • I already have the master tier subscription due to the nature of how I support my players, who also hugely prefers owlbear rodeo over over VTTs and struggles to juggle tabs in browser for online play, this does interest me a lot.

    I am not enthusiastic about this being in the pocket of Hasbro but with more integration into the rest of the character sheet, and initiative tracker, I could see my table actually using this. The majority of my players don't care about TTRPG politics and Hasbro's monopoly on the industry, I'd need to see if it's integrated further, as currently it's basically owlbear rodeo which pulls from D&DBeyond rather than proper integration.

  • I always think of quintessential min-maxing being to use 5e point buy to choose the stats 8, 15, 8 15, 8, 15 or whatever, literally making your relevant build stats maximum while dumping all else.

  • I agree, I suppose the root of what I meant was that the hatred Skyler gets is half blatant misogyny and half because she's written to be the fun police.

    I remember when the TV show Arcane was coming out, there were lots of judgemental comments towards a character called Caitlin, but 3/4 of the main characters of that show are women and the others didn't see similar hate, but it was Caitlin who often made the lawful and restrainted decisions.

    Although I also agree that if the character of Caitlin was a man instead, they'd have gotten much less hate.

  • A lot of female characters all do he same thing; The protagonist men are getting up to shenanigans and their loved ones are telling them to stop it for the sake of love and / or responsibility. The thing is that as the audience we're entirely there for the shenanigans because that's there the action or tension takes place.

    Suddenly you have a character that is telling the protagonist to refuse the call to adventure which results in delaying the excitement, it's a recipe that's makes the audience associate the character with boring parts of the show, especially in breaking bad where the relationship is depicted as an old marriage with no romance left, nobody is rooting for it.

  • As time goes on, I find it harder and harder to have player death at all in my games. I adore 5e and don't really want to step away from it for a long time but my style is definitely about supporting my players in the strongest possible character arcs and anything deadly just obstructs this, especially if it hits multiple players. But equally it's clear that without the stake of death, the entire combat cycle of 5e which creates the stakes is broken.

  • I've always thought it would be interesting to design a setting around people randomly vanishing and appearing on occasion. My idea is often that while dreaming, you totally exist mind and body in an alternate world, when when you dream there, you return. On rare occasions daydreaming also transports you, and when you move, you often appear where fate deems you to be, not where you were, i.e. if the party took a long rest on an eberon lightning rail, they'd awake at an inn at their destination, not just appear over the rails where the train was.

    You then end up with weird worldbuilding questions too. What if your righteous paladin is a serial killer in the other world and one day he'll be recognised here, or what if your player who never misses a session plays a character who has never dreamt in their sleep yet. Would monarchies and dictatorships exist in this world when the ruler could vanish for any amount of time at any point or would ruling councils be favoured, and would there be people who train themselves not to dream to hold down essential tasks. Would you have people who train themselves to dream on command to escape danger, and could the party potentially swap to the other world and find eachother if they were cornered by enemies?

    Obviously that's all for dreams,but I think it's a fun idea to approach playe absence through the setting.

  • I do expect to see the dungeon masters guide changed substantially. We've heard tales that the product was rushed and designed alongside the players handbook with priority on the latter. In addition it is filled with much fewer rules that would cause chaos to change; It doesn't matter if they change encounter rules to match modern guidance or if magic items aren't right in the middle of if the guidance on setting building changes.

    The PHB revision has written itself into a corner by their design goals clearly changing during production to keep the 2014 edition totally compatible instead of adaptable, the other products already are not beholden to that ethos because there is less comparability overall.

  • I'm in the UK and in my mid 20s and I'd say anyone over 30 has learnt to cook at home to save money and 75% of eating out is due to just being out over mealtime or doing something specific like taking someone for dinner.

    I'd say I'm not a great cook. I enjoy following recipies and the presentation of food but generally I'd avoid cooking for anyone but my partner and closest friends because I don't feel good enough to cook for others. When I'm cooking for myself I generally make something quick and easy that would either impress nobody with its 2-3 ingredients or all comes from one packet, but that's less because I can't cook at all and more because we culturally don't care about food enough here and I'm gonna enjoy that pack of instant noodles with old spring onions just as much as a homemade curry because it's faster, I won't inevitably get the measurements just a bit wrong and I have a weak British palette.

  • There are plenty of beaches and people often travel to thembfor the sake of enjoying the beach. The main issue is that for 11-12 months of the year, the water is fucking freezing. If people learn to swim, it's often in heated swimming pools as kids.

  • Is PixelFed trying to offer a subjectively better experience to Instagram or just an open source and decentralised equivalent to it?

    It would be nice to see options to turn off seeing this content but really what some of us consider bloat, others may love to use.

  • They're generally useful in promoting temporary content such as festivals. In places such as Instagram they're found their use in being used for casual posts that aren't of the quality of the users more cultivated actual posts. For example promoting a friend's page or casual holiday pictures. Particularly if the account has a brand such as hand made goods, it's a place for the owner to post personal content too.

    I don't actually know what PixelFed is really but I currently only use web content where I don't really follow people as much as ideas and content, I couldn't name a single lemmy or Reddit user, I only follow hashtags on Masterdon and I don't really have much loyalty to who I watch on YouTube, so this content doesn't appeal to me because I don't often care about their stories. If PixelFed is a content site where you do follow personal content, then it's probably right for them.