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  • A good (not for-profit) criminal justice system is built upon the idea of reintegration. If you 100% cannot reintegrate a(n ex-)criminal, then sure, relieve society from that burden.

    EXCEPT that you can never be 100% sure of either guilt nor lack of reintegration, so lifelong internment is the only solution.

    To quote Gandalf: “Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it.”


  • Absolutely, it looks like it’s mostly managing expectations that come with calling something arch based.

    In your recipe analogy, calling your new cookie recipe, which you based on your granny’s chocolate chip cookie recipe, “chocolate chip cookie based”, but ending up with a raisin cookie (you removed the chocolate chips) would be false advertising, even if technically true in the way you describe.











  • I’d love a useful heads up display with things like navigation, search (as in, “where the fuck did I leave my keys, they should be in my field of view”, not “what’s the capital of italy”), and something like a dashcam, where you can retroactively playback the last X minutes if something happened, but otherwise it gets deleted automatically.

    And nothing gets off the device without my consent of course.




  • What do you mean official statblock? As in it’s a statblock from the dmg/mm? Then they can still just tack in things they want/need (as can you, as dm).

    I agree they probably could (and should) have better specified that this diverges from the stat block, but the point of the module is to try and cater to everyone, including rewarding players that took points in perception here apparently.

    I think it’s got its pros and cons, I’m very fond of seeing all the rules and following them, even as a dm, so 3e (and Pathfinder) were always more my thing, but having played 5e nowadays (and other, even more “you have a 5 damage power, flavour it however you like” like mutants & masterminds) I kind of like the dm style of “know your players, make exceptions where it would increase enjoyment and/or add an interesting challenge without breaking the future fun of the game” too.

    Arguably that’s the difference between DM and GM. A DM is just running a dungeon. A GM is running the whole game, rules and all.






  • NightFantom@slrpnk.netto196@lemmy.blahaj.zoneRule
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    2 months ago

    Why do you wish to live with such a high footprint? Why not a modest apartment and a public swimming pool nearby? (Still unachievable for many, sadly, but much more realistic for anyone except the super wealthy.)

    Not trying to bash on you, I really want to understand where you’re coming from.