This is not really the place for a big write-up, but we are horrifyingly very US-coded and most people resist any of the easy options for getting better.

As a Canadian…I don’t want to be compared to the US anymore. It’s been our excuse to get worse and worse for decades and I’m tired of it.

Also, I’m liking CachyOS. Yes it’s better than Windows(anything is), but I’m also making an effort to not say things shouldn’t be done just because I’m happier than I was.

You’re in the comments trying to act like you’re more noble, but if your very first angle and the one you built your post on is about profitability then you’ve already lost. You made a strawman and are just mad that it was called out.

Yea, renewables would be better, for sure. Talk about that, then, if that’s what you really care about.

I wouldn’t lick lead as a hobby, but a quick one wouldn’t be the end of things.

My guy put on the diving suit and for some reason the one thing that clipped through was his big ol’ bingus.

If the one-electron theory is true you could just double its charge and see what happens. Would only need to do it in one place for it to be everywhere.

All I said was that the DM should understand how setting expectations works, chief. And yea, to account for a change in expectations they may need to do something mildly creative. That’s not a rule and it doesn’t need to be anything special.

Big yikes.

You ignored the house rule option by being a baby about “ad-hoc rules”. And I’m the mess lol

Look, I have explained myself clearly already and it was obvious that you lacked the ability or desire to understand back when you snidely told me that maybe I should go find another system.

I cannot say a single thing that will work for you because your energy is just being contrarian so that you can hear the sound of your own voice. Pathetic.

Widely regarded as extremely pleasant, just not very tolerant of the immensely stupid these days. Just because you don’t have any kind of legitmate comeback doesn’t make your embarrassment my responsibility.

It’s not fudging, it’s setting expectations and following through so everyone can have a fun time. If you act one way for months and then suddenly start blaming them for a TPK because “the system doesn’t have a mechanic for interrupting spellcasters” then you’re just a massive piece of garbage and should write a book because being a DM just ain’t it. People get very invested in their characters and ending it all over that is such a fucking awful thing to do. Frankly, the entire idea that it’s fun to be an evil DM needs to die because too many mouth-breathers forget that being a DM comes with certain responsibilities.

Anyway, we know that a DM or a system or whatever has not planned for every single possible event and cannot just immediately drum up highly complex interactions with the world in ways where every single person can be guaranteed to have understood precisely the same thing from a spoken description. We can’t all pick up on the fact that this dude’s a fire-bug from the fact that he cast a few standard-issue firebolts, and the mage blowing himself up over this is pretty fucking extreme behaviour.

“Play a different system” go fuck yourself, actually.

Sure, and why I put it in quotes. Maybe it’s because I’m in a bad mood, but can I write just one comment on an imagination-driven-TTRPG thread just once and not have to spell out every single detail so precisely?

They may not have. DMs are imperfect, too, and it may not have been communicated. There’s also the problem where D&D is a game and people will have certain expectations. I’ve got our DM to now include the occasional meta note when it comes to changes in how the world works mechanically so we don’t fuck everything up based on previously set precedent.

If the DM had never shown them suicide bombing NPCs and this was just a mage who happened to have fireball(i.e.: not a fire mage) and then went straight to a no-warning TPK then buddy can get fucked. If that setup was in place, then it’s party’s fault. We don’t know this from their comment.

This is literally about whether the word can be trademarked, not about whether it’s a real word or not. You should not speak on language until you have a basic grasp on how to even read one.

I think if you just cast it immediately then you’re a bad person, but if you show them “charging up” for a turn then the party gets to decide their own next steps.

There was a quote I saw recently that said something along the lines of the idea that if your satire becomes indistinguishable from that which you’re satirizing it ceases to be a joke and just becomes more fuel for your target.

Except that it’s very obviously not the same idea as the post. Your great blue friend should practice basic media comprehension before butting into a conversation to talk about themselves.

Being incredibly close, genetically, probably helps a lot. Cancer is just ones own cells that turn into a parasitic mass BUT there’s entire dog STI that’s actually a thousands of years old boneless dog(the dog’s cancer cells) which was likely originally spread through a bunch of domesticated, inbred dogs.

So his immune system’s like “eh, close enough”.

No, they’re correct. People need to be more respectful of others, especially when it comes to things with hard start times like D&D, a concert, etc.

BIG yikes. I hope they find themselves a deep, dark hole to crawl into and never come back out of.