Flushmaster @ Flushmaster @ttrpg.network Posts 2Comments 112Joined 2 yr. ago
You know you're in the fun religion when your ecclesiastic superiors tell you to up your card shark skills.
"Gee" with a hard G as in geek, then "us." Stress on the first syllable.
Assuming you're referring to the corporate level management, I think you misspelled "euthanized."
The biggest problem with homebrew is that most of it is unbalanced crap made up by people who think rule of cool is an appropriate substitute for learning why those numbers in that book they barely skimmed are arranged the way they are. Yes, there's some good stuff out there but like the internet in general Sturgeon's Law is usually a generous assessment.
A great example was in a game I briefly played the DM allowed a homebrew class with seven different class features, most of which could be used in the same turn combined to great effect, at first level. Why? Because the DM didn't know half the rules to the basic system, the class came from a pretty website that was designed to look like an official source book, and the abilities sounded really cool. Nevermind that it made one PC more powerful than the other four party members combined.
Take homebrew with a large grain of salt or everybody will end up very salty.
Not at all, Konsi. Your skin is a very healthy shade of green.
Unfortunately this one actually happened in Florida. Police arrested a guy who, among other things, someone had said was in possession of something that "looked like a pistol with a suppressor." After searching the guy and finding no such weapon the cop put the guy, handcuffed, in the back of his cruiser. As he walked away from the car an acorn fell and hit the roof, at which point the cop started shouting into his radio about shots fired and that he had been hit by gunfire, dove and rolled around a bit (nowhere near any actual cover), then unloaded the entire magazine of his pistol at his cruiser with the suspect locked inside it. Another officer on scene, reacting to the first one yelling that he'd been shot, also fired all of her ammo at the vehicle. None of the shots actually hit the handcuffed guy in the back seat.
A "thorough investigation of the incident" (including body camera footage from both officers involved which is now publicly available online) determined that the noise the first officer thought was a suppressed gunshot was, in fact, an acorn hitting the roof of the police vehicle after falling from the large oak tree it was parked next to. The acorn was still on the roof. Despite his panicked reaction and assertions otherwise it was also determined that he had not been struck by gunfire and that he was certainly the first person present to start shooting. The other officer was cleared of any wrongdoing as she was determined to have had legitimate reason to believe there was a clear and present danger. The first cop, who gave the second one that reason by freaking out over a fucking acorn, was determined to be whatever the official wording is for delusional, unstable, and dangerously incompetent and he resigned. In statements he still insisted after the fact that, while not disputing the findings of the review, he still recalls having heard a gunshot and feeling an impact to his torso.
As a tall person I can confirm that using a short girlfriend's head as an elbow rest is a gesture of affection. I also do this with platonic friends, to mixed results. My favorite recollection is walking up to a college friend on campus who was talking to someone else, she introduced me and I did the armrest thing while joining the conversation. After a minute the other person said "Um, are you gonna..." And my friend said "Nah, he'll get bored with it eventually and I'm used to it. I have a lot of tall friends."
Flame strike is a legitimate method of fixing some things, and a good cleric knows this.
About the rest of this encounter.
I think that "look" is just a result of the artist's drawing style. Everyone looks at least mildly adorable.
If you feel you're getting your money's worth from just reading the stuff then you're fine. Though if you really do want to actually play games using them I recommend finding a group and doing so, either in person or online. This community has an LFG section attached to it if you don't know where to start.
What system did you use? First thing coming to my mind would be D20 modern since it's basically an officially published hack of 3e D&D, so the rules wouldn't be too foreign to anybody familiar with 5e, and it has actual rules specifically for car chases.
This is one of those classic movies that should be used as a reference when someone asks you to explain what D&D is. Heroes on a quest, or multiple overlapping ones in the case of Westley and Indigo, and the adventures they have along the way.
Another great example with a solid party dynamic among the main cast is Star Wars.
Yeah...I don't think the person who made this knows how rogues work.
Is that something like an ascot?
My first thought was a chef's apron and nothing else, but that might be considered a bit forward on a first date.
One of my most memorable D&D experiences was putting Felicia Day in a gelatinous cube back when I was a DM for True Dungeon.
My first thought is to wonder about how she said an arm was ripped off by an ogre and not a sleeve.
PF2e actually exists because of D&D 5e. 5e is a streamlined and (most people believe) improved version of 3.5, which is exactly what PF1e is under a different label. But to appeal to their rebellious hipster demographic the new PF had to be different and innovative. So you get a bunch of overly complex rules for options and the sake of just being like D&D but still totally not D&D. The result is a decent game that definitely isn't 5e because it intentionally trades off most of the streamlining that makes 5e more approachable for the sake of complexity and options.
Basically it's a bunch of pretentious hipster BS.
Bring on the hunters. GeeBee has unhealthy emotional attachment issues, a roll target of 5, and a bandolier of man portable nuclear warheads. In situations requiring stealth or close combat the Davy Crockett weighs a hundred pounds unloaded and would make a very effective bludgeoning device (as an anime girl she is of course strong enough to wield it as such). Or she could always just decide "f- it" and go out in a blaze of glory because nukes. Basically she embodies as personality traits all the ideologies of a circa 1960 Cold War superpower that would motivate them to invent a man portable nuclear weapon with a blast radius greater than it's maximum range.
Also I think my hair would get me the connections to requisition a Blackhawk.