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I sometimes forget that I'm not talking to solely D&D people online where Wisdom generally means instinct and intelligence is your education or genral learned ability and that it's rare to play your intelligence in the game as not your trade or education i.e. your business.

If someone gives me a better wis rhyme for intelligence, I'd be happy

Shorthand for charisma, people treat it like it's a silly zoomer term but it's a pretty normal short version IMO.

Also it lets me shorten Intelligence, Wisdom and Charisma to Biz, Wis and Rizz which suits my needs immensely.

Looking back at some of the monsters I used, which were generally official monsters or from tome of beasts 1 or 2, they traditionally were dealing about 84 damage per round if it hit all attacks but only 21 per attack. I remember using an adult white dragon (CR 13) while the players were about level 10. That's going to either use it's breath (54 but 22 on a save), or any other combo of attacks that wouldn't deal over 20 withousome lucky dice rolls, averaging 13-17 damage per attack, and 58 damage if it uses its legendary action to use it's tail once and hits every attack.

Also my table sounds like a different experience to yours. All the players are people I'm friends with in person and as we've become more experienced with RPGs, were played different games rather than optimising 5e, and we tend towards storytelling focused RPGs like Fate or collaborative storytelling games like For The Queen. If we are looking for difficulty, we're likely to seek a full horror experience over 5e. I enjoy the content Matt Colville but I know his style isn't for me, it's very tactical and all about combat, while when I play 5e, I find combat often becomes a necessary chore that the system is built around that only engaged each player half the time and takes far too long to warrant the storytelling it provides.

I ran a 1-17 game and typically as a DM I wasn't consistently dealing over 20 damage per attack until I was using CR 13 or greater monsters or higher, and I'd typically prefer several monsters per encounter to one, so that probably happened consistently around the time the party were level 12 ish, and even beyond that, I would say I generally didn't focus on massive damage output because knocking PCs out the fight in 1-2 rounds doesn't give them enough time to assess the battle and then deprives them of agency through a particularly slow segment of the game.

I'm currently a player, playing a trickery cleric 9 rogue 2 and loving it, but I think I use my 4th or 5th level spell slots for a damaging spell about once every 5 encounters, because those spell slots are better for exciting spells like polymorph, scrying or modify memory, or at least I find those more exciting than making my number go high. In that game, the paladin 6 bard 5 may on occasion do a spike of damage via a smite but his spellcasting is also primarily utility too, and our only massive damage dealer is our draconic sorcerer. A lot of our consistent damage comes from our barbarian who is probably putting out 40 damage per round but rarely over 20 in a hit when not critting.

As players, if we want to knock an enemy out of concentration, we're more likely to pepper them with small secondary attacks, forcing them to make 3+ DC 10 saving throws per round, which has generally been more successful than one 30 damage attack and a one DC 15 save, just because of how the odds fall.

I think I'd build my caster's to have low enough Constitutions that they probably would have a 50/50 or similar. If someone is focusing on attacking the caster, I want to reward them by making the chance to end the concentration high.

Besides, for most games I've played, I recon right up into tier 3, most damage still comes in at under 20 per attack, so it's still a DC 10 save.

I really enjoyed the Eragon books as a kid but they aren't great themselves. It's a mediocre book series adapted to a bad film.

Yeah the answer is basically in the comment, his monologues read like an edgy 13 year old trying to sound cool and badass. It's probably 90% edgy 13 year olds who made content that adores him, and the remaining 10% are older people who haven't developed the skills to see further than that.

I do think a huge overlooked part are the people who use the memes ironically too. When they first started popping up, even when they weren't self aware, I was happy to see memes made from outside the current zeitgeist and from a film I liked so I generally showed them my support. Now a meme of it can be made that's totally without irony and I recognise it as part of the format more than someone who is oblivious about the film.

This is a conceptual alternate history map of modern day North America without colonisation. It's still reasonably inaccurate of course but it's not meant to accurately portray the borders of a pre-colonised North America.

It's definitely an alternate history map, and I hope it's an accurate potential map of an uncolonized North America if it's cultures grew to nation state sizes.

I'm European so I'm not meaning to offend, but there's something very interesting to me try to visualise how America could have grown without colonisation, and perhaps this is through my European lense but I'd imagine borders would move and groups would swallow eachother up. The scale of countries on this map is pretty comparable to what we see in Europe and Asia, but I don't know enough about America to know if this is respectful to the placement and potential of Native American groups (e.g I think I've read before the the Comanche are a successful seperation from the Shoshone that was largely due to their expansion due to horses, which would have happened very differently sans colonisation), and I'm not even sure if this map follows natural borders like mountains and rivers, largely because I'm just not that familiar with America.

Oops, thanks.

Also, although I agree with the sentiment, I only need a mattress that's just good enough to not cause issues, because when I'm asleep, I can't care about the mattress quality.

Maybe I'm crazy or there's a cultural difference somewhere here, but if you needed to wear long sleeves then it's the texture of the material, but surely you'd have a bedsheet over the mattress and not be able to feel it directly?

I don't like spam but I do like a good scam email, especially if they've actually given it some plot.

I just took a look, it's only £18 but that's still reasonably pricey for an app when I don't really need the improvement while I have the ads blocked, especially as I had paid for a lifetime subscription before for Reddit.

I bought sync for Reddit at probably about £5. I can't bring myself to buy it for lemmy at £100 or whatever so I'm having to get by with just blocking ads.

The only other two paid apps I have is a driving theory test app and the pro version of a cocktail guide app which I've probably had for a decade now.

I've often had this silly scenario in my head.

You walk into a celebrated high class restaurant, and at the bottom of the menu, it reads "Human meat steak. $10,000". You ask the waiter who fetches the chef. The chef comes out and explains that after decades honing his craft, he feels like he's a master of his craft, and now he'd love the honour of cooking a steak taken from his own body. If anyone purchases the steak, a skilled surgeon will remove half a pound of meat safely from the chef, who will then prepare it for you, and the chef is visibly keen to serve this.

As a vegetarian, I honestly don't feel that this would bother me, if I had money to spend, the only reason I wouldn't go for it is that I'd worry the chef would come to regret giving up chunk of his ass or leg or whatever, and I'd be partially to blame, or that the chef was not thinking straight otherwise.

Most entertainingly, I think it would be vegan.

More than 30 mins is good because I know I can sleep again or at least stay resting and cosy, less than 10 is good because I know I can keep my mind awake enough to get up feeling naturally well rested.

Fuck that sweet spot in the middle.

The thing is, it's quite easy for a marketing department to measure their success. They release an annoying unskippable YouTube and and change nothing else in their marketing and their profits go up by 1% or whatever. As much as I basically do no shopping where the day to day advertising I see can influence it, that's a pretty abnormal lifestyle pattern. Plus I'm still susceptible to choosing specific items inside a shop, and I definitely susceptible when I'm looking for specific products and come across secret ads disguised as advice.

It resembles mad cow disease because they're both prion diseases, which are more or less only spread by consumption of brain.

Some of the other nasty ones that keep my a little freaked out are Chronic wasting disease, aka the zombie deer disease and Fatal Insomnia , which just sounds like something straight from a horror film.

A soon as I started typing I realised it's probably not too exciting. I think it's always had that mythic element growing up near it of imagining the amount of work needed for lots of cups of tea to be made at the same time.