Khrux @ Khrux @ttrpg.network

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This really throws be back a decade to le meme talk.

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.

You definitely couldn't produce enough urine to fill the coffin. You would definitely end up lying in piss but that's not too bad for a million, plus it may drain out the bottom.

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 once bought a few bits via my 60 year old father's Amazon and he'd forward these emails to me and then ask if I was helpful when we saw eachother in person.

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.

YouTube comments don't really encourage conversation about the content and are largely used nowadays as a way for people to leave messages for the creators. In addition at one point (possibly still ongoing), the YouTube algorithm really responded well to comment engagement so in videos, creators would encourage commenting alongside liking and subscribing.

I think in combination this led to people commenting on the content they watched, which was largely of creators they have fondness,but having nothing to really say, in addition other like-minded people would open the comments and like the positive one, catapulting them to the top.

It must have been about 5-10 years ago that it was standard practice to block YouTube comments because they were so toxic, so it's interesting how times change.

The developer is definitely pocketing it all, however they were very active on Reddit in maintaining and improving the app with the most quality of life options I've seen across any app. Honestly if the paid option was $10, I'd go for it, since I get hundreds of hours of use out of it. Also back in the reddit days, you could find the paid version for free online pretty easily.

It's the reddit pricing swapped over exactly, I'm not outright against an independent app creator having a paid option, because it's a very high quality app that deserves support, but I do feel it's soo steep. There are also subscription options but I never take those, and the ads are reasonably unobtrusive.

Man, this is what I get for being illiterate.

Oops

I also use sync, although I bought the lifetime ad-free version for Reddit years ago for like $5 and now it's $100 which I can't afford here which is a shame. Still, it's my favourite app and I'm very familiar with it.

I find it interesting how many people are looking for the overall lemmy experience. The first thing I did was find the community niche that interested me and the relevant instance, then when I've exhausted that instance I switch to the Everything tab and all find the generic content.

Edit: I accidentally wrote fine the community niece...

If not for the fact that the ttrpg community was so important to me on Reddit, I'd probably not have migrated over, as addicted as I was to the generic /all content on Reddit, I'm glad to be rid of it.

But lemmy is yet to be able to sustain the equivalent community, I want to have access to that infinite pool of topical conversation that I can't find anywhere, I won't go back to Reddit but it's just getting smaller here on Lemmy.

This current wave of enshitification to online services is generally driven by said online services taking steps that they believe to be more profitable to the detriment of the people who use them.

That has always gone on but it feel like it's everywhere at once at the moment; with the place I live in, the transport I use, the food I buy, the media and art I consume etc.

1900 years ago, the world knew that the only things people desired were bread and circuses, i.e. to have your needs met and have entertainment, a lot of people have built their modern circuses off of things that are becoming unusable or deserve boycott. It's far better than living in a warzone or something but to have many things we rely on for satisfaction stripped from us at once.

I just wanna spend my free time entertained without having to perpetually change what provides that entertainment, is that not why most of us use this site?