shani66

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shani66 ,

Man this sub is really giving me inspiration for a ttrpg character

shani66 ,

Or just be dehydrated. Salt dehydrates you and most people are already mildly dehydrated at most times. Dehydration can do a lot of shit to the human body, hydro homies wasn't just a joke subreddit!

shani66 ,

You think you got another 30 years? The water wars are gonna claim a lot of people

shani66 ,

Hell yeah brother

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They didn't even bring up the actual alarming issue of sheriff's who think they are the supreme authority of the land either. Very weird article, it's like someone missed an entire decade.

shani66 ,

Eh, if I've learned anything living in a shitty little town; you are special. A deeply distressing number of people have no morality, standards, or thoughts of their own.

shani66 ,

I'm sure Aquaman is in the market for some land

Trying to get my thoughts straight on the core fantasy of each dnd class

Edit: It seems I never spelled out what my issue with 5e was. My grievance is that as a player the game doesn't empower me to do what I feel is the core fantasy of most classes. I can't fault the DMs for forgetting to include spell scrolls as loot or not do overland travel or whatever, they are small easy-to-forget things. It...

shani66 ,

He's criticizing 5e, it only makes sense that he's being down voted to some extent. 5e is very popular and doesn't really do anything well, so it's fans (that engage in niche forums like this) are mostly brand loyalists and immature children/young adults just discovering their hobbies

shani66 ,

Simply ignoring the way your class is meant to play doesn't make 5e flexible, if anything it feels like a consequence of the system not being flexible.

shani66 ,

Not to mention, 5e is actually really bad for Homebrew. Without some kind of strong foundation to build off of its really hard to make something balanced (doesn't apply to just combat) and you can't escape 5e's bad mechanics without a whole new system.

Side note, I'm pretty sure wotc's predatory pricing is part of the reason people don't move to other systems. They think every game needs a bare minimum 3 books for $50 each to get started, when $40 for a complete book with all the base rules is actually a little pricey for ttrpgs.

shani66 ,

Before i mention class fantasy, i highly recommend you find a better system. Ikik everyone who plays a better system tells people to do that, but it really does seem like dnd in general (not even just 5e) won't appeal to your tastes. Have you tried mage the ascension? It's literally about coming up with your fantasy of who you want to be, with more freedom in how you build and use your character. I'm playing a modern witch in my current game, communing with spirits and influencing fates, meanwhile we've had a hypertech engineer and wuxia martial artist in the same group with no incongruities (we do think the other people's ways of doing 'magic' is weird and wrong, but that's how it's supposed to work in setting).

As for 5e; magic classes don't really differentiate themselves well enough. wizards and sorcerer cannot coexist as truly distinct things without actual vancian casting (which the game would be better off entirely without imo), as it stands sorceror is just worse wizard. Clerics have the same mechanical problems, they are just better wizards and their flavor falls short when DMs are reluctant to use the flavor text of religion to force a player's hand or remove their spells, which is crucial for the class to fulfill it's fantasy imo. Warlocks are mechanically distinct, but share cleric's reliance on the dm to be distinct narratively, and again it seems like the 5e community is against things like that.

The lack of rules or the enforcement of them hurts classes as well. Without a working economy wizards don't have a reliable method of learning magic and martials don't have access to magic weapons to support the 'guy with a stick' fantasy so they get weirder and weirder subclasses, that ruin the fantasy, to make up for it. The slow combat discourages dangerous travel, which means ranger's big thing (being the guy who travels real good) is thrown out the window too.

Side note: A big issue I've seen online is that people think mechanics are arbitrary, generic, and cannot support narrative. It feels like wotc buys into this line of thought and i don't think 6th edition will fix any of the issues here because of that.

shani66 ,

No retail worker cares if their slave master gets robbed, try again

shani66 ,

End of the world party it is

shani66 , (edited )

he wasn't asking about spez? Spez isn't even in the screenshot. He's probably asking about the random guy who claims to have cornered spez.

shani66 ,

Man On Boat is the greatest spy of our time

shani66 ,

Lol

shani66 ,

I genuinely don't get how people delude themselves into thinking aging is perfectly fine, we've always known it's a terrible process and we've sought to defeat it for thousands of years. It's also wild to me that we aren't putting a truly stupid amount of money towards that goal either, emperors used to understand that finding the cure to it was worth literally everything. Yet here we finally are with the ability to meaningfully and exponentially progress our knowledge and we aren't devoting our entire society to it.

shani66 ,

Probably shouldn't come as a surprise, everyone involved with ultrakill seems like the best people

shani66 ,

Yeah plants are complicated forms of life

shani66 ,

Iirc ecstasy originally meant being fucked up. Blackout drunk or so high you aren't present anymore, so it checks out

What is a quote that captures something you've learnt through living your life?

Edit: while I'm at it, does anyone know what I should do when I'm waiting for a coincidence/adventure to happen, but it never comes? I can't really go outside and arrange for it to happen because I don't know what I'm looking for.

shani66 ,

"the dude abides"

That's literally all life right there.

shani66 ,

They are very anti-human too

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Couldn't care less about killing and eating animals, but it's pretty fucked how we go about it.

shani66 ,

Man, i wish dragon age origins had a sequel

shani66 ,

Objectively isn't

shani66 ,

I just don't get how anyone can be this awful.

shani66 ,

People believe those things because the economy is bad and we use worthless measurements (like, say, GDP) to plaster over that fact. If children are only ever taught one way to look at something they'll force it to conform with the obvious reality once it's undeniable.

shani66 ,

Eventually, yes, but it's primarily about what nutrients are in the soil. You can grow tomatoes after potatoes* but that doesn't add any of the nutrients potatoes need back into the soil.

  • I don't actually know the nutritional needs of either of those crops
shani66 ,

Monachopsis. The subtle and persistent feeling of being out of place, in the company of misfits and dreaming of a place to belong.

And i blame you for the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows binge you've put me on

shani66 ,

It's still democracy if it has entry requirements, and it'd probably function better.

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Because they were explicitly created to disenfranchise black people.

shani66 ,

(//ω//)

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It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth's dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone!

shani66 ,

Damn that looks annoying af

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Dog!

shani66 ,

Unironically better than half the newest generation of Pokemon

shani66 , (edited )

To keep being fair gen 2-4 is probably the highest point in the series (design wise, as a game Pokemon only became playable in 4). After that the art style changed enough to make even good Pokemon look bad and the actually badly designed Pokemon started creeping up in number.

shani66 ,

Most gens have something redeeming about them, but there is less and less every time. In the latest i can only think of a single good Pokemon and a good megaman character that somehow found its way into the game.

You are probably thinking loudred, which was gen 3, but that seemed like a fine-ish background mon imo. Not great, not something I'd use on my team certainly, but not fundamentally bad. Ya know?

Space, time and antimatter gods were actually in gen 4, and their design was decent even if their lore was jumping the shark so hard. We've had gods of dreams and truth, gods of life and death and environmentalism, extra dimensional aliens (and aliens we feed our aliens to), and a time traveling dinosaur and robot pair. Legendaries are turning into Digimon and usually not good ones at that.

shani66 ,

It's a poorly drawn guy made of gold with super thick dreads

shani66 ,

That seems like an even dumber reason to waltz into Russia.

shani66 ,

Me when i wake up in the evening

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shani66 , (edited )

Best movie I've ever seen: ax 'em, i can't recommend it enough. It's an indie masterpiece that really sets the bar for quality.

shani66 ,

Is that the one good cop? Did we finally find them?

shani66 ,

We should not be encouraging the least among us.

shani66 ,

Hell yeah, sister!

Oh wait, are they trying to say that's a bad thing? Why do conservatives hate everything cool

shani66 ,

'honor' or whatever isn't good and killing an evil creature isn't evil, no matter how you look at it that wasn't an evil action.

shani66 ,

Are you the man woman or the butterfly bird? I, for one, hope I'm the butterfly.

shani66 ,

If you're still looking for systems to bring in new players, Chronicles of Darkness is almost objectively the best option. The mechanics are very simple (no moving goals, success are always 7 and higher on a dice, you just roll more dice), character creation is the easiest I've ever seen it (the rules for it literally fit on the bottom of the character sheet, no classes or anything to bog people down), the setting is fundamentally familiar to every human alive (the default setting is literally your irl home town with some weird hidden magic shit thrown in), and it's cheap (you only need a single book for whatever it is [think fairies, vampires, werewolves, etc ] you'll be playing).

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