I’m not sure I agree about splitting hit and damage feeling weird,

It feels weird to me when you roll a really big number to hit their AC, and then roll the minimum for damage. Or the other way, where you just barely roll their AC and then roll max damage. There are narrative ways you could justify it, but I don’t see why you would want to. It’s not adding anything worth having to the experience, imo. The game doesn’t care if you beat the check by 0 or 20. It’s just an extra step and the information is discarded.

I think pf2e fixes this.

Forgot in my original: DND 5e barely has a concept of degree of success

DND is not a good universal game system. It’s pretty good at being DND, but that’s a particular beast that’s mostly about resource management.

You can definitely use it for a game about social intrigue, or horror, or modern day anything, but it’s not really good at any of that. Like using a hammer to put screws in, you’ll probably get something done, and if you’re hanging with your friends you’ll probably have a good time. But it’s a weird tool to reach for.

Personally, I don’t think the core of the rules system is very good at all. Flat probability feels weird. Armor as all-or-nothing is weird. Hit and damage being split into two rolls is slow and weird. In the latest edition, making very few choices about your character often feels bad. Levels are a very coarse unit of growth. The magic system somehow manages to make magic not feel like magic- no wonder, no mystery, it’s just safe and standardized. I could go on.

But it’s mega popular and people are emotionally invested, so there’s not much to be done about it. There are dozens of people playing the thousands of other games out there.

Also a lot of people have never played anything else, so their analysis and defense of it is often lacking. Like if I’ve only ever played baseball, and never even watched any other sports, I wouldn’t feel qualified to talk about bowling. But you get people saying like “no you need to wear cleats that’s a universal property of sports” when bowling comes up. Like, not every game has six stats. Not every game has attributes like that at all.

And again, if you’re having fun with dnd then that’s the primary goal achieved. We don’t need to maximize fun and efficiency in all things all times. I just think that it would be a good experience to branch out more, even if it’s scary, because that will lead to a richer experience overall.

It’s like the king of the hill meme, “If those [republicans had souls], they’d be really upset right now”. I feel like the republican party has spent the last several decades purging anyone who’s not a soulless husk

It’s kind of hard to take the NYT seriously after they’ve spent more than a decade failing to really take a stand against the right wing, but I guess better tepid and late than never?

Saint Luigi guide us

Also US policy makers: We refuse to do anything about the low wages, crushing debt, inaccessible health care (physical and mental), and other problems I can’t even think of right now.

Hey that’s pretty good. If you do it just right, you can make it look like a condemnation while also supporting it and calling for stochastic anti-nazi violence.

Democrats are so disappointing

“Hate has no place in our communities, and the New York State Democratic Party unequivocally condemns this shameful and inappropriate act,” the statement said. “We encourage New Yorkers across the political spectrum to denounce hate in all its forms.”

If you want to denounce hate maybe focus on the nazi-like behavior instead of the extremely mild “vandalism” of pointing that out. I think it was just signs taped, so that’s all of five minutes to clean up.

To be clear, Republicans are the worst. The Democrats just… disappoint.

Republicans, and the right more generally, have always been hollow shits. “In-groups to protect and out-groups to bind”, as they say. They’re the worst people and should be removed from power.

They’re infuriating. They don’t want abortions, but they don’t want sexual education or contraceptives. They want a stay at home parent, but they don’t want to have wages high enough to support that. They are like children screaming they want to eat their birthday cake but don’t want it to go away. We need to stop taking them seriously and instead put them down for a nap.

Feels like they should be able to view the software and hardware controlling the odometer, and if it’s doing anything suspicious.

I wonder if they’ll actually do anything if they find Tesla is doing fraud. Feel like everyone who OK’d the decision should be barred from working in the industry for life, and made to forfeit everything they gained while doing the fraud.

While I’m making magical wishes, I’d also like Musk and all of his followers to choke to death.

DOGE only makes sense if you assume the people in charge of it are a combination of stupid and actively trying to destroy the US. They should all be hanged.

If you’re engaging with the content you are contributing to it

dear saint luigi: please please please end musk. and as many of his acolytes as possible.

Reddit is owned and operated by assholes. Don’t even try to use it.

I have ascended to a higher level of old-man-yells-at-cloud and just don’t watch youtube*. I’d rather just read words. It’s really depressing how illiterate many people seem to be.

*with the exception of like music videos and the occasional “this is how you do this weird thing in a video game”

I was hoping you had some insight and revelations about how to use Finder.

North Carolina already was a blood soaked stain on US legitimacy

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilmington_massacre

If the non-ramirez entity has any sort of offensive powers, trying to kill or restrain it might yield a worse outcome. Like, you try to tie up the one inside and it decides the cat is out of the bag, so it bursts out of its skin suit and strangles you.

Oh maybe. I read that a long time ago but don’t remember the details anymore.