oh hey it’s that box from the chart. d&d is saved!

? you tell me i guess?

mmm no, ontological evil

mm no, ontological evil. Also tolkien is not older than any of what i mentioned.

respect is a funny way to frame this. The roots of fantasy, written when ontological evil was commonly seen as a thing present in the real world? those roots? or the roots when ethnic nationalism was the way of geopolitics? or when scientific racism informed much of the modern conception of races in dnd? respect is about the last thing anybody owes fiction, the world can change as beliefs do.

fate is good, a bit too light for me. pbta, burning wheel, blades, cyberpunk, lots of great options out there for folks to try :)

better option than wasting a bunch of time fixing the same issues that have been there for decades over and over, play a system that is well designed from the start. it’ll take less time to boot.

Datas is correct if you are referring to multiple distinct populations of data. Which in this case works.

Fudging isn’t unique to DND, though I agree that people would be better off trying anything else.

The system is a means to an end. No system captures its tone perfectly through mechanics.

In chainmail, the war game dnd is historically based on, a hit point is a fraction of a hit dice, each HD represents one soldier, roughly, so 12hp being the average of 4hd isn’t too bad, no.

That conception of life both in an agrarian society or Neolithic society is itself a myth.

The “so called” loneliness epidemic is that lots of people are lonely.

The explanations for it vary, but I guarantee any truthful explanation will not be so poetically digestable.

Did you understand the communication being made? Clearly so. Looks like I used adequate wording.

Getting high oxygen isn’t enough, you need propane purity and oxidizer purity (the not air inert gas and oxygen mix) or you get unburnt products. You also need perfect mixing, and essentially an adiabatic chamber. There is no combustion chamber on this earth outside of some absurd combustion lab that doesn’t have soot buildup.

Not things you’d find in a dusty standard ass DND dungeon. But please continue bending over backwards to justify why you couldn’t just day “you didn’t think anything of it”

Synonyms.

And sure, that’s another explanation agm could use, I wasn’t being comprehensive or I’d be here forever.

Take a lighter to a rock. Fires leave char. There are very few combustion systems with a pure enough burn to avoid it.

That’s not rules lawyering at all. If a player asks why they didn’t spot that the easy answer is they didn’t realize it was char.

Not really planning on sacrificing privacy and safety from monopolies by doing that thanks. Not everybody’s threat model is that ridiculous.

5e’s greatest strength is its’ simplicity.

Lol no. That is the last thing 5e has going for it.

D&D has traumatized a whole generation of table top players into thinking it’s easier to stay with it than change to any other system that takes a session to pick up to a level that d&d takes months to. It’s an abusive relationship.

-10 to hit will mean this person is doing an average of 6 damage an attack across an arbitrary number of attacks. I think you’d be fine.

This should be an automatic pinned comment.

Tons of jobs deal with all sorts of annoyances. Policing is objectively not the most dangerous job. The vast majority of issues police tend to face are systemic and better addressed by giving police department money to other programs.

And relatedly social workers are dollar for dollar far more effective, and when they mess up they don’t turn passersby into Swiss cheese.

In addition to the correction from the other user - there are plenty of designs that provide access to phone internals with no tools. Snap fit phone bodies work fine, there are several modern phones with them and numerous older phones. Still water resistant, and the case doesn’t magically pop off just by dropping it.

(Also a case popping off from being dropped actually protects internals and the screen by absorbing some of the drop energy anyway, since the kind of drop that would easily pop a phone body off is the same kind of drop that will break screens.)