Why do people need subtitles to watch a show in English? I don't get it. What is wrong with the ears of young people?

babies are dumb

Here’s a little trick I’ve used in D&D games where the premise of your campaign calls for the party to have access to lots of Stuff, but you don’t want to do a whole bunch of bookkeeping: the Wagon.

In a nutshell, the party has a horse-drawn wagon that they use to get around between – and often during – adventures. This doesn’t come out of any individual player character’s starting budget; it’s just provided as part of the campaign premise.

Before setting out from a town or other place of rest, the party has to decide how many gold pieces they want to spend on supplies. These funds aren’t spent on anything in particular, and form a running total that represents how much Stuff is in the wagon.

Any time a player character needs something in the way of supplies during a journey or adventure, one of two things can happen:

1. If it’s something that any fool would have packed for the trip and it’s something that could reasonably have been obtained at one of the party’s recent stopovers (e.g., rations, spare clothing, fifty feet of rope, etc.), then the wagon contains as much of it as they reasonably need. Just deduct the Player’s Handbook list price for the item(s) in question from the wagon’s total.

2. If it’s something where having packed it would take some explaining, or if it’s something that’s unlikely to have been available for purchase at any of the party’s recent stopovers (e.g., a telescope, a barrel of fine wine, a book of dwarven erotic poetry, etc.), the player in need makes a retroactive Intelligence or Wisdom check, versus a DC set by the GM, to see if they somehow anticipated the need for the item(s) in question. Proficiency may apply to this check, depending on what’s needed. The results are read as follows:

Success: You find what you’re looking for, more or less. If the group is amenable, you can narrate a brief flashback explaining the circumstances of its acquisition. Deduct its list price (or a price set by the GM, if it’s not on the list) from the wagon’s total.

Failure by 5 points or less: You find something sort of close to what you’re looking for. The GM decides exactly what; it won’t ever be useless for the purpose at hand, but depending on her current level of whimsy, it may simply be a lesser version of what you were looking for, or it may be something creatively off the mark. Deduct and optionally flash back as above.

Failure by more than 5 points: You come up empty-handed, and can’t try again for that item or anything closely resembling it until after your next stopover.

As an incidental benefit, all the junk the wagon is carrying acts as a sort of ablative armour. If the wagon or its horses would ever take damage, instead subtract a number of gold pieces from its total equal to the number of hit points of damage it would have suffered. The GM is encouraged to describe what’s been destroyed in lurid detail.

about to say something mean but i feel like every "male-specific" issue is something that also happens to women its just that a lot of you dont seem to see women as people

"Here are your tortured poets. All from Mahmoud Darwish to Dr. Refat Alareer to Khaled Juma, these are tortured poets. Tortured by longing for a home they can never return to, tortured by the world they were born to for BEING BORN. Palestine, home to the tortured poets department." [@/folkoftheshelf on X. April 20th, 2024.]

Okay Chosen One Kristen au where she STAYS, where she goes the buddy dawn path, where she's full repressed homosexuality Helio prophet

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My friend just made me feel weird for asking so now i gotta know.

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no but if sandralynn dated bobby dawn her taste in men is hysterical cause so far her known dating history is -cleric of sol -literal devil -werewolf with a wild past turned kindly school counselor -gilear

This a a reminder to not fall victim to the sunk-cost fallacy. Just because you invested time and energy into something, does not mean you should indefinitely waste more time and energy on it, if you decide it’s not what you want anymore. This goes for anything, from books, to relationships, to jobs, to hobbies, etc.

If it’s not serving you anymore, move on.

I was rewatching Wednesday's d20 ep, and I just noticed something in the preview for next week?

Brennan says "Does Fig know Bobby Dawn is working at the school?" Which I didn't fully get at first. Like why wouldn't fig know and why would it matter more for Fig than for the others? And maybe it's just a general question or maybe it's something about trusting or not trusting him.

But! I was thinking. And Bobby Dawn is Buddy's granddad, so presumably a little older than the bad kid's parents, maybe a generation. And Sandra Lynn's backstory is about her joining an established adventuring party, which included a married couple, when she graduated Aguefort. She had an affair with this older married man and he/the adventuring party completely threw her under the bus when it was found out. And I'm just saying.... that the event 'married paster/cleric takes advantage of young woman who just joined his congregation/party and then completely blames and exiles her' fits pretty closely with the rest of what we know about the church of Helio. And would explain Sandra Lynn reacting strongly to this man teaching at her daughter's school.

I FUCKING CALLED IT I FUCKING KNEW IT THAT GODDAMN PIECE OF SHIT

Fake-righteous, piece of shit 'pastors' continue being fake-righteous, pieces of shit, even in fantasy worlds