ProfessorOwl_PhD [any]

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Cake day: August 21st, 2023

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  • They don’t. One of the many, many things that sucks about D&D is that it’s the most recognised, so people think it’s a good place to start with TTRPGs.
    It’s not. It has most of the complexity of a crunchy game like PF2e, but no mechanical unification, so every action has its own rule, rather than similar actions just being small variants on the same. Rules are often specific, applying only to certain situations, but still vague, forcing the DM to decide how they’re actually meant to be applied. Similarly, it’s very crunchy and combat focused but combat is pretty barebones, just being a case of standing in front of an enemy and hitting it until one of you falls over. Could be either you or the enemy, the balance is skewed at best.
    As if there weren’t enough mechanical problems, the lore stagnated after 3.x, and wasn’t that deep even then; The Forgotten Realms setting in particular is extremely barebones once you’re off the Sword Coast, and regularly leans all the way over to downright offensive. Like ye olde minstral show racism in stuff printed in the last 5 years. And they charge you a fucking arm and a leg for everything, so, like you say, you need to pay like $150 just to play in a homebrew setting.

    You don’t want to play D&D. If you do, you want to play Pathfinder 2e, Savage Worlds, or Shadow of the Demon Lord/Weird Wizard instead. Pathfinder in particular has great fey lore, even if you pick a different system it’d be worth looking at Kingmaker for fey storyline ideas.

    What you probably want is something like Fate or Monster of the Week, a more storytelling focused system that isn’t so balanced around parties. FitD games would also be worth looking at.







  • Article 3, part 8 (b) and © are the most clearly breached sections:

    8.The indiscriminate use of weapons to which this Article applies is prohibited. Indiscriminate use is any placement of such weapons:

    (a) which is not on, or directed against, a military objective. In case of doubt as to whether an object which is normally dedicated to civilian purposes, such as a place of worship, a house or other dwelling or a school, is being used to make an effective contribution to military action, it shall be presumed not to be so used; or

    (b) which employs a method or means of delivery which cannot be directed at a specific military objective; or
    © which may be expected to cause incidental loss of civilian life, injury to civilians, damage to civilian objects, or a combination thereof, which would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated.





  • Look, I appreciate you’re trying to save the environment, but we have electric buses that will take you directly to the tourist attractions without congesting my already shitty cycling infrastructure. It’s bad enough having to cycle next to a wall of death (dual carriageway) without throwing a Wipeout obstacle in my way too.


  • From my experience in the UK, they don’t have a clue how to cycle safely. No awareness of what’s going on around them, weaving along and between the pavement/cycle lane/car lane at random, cycling as many abreast as can fit on the path expecting everyone else to make room for them, suddenly stopping in the middle of the path to look at their phone - basically, people who think of it as an alternative form of pedestrianism rather than controlling a moving vehicle. Things that would be inconvenient as a pedestrian become an active danger on a road or cycle path.



  • I just want to be absolutely clear here, to make sure that you fully understand the question, because your answer suggests you don’t: It’s not couple of weeks a year, it’s just a couple of weeks, right at the start, and it’s not a holiday, you have to look after the baby at its most helpless during those extra weeks of leave. Are you sure that you consider a few extra weeks of looking after a child to be worth 18 years of looking after the child? Like I’m not doing a silly hypothetical where I ask if you consider yourself more or less likely to consider having a child in future, I am asking you, personally, if you will be having a child and raising it should men recieve more paternal leave.