@cwtycho.penny-arcade.com You've got to be tired of people trying to defend AI but I value your opinion. What do you think of AI coding tools? Not for vibe coding or assets but as an assist for experienced programmers. Using code from StackOverflow w/o attribution is a r/ProgrammerHumor cliche.
Yesterday our #d&d party met with the Marshall in her office and I described her being "assaulted" by clerks with petitions and paperwork as soon as she stepped out into the hall. The vengeance paladin took my words literally, and punched a clerk so hard they died.
I took my speaker set out of storage this week. My subwoofer hummed as soon as I plugged it in. Took out the board, checked the caps, found one was shorted. Soldered in a replacement, and the sub works again. Feels like a bigger accomplishment than anything I did in my 8 hours at work.
I fucking love that book.
I absolutely agree. I would never DM for anyone I didn't know unless they were paying me a lot more than 5 bucks a session.
Not even considering making maps and props. I try to have something interesting for the battles every week, whether it's an elaborate cardboard castle or just a scrubland made of dried moss.
I run two weekly campaigns, one for kids, one for adults. Both because I want to. I can't imagine trying to DM as a job. I greatly respect anyone able to do it. Coming up with NPCs, encounters, adventures, and being ready for whatever hijinx the party gets up to, it's hard to do every week.
Characters don't get a full range of experiences. OTOH, I've been an insider, outsider, prejudiced, discriminated against, certain, confused, loved, hated, happy, angry, aggrieved, exhilarated, deceitful, duped. I've drunk rare wine and moonshine, at dives and galas. That's enough for any character.
Michael Scott from the Office stands in front of Dwight. Michael says "I love player characters". In the bottom panel, Michael says "Love to get to play one someday"
Eh, in 5E Bards can fill the charlatan side of things, properly specced rangers can fill the stealthy espionage/assassin side. Hell, even Artificers have stealth armor as an option. Maybe it's not Wizard/Sorcerer/Warlock/Cleric like for magic classes but its there.
There's so many good options, and I'm not sure I agree that none appear commonly.
Confidence man. Safe cracker. Assassin. Spy. Charlatan. Fixer. Saboteur. Pickpocket. Smuggler. I've definitely seen some of those in various RPGs.
Running a #dnd campaign for a bunch of 5th graders is a DM's nightmare. They have all this free time and just read the monster manual. They know more about the creatures I throw at them than I do. If only they spent a fraction of that time looking at their own characters' spells and abilities.
Anyone ever run a #ttrpg table using multiple rulesets? I'm tempted to try for an upcoming one-shot. We'll have my 12-year-olds and two adults playing 5E, and two much younger kids who I think will play FÄNGELSEHÅLA.
As a GM, I am fairly certain I can do anything because no one can stop me.
You know what, I'm sorry. I disagree with you on this, but I don't think you're a bot or a Russian shill. A state judge in her own courtroom has extraordinary latitude. Feds don't have a magic wand to overrule that without a judicial warrant. This arrest is straight from the fascist playbook.
Found the Russian propaganda bot.
If I had a nickel for every time I had to use my lockpicks to gain access to a room that I should have already had access to, I'd have... like 35 cents.
It's the perfect activity for people who hate leaving their house.
Your politics are wiping out kelp forests off the Pacific coast, but on the other hand, are the favorite food of sea otters, so I guess it evens out.
I find that thread kind of reductionist navel gazing. I'm sure there are tables where the players are enacting some kind of imperialist/capitalist passion play, but I think most tables, players want to be heroes. They want to slay the dragon because the village is in danger. Gold is just a bonus.
Except when your party is in an underground tunnel and your DM rules that they're going to use the fireball's volume, rather than its radius, to determine who needs to make a saving throw.
Gross.
All of my #dnd NPCs have raspy, pack-a-day-for-30-years-smoker voices with a small range of intonations and the occasional imitation Scottish or Irish accent. That's the extent of my voice acting abilities. I apologize for nothing.
Maybe judges should have their bailiffs physically drag people to jail immediately when they find them in contempt of a court ruling. They can do that, right?
Not to brag, but I've bled a whole lot.
NANCY BY ERNIE BUSHMILLER I CAN'T STAND THAT GRACE JONES BUT YOU HAVE TO ADMIT SHE'S A GOOD DRESSER AW, SHE'S JUST A SHOW-OFF SHE EVEN HAS PAJAMAS TO MATCH HER MEASLES
The Best Of Nancy By
Ernie Bushmiller
March 26,1958
I think we should normalize screaming for help when we see someone get surrounded by masked goons and abducted.
To be fair most of my weird dreams are about my d&d campaigns at this point.
A green giant wields an adventurer as a club stands over a destroyed building
A city street is being invaded by an enemy army as a small group of guards tries to hold them back
The party runs from door to door, looking for stragglers.
As a giant battered down the city gate, the party rushed to evacuate the remaining civilians to the harbor, fighting their way through several groups of infiltrating enemies. Credit to @nateok.bsky.social for the close up of the giant, painted by my son.
#dnd #cardboard #ttrpg
Whoever said artists must suffer for their art probably didn't mean dropping an exacto knife on your foot while building a cardboard castle for your D&D campaign.
Anything can be anything I want because I'm the dungeon master.