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  • Skill checks

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  • The problem with DND¹ is that it's a wargame cosplaying as a role playing game.

    We're not recreating historical battles. Let the players (and the DM) have fun.

    1.— It boggles the mind that one of the early failed experiments at making role playing games (by slightly modifying the rules of pre-existing wargames) is still somehow the standard.

    Sure, it was one of the main inspirations for the genre... but there's a good reason we're not still driving Ford Model Ts.

  • Skill checks

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  • They do! Each one reopens a different set of white checks, and reduces their difficulty! :D

  • Skill checks

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  • don't let the country bumpkin make Arcana checks about monsters he's never seen

    Why not? It could be fun! Of course non-critical rolls would be useless, but on a critical failure they could convince the whole party that dragons can't see movement, and on a critical success they could buy mere chance figure out where its voonerables are (it's a million-to-one chance, but it might just work!)...

    or let the stick figure try to punch down a wall

    Again, why not? All rolls, they take a bit of damage; critical failure, they break their arm or hand, and manage to dislodge a brick which starts a comically unlikely and extremely noisy Rube Goldberg chain reaction which ends up waking up and alerting all the guards; critical success, they hit the hidden button that opens the secret door (in another wall), starting a whole new subquest.

  • Skill checks

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  • Many of them can be re-rolled later once you get more skill points.

    It calls these white checks. Specifically they'll unlock again (supposing you failed them) once you level up the skill or stat they're associated to.

    You can also find or buy dice that'll unlock some of them.

    Others are one and done unless you reload or start a new game.

    It calls these red checks. And they're often much more fun than white checks, especially when you fail them.

  • "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership

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  • Because I am watching maybe 70-80% english content I decided the lesser evil is to just set the language to english instead.

    Google has always made it extremely clear that they don't believe it's possible for the human brain to know more than one language, and that anyone who claims to know more than one is a liar and a witch and has no place in their platforms.

  • "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership

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  • They're more or less making the same amount of money from half the amount of reported viewers.

    This would pretty much confirm that they've stopped counting viewers who use adblockers.

  • Putin: “Immortality” coming soon through continuous organ transplants

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  • But that's a problem with the system, not with wanting to live as long as possible.

    Fuck the system.

    Burn it down, rebuild, and let's go full Star Trek.

  • Putin: “Immortality” coming soon through continuous organ transplants

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  • They're dictators and wealthy psychopaths.

    They don't need people to donate, they'll simply take what they want, like they've always done.

    They'll just live in a bubble. They practically already do, for their own safety, because almost every person on the planet wants them dead, most with good reason (some just want to take their place).

  • Boy, 11, shot dead after playing doorbell-ringing prank in Houston, police say

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  • It is wild to me that someone hears their doorbell and their instinct is to grab their gun

    Seriously, my first instinct (like any normal person's) when I hear my doorbell is to pause whatever I'm watching or playing, turn off the speakers, and slowly and silently creep towards the door to peek through the peephole and see if whoever rang without scheduling first has already gone away and I can go back to my normal life.

    What am I going to do with a gun, shoot the bastard and cause even more people to come to my door‽

  • [ACTIVATE WINDOWS]

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  • Yeah, this is the one I remember!

  • The Browser Wasn’t Enough, Google Wants To Control All Your Software

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  • One rich asshole called Larry Ellison..?

  • Intel faces investor backlash for selling 10% stake to Trump admin at discount

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  • No. State capitalism is fascism.

    Fascism should more appropriately be called Corporatism because it is a merger of state and corporate power.
    — Benito Mussolini

  • Homeowner shoots, kills 2 men in ski masks claiming to be officers, HPD says

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  • What do you mean, it's clearly a goverment officer, it says it right there on the ground!

  • German court overturns previous ruling that ad blocking isn't piracy

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  • If I understand it correctly, they're arguing that any unauthorized "modification of the computer program" (i.e. the web page) is a copyright violation.

    This wouldn't only affect adblockers... this would affect any browser feature, extension, or user script that modifies the page in any way, shape, or form... translators, easy reading modes, CSS modifiers (e.g., dark mode for pages that don't have it, or anything that improves readability for people with vision problems), probably screen readers...

    This would essentially turn web browsers into the HTML equivalent of PDF readers, without any of the customisability that's been standard for decades...

  • Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those?

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  • The only advantage of tape was, at the time, it's smaller size and portability

    And not being read-only.

    Also, you could spool them with a pencil.

  • MIT report: 95% of generative AI pilots at companies are failing

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  • Cinema fall is comming

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  • No, that's Columbo.

  • African Union joins calls to end use of Mercator map that shrinks continent’s size

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  • Dymaxion.

    Waterman is nice and all, but I don't like the way it splits Australia and New Zealand, or how it puts Antarctica in a separate bit like Alaska in USA maps.

    Dymaxion offers a nice continuous view of all the continents, and can still be folded into a sufficiently spherical globe-like thingy.

    It'd be nice to have an alternative version that made the oceans continuous, though, for people who like ships and stuff.

  • Subnautica 2 Publisher Says It Fired Cofounders To Avoid Another Kerbal Space Program 2 Debacle

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  • KSA is dead in the water, though.

    Blowing up Jeb is fun for the whole family, including Jeb.

    Blowing up kittens is not fun, in any way, shape, or form, unless you're a deranged psychopath.

    No one will play such a game.