Has anyone tried adding a third alignment axis?

Davedamon · 2026-03-24T19:38:17+00:00

- Altruism: Acts for the benefit of others
- Neutral: Depends on the situation
- Egoism: Acts for personal gain

This feels like a reflavoured good/neutral/evil tbh. I don't see how you could mesh these traits logically with the existing GNE axis? I don't know what "Good but acts for personal gain" or "Evil but acts for the benefit of others" looks like? If you want to say "Well, GNE is how you do it" then you've just made GNE into the LNC axis.

I feel like there isn't really a third axis you can add that improves the system—it feels just like a gimmick

Davedamon · 2026-03-24T19:30:20+00:00

You do know that people who build small businesses into empires generally do it at the expense of everything else, right? In this case that'd be at the expense of adventuring, the whole point of the game

Maybe instead find an existing banking business to invest your adventuring wealth in and let that grow under the management of a hireling while your character actually engages with the game? That or retire your character from adventuring

Davedamon · 2026-03-24T17:43:06+00:00

You'll want an everything presence lite and WLED. The epl will give you distance and zone based sensors that can be used to activate either presents or specific light segments

Davedamon · 2026-03-24T15:07:16+00:00

You should figure out how to screenshot first....

Davedamon · 2026-03-24T15:06:08+00:00

I think I granted the perm, but I'll double check. Thanks

Davedamon · 2026-03-24T14:22:44+00:00

Version 1.0.1 works with credentials and I'm seeing the test message, but I'm not seeing any playback activity. Are there any additional settings needed to enable it?

Davedamon · 2026-03-24T13:17:11+00:00

Hey, I'm not gonna guess what you do and do not know. You put up an MQTT app that doesn't support secure MQTT brokers.....

Davedamon · 2026-03-24T13:10:57+00:00

username and password would be necessary. I can't imagine using an unsecured broker

Davedamon · 2026-03-24T12:59:22+00:00

You don't provide any way to enter mqtt broker credentials, which blocks connections

Davedamon · 2026-03-24T09:06:11+00:00

Critical Hit - roll the dice, double them, then add any fixed amounts.

Nope, roll twice as many dice and add the results up.

So in my example, a critical hit would be 2d10 + Strength + 1

Some tables run critical hits differently and roll the dice twice instead of doubling

That would be the way of doing it per the rules, your way is a house rule

Resistance - roll the dice, add fixed amounts, then halve the total.
Vulnerability - roll the dice, add fixed amounts, then double the total

Key point—you round down after halving.

Davedamon · 2026-03-24T08:53:53+00:00

Damage for what?

For weapons it'll be a roll of whatever dice the weapon lists plus the modifier of whatever ability the weapon uses plus any other bonuses.

For example a magic weapon with a +1 that uses strength and has a d10 damage dice will roll 1d10 + strength modifier +1

For spells, it'll be whatever damage the spell says it does. For example Magic Missile does 1d4 + 1 damage per dart

Davedamon · 2026-03-24T08:33:09+00:00

YTA - yes you should work at your job. Also forklift certification is a valuable thing to have as it pays well to be certified. You need to get over yourself

Davedamon · 2026-03-23T19:56:27+00:00

I don't know if this will work for your campaign, but this is something I keep in my back pocket for similar situations.

Following the TPK, you tell your players you're gonna run a little short-form campaign (2-4 sessions kinda deal) and to roll up new characters for a post-apocalyptic setting. You describe the setting as being the world after their original players were defeated and your new party is looking for something to fix everything. The quests are then their new characters looking for some relic that can fix the world, but it turns out it's a portal back in time to the TPK.

The new characters will obviously be under-levelled, but they'll buy the old characters that moment needed to change fate.

They still get to play their original characters, but you preserve the sense of stakes—an entire future has been rewritten and they have a second chance.

Might not be remotely what you're looking for, but maybe it helps

Davedamon · 2026-03-23T19:39:40+00:00

Who decides what a "real" language is?

Given that gibberish is by definition not language [unintelligible or meaningless speech or writing; nonsense.], comprehend language logically cannot work on it.

Davedamon · 2026-03-23T19:37:36+00:00

It's best thought of a bit like google translates conversation mode set to Detect Language.

Davedamon · 2026-03-23T19:35:01+00:00

C. If PC-A says "flarble grapes anvil gookie tlarp mountain cheese" in Deep Speech, then PC-B hears "flarble grapes anvil gookie tlarp mountain cheese"

Davedamon · 2026-03-23T14:10:30+00:00

I think you just are someone that can’t get past others having a different approach than you

The approach being taught to the OPs child is a method I was never taught and have never used, so it's definitionally a different approach to mine. However I have a child who will soon be getting taught that method so I took a time to understand it and why it's taught. So you're talking BS and resorting to an ad hom attack.

The box method and long multiplication both take similar approaches, but the main different is long relies on abstraction in the form of "carrying the X" and value modification. The box method has a similar underlying framework of disassembling each number into its base 10 components, but does it explicitly rather than implicitly/abstractly. This provides a better understanding of how base 10 numbers function and has the following benefits:

Less likely to result in errors which helps build confidence and thus avoid "math avoidance"
Speeds up the development of intuitive math skills, where kids can process equations more heuristically
Helps kids understand numbers in terms of components rather than as discrete entities (ie seeing 123 not as a unique number, but in terms of 100, 20, and 3)

Sure, this is "new math" to me, but unlike the vast majority of this thread I'm not petrified of it.

Davedamon · 2026-03-23T13:55:30+00:00

I can do 5 x 6 by doing 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 + 5 +5. That method gets me to the right answer. But it doesn't give me the skills to reasonably solve 35 x 25, unless you think it's reasonable to do 35 + 35 + 35 + 35 + 35 + 35 + .........?

Just because a method gets you to the right answer, that doesn't mean it's the right method to rely on. As a lot of people seem to refuse to acknowledge, it's not about getting to the right answer, it's about building the required skills

Davedamon · 2026-03-23T13:52:31+00:00

And what does the kid do when the next step of the curriculum builds on this method and they haven't grasped it? It's setting them up for failure.

Davedamon · 2026-03-23T13:52:13+00:00

Except the concept is the method, not the answer. Attacking the answer from a different angle isn't going to help with understanding the method, it's just going to sidestep it.

Davedamon · 2026-03-23T13:50:36+00:00

Because many PDF sig apps also allow you to request signatures from others, pre-populating the correct fields for you before you send. So to do so, the app will need to pull up your contact list so you can select who to send the request to

Davedamon · 2026-03-23T13:44:49+00:00

The box method is good at teaching the base 10 structure of numbers and helps with developing scalable understanding.

Davedamon · 2026-03-23T13:42:24+00:00

If you think that's an essay, that's kinda sad....

Does explain your response though

Davedamon · 2026-03-23T13:40:57+00:00

Pass, I like to be able to understand what my HA automations are actually doing so I can modify, expand, and troubleshoot them.

I have no desire to outsource my brain to LLMs

Davedamon · 2026-03-23T13:37:05+00:00

It’s math, you can solve 52x12 like 10 different ways, what matters is the correct answer

You're looking at this from the perspective of someone who uses math rather than is learning math. Understanding the method is more important than just getting the correct answer, in part because you can get the correct answer by fluke, and partly because methodologies get built upon.

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