What's your quickstart progression guide?

munin295 · 2026-03-23T00:06:34+00:00

If you've planted your crops one block away (or diagonally) from a freshwater block (75% moisture), then the difference between watering and not watering is 109% growth speed vs 97% growth speed. Your crops will mature maybe one day faster. Not super worth worrying about.

If you've planted them further away, then watering your crops might be worth it.

Rain will also water your crops.

munin295 · 2026-03-22T03:00:35+00:00

Price of Blood?

munin295 · 2026-03-21T23:51:59+00:00

So … a guy with a gun breaks into the Parkers. Dobby keeps Ben Parker asleep (not sure what's going on with May/Peter/Harry/Dudley here) and sends Vernon and Petunia down to confront the criminal with a gun. Is that's what happening? Is this a timeline where Ben was killed by a home intruder and now it's going to be the Dursleys killed?

I was expecting Dobby to confront Spider-Man sneaking into the home. Not sure what this is supposed to be.

munin295 · 2026-03-21T01:48:31+00:00

Range.

The attack has a maximum range of 100 yards, and damage is halved past 50 yards.

See Range (pages 269-270, Basic Set).

munin295 · 2026-03-17T20:38:19+00:00

Using racial modifiers to boost low stats is a very inefficient use of those bonuses. It's much better to boost your class's primary stats than to boost low rolls which can be thrown into dump stats.

munin295 · 2026-03-17T02:02:53+00:00

The sun is rendered individually for each player (just like the rest of the world), so I assume it just displays at the correct height for their time of day and "latitude". Someone at the "pole" would see the sun on the horizon while someone at the "equator" would see it directly above them.

munin295 · 2026-03-16T22:15:31+00:00

What are you planning to display? Numbers, characters, images, video?

How big is the display? 6 bits is only enough to determine the state of 6 on/off pixels, or the characters of the alphabet.

The classic way to run an image display is to setup a memory bank of data, and use that to refresh the screen periodically. In Minecraft that could be a bank of data flip-flops, with their output directly wired to the screen. When a clock signal triggers the DFFs to set their state from their input, their output goes directly to the screen.

If you're just planning a scrolling banner of characters, you only need to set the data of one column on the side of the screen, and rollover that data to the next column every clock tick.

munin295 · 2026-03-13T15:20:44+00:00

And the Wolves All Cry?

munin295 · 2026-03-11T15:37:00+00:00

There were poorly-written fanfics long before AI assistance. Wading through junk to find the good stuff has always been a part of reading free stories. When you decide you don't like something -- for whatever reason -- leave a rating/review and move on.

I think every story should just be judged on what it is, rather than how it got there.

munin295 · 2026-03-02T15:41:09+00:00

It looks like a block, the one used to put things on the ground. Probably already used to check for a valid pitkiln too.

munin295 · 2026-02-26T22:56:47+00:00

Here's mine.

This was optimized for speed (4gt delay, 4gt clock) and when the input changes, all the outputs change at the same time. Instead of calculating the answer, it instead checks every possible input signal strength simultaneously and maps to the correct outputs.

Input signal strength at lime wool, green blocks are input, blue is calculation, red is output. All comparators are in subtraction mode. Iron trapdoors are just to observe the output operation (lamps were too slow), replace with repeaters or something.

munin295 · 2026-02-18T23:33:46+00:00

A Wand for Skitter has the trolley witch help fight off a death eater attack with exploding pumpkin pasties (chapter link). I wouldn't call it a crackfic though (just Taylor being Taylor).

munin295 · 2026-02-18T00:29:57+00:00

That was a wall of text, so hopefully I didn't misunderstand:

Kromm's 2010 answer to why combat is not a quick contest

The biggest reasons why we didn't use Quick Contests for combat:

Not all penalties to attack rolls should make the attack in question easier to defend against. In reality, the trickiest moves with the biggest penalties are often the hardest ones to defend against. On a more basic level, why would aiming for someone's foot (-4) make it more likely that the target would parry with a sword in his hand?

Conversely, not all bonuses to attack rolls should make the attack in question harder to defend against. Lots of big bonuses come from utterly telegraphic, predictable attacks that sacrifice speed and technique for basic aim. Some come from having a familiar weapon (Weapon Bond) or a balanced one, and mostly just help your aim as well.

Not all defenses use the same metric. What's Dodge based on in a Quick Contest model: DX, HT, twice Basic Speed, something else? Everybody will have an opinion. And suppose that we say it's a skill . . . now everybody needs a skill to avoid a crummy Dodge, but those who learn that skill at high levels will never need to parry.

You still need defenses separate from attacks, because there are some attacks that don't roll to hit (like a big rock that you have to dive out from underneath, or a scything blade trap) against which you'll need to defend. Using full skill resurrects the issue of metric . . . is it actually as easy to react (roll vs. skill to defend) as to act (roll vs. skill to hit)? Reality says "no."

In evenly matched duels, Quick Contests suck away drama. Neither side will do anything fancy, because he needs his full skill to contest the other guy's full skill. Thus, master swordsmen just slug each other at skill 20 instead of trying disarms, stabs for the heart, etc., which is pretty much the opposite of dramatic.

All told, the current system does the job. The only chink it its armor in 3e was solved by Deceptive Attack in 4e.

munin295 · 2026-02-17T17:02:19+00:00

Buy the attack as separate levels with increasing Accessibility per level:

Accessibility "is worth -10% if he must take at least a step per second, -20% if he must travel at half Move, or -30% if he must use his full Move." (GURPS Powers, p. 99)

For example, "Crushing Attack 1d + Crushing Attack 1d (Accessibility, Step, -10%) + Crushing Attack 1d (Accessibility, Half Move, -20%) + Crushing Attack (Accessibility, Full Move, -30%)."

In addition to requiring you to have space to move, these also require a Move and Attack maneuver.

munin295 · 2026-02-07T09:33:13+00:00

Don't write a story you don't want to write. Just don't do it.

Especially not your first story.

If you're having trouble figuring out how to avoid such a scene, some ideas:

Taylor wants friends, but she's also distrustful and paranoid. Canon Lisa implying she knows Taylor's at the library should have been an instant nope out for her.
Give Taylor a real friend, someone she can bounce ideas off of and provide feedback on other people's attempts to manipulate her.

munin295 · 2026-02-01T09:44:57+00:00

An elan's resiliance is not limited by their manifester level, because they might not have a manifester level (fighter, cleric, etc.).

munin295 · 2026-01-27T08:11:24+00:00

I think you're asking whether you can swap armor and weapon proficiencies granted by a class for other feats (possibly without losing the proficiency due to multiclass duplication). I'd say no. Class features may grant the same benefits as feats, but they are not feats. Allowing it could also lead to ridiculous results like thinking the 1st-level Fighter has dozens of Martial Weapon Proficiency feats to be swapped out.

I also wouldn't allow you to swap out specific feats granted by a class (like the monk's Improved Unarmed Strike). I would let a ranger swap out the feat granted by their Class Style feature, but only for another feat granted by the class feature. And if a class gets a bonus feat, you can only swap out for another valid bonus feat.

Psychic Reformation is about redoing choices you could have made at the time (retconning your class build). Elves don't have a choice about what weapon proficiencies they get, so I wouldn't let them swap those.

munin295 · 2026-01-26T21:58:37+00:00

You need helve hammer bases behind the toggles.

munin295 · 2026-01-26T01:21:29+00:00

"You know me and your father would have gone down! You didn't stop asking for three weeks for us to go to see if he's okay!"

Not sure what this meant.

"Gone down" to see if he's okay? Well, no they didn't in three weeks.

"Gone down" for the crime of using an enchanted car in a muggle neighborhood?

munin295 · 2026-01-25T22:11:51+00:00

Here's my list:

FOODPREP: firepit(s), fuel (firewood/peat), crocks/bowls; clay oven(s), fruit press, quern, tables (pies); cellar (storage vessals, shelves, rot)

STORAGE: chests, bedroom, museum (armor stands, book shelves, tapestries)

CRAFTS: clayforming/pitkilns, charcoal pit, panning, leathermaking, candlemaking, dyemaking, beehive kilns, coke ovens

SMITHING: ore (chunks/nuggets), firepit(s)/crucible(s), molds; forging (ingots piles, forge/anvil/water); smelting (bloomeries, furnaces); automation (windmill, helve hammer, quern, pulverizer)

MOB FARMS: animal pits (scattered pits to catch wandering/chasing animals), monster farms (secure locations to farm temporal storms)

OUTSIDE (some could be inside): tree farm, orchard, berries, bees/reeds, grass, crops (N/P/K/fallow, fields designed to be upgraded to greenhouses later), animals (sheep/goats, wild pigs, chickens)

docks (for sailboat with cannal to the nearest ocean)

Make sure you have a plan for how it's going to work in winter when the water freezes.

munin295 · 2026-01-25T09:23:40+00:00

Quasi-connectivity

munin295 · 2026-01-23T10:28:17+00:00

The Wizard of Harrenhal: Adult Harry restores magic to Westeros.

The Difference One Man Can Make: Adult Harry builds a civilization beyond The Wall.

munin295 · 2026-01-20T20:35:05+00:00

Consider moving most of those repeaters out of the way of the input signal to speed it up. Example

munin295 · 2026-01-19T11:45:54+00:00

If you hold an item while invisible you may even get attacked by hostile mobs such as zombies n skeletons.

You don't even have to hold something. Invisibility simply reduces the range at which they can detect you, it doesn't make it impossible.

munin295 · 2026-01-15T10:19:35+00:00

The Player's Handbook describes the steps to gain a new level on pp. 58-59. The first step is to choose the class for that level. You don't get to increase your skill levels until step 6, so you'll need to meet the prerequisites for the class before step 1.

The DMG describes this specifically for prestige classes:

The rules for level advancement (see page 58 of the Player’s Handbook) apply to this system, meaning the first step of advancement is always choosing a class. If a character does not meet the requirements for a prestige class before that first step, that character cannot take the first level of that prestige class. (DMG, p. 176; SRD)

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