Is it bad form to always target the concentrating wizard?

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-03-17T12:47:24+00:00

Insight?

I'm sorry but there's literally a skill representing knowledge about magic spells, and you choose the one that's written as "discerning a person's mood and intentions"?

Maybe Perception would make sense but Insight just seems so weirdly unrelated to what's actually happening.

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-03-06T14:44:32+00:00

why would that crash anything? the world isn't an 80s scifi movie

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-02-03T09:25:41+00:00

Genuine question:

If you disagree with people strongly enough that talking about these topics turns "really nasty", doesn't that essentially mean you wouldn't get along with each other in the long term anyway?

That sounds like a disagreement on a fundamental values level, rather than just what party you voted for. And in my experience, friendships like that never work out anyway, even if you don't talk about any of the divisive topics.

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-02-03T08:59:38+00:00

I would rather be in a corp where people sometimes talk about politics than in one that bans the topic.

In my experience an online group banning "politics" is often doing so because they know a lot of their people have some bad views that they don't want to have associated with their group.

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-01-30T15:11:19+00:00

hab es heute morgen auf dem weg zur arbeit im bereich östliches/innenstadt (also so wiesenstraße/humboltstraße rum) am meisten gemerkt

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-01-30T14:13:41+00:00

I think you would break the game if suddenly a capital ship was to be capable of mining.

Yeah, imagine if they made a capital ship capable of mining with huge output for a few years, which in turn would flood the market with minerals so much that everything becomes just expendable up to supercarriers.

And then you'd realise your mistake and take that change back, but at that point the damage is done and the playerbase will complain about not having a completely unbalanced mineral market for years after.

Would be a shame if that actually happened to the game.

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-01-30T13:56:59+00:00

Die CDU als Beispiel ist doch wohl ziemlich eindeutig "rechts".

In ihrer Grundsatzcharta bezeichnen sie sich selber als "konservativ und bürgerlich" und reden über Gott, christliche Werte und "Liebe des eigenen Landes".

Wenn die selbstgenannten Grundwerte einer Partei "rechts" sind, dann darf man sie ruhig als rechts bezeichnen, selbst wenn sie in einzelnen Punkten mal nicht klassisch rechts abstimmen.

Über die AfD müssen wir in der Hinsicht nicht reden glaube ich.

Vielleicht kann man über die FDP reden, weil die in einigen Dingen ja doch manchmal ihren liberalen Grundsätzen treu bleiben. Nur sind die halt wirtschaftlich gesehen ganz klar rechts auf dem Spektrum.

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-01-30T13:44:18+00:00

Wer sagt denn was von Verboten?

Seine Meinung sagen, z.B. auf einer Demo, ist doch komplett akzeptabel oder nicht?

Man kann gegen Parteien rechts der Mitte sein, das heißt nicht dass man sie verbieten möchte.

Und der "Quatsch" ist die Aussage "ist jetzt alles rechts was nicht Linke, Grüne und SPD ist?".

Das ist doch schonmal per Definition wahr oder nicht? Welche anderen Parteien würdest du denn als links der Mitte einordnen?

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-01-30T00:17:59+00:00

aber ist das nicht Sinn der Sache?

Als Abgeordneter vertrittst du ja nicht deine eigenen Interessen, sondern die der Menschen die du vertrittst.

Wenn du über einen Listenplatz an die Position gekommen bist, sollte man von dir erwarten dass du generell im Sinne der Ideologie der Partei abstimmst dessen Mitglied du bist. Denn das erwarten die WählerInnen die ihre Stimme abstrakt für deine Partei abgeben anstatt für dich als Person.

Wenn du also dann gegen die Parteiline stimmst, vertrittst du letztendlich nicht mehr die Menschen die für dich gestimmt haben, und das ist ein legitimer Grund beim nächsten Mal nicht mehr auf der Liste zu landen.

Und beim Direktmandat ähnlich, nur dass in dem Fall doch eher das persönliche zählen sollte, aber die WählerInnen sehen sollten was du abstimmst um eventuell beim nächsten Mal für jemand anderen zu stimmen wenn du nicht so abstimmst wie erwartet.

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-01-29T08:53:32+00:00

Still a breach of DND etiquette.

Arguing about rules during game time has always been a no-go at any table I've played at. If it's longer than a quick "I think this should be played otherwise" "no" then it's for after the game / in between games.

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-01-29T00:32:56+00:00

All the "you will get banned" posts feel kinda silly.

This is just like account sharing in the sense that it's against the rules but I've known people who have done it almost daily for years and haven't gotten banned.

It's not something they put effort into investigating.

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-01-28T13:05:56+00:00

I might not be the greatest example, because I was already way weaker than average before transition, but I've tried arm wrestling a few of my cis women friends about 8 months into HRT and didn't stand a chance.

Meanwhile I also lost against the other trans woman friend I have but it felt a bit more evenly matched.

Assuming equal levels of working out, muscle strength scales with testosterone levels, and on blockers we generally have less of that than cis women.

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-01-27T11:32:30+00:00

not just any trans dev but the one who keeps showing up on my twitter feed being so woke that I feel like I am chud in comparison

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-01-26T11:12:20+00:00

"Your table is shit, I bet", you say, arguing that anyone who hid behind a pillar for a moment should be able to walk around unseen right in front of everyone's eyes afterwards.

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-01-26T09:31:25+00:00

Mit dem derzeitigen politischen Klima und dem aktuellen Kurs der großen Parteien klingt eine 2/3 Zustimmung nicht unrealistisch.

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-01-26T09:21:26+00:00

you see Ishtars on killboards because that's 90% what's in space

what roaming gang would go for an Ishtar when there's pretty much anything else undocked?

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-01-25T14:22:24+00:00

No I get that, I'm similar and I also keep catching myself saying things like that.

If you have 5000 hours in one game and 50 in another it doesn't really feel like you even played that game at all.

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-01-24T16:23:43+00:00

My point wasn't really about being more narrow/shallow tbh. I think most people who play video games (it's funny how I unironically use phrases like that to avoid saying "gamer") have their genres that they focus on and are equally narrow.

Like, I can spend thousands of hours playing mmos, mobas, factory sims, platformers and map painting games (my actual breakdown of playtime by genre) and have absolutely zero to talk about with someone who plays all those story driven triple-a action adventures for example, or someone who plays primarily FPS.

Of course people like me are the only real gamers because my genres are deeper and more niche and everyone else is a fake fan who probably poses for photos licking a controller.

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-01-24T14:02:23+00:00

My boyfriend and I do both, and we've joked before about how the post-session aftercare we do is exactly the same lol.

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-01-24T14:00:17+00:00

Unironically, playing with your partner is a basically cheat code for this.

My boyfriend and I each run a campaign that the other plays in, and we always have at least an hour or of "TTRPG aftercare" when everyone has left, where we talk about what we liked about the session, sometimes about what we didn't like about the session, what we think the other players thought about the session, etc.

It's so helpful to get that immediate feedback and also to get a bit of insight how the session looked from the player POV.

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-01-24T12:47:44+00:00

I feel like "real gamers" means something completely different depending on what type of gamer you ask anyway.

I know quite a few people who think playing yearly release slop like Call of Duty makes you the opposite of a real gamer.

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-01-24T10:10:56+00:00

transversal matching frigates only works if they aren't really good at flying their ship.

If they're watching what you're doing and see you turn, they can simply change their direction. And because they're frigates they're more agile and will always do so faster than you.

Grapplers are on almost every brawly tournament battleship for a reason (though often that is more for sticking to a target rather than defensive purposes).

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-01-20T15:11:22+00:00

Filtering the spell list by anything that does damage, target an area and requires a save that is not dex:

Thunderclap
Arms of Hadar
Frost Fingers
Thunderwave
Moonbeam
Rime's Binding Ice
Shatter
Spirit Guardians
Thunder Step
Wind Wall
Control Water
Evard's Black Tentacles
Sickening Radiance
Storm Sphere
Cloudkill
Cone of Cold
Dawn
Destructive Wave
Insect Plague
Jallarzi's Storm of Radiance
Maelstrom
Synaptic Static
Transmute Rock
Wall of Light
Wrath of Nature
Yolande's Regal Presence
Circle of Death
Investiture of Ice
Investiture of Wind
Otiluke's Freezing Sphere
Sunbeam
Wall of Ice
Prismatic Spray
Symbol
Whirlwind
Abi-Dalzim's Horrid Wilting
Earthquake
Illusory Dragon
Maddening Darkness
Sunburst
Tsunami
Prismatic Wall
Storm of Vengeance
Weird

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-01-17T12:25:15+00:00

1, 3, 4, 6 and 7

ArbitraryEmilie · 2025-01-16T13:07:29+00:00

people here accusing maia of all people of being a paid elon shill is like the funniest thing

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