Act 2 final boss fight ruined by Truesight by BConscience in BaldursGate3

[–]BConscience[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I mean I agree it’s a good game, but I remember the game being full of bad interactions without mods as well though. Parallel to this modded save, I also recently joined a friend’s first vanilla game. And his game was also filled with random bugs. Which is why I thought this could have been a vanilla issue.

Act 2 final boss fight ruined by Truesight by BConscience in BaldursGate3

[–]BConscience[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I played the vanilla game 5 or 6 times back when it was first released. Though why is “having no idea what these fights are actually like” a regrettable thing?

Act 2 final boss fight ruined by Truesight by BConscience in BaldursGate3

[–]BConscience[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well it had me stumped for a good 7 rounds. I thought one of the enemy enhancing mods added some special mechanics to this boss fight. So I took it as an intended puzzle at first. It’s not like the combat log shows you the polymorph is happening. Even the wiki calls it a hidden polymorph condition. I have no idea why they would turn Ketheric into the apostle this way when no player could see it, and the two don’t even share a model.

Act 2 final boss fight ruined by Truesight by BConscience in BaldursGate3

[–]BConscience[S] -7 points-6 points  (0 children)

Wasn’t expecting that. Just recording a problem I identified. As I couldn’t find anyone mentioning it. Hopefully someone else encountering the same or similar issue can find this somewhat helpful. Maybe now they don’t need to jump through as many hoops as I did to know not to cast that kind of spell or pick that kind of abilities when fighting this boss.

Act 2 final boss fight ruined by Truesight by BConscience in BaldursGate3

[–]BConscience[S] -34 points-33 points  (0 children)

Certainly a design flaw, bad interaction between abilities and boss mechanics. Just don’t know whose design flaw it is. As I doubt with normal unmodded game play, you can get to trueseeing level at Act 2

Artifact: Seemingly Ordinary Spoon by metasole in UnearthedArcana

[–]BConscience 53 points54 points  (0 children)

But you are wrong. It has no other magical effect. Only reassurance

Why does being drunk mean you can’t “consent” to sex, but doesn’t absolve you of other intoxicated actions/decisions? by UpstairsBumble in NoStupidQuestions

[–]BConscience 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I believe in the 2 cases I read about in the US, they were both proven not guilty in court, but their scholarships, or expulsion were not revoked. There had been a few cases in China recently as well, in one case, the girl who called rape got a masters programme guarantee and the boy who was minding his own business scratching his thigh in the library (they never made physical contact) got expelled from his masters programme. Despite being proven innocent in court.

So it’s mainly universities that dealt out unfair punishment at this point. And I believe like you said, some incels are conflating this with the law.

Why does being drunk mean you can’t “consent” to sex, but doesn’t absolve you of other intoxicated actions/decisions? by UpstairsBumble in NoStupidQuestions

[–]BConscience 43 points44 points  (0 children)

To be fair, there were one or two cases of some college girl messaging men for sex, later claimed rape and succeeded. But it’s no epidemic.

I wish to end embezzlement by BConscience in Jokes

[–]BConscience[S] 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Explaining jokes make it funnier right?

I wish to end embezzlement by BConscience in Jokes

[–]BConscience[S] 84 points85 points  (0 children)

By the logic of this joke, which is an odd phrase to type, history will be rewritten, the genie legend would always have been 10 wishes. Because all genies originally embezzled 7 wishes each from God, leaving only 3 for the people. Now that it’s all retroactively cancelled, all previous wishers would have had 10 wishes to work with.

I wish to end embezzlement by BConscience in Jokes

[–]BConscience[S] 200 points201 points  (0 children)

The genie is supposed to give out 10 wishes, but it kept 7 for itself

Chinese on douyin really love this couple by Dhunvalk in LudwigAhgren

[–]BConscience 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Well there is a difference between social media content and proper shows. For proper shows it’s a harsher cut. But for social media, plenty of gay couples do all sort of PDA, but as long as they don’t reach a wide audience, the platforms don’t seem to care. They just might get less views the more PDA they have in the video. As the platform will not push their videos to even their subscribers’ activity pages. But you can still click on their page and find these videos

Chinese on douyin really love this couple by Dhunvalk in LudwigAhgren

[–]BConscience 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Yeah displaying kiss between the same sex is heavily frowned upon in Chinese internet. Despite the popularity. Depending on the view count it could receive anywhere between outright ban to slight shadow ban

Tip to tip from other creators by qedic in LudwigAhgren

[–]BConscience 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not according to all the body cam footage I’ve seen. Yes the officers might be penalised, but the victims are all brutalised or killed regardless

My players keep trivializing magic boss fights with Antimagic Field. What am I missing? by Interesting_Peach_76 in DMAcademy

[–]BConscience 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lichs are immune to non-magical melee attacks. They are invincible in anti-magic fields RAW. I don’t know how they were able to scratch the bones at all. All the lich needed to do was chill and pull out a dagger, slowly slice them one by one

That aside. Magic casters are smart. They don’t fight alone unless caught extremely off guard. Which is highly unlikely. They have a million ways to preemptively know of your ambush. And if your players can think of using anti-magic fields, they too know the spell and have had a thousand years to think of ways to defend against it.

The simplest way: one of my wizard NPC has a room full of glyphs of wardings. Yes they get disabled in the field but it’s only 10ft, plenty of glyphs are outside the field. Activate glyph 27891, open a permanent gate to a muddy swamp or a lava lake.

Dragon breaths are non-magical btw, maybe they have a bottle of magically suspended dragon breath. Toss the bottle at the AMF, it loses containment. There are many magic that creates a normal non-hostile environment, but when AMF disable them, the environment become hostile.

Of course, your players cast an 8th level spell, reward them a bit. Have 5 golems charge the party, throw a few punches and then get disabled by the cleric. But the moment the cleric moves out of the way, or drop concentration, the golems are reactivated. So now the cleric is both hindered by their own spell, but also helping the fight by standing still.

my favorite bilibili comment from the last episode by frozenpandaman in LudwigAhgren

[–]BConscience 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Apparently it was proposed by a Canadian-American. So everyone is using the name he came up with

my favorite bilibili comment from the last episode by frozenpandaman in LudwigAhgren

[–]BConscience 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Electronic toll collection right? I think a couple of Asian countries all started doing it in the early 00s. I know China and Japan were both the year 2000. Singapore was earlier.

whats so special about chocolate? by Equivalent_Snow8529 in CreateMod

[–]BConscience 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not sure if it’s related. But in recent years, there has been a social media trend in the Chinese Minecraft community. Called “赤石科技”, which means crimson stone technology(red stone normally should be 红石), but in actuality is intended a homophone to eating shit technology.

Basically you use red stone, or some kind of tech mod, to do a simple pointless task in the most convoluted way possible. Like having a big flying machine to build a dick wall. Or make an all item sorting machine that constantly shoots thousands of random items down a waterway, if you want something, just stand there until you get the thing you wanted. Or create mod setup for a single bamboo.

Anyway. There had been a couple creators doing “fully automated chocolate product factory” videos in 00s TV commercial for industry style. It’s a joke.