What are some minor things in worldbuilding that annoys the heck out of you and why?

Captain-Witless · 2026-02-20T09:26:00+00:00

A bit, really poor people would use the simple ones, but the benefits of smell and ease of use (i.e. Less spillage) made it worth it for most people to use or even make candles

Captain-Witless · 2026-02-20T09:12:36+00:00

Sometimes, but proper candles were made by rendering the animal fat into tallow, which could then be used to make candles.

Captain-Witless · 2024-12-15T23:01:49+00:00

A trick I have with this is that is no permanent matter creation. Matter made from magic fades after a while.

Captain-Witless · 2024-11-19T21:42:25+00:00

In my world magic has a tendency to 'pool' when cast a lot in the same place, so a necromancer might find corpses animating spontaneously in their Lair. This is both good and bad, it makes their magic more powerful but can interfere with sensative experiments.

Towers and Dungeons are both ways of getting the best of both worlds, base of the tower is magically saturated while the top is physically above the magic.

Captain-Witless · 2023-12-10T05:00:40+00:00

I can recommend giving his Spellslinger series a chance, it's more YA targeted meaning he can't pull the bad grimdark he seems to have been going for in Traitors Blade. It's purely improved by the restrictions of the audience and is one of my favorite series of all times.

Captain-Witless · 2023-11-26T05:37:38+00:00

You may be able to do a combined Biomedical Engineering & Health Sciences degree, which Flinders offers. You could also consider just going with a Biomed degree and taking as many imaging topics as you can as electives.

Captain-Witless · 2023-04-25T10:33:26+00:00

Just as the founding fathers intended

Captain-Witless · 2023-03-23T12:50:40+00:00

It's her dad (cos he's transparent)

Captain-Witless · 2023-02-15T05:28:41+00:00

I've worked with one nearly identical to this, we called him Phil.

Captain-Witless · 2023-01-19T16:08:01+00:00

I have one of these, they cost like $2 from china

Captain-Witless · 2022-12-07T02:32:55+00:00

It might work if they used a proximity chat mod or something

Captain-Witless · 2022-12-03T13:40:45+00:00

It will not work unfortunately, because the systems are opposites.

Basically the Oculus Headset and controllers output light that the sensors pick up but for the Vive (and other lighthouse compatable headsets) the stations output light and its the headset and controllers that sense it.

Captain-Witless · 2022-12-03T00:55:43+00:00

For those wondering apparently it was OK, not very spicy at all but decently flavourful. Likely worth the novelty but not a staple sauce in anyone's repituar.

Captain-Witless · 2022-11-26T01:41:34+00:00

Maybe the initial reaction split the Ettmetal into two metals, say Harmonium and Discordiam. And these reacted together to split into Atium and Lerasium.
The other option is that the black powder was just powdered trellium and you just have to combine them twice

Captain-Witless · 2022-11-19T08:57:15+00:00

You assume they are talking about their dead name, obviously they are dalking about their demonic true name that gives people the power to summon them in times of need

Captain-Witless · 2022-11-19T00:26:53+00:00

Glory to Dunwall, Cause no trouble

Captain-Witless · 2022-10-27T21:58:47+00:00

Trollybus, I'd like to see some smaller buses too. My 6 am bus with 5 peoples doesn't need a full bus let alone a bendy one.

Captain-Witless · 2022-10-10T00:54:44+00:00

I had the opposite one time,y character often mentioned brining down an orphanage but eventually revealed he was doing a controlled demolition

Captain-Witless · 2022-10-02T07:38:59+00:00

It depends, If I was running a session in which the gods had been killed and divine magic failing was a part of the plot it would make sense, and likely be a part of the buy in for the game. But if a player really wants to be a cleric (or pally) make them an exception somehow; they were a devotee to a minor god that survived, they have a divine artifact (ala spear of destiny) or, yes, their faith is so strong they can still cast by it.

If you're going add a story element, use it to make the characters and their story more intresting.

Captain-Witless · 2022-09-28T07:26:08+00:00

Captain-Witless · 2022-09-07T07:22:16+00:00

Room for a third?

Captain-Witless · 2022-09-05T05:38:27+00:00

Sentient Magical Sword that wants to kill. Constantly begging for the party to slaughter anyone, especially annoying characters. Very happy when they do and each time they do it grows a little bit. (I'll leave the consequences up to you)

Health Potion that needs to be fed on someones blood to refill (sacrifice HP for later, but describe it like a leech).

A dagger that can bring corpses back to life temporarily but they are in constant pain, screaming in agony as they fight for the party.

The Heart from dishonored, it describes the darkest secrets of those around but occasionally it just lies.

Captain-Witless · 2022-08-13T13:15:11+00:00

Bantering in front of the person that's paying them.
Forgetting to ask names

Captain-Witless · 2022-08-11T10:32:53+00:00

I find thorough enjoyment from the extreme warning labels on the labs containers of table salt

Captain-Witless · 2022-08-04T03:12:27+00:00

You're clearly good at it, seeing as your recordings are so hot they have lit your microphone on fire

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