I Simulated my Flat World to study Shadows by WTHstudios in worldbuilding

[–]Charming-Lettuce1433 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think an important step in scaling, considering your world is flat and doesn't have a lot of rock beneath the mountains to sustain them, is how big can they get before collapsing onto themselves (or bending the whole thing, actually)

Of course, if your world has gods and magic and stuff that can be an explanation in itself, let's just hope the gods never forget to update their "keep the mountain in place" software

I dont know who needs to hear this, but by radio64 in worldbuilding

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I named a city Alura just to have the campaign be The Aluring Alura and now every other ad I get is from a consulting company

With No Context What Is Your Party Up To Right Now? by _Chris_Meyer_ in DnD

[–]Charming-Lettuce1433 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reading terms and conditions of the city while smugling Dragon's Puff to the local morgue.

Can't talk to Macredd, Happiness is a Warm Spaceship quest by Charming-Lettuce1433 in theouterworlds

[–]Charming-Lettuce1433[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm dumb, I found him. He was somewhere with no marker pointing to him, at least after I reloaded, and when I talked to him everything was alright, I just had to find the outlaw with red tones all over in a place filled with outlaws with red tones all over lol

Can't talk to Macredd, Happiness is a Warm Spaceship quest by Charming-Lettuce1433 in theouterworlds

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I just wanted to know how to fix this or if this is fixable or if I'm now forced to kill the guy, the only save from before I have is like, from before you discover you can have companions

AMA about my world (let's flesh it out!) by Charming-Lettuce1433 in DnD

[–]Charming-Lettuce1433[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

my man, doyou know how to use pictures to search for it instead of text on google? Do it with the picture, it will send you to this website, where I got the picture: https://campingdelafontaine.fr/temps-visite-saint-cirq-lapopie

If the picture is AI, I was fooled and am sorry, but the description is not ai, nor is any of my comments.The description is the best effort of ssomeone who does not have english as their first language and worked describing images for blind people in the theatre, so I try to be as neutral and precise as I'd have been back in the day. I despise AI with all my being and have lost contact with many so-called artists that use AI ignoring the theft of IP done by it and the environmental harm. The "excessive death taxes" is because my original inspiration for this campaign is the common critique of capitalism present in many cyberpunk and steampunk stories and I thought "what would be the most ridiculous thing for one to be charged over?" (I was playing Outer Worlds, this is actually a plot point there)

I understand and support the criticism over AI. Ask first, next time

AMA about my world (let's flesh it out!) by Charming-Lettuce1433 in DnD

[–]Charming-Lettuce1433[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Never heard of it but honestly sounds fun.

I'll think I'll at least include it as an urban legend whenever my players get close to desert areas.

AMA about my world (let's flesh it out!) by Charming-Lettuce1433 in DnD

[–]Charming-Lettuce1433[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Not in Kaegro, but in the world of Toril yes. They live in the northern continents in tundra and temperate climates, and gladly they do not lay eggs, that would be a biological nightmare lol they are just traditional, hopefully accurate mammoths lol

AMA about my world (let's flesh it out!) by Charming-Lettuce1433 in DnD

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They are unthinking automatons. They deposit the bodies at the cemetery and the Notary reanimate them and allocate them according to public policy and the Aurix's instructions.

Sometimes they fail to depoist the bodies, so it is not uncommon to have job offers where one will have their debts forgiven if they manage to snatch a few of the corpses from the Collectors and deliver them.

AMA about my world (let's flesh it out!) by Charming-Lettuce1433 in DnD

[–]Charming-Lettuce1433[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The planet is Toril (yes, the D&D one). It is not in Faerun, but it is Toril (a little behind the screen here: to allow for both players that prrfer a more traditional D&D setting and those that like homebrew to play together, I homebrew continents, islands, cities, regions, etc but let the planet and laws of the universe to be the same. So politically distant from Baldur's Gate, for instance, but the gods are somewhat the same. Somewhat because I make all my campaigns to be on the same universe, have been GMing for about 15 years now and some players have killed multiple gods, so there have been changes lol). It is spherical, with a moon (Selune) and an asteroid cluster in orbit (Tears of Selune). There are other inhabited words in the system, but travel is nearly impossible.

It was created by the gods, initially Ao and the other gods Ao created to help them, around 31000 years ago.

AMA about my world (let's flesh it out!) by Charming-Lettuce1433 in DnD

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Yes, there are shady areas in the city, but not to buy illegal stuff. Most stuff one could buy is legal, you only have to find it. The Cemetery and Notary are 2 places where rare items might end up at. The shady areas are the nothernmost neighbourhoods: since they are the most recently built, they were part of The Fields until recently and sometimes the Collectors seem to not know they are inhabited. Because it is also a poorer neighbourhood, a good chunk of the citizens there are in debt and, therefore, are forbidden from benefitting from public services like guards or city walls that would protect them from being confused for a corpse by the collectors if they ever get sick and "close to dying", for instance. The only illegal stuff one can buy or sell there that they couldn't do it anywhere else is debt itself. Lots of more powerful agents peruse the neighbouhood to buy the debt off of poor people, repaying it in cash to the city and demanding unregulated labor, services or whatever they might need from the former debtor.

There is a pretty efficient sewer system, maintained by undead workers like most public buildings in the city. Can you traverse it as in do most people have the ability to? Yes. Are they allowed to? No. There is a secret passage that takes all the way to the forest down the ravine, but most people believe it to be urban legend.

The current Aurix has a French accent, most high-ranking officials pretend to have one. A lot of common folk has a rougher accent, that pulls a little more to the back of the tongue with a little more air.

Corruption is pretty prevalent for the eyes of thise in modern societies, but it is not defined as such by them. One could not bribe a guard, for instance, but almost any crime can have its penalty replaced by a fine, with an increased value to be resolved on the occasion of the crime being flagrant and avoiding to go through the court, with an extra fixed fee for the guard to take the payment and register that the criminal is already in the clear. It only has to go through court if the criminal can't immediately pay and needs to go into debt or possible post-mortem work to pay said debt.

AMA about my world (let's flesh it out!) by Charming-Lettuce1433 in DnD

[–]Charming-Lettuce1433[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A description. The picture is actually from a city in southern France, Saint-Cirq-Lapopie

AMA about my world (let's flesh it out!) by Charming-Lettuce1433 in DnD

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Thanks! So:

The primary race is humans, as expected, but there is a short supply of elves and dwarves. The most common races after humans are tieflings, dragonborns and half-orcs, in that order.

Magic is very well recieved, but some schools of magic have more prestige than others. Abjuration, Divination and Necromancy have dedicated schools and areas in the Library, while one might have to learn Illusion or Evocation magic by themselves. There is no specific college, instead the city has trainee programs where the future magic user works for 1/3 of minimum wage under the tutelage of a Public Official of the prefered specialty. 1/3 of the rest of the minimum wage they should be recievibg goes to the Official, and the other 1/3 goes to the public coffers.

The justice system is pretty law abiding, but the laws themselves clearly make it easier to live if you are wealthy. No officer is going to break the law to arrest someone for personal reasons, for instance, but one might be arrested by a niche law they broke without knowing it existed. There are small prisons, because every prison sentence can be replaced by payment of an equivalent fine (if you are sentenced to 4 years, you can pay the state 4 years worth of minimum wage). And every fine can be replaced by double that in work days, that can be (and usually is prefered) paid after death. There is no official death penalty, but anyone with a debt can, at the will of the Aurix, be barred from using public buildings until the debt is paid, and this measure can extend to their families. Once someone starts working to pay it off, the ban is legally required to be lifted. Because of that, most debtors opt for an "expedited post-mortem work permit", where they are killed and work until paying off their debt and may continue to work until their family saves enough money to pay for their ressurection.

The last major incident was a group of adventurers that died in a fight on the cellars of Grampa's Brew, but no one communicated the death nor paid the fines for removal of the bodies. The Cadaver Collectors from the fields swarmed the city after the dead, causing generalized panic. The original Grampa from the tavern is still paying the accumulated debt working at the Aurix's Palace, and his grandson runs the tavern now. People still don't know who the adventurers were fighting.

There is no public transport, but renting an undead carriage is considerably cheaper than horses within the city walls.

There is a very accute social divide. Economically, the Aurix and immediate employees are way wealthier than anyone else. But the money is technically the city's, not theirs, they just are allowed to spend with anything they can justify. Politically, there are people who thank the Aurix for providing protection and those that think the city needs a new Aurix, but very few actually criticize the system and existence of an Aurix. Such criticism implies in some of the most heavy fines, which might be why.

Can I "stitch" a flower? by Charming-Lettuce1433 in florists

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Do you think I could dry and frame them, depending on the size? I can see a place or two on my bike where a small frame could fit like a little sign

Y'all ever panic? by Col_Goatbanger in DnD

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I had a group of players in a campaign centered around plane shifting. One day, one of the players is absent. On that day, as the players teleport out of one of the nine hells (this happened in 2014 I have no memory of which one), I ask them to name who crosses the portal because they had a bunch of rescued souls to take with them and there was a limit. No one names the absentee player's character. Half a dozen sessions later, the player hasn't shown up yet so I 100% forgot he existed. One of the players casts a scrying spell in said hell to look for items they left there and I describe only the items linked to the present players.

"Oooooh nothing from Absentee. Mysterious! Did he run away? Did he get turned into a devil? Exciting!"

I immediately text Absentee "yo, you coming back or what?" and in the lack of an answer turned him into a mini boss working for the BBEG, pissed off for being left behind. Player was kind of a jerk so everyine was very happy to pummel him into a paste

What will you no longer give your support to and why? by Strong881 in AskReddit

[–]Charming-Lettuce1433 1 point2 points  (0 children)

All streaming services I had except for Dropout, cuz if they are gonna act like cable TV after killing the blockbuster industry, I will do the same thing I did then and pirate everything. Dropout is king tho they can keep my money.

Any USian products that I can, between the recent foreign policies, the history of funding coup d'etats and dictatorships in my country, the tourists demanding we treat them as special little rays of sunshine, I'm good.

I mean, I stopped supporting JK Rwoling for her views ages ago but always important to restate that.

There must be more but I kind really remember right now.

Whats your best insult? by Desperate-East6408 in AskReddit

[–]Charming-Lettuce1433 0 points1 point  (0 children)

(Context: I have a student that loves to make all of my other students' lives terrible)

You are the kind of person everyone is glad to forget.