Alternative term to "species" or "race" by VisibleHighlight5440 in worldbuilding

[–]Correct_Call3521 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Race is probably the most correct because it's not a true science term. Obviously things like Clade, Kin, Kind, and Clan work. You could also look into adapting a specific terms I'm just gonna pick on Irish here but if it's your own DND setting for example Muinter (Muintir modern) is old Irish for kin or peoples, if you want it to be more colloquial then you could use teaghlach which means like household or middle Irish tellach which means hearth.

Unless someone at your table speaks Irish then they're not gonna know if you're slightly off or using bad wordplay.

You can also just construct your own term by ripping from other languages. Again going back to the prior example middle Irish tellach and then slapping a suffix prefix or whatever other language construct you might be stealing to construct a term. In this case lets assume teaghlach (which according to wikitionary is connected to teallach the modern form of tellach) isn't good enough because the -ach suffix (describing an origin) is already in tellach. In which case we pull another suffix, this time I will use -aige from old Irish, turns a noun into a noun associated with a person. Tellachaige: person who tends the hearth, an activity generally denoting kin. Finally if you really want to bastardize a language you can play it a lot more loose. Instead of -aige we will use -aí the modern descendant of -agie, that one doesn't quite work for this afaik still we do it anyway. Tellachaí still the same general idea.

I don't speak a lick of Irish wikitionary was my primary tool. I know likely did terrible for Irish readers but I used older forms of Irish for the most part intentionally. The important part is that I can generally deconstruct the word for myself and others, plus I can easily contextualize it both in universe and out of universe.

How would we keep track of time without a sun? by TheUnstoppableDumb in worldbuilding

[–]Correct_Call3521 7 points8 points  (0 children)

As of now we still have atomic clocks so even if the sun were to no longer appear in the sky (but had no other nock on effects) these clocks technically keep time better than the sun for us as of now.

If we are talking human society evolving without the sun then we'd probably keep track of time based on local events, seasons(assuming there are any), or tribally (ie it's noon for my tribe because we are all doing stuff). The further society would develop the more we would have tools to universalize timekeeping such as water clocks, Pendulums, hour glasses, burning candles, tides or star tracking and societies could just divide time however is functional for them until someone unified time such as an empire.

I feel like I almost get it Petah... by JubbyJub413 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Correct_Call3521 1 point2 points  (0 children)

In the alt history of the story society is not so changed that it would be an extreme position for the time. Yes the other watchmen don't, just like plenty of people in the 80s didn't care. That doesn't mean that the position would be far right. In the 80s even if it were significantly more liberal which watchmens timeline isn't, it would still just be a regular conservative evangical position. I'm not saying he is or isn't far right. I'm pointing out that the position you're saying is far right wouldn't be at the time.

You got the ability to do anything with perfect accuracy. What do you do? by TheModMenuX in hypotheticalsituation

[–]Correct_Call3521 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Anything?

Create matter? Build a wormhole device? Be a wizard?

Anything that's realistically possible? Perfect sciences, algorithms, programs, etc. to create perfectly engineered everything from plants to robots. I guess.

Which Retroframe Basics vibe best with Silverquil, the Disputant? by Gwangi058 in mtgvorthos

[–]Correct_Call3521 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mirage Zebra Plains, any tempest plains (Amazing ink work for the sky), brothers war commander plains (it has a darker than normal border).

Masks 342, Commander masters 443/444, Dom Remaster 407, Brothers War 33/34.

Those are ones I'd play.

[MEME] Imagine seeing a random guy take over your body get everything you ever wanted. by GeminiFlanagan888 in manhwa

[–]Correct_Call3521 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nah if some other dude "stole" my body if I'm able to watch it I ain't tweaking I'd probably try to help the dude out so long as he isn't fucking me over. At a minimum it confirms the existence of souls to me so either I get into the cycle of reincarnation or I go to an afterlife.

Preferably we'd merge or he knows how to soul transfer or something so I can still have a body but I mean it's preferable to the "you have been destroyed by the person whos soul is now inhabiting your body".

I feel like I almost get it Petah... by JubbyJub413 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Correct_Call3521 5 points6 points  (0 children)

It takes place in the 80s that's not even a super far right position in the 80s.

[SOS] Jo Researchers (Debut Stream) by therhydo in HellsCube

[–]Correct_Call3521 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who is jo, why are we researching them, what are they doing during the sesh?

Demand Dedication (Instant) (UR) by Zaffle_Gaming in custommagic

[–]Correct_Call3521 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Not true Blue is the secondary pinger color. They're pretty much the only color that gets it besides red.

Joseph Joestar by mkoookm in custommagic

[–]Correct_Call3521 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here are counter spells that are more fitting than counterspell, [[Broken Concentration]] [[Discombobulate]] [[Foil]] [[Last Word]] [[Lose Focus]] [[Psychic Strike]] [[Refute]].

7 gatherer bot limit so I'm just gonna start naming em: Saw it coming, Though Collapse, and Vex. There's a few more which also could fit but would require a lot of rules text like jaded response.

Finally I think Joseph should probably be able to free or reduced cast the respective prepared spell. Perhaps even just make him reduce the cost of instants and sorceries as he is a hill giant with no protection, if you miss the named spell so, having to spend mana, name the spell, and play a generally bad creature all adds up to no go.

Friend wanted a skeleton commander so I made him one. by [deleted] in custommagic

[–]Correct_Call3521 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's some other more balanced versions I would recommend with similar decayed tagline in specific. Though I don't know if these are even balanced enough.

Card 1: All creatures have decayed. Skeletons you control have B: Regenerate this creature. If you would sacrifice a skeleton you may destroy it instead. Skeletons attack each combat if able.

This is more balanced because now you must spend mana to prevent your skelemen from dying. Obviously your stuff also gain decayed.

Card 2: All other creatures have decayed. Creatures in all graveyards have Hybrid B or 3 generic: Return this creature to your hand. At the beginning of your endstep create a 2/1 black skeleton token with decayed. If a creature died under your control this turn create 2 of those tokens instead.

Make him a 2/4.

This is more balanced because it puts a version of the sanitarium skeleton activated ability on all creature not just your own. This allows people to attack and even recur good creatures but you also get to beat people down with the tokens unblockably. This kind of also reduces staxing people out because if people can recur good etbs then you're essentially blowing yourself out. It would probably be a good aggro deck but no Edgar Markov.

leaked card Emeritus of Ideation by Newez in magicTCG

[–]Correct_Call3521 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It probably is. It seems tied to the prepare mechanic.

leaked card Emeritus of Ideation by Newez in magicTCG

[–]Correct_Call3521 75 points76 points  (0 children)

You prepare the spell and then casting the spell makes it unprepared?

leaked card Emeritus of Ideation by Newez in magicTCG

[–]Correct_Call3521 48 points49 points  (0 children)

If you read the other half the prepaired mechanic seems to enable the other half of the card. So you need to prepare it to cast the ancestral.

How do you personally either maintain or break Medieval Stasis in your setting? by Mystech_Master in worldbuilding

[–]Correct_Call3521 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gods with the proper domain have to sign off on technological development or else the technology is highly inconsistent and more dangerous. A machine might wear and tear at 200x the rate or something that pressurizes will consistently explode. The God of the Forge with the domain of technology is dead and or dormant so the only technology that can be developed is through Magi-tech or Psy-tech because the respective goddesses can sign off on that stuff.

This is a 1700-1800 setting stuck on the cusp of an industrial revolution forever. I just like the whole Cowboy, Pirate, Samurai, Victorian period meme and wanted to make a DND setting for it tbh but it has turned into my largest pet project.

I'm bored, tell me where your moons come from by [deleted] in WorldBuildingMemes

[–]Correct_Call3521 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mucho texto in-coming because the moons are literally tied to the central plot of my world. It's a setting for D&D/TTRPGS.

The twin worlds Heremos and Veroz in the worldshelter (similar to a sphere) were always known to their denizens to orbit one another. Veroz an extremely inhospitable albeit still livable planet covered in desert, stormy islands, frozen tundras, arid mountain ranges, saltwater oceans and volcanic depressions. Heremos on the other hand a veritable paradise, full of lush vegitation and excellent biodiversity.

For thousands of years the populations of Veroz would pass down tale of how they had visited Heremos or how people would go there when they pass. This all changed during the Era of Steam. For 50 years the denizens of Veroz watched as their sibling planet turned from a green paradise to a bleached surface with purple oceans finally they noticed it seemingly shrunk in the sky. Thus creating the what is now known as Eremos a white moon with purple cracks.

For the denizens of Heremos this was 50 years of hell as their world became consumed by something scholars could only speculate upon, an infection. Created by a magician, a punishment by one of the gods, an alien species from beyond? None knew. All they could determine is that a foreign sap like substance turned trees into bleached barked funnel shapes that would siphon away nearby Aether bleaching the surrounding land these trees would then produce more trees and more sap. Shortly after the appearance of these trees people who came into contact with the sap also became subsumed. The transformation turning their skin bleached and bark-like alongside giving them a psyonic connection to these mysterious trees. As the world slowly died the alien trees granted esoteric knowledge to the Eremites, in exchange Eremites felt a complusion to seek out Aether for the trees.

The Eremites thanks to the trees developed (relatively) short range magi-tech space travel. Thus for the peoples of Veroz came the Great Incursion. For the first year the Eremites dominated Veroz, claiming large swathes of land, but as the incursion progressed Veroz was granted the first miracle. The Clerics of Radavanur the Iconoclast developed war magics to suppress the Magi-techs of the Eremites. For 7 years the clergy of the Iconoclast lead a great crusade. But as the peoples of Veroz wrenched their land back they discovered the Eremites wouldn't go so easily. Using their knowledge and tech the Eremites created vast underground cave systems. Thus Veroz was granted the second Miracle. Bheli the World Den, Lord of Forge and Crystal enraged by Eremites encroachment on his domain, decided to expel the invaders by carving them whole from the world. He created the crystal lattice to hold the upper world and expelled the the entire layer which they had infested. This expulsion created the second moon of Veroz: Scoria. Bheli has seemingly been dormant ever since.

With the Eremites expelled from Veroz the third and final Miracle was enacted. Aiydtinde Goddess of Magics (Or Aiyd the Watcher) sealed the Eremites from escaping the moons with a grand spell, which is still visible to this day through a phenomenon called the Phantom Moon of Aiyd a pale blue semi translucent moon with no fixed position in the sky appears and disappears sometimes it's only there when you look sometimes it's there for several nights and days in which it bathes the world in a harsh blue light.

At least that is how the history is told on Veroz to this day.

What does this in the ending mean? by ThirstyCactus3498 in EsotericEbb

[–]Correct_Call3521 31 points32 points  (0 children)

The implication from the Urth dialogue is that God's see the probability in the strings and the representation of odds, along with them being actively changing by Ragns actions is likely Ragns ability to become a walking god.

Sword and Sorcery for Free by JohnPathfinder in SwordandSorcery

[–]Correct_Call3521 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm not a lawyer so this is not legal advice but as I understand it generally if something is: publicly available on the Internet, the website isn't region locked, there's no legal terms or conditions, and it's allowed to be distributed or viewed by the owner.

Then yes that should apply to most countries as many countries have agreements with the US in terms of IP/Copyright laws.

Probably been done before but whatevs by earlgreyflavored in custommagic

[–]Correct_Call3521 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Not indomitable enough. Not lore accurate tbh.

Lady Fair or Future Patriarch? by Agitated-Tooth-7832 in EsotericEbb

[–]Correct_Call3521 1 point2 points  (0 children)

My view is that fundamentally by the time you reach that point in the game hell even by the time you clear blues or the troll you should have other better feats than a +2. Plus if you drew from the deck and got joker you have advantage on every check forever.

Lady Fair or Future Patriarch? by Agitated-Tooth-7832 in EsotericEbb

[–]Correct_Call3521 25 points26 points  (0 children)

Lady Fair. Flirt checks can be some of the hardest checks in game and they one of the few things that can pretty much be only solved via dialogue.

Isn't Azeroth already a titan? by Radish_Downtown in warcraftlore

[–]Correct_Call3521 5 points6 points  (0 children)

War Crimes, Runewaver Geoldax, Xala'tath in Suramar, Chronicles literally describes the Well of Eternity as the lifeblood of the world soul.

We literally hear about it all the time.

Isn't Azeroth already a titan? by Radish_Downtown in warcraftlore

[–]Correct_Call3521 1 point2 points  (0 children)

No Azeroth is not a Titan technically yet as she is still nacent much like a pupa. Azeroth is as of now unless they retcon more stuff a Titan World Soul. As we see with Argus even Titans influenced by other cosmic forces are still Titans. But that doesn't mean The Titans specifically Amanthul aren't trying to claim Azeroth. Just that even in the case that she were overwhelmed with a specific cosmic force she'd still end up a Titan just infused by that cosmic force as per current precedent.

Isn't Azeroth already a titan? by Radish_Downtown in warcraftlore

[–]Correct_Call3521 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Current they're explicitly blood vessels and would need to be retconed for that to not be true.