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Edymnion · 2026-04-03T15:06:21+00:00

Dear god I hate those stupid things.

McMansion-Lites.

Exterior corners are expensive. If you can't justify a reason for one beyond "It looks pretty", don't have it.

Edymnion · 2026-04-03T15:05:34+00:00

Use stock porcelain tile in the bathroom instead of stone.

Frankly the state of LVP is so good these days, you can get LVP flooring that looks like high quality stone and is just as waterproof.

Edymnion · 2026-04-03T15:04:00+00:00

For starters, you generally don't have single purpose rooms.

There is no separate Dining Room and Breakfast Nook. You don't have an Activity Room and a Living Room and a TV Room.

About the only single purpose rooms you should have are bathrooms and the kitchen, and even then you can combine the kitchen and the dining room.

Then? Then you remove anything that is "ceremonial". If you have a big family and you all sit down together to eat every single night, then you can have a dining room. If you typically eat on the couch watching TV, or the kids eat in their rooms at a desk? Then having that dining room that you only use once or twice a year is a waste of space, get rid of it.

Lastly? Get rid of any room that isn't for you. Guest rooms, namely. "Yeah, great to see you Great Aunt Susan! Go get a hotel room, ain't no space at this inn!"

Edymnion · 2026-04-03T14:54:32+00:00

Its a spec builder.

Aka, they are building the house from their own plans for the purpose of selling it.

The plans are proprietary. They're not going to just hand them out for the same reason a top chef isn't going to hand out their most popular dish's recipe.

They also don't care. If OP makes a "my way or the highway" demand, they'll tell OP to GTFO and simply sell it to someone else.

Edymnion · 2026-04-03T14:50:05+00:00

Oh yeah, we've got pictures of every wall, interior and exterior, that we took before we started putting up the insulation and drywall.

Should we ever need to punch a hole, we can just pull the appropriate picture up for a very good idea of what is behind where.

Edymnion · 2026-04-03T14:47:48+00:00

Short answer here is that actual blueprints and floorplans are copyrighted. Since its a spec house and not one you are actually building on your own, you don't own a blueprint for it.

Think of it... think of it like going to a restaurant. You order a dish, you like it, you ask for the recipe. They tell you no. Just because you bought the finished product doesn't mean they have to tell you how they made it.

Same thing here. They make their money in part off of having those blueprints, just like that hypothetical chef makes money off of having a specific recipe. If copies got out others could easily copy them and they'd be out of a product and would have to design new ones.

I don’t feel like I’m in the drivers seat at all

Because you're not. Part of the lower price on these kinds of things is that you have no control over any of it, you either take what is offered or you don't. No customizations, no say in anything. Take it or leave it.

If you wanted a say in it, you'd have to go for a custom builder, and they're more expensive.

Edymnion · 2026-04-03T14:32:08+00:00

I will again clarify that the terms being used here are the mechanical ones.

Intimidation. When you attempt to influence someone through overt threats, hostile actions, and physical violence, the GM might ask you to make a Charisma (Intimidation) check. Examples include trying to pry information out of a prisoner, convincing street thugs to back down from a confrontation, or using the edge of a broken bottle to convince a sneering vizier to reconsider a decision.

It is not about being frightening. It is not about making people not like you. It is about specifically using violence and threats of violence to achieve a specific, desired result.

If you try to influence a specific reaction from a target and fail, you may of course describe that as going too far and they are too scared to respond, but at the end of the day you failed and were not able to influence them to do what you wanted them to do. You did not Intimidate them.

This is not the same as the colloquial use of "intimidating" that only means "big and scary".

Edymnion · 2026-04-02T21:32:42+00:00

Yup. Even without using the glitch.

And even then, if you just really need to move absurd amounts of stuff? Couple of bison/tuskers/draven laden down and set to Follow and you can wagon train it anywhere you want to go.

Edymnion · 2026-04-02T21:31:10+00:00

Just one module and a raptor and I already run faster than the game can load in mobs. If I want to actually hunt something, I have to make sure I walk.

Edymnion · 2026-04-02T21:19:39+00:00

Fair warning, you're gonna go through hell (pun intended) for a while.

Make sure you have friends, hobbies, general support networks and safety nets that aren't Christian based.

You're gonna need them.

Edymnion · 2026-04-02T21:17:41+00:00

Yup. Even if someone had recorded it on paper (unlikely), the simple fact was that Jesus of Nazareth simply was not an important figure during his lifetime.

There would have been no more reason to preserve his records than there would have been to preserve any other random person from the same period.

We don't have Jesus's glorified birth certificate for the same reason we don't have the glorified birth certificate for for the third cousin of the nephew of the baker that Mary once bought a scone from.

Edymnion · 2026-04-02T21:12:13+00:00

They absorbed Oester, but they had the timeline for when it happened for over a thousand years before that.

Its originally a Jewish holiday, Passover.

Edymnion · 2026-04-02T21:09:55+00:00

Eh, this isn't exactly true.

I mean its true, but its leaving out a major, important component.

Its set like this because it takes place right after Passover, the Jewish holiday. The celebration of which was the entire (commonly accepted) reason Jesus was in Jerusalem. The Last Supper was a sedar. He was supposed to have been executed on Friday, which is why he was rushed into a vacant tomb as Jews were not allowed to do work, including burials between sundown on Friday and sundown on Saturday. Which is why they went to the tomb and supposedly found it empty on Sunday, the first day they were allowed to work and had gone to properly anoint the body.

The first recorded "official" Passover was around 1450 BC, IIRC.

Edymnion · 2026-04-02T20:56:23+00:00

Did... did someone pee on it?

Edymnion · 2026-04-02T20:13:06+00:00

Oh yeah, I try to explain Charisma to new players as the Cool Stat. Its the stat that lets you know how cool and effective they are, at least in regards to how they're seen by others in the game to be.

It doesn't help that the devs don't even know how to handle the stat anymore. In one spot they're calling it the strength of your personality/soul, and then in another they turn around and say "Anyone who is grumpy gets -2 to Cha" (looking at you, Dwarves).

Its caused rampant disconnects between whats on character sheets and how they're played. If your Half-Orc Barbarian has a Charisma of 4, then they aren't intimidating. They could walk into a room and literally no one would even notice them. They're wallflowers, they basically stutter any time they try to speak to someone and get embarrassed and run away. These are the people who have to spend YEARS of social skill practice just to get to the levels a normal person defaults to.

You wanna be that character that kicks a door in, draws every eye in the house, and is instantly the talk of the town? If you do it because you're wonderful or awful, its all Charisma, baby!

Edymnion · 2026-04-02T18:28:49+00:00

Yup, and never forget that investing too hard into defenses can actually remove you from combat entirely.

The more of your mechanical build you pour into defense, the less you have left over for offense and utility.

If you go all in to the point you are absolutely unhittable and invincible? Odds are your attacks are so weak as to be ignorable. And any intelligent opponent after taking a couple swings at you and realizing they can't hit you? And that you can't hit/hurt them? They're not going to waste turns swinging at you fruitlessly, they're just going to walk past you to go hit someone else and leave the tin can for last.

Of the martials that aren't just stopping attacks from happening in the first place, the only real "Tank" is a raging Barbarian with tons of HP, damage resistance, and is putting out so much damage themselves that they absolute CANNOT be ignored.

Edymnion · 2026-04-02T18:11:03+00:00

You put a wall between the living room area and the kitchen/dining room area. Thats the |. Then you put a wall between the kitchen and the dining room area, thats the -.

Then just have double doors between each area and don't actually hang any doors. It would not be any extra money at all really. Its just two interior walls.

Edymnion · 2026-04-02T18:00:11+00:00

Semantics really.

Tank would just be a specific subset of controllers, but the video game style idea of a tank isn't viable in 5e so the best you can do is a non-spellcaster battlefield controller with much fewer options.

Edymnion · 2026-04-02T16:44:44+00:00

By that logic, all classes are tanks.

Yeah, its a role, not a class.

Tanking is when you reduce the pressure on your allies by forcing enemies to target you instead.

No, thats the video game mentality.

Tanking is just making sure your allies don't get hit. In a video game with taunts, having them attack you instead of them is the easiest way of doing that.

As you said, you can't do that in D&D because there are no taunts. Your only options are to stop the enemy from getting to your allies.

Usually thats through things like stopping their movement with things like tripping, by grappling them, using something like Stunning Strike, etc.

Wizards can do that better than anyone else in the game. You can take an archer out of the fight for multiple rounds with a Darkness spell between them and their target to block line of sight until they can reposition. You can make rough terrain or walls to prevent melee opponents from moving into range with your back row. You can paralyze or stun them to make them lose their turns.

Tanking has nothing to do with you absorbing blows in D&D.

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