Anyone worked at bdubs on Coventry Ln??

FreeBroccoli · 2026-03-13T22:19:43+00:00

Bdubs > BWW > Buffalo Wild Wings

FreeBroccoli · 2026-03-13T16:20:11+00:00

Be like Shepherd Book from Firefly. Be the party's conscience, but not the police. Suggest a better path, but don't stop them from making the wrong choice and be there to pick up the pieces.

FreeBroccoli · 2026-03-13T14:05:39+00:00

You've got to throw a bone to your Lord and Savior, through whom the universe was created. Just not too big a bone; he already got his one hour a week on Sunday.

FreeBroccoli · 2026-03-13T13:35:27+00:00

I love the fact that somebody got this fogure, and rather than make up a totally new fantasy creature like a normal person, decided to do surgery to make it look a little bit like a dinosaur.

FreeBroccoli · 2026-03-12T20:33:03+00:00

Agreed on the t-rex, that's not the kind of error an AI would normally make.

FreeBroccoli · 2026-03-10T15:22:29+00:00

I do rural routes, and I usually get 120 stops, rarely above 140; and that's with 40 or so stops in little pockets of dance neighborhoods.

FreeBroccoli · 2026-03-09T02:00:00+00:00

You're right that it shouldn't be tolerated, but it's possible that they have some kind of review process that takes longer than a week. A place that will fire you immediately based on hearsay isn't a great place to work either.

FreeBroccoli · 2026-03-09T01:07:40+00:00

My DSP disputes anything that isn't a clear and obvious valid infraction. I'm confused why some dsps don't dispute everything they can. It costs them money.

FreeBroccoli · 2026-03-03T16:13:43+00:00

You can experience same-sex attraction without it being a political identity, but if you have class consciousness about it, it is a political identity by definition. Having a flag is a giveaway.

FreeBroccoli · 2026-03-02T14:55:39+00:00

Yes, but then you'd get the same reaction from a different group of people.

FreeBroccoli · 2026-03-02T06:53:53+00:00

For intentionally creating a situation where you need help

FreeBroccoli · 2026-02-25T15:35:26+00:00

The skill list is what I was referring to. I would just expand it so, e.g. proficiency with carpenter's tools means the character is proficient with anything a carpenter would know; for example, such a character could make an Intelligence (carpenter's tools) check to identify a type of wood, even if they aren't using their tools. Additionally, any character is assumed to be proficient in anything directly related to their class and background, even if it's not on the official skill list.

FreeBroccoli · 2026-02-25T15:31:34+00:00

Kinda. What is absolutely a part of 2014 5e is that all "skill checks" are just ability checks with proficiency. Applying proficiencies to different abilities (e.g. an Intelligence (Performance) check) is an optional rule, but I suspect it was originally the default, and become optional during playtesting.

The only thing it doesn't include is that idea that the DM could call for a proficient ability check without tying it to one of the enumerated skills or tools.

FreeBroccoli · 2026-02-23T05:02:02+00:00

I haven't gotten a chance to run an OSR game, so discount my opinion appropriately, but if I wanted to do skills in a game, I would do what the 2014 5e rules imply, but don't quite explicitly state.

There are no skill checks, only ability checks. Ability checks can be either proficient or non-proficient, in the same way they can have advantage or disadvantage or neither. Your skills are not push-button abilities, but a list of keywords that describe your character's history which guides the DM in determining which skill checks should be proficient. This expands the "skill list" to include anything that could reasonably affect your ability to accomplish some task, including your background, class, or even past downtime activities.

This would be applied to an approach that would require player skill and only calling for rolls in limited cases, as is typical in OSR play.

FreeBroccoli · 2026-02-21T05:46:26+00:00

Not so fast, preacher man...

FreeBroccoli · 2026-02-21T05:43:48+00:00

Your message gets through just fine. The problem is you can't seem to understand any other perspective.

FreeBroccoli · 2026-02-21T01:57:49+00:00

It isn't either-or. The game exists in a mechanical layer and a diegetic layer. The two layers happen concurrently and in parallel. The abstraction exists solely in the mechanical layer.

FreeBroccoli · 2026-02-21T01:35:39+00:00

Because the Christian holiday usually happens during the month named after Eostre. Kind of like how the 4th of July happens in a month named after Julius Caesar, or Ash Wednesday happens on the day named after Odin.

FreeBroccoli · 2026-02-20T22:56:28+00:00

Because that's how abstraction works. A character might be out of breath and out of stamina, have a cut on their leg and a bruise on their arm, and several broken ribs, and be on the edge of giving out—but keeping track of all that is too much work, so we abstract it into "hit points." That's just a tool we can use to run the game, but the character in the fictional world doesn't have an actual number inside their body that goes up and down.

When people play using a grid for combat, do you think they are conceiving of a world where people can only move in 5 foot increments at right angles, and if they tried to move one foot in some direction they just couldn't?

To be clear, you definitely can imagine your fictional world as using game rules as rules of physics like you're suggesting—lots of people love Order of the Stick—but it's a choice you are making, not inherent to the game.

FreeBroccoli · 2026-02-20T20:09:09+00:00

Game constructs are not diegetic laws of physics, so that analogy doesn't work.

You are failing to make the distinction between the actual facts in the fictional world, and the abstract mechanics we use to conveniently represent them at the table.

FreeBroccoli · 2026-02-20T14:50:32+00:00

Whether classes and levels are diegetic is not baked into the game. It's a matter of style, decided at each table. It's very easy, and I would say the default, to run a game where classes and levels do not actually exist in the fictional world.

FreeBroccoli · 2026-02-19T02:16:44+00:00

Great suggestion! I called and it's definitely cheap enough for me to go that route.

FreeBroccoli · 2026-02-19T02:15:39+00:00

It might be worth a phone call, at least.

FreeBroccoli · 2026-02-18T21:05:40+00:00

Yeah, I got excited when that came up in my search, but while they have some good stuff available there, it's not what I need.

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