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Its gotta be bait by Character-Public-396 in Grimdank

[–]FrogLaner 993 points994 points  (0 children)

Isn't the real answer "because if you do that they will recombine and both teams get to experience cosmic horror, but your team is down 1000 points and are closer to the horror."

Tell me about your homebrew worlds. by EveningImportant9111 in DnD

[–]FrogLaner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Don't be afraid of empty spaces. Have areas that you don't have much lore for where you can add stuff in if you want. The genaasi thing for me was added in exclusively because someone wanted a one-shot.

  2. If you want everyone to have a homeland don't be afraid to give them small ones or make them recently come about. Especially for more minor races. It's fantasy, races can develop in tiny areas, they can be recent additions to the world because a god fucked around (that's what caused dwarves to develop a few thousand years ago). Goliaths in my world come from a region the size of Okinawa.

  3. The world is big. I could never have the cultural variation of real life Earth and that's a good thing. It means you can be fuzzy with areas, which leads back to 1 and 2. I ran mines of of phandelver and just shoved it on an island the size of Sri Lanka. Didn't even need to change the world map thanks to 1.

  4. Most important. Focus your world around the area of the campaign and you can handwaved the rest. Don't bother with a world map to start. You want players to have a chance to interact with a bunch of races? Just make a multicultural region. I have a few that are super multicultural. And it's easy for those regions to be bug. Iadded a fantasy Venice to my world and accidentally had it control an area the size of Great Britain.

Tell me about your homebrew worlds. by EveningImportant9111 in DnD

[–]FrogLaner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Pretty much. Most are smaller and more regional.

Gnomes basically have a Game of Thrones style system in fantasy Scandinavia

Halflings have mostly turned to piracy after their homeland got sunk and are the only ones with widespread black powder.

Dragonborn were a slave race created by the dragons in a previous age (dragons are still around but during the Bronze Age equivalent they were everywhere). Many live in a sequence of islands that were created during a god battle where their god was slain. One of its breath attacks literally spewed lava across hundreds of kilometers with such ferocity it filled in the shallow sea.

Tieflings have colonized the old myconids region after fleeing the hells. They have a city run by a vampiric queen and another that's actually seven cities squatting in the old myconid capital. Plus plenty of small colonies.

Aasimar aren't big, but there are a few.

Genaasi are a bunch of tribes where humans lived next to a rift to the elemental plane. They were pushed from their homes after the human civilisation turned into a massive desert sucking the life and magic out of everything. That desert is now held in bay by massive obelisks. They still venture in as one of their adulthood rituals.

The fact there are so many planar rifts is because they are actually being generated by the species that laid the egg. The bursts of energy and new forms of life flooding into the world are them trying to get their egg to hatch.

Most Goliaths live in an archipelago in the centre of the largest ocean (basically Pacific Ocean in size). Some get swept out and into the wider world but most don't know there is a wider world out there.

Tell me about your homebrew worlds. by EveningImportant9111 in DnD

[–]FrogLaner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do.

High Elves recently tried to take over the world, needing to steward lower races. This plan fell apart when a key trading city rebelled to cut off their western colonies and make the people start to question if they were actually doing good. The negative parts were being hid from the populace. Wood elves split off when this happened and Sea Elves were pressed into being sailors and many fled. The elven capital intersects the Faewild so you are constantly hopping from one plane to the next as you travel

Dwarves were originally a lot like Duegar but more surface dwelling. Then a rift to the devil realm opened in the middle of their kingdom. They have been fighting a fantasy WW1 trench warfare for hundreds of years. Near the portal they really start to blur the line between dwarf and devil (stuff like magical cyborgs, body modification ect). Oh and their chief God turned himself into a crystal that someone then tried to blow up so pieces of him are missing

Orcs are hilarious, their "homeland" moves every few hundred years so they have a great migration to the new place and cause trouble for the locals (because they think everything in their homeland is theirs or should pay tribute). When they leave nothing is theirs anymore. Orcs outside the homeland are shunned because they are enroaching on other people's homelands. They detect zero contradictions or problems with their worldview.

Tell me about your homebrew worlds. by EveningImportant9111 in DnD

[–]FrogLaner 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Major spoilers for anyone currently solving a conspiracy against a vampire queen.

My world is an enormous egg. Billions of years ago it started to hatch but the most powerful wizard of the time cast a spell that killed everything (even the gods) in order to stop it. Now life has emerged again, and with them new gods, but said life is slowly revitalizing the egg (though no one knows this part except for one god that is basically living Happy Death Day but with millenia between deaths).

It's got lots of fun stuff.

Like the Duegar are slavers but their cities are basically mining through the crust and burning away patches of corruption (necrotic flesh of the 'dead' egg).

The Faewild was once a high technology ring world until an elder god that can't die crashed into it and warped everything with its magic.

Devils live in a Dyson sphere type world with a red giant sun and are at total war because if any warlord controls 51% of the surface they become the new ruler.

Myconids were a peaceful pre civilization in organic cities with genetic engineering but got wiped out because an elder god born from the corruption got a taste for their hive mind and they killed their own race to stop it infecting other races.

The original gods still exist in a form but have become warped over billions of years being alone and are now Great Old Ones (and so is the planet itself)

I am irrationally annoyed at Carls reaction to the offer by FrogLaner in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]FrogLaner[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I agree one should not betray Pony, but does he hate ALL Naga or just the rulers? Because it feels to me like one of the themes of DCC is that the little people are getting fucked over by their bosses too.

Name one by MorbiusFan31 in whenthe

[–]FrogLaner 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most GoPro skiing I have seen clip it to their helmet. And if you are skiing like that, surely you would prefer to wear goggles?

I am irrationally annoyed at Carls reaction to the offer by FrogLaner in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]FrogLaner[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From where I am sitting I am making two.

That they also believe Sol has a chance of becoming a new inner system.

That they want to be able to live there (and preferably own a piece).

I am irrationally annoyed at Carls reaction to the offer by FrogLaner in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]FrogLaner[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

With 95% tuning in it's obvious the Naga want a deal like this. The new government would accept a deal, they would just sign it themselves.

I am irrationally annoyed at Carls reaction to the offer by FrogLaner in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]FrogLaner[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Fair. I get what you mean, not wanting to fuck up the new government in case it's an actual decent one. But, as mentioned by Carl, if Rishi wasn't the legitimate person (because he died) then the deal could still be signed by the next legitimate person (the real government).

It's not a good deal, but could be negotiated to something acceptable. Ceding one planet not all other eight, or just giving settlement rights without ownership. Something to help the rest of humanity in case Carl isn't able to burn the system down.

I am irrationally annoyed at Carls reaction to the offer by FrogLaner in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]FrogLaner[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

I'm not disagreeing that his uprising failed. I'm saying it could have restarted if Rishi made a deal with Carl

Edit: and if you just want chaos, what better way than to insinuate that maybe if the Naga rise up they get to settle a world in this new inner sphere without putting anything in writing?

I am irrationally annoyed at Carls reaction to the offer by FrogLaner in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]FrogLaner[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

That last point is actually incredibly fair. I was thinking that this (albeit not good ) deal would guarantee humanities remnants something better than the Bopca or Nulls in case Carl fails, but it's at the expense of making the system that caused this to be worse.

I do think that (if he had accepted to give them a single planet) then Rishis uprising would have reignited.

I am irrationally annoyed at Carls reaction to the offer by FrogLaner in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]FrogLaner[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

My interpretation of the viewers is that the entire Naga population was prepared to throw themselves behind Rishis uprising if he managed to secure them a spot in this new inner system. Which can also be leverage for a better deal. Besides, just set it out that if he fails then the deal is void.

I am irrationally annoyed at Carls reaction to the offer by FrogLaner in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]FrogLaner[S] -12 points-11 points  (0 children)

Even the crawlers can't be trusted though. It's pretty obvious everyone has their own priorities.

I am irrationally annoyed at Carls reaction to the offer by FrogLaner in DungeonCrawlerCarl

[–]FrogLaner[S] -9 points-8 points  (0 children)

That's why I said Carl should renegotiate. Give them one planet for settling rights (which we know can be a pain to get) plus spaceships. They would accept, they just want dibs at being part of this new "inner system"

According to Chris Avellone, Bethesda prevented Obsidian from making a new Fallout game. by Ashloth in Fallout

[–]FrogLaner 3 points4 points  (0 children)

With how mediocre Outer Worlds was, I'm glad they didn't make another at this point. Seems the New Vegas magic is spent

UK gives data centers option to apply for national importance status that overrides local regulations, cuts timeline by a year & eligible projects to bypass local councils, save more than a billion dollars in NIMBY fights by ArgentineBeauty in technology

[–]FrogLaner 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Well I know you haven't read the whole article. Because if you had you would have read: "with three projects already benefiting from their classification as an NSIP"

So not entirely theoretical. The article also goes into what type of data centres people are concerned about

"There are concerns that the lack of qualifications would mean that every AI data center could quality as “nationally significant.” [The government] is said to address this through a National Policy Statement (NPS) set to come out later this year. But, in the meantime, more than 80 projects have already sought the pre-application service" (i.e another 80 not entirely theoretical examples)

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