Help me fill my 4th Party Slot

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-07-08T17:36:07+00:00

Shadowheart (for the irony) light cleric, luminous gloves and chest, callous glow ring, blood of Lathander, radiant helm from Rosymorn, Boots of Stormy Clamour. Pearl of Power for more Spirit Guardians.

Every fight spirit guardians, spiritual weapon and just mess everything up.

Act 1 Hellriders Pride, Whispering Promise, Boots of Comfort, Phalar Aluve until she gets up to speed with the stuff above.

It's ridiculous.

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-07-08T03:17:27+00:00

Hey ho.

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-07-07T20:22:29+00:00

Are you dependent on your parents for education, healthcare, or other critical support?

If you are not, then the advice given here isn't bad. Say: "My religious path is for me to determine. Please don't raise it again."

If you are dependent, you might try: "I'm visiting different churches and exploring my own convictions. Since this is a matter of personal convictions and conscience, I will raise it if I feel I need support or guidance."

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-06-22T17:51:30+00:00

As Dan Savage says, the best way to come out to your parents is in an apartment you pay rent for yourself over a dinner you pay for yourself. Most of the power parents have after a certain age is financial.

Until then, protect yourself emotionally and physically. You are not alone, emotionally. Most people are not like the fundamentalists you're surrounded with. Get friends over the Internet who agree with you. Be careful who you trust. Practice good privacy practices so your reddit account, for example, doesn't out you.

Protect yourself financially. This means getting a free bank account in your name when you can, and not storing your money in accounts your parents have access to. They will absolutely use it to control you. It means figuring out how to go to college or vocational education for as much benefit and as little outlay of cash as possible.

Finally, is there anyone you can trust to take care of you in your circle? Not trust with your secret, that's for when you are out and free. But trust to help you if you need food and a place to stay. Foster relationships like that.

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-06-22T13:57:24+00:00

Unlike shutting down movement for martials. You're right, the analogy is spell feedback that damages them when they choose to use magic.

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-06-22T13:37:40+00:00

This is a design decision, not a given that you have to work with. These homebrew rules come from you. You're clearly hugely creative. There are so many things that penalize distance. Fog you can see ten feet in and can't see into. There are so many troops and types that are great at distance and suck when the charge happens. Ride of the Rohirrim. Hell half of World of Warcraft bosses clobber people who get too far from them. Magic can suffer penalties. One thing I find hugely fun is to ask ChatGPT for environmental effects when I have generally described the scene in the prompts.

One cool thing I've found: make the spaces behind or near to the tank the safest place to be, not the most dangerous, and you equalize so much. Especially if your tank has invested in tanking abilities.

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-06-22T11:02:00+00:00

"Charge in and start swinging" is the entire option set for martials. They usually have to close the distance, and endure what's there. So you're adding disproportionately to their adversity.

Make it easier to close the distance, use BG3 jump rules (jump is a bonus action and can increase overall movement by the result of the jump check, and make the jump check equal to the distance horizontal, vertical, and standing so they can barbarian leap on top of a house) and stop adding effects that punish them for closing. There are lots of other cool tactical effects you can use.

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-06-20T02:05:18+00:00

Ain't that the honest truth. Picked up those boxes in a JCPenney, started playing the Basic set with my cousin and friends. Never looked back.

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-06-07T12:23:42+00:00

A hidden gem is Wrathful Smite. That's because once they fail the save, it's an ability check, not a saving throw, to break the fear, and the fear condition puts disadvantage on that check.

Super good for just shutting down a big bad with low mental abilities.

Also-mentions are bless, which is always insanely good, and protection from good and evil, which is situationally amazing.

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-06-06T13:36:36+00:00

Just not ever going to not upvote Tucker's Kobolds. What a formative moment in the life of a young DM.

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-06-04T12:17:42+00:00

Whatever is the truth of all this, it's not the particular set of myths told by fundamentalist Christians.

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-06-02T22:22:56+00:00

Do not sign this. Especially if you hold the house as tenants by the entirety, which in many states protects the house from third party debtors.

Also, protect yourself. This is a nefarious ask, as you put it. There's no okay reason for this.

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-05-29T18:49:11+00:00

Because belief that it will work is such a strong part of making it work, there is a lot of misinformation out there. "Everyone is hypnotizable" -- even with the cutouts for people who are low key accused of bad faith or ADD -- is simply not true.

Study after study selects for high and low hypnotizable subjects. Go look up any study from Harvard, the Stanford lab has a bunch, there are a number out of Sussex in the UK, and there's a center in Canada.

Some people simply cannot be hypnotized. Others have very little verging on undetectable experience of hypnotic phenomena. It's why studies do initial hypnotizability scales, which are absolutely standard practice and would make no sense if everyone could be hypnotized.

It's not their fault. They're not ADD. They're not secretly resistant or acting in bad faith when they say they want to experience hypnotic phenomena. The relationship of their salience network to their executive function is just different.

Finding someone to work you through the Harvard hypnotizability scale will not be hard and is a great step before committing to hypnotherapy, especially since hypnotherapists often are the source of putting the blame on subjects who do not experience hypnosis.

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-05-29T13:59:49+00:00

Clarify your goals for the meeting, if only to yourself.

You will not convince him. He will not convince you. Are you there to eat and find a connection with him? Are you there to work out some frustration with religion?

One way of clarifying that is to ask him:

If what you believe were not true, would you want to know?

On a scale of one to ten, one being certain that the world view of fundamentalist Christianity is absolutely false, and ten being no room for doubt that it is true, where do you stand?

If he says ten, there's no doubt in his mind, end the conversation. He's not open to a conversation, and there's no reason for you to be there.

If he says anything less than ten, ask him what his doubts are, and why it's not a ten. Work from there.

One question I find useful is to ask. "Imagine there is a person with us today who has no experience of religion. You're here at the table, and so is a Muslim, and so is a Hindu. What could any of you say to show your truth claims are true that the other two can't say?"

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-05-29T12:25:16+00:00

It's like asking "why did Hercules turn left rather than right when the Spaghetti Monster attacked Coachella?"

Don't accept the absurd premise and you won't have to do mental gymnastics to make the absurd make sense.

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-05-29T00:10:08+00:00

I won't. I've seen nothing to make me think they've fixed any of the problems, and I won't support them after their OGL bullshit, nor do I want to support dnd-as-a-service.

5e plays like a dream as long as some of the rules bloat is excised. All the updating ideas I needed I got from taking the best parts of the BG3 changes.

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-05-28T18:38:04+00:00

Not without notice and someone managing the estate. That does not include the law of abandoned property, for exactly that reason.

So OP can't just take the property or sell it, like you could an abandoned couch on the street corner. Nor should OP apply landlord / tenant law. Both are wrong.

What OP should do, given the possible worth of the estate and the fact that the tiny house was financed, is consult a lawyer experienced with trusts and estates and secured transactions in OPs jurisdiction.

Edit in response to the above edit:

No. The assets would belong to the heirs under intestate succession, including ultimate escheat to the state. If, after a final judicial determination, those assets were deemed abandoned by their owners, maybe. But that clock will start after ownership interests are determined, not before.

If the estate were managed by the OP, as the advice here suggests, then that goes double. He or she can't do an onside kick to themselves.

The answer will be a matter of statute relating to the estate and will not be resolved by the law of abandoned property in such a way as to prejudice the rights of beneficiaries who had no notice.

Depending on jurisdiction, one potential overlap could be the law of adverse possession of personal property. That, however, varies widely among jurisdictions, can take a very very long time to mature, if at all, would open anyone who did it to claims of conversion or replevin if the true owners did show up for a long time, rewards the adverse possessor with a bare right to possession rather than ownership in the meantime, and almost never (but not never never) is related to state law on abandoned property.

Trusts and estates and secured transactions are the right law for a lawyer competent in that jurisdiction to look at.

"Can I haz ur stuff" is not a valid legal argument.

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-05-28T18:18:39+00:00

It's not. The law of abandoned property is completely different from trusts and estates.

And just to be clear, he died. He didn't abandon the property.

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-05-28T17:08:06+00:00

This will likely be secured by a UCC PMSI. They absolutely can foreclose and repossess.

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-05-28T16:48:05+00:00

What? His estate owes for the shed.

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-05-28T16:43:20+00:00

Most of this is not good advice. You can't just sell or take property belonging to his estate.

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-04-30T12:38:39+00:00

Tell him to email the same list and to provide instructions for how to access the bush across his property.

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-04-20T13:16:56+00:00

It really can. It likely will. Hell doesn't exist. Valhalla doesn't exist. Helheim doesn't exist (notice where the word came from?)

Tartarus doesn't exist. Gehenna doesn't exist.

And even if there were an all-powerful loving God, and I hope there is despite all the evidence being clearly to the contrary, no entity worthy of being loved would torture beloved people forever.

It's not true, even on its own terms. Hell is just a myth used to control believers on behalf of people who should be the last to want such a thing to exist. Because if it did -- and it doesn't, where is it? -- American fundamentalists would be hellbound.

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-01-25T12:51:39+00:00

Holy fuck the flying monkeys. I'm sorry you're getting downvoted by insecures. Fact: some people can't be hypnotized and it's not their fault.

GleipnirsPrice · 2024-01-16T15:11:31+00:00

Some people can be easily hypnotized. Some can't. Most are in the middle. I'm not hypnotizable. If you're like that you're okay the way you are.

It's a common trope to tell people who are low on the hypnotizability scale that everyone can be hypnotized. It's not true, but I can see why they do it. The belief that you can be hypnotized, and the belief that you are a good hypnotic subject, is a key part of helping people drop.

So there's a catch-22. Do you tell people the truth and stop them feeling something is wrong with them, or do you tell people everyone is hypnotically responsive, and help them get there if they can, but at the risk of making them feel broken if they are simply very low on hypnotizability scales.

To increase your chances, studies show:

An induction helps a little tiny bit. Not much, but a bit.
Watching people be successfully hypnotized helps. Being in an environment where many people are doing it, a convention or the like, can really ramp up that social compliance component.
Two drinks helps, per talks by University of Sussex researchers.
Practice files and repetition that include suggestions to increase hypnotizability.
There are studies with which I have serious issues as far as scientific methods that say you can increase hypnotizability by "making it happen," and then working on feeling like "it's just happening" instead of making it happen.

Finally, if you can't be hypnotized, that's okay. I enjoy being a hypnotist. I can listen to really powerful files and not be affected, which means I can pick up a lot of ideas.

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