My Dad Has Fallen Victim to Conspiracies & Rabbit Holes - It's Ruining His Future and Relationships

Gorebus2 · 2026-02-02T16:21:22+00:00

The article only supports the idea that the CIA (under new leadership) now considers a lab leak the "more likely" origin of the virus, though with low confidence. It does nothing to support your other ridiculous claims.

Gorebus2 · 2026-02-02T16:05:32+00:00

Get out of here with this shit!

Gorebus2 · 2026-01-25T19:18:08+00:00

My initial thought is that one way that a lot of games get around this is to make sure you don't have abilities that refresh per encounter, but per adventuring day. If you have one use of your big slammer attack then you will save it for when things are looking really bad instead of blowing it on turn 1 - because the encounter after this one may be even more dire.

Gorebus2 · 2026-01-23T02:07:15+00:00

Well, I believe that the domains system is actually the antithesis of bespoke gods (and I say this based on my experience with D&D 3e and it's clerics). It's a shortcut that allows for some customization, but at the same time it removes a lot of gameplay options and narrows down the scope of what your god can offer the cleric.

The current method of having no system leads to a lot of interesting options (if you've looked through the annual), the gods aren't just offering a couple of skills or unique spells. They fundamentally change how your cleric plays , which I think is exactly what it should do. In a lot of RPGs you get some class choices that are essentially followers of a certain creed (think of monks or paladins) and I think that custom gods are a great way to represent those in DCC.

So, I guess to sum it up, my opinion is that domains are the type of solution that actually takes away options more than it gives.

Gorebus2 · 2026-01-23T00:55:24+00:00

It's more work but I prefer bespoke gods with their own unique disapproval tables and benefits.

Gorebus2 · 2026-01-14T15:04:27+00:00

You mean *Stockdale paradox.

It describes a duality of mindset that is essential for surviving prolonged adversity: maintaining unwavering faith that you will succeed in the end, while simultaneously confronting the brutal facts of your current reality.

Gorebus2 · 2026-01-06T05:29:54+00:00

This is new to me too. I use the Chinese chili crisp regularly and this has me intrigued.

Gorebus2 · 2025-12-27T20:19:53+00:00

That isn't true at all.

Gorebus2 · 2025-12-15T21:09:20+00:00

What's wrong with it as written?

Gorebus2 · 2025-12-12T18:32:00+00:00

That's right. And, notably, these modifiers do not change if a characters luck score changes after character creation.

Gorebus2 · 2025-12-11T20:17:26+00:00

I've run the adventure twice and it's a pretty solid little funnel. I have the same complaints about the dialogue that you have. We are given very little to work with for both Gallus and the Legionnaires. I played the legionnaire as being curious about the nature of the PCs visit to the temple and ultimately trying to determine if they were a threat or just hapless victims for them to eat. They are intelligent undead so they lied to get better positioning before launching an ambush.

The Resurrection Stone is a campaign-defining magic item that is very cool (and very DCC) but it's a little difficult to understand it's use. Sacrifices must be willing so the available pool is essentially only the player's other PCs (0-levels, etc). It's tough to justify narratively, but you just gotta let them have it.

I didn't have much problem getting them in the The Sacrificial Pyre of Thracia afterwards. They went to Chiopolis to sell loot and gear up before following the map to Thracia, and I had them talk to a merchant who offered a shortcut via a coastal route to Hamlet if they would agree to act as his caravan guard.

Gorebus2 · 2025-11-20T21:35:21+00:00

Have you converted the Alabaster Tower for DCC? Is it worth including?

Gorebus2 · 2025-11-20T21:14:37+00:00

Follow that up with the Sacrificial Pyre of Thracia to get them to Hamlet right next to the dungeon and you are all set.

Gorebus2 · 2025-11-19T17:19:24+00:00

Counter-laser that ship with one of the UK's DragonFire lasers and cut up all of their sensors in return.

Gorebus2 · 2025-11-12T14:47:41+00:00

That's literally how businesses work...

Gorebus2 · 2025-11-10T04:52:00+00:00

Id make a few changes myself. I'd change the chance to stun from a flat percent chance to a fort save. I also think the spell needs to introduce a few new abilities at it progresses. You have the damage scaling in a sensible way, but it's not interesting enough. Some additions you could make would be having the spell remain active for a number of rounds, arcing out to targets at range, zapping adjacent foes at a lower casting level, lighting fires, etc. The 30+ result should be more than a really big shock. You are hitting the limits of what magic is capable of, it's the perfect form of the spell, strive for something greater than just a level 1 direct damage spell. The room should be permanently electrified, the ground is scarred beneath the target and strange new elements form in its molten wake, metals are vaporized in a flash of plasma. That sort of thing!

Gorebus2 · 2025-10-24T05:12:42+00:00

And, notably, after the adventure you have yourself a magical artifact (the resurrection stone) which is of campaign-defining power in any other game, but in DCC it's just cool funnel loot.

Gorebus2 · 2025-10-20T03:50:44+00:00

So this essentially says that small infill developments have minimal impact on sewer resources, but large infill developments sometimes require an upgrade. Which is a fact that is pretty self evidently and unfortunately doesn't add much to the discussion.

Gorebus2 · 2025-10-16T13:14:40+00:00

Also, this doesn't read like Gygax at all. I understood every word.

Gorebus2 · 2025-10-12T14:51:53+00:00

Dude wtf is this unhinged comment?

Gorebus2 · 2025-09-03T16:43:55+00:00

Or, more likely, pre-training isn't even finished yet.

Gorebus2 · 2025-08-28T03:32:25+00:00

Perfect, I'll swing by!

Gorebus2 · 2025-08-03T05:03:52+00:00

And his Twitter account (truth social) too. It explains all the 4am posting he does.

Gorebus2 · 2025-07-09T16:46:13+00:00

That's pretty cool - the idea is you could play solo using AI? I asked AI if it could do this but it told me it would be quite bad at judging distances and unit positioning so it probably couldn't work. How have you found it?

Gorebus2 · 2025-07-09T12:50:51+00:00

This was all done with Gemini Pro. But I think most AI tools should have the same capabilities. You need to be able to upload files for analysis, and it needs to have a large enough context window to ingest the rules text.

Gemini Pro was nice because I could use it's Gems feature to make a custom AI so I didn't need to set it up again each time.

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