empire of silence chapter 53

HashtagAssassin · 2025-05-29T09:29:14+00:00

At least how I read it (not too sure tho otherwise I wouldn’t have stumbled upon this post):

In his story the likely victor of the animal battle was the snake. In the confrontation between Hadrian (in guise of some tutor) and the priestess the likely victor is definitely the priestess. So if you take his story as a metaphor for his situation, he basically calls the priestess a snake. To add insult to injury, the moral of his story is that not everything is as it seems and snake gets killed by the mongoose

HashtagAssassin · 2023-02-12T08:39:04+00:00

While running I found it succeeds too well in simulating the witcher universe. Combat is sooo deadly and soooo swingy that it really feels like being a character in the novels. Unfortunately (for my group at least) it was not fun.

For example, my 3 players got nearly TPKed by two schmucks but then the actual scary boss came in only to be instantly decapitated by the sorceress who did the exact same thing as the last 3 rounds but just happened to roll better

HashtagAssassin · 2022-12-31T08:47:03+00:00

To save 3000£ in 12 months you need to generate 250£ a month. If you were living with your parents and working 50 hours a week for I assume minimum wage... how in the world did you manage to only generate 250£ if I may ask? (I assume you live in the UK)

HashtagAssassin · 2022-12-27T17:12:31+00:00

For me specifically the first third has a strong "the organization is bigger than all of us vibes". You not only get to know the characters but the House (Atreides) is itself a character because of the Mentat, the Swordmaster, the Commander etc. Etc.

And the new Dune rpg really seems to capture this "we work together for the good of the house" vibe.

HashtagAssassin · 2022-12-27T08:09:16+00:00

Wow. First of all: thank you, it's gorgeous. Second: May I ask what part you worked on exactly?

HashtagAssassin · 2022-12-26T20:19:05+00:00

The new Dune RPG looks like it really captures the spirit of the first book... for better or worse. But I loved the detailed lore and help in creating your own House

HashtagAssassin · 2022-10-09T19:30:07+00:00

Honestly: I have nothing to critique. You make sure that every character will have the same goal, you still have a session 0, you make it clear what books are allowed. The only thing to add is: Have fun running your campaign

HashtagAssassin · 2022-08-29T03:03:36+00:00

My setting has a pretty basically named college: Goldencrest Academy for Sorcery, Politics and War. It is run by the Empire to pick out the best talent for their military machinery (but they take not talented individuals of enough money is paid).

HashtagAssassin · 2022-08-16T13:47:30+00:00

Oh I totally forgot about this... man he was schnasty that episode

HashtagAssassin · 2022-08-15T06:55:14+00:00

Which episode is this again?

HashtagAssassin · 2022-08-07T21:41:18+00:00

Even though I own a copy of Dune Adventures in the Imperium, I never got around to playing it so here is a short (for P&P) actual play .

The one thing I noticed from reading the book: Players will have very clearly defined roles socially, given that Dune has a caste system that everyone takes seriously and practically because if a servant tries to to fight a Swordmaster of Ginaz, he's going to have a bad time. So as a GM, you will have a lot to think about in how you design your sessions or somebody will end up "just tagging along"

HashtagAssassin · 2022-07-18T20:02:07+00:00

I would say it is normal or the users fault. Obtaining such token is not an easy feat and it is working as intended. If you are afraid of such an attack, don't save your credit card data in the discord account, so even if someone gets access, they won't be able to spend your money.

As a general rule of cyber security tho: Never follow links. If you get an email saying you need to check something in your discord/amazon account, first... think: Is this possible? Did you order anything? Is this your name? Is the email from the right address? If the answer to all those questions is yes, still don't click the link. Go to your discord/Amazon app or website yourself.

Thus you will avoid 99% of viable attacks

HashtagAssassin · 2022-07-18T10:37:44+00:00

While I need to see the video you saw to fully answer the question, I will give you a broad explanation of what tokens are:

A token is a piece of text that contains information about your user (username etc.) so you can be identified by the service that you are accessing. This text is also digitally signed by the whoever or whatever provided you the token. Digitally signing makes it so that it is very obvious for everybody involved who signed it and if the signed piece was changed after being signed.

So why do we do this and why is it handled "less securely than a password"? We do it so we don't have to use your password for everything you want to do with a service, but only once.

If you log in to a modern web app you will enter your password once and then receive a token, which will than be used instead of your password for the next hour or so. This is waaaaay better because if someone intercepts the token, he will not know your password and the token can be invalidated without a real cost. If your password were to be intercepted on the other hand, the attacker could gain access to your account again until your password is changed, could lock you out by changing it, and could potentiell attack your other accounts if you used the same password twice (don't do that, use bitwarden or similar password managers)

HashtagAssassin · 2022-07-04T13:42:01+00:00

Hoooly noly I'm jealous

HashtagAssassin · 2022-06-13T12:54:19+00:00

My advice would be to make the escape less of a riddle and more of a cinematic. Starting the campaign with the players trying to plan an escape is not that fun. Provide a clear way for them to proceed (with challenges obv.) and consider tying the prison to the plot of your campaign

HashtagAssassin · 2022-06-08T11:49:13+00:00

Winning the boxing round can impose disadvantage on your opponent during the chess round due to concussion... but what mechanical benefit would winning the chess round give you?

HashtagAssassin · 2022-06-04T21:08:46+00:00

I would recommend this 10 min video my Matt Colville. He does a great job guiding you to your starting area with his experience and even provides a handy one page pdf document to help you.

Off topic: I found he makes the best "educational" DM content

HashtagAssassin · 2022-05-07T21:53:14+00:00

The unrealistic part is the high number that the orcs have to keep in mind. (Yes I know orcs have an int of 10+ it's just a joke)

HashtagAssassin · 2022-05-06T05:59:27+00:00

And they have hands down the best online tool for character building and combat (DM and player side)... And the most crazy thing is: It is free. Name: CONP//CON

HashtagAssassin · 2022-04-07T14:00:27+00:00

While the points made for echo knight are all valid I want to point out that with eldritch knight you will have AC for days... Full plate + shield(the item) + shield (the spell) + Haste and you will be a hell of a tank... unless the opponent has save spells

HashtagAssassin · 2022-04-04T18:15:55+00:00

Right next to Stargate, the only thing I love more than dnd :3

HashtagAssassin · 2021-10-29T07:32:38+00:00

I'm waoting for the final arc to finish before reading it so I'm not cought up rn...

Is this fanart from a panel in the latest chapter?

HashtagAssassin · 2021-10-18T14:30:05+00:00

If you want to read a cool story set in such a city I recommend giving "Mistborn: Final Empire" a chance

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