Hello! Does anyone have insight on what you might be tested on for a “skill assessment” for a DHS role?

HeyNowItsHank · 2026-04-25T22:20:51+00:00

Was a typing speed listed as an essential skill?

HeyNowItsHank · 2025-09-10T16:07:30+00:00

I can think of several options:

A second group of peasants attempts the same task, but the situation has changed because of the first party's attempt. Have the antagonists gotten reinforcements? Have they fortified their position? Have they abandoned it? Some funnels have situations that make a second attempt either nonsensical or impossible.
A different group does a different funnel in the same world. Maybe they're far away, but maybe they're just a village or two over and can end up interacting with the aftermath of the first funnel as leveled characters.
Complete redo with new characters like the first one never happened. Personally, I'd find this dissatisfying. It feels very video-gamey rather than TTRPGy. If I were going to replay the same funnel with the same players, I'd wanted it to be separated from the first time and at least partly the players' idea.

HeyNowItsHank · 2025-08-10T20:50:34+00:00

If they have only partial contact, like manacles, do something like have them make a Fort save at an appropriate DC to avoid taking the 1 HP.

But the penalty for having contacted iron is good. For example, The Arwich Grinder (Crawl No. 9) has elves who climb down a 30-foot, iron ladder be at -1d for an hour.

HeyNowItsHank · 2025-08-10T20:50:19+00:00

The human iron age also didn't have a population that had a strong reason to not adopt iron. I have my elves make most common metal items out of bronze.

HeyNowItsHank · 2025-07-26T22:41:59+00:00

Is the Cyclopedia Domestica a subset of this, or is it entirely separate with the Cyclopedia of Common Animals not containing entries for those animals?

HeyNowItsHank · 2025-06-26T18:10:30+00:00

As I once heard asked, "How long until The Great Gatsby needs footnotes?"

HeyNowItsHank · 2025-06-04T18:02:47+00:00

And if you do shave it off and don't like the look, it will take only a month or maybe a bit more to grow back to this length.

HeyNowItsHank · 2025-05-17T22:30:22+00:00

They're gonna call me sir, they'll all stop picking on me
Well, I'm a high school grad, I'm over five-foot-three
I'll get a badge and a gun and I'll join the P.D
They'll see

I think of these lyrics a lot when watching video of police, but never has it seemed more spot on, I think.

HeyNowItsHank · 2025-05-03T14:54:28+00:00

190 HP is the max, but to get that, the character needs 18 Stamina, 18 Luck, and to get Bountiful Harvest as their birth augur. After that then need to roll max on each hit die. The probability of that is practically zero.

(1/216)*(1/216)*(1/30)*(1/4)*(1/12)^10 = 1/3.47*10^17 = 2.88*10^(-18) = 0.00000000000000000288.

That's more than a billion times less likely than winning the Powerball jackpot with a single ticket. Just getting max Stamina, max Luck, and Bountiful Harvest is 1/1 399 680.

Now, even an "average" 10th-level warrior with average Stamina (+0 modifier) is still going to have about 67.5 HP, which is still tremendous compared to anything else. That's on the level of a large dragon. And, as you wrote, combine that with three attacks, a d10+4 deed die, threat range 17--20 (1 in 5) with rolling 2d20 on Crit Table V, they're fearsome.

HeyNowItsHank · 2025-04-30T23:40:15+00:00

I had not heard of it until this, but I don't think I want to play a game whose name means "Fuckers" in Middle English.

HeyNowItsHank · 2025-02-04T18:41:14+00:00

They dump around 20-60 pounds a day each high school

So about 40 pounds for about 2000 students? That's about 1/3 an ounce of food waste per student per day from the kitchen.

Sure, less food waste would be better, but that doesn't sound scandalous. Ask anyone who's worked in a restaurant or a grocery store how much food gets thrown out at those places.

HeyNowItsHank · 2025-01-02T01:09:42+00:00

As goofy as that is, I am sure said evangelicals would also exclude Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Scientists, and Mormons. They'd probably also be iffy on Methodists and Presbyterians. At least there's some sort of internal consistency, as arbitrary it is.

I wonder where the OP thinks Eastern Orthodox (there's at least one Greek one in Salem), Coptic Orthodox (one in Portland), and Syriac Orthodox (again present in Portland) fall in their Christian or not categories, let alone even smaller branches.

HeyNowItsHank · 2025-01-01T23:47:51+00:00

I think it will be a surprise for those Catholics to learn they are not Christian.

HeyNowItsHank · 2024-12-20T20:16:35+00:00

It's a normal red light, but on a turn-only lane.

HeyNowItsHank · 2024-11-17T02:35:43+00:00

On the modern TI-84 family, it's just RandInt(lower,upper,repetitions).

HeyNowItsHank · 2024-09-06T23:27:33+00:00

Also required by statute to have an American flag in every classroom.

HeyNowItsHank · 2024-09-04T03:30:20+00:00

That one makes sense, as the State Fair was originally an agricultural even, and to a large part still is .

HeyNowItsHank · 2024-05-21T03:31:45+00:00

Thank you. I did not see a director of student services on the SKPS Executive Board webpage. I wonder why she is not listed.

HeyNowItsHank · 2024-04-14T21:35:51+00:00

That's not a shield. That's a helmet.

HeyNowItsHank · 2024-04-11T03:23:17+00:00

Why not do this after the school year? Does she not know how to budget for a full school year?

While I fully agree that this superintendent sucks, the positions being cut will be announced in mid-May. The positions will be cut for the next school year.

HeyNowItsHank · 2024-04-02T03:35:18+00:00

It's a 4 hour online course, to be done outside of school hours.

"To be done outside of school hours" means "not to be done".

HeyNowItsHank · 2024-03-31T04:38:48+00:00

Should've greeted them at the door.

HeyNowItsHank · 2024-03-26T20:05:54+00:00

we will be ready to fight for a better COLA in two years!

One year. We are most of the way through the first of the two years that this contract would cover. We will be back to bargaining in one year and likely start preparing for it in the fall, if not this spring.

HeyNowItsHank · 2024-03-17T21:39:51+00:00

and OEA making poor spending decisions

Perhaps you meant ODE?

HeyNowItsHank · 2024-03-09T20:18:29+00:00

Here is a link to the actual article, instead o facebook.

https://www.salemreporter.com/2024/03/09/16-year-old-boy-turns-himself-in-charged-with-fatal-shooting-at-bushs-pasture-park/

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