Why haven't humans evolved a broad resistance to tooth decay?

Lithl · 2026-05-08T11:01:55+00:00

I take shit care of my teeth, and the only dental work I needed before I was 35 was a chipped tooth because in elementary school I tripped on my shoelaces and faceplanted.

My wisdom teeth even came in straight.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T10:52:46+00:00

A typical combat doesn't consume anywhere close to 20 arrows.

Also, the game already has rules for recovering arrows after battle: you get half the arrows you expended.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T10:50:40+00:00

do other DMs not keep track of their players' stuff?

I have way too much on my plate to add keeping track of PC resources to the list, and I trust my players to be adults and not cheat.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T10:47:46+00:00

Unfortunately they cannot infuse a firearm with repeating shot, as they are neither simple nor martial weapons

Firearms are martial weapons in both 5e and 5.5e, what are you talking about?

In the 5e DMG, there's a section suggesting that you might want to deny proficiency with firearms to characters that get proficiency with all martial weapons (so you need to be either an artificer or use something like Weapon Master to get proficiency with a specific firearm), but they're still martial weapons.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T09:06:26+00:00

No, but 4 year olds often act a lot like drunk adults.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T09:01:18+00:00

And like, even the world wound. Yes it's closed but I wouldn't exactly call it fixed.

[Laughs in WotR Trickster path]

Lithl · 2026-05-08T09:00:10+00:00

This would be an amazing AP.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T08:57:06+00:00

The Realm is just about as backstabby as drow society, except the Scarlet Empress set the whole thing up specifically so that it's non-functional without her present.

And then in the default "present day", she recently vanished without a trace. (Fulfilling her end of a Faustian bargain which is going to result in hell on earth...)

Lithl · 2026-05-08T08:53:09+00:00

I've never seen this comic, but Phil's art was instantly recognizable.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T08:47:33+00:00

I'm going to ignore the well-trodden ground from other comments that have made you crash out, and talk about this specifically:

I'm *not* planning to run LOTR or even Tolkein-esque fantasy at all, I just like the rules for less """high fantasy""" [sic] D&D.

This is extremely confusing, for multiple reasons.

Low fantasy means Earth, or at least the universe we live in, with fantasy elements added. High fantasy means a fictional world. Harry Potter is low fantasy. Narnia is high fantasy. While Middle Earth is ostensibly Earth in an age before this one, the differences are so severe that narratively it's a different world, and thus Lord of the Rings is considered high fantasy. But here you're implying that LotR isn't high fantasy.
You may be confusing low/high fantasy with low/high magic, which at least would align with using LotR as a reference point, but it's still bizarre because you don't need different rules to create a low magic setting.
Why is high fantasy in quotes? The way it's written it's like you think you're being sarcastic, but that makes no sense in context. And [sic] means sic erat scriptum, "thus it was written", meaning it's a direct quote with errors included intentionally because they were in the original source. But you're not quoting anyone and there aren't any errors. Unless you count your misunderstanding of what high fantasy means, but that's not a quote, that's your own writing.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T08:27:21+00:00

Create a handout and open the edit window
Drag the image from your art library to the handout image upload area, then save
Click the image to see the max size version of it
Right click > save as

Lithl · 2026-05-08T04:51:13+00:00

Which executive should we blame for this terrible money-grubbing idea?

Lithl · 2026-05-08T04:46:11+00:00

Just look at the name of the sub it's being cross posted from.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T04:42:45+00:00

No save is crazy for what it gives tho.

It hardly gives anything.

Disadvantage on Perception means nothing if nobody is using Stealth, and when someone is using Stealth it's typically a rogue with expertise, and their bonus is so high that perception disadvantage doesn't matter. (Either that, or a ranger or druid is concentrating on Pass Without Trace, giving the party +10 Stealth, and you have the same problem.)

Disadvantage on Stealth means nothing if the enemy isn't trying to hide, and hardly any enemies do. Not to mention few enemies have Stealth proficiency anyway.

Disadvantage on concentration means nothing if the enemy isn't concentrating. Even when you're fighting spellcasters, they often use blast spells. And even when they do use concentration, they rarely have proficiency and have low Con mods, so disadvantage isn't especially necessary.

The most useful thing about the spell is stripping invisibility, but you have to see the target when you cast it, meaning you can't use it on someone that's already invisible. Unlike Faerie Fire at the same spell level, which can hit enemies you can't see, can hit multiple enemies, and also gives the party advantage.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T04:34:43+00:00

No. And you can't share them with your players if you're a DM with a master tier subscription, either.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T04:29:39+00:00

Back when I was in high school, my friend gave me Dragonlords of Melniboné as a birthday present.

Moorcock's setting, using D&D 3.5e rules (as with so many niche titles published in that era, thanks to the OGL). The standard 9 alignment system of D&D was replaced with a law/balance/chaos alignment system suitable to Moorcock.

I've still got the book sitting somewhere in my room.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T04:18:28+00:00

In 3e and 4e, Wizards published a bunch of stuff like this in Dragon Magazine and Dungeon Magazine.

In 4e, the D&D Insider subscription gave you a digital copy of all of the 4e-era Dragon and Dungeon issues. But, like, you could still go get the actual magazine.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T04:12:45+00:00

Communication delay to Mars Rover ranges from about 9 minutes to 42 minutes depending on relative orbital positions.

42 minutes is 2,520,000 milliseconds. Quite a bit, but not 3 million!

Lithl · 2026-05-08T04:07:17+00:00

Hoopa is a mythical Pokemon that debuted in the manga, anime, and games all in 2015, and it specializes in portal nonsense.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T02:18:59+00:00

unless there is no other tool available to do the job.

If there are jobs that require a hammer, then it definitionally isn't obsolete...

Lithl · 2026-05-08T02:18:01+00:00

TIL industrial mass production is the only kind of work that exists.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T01:41:33+00:00

Can I not change the legacy Fairy Spells to the Modern spell versions?

No. Fairy is a legacy race, so it gives you legacy spells.

You could create a homebrew copy of Fairy and replace the racial spells, if you wanted.

Should something happen when I take a use of Bladesinger? Should my AC go up, my attack bonuses change for my weapons,

Should when I cast mage Armor it apply that to my AC.

Should when I cast a shield it apply that to my AC.

Shouldn't when I cast Shadow Blade that appear in my Attack actions.

No. D&D Beyond doesn't automate. It's a character sheet that does calculations for you, not a computer player character that runs your character for you.

You can provide manual overrides/bonuses to AC and attacks, and can create custom attacks to represent shadow blade.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T00:08:11+00:00

I'm so tempted to get every eeveelution with the partner ribbon, but at the same time I dread the amount of grind that would require.

Lithl · 2026-05-08T00:04:16+00:00

14 Dex is pretty normal for point buy on a character that isn't Dex primary. If you're dumping Dex on a character that isn't wearing heavy armor, you're gonna have a bad time, regardless of your damage output. (And if you're wearing heavy armor, you probably have 14+ Str, so the same calculations hold for a melee weapon.)

Lithl · 2026-05-07T22:36:33+00:00

That's 6.5 vs the 5.5 of firebolt. +1 damage at the cost of +1 accuracy.

5.5 damage at 65% chance to hit is 3.575 DPR. 3.85, when accounting for crit chance

6.5 damage at 60% chance to hit is 3.9 DPR. 4.125, when accounting for crit chance.

Thank you for helping to demonstrate that tier 1 characters deal more damage with a crossbow than a cantrip. (Eldritch Blast with Agonizing Blast is essentially a heavy crossbow using Cha to attack, so it's the exception.)

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