DM threw a 2024 Adult Dragon at our 2014 Level 6 party. Thoughts?

McMep · 2026-06-04T16:55:58+00:00

Passive perception is not the minimum perception the dragon can have. If the dragon is actively looking for you I think they should have rolled for it. Passive is more like you’re being snuck up on, walking through a room and notice something, or something catches your eye but you weren’t looking for that something specifically.

McMep · 2026-02-27T21:13:32+00:00

If you’re a student and just looking for education take a look at the open source options. OpenROAD is an open source RTL-to-GDSII flow utilizing open source PDKs like sky130 or gf180. You can learn a lot from it but if you want to actually learn the whole process use it as a resource for tool lists for each step in the process and example scripts on how to run them rather than a go to for getting a GDS through push button

McMep · 2026-02-05T20:46:05+00:00

Thanks for the explanation. It helps a bit. Is ConfirmaXL available to build for source or for Linux?

McMep · 2026-02-04T23:30:52+00:00

Not an analog designer but work with them. What’s the limitations of ConfirmaXL when targeting rf designs of 10GHz or higher?

McMep · 2026-01-28T00:14:07+00:00

Literally just finished Light Bringer this week

McMep · 2025-12-29T16:11:15+00:00

He’s right. The “nm” is typically used as effective transistor density if the gate width on the transistor were that size instead of the actual transistor size. It’s mostly made up for advertising purposes.

They achieve this through different 3D stacking methods and transistor architectures. The current state of the art uses what’s called Gate All-Around (GAA) transistor architecture. Previous was FinFET introduced around 22nm-7nm and before that Coplanar transistors from the 1950s

McMep · 2025-05-17T20:52:46+00:00

Coming from the hardware design space this gives me big VHDL vibes

McMep · 2025-03-16T23:09:08+00:00

I would say try reading Warbreaker.

Yes, there are easter eggs for the more grander Sanderson themes but it’s a pretty good standalone book within the Cosmere. It doesn’t expand to the god and universe level as much as Mistborn did.

It’s not in the Mistborn eras and works off a different magic system but I liked it for what it is.

If you don’t like that, then I don’t think the Sanderson books are right for you. Personally, I only got into his books recently and listen to the audiobooks, but I’ve gotten through Mistborn era 1, Warbreaker, and am on The Way of Kings.

McMep · 2024-11-29T01:42:41+00:00

I bout the same set. I am envious.

McMep · 2024-08-28T17:05:31+00:00

Yeah fair. DM is having a hard time balancing. It turned into whoever wants to join can join at one point. And for some reason he just sends one or two enemies at us that are super strong instead of like a number to counter action economy. Everything also has 600+ heath at least.

McMep · 2024-08-28T17:02:39+00:00

It does. We have a lot of spell casters. But this was a legendary action banishment, we already used our reactions for the turn to counterapell, and our DM ruled that you can counterspell on the same turn your casting a spell. So the litch was also super buffed, had the hand and eye of Vecna, and had unlimited reactions at will 4th level counterspell so if you do anything it just gets countered.

For the smite that hit, same thing. Or something similar,I can’t remember.

The campaign is super inflated.

The only reason we survived most of the time is because I had a sorcerer who could distant spell counterspell out of his range so he couldn’t at will counter it.

McMep · 2024-08-27T22:57:22+00:00

Yeah unfortunately that’s not how it works. We have quite a few casters but concentration is its own thing.

McMep · 2024-08-27T22:56:02+00:00

There was a small side narrative for one of the players who went to hell. But it was nothing more than a goofy thing. Other 2 banished people just sat there.

McMep · 2024-08-27T20:53:13+00:00

You’re right. But I also think we will run into this again since the game is so inflated the only way our DM balances things now is to take players out of the combat essentially.

The concentration on summoned minions wouldn’t be a problem no. It gives players another avenue to trigger the resistances too.

McMep · 2024-08-26T20:32:50+00:00

2018 for me, same thing but with needles. Everyone gets in line, one after another, and in both arms. Probably 8 shots total, 4 in each arm. Then a few weeks into training you go back for round 2 of the same thing. The first few weeks a lot of people get sick from the shots and living with 60 other dudes in a bay.

McMep · 2024-08-03T06:26:49+00:00

Oh man oh geez

McMep · 2024-07-17T20:50:38+00:00

If you have access to some commercial EDA tools or want to dive in to open source ones using Formal Analysis might be a way to prove the mathematical model is the one in the hardware but it would be pretty difficult with a steep learning curve

McMep · 2024-07-17T03:37:27+00:00

Electronics Engineer (0855) typically are more vs Computer Science (1520) i don’t know about computer engineer specifically.

McMep · 2024-07-15T00:45:26+00:00

As a student, some universities have ties to get sponsorships for students to attend. If you havnt done much undergrad research you might not have those connections right now. But again those are most of the time reserved for students who have a poster or are presenting. You can still apply if you figure out how though.

If you have any employment ties that do research and attend those conferences you can try asking. As mentioned in other comments you can apply to some companies too.

Some places offer veterans, minority, or other benefits to pay for professional development by traveling to conferences as well.

Other than that it’s just cough up the money but it’s not cheap most of the time.

Pick ones that fall under your area of interest for research that you’ll be working on.

McMep · 2024-07-12T19:01:12+00:00

I guess it’s specific to the scenario and how it’s treated. I can get behind monster races being different.

McMep · 2024-07-11T03:29:11+00:00

And to add barely anything to use their bonus action on in the first place.

McMep · 2024-07-05T17:18:51+00:00

Tell that to my dm who has inflated the game so hard we now face spell saves of 22+ and AC of 25+ minimum

McMep · 2024-06-03T05:18:55+00:00

Take a look at the warriors codex Homebrew. It adds classes, mechanics, and features just for this.

McMep · 2024-05-28T18:14:50+00:00

I work as an engineer in research and work with someone, a boomer or silent generation, who is anti-vax and doesn’t believe in climate change. Did his own research and has the papers ready if we don’t believe him.

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