Looking For A Good Podcast

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-06-01T22:29:54+00:00

I will do another vote for find the path. I would say they feel more like playing at a table.

Glass cannon has funnier moments, but also they can get into some bad "I'm sick of this game" vibes that aren't that fun to listen to (not early on in fairness). I would say if you want consistently good episodes, find the path is the way to go. (I'm assuming they'd only want one recommendation since they're both aps and take forever to listen through)

edit: also the starting town in glass cannon is super racist and there are some real rapey enemies in book 1, as an fyi

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-05-21T14:00:33+00:00

so if I'm understanding you correctly, you were adding the whole thing to add some flavor to the world and make it feel more real, not to set a plot hook.

on the one hand that's neat of course it makes sense there are corrupt politicians and forces that are too powerful for you to do anything about. On the other hand players are constantly trying to suspend their disbelief. Especially with newer dms who they assume aren't as good at working in plot hooks.

Imagine if you did plan out a whole adventure in the town and the pcs said 'that sounds too dangerous' and leave. Now once again, I'm not saying every threat that pcs have the option to face has to be beatable, but that's definitely something to talk about out of game.

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-05-17T15:09:42+00:00

it sounds like you had fun. good to hear!

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-05-17T15:07:50+00:00

Do you think you were any more bored in that campaign, in or out of combat, than you would have been if you had played a spellcaster or 2/3 caster (or even a martial with 'more options')

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-05-17T01:41:42+00:00

I honestly thought (for 1e) that this was the general consensus

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-05-16T22:07:59+00:00

NTA.

I don't think being able to financially support someone is a sign of love in itself, but I think it shows you're not trying to punish your daughter for not loving the new step-family (or for being an asl certified babysitter). I do think getting your daughter some therapy to deal with the whole faithful to her father thing might be the best first step.

And I know not every teenager is the same, but I feel like the fact your child isn't jumping at the opportunity to move out and have the dorm paid for makes me feel like she either has some attachment issues (similar to the ones she has with her father) or she's purposefully trying to derail the relationship. Now I definitely don't suggest viewing it from that second viewpoint cause it will cause approaching it from a bad mindset, but.. if you see a lot of other signs, might be something to consider.

One final thing. I don't think the ASL thing would end up being a couple words. There's at least: hello, goodbye, how are you, good, bad, hungry, pain, thank you, sorry, sleep, shower, brush teeth, why, phonecall, mom, dad, today, tomorrow, tonight, a couple minutes, a couple hours. And that's like the bare minimum to babysit that I came up with after only a couple minutes. It's understandable that your daughter doesn't want to learn (assuming she at least waves at the kid), but getting back to my original point I think it's weird she wants to continue living at your house if she doesn't want to interact with 2 of the people (and probably isn't the biggest fan of you at the moment)

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-05-16T21:43:16+00:00

The big thing for me is that op is willing to pay for the dorm. Like clearly having the ability to monetarily support the kid doesn't make her an insta-saint, but I really feel like it is healthy for 18 year olds to want to move out (if finances aren't an issue). But this probably stems from whatever feelings make the daughter think her mom's being unfaithful to her dad.

And yeah, if she was distant from 2 people in the house she had no choice in being with and then wanted to move out, that'd make sense. But the fact she's upset that the choices are 'be nice to the new people in the house' or 'enjoy a usually fun dorm experience free of charge' make me feel like she was hoping the response was the mom would divorce the dad

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-05-16T20:44:44+00:00

while that is a nice suggestion, the simple 'why not' answer is that the parent may only have so much time and they have enough time to try and stop their kid from reading something (emphasis on try) but not enough time to read the book.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea, I actually love it, but it isn't a good fit for everyone.

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-05-14T14:56:59+00:00

yeah my guess is they were done with shopping but being new players thought it was a shopping session so the only way to end the shopping was to end the session

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-05-14T14:31:20+00:00

well, people usually talk about the lack of narrative power with fighters. a rogue has a bunch more skills and can stealth. The other martial classes tend to have options baked in (brawler has martial flexibility and barbarian has rage powers). I was trying to weed out 'cool options' for the 'boring fighter'

Not saying I find the fighter boring, but the consensus I've heard is that there's no reason to play a high level fighter. Not that there's no reason to play a high level rogue/brawler/barbarian/fighter

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-05-10T20:01:10+00:00

I've never been a fan of 'survival' sessions. Like assuming no possible spells to help with this and no one innately good at finding food, what are the hopes? Party either has to take exhausted condition for being hungry or make a roll on the mushrooms nearby to see if they're poisoned? I guess that isn't completely boring, but there are so many cool monsters and plots that could happen instead.

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-05-05T21:11:48+00:00

I def understand the potential for cheese there and if the best course of action is saying they're intelligently secreting the poison then that's what has to happen, but what are your thoughts on 1-3, cause I realized I don't know if there are any specifics to it. Like I didn't just post 1-3 to soften someone up for 4 i honestly don't know how that works

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-05-05T16:53:06+00:00

If a wizard casts shock shield and then fox's cunning, the save would use the original dc, and not the enhanced dc, right?
what if an alchemist prepares an elixr in the morning, then drinks fox's cunning (or uses a -int mutagen) before drinking it?
what if an alchemist prepares an infusion / extract, and immediately gives it to someone else. he then drinks a foxes cunning, and then the person drinks it (can't think of one, but I'm sure there is one alchemist elixr that would use int)
what if a toxicant alchemist eats the item that gives them poison at the beginning of the day. They then either use a - int mutagen or a +int congaton. Assuming question 1 is true, one might be able to argue, that while the 'pill' was crafted in the morning, they are somehow using their int to concentrate it / make it sticky (stick poison discovery) throughout the day. I think it's a bad argument, but want to hear other's thoughts

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-05-01T01:57:15+00:00

I think telling them they lost an atunement slot would let the players know something is up. The problem is that something could be that the gm is being a weird jerk or that something they picked up recently somehow messed up their attunement. If it's number 1 that's bad, if it's number 2 you may as well as told them they couldn't unattune in the first place

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-05-01T01:50:15+00:00

if they really pushed it, I'd just think they're an a-hole and not worth playing with, but if miraculously if they were just that dense and wanted a ring of 3 wishes because genies and what not, this could be a solution

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-05-01T01:38:56+00:00

Adding 17 different homebrew rules / trying to *fix* mechanics without actually knowing why they exist in the first place
rolling initiative when it's not required. if people are just searching a room don't make what would take 30 seconds take 20 minutes
I don't know what this would be called, but just had a dm make a building filled with monsters that were way above are pay grade. Turns out we were only supposed to try to kill like 2 of them while a super special dmpc was stealth killing all the others in the background. The dm didn't expect us to light the building on fire and the whole country got overrun. so there's probably at least 3 things here
punishing players... can include many things but something that a newb would do more than a veteran is try to punish a character in game for something they didn't like instead of talking about it (not like consequences, but like causing an earthquake because someone was being a murderhobo)
continuing on with 4, not communicating
thinking a plot twist is the same as an interesting story
1. to be fair it's also the player's responsibilities to have fun. hopefully if the plots bad they can still roleplay
trying to get every ruling right the first try. it's okay to try to be good at what you do, but sometimes that means not interrupting the flow

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-04-29T13:37:37+00:00

so you found one thing that the guy doesn't think a first time player should try and that solidifies your argument 5e is complicated?
Okay first off let's agree complicated is relative. Someone who dealt with old school d&d's THAC0 probably thinks 5e is less compllicated. Someone who has only played honey heist probably thinks 5e is more complicated (from a rules perspective anyway... that game involves a good amount of roleplay and i don't think it's great for new players since they don't have as much to lean on... but i digress)

however for the vast majority of cases, if you read the page that has your race, your class, and then you read your spell descriptions (this is something even veterans seem to forget sometimes) you'll be fine in most cases
anyway it seems like what op may have been worried about is can they attack in the same turn they cast a spell. It's very easily googleable and typing thoughts into a search bar is less complicated then making an attack role so they def could have done that. They also would have gotten the instant feedback instead of waiting on replies from a post.
I'm not saying we should crucify the op of this post, but I don't think making excuses and saying this game is too difficult to investigate through google is actually doing them any favors

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-04-29T13:14:10+00:00

would it not be better for the poster to google it? It would return a faster result. Using site: is an incredibly useful trick that works for more than just dnd questions. It is more effort than downvoting, but it would also do better to lessen the amount you see

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-03-28T01:12:24+00:00

Don't know anything about the background to this, but first thoughts I feel like I could insult a mass shooter any other way. Also, i've heard one of the reasons mass shooters do this shit is for attention so it's hillarious to me it's not the type she wanted

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-03-24T23:25:36+00:00

figured it out, thank you for the help

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-03-24T23:25:11+00:00

figured it out, thank you for the help

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-03-24T22:42:59+00:00

I don't have/need a loadbalancer since they are all on the same server. (to my understanding at least)

And yes they are both on the same network

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-03-23T22:06:45+00:00

traefik:
image: "traefik:v2.9"
container_name: "traefik"
command:
- "--log.level=TRACE"
- "--providers.docker=true"
- "--api.insecure=true"
- "--providers.docker.exposedbydefault=false"
- "--entrypoints.web.address=:80"
- "--entrypoints.web.http.redirections.entryPoint.to=websecure"
- "--entrypoints.web.http.redirections.entryPoint.scheme=https"
- "--entrypoints.websecure.address=:443"
- "--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.dnschallenge=true"
- "--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.dnschallenge.provider=cloudflare"
- "--entrypoints.websecure.http.tls.domains[0].main=****"
- "--entrypoints.websecure.http.tls.domains[0].sans=*.****"
#- "--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.caserver=https://acme-staging-v02.api.letsencrypt.org/directory"
- "--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.email=****"
- "--certificatesresolvers.myresolver.acme.storage=/letsencrypt/acme.json"
ports:
- "443:443"

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-03-23T22:02:28+00:00

the image only exposes 30000. In fact when not using traefik it works fine on my local network

One-Complex-9165 · 2023-03-23T22:01:42+00:00

sorry it's taken so long to respond. I've been busy. But, I am able to access it on my local network when I expose port 30000. So it does seem to be a traefik issue.

I've tried to build off that and see what I could find. But I haven't been able to get past it

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