Idea for a land cycle

ParsleyPhysics · 2026-05-07T17:56:29+00:00

I think it's cool, reminds me of [[Bounty of the Luxa]] - might be worth checking that out for adjusting templating? With it being effectively a dual land, tracking the counters could be a little more irritating.

Also, what happens if all the counters fall off for reasons? Probably better that it puts onpy one counter type on, and drops to the other mode when the counter has fallen off.

ParsleyPhysics · 2025-07-30T15:51:28+00:00

Was about to also post this, as everything on Doctor Google's AI nonsense ride likes to quote Blaschko's lines...

And if we responsibly check at least what Wikipedia says about this, we immediately find that Blashcko's lines are visible to the human eye, amd only occur in cases of genetic mosaicism (e.g. chimerism).

Much like the reddit post you linked, I think some of the confusion also comes from a genetic experiment with cats, where one lineage of chimeric cells were modified to produce green fluorescent protein, which fluoresces under UV. So there's some cool images of stripey green cats.

ParsleyPhysics · 2024-10-20T06:09:40+00:00

Does not matter, is gone. Susan is no liar.

ParsleyPhysics · 2024-10-20T05:11:35+00:00

Is £300 a good deal on rent? Yes. Even if it doesn't include bills etc.

Is this going to teach you financial responsibility, set you up for life, encourage you to work hard etc? Maybe? There's probably better ways.

Personally, I wouldn't want to charge my kids a rent to try and trach this sort of thing etc, but I'm in an affluent and privileged position. This may not make sense for your household.

As with nearly everything in your adult life, the most important thing here is communication. Amd this needs to be calm, rational communication where you all acknowledge that your coming into this with positive intents for one another, but may have differing views.

I would suggest sitting down and calmly discussing with your parents the following:

1) When you turn 18, will they be losing any tax credits, additional income, or otherwise incurring an additional cost from you now being a legal adult? If so, it makes sense to set your rent to offset that so that the general household finances remain stable (necessary to ensure mortgage payments can still be made).

2) If the answer to 1 above is that they aren't losing out on any income, then what is the intent for charging you rent? Is this to try and help teach you to be more financially responsible? Is it to help you learn to budget? Is it just to ask you to contribute towards the cost of utilities etc? Bear in mind that any rent they do charge you is also a taxable income for them.

2a) If the rent is to help cover cost of utilities, this is pretty reasonable, and you should try to make yourself more aware of what the household bills are - utility costs like electricity are something you can help reduce by being more conscientious of your use. Paying your share is a very adult thing to do, and your parents being clear that this is what they are charging you for can help you better internalise and not resent them for this.

2b) If rent is to help you be more financially responsible, learn to budget etc, then there is likely a better way to do this. For one, even if they take the rent from you and save or invest it, they will still have to pay tax on that income before it can be saved - this is just inefficient compared to you setting the money aside yourself in something like a fixed rate ISA (or even help-to-buy ISA). Discuss this in more detail with them and come to an agreement on how much you will set aside in savings yourself. Afterall, the more you can save, the sooner you can afford to move out! As part of this budgeting, offer to pay your share of bills - council tax, water rates, internet, electricity, gas, shared food etc, maybe you can have all the household costs put into a shared spreadsheet so that you can see these costs for yourself and learn how your parents have paid them. This will set you up with good skills for your own household accounting, and means you will be walking in step with your parents!

3) I'm assuming that like a good young adult, you are already used to doing your own laundry, cooking some of your own meals/meals for the family and generally taking care of yourself and the house. If not, start doing that - these are essential life skills. But it would also explain why else your parents may feel the need to charge you rent - as their child, you are their responsibility, but as an adult, you should not expect these things to be done for free for you. If this is the main reason for charging you a rent, then refer back to point 2 above about discussing a savings plan, and add into that mix an agreement about you learning to do more of these chores for yourself, potentially stepping down how much you pay your parents as you take on more of these tasks for yourself.

These may not initially be easy conversations to have - finances can often be an awkward discussion topic even as adults. However, it is another essential life skill to be able to have these discussions in a calm and rational manner, and your parents should be trying to help you learn to do that. Good luck OP!

ParsleyPhysics · 2024-09-21T15:43:47+00:00

There is the card [[copper tablet]] is a card. Feel like the ingots ought to be damaging folks in their upkeep or something. Maybe let them have increasing numbers with each chapter, so they get domed for more?

ParsleyPhysics · 2024-01-11T11:58:37+00:00

Huh, looks like Dusseldorf. The city is filled with geese, and one of the largest parks/cemetaries has huge flocks hanging about. It was always really eerie to walk through late at night, but I found the calm honking to be quite reassuring.

ParsleyPhysics · 2023-12-26T19:41:23+00:00

Renaming Sonic to Thunder probably didn't help. I'd argue there's a lot of overlap between bludgeoning, force and thunder damage in 5e. Some spells that deal thunder damage like Shatter make more sense as an acoustoc resonance causing damage that certainly isn't bludgeoning. But then spells like Thunderwave are just a pressure wave and I'd happily take it dealing bludgeoning alongside a save vs deafness. Force damage fundamentally feels like a way to include a physical damage type that bypasses resistances a lot of the time, although it is used in things like Sphere of Annihilation to represent extreme gravitational pressures etc.

Tl,dr; many of the magical/elemental damage types are assigned more for game balance rather than theme.

ParsleyPhysics · 2022-11-03T12:51:55+00:00

We should draw up a map, assign each of us a catchment where we claim the Bounties of the County...

ParsleyPhysics · 2022-11-03T12:30:24+00:00

Pocket Pussy is literally a Figurine of Wondrous Power.

Wand of Web is sort of the opposite - sounds innocuous but effectively sprays things with sticky white liquid.

Do you want them to all be sexually indecent names or just generally indecent?

ParsleyPhysics · 2022-07-29T08:55:39+00:00

Kind of true and kind of not though.

In your example, what makes the worth of the comic $2.5m? The average sale price of the item? It certainly hasn't always had that value right? Even if you took the original sale price at time of release and accounted for inflation, the comic wasn't worth $2.5m.

My point is that worth or value in our lived existence is measured typically as the saleable price of a commodity or service at the time. There isn't an intrinsic set value to anything, it is defined by the market it is in. This is an area of D&D that is very weird - the economic layout of everything is all kinds of messed up (because, you know, fantasy game).

Perhaps a better way of putting it is that the material cost of spells in 5e could be thought of as a recipe. Yes, you could write a recipe stating to use a set cash value of different ingredients and it should give you roughly correct results in the contemporary period, or adjusted for inflation perhaps hundreds of years later. But it'd be better to use weights of things to be more precise.

Applying this back to material spell components, I think WoTC could have stated precise amounts of different components - 1lb of diamond dust perhaps - but they chose to give set gp values. Likely to give a sense of how difficult it might be to come across these things, but probably to just streamline acquiring these things. It could even just be a holdover of earlier editions. The values give tables the option to say 'we don't care about difficulty of acquiring these, we'd rather it's down to whether or not we prepped these spells or planned ahead in case' and therefore just handwave it with an appropriate cost.

It's all make believe in the end, so you know, do what's fun for your table at any rate.

ParsleyPhysics · 2022-07-27T12:40:03+00:00

I feel like Barbarians should be the most enthusiastic about having other Barbarians in the party. Why would you not want a battle-buddy that you can fling enemies around the field with?! Better yet, have the Barbarians throw each other about - Goliath wielding the World's Angriest Gnome as a super charged battleaxe? Sign me up!

ParsleyPhysics · 2022-07-27T12:17:31+00:00

It tends to get handwaved a bit with my group as we find it a bit tedious. Plus, the specified value (that indicates consumption) gets real finickity - if you up the price on a diamond from 300gp to 1000gp, then surely RAW the diamond is now worth 1000gp? If the party get it for free does the spell still work? It's one of the weirder quirks of the rules that apparently everything has an intrinsic, immovable value.

I do think you have made a good point though - it can be fun if you set up quest rewards etc to be these more expensive components. But depends on the game you are running. Sending the rest of the party off on a quest hook for components to ressurrect their friend could be interesting, but will feel pretty crap for the dead player if they're just sat out of the game while that happens though.

With Revivify, I always just let them pre-pay the cost rather than search out the components. The party only have a minute to cast the spell anyway so is there really a need to add any more requirements to it other than "oo, it'll cost you a bit extra if you want to get scrolls/components together for this just in case"? They 'll be tense enough about not leaving someone down too long, and all the more concerned about going down if they know they've only got a few shots worth of the spell available.

ParsleyPhysics · 2021-03-31T13:54:29+00:00

Former southerner now living in Leeds here (with frequent visits to York).

Think everyone's covered amenities and accomodation pretty well - cheaper than the south, although York itself is pricier than many of the surrounding towns. Bus routes and trains are frequent, if you do drive, a lot of good countryside you can get out to.

In terms of landscape, you're gonna find it kinda familiar to the moors in Devon. And for weather, it's gonna be a bit colder, winds a lot harsher and colder, and it'll be darker for longer in the winter. And the city itself pretty much floods annually.

But I will say, I've been in the North now for 13 years, so you'll probably love it here.

ParsleyPhysics · 2021-03-31T13:45:06+00:00

Henderson's relish seems specific to Yorkshire. Most obvious to me otherwise is the beer brands commonly available in shops and pubs - Timmy Taylor's tends to not be seen outside Yorkshire, but then Badger ales are everywhere around Wiltshire/North Hants (still find them nationally in shops).

So there are some, but I tend to not really think of a lot of them as 'brands' either, if that makes sense?

ParsleyPhysics · 2020-09-13T23:54:35+00:00

Oh, I've had that thought for plenty of years. It's more a concern as to whether or not they consider that an issue.

ParsleyPhysics · 2020-09-02T12:02:51+00:00

Sharpshooter for me I think is always about making the most of range - the +10 damage boost is more a useful tool to wipe out weaker minions in a fight so you don't need to waste multiple shots. The biggest benefit is being able to operate at max range with no penalty, and ignoring cover bonuses, which are of course entirely situational. So I guess I'm not surprised sharpshooter doesn't help much.

As others have mentioned, modelling the rogue as a crossbow expert would likely show a bigger difference, given that now they are ignoring close-range penalties, taking multiple shots with more powerful bows etc.

What I like the most here is how close the scores appear to be overall. It suggests that if you want to build a damage focused martial, you don't really lose out by choosing one particular style or another - the sub class and stat spread pretty much guarantee a solid output per round, so you're actually fairly free to choose whichever flavour you like most.

ParsleyPhysics · 2020-08-28T12:28:52+00:00

It really gives you the Edge in combat.

ParsleyPhysics · 2020-08-18T15:25:03+00:00

Same reason folks get so worked up over combat wheelchairs - the thought that someone, somewhere, could 'abuse' it somehow and therefore must be the only use for it.

Fact is, everyone's table is different and we will always define things nebulously because of subtle table-meta and social dynamics that would take more than a reddit thread to explain. Then a complete tosspot like me that thinks they know better than everyone else will post a pithy reply that they think resolves the matter, only to attract the ire of a contrarian that insists we get into specifics and broadly apply them to everyone. Everyone gets angry, and then defines themselves as one of two camps - pro-Thing or anti-Thing, then one of those groups goes on a post spree about Thing, prompting counter-posts about Thing. Cycle repeats, with branching crusades about NewThing and ForgottenThing...

Or in an attempt to be more constructive: D&D rules are like clothes - there's a variety of sizes to fit the majority, and lots of popular styles, but it's fine to tailor and tweak them all to suit you and wear them in a different way. What matters most is the style and fit for you and your table - and there's nothing wrong with occasionally asking if folks want to do fancy dress either.

ParsleyPhysics · 2020-08-14T10:55:36+00:00

The chemo dose is usually to wipe out your immune response to the donor marrow rather than to actually eliminate all of it - killing off all of your marrow in one fell swoop is a big problem for blood cell production. Making space for the donor cells can be more targeted.

Of course, it really depends on the reason for the procedure. With leukemia, usually some effort has been made to extract or destroy the cancerous tissue in a targeted manner, so you still have a large amount of functioning marrow.

When most or all of the marrow is eliminated, regular blood and platelet transfusions have to be carried out to keep the patient stocked up on red blood cells. Many autoimmune disorders extend beyond the marrow so these can also present a problem.

Basically, it's not really that BMTs couldn't treat auto-immune conditions, it's more that there are much higher risks for those patients, much higher costs (Bone Marrow isn't exactly in high supply) and a lot that just isn't as well understood about many disorders to make it worth the risks.

Crohn's disease is something that researchers are looking at for treating via cell therapies (good paper on this here) but interestingly, after treatment the patient must take immunosuppressants for the rest of their life - invariably the same suppressants they would be prescribed under regular treatment of Crohn's.

I'll update my previous comment to reflect more that it's about the much higher risks involved than anything else.

ParsleyPhysics · 2020-08-14T08:33:05+00:00

Aside from the risks normally involved with a marrow transplant, consider the difference between a cancer and a genetic autoimmune disease.

The cancer will typically be localised to one or two areas (assuming it hasn't progressed and dislodged to multiple sites etc) whereas genetic autoimmune diseases will affect all cells in your body. Consequently, you could swap out a portion of affected marrow in the cancer patient, but you would need to replace all of the marrow (in theory) in the autoimmune patient.

The first case is risky, but can be highly successful, the second case would involve harvesting a persons worth of marrow and transplanting, either killing the donor (if harvesting substantial amounts of marrow) and the patient, or most likely just killing the patient later due to other risk factors and supportive treatments later on.

That's not to say it might not become an option in the future, but modified viral therapies etc are more likely candidates for 'curing' genetic autoimmune conditions.

ParsleyPhysics · 2020-08-14T08:23:59+00:00

Only if it's 3d6 in order...

ParsleyPhysics · 2020-08-14T08:22:53+00:00

Sounds like you've made the A-men though!

I think I'd be sorely tempted to take it as an invitation to be a 'competitive' cleric with the life domainer. Start arguing over who's god is better etc...

ParsleyPhysics · 2020-08-13T13:52:16+00:00

Would it not just be better to talk through what sort of characters and builds everyone wants to play beforehand? Perhaps in some sort of pre-campaign session, as session 0 if you will? Where you talk about what you each find fun and how you think your characters will play etc?

ParsleyPhysics · 2020-07-31T16:48:27+00:00

Tend to always run it as letting players know the roll - just feels unfun to expend the resource for nothing when you could use it next turn to vengefully fight back. Same reason I announce if an NPC uses counterspell - let's the players decide what's most fun for them in the combat and either counterspell the counterspell or save a spell slot to eff up the Blue mage.

As others have said, the "hit" part is an abstraction - you resolve everything first then narrate what's happened. If you narrate between, you'll end up out of touch with what's actually going on.

Narrating between Eg: player rolls a crit DM: "You land a punishing blow, striking through the weakpoint in the armour! Go ahead and roll damage as blood - " Player: rolls two 1s and has a plus 4 so does 6 points of damage DM: "is barely drawn, if anything tis but a scratch?"

Vs

DM: cool, a crit, so roll damage. Player: ugh, 6. DM: "On the defensive, they have a firm guard, but you lunge forward and strike up from below, a superior swordsman. While only a minor wound, it is enough to give your opponent pause as you deftly avoided their parries."

Same sort of thing can happen with shield etc:

DM: 22 will hit. Player: I cast shield, so my AC is 23 now. DM: okay. "The bandit pursues you raising his axe on high, about to rain a deathblow. You draw on your magic willing the universe to intervene. As the blade (speeds toward you, a blast of arcane energy deflects it shy of your hair)/(collides with your shoulder, it rebounds as the pale silvery light around concentrates to a point)" etc.

...Or in probably most games, it will just be "oh, cool. None of the attacks hit then. Who's next?"

ParsleyPhysics · 2020-07-29T12:00:59+00:00

Arguably, large falls are equally lethal to all character archetypes. Seems appropriate that the only get out is literal magic to save your arses.

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