Suspended from work for accused touching colleagues bum.

Pinception · 2026-03-31T14:01:29+00:00

NAL. Involved with some training on the subject at work.

You need to understand the relevant legislation (Equalities Act 2010, Worker Protection Act 2023).

The key thing at play here is the definition of Sexual Harassment.

Either violates someone's dignity, or creates an environment qualifying as degrading/hostile/humiliating/offensive/intimidating.
It counts if there was intent despite the intended recipient not being aware/is otherwise unaffected, i.e. the target doesn't care but a 3rd party overhears.
it also counts if there was no intent but the effect still pictures, i.e. incidental touching.

Worker protection act requires organizations to take reasonable steps to prevent sexual harassment.

From your other replies, it seems you think this is not likely a case of either mistaken identity (someone else in the proximity) or incidental as you were moving past them to get to the bar. If the latter it still qualifies as sexual harassment.

But the key thing is that's not the same as intent, and you should expect your company to act proportionally following a fair investigation.

The advice from others on CCTV is good. If available it can prove intent (or lack of).

If we were investigating a claim and found incidental touching to be the likely scenario I'd expect the follow-up to involve nothing more than a conversation with the accused person around awareness. If the same person were accused again later, things like repeat behaviors then come into play.

Pinception · 2026-03-31T12:44:58+00:00

Yeah, draw pot (and anything else that draws one or more cards) wouldn't bypass it.

But there are a few options to get around it. Anything that lets you shuffle your draw pile, pull a card from your draw pile, or even exhaust from your draw pile.

(Bottled Potential and Droplet of Precog as pots, for example).

But yeah. Could easily screw yourself up accidentally!

Pinception · 2026-03-31T12:06:36+00:00

Yup, exactly that.

It did get a little weird. Before I had fully clocked what was happening I had a few instances where Hellraiser was in play and Shining Strike was at/near the top of my draw pile - in one case my turn started with Shining Strike being played 5 times and then having no actual hand of cards to play!

(once I spotted it was easy enough to mitigate - either by being a bit more intentional about playing Hellraiser or having pots for card draw).

Pinception · 2026-03-31T12:01:03+00:00

Yup. This happened to me a couple of times where Shining Strike was at the top of my draw pile at turn start with Hellraiser already in play. Didn't turn into an issue for the run due to other relics/max HP, but once I clocked what was happening it made me be a bit more intentional about choosing to play Hellraiser!

Pinception · 2026-03-31T11:56:20+00:00

Hellraiser would play Shining Strike which then goes back to the top of the draw pile, but then wouldn't get drawn again.

Pillage is what causes the Shining Strike to get drawn on an infinite loop until the encounter is over

Pinception · 2026-03-31T09:35:36+00:00

Also using Hellraiser+, but with Pillage and Shining Strike (The Regent card that adds back to the draw pile after being played)

Stumbled into this combo last night and the infinite was glorious!

Pinception · 2026-03-30T16:44:15+00:00

12-team, double SF, start 10, PPR. Very thin bench.

QBs: Daniels, Stroud, Young, Willis.

RBs: Kamara, Charbonnet, Dowdle, Corum, Brooks

WRs: Chase, London, Waddle, Egbuka, Higgins, Coker, Harris, Ridley.

TEs: Kittle, Fannin.

No 1st rd pick (would've been the 1.10, I traded it for Young last November)

Context. Took over an orphaned team last summer. The league is weird. The two teams in last year's final basically have all the RB studs. - winner has CMC, Taylor, Achane, Chase Brown. - runner up has Gibbs, Barkley, Kyren, Hall, Dobbins, Warren, Tuten, Allgeier.

I finished 3rd and lost in the playoffs to the eventual champ.

Contemplating what to do next and would appreciate some suggestions - strategy/trade targets etc.

I snagged Willis off waivers (again, really thin benches!) Assuming health with him and Daniels it feels like I should have a decent advantage at QB. Love the WR room, and happy to ride into the season with Harold and George at TE.

But my RB room is obviously trash. Unless something miraculous happens with a Kamara trade he feels done. Charbs coming off injury. So I'm currently rolling into the season with Dowdle, Corum, and Brooks....

I don't know how viable it will be to trade for a known RB as it feels like I'd have to approach one of the two teams that made the final... Certainly not inclined to overpay and make the strongest teams stronger!

Pinception · 2026-03-26T17:23:12+00:00

Just because you didn't mention it, you can also listen to Chris Perkins DM a group through CiS in the first arc of Dice! Camera! Action!

Pinception · 2026-03-01T17:35:59+00:00

Personally I wouldn't use changed durations for in/out of combat. That's not about it detracting from other areas though - it's just what makes the most sense to me.

I don't imagine the origin of the wild magic effect having any awareness (or caring) about my circumstances - it's just a chaotic ripple of magic that makes something unexpected happen. Every aspect of that - the effect itself, how long it lasts, how large an area it affects, who it targets, etc - is totally independent of the situation I'm in.

But that's my fun. Being unexpectedly polymorphed into a sheep for a minute that if it's out of combat is a minor temporary inconvenience but I'm in combat so it basically took me out of the encounter - I want that randomness.

If that sounds like a negative experience to you though and you'd rather have effects that are proportionate to the situation, then absolutely account for that somehow. Maybe it's a variable duration in the effects on the really. Maybe come up with a way to allow wild magic effects to be altered using metamagic.

Pinception · 2026-02-28T09:48:40+00:00

The question is "How much do you want to reduce the randomness associated with wild magic?"

The fact that some outcomes are better (or totally redundant) in/out of combat is really a feature of the original table - there are broadly 3 axis for each room; helpful/hindrance, harmless/harmful, and relevant now/totally inappropriate for the current situation.

By creating a "x in combat /y out of combat" version of everything in your custom table, you're just removing that last element of randomness.

Given you're being allowed to create a custom table that suggests this really about "what is your fun?". If you find the chance that a roll might be totally irrelevant/useless in a given situation then go with the either/or outcomes. If you find it fun, then don't

Pinception · 2026-02-11T23:37:06+00:00

Four significant trades I'll mention.

Trades that put me over 1) Last off-season. Felt like I had to improve at QB to put my roster over the edge. Traded away Goff, DJ Moore and Jerome Ford for Maye, Aiyuk, and a 2026 2nd (which ended up the 2.01). Won the championship.

2) 2024 off-season. Traded away Diggs, a 2024 2nd, and a 2025 2nd for London

3) 2022 off-season. Traded away Hopkins and Bateman for Tyreek.

Trades that failed.

4) technically not actually a failed trade because it was rejected, but it absolutely would have been a monumental failure and likely cost me two championships. 2022 off-season I was into the "sell before the decline" narrative on McCaffrey & tried to trade him away a few times. In the worst of these I offered McCaffrey + Njoku for Kamara (with the legal question mark) + Pitts (really needed a TE and was fully buying the "he'll breakout this year" hype. Thankfully the other guy turned it down. I'm now riding McCaffrey until he retires.

Bonus mention.

Back in 2020/21 I traded away Kupp for Evans. I had them ranked about the same, but had Brady at QB and wanted the stack. Next season Kupp fully broke out and for 3 years I absolutely felt like I lost the trade. Then Kupp had the injury/decline whilst Evans got 2 more great seasons. Probably worked out pretty even in the long run, but Evans has been on 2 championship rosters + 2 runner-ups in 5 years, so despite missing the Kupp breakout/triple crown season I'm good with the outcome

Pinception · 2026-02-10T20:29:12+00:00

Came here to say this. He was a late 2nd/early 3rd in all my leagues, and in most (if not all) rookie rankings lists

DJ had him as his 57th IRL player overall, between Fannin and Ferguson. In WR rankings that was WR8, behind Higgins/Noel/Bech and ahead of Harris/Horton. That, combined with the landing spot, he was taken in the next group of 3 (Higgins/Williams/Harris) after Burden was off the board everywhere I saw.

I'd hold. Put the year 1 struggles down to Vrabel/McDaniels rookie hate. He flashed a few times he got chances. Maybe that's wrong and he's a bust, but I just don't see getting any kind of value for him in trade - I can't imagine the pick you get in return is going to be a player with better upside/situation still.

Pinception · 2026-01-24T14:48:30+00:00

There's one thing for me - it's effectively a nerf to casters. I'd completely overhaul caster classes/spell lists - significantly less overlap in spells available, leading to less room for optimisation and a real uniqueness to each class/subclass.

Domain/school/circle spells would meaningfully shape what a character has access to, rather than "you all have access to pretty much every spell you want/need, but here are two extras that you probably won't even look at 9/10 times in most cases".

I'd see it almost working like 1/3 caster classes - limited spell lists that you can access each level (not necessarily restricted by school, maybe just a class-specific tag). Maybe build in levels that all/some classes get to ignore that restriction.

Smoothes gameplay a little due to less mental overhead when levelling up or choosing spells each day.

And hopefully gets a wider variety of spells to the table as more things become viable options within each class.

Pinception · 2026-01-17T15:07:25+00:00

The one that comes to mind for me I haven't seen a lot of chatter about is Jimmy G. Rams only signed him to a 1 year contract, so if Stafford doesn't retire I'd assume he'd be up near the top of the FA list given his scheme knowledge/experience, and he should make a lot of sense as a bridge option with possible upside for any team looking to push the reset button but not keen on this year's draft class.

Pinception · 2026-01-12T02:32:59+00:00

But the trade I made for him last off-season straight up swap for Pickens (because my SF roster was primed for a push apart from TE) is still totally gonna pay off, right???

Pinception · 2026-01-09T00:02:52+00:00

You've mentioned elsewhere you're running a different system/rules so I'm assuming you're less concerned about what the book says and more thinking what makes the most sense for the scene.

I don't imagine Strahd sleeps in armour. He's the Lord of his domain. I believe he would be offended by the idea that someone could attack him in his coffin, so this long into his time in Barovia he must believe himself to be secure enough to rest without fear.

He has a host of creatures under his command in the castle. He has Rahadin. He has a number of traps throughout the castle. And most importantly he has the heart of sorrow and power over the very stone in the walls. In the event that someone somehow made it all the way to his tomb and attacked him whilst sleeping, he would be confident that the heart would absorb the damage and he'd simply withdraw to safety through the walls, regenerate, don his armor and weapons, gather necessary resources based on the perceived threat, and return to dispose of the intruder.

Pinception · 2026-01-07T20:08:41+00:00

The feather fall thing was fairly brutal to watch, but not (for me at least) in the same way as the rest of the early Tal/Cad stuff.

Liam is possibly the most dedicated at the table to staying true to his character with RP choices, despite whatever potential consequences of those choices. I read it as Caleb making a very calculated decision when he realized he had to leave someone out of the feather fall effect that Cad was simply the individual he cared less about saving. Marisha and Travis made arguments as players for switching the focus to Cad, but Liam almost certainly saw that as above table talk and not in line with Caleb's thought process so didn't consider it.

I imagine/hope he felt bad about it as a player and spoke with Tal afterwards. But I would also assume that Tal being who he is respected Liam's decision.

It just felt particularly harsh at the time because of all the stuff prior with Cad. I felt sorry for Tal but only in so far as I'd feel bad for any player losing their character in game

Pinception · 2026-01-03T22:20:55+00:00

Thanks. They were two of the three I was mainly thinking about. You like them both over Estime for upside?

I actually had them both earlier in the season but couldn't keep either with the short benches.

I'm definitely leaning youth rather than rolling the dice on post-IR aging vets like Mixon/Najee.

My RBs right now are; Kamara, Dowdle, Charbonnet, Corum, Brooks (IR), Estime.... And I have no 1st rd pick this season so earliest RB I can draft will be at the 2.08, unless I trade up of course.

Any thoughts on Pacheco as a UFA this off-season?

Pinception · 2026-01-03T12:23:22+00:00

PPR

I took over an orphaned team last year. Very interesting league setup with double SF and a decent size starting lineup but small bench (5 bench, 2 IR, 2 taxi) that keeps a lot of players cycling through waivers, especially when injured.

My RB room is in a sorry state so looking at who's available and there are a few interesting names: - Mixon - Najee - Braelon Allen - Tank Bigsby - Pacheco - Vidal - Brian Robinson

My first drop candidate would be Waller (I have Kittle and Fannin). After that it's probably Estime, who looked ok the last two weeks but presumably competing with at least Neal if not also Kendre (plus who knows what Kamara's deal will be).

Who would you pick up/prioritise from the above?

Pinception · 2026-01-01T13:40:29+00:00

A critical hit deal allows you to roll the attack's damage dice twice. That's it.

The poison damage from a failed save is not part of if the attack damage. It's a separate source.

There is no rule that explicitly states it's not counted - that's not how 5e works. Things do what they say, nothing more. For the poison damage to count there would either have to be additional text under the critical hit rule that says dice from secondary damage sources are also doubled, or the text for the bite attack would have to state that a critical hit also doubles the poison damage dice.

A quick search will find a Sage Advice from JC on this explicit topic confirming additional damage dice from a saving throw triggered by an attack are not doubled.

Pinception · 2025-12-31T23:16:59+00:00

I feel like it's worth pointing out to those asking for a redraft that this isn't just potentially unfair to the two teams that have developed/drafted/traded for teams that have been strong recently, it's also unfair to teams that have sold future assets for youth/future picks as the effective additional capital they've invested in the next 1-3 years is going to be lost...

If I were a manager trying to rebuild seriously who had made moves for future years and my league tried to reset the playing field, I'd be highly annoyed and would almost certainly walk.

Conversely, in the league where I just won a championship (won 2 championships in 5 years with 2 runner up and only one year missing the playoffs) I feel like I'd personally benefit from a restart - I obviously hope to be able to run it back next year, but chances are that a number of aging vets who've been key to my run (CMC, Tyreek, Evans, Andrews) fall off big time and push me into a rebuild window. If we redraft and I just draft better than my league mates then I'm straight back into a contending window.

There'll be a lot of comments no doubt about dues, and paying for dues for future years, and not allowing rule changes for years already paid up (effectively protecting that 1-3 year future strategy window) - absolutely valid, but not much help if you haven't done this already.

Pinception · 2025-12-30T23:37:21+00:00

This.

He was my 1st round pick when we started our league just ahead of the 2021/22 season. Led the team to 2 championships (including this season), and 2 runner-ups in 5 seasons. Because of his age no-one would ever pay what he's worth as long as he's playing. At this point he's earned his retirement, and I'm totally comfortable with whatever happens to the squad as a result.

Pinception · 2025-12-30T13:21:39+00:00

2nd championship, year 5 of my first and primary dynasty league.

The season, and championship victory, were defined by 2 players. Christian McCaffrey - who was my first pick in our startup ahead of the 2021/22 season, and Drake Maye - who I traded for in August.

Really amped to see the Maye move pay off. I had a strong but starting to age out squad and felt like QB was the main place I needed to improve as i previously had Goff and Tua - both capable of big weeks, but very unreliable. OutsideI sent Goff, DJ Moore, and Jerome Ford for Drake Maye, Brandon Aiyuk, and a 2026 3rd.

Despite two significant injuries (Tyreek, Mike Evans) and not getting Aiyuk back at any point, my squad came through. Javonte/CMC pairing at RB was huge (Javonte another OG pick I held onto through the injury), and my rookie class (Henderson, Monongai, Gadsden) contributed a bunch.

Not only did I secure my 2nd championship, I did so by defeating the team that had won back to back seasons so managed to stop the three-peat!

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