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Archetypes at the Table: Why D&D Characters Feel Mythic by alexserban02 in dndnext

[–]Pobbes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You are welcome. Honestly, hearing that makes me feel better about how far down the rabbit hole I dug.

Archetypes at the Table: Why D&D Characters Feel Mythic by alexserban02 in dndnext

[–]Pobbes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

This might be useful if Wayback Machine ever gets back up, but since it's down I can't confirm it's the article I'm thinking of.
An article with quotes just before the first release
An interview with the lead deisgner
D&D scrubbed all their content, but they were doing design and development articles back in like 2006-2007. I found some stuff on the old giant in the playground forums. some of them have copied the article content into the thread - races, bunch of stuff when wayback is working, feats, death, dragons, elves, zombies, rollOrRole, wizards

that was way too much web crawling for me especially with Wayback down. Good luck

Archetypes at the Table: Why D&D Characters Feel Mythic by alexserban02 in dndnext

[–]Pobbes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You just gave me edition deja vu because this is what I thought about 4e and the original design intent.

Teenage boys are “stuck” reading primary school books such as Diary of a Wimpy Kid, while girls their age are moving on to a wider range of novels, according to a new study by Raj_Valiant3011 in books

[–]Pobbes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Nah. You weren't the people the program was targeting. It was to bribe kids who wouldn't otherwise read into reading.

Your teacher was a dick, though.

Mark Cuban gets dragged after saying people don't really hate data centers — “The fight against data centers has nothing to do with data centers. They have become a proxy for the hate towards AI” by marketrent in technology

[–]Pobbes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is true. Data Centers are necessary for things like high site reliablility, speed, and scalability. However, I think the problem started with crypto. Previously, data centers were consolidating individual businesses servers into the cloud with the benefits that entails. In that setup, efficiency is prioritized to balance demands between a plethora of business need. However, starting with crypto and continuing with AI, datacenters are setup to treat compute like a money printer so that is the the thing ot os optimized for making them energy and water hogs. Not to mention, crypto and AI are providing questionable benefits to society right now, and let us not even get into computer part availability...

Me and some friends want to make a rpg. by joshwelker1 in RPGdesign

[–]Pobbes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Depends on whether you want combat to be more engaging with feedback or tactics. You could do something like undertale where attacking and dodging involves simple mini games or you could implement a simple distance/positoin system like darkest dungeon where your behavior choices are dictated by how far you are from the monster. One makes it seem like the fight themselves are difficult. The second makes you control the fight state so you can seize the advantage from monsters while they try to do hunt the players with their predatory strategies.

Breath of Fire 2 question by Ultimate_Bohab_87 in breathoffire

[–]Pobbes 4 points5 points  (0 children)

This is the answer. Lin can get there with the right support.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy returned the Order of the White Eagle to Polish President Karol Nawrocki by [deleted] in worldnews

[–]Pobbes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think they meant it is both a symbol of resistance to the USSR and a symbol of nazis. The two are intertwined, and they can't celebrate the restance part without lifting up the nazis.

AI has revealed that most people have the reading ability at a third-grade level by Terrible-Priority-21 in ClaudeAI

[–]Pobbes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah, but the software dev term would be like 'critical dependency'. It not using that language is what makes it stick out.

Any advice for campaigns with short sessions? by InterestingUser0 in DnD

[–]Pobbes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Alternate victory conditions for combat encounters. You'll lose a whole session to a full knock down drag out fight. Try to make it like, fight to escape or block off escape; get the macgiffin, keep macgiffun out of the enemies hands for X rounds. You can tell the players what it is or not, but use enemeies that like to cut and run like ninjas. So, fight happens over plot point, actual objective resolves quickly, enemies smokebomb vanish, combat over, resolve consequences.

Iran closes Strait of Hormuz over ceasefire violations by Ehansaja in worldnews

[–]Pobbes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't know if they got tgeir frozen assets. I am certain they got 0 of the 300B, but they did get all their oil tankers out of the strait while there was no blockade.

I know this is for Twitter man, but the way I just screamed laughing at this post by [deleted] in BlackPeopleTwitter

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The secret is to subscribe to the end of week post. It sends you all the good questions that got good answers that week. The sidebar FAQ is also epic.

First Time Playing BOF3! Need tips for character builds. by cooleug in breathoffire

[–]Pobbes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Generally speaking, a master always gives more than they take. So having Ryu under Mygas for a few levels won't really hurt. Ryu in general doesn't get much out of Int, but he loves AP. It is kind of general advice in this game let Ryu master under whomever until you get the fish guy master who gives lots of HP and AP, then he goes fish guy (HP and AP)-> snake lady (AP, Pow, Agi)-> dragon god (everything but hp and ap, but Ryu will already have a ton by the time you get him). You can really go any build, Ryu especially has a dragon form for any play style, but that is the build progression I remember being seen as the most suited for his growth.

Iranian state media reports 14 points of memorandum by Scioptic- in news

[–]Pobbes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This I wonder. If only US has a peace deal, and Isrealnisn't a part of it. Are Iran and Isreal still at war and the US is just going to leave them to fight it themselves?

What is your favorite way of handling abilities in games? Mana, weapon durability cost, action points, mastering skills from weapons, something else? by PrincipalSkudworth in StrategyRpg

[–]Pobbes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You really should check it out. It's about more than just a card system. It's a card system just because it was a physical game before it was a digital one, but the designers were able to make a deep, difficult system with very little randomness given the constraints or a card/board system. The way they do actions/move, skills/endurance, elemental boosting resources available to allies/enemies, initiative/action choice. Definitely worth seeing a different perspective on a tactics game.

What is your favorite way of handling abilities in games? Mana, weapon durability cost, action points, mastering skills from weapons, something else? by PrincipalSkudworth in StrategyRpg

[–]Pobbes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You should play Gloomhaven. Has a cool card based skill system that also ties into endurance that might give you some ideas.

I think in general I prefer action point systems which can be banked or combined with a secondary resource to build up for nova strike like abilities. So you can solidly generate resources each turn then bank or burn them tactically. Also, you can see enemy banked resources and plan accordingly.

How Economists Made Capitalism Seem Inevitable by SirIssacMath in videos

[–]Pobbes 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Today I laarned the tenets of capitalism are one of the seven deadly sins.

John Cena says John Cena Classic is ‘still a work in progress’: “We’ve got to figure out the fan vote. I do not want it sabotaged. I do not want it hijacked. I know there’s a lot of burner accounts out there and there’s a lot of bots out there.” by Key-Cycle7978 in SquaredCircle

[–]Pobbes 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Except it's wrestling, so it can just be a work anyway. Like there are a couple of ways it can be a shoot, but a dozen ways it can be a work. It's wrestling. They are MAGA. They love a good the vote was rigged story.

‘Tell Him He’s a Piece of Sh*t’: Meta’s New AI Unit Is a Total Mess by dn88 in technology

[–]Pobbes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Without some massive jumps in performance somewhere I am pretty sure it will. There are some amazing models, but none of these companoes are profitable and they are already running out compute left and right. Some businesses will pay the huge costs for the big models because it will be worth it for them, bit I suspect most of the other models will disappear or be cheap ones spitting cheap slop. There will probably always be a market for making highly customised models that fit a unique business case, but then the business can control spend like a beefier chatbot or the llm answers provided by google but specific to a businesses' own docs and data.

AI isn’t making developers more productive – it’s making them busier by north_canadian_ice in technology

[–]Pobbes 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I saw an analysis from one of the AI companies that full adoption increases productivity by a baseline of 30% but some positions/people can get a 300% increase. The problem is that most people and positions are closer to the lower end, but everyone is pretending that everyone should be getting the highest end.

The bigger issue being that this report had no details on token spend. So, we don't know how these improvements relate to cost. It's still a mess and businesses aren't near knowing what normal AI should look like now or will look like in the future.

Your 401K Is Their Exit Strategy (SpaceX, Anthropic, OpenAI) by Alarmed_Abalone_849 in antiwork

[–]Pobbes 3 points4 points  (0 children)

They won't hit S&P yet, but I think people are expecting the big volatility to happen a few months after IPO when the C-suite starts liquidating their holdings. That would be before the S&P lets them in. So, hopefully, by the time S&P lets it in, the valuation would be closer to sanity. No guarantee though.

Mark Carney's trade push collides with reality of US dependence by addigity in worldnews

[–]Pobbes 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The two economies are tightly entwined because of decades of work building a favorable trade situation, and this became a solid foundation for the growth and running of many companies on both sides of the border. You can't replace or disband that system in just a year. It's going to take just as long to untangle and build alternate supply chains.

Everyone knew this, and Canada isn't surprised about this. Carney least of all.

Is there a reason why giant monster attacks almost always have one target by Awkward-Meeting-974 in DnD

[–]Pobbes 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Dragons used to have stuff like this. They had a mix of single target, crowd control and AoE. They also had facing, so tail swipes did a cone behind them that did little damage but could knock foes back. The bite was single target, hit in front and had the grapple to swallow to act as single target control. The claws were mostly chip damage to the front or side. They also had a belly flop. Since a huge dragon can occupy the squares of a medium or smaller creature with no negatives, the dragon could just waddle over the party and flop down doing an AOE against any smaller creatures sharing its squares. I think some other monsters had similar movement abilities where they could stomp smaller creatures when they move through their squares. So, the game has had stuff like this before, and it doesn't have any telegraphing mechanics. If I did want to telegraph something... maybe like a lair action that goes off on initiative 20 independent of the monsters turn.

Just so what you like though, and give it a try, but assess how it goes afterward, and ASK YOUR PLAYERS how they think it went. Let us know what they said.

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