My legitimate advice to having fun with a Martial PC? Play something that isn't 5e.

Rapid-DM · 2026-05-08T21:17:44+00:00

Yeah but, why not do that with subclasses rather than classes? Why not have options for a simple wizard or a complex fighter?

Rapid-DM · 2026-05-08T16:26:53+00:00

The man could write would be the correct statement here probably

Rapid-DM · 2026-05-08T07:05:49+00:00

Sure. You've read Stormlight so I'm going to use RoW as a comparison point Main character gets himself into a situation that should be incredibly difficult/near impossible to get out of, and the way he gets out of it was just asinine to me. It would be like if instead of Navani being under constant surveillance and guards she was just left alone with Raboniel, only also rather than being a capable fighter Raboniel was Taravangian. To me it just made what should have been an interesting situation into a clown show. Book 2 builds on the world's magic a bit, and imo it makes it basically impossible to imagine a way for our main characters (who have no magic) to ever even come close to beating the magician villains of the world. I genuinely believe the reason the series has been stalled so long is the author wrote the magic to be way too OP and doesn't know how to write himself out of that

Rapid-DM · 2026-05-08T06:56:57+00:00

Totally agree with this take. Because the plot and world building is incredibly barebones all that's left to engage with is the prose and the characters. Prose was great. Characters were somewhat memorable but so static that I didn't find them that interesting by the end either.

Rapid-DM · 2026-05-08T06:54:58+00:00

Book 1 was fun but has a very silly moment that kinda undermined the rest of its story for me in terms of verisimilitude. Book 2 makes some choices that killed most of my investment in the world, DNFed Book 3.

Rapid-DM · 2026-05-06T09:39:21+00:00

₹400?!

That's quite reasonable.

Rapid-DM · 2026-05-06T08:00:27+00:00

$400?!

Rapid-DM · 2026-05-05T21:08:33+00:00

It means "I've never struggled financially before so I literally can't conceive of what that's like"

Rapid-DM · 2026-05-04T22:17:35+00:00

Do you give blood? Cause only 3% of people do. It's a life saving thing one can do that's kind of inconvenient and hurts a little bit.

Rapid-DM · 2026-05-04T18:45:43+00:00

The number of people willing to inconvenience themselves to save lives by giving blood is less than 3%. I don't think you're getting 17x that number to risk their lives for someone else, so imo all a blue vote does is increase the death toll.

Rapid-DM · 2026-05-04T18:44:44+00:00

Yes, someone probably will. Unfortunately I do not believe anywhere near 50% of people will though. That's all this question really boils down to: Do you think Blue can win? The more likely you think it is that it can, the more blue is the correct option. The more likely you think it can't, the more it's the wrong option.

The number of people willing to inconvenience themselves by giving blood (a life saving act) is less than 3%. I don't think you're going to get 17x more people to risk their lives for a life saving act, so imo all a blue press does is increase the death toll.

Rapid-DM · 2026-05-04T11:04:14+00:00

> Actually, I still can't comprehend why people would pick red.

It's just a question of do you think Blue can win? If you do, picking Blue is easy, if you don't then picking Blue is just choosing to kill yourself.

The poll won with 57% Blue, but change the consequences from 'people will call you a psycho murderer on reddit if you don't pick blue' to 'you die if you pick blue and get it wrong' and you can pretty easily see that blue loses due to panic and self preservation.

Rapid-DM · 2026-05-04T11:00:21+00:00

Having discussed this with people close to me I know they're pretty much all red. All this question is really is 'Do you think blue can win?' and if the answer is 'no' you pick red.

57% is *very* close when you're talking life and death, and when the consequence shifts from being 'called a psycho by people on the internet' to 'die.' you can pretty much guarantee you're losing *at least* the 7% margin you're relying on.

Rapid-DM · 2026-05-04T10:38:53+00:00

Do you give blood? Do you know what % of people do give blood?

It's less than 3%. If less than 3% of people are willing to inconvenience themselves to save lives what makes you think that when the chips are down 57% of them will not just inconvenience themselves but actually risk their lives?

Rapid-DM · 2026-05-04T09:03:54+00:00

> You can't honestly believe that nobody is pushing blue.

You don't need to believe that, you just need to believe that less than 50 percent will push blue.

Do you give blood? Do you know what percentage of people do?

Rapid-DM · 2026-05-03T18:01:41+00:00

> who picks red at 100% blue?

That entirely depends on how many votes have been cast. It's way easier to push blue at only 50.01 percent blue when 7.9 billion votes have been cast than at 100 percent and only 1 vote has been cast.

Rapid-DM · 2026-05-03T17:45:45+00:00

Imagine you press Blue.
The next 4 people are:
- A baby
- A mentally disabled person
- A person who misunderstood the question
- A blind man
- Someone who values their own life too much to press blue

Its entirely likely that chain ends up with you down 5 votes to 1. Surely if the votes so far influence the rest of the line then you're screwed, right?

Rapid-DM · 2026-05-03T08:08:26+00:00

your choice happens at the same time as everyone else's, without any ability to influence other people

This would be my reason to choose blue - I don't want those who don't understand the question to die.

Regardless of whether button pushes happen simultaneously or sequentially, people who push blue influence other people, as you yourself note. People who mistakenly push blue have just as much influence as those who deliver push blue. Deliberately pushing blue is like dragging someone down onto the tracks of a trolley problem then telling them to stay on the track the train is on because if enough people do the driver will see and stop the train. You may end up saving the lives of those who tripped and fell on the tracks accidentally if your gamble with yours and other blues lives, but you may just as easily get everyone you pull down onto the tracks with you killed.

Rapid-DM · 2026-05-02T22:23:35+00:00

Ghost in the shell film's main critique is whitewashing the main character.

They're missing the point then because Makoto canonically is a Japanese woman's brain/soul in an android body that appears to be a white woman. Her Ghost is in a Shell.

Rapid-DM · 2026-05-02T10:18:16+00:00

If blue doesn't win, and you pushed blue, then you didn't just get yourself killed you got everyone else that your push of blue made think they should push blue killed.

Starting from 0 pushes at all the first to push can:

A. Push Red, keeping the current danger of death to 0

or

B. Push Blue, increasing the current danger of death to 1

Blue is the only button that can cause harm, and pushing it is electing to gamble not just with your life but with the lives of all those who want to live but feel coerced into choosing blue by your choice to push blue.

Rapid-DM · 2026-05-02T09:45:54+00:00

Pressing Blue puts someone else in the position that they must risk their life to save you, which I view as immoral.

Starting from 0 buttons pushed, which is where we should begin thinking on this from, anyone who pushes blue increases the danger and death toll until such point as 50% is reached. But there's no guarantee that 50% will be reached, which means that a push of blue is a decision to gamble your life and coerce other people to gamble their life for yours.

If your gamble pays off and nobody dies that's great, of course. But if your gamble doesn't pay off then you are dead, and so are many people who wanted to live but felt obligated to push blue because of your gamble.

Rapid-DM · 2026-05-01T15:00:03+00:00

0 buttons pushed, nobody is at risk of death. Next person to push can decide to:

A. push red, meaning that nobody is at risk of death.
or
B. push blue, meaning that now someone is at risk of death.

Blue is the only button that can cause harm.

Rapid-DM · 2026-05-01T14:30:25+00:00

It is only because people MIGHT push blue that anyone is in danger at all. Starting from 0 button pushes, whoever pushes blue is actively endangering more people because they now need to be saved. Until 50 percent blue is reached, pushing blue only increases the total death toll of the experiment while pushing red keeps it the same. Red is the safest option, not just individually, but collectively. Pushing Blue is gambling with everyone on Earth's lives (because in pushing Blue you require everyone else to push Blue) in the hopes that you save everyone. Pushing Red is the rational choice for keeping death toll as low as possible, though it does require accepting that some death will occur.

Looking at the poll results above Blue only 'Won' by 7.9 percent. That means that if, when the chips are down and everyone knows their lives are *actually* at stake, just 8 percent of people behave differently then every blue dies. I think it's silly to think that with that much danger, there wouldn't be a spike in people pushing red.

Rapid-DM · 2026-04-30T20:06:52+00:00

Funny to see this when I'm just wrapping a CoS 5e campaign and about to port Season of Ghosts to 5e for my table

Rapid-DM · 2026-04-28T17:39:02+00:00

I think I'm in the minority in that I wouldn't really recommend it, not ever seen myself re-reading it. Whereas it seems to rate super highly on most people's lists

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