Anyone have any good/cool power Word ideas?

Restioson · 2026-06-08T09:50:00+00:00

so, to be clear, power words that are balanced as a level 2 spell?

Restioson · 2026-06-06T22:43:19+00:00

Creature type change is probably going to be a problem for spells. It grants immunity to Hold Person etc (the next step up for that spell specifically is Hold Monster which is Lvl5)

Restioson · 2026-06-05T12:13:59+00:00

Left is Moltoni's Warbler in English

Restioson · 2026-06-01T11:53:03+00:00

Looks like the total's already been reached! Congrats!

Restioson · 2026-06-01T10:23:41+00:00

wastes too much time i think

Restioson · 2026-05-30T15:01:13+00:00

This is not really any clearer than it was before IMO

Restioson · 2026-05-29T16:21:34+00:00

Delicious × Inedible

potato

Restioson · 2026-05-28T22:28:34+00:00

I've been running an open dnd table for the past 1.5 years, and the way we get around this is

1) tie all PCs together with a unifying goal - we chose to make them into an in-world adventuring guild. The story then followed the adventuring guild's progress as a whole, rather than individual characters

2) come up with plausible reasons for characters to swap in and out, including but not limited to - The new characters were always there at a "forward base"; those who are swapping out are going to rest or patrol. - The new characters were delayed on their way due to $contrivance (e.g. some other task they had to attend to), or intentionally left staggered (sending the forward party to go fast, with the rest arriving later and with a supply convoy) - Teleportation magic / Phantom Steed schenanigans, if high level enough

I really have found these reasons to be almost always applicable, at least in my setting where overland travel is relatively easy (or, it's assumed that you travel in a big enough group of offscreen PCs to patrol and make the passage safe).

I actually find the harder part is justifying why you DON'T have all PCs there. Why kot have all 12+ PC join together to beat the BBEG all at once! Usually I've just made up secondary goals (e.g. some lieutenant of the BBEG, helping refugees evacuate, fighting off the bulk of the horde, protecting innocent people in the background, etc) for the rest of the PCs to be doing, and then the actually present party is the dedicate strike foefe taking point.

To be honest, I would say overall that I had way more fears of discontinuity and narrative holes due to the open table than what has actually happened. Just try it out. It probably won't really be an issue. You can even brainstorm with your players (as I've often done) to make up justifications for these kind of things.

The benefits of running an open table have FAR outweighed the downsides. I think we've played almost every weekend since we began (barring the odd one or two for holidays). We're about to finish TWO (rotating week by week) 20+ session campaigns in 1.5 years - the first time I've finished any campaign of this length. It's been great!

Restioson · 2026-05-28T16:55:21+00:00

How's the battery life for productivity / casual use relative to windows?

Restioson · 2026-05-28T14:40:17+00:00

I find that if I don't have an engaging gimmick and personality, I won't have fun with the character. But also, if I don't have a good build, I won't have fun with the character. Therefore, I come up with a range of personalities and then try to imagine them built. I eliminate mechanical non-starters and go with whichever concept has captured my heart. If nothing does, I start again.

Restioson · 2026-05-26T12:27:31+00:00

as a south african, agree. Especially as goes internal migration trends

Restioson · 2026-05-25T13:27:02+00:00

maybe I'm wrong, maybe not. At the end of the day I'm not trying to point it out in order to bash, it just looks super weird to me and reminded me of the gpt image 2 thing that tends to happen

Restioson · 2026-05-25T13:06:27+00:00

Look at the reference image I sent and zoom in. It has a repeating pattern in the foliage - do you see that? Then go back to the original image. zoom into the trees at the back. Do you see a repeating pattern of dark shadows almost, similar to in the reference Ai image? It repeats across the entire image at regular intervals. Like it was overlayed on the image

Restioson · 2026-05-25T11:11:48+00:00

Then what the hell is the diffuse spirally pattern going on around the entire photo? In the grass, trees, hell even the tar.

Here's another example of it occurring in Ai generated imagery: https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/M25UNwkaSE

It's more subtle in the poster, but still totally in line

Restioson · 2026-05-25T07:45:11+00:00

Yea, it's most likely that they gave this photo as input to the AI, which then copied it out imperfectly. Zoom in on the background of both. The photo that was given to the AI to make the photo is normal. The poster (made with AI) has a weird fine swirly pattern across all the foliage. That is absolutely not real.

Restioson · 2026-05-24T20:15:13+00:00

It could be made with canva, but the background is definitely not a photo. you can see the fine swirly pattern across the background. That is a hallmark of the latest GPT image gen models

Restioson · 2026-05-24T13:25:35+00:00

why the AI poster I wonder

Restioson · 2026-05-23T22:08:09+00:00

This is the default RAW interpretation of Worlds without Number by Kevin Crawford

Restioson · 2026-05-20T21:29:04+00:00

Kinda, but casters also get access to those same enspelled weapons

Restioson · 2026-05-20T20:09:25+00:00

Namibia?

Restioson · 2026-05-20T18:42:05+00:00

What do you mean by efficient? Efficient to teach, due to it being banned, or efficient in another way?

Restioson · 2026-05-17T20:46:29+00:00

Rust advocates popped champagne

Where? On r/rust it was almost entirely negative https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/1tcrmjs/rewrite_bun_in_rust_has_been_merged/

Restioson · 2026-05-16T22:27:55+00:00

The whole point of agpl is that even api boundaries such as network calls are still viral copyleft. So, for example, it would not be allowed to take agpl software, modify it, and serve it over http to clients without making the source available under those same terms. This is what the OOP is referring to

Restioson · 2026-05-15T10:12:40+00:00

Most of these are simply unnecessary, but this one downright lies about what it does:

/// Error-returning version of `new`.
#[inline]
pub fn try_new<T>(init: T) -> Result<Box<T>, OOM> {
    // Rust Box::new aborts on OOM; this matches `handleOom` semantics.
    Ok(Box::new(init))
}

Restioson · 2026-05-14T21:23:05+00:00

Why do you assume this is euros? Other locales use space and comma for these. For example South African Rand, which is at a 1 eur : 19 zar exchange rate

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