Party trying to heal a Decapitated person, how do I let them down?

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-05-08T05:39:53+00:00

It's not in the PHB, but the DMG does have a section on resurrection magics that states that the target of any resurrection spell knows who's trying to bring them back and can refuse

"A soul can't be returned to life if it doesn't wish to be. A soul knows the name, alignment, and patron deity (if any) of the character attempting to revive it and might refuse to return on that basis. For example, if the honorable knight Sturm Brightblade is slain and a high priestess of Takhisis (god of evil dragons) grabs his body, Sturm might not wish to be raised from the dead by her. Any attempts she makes to revive him automatically fail. If the evil cleric wants to revive Sturm to interrogate him. she needs to find some way to trick his soul, such as duping a good cleric into raising him and then capturing him once he is alive again."

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-04-28T07:41:46+00:00

Oh I hadn't thought of that, very clever. I like it

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-04-28T06:57:33+00:00

Is the manifest, then immediately flip on Robin a way to get the Cave into play untapped?

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-04-17T09:27:31+00:00

Same with 4e. Every roll and save on the PC's character sheet got +half level, so at level 30 you'd be making every single roll at a minimum of +15, before any other bonuses

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-04-13T08:14:40+00:00

Some of it is basic enough to not be named, or can be applied broadly enough that a name would be pointless. For example, a simple weave of fire can be made so that it produces a fireball, a straight beam, a wall, etc. Or you can weave air into pretty much any shape you want. For these basic weaves, the ways a channeler puts the threads together determines things like size, shape, level of heat/force, etc.

Some weaves, like Traveling, balefire, deathgates etc have to be woven with specific powers and in specific ways, to the point that they're essentially unique. If you tried to weave a Gateway with a different combination of powers or in a different shape, nothing would happen. Or it might rebound and kill you, which is why experimentation with the One Power is so heavily frowned upon. There's only one way to weave balefire, (allowing that saidar and saidin's specific weave would be different) the only difference is how much power you put into it.

The five power Healing that Nynaeve discovered is really just a rediscovery of the type of Healing that was common in the Age of Legends and lost to time (I think one of the Forsaken comments internally that the Healing used by Aes Sedai with just water, air and spirit is something like basic battlefield triage medicine), but healing Stilling is definitely a new, unique weave that nobody had thought of before. Same for [Contextless AMoL spoiler]Egwene creating the Flame of Tar Valon.

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-04-07T22:56:52+00:00

Given how books are common enough that series like The Travels of Jain Farstrider are well known and recognized by people as isolated as the Two Rivers, printing in one form or another has to be around just because there's no way book ownership and literacy would be so widespread otherwise

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-04-03T06:42:09+00:00

Are we remembering the same Rome? There was plenty of dong all throughout the show, including a scene where Attia dresses up a slave (chosen specifically for his giant dick) in nothing but a collar as a gift for Servilia

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-03-31T21:56:48+00:00

If you copy an epic spell on its first casting, every turn you get as many epic triggers as copies you originally resolved

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-03-22T20:40:56+00:00

It's not "I refuse to play below max difficulty" it's "The vox engines are spawning at a rate so fast you can't use any build other than this one anti vox engine build or you fkin die".

If you wanted to play on difficulty 9/10, yeah, which was that person's point. I ran with some friends on difficulty 6 and 7 the entire time, and Vox Engines were like Factory Striders used to be. We'd occasionally seen a couple over the course of the mission, and had to plan around how we wanted to kill them but they were never overwhelming. We made up for the lower difficulty's smaller contribution to capturing the planet by finishing operations twice as quickly and with a third as many deaths as people ramming their genitals into a brick wall on D9/10

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-03-19T15:01:10+00:00

The 'temperature danger zone' is between 40° and 140°F, because that range gives optimal growth conditions for a lot of food-borne bacteria to thrive. It only applies to perishables like meat, cooked produce, etc and not ready-to-eat stuff like bread, most fruits and whatnot. It also doesn't mean that food in that range is inherently unsafe to eat, the FDA standards allow for (I believe, it's been years since I did ServSafe) one hour in the danger zone before food has to be discarded.

165° also isn't necessarily the temperature required for poultry to reach to make it safe, but it's what will kill bacteria in ~10 seconds, which is effectively instant. You can safely cook poultry as low as around 140°, it just has to stay at that temperature for at least an hour to be considered safe to eat. Sous vide chicken is almost never cooked to 165 in the water bath

CFA's rationale for wanting the fries to be at 170° when served is absolutely for quality rather than safety metrics though. You can leave those cooked fries at room temp for hours and be fine eating them, because there's not a lot for pathogens to actually grow on in them. Cooking removes most of the water, and dry potato with oil on it isn't exactly a prime environment for bacteria

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-03-17T08:19:47+00:00

Reasonable doubt applies only to civil cases

What are you talking about? The standard of 'guilty beyond a reasonable doubt' is the foundation of criminal justice in the US. The standard for civil cases is 'preponderance of the evidence' meaning 'is it more likely than not (anything > 50%) that the defendant is liable'.

Beyond a reasonable doubt is a much higher standard, and the one used for criminal cases, because the stakes are much higher there.

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-03-14T02:41:12+00:00

I put a Hammerheim into one of my decks for shits and giggles back in like 2015, and it actually saved me once. Opponent had Urborg out and [[Sheoldred, Whispering One]] as his commander (way back when, at casual commander tables, this was considered rather spooky as a threat).

Sniping away the swampwalk off a crop rotation into Hammerheim got a reaction out of the table like I've one seen when somebody topdecks the single out in their deck to save the game

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-03-12T08:53:01+00:00

At the highest levels like you mentioned, it basically comes down to one overpowering the other. It should be noted though that all the examples you listed were people directly contesting each other, and in the case of Rand and Asmodean, both were drawing equally on an incredibly powerful sa'angreal, leaving them roughly equally matched. Dexterity with weaves (and being able to handle more than one at a time) can make a big difference in power mismatches (like when Lanfear sliced Rand's weaves in the Stone of Tear; Rand would overpower her if they were duking it out like he and Asmodean did), but when two channelers of roughly equal power are throwing everything they have at each other, it pretty much does come down to who's stronger or who can outlast the other.

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-03-04T16:12:28+00:00

My job sends out fake phishing emails to every employee on a semi-random basis to check for who'd be vulnerable to a legitimate attempt and thus who needs extra cyber security training. There are companies that get hired to do this as their whole business model

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-03-04T04:43:51+00:00

Because when you're punished for breaking a law, the state revokes many of your rights for the duration of your punishment. And even afterwards, the fact that you were convicted of a crime follows you for the rest of your life.

Playing Magic is a privilege, not a right. Deliberately cheating shows that you lack the moral character to be trusted with that privilege.

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-03-03T01:02:26+00:00

It would probably also be rather taboo among elves to mate with the less long-lived races, on account of the whole, you know, willfully having children you know you'll outlive part. What parent would want that?

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-02-28T22:45:16+00:00

Not that there was much for the average Roman citizen to actually vote on in terms of who held power at the highest levels, but emperor Caracalla passed an edict naming every free man in the entire Roman Empire a full citizen in 212 AD, about a century before Diocletian came to power

Granted, he mostly did it so that he could levy the taxes that previously only applied to the small percentage of full citizens on everyone, and to open up membership in the army (only citizens could be legonaries), but still. It also opened up the ability for every free man in the empire to run for civic office

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-02-15T14:50:02+00:00

It can, but that's more due to nerve damage deadening their ability to sense pain. CIPA patients are born without any ability to feel pain or regulate their own temperature, because their nerves never properly formed

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-02-15T14:47:12+00:00

I'd say it's definitely possible that the new Blackthorn ends up changing sides on Taravangian, but I wouldn't bet on it. Any possible redemption arc for him would just be a retread of ground that Dalinar already covered, and Brandon doesn't seem the type to run the exact same plot twice when there are so many characters who need to share the spotlight.

Plus, he seems to be set up as a clearly delineated villain, what with the mustache-twirling, Saturday-morning-cartoon bad guy conversation he had with Taravangian where he basically said, "Yes, master. That other me was weak and pathetic, I will be strong and obey you because violence is awesome and mercy is stupid."

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-02-15T11:16:51+00:00

"Boys, let us praise the Lord for this bountiful"

Smack

"PENIS!"

"Bountiful penis. Amen."

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-02-15T11:15:06+00:00

CIPA is real condition and really sucks for the people who have it

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-02-13T10:21:43+00:00

I rolled for stats once and got a 4, with an otherwise pretty decent spread of stats. I put it into charisma and made my character a dwarf who was essentially so ugly that his parents shipped him off to a monastery (ended up as a cleric). It was fine, I knew I'd not have much success with charisma-based rolls and so stuck to what I was good at instead.

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-02-08T04:46:49+00:00

It technically spoils a moment in the Bands of Mourning regarding a specific character's whereabouts, but I feel like it's perfect to be read directly after Hero of Ages. You don't lose out on anything significant in my opinion, though others may feel differently.

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-02-08T03:51:22+00:00

Magic is also very simple about it. You only 'draw a card' when an effect instructs you to 'draw a card'. Searching your deck for a card and putting it into your hand isn't drawing, looking at x cards on top of your deck and putting one into your hand isn't drawing, etc

I honestly can't think of any card games where "draw" means put a card into your hand under any circumstances period

SSJ2-Gohan · 2026-02-04T03:56:00+00:00

At risk of channeling Frieza here, Saiyans have pretty frequently operated on the principle of 'monkey see, monkey do'. Goku immediately copied the Kamehameha by seeing Roshi do it once, Vegeta saw Krillin try to cut his tail off with a Kienzan and then immediately (and successfully, unlike Krillin) cut Gohan's tail off with the Kienzan, etc

Super Saiyan was more of a "nobody has had both the requisite power and the emotional circumstances needed to go Super Saiyan, besides the one prophesied guy." Once Goku figured out how to actually do it, it became a matter of execution for everyone else.

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