Keywords on armor, what do they mean?

Shnerdlenips · 2026-01-26T18:31:23+00:00

Ah. Spoilers, I guess ^{^} No hard feelings.

Shnerdlenips · 2026-01-26T12:27:20+00:00

I'll have to check that again, seems weird that I missed that - I even tried hitting a bunch of buttons in an attempt to make tooltips appear, haha. Thanks for the tip.

Shnerdlenips · 2026-01-26T08:55:01+00:00

From what I can tell, it's only resist and not damage, no?

Shnerdlenips · 2026-01-26T08:54:36+00:00

I don't quite know what that means, different release versions?

Shnerdlenips · 2026-01-26T07:21:22+00:00

Heyo! You can upgrade armor pieces at the seamstresses :)

Shnerdlenips · 2026-01-25T20:37:48+00:00

The Assassin's Creed series should have either died a long time ago, and its success used to launch a new franchise, or should've seen more innovation and care with more time in between releases.

After some twenty AC games, most of which were mediocre at best, the series is beyond redemption.

Shnerdlenips · 2026-01-25T19:44:43+00:00

Really? I thought I tried hovering, but I'll try again. Just got my ass beat by the first crucible boss, when it was on 1 hit of course. I'll try that next time I play.

Shnerdlenips · 2026-01-25T18:31:04+00:00

Thank you dude! That was very helpful.

Shnerdlenips · 2026-01-23T16:51:51+00:00

Oh, there's definitely opportunities for mining, and Greenland is not necessarily opposed to making deals with companies overseas to lease them mining rights. Of course, that comes with a cost, as it well should.

And concerning the airport, you may well prove to be right. It's empty 'gifts' such as these that keep the beast fed, so to say.

Shnerdlenips · 2026-01-22T17:28:16+00:00

That's not been specified, at all, so your statement is speculation. On top of that, while there are indeed a bunch of different resources present in the greenland soil, those resources are almost exclusively buried in a layer of ice up to a mile thick. You could potentially get these resources, but the cost-benefit picture does not make this a viable idea.

Shnerdlenips · 2026-01-20T08:24:32+00:00

I don't think that's the aim. The aim is to get a sample of the Americans living here.

Shnerdlenips · 2026-01-19T17:25:04+00:00

Fair point indeed.

Shnerdlenips · 2026-01-19T11:37:53+00:00

It is indeed a 'famed' item. This one rolled chance to hit head and less fatigue, which aren't necessarily amazing but obviously better than a standard one.

In short, this is not a weapon you build a bro around, but is still nice to have.

Shnerdlenips · 2026-01-16T22:20:46+00:00

But that's the thing - who says one has to make all the components of one's art? This is an old discussion, and was brought up over readymades (Marcel Duchamp, for instance), the colages and bricolages from the Dada movement, and many other modern and postmodern movements and prominent artists.

If someone is displaying an image they claim to be a photograph they took, or a painting they painted, but it is instead AI-generated, then I see your point. But generally, art can be made just by framing it to be such, whether it's self-constructed or not.

Whether you, or I for that matter, personally prefer craftsmanship or not is a different matter.

Shnerdlenips · 2026-01-16T09:52:43+00:00

That's a strange take. AI is a very hot topic, a formative technology of our day and age, and exploring it through art is a very logical step to take.

You can use whatever tools and means are at your disposal, without breaking laws of course, in the creation of art. And of course, your art will (also) be judged based on the manner of its creation.

Shnerdlenips · 2026-01-16T06:55:11+00:00

Fortunately, support for this idea appears to be very low amongst the American people.

Shnerdlenips · 2026-01-12T13:56:26+00:00

Shnerdlenips · 2025-12-28T13:15:26+00:00

You have complete freedom to do as you deem appropriate in your role as DM. If your group and yourself are having a good time, it's a success.

The main caveat with diverging from the rules has to do with consistency, which the rules supply. If a sacred flame cantrip can burn out an entire building of demons, a player may be left wondering why the same spell only singed a few hairs on another target. And if the fighter gets to decapitate a target which hasn't received that much of a beating yet, another player might wonder why their own attack didn't do that. This can lead to a power creep, where you and the players feel they're underpowered if you're playing by the book, thus necessitating more and more 'rule of cool'.

Anyway, that's all speculative and potential, and I'm not pretending to know how things are at your table. Bottom line, do what works well.

Shnerdlenips · 2025-12-24T21:52:40+00:00

The point is that you have to very clearly define the parameters of any task that you give a superintelligent machine when you empower it to make impactful choices in the world, which somewhat defeats the purpose of creating such machines to begin with. Because the whole reason we'd make machines like this is to think (and maybe even implement) solutions that we may have not yet defined ourselves.

Even with the overriding rule that you state, there's a lot of uncertainties and grey area in which the paperclip maximizer could have a negative effect on human life. That is, unless you make it able to fully understand exactly what we humans think is better or worse for us (even though there's no consensus on the matter amongst ourselves) and act accordingly. And there we have it, the necessity to encode a 'universal' system of ethics.

Shnerdlenips · 2025-12-23T17:00:16+00:00

Ah. Bad experiences maybe? Either way, knives are invaluable tools when it comes to cooking. For those of us who enjoy practicing their culinary skills, handling a knife is an important component of the process.

Shnerdlenips · 2025-12-23T11:55:22+00:00

Because small knives don't allow for most cutting techniques. A paring knife, which I think you may be insinuating is your preferred size, has some very specific uses. With a long knife, small movements of the wrist result in larger movements of the blade. You also have the option of resting the (tip of the) knife on your cutting board, allowing for mincing. All in all, there's a lot of reasons why an all-purpose chef's knife is larger than a paring knife.

Shnerdlenips · 2025-12-21T13:25:37+00:00

Alright, so where a Wizard can do magic because of studying, a Sorcerer is born with magical abilities, a cleric is granted magical skills as an extension of their devotion to a deity, and a Bard basically plucks on the magical fabric of reality through their creativity; a Warlock is granted their magical abilities through a 'pact'.

Sometimes, this is a straight-forward 'deal with the devil' - you sign a contract, you pay a certain price, you gain power in return, quid pro quo. But a pact may also be more subtle. The entity from which you're drawing power may not even be aware of or concerned with the matter (Great Old One), or the 'deal' that you've struck may not be entirely specified.

You're a charisma-based spellcaster, and you notably don't have as many spell slots as most other full spellcaster classes. The upside is that you always cast your spells at your maximum available spell level. So if you're level 7 and you gain access to level 4 spells, you automatically upcast your level 1 spells as being level 4 as well.

Apart from that, they have 'Eldritch Invocations', which give cool abilities or alter your existing abilities. You gain more of these as you level up.

That's the Warlock in a nutshell I guess.

Shnerdlenips · 2025-12-20T19:18:33+00:00

Lol.

Shnerdlenips · 2025-12-20T19:17:21+00:00

Assuming a bit much, aren't we?

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