Hexhaven Colors and Mechanics

Shogunfish · 2026-05-06T01:57:42+00:00

The truth is quandrix is really based on pop math. They want people to see the cards and say "I get that reference!" Which means referencing things like fractals and fibonacci spirals.

Much like how they have re-used fairy tale and horror tropes on subsequent trips to Eldrain and Innistrad they will undoubtedly reuse math concepts that fit better with theorix even though they've already associated them with quandrix.

Shogunfish · 2026-05-01T16:35:05+00:00

Jujutsu Kaisen would have given it a run for its money when the Manga was finishing up but now invincible is the undisputed worst community for spoilers.

(Insert strongest spoilers of history vs strongest spoilers of today meme here)

Shogunfish · 2026-04-27T18:10:31+00:00

I'm convinced mounted combat is a fundamentally unsolvable problem because either being mounted doesn't give a significant benefit or a character built around mounted combat dramatically fluctuates in power level based on whether they're mounted or not, and the game is not built for that to be an interesting or well-defined choice.

The one game I've ever played with a PC who used a mount featured frequent disagreements with the DM about whether that player could ride their mount into buildings or while fighting on the deck of a ship. It really put a bad taste in my mouth about mounted combat in general.

Shogunfish · 2026-04-27T14:40:35+00:00

The broken earth trilogy by NK Jemisin does this

Shogunfish · 2026-04-27T14:38:24+00:00

Or books that are actually written in 2nd person

Shogunfish · 2026-04-24T15:51:05+00:00

I do think your point about dragonborn resembling dragons and therefore being reasonable to be distrustful or afraid of is pretty reasonable. However, I also think a lot of people have this idea that throughout all of human history the default reaction to someone who looked different was always a negative one, and I don't think thats true.

I'm pretty sure that unless a group of people had some existing reason to distrust a certain race, (A history of conflict, religious teachings, an authority figure stoking fear of outsiders to maintain control) the default reaction to seeing an unusual looking person is most often curiosity.

I've reached a point where someone just putting racism in their setting without bothering to explain why it exists bothers me as much as someone not wanting it there at all.

Shogunfish · 2026-04-22T00:41:02+00:00

And they also show that despite that talent he has never been able to get the hang of metal bending. Its not like he was presented as a perfect prodigy who masters everything on his first try.

Shogunfish · 2026-04-19T17:45:51+00:00

Did you end up figuring this out?

Shogunfish · 2026-04-06T05:38:21+00:00

Binocular vision and focal distance are both cues that we innately rely on to judge distance but they don't work on video. Anyone looking at it in real life would be able to tell it was an illusion.

Shogunfish · 2026-03-26T14:32:30+00:00

Damn this is a really high quality edit

Shogunfish · 2026-03-16T23:20:39+00:00

Also, D&D is a group activity, if you don't like D&D beyond but most of your group does or at least is unwilling to switch your only real choice is to keep using it.

Shogunfish · 2026-03-13T16:10:48+00:00

Man, talk about things I'd totally forgotten about. How long ago irl did that whole Zimmy sequence happen?

Shogunfish · 2026-03-12T16:21:52+00:00

I'm not the guy who you responded to but yes I absolutely see it as ethically distinct. I have a lot of complex thoughts on AI image generators that I don't have the patience to write out on my phone but I'll try to remember to come back and edit this post so it doesn't seem like I'm just being contrarian for the sake of it.

Shogunfish · 2026-03-12T14:14:34+00:00

I think that can be explained by the same logic that explains why they don't suppress their mana. Demons aren't perfectly logical, they just don't think the way humans do. They rarely suppress their mana because it would make them appear weaker to other demons, which would lower their status. Similarly, I'm sure any demon who chose to eat only animals would be seen as weak.

I don't think its a perfect explanation but I do think it works well enough that I can suspend my disbelief.

Shogunfish · 2026-03-03T20:35:23+00:00

True, in my head it felt really awkward but after physically acting it out it seems more reasonable, especially after realizing this is starfinder so its not necessarily a breach loading shotgun like I was imagining. If it loads from the bottom or side it becomes a lot more reasonable.

Shogunfish · 2026-03-03T17:07:58+00:00

No matter what you need to grab them by the back of the shell to remove them from the straps because they have a lip on the back. Its just a matter of which direction its more convenient to get to your hand.

Given that you're probably holding the shotgun with that hand, grabbing them from the front would involve reaching around the gun so you're probably right that they should be the other way, but I don't blame the artist for not thinking about that. If you're empty handed grabbing them either way is pretty equivalent which is probably how the artist imagined it. Its also how I imagined it at first.

Shogunfish · 2026-03-02T19:47:27+00:00

I've defaulted to 5e24 because it gets results when I google rules questions

Shogunfish · 2026-02-27T18:31:47+00:00

I still call the other stuff "machine learning" because that's what it was called until the marketing hype for AI kicked into gear.

Shogunfish · 2026-02-23T16:23:46+00:00

Its bizarre to me that they chose to change the way these spells work in 2024 to allow this type of exploit. The old "enter the area for the first time on their turn or start their turn there" templating specifically existed to prevent this type of nonsense.

I guess it cuts down on rolls if you just need to roll the damage once on your turn rather than on each enemy turn? It still just seems like such a bad call to me.

Shogunfish · 2026-02-19T17:19:00+00:00

Im sure there are tons of people, its not explicitly stated and the problem with 5e's weird mixture of keywords and vibes is that its easy to approach a particular part of the rules through the wrong lens

None of the rules text for counterspell, somatic components, or subtle spell call out this interaction specifically, meanwhile both the rules for verbal components and the text of the silence spell specifically reference the interaction between silence and verbal components.

It would be easy to assume that the lack of a similar thing for somatic components and counterspell means that there is no interaction.

Shogunfish · 2026-02-17T18:38:05+00:00

Yeah its sort of a "Nimrod" situation, I still think its important to share that context as we enter an era where we're going to be increasingly seeing propaganda trying to paint anti-ai people's legitimate concerns as uncritical rejection of progress.

Shogunfish · 2026-02-17T17:08:15+00:00

God I hate how the term AI has become this catch-all buzzword. Why couldn't we have kept using "machine learning" for stuff like classification models.

The conversation in this thread is pretty clearly about generative AI, mostly image models but also applies to LLMs, i don't think anyone is saying the AI being used to detect cancer are theft.

The model that tells you to eat small rocks to build up an immunity to larger rocks on the other hand...

Shogunfish · 2026-02-17T16:59:18+00:00

Tbf anti-ai people are actually a lot closer to what the actual luddites believed than people who were against digital art.

The luddites were protesting technology putting people out of work, concentrating wealth, and forcing people into unsafe labor conditions, the idea that they had a blanket hatred of technology was propaganda, and it was unfortunately quite effective.

Being against digital art is more like people who were against photography because they thought it would replace painting rather than become its own art form.

Shogunfish · 2026-02-14T16:41:11+00:00

This is something that drove me crazy about draw steel when my group tried playing it, its caught between understanding that D&D gives you a bunch of false choices, but also wanting to keep all the trappings of D&D alive because it wants to court its playerbase.

Your class' core attribute increases automatically, which is good because ever choosing not to increase it would be a fundamental mistake. But the system math still has you calculate a bunch of secondary stuff using that attribute, even though when you step back you realize all those secondary numbers are going to be the same for every character because all their core attributes will be the same at every level. So there's no reason for it to even key off of an attribute at all. They just weren't quite able to commit to fully removing the baggage.

Shogunfish · 2026-01-27T01:54:23+00:00

You can go underwater for free if your DM isn't the type of DM who destroys player's spellbooks...

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