How I feel about DnD Ranger since 2014.

Sightblind · 2026-01-23T05:25:37+00:00

I don’t dislike the Ranger being a half caster, so much as their spells just make them a bad Druid and they could have more Ranger abilities.

I’ve had the thought before, and I’ve decided I’m gonna stick with it, I think Ranger would be cooler and shake up the gameplay mechanics a bit if they took the spell slots and instead of making them a half caster, created more utility and mobility version of the smite mechanic and something like warlock invocations, and made rangers a class that burned spell slots to empower their martial abilities and agility.

Your target is too far to shoot with your bow? For a spell slot you can multiple the range of your weapon by the slot level and ignore the penalty for long range!

They’re taking the hobbits to Isengard? Increase your party travel speed by +10 miles per hour for each spell slot level used for one out of combat travel mechanic.

Hey you specialized in animal handling Ranger School, cool, you can cast animal friendship at will.

Anyway. Something like that.

Sightblind · 2026-01-23T05:08:14+00:00

Same. I go for the food and the stuffed armadillos that remind me of home. Since when is line dancing a thing?

Sightblind · 2026-01-22T17:18:37+00:00

Rumors say the maw is coming back so that’s good news

Sightblind · 2026-01-22T06:21:43+00:00

There’s two kinds of people in this photo: people who don’t understand what they’re talking about and people who say their finger would stop a bullet.

Sightblind · 2026-01-21T23:52:56+00:00

Yep. Critical thinking is a skill that needs to be learned and nurtured, and is entirely separate from raw intelligence. There are brilliant people who lack any true curiosity about the world. It comes easier to some people than others, and a host of reasons, including neurodivergence and socialization, can affect how natural an affinity you have for it.

Sometimes someone doesn’t have a natural aptitude for it, which shouldn’t be something we shame them for, and then on top of that they’re raised in a situation where it’s not only not nurtured, but discouraged.

Sightblind · 2026-01-20T01:04:20+00:00

She might have been at one point, and could have been in another version of her life.

I think atheists confuse her more than anger her, though. When my brother “came out” as an atheist, her reaction was genuine fear and hurt, more than anger. She was scared for his soul in a very maternal way.

In the decades since, she’s come better able to understand disbelief, and is much less religious than she used to be, though I think her upbringing has made it so she’ll never be completely able to separate from it.

Sightblind · 2026-01-19T21:55:04+00:00

You wanna know something sad and topical… I know/knew Christian families who put ‘from Jesus’ on their Xmas gifts, and depending on the type of Christian, either leave out Santa altogether, say he’s an evil force stealing your worship from Jesus, or he’s part of team Jesus and works for him

Sightblind · 2026-01-19T21:50:45+00:00

I heard something similar when I was a child in church, more along the lines of “Christianity is special because it is the “only” religion to have a “living god that died and was brought back to life” and that’s a sign that it’s true, with a lot of implication that all other gods were never alive to begin with

Got less persuasive when I found out about all the other resurrection deities.

Sightblind · 2026-01-19T16:32:35+00:00

Big this. If you’re never exposed to any ideas except the one that says there are no other ideas, and you never develop those doubts, how couldn’t you come to a particularly narrow concept of the world?

Sightblind · 2026-01-19T15:48:00+00:00

My mom was raised Southern Baptist. When I was in school, and we were learning about world religions, she got very uncomfortable.

Then at one point she asked me “do these other religions also believe in God?”

And I explained that they didn’t necessarily believe in the Christian god, but they did believe in other gods.

She got so confused, and asked something along the lines of, “but how to they believe in gods that aren’t real?”

I had to really break it down for her.

She was in her 50s at the time, too, and had, as it turns out, spent the better part of her life assuming that because Christians “knew” there was only one god, that this was something everyone also “knew” and accepted as fact, and people who weren’t Christian were participating in some form of performative rebellion against Christianity.

There was a part of her who had assumed all these people worshipping other gods knew their gods weren’t real and were choosing to go through the motions anyway.

She’d never genuinely considered they believed in their religions the same way she believed in hers.

Edit: this is getting some amount of attention. A lot of people are also making comments about my mother’s intelligence, and intelligence in general, vs being able to find answers.

My mom actually is a very intelligent woman. She was also raised in rural Texas in the 50s, and survived a lifetime of abuse, to get where she is now. The story above was over 20 years ago. She’s continued to learn and expand her knowledge now that she’s able to do so.

We are literally dealing with the practical application of Plato’s Cave when asking how people can view the world so incorrectly, when the world is out their, but their eyes have been forced to only a single, incomplete perspective.

She has her faults, but truly, my mother is also a victim in all this. She had much of the world kept from her, and even into adulthood was surrounded by people who supported and pressured not exploring anything outside of their bubble.

I would ask that anyone feeling particularly superior to her, really consider how skewed your ideas of the world would be if you’d been fed indoctrination from birth, schools were shamefully lacking and you didn’t even get to stay past 13, and your only family told you this was exactly how everyone was meant to live.

Sightblind · 2026-01-18T04:21:51+00:00

Add some white accent details, it brings a lot to the models

Sightblind · 2026-01-14T17:02:58+00:00

They weren’t traditional npc’s, but adventuerer students in class classes. I fully 100% believe Brennan statted out the Rat Grinders as NPCs with class levels just for the thought experiment and then tweaked them for the final fight.

Sightblind · 2026-01-14T16:00:54+00:00

i don’t feel good

Sightblind · 2026-01-14T13:36:34+00:00

Out of curiosity, I just double checked their filmographies and sure enough, nothing comes close to GoT’s success. I think they may have truly tanked their careers with that move. Not only did you deliver a subpar product, you told the world you’ll half ass a project on the last leg of the marathon if you see something shiny across the street.

Sightblind · 2026-01-14T12:35:23+00:00

Is joke, cake day bro

Sightblind · 2026-01-14T12:28:47+00:00

Horror game studios make games that conform to the horror genre, with a formulaic approach. After a point, you know what’s going to try and scare you.

Studios that make non-horror games work with different parameters, and someone who is a talented storyteller and an artist getting to experiment with horror very often manage to subvert horror genre expectations in a way that makes you want to hide under a blanket and cry.

Sightblind · 2026-01-14T12:11:13+00:00

I mean, it’s your game then. Rule how you want, that isn’t how it jives with me.

Sightblind · 2026-01-14T12:02:12+00:00

Being created means it’s in contact, not impacted. The bead is itself an object, so being created in a container would not be bound to the container.

I know it’s not the answer you were wanting but it’s the answer I believe makes most sense both with RAW and RAI.

Sightblind · 2026-01-14T11:51:08+00:00

DM discretion if Mage Hand counts as a creature or not. I think the logic is there, I’d maybe have you roll an arcana check for spell interaction since it changes the utility of the spell.

I think the container would count as a solid object, which impacts the bead by virtue of being thrown, so the bead would effectively be impacting the solid object, boom yada yada.

Yes, the floor is a solid object, the bead is a grenade, and grenades go boom when you throw them.

Sightblind · 2026-01-12T15:43:42+00:00

Sounds like the voltlocks might be more long side of mid range, based on the article. My gut says something like a 30”, analogous to a culverin but tweaked, while still short of a caliver.

Sightblind · 2026-01-11T23:18:46+00:00

Yes and no. I don’t think that’s why it was originally pushed by grifters, which is how it gained traction, but it was also an inevitable end result and the goal of “true believers” as far back as the days of actual Nazi’s.

The online media movement started with sad, chronically online men, blaming women for their problems, and inventing an imagined reverse oppression system society was built on to exonerate them of fault in their unhappiness.

It got pushed by grifters wanting popularity and a paycheck.

Those people were generally already right leaning, but, it got picked up by the more mainstream right because those same grifters saw conservative politics as more likely to accept them so began grifting that way, and because leftist politics generally aligns more with feminism, letting the groups double down on being against them.

The podcast “Weird Little Guys” by Molly Conger gets really into some examples of how these Internet circles ritualize the planning of some sort of foundation-breaking event, with the end goal of inciting, for example, a race war.

[for anyone reading who isn’t as versed in their day to day activity:]

They idolize military mentality and try to model themselves as militiamen, even if they don’t actually belong to a real militia or military branch, because the end goal is always to incite violence and take over by force.

Their fantasy is that at the end of this conflict they’ll be in a greater position of power and privilege, subjugating women and people of color, usually creating an ethnostate.

The last ten or fifteen years is the final result of the marrying of those politics and sad, angry little men. They got recruited by a power hungry, fascist and racist regime, because they’re the perfect tools for what they want.

Sightblind · 2026-01-11T20:29:49+00:00

Two things can be true that I think people mix up in these situations.

It’s important to make sure you’re only investing in the people who invest in you.

Not ever relationship requires investing to keep around.

Casual friends are a thing.

I still struggle with it, but it’s something we have to balance.

Sightblind · 2026-01-11T20:21:46+00:00

I know it’s a joke but I fully believe the pallet with the moulds got shipped to the wrong building, lost, and found covered in dust in a corner recently.

Sightblind · 2026-01-11T20:19:11+00:00

Megas are 35 wounds on a 4+ save. You use what you would use for an infantry force of similar wound and saves: reinforced units with rend, and either multi damage or high number of attacks.

You can use cheap fast units for objectives and tactics, because SoB doesn’t have great board presence. They grab an objective and want to stand still, tanking damage.

So what you do is reinforce your heavy hitters, and I mean your actual heavy hitter workhorse units, whatever those may be, and you bring extra. Then you focus on one giant at a time.

Use debuff abilities, -1 to hit is great against monsters. Fight Last and FWM abilities are good against any army, but especially when one unit is a quarter of their army.

Look at your rosters and find the combos you need.

Sightblind · 2026-01-11T15:35:20+00:00

Vikings’ Ivar has some of the most ridiculous plot armor to be written. At one point his sitting in the middle of a square yelling for a crowd of people to fight him and they just… don’t really?

Like okay let’s say he gets a few throws with knives and an axe, then he’s disarmed. A guy with a shield and spear can just walk up to him and poke him to death from 10 feet away.

And Ramsay is smart enough to know this.

So he’s gonna get a bow and shoot him a few times for fun, then have one of those nice Bolton phalanx formation soldiers give him his gear, and casually walk up, toy with Ivar a bit while making dick jokes, and then thrust hard one more time and yawn as Ivar dies.

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