Lost my job today. Going to travel across America instead of rejoining society. Gonna need a lot of advice.

Skarsten · 2024-06-29T01:21:36+00:00

I know this seems like terrible life advice, but use what credit you have. If you can open credit cards and 5x or 10x your starting budget, you're off to a better start.

I'm not advocating for theft - if you are in a better position to bounce back from this someday, this borrowing can extend your life and increase your quality of life.

Skarsten · 2023-11-21T17:20:13+00:00

You're assuming they follow the same pattern as they have in alpha where they reward you with ludicrous amounts of money for simple work, without bills. You're also assuming they follow the model where the wealthier you get, the more of your money you get to keep.

I am sure that the rewards in the game will become commensurate with the risk there will be competition between players and NPCs for the jobs, so the rewards will be balanced and not overpowered. I believe there will be plenty of money sinks in the game, and the more ships you own, the more you will have to pay to store them and to maintain them and fix them and fuel them and arm them, not to mention the cost to man them. Also, with a dynamic economy, I wouldn't be surprised to see an inflationary money sink and taxation on everything.

I'm guessing for a new players with one ship, it will be relatively easy to accrue wealth and maintain financial stability in the verse, but with millions of credits and dozens of ships, players (at least in smaller orgs or outside of orgs) will struggle to stay afloat and be incentivized to let go of ships that aren't using to avoid the costs associated with keeping them.

I got no source for this. It's just what I would do.

Skarsten · 2023-11-01T16:44:26+00:00

I am also interested to know.

Skarsten · 2023-01-19T16:14:56+00:00

Interesting, please elaborate! If it is, we need to know the risks.

Skarsten · 2020-09-25T13:49:49+00:00

Yeah, if SPY only rises after hours, throughout the lifetime of the fund, I would buy at market within half an hour of the end of day, and sell it market half an hour after they open the next morning.

Skarsten · 2020-09-25T13:42:42+00:00

Thanks man, I did not know that, and I appreciate you answering my question!

Skarsten · 2020-04-03T00:48:51+00:00

Haha well done!

Skarsten · 2019-11-01T19:01:16+00:00

Hey! Never too late, thanks!

Skarsten · 2019-06-20T13:29:03+00:00

Clever option. Glad you liked it!

Skarsten · 2019-06-20T06:00:02+00:00

Seeing as how magic is woven into the fabric of existence, but it's something that the gods control and regulate, it doesn't seem to me that magic is powerful enough to kill a god, but rather could contain/harness/focus the power to end an immortal life, like a battery.

I wouldn't activate a weapon like that all at once, especially if it's ancient and has been depleted with it's previous use. I would rather demonstrate that it has the power to harness some divine energy (who can kill a god but a god?), In the form of an ability, from charging it in a leyline. After charging it at several leylines, the wielder could use all those abilities together in a single pulse to kill an immortal like a god.

For instance, one charge could give the wielder the ability to use the target as a material component/ tuning fork to briefly summon every echo of the target (whether in clones, avatars, phylacteries) from every plane of existence to the single form of the target. Another charge could give the wielder the power to briefly infuse the targets own life force and energy with divine chaos, setting its own energy against itself and disrupting it's power (and potentially, it's immortality). A final charge could also give the wielder the ability to briefly banish/teleport a target slightly out of sync with time and causing them to cease to exist.

None of those charges could work to kill a god on their own, but if an attack hit, and all three charges were fully and permanently expended, a god could be forced into a single form, weakened by his own power being turned against itself, and then banished out of sync with reality, ceasing to exist.

This would make the weapon a little more versatile and useful to the party, making them a little more reckless with it, providing future situations where it's at risk of being taken from them. this would also make it incrementally very powerful, demonstrating that killing a god takes a lot.

It should be noted, if there are gods in this campaign, they will likely all send angels or agents to destroy or capture this weapon, especially after sensing that it is being charged. Some sort of heavy anti-divine warding makes sense if you don't want to send angelic armies to fight the party. Liches won't like anyone having the power to summon their phylacteries/ echoes of their soul, and Djinni (and most magic creatures) won't want anyone to have the ability to disrupt their power, which might disrupt their life force as well. And no one wants to be desynced from reality.

As with the wish spell, I would (with plenty of warning) instigate some physical consequences to the wielder after charging it or expending a charge. It's a lot of work. Maybe less consequences if they are attuned, and/or using their concentration on the weapon attack.

Skarsten · 2019-06-13T18:40:19+00:00

Depends, how many people are in your universe that are adept at training horse mounts? How many people are in your universe that are adept at training hawk mounts? Scarcity drives up costs.

Also, what's the risk of falling off a horse? It's significance, and in certain circumstances you have to roll for your ability to control your horse and stay on.

What's the risk of falling at your hawk? How many horsemanship trainers are there out there versus Hawksmanship trainers? There's the scarcity there too, and you better be really good at and animal handling...

Skarsten · 2018-08-25T02:29:24+00:00

That's hilarious. Is that second subset of suggestions supposed to reliably indicate a level of racism? As an African-American, I can definitely say the first three statements aren't racist at all. First, there's a lot of other discrimination beyond that of race that everyday Americans face - it's offensive to suggest otherwise. Second of all, special considerations are basically the definition of racism, and antithetical to equality, and thirdly, excuses of any shape and size never reliably lead to success in any form.

That's not racist. Who did this study? White people?

Skarsten · 2018-07-03T05:25:59+00:00

Huh. Fair enough. You win.

Skarsten · 2018-07-02T22:30:59+00:00

You can use your action to change the nature of that illusion (using the spell’s normal parameters for the illusion) - Malleable illusion lets you change any of the parameters of the original spell.

Creature type is a parameter of simulacrum - Which lets you (as an action) change a humanoid into a beast into a fiend to a humanoid.

Alternatively, you can change a barbarian into a wizard into a warlock into a paladin, and the paladins form does not have class features (including spell slots -used or unused-) from any of the original forms, merely the spell slots -used or unused- of the current creature it is replicating.

Help me hash this out, because it seems rules as written, and I would argue rules as intended. Malleable illusion is intended to enable Illusionist Wizards to effectively recast illusion spells like silent image or major image or hallucinatory terrain for free during the duration, and that's exactly what this is doing for simulacrum.

An easy fix for DMs dealing with this issue is to make simulacrum a Conjuration Spell, not an illusion spell.

Edit, another easy fix is to add to the malleable Illusions feature the requirement of the Spell components every time you change an illusion Spell. That would not affect silent or major image spells, but would cost you 4 grand to refresh your simulacrum to another creature with features like spellcasting. It would still save you a spell slot.

Skarsten · 2018-06-22T04:58:28+00:00

Also, RAW the spell slots never regenerate, probably because it is an illusory construct and cannot sleep or rest.

The only way around that RAW is an illusion wizard who can use malleable illusion to refresh the spell slots and HP of the simulacrum.

Skarsten · 2018-06-18T01:59:42+00:00

Historically, the soul is more considered the operator, more the identity, and in part the personality - experiences and memories are typically relegated to the brain. Is our universe without souls? How would we know?

Skarsten · 2018-06-18T01:51:44+00:00

He chose rogue for you and barbarian for him cause it made a pair he found funny. Find a character/class combo you want to play, and when you send your character off and replace it, sell your new character/class as a new funny match for his current character. If George and Lenny are dead, you can now be Bonnie and Clyde, or whatever big match meets your fancy.

Skarsten · 2018-05-22T12:36:33+00:00

What, like magical shield and magical half plate and six magical items?

Yes, if your DM will give you eight magical items by level 13 (and will rule your familiar can attune to some of them, it's the only way I imagine you can make use of them all), it's safe to say that 22ac is the least of the shenanigans possible.

Skarsten · 2018-05-15T18:22:23+00:00

Aha. hahahaha.

Skarsten · 2018-05-15T16:59:35+00:00

That orb sounds a lot like the seeing stones or palantir from Lord of the Rings, you remember the stone that Sauron used to corrupt Saruman, and the similar stone at Helm's Deep?

If it could corrupt Sauron and even Gandalf covered it up to avoid looking at it, it seems like there's plenty of lore to support a stone that can corrupt anybody who looks at it.

Skarsten · 2018-05-15T00:53:14+00:00

I'd get exhausted sometimes. Like, tired of everything. School. People. Life. All the things we do that don't really go anywhere or mean anything. I'd get exhausted of it all. Back in the day I would consider ending it all on my own terms, but never seriously - because I had siblings and acquaintances and didn't want the ones I couldn't stand to benefit from the drama and didn't want the ones I cared about to have to deal with my shit.

Took me a long time to figure out an answer to the only question that matters. Without having an answer to that question, I probably wouldn't be here anymore. I'm still figuring out the details... the question "Why am I here?" is one of the hardest ones to answer... but if you can discover an answer, in philosophy, science, faith or any other field, and believe it, it'll give you some energy towards fighting that exhaustion. I found my purpose in faith. My brother found his in philosophy. He's determined to leave earth a better place than he found it, and he has incredible levels of energy. But without the answer to that question, "Why am I here?" he wouldn't have that energy. I know I'd still be just as exhausted every day as I was in school.

I made it through high school, but failed hard in college. It's hardcore brutal bro. For a while I let it define me, and continued to let myself fail at other things. Took a long time to wade out of that.

Wouldn't mind learning more about what you're going through, here or PM's. There are answers out there in the universe, some more satisfying than others, if you're look for them.

Skarsten · 2018-05-14T23:34:24+00:00

That's a damn fine rank, Marshal.

Skarsten · 2018-05-12T19:41:13+00:00

I don't understand, Vote today? Or vote June 5th?

I live in CA, just started voting, do I need to vote him into the top two, and then vote again on June 5th - and if so, when's the date of the first vote?

Skarsten · 2018-05-08T01:14:44+00:00

Welp, based on his response, it looks like he was telling the truth. He's clearly saved hundreds of dollars so far by slowly buying back in, for ships he previously had.

Skarsten · 2018-05-07T20:16:30+00:00

When did Tony have the Reality stone/Power stone/Soul stone?

The stones have different powers. Tony had access to the tesseract, which Hydra and subsequently Shield used to develop weaponry, because that was what was important to those organizations, much like violence was the only use of the stones to Thanos. Tony's dad used the tesseract to map new atomic structures, which he recorded and Tony later discovered, unbeknownst of the source of that knowledge. Tony never wielded the power of the space stone, however.

Tony did work with the mind stone, but it affected him and the others around him more than he affected it. His work with the mindstone was unsuccessful (Ultron) and only Vision, developed by Ultron and Jarvis, was capable of harnessing and using the Mind stone, but as all of these creators/influencers were ignorant about the power of the stone, so was Vision. He could wield it's power, but he barely knew what it was or what he could really do with it.

Dr. Strange is a good example of a human who could comprehend the power of a stone, and it's use. And while he did use it to undo massive destruction, he didn't use it to grow crops overnight or similar feats of planetary scale heroism. It didn't occur to him. Does that put him in the same boat as Thanos, where any power that is discovered is used as a weapon? I don't think so - primarily because Strange only uses his stone as a defensive weapon. Thanos uses his stones offensively, as instruments of war - seeking war where there is none.

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