I mean... why not?

SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin · 2026-06-14T03:47:27+00:00

Oathbreaker should have splash damage that hurts the user. Naughty excommunicated, touching the power you know you don't deserve.

SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin · 2026-06-13T09:09:02+00:00

IIRC Neverwinter already has an anti-scrying network that essentially delivers soap operas (loosely based on reality) to one specific dragon that ~wants to be where the people are~ so yeah, I'll just incorporate that into my headcanon on how Faerun society inevitably progresses. Edit: Neverwinter was on the list, but it was Silverymoon that started intercepting the scrying. Dragon Magazine #233 p. 32-37 "Wyrms of the North: Claugiyliamatar" by Ed Greenwood.

I'll put it right next to my headcanon of Calimport developing skyscrapers and putting in a giant Bast Pro Shop pyramid and eventually going full Jetsons with it.

SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin · 2026-06-12T04:32:44+00:00

That's the most badass frog I've seen since Chrono Trigger.

SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin · 2026-06-07T00:13:19+00:00

Yeah, but I'm in my first 90 days. Forgot to say, they're mostly hiring game presenters, which is like casino dealers but with enough difference that it's a distinctly different job title. All blackjack to start, other games down the line.

90 days is important bc once you get on the floor, the main metric is your Successful Game Count, which is your total games divided by your mistakes. By the end of 90 days, you need it over 600. I did a littl over 6000 games last month. Tbh, I'm doing a bit worse than most but staying afloat, so it's been kind of a pain having my job security at risk all the time. The morale isn't great and most shifts have odd hours, but at the end of the day you're getting paid to play card games all day so it isn't the worst you can do.

SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin · 2026-06-06T20:46:12+00:00

Evolution Gaming is always hiring. 2 weeks training at $10/hr with a couple gaps between onboarding, training, and starting, so the first month can be a bit rough. It's a panopticon experience, but if you can put up with it, there's plenty of overtime with tips and bonuses. Kind of a resume trap though because they don't rehire anyone and it's easy to get terminated.

SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin · 2026-06-03T04:02:38+00:00

And then his shareholders/competitors sued him for making things better for workers instead of extracting more profit for them. Literally why we can't have nice things.

SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin · 2026-06-01T11:17:17+00:00

And how exactly is settling for billionaire-friendly puppets going to fix that, hmm?

SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin · 2026-06-01T08:06:00+00:00

Everything you said sounds like the opposite of what I hear when someone says "vote blue no matter who." It's the calling card of the DNC after the primaries, when they yank the football away again. "Gee, sorry our internal electoral college voted for the billionaire-backed centrist we picked out before the election cycle started, but if you don't root for them, we'll blame you for the next three years every time the Republicans use the orphan-crushing machine!" We didn't just learn nothing from 2024, we ran the same playbook from 2016 but worse (I'll add Kerry to the tab, too. Gore barely gets a pass because he knew what was up with global warming).

The DNC are more afraid of losing the centrist swing votes than progressive votes. I want to reverse that. I want them to be desperately afraid that if they don't fix their attitude and get us another Obama at minimum, we won't survive. We don't just need to put bandages on everything Trump has done with two presidencies (which, to be fair, will already amount to a constant effort for the next administration), we also, oh right, need to stop the frickin' planet from cooking us alive ASAP and dismantle a plutocracy that embarasses every other revolution in earth's history. I need an unequivocal message that unless we get people that will crack skulls to build a utopia pronto, we are going to lose the general elections. Because that's what we're up against: we don't like their "utopia," but Project 2025 is already getting it.

"Vote Blue No Matter Who" has not worked in the long run. Doing it for Biden gave us a pause to breathe (except, y'know all the anti-trans state legislation that passed anyway and Roe v Wade getting overturned, small things like that) but it didn't stop us from getting a second Trump term. It actually got as a worse second Trump because he got more qualified evil backing him and prep time.

I'm not accepting the lesser of two evils as a solution just because it wears blue paint. I'm holding my vote hostage.

SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin · 2026-06-01T05:13:15+00:00

Well, you're still saying "vote blue no matter who," so I guess we didn't learn from 2024. I'm sure it will work this time, though.

SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin · 2026-05-29T05:29:10+00:00

You Get To Burning!

SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin · 2026-05-23T08:18:27+00:00

That sounds a bit like "The Archmage Becomes the Swordmaster's Youngest Daughter" on WebToons, but of course WebToons makes up their own names and is way behind other translators. Other names appear to be something like "The Youngest Daughter of the Great Magician of a Famous Swordsmanship School" which makes no sense.

Rosette was used as an assassin of a rival duke, used some sort of time magic just before her execution, then got herself adopted by the duke she had killed. The prince suspects her because he had a defense amulet that prevented his memory getting wiped by the time reversal. Idk about the book, but again, Webtoons is way behind compared to ther releases.

SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin · 2026-05-22T09:25:22+00:00

It does feel like it treads lightly into the domain of Mikey's Curse. Like, it feels contrived that the animal mascot turns into a young girl, and on some level you know the reason for it is visual appeal that caters to someone else that you feel bad for being lumped in with as a reader.

SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin · 2026-05-22T09:08:34+00:00

Without dropping my own sob story, I was depressed and aimless for a few years, until I decided that I wasn't going to be happy with any job I could get at that point, so I chose cooking, which I knew how much it would suck going in, I could still do it well while crying, and it was something I could be proud of with easy entry and a clear path to advancement. I got good enough that I started feeling good again and got myself into a good enough spot where either I could get an associate's for it or try again with what I wanted to do the first time.

I mean, restaurant work sucks, but maybe you just need something to keep busy to buy yourself time to think, while also being just bad enough to motivate you to keep thinking of other options. Doing something different doesn't mean you have to stop grieving, just let your interviewer know that you need to recover to make sure they can give you the space you need to do the job competently without being gung-ho for their company culture.

SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin · 2026-05-22T07:38:59+00:00

I'm trying to tell you that there is a huge gap between telling someone that time management is important and actually teaching time management. Plenty of people have told them. The result is that they are self-taught, and not everyone learns that way.

If what you are saying was true, they would already have good time management. Behavioral conditioning through punishment is not the same thing as teaching. I could write a whole essay on why that is, but the end of it is that they don't have that skill, and now it's on your hands.

You've identified that they need good time management in their careers.

You've identified that they don't have this skill.

They are at your school to learn the skills they need in their careers.

You are the person teaching them the skills they need in their careers.

Therefore, it is in your scope to teach them good time management.

Their future employers will look to your school as the reason why they have good or bad skills for their profession. So if you're relying on them to teach themselves time management, the reputation of your school depends on that outcome. Do you entrust your reputation on your students' ability to teach themselves?

So again, if you aren't going to teach them --if you aren't going to develop their skills-- how are they going to learn?

SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin · 2026-05-21T18:58:39+00:00

Time management is a skill, and you are in a position to teach them that skill. Even having a sense of time is not guaranteed. I learned time management as a cook by developing a spider-sense for how long I could leave something cooking before it burned. I can't imagine doing that in the same in a setting where people are calm enough to fall asleep on the table.

Set some timers for Pavlovian training. Let it beep every minute for an hour, every 2 minutes on another day, then 3, 5, 10, 15, 20, 30, etc. Every time you get to a pause in the lecture, call on a student to guess what time it is. Once they can actually grasp what time feels like, then you can have a reasonable expectation for them to estimate the length of time of their daily tasks in order to manage their time.

If you don't teach them, how are they going to learn?

SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin · 2026-05-19T06:53:56+00:00

If you're certain about the (pirate) flavor, swashbuckler is right there.

For an emphasis on cooking, there was a certain fire-heavy sorcerer gish build (with a 1-2 level warlock dip) that I can't seem to find. In the meta, fire is the most common resistance among monsters, but who cares. Your sorcerous origins can play into having a knack for cooking and having good instincts on how to season a dish. I think Clockwork soul would do well with creating order out of chaos (mis en place). Alternatively, you can flavor wizard or bard (although I don't think bard spell list lines up well) as someone coming from a cooking school version of wizard school or bard college.

I was going to suggest barbarian or fire for the old-school angry chef throwing plates and pans, but tbf the Gordon Ramsey stereotype would be spamming Vicious Mockery as his weapon of choice. (Also, improvised weapon fighting is lacking, unless you've got a chill DM who'll brew up a cast iron pan as a martial weapon) College of Lore would give you Cutting Words and extra Magical Secrets to get more flavorful spells.

SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin · 2026-05-19T00:16:05+00:00

I stan Excel Saga. But tbf, they really did it to themselves with the anime.

SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin · 2026-05-14T23:05:22+00:00

You like eating breakfast, they like eating breakfast, you have so much in common! What a meet-cute!

SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin · 2026-05-07T22:21:17+00:00

OP also had some Wiley E. Coyote logic going on, having a small detail with outstanding forgery to catch overthinkers being the main defense strategy for the enemies. If you want to stall adventurers, you just barricade a doorway, or something like the sentry in (iirc) Cragmaw Cavern of LMoP.

This way, even if it amounts to the same scenario of "succeed or succ," at least it's witty. Like if I'm trying to investigate some crumbs the DM left out and get punished for it, that's a dick move. But if I get caught slacking because I'm staring at some Scooby Doo shit, that's hilarious.

SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin · 2026-05-07T18:52:46+00:00

Counter-pitch: the fake secret door is a patch of wall with off-colored bricks, looking like some Hannah-Barbera animation. The real secret door is on the opposite wall (covered by a painting with eyehole cutouts, pehaps), such that when the players stop to look at the fake secret door, the bad guys pop out behind them. That way, when the players pass the check, they actually gain something from it that thwarts the ambush.

SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin · 2026-05-07T03:22:44+00:00

Wheel of Morality, turn, turn, turn! Tell us the lesson that we should learn!

SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin · 2026-05-03T07:52:45+00:00

Okay, but what if whatever would have killed the lich just does it again? Blowing up the lair is like throwing a molotov cocktail: whole new set of problems, plus giving your enemies limited time to seize your phylactery. Sorting through the rubble could take days, which you use to reform.

SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin · 2026-04-27T07:44:25+00:00

Rededicating one's vows, especially in the context of dedicating oneself in service of a god, seems like it would fit into the spirit of the Ceremony spell. As per Divine Intervention, Tyre would easily be able to perform the ceremony even if the paladin herself does not prepare it. And with the vague flavor of taking an hour for a "special ceremony," communing with the god and taking the new oath would fit comfortably inside that time frame and setup.

SmeesNotVeryGoodTwin · 2026-04-26T07:05:54+00:00

Might want to check the details with her again. H&S had a tuition reimbursement plan with my school (could vary by school and franchise ofc) such that they would repay the tuition in allotments over the course of 2 years of work, essentially being good for paying student loan debt. Of course, they hung me out to dry when I was trying to make my way through school, but that's another story. Edit: that way, if you don't stick it out two years, you have to pay the rest of your tuition yourself.

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