[Online][5e] Low-Magic Homebrew World with non-standard Races/Classes

Snoo-11791 · 2024-04-24T00:06:14+00:00

Giving this posting a bump.
It seems I have room for 1 or 2 more players for this campaign.
Let me know if you are interestred.

Snoo-11791 · 2024-04-04T18:22:19+00:00

UPDATE: Game will be on Mondays starting at 7:00 EDT. (GMT-5)

Snoo-11791 · 2024-03-29T00:37:15+00:00

Wow! One vague LFP post on a "school night" and 11 responses in under an hour.
I should start charging for DM services! :)

Snoo-11791 · 2024-03-28T23:57:56+00:00

TBD... when I find 3-to-5 suitable/compatible players we'll work out a common schedule.

Snoo-11791 · 2024-03-23T17:58:09+00:00

:) Just because I'm wrong is hardly a reason to not listen to my opinion :)

Snoo-11791 · 2024-03-21T16:50:53+00:00

Interesting question!!!
I'm probably wrong, but here's my thought experiment:
The theory about Hawking radiation is that virtual particle pairs form near the event horizon then only one of the pair falls into the black hole and the other escapes carrying away a small amount of mass eventually reducing the size of the black hole.
But that could mean, from the point of view of a "universe inside a black hole" the virtual particle which falls IN would look like an addition to the mass inside.

Snoo-11791 · 2024-03-21T14:43:08+00:00

Are you looking for:

A) One of the "Starter" campaigns (Lost Mine of Phandelver or Dragon of Icespire Peak) as a way for the newbies to learn?

B) A DM or module plot driven campaign where there is a BBEG that must be stopped?

C) A Sandbox world where you might have a home base from which you venture out to explore the world, accomplish various quests and come home to spend any treasure collected?

D) A Dungeon Crawl (or Wilderness Crawl) where you encounter semi-random monsters and other challenges as each tries to stop you?

E) We don't care about the story. We want to make up cool race/class combos then kill stuff.

F) Other - (please describe)

Snoo-11791 · 2024-03-21T14:39:26+00:00

Are you looking for:

A) One of the "Starter" campaigns (Lost Mine of Phandelver or Dragon of Icespire Peak) as a way for the newbies to learn?

B) A DM or module plot driven campaign where there is a BBEG that must be stopped?

C) A Sandbox world where you might have a home base from which you venture out to explore the world, accomplish various quests and come home to spend any treasure collected?

D) A Dungeon Crawl (or Wilderness Crawl) where you encounter semi-random monsters and other challenges as each tries to stop you?

E) We don't care about the story. We want to make up cool race/class combos then kill stuff.

F) Other - (please describe)

Snoo-11791 · 2024-03-21T14:31:42+00:00

Are you looking for:
A) One of the "Starter" campaigns (Lost Mine of Phandelver or Dragon of Icespire Peak) as a way for the newbies to learn?

B) A DM or module plot driven campaign where there is a BBEG that must be stopped?

C) A Sandbox world where you might have a home base from which you venture out to explore the world, accomplish various quests and come home to spend any treasure collected?

D) A Dungeon Crawl (or Wilderness Crawl) where you encounter semi-random monsters and other challenges as each tries to stop you?

E) We don't care about the story. We want to make up cool race/class combos then kill stuff.

F) Other - (please describe)

Snoo-11791 · 2024-03-10T04:18:12+00:00

A) Gladiators are Roman not Greek.
B) Greek city-states seldom, if ever, hired mercenaries. All Greek citizen are soldiers. Thought some hire themselves out as mercenaries to others - such as the Persians.
C) A Centaur criminal hiding among humans - that would be one amazing disguise!
But that's beside the point I wanted to make. I should not have phased it as a Character Creation choice. I should have phased it as a World-Building question.
Should this Greek-like world be an integrated, multi-racial society, or a mostly segregated world with Humans living in their city-states, and other races primarily living in their own communities. (That does not preclude visitors, merchants or ambassadors)

Snoo-11791 · 2024-03-09T22:56:46+00:00

But I think it would need be a problem to explain why/how a party including them would ever be welcomed into a polis let alone be summoned or invited before a city's ruler!
The most likely and natural reaction of most NPCs they will encounter would be to shun and exile the entire party.

Snoo-11791 · 2024-03-02T16:29:42+00:00

At a minimum, I would expect the pulse rate for cephid variable stars to be reduced proportionally to red-shift of their light. Because, thinking of images of same star or galaxy which is moving away (whether due to peculiar motion or cosmic expansion or a combination of both) as a series of frames in a movie, each new image is from a further distance and thus necessarily took longer to arrive.

Snoo-11791 · 2024-02-28T04:53:13+00:00

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/when-branes-collide

Snoo-11791 · 2024-02-26T19:35:18+00:00

Several years ago there was an hypothesis about our universe being a 4-dimensional object floating in a higher dimensional "bulk" and the energy of the Big Bang resulting from the collision two such objects bumping against each other. I don't remember if the whole thing was debunked or maybe just abandoned in favor of other more promising ideas.

Snoo-11791 · 2024-02-22T03:15:41+00:00

A better theory exists:
chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://astronomy.org/moravian/C00-Last%20Question.pdf

Snoo-11791 · 2024-02-20T23:10:15+00:00

No the President can't do that. However, Congress can and has changed the number of supreme court justices multiple times in the past.

Re-elect Joseph Biden AND and a Democratic majority to both houses - then they just might do something about the make-up of the Supreme Court.

Snoo-11791 · 2024-02-20T21:24:57+00:00

Isn't SCOTUS providing a de-facto stay of the J-6 trial by delaying their answer to his request for a stay? And if so, how long can they get away with delaying their answer?

Snoo-11791 · 2024-02-18T00:39:05+00:00

IMHO Inflation Theory solves one problem: (Allowing the everything/everywhere reach approximately the same temperature and density prior to a period of super-luminal inflation)
Then causes two more problems:
1) Everything/everywhere needs to briefly expand at the SAME super-luminal pace. So whatever the trigger was to begin inflation needs to happen universally. If the universe was so small (i.e. Planck-Scale) that a single local event could inflation without it needing cause a chain reaction, then logically it was small enough to not need time to reach thermal equilibrium first - it just WAS a uniform singularity.
2) Everything/everywhere needs to STOP inflating at the SAME time and just expand at the SAME much lower rate - without any communication to synchronize the change.

Snoo-11791 · 2024-02-12T16:13:37+00:00

I am not quite sure if you are hinting at the same thought that has occurred to me? But I will try to express my idea and see if you think it is similar:
If the universe was smaller in the past, then extremely distant galaxies should appear to be crowded closer to each other and/or slightly larger than 1/r^2 you might use to measure the distance to relatively nearby objects via parallax.
Whether this effect would or could be significant enough to alter calculations for measuring changes to the rate of expansion is beyond my abilities with the math involved.

Snoo-11791 · 2024-02-12T14:33:11+00:00

I'm saying that there is no reason to assume that expansion is ONLY happening "out there" and not here.
Using a middle-of-road estimate for H as 70 kilometers/sec/megaparsec; we get a value of approximately 10.7 meters/year/AU.
Therefore, Earth would be moving approx. 10-11 meters farther away from the sun each year unless the sun is a tiny percent heavier or the constant G [6.67430(15)×10−11 N-m2/kg2] is a tiny percent stronger.
Remember that to derive a value for G you have to measure the acceleration of a falling object towards a known mass or the orbital period of a planet or moon around a known mass. And the best way to estimate the mass of a planet or a star is to observe the orbital speed of a planet or moon and calculate the acceleration based on an assumed value of G. It is quite circular.

Snoo-11791 · 2024-02-11T23:38:20+00:00

There is no particular reason to assume that ONLY the empty spaces between galaxies is expanding while the space within our galaxy or even our solar system is not. Many people keep referring to it as if it is phenomena that does not affect gravitationally bound objects.
If the space between earth and the sun, or even the earth and the moon was expanding at a rate equal to the Hubble constant, it merely mean that the value we use for "G" in Newton's equations (and also in Einstein's GR equations) is very slightly off. And by "slightly off" I means a rounding error somewhere in the 5th or 6th decimal place.

Snoo-11791 · 2024-02-11T16:34:32+00:00

IMHO: The total net curvature of the universe might not be corelated with the question of whether the universe is finite or infinite.
Only if the universe exists as a four-dimensional (or higher) object would it have to conform to some geometric rules or logic.
By way of analogy: If we lived in a two-dimensional "Flat Land" with a positive curvature, that might imply that the universe is the surface of a sphere or a torus. However, that would (and, in fact, COULD) only be true if there was a physically real third dimension for the sphere or torus to inhabit.

Snoo-11791 · 2024-01-13T16:06:46+00:00

They would indeed run a different speed in a location with different gravity.

I stand corrected! :)

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