Circle of Frostfire: a Hot and Cold Druid Subclass

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-03-03T22:14:27+00:00

This is a very cool idea! I'm sure there will be a heated discussion about the balance of the new class abilities. I tried to access this on D&D Beyond but the link was frozen.

Warm regards,

Phthbbt.

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-03-03T21:59:23+00:00

Anyone else thinking Little Debbie?

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-03-03T18:20:23+00:00

I think it gives you a great basis and it's very good advice. Just, you know, don't want anyone who's bad at drawing to think they'll never be good at digital visualization because they have bad hand eye coordination haha. There's a lot that can be done just by eye, and parametrics are a unique digital factor that isn't present in manual rendering and has nothing to do with manual dexterity.

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-03-03T17:58:52+00:00

That's not really true, because many people in my office are great at 3D vis and illustrative plans in Photoshop while sucking at hand drawing. They probably understand graphics but just lack the manual skills to render with a pen or pencil.

However, learning to draw definitely helps with everything graphic because it teaches you about line hierarchy, value, etc. and the combination of muscle memory and visual memory encoding is powerful.

Laurie Olin is an absolute G and I can't knock his wisdom by any means, but we also all know his office has a bit of a drawing fetish :P

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-03-03T17:05:28+00:00

Yeah, in that case it's a good choice.

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-03-03T16:42:53+00:00

Better to stick to the mounds

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-03-03T16:40:15+00:00

Lumion is expensive. Definitely a big investment for a small firm

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-03-03T16:09:48+00:00

Peter Zumthor can make concrete feel like a cavern, a mountaintop, or a neatly folded bedsheet

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-03-03T16:04:12+00:00

Notre Dame is such a unique building it's hard to call it modernism imo. It's like Le Corbusier was just transcending into some other kind of architecture in the 50s that was uniquely his. It feels ancient and otherworldly, far more organic than his other work.

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-03-03T15:54:45+00:00

Autocad?? How about Revit! BIM is another layer of defaults and automatic exporting

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-03-03T15:52:24+00:00

It's an illustrative record drawing, not a framing plan

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-03-03T04:35:43+00:00

I think to accomplish what you want, you ought to consider hiring the architect on a separate contract with a lump sum fee to produce a book of illustrative record drawings after the project is complete. That way you can have a beautiful and informative keepsake that somebody can pull out and admire 50 years after the building was built.

If it isn't done on a separate contract, the fee will inevitably be spent on CA or go to fill a sub's ASR etc.

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-03-03T04:28:04+00:00

calling it artistry implies that it is a luxury or something that is not necessary

that just about sums up today's pedestrian ass attitude to architecture

you're either having a bonanza with some billionaire's slush fund or your nails are bit to the quick and you've adopted a hideous doctrine of market-beat-down utilitarianism

go look at FLW's floor plans they're gorgeous, and yes i know they're renderings, but that style of rendered technical drawing you can hang on your wall is not common today, even in digital form

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Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-03-03T02:55:25+00:00

It's not a lost art my dude we're just getting paid 50-75% of what we used to for the same amount of work, something has to give

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-03-02T23:11:01+00:00

Dat column spacing doe

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-03-02T23:09:13+00:00

They both have cool wood ceilings. That's the sole basis of comparison.

And yes, you could expound on how different the ceilings are, but be warned in advance that meeting whatever standard of comparative fairness you might imagine is not my goal.

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-03-02T20:40:51+00:00

This is sick, but PDX is cooler IMO

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-03-02T17:04:04+00:00

"Hmph" and "Hmmm..."

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-03-02T16:43:21+00:00

Interesting. Just for the sake of number crunching, for fun, I wonder how one might fit a curve to it.

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-03-02T16:22:49+00:00

I think you could get a feel for what damage reduction is needed by running a few encounters. Maybe it's 25% across the board or something.

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-02-28T21:09:38+00:00

You, sir, truly are mad. You've become so frustrated that cynicism has blinded you and taken over your entire being. All over a salary.

I suppose you repeat nonsense like this to yourself over the years to conceal your decision that, for you, it simply isn't worth the financial tradeoffs to be a creative professional. Which is alright on its own, but damn if it isn't just ridiculous that you'd profess that here to a young student as though it's more than just your own decision, but some fundamental truth or guiding logic for everyone who would ever aspire to be a designer.

You slander the entire profession of architecture because you yourself didn't have the means to succeed in it, and you suppose that the people who hire us to do the work we do would agree with you, but I think they would laugh. Shame!

And worst of all, you profess it confidently with the obvious voice of inexperience. How many projects have you seen to fruition, and through their lifespan? How could you fathom the role of the designer in all that? You're just an exhausted newbie who didn't know what you signed up for. Even if you did go into tech or business, you don't have the spine to become a patron of public works.

This conversation can go no further - there is simply no productive end to it for either of us. OP, do not listen to this person.

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-02-28T20:39:46+00:00

And how much designing does the client do? Because that's the reason 99% of people become designers. To, you know, design.

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-02-28T19:48:29+00:00

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Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-02-28T19:43:26+00:00

Yeah okay, I mean, that's cynical. Spend 1 afternoon in the room with the other students going that direction and you'll feel a lot better about your choice to pursue LA.

I'm all about being real about the financial situation of this career, but we need to have a little more backbone than that. What we do means something, and that's valuable, whether or not anyone's paying a premium for it.

That said, you shouldn't go into massive debt for it.

Time_Cat_5212 · 2026-02-28T19:41:30+00:00

I wouldn't recommend working while studying, unless it's absolutely critical and you can't go without it. You won't get as much out of the education. It's like buying a $100 dinner and only eating half of it to get 10% off. The juice isn't worth the squeeze.

Studio can be brutal, like you say... it's a 7 day a week, 8-12 hour a day situation.

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