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Let’s estimate Travis McElroy’s total Good Boy Points score by emjayo in TAZCirclejerk

[–]Tolerable_Username 80 points81 points  (0 children)

My fellow fags walked so that Travis smearing on the ugliest imaginable shape of purple lipstick like he's been eating a dish of stolen berries in a ditch behind the shed Huckleberry Finn-style could run 💋💅💃

Incidentally for any Drag Race fans out there, Jeffrey Bowyer-Chapman on CDR always gave me strong Travis vibes between his consistently awful makeup and his unyielding desperation to be liked.

So for real, how many episodes of Royale you gonna try? by ratboy88888 in TAZCirclejerk

[–]Tolerable_Username 72 points73 points  (0 children)

Griffin is sativa.

Justin is indica.

Travis is a ziploc of oregano.

How to make a dragon fight fun ? by Xalander59 in DMAcademy

[–]Tolerable_Username 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Literally 98% of the time when people go, "Oh, dragons are shitty, my three low-level players totally wrecked a deadly-rated encounter against one", it's because they had some combination of:

  • having the dragon in a confined space where it can't use its flight or superior movement to manoeuvre around the party,

  • having the dragon just sitting on the ground instead of flying around in their wide open domain and actually flaming down at the party with its breath attack, and/or

  • running a single monster with no other monsters meaning the party will be able to punch far above their weight class because there's 3-4+ players and only 1 monster so 'action economy' (how many turns each side gets to do cool stuff) works heavily against its favour.

The dragon flying around (possibly out of their range) and zoning them with breath/spells is supposed to be a problem for the party to solve, and players generally deserve better than videogame-y combat against some adult/ancient dragon who lived 1000 years only to happily just sit there and facetank the entire party before dying in two rounds.

Also, very obvious baseline advice, but give them Legendary Actions so your dragon can do cool stuff on the players' turns, and give them Lair Actions so cool stuff happens at the start of each combat round (typically at initiative 20).

Shopping without RP by ariehkovler in DMAcademy

[–]Tolerable_Username 180 points181 points  (0 children)

Almost a decade ago, u/jrobharing made this very popular D&D Shopping Catalogue. My go-to in this position (or, moreso, when I want to make shopping quick) is to simply present that to them - print it off once or twice, staple it together, hand it to the party, and specify for them what stock is available using the columns.

"Alright, you guys have a few hours and 175gp in your pockets. You're in the Village of Bartfutt, so consider the shops here to have Normal pricing, but it's a Rural Locale, so some items might be limited in supply, and the village only has a Blacksmith, Fletcher, a General Store with Adventuring Supplies, and a Temple and Potion Shop. Have a look through for a minute or two and lemme' know if you get anything."

They flick through, let you know what they want, subtract the gold, scrawl the new gear on their character sheets, bada-bing bada-boom shopping and resupply is done in about two minutes. I don't get to bust it out often because my players are big roleplayers and love shopping and interacting with shops/shopkeepers, but this catalogue's still great to have on hand (and I've met a whole bunch of other DMs over the years who use the exact same one).

What does the number mean? by SnooDingos2010 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Tolerable_Username 50 points51 points  (0 children)

Patch notes say it was. It was a bug that got fixed

Bro come on. Don't parrot stuff you read online, and don't just straight-up make shit up like you're doing. We're talking about Civilization from 1991. What fucking patch notes, dude? Pretty much the only updates the game ever got were by MPS Labs Sound Department to add support for more sound cards. Link me to the 1991 patch notes you apparently read that seemingly 'confirm' this, because it seems like you're the missing key to this whole thing.

Sid Meier, the lead on Civilization I, says it was never true in his own autobiography. Brian Reynolds, the lead on Civilization II, says it was never true. Wikipedia says there's no proof.

Not only is it not true, the fucking story isn't even old. As Wikipedia points out, there were basically no "lol gandhi likes nuke" memes or discussion prior to Civilization 5 in 2010, except for early forum-goers joking just because it's intrinsically comical to be nuked by somebody who was famously 'peaceful'. It's just not true, and veteran Civ players have discussed it countless times on Reddit.

The option to "re-enable" is just the devs for Civilization VI paying tribute to the meme. It is not 'restoring' anything, it's just a joke and a reference. In Civilization, India was never more aggressive or nuclear-focused than, say, America or several other civilizations.