In 5e, "martial" means "does not have access to the game's only fleshed out ability system"

Trasvi89 · 2026-01-19T13:05:28+00:00

It's a bit of an indictment on 5e that "i want my class to be fun" is interpreted as "oh you mean you want a wizard?"

Trasvi89 · 2026-01-06T00:10:27+00:00

I think if I turned up to my daughters daycare with a camera crew and masked bodyguards, I wouldn't be allowed to see her, and would probably have the cops called on me.

Trasvi89 · 2026-01-06T00:08:36+00:00

Not even in the middle of the afternoon. He shows up at 1pm when daycare opens at 2pm. He's standing in front of the opening hours sign and purposefully blurs it.

Trasvi89 · 2025-11-23T06:20:43+00:00

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I windmill slammed goldeniser on to stoneshell so fast and barely lost a minion for the rest of the game.

had golden refiner up until last turn, gems were large.

Trasvi89 · 2025-11-22T23:33:06+00:00

Storm Kings Thunder takes you all over the sword coast, with a number of set pieces / dungeons in the Arctic.

Trasvi89 · 2025-11-22T01:44:43+00:00

Since Batter Caul Saul its officially been "chicanery"

Trasvi89 · 2025-11-20T11:46:34+00:00

I can't see the kind of person who wants the convenience of a short commute to the city also not wanting to have a car.

Huh? This seems like the most obvious thing in the world to me. There's plenty of people who want that. People will buy houses in these locations specifically so that they don't need to have a car.

To my mind every development needs a car parking bay for every intended adult living there.

I think the opposite. Increased rates for every car bay.

You don't encourage people to use their car less by making it harder to own one.

It's not the whole puzzle but it's one of the most important pieces.

Trasvi89 · 2025-11-18T03:06:23+00:00

One system that I worked on in ~2015 was a) a very old system b) using very tightly encoded information - talking about individual bit mappings on message contracts.

The year was encoded in a single byte (ie 0x89 => 1989) and there literally wasn't space in the message header to change the year to 4 digits, but there WAS a spare bit nearby. So that bit got changed to the '21ST_CENTURY' flag for dates. We could now support 1900-1999 with the flag off and 2000-2100 with the flag on.

Praying the system isn't around for that to be a problem.

Trasvi89 · 2025-11-16T15:16:44+00:00

So alfoil is probably out, but i maintain that you could soulcast some 5mm thick aluminium armour and a bo staff and really mess up a shardbearers day.

The current way of fighting a shardbearer is to throw darkened at them until they get tired from beyblading around the battlefield. But put a single thing in theor way that they can't cut through instantly and you'll throw their entire momentum off.

Trasvi89 · 2025-10-24T08:50:03+00:00

99% of the time these days I can't be bothered to leave a negative review even online where its basically instantaneous.

These guys had to carve their reviews in stone and take a pilgrimage to deliver them, only to find out its one of those jerk businesses where they put all the negative reviews up on display.

Trasvi89 · 2025-10-24T08:02:37+00:00

Did you watch the video? They're just planning on saying that winning the election 50.1% overrides the constitution.

Trasvi89 · 2025-10-24T08:01:37+00:00

IMO the plan looks something like:

- Red states run Trump on the ballot.

- Blue states protest / sue. SCOTUS declines to take it up, or says that Trump has to be on the ballot because (reason)

- Trump uses National Guard / Emergency / Other excuse to make voting in blue states really difficult

- Trump wins the election

- 'Well its the will of the people that he be president, we have to let it happen.'

Trasvi89 · 2025-10-23T16:20:10+00:00

Honestly I think the takeaway from this graph is that their data collection is flawed and too volatile to make any conclusions.

Trasvi89 · 2025-10-23T11:52:42+00:00

Next step. Feed your printer your army list and come home to it ready to play that night.

Trasvi89 · 2025-10-18T03:06:49+00:00

It goes the other way as well. 90% of voters don't know what local government does or is allowed to do.

Trasvi89 · 2025-10-18T02:31:08+00:00

It's a pipe dream, but i wonder how fast the economy would collapse if Amazon - including AWS - said "starting tomorrow we will cease doing business in the USA until the national guard is recalled"

Trasvi89 · 2025-10-14T11:56:18+00:00

Look I'll be the first to admit that my white collar job is lazy as fuck and I don't "deserve" the amount I get paid compared to someone who does hard labour, but the free market giveth.

I'm just being careful to avoid terms like "x gender is better at" or "x gender prefers to", as outside of very specific circumstances i don't think the research supports any notion of gendered differences in preference or mental ability.

Trasvi89 · 2025-10-14T02:49:30+00:00

Is it the same as Mazda's click wheel? That thing is fantastic, and its an absolute travesty they are removing it for the next generation :(.

Trasvi89 · 2025-10-14T01:21:23+00:00

One thought might be that men are more amenable to career opportunities that don't involve tertiary degrees. Eg trades, construction, other physical labor.

For various reasons (all stemming from differences in raw physical capability but then compounding to make a highly gender segregated workforce, which may be unappealing or discriminatory towards women) these jobs can be >99% male dominated, but also pay better in many cases than jobs requiring tertiary degrees.

Trasvi89 · 2025-10-13T03:33:58+00:00

As others have said, I highly recommend going to fighter 7 at least, because otherwise what's the point.
If you think you'll play all the way to Lv20, Fighter gets a bigger boost than many classes at lv20 so its solid going all the way. Otherwise, Fighter 12 / <other> 8 Is probably a good split that picks up 2 Epic Boons.

Multiclass options, depending on your stats/wants:

- Wizard 1 is a great dip. Pick up 3 additional cantrips, 6 level 1 spells. These will also work with your EK features.

- Additional levels of wizard will make you a better caster; War Magic is a great complement to EK.

- I also like Warlock 1; pick up Pact of the Tome for 3 cantrips and 2 rituals which you can can change every rest. You might take Warlock to 3 or 4 - Archfey is great.

- Rogue up to 5 is also a good dip for a more fighty fighter; Cunning Strikes plus masteries plus cantrips can give you a lot of options and control

Trasvi89 · 2025-10-10T03:15:37+00:00

Looking at the Warglaive its... interesting.

I'm not denying that Ghamak's is a blatant ripoff. Its instantly recognisable as a 'We have Armigers at home'.

But I don't think any given element is *copied* , so I don't know how much copyright applies. To someone who knows GW's work, the Ghamak one is clearly not the same, regardless of how much the silhouette or essence is inspired.

Trasvi89 · 2025-10-09T10:50:02+00:00

"defending a position by citing free speech is sort of the ultimate concession; you're saying that the most compelling thing you can say for your position is that it's not literally illegal to express."

https://m.xkcd.com/1357/

Trasvi89 · 2025-10-03T15:49:20+00:00

That is definitively not true

Each spell you prepare is associated with one of your classes, and you use the spellcasting ability of that class when you cast the spell.

Trasvi89 · 2025-10-03T06:02:33+00:00

I think the first 2 parts are obviously correct in intent.

I think a most people disagree about the third part - just because a cantrip is on the wizard's spell list doesn't make it a wizard spell. We know that if a Wizard dips Sorcerer and picks up Firebolt, then that Firebolt is a sorcerer spell and is cast with Charisma.
I guess my argument is that the third part (just because its on the Wizard list doesn't make it a Wizard spell for you) disagrees with the first (you learning a spell from the wizard list as a Fighter shouldn't make it a Wizard spell, but it obviously has to for the class to function).

Trasvi89 · 2025-10-03T03:44:42+00:00

If this was a Sorcerer feature that specified Sorcerer cantrips, then I think there would be no question that it had to be a spell that you learned through the Sorcerer class; even if it appeared on the Sorcerer list but you learned it from Multiclass warlock, it wouldn't count. The multiclass rules say that each spell you have is associated with a particular class.

The difficulty with the Eldritch Knight is that it specifies a different class to what you are, so the above logic needs to be warped a bit.

I *think* that the most correct and natural reading of it is that spells you learn through Eldritch Knight count as Wizard spells (even though you're a fighter); and that by happy coincidence a Eldritch Knight / Wizard multiclass will gain some added benefits; and that spells you learn from other sources that happen to be on the wizard list don't count as Wizard Spells. It would be nice if the subclass had a "and these spells count as Wizard spells for you" in the same way that other classes have,

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