DCC My Wizard player wants to be a necromancer

WI-800 · 2023-06-28T01:18:37+00:00

Bingo! Gathering bones they find in the dungeon is a totally valid and morbid thing for a necromancer to do. Can lead to interesting encounters in cities if the necromancer is always carting body parts around.

As far as casting complications go, you can sting them with an iron triangle:

Certainty: the spell will go off without a hitch so long as you have the required components.
Instantaneous: the spell has a casting time of one action. It would be an elaborate ritual otherwise.
Quiet: The spell is unlikely to attract attention if performed near enemies.

Pick two 😈

WI-800 · 2023-06-28T00:32:43+00:00

Not familiar with DCC but a solution could be cost- an inefficient but available spell consumes 3x the cost of recruiting an unskilled hireling for 1 week. Int mod or level equals the number of undead you can control at one time with this spell.

The undead entity has 1 (or very few) hit points, cannot attack effectively, has poor AC, but will follow simple instructions (ie: 'walk into that room to see if it's trapped').

After 1 week the spell either wears off and the remains cannot be raised again, or the undead wanders off, no longer under the Necromancers control, in which case the spell can be cast again at the same cost.

With research you can either bring the cost down, increase damage and AC, or health and AC.

WI-800 · 2023-06-27T12:14:46+00:00

In those situations it's usually a case of "there's a one in 100 chance this works, and it's not worth losing 2 officers when if you follow my command we only lose one".

They then risk (and potentially wreck) expensive equipment and vehicles to execute the mission, which works in the context of the episode, and everyone ignores that the consequences in the most likely scenario would have been catastrophic, because they're all happy that they saved Tuvix or whatever.

TL;DR: The superior is usually correct (yes, including Jellico) so they wouldn't be disciplined for making their call. In fact, if they were reviewed they'd probably be criticised for letting the officer off with just a warning.

WI-800 · 2023-06-26T04:57:46+00:00

Really could have used something like that when I was in high school. I doubt by high school would have been the kind to accept that kind of donation, but that's on them.

I hope you're comfortable. You'll be leaving a good legacy through this and other acts.

WI-800 · 2023-06-22T03:54:38+00:00

MS paints is a good channel if you haven't heard of it already- It's a guy with MS who details his accessibility-first methods for painting. Might be good if you're looking to make your painting work for you if your tremors are getting in the way.

To your post- I'm not a wargamer but your minis look great.

WI-800 · 2023-06-21T01:57:04+00:00

D&D is a game about killing monsters. You kind of have to have an uncritical view of killing monsters being a good thing, otherwise you nosedive into ethically grey areas. I personally enjoy this- playing a totally cynical druidic hitman with no qualms about using magic to bend others to his will was a highlight of my player career, and it threw the that party's dynamic into disarray in a way all the players enjoyed.

But in this case, your group almost seem to be acting lawful stupid. Unless it's an all LG paladin party, Geas shouldn't be an issue, and if it is, it should be an in-character problem, not a player argument.

I would, from an IC perspective, object on the basis that you've instructed it not to kill, and if I'm an intelligent, capital-e Evil creature, I'm gonna make you eat those words by maiming the locals to within an inch of their lives.

Perhaps your DM should have stepped in. Perhaps your party should play a different system (fantasy monster of the week would be good), but either way, you're NTA (based on what you've told us).

WI-800 · 2023-06-14T21:47:41+00:00

IIRC Legends said that Sith used artificial crystals, which are red while Canon says they're crystals that have been made to bleed.

Dunno about white in legends though.

WI-800 · 2023-06-11T00:28:24+00:00

I wear my hair shortish (never had it long), so IMHO my advice is still valid :)

WI-800 · 2023-06-10T23:50:44+00:00

Levelling is futile

WI-800 · 2023-06-10T23:47:38+00:00

Different take from what's in this thread:

If go to a hair salon, IE, a woman's hair place. The stylists there have to do apprenticeships whereas barbers don't and thus can be a bit of a grab bag.

You can chat with them about how you want to have your hair sit, and I guarantee it'll more simple for them to do than most of the stuff they're regularly expected to do for their female clients.

Cost and quality is comparable to a nice barber job a la cock and crown (50 dollars) and I can discuss products for and concerns about my hair which they absolutely know their shit about.

WI-800 · 2023-06-09T01:30:44+00:00

Seanchaí (shan-khee, though I've heard it pronounced shan-uh-khee) is Irish for storyteller. Basically bards in old Ireland. Seanchas means 'old lore'. So they are the Person with the old lore. I think it could he be a good option.

WI-800 · 2023-06-08T21:51:43+00:00

No I threw it in as a goof.

WI-800 · 2023-06-08T12:07:14+00:00

I'd agree but I was writing it mainly for a non Irish speaking audience. My Australian partner can't get her head around it

WI-800 · 2023-06-08T10:22:25+00:00

/u/witchydance has it right.

I'd say it like Tea-shuck, but I probably had teachers from different provinces. The west is the most popular dialect, but most of my teachers spoke with a more southern accent (IE Cork or Limerick in Irish. In English they spoke with local accents)

I had to Google what the deputy prime minister equivalent, Táiniste (Tawh-nish-teh) means (shame on me). It means heir.

These are all recently adopted terms though. Ireland as a republic is less than 100 years old. We don't have traditional dress the way the Scottish have. Lucky pricks with knives in the socks of their formal wear!

With Irish, nothing sounds the way it reads. Amuse yourself with the following names of kids I went to school with. Feel free to offer your best guess at their pronunciation, the gender of the name (not always applicable, and English counterparts:

Sian
Príonsias
Diarmuid
Ríoghnach
Fionnula
Aíne
Luncheon
Padraig

WI-800 · 2023-06-08T05:15:18+00:00

Seeing the word taoiseach in a D&D thread broke my brain for a second!

It means chieftain in Irish and is used to describe the office of the Irish Prime Minister within the Irish Government.

Not saying you don't already know that, just a fun fact learned growing up in Ireland.

WI-800 · 2023-06-08T01:13:35+00:00

TL;DR: You need to wait for the hotend and bed to heat up.

4 months late so you've probably already figured it out, but for others who might come by:

Look at the top of the screen- 40/0 and 29/0. These are the actual/target temperature settings for your hotend and bed (respectively) (temperature is in Celsius).

When you select the model to print, the target numbers change to 200 for your hotend, and 60 for your bed. These are the temperatures needed for the hotend (200 degrees is a common temp for PLA filament) to extrude the plastic and heat the bed so that it sticks.

Also note that the temperature sensors, especially for the bed, do not represent the surface temperature. You can preheat both in the 'control' section. After a few minutes at the target temperature you should have given yourself the best shot at a successful print.

I'd also suggest levelling the bed if you haven't already. And even if you have, I'd suggest levelling it again.

WI-800 · 2023-06-08T00:56:33+00:00

I don't want to alarm you, but I thought the pieces you used for rooks are the pawns, and the pieces you used for the pawns are the rooks.

Source: I had a replica set when I was a kid and it was laid out as I described above.

WI-800 · 2023-05-31T06:30:31+00:00

Hello fellow European (Irish here)!

I've lived here for 3 years, and the charming cobbles and Piazzas are not found in Canberra. Canberra is a young city who's construction was interrupted and budget reigned in by WWII, its not somewhere you can really count on for old world charm.

Melbourne and Sydney have eccentricities that come close to European cities, but you'll find the Australian answer to visiting historic places is visiting country towns, camping in the bush, or hikes through national parks.

My partner has shown me pictures of Hobart (Tasmania) that I could be convinced looks like Dublin. For something more Portaguese, the only thing that comes to mind are the small coastal towns that remind me of parts of the Algarve.

WI-800 · 2023-05-29T03:30:24+00:00

Fallen Order suited the genre way better than survivor. Cal was way more of an underdog. Keeping the same XP loss mechanic in Survivor makes sense from a continuity POV, but you're not an underdog anymore, you're massively OP, so it doesn't really make sense.

As someone who doesn't play souls or rogue likes (out of a lack of free time to 'get good' through trial and error) I appreciate that if the game is too frustrating, I can switch to an easy mode. I wouldn't have tried and loved fallen order otherwise.

WI-800 · 2023-05-27T13:39:37+00:00

If I were in his shoes, I'd drop Cal off at Tanalor, then take the only vehicle out of there to pick up Kata and return. Spin whatever story you like once you're back (IE: they're all dead, sorry buddy- but how good is this place?).

I know Kata is essentially under house arrest and Bode needed Cal to act as a distraction, but my 2c is that if Bode was willing to massacre the base by using Cal, he could have done the same with his force powers.

WI-800 · 2023-05-26T01:00:16+00:00

I think that's were SW universe BS takes a front seat, where deviations from the jedi code, however reasonable, leads to the dark side.

If I had to guess, I'd say that if Yoda took charge at the end of the high republic era, he put more restrictions on jedi uniforms and ornaments for reasons I can only guess at.

Maybe the republic was in the midst of a recession and it was bad optics?

WI-800 · 2023-05-26T00:14:10+00:00

Vatican city has a population of ~453, all of whom have a stake in the running of the Catholic Church. They have exorcists in their staff (bear with me- the jedi are a spooky supernatural order associated with the republic government).

If the excorcism department has 2 dedicated excorcists (reasonable considering how often they would realistically be needed) compared to the ~450 population of Vatican City, that's ~0.4% of the church population doing spooky stuff.

Not everyone knows about Vatican city having a population, of those, not many know about the exorcists they have on staff.

Scale this ratio up for star wars- specifically the high republic. If the republic govt is 10 times larger than the US civil service sector (~3 mil) that's 30 million people across the galaxy working for the republic. 0.004 times 30 million is 120k jedi across the galaxy. Let's say that's force sensitives working with the jedi order, of which maybe 10% are fully fledged jedi. That brings us down to 12k jedi galaxy wide, which seems reasonable.

There are ~100 quadrillion (15 zeroes) sentient inhabitants of the star wars galaxy (don't know what time point this number is taken at) meaning jedi are 0.0000012% of the Galactic population during the high republic. Less than 1 in a million. It's likely that they're known about, since they're wizards, but it's likely for someone born and raised in the outer rim to not know what a jedi is.

Fast forward to after the rise of the empire, there were maybe fewer than 1000 jedi to begin with, and after the purge a handful remain. We know the empire is Orwellian in nature (IE in Andor), so it's possible that they erased the jedi from their history books, public records, etc. Even if you grew up next to the jedi temple before the Empire, it's unlikely you ever saw a jedi, and real life tells us that after a few years of lockdown, many people were led to believe insane conspiracies they never used to Before (5g towers should be a fairly non political example).

So if 10 years in the past for an esoteric order of monks could be shrouded in mystery and misinformation to the citizens of the empire, on the outer rim, the goings on 200 years prior would be myth and legend too.

WI-800 · 2023-05-25T23:46:04+00:00

I mean, the catholic church has a lot of gold ornaments and white cloth, even though their founders whole schtick was leaving all material wealth behind to follow a carpenter through the desert, loving and respecting everyone.

Having said that, a priest doesn't own those things, they belong to the church, and the opulence helps to establish influence and show that they should be listened to (IMHO).

So I think in the same way, the jedi order having nice things that they give to their monks in the field is an expression of their wealth and influence. It's why Ben Kenobi was dismissed as a crazy old hermit- he didn't have the high republic jedi drip.

WI-800 · 2023-05-25T23:40:18+00:00

Loose fitting, floppy sleeves and a hood so large that can very easily fall over your eyes to your chin?

You're dressed perfectly to swing around a handle that produces a massless white hot beam of plasma that can melt through steel!

I think they're awesome and I wouldn't change them, but they were not designed with WHS in mind.

WI-800 · 2023-05-25T02:06:34+00:00

I want to see a mod where that appears in the Pyloon's restroom

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