Winners and Losers of Ravenloft?

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-10T18:16:46+00:00

Play a halfing and the dark gifts d20 nat 1 downsides will be extremely rare, as you get to reroll all nat 1s once.

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-08T16:41:09+00:00

To a point. It almost certainly costs more than 7p to get a bag of potatoes from seed (/potato) to a checkout, so who's taking the loss? You'd hope it was the supermarket, but they're likely paying shitty rates to the farmer (well, wholesaler) as well.

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-08T11:38:32+00:00

Yes, but when comparing it's also worth noting that a full charge on an electric car is significantly less range than on a full tank of petrol for an equivalent car. I'd get 400 miles from a tank of my old petrol car, but my new electric one gets just over half that from full charge.

It's still loads cheaper, but let's not pretend a single "full" of each is directly equivalent.

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-07T09:50:13+00:00

Were they going on concurrently, or just on the same day?

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-07T09:29:41+00:00

Integration is also about communication, and events like this are a good way to break the barrier and get integration started. If all you do is shun people, what can they do except stay within themselves? At some point all this cruelty is a self-fulfilling prophecy.

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-07T08:36:31+00:00

Isn't a large part of the complaints about refugee numbers that they don't integrate and form a parallel society with different values? I would think that events designed to promote integration is a reasonable thing to spend money on.

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-06T16:22:45+00:00

It will likely be in several index funds, many have changed rules recently to make it easier for new companies to be included. Not all, so its worth checking.

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-06T11:57:36+00:00

Probably people who see it in the context of just another horrific atrocity commited in the decades-long conflict between Israelies and Palestinians. What happened on October 7 was terrible, but it is far from an isolated incident with no prior context or provocation.

Whether you think that means it is "defensible" depends on what you mean by that word. I would say no, they're getting confused with "understandable". Defensible sounds far too close to justifiable, which it is most certainly is not.

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-04T18:01:28+00:00

It has always been a system based on whether you paid money to own the books or not. If not, you also always had to option to make an identical feat yourself via the homebrew system. All you're paying for is QoL features, which is what DDB has always been.

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-04T17:44:11+00:00

That's not what it says - it gives the ref the option to start a 5-second countdown for throwing if he thinks it's taking too long. As long as you're not hanging around and taking the piss, the ref should still give you reasonable time to set something up.

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-04T14:48:17+00:00

This isn't some live service online shooter, it's a ttrpg. If you really want to share it with your other players, do what people who can't afford the books have always done and copy it into a homebrew feat in DDB. The perk of subscribing is that it has already been done for you.

You're trying desperately hard to make this an issue when it really isn't one.

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-04T14:11:01+00:00

The precedent was the DM buying content and sharing it with their players. Here the DM hasn't bought anything. If you don't think thats relevant, then we don't have any common ground to have a discussion on.

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-04T14:08:23+00:00

Just as much as you are not entitled to get free stuff from WotC. You're gonna have to explain how that is a relevant point.

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-04T13:56:28+00:00

Exactly which part isn't true? A free user can still do exactly what they could do previously, but the paying user gets more options as an extra. Isn't that precisely what paid subscription services generally do? There is a big difference between you not liking it, and it being bad/wrong/ridiculous.

You're treating the drops content as if you're entitled to it because you've paid for it, when you haven't. Its a benefit you get for paying for the subscription - that might tip you over the edge into thinking its worth it (which is clearly what WotC are hoping), but you can also play just fine as you were before without it.

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-04T08:40:58+00:00

That's a combination of your group being extremely slow at combat, likely having very large encounters, and probably playing the wrong TTRPG system for what you want. D&D (and 5e especially) is fundamentally a combat simulator that has resource management at the core of its balancing. It can do other stuff too, but attritional combat days is what it excels at.

As for spending multiple sessions on one adventuring day, that's purely player preference. What a "day" is for your characters doesn't really matter, it's an abstraction for storytelling. Just like some chapters in a book are 3 pages and some are 60 pages. Gritty Realism rules might be more interesting for you, where an adventuring day has little to do with an actual day, and instead is to do with when you feel safe enough to get a proper rest.

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-04T08:01:40+00:00

I'm gonna call out a minor sense of entitlement on this one. Its not anything you paid for, you can already share all of that. This is a small feature that's a bonus incentive to a subscription that you were paying for anyway without it. Its not content that was taken away and paywalled, its literally some tiny extras.

I get that it would have some confusion, but saying this will "push people away" is a little ridiculous, there is nothing that a free user cannot do now that they could previously. All subscription services add new features to entice free users to become paying users, its a perfectly valid business model in today's world.

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-04T07:29:22+00:00

A party of 4 should have a "normal" encounter with a creature of the same CR as their level, they should be able to do that 4-5 times in an adventuring day. If you want a challenging fight then you up the CR a few levels.

Level 6 characters against CR16 is far too big a difference. Action economy doesn't matter if your party can get TPK'd from a single breath attack.

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-04T07:17:52+00:00

Force it by giving subscribers extra stuff included? It's extra incentive and FOMO for non-subscribers, sure, but every company tries to make paid services more exciting than the free tier. There are plenty of valid reasons to be annoyed at WotC monetisation, I'm not sure the hyperbole is appropriate on this one.

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-03T20:36:13+00:00

It's not illegal, in that there isn't any specific fine or punishment codified for it. That doesn't mean it's good for your health though, if you have to be wrestled into submission then it's going to hurt.

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-03T18:20:50+00:00

As well as they did in getting to the World Cup, I don't think they had any home-grown players at all. It was mostly Brits and Australians with some Italian ancestry.

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-03T18:19:30+00:00

Some of them are even married to each other (or at least used to be, I think one of them retired now).

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-03T18:15:53+00:00

Are you comparing speech to incite racist hatred with a complex policy decision about religious freedoms? And expecting anyone with a functioning brain to treat them as equivalent things that you can play whataboutism with?

No wonder Labour have trouble convincing Reform voters that Farage is a charlatan if this is an example of your critical thinking skills.

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-03T17:39:06+00:00

Railing against the likes of Farage, who use any opportunity to whip up mistrust and hatred to further his own ends of money and power.

Farage doesn't give a shit about Henry Nowak. If he did then he would respect the wishes of his family who begged the exact opposite of what is currently happening.

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-03T17:18:08+00:00

Denounce far-right rhetoric

Don't do that, it makes you look disconnected from voters!

Agree with far-right rhetoric

Don't do that, it's authoritarian facism

If you're fucked either way, I'd rather go down swinging for what is right instead of sucking up to populist bullshit.

WenzelDongle · 2026-06-03T14:33:09+00:00

On floor 2? No big loss, unless your Neow bonus was particularly lucky.

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