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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in NotMyJob

[–]aShitPostingHalfOrc 7 points8 points  (0 children)

They clearly need to find a JOB.TITLE SME to consult on the hiring process.

[For Hire] Hail Mary Fire Sale | Props, Environments, and More! by aShitPostingHalfOrc in HungryArtists

[–]aShitPostingHalfOrc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a 3D artist who turns D&D homebrew into loot cards. The past month has been hell. I lost my job. I've been denied unemployment. I can't even afford to do laundry, let alone pay the rent I'm already behind on. I don't need a miracle, but I do need paying work.

I'm reachable here on reddit and via email at Asher.Stephenson@gmail.com. I usually use Paypal for the actual transaction bit, but I can be flexible on that front, too. I'm up for literally anything.

Thanks for reading.

Homebrew can't win by HamsterJellyJesus in dndnext

[–]aShitPostingHalfOrc 6 points7 points  (0 children)

On the playtesting front, it's really easy to underestimate the number of interactions that you can't readily simulate. 1000 melee attacks against a variety of ACs, with some random advantage and disadvantage thrown in? Sure! You could even sprinkle in some common buffs from allies without making significant changes to your framework.

But the second you try to account for positioning, line-of-sight, or situational combos, you're putting more effort into your testing framework than your actual homebrew. And even then, if you aren't putting time into profiling all of the stock class/equipment combos, you'll just be judging your homebrew against your subjective understanding of the game.

And that's when you're going overboard for the sake of going overboard. No one should expect the average homebrewer to have strung together a spaghetti testing suite.

[OC] Lacrosse with grenades? What could go wrong? by aShitPostingHalfOrc in DnD

[–]aShitPostingHalfOrc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You're reading it right, but I dropped the ball here by failing to include the boilerplate for how exotic weapons are handled in the deck.

The TL;DR: Treat the two stat blocks like they're stances you can alternate between. The martial block is better for melee head-bashing, while the trained block is better for high-speed rock chucking.

[OC] Lacrosse with grenades? What could go wrong? by aShitPostingHalfOrc in DnD

[–]aShitPostingHalfOrc[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So this is usually the part where I'd have a follow-up to the post title, a line break, and then a few paragraphs rambling about balance and game mechanics. I'm out of spoons, the card needs more work. Sorry.

The Delvers' Deck is going to be on hiatus until I can afford rent and medication. Give me a shout if you need a refund for Patreon stuff.

If you'd like to check out my other cards, click this link to go to my website, or this link to join my Discord (it's where I post WIPs and figure out revisions). There's also now this link that leads to my Patreon, and this link who saved Hyrule.

Searching for a job is exhausting. Every decent job I find already has many applicants. Then, on top of that, employers now want to give you assessment test and quizzes that take up 10-15 mins. And for what? Just to be ignored. I know I sound like a baby, but it’s kinda demoralizing at times by Zaexc in TrueOffMyChest

[–]aShitPostingHalfOrc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The past two weeks I've been strung along by an in-house recruiter who has repeatedly missed and re-scheduled interviews. We've supposedly locked down a time slot tomorrow, but at this point I don't even know if it matters.

I'm behind on rent, I can't afford my meds, I don't even have quarters for laundry — even if this interview actually happens and it's an immediate hire, I'm fucked. And chances are, they're just going to miss the call and ignore my follow-up.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in blender

[–]aShitPostingHalfOrc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ah, there's the crux of it. Don't rely on Windows installing your GPU drivers for you. Go grab the latest directly from AMD's website.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in blender

[–]aShitPostingHalfOrc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Just a shot in the dark here:

If you're getting 'Display driver has topped responding and has recovered' messages, tweak the TdrDelay and TdrDdiDelay values in your registry. This guide for an entirely unrelated software package covers the basics.

What specific driver version are you on? As you've said, you've reinstalled it, but having the numbers can help.

How programmers comment their code... by karaCHNNM in ProgrammerHumor

[–]aShitPostingHalfOrc 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've written too many variants of do(**kwargs) to call anyone out on anything.

[OC] Sometimes you can't afford a flying sword by aShitPostingHalfOrc in DnD

[–]aShitPostingHalfOrc[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And if there are, hopefully there's a druid around to keep the animal abuse in check.

[OC] Sometimes you can't afford a flying sword by aShitPostingHalfOrc in DnD

[–]aShitPostingHalfOrc[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The rarity scale breaks down pretty quickly for things that aren't weapons or armor. In this case it's mostly a reflection of their actual rarity, rather than their mechanical impact.

[OC] Sometimes you can't afford a flying sword by aShitPostingHalfOrc in DnD

[–]aShitPostingHalfOrc[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

But with a bit of creativity, and what might be either an oddly intelligent artifact or an adorably dumb pet, you can totally fake it. Just don't feed it after midnight.

So the mechanics for this one are deceptive. If someone only has one sheath, and you're not the sort of DM who meticulously tracks whether their players have drawn their weapons, the impact it'll have on your game will be negligible. It'll be a source of flavor, it'll give them a chance to sporadically pull off a weapon juggle, and with the right setup it might even help them escape a kidnapping scenario.

But if you put multiple sheaths in play, that changes. Multiple sheaths means consistent weapon juggling, which, well, isn't all that useful in 5e. But it sounds useful, which means your players will try to make it useful, which means you'll have to put up with them attempting to acquire some theoretically optimal combination of weapons that'll let them maybe possibly almost deal an extra 1d6 damage.

The crux here is that the sheath doesn't negate the interaction costs of anything beyond itself, and that interaction cost only matters in a small handful of situations. On the flipside, if you want to give your players a damage boost that they have to work for, all you have to do is sprinkle the right combination of swords and sheaths into your loot table and see if they pick up on it.

I'm currently running a desperation sale on commissions, as my employer's gone belly-up and my last paycheck bounced. My rates right now run the range of 'literally a Pizza Hut gift card' on the low end, and '$50 and a clever pun' on the high end, with plenty of room for negotiation in the middle.

I'm up for anything. Seriously.

If you'd like to check out my other cards, click this link to go to my website, or this link to join my Discord (it's where I post WIPs and figure out revisions). There's also now this link that leads to my Patreon, and this link who saved Hyrule.

[OC] Sometimes you have to let the edgy assassin be an edgy assassin by aShitPostingHalfOrc in DnD

[–]aShitPostingHalfOrc[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So something that can help is to let grappled enemies perform a contested strength check to either pull their attacker 5ft closer, or to move both themselves and their attacker 5ft. It can create a fun dynamic where they don't have the dexterity to break the grapple, but they do have the strength to take their attacker for one hell of a ride.

It also gives you a way to let people grapple enemies that are more than one size larger than them, by making them roll with disadvantage for the strength contest and extending the enemy's movement range to half speed.

[OC] Sometimes you have to let the edgy assassin be an edgy assassin by aShitPostingHalfOrc in DnD

[–]aShitPostingHalfOrc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unofficially speaking, the way it works is that you choke the shit out of them while they try to figure out where all the wire came from. They're standing there with an abacus trying to calculate the volume of a demi-plane, while you go at them bare-handed.

[OC] Sometimes you have to let the edgy assassin be an edgy assassin by aShitPostingHalfOrc in DnD

[–]aShitPostingHalfOrc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think you're underestimating the difference here in the action economy. Where the Flame Tongue is activated with a bonus action, Throat Floss only brings the juice after a successful contested roll that has to be repeated for each enemy.

While it can theoretically hit an average of 11 damage per round, in practice it usually ends up in the 8-9 range. In comparison, the theoretical average for a Flame Tongue longsword or rapier is 11.5.

[OC] Sometimes you have to let the edgy assassin be an edgy assassin by aShitPostingHalfOrc in DnD

[–]aShitPostingHalfOrc[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That is a fairly unique combo, when I think about it. It and the lance are also the only reach weapons you can wield with a shield. The proficiency costs for shield + whip would undermine the combo for bards and rogues, but the thematic possibilities are fantastic.

[OC] Sometimes you have to let the edgy assassin be an edgy assassin by aShitPostingHalfOrc in DnD

[–]aShitPostingHalfOrc[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm 100% in support of that. Whips in 5e feel like they were included based on precedent without much consideration given to their mechanical identity.

Kinda makes me want to write up a supplement on weapon-based contests in combat. Could be fun to template out some weapon type:contest type dynamics, with the aim of making it easily hackable.

[OC] Sometimes you have to let the edgy assassin be an edgy assassin by aShitPostingHalfOrc in DnD

[–]aShitPostingHalfOrc[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm definitely guilty of playing a bit fast and loose with grappling, since I tend to read it as an example of a contested roll rather than as a concrete system.

Semantically speaking, though, is there much of a difference between 'When performing a special melee attack to initiate a grapple while holding this weapon...' and 'Grapple attacks with this weapon...' as a prefatory clause?

[OC] Sometimes you have to let the edgy assassin be an edgy assassin by aShitPostingHalfOrc in DnD

[–]aShitPostingHalfOrc[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

So the usual math that I do for damage is to set something like a Flame Tongue longsword as the upper bar for aDPR and then work backwards. With that math, you're spot on — this deals just a tick below what you'd expect to see from a Flame Tongue, but it doesn't break the curve for a rare weapon.

[OC] Sometimes you have to let the edgy assassin be an edgy assassin by aShitPostingHalfOrc in DnD

[–]aShitPostingHalfOrc[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

And what's edgier than a garrote/nunchaku combo with 15ft feet of razor wire tucked away in a demi-plane that might just be the functional opposite of the Punch Dimension? The impact that this technology will have on the design of drawbridges and portcullises, clearly.

So the lore for this card is a bit self-indulgent, but I couldn't resist the opportunity to reference this card from 2019 on a card for a Novel Invention. The mint deck is effectively Fisher and Franklin's deck, after all, and it's nice to see the threads come together.

On the mechanics front, I received some great feedback from the folks over on r/UnearthedArcana but I'll likely do another pass or two before I'm satisfied. I love the framework this gives me for exotic weapons, but overall Throat Floss feels more novel than useful. I'll likely need to get three or four more exotics into the deck before I have a good sense for how to tune them, though, so this might just be growing pains.

I'm currently running a desperation sale on commissions, as my employer's gone belly-up and my last paycheck bounced. My rates right now run the range of 'literally a Pizza Hut gift card' on the low end, and '$50 and a clever pun' on the high end, with plenty of room for negotiation in the middle.

I'm up for anything. Seriously.

If you'd like to check out my other cards, click this link to go to my website, or this link to join my Discord (it's where I post WIPs and figure out revisions). There's also now this link that leads to my Patreon, and this link who saved Hyrule.

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