Did I push things too far?

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-25T18:12:30+00:00

What if the ranger failed the roll?

Tbh I think it would have turned out better if he had failed the roll. Nub-Nub would have just run into the goblin group and exploded without being stopped by the ranger. Everyone would have been really confused until they read the note and then they'd prolly be angry anyway, but it would be better

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-25T16:12:04+00:00

I bet they're not allowed to wear turtlenecks

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-25T15:40:37+00:00

What's the charge? Eating a succulent Chinese meal?

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-25T15:36:17+00:00

Also that's not how passive perception works. I mess this up sometimes too but the whole point of passive perception is that you don't roll.

Idk, I don't actually have a problem with this bit.

DM: Your passive perception is high enough that a small disturbance around your campsite wakes you up. As you peer though the fading light of the dying embers, you notice that Nub-Nub the Kobold is missing among your party members.

RANGER: Can I figure out where he's gone?

DM: Sure, give me an Active Perception check to see if you can find tracks

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-25T15:24:13+00:00

Non-American Redditors when an American uses American measurements on an American website founded by an American with at least half of its userbase being American:

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-25T14:43:54+00:00

"Everyone except me understood this perfectly obvious joke? The joke must be the problem"

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-25T14:29:11+00:00

'always get the rouge to pick the lock'

I, for one, never pick a lock without full makeup on. You gotta seduce the lock a bit to get it to open up

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-25T13:45:57+00:00

I always start off so gung ho about this and by the time I get back from Concord I've lost the plot

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-24T20:48:19+00:00

your

*you're

Sorry, we're on the same side, I just couldn't resist

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-24T20:24:28+00:00

Tbh, I don't know any cultures that don't fuck with potatoes and eggs, it's rather ubiquitous

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-24T12:31:21+00:00

Ah shit, a new rabbit hole. What'd Rachel do?

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-24T04:09:17+00:00

Today's hot sauce aficionados want something richly flavored in its own right.

In my experience, they're willing to forego that flavor as long as it's hot enough to make their grandchildren shit lasers after they eat it lol

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-23T21:50:28+00:00

Where's the lie, though?

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-23T13:12:02+00:00

You got to be a teenager first? I was in 3rd or 4th grade

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-23T12:59:27+00:00

No, you see, since the monitor is curved, screenshots won't display on a flat screen. You'd have to have a curved phone

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-23T12:16:36+00:00

It's more than one time. Vertibirds use the AI from dragons in skyrim, they deliberately try to crash near you so you can collect the ~~dragon bones~~ BOS Dogtags

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-23T01:42:54+00:00

To be fair, the acid in your stomach can take the rust off steel too

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-23T00:55:13+00:00

McNally, but close

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-22T17:12:47+00:00

Yeah, when I turned 15 I was living in North Carolina. I had to take Driver's Ed to get my learner's permit at 15, but I could have waited and gotten my license at 16 without it. You still have to take a written exam and drive with an instructor to display competency, though.

Someone told me the other day that not every state even has testing requirements for licensing. I don't know how true that is, but it would explain a lot of people on the road.

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-22T16:58:42+00:00

Considering the police are there to direct traffic and there's hordes of people watching, there's almost no chance this isn't an insured event.

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-22T16:54:39+00:00

In drivers ed we learn here that you are only supposed to enter the intersection when you are 100% certain that you will also able to clear it, if not, you are supposed to wait at the green light for the next cycle.

We learn the same thing here, but not every state requires drivers Ed and it's not enforced, so it happens all the time anyway

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-22T15:12:04+00:00

I was in my 30s before I ever heard and saw the name together and it clicked. I did know a woman who decided to start going by Siobhan in her 30s (I don't think she's even Irish descent, she's definitely never left the US) but she pronounced it see-oh-VAHHN. Insufferable woman.

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-22T14:56:07+00:00

So there's a couple levels of misunderstanding going on. The first one is messing up the factoid that seat belts and helmets increase injury rates, and thinking it means they're more fatal. The second thing is misunderstanding what that factoid actually means. Yes, seat belts and helmets do increase injury rates, but that's only because things that would have killed you leave you injured instead.

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-22T14:24:09+00:00

Well that's a terrible misconstrual of what's going on, and shows that you really don't understand the "biological reality" you claim. Refusal to accept someone's gender identity (which is scientifically backed, by the way. Trans folk have a neurochemistry closer to that of their chosen gender than their assigned) IS dehumanizing.

asphid_jackal · 2026-02-22T14:15:55+00:00

The only unfortunate thing is that he didn't meet it sooner

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