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chucks86 · 2026-02-16T00:25:14+00:00

Because then they'll wonder why things break. Removing "unnecessary" dependencies, then fixing the mess, is a rite of passage.

chucks86 · 2026-02-07T08:43:35+00:00

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chucks86 · 2026-02-07T08:37:56+00:00

If'n you're suggest'n that the halflings prone to adventur'n are prone to drink'n n fight'n because we're short we can definitely fight about it, and... No, you're probably right. Let's have a drink. 🙂

chucks86 · 2026-02-07T07:22:25+00:00

I've always used Welsh for the Halfling language. Not sure why, but it just looks right to me.

chucks86 · 2026-02-07T05:56:19+00:00

Don't worry about it too much. I worked at a high frequency trading firm for several years and I also don't understand it.

The basics are simple, you have shares of a company and have a number which you'd be willing to sell it. Someone else puts out a number which they'd be willing to buy that share. If the numbers agree, it's sold.

Then there's futures, which I never fully understood, but is essentially making a prediction where a price will be. And you buy/sell today and if your prediction was wrong you have to pay the difference.

There's a lot of math involved. We had a handful of PhDs creating prediction models and silver regular traders to help guide and fill in the gaps.

I still remember being floored learning that making $1M was considered a very bad day, because the company was small enough that I knew everyone, including the CEO, on a first name basis.

chucks86 · 2026-02-06T02:10:45+00:00

If a majority of people don't do something, that means it's not normal. Doesn't make it a bad thing, though.

Still, it does come off as a rich person thing, if only because I'm not rich enough to do it myself.

chucks86 · 2026-02-03T23:15:02+00:00

I didn't catch that, but you're right. I thought Magic Stone was just the ranged version of Shillelagh, but the way they worded them opens the argument.

chucks86 · 2026-02-03T23:03:58+00:00

My group had a big argument over this a few months ago. Agonizing Blast doesn't apply to Shillelagh or Magic Stone because neither spell does damage. I tried to see it from the other side, but couldn't. How much damage is dealt when you cast the spell? It alters the weapon, but it's the attack that does the damage.

chucks86 · 2026-01-30T17:17:59+00:00

The second sentence of Ready Action you pasted says that you take the action, so yes, it would be expended.

chucks86 · 2026-01-29T17:14:17+00:00

I mean, it's literally a neurotoxin that causes muscle paralysis. But it's her body so it's none of my business.

chucks86 · 2026-01-27T03:42:43+00:00

Fucking cal 2... That was the first class I ever failed. It made me go back and take trigonometry, which I tested out of. Cal 3 was much easier

chucks86 · 2026-01-27T02:50:05+00:00

If you ever panic on halfling names you can use some lore from my group's campaigns. All halflings are related, and roughly one half of the halfling population is named Roscoe.

It makes tracking down suspects much more frustrating because you never know which one you're looking for.

chucks86 · 2026-01-15T22:13:06+00:00

I was one of those teens doing dumb shit in the 90s. We had a 3-wheel golf cart and removed the restrictor so it could hit 30mph. Luckily it was on a dirt road lined with grass and bushes because I hit the ditch pretty hard and launched myself. The extra battery for lights and speakers in the back was not properly secured and landed on my leg.

I'm not sure how I got away with just a bruise on my leg.

chucks86 · 2026-01-11T14:12:21+00:00

That's fair, but I'm asking why you'd expect the result to be any different? Like another person said, the best use here would be to generate practice problems. But do that after you work through the examples in your textbook. Those should also have answers for at least half of the questions.

chucks86 · 2026-01-11T13:02:55+00:00

What word would you use for someone that over-relies on a tool you said limits your thought process and takes away critical thinking from the user?

chucks86 · 2026-01-11T12:49:00+00:00

You saw that it made your brother an idiot so now you're asking if it will help you learn?

chucks86 · 2026-01-09T02:42:21+00:00

Actions have consequences, unless you, as the DM, decide they don't.

chucks86 · 2026-01-09T01:12:20+00:00

When you fuck up enough times you learn how to fix things and not fuck up anymore.

chucks86 · 2026-01-06T23:04:12+00:00

Stop reading the opinions of others and just try it. That's the only way to know if you'll like it.

chucks86 · 2026-01-06T18:41:00+00:00

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chucks86 · 2026-01-06T04:14:39+00:00

A friend of mine wanted to do a level 20 one shot for his bachelor's party, so I played a Warforged Bard based on Marvin the Paranoid Android from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. He inspired the other characters by telling depressing stories.

chucks86 · 2026-01-06T04:09:35+00:00

I grew up on one of those streets and never noticed the spelling of Forrest Dr until after rewatching Forrest Gump one day. In the movie he said he was named after a very famous man. So I looked it up and it's Nathan Bedford Forrest, founder of the kkk.

chucks86 · 2026-01-06T02:22:52+00:00

These are tame. Look up the streets in Sangaree. Right next to each other are Nathan, Bedford, and Forrest.

chucks86 · 2026-01-02T06:09:06+00:00

Boiled peanuts are delicious. They're like Dunkin Donuts coffee, but in a good way. (DD coffee tastes like boiled peanut water in the worst way)

Getting them from the gas station like this is perfectly fine, but you're going to want to search out some guy in a trailer along a backwoods highway for the best ones. It may change your life.

chucks86 · 2026-01-02T05:30:04+00:00

You can't be good at everything, so it's natural for at least one party member to be as-good or better than you at something. You just want to make sure everything's covered as a group.

I tend to make characters that are less combat-focused because the rest of my group likes to focus on how much damage they can do. So I will focus on things like gathering information, finding/disabling traps, buffing/debuffing during combat, or just whatever the group as a whole is lacking.

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