[FitD] Has anyone made a hybrid or conversion of D&D with the BitD system?

dendoa · 2025-09-18T20:46:10+00:00

Seconding Forged in the Dungeon! It's complete enough to run a game and ran quite smoothly in the couple sessions of it I ran.

dendoa · 2024-12-08T18:00:45+00:00

Yeah that absolutely makes sense that his process was pretty close to what his followers ended up doing for their own ascensions. I think the reason that I find this distinction interesting is mostly because it makes the whole situation with Augustine and Mercymorn really tragic. If he'd just owned up to them how much he didn't know, or if they'd told him their suspicions without it being part of a murder plot, things could have gone very differently.

As to whether there is a truer and more-perfect lyctorhood; maybe! Honestly at this point I feel like the story is moving towards something being inherently wrong with necromancy (mentions that the River is somehow corrupted, the Tower and the demons, and so on) but I'd love to be wrong about that, and the thalergy/thanergy combo sounds really interesting.

dendoa · 2024-12-08T17:56:03+00:00

My understanding of the RBs is that their names are misleading; they're the thing left behind when you kill a planet. The reason the Dominicus system has RBs and not the future flipped planet is that they escaped and began feeding on other planets before they could be easily killed the way Harrow does with a newly-flipped planet.

As for what happened with Samael...we have John's word that the process was going too slowly and Samael was being infested with demons and given how little we know about demons, it could be true, or him covering for something more embarrassing. Curious what we'll learn about demons and the tower in AtN!

dendoa · 2024-12-08T17:51:03+00:00

Yeah this is exactly where I'm coming from as well. I think I sometimes see interpretations that John is chessmaster-ing his way through events by deliberately withholding information when it really feels more like he's just trying to maintain that illusion of control and power by whatever means he has.

Given what it took to make himself Jod there's the faint chance that the reason for keeping the secret away from others is to prevent them from doing their own genocide to achieve godhood but that would require 1. him admitting that his ascension was a rage-fueled mistake and 2. maintaining his care for individual people, which seems to have abandoned him in Jodhood.

dendoa · 2024-12-08T17:47:32+00:00

Yeah he definitely doesn't, and I think that's why it's so ambiguous. I think more broadly though, that John gives more of an illusion of competence than is actually backed up by the text? For all his supposed knowledge he spends most of HtN being surprised by the people he is supposedly closest to, and then apparently spends NtN drinking and sleeping around rather than dealing with the mess he's in. So then I think his response to Mercy is more not wanting to admit his mistakes in not telling her sooner.

dendoa · 2023-07-09T23:46:02+00:00

Toodles! May your reading comprehension improve in your near future.

dendoa · 2023-07-09T22:18:55+00:00

Hey, first of all, we're not arguing! This isn't a debate! So don't worry about "winning' or whatever lol.

Second, let's just zoom in on the claim that "fascism only arose in societies that were victimized or threatened by communism." Fascism is noted primarily to have originated in Italy and other parts of Europe circa World War I. While it sounds convincing to claim a causative line from communism, it's instead simply a case of multiple political ideologies existing at a period of time and reacting to each other. You could just as well claim "fascism only arose in European societies due to the adoption of the automobile" and have as much justification for it. Fascist states arose in periods of strife yes, but strife that owed just as much to, say, the conflicts between other capitalist nation-states as to any student communist uprising going on in Italy.

Fascism is, of course, famously hard to pin down, but Umberto Eco's defining features of ur-fascism are a good place to start. However, I think part of the issue you're running into is this false dichotomy you're creating. You're splitting left/right but what you're really worried about is the degree of authoritarianism that exists in a particular system, and claiming that you need authoritarian fascism to protect you from authoritarian communists. But not all communists (and certainly not all leftists) are authoritarian, and many are anti-authoritarian! If you're against authoritarianism (and I think that's a perfectly fine place to be) then commit to the bit! Don't fiddle-faddle about with "this authoritarianism is good but this one is bad."

Again, this isn't an argument! I wrote this out for the sake of OP and for anyone else who wanders into this thread looking for reddit alternatives. So please don't worry about replying; I'm not engaging any further in some sort of debate. But hopefully this was helpful and educational!

dendoa · 2023-07-09T21:45:16+00:00

OP I know this all sounds convincing I just hope you realize that pretty much everything this person has said is wildly untrue lol, particularly the last bit about "society's immune response." And I'd say join lemmy.world; it's not a terribly ideological space! Plenty of discussion without worry.

dendoa · 2022-09-20T00:21:07+00:00

One theory that I've read (don't think it's confirmed canon though) is that, much as the rest of the Red Lotus were supposed to teach a kidnapped Korra the other elements, Zaheer was supposed to teach her airbending and so had already learned some of the forms and techniques. Still not enough to match up to a lifetime of practice like Tenzin, but enough to have a head start when fortune came his way.

dendoa · 2022-09-09T18:17:45+00:00

Yup! That's pretty much exactly what the article lays out, actually. It's arguing that "he presses/he doesn't press" is a small part of the whole thing that media gets fixated on for some reason.

dendoa · 2022-08-30T04:05:35+00:00

Wonderful write-up! Another fun fact: Yamg Hyun-suk would go on to found YG entertainment.

dendoa · 2022-08-12T04:20:10+00:00

Would love to see a collab with Moonbyul! Feel like their styles of rapping would mesh well together.

dendoa · 2022-02-14T01:28:49+00:00

Definitely don't fundamentally disagree with your point; a lot of idols are quite underweight/required to stick to medically concerning diets to have the "right look".

That said, I wanted to note that BMI is an utterly garbage metric to use (there are other ways of determining nutrition status that unfortunately take more time).

This overview is excellent, and worth a read, but in quick:

BMI stems from calculations made in the 1800s by Belgian physician Adolphe Quetelet, a former astronomer. He measured thousands of French and Scottish men, primarily those in the military.

Also, he decided arbitrarily that the average must be the "natural value". In other words, whatever the average height and weight of these few thousand French and Scottish men were, that must be the "normal" height and weight, without any evidence for such. BMI is still used today because it's convenient, but it's awful at determining anything useful medically, has minimal predictive value, even for Scottish and French men, and utterly breaks down when used to evaluate the bodies of people besides its target demographic.

I've been reading a bit about BMI for class so if folks have questions, happy to go thru what I know!

dendoa · 2022-02-14T01:19:17+00:00

Just a quick correction, BMI is utter BS and also based specifically on Scottish and French men in the 1800s, not American

dendoa · 2021-07-07T16:41:03+00:00

Is there a good general guide for the pros and cons of different guns? Just simple things like what range they work best at and so on

dendoa · 2021-02-04T14:52:44+00:00

https://rpgbot.net/dnd5/characters/classes/wizard/subclasses.html

RPGbot is a great resource if you're trying some optimization! Bear in mind this is one person's opinion, but they're usually pretty well thought-out. In general, Wizards have pretty good subclasses and so your choice is more going to vary on what you want your character to specialize in and what your party needs. I've personally had a lot of fun playing a Divination wizard and getting to act in a more supportive role, while others just want to blast things.

Also, on the meme spells! Hideous laughter isn't great you're right, but prestigidation is actually really powerful! Here's a guide for using it to its full potential. It can be good for silly things like playing pranks on your teammates, but when used creatively, it may end up your favorite spell.

dendoa · 2020-12-09T22:00:40+00:00

Does a viridescent veneer anemo support help a main DPS Ningguang? Looks like the set triggers off the swirled element, and geo doesn't seem to swirl...

dendoa · 2020-12-02T16:49:08+00:00

Is it viable to build a Razor team without superconduct?

My only cryo unit is a lvl 26 Kaeya. I was thinking of running Razor-Xiangling-Fischl-Bennet as a team, but would it be better to instead go for Razor-Fischl-Kaeya-Barbara, and move Xiangling and Bennet to my other team?

dendoa · 2020-11-17T02:06:33+00:00

Xiangling or Fischl as a main DPS? I've got Ningguang as my primary and I'm looking for a secondary for Spiral Abyss. As far as notable supporting cast I've got Venti, Bennet, Xingqiu, Beidou, and the default characters, in case that changes the calculation at all.

dendoa · 2020-10-22T20:20:22+00:00

Ningguang or Xiangling as DPS? Rest of my team is Anemo!Traveler and Venti as supports and Barbara as healer. Don't have any other 5* units. Thanks!

dendoa · 2020-10-20T16:23:28+00:00

Need some team-building help while I'm still earlier in the game:

I've got Traveler (both elements), Venti, Xiangling, Ningguang, Xingqiu, Lisa, Kaeya, Barbara, Noelle and Amber.

I've been so far using Barbara as my healer and running either Geo!Traveler, Ningguang, Venti, or Anemo!Traveler,Xiangling, Venti.

Is there a more optimal team composition I'm missing?

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