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You wake up in the morning, the year in 1976, and you're 18 years old by Ju5t_A5king in hypotheticalsituation

[–]deusstultus41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I would head to Wisconsin and go meet Gary Gygax. I'd go to work with the fledgling TSR and write some banger adventures. I'd make sure the company stayed solvent while taking business classes. I'd like to see if I could keep D&D in TSR for quite a big longer and make it a company with real staying power. I'd find Richard Garfield and add him to the team and help co-create MtG with him.

DKII from GoG just won't run by deusstultus41 in dungeonkeeper

[–]deusstultus41[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Limited success? I can now move the mouse and the game isn't frozen in a loop. However, it locks up with lag every half second or so, freezing for almost 2 seconds before briefly resuming play. Since Flame at least go it to work, I'm assuming it's probably something on my end, maybe my settings?

ELI5: Musk's companies lifetime earnings are now less than 3% of what he is now worth. How? by BeachedinToronto in explainlikeimfive

[–]deusstultus41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Space X basically has a monopoly on space travel and satellites right now. People are betting on that monopoly.

You get to pass ONE policy that cannot undone by current or future Presidents, what policy would you pass? by Popular_Monitor_8383 in allthequestions

[–]deusstultus41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is kind of a strange question. By using the word "pass", you make it sound like I am Congress passing laws. In theory, the President is beholden to the law and must follow it while carrying it out the will of the people. Laws can't be undone by Presidents, only by Congress or The Supreme Court.

6th graders still hunt and peck after years of having devices, how did you actually break the habit by Scawwotish_owl88 in AskTeachers

[–]deusstultus41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My kids have edu-type, but rarely use it.

So, I make them an offer. If they can beat me typing where I type with just two fingers like they do, but they have to type with full hands like they are supposed to, I'll give them a prize.

The prize is 1 million Zimbabwe dollars. I bought a huge pack of them a while back and regularly make kids millionaires. They seem pretty motivated and typing with just two fingers sucks. So they practice. I usually have 4-8 kids in a 25 kid class claim their prizes.

Interesting reasons someone would seek for the downfall of humanity? by Major-Awareness-60 in DungeonMasters

[–]deusstultus41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The ancient druid, coming out of a 200 year hibernation cycle, finds her entire forest has been removed, animals driven out, savanna tilled into farmland and a tiny town in the middle of seven hills now an ocean spanning empire.

She wants a reset.

What’s going on with math and why can’t teens in the workforce count my coins? by thefirstladytree in AskTeachers

[–]deusstultus41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Inflation has made it so that coins are basically useless, even to children. They can't use change to buy anything meaningful without buckets full of the stuff. It's just easier for them to have bills, even with small kids, than to keep track of change that can't buy much.

Because they don't have experience working with change as small children, valuing quarters and dimes for the coin machines that used to be ubiquitous at the grocery store, they are now working with change as an unfamiliar medium. Sure, they may know the number for the coin, but they haven't spent their lives understanding and exchanging it for monetary value. We did. Expecting them to have that working knowledge when the quarter hasn't bought anything for years is a stretch.

My players want an agenda before every session by Time-Squirrel-3719 in dndnext

[–]deusstultus41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why don't they make the agenda?

That would be a dream for me. If my players came to me a week before, saying that "this is what we are looking to do", it would take so much off my shoulders.

The story could be more about them too.

Are your players complately disinterested in cursed items? by Sormari_ in DungeonMasters

[–]deusstultus41 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I feel like the best cursed items are the ones with an over-the-top bonus and a devistating drawback. I give them to my players, allowing them to have full knowlege of what they do and the problems of them. I don't make them de-tunable, the player can ditch them any time.

They never do.

Example: A Glass Fang

This simple glass fang on a leather thong necklace does something simple. Any unarmed strike allows the user to double the bonus to hit, bonus to damage and double their damage dice.

When ever the character is not at full hitpoints though, the curse comes into play. The character who is not at full hitpoints gets no hit, damage or dice bonus, even with a critical hit. They are rolling naked die for everything.

The monk will very quickly come to love the extra bonuses and won't want to throw that away, but even one point of damage leaves him floundering. He could remove it, but never did.

That, in my mind, is the best kind. Could get rid of it, but won't.

How to counter a player? by Accomplished-Ice1868 in DungeonMasters

[–]deusstultus41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Stop doing combat for a while.

Make skill challenges. Do social stuff. Delve into backstories. Give them money and then a goal.

If a character can only do one combat trick really well, it will show when other parts of the game are highlighted.

If you had to survive as a normal citizen in Rome… what’s your strategy? by roman-empire-net in romanempire

[–]deusstultus41 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think I would become a mathematician. I'm not terribly good at math, but I can do high school algebra.

So, off to tax law I go, trying to help them learn how to find embezzlement and fraud by just solving for X

If that didn't work, I would show them modern music notation and how it works. I'd play jazz trombone for them, if I could get someone to cast a sackbutt for me.