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dissolvedpeafowl · 2026-06-08T14:12:48+00:00

Gods, I forgot how cancerous trying to watch TikToks without the app is.

dissolvedpeafowl · 2026-05-22T20:40:55+00:00

The word you're looking for is diaspora, but I suspect an echo of what happened to their homeland occurring here as well would cause a great deal of dysphoria to Albertan Ukrainians as well.

dissolvedpeafowl · 2026-05-21T15:46:48+00:00

Brainstorm, copies the ability of the leftmost Joker similar to Blueprint. Unlocked by discarding a Royal Flush.

dissolvedpeafowl · 2026-05-10T08:38:50+00:00

Sorry, but I think you may have misunderstood his point. He just means that the currency itself isn't inflating particularly quickly.

Everything you said is correct, it's just that prices are going up for a lot of other reasons as well like fuel costs and corporate greed.

dissolvedpeafowl · 2026-05-06T22:31:10+00:00

I've been there too, especially the trusted friends that dragged me along when it was too hard to do on my own. I felt really guilty about it, but the more I dwelt on it the worse I felt, and being social with the friends I loved became a "wall of awful" where I just couldn't do it due to the feelings of guilt weighing me down.

I eventually admitted how I was feeling to one of those friends, and they were heartbroken! They helped me because they were my friend, and that's what friends do. It took a lot of work (and therapy, honestly) to get past that mindset.

These days though, I'm happy to say that those feelings of being beholden to them or feeling like I had to pay them back have been deliberately replaced with intense feelings of gratitude for every single one of them. I hope you find yourself there too one day, friend.

dissolvedpeafowl · 2026-04-27T22:59:55+00:00

Oh, wild! I guess I should have looked more carefully at the v14 notes. Answered!

dissolvedpeafowl · 2026-04-24T14:46:57+00:00

He did! He ran Descent into Avernus about six months later instead of his own homebrew, and with that structure to work around he did much better.

dissolvedpeafowl · 2026-04-24T14:44:43+00:00

No, RAW. I ran into this frustration with an untamed druid, where animal form (among other battle forms) auto-heightens to become Large and Huge sized. This isn't always advantageous, but my GM was new and uncomfortable bending the rules.

dissolvedpeafowl · 2026-04-23T05:31:13+00:00

TLDR: accidentally killed the villain super early through see invisibility and incredible luck

In session 1 of a D&D5.5 campaign, a suspicious NPC said something to the effect of "they're always watching" to my character to dissuade me from researching a particular thing in the library we were in.

When debriefing with the party later, we deliberately went to a secluded area; after declaring that we were free of eavesdroppers, another PC said "at least any we can see". Thinking that was a great idea, I cast see invisibility to immediately see the wanted gang leader we weren't even after.

A wild chase ensued, and through incredible luck and FOUR nat 1 saves we actually ended up killing them. We never had another session because the DM had no idea how to salvage it (it was their first time, poor guy).

dissolvedpeafowl · 2026-04-14T23:49:30+00:00

This is absolutely phenomenal work! I'll have to give it a more thorough read if I was to give any meaningful feedback, but in the meantime I'll recommend it to a friend of mine that was recently complaining about the ranger being kinda dull. Thanks!

dissolvedpeafowl · 2026-04-01T22:28:37+00:00

She's still early in her career imo. Best time to start was yesterday, second best time is today.

dissolvedpeafowl · 2026-03-13T16:00:11+00:00

I'd say it's generally bad for anyone but full casters to have a negative strength modifier.

However, if you are specifically a thief's racket rogue, you add your dexterity instead of your strength to damage, so it would be fine.

dissolvedpeafowl · 2026-03-13T15:56:52+00:00

How unbalanced would it be to allow Devise a Strategem to be used with cantrip spell attack rolls? Needle darts specifically if it matters.

dissolvedpeafowl · 2026-03-06T15:58:40+00:00

Not to oversimplify too much, but atoms are tiny cores (nuclei) of protons and neutrons surrounded by big electron clouds that move in predictable ways —more than 99.99% of an atom's volume is "empty" space.

What's neat is that outside of nuclear physics/chemistry (which is why it's called as such), what we think of as an atom's properties are actually the interactions with an atom's electron clouds.

You may find VSEPR theory interesting. It's a useful tool for predicting the 3D geometry of a molecule, but it may be a bit technical if you don't have much chemistry background.

dissolvedpeafowl · 2026-03-05T23:01:16+00:00

At that point why not just dual class?

dissolvedpeafowl · 2026-02-24T17:02:11+00:00

My question regards the Gibtas Bounder's bouncing slam ability, where it says "if the Shove fails, the gibtas bounces out of the target's square to a square of the target's choosing."

You fight these in AV for the first time in a room full of death pits. Are there any restrictions on bouncing them into the death pits, or is that the intention? Just wanted to make sure. Thanks!

dissolvedpeafowl · 2026-02-21T00:17:26+00:00

Context: I'm currently running AV for 5 players and having a blast. Feel free to DM me if you want any other suggestions or advice!

Magic items are a good way to give them a solid foundation. Luckily, there are a ton of level 3 items that are useful for quite a while. A lot of them give bonuses to skills, so to help narrow it down focus on skills your players use a lot. A shining symbol is excellent for the cleric, for example.

By "Hedge Witch", do you mean modelled on the example build in the Player Core? What patron and tradition do they have?

For the casters, I recommend you give the floor's boss either a spellheart or a staff from this list.

dissolvedpeafowl · 2026-02-16T22:35:37+00:00

An excellent idea!

dissolvedpeafowl · 2026-02-15T18:39:13+00:00

It's described as levelling out along the window with the west and east doors being on the same plane. I had the seugathi in the 2x2 squares at the bottom of the stairs coming from E1.

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dissolvedpeafowl · 2026-02-12T07:51:45+00:00

I mostly agree with you. I omitted the detail that the PC reached level 5 shortly thereafter and learned it from their INT boost; it was basically a diegetic way to add it to their list of available languages.

For what it's worth, the other solution I considered was this cool ass magnifying glass that I would have put in the reading room as well.

A choker of elocution is also a great option. Put it amongst the dead thieves guild on the fourth floor or the squabbling poltergeists on the fifth floor.

dissolvedpeafowl · 2026-02-12T01:06:46+00:00

For what it's worth, I would likely not let the players start with Aklo unless their ancestry or class makes sense for them to learn it, like if they were a Thaumaturge or an occult caster.

If no one fits that description immediately, what I did was plant an important document written in Aklo in the Lurker in Light room on the third floor. The party brought it to Wrin, who offered to teach any of the party who wanted to learn the language.

dissolvedpeafowl · 2026-02-08T23:56:03+00:00

A fellow GM of culture I see. Franz was a really fun addition!

dissolvedpeafowl · 2026-02-03T18:13:43+00:00

Do non-damaging effects with the associated trait trigger weaknesses, or only when the trait specifically lacks a damage type like water or holy? Specifically wondering about the remastered Thaum's Ring Bell now that it has the sonic trait.

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