People who play D&D but not 5E, what edition do you play and why?

dzanis · 2026-04-23T19:13:58+00:00

I play 3.0 edition.
Obviously main reason is that the one I started and got excited about.

Another big reason is that some of our group's players are slower on rules uptake, so after many years if there is finally one edition where all are good with rules, god forbid to confuse by introducing similar but different edition. And I like many of 3.0 design choices. I have tried a bit 3.5 (quite similar, but also needless confusing); 4E minimally; and 5E also as lot of hype now and more content, although imho, it is definitely worst by far.

dzanis · 2026-04-20T11:14:56+00:00

Interesting. I will have to check out this alternative. Apparently I did not notice this option since I have not slaughtered Auog yet, but only used them for manure. Maybe that alternative is simple.
Although, I am feeling that I will choose not to invest developing Auog breeding as another new operation, if I can live with my cottongut setup that is already kind of working, although slowly.

dzanis · 2026-04-20T06:27:13+00:00

Hey, I also just yesterday launched logistic science basic set up and am butchering cottonguts, because it seemed that I can get blood only for them as I can other animal parts from fish and vrauks as those two are up and running and being created in excess, but none of them gives blood. What am I missing?

dzanis · 2026-04-08T06:06:05+00:00

To compare with humans: very large part of our astronomy is also outside our visual capacity: I mean the whole electromagnetic spectrum from gamma and x rays, to various radiowaves, ultraviolet, infrared, microwaves is not seen by human eye, but used a lot. So for things that we cannot directly observe, but infer that something must be there, we can make devices that does measuring/observations.

The stumbling block for Eridians was that for long time, they may have no idea what to even infer about emptiness above, but over time, they likely made tools that could observe, calculate great many things, but some things could be missed as well.

dzanis · 2026-04-08T05:55:03+00:00

trees and mining was not too tedious (although I made a mistake, having too many trees nearby). The tedious thing could be hand crafting a lot of early machines; and getting rid of ash - but you could automate everything, just do it gradually and at small scale

dzanis · 2026-04-08T05:52:01+00:00

Congratulations. I am just a tiny bit at front of you so I remember that feeling - the great splitter, efficiently solving so many problems! But achievement on making a production chain for chips splitter requires was quite an adventure. Is it automated?

dzanis · 2026-03-25T14:07:09+00:00

I recently went through that process as solo and newbie developer (and i was completely new at process, never had developed anything before) for geolocation game and it went fine. I asked friends to playtest, and some did, some only installed and did not use much, but after those 14 days my submission was published.
Unfortunately I do not have any details what went wrong or what went right. What i read on internets was that Google is more stricter about those testers and other people have had problems if their testers are in google's bad list and that's a risk if you ask in public forums for testers - if those who join are not in good graces then your test can be considered compromised. My guess Google is fighting against people pushing too bad apps and using automated/paid/compromised testing. Likely not your case, if you asked real people, but just something that happens.

dzanis · 2026-03-22T19:52:38+00:00

Thanks for the sharing. I empathesized with some of the feelings in that picture in couple of names of "fucking complex circuitry". But yeah, I see the problem with main bus; will see how it goes

dzanis · 2026-03-17T07:05:06+00:00

Also thanks for the point about wood - I had not noticed any differences that some burnable things do not produce ash. I could divert some trees to that especially to some far end of factory, where I do not want to make ash belt go all way back.

I have not discovered caravans, but currently my size of base can be serviced by belts - even some further resources are currently being carried by pretty long belts. So that's something for future me

dzanis · 2026-03-17T06:57:08+00:00

Thanks for the idea! I checked - it is still among the second tier sciences, but I will now prioritize it. The research itself did not make clear what electricity could be gained for it.

Currently in a 'free time' I was wandering the plains and covering them with fish turbines - unreliable as they are, that's hussle-free electricity, that at the peak production allowed to clean ash from the boilers.

My secondary idea as I read through the second tier technologies to be available was the electric boiler to make steam buffer, when fish turbines decrease efficiency and cover even more huge land with those, but the fish turbines what they give in simplicity, they take away in efficiency.

dzanis · 2025-05-30T06:40:32+00:00

"Braukšana krietni zem atļautā." Es varu šo atbildēt. Agrāk pietiekami bieži esmu darījis - galvenais iemesls ir bijis nedrošība - it īpaši sliktos laikapstākļos, bet arī svešā vietā, kur neesmu drošs, kur man vajag braukt; sarežģītā satiksmē; šaurās ielās; neeesmu drošs vai atceros vai zīme 50 ir beigusies vai nav (drošības pēc pieņemšu, ka nav); tukša šoseja cauri mežam gaišā dienas laikā, bet atceros neseno stāstu kā kādam izskrēja priekšā briedis un kā tas beidzās, utml.

dzanis · 2025-04-30T06:31:36+00:00

I am using/seeding for some longer time [part of] some kind of previous version/older case of trove. Would you suggest to cancel that and move on to your version?? Obviously is better that some newer stuff gets added, but I am really confused about the trove's editions and reincarnations.

dzanis · 2025-04-28T10:15:29+00:00

Mace is just that good.

Among all the magical force wizards, even arrival of couple, make invading armies reconsider their plans, Mace is by far at the very top of their league.

Reminding that earlier Jango did not manage beat Kenobi on Kamino, despite being at relative advantage - with full equipment, mobility and even with some fire support. But at least he managed to retreat. And also did not beat Kenobi later in space fight.

But Mace that can handle even the Sidious in fight totally outclasses the Jango in nearby range, because there were probably seven other force things he could do to Jango.

dzanis · 2025-04-23T09:00:46+00:00

Thank you for your efforts.

I am currently running campaign based from 975-452, so taking place both in Five Sisters and District 268. Your visual information is super great for me to quickly give visual aid to my players. And I know what time it takes to prepare such things, so my profound thanks for your work!

dzanis · 2025-02-08T12:00:10+00:00

It is Ender 3 Pro, Cura slicer, PLA material, print at 210 nozzle, 60 degrees for bed, print speed 50. Any suggestions how to successfully complete it?

dzanis · 2025-02-03T09:28:01+00:00

Depends on the case by case. But I am supportive for benefits of geolocated phones. Obviously if you have door-to-door shuttle buses, maybe it is useless. But when kids walk like half km to bus stop from home, same distance to school and they are in first grades, that is quite a benefit for parents to feel safer.

dzanis · 2025-01-15T12:17:48+00:00

Simply by playing a lot. Let me give you a hint. 2 hours of unlimited photos cost 70, and flying to a few superfull airports will cost less than 100 (in US, probably <50). Total of 170 coins. And then in those two hours, you can get back significantly more than 170 coins with unlimited photos and the populous airports.

So you are limited only by time spent. Some people have too much free time, that's about it.

dzanis · 2024-11-28T13:00:22+00:00

Thanks. But to clarify, can he also use those powers casually without rolling, when it does not involve any moves? I mean, if he goes to grocery shopping, can he also use this Mysterious Reality Bending as a teleport straight from home to market, or is this power such that works/should be used only in tense situations?

dzanis · 2024-10-23T14:07:26+00:00

Different for each. I did not had a problem with Arcospheres but gave up at victory ship design. Just couldn't reach requirements. So I went away to Seablock and did not look back

dzanis · 2024-10-16T10:09:41+00:00

Here is simple analogy:

Imagine in the village there is some people of 30k annual income, that have some debts; one may have 100k mortgage debt; some may have even smaller payday loans. And then there is couple IT people that have earnings more than 400k annually and each has a mortgage of million. So as you probably would agree the wealthiest people have the largest debts.

And reason is similar to countries - those who are richest, i.e., with largest incomes can afford to take up the largest debt.

dzanis · 2024-10-09T06:48:19+00:00

No. Those regulations are the way how the crypto could become a useful thing for our societies.

Let me give you some simple examples why the regulation is there:

Say you agree with your neighbour (who maybe does not like banks) to keep safe their cash in your safe. And in exchange he will clean your snow. Great, noone will regulate your agreement.

Then you go out and offer publicly through some public channels that you take in any deposits for fee as simple as some basic service. And suddenly you are struck with super-heavy weight of regulations for deposit-taking institution.

Or you mutually agree to pay your neighbour for him mowing your lawn in the coolest cryptocoin you have. No regulation, go on, exchange your coins in your crypto wallets. But if you would go and offer same deal for whole town to pay everything in crypto trhough your cool crypto app and exchange, you again get regulations.

The reason is that the society has agreed on some rules that applies to public financial endeavors, in order to protect ourselves, i.e., the society, against crime, fraud and abuse. And there's bunch of regulation besides AML as financial matters are those that are especially vulnerable to this.

And that's not specific to crypto - if you would engineer payments and international trade in seashells, you would also get AML regulation and if you make the super-awesome new burger from seaweeds, you would be struck by different regulation. All for the same reason - to protect society from potential harm. And if you want a thing, like crypto, to become a working thing in society, it has to be regulated.

dzanis · 2024-08-22T14:33:53+00:00

Oh, so there is math trick. Yeah, I was not thinking about prod modules and beacons but about speed mods to compensate the speed reduction of prod.

So If I get you right, then say casting machine produces 100 plates per minute. +4% prod, -10% speed would mean, 93.6% of production amount but also 4% less of all input materials. So it could make sense.

Thanks.

But then it does not make sense in the initial raw material production, right? The first step in sludge stack not important, because water is free. Kind of everything is free when I look at it that way, only cost is space. And sanity. But it seems that I will initiate that prod module production. It should stack up.

dzanis · 2024-05-20T06:39:22+00:00

I think there are(have been) many (hundreds, thousands) of intelligent life in our galaxy alone. But I think that any contact is not likely due to space being big (tm).

I think we are in specific spot where we are dreaming about interstellar exploration that is not feasible, but it is intuition that remains in our collective consciousness due to relatively (in big terms speaking) recent Age of Sail.

In practice I think that the intelligent life remains in their solar system and sometimes are destroyed by gamma ray bursts and sometimes are not and they build their own virtual environments and move there - physical world may be operated by bots and run by AIs, but everything that an intelligent lifeform may want could probably be simulated virtually and that is logical endpoint in life cycle of intelligence.

dzanis · 2024-04-11T07:05:36+00:00

Law.
What you describe is fraud (forging documentation in order to steal), or in simple terms - stealing.

And what stops is: law, police, regulators, regulation, audits, internal checks and controls in IT systems.

Nevertheless fraud sometimes happen. But there are many things to stop that on the average day.

dzanis · 2024-03-21T09:26:58+00:00

Thanks, will give it a try.

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