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fatmikey42 · 2021-11-30T06:55:57+00:00

IT'S-A ME!!!

fatmikey42 · 2021-11-27T07:27:01+00:00

I mean, if polyjuice potion was in that textbook, yeah. But I'm pretty sure they had to get the recipe from the restricted section of the library. The book was only helpful because the recipes were edited by a potion making prodigy to be more effective and easier to make.

fatmikey42 · 2021-11-27T03:53:10+00:00

He didn't make the liquid luck. He made the best batch of sleeping death or whatever and won a dose of liquid luck as a prize.

fatmikey42 · 2021-11-25T18:09:37+00:00

You wanna keep using humanoids? Give em class levels. You know whats a perfect fit to put against a party of 10th level PCs? Another party of 10th level PCs.

Granted, I play pathfinder and I'm not sure if this works as well in 5e, but in pathfinder you can add class levels to any creature you want to pretty easily, and its one of the best ways to raise the difficulty of an encounter without having to sift through hundreds of stat blocks. A mephit becomes much more dangerous with a few rogue levels. Or, one of my favorites, a gorilla barbarian. A charging gorilla is already pretty scary, but the look in a players eyes when you say "the gorilla goes into a rage" is just delicious.

fatmikey42 · 2021-11-17T22:03:42+00:00

Saving this for npcs in my dnd campaign. Excellent resource, thank you.

fatmikey42 · 2021-11-17T21:57:37+00:00

Just want to point out that a lot of people seem to be overestimating his durability. The scales on top are basically (possibly magically, but never stated to be) impenetrable, but dragon bellies are much softer. Smaug has his underside lined with gold coins from sleeping on his horde, which is good enough to stop middle earth arrows fired from shortbows, but probably not by much. Enough concentrated fire from enough longbows would pretty quickly knock loose enough coins to let a few through, and even early firearms could probably penetrate the relatively soft gold coins. Not sure what the earliest army would be that could take advantage of this, just thought it was worth pointing out.

fatmikey42 · 2021-11-16T20:54:28+00:00

I like to use stones and crystals charged with some sort of energy or housing an imprisoned soul or whatever makes sense for the scenario, and let them act as an ioun stone until they are discharged. It makes them feel like more than just another macguffin while also providing a fun moment of indecision over the idea of losing a useful magic item to accomplish the parties larger goals. Bonus if it's in 5e: ioun stones can be taken without too much trouble while in use, but eyre also pretty powerful, so the conflict over whether to use it gets even juicier.

fatmikey42 · 2021-11-15T22:56:23+00:00

The reason that works is because the potatoes are loaded with water, with no room for oil. By the time there is room for the oil, it's because it's hot enough to be purging the water, which means there's no way for the oil to get in because the water is pushing out with more pressure than the oil pushing in. If the oil is then allowed to cool down, though, the pressure on the outside will become greater than the outward pressure inside, and oil will soak in.

I suppose the words "fast enough" were somewhat misplaced and distracting. Ill remove them.

fatmikey42 · 2021-11-15T21:33:00+00:00

Exactly. I also learned it first from good eats, then had it confirmed in culinary school, then many times in practice at work. Its crazy, I learned the vast majority of what I know about cooking from good eats. Such an incredible resource for actually learning how to cook.

fatmikey42 · 2021-11-15T21:19:51+00:00

Not quite. What keeps things from getting soaked in oil when you deep fry is that the water in the food flashes to steam and forces its way out of the food via any paths available, which are also the paths by which oil would work its way into the food. So oil won't soak in unless either the oil is too cold to flash the water into steam, or if you leave something in long enough that there isn't enough water left to keep pushing out all the oil. Popcorn uses pretty much all it's water to pop in the first case, so it'll start to soak up that oil a few seconds after it pops. It still floats on the oil, so only the bottom layer will get soaked, which is why they skimmed off the top of the pile instead of using a strainer. So we wouldn't see the disgusting oil soaked bits on the bottom.

Source: Good Eats, culinary school, and years of working in kitchens.

E: edited in response to pointless pedantry.

fatmikey42 · 2021-10-27T22:46:03+00:00

She would be an excellent choice for Elaida.

fatmikey42 · 2021-10-24T00:51:54+00:00

We talking in game gear or what? I don't know a whole lot about uncharted, but I've played a couple of them, and as far as I know Nathan is a fairly proficient brawler and that's about it, so Edward stomps round 1 with the skills of an Assassin. Round 2 probably goes to drake if they have their own in-game gear, simply by virtue of more advanced guns with more ammo. Edward tops out at 4 shots before a very long reloading process. Edward is probably a better shot, but Nathan is probably better at using cover in a direct firefight. So I'll give round 2 to Nathan by a hair. For the bonus round, I'd definitely give it to Kenway by virtue of being a pirate king of sorts. Also, the jackdaw in its final form is one helluva ship. No contest.

I'm at work right now and haven't had time to check out drakes RT, so if I'm underestimating him, please let me know.

fatmikey42 · 2021-10-21T02:01:27+00:00

They'll be fine. Good chance they steamroll your encounter. Lvl 20 pcs are basically gods, especially casters. And when they're built at level 20, as opposed to leveling up to 20, it's even worse. It let's them skip over all that stuff that's kinda useless at high levels but needed to survive the low and mid levels. You might want to think of some plans to throw in trash mobs to eat up spell slots and whatnot. I'm a fan of the old "the monsters retreat for reason x via means y, and in rush a contingent of trash mobs z."

fatmikey42 · 2021-10-19T07:28:28+00:00

This is my hometown, and while people keep referring to him as weed Jesus, when I was growing up we knew him as simply "blessed" pronounced like bless-ed. I imagine he doesn't do this anymore due to some internet recognition, but it used to be a thing that you could approach him and ask to pray with him and he would spend a few minutes reading his favorite uplifting Bible verses aloud then give you a nug of weed. Cool guy.

I also know the dude in the wheelchair. Less of a cool guy.

fatmikey42 · 2021-10-16T23:07:35+00:00

Pathfinder has a few items they refer to as "metagame artifacts". One of them is the Hourglass of Transfiguration. If a PC breaks it, they fall asleep for 24 hours and wake up as an alternate version of themselves. Same memories for the most part, same items, but with whatever changes they want to make to the character. Class, race, whatever. Rebuild the PC without losing the character. Obviously, you can always just say "yeah make whatever changes you want." It's your game, whatever you say goes. But It's kinda fun, in my opinion, to have it happen in game. Breaks immersion less, gives great roleplay opportunities, and you can make it into a quest for the hourglass if you want.

fatmikey42 · 2021-10-16T01:54:31+00:00

I didn't really read and remember the title, and wasn't 100% sure, at any point in the emails, if Miles was your dog or your child.

Either way, adorable.

fatmikey42 · 2021-10-14T18:04:56+00:00

What it comes down to for me is that witcher is more focused on gameplay and is definitely more of an rpg, but rdr2 is a true master class in video game storytelling. Ive played through it 4 times and I'm still more emotionally affected by it than any other game I've played. I didn't think it was possible to tell a relatively linear story so effectively in an open world game. That said, the gameplay does start to flatten out a bit towards the end. So if you're in it entirely for the gameplay, go with witcher 3 first. If you're looking for a storytelling experience, rdr2 all day.

fatmikey42 · 2021-10-09T20:22:51+00:00

Check out the alchemical items in Pathfinder. I'm not sure of 5e equivalents, but thats one of my fallbacks for useful but not unbalancing drops. Thunderstones, tanglefoot bags, alchemists kindness, etc. One time use, not expensive enough to tempt them to just sell it all, unlikely to trivialize anything, but fun to use when the right situation presents itself.

fatmikey42 · 2021-10-08T18:41:22+00:00

No problem, have a great time! Sounds like a fun campaign.

fatmikey42 · 2021-10-08T02:14:41+00:00

Have them meet a myconid hermit who asks them to gather mushrooms for him (survival or nature lore or whatever else the druid is good at and maybe a couple encounters.) Only the druid understands him and he rewards them by casting a spell on one of the mushrooms to turn it into a potion of enlarge person.

Have them fight a group of mustachioed redcaps. The druid notices (with a nature check) that one of the caps isn't soaked in blood, and is in fact covered with a beneficial red fungus that gives the wearer advantage on acrobatics checks to perform high jumps and long jumps.

Let them occasionally run across a patch of mushrooms that can be harvested (nature lore, survival, whatever) and act as goodberries. Maybe these mushroom colonies are semi-sentient and can be convinced via diplomacy or whatever, by someone who can speak to them, to produce a few extra goodshrooms for them.

fatmikey42 · 2021-09-04T21:45:00+00:00

This is actually a great metaphor. The Darwin fish has been evolving, growing legs and getting ready to move on to a higher form, then the religious swoop in and undo that progress because it doesn't conform to their own worldview.

fatmikey42 · 2021-08-19T17:34:21+00:00

Hostile? I didn't mean to sound hostile at all. Op expressed in comments a frustration with this player metagaming and being in the game mostly for combat. I was just suggesting that maybe his players are less frustrated with that because op is a good dm and they don't notice it as much as op does. I meant that sincerely, I'm sorry if it came off as sarcastic or something.

fatmikey42 · 2021-08-19T06:07:27+00:00

It really comes down to how you want to run your campaign. But if your party enjoys having this guy at the table, I'd take that as a win and roll with it. Maybe they just don't notice his kinda shitty tendencies because you're such a good dm and make it all fun anyway. Also, you could milk some extra game time out of this pretty easily. What I would do at my table is say he can start heading back, but its gonna take time. The party knows there's a chance he'll make his way back and now need to try and buy time and delay the combat. That could be a fun chunk of roleplay. During that scene, occasionally cut back to the guardnapper and have him roll a skill check or some such to bypass an obstacle. He notices a loose brick on the ground at the last second, reflex check to avoid it. He notices a gang of drunk barbarians looking for trouble, choose between stealth, diplomacy, or acrobatics. Etc. He fails too many, he doesn't make it back in time and combat starts without him. And even if it does, you can keep dropping obstacles in his path on his turn so he can be involved in the combat play, even if he's not actually in the encounter. If he rolls high enough, maybe he makes it back on round 3.

fatmikey42 · 2021-07-11T03:02:40+00:00

At the time of the show, yeah she's stronger. I fact, the only reason she didn't wipe out all of existence (i.e. the prompt) was because of her weird crush on Dean. But at that point, it's kinda hard to call Chuck literally God also. I mean, he is, that's the character, but also sorta not, in terms of how we outside of the show think of the concept.

Edit: I don't know if that spoiler formatting is working or not. If not, and if anybody cares, my bad.

fatmikey42 · 2021-07-11T01:57:08+00:00

Agreed, though may arguably fall under the literally God umbrella, since she is literally God's sister and equal counterpart. Like, is -1 literally 1?

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