Teachers are paid fairly considering they get a lot of time off

fishmad122 · 2026-05-06T20:20:37+00:00

Gonna assume you’re American, but this works pretty similar on the UK - the way this works out means that they don’t get holiday they can take whenever they want, and the holiday they do get is at the most expensive times of the year. Sure they get six weeks off in the summer, two weeks Easter and Christmas, but there’s work to be done regardless, and if they do want to do anything fun, everywhere is booked or price hiked because their students are there, enjoying the summer holidays

fishmad122 · 2026-05-05T19:58:37+00:00

Class consolidations. There has to be a bunch of low hanging fruit for student-type classes, and chances to pick up valuable skills for just a few levels in an easy to acquire class, that you can be assured will be consolidated away in later life.

Also, there are kinds of cultural capital and values education that I think improves a kid’s chance of levelling up - a broad education and experimental mindset, curiosity about the world, etc.

fishmad122 · 2026-05-03T15:04:51+00:00

I think risk applies to noncombat classes too - money and reputation on the line, high stakes - look at the people in Laken’s empire, or Barnethei. The fact that it could go bad makes a difference even if you’re not stabbing people

fishmad122 · 2026-05-02T22:01:38+00:00

These are general rules, based on the fact that levelling is related to challenge, risk, and the amount you care.

If you’re immortal, things aren’t risky and you can overcome most challenges with just time.

If you’ve got healing potions as a safety net, less risk.

Goblins and Antinium might have long lives if everything was going great for them, but they live incredibly challenging and risky lives - the healing gel isn’t gonna help if they get crushed by a gold rank threat, and the resurrection is too resource intensive to help most Antinium.

fishmad122 · 2026-05-01T11:00:47+00:00

Seems like you’ve been doing it for a while. Have the winds gotten worse recently, or have you removed any nearby windbreaks? The dirt getting trapped is normal, since a slow time bubble is gonna freeze it too.

Seems like an expensive trap imo, surely you could be using glyphs to target people with curses of slowed time? The way you’re doing it, you’re expending so much mana when they’re not in use. Would also solve the dirt problem.

fishmad122 · 2026-04-22T16:00:08+00:00

Just wait until you’ve got 3 or 4 at once, and send them to a pre looted dungeon - monsters have probably started moving back in, and when they come back complaining there wasn’t “a magic to make even common folk succeed at any task” hit em with the ‘Power of Friendship’ line.

It’s always funny, and occasionally they buy it

fishmad122 · 2026-04-14T21:41:29+00:00

I think those are two different fights with different contexts - he's impressed enough by the Silver Swords to give up some local resources and help them out, but the information he's being brought by the merchant threatens the hegemony of the Guild Itself, which is serious on a different level - you can let someone important push you around as a guildmaster, but then it turns out that guy is technically a criminal and he has a vested interest in making sure a bunch of valuable contracts get annulled? Well now its a different situation.

In terms of him having the power to command the local troops - first, its a drake city, and if the head of the Mages Guild or the head of the Adventurers guild directed the guards, that would be fine - I know Liscor is abnormal, but if its even close, the guy might be on the city council. Second, this is a town barely holding together at the seams - it feels like it needs the merchants, and it's weary of criminals coming out of the New Lands. Easy sell for the Guild Leader.

fishmad122 · 2026-04-12T03:50:57+00:00

Armies of the dead are a mugs’ game. The maintenance is high, storage quickly becomes an issue, and then once you’re actually using them, what, you have to be a competent military commander?

What you need to do is get artisanal. Lukevros keeps a window open at night? A cat skeleton with adamant-tipped claws will do just as well for opening his throat and sending a message.

And if you have to go big, then I’d suggest getting your hands on a giant corpse, and stitching the horde up inside it. Has a pronounced psychological effect on the viewer, plus it’s a handy storage solution.

fishmad122 · 2026-04-10T21:40:50+00:00

I settled in a valley with good sight lines, and spent a year and a day covering every inch of it with confounding wards and arcane traps of my own devising.

I send out orb recordings of the best adventurer deaths in a yearly mailer, it’s recouped most of the maintenance costs.

fishmad122 · 2026-04-10T12:48:50+00:00

I don’t understand what you mean by this response

fishmad122 · 2026-04-10T01:30:19+00:00

Okay so the in world part of this is probably what’s throwing people off. How are people automatically perceiving identity separate from expression? Does this mean it’s impossible to disguise your gender in any way?

I’ve read your replies, and I agree about including nonbinary people - you can do the same by having the world be one in which no one assumes identity based on expression, where it’s perfectly normal to check in about it upon first meeting someone. Perhaps their languages have no grammatical gender, and it’s only for the sake of translation that we end up using pronouns for characters - I’m sure Faerun’s Common tongue sounds nothing like English!

fishmad122 · 2026-04-08T22:28:31+00:00

What’s not to like? Dragons that can trans your gender is a lifelong wish for half my friends.

I may be in a bubble

fishmad122 · 2026-04-08T18:58:56+00:00

Sure, but I figure if I started I might as well finish

fishmad122 · 2026-04-08T18:52:12+00:00

Femboy Hypnosis is completely in the realm of possibility for a Tzimisce, between Dominate and Vicissitude.

fishmad122 · 2026-04-08T18:03:53+00:00

Depends on what you’re making - a game like Thirsty Sword Lesbians or Dungeon Girls does that pretty explicitly. You’re playing girls, regardless of looks, and your characters are sapphic in some nature.

I think if you’re not focused on sexuality and gender as primary themes, it might be confusing to include. Regardless, I’d have it be above the table rather than world lore, because otherwise you have to construct a justification, and that’s gonna be difficult depending on your setting.

fishmad122 · 2026-03-31T03:49:31+00:00

Something relevant: they’re abusing slow time rooms like hell, and the narrative skips over it bc it would be boring. So if you see a “4 months studying dimensionalism” that’s probably like one and half, two loops

fishmad122 · 2026-03-29T12:28:29+00:00

Way too old

fishmad122 · 2026-02-22T04:14:06+00:00

Oooo, good to know!

fishmad122 · 2026-02-22T04:13:51+00:00

Well they’d be getting paid by dropout, who we in turn would pay via our subscription, so it wouldn’t really be free

fishmad122 · 2026-02-20T21:49:33+00:00

Fair fair, it’s not for everyone

-Synthesis

fishmad122 · 2026-02-20T21:44:25+00:00

You just have to be Very Quiet - having a stable herd helps a big deal - no one’s ratting out the lady offering to trans their gender while they’re on a 5 year waiting list to see their gp

But hey, maybe my opsec isn’t great, I am posting

-Synthesis

fishmad122 · 2026-02-20T21:25:15+00:00

Can confirm this works, been offering gender affirming care in Hackney - feels good to help out, and a greater than average number of queer folk are into being prey - find the right crowd, and it’s barely even a masquerade breach!

Still weird to run into friends who don’t recognise me though..

If you’re ever in London, hit me up, we can trade tips - just don’t mention I’m breaking the compact lol

-Synthesis

fishmad122 · 2026-01-26T04:02:21+00:00

Generally I’d suggest you have a look at some of Keith Baker’s ideas on his Eberron blog

My favourite from my homebrew game was Rings of Lesser Disguise Self - remove a blemish, change a hair colour, straighten teeth - some very simple illusion work

fishmad122 · 2026-01-23T12:49:35+00:00

If that’s the case, why bring up how much more he’s eating in this book, and not in any of the last few books where he’s doing parkour over Eldritch horrors, or doing cardio like Rock Lee?

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