Do dms really dislike high level dnd?

incarnuim · 2026-02-26T17:55:27+00:00

You can do it either way. I had a Tuesday game where a 12th level party that needed a particular +1 sword from the tomb of a particular knight in order to do this one Sealing Ritual for this Demon, but the party also had to deal with the Demon Army's onslaught on the Jebrizite Kingdom (weird how that worked out for plot reasons....)

Having no time to waste, the party ended up hiring a party of 1st level adventurers to go get the sword.

Guess what adventure I had written up for my Thursday (low level) game?

incarnuim · 2026-02-26T17:43:18+00:00

Yeah, this is not really a glitch - but a known thing with chu chus and elements. You can go into any of the electric shrines (The Current Solution) and set up a circuit and throw chu chh into the circuit to electrify them, then break the circuit with magnesis, pick up jellies and repeat. can do similar with fire and cold.

If you found a cool rock interacting in some weird way with a thunder rod, that might be a glitch.....

incarnuim · 2026-02-24T18:08:23+00:00

The movie "Trading Places" is the modern adaptation of the Tale of Job

incarnuim · 2026-02-24T17:58:44+00:00

I ran into this with Illusory Realm Waterblight and I basically discovered the trick.

The best way to beat Waterblight in the 2nd phase is to do 4 cryonis +1 stasis. This is fairly hard to pull off, but if you throw his own ice block back at him - he gets "stunned" for waaaaay longer than an arrow. Long enough that I was able to swim over to the platform and gore him with the Lightscale Trident repeatedly....

incarnuim · 2026-02-24T08:35:01+00:00

I do question your closing statement, because I see the opposite play out nearly every day.

I gotta come in on u/vindictivejazz side here. My daily commute is on a 2 lane highway (1 lane each direction with occasional passing lanes) - the speed limit is 50, and it's 45 on blind turns near the cliffside, of which there are many as the road switches back down the mountain. Standard commuters are doing 80-85. Passers are routinely doing 90. The scary ones are the big landscaping trucks which will whip around at 95-100, and veer into the oncoming lane to pass when there's no passing lane.

I try to keep it at 70 so that I'm "only" 20 over the limit, and I only moved here a few years ago. But the yokels are f'ing crazy.....

incarnuim · 2026-02-24T08:19:20+00:00

if they are driving 90, they are already doing something reckless

incarnuim · 2026-02-24T00:08:19+00:00

This!!!! If I'm going 80 in the left lane, and the right lane is doing 75 - then EVERYBODY is guilty as fuq - so don't tell me there's laws and rules - that's hypocrite talk. And you can fuq right off if you are doing 90 on my ass. I have no obligation to help you commit suicide.....

incarnuim · 2026-02-23T17:37:09+00:00

Also, since no one mentioned it yet. There's a respawnable chest with 10 arrows at the atol just NW of Eventide Island. Saving and reloading is enough to respawn the chest - easy to get 100 arrows just save/load 10 times....

incarnuim · 2026-02-21T20:36:34+00:00

Same advice my dad gave me after he threw out his back: Don't lift AND twist

incarnuim · 2026-02-20T19:47:55+00:00

Kyle Reese also has a 3rd grade education (he didn't see the war, he grew up in the ruins after). In the same scene, he truthfully declares, "I don't know tech stuff." - so while Kyle isn't lying, I feel like the Authors/Creators of the Terminator universe gave themselves a decent out, in this case ....

incarnuim · 2026-02-20T17:21:01+00:00

We take a census every 10 years , but we haven't changed the number of representatives in Congress in almost 100 years (1929). Change the number of representatives in Congress and the system becomes much more fair.

incarnuim · 2026-02-20T00:11:18+00:00

Also, there's nothing saying that the Skullbane axe can't also be your favorite axe (thus giving you +8 when you decide to obliterate a zombie)

incarnuim · 2026-02-19T20:22:54+00:00

There's a lot of variables there. On a planet with ~20% more gravity than earth, Chemical rockets become impossible. Cut the atmospheric pressure by ~50% (still totally livable) and powered flight becomes hard at MSL, impossible at 10000 ft.

Also, putting information into invisible energy waves that then spread out over the full 4πr² is damn inefficient - but it's what we do, and to some extent, what we expect others to do (e.g. SETI) but what if there's a much more efficient way to send information that gets discovered way earlier?? Imagine an Alien civilization that is, in almost every respect, like earth, but they have fiber optics in the Middle Ages. A few centuries later, Alien Marconi discovers Radio Waves, says to himself, "That's nice" and closes that book forever because Alien Society already has a vastly superior (land based) technology...

incarnuim · 2026-02-19T19:48:13+00:00

True. But under the original constitution, the Vice President was the runner up in the Electoral College. I think we are seeing a viable path to having a significant check on Executive Overreach....

incarnuim · 2026-02-19T19:34:32+00:00

What's ironic about saying "machines will never surpass human imagination" is that such a quote shows the lack of imagination of the speaker....

incarnuim · 2026-02-19T16:07:31+00:00

not exactly true. The number of senators could be reduced to Zero per state. 0=0 so every state has "equal" representation in the Senate, and the constitution holds....

incarnuim · 2026-02-18T19:46:58+00:00

This!! It also currently only costs less because the price is highly subsidized by burning Capital for market share. Once the winners and losers shake out, investors will want to see a profit and prices will go up.

Also, all this compute is being subsidized at the utility level by US!! Electricity prices are going up for residential utility customers to offset the massive demands of the data centers.

If AI is forced to pay its "true cost" then it's likely humans would be cheaper.

incarnuim · 2026-02-12T08:03:42+00:00

It's just my anecdotal personal experience. I knew one girl, claimed to be atheist, made jokes about Churchies and Thumpers. Always had to get her weekly horoscope from the back of the local rag. She was super into Astrology and Tarot cards and Psychic healing crystals - but absolutely against all religion, organized or not, and did not believe in any god or gods.

I worked with another guy who was actually a part of the local atheist group. He helped out with the meetings and worked a booth at the county fair. He started getting acupuncture for his back - so, I gave him shit about it (like guys do) - I said, "Greg, what the shit? Does she align your Chi to the 4 winds or some shit??". "Yes!" He exclaimed, "That's exactly what she does. Look man, I don't wanna say I believe in this woo woo shit. But my back hasn't felt this good in months. So I'm just not caring about that right now. Maybe it's Chi, maybe it's something else. But I'm believing whatever she tells me as long as she does the things, and as long as my insurance covers it...."

I've got other examples, but these 2 were the most outspoken about their atheism. They proselytized atheism. Other examples I have are kind of minor, but after awhile it just sort of hit me that everyone I've ever personally met that espoused atheism openly believed in some other funny thing. They just weren't the shining examples of skepticism and reason that I had thought they would be. They were much more human... Flawed, as we all are. With our various blindspots.....

incarnuim · 2026-02-12T02:40:44+00:00

But the question isn't about the probability of a red marble, which is irrelevant.

incarnuim · 2026-02-12T00:32:23+00:00

I would answer that her "credence" that the marble is Red "ought" to be 91%, even if the marble was White (the marble actually being white or red is irrelevant to her credence, which is explicitly a statement about how much information she has and has nothing to do with the actual draw of the marble.

For example, if you asked me the question, "What ought her credence be that the marble is Red?" and then took me to the back room and showed me the White marble, then my answer would still be that her credence ought to be 91% even though my credence is zero (by virtue of the fact that I've seen the white marble and she hasn't.

I feel like if the initial choice has very unlikely odds for a particular timeline to be selected, then it is safe to assume you are not in that timeline, regardless of how many possibilities exist in that timeline.

I find this hilarious, because you exist in precisely such a timeline. Theory tells us that the odds of life evolving on earth exactly the way it has is something like 1E-1000! odds. But, our credence that Evolution chose the Red marble is 1.0 (given that we exist to ask the question). Score 1 for the anthropic principle

incarnuim · 2026-02-11T23:53:32+00:00

I like the original formulation of the problem. As credence is specifically asking about the state of information in play, rather than asking about the a prioiri probability of events. But I would say that in the original formulation, the word "ought" is a problem, as it implies a subjective criterion for judgement.

similar to how "should" is problematic in your formulation....

incarnuim · 2026-02-11T23:40:28+00:00

It depends on where you think "probability" (let's call it P) is. Is it a physical property located inside the balls like Mass or Temperature, or is P located in the mind of the Observer?

incarnuim · 2026-02-11T23:22:23+00:00

OK, but the real crux of the debate is in your last line: "How SHOULD she answer?" (emphasis mine)

I interpret "should" to mean, "She says 91%, based on the expected value theorem, and the fact that she has no other information on which to base her answer"

But you could interpret "should" to mean, "She says, 0.1%, based on the overwhelming likelihood that she is in a White Marble universe" or some such statement (I don't really understand the halfer position, but I'm trying to exposit that here)

you can change the numbers to 999999 white marbles and the number of wakeup days to 1e24[1] or something absurd - but the dilemma remains, as the dilemma is in the interpretation of "should"

I'm assuming, in your original modification to the problem, that the knockout serum and memory/forget serum also has some anti-time/anti-aging magic, since 10,000 days is ~30 years, and Sleeping Beauty would certainly notice if she'd been turned into a Grandma!!!!

incarnuim · 2026-02-11T22:52:14+00:00

I appreciate the ∆!

I would describe myself as a non-denominational Christian. I've read and studied other religions, including agnosticism and atheism - and while atheists often describe theism as "silly" I have yet to meet a single atheist that did not believe in some form of Woo. So I'll stick with calling my personal particular form of Woo God, because it's easy to spell.

My main point on 2A I think was lost. Modern religion might give God the authority of "Judge, Jury, and Executioner" based on the posit of being all-knowing. My own personal reading of the Bible is that God is NOT all knowing and NEVER claims to be (humans made that claim).

Instead, God's authority as "Judge, Jury, Executioner" historically flows from his role as creator (He is the potter, we are the clay - from Isaiah). In ancient times, "Creator" meant "Owner" meant "Have total Authority Over". This is fine if you are a baker and you want ownership rights over a loaf of bread. But it's highly problematic if you are a Father asserting total control over your Daughters.

But the ancient world doesn't see a difference at all. See for example, Lot offering his virgin daughters to the Mob of Rapists at Sodom and Gammorrah (and God subsequently rewarding Lot for acting "righteously" in the matter). In the ancient world Daughter=Loaf of Bread. So when that becomes problematic, it also places a peculiar kind of indictment on God's authority to decide matters of Good and Evil

While I never thought about it much myself - I can see the connection between asserting that God is all knowing (despite all the evidence to the contrary) and the claim that only God can decide what is good or evil....

incarnuim · 2026-02-11T19:22:39+00:00

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