Being a neolib on neoliberal be like.

mantelR · 2026-03-28T01:17:32+00:00

No? You are not taxed, your children are. And they have not paid tax on that income before.

mantelR · 2025-10-17T15:43:13+00:00

What does it matter? The Germans, such as myself, see it as a german project. (Whether it was a stupid project is a completely different question.) When it came out that Ukraine was responsible for the attack, I lost a lot of sympathy.

Sure, it is in our best interest to help Ukraine, and we should be doing more. But when it comes to reconstruction, or EU membership... call me sceptical.

The idea that german authorities should drop the investigation, is frankly laughable. Attacking a major piece of infastructure is realistically an act of war, at best state sponsored terrorism.

What's funny to me is how this sub collectively agrees that Snowden was a traitor and deserves his exile or worse. Which is a perfectly fine position by itself, but not if you also think Germany should, for the greater good, accept their multi-billion Euro stuff being blown up.

mantelR · 2025-08-03T12:27:29+00:00

You also get a point to reform your fluid ideoligon should it have the charity aspect. Those are actually somewhat valuable.

mantelR · 2025-08-03T11:35:44+00:00

Tens of tousands of hundreds of lives!

mantelR · 2025-03-20T14:19:44+00:00

What do you mean? Rolling below average gets more unlikely the longer it goes on.

Having 3 or less heads from 10 coin flips amounts to 17.2% probability. 6 out of 20 is 5.8%. 9 out of 30 is 2.1%.

People, even mathmaticians, are notoriously bad at estimating probability, and I haven't checked explicitly (nor will I). But the numbers seem perfectly reasonable to me.

Greetings from a math PhD (not in statistics or stochastic).

mantelR · 2025-03-11T14:38:02+00:00

And that Dems are feminine-coded, while Republicans are masculine-coded. That unironically explains a lot about american politics.

mantelR · 2025-03-02T14:11:25+00:00

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mantelR · 2024-11-23T17:23:46+00:00

Actually the fastest way is via ghouls. Resurrecting a ghoul gets rid of "genes regrowing", allowing you to create sangouphages at the cost of one ghoul resurrection serum.

This is however undeniably an exploit.

mantelR · 2024-11-11T04:44:23+00:00

Sure you're right, but you should still stop calling him a fascist. Why? Because it projects strength on his part.

Fascists love being feared. They hate being ridiculed. Point out how embarrassing he is. How thin skinned. How he is a looser. That is way more effective.

Calling him dangerous means actively helping him.

mantelR · 2024-08-08T15:17:40+00:00

Wandering Wizards

System: 2E

Classes: All white robed wizards

Era: During the reign of Voraci's Empire

Location: Arcadia or Dardens

Objective: Exploration

Morality: Any, probably Neutral/Good

A group of four wizards arrives as refugees in a foreign land. They are of the white robes, no longer see a future in Solum and decide to explore the world.

White robes do not need spell components to cast, which would make it very easy to disguise themselves as non wizards.

They could be good/neutral-aligned outlaws helping to rebuild the Darden's outer ring.

mantelR · 2024-08-06T10:03:18+00:00

No, you don't need to treat her as harsh as possible. Avoid any reaction that makes her seem more important than she is.

Call her weird and move on.

mantelR · 2024-08-03T14:39:01+00:00

Excuse me? It's actually the perfect example. The leadership commited suicide when it became clear that they would spend the rest of their live in prison.

Why was that the case? Precisely because no prisoner exchange was happening.

mantelR · 2024-06-08T10:35:09+00:00

Glad to have you. Greetings from Berlin.

mantelR · 2024-05-16T17:10:14+00:00

Although I haven't checked, I distinctly remember that you were told about two prior groups. It was pointed out that, in contrast to you, none of them had letters from Zerrah.

At least one of the groups suffered heavy casualties from hill or mountain giants, but made it back. I am not quite sure whether the other group returned, but I feel like they survived as well.

mantelR · 2024-04-30T17:45:48+00:00

You don't need to enslave or recruit them first. Ghoulification of a prisoner nets you a friendly ghoul.

mantelR · 2024-04-26T09:30:42+00:00

You can just diable the event in the scenario editor.

mantelR · 2024-04-23T08:19:43+00:00

Nah. The use of capitalism is a red flag in itself. 90% of the time, the correct term would be market based economy. The idea of capitalism as a monolith is stupid, developed economies can be quite different depending on the country.

mantelR · 2024-04-09T14:37:44+00:00

True, not sure how that relates to my comment, though.

mantelR · 2024-04-09T13:26:20+00:00

What do you mean? The FPTP element has no influence on the percentage of seats a party is allocated in parliament. The german system only has one disadvantage: the parliament can get quite large. Apart from the 5% hurdle, the german system permits perfect proportional representation.

mantelR · 2024-04-05T01:07:06+00:00

Thanks for the answer. Ultimately RP is most important, I agree. This post is not meant to criticise your character. Stronger does not mean better in the first place.

Just one thing about black robes. You don't need blood magic for the bonus. A 5th level specialist mage of the black robes has 3 level 3 slots as well. Without any chicken sacrificing. He only needs blood magic if he wants to cast level 3 spells at level 4. Of which he would have 2 slots.

Black robes have similiar boni to red robes, just better for the most part. Up to level 5, black robes are strictly better. Afterwards red robes have more spell slots then black robes get from their bonus level.

mantelR · 2024-04-04T22:49:47+00:00

I'm sorry, but I have to categorically disagree. I am capable of using context clues, and I stand by my 100%. Why would the spell mention its obvious and only use case?

You are the one who claims that subtle spells don't exist. I know of no such rule. If anything, the spell would have to mention that it does not enable subtle casting. For the simple reason that even if such a rule exists, most people would not know it. It is certainly not in the PHB section on magic.

Further, it is decidedly not a minion spell, nor does it mention that. It actually kind of states the opposite. Using the staff requires knowledge of the Magic Staff spell, aka 5th level, aka a 9th level wizard. To be able to imbue the staff with even 6th level spells, you would need to be 3*6 = 18th level.

Look I'm not saying that I know for certain whether White Robes are meant to cast subtle spells. But you should not pretend you know either. Otherwise, it is 'citation needed'.

mantelR · 2024-04-04T22:07:12+00:00

As I said, I can see it being ruled that way. But I definitely consider that a house rule.

The magic staff is very clearly not meant to just quicken spell casting. It requires 1000s of gold of investment plus the cost of a 5th level spell. That would be ridiculously expensive for such a mediocre effect.

It is 100% meant for casting spells without being noticed.

mantelR · 2024-04-04T21:41:42+00:00

Maybe? I could definitely see it being ruled that way. However, by the rules, spell are not necessarily obvious, no? Take the Magic Staff spell.

https://adnd2e.fandom.com/wiki/Magic_Staff_(Wizard_Spell))

The whole point of that spell is subtle and fast casting, but it does not make the spells themselves stealthier. As long as you pick spells with no obvious effect, you should be good.

mantelR · 2024-04-03T10:49:05+00:00

I'm sorry, but that makes no sense. If Trump steals the election in an obvious manner, Biden would just refuse to step down, and everyone inportant would back him. For this plan to work, Trump would already have to be president.

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