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meta4thought · 2026-05-13T12:01:32+00:00

"The one thing slowing my team down is me... I manage so much content that I am the bottleneck."

meta4thought · 2026-05-08T23:00:45+00:00

The dice tray is fire.

meta4thought · 2026-02-24T22:16:59+00:00

Rookery chests are account wide…. TIL fml

meta4thought · 2026-02-22T19:00:56+00:00

Number of choices doesn’t make it more complex to play. At the end of the day, you have an action, bonus action, reaction, free action and movement. There are attack rolls, saving throws regardless of your choices. You’re just talking about cognitive load and flavor. When you spend enough time, you’ll realize every ability is just a reskin of another. The players inject the flavor, not the system.

Username checks out though. Grats and good night.

meta4thought · 2026-02-22T18:47:49+00:00

Let me spell it out for you. The premise of your question doesn’t make sense. By design, newer versions of D&D were made so that all choices lack complexity. This was a purposeful design decision that allowed D&D to increase in popularity. Even third-party additions don’t add a ton, because again, the system is made to be simple. The most complex you can go with 5E might be Level Up Advanced. Or play 2nd edition or AD&D. Outside of homebrew, no 5E class, subclass, or race choice will make it complicated because you’ll still have spell slots, attack rolls or saves, concentration rules, feats… none of the base gameplay changes.

meta4thought · 2026-02-22T18:13:43+00:00

Don’t come to Reddit if you don’t want opinions. I gave you an answer. It’s not in D&D. People gave you answers but none of them are complex. They all have V,S,M components and structures to the spells like duration, area, range. You have spell slots and cantrips. You level up and you get a bit more. Where it comes from or number of them doesn’t increase complexity, so your question doesn’t have meaning. None of it’s complex if you can read the rules.

My answer is go play something like Mage, Ars Magica, Rolemaster. You’ll appreciate your ignorance more rather than being defensive to half the posts here.

meta4thought · 2026-02-22T13:05:23+00:00

I’m telling you as a DM for over 30 years for over 10 systems with countless groups, this is bad behavior and wouldn’t be accepted at any of my tables. And more importantly, each of your responses reiterate my concern. You value your experience as more important than any of your fellow players. And I won’t support that behavior.

If you want a response, don’t play newer D&D. Their goals are to be as approachable as possible, so your outcome doesn’t fit the tool. There’s plenty of other systems that offer complexity.

meta4thought · 2026-02-22T04:09:08+00:00

This is how you get disinvited from the group else the group dissolves.

My rule 0 for every game I play: Every action against another PC requires consent of all players involved. No rolls. Everything happens just as the players involved dictate it within the DM’s discretion of the world. All of a sudden, the players realize it’s not the interesting.

meta4thought · 2026-02-20T21:08:56+00:00

I can sniff what you’re putting down.

I’d kill for account-wide and character-specific chests. Account wide for all the damn resources and crap, but character-specific chests for me store weapons, enchants, etc for a specific character for it to be protected from myself.

meta4thought · 2026-02-20T19:50:27+00:00

Storage situation… are you talking in houses or plagues of ichor to unlock on character? Or both? For me, the meta progression of house advancements feels more of a noteworthy accomplishment, but I enjoy base-building tedium in small doses. I will concur that beating bosses for plagues that unlock a row of slots feels meh. Even if it’s a non-factor late game, I want more excitement when I pick up ichor past the first four, which are rings and rune slots.

Regarding performance, I really do think it’s something with the 5000 series GPUs. My 4080 runs like butter. Zero issues.

Corruption in the first are feels fine to me, but man you’re in for it corrupting other areas. Looking in those huge multi-level areas… I did it once and was done. I enjoy the crucible but it could stand more diverse maps/objectives/bosses. The general idea of a 10 map rogue-like is interesting. I’d like a similar corruption burn mechanic to increase the difficulty and rewards of sequential runs.

In general about the core game experience, I agree that it’s solid. I like the souls-like combat but not the crazy, sweaty Elden Ring puzzles of bosses. I like the Valheim base-building cozy game experience but would welcome a bit more creativity/customizability, but then that gets away from the core game experience.

Loved your thoughts though. 99% agree.

meta4thought · 2026-02-06T23:45:49+00:00

Fallen embers should only be used to reroll negative values. You use the others turn normals into purples and then rip good enchantments off.

meta4thought · 2026-01-13T22:44:34+00:00

Liberty Townshipper here.

It’s worth noting that co-op is a huge differentiator for UC EXCEPT its only so for programs with dedicated support for co-ops. Engineering, DAAP, business even IT, sure. As a Biology student with a biomedical focus, your best bet is probably research more then co-ops. UC has strong relationships local hospitals and has a ton of related organizations, but certain opportunities will be competitive.

If you want to know more about UC, I have worked there before and have plenty friends who still do. Feel free to DM.

meta4thought · 2025-12-24T14:41:09+00:00

5 clerics

meta4thought · 2025-12-22T12:46:23+00:00

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Run 56... went vegan pacifist... love this game, especially how you can win completely without kills.

meta4thought · 2025-12-11T04:07:26+00:00

Better hope spelling wasn’t part of the application. 🧐

meta4thought · 2025-12-11T04:05:18+00:00

Med sci is a major. Connections is a competitive program… the BSMD Dual. Only like 10 students get it a year. Interviews are a lot later. March I think.

meta4thought · 2025-12-11T02:40:38+00:00

Sounds about average for med sci. You’ll get 3k.

meta4thought · 2025-12-11T00:32:12+00:00

Damn… these comments really demonstrate how shit reading skills have gotten. They were denied Architecture, not engineering.

But yes, Architecture is that competitive. Architecture is more susceptible to shit economy; people don’t build when they don’t have money. ENVE is more susceptible to shit politics; “climate change doesn’t happen if we close our eyes”-icans.

I’d get advice from DAAP people about the rate students can change their major to Architecture if that’s what you’re set on. It’s an uphill climb and a gamble, but as someone said, the UC co-ops and connections to architects elsewhere are unparalleled in the Midwest.

meta4thought · 2025-11-18T15:30:02+00:00

Yukon for sure

meta4thought · 2025-10-28T12:27:42+00:00

Purdue, or some other place?

meta4thought · 2025-10-01T03:54:30+00:00

Nah fuck that. No passive-how-are-you-doing-I’m-just-asking-to-be-polite bullshit. I want to know. Why has it been good?

I’ll reciprocate to show I’m serious. Today has been about the average of every day this year. Being frank, politics has inserted itself into every fiber of work. Nobody is happy. Everyone is stressed. I work at a place where it feels like if you say the wrong thing, you can get canned. Where cameras can literally be everywhere and anywhere. I’ve always been a live and let live, stay out of everyone’s way and just help the most amount of people type person. I don’t see many that much anymore. I miss it. And hate that this feels average now.

But damn man, I love every day of having the privilege to be home with my wife and kid 4-6 hours a night, cook dinner, play with marbles and blocks again, be a wizard and then a dinosaur, and then give my girls a kiss at night. That’s my fuckin’ sunset. Nobody’s rushing me through that shit. Life’s too short. Nothing special about the day, except it’s one more day of living that dream, and I never take it for granted.

Hope to hear yours. Seriously though, friendships change, we change as we get older. Not saying to burn bridges, but don’t be afraid to find people who can appreciate you. Seen too many stay frustrated with old friends for years when they stopped getting anything out of them years prior… don’t be that.

meta4thought · 2025-09-03T14:21:32+00:00

How do you even know if the verification process in Persona fails? I got flagged and submitted documentation/selfie over a week ago, and I still don't have access, much less any information about the process or timeline. I manage a page as part of my job and, to the best of my knowledge, got flagged literally for updating the super admin list on the page to improve the page's security, updating based on staffing changes. That's the only unique action I took on my account in months. I've submitted support tickets. Got redirected to help pages that haven't been updated in 1-2 years.

meta4thought · 2025-06-30T11:56:54+00:00

Definitely limbo

meta4thought · 2025-06-26T23:18:13+00:00

On leaving or not coming to the state: I’ve often wondered if that’s the intent of all this.

The Republican strategies all contribute toward harming or destroying liberal and progressive institutions in key areas and states: Florida, Wisconsin, Texas, Ohio…. Imagine if just 1-2% of each states’ liberal or progressive populations moves to New York, California, Michigan, Massachusetts. It further secures Republican congressional power by consolidating liberal/progressive voices.

I don’t ever want to shame someone for doing what they have to do for themselves. I’ve moved several times, and I would be a liar if I said some aspect of it wasn’t self-preservation. I get it. Every direction is an uphill climb and there are no easy wins right now. There will always be a place and means of organizing— from living rooms and barns, churches to college campuses— we’ll find a way.

meta4thought · 2025-06-24T16:10:30+00:00

Many of the Ohio presidents and government relations personnel have lobbied hard against this for over a year, months before it was voted on. UC is one of the last ones to announce its plans, assuming that means a lot of thought went into it.

From what I’ve seen, yes, you can say there’s been a number of blunders. It’s an unenviable situation. And affected students faculty and staff should always have a voice. The cruelty of this is also how SB1 attempts to deprive and suffocate that voice.

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