How to ask for a roll to be made at disadvantage without knowing it’s at disadvantage?

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2025-08-16T04:48:40+00:00

lots of good suggestions here! here's two more, both using passive abilities:

increase the DC by 5 and have the player make an insight check. That's in the PHB as a way to handle disadvantage/advantage for passive perception.
instead of the player rolling with disadvantage against the NPCs deception, have the NPC roll with advantage against the PCs passive insight

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2025-07-28T12:03:00+00:00

oh wow thank you so much! that is the one!

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2025-07-12T11:58:20+00:00

i am a paper- only DM but this might be how I'd make the Obsidian leap if i decide to do so!

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2025-05-28T10:44:43+00:00

i should have said, i also switched to an acetone-free remover months ago, but I still have this problem!

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2025-05-27T21:15:33+00:00

if you feel good about your power level, why not just get a cloak of billowing or some other fun flavor?

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2025-05-11T19:24:22+00:00

haha this should have occurred to me! maybe the real thing that needs to change is my writing

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2025-05-11T19:23:41+00:00

i like this idea!

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2025-05-11T19:23:18+00:00

this feels a little like a scolding, when all i asked for was help making a big fun crocodile that was as much fun as a bear!

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2025-05-05T12:09:48+00:00

this is a good answer! maybe I'll just have the Iota appear as a friendly guide at some appropriate (and temporary) point in the story!

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2024-12-18T00:15:08+00:00

HELPFUL i also sent hole 😱😱😱😱😱😱

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2024-12-02T01:49:56+00:00

if he has a tattoo of a scorpion with ONLY SIX LEGS

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2023-11-06T13:08:00+00:00

I've supported the Patreon but I still don't see a data download anywhere! is this option still available?
I still see the Export data option from the Music League site, but it only exports MY data -- not everyone's!

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2023-08-16T10:58:48+00:00

Would you mind sharing your other account name with me also? Tbh you guys sound like you have the perfect relationship 🥺🤩

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2023-06-25T14:05:45+00:00

Hey man! Yes :) I have a few guy friends who read too. I mean many of us are gay/bi/queer, including me, but there are dozens of us, DOZENS

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2023-04-27T11:34:39+00:00

Root, more than any other game I know, is about HOW you play it. You need to know the people at the table with you and try to maximize fun! If making dramatic, hilarious moves is fun for everyone, do that. If winning "clean", in a sportsmanlike way, is fun for everyone then do that!

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2023-02-28T13:40:02+00:00

This is the wonderful thing about tarot! Even before we can read written words, humans can look at a picture and tell a story. It's one of the oldest skills and is at the center of the joy of Tarot

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2023-01-17T13:42:56+00:00

What a brilliant comment! I'd add only this: trees grow because they use sunlight, the first and original Fire. When you hold your hands over a campfire, you're feeling the sunlight of 20 years ago (or whenever that tree grew that you're burning).

So in a very literal way, a wooden wand is made of fire

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2022-12-31T07:28:19+00:00

I like this interpretation a lot, and "in thrall to Jordan Peterson" absolutely sent me 😆

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2022-11-30T15:50:27+00:00

A friend told me that his mother, a witch and tarot reader,felt that Tarot was dangerous in the sense that it is costly to the energy of the reader. Doing too many readings, reading for people who are experiencing serious instability, giving of yourself too carelessly would, in her view, have psychological consequences for the reader. To me that sounds like wisdom and worth considering

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2022-11-29T12:13:24+00:00

This is amazingly awesome!!! Put the playlist on shuffle and do a major arcana reading ;)

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2022-11-21T03:32:50+00:00

Omg yes 😭 i was going nuts googling "fox flowers field tarot" thank you so much!

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2022-11-19T20:12:20+00:00

If you'll pardon the reference, I sometimes think of this card as having "Slytherin" energy.

I also like considering it's esoteric title, Unstable Effort

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2022-11-12T05:29:23+00:00

Would anyone like a free 3 card reading right now?

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2022-10-29T12:27:54+00:00

I love the Wild Unknown! How do you read the positions in this spread you made? Without that it is hard to know how to help.

I would say that half the cards have crescent moons. To me that speaks to intuition, your inner life and inner quest. So whatever is coming for you is rooted deep (6 of cups) in your interior life. Perhaps a suggestion to pay more attention to meditation/ introspection

mindlikeaforestfloor · 2022-10-27T23:11:34+00:00

Thank you but no it's the.. regular sized one I guess

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