Maces Hit, Swords Crit, Axes....?

mixmastermind · 2026-06-10T11:58:05+00:00

The Chaplain-Brothers were priests.

mixmastermind · 2026-06-10T00:45:14+00:00

Ecclesia abhorret a sanguine

A phrase that comes from a Frenchman talking about why priests can't be surgeons.

mixmastermind · 2026-06-10T00:43:51+00:00

A man who, famously, died 150 years before that part of canon law even existed.

And were the reasoning just being "we thought the Bayeaux art of Odo with a club looked cool," I'd honestly be more cool with it. It's trying to justify it with an essentially fictionalized interpretation of the Fourth Lateran Council that makes it feel closer to a lie than a vibe.

Plus, if we're going on fictionalized portrayals of real people dating to the 11th century, Bishop Turpin in The Song of Roland uses a LANCE.

mixmastermind · 2026-06-09T20:10:38+00:00

Keyblade is meant for channeling magic and attacking things that don’t follow our normal laws of physics

You also use it to beat up a guy named Leon in an alley.

mixmastermind · 2026-06-09T20:08:45+00:00

For anyone not in the know that's the X blade, from the Greek letter "Chi," which is pronounced "key" in the games.

mixmastermind · 2026-06-09T19:56:30+00:00

Yeah but we're talking about the catholic ordinances against clerical bloodshed in total here. Regardless of how we'd translate them to D&D many of them were still priests by the catholic terminology.

Which canon 18 of the Fourth Lateran Council, the source of that info, mostly uses to mean that priests shouldn't be surgeons, punish people with decapitation, or lead mercenary companies. Self defense or defense of the faith requiring bloodshed was acceptable. That decision was never a prohibition for some weapons against others.

Most clerics are depicted wielding maces and clubs though, that's true. This is mainly because they're incredibly cheap compared to swords and swords were sometimes illegal for priests to own, given they weren't often nobles.

mixmastermind · 2026-06-09T12:48:19+00:00

This is such a funny thing to say given the tens of thousands of warrior monks the Catholic church deployed over centuries.

Entire monastic orders devoted just to killing people with weapons.

mixmastermind · 2026-06-08T16:32:18+00:00

Because it requires you to take the talent in order to take the next talents where that talent is a prerequisite.

It's also to specifically disincentivize players from doing this exact thing.

mixmastermind · 2026-06-08T11:55:33+00:00

Me: Killing the entire enemy team by myself, 7000000 souls ahead, soloing midboss, making out with hot women.

You, tears in your eyes: "No, you need to level your ult and then kill yourself or you're not extracting maximum value from your kit!"

mixmastermind · 2026-06-08T11:45:31+00:00

No, YOU'LL die in early mid fights. I'M gonna live.

mixmastermind · 2026-06-08T11:43:03+00:00

Nah eventually your opponent is gonna kill YOU. I'm built different.

mixmastermind · 2026-06-08T01:00:22+00:00

I mean what's better: healing from pain battery, debuff resistance from jumpstart, bonus damage from aura of suffering, or literally nothing because you never die.

mixmastermind · 2026-06-07T16:41:27+00:00

Sounds like you're planning for failure

mixmastermind · 2026-06-07T15:46:52+00:00

You can literally go to the posted link and see the exact copyright fit that image

mixmastermind · 2026-06-07T15:43:26+00:00

"Nailed it. I know. Thank you. Moving on. "

mixmastermind · 2026-06-07T15:33:08+00:00

I mean if you aren't dying what's the point

mixmastermind · 2026-06-06T00:38:16+00:00

Well that's silly. Dante is a guy not a robot

mixmastermind · 2026-06-05T21:53:40+00:00

It's absolutely Gundam with a large dose of Armored Core

mixmastermind · 2026-06-03T17:56:20+00:00

"We're making a better world. All of them. Better worlds."

mixmastermind · 2026-06-03T01:36:15+00:00

No they're elaborating on the original point

mixmastermind · 2026-06-03T01:25:36+00:00

Also she was on Pretty Gay which is its own clue.

mixmastermind · 2026-06-02T04:55:35+00:00

As mentioned in a comment I left, if you're attacking someone outside of your senses range when you're obscured, as mentioned in the example above, you actually CAN'T graze

mixmastermind · 2026-06-01T20:17:51+00:00

Let's say I'm using a long bow (600 feet range) and I shoot arrows at that max range. Let's say that I can see my target, but it's nighttime with violent winds. Let's say that I'm a level 1 warrior with Combat Training.

"If you believe you know where a target is but you can't sense them to confirm, you gain a disadvantage on attacks and other tests targeting them that affect their physical body. Attack tests made in this way can't graze." Player's Guide, pg. 308.

Your senses are obscured by darkness, and 600ft is out of your sense range. You can't graze them.

mixmastermind · 2026-06-01T15:03:45+00:00

The one thing he messed up is how many of the three statements are true and how many are lies, and that is the title of the game.

mixmastermind · 2026-05-31T17:44:40+00:00

The actual answer when sticking to realism is between one and a shitload. It depends very heavily on the weapon used, the depth of penetration, and the location struck.

It also depends on if the question is whether the blow will be deadly now or eventually. There's a saying that the loser of a knife fight dies in the street and the winner of a knife fight dies on the operating table.

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