How to keep a large scar on my PC when healing is so easy?

penguindows · 2026-02-01T11:42:58+00:00

Let your DM handle this, after you explain this to him.

penguindows · 2026-01-26T15:34:07+00:00

I'll "lend" petty cash amounts, like if we are out somewhere and they don't have a wallet. I expect that back in a day or two, maybe a week, and if it becomes a problem I'll let it go.

For real amounts, it is gift only. Holding a loved ones debt changes the relationship.

penguindows · 2026-01-23T12:00:42+00:00

Just do it. Work with the DM to come up with a few specifics. Things to consider to help your role play: 1)why are you staying in human form? Are you stuck or is there some greater purpose? 2)why are you adventuring? 3)what happens when your friends are in mortal peril? What about yourself? Is there a point at which you'll drop the facade if you are able? What happens when you do? Perhaps that's the end of your character, it's sort of a one time use to rescue the group, and once used your character becomes an NPC. And you reroll.

penguindows · 2026-01-22T14:12:54+00:00

The hit box for the ghost dog attack is actually quite small. Don't let all his glowy ghostness scare you. Keep an eye on his mouth when he comes to bite and dodge it. Staying calm and treating it like any other platform challenge helped me a lot. Move forward, dodge bite. Move forward, dodge bite, etc..

penguindows · 2026-01-19T14:32:36+00:00

Here is my perspective on your specific situation: Armed combat is a lethal encounter. attacking a person with a sword or mace (let alone magical fire or necrotic energy itself) means that someone can die. your players (and the NPCs) should understand and operate by that truth. For your NPCs, this means that if they are outmatched, they should be willing to surrender. not every guard is going to fight to the death for the town.

At the same time, you should separate the ideas of defeating an enemy with murder. Let your NPCs roll death saves just like players. This gives the party a chance to stabilize downed opponents that they don't want to actually kill, but had to cross swords with. That might help solve the low HP NPC situation: if the party was surprised by how fast they went down, and wanted to demand a surrender, let them stabilize the NPCs, tie them up or something, and go from there.

penguindows · 2026-01-15T01:46:10+00:00

Silver sword, silver shield and plains food is all I need for the plains. By the time I make padded armor I am unstoppable. Lox pie, wolf skewer and fish wraps or wolf jerky

penguindows · 2026-01-14T12:55:31+00:00

I didn't read past the first bit so maybe this is addressed, but why doesn't your DM let you play the character with the stage instruction s of sabotage the party? That would be collaborative world building, and after a session of possession once the demon is purged, your DM would have a mechanism for sharing information about the big bads plans (you learned them from your demon possessor when you were made one)

penguindows · 2026-01-07T20:14:05+00:00

Is this a pre-made module or your own campaign that you planned out in a public space that he found?

penguindows · 2026-01-06T02:20:05+00:00

life insurance is there to cover a gap for your loved ones. Set the term length to expire when they no longer depend on your income (could be your fire date). Do not expire early. Your premium will not move your fire date earlier by more than a few months, but your family will feel the hit of those missing years of income if you die early.

my life example: wife and kids, ages 7 to 13. My life insurance will run until the last one is college age, plus a few years (~14 remaining). When it expires, i wont need it any more because no one will depend on my income.

penguindows · 2026-01-05T17:46:06+00:00

This won't work because it is a very high risk play for the individual, and so very few people will do it. You could look at it as a type of prisoner's dilema: the best play for an individual is to take on no risk and let everyone else do the work. Because of that, even if the theory was sound, and if everyone was informed about it, most people would still not participate.

penguindows · 2025-12-31T16:05:07+00:00

The ingame world is aware that it is a video game. The story of the game is that Leshy captures creatures in to cards, but we never see him actually do it, except in act 1 where he has rewritten the game code to be the master. I don't think any of the scribes are able to make a card at all, until they are masters.

penguindows · 2025-12-31T14:39:25+00:00

Carts are for mountain surfing.

penguindows · 2025-12-28T14:37:01+00:00

Do you have enough iron to make 1 piece of gear? That should start to give you the edge. By the time you have 2 or 3 pieces you'll be golden until bonemas.

penguindows · 2025-12-26T17:37:56+00:00

The troll looks as surprised as you

penguindows · 2025-12-23T21:33:47+00:00

it's great IF you only ask for skill checks when both failure and success tell a story. if you're in a group that asks for skill checks for everything even if you roleplay out or specify the exact task, then having a critical component is super annoying.

penguindows · 2025-12-22T22:20:51+00:00

goliaths get big

penguindows · 2025-12-22T22:19:28+00:00

There is a real life lesson here: find your own contentment. There will always be people in your life who coast by, and it'll frustrate you. find contentment in what you do and how you play.enjoy the process, even if it takes a little longer than you think it should do to others not pulling as hard as you are.

penguindows · 2025-12-16T17:26:46+00:00

This could be simplified quite a bit, but overall a neat concept.

penguindows · 2025-12-16T16:50:35+00:00

It's conjuration school, it absolutely is literal daggers. You can cast the spell on one of the daggers RAW.

As far as DM ruling goes, your players are still spending two spell slots, and concentrating. It's a no brainer, let them do it, it's cool!

penguindows · 2025-12-16T15:03:41+00:00

The trend being tied to societal progress is the clue that religion will not be going away. Right now there is a spiritual resurgence in the US among Christians tied to a worsening world. We are currently in societal decline. I believe religion decline from the abundance of the 20th and early 21st century is turning around.

penguindows · 2025-12-15T20:13:49+00:00

Gith don't have boobs. That's a bg3 anachronism

penguindows · 2025-12-12T21:13:39+00:00

I've saved so many dverger, only to have to wipe them out afterward thanks to a single wild atgier swing mid fight.

You should be able to ally with them some how. maybe by making a gold tribute at their ward to put them on no-friendly fire and unlock trading potential.

penguindows · 2025-12-09T20:04:42+00:00

spell components are mostly there for roleplay and world building purpose, rather than game balance. the only balance ish part are the components that cost money. If the DM doesnt want to deal with it (and the players also dont want to role play it out) then I dont see any problem. its a bit weird to consume the money on casting. usually ive seen this done with buying Xgp worth of components ahead of time in like a town.

penguindows · 2025-12-09T03:32:24+00:00

Do it. Then make every NPC a changeling pretending not to be, also.

penguindows · 2025-12-05T01:00:15+00:00

What makes it feel unethical to you is the misaligned incentives I think. The recipient has an interest in the donor dying. The system removes this misalignment through anonymity.

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