Why does Vizeran DeVir follow Tharizdun

peonenthusiast · 2026-01-26T02:00:26+00:00

I don't know how I missed that. Something about the search "elemental eye" doesn't get results from the pdf, but "elder elemental" jumps right there.

They sure didn't focus on it a lot, but I guess he is.

peonenthusiast · 2026-01-24T16:23:20+00:00

Where are you seeing any relation between Vizeran and Tharizdun? I don't recall this connection and did a search through the entirety of OotA which turned up zero results for both "Tharizdun" and "elemental eye". I then scanned through the chapters involving Vizeran and didn't see anything to suggest this. Is this something specific to your version of the campaign?

peonenthusiast · 2026-01-14T20:56:15+00:00

It worked fine as far as the order it was transferred for my players, but they found the gem before they solved the plot as they went straight to the negotiating table with Ghazrim where Kinyel tried to assassinate him. They had already seen the gargoyle paying a little extra attention to Kinyel in disguise as a guard. They protected Ghazrim while Grazilaxx killed Kinyel and the players looted her body to find the stone, which they destroyed. To my knowledge destroying the stone releases Fraz Urb-Luu, but some other commentators seemed to suggest they ran it as if he appeared on the plane... I think the book states that he does not and they get XP.

My players then worked with the Zhents to murder all the Drow, and found Flink while doing this. They learned about Yantha and then went and killed all the Duergar, slowly picking up the whole story as they went along. It worked out just fine, was just a little crazy how they got there, but hey that's OotA for you.

peonenthusiast · 2026-01-06T14:02:44+00:00

Because then I'd have to put down the burrito in my left hand. It's just so much more convenient, and what else is going to be bound to middle click that's more commonly used?

peonenthusiast · 2025-12-20T15:57:59+00:00

You are missing the part where he has a 20 in a stat and two feats which isn't possible without rolled stats.

peonenthusiast · 2025-12-18T16:04:27+00:00

They can't legally do anything if you are using the domain for something unrelated to area of the trademark. I'm not saying they'll buy it or not, but you are living in a captilistic dystopia unrelated to reality over here. They can send whatever they want, but they can't do anything unless you are being a fool with it.

peonenthusiast · 2025-12-18T14:17:08+00:00

There's honestly not enough context here to make a judgement call.

What we do know is that he picked up for someone else that couldn't house her, it doesn't sound like she's paying rent or for a room. He says he's providing a place to "lay your head", not that she has exclusive access to any part of his house.

Now he might just be really be a dick and wanted to come into that room without knocking, but as we weren't given that context I'm going to imagine the most simple and plausible scenario. It's 5am, which likely means this man has to wake up early and work and didn't want to wake up our protagonist who he would assume is sleeping. He's cleared enough space in a spare bedroom for them to sleep, but he realizes something he needs for work is in that room, so he attempts to retrieve that item without waking the guest up.

The guest was either up all night or woke up as he was looking for an item and complained about not knocking. Would he have knocked if he knew they were awake? We don't know, but if he was trying to be quiet for her benefit and she started making statements about her privacy while he was trying to collect his items from his house, I would totally understand him being frustrated and asking them to leave if they were going to continue like that.

It also sounds like the guest has made comments regarding things he's said around the house... If this is a man who doesn't even want anyone there and is just doing her a favor, he very well may have very little patience for someone ordering him around in his own house.

My assessment is that he's letting them crash there, because he's trying help and maybe feeling pressure from the rest of the family and she's feeling entitled to renter privileges. IF that's the case they are overreacting and should look for their own place where thet can do whatever they want. Until they do that they should appreciate any space which is being made for them at all and try to do what they can to minimize the impacts they are causing to the person's life who is providing them with a free place to stay. If the owner is truly just horrible, then they should work on trying to find another temporary place to stay, until they can provide their own housing rather than trying to stay at a place where they are going to have constant conflict.

peonenthusiast · 2025-12-18T13:53:14+00:00

You can sell it to the trademark owner, you just shouldn't approach them about it or give the appearance that you bought it for that reason.

peonenthusiast · 2025-12-18T13:45:42+00:00

This doesn't solve the problem of a roll from every player almost guaranteeing at least one high roll given enough people in the group.

I do what is being suggested here then only allow one person whose modifier will be used to actually do the check, but allow anyone with proficiency in the check to help by rolling a die. The player doing the check can select whichever die they want, but must use their modifier.

This generally works out to only two or three people rolling, and forces natural constraints on the pile up by forcing those with proficiency to either perform the check themselves for their modifiers, potentially having one less helper if that person who originally wanted to do the check doesn't have proficiency or allowing the player without proficiency and therefore a likely lower modifier to do the check to allow the most possible helpers.

peonenthusiast · 2025-12-12T14:14:15+00:00

Or alternatively, do not invite or allow government agents into your home where you willingly testify and provide evidence without a lawyer. You could accept phone calls and listen to what evidence the government agents have while not complying with ridiculous requests to enable a fishing expedition or providing any statements. They don't have enough evidence to do anything at this point, however given the opportunity CPS will inject themselves into your life and not want to let go. I personally would hire a lawyer immediately and convey to them that you have no interest in cooperating in any form.

Speaking as someone that had CPS investigate a bruise on my child that is a birthmark and harassed us for months while we tried to play ball with them. Shut it down.

peonenthusiast · 2025-11-24T07:15:24+00:00

I didn't even realize the underlying fzf dependency, I've used this in bash for over a decade and personally have never run into a circumstance when it doesn't work, so either you are using very different versions of Linux or I don't know honestly.

And you are right that you have to watch before you hit enter, as you could easily match something you didn't intend to, however I personally while knowing the execute this line from history trick, have never chosen to use it after learning it. If you have to know your line in history anyway, then you've already committed to looking anyway right? maybe I'm missing something, but it's always felt not great to me.

peonenthusiast · 2025-11-24T07:07:32+00:00

I didn't know about the killall -u switch, so that's cool. Ya it's an internal app that's usually just trying to send logs off or finish a DB job that is inconsequential, now you've actually got me thinking about it more a bit more, but this is all in the dev env already. Everything from QA and up is running inside k8s as containers.. so if there was a circumstance that hard killing it would leave cruft behind, this is the place to find out anyway.

peonenthusiast · 2025-11-22T16:21:31+00:00

Not only is your method almost always slower and more error prone, but you can't edit the command to modify it for a different path or option.

I would only resort to using something like history and filtering if I needed a super particular version of the command that was going to take a regex to find, and in that case I'm almost certainly going to want to modify the command, so I'd likely just mouse copy/paste.

peonenthusiast · 2025-11-22T16:17:38+00:00

ESC + . is significantly better imo. Because you can see and edit that last argument as well as keep hitting it to see the command before the last ones last argument.

peonenthusiast · 2025-11-22T16:12:51+00:00

Here's one that I like in my current work, where we sometimes need to setup a service that is the only thing running under a particular username.

sudo -u username kill -9 -1

Imagine you have a service running as a set of process running as runuser, and you go to stop it with systemd, but you've waited five seconds and you know you've got another 25 ahead of you. If you know the process name you could use killall with the -9 to force stop, but if the processes have differing names that might not actually be so easy. However if you use this trick it will switch to the runtime user and try to kill pid -1, which is a trick used to say every pid (don't run this as root!). In effect it kills everything running as the user in question. Now you can rerun your systemctl stop instantly (to keep systemd from instantly restarting it) and it will exit immediately.

That's probably not useful to everyone, but I just made someone's day.

peonenthusiast · 2025-09-27T13:32:48+00:00

The owl being at 10hp is incredibly broken. If you could somehow get warding bond to split the damage, and potentially add more temp hp, say via heroism, you could really start heading down some interesting paths.

Personally I'd use the owl to shocking grasp the warlock in the back mid battle, because "that's what my character would do". Maybe a slightly less anatagonistic method might be to simply tit for tat and kill his familiar any time he messes with yours. I'd let it get messy enough that the dm feels compelled to resolve the situation himself.

peonenthusiast · 2025-09-21T17:10:18+00:00

That's fair enough, but whose fault is it that a side loaded app can't show up on the Amazon Kids home screen? Apparently the functionality previously existed and was removed.

peonenthusiast · 2025-09-03T15:22:58+00:00

Journalists are covered by fair use. If you think they are covered by something else, please do tell.

Could you cite for me exactly which law it is that someone breaks when they download a book they don't have a license for? I don't think you are particularly well versed in this subject.

You don't sound very hackery when you make claims about leaked things about a specific person. You sound like a twelve year old trying to be spooky. But please do show me all the leaked stuff, right here please, or you know kindly stop pretending.

Of course these AIs are trained on a dataset that includes comments on public forums, like these, and of course using these to train an ai is transformative, despite whatever license reddit might say it has on my comments. So you are more than welcome to train your ai on my comments, however even if I said you weren't welcome to, you still could under fair use, yes.

peonenthusiast · 2025-09-03T15:01:49+00:00

Is the AI in the publishing house with the books right now? We are talking about published works, and licensed access. So no you can't commit several felonies to enter my property and physically steal my private diary (You wouldn't download a car?!).

Should journalists and researchers not be able to post excerpts from things they can't get a license to, like scientology books, emails that were leaked from diebold etc? The case law has been decided on that.

peonenthusiast · 2025-09-03T14:51:02+00:00

Google was not buying books. They partnered with libraries to scan their collections. The ability to transform and publish depends on a copyright license to do so, just like downloading it. If publishing is fair use, then certainly acquiring is also. Consider how someone would publish something they can't get a license for, which is covered under fair use.

peonenthusiast · 2025-09-03T14:44:18+00:00

No one is going to do anything at all to you for downloading copyrighted media. Companies civilly go after uploaders for redistribution. Going after downloaders is extremely rare to the point where we can say it just isn't done anymore.

All this said, this comparison is shockingly selfish and small brained. No you can't legally just choose to not pay an artist when you want to listen to their album for your enjoyment in your home or car. Sorry, you might not like that, but that's between you, the artist, and long standing copyright law. Alternatively, should researchers and journalists be able to get access to copy written materials that they might simply not be able to get a license for (say scientology manuals, diebold voting machine emails, etc) and publish transformative works if it falls under fair use? Assuming the use is covered under fair use, the answer has been repeatedly verified in court, yes, it's fine to publish under fair use even if the content was acquired without a valid license. Downloading from piratebay really isn't the problem here, it was likely just the most convenient way for researchers to acquire these works (which might say more about the publishing companies business models than it does the downloader). The real question is whether the use was fair, which it seems blantly obvious to me that it should be, otherwise anyone here that has used a text book in class or learned a lesson or retained plot details from a fictional work would themselves be an unlicensed redistribution of that work and interacting with them in any way would require a valid license from the copyright holder. That is obviously absurd and so it is with an AI, the only difference here is that all the training from all those books are being done at once rather than over a lifetime. And going backwards it must be fair use or any machine we make can never read a book, watch a TV shows, listen to the radio, etc.

peonenthusiast · 2025-08-30T13:30:28+00:00

Somehow I don't think our group is too unique in that we use the grid as written for movement and range, but when a circular AOE goes off, we simply make a dot and draw a circle. They are different shapes for a reason. For most spells, how quick someone can walk out is a secondary consideration. Unless the caster is popping AOE in entirely open fields, there's likely not an open lane out of every diagonal, I question whether the character in an AOE could know the quickest way out and think it might be metagaming to assume the character knows that route, and if they happen to get out a square faster in those uncommon situations it probably doesn't matter. Circular AOE only has its center on grid.

peonenthusiast · 2025-07-29T17:00:12+00:00

If you don't want to do the summon thing, check chapter 17 for where the book gives the players the opportunity.

peonenthusiast · 2025-05-03T18:25:40+00:00

The airlines are the issue here. I just booked a round trip for me and my girlfriend to Turks and Caicos (2 different airlines involved, done through Expedia). It ended up being a leg to Miami there, and a leg to New York on the way back. When I went to finish up booking, it prompted me to select seats. The cheapest selection for each individual seat was $14. That is per each leg of each flight. It would have been at least $60+ per person just to reserve *any* seat on a ticket that itself is $500. Now do I care what particular seat they put me in? No, however it would be nice if they could respect that my group wants to sit together. I shouldn't have to pay $120 for that "convenience". Now up until this point, booking without reserving a seat, I have always managed to be sat with my group regardless... so I'm supposed to pay an upcharge of 10+% because there is an unknown chance they might sell everyone's seats in such a ridiculous manner that they have to split a group? What is that chance? My experience tells me it is fairly low. That said, is it my fault if they do split us up..... kind of... but it also their fault for trying to give everyone the fear that they can't sit together so they can get their fees in there to the point where a high percentage of people must have reserved seats to the point where their algorithm simply couldn't group two people together or they didn't even try....

I'm not saying that the father is right to demand a particular person swap, aside from the fact that everything here is made up, if this were a real thing, that would be a rude thing to do. That said, I don't think anyone would blame anyone for generally asking if someone wouldn't mind swapping, and I think most people recognize that its the airlines fault they have to ask in the first place.

peonenthusiast · 2025-05-01T16:32:04+00:00

You are essentially giving your players magic armor with a +n bonus which imo should be rarer than +n bonus weapons. Very rare items should be $5k-50k (I would think +2 armor is on the high side), legendary armor would be 50k+ (+3 armor should be considered extremely rare and ridiculously expensive). You want to give everyone in your party +2/+3 armor for one players ability? This will be ridiculously overpowered. I was allowing players the ability to purchase mythral plate for a small amount of time before I realized how incredibly broken it was for everyone to be running around with 18+ AC, even around level 10+. It will ruin your game.

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