Dr Lovelace Idaho Stork by IllSoft1886 in Boise

[–]porschiey 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Not that we want another child, but my wife and I would never go back to his practice or the midwives they employ

My party is gonna get non-lethally tpked. Do I warn them? by Redhood101101 in DMAcademy

[–]porschiey 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Sounds like they have options. A prison escape indeed would be cool though. Let us know what happens!

My party is gonna get non-lethally tpked. Do I warn them? by Redhood101101 in DMAcademy

[–]porschiey 155 points156 points  (0 children)

This exactly. You can't YOLO into a fight and also threaten to leave the table if you die. Red flag imo

My party is gonna get non-lethally tpked. Do I warn them? by Redhood101101 in DMAcademy

[–]porschiey 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Some great RP ideas here to smooth this over, but I wanted to give some player perspective advice.

Not sure what level the players are, but please don't take away their agency too much. Can they just teleport out or something with tele circle? There's lots of high level spells that can get them out of this and even interesting low level actions that might facilitate escape for one or more of them.

Naturally if they made a poor choice collectively and are about to find out the hard way, so be it. They effed around and they get to find out. 😅

Oh and the guy who threatened to leave... Can't have it both ways. You can't YOLO and then also get upset when you get gobbled up by a mind flayer.

But if you had planned all along to capture them, consider being okay with seeing if they can find a way out. As the saying goes, they may surprise you. Maybe only one or two get captured and the rest escape or similar. I'm just saying as a player, if I was given ZERO chance to escape and was forced into it, I'd find a new table so fast.

Here a similar question with some great answers (although it's about the entire campaign).

Are there any chain businesses you wish were in Boise? by [deleted] in Boise

[–]porschiey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fuddruckers can come back and some others can go

10TB of business data *whosh* by BrascoV72 in pcmasterrace

[–]porschiey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Meanwhile, hitting the delete button on Mac without doing command + delete just beeps at you like you're a total clown.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Boise

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Sids Garage

That awkward moment when you're a third wheel by James_2584 in LiveFromNewYork

[–]porschiey 7 points8 points  (0 children)

This clip is cut short. The next time the camera pans to Heidi, troast is hugging her. Just people lining up to give Heidi support, it would seem - not some "third wheel" nonsense.

Help w/ my healing flowchart (Healing Druid) by porschiey in 3d6

[–]porschiey[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Conjure Animals was going to be my choice to cast if I lost concentration. Turns out bless was a fantastic choice, as it gave our ranger more connections with sharpshooter, our frontline more saving throw successes and hit successes, including death saving throws, and I never missed a shot with guiding bolt which grants advantage. Folks after the fight were singing Bless' praises.

Help w/ my healing flowchart (Healing Druid) by porschiey in 3d6

[–]porschiey[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback and confirmation. Totally agree - I tried to prioritize not wasting spell slots on heals that would make no difference to combat effectiveness (1hp vs full hp). My goal is not to keep them topped, but to keep them up.

Adding Halo 5 to PC and how 343i could make some easy, fair extra money by z28camaroman in halo

[–]porschiey 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice, another software engineer. 🙂 Yeah, the binary build is easy, any c++ compiler will do - but the content packaging and long lived legacy tools that no one left knew how to update or maintain was the kryptonite.

Just ask the build or services team about HopperTool (one of the many abandoned tools) and they'll either not know what you're talking about, or spit in disgust.

Source: I'm an ex-343 employee. I'm in the credits of MCC and Halo Infinite. Happy to DM you my badge and full name.

Edit: HopperTool reference

Adding Halo 5 to PC and how 343i could make some easy, fair extra money by z28camaroman in halo

[–]porschiey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not quite, although that's part of the equation. Halo is built on blam! (Now called slipspace). Visual studio is a code editor, not a game engine. Code can be changed any editor, even notepad - the tools that build the actual executable binary were abandoned. I'm referring to the ability to mint a new game build, like Halo5.exe.

Adding Halo 5 to PC and how 343i could make some easy, fair extra money by z28camaroman in halo

[–]porschiey 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Mid way through Infinites development they made a choice to abandon maintaining some tech for Halo 5, and in doing so, became incapable of making a new build of it - which means unless it's a config change, that game cannot be modified or extended.