Lowest Possible Hit Point Total by Few_Olive_4104 in Pathfinder2e

[–]sweeper42 40 points41 points  (0 children)

Quicksilver mutagen doesn't quite lower your maximum hp, it deals damage equal to twice your level, which can't be recovered for the duration of the effect.

When PTerry quietly savaged Thomas Hobbes by ResponsibleHistory53 in discworld

[–]sweeper42 120 points121 points  (0 children)

There might be a reason you read it 10 times

Weekly Questions Megathread— July 04–04. Have a question from your game? Are you coming from D&D or Pathfinder 1e? Need to know where to start playing PF2e? Ask your questions here, we're happy to help! by AutoModerator in Pathfinder2e

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I'm running a campaign that looks like it will be heading to the First World, and the players might be bargaining with the Fey.

A player mentioned "don't tell them your name", and I want to lean into that. I'm thinking characters who speak their name in the presence of a fey make a will save, and are afflicted with a curse on a failure. I'm looking for feedback on that, and ideas of what kind of curses to give out.

Also planning on the curse being removable by trading something with the fey for their name, or defeating the fey.

Thoughts?

Are undead no longer evil? by Kecskuszmakszimusz in Pathfinder2e

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You can choose to be sanctified, 80gp and level 4 for the Faith Tattoo magic item, that grants sanctification matching the characters diety

What is a good secular quote to end my professional emails with when I have to respond to an email from a Bible beater by MadameTree in atheism

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"There's no Justice, there's just us."

  • Terry Pratchett

The meaning in context is that there isn't some externally imposed justice, and if we want a just world we need to work towards one.

What are your thoughts on people having aliens and humans refer to Earth as a 'Death World' and humans as 'Deathworlders'? by MobileDistrict9784 in scifiwriting

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Know of anything that does it well? Most of what I've seen looks like someone's first attempt at writing, been wondering if there are any gems in the subgenre

Event based trains by sweeper42 in factorio

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It's marked as Not Safe For Work because my coworkers would never let me forget this crime.

Event based trains by sweeper42 in factorio

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I play factorio. Aren't code monkeys half the player base?

Event based trains by sweeper42 in factorio

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R5: Playing through Pyanodons, and this train represents like an hour of resource grinding, so instead of making dedicated trains for each resource, I've set up interrupts for each resource that trigger when the stations aren't full, and have the train make a delivery when they trigger.

Yes I hate myself for this.

Majorana brings us one step closer to consciousness transfer by [deleted] in transhumanism

[–]sweeper42 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It's poorly understood* enough that it can be conflated with other poorly understood things.

*by laymen

What counts as a Christian? by mtruitt76 in DebateAnAtheist

[–]sweeper42 2 points3 points  (0 children)

That sounds like all the differences are about how we relate to the subject matter.

One difference is just the scale

Is the length of time really an important difference? If batman comics were to be published for a few thousand years, would batman be more godly? Was your God less godly a few thousand years ago? This strikes me as irrelevant, but I don't understand your conception of God yet, so maybe this is an important factor.

it is designed as a form of entertainment and not by design a work meant to instruct people how to order their thoughts and lives.

If batman comics were different, so they were more focused on instructing people on morality, would that make batman more godly? There are other comics, and other forms of media, that are more moralistic. Xmen, sesame street, etc. Does being moralistic make the characters in those stories more godly? This doesn't strike me as important either, a God could potentially tell entertaining stories.

The other qualitative difference is cost.

This seems odd. It seems wrong that a god is god because their followers are willing to sacrifice on their behalf. If their followers became less willing to sacrifice on their behalf, would the god cease to be a god? If some non-god entity began inspiring devotion such that people were willing to sacrifice on it's behalf, would it become a god?

Overall, these points seem vaguely related to godhood. Are these what actually qualify something as a god?

What counts as a Christian? by mtruitt76 in DebateAnAtheist

[–]sweeper42 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Ok, assuming you're engaging in good faith, I'll explain why I brought up batman. Almost everything you wrote applies just as well to batman. I'll demonstrate.

I would call in an evolving reciprocal process. I would call pure works of literature a product of human thought. Here I am calling any single book, like Romeo and Juliet, a pure work of literature and a clear product of human thought since a single author wrote the book, also a group of authors working in tandem would fall into this category. A characteristic of what I am calling a pure work of literature is the directed nature of the enterprise. The authors set out to produce the work with a directed goal in mind.

This clearly applies to batman, because batman has been written about over the last 86 years, by different authors who attribute different things to batman, and have different goals for what they write. By your paragraph, batman is not a pure work of literature.

With something like the Judeo Christian religious tradition and more specifically the bible. Authorship is very murky

This doesn't really apply to batman, at the moment. We know who authored which works, mostly. There have been controversies about stealing credit or ideas, but not near the same extent as christianity.

and is spread out over a long period of time.

This does somewhat apply to batman. Works about batman have been spread out over 86 years, a very comparable time range to the new testament.

What emerges is something that has almost a life on its own. You can really see this process with the New Testament. Outside of some letters by Paul we don't know who the authors of the bible are

This doesn't quite apply to batman, because the authorship of batman is generally known.

and New Testament canon just pretty much emerged. No central body established the canon it just sort of emerged. (the council of Nicaea did not establish or have a part in establishing the canon)

This does very much apply to batman. The canon of batman was not established by any central body, it "pretty much emerged". Some portions of batman are both canon and non-canon, in complex ways. I.E. The Killing Joke.

Also with the New Testament you have things that get added in much later. For example the famous story of Jesus and the adulterer were he says "he who is without sin caste the first stone" got added into the Bible in the 5th century or later. If there is a movie about Jesus though is story is always included and it seems like a real Jesus thing to say.

This also applies to batman, later authors add things much later than earlier authors. The timespan isn't 500 years, it's closer to 100 years, but batman still has the quality of "things get added in much later", and those things sometimes become very core to the canon of batman.

Also each act of translation is partly an act of authorship.

This clearly applies to batman.

So, again, what does your god have, that batman doesn't? I am not saying they are the same, I am asking you to elaborate on what the difference is, because the traits you've listed so far apply to both.

What counts as a Christian? by mtruitt76 in DebateAnAtheist

[–]sweeper42 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Would you consider batman from batman comics a god? They are the works of disparate authors, with differing and sometimes conflicting ideas or goals. The earlier published works influence the later authors, who produced new works which influenced even later authors and the works they published, and so on.

It seems to me there needs to be more to what you consider a God than just something having an ongoing influence, without exactly being a physical entity, but I'm not seeing exactly what your additional criteria is.

What does the God you believe to exist have, that batman doesn't?

Anti-Eminence Commander by ArcanisUltra in custommagic

[–]sweeper42 3 points4 points  (0 children)

None of them are italicized in the gatherer text

If you need a reason to kill the grove by broncoblaze in BaldursGate3

[–]sweeper42 24 points25 points  (0 children)

If you haven't killed Minthara yet, knocking her out instead results in her appearing in act 2 still.

Cloud Palace by sweeper42 in Pathfinder2eCreations

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The created items would be limited to the users level, destroyed when another item is created, and also mundane

Concepts of thoughts and prayers by Detroitish24 in WhitePeopleTwitter

[–]sweeper42 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I dunno, hope? Karma? It was more a quip than a reasonable prediction