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KurtDunniehue

@ KurtDunniehue @ttrpg.network

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  • Monster Deep Dive | Bigby Presents: Glory of Giants | D&D

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  • A happy tradition of taking inspiration from all of larger pop-culture.

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    What are tankies? What does sea-lioning mean?

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  • But there are people who identify as left-wing who will support China and Russia while downplaying their authoritarianism.

    That's not something being invented as a boogeyman. Anyone can go to lemmygrad.ml right now to see it in action.

  • [War Gamer] Kobold Press slashes prices of monster DnD books

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  • Most of that is being fixed by dilating the amount of damage output that players can output in 5e in a variety of changes in OneD&D.

    My playtests have had really gripping & close fights, even with people optimizing their hearts out.

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    What are tankies? What does sea-lioning mean?

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  • I've seen Sealioning used quite a bit in a particular Lemmy instance that would self describe themselves as Pro-Russia & Pro-China, as a way of shutting down discourse between people who disagree with them. There are people who disagree with a particular narrative, and they're discounted immediately for wanting to know how someone would arrive at a pro-Russian & pro-China position.

    Also they'll just "whatabout!" and change the subject whenever unassailable critiques of these regimes come up. As if its is only possible to hold outrage in a single direction at a time.

    I'll have you know I'm capable of disliking EVERYONE mentioned in a given conversation.

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  • Yeah and as smart as anyone is, they aren't right all the time. As much as you can agree with his messaging, it's important to critically assess everything said, regardless of who is saying it.

  • Eat the Dragons

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  • Modern capitalism as we know it began forming in the Renaissance, particularly in colonial European powers who were getting to the Colonization of the rest of the world game earlier than their peers. This notably includes Portugal and the Netherlands, followed swiftly by most everyone else.

    There were promissory notes that were carried by travelers prior to this, in the form of Crusaders traveling from Europe to Jerusalem, in the relatively brief period of time that it was conquered. But this did not interact with market economies as we'd know it, and is directly analogous to traveler cheques, meant to make you less of an appealing robbery target on the road.

    No, these kinds of shenanigans were concocted rather recently, and are not reflective of baseline normal human behavior. It's mostly a system that was created by accident, with conventions that were forming being purposeful altered during creation by the people with money, for their own benefit.

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  • Thanks! They look quite slick and have a lot going on. Particularly the void dragons you sent my way.

    Each would be more or less perfect for a single-monster encounter, as they are dense with fairly novel mechanics.

    Many people think that the WotC statblocks are a bit too boring, but I consider them a good entry point for new GMs. This is clearly a nice way to up your game.

    Cheers!

  • [War Gamer] Kobold Press slashes prices of monster DnD books

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  • Can someone give a good example if what makes these books good? I'd love to see a single great example of the level of quality that these books bring.

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    Nobody Told Me It Got This Gay!

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  • The NSFW posts.

    IDK if they're exactly merited in these spaces outside of a protest context. I'm also not sure they were really needed in that context either but ce'st la vie!

  • Baldur’s Gate 3 - Official Release Teaser Trailer

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  • For the people who have a lot of hours on this game, how well does it play for co-op?

    My spouse and I actually dated doing Star Wars the Old Republic co-op, where we could play two different characters going through bespoke personal quest lines while being able to help each other out on their journies.

    How easily could we get that experience with this game?

  • The Origin of Grognard

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  • Of course not! In fact I love this video because it's such a sympathetic look at the term, and its place in culture.

    Just maybe make sure we keep it cool it on social media.

  • Is the Dance Bard all that good?

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  • That's my take as well ultimately.

    This post was more in response to the reaction to this subclass, which was broadly 'wow how dare they do this to the monk?'

    This is in no way a replacement for a monk. It's a bard who gets to do dance moves.

    Also, I've since realized another thing about the melee attack of this bard: Shocking Grasp exists, and scales better.

  • Treantmonk: "One D&D Rogue: Yes, it's fantastic"

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  • I think it's a touch silly to put off-turn sneak attacks into the damage optimization, but it's only 5.3 DPR contribution so that's easy to take out.

    Overall that's not looking too bad!

  • Is the Dance Bard all that good?

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  • Well it's not that 16 is awful on its own. It's awful when there aren't any mechanisms to get out of melee without catching attacks of opportunity, and your kit wants you to be in melee.

    However I have fixed one of the problems with this subclass! There's an edit in the main post now as well attesting to this, but with Tavern Brawler, this subclass gets to swat people away from themselves all the dang time. Also, going in on Speedster at level 4 allows a dex focused Dancing Bard have that extra mobility that monks get for free, and helps them play keep-away from baddies.

    The playtest itself starts in about 2 hours, and I'm quite excited to see what the player thinks... They couldn't be bothered to do any of the character building with UA material, unfortunately.

  • Our humanity in a capitalist system (or lack thereof)

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  • You really should look at the homelessness crisis in more detail, because it cannot be on private citizens to shoulder that burden. There simply isn't enough for individuals, even if they all miraculously organized together in this effort, to fix the issue.

    It's systemic, and we need top-down action. Housing people affordably is a scale issue, and larger institutions should be the ones to gather the equity and resources at a scale that individuals simply cannot, especially in the middle of a housing crisis.

    For examples of public housing that works quite well, I'd suggest you read into Greek's post World War 2 Social Housing programs, and Singapore's state controlled housing programs.

  • Start filming when the cops pop their hoods to block dash cams.

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  • At whose expense?

    Also, trust in the police is at an all-time low, especially among young liberal-leaning Americans.

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    It always boils down to this

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  • It's one of those things where I look at it, and say 'wow that sucks... But you can't argue with the results damn, can we workshop a better version of that?'

  • Is the Dance Bard all that good?

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  • You're being rather belligerent for someone who is gliding over the fact that the highest resting AC you can get at level 1 is 18, using standard character creation rules.

    For level 1, it's S-Tier.

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    It always boils down to this

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  • Murdoch doesn't own EVERY newspaper.

    But yeah Murdoch media is fucked.

  • OneDnD - 5e UA Material/Discussion @ttrpg.network
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    UA Playtest 6 - REVISED SPELLS ARE LANDING!

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    D&D5e - What is the ultimate support?

  • OneDnD - 5e UA Material/Discussion @ttrpg.network
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    How recalculating baseline changed everything: One D&D

  • D&D Next - 5e Discussion @ttrpg.network
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    The Origin of Grognard

  • D&D Next - 5e Discussion @ttrpg.network
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    Sly Flourish's Lazy RPG Talk Show: Reddit's Enshittification

  • OneDnD - 5e UA Material/Discussion @ttrpg.network
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    OneD&D is going to fix Challenge Rating

  • TTRPG.network Instance Meta Discussion @ttrpg.network
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    Issues with initial account setup