I thought stuff like "Explain Like I'm Five" and "AMA" was proprietary to the community, or at least the Reddit community, not Reddit as a company.

I checked and I found at least those subreddit forum names were registered as trademarks.

• TODAY I LEARNED (TIL)
• SHOWERTHOUGHTS
• EXPLAIN LIKE I'M FIVE
• NOSLEEP
• AM I THE ASSHOLE?
• IAMA
• RPAN (actual subreddit name is R/PAN but they messed up the word mark for the registration I think.)
• ASK REDDIT (makes sense since this includes Reddit's name.)
• NATURE IS FUCKING LIT (I thought you couldn't register word marks with swearing but I guess I'm wrong. Must be only for offensive terms then...)
• ASK ME ANYTHING (yes somehow this "generic term" is a trademark now...")
• AMA
• ELI5

Also they have some trademark registration applications for WALLSTREETBETS that have not been finalized yet.

I just noticed this when I saw a strange "Achievement Unlocked" notification pop up on Reddit. What do you think of this? It seems like a retention tactic to me, like what Amino had with its streak leaderboards, and GameFAQs currently has with streak achievements for logging on ten days in a row and also for all days of a month.

Federation didn't work properly for the original post - this is a repost.

My favorite is Drifblim. I remember how mysterious it felt having Drifloon be only catchable on Fridays in the original Diamond and Pearl versions. It made breeding for their eggs more exciting than the regular kind of Pokémon. Also it’s a living balloon which I like.

Unfortunately a lot of Reddit communities have not transferred over to Lemmy so I have to use Reddit logged out. But now the comments aren't loading anymore...

Some time ago, like in 2021, I discovered this Morph class from EN World's A Touch of Class document on 5E SRD licensed to be put on the website by EN Publishing themselves.

https://www.5esrd.com/classes/3rd-party-publisher-classes/en-publishing/morph/

"Morphs are the embodiment of transformation. Whereas a druid looks at the power of beasts as just one weapon in their arsenal, the forms morph characters take are the core of their being. Each morph has an exceptional degree of versatility in adventuring, because they could as easily become a rat, wolf, or monkey to resolve the situation at hand. Furthermore, each morph has forms (and problemsolving strategies) they prefer."

"Why hide when you can become a rat?"

"Why cast spider climb when you can become a spider?"

"Why don a disguise when you can simply assume a new identity?"

It looks like a cool shapeshifting class for fifth edition D&D, similar in scope of the Master of Many Forms prestige class from D&D version 3.5. You don't

I like the concept of turning into other creatures on my own volition. There's a prestige class in third edition called the Shifter which allows for changing into various forms far more than a regular wild shape would allow, such as humanoids, oozes, plants, constructs, dragons, and outsiders (I could turn into an Achaierai if I wanted to). It also comes with full talking capabilities in any form provided by wild shape so I can be a talking animal temporarily. Version 3.5 has a nerfed version of it called the "Master of Many Forms" which has less available form groups to turn into (no outsiders means no turning into an Achaierai) and no unlimited form shifting at max level.

The closest official option in fifth edition is the Druid's Circle of the Moon which provides slightly more powerful forms to choose form, but doesn't allow for anything other than slight humanoid changes, elemental forms, and stronger beast forms, and doesn't provide the ability to speak in wild shape. Unofficial

I've liked it ever since I saw that picture of it in the version 3.5 Monster Manual for Dungeons & Dragons. A very cool and comical looking monster in the artwork here. It's strange that it got retconned from chaotic evil to lawful evil when Planescape was introduced.

I've gotten enveloped in the Jumpchain series. What about you?

There are many classes and ancestries in Pathfinder Second Edition to be a part of. Which combo would you be if you could both choose for yourself?

For class I would pick to be either the Druid class or the Summoner class. The Druid one is due to its collection of shapeshifting feats and spells as well as its generalized nature based magic. I like shapeshifting as a concept, and usually this class in TTRPGs is based around that as well as having some nature magic to spare. You ever heard that "the power of nature is impossible to resist" before? Though annoyingly in game the shapeshifting feats take more than all the slots if you want maximum shapeshifting capabilities and variety. The Summoner one is because I could have a sunflower monster, which I imagine would be something like Blossomon from Digimon, or a magical beast such as a stegosaurus, a giant skunk, or a giant vulture on my side. It would be cool to have a friend in the form of one of my favorite flowers or animals. Then

A YouTube video I watched recently claimed that summoners might have been considered a bad class in second edition. However, it doesn't seem like that at a glance - there's opportunities for various creatures and beings to stand by your side, such as a plant monster kinda like Blossomon, a stegosaurus, dragons, and so on. Also they come with a nine level magic collection on top of the Eidolon - and the Eidolon can learn spells too with the correct feats. So you could make a druid like character with lots of magic but their main aspect being able to summon a giant sunflower, as a result of acquiring lots of Druid archetype feats for magic casting and feats related to the Eidolon casting magic themselves. Or you could make a stegosaurus man who summons a powerful stegosaurus that knows a lot about nature and fights for them. Sounds like a cool class to play, but I haven't tried the game much to see how any of this would work in gameplay.

I tired this pack called "Cottage Witch" on Steam Deck with a few extra mods such as Controllable and Distant Horizons and it seems to be a good enough experience. Unfortunately I have to throttle my system to have decent battery life - otherwise it would only last for 100 minutes. With throttling and reducing the frame rate to what I would expect from my "gaming PC" it would last for 3.5 hours.

Recently I've been seeing issues where I click on one link to an article on Lemmy and it goes to a different one than I intended. I thought this was related to the random loading of new articles on the main menu, until I got redirected to a Red Sox article on the read replies page - when I didn't post on a Red Sox article to warrant being replied to.