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sirblastalot

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  • First-Time DM Advice?

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  • If you don't want to do a one-shot, I still recommend keeping it short. 3-5 sessions perhaps. Just to dip a toe in and even out the kinks, and be able to feel good that you completed something. Decide if you want to commit to a big sprawling campaign after the first little demo campaign.

  • What are You Working on Wednesday

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  • Spent some time looking for ideas on how to do a security training (compliance requirement) that didn't suck. Cribbing from some reddit posts, I think I'm going to give everyone a notecard with something like "Is Bob Bobson a client here", have them pair up, and do a little phone conversation roleplay where one person is a visher trying to trick the other into revealing the piece of information, while the other person gets practice saying "No." Seemed like a good way to let the staff dip a toe into thinking like an attacker.

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    What do i do if im letting my irl emotions get the best of me?

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  • /thread

  • Password managers less secure than promised

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  • Yeah to be clear, I do not recommend my method and I don't think it's a good allocation of mental resources. I'm just stubborn :P

  • Password managers less secure than promised

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  • FWIW, I use Diceware for password generation; it's good at making memorable yet still random passphrases.

  • Password managers less secure than promised

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  • The prospect of putting all my passwords in one big juicy target has always made me nervous. I go to great lengths to just memorize everything, but damn if it doesn't take a toll.

  • Password managers less secure than promised

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  • Please tell me you have backups of that flash drive

  • Likely a graduate of the Prometheus School of Running Away from Things

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  • The federation changed forever on the day the Enterprise discovered the Planet of Chocolate Air

  • I cast rock sling at mach 2

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  • Pretty terrible movie, all things considered, but it does have a very satisfying ending.

  • And no, it wasn't letting Neelix on board

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  • Only the Doctor was sentient

  • Credit to u/donner1701 on Reddit

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  • I think it's fine if they act like highschoolers in a show for highschoolers. It just means that's not a show that's for me.

  • Credit to u/donner1701 on Reddit

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  • I think you're selling DS9's progressiveness short. The federation is portrayed as less progressive, but the message of the show itself is far more progressive than the norm; if anything, it makes the federation standins for moderate/centrist/liberals and calls them out for not being left enough.

  • Fantasy Settlement Patterns

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  • For sure! And that scarcity of resources and failing supply chains is a GREAT setting for questing!

  • Fantasy Settlement Patterns

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  • A couple thoughts occur:

    • If you wanted to justify big cities in wildernesses, you could use the prevalence of monsters to do so. Say it's just too dangerous to have small villages, and everyone has to spend the night in a walled town/city for their own safety.
    • I'm pondering how magic could effect this, too. You might have a whole Town in this ecosystem replaced by just a single wizard, who's willing to magic up complex tools or luxuries in exchange for an exorbitant payment from the peasants.
    • A lot of fantasy settings are lowkey post-apocalyptic, inspired by the Dark Ages and/or The Black Death. You may encounter isolated Villages that are struggling to scrape by as their Town got wiped off the map, or isolated Cities crammed full of starving refugees that fled their Villages.

  • Would work on me

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  • Could you elaborate? How do their healing systems work? What makes them good?

  • Would work on me

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  • Do you have a system you like where healing is a good idea? I'm a 3.5 native so I'm kind of used to the philosophy of "the best healing is killing them before you take damage." But I'm interested in systems design in general and if there's a particularly good example of doing it better I'd love to learn about it.

  • The Privilege of Sorcerers

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  • I know y'all are talking about like, buying a wish spell, but y'all make it sound like the mom hired a magic gigolo XD

  • The Privilege of Sorcerers

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  • Now you've inspired me. I should make a character who's 1 level in sorcerer, the rest in wizard, and the premise is that they set out to prove everyone wrong that they're not just going to rely on their inborn talents and they're ready to do the work!

  • Would work on me

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  • Really? I actually think it's one of the strengths of 5e. In 3.5 you just have negative hitpoints down to -10, and that doesn't scale with level or anything so it's barely relevant after the first few levels. And it's nice to not be just DRT when you get downed in combat.

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    Reminder to use strong passwords

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    AI Generated Content is now banned.

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    Thoughts on preemptively banning Gen-AI?

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    A small logistics tweak that's worked well for me

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    It's not Critical Role, it's Podcasting Itself

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    I need 1 more thing an evil necromancer dictator would have in his garden