F.A.T.A.L. is known for its graphic violent and sexual content, as well as the complexity of the underlying game system, involving higher-level mathematics
Hah. I was mostly just joking as it included higher maths in the same sentence as the highly sexually explicit content. But that's interesting that they decided to implement such a convoluted way of getting to stats instead of just simplifying it with a table.
I'm getting Pixel 8a ads and I usually trade-in my older a if I start having problems or the new one has a feature. 8a finally has wireless charging (7 mightve, was too soon) but it has this bullshit now. Damnit.
Whatever linux version is on the Steam Deck wasn't bad to use when I needed Desktop mode. It was pretty similar experience-wise to windows (no mac experience).
Last big fight was all the previous undefeated enemies in one place. Players gave me an excuse to ensure they all met up so I took it. No more 5 loose threads: just one huge fight.
Do what Paizo did and make all rules free. Charge for books that contain art and adventures. Hire or contract with good writers for high quality adventures. Playtest the hell out of everything and have a robust QA department. Keep or hire diversity consultants to prevent other scandals.
Invest in the other classic settings more and revisit esoteric FR locations.
Actually balance the game for high levels and magic items. Standardize magic and item descriptions while keeping the effects and flavor.
Integrate dndbeyond with other vtts and sell content on them. Sell PDFs. Call Over D&D 6e or 5.5e ffs.
Exactly what I was thinking. PF1/2e allowing AoN to use ALL of their content and display it makes getting into the game and seeing all your options ridiculously easy. It doesn't have the best interface which could easily be expanded with a company that was paying to develop it.
What I really want to see DnDBeyond do is complete their Homebrew creator. It has SO many problems and doesn't even implement all of the rules from content WOTC releases (can't lower hit dice except by spending in short rest, some magic items do this). And I want to be able to create my own classes and item types like new weapons. And also some weird rules that aren't allowed like changing weapon damage dice.
And they could really lean into 5e's greatest strength: their 3rd party support. 5e being so popular means there's a HUGE 3rd party scene that's doing so much to keep 5e alive and fresh. DnDBeyond is just starting to embrace them now but they could really open it up as a marketplace in the same way they have the DMsGuild. Then 3rd party publishers could at their own leisure add their own content and sell dndbeyond licenses (or include them in their books) for their content. This would mean people who prefer to use dndbeyond's character sheet (it really is one of the best digital ones that integrate with VTTs, foundry's sheet is subpar sadly [haven't tried 3.0 yet]) are able to do so while using any 3rd party classes and content they wanted.
Right now, I buy 3rd party content and then add as much in as possible to dndbeyond but I can't do that for whole classes and I often run into roadblocks where I simply can't add in certain features and there's no automation for some things.
My party has recently murdered the 2 wealthiest people in this capital. Both had huge mansions. Incidentally they were both undead so they got a reward.
Not both houses, just the smaller one. Generally the liege Lord doesn't allow people to claim his fiefs as spoils for killing nobility.
Tonight in D&D: We preside over a peace talk between Dwarves and Shadar-Kai, I tell one Evil Morally Questionable pair of lesbians about another pair of Evil Morally Questionable pair of lesbians they can be friends with, and the possible benefits of said friendship....
Discord should be used as an easy way to keep people up to date and host links, like a replacement for Twitter. Not too be the sole source of hosting info. They should still have websites the discord points to.
Nothing Ear (a) could be the best sub-€100 earbuds on the market
The Nothing Ear (a) is going to be pretty similar to the Nothing Ear, with the big differences being the waterproof rating and the battery life. So we’re still looking at dual connection, Active Noise Cancellation, and quick charging to get you 10 hours of playback in just 10 minutes.
On the battery life front, you’ll get eight hours of playback with ANC off, and the case will get you 38 hours of playback total. The buds are going to have a waterproof rating of IP54, while the case will get a IP55 rating. All of this for just €100.
Is this better than most other earbuds? I've had 2 pair total and have honestly never had a use case for more than 3-4 hours at a time before returning them to the case. But they never sit around not in the case. So I can't really tell what their charge time is.
Yeah it's very effective. It has a big downside of people losing the pegs and then those addresses are "lost" but all that means is that 2 users can't reliably connect and when they report to IT they will be asked if they had the correct peg. And I guess quarterly do a review for unused addresses that have pegs out and create new ones for lost pegs.
In response to Joe Biden and the White House enabling ActivityPub federation via Threads, a number of people asked: "Why didn't the White House just self-host their own Mastodon server?"...
They'd just pay a contractor to stand up a server on azure or AWS. Most of the labor would be moderation which is probably why they won't do it.
They couldn't remove anything without Republicans crying censorship. And because it's government run, first amendment protections apply. Which means they couldn't remove a lot of what moderators already do.
Crossland makes big maps with a good amount of detail. Usually with a single theme. https://www.patreon.com/crossland
Crosshead is the related project and they have good assets for dungeon draft.
Czepeku makes very detailed and expressive maps that tell a whole story. They are fairly fantastical and I use their website's map search to find inspiration. https://www.czepeku.com/
I've been looking Darkest Maps lately. They've got good horror and eldritch stuff while also a bunch of standard fantasy. https://www.patreon.com/DarkestMaps
2 Minute Tabletop is great for simpler designs that tend to be less cluttered and a bit more rough and low poly on line work and detail. But they still look great. https://2minutetabletop.com/
Yikes. Injecting sulfur dioxide into the air is actually a proposed way to temporarily reduce climate change by increasing Earth's albedo. I guess Tennessee wants to stay hot.
This means that Samsung wants to provide meals and diet suggestions using the smart ring.
Galaxy Ring will monitor your activity during the day, and then Samsung Food, linked to a smart Samsung fridge with AI vision, will provide diet suggestions based on calorie consumption and body mass index (BMI).
In a real futuristic home where the Samsung oven is also linked, the appliance will apply the cooking temperature and time accordingly, and ingredients can also be delivered through the Samsung e-Food center.
Generally I've seen it rules that the overlap needs to cover >50% of the square to affect it. In which case you have the exact same coverage as before. But in this case I'd just rule that we shift the grid 45 degrees so it lines up again and move units to the closest square that aligns. I.e. don't use geometry to try to munchkin.
There's a bunch of grid-based shapes that pertain to the rules of 5e as well if you need that. Also 5e fun fact: a circle or radius affect is going to look like a square since diagonal distance is not accounted for, but in Pf2e it looks closer to an actual circle.
My 5e game is at level 14 so combats have become more rare. Specifically because they take longer and usually need to be higher stakes. I'm not going to make a bunch of highwaymen into an actual encounter, it's just going to be a decision of if the party wants them to live or not done outside initiative.
I play 2hr sessions we 1/4-1/3 sessions tend to have encounters. This means maybe we got 3-5 sessions b/t encounters of any length.
History says tariffs rarely work, but U.S. President Biden’s 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs could defy the trend, researcher says ( theconversation.com )
By Tinglong Dai, Bernard T. Ferrari Professor of Business, Johns Hopkins University...
A look at & review of what has been called the worst RPG of all time ( www.youtube.com )
Linked video is part 1 of 4, and as long as it is, it's the shortest of them....
I fear no man.... Kinda ( lemmy.world )
The Art Of The New Dungeons & Dragons ( www.gameinformer.com )
Archived.
The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff ( finance.yahoo.com )
Archive.org link...
Google is redesigning its search engine — and it’s AI all the way down ( www.theverge.com )
Windows 11 is now an ad platform--this is why we're here ( www.ghacks.net )
The writing is on the wall--I suspect the next Windows OS will be a subscription service. Gather your ISOs while ye may.
After Buying Up Studios, Xbox Says It Doesn't Have The Resources To Run Them ( kotaku.com )
Animal Well - Review Thread
Game Information...
Seeing these memes lately. Anyways, -most- druids are like: ( lemmy.world )
Now don't leave me hanging, and let's get to the next adventure!
To the smallest detail ( lemmy.world )
Second Boeing whistleblower dies suddenly ( www.newsweek.com )
You make the line go up or get fired ( ttrpg.network )
How would you save D&D if you were the new CEO?
The question is discussed in this podcast episode....
"The fireball, an old classic. Excellent execution on that lob." ( ttrpg.network )
I kind of want to get a friend to just sit in a game store and find a game to troll with this.
Answering riddles is so easy!
Blackview BL9000 Pro: New rugged smartphone with thermal imaging camera, 5G and very fast charging ( www.notebookcheck.net )
It's a good investment ( discuss.tchncs.de )
Choose Your Own Adventure™ ( lemmy.world )
Long Term Ramifications ( ttrpg.network )
Tonight in D&D: We preside over a peace talk between Dwarves and Shadar-Kai, I tell one Evil Morally Questionable pair of lesbians about another pair of Evil Morally Questionable pair of lesbians they can be friends with, and the possible benefits of said friendship....
Discord is nuking Nintendo Switch emulator devs and their entire servers ( www.theverge.com )
Movie industry demands US law requiring ISPs to block piracy websites ( arstechnica.com )
Exclusive: Nothing Ear & Nothing Ear (a) Leak ( www.androidheadlines.com )
Low tech DHCP ( jlai.lu )
Could the US Government Self-Host a Fediverse Server? ( wedistribute.org )
In response to Joe Biden and the White House enabling ActivityPub federation via Threads, a number of people asked: "Why didn't the White House just self-host their own Mastodon server?"...
After 250 rolls I can honestly say this D20 is the worst of the 17 I tested ( files.catbox.moe )
Out of 250 rolls 27 were 1's. A roughly 11% chance of rolling a 1 on this die....
This went poorly ( ttrpg.network )
The place was full of mimics.
Where do you get your battlemaps from?
cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/12847215...
As a GM, watching players decide what to do is the greatest thing ( i.imgur.com )
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The Google Pixel 8A may get a brighter, 120Hz display ( www.theverge.com )
Man changes name to Literally Anybody Else and announces US presidential run ( www.theguardian.com )
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Bethesda Celebrates 30th Anniversary of The Elder Scrolls, Provides Small Development Update on The Elder Scrolls VI ( www.thefpsreview.com )
Why I refuse to upgrade - 8 minutes video explaining why it's not that interesting to upgrade phones nowadays ( www.youtube.com )
Tennessee Lawmakers Propose Legislation Banning ‘Chemtrails’ ( www.avweb.com )
Samsung Galaxy Ring to come with Samsung Food integration ( gsmarena.com )
Seen here - https://lemdro.id/post/7196135...
Jesse bringing geometry to the table ( ttrpg.network )
Lemmy.world seems to have banned the largest piracy community on Lemmy. ( lemmy.dbzer0.com )
This has happened once before and they reversed it. But they said this last time too:...
Playtron plan to launch PlaytronOS, a Linux-based system for gaming ( www.theverge.com )
https://www.playtron.one/...
How much combats in your game ?
Just a general conversation thread,...
US government agencies demand fixable ice cream machines ( arstechnica.com )