myrrh

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[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 4 points 5 days ago

"Stick with the prod."

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 8 points 5 days ago

...by 'attack' are we talking signal-jamming, hacking, or physical disruption?..

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

...ye gads, i adore aerial but most of her ouvre pre-ninth wave does nothing for me...

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

...marvel super heroes also featured a resources ability score and feats to represent financial maneuvers akin to lines of credit; it felt frustratingly abstracted as a teenager living in a discretionary cash economy, but after several decades as a real-world adult i realise that it's an elegant abstraction for how people actually live and conduct commerce...

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

...i was going to say flashback or mean streets, but no, it was definitely the original tron arcade game; that pre-dated even war games...

...before a certain point in the early eighties, the line between cyberpunk and science fiction gets pretty blurry, so i don't think anything i played in the seventies counts...

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 5 points 5 days ago

...i think we explored this place in our call of cthulhu campaign; poor henry was reduced to black ooze...

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 week ago

...y'all roughly correlates with coke, although there are some deep pockets of soda-water in the back country...

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 week ago

...my grandparents punched fascists; it's a mark of civility that we only call them names...

[–] myrrh@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

...but you do need to be rich-enough to afford time not spent preparing for work, working, nor recovering from work...

 

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...how would you characterise dominate person cast with indefinite duration?..

...upcasting dominate person at eighth level can maintain up to eight hours with concentration, so i'd be inclined to consider twenty-four hours duration equivalent to a ninth-level spell, but perhaps i'm under-gauging the difference in power between eighth and ninth-level spells?..

...regardless, in this particular case it was cast with indefinite duration plus disadvantage on the saving throw against a hostile player character, which i'd like to translate into mechanical terms: maybe a ninth-level casting with heightened metamagic plus silvery barbs?..

...i'm playing with a DM who has a poor grasp of fifth-edition's mechanical balance and i'd like to help him understand just how adversarial his homebrew and houserule tendencies are leaning, especially for early tier-two gameplay...

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