UlyssesT [he/him]

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Cake day: 2021年11月9日

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  • There’s this constant tension with D&D where it wants to be medieval and it wants to have easily-reproducible magic. Follow the magic through to its logical conclusion and you get essentially modern technology with a mystical/medieval aesthetic, ignore it and you get big blatant plot holes.

    For decades, Forgotten Realms tried really had to be this “peasants have their minds blown if they see even a level one Magic-User spell being cast; this is a grounded and gritty setting sort of” pretense in the official materials, but then there’s basically a magocracy running most cities (even the fucking Luskan pirates and other “savage frontier” big mean guys!) and maps full of “oh a web spell is on this window at all times” sorts of signs that maybe those peasants should be a lot more familiar with the very special very rare spellcasters that rule over them and make all the important decisions.


  • This is my long standing hot take and point of contention with rules as written in conventional D&D fantasy rule sets: death, if the rules of the game were actually applied to the setting, is less about finality (except for the lifespan limitation contrivance) and more about health insurance or lack thereof. People who die that have enough money should by all means have family that pay for raises (or resurrections when the body isn’t available) as a matter of course and the material consequences of that would be that premature death from violence, illness, or accident would be mostly a poor people thing. Funerals would be awkward in setting: “sorry you can’t afford a rez. The divines bless the departed I guess, lol.”








  • CW: Vomit, gross imagery.

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    One of my worst experiences at the Golden Corral was some douchey fratboys (that of course harassed my coworker and called her fat when she declined to give them further attention because of fucking course they did) that were so drunk that one of them vomited all over the table they sat at, making the rest of them laugh obnoxiously loud which turned further heads toward what had just happened, and then one of them got up, enraged that me and my coworkers were too busy to dive at the frat boys’ feet and immediately clean up the vomit. Like, seconds later, after the laughter barely stopped.

    Contextually, Golden Corral is a very gross place and when it’s especially crowded and there’s gross things to at least superficially clean up in 3-4 parts of the facility at any given time, it will take at least a few minutes to get anything done, especially while the frat boys are still hooting and grunting while still sitting around the vomit.