Oh yeah, absolutely, it is ludicrous when people do that. If you have decent sidewalks, intetsections that are not a 1/2 mile apart, and god forbid, regular low grade inclines at crossings and other places, so that a wheel chair bound person could actually get around? Well then blamo, throw a back pack on the frame of your chair/scooter, now you can actually go to a local bodega and buy some groceries! Makes it easier for people who use a cane or crutches, or have a non obvious outwardly presenting neurological or muscular condition of some kind, etc. But, US infrastructure broadly isn’t ADA compliant in the poorer areas seriously disabled people most commonly live… and we literally can’t, or struggle much more seriously in physically getting to an actual town hall. Fucking… after a two months of aquatherapy, well now all I have the option to do is show up for basically the night swim at the therapy pool. My problem is not that I need directed care … I was taught the excercizes/stretches, learned them, remembered them. I do the ones I can at home, out of a pool, every damned day. The problem is it costs 5 dollars, in cash only, to attend. I can’t fucking get to an ATM! I told them this and they just said uh well you’ll figure it out. Nope, never did. There are no ATMs within over a mile of a walking roundtrip from me. And the sidewalks don’t even exist near where I live, and/or they are cratering into sinkholes or erupting out of the ground. No joke, there’s one spot where the ground expanded and the sidewalk is entirely snapped in half, at about 40 degree angles. But at this point, I am extremely used to falling through the cracks in systems, that are designed based on assumptions… that make no sense to hold, because ostensibly the entire point of these systems is that they are to help those who do not have those basic societal assumptions. You tell people in these systems this, and every fucking time, no one has ever told them this before, this thought had never occured to them, or they get angry at you. It is astounding.

Wildlife • Water • Wood • Wrecreation

I appreciate the answer! I myself am not a vegan at all, in practice, though I am familiar with … many of the frames that you can look at meat consumption through, and, correctly, imo, conclude that it is a wasteful, destructive, and morally dubious practice… and I do try to minimize my meat intake, but its fairly difficult when I am disabled, don’t have a car, can’t do significant meal prep due to injuries, live off of disability pay alone, can barely afford to get groceries delivered to me, because no local food banks or charities that I qualify for do actual home delivery. I’ve been moving toward a lot more shelf stable, basic type stuff lately, rice and beans… but also crockpot soups with meat, spam is fairly simple to cook…, so, yeah, I am not a vegan. But uh, the ‘if it tries to run away’ metric seems to be roughly where I would land on this as well… I guess I would just the line a bit higher than … a clam… I personally would think that… basically most insects (ararchnids are another story)… from what I understand of their neurology… they do not really seem to be capable of suffering… https://www.sciencealert.com/insects-probably-do-feel-pain-similar-to-how-we-do-scientists-argue Well fuck, I am generally apparently wrong about that. Thank you, and again the other replier, for spurring me to give this subject more consideration.

Finally, there’s the hardcore simulationist angle, which I ignored completely above. Many fantasy writers, whether that be books, shows, computer games, or RPG media… know what a human is and can do, and design the humans in their setting to comport with their experiences of what a human is from the real world. It serves as a kind of grounding baseline, a foundation of familiarity that doesn’t need any work from the audience. “Ah yes, a human. I know what that does.” A useful starting point that ensures the audience has something low-concept and relatable in an otherwise high-concept offering. With a simulationist mindset, humans are often the “default”, and least “fantastical” of the species in the world, because there’s an established preconception of what humans are like. Other species can have supernatural dexterity and grace, or magic gifts, or strange relationships with the laws of physics, because they’re made up, and the mundanity of the human serves as a mirror that highlights and emphasizes the fantastical elements of the other species. This approach isn’t so much an attempt to incentivise diversity as it is just our natural inclination to not interrogate the known and familiar. Of course humans don’t live for a thousand years, or have supernatural strength, or an immunity to poisons, we know what humans are like. It’s a fairly small and easy leap to invent a new species and say “this species is immune to fire.” It’s a leap to ask “what if humans were immune to fire?”, and many people never even consider playing with that, because in our minds, humans aren’t fantastical creatures.

I’m told panic is a free action. Or was that crying. Probably both.

This poor fella’s job as lieutenant was to just counterspell any mages and healers while his captain brother fought the barbarian and the fighter. He proceeded to see the warlock burn his smaller regiment, turn into an angel and ignore any and all poisons used against him. When he got his sudden promotion, he figured best to just survive.

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Could also be the future of The Forgotten Realms

Reminds me of the blue stop signs

V5 was a mess? I’ll admit I’ve only read through the rulebook and watched LA By Night, never actually played it. But I really, really like the system. It feels like it strikes a pretty great balance between an amount of detail that can give you meaningful character choices, while also being really elegant and intuitive to play with. The same thing that made 5e so successful for D&D. Werewolves have never really interested me, so I never looked much at that. But I quite liked the idea behind Mage so I was looking forward to seeing what they’d do with it, both mechanically and in the metanarrative.

if you’ve never heard of it, look up the FATAL TTRPG.

You’re right that it’s not clear in the spell text exactly how to handle this, (a common theme with 5e stuff.) - However I’m remembering having a discussion a whole while back about “how old is the new body?” and finding a Sage Advice post saying it’s however old that species is when it reaches adulthood, so I was basing my claim off that.

The trait hides only the spell’s spellcasting actions and manifestations, not its effects, so an observer might still see a ray streak out from you or see you vanish into thin air.

“He’s beginning to make-believe.”

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My group of 50-year old Traveller-and-B/X-playing dudes LOVES Brindlewood Bay! We went absolutely nuts for it.

Better yet they wouldn’t even need to be madic users on one hand it could be accidental where everyone is looking for any kind of magic even artificers but it’s just very bad luck that magically ground flour is a new craze so the docks and warehouses that keep exploding haven’t been storing the flour right, there’s enough left over magic in the flour to make it disperse in the air sometimes then some old fashioned places are still using lanterns for light, police and gangs alike are on a man hunt or you could have a pretty basic setup of a fine finely ground powder inside of an empty egg with some kind of rune that let’s out a small fireball when destroyed painted on the side, everyone thinks this low lever magic user is some grand wizard for transmogrifying eggs into explosions, on top of that I wonder if thermite can be set off in a powder explosion kind of way

Dirt is an aggregate material that contains plenty of feces. If I were your GM I’d allow it.

That was not the bunny costume I was hoping for.

The best part about that scene is that while he’s fumbling his escape rolls, Edgin’s still churning out Bardic Inspiration so Holga can continue kicking ass. “OH, we got 'em now!”