Oh, I’m not diagnosed (I have a host of other things I would spend my nonexistant healthcare fund on first) but I have suspicions. It’s not debilitating, because I’ve been doing it for a couple decades now, but it sure isn’t ideal.

How can leakers confirm anything? Some fourth-party leaks confirmed that third-party leaks were legit? If I was going to believe “leaks” without material proof, I’d have started with the original, third-party.

What is “it”? I can’t trace that back to my comment.

Indie and AA.

I’ve gotten release copies of games for review. Unless they have another secret tier of pressers, this is nonsense. If anything, review copies are more likely to have bugs that making completing the game harder.

Stick to your day job, m8. The jokes ain’t landing especially when the whole “joke” is a weak-ass personal attack.

Do better. Or better yet, give up.

Really? You use the meme that basically says “you’re dumping a lot of irrelevant info in the wrong place” and have the audacity to get pissy when they hit you back with…a different meme?

The gall to call someone “emotionally damaged” when you immediately read an attack from an exchange of memes.

Haven’t any of y’all tried being incompetent?

I try to avoid caffeine, so I just am unhelpful instead.

The only Italian town of towers I recognize is “San Gimignano”. Shoutout to AC2.

Yeah, warlocks are just cutthroat clerics with off-market gods. If each of them had enough magical power to fuel another warlock’s power, they wouldn’t need to be a warlock at all.

Maybe I’m suddenly shite at games but parrying feels like happenstance rather than a technique. The block windup is too long for me to react to the quick strike they throw out. It feels like Skyrim combat, from a “battle flow” standpoint.

Yeah but what about the remaining 94 to 83% of regular people who rightly judged their ability to judo-chop a bear to death? Or does having the self-awareness to know you probably can’t win against a bear make you abnormal? I didn’t miss the point, I scaled the challenge. Because a bear is much less threatening and dangerous than a 20 ft giant.

Listing that stat is just assuming that adventurers are mainly pulled from the 6% group who, once they get their hand on a bit more power, would try something even dumber. I don’t think that is reasonable.

And the backgrounds in most RPGs are so varied that you can’t map it on to any amount of training. A background as a soldier might mean you spent years fighting and then you start as a level 1 fighter, so it took you decades to reach level 2. Or you could be a farmhand and then, after a couple weeks of travel later, you’re now a level 2 sorcerer. A year of serious BJJ training is rather generous.

Wasn’t familiar with “Touch of Death”; I don’t play clerics often. But it’s just a smite.

Assuming average HP on level up and +3 CON mod: Barb: 25; Fighter: 22; Cleric: 19.

And Touch of Death does +9 damage at level 2.

I’m only breaking out numbers to get a better idea of what the users of the ability would be seeing, and what level of lethality they would come to expect from repeated usage. And that’s not killing anyone with a touch except commoners, and level 1 wizards and sorcerers.

My only point is: people who have had to risk their life to even get to level 2 (unless they’re reckless or an idiot) probably wouldn’t have an overly big head over middling magical abilities. They might be feeling themselves and think they can fight a group of thugs at 4 to 1 odds but it’s bonkers to pretend a normal adventurer would need some ex machina explanation to warn them off fighting something like a giant or a dragon at level 2.

Again, if you want to play a character that doesn’t think well, that’s fine. But 6% (or even 17%) is not a majority of people and when a person sees something taller than most houses looming over them, I assume the average person would correctly adjust their chances of success.

This is about the need for a GM to establish for PCs that they can’t engage a giant in combat. Most people don’t do a year of BJJ and think they and 3 mates can wrestle down an elephant. I just have a higher opinion of people’s self-preservation instincts, especially when they haven’t been as far removed from nature as most people on the internet are. People used to be afraid of forests and the wilds, and I think that level of society is closer to RPGs than we are.

Yeah, but you’re not that at level 2.

Kinda hard to stay fat when you’re on the move all the time, both marching around and fighting for your life. It’d take a conscious effort to overeat (and/or a relatively sedentary work situation) to stay fat.

If you’re playing a character that foolhardy to see a creature anywhere from 2x to 10x their size and think tbey can fight it, then let them die. It’s not metagaming to see something large and make the reasonable assumption that it could crush you.

Can you beat an orca in a fight? How can you assume that without metagame knowledge of its stats?

Edit: quite a few people have very low opinions of a reasonable person’s self-preservation instincts. Or assume every PC is the type of internet person that says they could fight a lion mano-a-mano.

I like the idea of some kind of fighter who fights with a variety of cursed weapons.

Not the only negative, “this blade is everdull and gives you bone-itis” type of curse. The “you can cut through anything but you need to bleed before you can sheath it” type curse.

I recently stumbled upon “dense block of hamstink”.

They kept a hand on its scruff for most of the wash