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Splatoon 1 let you play five different minigames on the wii u pad, including a pretty solid rhythm game, while waiting, nothing else has come close for me

Is it chilling? I was already going to stay where I am, whether I made a copy or not. Sharding off a replica to go on for me would be strictly better than not doing that

But like.. do I care? "I" will survive, even if I'm not the one who does the surviving.

Yo, is C# named that because a # is made of four plusses?

What's funny is, there's an actual Hardy Boys novel where they get talked into a D&D LARP, and it's not this one. It's called Dungeon of Doom, I remember loving it as a child and reading it over and over again, and no I will not ever read it again for fear of discovering it actually kinda blows.

The 2019 release was a port, remaster, and the first international release.

Well I hate that. Is there a reason m=1 wouldn't be the same thing as m=!0?

TL;DR He was arrested for uploading a recording of the entire VN two days before the game came out, which, being a visual novel, debatably cost them sales from people who just read his video instead of buying it. It's a bit like if someone filmed themselves turning the pages of a new Harry Potter book before the street date so everyone could read it.

Seems to me that it's less "uploaded lets plays" and more "posted game footage before the game release", and they nailed him for anything they could.

I don't think piracy should be punished, but like, if you're gonna do it, don't post video recordings of yourself doing it before the game comes out my guy.

so as not to affect the game balance

Obviously ask your DM first, but it's worth noting that Crawford himself says that they literally just don't take damage types into account when designing spells, so changing them shouldn't break anything.

Of course, that's kind absurd, but a slightly more sane take, from the homebrew community, is that damage types are roughly aligned in trios, and you can safely change damage types between the same level or worse without hurting anything.

Those trios being:
bludgeoning/piercing/slashing
cold/fire/poison
acid/lightning/necrotic
force/psychic/radiant

So a cold fireball would be fine, a slashing fireball would be slightly weaker, but a necrotic fireball would be a bit much, and a force fireball is (self-evidently) quite a bit more powerful. I use this myself, to allow casters to be a bit more thematic; at my table, when you learn a spell, you can set it to any equal or lesser damage type and reflavour it however you want. E.g. if someone took fireball, they might say it does piercing damage and flavour it as a blast of needles.

Dungeons: The Dragoning 40,000 is a d10 dice pool game with "stunt dice"

If you make any attempt at all to describe your action in-character (such as your example), you got +1 die

If your description was especially cool, or interacted with the environment in some way, you get +2 dice instead (I guess technically your example would likely be here, because a chair is part of the environment, probably)

And "crowning moments", the kind of really hype action that gets the whole table invested, the sort of thing that happens once or twice a session at most, earn +3 dice

It really helps keep people invested in the role play

I feel like you've missed the point of the comment you're replying to

No, a barbarian is not expected to deadlift IRL. But if a barbarian walked into the middle of a situation and declared he was going to solve it with Athletics, without explaining how he was going to do that, he would be met with blank stares. You need to state intent. "I'll use Athletics" is meaningless. "I'll pile up these boulders into a staircase so we can climb over the wall" is a course of action.

Similarly, "I'll use Persuasion" is meaningless. Worse, are the people who just say "I've got proficiency in all the charisma skills, so I'll just use whatever one's most effective" lol. "I'll use my wit and charm to convince the guard that we have been invited to the castle" is a course of action. "I'll use facts and logic to convince the guard that it is in his best interest to allow us into the castle" is a course of action. I don't care if you're charismatic in real life, but if you can't even summarize what you're trying to say, how is the rest of the game world supposed to respond to it? "I'll Persuade them" is only the first half of a sentence.

For that matter, what are people doing keeping your potions in glass bottles anyway? Or even earthenware or waterskins? Put it inside gelatin, or a nutshell, or a ball of resin/sap, or a dried sausage, or a bundle of cotton, really anything you can safely and easily toss in your mouth, bite through, and either swallow or spit out afterward as needs must. Putting it in a bottle you must uncork and swig from is insanely inefficient.