I usually just copy paste historical (flawed) stuff I find interesting.
While I like goofing around with stuff like “modeling functioning government”, I believe it distracts from the PC’s stories (and leads to ideological discussions at the table.)
Except at that point the Mafia are somehow supposedly the good guys?
Good to know, thanks.
Whatsapp is encrypted. The problem is the Metadata they want - i.e. your whole address book.
I do not agree to Facebook having my phone number, but if you use WA and have my number, they have it, too - even if I don’t use WA myself.
If you can convince your family to switch, use Signal or Matrix.
Otherwise, use Shelter on your phone with a limited, WA-ony address book.
Try to hit the aforementioned 6-8 encircled per LR.
Apply common sense whenever you find a mechanic interacting weirdly with this.
Don’t spring an altered test model on your players unannounced.
I’m currently running a campaign that involves a lot of exploration, travel and a dash of politics.
Cramming a full “adventuring day” of 6-8 encounters into each calendar day was just not feasible - “interesting days” will have one, maybe two encounters, occasionaly with several days of travel/downtime in between.
So if adjusted to “SR = a night’s rest” and “LR = 24h of downtime” and it fixed the problem immediately.
A LR requires more creature comforts than a fire and a blanket, but if they invest into supplies and hirelings, they can set up a “base camp” that allows a LR even in the wilderness.
As for spell duration: I’ve just set all spells that are supposed to cover most of an adventuring day (like Mage Armor) to last until the end of the next Long Rest and this has covered all problems so far. Remember to adjust the recovery of charge-based magical items, too.
Option 1: Take the plunge as a DM, announce before hand that you’re new at this. Everyone who thinks they can do better is free to give it a try.
Option 2: Local Game Store.
Option 3: reddit /r/lfg. Google how to turn a search into an RSS stream, set up a search, be ready to jump into worthwhile-seeming posts quickly. Be ready to go through a few bad/mediocre groups until you find something that clicks.
My players loved and hated it both, but made it through without any deaths (a few death saves, though) and even got the Lich proper.
I literally ran this for my group just now.
Background was a cave system with very limited resources (previously few dead bodies to spare) and the Lich was both rather low on the power scale and Artificer-themed (so no "just spellcasting the party to death) and a Kobold.
So he fought/thought more like an engineer, not a powerful necromancer.
Highlights included:
Lair filled with Carbon Monoxide (I let the party notice symptoms and retreat, it was more of an area dental tool than a trap)
freezing the flooded exit tunnel so the party had to tunnel through ice, making them vulnerable to an ambush
installing an artifact that would flash-freeze said flooded tunnel with the party inside
a “main entry” labyrinth to the lair that was rigged to collapse
a side entry with a hidden, massive door that tried to crush the party and did manage to separate them
one-time sigils that would create a zone of Web, Darkness and, again, flash-freeze the intruders (and the undead defenders delaying them)
a remote body with his true body walled off in a tunnel behind the wall it can escape even if it loses
a few, highly upgraded undead
A smart player will try to keep the owl out of LoS during most of the round, so sacrificing action + reaction for “I attack it once it comes out of cover” is the best most NPCs can do.
Arguably, that’s actually plausible
No one claimed the Alliance were free from casual racism. They may be trying, but their personal culture was formed by decades of imperial rule.
Those medals are for “command staff” only. Han is the captain of the MF and Luke is the acting squad leader of Red Squad (you might notice that the veteran, who missed his shot but survived, doesn’t get a medal, either.)
I don’t lock my phone to keep my SO off it.
I lock my phone to keep everyone off it.
Fly-By helps against opportunity attacks, but not against readied attacks.
Which, to me, is fair, because readying attacks requires the foe to sacrifice their main action and reaction.
When I DM, I always keep the idea in my back pocket that an enemy that has been distracted by a familiar too often will ready an attack to get rid of it the next time it is in range.
It’ll still eat their action, might miss, and I telegraph it sufficiently that an attentive player might adapt their familiar’s behavior, but it’s a thing that can mix up combat and keeps players on their toes.
Politicians who know that their political career is about to end have the nasty habit of doing favors for their big corporation of choice, knowing that they’ll receive a cushy board position in return afterwards.
If you want to establish term limits, you also need to establish some sort of accountability for the time afterwards.
But at this point, the conclusion of either interpretation should be the same:
The Bible is not a workable moral guideline for modern life.
Neither “Thou shall not sleep with men like you would with women” nor “Thou shall not rape men like you would women” are acceptable.
I don’t know about you, but to me, the fact that he showed genuine humility and willingness to step beyond his initial chauvinism (after some hands-on lessons about fighting women) had a lot more to do with that than his charm.
Games that calculate a lot of pathfinding or similar in the GPU will end in a CPU-melting stutter fairly soon when run on Vulcan.
Satisfactory is a good example or this: It quickly becomes unplayable with any halfway complex setup.
If you’ve got a Linux native version, then you’re fine.
Supplying people with basic life necessities should not need to garner a profit.
This goes for food, water, shelter, but also electricity, healthcare, public transportation, and internet.
(Coincidentally, most of these are basic human rights.)
Society as a whole experiences net benefit (even am economic one) from those, so society as a whole should fund them.
Yes, this requires taxes.