As a DM it’s always a pleasure when running a mind flayer that gets a crit and nearly rips a player’s brain out of their skull. Yeah it was a raucous D&D night for sure!
@yonkeltron@skyfaller It feels, to me (as someone who understand juuuuust enough of programming to be very dangerous and cause trouble) that it has the potential to be very powerful and very rewarding, but also have a ton of potential to be abused in the hands of a true "power-user", which, frankly, might be a feature and not a bug.
@skyfaller@yonkeltron I can see a player going to cast a spell thinking it's going to have this incredibly powerful effect to harm a villain and it ends up backfiring and only affecting the caster. Or, even better, an astute player who suddenly realizes that all the code for their spells is just wrong - they've been rewritten (or deleted!) and they can't figure out how or why.
So, listen, if you're ever feeling down about the fact that you've been grieving the death of a loved one for nearly 18 years, just start telling people you want to rent an ice cream truck in their memory, because then those people will hand you about $1800 in a little less than 24 hours, and suddenly you get to buy hundreds of kids ice cream, and that fucking rules!
Just once, I want to see a picture of the pile of hats off to the side of the draft pick for all the teams who didn't pick them, or, even better, a video of the family member frantically rifling through the pile of hats for the team that no one expected to realistically draft the kid in the first place, before he goes on camera.
LOL, Kyle Neubeck absolutely pantsed Howard Eskin and took his lunch money. I've never been able to stand Eskin, and cannot let any mention of that troll go by without reminding the world that he once got one of his female callers murdered by her husband after sending her roses.
Heroes solve problems for local areas, and then become leaders of those they've saved. That's how the stories go!
So when the heroes show up having solved a horrifying problem... The local people might say to each other "They probably want to be in charge now, right? That's how it works?".
And some of them will want to make that happen! And some of them won't! And the ones in charge currently will have especially strong feelings on the matter.
@SoupGod228 I can freely admit that part of people's disdain for him is based on his pay (which isn't his fault) but cripes, for a guy who yaps about not being respected enough, maybe don't suck whenever the team needs you to give them literally anything.
Aww, my 6-year old son has developed an interest in the Transformers, especially Optimus Prime. I was telling him about the 1986 animated movie and now he wants to watch it. Do I scar him for life?
Angel Hernandez is currently in the middle of a long-form piece of performance art that describes the futility of believing in any just, fair, and impartial system of oversight and governance. By being so intentionally bad at his job as the arbiter of balls and strikes, out and safe calls, in the relatively small-stakes environment of professional baseball; he shines a light on how corrupt our large-scale systems of government and politics are.
