The conspiracy and accusations must always go deeper.

I’m also surprised it ended with the grandma realizing it was just math, because it could have just as easily ended with her thinking that they’re obviously hiding what the real game is about, and how bad it must be be that they’d go to such great lengths to cover it up.

I have to assume having a good, strong relationship with her grandchild must also be a contributing factor. If D&D remained something only anonymous ne’er-do-wells do, it’d be easy to continue buying into the satanic panic. But someone you know and trust to be responsible telling you it’s no big deal might make it a bit easier to accept.

It’s been a hot minute since my college days, but I do remember learning about singing as one possible avenue of speech therapy in one of my classes. Something about using different parts of the brain I guess.

Chaotic good might even be something more like breaking into your bank and erasing part of your debt by way of repayment.

There is some degree of distinction, I’d say. Bisexuality is attraction defined by the male/female binary, pansexuality is attraction regardless of gender. A person can be bisexual and attracted to cis men and cis women, but not pansexual if they aren’t attracted to trans or agendered folks.

Granted, a lot of people who say they’re bisexual are probably actually pansexual, but stick with the label that is more widely used and understood out of convenience.

The DMPC character who just walked off into the horizon in a perfectly straight line when his job was done is my favorite minor detail of the movie.

Makes for a great BBEG move to use against a favorite DMPC or other beloved party companion, though. You don’t use it on a player, you use it on their feelings.

UK military, to clarify, in case the compensation valued in pounds was not obvious enough.

Different tables have different objectives for sure. Some groups are in it for the collaborative storytelling (more role-playing than game). Others want the combat and builds and strategy (more game than role-playing).

Helps to iron that sort of thing out in session 0, but definitely frustrating when not everyone is upfront about what they want.

I’ve literally had someone ask me what makes me think I deserve to live more than Palestinian kids.

This is where we’re at.

LEAVE LITTLE BRITAIN ALONE!

Don’t apologize for the shitty music, I think it heightens the no thoughts head empty vibe.

Oh yeah, not to defend it because it is OP as hell, but there’s a lot more at the core of 5E that needs fixing, it just seems odd to single out a spell from a sourcebook most tables don’t use anyways, given that it’s setting-specific and was never compiled into later core books like Tasha’s.

To me it just read more like MTG power creep making its way into an MTG setting. I don’t know if that indicates that it was developed by a separate team entirely but the entire thing was definitely just a cash grab to leverage their other properties.

That’s just one spell in an optional sourcebook that’s just an MTG cash-in, though. I’ve never been in a campaign that allowed players to use content from non-core books with abandon.

To put it a different way, centaurs have 6 limbs. I think it’s not so much about making creatures out of the “missing” parts as much as it is swapping which part is the horse and which part is the human, so these also still have 6 limbs.

Erdogan changed it because he is a nationalist and took offense to the name of his country being compared to the bird. So now the country is on a PR campaign to get the international community on board with Türkiye, which is supposedly a more accurate phonetic rendering of the country’s name (if your language has the same phonetics as Turkish).

Personally, while I do think it’s a bit silly for countries to try to mandate what they are called in other languages (e.g. you don’t see Germany getting upset that not a single one of their neighbors save Austria calls them “Deutschland”), I know Turkey is not the first to do so and I generally respect attempts to “reclaim” identities (such as changing Kiev to Kyiv for Ukraine). But I think the umlaut is where I draw the line.

When I heard them announce Turkey during the opening ceremony of the Olympics, it sounded more like “Turkia” to me, so I don’t know why we don’t just use that, since my mind keeps reading Türkiye as “Toork-yay”.

Plus when I type Türkiye, my phone’s keyboard still auto-suggests the 🦃 emoji anyways so I’d say it was a lost battle from the start.

Just a nitpick, Turkeys are ground birds, not water fowl.

Some days it just be like that huh

This sounds like ghaik sympathizing.

Lae’zel disapproves.

You arrive in a new town where everyone thinks they’re in charge, and they each use a funny accent to assert themselves. The sign at the front gate reads “Welcome to Bosston”

I suppose this scenario is actually somewhat reassuring, because the guy who killed 12 people deserves whatever misfortune falls upon him. You wouldn’t have to feel bad stealing his knowledge and memories, and could also go to the local guards to turn him in with the knowledge you’ve obtained.

Though good luck sleeping at night with the knowledge of what it felt like to murder 12 people with your own hands and see the life fade from their eyes.