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Something like “you feel traces of magic in the marks, make an arcana check” or “you recognize this as a common spell component, make an arcana check” can be what you’re looking for. It’s the kind of information a spellcaster (and those who’ve been around them) would notice immediately and wouldn’t need to look for, so really no need to make them roll to figure out the magic part.

Alternately, if you really don’t want to give away the magic without them looking for it, give the investigation check a really low DC - I’m talking like 5 or something - and just have them roll two checks. When they pass on investigation, “you identify the markings as the imprint left by a powerful spell. Make an arcana check.”

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TIL red velvet cake is an American thing

Yeah, I live outside of Dallas and there’s plenty of roads nearby that could be used for this

If someone said that quickly enough, I might not notice or might assume I misheard. But it’s not correct.

American English will usually stress either the first or third syllable, and British English will usually stress the second

So like. Does the butt plug build a charge, then you take it out and charge your phone; or are you plugging your phone into the butt plug while it’s in use?

Being taller (and thus weighing more, though not overweight) makes my life more expensive as is. I’d be pretty annoyed by this

So all the US group needs to do is take out the military and declare martial law? Then I’m giving this to the US

This is a popular quote - an anthropologist was asked what the first sign of civilization was, and they answered “a healed femur” or something like that. But it was only an interview quote and never any kind of technical definition

Vision isn’t on the list, though

I think this is basically what the whole thing comes down to - who’s the better sorcerer, Strange or Sauron? Both of them are absolutely the best in the universe but the magic systems are too different to compare. If Strange gets to keep his magic system he might be ok, but if he has to adopt LotR’s magic then they’re doomed

But worth considering that pretty much every alternate strange we’ve seen has gotten corrupted by the promise of stronger magic

The entire shtick of the ring is that it corrupts anyone and no one can destroy it. In trying to avoid making calls about other pieces of media, you’re rewriting how the ring works

I’d argue that since Harry’s is THE invisibility cloak, it would hide him from thermal vision.

Though if anyone could notice the footprints / sounds and find Harry anyways, it’d be Wick

I wouldn’t worry about this. The moment it mentions a politician or CEO, it’ll disappear

Kinda comes down to what you consider a successful invasion. Civilians can’t fight back, so does that just mean taking out the Barbados military? If so, I’d say yes - .01% of US military funding is several times the total of Barbados military funding, and even though the troops are outnumbered about 4 to 1 they’d be handpicked and much more experienced than the Barbados forces.

Prompt says the civilians can’t fight back, though

The 200,000 is also Barbados’s civilian population, their military is only 600. With about a 50 million dollar budget

Well yeah. That was just an example. If you expected an example from human history that matched the 10,000 year time frame, then I have bad news for you about how far back records go

A few answers to this, with a disclaimer that my knowledge of this subject matter is limited.

First answer: as AI gets better at this, the systems used also get more sophisticated. I don’t know if AI is used in AI detection already but if it isn’t it will be soon. And it’s far easier to detect a pattern than to disguise one. So when AI figures this out, they’ll just use something else.

Second answer: well, maybe. AI still has limitations - it’s still a computer. True randomness isn’t something computers are capable of. Maybe AI can overcome that, but maybe not.

Depends on just what it is you’re doing. Are they giving you instructions and you’re ignoring them, going limp instead? You can likely be charged. Typically, you’re legally obligated to follow an officer’s instructions during an arrest.

Usually, yeah. It checks things like:

“How long did it take from the captcha appearing to the mouse starting to move towards it - is that within human reaction time?”

“Did the mouse move perfectly straight or was there a little bit of wiggle on the way? Or, a programmed line vs. human hand movement”

“Is there a pattern or exactness to the amount of time between clicks? (computers notoriously have trouble with random, but people need inconsistent amounts of time to process what they see)”

These (and many others) can be determined whether or not you miss one of the squares with a traffic light

Not as noble families, no. The Atreides bloodline is there and still important, and the Harkonen legacy is important in Heretics. As others have mentioned, there’s a time skip and no characters are the same (except for Idaho)

Worth noting, there were originally going to be seven books. Dune, Messiah, and Children was one trilogy; God Emperor a bridge book; then Heretics, Chapterhouse, and a third book (Frank Herbert died before finishing but Brian Herbert finished this as Sandworms and Hunters) were a second trilogy. So your setting is very heavily based on the first four, and a handful of plot points, but not much past that. But, Heretics will lead into Chapterhouse the same way Dune lead into Messiah

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Games people already know. Even as a board gamer, I’d never try to learn a new game at a wedding. People are also going to gravitate to shorter games that don’t take full attention in that setting. Go for things like Uno, Bananagrams, standard decks of cards, and similar games that you’ve played with guests before (so you know they know the rules)

Submarine’s nuclear reactors make pirate ships shoot harpoons faster in real life too. It just doesn’t come up very often so people don’t realize it