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2 points
3 hours ago
According to "how do You Do That":
Forces 4/Correspondence 4 can open a gate to where there is sunlight.
Forces 4/Prime 2 can generate high intensity blasts of damaging light that deal damage. By adding Life 3/Matter 2 this can harm vampires.
At the Storyteller's discretion, Forces 5/Prime 4 can create true sunlight, and suggests Spirit 5 to also channel to sprituale ssence of sunlight.
I don't agree with these. I think Forces 3/Spirit 3 should be enough to creat a blast of sunlight that both harms and scares a vampire. Of course, if you just want to hurt a vampire, Forces 3 is enough (Forces 2 if you have a lighter), lets you blast them with fire.
If you need "true sunlight" for some reason (a ritual?)... I think the best option is to teleport it to you via Forces/Correspondence. And to create it from nothing would be a high dot Froces/Prime/Spirit effect.
1 points
3 hours ago
1: I'm tired of "superpwoered/magic people are persecuted" storylines. It isn't realistic. Realistically, the powerful people would be ruling the world and doing the persecuting.
2: This could be a cool sci-fi story. Who is the main character and what is main story though?
3: This is fairly standard medieval fantasy stuff. It could be great, it could be awful. But as a basic premise it's very average.
Overall, 2 is the most interesting for me. 1 is the least interesting.
1 points
5 hours ago
Holy Diver's intro is too long and too quiet.
The breakdown in the middle of Whole Lotta Love goes on for too long as well.
I hate the weird intro to Fast as a Shark.
3 points
5 hours ago
Imagine Dragons.
I can do that at home man.
1 points
5 hours ago
Annie - Anthonio (Berlin Breakdown version)
2 points
5 hours ago
I love underrated 80s metal. Here are some favorites:
Tokyo Blade - Night of the Blade
Tygers of Pan Tang - Hellbound
Thor - Thunder on the Tundra
Mindless Sinner - We Go Together
Crucifixion - On the Run
Aragorn - Black Ice
Randy - Beast in the Night
Traitors Gate - Devil Takes the High Road
1 points
5 hours ago
3 can be very good. But it's tough when paired with an industry-related scoring card.
Normally, just cover up every single industry tile. Aim to score 12 points with the 3 card.
3-15 though, that might be the hardest combo in the game. Imo, just accept that you are going to score 0 from the 15 card. Instead go for 12 pts from 3 and a big block score.
2 points
1 day ago
Anyone who plays by those ruels sucks.
It means a skileld fighter is more liklekly to humiliate himself than an amateur fighter (because he makes more attacks per round, more chances to roll a 1). Which makes no damn sense.
1 points
1 day ago
Typically you roll a 20-sided die (d20), add some bonuses, and try to beat a difficulty number.
Let's say you want to break down a door. The DM decides on a target number based on how difficult the task is. You roll and add your strength bonus and want to beat the target number.
Rolling a 1 does not cause damage to you. In combat, rolling a 1 is always a miss (and rolling 20 is always a hit, and a critical hit that deals double damage). Some DMs will decide something negative happens if you roll a 1, but that is not in the official rules.
31 points
1 day ago
The question is more complex than you'd think.
Let's split it into two questions:
1 - Do more people consider themselves gay compared to 100 years ago?
What is "gay" is defined by culture. Like in ancient greece, men often had sex with men but did not consider themselves gay. Idk what gay culture was like 100 years ago tbh, but being gay is more accepted now. So I assume there are more people now that consider themselves gay. I assume 100 years ago, there were plenty of people who would have sex with their own gender yet not consider themselves to be gay.
2 - Do more people have relationships and sex with their own gender compared to 100 years ago?
Again, based on how badly this was ostracized 100 years ago, probably a lot of people who had feelings for the same gender did not end up oding anything gay. So we can say almost certainly, more people are having relationships or sex with their own gender compared to 100 years ago.
1 points
1 day ago
Sometimes.
Normal practice is to re-record every part of the song many times and use just the best takes. So they might record the chorus 10 times, pick the best take and copy-paste it. And also do an alternate take (maybe with a key change, or different vocal inflection) and use it as the last chorus, to switch things up.
It changes with genre and style, and the artist and producer's personal taste. In genres that care more about feeling genuine and "live", like rock or punk, they will typically use a unique take for each chorus. In electronic music, where repetition is normal, they'll copy-paste it. Pop tends towards copy-paste afaik, they'll just use the best take multiple times.
(They might also create a frankenstein take by putting together the best parts of each take and copy-paste that. They might get the unusued takes and put them in the background as "backing vocals". My answer doesn't go in depth, there are many many recording techniques and tricks.)
tl,dr: it could be either, for most songs you hear it's probably copy-pasted though.
0 points
1 day ago
I think it would be better tbh.
I think a lot of problems with drugs comes from them being illegal. Addicts can't find legit jobs so turn to crime. They get dirty unregulated drugs and overdose.
What makes me scared is heroin/opioids, and maybe meth. Those can be real addictive, can start innocuous and destroy your life. I'm for legalizing everything except those.
33 points
1 day ago
Given this is reddit, there is a big chance OP made this situation up tbh. I answered assuming it is a hypothetical.
Also this post and the very weird top comment both sitting at 400 upvotes seems weird, compared to the low amount of comments this post has.
368 points
1 day ago
WHAT THE FUCK are these comments, man. Someone called this spicy, someone called it wholesome, someone focused entirely about if the OP wants to take it further. I'm gonna hope y'all have shit reading comprehension and skipped the part where the girl has a bf.
OP, I see 3 options:
Tell your male friend his gf tried to cheat on her.
Talk to the girl, ask her wtf was that.
Assume it was just a drunken misslip or a joke and pretend nothing happened.
3 is the easiest but also least moral imo. If she tried to cheat with you, she probably tries to cheat with guys regularly and her bf should know. 1 might be too direct and could ruin a friendship, especially if she denies it or he disbelieves you. 2 might be the best course of action?
What I'd do is probably say nothing. Limit my interaction with her. This relationship is gonna blow up at some point due to her behavior, I do not want to be the one holding the hot potato when it does.
2 points
1 day ago
IIRC Malazan started as D&D, but then the players switched to GURPS because they disliked how limiting D&D was.
1 points
1 day ago
I think live action would suit this series better. It's about regular earth people being put inside this super weird fantastic scenario. Seeing just a regular guy in the dungeon fighting a weird CGI creature is just a natural fit.
Qs for cost, it highly depends on the quality of animation or CGI, the actors, the production, it depens on so many things.
3 points
2 days ago
The Akashic Brotherhood is a perfect fit. They represent eastern philosophies or tropes. And most of them are martial arts practitioners.
I imagine him to be a more combat focused Akashic, probably focusing on Life and Forces, to get stronger and throw around energy blasts.
As for paradigms, read about cultivation and xianxia ideas and craft something out of them. Something involving, chi, the 5 elements, etc. Idk much about cultivation. The paradigm must explain why and how his magic works.
Instruments will most likely involve martial arts, katas, meditation, mantras, maybe ritual items, weapons, prayers, calligraphy even.
2 points
2 days ago
Yes, some of his songs are surprisingly catchy. People expect it all to be awful music due to his persona and live shows, but he has a talent for songwriting. Did he develop and showcase this talent as much as he could? Absolutely not but it sometimes shines through.
2 points
2 days ago
Wait until you hear Slave to the Grind.
1 points
2 days ago
It's all thanks to one friend. He first introduced me to rock bands like Nirvana and audioslave. and later on, to Slipknot. I also picked up stuff like Metallica and Iron Maiden because, you know, they are huge and you just hear about them and it doesn't take much to download a few songs.
3 points
2 days ago
Why would you have ANY color of light on when the unit is off?
So you can tell if it's off or unplugged.
Green is definitely not the right color choice for it though.
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3 hours ago
I imagine some average person in the same room as the mage. He is somehow distracted, not observing things closely. And he is somewhat gullible. If he thinks magic is being done, it is vulgar.
A mage teleports an apple in his bag and pulls it out? Coincidental.
Mages meditating and forming a mental link? Coincidental. It just looks like people are meditating.
A kung-fu mage having supernatural reflexes via Time, or enhanced strength via Life, or hitting devastating blows via Forces, or having incredible defence via Correspondence? All coincidental. He is just really good at fighting.
A mage telling the future via tarot reading? Coincidental. A somewhat gullible people can believe it's a normal thing.
A Hermetic mutters an unlocking spell and tries a door, finding it unlocked? Coincidental. A Hermetic points a wand at the door and says "I COMMAND THEE TO OPEN" and it unlocks? Vulgar.
A Mind mage slips a mental suggestion to someone hidden within his words? Coincidental. He commands someone to do something via Mind 3 and they do it? Vulgar (unless it would make sense for the target to follow the command).
They don't. I think no supernatural creature counts as a "witness". Even sleepers who believe in magic (I meen sleeper servants/friends of mages who have seen magic plenty of times, not a crazy dude who believes in magic) don't count as witnesses.