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Fudging rolls is the path to the dark side...
  • My 2 cents is that at the low levels, players need a bit of a buffer. A Lvl1 wizard with +0 CON can be one-shot by a goblin rolling a crit, to say nothing of the bugbear boss of the first encounter in Lost Mines of Phandelver (many people's first introduction to DnD 5e)

    So minor selective fudging to keep the characters alive long enough for them to at least be wealthy enough to afford a Revivify seems like a small and harmless enough concession to me

  • Jellyfin wrongly identifies show and messes up metadata
  • When you've clicked on the show and its showing you all the seasons/episodes you have, click on the settings (three dots) and select "Identify"

    It'll bring up a menu where you can input the name of the show, or its iMDb code, or a few other identifiers and it'll show the matches it can find. From there you can select the correct show and it'll populate the metadata accordingly

  • What key features do you think stellaris is still missing?
  • I think making the Colossus tech not require the ascension perk would make warfare much easier for non-genocidal species. As it is, all the perk does is let you build a single ship with no combat capabilities that can trivialise planetary warfare, but only one planet at a time.

    I think it should have an influence cost (discounted for militarists and maybe xenophobes) to build every time, while the ascension perk would allow you to have more at a time (maybe up to half your titan allowance), while also increasing your Juggernaut allowance.

  • Nvidia tries to kill CUDA translation layers | Tom's Hardware
  • As AMD, Intel, Tenstorrent, and other companies develop better hardware, more software developers will be inclined to design for these platforms, and Nvidia's CUDA dominance could ease over time.

    This seems a bit optimistic to me. CUDA is currently the de facto method of utilising a GPU's power efficiently. This makes them an easy choice for anyone with serious compute power needs. The other manufacturers are fighting an uphill battle trying to create an alternative that won't be used until it is definitively better.

    This just seems like a catch 22 to me

  • Just stumbled upon this video for Age of the Ring, a mod for Battle for Middle Earth II, released one year ago. Did anyone here play it?
  • Played it in the v6-7 days.

    It introduces multiple new fleshed out factions with really good balancing. Obviously there isn't going to be a lot of voice acting for characters not in the movies, but that's a pretty minor setback, all things considered

  • What are the important parts of building a Low Fantasy world?
  • Every magic item (even the more "common" ones) is valuable and treasured, even if it might not be used often

    A +1 sword can split the hide of the toughest monsters and beasts, and is the heirloom of a powerful marquis

    Three healing potions on the raised dias of the church, awaiting the arrival of the prophesied heroes, who will need them to vanquish the vampire

    Or the duke with more money than sense, who has a small trove of magical items like the Stone of Gravity sensing or the Ring of Purple death detection. The twist is that in some forgotten corner of his room is a dagger that glows in the presence of demons (including the ones disguised as humans to overthrow the kingdom)

  • God forbid we try to make the game anything but a cakewalk
    1. Use the maximum HP possible from the dice instead of the average given (eg. 6d12 = 72 instead of 39), or at least a higher portion of the maximum quantity

    2. Increase AC

    3. Give it extra damage of a different type

    4. Give non-lair monsters lair actions, and give monsters with lair actions an even stronger lair action they can use when below half-health. Same with legendary actions

    5. Look at older DnD editions and see if the monster or any similar monsters have extra abilities you can add

    Edit: I should have specified that these are in ascending levels of difficulty for the DM, but are also more interesting

  • [alienwarearena] The Elder Scrolls Online
  • The overworld can be done entirely solo with a storyline for each of the three factions, but you can also partner up with friends ad hoc if you'd like.

    The content that's specifically multiplayer is the dungeons (4-man or 12-man), but you can queue for the former and people will zone chat to organise the latter

  • New to Linux—Epic Games compatibility? (Plus more)
  • You can install Heroic Games launcher, which is an alternative Epic + GOG front-end (it also works on Windows and is apparently better than the real thing). You can use it to manage the compatibility layers similarly to Steam, but in my experience its function is on a game-by-game basis

    As another commenter has said, go through ProtonDB and check all the games you can't live without

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world Rudee @lemmy.ml
    George Lucas really looked to the stars to see America's future

    PS. Not American so don't hate me for misrepresenting or muddying the waters.

    PPS. I'm not advocating for not voting Dem since it literally is the lesser of two evils. I'm just pointing out how shitty the situation is.

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    Accessing NAS when not on LAN

    So I have a TrueNAS server set up at home, and it would be cool to have access to it at all times. I currently have Syncthing set up to access and back up my most essential files on my phone and laptop, but it would be nice to be able to access all the ... legally obtained files I have stored there wherever I go. I looked into Nextcloud, but that requires paying for a domain. So are there any other options for this?

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    [Question] How do I get links within a NAS working on multiple OS?

    Hello again. I have several movies saved on my NAS, and wanted to have them in one folder for easy searching while also having folders for specific genres.

    I tried creating some symlinks on my Linux machine, but those aren't visible on Windows or Android. I then tried creating shortcuts on a Windows machine, but those don't work on Linux or Android.

    Is there any hope for setting up universally recognized symlinks/shortcuts?

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    [Question] Accessing NAS from phone

    Hi all. I recently (yesterday) set up a TrueNAS Core server from some old hardware I had lying around, and it feels great to be self-hosting!

    I currently only have Syncthing set up on it for a couple of files, but I'd like to be able to manage all the files on the pool from my phone if I need to. What would be the best software to accomplish this?

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    Bunch of bundled games I don't want

    Hi, all I'm going to list games here, and you can DM me to ask for the code. I'll try to timeously update the post to exclude games someone's already claimed, but please don't be upset if you miss out on one you wanted.

    And please don't message me asking for everything!

    The Amazing American Circus

    Cats and the Other Lives

    Doughlings Arcade

    Doughlings Invasion

    Euro Truck Simulator 2

    Frick, inc.

    Guilty gear X2 #Reload

    Guns & Fishes

    Hero of the kingdom

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    Have any brave souls out there been daily driving the open Nvidia driver on their gaming rigs?

    These drivers are listed as "alpha quality", and they're not technically the full open driver, but how are they compared to Nouveau or the usual closed driver? How's the stability and performance?

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