For me it's more about trivializing certain puzzles. Pretty much everything with a chasm gets reduced to "I pick up a rope and fly over there.". Sometimes, that's ok, but sometimes I don't want it to be that simple.
Well, life has gotten a whole lot simpler, since I stopped DMing DnD altogether.
Software-Engineer hier. Ja, üblicherweise 5 Tage im Jahr, mehr nach Absprache. Kostenpflichtige Fortbildungen müssen begründet werden, gehen aber i.d.R. durch. AG zahlt Trainings- und Reisezeit sowie Unterkunft und Bahntickets, sofern diese nötig sind. Wie andere schon sagten, wer fähige Mitarbeiter will, muss diese auch entsprechend fördern.
Quite a few people have commented about possible societal models for such a community. So I'll extend this by adding some thoughts about specific environmental challenges.
One would assume that the conditions in the lower levels are not very nice, so maybe rampant drug usage could be a thing. Some mongrels might be in pain due to the procedure and abuse pain killers. Others may just want to escape reality. Someone has to supply these. Maybe they're a misguided individual who wants to help their peers, maybe they're a stone cold profiteer who will make for an amazing miniboss. Who knows?
Another important factor is food. Mushrooms grow in dark places and could make up a lot of the diet of the mongrel folk. Or a former botanist could experiment with plants that grow under these conditions. Maybe there's even some animal husbandry going on. Or if you want there to be a darker twist, cannibalism is always an option. Maybe it's even part of their society. Being chosen to be the next meal is a great honor.
Lastly, what do the mongrels do for fun? Do they enjoy pit fights?If so, the players could take the wrong way into the arena room and face a crowd of cheering mongrels and some tough opposing fighters. Are there storytellers who remember some fragments of their human lives? Perhaps even some trash collectors who are willing to sell their strange goods even to outsiders?
In world first
I thought Germany has had this for over a decade now. Or am I being mistaken?
I'll be the counterpart and just say it right there. I'm the Mr. Frodo on most parties. But I aspire to be the Gandalf on some! :)
No, it's not. I'm people and I don't feel like Fahrenheit. Lower than 10°C is cold, lower than 0°C is freezing (quite literally) and warmer than 30°C is too hot. See? Easy to remember numbers. Almost as if people feel numbers they're used to.
You mean potential danger like ice forming on the streets? Well, too bad we don't have an easy to remember number for that... /s
So, what you're saying is that body temperature in Fahrenheit is also a completely random number?
Seriously, these are amazing halfling names for my PnP campaigns. I'm so gonna steal this!
I'm like 99% sure it would just make the time feel longer without any benefit of consciousness. Kind of like certain drugs make everything feel like it's slow motion, but you still don't get superhuman reflexes from them.
Every reply I'd want to post would get me banned for encouraging suicide, so I'll just wish you best of luck with your fight against windmills, Don Quijote. AI is here to stay and none of your whining will change that fact. So, for my own sanity, let's hope that we won't have to endure comments like yours for much longer. :)
"Ich habe nen Arbeitgeber gefunden, bei dem ich deutlich weniger pendeln muss und dazu noch mehr Gehalt bekomme."
Setzt natürlich voraus, dass zumindest der erste Teil stimmt. Aber grundsätzlich zieht das immer.
Plus not everyone here is American. I'm so thankful that here in Germany these notifications only get used for catastrophic events (which is never) or the yeary test that got postponed 3 times in a row, lol.
People like you make me want that feature where you can't see replies with more than 10 downvotes over upvotes. God, I lost so many braincells reading about your idiotic opinions and your inability to accept reality...
I assumed you meant the entire quoted paragraph including the part about the EU. Therefore my bad.
Nothing. I just live in the EU and am very happy about that fact. ¯\_༼ᴼل͜ᴼ༽_/¯
Not for me :)
Fahrenheit was invented at a hospital for identifying patients outside of the normal range...
0°F is outside the normal human temperature range? No shit!
You're talking a bunch of bullcrap! Fahrenheit was developed by a German Scientist and he just chose two measurements that were halfway decent to reproduce. That's all there is to it. Got nothing to do with hospitals.
Why compare it to 40°? Because I know what 40° feels like because I've been living in a civilized country with a civilized measurement system all my life. I can tell you that 65° is too hot, because I make my tea with 70° to 80° hot water. Therefore just before that will probably be too hot for my skin.
In the end, there is no objectively better system when it comes to day to day temperatures. But there is one when it comes to science, reliability and universality and that is Celsius.
All international science uses metric and slowly but surely the resistance amongst US universities melts away and they switch to metric as well. Give it another one or two generations and we'll finally be rid of the outdated and arbitrary imperial system!
I believe the title already gives a pretty good TLDR, but let me provide a little extra context.
I play in a group with two clerics, a rogue, a fighter and a bard (me). It's also important to know that the DM is a player in one of my groups and plays pretty much exclusively lawful good or neutral good characters. I am on good terms with all of the people involved and I don't intend to change this. We're all adults and if this ever gets out of hand I'm sure we'll find a way to talk things out.
Now to the ingame problem. My character started out chaotic good with a pretty strong emphasis on the chaotic part. She's a fey and orderly things go against her very nature. It's usually small things like planting flowers in the middle of the streets or "resorting" some shop shelves. However, due to some not so nice things going on in the world right now, she began shifting a little more towards the neutral side by developing a indifference towards the lives of several faction members in the world (mostly cultists of various evilish cults).
This led to the party steamrolling a bunch of cultists who expected us to pay a toll for crossing their lands with my character hypnotising them beforehand.
Another encounter had our rogue grow tired of a spectator who blocked our way with obvious implications of combat should we ignore him. Our rogue decided to backstab the spectator mid conversation.
I as a player don't really consider these acts evil. Neither does my character. But apparently the DM and at least one of the clerics see things differently. Which in and of itself is not a problem. However, I got wind that they plan to invoke some sort of plot to "make the party repent for their evil ways". And that's where my issue arises. I have no problem with players or characters who want to be a shining example in an evil world and who see the good in everyone. But I have zero interest in playing such a character and it feels like that is what this amounts to.
So, I'll do the obvious thing and talk to everyone involved before the next session. And that's where you come into play. How would I go about this? What arguments might help my point and what am I missing? If shit hits the fan, I am ok with leaving the game and I know that they will accept my decision. But I prefer to avoid this, as I really enjoy the campaign and my characters role in it and in the group.
This small barge will serve as the home base for my Enemy Within party for the foreseeable future. Let's hope nothing bad will happen to it...
The Dwarven city of Tiefenwacht is connected to an extensive network of mines. After the fall of Tiefenwacht, these mines have been all but forgotten and some new inhabitants have made their home there...
Assets by: Tom Cartos and Forgotten Adventures
