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Sarcasthma posted...

You have 3 socks and 1 plain bagel.
How do you proceed?

Eat sock, put bagel on feet.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

I want more "Zikten knows how movies works" topics.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

I like the style!
I'm also not someone who you should go to about if you prefer for coloring stuff, I almost always prefer sketches over the main picture.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

SpaceBear_ posted...

Clamber on top, get your dick out, stick it in the hole (It's lower than you might think) and go to town.

Don't go too low!
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

Welcome back Violet... I guess.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

It's not super good, but OK.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

bulbinking posted...

If they are benevolent could they even be desribed as a dictator?

Yes, it's a form of government.

Also, see video why dictatorships are rarely benevolent:

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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

adjl posted...

You have fallen into the Saar Chasm. You hear the whooshing sound of a wild joak flying overhead. Exits are N and W. How do you proceed?

Check items.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

Magic is lots of fun, just try to enjoy yourself.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

Funkdamental posted...

it's one of the four countries around the world where crime has gotten so bad that they've had to create a police force and a judicial system to handle it

What... what do you think police and the judicial system is for?
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

Nichtcrawler X posted...

shadowsword87 posted...

There's nothing better, so sure.

A benevolent dictator?

Right, and how do we confirm that they are truly benevolent?
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

There's nothing better, so sure.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

Oh cool, tell us when you come up with something.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

Warehouse security maybe?
I know a guy who was in the army and that's what he did, he just sat around playing pokemon all night.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

I figured out what I was good at, what I didn't mind doing, and I went with that.

I never will "like" work, but it will be fine.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

LeetCheet posted...

It would be neat to be a mod but I probably don't have enough time and energy for the job : /
My IRL job is too exhausting as it is, so what is essentially a second job would simply be too much for me.

I never really saw a benefit to becoming a mod, people give you s*** and you have to spend hours of your time doing menial stuff.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Speaking of buying feats, that was another question I sort of had.

When they say you essentially give up a stat boost to take a feat instead, do they mean you're giving up both possible points you get from your "Ability Score Improvement" feature that level, or does it only cost one of the two possible points?

So, here's how it works:
You get an ability score improvement, which are two unique +1's that you can put into any ability score including doubling them up on a stat. If you want to get rid of those two +1's, you can instead take a feat, which some of those feats actually give you a +1 to a stat.
So kind of yes, kind of no.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

ParanoidObsessive posted...

I think I was mostly thinking of it in terms of heavier martial weapons generally being d12 (or 2d6) for damage, while finesse weapons seem inherently weaker (d8 or d6), which seems like you'd wind up with a Paladin who's only hitting half as hard.

I was also sort of trying to process in my head whether or not a Dex-based AC was always going to be significantly inferior to a heavy armor-based one (with plate being default AC 18), since it seems like you'd need a Dex bonus of +6 (and thus a Dex of 22!) to really match the benefits of heavy armor (I'm not counting the shield bonus, since both sides can benefit from it). Though I suppose there's the extra advantage there of light armor not causing disadvantage on stealth rolls or hitting you with exhaustion penalties in places like Chult (or potential drowning issues if you go overboard off the side of a ship).

Oh, you can't go above 20 of a stat except one specific case when the barbarian is level 20.
Past that, a d8's average damage is 4.5, a d10's is 5.5, and 2d6 is 7. So you're missing out on an average of 1-2.5 points of damage per hit by going dex, which isn't that bad. The reason why Dex doesn't deal that much damage though, is because they have all of the good skills (stealth, slight of hand) and it feeds into AC (so if you do get a magical bonus to dex, it feeds into it).
Plus there's only a single ranged weapon that uses str (javelin), so if you do go a str heavy build anything ranged just sucks (and there are cool ranged builds that use touch attacks by shooting arrows with spells on the arrow, which is awesome).

ParanoidObsessive posted...

If you've got a DM who absolutely refuses to go with any of those options, you're probably in a "NO FUN ZONE" sort of game anyway, so I'm not entirely sure I'd ever stick around regardless.

Oh yeah, that too. It was the only "problem" that I could think of building that character though.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

feel like I'm missing something here, because that sentence doesn't seem to make sense

Whoops, it was 5AM when I typed that post up, with lots of edits because I was tired and I literally just finished a DnD game. Yeah I don't know what I was saying.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Yeah, I've looked into that because of my penchant for swashbuckler-type characters, and I noticed that the rules-as-written sort of make two-weapon fighting kind of awkward to deal with (and also somewhat annoying

Also the second attack uses your bonus action, which you only get one of those a turn (it's basically a minor action from 4e, fuck that name). Then higher level, that bonus action is really, really useful in doing other stuff than extra bit of damage.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

And from what I'd read, it seemed like the only restriction in 5e was that you suffer penalties from wearing armor you're not proficient in, but you can essentially become proficient in pretty much anything with only a single level multiclassed into a class that has the proficiency you want,

But that level can really sucks to not use, but yeah it's pretty easy to get what you want.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Though speaking of multiclassing shenanigans and suboptimal builds, while I was thinking about my Dex Paladin concept, I was also thinking about having it start as a Sorcerer at first level, more or less solely for the cantrips

Check out the Green-Flame Blade and Sword Burst cantrips, it's much more fun :D
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

Man, I know a lot about DnD and it's mechanics, despite not really liking the fantasy genre.
I guess that's what happens when that's the only game people want to play.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

ParanoidObsessive posted...

But is it possible to make a "lighter" Paladin build in 5e D&D that is anything other than completely suboptimal? Paladins technically have all Armor Proficiencies after all, which should make them as effective with light armor as they are the heaviest plate. Could someone make a Dex-build Paladin relying more on dodging rather than tanking, wearing light armor, and using a Dex-based finesse weapon like a fencing blade or scimitar, rather than wearing a schoolbus and wielding a three-handed doomclub? Maybe using something like a buckler or targe as an off-hand AC booster, or even a main-gauche type of secondary weapon that can alternatively boost AC or allow for bonus attacks?

Sure, it's not crazy suboptimal either. Besides, I've thought about much, much worse builds.

The only thing that's really awkward about it is that you don't get access to the Two Weapon Fighting Style at level 2, which if you really are interested in it, you can still take one level dip to Fighter to grab it.

I guess if you really want to be anal, the starting equipment is technically chainmail so that's no good.

Other than that, I guess I should go through this point by point:
-Most martial finesse weapons actually suck for damage, which is why finesse is so useful. The max damage die you can get is a d8 with a rapier, which isn't great, but it's what any dex character has to deal with, it's not special.
-Shields are actually really good in 5e (which is a +2 AC), WotC has really made it hard getting a crazy high AC. Most monsters have a bounded AC up to 20, with a few, few of them getting all the way up to
a whole 25 AC! This means showing up with 18 AC is actually pretty good and not the default for basically every class.
-The secondary weapon deals it's base die damage (i.e. deals 1d8+0) with the offhand (without Two Weapon Fighting), and the bonus to hit doesn't get proficiency bonus. But this isn't limited to the paladin, it's just how it works. You can do some gross stuff to the system with this though. This won't give a bonus to AC (that I know of, there's always something).

It's absolutely fine, hell the character I'm playing right now can't speak. If you talk to some completely grognardy people about it, they will give you a weird look, but paladin stuff doesn't actually care about your strength... so whatever.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

As a tangential side-note while talking about builds and Armor Proficiencies, if "going as big as possible is always the best choice" IS how the rules tend to work, wouldn't it be a good idea for every magic user class to take a single level of Fighter or Paladin to get the heavy armor proficiency, and thus become a spellcasting tank with an insane AC rather than a glass cannon? The rules-as-written seem to suggest that would be a completely valid thing to do, even if it is sort of power-gamer-y (meaning some groups and DMs would s*** on a player for doing it). Why wear robes with an AC of like 12 (if you're lucky) when you can be wearing full plate and have an AC of 18?

That depends on the edition.
In 3.5 you had spell chance failure, which sucked dealing with it. Plus they piled on negative modifiers if you didn't know what you were doing until you cried yourself to sleep.
In 4e it just wasn't an option, plus magic users got their INT bonus to AC, so it was fine.
In 5e there's a "just don't" part. "If you wear armor that you lack proficiency with, you have disadvantage on any ability check, saving throw, or Attack roll that involves Strength or Dexterity, and you cant cast Spells."

As with all of the editions, you could get feats to get more armor proficiency, but feats are precious and few and far between to get AC bonuses in 6 levels.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

Play against actual humans then, computers rarely make mistakes and if they do it's massive silly mistakes. Then they're a lot more aggressive in punishing you for any mistakes.

Playing against someone at your level means you can actually follow through with what your plan is, and see why it was good/bad.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

How many games have you played? 600 ELO is really low, you still probably need to work on the basics.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

How long do you think it will be before this account gets banned?
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

I do want to ask you PO, when you played an IRL RPG over a decade ago, did you use voices/accents at all?
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

How hard is it to just not be weird?
You can still be quirky and have preferences, just not weird.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

Zeus posted...

There's something inherently visually pleasing about a die with that many sides.

https://www.amazon.com/Role-Playing-Dice-Spherical-ZOCCHIHEDRON/dp/B0026N9TH4
Not... really. They tend to lose the "this is so cool" after a while.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

Lokarin posted...

I llike how there are downward trends pretty much exactly when the NES and SNES were released

There's actually a pretty big argument that it's when legalized abortions could happen and then 15 (or so) years later the trend actually kicked in.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

What's your technique for getting cheap taco bell stuff then?
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

Oh right, I do currently have a weird obsession with a bad space RP game, SpaceStation 13.

Half of the time I deal with putting boxes into a ship, and also stealing boxes from all around the station, then the other half is trying to deal with all of the hellish chaos all around and just trying to survive.

It's fun, and bad at the same time.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

All good.

To be clear, the data isn't a downward trend starting at 100 years ago, here's what part of it looked like.
http://wp.patheos.com.s3.amazonaws.com/blogs/warrenthrockmorton/files/2013/06/UCR_Vio_11.gif
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

Careful Americans, I heard that there's a rainstorm and there's flooding.
Everyone stay safe.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

Lokarin posted...

If by up you mean trending down for the last 100 years

I was adding to your ITT, thank you very much.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

Lokarin posted...

ITT: Violence didn't exist until the digital era

Also that violent crimes are going up.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

I wanna post with the cool kids too.

I don't get modded, so I don't have anything to complain about tho.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

I know myself too well, with how I get obsessed with complex stuff that's pointless and fun, and my family has a history of alcoholism.

I realize that I probably have the will to negate any sort of addiction habits, but I don't want to roll those dice so f*** it. There's always other stuff. Like I know I would love the f*** out of some wine, white wine especially, the smell of it is amazing by itself.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

Maybe consider it more like the Vehmic Court, but on a larger scale then?
That's a nice word with no social connections but means similar things.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

Right now. There's a weird sort of geology museum outside of my class.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

Oh, that's a druid.
The actual historical thing, not what people think.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

Yeah, how sunny it is really affects how cold it feels.
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

RedPixel posted...

You 3d print parts. A gun consists of parts. It'll happen. Eventually we will have 3d printers that print 3d printers (kidding).

You do know that 3d printing is a really s***y plastic, right?
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"

They should contact this guy: http://gunsandsand.com/
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ImmortalityV, "I would like to kiss Icoyar to be honest in a non gay way though"