The Sword Coast setting is essentially a post-collapse setting where monsters are an existential threat (in theory). There are no longer villages every 5k because only the best and safest lands are worth farming.

In theory. Though I guess you could argue the Sword Coast is also kind of a metaphor for American colonization? The barbarian tribes certainly have Native American coding going on at times.

Sir, this is serious business. Please take your absurd fantasies elsewhere.

Goddamnit

“Dang, my character has some sweet augs, I’m a one man army, time to take on the corpos!”

corpos bring a real army and then hit you with an orbital particle weapon

Yeah the real secret about 5.0 is that all classes are broken and OP, and the nice thing about BG3 is that they do the math for you.

Astarion learned to play in AD&D

That’s a reference I haven’t seen in a long time.

Fire Emblem has a couple bangers too. And some less so.

Maybe birds aren’t good at math?

Yeah but the problem is that there isn’t a list of what happens for each score, so people aren’t quite sure if it’s a monster specific condition. It does seem to match up with the old rules though, so I’d just default to that. STR and CON are instant death, DEX is total paralysis, the mentals are comas/nonresponsive.

And in 3.5 STR 0 meant your body no longer had the strength to have your heart beat so you’d die with no save.

My personal favorite:

A 9th level druid (any druid) flies 40ft in the air and upcasts one of their summon animals spells to summon 8 giant owls, then makes them fall prone.

3.5 falling damage was both clear cut and bonkers. Your Owl MIRV would do an average of 679 damage.

Not munchkin, not a special build, just the base rules and a default druid. It’s even easy to write off thematically as the owls kamikaze dive bombing it instead of just falling!

The 3.5 Tarrasque didn’t have the 5.0 damage resistance to non-magic weapons, it has a flat 15 DR, which was the style at the time, but useless against the numbers falling damage mechanics would push out.

https://www.reddit.com/r/powergamermunchkin/comments/wjtvch/whats_the_easiest_way_to_kill_a_tarrasque/

I think a good DM would say the summoned animals aren’t magic slaves and simply would not kill themselves doing this, but at the end of the day you could also just do this with large rocks so you might as well let them have kamikaze owls.

Yeah rogues would literally just walk up to wizards and explode their whole body with a sneak attack and +40 Stealth checks.

Then they kill the wizard’s familiar with their other two attacks.

Fighters acted like they were poor little victims vulnerable to mean old spellcasters but that’s because players don’t like taking defensive feats. By the time 3.5 was done there was a build floating around that basically made you immune to magic.

I don’t recall 3.5 spells having nearly as many guaranteed success effects as 5.0 has. It was generally considered, you know, a bad idea to be able to reliably CC ancient wyrms with no hope of defense.

Con

… That’s the most evil thing I’ve ever seen

Clerics literally don’t need that because they’re very very balanced, Jebus said so

Gender is no one’s slave (other than for kinky reasons)

Ah, I see. The confusion happened because crypto nerd absolutely does not mean that to the casual public anymore, as bemoaned in the parent comment, and I didn’t realize he was insisting there is still a distinction.

I really don’t have a leg to stand on with that topic because I always put “libertarian” in scare quotes.

The thing is, however, that a lot of the crypto nerds are also crypto bros. Or at least, they’re who the crypto bros were trying to be, the guys who were mining Bitcoin when it was worth $0.13, but those two people sound exactly alike on the Internet on their shared interest because they’re both trying to sell you the coins.

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They mean literal cryptography.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptography

Now, a lot of old crypto bros were the origins of crypto currency, but that’s a different breed of nerd than the modern crypto bro. The difference is how much you like math and how many posters of Alan Turing you have.

From their heirs, maybe.

I consider the real question to be how they ended up dead but you do you.

They can’t be, at least not without a trial.

That won’t stop the Court.