It makes them feel good and devalues the quality of discussion. Benefits them, harms others.

God I hate people who use github comments for their own benefit. “Just fork it bro” is never helpful.

Are you sure you’re native to this plane, rather than Mechanus?

Dice

[edge of pic] …your game

Determination

With enough tries, you will eventually roll a twenty

Cognitive Dissonance

He has a degree in statistics. But he will still roll a d20 five times at the game store and declare, “This rolls high. I’ll take it!”

Randomness

Trust in the oracular power of the dice

Sometimes in Life

You don’t know if you rolled the dice nicely

Actually I believe it’s this attitude (among other things) that’s discouraging them

Based

I would have made him one level higher, but then his own attacks would have been strong enough to one-shot some of the players

Level 1 woes are real, but remember, NPCs don’t have to follow player character creation rules

Neat!

But if we hide the complexity, surely we won’t ever have to deal with it! /s

Funnily enough I do use NixOS for my server! It’s not quite what I was describing but it does allow me to host easily.

Someday I hope we have a server technology that’s platform-agnostic and you can just add things like “Minecraft Server” or “Email Server” to a list and it’ll install, configure, and host everything in the list with a sensible default config. I imagine you could make the technology fairly easily, although keeping up with new services, versions, security updates, etc. would be quite the hassle. But that’s what collaboration is for!

Idk it works well enough here

Yeah, I have Featherserver for my server, Featherbeast for my laptop (named because it has decent specs), and Featherphone for my phone.

Omg yes I forgot about this thank you

Newlines are great
But they should just format them normally

I use them for actual code but the ability to use them to get normal returns somehow hadn’t occurred to me haha

Many thanks!

Feats are also an optional rule, but I’ve never heard of a table not using them. “Optional rule” in 5e is kind of like the term “theory” IRL, in that some really are optional and some are basically always used. I will admit that not all tables use the diagonal rule, though.

5e accounts for diagonal distance. Each second diagonal is 10ft. A 10ft. radius sphere spell would cover this pattern on the ground:

OOOOOOO

OOXXXOO

OXXXXXO

OXXXXXO

OXXXXXO

OOXXXOO

OOOOOOO

…lemmy formatting kills that but you get the point I hope.

It’s nice to have my views on this validated. Maybe I’ll do something about it now though… I know a few projects that could use the documentation touch-up.

My private key has a 3 in it