The calcium carbonate in hard water precipitates out when you boil it, i.e. it turns solid.
Microplastics make for great nucleation points for the calcium carbonate to latch onto. So, the microplastics became super easy to filter out of the water (with some getting stuck to the bottom of the kettle in that white scale that you have to use vinegar to clean out.
Maine doesn’t really have anyone “upstream”.
Reciting from memory is a bardic skill, but those “other people” were his dedicated assistants.
Well, possibly. We don’t know when Homer went blind, or if he was ever actually blind.
All we really know is that the two biographies written about him were written at least 400 years after his death. Both are highly questionable, but both still say that Homer was literate, or at least well educated, before losing his sight.
All we actually know is that Homer wrote the Iliad (or parts of it) and the Odyssey.
And we know the works of Homer because they were written down.
Bards aren’t just the run of the mill musicians. They are so much more than that.
And most of that “so much more” requires extensive training. Which requires some form of reading.
Bards are historians and have some magic of their own.
Well, as long as it’s not any smaller than the hummingbird, it’s still possible.
A hummingbird is pushing the limits of the wild shape ability, and would actually not be allowed under some versions of the game
A flea is too small for wild shape.
Low level wizards are a drain on the party.
High level wizards… Don’t fuck with the high level wizards. Especially not ones who have some time to prep for the encounter.
They aren’t on the same level of fraudulent bullshit, but they’re close.
Fingerprint matching is done “by eye” and often involves an “expert” saying that one smudge is a 100% match for another smudge.
DNA matching is the only forensic science that’s worth a damn, and only if it’s done correctly.
Thieves cant could be a dialect of undercommon. After all, not everyone would know that cant, even if they know undercommon.
I’ve been itching to play a dragonborn monk dubbed, “the golden god of the fist”.
He would be somewhat of a nudist because of his belief that the physical form is perfection, and perfection must be shared with others to inspire them to seek out their own perfection.
He would have polished, radiant golden scales and a body builder’s physique.
His main camp supplies would be polishing wax, and a buffing wheel.
That was an option, but it was funny to not do it that way.
The guy was trying to do a sort of reverse possession on a prince of hell.
I had a little chart drawn up for all the ways such a thing could go wrong. (And a few ways it would succeed)
The roll ended up being that he screwed up, got killed and the demon prince had no anchor to stay, so thus was pulled back into hell.
I like GURPS as my main system. It’s point based, and higher point values tend to give more breadth rather than depth.
For example, a 500 point character can possibly be killed by a 25 point goblin.
Starting point values are usually 100 to 150, or 250 for more epic games. 500 is usually the realm of supers. As in Superheroes… Those games are a bit rare. Superheroes are just too reactionary. As in, you mostly wait around for villians to start something, then catch them, then wait around again… Now, a supervillians campaign, those are fun.
The survivors of the cult splintered and became a bit of a running gag, but yes, the players were a bit pissed that the big bad of that part of the campaign was dead off screen.
I don’t really do a singular big bad… Just groups and factions and madmen wanting power.
The players run into some of it. And hear tails of other adventurers solving some of it off screen. Which is what they thought happened at first until the wizard made a great roll and spotted an error in the ritual circle.
See, this shit wouldn’t throw me. As a DM I love improve in my plot lines. Hell, I often don’t plan things out past laying out the world and enemy motivations.
Sure my big bad has goals, but they have to work for them just as much as anyone else does. One of the most fun (for me) campaigns I ever ran was where the big bad conducted a ritual off screen, and botched the roll. He ended up killing himself.
The party knew that he had been planning a ritual of some sort and had gone into seclusion. They had decided to dismantle his organization before tracking him down.
So weeks of fighting and taking out little hidden cells of the cult, they finally find info about where the big bad was doing his ritual. Only to find a mangled rotting corpse and a closed hell portal.
So they took a modern adaption (that really suffers due to being a modern adaption) and set an episode in the timeframe where the original was set?
2; Some buzzwords that you don’t seem to understand the meaning of, with some conspiracy theory nonsense thrown in.
3; yup. US history is full of horrible shit, but we’re trying to be better. Well most of us. China is not trying to be better.
The US once engaged in genocide, and China is using that past to justify several ongoing genocides.
The US has often failed to fully live up to its ideals of freedom and equality, and China uses that to justify not having any freedom or equality.
The US holds freedom of speech as sacrosanct, often to the point where harmful ideologies are given platforms, China uses secret trials to jail people for the study of their own heritage.
The point being, China fucking sucks for anyone who isn’t a rich, ethnic Han, flawlessly loyal to the CCP.
Harvesting prisoner organs to give to the wealthy/party members.
Executing people for things they’ve said.
Quartering party loyalists in Uyghur homes, particularly the forced co-habitation of Uyghur women with male party loyalists.
The list goes on because China is a totalitarian dictatorship, and the US, for all its many, many, faults, is not.
The main difference is that the US is mostly trying to be better, and China is actively embracing the crimes against humanity.
Generally, dictatorships are called regimes. Thus, China certainly qualifies as a regime.
Hell, the actual dictionary definition is as follows;
Regime, noun;
A government, especially an oppressive or undemocratic one.
The calcium carbonate in hard water precipitates out when you boil it, i.e. it turns solid.
Microplastics make for great nucleation points for the calcium carbonate to latch onto. So, the microplastics became super easy to filter out of the water (with some getting stuck to the bottom of the kettle in that white scale that you have to use vinegar to clean out.