that is my primary suspect. but the problem persists into adulthood to. there is a generational rift between myself and the one before me where people don’t want to teach what isn’t already known. or just can’t understand the process of learning enough to communicate effectively with eachother.

turns out I didn’t hate improv or basic math, I just let something convince me that I should dislike things I’m bad at

the one group I was defacto DM for my players would do this knowing the more off guard they caught me the more likely somebody was likely to be called Chungus or Squinton or some shit

there was a comic? I saved a bunch of summoning and wild shape cheatsheats. hold up maybe I’m thinking of something else and said the wrong place

edit: no wait it was Giantintheplayground. there was just a forum where people congregated guides for various ttrpgs. but I was being presumptuous

you probably have the same couple giantintheplayground pages saved that I do.

Wild shape was hard to read as a new player. Full casters are intimidating too. I love them too but they’re just hard to explain to newcommers.

Cleric alignment requesites go largely unnoticed by the player. staying within one step of diety is pretty easy, probably comes automatically to most people who would be interested in the class on the first place. Alignment gets complicated for them in considering if it’s appropriate to cast magic circle or not or holy word or not. but usually it’s safe to assume for those.

Paladin is responsible for I think almost all alignment hangups at the table. sure, there are others but not as often.

Druid probably would be because communicating the concept of neutrality is full of hangups but I think druids are pretty underplayed.

fuck I forgot about monks and druids. okay, I guess no wonder it turned into such a big misunderstanding. that is a wider amount of people that were expected to think in terms of the alignment axis

*teeny tiny voice* alignment was never supposed to be for players consideration. it was only supposed to interact discretely with the spells and effects of Planar-type monsters and Detect/Smite Evil

Is ewazmi like “Erase Me”? Does the victim or the machinator eat the berry?

Edit: berry. Berry. Ewazmi, Berry

if you’re trying to bluff yes, you probably could just do this with a deception check. but I think this is different because you can use it to retroactively affect the narrative of an NPC. The deception check you’re making in that case is to successfully convince them throughout their life that you were just the buttler or something.

A creative GM might let you do that normally if it’s within plausibility and you clear it with them first, but having a distinct feat and ruleset to do that is unique and helpful.

War crimes, Jerry