Thinking about how Basic D&D has "reversible" spells, so you could prepare a Cure but invert it to cast Inflict on the fly, and how this is awesome so naturally 5e ignores this for everything but one spell
There's also another element: some spells can be *dispelled* if you know them, so if you know Blade Barrier you can cast it to dispel an active Blade Barrier in the world, and I really love that as a general rule? 5e has absolutely nothing like that either
a big element is that wizards and "prepared" casters can't do this reversal on the fly, but "innate" casters can, so that's also a thing that could set a sorcerer apart as a unique mechanic. 5e has instead given wizards the unique feature sorcerers had lmao
Every man replying to this with "well actually" or "write this yourself": it's not 2001 we've evolved
Also try to be correct about the thing you're correcting me on its fucking embarrassing
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-political bias
-unsubtle critique
-a world that looks normal to the authors but is going to seem alien to Americans (free healthcare)
-you can pet the dog
Every sale goes towards making the lives of several trans folks (and an australian dude I *guess*) that little bit better
It's a grand fucking irony of our age that people think Bill Gates is trying to implant us all with microchips when the actual conspiracy he is behind and which is completely open and on record is preventing open source vaccines, preserving copyright and slowing vaccinations
This is like when people theorized that the buried research oil companies hid were water engines or some shit and when it turned out to be proof of climate change instead they just dropped that thread immediately
the conspiracy theorists found this and are talking about nanochips being used to track their movements, with their phones, and I'm all for this
Anyone else remember that one guy on RPGnet who would post about his game, designed to teach kids about politics, that had Palestinians as ogres and the IDF as paladins? I forget his name but I remember him vividly
What I especially remember is that he felt this was a nuanced take that accurately depicted both sides in this real world conflict and nothing could really convince him that that's not what he was making
Hey remember how Tasha exists because a girl sent a crayon letter to Gygax and wanted a spell involving laughter and then he wrote the character around it to be an evil seductress
"Most females do not play RPGs because of a difference in brain function" - Gary Gygax
When people treat employers as an immutable law of nature it pisses me off. Yes, that Karen got you fired. But who decided listening to a Karen was more important than keeping you on board. A human made that decision too. A human enabled that Karen. A third party is involved
It wasn't a battle of a Karen and a poor employee, it was collusion by the employer that gives a customer more rights than its own employees. The power imbalance exists because the employer allows it to exist. This is not a law of nature. This is a human decision
And it *pisses me off so badly* when employers are let off the hook for it.
Like, why the fuck are you protecting them. Why are you willingly taking part in that deception. Why are you siding implicitly with the employer. *Fucking why.*