#difficulty settings

[rathofashardalon]

Difficulty Slider?

[anxious-lorf]

How do you tell Gamers ™️ that Easy Modes exist for a reason and that, if it wasn't important, the dev team wouldn't have spend months coding it?

[pauperism]

The part I liked best is how Aranock explains how difficulty settings also benefit hardcore gamers.

If you’ve gotten good at a game, it’s a good thing that you can increase the difficulty to keep yourself challenged.

[sysig]

Those wacky skeletons ♥ (Patreon)

[alicenpai]

i love...wanpee...........🍊🍶🧡💚

[lizclipse]

just realised how weird it is to use my kinda old work laptop instead of my more modern and powerful desktop to work on everything on (ive been ssh-ing in for years now). so i'm installing arch linux in a vm and will report back on how well it goes

[natjennie]

what's weird about the fantasy high drama is that like. it seems to me like people forget d&d is primarily a) a game you play with your friends and also b) luck based.

I mean it's fine to say that "nothing felt like a challenge" and "they just dominated everything and there weren't any stakes" but like. it's not as if they weren't up against huge threats. they lost the mall fight. the last stand was an onslaught of enemies. they fought a dozen dragons from an airship. the fights were hard. they're just really good. they've had very good dice luck in general this season and are all very high level and highly specialized. fig is gonna beat deception and performance checks. adaine's gonna figure out the arcana. riz is gonna succeed investigations. like. for some reason their strategical competence and wisely picked abilities are. a downside? a disappointment?

the thing about d&d that you need to remember is it's first and foremost a game. it's mostly random and it takes you down weird paths and you're playing to have fun with your friends. the dice are literally telling the story that it's their time, it's their year. they've struggled enough. they've trained enough. they're good at what they do. and in my post about the academic/domestic/personal stressors being the focus, d&d doesn't have any other system to work them out than rolling different skills. that's what d&d is. brennan set specific challenge levels for different tasks and the players strategized to prioritize which abilities they were strongest in. the challenges were there. and the players rose to them. they were both smart in their delegation of responsibilities and lucky with their dice rolls. of which, both are foundations of d&d.

don't mistake them being good players and getting lucky with there being no hardship. just because they smashed through the wall, that doesn't mean the wall wasn't strong. they were just stronger.

[greater-than-the-sword]

First night of the weekly girls night. Everyone who said they could come canceled down to the last person. This is completely and totally par for the course

[sincericida]

Happy 41th Birthday, Andrew Garfield!

— August 20, 1983.

Today it’s day to celebrate his wonderful life that makes so many other people happier with their light, kindness, charism and their amazing art! Long life, sweetheart! 🎂🎉✌🏼

"I'm always having a crisis of faith, with everything. People who are certain are terrifying to me. That's how religious wars get started."

— Andrew Garfield

[theexhaustedqueer]

my favourite thing about the back half of Campaign 1 is that the crew of the Per Aspera at that point consists of: Kyana, who has a rare secret bloodline that gives her two souls and a never ending quest to fight evil, VR-LA, the actual chosen one of Mystra and someone who has made bargains with several other mystical beings, and Vhas, who’s divinely favoured by Ysgard, the chosen one of the Githzerai, and has been tasked with united the Githzerai and Githyanki under one sky. And then there’s Dani. A random orphan mechanic from the City of Brass who just happened to be in the right place at the right time to get her hands on a spelljammer. And the best part? Dani is objectively the most dangerous member of the crew.

[casualavocados]

Ai Di manhandling Chen Yi for @grapejuicegay (& me)

Chiang Tien as AI DI KISEKI: DEAR TO ME (2023)

[ricky-mortis]

Sir John Herschel you will always be famous

[canisalbus]

What if modern au vachete is simply old timey angst vachete reincarnated. they get a second chance to be cute and in love

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[noonaracha]

skz maxident shenanigans for @jerirose & @wisteriya

[nemossis]

got to see jhariah :]

[thebramblewood]

I ended up finishing the Cozy Celebrations event tonight instead of doing much story stuff. So here are two idiots in dumb Christmas sweaters. The fact that I was spending time with them is probably a spoiler in itself, but holiday spirit prevails.