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Oh, he's not complaining anymore.

I think there's a lot of interest in slotless magic lately. Kineticist has gone over well, there's been renewed focus on focus points as a key encounter resource, and we've even started to see more shifts towards feat-based abilities. It makes sense to me that they're exploring the different aesthetics for these mechanics.

Though I agree, runes in particular feels kind of out of place to me. The game already utilized runes as semi-permanent constructs. This feels like muddying the water a little bit.

It's more like 6000°C. But the corona's much hotter, and the solar winds originate from there. The temperature of the solar wind is estimated to be 100,000° - 800,000°, depending on the type (slow vs fast).

The socialist human rights lawyer discussing the topic may have some nuanced takes on WotC on this one, weirdly enough

There are several reasons why Mastodon doesn't work for normal people, but the biggest one is, honestly, Mastodon users. People have shown themselves to be rather inventive in the face of technical limitations, or they're willing to put up with toxic people for the sake of a great user experience, but you need the people who show up in the space to not experience both negatives.

A lot of Mastodon's UX is really frustrating, in large part because Mastodon tries to disguise the fact that everyone's using different websites. People would be a lot more forgiving of the jankiness of federation if they truly understood that what they're doing is the equivalent of talking to Facebook users from Twitter. But the UI of Mastodon, the language of Mastodon, the layout of Mastodon, the features of Mastodon, and even the 'marketing' of Mastodon all try to make it look like the @website.com at the end of everyone's name is just some frilly flair.

Lemmy has some similar issues, frankly, though not nearly as bad. And Lemmy is a space where I think we will see the idea of talking to people across different websites will really be treated as more core to the culture of the space, because Lemmy isn't really going out of its way to hide the nature of the space as much as Mastodon is.

Still, I wish the hosting websites were treated as first-class citizens by Lemmy itself, rather than as just the url the 'communities' are taking up space on.

Yeah. A public internet means a public internet, for good and for ill. People have been trained to see the internet as private, and we're now reaping those sown seeds, and people really hate the harvest.

My favourite brand of tokens is Skittles.

Worth noting that, at least as of the last time I checked, this wasn't necessarily true of other fesiverse microblogs with list features. Like, I think you can add someone to a list or an antenna or something in Misskey without having to follow them first, so there's no notification

I'm primarily playing Pathfinder 2 these days, so I make a lot of use out of digital resources like Pathbuilder and pf2easy.com. I also lean pretty heavily on Trilium for session prep and notes, but I'm a chronic over-preparer and struggle with improvising the world on the spot.

I use a lot of roll tables during prep. I have several of the Gamemaster's Guide to ____ books on my shelf that I pull out whenever I'm wireframing a dungeon, and I have a lot of the Raging Swan pre-built settlements that I leaf through and drop into my world when the players need a town to come across.

I also find myself turning to GM advice books every few months, just to skim over things. Right now, So You Want to be a Game Master, Robin's Laws of Good Game Mastering, and Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master (Eh? Ehhhhh?) seem to be the ones that end up on my desk. I can safely assure you, one of the advice sinks in, but I usually have my best streaks of sessions after reviewing things like these.

I also find myself returning to modules from 3.x. They were the ones I first played, and they're (mostly) pretty easy to convert to PF2. We're currently just wrapping up Forge of Fury -- or we will, once I finish converting the Allip.

Yeah. My condo fees have replacedy roof and all of the windows in my townhome over the past 3 years. Plus have mowed the lawn, and plowed the driveway.

They're just smoothing out the cost spikes.

Do you check in on the profiles to see the karma count of people who you feel have a neutral or even positive personality?

Probably not. So you have no idea how the average person with "lots of 'karma points'" tends to act. Instead, you're looking at the profile of people who feel safe enough in a space to let themselves be seen as assholes.

This is like asking "why does drinking alcohol make everyone violent?" You're just noticing the ones who are making a scene.

It's so quick and easy when you start at the authoritarianism part already