Sid Meier’s Pirates! is a wonderful mix of exploration, sea battles, romance, swordplay, trade, and subterfuge.
Tropico 2: Pirate Cove is one that I've only played briefly, but I remember it having a fun style that made me want to try it in depth some time.
After decades of license strangleholds by the likes of MPEG LA and Microsoft, it's refreshing to see open codecs adopted in mainstream hardware and APIs. Hooray for progress!
I just learned about that as well. I hope Larian dilutes or buys back Tencent's shares.
I struggle to think of a buyer that would be worse for the players than Tencent.
On the bright side, Hasbro's last big D&D blunder prodded the community into developing alternative gaming systems and licenses, so I think we'll be in good shape to carry on without the brand if this happens.
If you have any interest at all, this seems like a good chance to learn. It should be easy for someone who already knows how to format text on kbin.
Thank you for posting these as you discover them.
Have you considered putting them on the wiki, so they're easier to find for people who don't follow this magazine?
Booming Blade's damage scaling is the same as Toll the Dead, but with a smaller damage die.
However, since its effect depends on a weapon hit instead of the elf spellcasting ability (intelligence), I suspect it will proc more often than Toll the Dead for most melee Fighters. Seems like a good choice if you want to your cantrip to be for combat.
On the other hand, since a fighter has plenty of weapons for doing damage, you might consider picking a utility cantrip instead. How often you use it would depend on your play style and DM, of course, but in my experience, all it takes is a little imagination to get tremendous value from utility cantrips.
Here are someone else's thoughts on the wizard/elf cantrips. Keep in mind that they're probably considered in the context of a wizard casting them, rather than a fighter, but the points noted there are worth considering regardless.
"Innovative smartphone surveys?"
Please.
It's written correctly. "All but" in the sense used here means almost. "All but certain" means a hair's breadth from absolute certainty.
(Also, "lose" is the word you were looking for; not "loose".)
Micron Technology, Texas Instruments, and GlobalFoundries count among other top contenders, WSJ added citing industry executives.
It's good to see they're not putting all their eggs in one basket.
Not really an answer to your question, but just to make you aware of some options:
Have you considered using subkeys for each of your machines, signing things with those, and keeping their master key someplace safe? That would limit your exposure if one of those machines is compromised, since you could revoke only that machine's key while the others remain useful (and the signatures they have issued remain valid).
Are you setting expiration dates on your keys? That can bring some peace of mind when you lose your key/revocation data.