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There are dice goblins who get as many as possible and dice elves who have a few good dice they treasure.

I have a slight feeling you're making it more complicated than it needs to be... Like, how are you in a building with security cameras AND illusions? Surely the illusions make it harder for the cameras to do their job. And surely, since you're in a building, the giant worms can't get close enough to affect anything. Plus, the number of banshees would be unchanged since 10 feet ago, as would the scry spell.

It's actually kind of astonishing that what villains try to do for an entire campaign is done as collateral damage by you using a first level spell slot, and it only heals 6 hitpoints. Meanwhile, Sad Frank drinks two potions and does the same, but without billions of deaths. Score one for Sad Frank.

I don't think I'd call D&D a consistently great base to start from, honestly. For certain settings and genres, yeah, but others are seriously harmed by trying to make it fit a fantasy adventure system. Mysteries and heists are forced to include a lot more gratuitous fight scenes just to balance all playstyles, for example.

Similarly, I worry that using d20 as a one-size-fits-all will reinforce comfort zones than expand them. Why would a person play the Star Wars FFG system (which I prefer) when they can play the Star Wars d20 system instead and not have to learn new rules? And if you're making a new system, then you clearly need to include six core stats, because RPGs have six core stats in them, right?

D&D isn't bad, nor is homebrewing D&D for a new setting. D&D as an assumed foundation of all RPGs can be a serious issue.

I disagree with that interpretation. Evil shouldn't be going out of your way to cause harm, it should be willingly causing harm to get your way. The harm is the method, not the goal.

Like, a good person driving down the road will swerve and crash their car to avoid hitting a dog. A neutral person would stop the car and see if they can move the dog, or at least drive around it. An evil person wouldn't even slow down. Why should they have to be a minute late because some idiot dog decided to stand in the wrong place?

Meanwhile, if the evil person swerved and crashed their car to hit a dog who wasn't even on the road, their car would be wrecked and their journey would be totally ruined. They'd be just as foolish as the good person. If you're going to have your actions bound by the same restrictive moral guidelines as good people in a new coat of paint, you might as well be good.

I prefer to think of good vs evil as altrusim vs egoism. LG is "the laws should protect everyone" and LE is "the laws should protect me". CG is "everyone should be free to live as they please" and CE is "I should be free to live as I please". Acting in pure self-interest with no regard for ideals would be CE, or maybe NE depending on how it's done.

If the image is even slightly convincing, it's essentially just defamation with digital impersonation thrown in. Yeah, that might catch photoshop in its net, but you'd need to be a DAMN good artist to get caught in it as well.

Largiloquent: Bombastic.
Dithyramb: Ancient Greek improvised hymn about Dionysus.

You were almost coherent there, but not quite.

I mean, I assume the youtube video? I don't know, I didn't watch one that talked about chicken eggs. You'd need to say which youtube video you mean. My explanation came from me.

I don't think we did, no.

The answer is egg, because egg-laying creatures predate the chicken.

If we count it as a chicken egg only, then it depends on if you describe a chicken egg as "an egg laid by a chicken" or "an egg that could hatch into a chicken".

That's not assuming the worst, my guy. If this is bait, then you're pretending to be an idiot. If not, you're an actual idiot.

Sure, but I'm part of the minority that likes to remove the rest of the sheep first.

If you think stuff slips below your radar, that just makes me question how good your radar is. The problems are obvious if you pay even a little attention, so... Maybe you don't?

The classic xkcd for the occasion

I have a feeling AI generated videos will only be indistinguishable from the content mill shite I was never going to watch anyway. If an AI can replace it without you noticing, was it really that good to begin with?

This honestly sounds like an amazing quest giver.

Evil Quest Giver: Yes, go and fight the dragon in this remote mountain and get treasure! I hope you survive, hehehe...
Party: (One week later) Wow, that dragon was kidnapping the locals and planning a conquest of the valley! Good thing we put a stop to that, huh?
EQG: Uh... Holy heck... W- Well, you're just the people to deliver this letter to this outpost in the middle of nowhere! Go now, take your time with the trip!
Party: (One week later) Turns out the guy you sent that letter to was researching occult rituals and accidentally unearthed a swarm of demons. We saved him and found this sword of sacred might.
EQG: Okay, plan C. Join me, and we shall overthrow the crown!
Party: The one terrorising the common folk? We were hoping there was a resistance group we could join!

Given my life right now, it would have a couple of no-shows.

Whether you're preparing magic for war or the bedroom, always have protection ready. And perhaps a few healing spells if you think it's gonna get rough.

Too lean, not enough meat. Practically counts as a vegan diet. It makes sense that a species with shit taste would taste shit.