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…i cast speak with animals and asked the horses their names: turns out they were darryl and his brother darrell…

Frog Fractions
Universal Paperclips
Freedom Force
Pilotwings 64

…NeXTstep was built on mach and, although i’m unsure if any antecedents remain in macOS, it was certainly production-ready in its day; i remember a couple of decades ago there were stopgap versions of the HURD built on top of mach instead of their own microkernel but i thought that was only ever intended as a temporary workaround…

…i presume on that basis that sustained developer interest was its greatest hurdle, no pun intended…

edit: …is this the post-mortem you mentioned?..

…i’m absolutely ignorant of its current state, but every time i’ve checked in on progress of GNU/hurd over the past three decades, it still hasn’t matured into a stable production-ready platform: i’m not sure if that’s an artifact of technical viability or developer interest…

…my grandmother never drove in ninety-one years after suffering a siezure in her youth; now i work with a girl who does likewise…

…jordan cochran…

…but not just anyone’s mom: specifically @Exec@pawb.social 's, she gets around…

…or thunderball, or lightningball, or acidball, or poisonball: do they teach you wizards nothing about improvisation?..

…the art in eve of ruin is really, really sub-par for a professionally-produced WotC book: while there are several servicable-to-nice pieces scattered throughout, most of the art is overwhelmingly bush-league, the kind of thing i expect from DM’s guild material…

…i relish saying canadia; it rolls so deliciously off the tongue that i can’t resist using at every opportunity…

…the third-edition waterdeep sourcebook shows tymora’s tower of luck exactly where you’ve circled it in the sea ward…

…american residential houses are neither expensive nor slow to construct and 3D printed houses aren’t significantly cheaper nor faster: what’s expensive is land and infrastructure and what’s slow is permitting…

…ow; i walked right into that one!..

…i thought his was person, woman, man, camera, TV?..

Ruler

…i see that you fly with mystara rules where most folks might anticipate spelljammer; well-met…

(i’ve been meaning to check out calidar for awhile now)

…played a bard, ended encounters without combat, gained no experience; watched the enemy-slaughtering party rewarded richly, realised that the DM wants murder-hobos…

…changed my playstyle to match, watched the DM one-shot my character every encounter while professing that bards don’t belong in combat, quit the f*cking campaign…

…this is the way: tacos!..

…i keep hoping that someday we’ll see a FASERIP revival, but i recognise that’s a fool’s dream…

…subtracting twelve maintains the same odds with ties ‘succeeding’ for the rolling adversary; some DMs instead subtract eleven and flip ties for the PC to always win, which is mathematically identical, but then you have to keep track of flipping tie-resolution back-and-forth depending upon who’s rolling…

Perception +6, Trap DC 14 = Passive Perception 16, Trap +2
(both have the same 65% chance of detection, 35% chance of staying hidden)

…it becomes a pretty trivial exercise to invert any roll after you’ve done it once or twice…