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Cake day: June 18th, 2023

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  • Looks like the joke flew over your head…

    But to indulge your more serious angle, yeah, it’s well thought through. And if your source is the one I think it is, that one also packages in that “NATO Phonetic Alphabet” is a bit of a misnomer.

    It’s not a phonetic alphabet, since it doesn’t type out what sounds one must make to pronounce words correctly. And the main devs weren’t NATO, but ICAO. NATO was just gonna adopt it and issue some feedback for improvements.


  • Tbf, a 32 would hit almost anything. We literally had this at one of my tables the other day.

    DM: does a 32 hit?

    ME, THE FIGHTER: WHAT‽‽ That’s about twice what you need to hit! How high is its attack modifier‽

    DM: And it wasn’t even a crit. I only rolled a 19.

    To be fair though, I was bluntly tanking a bloody Roc, if that was what was gonna kill me, I’d be like “yeah, that tracks.”




  • I’m part of a Western Reaches campaign where I’ve got an entire party worth of characters to pick from. In here are two with the Fey Touched feat, giving them the spell Misty Step, this being a warlock and a paladin. While the former would use that to get out of hairy situations, the latter would use it to get into them.

    So basically I also have an option for a sudden, in-your-face paladin.







  • My main cleric started as “a tabaxi cleric who does his healing by running his head past the injury while purring.” However:

    • The same can be done by druids, paladins and some versions of the warlock class
    • Said tabaxi became the party’s tank, thanks to his high AC
    • He’s not even optimised for healing (nature domain instead of life domain)









  • Longer explanation:

    Because most computers use two’s complement to make negative numbers. To produce -x, you take x, flip all the bits, and then add 1. Conveniently, this process works both ways, so if you have an int with a positive MSB, i.e. 1*******, that’s a negative number, and if you invert and add 1, you get the positive number.

    So if you take 11111111, and apply this process, you get 00000001, which equals 1. Thus, 11111111 = -1

    Secondly, the gestation period of humans is 9 months, and there are 12 months in a year.

    So if you have binary candles and all of them lit, that can suggest, which it does in my previous comment, that you’re celebrating a child’s -1st birthday.