meat-a-gaming

everyone knows the sign of a responsible pet owner is keeping it locked in a cage 24/7 so it can’t hurt itself

it could work if they agree to just be underpowered, like they have parts of each class’ standard kit and it mostly doesn’t work well but every now and then they can get some sweet sweet synergy from some abilities and save the day.

And because of this José always feels a bit left out, so he’s always eager to do something useful even if it’s just casting mage light (which is one of the few spells he can wrap his head around).
He’s also just generally a really nice guy and he’s great at mundane things like cooking and he doesn’t complain, so he doesn’t quite realize that his party is being pretty mean and taking advantage of him. But over time the others just can’t help but start considering him a close friend and he becomes a vital part of the team.

fwiw it’s not exactly difficult, it’s just weird english basically. The alphabet is literally just english with different symbols.

skajrimm bälångs to de nårds

looks at glasgow “yeah you know what that checks out, fairy’noff”

i mean that’s the experience with getting a neurodivergence diagnosis, you have to remember a bunch of times to meet the psychologist and you have to actively reach out to a health clinic to even get the whole process started in the first place.

It’s like it’s all specifically designed to keep ADHD and autistic people from getting a diagnosis

so what, are normal pain relief pills opioids? or do they just not count as pain relief somehow?

the irony is that you yourself are doing the thing you’re complaining about, just in reverse

yes yes, we get it. Bad things don’t exist and good things can only be good.

the world is their oyster bed

imagine doing this and not stopping in cockfosters

your workplace is unionized, or planning to organize, i hope?

this but in reverse every time i read about a hospital or something finding a magical way to increase worker happiness, reduce sick leave, and increase productivity: paying them a bit more and making the work environment less shit :OOOOOOOO

it really is impressive because surely cats would have encountered small waterfalls in nature?

A big problem i have with a lot of fantasy is that other races are just humans but better, they need to have actual downsides and be unique.

Like humans are really good at travelling and physically adapting to conditions:
A reasonably fit person can basically walk nonstop and can jog for a very long time without issue, and we can both survive on tiny amounts of food and make use of all the nutrients in a modern diet (if we actually excercise, that is), just look at the difference between a marathon runner and a strongman!

Other species should not necessarily be equally capable of things, some examples that make sense to me:
Dwarves are short and stocky, and just always pack on tons of muscle, so they’re kinda terrible at travelling on foot and can’t handle starvation at all. Dwarves rely wholly on building cities, hence all the mountain cities since those last basically forever and can simply be expanded indefinitely. Elves struggle to put on muscle and aren’t even very good at running, but they need so extremely little food and water and sleep that a packpack full of supplies will let them straight up walk 2 days with barely any rest. Unsurprisingly they’re nomadic!
Orcs are more similar to humans, but are much better at putting on muscle and struggle to shed it without hurting themselves. They can be slim but it’s common especially for young men to go full ogre-mode and regret it later in life. Much like in the elder scrolls they quite like living in small tribes, and rely on rapid reproduction and trading people between tribes to adapt to changing environments.

etc etc, and you can also get into mental differences, like maybe humans are the only ones that have the innate sense of how projectiles will travel, but on the other hand dwarves find maths so hilariously easy that they’d consider ramanujan “somewhat talented”…

shoesmith, i am going into battle and i need your sharpest shoes

hnnn, colonel…

or like, live in a country that isn’t the USA

if anything i’d have a less averse reaction to a lizard in my house than any sort of mammal

i mean i’d definitely want my date to slosh