fwiw, i think mearls usually gets kind of a bad rap online because he usually has some pretty questionable hot take answers to things on platforms like twitter. I’ve actually met him in person a few times and played D&D with him; He’s an extremely nice person, and a very good DM. i think he’s just not so good at his own personal PR online.

It looks like our host was having a few issues a little while ago, but it doesnt look like it lasted too long for me. I currently dont see any issues…Unfortunately, sometimes the host we use isnt the most reliable at times.

possible; If someone is spamming the API it can easily bog things down.

It was about 5 or 6 spam bots blasting out lots of spam; probably just someone abusing lemmy/smaller instances. I’ve turned off new account registration for now. Unfortunately the captcha system included in lemmy isn’t the most powerful. If you see any others report em and they’ll be banned

i dont believe ive ever seen that information collated like that; That said, most CoC scenarios are relatively independent of timeframe, with the exception of the ones that take place around certain historical events. Most CoC scenarios can probably be easily run in any time from around 1900-1940 with very little changes/modifications.

im pretty sure its the other way around; If they hold out for 1 more month, they have to have a special election. If they don’t hold out for a month, the governor (who is a democrat) gets to appoint someone.

I mean, realistically, you should be using group checks instead of individual checks for stealth like this IMO

password managers in the browser still store them encrypted. They usually authenticate via a passkey, in-built security in the OS like windows hello, or through other services such as SSO through google; That said, if you have them on auto-pilot with this authentication, anyone with access to the device can theoretically access them, though to actually view them in the password manager they usually require you to authenticate.

Browser password managers are sorta less secure than a third party one, assuming you turn on all the convenience features to make your life easier, but a lot of third-party password managers have the same convenience features a lot of the time anyways.

Saving the password in your browser is using a password manager; you’re just using the one built into your browser. The safety and security of using any individual password manager is pretty much up to how secure that particular password manager is, but generally speaking they all store passwords encrypted.

Ones built into a browser have the added attack vector of being potentially vulnerable from the browser itself vs a stand alone manager, but if you use a plugin for your favorite password manager they likely share a pretty similar attack vector possibility.

Either way, using a password manager is infinitely better than reusing passwords, so this is really just a long winded way of saying “no, not really”.

Dedicated password managers usually come with more security, control, and features, but you’re generally going to be fine using the one built into your browser.

Fyi, the author @slyflourish@ttrpg.network is known to hang out around here from time to time. He’s also on mastodon as @slyflourish@chirp.enworld.org

As a DM, thinking on your toes has been invaluable. The ability to come up with ideas, explanations, and more on the fly has helped a lot at work in meetings when unexpected things come up.

Ice/crystal golems. Crystal structures are very regular/organized and I would argue quite lawful.

Yeah, no idea. And the statement is pretty just a bunch of marketing speaking and no real plans. So we’ll see, I guess

Yeah, but its still using rebuilt HD assets which make it look way better than the original game its based off of.

That’s the HD remaster that came out like 10 years ago. They most certainly did not make that on windows 98.

since youve mostly gotten your answers on the basic questions, i will add some other information here for you as FYI. If you’re wondering, you can use regular old acrylic hobby paints for miniatures. It’s going to take some extra work and a lot of mixing to get it the right consistency and will be a learning curve there.

If you’re wondering if it’s worth the money to spend on mini paints, that’s going to be entirely up to your preference. Mini paints can be quite pricey vs regular old craft store paints. I would maybe suggest dabbling with regular paints and getting some thinner medium and see if mixing them works out well for you. If you find it too annoying/frustrating/not worth your time then get mini paints. Mini paints can basically be used right out of the bottle.

i’ve never played it; How does the system work? is it a traditional d20-like system or something else?

This upgrade is now completed

https://hardcodex.ru/2024/

Hardcodex has printable spell cards, and they updated for 2024 spells it looks like.

yeah, the pict-rs service needed to be restarted it looks like. That just happened a few moments ago, and i think things are looking good from my side.

at the end of the day, the issue is the pict-rs service (which is separate from lemmy) isnt…the greatest.