I don’t know if it was from a mod, but when I played with a friend there was a modifier to disable failing out of songs, so we’d enable it on those songs and just swing along wildly as best we could, and still finish them. Also helped us get a lot better at the game. Maybe that would work?
To pick a nit – last I heard, no scholar believes that runes can be read, pronounced, or that we have access to any ancient tradition of meaning. Modern runic divination is based on intuitive interpretation – well and good, but a flimsy basis for reconstructing lost languages and cultures.
Am I just not understanding the authors point or is this like, completely wrong? Linguistics is a real field, and there has been a lot of study into runes and the Germanic language family (probably too much study, considering the issue with Eurocentrism throughout linguistics). Wikipedia is pretty detailed about the different eras and how the runes were pronounced and changed.
The point about modern Runic Divination being vibes based looks to be true, but it seems wrong to bring it up unprompted and conflate the two.
Haven’t seen the video myself and definitely not gonna now, but people under that post were saying that was plagiarized too from a Vanity Fair article.
Looks nice, but it fucks up the ligatures in a lot of functional languages other than pipes |>. Poor <$>, >>=, *>, >>>, and all their friends
What is with that gnoll chestbursters combat outside of the Blighted Village? I thought they were a normal mortal species (although “savage”), and they haven’t had this origin in any of the editions of D&D I’ve played.
I remember when Volo’s guide came out there was some controversy about one of the devs (Mearls I think?) saying gnolls were too evil to be playable, so maybe D&D has moved towards making them more monstrous? Or already had some time in 4e? My group plays Pathfinder, but we’ve gone to gnoll cities there, made gnoll allies, had gnoll party members, and did normal adventuring stuff in their lands.
I’m probably just on edge since I just read some chud talking about putting trans people “out of their misery”, which is the same phrasing used to pre-emptively kill the “Newborn Gnoll” as a druid. But the whole thing left me feeling icky. Shut off the game there. Probably will just switch to trying to finish Disco Elysium again
SMT negotiations are by far my favorite monster-collecting methods. Just equal parts philosophy, flirtation, and gibberish as they vibe check you.