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[Flying Dice]

5e, right?

My main question is whether the DM is letting you use Tides of Chaos whenever the rules say you can or if they're going to go "rawr, RAW says 'DM can', not 'DM must', and I don't want that shit mucking up my plans!"

'cause Wild Magic Sorcerers are a barrel of fun, but for some reason WotC wrote the RAW such that the player has no agency in the use of their primary mechanic. Next time you meet, ask the DM about Tides of Chaos and whether he's going to dictate when you can and can't use it. If he says he is and won't change his mind, make another character. Or respec to Draconic Bloodline. ToC is to 5e WM Sorcs what something like Power Attack would be to a 3.5e martial character if the DM got to arbitrarily decide whether the Fighter was allowed to use Power Attack on any given attack.

[Arcvasti]

I made a D&D character today, im pretty hype :v (even if i still have to think up a backstory)

Aren't you supposed to think of backstory first and then proceed to technical spreadsheets?

At least with the low-RP group I play with, it usually ends up more like the characters starting out blandish and then developing more of a personality and connections to the game world as we play.


On an unrelated note, I had a D & D session yesterday. Went pretty well, especially considering I literally made up one encounter[Involving a chained young Cobalt dragon] on the spot.

[Graknorke]

Laptisen is back with the gift of sheepvatars. Always pleased for their return.

[Rolan7]

Actually yeah, I noticed that too.  Brightened my mood a bit!

[miauw62]

5e, right?

My main question is whether the DM is letting you use Tides of Chaos whenever the rules say you can or if they're going to go "rawr, RAW says 'DM can', not 'DM must', and I don't want that shit mucking up my plans!"

'cause Wild Magic Sorcerers are a barrel of fun, but for some reason WotC wrote the RAW such that the player has no agency in the use of their primary mechanic. Next time you meet, ask the DM about Tides of Chaos and whether he's going to dictate when you can and can't use it. If he says he is and won't change his mind, make another character. Or respec to Draconic Bloodline. ToC is to 5e WM Sorcs what something like Power Attack would be to a 3.5e martial character if the DM got to arbitrarily decide whether the Fighter was allowed to use Power Attack on any given attack.

You mean the "at any time before you regain use of this ability, the DM may have you roll on the surge table and regain use of the ability afterwards" part, right? I *will* have to ask about that, now you mention it. I'm basically 100% new to dnd

[Baffler]

Everyone's heard this song, or at least an adaptation of it, but I never knew what it was called until today.

5e, right?

My main question is whether the DM is letting you use Tides of Chaos whenever the rules say you can or if they're going to go "rawr, RAW says 'DM can', not 'DM must', and I don't want that shit mucking up my plans!"

'cause Wild Magic Sorcerers are a barrel of fun, but for some reason WotC wrote the RAW such that the player has no agency in the use of their primary mechanic. Next time you meet, ask the DM about Tides of Chaos and whether he's going to dictate when you can and can't use it. If he says he is and won't change his mind, make another character. Or respec to Draconic Bloodline. ToC is to 5e WM Sorcs what something like Power Attack would be to a 3.5e martial character if the DM got to arbitrarily decide whether the Fighter was allowed to use Power Attack on any given attack.

That sounds like the sort of thing that would be awesome if you have a really good DM, but terrible in pretty much any other case.

[Akura]

Making a post from my new New 3DS, mainly because I can. Haven't even started playing games, but I still like it.

...I think I'll stick to posting from a normal keyboard, though. This is pretty hard to type on.

[TheBiggerFish]

Ha, yes.

Have fun with that!

[Rolan7]

Everyone's heard this song, or at least an adaptation of it, but I never knew what it was called until today.

I didn't know that FLCL (Furikuri) was inspired by this!
More seriously, authentic vocals for that song were something I didn't know I wanted.

[Descan]

I'm gonna be getting two cute little cheetah-colour leopard geckos for 65 bucks :0

With tank and accessories, apparently!

[Akura]

I'm gonna be getting two cute little cheetah-colour leopard geckos for 65 bucks :0

With tank and accessories, apparently!

When I read "With tank and accessories", I was thinking something along the lines of you getting two geckos with a Main Battle Tank kind of tank. Brain, why?

[Flying Dice]

5e, right?

My main question is whether the DM is letting you use Tides of Chaos whenever the rules say you can or if they're going to go "rawr, RAW says 'DM can', not 'DM must', and I don't want that shit mucking up my plans!"

'cause Wild Magic Sorcerers are a barrel of fun, but for some reason WotC wrote the RAW such that the player has no agency in the use of their primary mechanic. Next time you meet, ask the DM about Tides of Chaos and whether he's going to dictate when you can and can't use it. If he says he is and won't change his mind, make another character. Or respec to Draconic Bloodline. ToC is to 5e WM Sorcs what something like Power Attack would be to a 3.5e martial character if the DM got to arbitrarily decide whether the Fighter was allowed to use Power Attack on any given attack.

You mean the "at any time before you regain use of this ability, the DM may have you roll on the surge table and regain use of the ability afterwards" part, right? I *will* have to ask about that, now you mention it. I'm basically 100% new to dnd

That sounds like the sort of thing that would be awesome if you have a really good DM, but terrible in pretty much any other case.

Yeah, that. It can be disruptive if the DM doesn't like anything changing their carefully calculated scenarios, but it's really bullshit for a DM to just arbitrarily neuter a character that they allowed to be played because they don't like how it affects balance. Especially with something that's random rather than minmaxed.

[Twinwolf]

I'm gonna be getting two cute little cheetah-colour leopard geckos for 65 bucks :0

With tank and accessories, apparently!

When I read "With tank and accessories", I was thinking something along the lines of you getting two geckos with a Main Battle Tank kind of tank. Brain, why?

Because that would be hilarious to see.

[Helgoland]

When I read "With tank and accessories", I was thinking something along the lines of you getting two geckos with a Main Battle Tank kind of tank. Brain, why?

Because Leopard?

Somebody needs to shop this: A couple Leopard geckos riding a Leopard tank, not giving a fuck.

[Xantalos]

I had a revelation on the way home from work today. I'd known it intellectually before, but because of the way I was raised, with me constantly being belittled and told I was incompetent and wouldn't succeed in life, I never really believed it. I grew up shaping my identity around the idea that I was expendable and not really worth all that much and that I should do whatever I could to make the people around me happy, even if it came at the expense of my personal wellbeing. Since my stepfather, the person who basically carved this cycle into my mind, often got mad at me despite my best efforts, continually making the idea that I was worthless and should do whatever I could to be useful to the people I loved into my mind, but also the twin idea that I wouldn't succeed in being useful no matter how hard I tried because he was impossible to please.

I've gotten past the idea that I can't help people effectively long ago - my karate helped me a lot with that, because I accomplished great things in that dojo that I couldn't just marginalized or wave away. This attitude gradually spread to the other parts of my life, and it got better as a result. But I still had that first idea, that while I could help people I was somehow inherently worth less than others and so should do my best to keep them happy at the expense of myself.

Tonight I came to the realization that it's not wrong to prioritize yourself at one point or another, and that taking risks in order to be happy isn't a thing to be feared and wronged.

I've been hiding the fact that I love my best friend for almost a year and a half now. I did this because in the mental calculus that led me to do this, I had the value of my happiness set as insignificant next to hers. So in order to preserve the most optimal scenario to keep her as happy as I could, ie friendship, I kept my feelings secret, even though this caused me great mental anguish over the time span I did it. I would see her happy or being beautiful doing something and I'd be hit at once by happiness and pain, because to my mind I could never take part of that without irrevocably damaging it somehow, like my happiness would come at the expense of hers.

And now I realize for literally the first time in my life that I'm not an inherently corrupting and inferior being. That I should value myself and be valued in turn by others just like I value them. So I made the resolution that I'm going to confess my feelings, no matter the outcome. The outcome isn't the important bit - it's that I stop marginalizing myself for the hypothetical happiness of others when I'm probably in turn stifling whatever I could've created. It's ... something's about me now, for the second time in my life.

I feel more at peace than I have in months. And considering my recent posts in the sad thread ... I almost think that I needed this recent spate of emotional pain to jar me into action to seek something better.

So in conclusion I feel good. And I'm not going to feel bad about it anymore.