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“Unbreakable”, the Warforged. A warforged made for manual labour, but who wants to be a hero that protects people. Not very good at it, but he’s trying, and thankfully he is hardy enough to fall down a few times and still keep going. Basically the robot from Real Steel.
The book is another layer. It references the image format of two books next to eachother, one being labeled as a long story and the other labeled as the same story, but with some twist that makes the story much shorter or non-existant.
So it’s saying that it has short or non-existant story.
I am disappointed that we have to be in a bubble with Sweden… Other than that: good map
“In the room ahead is a spider artifact. Take it! We will need it to reach the Santieri Crystal.” Also “There is but one gift I can offer that is equal in value to an Elder Scroll and my daughter: I offer you my blood. Take it and you will walk as a lion among sheep, men will tremble at your approach, and you will never fear death again.”
I think you are taking that post the wrong way. For context every character in Star Rail falls into 3 (iirc) categories: short, medium, or tall, and every character within a category has the exact same body type, just with different accessories and textures. What that post is saying is that this is a character is in a category (medium/maiden) that does not have the exact same body as other characters in the same category, which might mean that in the future the characters will have more diverse models/body types.
That’s not to say that some people don’t get unduly angry over how their characters look, but that’s not what is happening here.
I have never understood the grease argument. People seem to hold it up as some sort of ideal for creativity and playing outside the written rules, to the point that it has basically become a sort of shibboleth to sort who is a fun person and who isn’t (like in this blog post), but most people I’ve seen know about the combo because they heard about it somewhere, not because they came up with this awesome original idea by themselves.
And, while the grease spell doesn’t say it is flammable, it also makes no sense from a real-world application. Cooking grease at room temperature does not burn. the whole thing is more like the example of the flanking rule that is mentioned in the post. Everyone knows about the “setting fire to grease” thing, so obviously it’s an actual rule.
And as for it’s use as a shibboleth, I must admit that it works in my case. I am indeed, a no fun person. I like having rules to look up and will not allow much “creative” use of spells outside of what is written in them at my table. But, in my defence, I’d say that it is infact the other side, this strawman that I am now constructing, that is in the wrong. I feel like people at this point are basically treating spell slots as “plot tokens”. “Hey, can I do this thing that normally I wouldn’t be able to do? I’m willing to give up a 3rd level plot token spell slot for it.” And there’s nothing wrong with plot tokens, plenty of games use them to great effect. But spell slots aren’t designed to be used like this in 5e, and it shows. It is (I think) one of the reasons why people think martials suck: They don’t have any plot tokens to bargain with. If everyone had them it would be fine (Oh, hello, DnD 4e), but they don’t.
No, I think spells should do what they say they do. Playing “outside your sheet” is fine and good, but you have to keep in mind what you are allowing when you do (and allowing creative ideas to be a great boon, but you can’t repeat the same creative idea more than one is a good compromise).
It is truly a great style.
(Player character from Wizard of Legend)