Summary: 'Life is unfair', chortles an opportunist who benefits from an unfair system.

She may have just walked there, as seen in the documentary Ghostbusters 2.

Weather Underground was in the 1960s-70s but was bombing as well.

On the map of the level, pick a room near the center of the dungeon (as long as it's not where players enter) and label it as "1", circle this rooms in a random order, labeling them 2, 3, 4, etc., making sure rooms that have connections don't have consecutive numers... keep circling outwards until all rooms have numbers. Then put the rooms in numerical order in the GM module book. Only refer to the room number on the map and the heading of the room. Don't use the room number to reference exits from the current room either, just state things like "a cave exit is to the east and a wooden door is in the north wall".

The DM will constantly have to refer back and forth from the map to the book - and have to flip to random parts of the book since the numbers aren't "in order".

For additional hate, make sure that north doesn't point toward the top of the map, and/or don't place a compass rose on the map.

For even more additional hate, make the players hunt down opponents/creatures in the dungeon that also move through the dungeon as the players move rooms.

"Devops" original intent meant you don't have a separate "operations" department separate from teams "developing" your product / software due to competing incentives. "Dev" wants to push new stuff out faster; "ops" wants to keep things stable. Or "dev" needs more resources; but "ops" blocks or doesn't scale the same. The idea was to combine both "dev" and "ops" people onto projects to balance these incentives.

Then managers and cloud clowns repurposed it to apply to every person in a project so now every member is expected to perform both roles (badly). Or even more overloaded to somehow refer to "developer infrastructure" teams.

There are several existing ways to regain 1 focus point in combat - however all of them are constrained with "Frequency once per day".

I could see adding some kind of similar constraint - or making it a reaction where the trigger is if the previous focus spell failed it gives you a flat check to regain the focus point.

As for examples -

Fire Ray - fire domain clerics are now neverending flamethrowers.

Moonbeam - same for moon domain.

Ki Strike - every turn a monk can now do ki strike flurry of blows to have +1 and 1d6 extra on both strikes.

Hand of the Apprentice - wizards can become backline melee at range - thor hammers fly every round

Additional edit: The change to recover magic would also pretty much destroy any need for resource management - if I'm a caster why not just dump every spell slot I have in this current fight, rest an hour and then do it again? Clerics could just dump all the heal spells from their healing font after combat to heal everyone up, then rest an hour and regain them all and do it again next fight.

Extra Additional Edit: Both of these changes sound like fun cheat codes to make the players win, but it pretty much removes all challenge.

"NPC Core" was announced at PaizoCon as a core rulebook coming out in 2025. Not a lot of description yet, but I'd assume it would be an expanded version of what came with the original GMG.

Robert Lynn Asprin also wrote the Myth Adventures series. Phule's Company is sci-fi comedy, Myth Adventures is fantasy.

Parquet is a storage format; graphQL is a query language/transmission strategy.

And also provides much, much less of anything of real value.

Also the Stainless Steel Rat series - it's not as slapsticky as Bill, but still comedic.

Google for "replace conditional with polymorphism".

Just checked and it is in "Clean Code" - Chaper 17; Section G23 "Prefer Polymorphism to if/else or switch/case".

In this vein I'd also suggest the Laundry Files series by Charles Stross and the Arthur Wallace series by Jonathan Wood are very similar - urban fantasy, secret spy / police occult organizations, British humour

Rock over London. Rock on Chicago.

Just wait he could exonerate himself by exposing that the crimes were actually perpetrated by a secret identical twin brother or by opening up a warehouse full of dead clones and claiming that one of them did it.

Wonder if he'll be the John Brown of Civil War 2?

And sometimes the same instructions give different outcomes. Which is why it's all non-deterministic bullshit.

Craig Shaw Gardner's Ebenezum/ Wuntvor trilogies are fantasy comedy.

Philip Jose Farmer (as Kilgore Trout) wrote Venus on the Half Shell as a sci fi comedy.

(On the topic of Kilgore Trout - that pseudonym is actually a character from several of Kurt Vonnegut's books - also mentioned in this thread.)

Yahtzee Croshaw (the Zero Punction guy) has also written several fantasy and sci fi comedy books - Jacques McKeown is one series.

Glen Cook, more famous for the Black Company series - also writes a fantasy comedy series - Garrett P.I..

Steven Erikson, more famous for the Malazan books - also writes a sci-fi comedy series - Wilful Child.

I mean, maybe it has happened before in history, but someone changed it via AI and we just don't know...

That's why you need to add "polyamourous" to the list of criteria.