Fuck the greens. Their leadership takes gop cash to help split the left vote.

You can't vote for moon shot candidates in a first past the post election system. All that ever does is help the candidate you don't want.

If you want to see change, you have to volunteer. Change starts at the bottom. Not at the top.

"Post names and addresses of jurors" is a really wordy way of saying "terrorism". Because that's what this is. Someone, or a small group, is trying to use fear to affect the decision making of our society.

That is textbook terrorism.

We need to start calling this shit what it is.

Or maybe you need to understand that the down ticket races are more important than the presidency?

Change in the US starts at the bottom. Not the top.

Fuck the presidency. Just vote for the candidate that isn't going to burn the country down.

You want real change? Real progressivism? Vote progressives into local offices. Your young, progressive education board member today is your congressional rep tomorrow. Your congressional rep today is your presidential hopeful tomorrow.

Let the status quo dems toss whatever geriatric they want at the presidency and vote them in so we don't get another trump, or worse, a president desantis or something.

Presidents don't often push new laws anyway. You want to change the country? Help take the House and the Senate. As long as the president is the same party they're not going to veto progressive legislation.

House arrest

The DNC is fucked and run by idiots, no argument. But voting as though you're NOT running a FPtP election when you are actually running a FPtP election is so stupid there are no words in the English language profane enough to describe it.

The system works one way. You play the game, or you get played by the game. Voting third party for president or Senate is not how the game is played, like it or not.

You want change? Vote in your local elections. That's where change starts. Do it enough, and get enough other people to do the same, and THEN you can change things up-ticket.

Play the game. Don't get played. Don't waste your vote. The other option these days is literally a fascist.

I think that a martial class's biggest ability should be universally available at level 17 because that's when casters get access to 9th level spells.

I also think that pure casters should not get big class-abilities beyond level 3 or 4. Their 7th, 8th, and 9th level spells already are huge game-changers. They don't need to double-down for no reason.

Training wheels are useful tool for beginner cyclists, but not useful for advanced cyclists. Likewise, quantum ogres are a useful tool for beginner DMs, but not for seasoned DMs.

I hard disagree. Quantum baddies are useful no matter how seasoned a DM you are.

Quantum enemies are a technique you can use to help preserve the prep work you do as DM, and doubling the prep you do isn't a mark of experience. Use it when appropriate, and avoid using when the story says you must.

Incorrect. In FPtP, the presidential race has only two options. Anything else is a vote for the candidate you don't want.

This has been proven mathematically.

Voting for a right wing party like the DNC does not position you on the left

It does when the other choice is an actual Nazi.

You do realize that we can disagree on the details and still be on the same side, yes?

Privilege.

Not them tho, you. Your privilege is why you can't understand it.

Are you determined to not have allies of any kind?

I get that your state is fucked, but as a resident of one of the other 49 states, my options to help are limited as long as we lack one of the the chambers of Congress since the gop is literally the problem here.

We could try actually following thru with campaign promises and helping them, but for some reason we dont.

That would be because we don't have control of the House. It's difficult to get work done when the side in control of the button that stops everything from working sits on the fucking button while shrieking racist epitaphs at the top of their lungs.

This.

History. Learn it.

Pay attention in class next time. It's a concern because it happens quite frequently in first past post voting systems.

Because its a piece of a dead god the crystal exists in both the dream and the real world simultaneously. This means one of two things:

1. They have to steal the crystal in both the dream and the real world at the same time if they wish to abscond with it.
2. Stealing the crystal in the real world becomes a lot easier if they steal it out of the dream first because, like Freddy Kruger, if you have the crystal in your possession when you wake from the dream it will be in your possession in the real world allowing you to bypass all that real-world security (the magi haven't figured that technicality out yet).

Getting the fighter out of the dream, or into a state in the dream where he can then proceed to escape with the crystal involves finally killing the invincible goliath in the dream, which cannot be done alone.

One of the choices is literally a fascist dictator wannabe.

There is no third choice with a chance in Hell of winning.

The martial/caster disparity is the (IMO, proven and obvious) idea that martial characters lack gameplay options compared to their caster counterparts, and that this problem only ever gets worse with level.

Also, "martial" in this case specifically refers to Fighters, Barbarians, and Rogues.

IMO, it does exist, but it's not as "end of the world"-bad as some people make it out to be. Basically, rogues are fine because they get a crap-ton of skills that can be put to good use as long as the rogue player makes their character with even a little long-term thought. Rogues that have problems tend to focus in things like stealth, and other physical skills that casters can use spells to imitate or replace. Rogues that pick up and spend expertise in one or two soft skills (some kind of knowledge skill, insight, investigation, etc...) will never find themselves with nothing to do and will always have a niche where they can make the full casters go "holy shit!" from time to time.

Fighters and Barbarians actually have problems because they seem to have been made more with dungeoncrawling in mind, to the detrement of anything non-dungeon related. They generally lack useful soft skills, and don't stack stats that will make using them useful because they generally don't have ways to make a high int or wisdom terribly useful.

Fighters and Barbarians compound the skill problem by not gaining useful/impactful abilities in T3 or T4. When full casters are busy choosing and enjoying the most powerful spells in the game, fighters get another use of indomitable (which never, ever fucking works, IME), a second action surge per short rest WAY too late for it to really matter, and a 4th attack they will probably never, ever actually get because it's at 20th level for some stupid, fucking reason (as opposed to level 17 where ALL casters, even the half-casters, get their 4th cantrip damage die).

Barbarians get even less than fighters due to most of their class budget being tied up in a massive passive ability: Brutal Critical. So all they ever get to do is crit-fish, which they've all been doing since level 1 anyway.

The disparity is choice and impact. Because of their lack of choices, it can seem difficult to have an impact on the game, mechanically. A good DM can make up for this in a variety of ways, but when you're just looking at the rules or white-rooming a character, the problem does tend to become a bit obvious...if overblown.

Generally, the fix is simply to give fighters and barbarians more class abilities that involve getting to make interesting choices during play.

The only reason this is a "house rule/variant" is because everybody allows the optional rules by default and doesn't understand what "optional" or "check with your DM first" means.

I don't allow multi-classing. Subclasses do it better and are actually balanced. When I don't disallows multi-classing I get 1-3 hexblade dips every group because of how OP the dip is.

I've had a ton of Paladin/hexblades, more than a few Wizard (Bladesinger)/hexblades, and even a rogue/hexblade with a fucking double-scimitar.

I'm sick to death of hexblades.

Fuck hexblades. No more multiclassing in my games. Assholes abused it so much it's no longer an option because I like my hair where it is, and the alternative is for me to quit DMing altogether.

...and nobody else seems willing to run the fucking game...

The only time I'll vote 3rd party in a FPtP system is when one I agree with officially replaces one of the two major parties. Anything less is a wasted vote for president or senator.

Anything local though...

Or they would have him training his replacement the moment the other offer expired.

Why this fossil didn’t bend the knee and allow another younger, more exciting candidate step up for 2024 is beyond me though.

Probably because the geriatrics fucked two whole generations of politicians by not stepping down when they should have.

Gen X and millennials don't have enough horses in the race with the experience necessary to run for president because they got fucked by the boomers.

We're going to be in for an exciting ride over the next two decades as something like 40% of Congress retires or dies in office without anyone with experience available to replace them.

And this is on both sides.

My only complaint with jerboa is that it keeps forgetting my login details.

I use a password manager. I don't know what my lemmy password is. I just know it's really long, so logging in requires owning up a second app, searching for lemmy, copying my password, going back to jerboa, and then going through the login flow.

You do understand that the choice you are essentially voting for, if you don't vote, is a fundamentalist dictatorship that will tell you how to live your life, and imprison you if you don't obey, while taking your freedoms and wealth anyway even if you do. Yes?

Apathy is fine as long as both parties believe in running a democracy. The gop no longer does.