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I recentmy found out about Ed Greenwood’s powerscaling of Forgotten Realms wizards and that as per him, the Srinshee is the most powerful wizard, followed by Elminster and that at least in combat terms Elminster is more powerful than Larloch, Halastrer and even Karsus. But Gromph is actually Elminster’s equal and a fight between them would be pretty much a toss-up.

But at least in the Drizzt books, Pikel is clearly portrayed as more powerful than Gromph and outeperforms him.

Does that mean that Pikel is actually one of the 2 most powerful mortals in history? Above the Elminsters, Karsuses, Larlochs and Szaess Tams of the world?

I mean he did kinda defeat a god…

Kas has the Sword of Kas.

Who wins this fight?

I’m leaning Kas since he beat Vecna, who even pre-ascension I think was more powerful than Elminster (or really any wizard other than maybe Karsus).

Whenever you criticize a socialist for being rich, whether it’s streamers like Hasan Piker, or politicians like Bernie Sanders you always hear criticism from socialists who go on about how “Socialism is when no iPhone“ or “There is no ethical consumption under capitalism” or they post that “Curious, you live in society“ meme.

But how rich can you be and still call yourself a socialist? Before you go from participating in capitalism to directly in contributing in it?

Is it when you‘re worth around $10 Million like Hasan Piker? (who is funnily enough as rich as many of the CEOs who Reddit inaccurately calls ‘billionaires’)

What about when you’re worth $14.5 Billion like Alex Karp, the CEO of Palantir who identifies as a socialist? Can he call himself a socialist?

What about Andrew Carnegie, a self-identified socialist who idolized Marx who was worth almost a Trillion Dollars in today’s money.

Can you be a trillionaire and still be a socialist?

For a long time the car collecting community was obsessed with 60s and 70s cars. This aligned with when the majority of classic car buyers were boomers.

In the last few years and Gen X and Millennials have become the people with money, 80s and 90s cars have become the most popular cars in collecting circles.

Do you think in a few years as Gen Z becomes richer we’ll see the cars they grew up with: 2000s and 2010s supercars like the F430, 458, Carrera GT, Murcielago, Gallardo, R8 V10, Lexus LFA, the GT2 RSes, the Zonda / Huayra and the Holy Trinity become the most desirable cars among collectors?

I think we may already be seeing it, with a Zonda recently selling for 8 figures.

Or do you think most Gen Z people just don’t care that much about cars and the car collecting hobby will decline in the coming years?

Are Tarrasques actually supposed to be more powerful than archdevils and archdemons lore-wise or is its higher CR purely a gameplay feature?

Like is a Tarrasque actually supposed to be more powerful than Zariel or Orcus or a Demogorgon according to lore?

And by more powerful I’m just talking about raw power here. I know archdevils and archdemons have armies and are intelligent and all that. But I would think as pseudo deities they are just straight up more powerful than any non-divine monster in terms of raw power too.

As someone who is a big fan of HEMA and longsword, it really bums me out that it seems like a 2H longsword is objectively worse than a greatsword in every way. Other than I guess in some gish builds that can’t afford the 13 strength.

The only exception that comes to mind is maybe a grappler build? Or at least a build that grapples some of the time? And even then it only makes sense with the defensive fighting style since otherwise you’d be outdamaging it with a 1h longsword and dueling anyway.

What fighting style or feats or strategy would you take if you were to build a martial character that used a 2H longsword and actually had a real mechanical reason for using a 2h longsword over a greatsword?

As someone who is a big fan of HEMA and longsword, it really bums me out that it seems like a 2H longsword is objectively worse than a greatsword in every way. Other than I guess in some gish builds that can’t afford the 13 strength.

The only exception that comes to mind is maybe a grappler build? Or at least a build that grapples some of the time? And even then it only makes sense with the defensive fighting style since otherwise you’d be outdamaging it with a 1h longsword and dueling anyway.

What fighting style or feats or strategy would you take if you were to build a martial character that used a 2H longsword and actually had a real mechanical reason for using a 2h longsword over a greatsword?