u/YonatanShofty

Hi all!

Im going on a long trip to asia during februray to june-ish. Dates are a bit flexible.

Ive been reading up on nepal trek and the idea of going around in calm nature, walking beetween remote villages is sounds awsome.

I have been hiking quite a bit thoughtout my live, but due to living in the middle east mainly the desert.

I fear the temperature and high altitude of nepal, both im unfamiliar and not really interested in.

I was thinking, is there a trek in asia that provides the remote calm villages vibe that isnt freezing nor high altitude?

Hi all!

Im going on a long trip to asia during februray to june-ish. Dates are a bit flexible.

Ive been reading up on nepal trek and the idea of going around in calm nature, walking beetween remote villages is sounds awsome.

I have been hiking quite a bit thoughtout my live, but due to living in the middle east mainly the desert.

I fear the temperature and high altitude of nepal, both im unfamiliar and not really interested in.

I was thinking, is there a trek in asia that provides the remote calm villages vibe that isnt freezing nor high altitude?

hi all!
im a professinal playwriter, altough i do aspire to write novels and movies, and im taking a trip for the first time in my life.
one thing I wish this travel will bring me is peace of mind. a way to relax, get in a state of mind that actually lets me write in my pace (its very demanding to do so professionally- and I am blessed to have succses but its still difficult).

I would also like to enrich my world view and have some adventures to take inspiration from while writing.

I almost exclusivly write on a computer and im certain ill be struggling if i write by hand to keep doing this on the way.

Im from the middle east. im planning on a 3-4 months trip which includes 8 weeks in japan, 4 weeks in indonesia and the rest i havent decided yet but I put my eyes on Thailand, Vietnam, Taiwan, Australia, South Korea and I belive china can be interesting but I think it would be a bit overwhelming to try to go there for a short time.
therefor, here are my questions:

1. what destinations might be good for me to be completly relaxed and without many noise? Im looking for both country and specific locations. feel free to suggest destination outside of asia- I have the time and Ive been saving up for this trip- I can make everything happen.
2. what destinations are likely to inspire me- where do i meet stories of pepole and talk to the local community?
3. how to write while traveling? Id like to do it on a PC but I fear laptop is too expensive and havey for traveling so im considering getting a tablet and a keyboard- is it a good solution?

thank you!

*I can only speak English, because my mother tounge is not common at all

Say i have a discard outlet, [[paradox haze]] abd [squee, goblin nabob]]

Can i discard squee twice?

I see alot of posts in the different dnd subreddits about balance:

* Should i allow this homebrew?

* Is this magic item too powerful?

* Is this enemy balanced for 5 cr encounter

Etc.

The answer to all these questions is always- it depends. It depends on your game, players and the story you are trying to tell.

So how do you know? How do you balance?

The answer is... you don't.

All the pepole commenting on these posts are pepole with experience with the game. They know what is overpowered because they made mistakes and know not to repeat them.

So my advice is- just do whatever sounds right to you. Its your game. Had you not had accsess to the internet- you would have probably made this decision on your own. Besides, the internet always care about balance far too much.

Balance is not "the player vs the game" its "the players vs other players/other players feelings"

So my advice to you- make mistakes.

Allow things that are cool.

If it ends up overpowered and takes over the fun of the game for you or your table- revise it. Adjust it. Just like you can adjust a creature mid battle if it feels too strong or weak.

If you feel something is too strong, talk to the player and figure out how to balance it to optimize the fun. Hell, maybe even find a cool story reason for it and let the player have an impactful "depowrering" story bit.

You should, however, notify all players at session 0/when you allow homebrew:

"It sounds awsome! You can do it, but do be aware i might change it in the future".

Just- have fun guys, its what this is all about.

hi all!
so i have this setting with magic system im really excited about and i was thinking creating a ttrpg for it but then i thought- why no adopt/hack an exisiting game?

the core concept is this:
every person has a "resonance". part of the existence hi is more in tune with. once a person resonates with a different object or being he can alter them and shape them to his will. there are three core pillars of existence, and each charachter will be tied to atleast one of them:

1. the real- everything that physically exists- every matter with mass. presented in humand via physical body

2. the imagined- mind, energy, methaphysics- everything that relys on tought, and non physicall things

3. the unfathomable- outworldy creatures and entities. dininity members- things that arent real nor imagined by a being.

things im looking for:

1. no ranged magic easily accisable- you can only attune to things you can touch, unless you are extremly skilled and can push your influence out of your physical body. usually imagined atunners do it the best.

2. progression via understing- the more you understand something the better you are at atuuning to it. for example, if you know swords really well you will be able to reshape them into better swords that do cooler things.

3. technique crafting- specialztion is extremly important in this world- another aspect of "the more you understand something". the more a PC puts effort into a subject, no matter how nich it is, the better they become at manipluating it.

4. late 19th century vibes

feel free to ask or suggest anything that comes up to your mind!

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nadu seemed so tempting... i had lightning greaves in sideboard and green sun zenith

I love birds. I do.

I want to make a cube around birds (the animal, not necessarily the creature type).

The obvious archtype is w/u fliers and GW chocobo,

But what other cards/archtypes can be put in?

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I will mantion, everything with bird in its art is fair game.

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Also, im thinking about eggs archtype just for the lols

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Currently considering:

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[[oracle of the alpha]] (with p9 proxies)

[[Nadu]]

[[Zinia]]

[[Kykar]]

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Hi all!

Im making an astral elf gish that is inventing a new magic/sword hybrid stylish and beautiful technique called "beautiful blade"

We start at lvl 4 and will probably go up to 7.

2014, but i belive i can get my dm to allow some none broken things.

Im looking for cool combos- like quicken hold person/crit smite.

We are playing theater of mind so teleportaiob focus would probably not be very interesting.

I want to focus on style over strength. Im a rp and story player, not min maxer- but i dont mind multiclass

Any ideas?

so ive drafted this cool self discard deck and im having trouble reilising what to cut (and if i want to play witch-smog combo or not).

thoughts?

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So mtg has a huge card pool. Huge. Probably the biggest of any tcg (didnt fact check that one).

Most of the times, metagame changes in magic when new cards relese (nowadays thats every two months unfortunately). Ive been wandering of the alternative.

For those unaware, unicorn priest was a legendary tweet from one of hearthstone developers. This widely misunderstood tweet had put into light that while the meta revolves around strong decks and rarely sees new drvks pop up without a ban/new set relese, the card pool is so large there still might be a unicorn deck- an unrealized, yet very powerul deck constructed only from available cards.

So, are there good examples of 60 cards constructed decks that rose out of nowhere?

Do you think there currently are unicorn decks hiding?

So ive came across [[the celestial toymaker]] and it looks like so much fun. Ive started assembling a decklist full of fact or fiction effects but then a thought came to me- isnt a game where one player casts bunch of fact or fictions every turn sounds like a slow and painful game. Are pepole here with experience with him can tell me if he is worth building around?