I’m decent with numbers generally and have an education in mechanical engineering, but I’ve not studied statistics outside of rudimentary stuff in service of that engineering. I can indeed do a proof-read if I’m the best option available, though!

I don’t normally engage with the multiplayer aspects of FromSoft games, but I’d be happy to help out if I can in some manner

Okay well I had to see the big version of it. Flag of the they/them imperial Japanese army or something I guess

(more seriously, nice design!)

Sounds like a fantastic weekend!

I would personally recommend keeping to a system that everyone is familiar with for a one-shot when the point is to play the one-shot rather than to try out a system. Learning new rules always leads to some friction, and that can easily slow a one-shot down enough to make it no longer a one-shot. You can absolutely say beforehand that you’ll be playing relatively loose with the rules, letting more things than usual just happen without rolls or just letting the players narrate the end of a combat that they’ve clearly won

actually having a Paladin as a simple class compared to PF

Isn’t PF2’s champion essentially just a paladin? I haven’t played one so I can’t say for sure, but on the surface it looks like the same idea. That said, if D&D simplifies character creation and everyone’s on board that’s totally reasonable

If you have any potentially funny ideas, be it bits, custom spells, “combat scenarios” or puzzles please share!

I’m just gonna spout out whatever comes to mind with no particular quality control here:

• Start the adventure by having it be one of those “haunted” hotels that offers you a free night if you stay in the haunted room. Naturally, this one actually is extremely haunted

• If you’re using D&D 5E, guardian portraits from Curse of Strahd are horrible extremely funny to use as a GM (and could probably be adapted to other systems easily enough)

• Make the first encounter be all of the furniture in their rooms. It’s all animated, and they need to scramble for their equipment because they were in bed

• A social challenge in which the ballroom is full of dancing ghosts while some kind of horrid thing plays the organ. The challenge is to dance your way across the hall to get to the organ and break it, letting the ghosts rest. Make it apparent that they’re not meant to fight their way through by having an NPC beg them to let the spirits rest without dsestroying them or something. Failure to properly blend in results in being forcefully swept into a waltz (grapples/restraints with saves against a steady hp drain)

• I’m not 100% sure how to execute this one, but an Escherian room like the one from Labyrinth could be a fun puzzle

Little guy’s brain is gonna be floating in the astral plane after that

Ò, sgoinneil, tapadh leat! Smaoinichidh mi cia a’ gabhail pàirt ann

The only rule is “don’t be the one to lose”. As long as the theocracy does not surrender, they are winning.

It’s entirely reasonable to believe that it is more likely that a new administration would take the chance to end the war than the current one is to make America incapable of bombing Iran on a reasonable timeline

Of course, that assumes that Iran thinks that this would work at all. They might make the full release of the files a condition to open the strait, but America would then just say “well we already released them so that won’t work as a deal” and rely on the current administrations cultish supporters to believe that

Well to not get bombed, naturally. The uselessness of said idiots does not have an impact on the fact that the bombs are actively landing on Iran

Unfortunately that one is also blocked in the UK

That’s the same link as the post (which is indeed not available here in the UK)

I think you’re right! I’m not very good at promotion haha

Fantastic photo!

She sounds lovely!

He’s a good boy, I’m just too lazy to go fetch his toys a lot of the time!

What an expressive face he has!

Ahaha, we play rough sometimes. But it’s always play. He’s actually really good at noticing if he has bitten or scratched too hard, there’s a real shift in his demeanour and he suddenly gets all gentle and affectionate. But otherwise it’s game on

Hah, thank you! Pretending I’m running a TTRPG, I guess

It would be quite fun to take the “help other players with bosses” covenants in a different direction, I think. Many of the bosses you’d be summoned for are representatives of the Golden Order in one way or another. If we can become Godskins or Black Knives, they’ve already got track records of going after the big figures of the Order

Pentlands are lovely. Show us some photos of them if you take any!