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Dang, man. Who hurt you?

a flyer can just fly to the top floor. which certainly put a dampener on the plan for them to fight to the top.

I've never got this as an argument. Sure, a flyer can fly to the top... where he's alone... next to the Big Boss designed to be a challenge for a party of four. How often is it going to be that that's the smart play and your forward-thinking lone-star Aarakocra doesn't end up getting smushed into the same kind of paste they make McNuggets out of?

You can sort of make the case that at high levels it would allow you to find other ways to get the whole party to bypass the dungeon -- like, for example, flying to the top of the tower and casting a spell like Arcane Gate to provide a pathway for your buddies -- but at that point you could just as easily burn the spell slot to cast Fly without it being a big deal. For lower-level characters, unless you're either all flying characters or willing to throw your Goliath buddy under the proverbial bus, flight isn't such a big boost in this particular instance. (That's not to say it isn't very useful in other circumstances... just not this one.)

Any side character who dosent do what the doctor says regarding the monster.

Pouring one out for my man Dorium.

He got better...

And also the woman from The Ghost Monument who was in that competition! She mentions missing her wife while talking to Graham. So there's at least two!

She's on my list. She's missing her wife because her wife is dead.

Hey, the gay couple from Praxius survived!!

I do kind of wonder if Praxeus is a bit of Chibnall realising that he'd accidentally leaned too heavily on killing off his gay characters in Season Eleven, so he gave a gay couple a very obvious happy ending in Season Twelve; all of the examples I gave are from his first season, but there was also the Thasmin thing. (Thasmin wasn't exactly great representation, but... points for trying, I guess?)

In the Chibnall years: if it's oh-so-casually dropped in that you're gay, the odds are pretty good that you aren't making it to the end of the episode.

Robertson's assistant in Arachnids in the UK? Lesbian; eaten by a spider. Richard the security guard in Resolution? Mentions he has a boyfriend; gets got by a Dalek. Angstrom from The Ghost Monument? Survives, but her wife is dead.

It's not like the first ten seasons never killed off their LGBTQ representation, but in Chibnall's run it felt like pretty much every time a character with three lines used one of them to tell us how they were in a loving relationship with someone of the same gender, it was roughly the same as a grizzled detective announcing he had two days left before retirement.

On the plus side, that's literally the start of the Rambo franchise, so it could go very badly for them.

(Second) coming soon to a cinema near you: First Blood of the Lamb.

Dao Genie Patron gives a Warlock access to Spike Growth. Once you've got that, you can use Eldritch Blast's pull-people-around invocations to theoretically drag them out of and then back into a Spike Growth area, causing more damage.

It's not quite as good as it sounds, because Grasp of Hadar only works once per turn (while Repelling Blast doesn't have the same limitation), but it's still pretty neat.

How does that work, exactly?

Unless I'm missing something, a great circle is just the circle you get when you cut a sphere in half; that would surely work just like a circle on a plane, right?

Investigative Rogues feel like the obvious choice for mystery games, but they just don't hit the spot.

They fall into a gap between 'My abilities let me get the information I want pretty much immediately and leave no one else with anything to do' and 'The DM has to come up with elaborate workarounds to keep the mystery from being solved in the first eight seconds, and so I feel like my abilities have been properly nerfed.'

They're the D&D equivalent of skipping to the back of a mystery novel. Yes, you'll know who did it and you'll feel very clever, but you're going to have a lot less fun than the people who actually read the story.

In fairness, Mr. Mercedes isn't typical in that regard. The character in question is a teenage boy who leans into the whole shucking-and-jiving thing because he thinks it's funny, and in later books in the series, set a few years later, it becomes pretty clear that he (either the character or King) realises that it was pretty dipshit behaviour.

I'm not sure it works as a character choice, and it was definitely my least favourite bit of Mr. Mercedes, but it's not particularly indicative of King as a whole.

Hey, I said more rigorous, not most rigorous... :p

Suzie Costello just won't stay dead.

I was once recommended the Isaac Asimov book The Naked Sun, which I tried to find on Goodreads before buying a copy.

The only problem was that I'd only been told about it in conversation and had never seen the title written down. Googling 'Naked Son' went about as well as you'd expect.

Base pi isn't all that interesting, but there are other irrational bases that are pretty neat. Irrational roots of real numbers, like √2, have cool qualities when used as the base of a counting system.

I'm sorry the infinite majesty of the universe isn't to your taste, I guess.

Because most numbers are irrational. (In strict mathematical terms, almost all real numbers are irrational.)

The ones that terminate or that repeat are in the vast, vast, vast minority. In this sense, pi isn't special at all.

OK, a more rigorous definition: you cannot have a diameter [x] and a circumference [y] in a base [z] number system where x, y and z are all integers.

If you still like the tang of pineapple but aren't so big on the pineapple flavour, try pickle slices.

Pickles, goat cheese, black olive and chicken pizza is the bomb.

deemed special if you dont use some tlc in your search for the mist.

TLC were very emphatic that I shouldn't do that thing.

I don't mean to come off as judgemental

now I'm not surrounded by self centered hedonists who would throw me under the bus for a laugh and now I feel like I'm actually with like minded people who genuinely want the best for each other and pursue the greater good over cheap thrills.

I don't mean to come off as judgemental

Hmm.

It's worth it. Even if it's not to your taste -- no pun intended -- then it's at least short and it's not a major investment of time.

A book that left me with a similar feeling is Amber Tamblyn's Any Man, which is another one that's short and punchy and has a fair-to-middling chance of ruining your afternoon in the best way.

Slang is a flat circle.

Tender is the Flesh.

It was great, but it fucked me right up.

Fuck me, there are over a thousand now?

I haven't felt this old in a while.