Shield Hero
the content/story is much more mature than Frieren.
Goddamn Robbie Rotten has deeper motivations than any Shield Hero villain.
The player characters are generally adventurers fated to achieve greatness, for them the extraordinary is just ordinary.
Japanese man realizes money is necessary for living in a modern society, more at eleven.
Not to mention, "X's comeback" and "X's final work" are a PR team's wet dream. Why not both and why not multiple times?
I haven’t found a solid contradiction to this plan in the rules-as-written.
If you read Vampiric Touch it's literally in the first sentence:
The touch of your shadow-wreathed hand can siphon life force from others to heal your wounds.
Doesn’t say “exclusively from others”. Without casting this spell you couldn’t do that normally.
It also doesn't say that you cannot fly yet that doesn't mean it gives you a flying speed. The spell only does what it says it does: It makes you able to siphon life force from others. In any situation not explicitly mentioned in the spell you are still bound by all of the other game rules and as far as I know there is no rule that'd say you can go siphoning life forces from anything without an effect explicitly stating that you can do so.
The D&D rules do not run on a principle of "you can do absolutely anything except for what is explicitly forbidden".
No qualifiers about the target having to be a creature other than you. It just has to be a creature within your reach.
You do not get to cherrypick which sentences of the spell description you read and follow. It does quite explicitly state "can siphon life force from others to heal your wounds". There is no concept of flavor text in 5e, every word of a spell description is rules.
And it doesn't say "you cannot fly", yet it doesn't make you capable of flying. This means nothing: The spell does only what it says it does and it quite clearly says "you can siphon life force from others".
Absolutely. It's a shame the first season's pacing was such a mess, I'd imagine many people who dropped it or decided to skip the second season due to it would have enjoyed it immensely more than the first one.
Funny enough, this is the first thing to come to my mind too. It's a nice little song for an otherwise quite unremarkable show.
Now that you mention it, I kind of smell a distubring possibility of a Kyokou Suiri S1 happening to this show's pacing as well. To those unaware, the show is a very similar supernatural detective show, one which started strong with two episodic plots and then squandered ten whole episodes on one mystery at an absolutely glacial pace. S2 was paced massively better with the longest mysteries being at most 4 episodes (and this time having an amount of twists actually justifying the length), feeling a lot better.
I really really hope this show wraps up the case quickly in the next episode and then throws in something new, but I have a fear it may also be heading towards a "season finale" case taking up half the season (perhaps with one shorter case in between for padding), and if that's going to happen with the pacing we're currently seeing, that is going to be a painful watch. I hate to be pessimistic about the show because I had such a good first impression of it and am really liking the concept and characters so far.
The show is amazing but HIDIVE really dropped the ball with video quality. The show has a lot of noise and dark scenes which meshes very poorly with extremely bitrate starved streaming. It's quite noticeable:
Sadly, on Amazon it's only watchable in Japan legally, but, uh, you know what to do if you value the video quality of your anime.
And there are way too many projects where the documentation is nonexistent or bare to the point of being counterproductive to wade through. I've seen way too many open source projects that purport to have documentation but when you open it, it's just doxygen run over the raw source files with barely any documenting comments in them. If I wanted to see only the names of the classes and functions I'd just pop the source in an IDE, the point of documentation is to point out everything that isn't immediately obvious just looking at names and to give examples.
"Self-documenting code" is the biggest lie we tell ourselves to get out of writing actual, necessary documentation.
Kryomaani
joined 2 years ago
Pen and paper or even a tablet exist for a reason. Having the key stats of your player characters stuck up to your GM screen or open on your second monitor is about the best use of space there is.
Besides, it doesn't take much brain power to put together that making the rogue who's been making short work of locks the past month roll for a simple lock under no time pressure is just silly. I get if an AL GM doesn't know the characters but for majority of weekly groups' GMs this is an absolute non-issue.