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  • “Complicated descriptions”? Is there a lamp on one side, or a closet door? Just use that as a frame of reference, I wouldn’t call that a complicated description. Or, if you usually have the same bigs-poon, little-spoon orientation, you can describe which shoulder you’re laying on. But I still think using features of the room is the simplest way. “I’m laying on the closet side.”







  • Isn’t that more a social issue? Getting drunk and becoming violent isn’t a cause-effect. Someone that becomes abusive after drinking would be abusive without alcohol as well, that’s just a trigger for the behavior.

    This is closer to an actual answer, though. It’s easier to remove drinking than to change drinking culture. It just didn’t work the last time they tried to ban alcohol (in the USA), so if behavior around drinking is the issue that is trying to be solved there are probably other ways to go about it.










  • Checks are only supposed to be for things there is a possibility for failure for. So a Cleric of Pelor probably wouldn’t need to roll to recognize a symbol of Pelor or to know about specific Rites of Pelor. Knowledge(Religion), and later Religion(Intelligence), would be for general knowledge of religions or more esoteric religious knowledge. Having Proficiency in Religion shows that they had studied it, but not all Clerics would be scholars that pursue even further knowledge of the subjects.

    Couple that with the ability tied to skills in 5e are suggestions, and the checks absolutely can be altered depending on the situation. Religion(Wisdom) would be perfectly in-line for a Cleric to make if that would make more sense for the roll.




  • I don’t know of any single site where different game guides are aggregated, at least not the same way they were in the 90s/00s. Most games tend to use their own Wiki/Fandom sites for that sort of thing now.

    Gamefaqs might be worth checking out, as well.

    You’ll probably end up needing to print several different pages and aggregate them together to get a single, offline guide for a game, but certainly possible with prep time.


  • Let’s get something straight right here, rape culture is not simply doing something that someone else has expressed a distaste for. Going into a public forum that you do not own or have control over, asking/telling the people there to act a certain way, and them responding by ignoring that request is not rape culture.

    If it was a more private situation, like a group chat among friends, or even a public forum but an individual discussion between a small group of 2-3 people talking directly to each other, respect should be given to requests. If you were having a back and forth conversation with someone, and asked them not to swear while talking with you, they should respect that. But coming into public forum and demanding everyone else adhere to your rules, then spouting “rape culture” if they don’t follow along, is only cheapening the phrase “rape culture” and removing meaning from it.