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another "let's set some arbitrary line down the road to avoid doing anything today"
you already live under a fascist regime you cowards... DO SOMTHING! take action NOW
You decide to take action. Please roll for initiative.
rolls 1
You slip and fall on banana peel. You ran out of action points.
What a strange mix of RPG tropes. I get what you meant but that's like when you see "hacking" on tv.
I’ll be honest. I never played DND and only know it from memes. I was trying to make a funny. 😔
Edit: the rpg part probably stems from Baldur Gate 3. 🤷♂️
Heh, that would've been my guess. Nothing to be embarrassed about! Your joke worked. It was just weird to see all those concepts put together in a way they wouldn't go in an actual game. (DND doesn't have action points, for starters)
But Baldurs does right? I played it for like 2 minutes 😂
Not in the sense people usually use the phrase "action points".
In D&D, on your turn, you get one action. That might be hitting someone with a sword, casting a spell, or whatever. You can also move, but that's not typically an "action". Some classes also get what are confusingly called "bonus actions", which are extra things you can do on your turn. Rogues, for example, can try to hide as a bonus action even after they did a normal action like shoot someone. A regular fighter who shot someone with a bow wouldn't be allowed to try to hide on the same turn, but the rogue could.
Because you only get one action (and bonus actions), no one calls them action points. You might say "you already took your action" or something.
Compare with a game like the original Fallout. You get a number of action points based on your stats. For an average character, it's 7. Shooting someone typically takes 2, a called shot takes 3. I think movement also takes action points. So on your turn you might shoot someone 3 times (six action points) and move a little (1 action point). Or take a called shot (3 AP) and move a lot (4 AP). Lots of options. Divinity Original Sin 1 and 2 also use action points in a similar way.
This is way more explanation than you probably needed. The key thing is on D&D you typically do one thing on your turn (eg: attack, cast a spell). Pretty much every action has the same "cost" in this sense. You can't really mix and match, and there's not as much tactical depth on your turn. (Pathfinder 2e gives you three actions per turn, but I don't think anyone calls them points there, either.)
Yeah, they're just actions. Though the original joke kinda works, because the way Pathfinder frames it is that you gain actions at the start of your turn, so it's more conceivable that something could prevent you from gaining those actions, or could take them away. (Indeed, the "Slowed" condition says that you "When you regain your actions, reduce the number of actions regained by your slowed value", as a similar example.) Even though they're not called points, they do kinda act like that kind of a resource.
Yes but not in that way.
Initiative determines the order of action. Usually in combat, but it could theoretically be applied elsewhere, a debate for example, or if a Bard challenges someone to a rap-battle (I guess those are both kinda just verbal combat though).
Action points are how many actions you can perform per turn of initiative. Usually a movement, an action, and possibly a bonus action.
Slipping on a banana peel could be done if you rolled acrobatics to leap over the banana peel but failed the skill check. Say you're a Gnome whose lost their legs, taking a -6 modifier to Dexterity. This could cause an acrobatics roll of 12 to fall to 6, which could below the 7 you might contextually need to succeed at leaving over the banana peel.
"Using your powerful gnome arms you make a mad gorilla dash and leap with all your might, Unfortunately the loose dirt under your right hand gives way and you slip. You manage to catch yourself with your left hand, but before the squelch of the banana peel registers to your ear your arm slips out from under you and you strike your head upon the ground"
Take 1 Damage and Roll a Con save to see if you're concussed.
Edit: I brainfarted and described a potential DnD or PF situation, this cannot occur in BG
Do you crit-fail your players on initiative roles? Brutal 😮
I’ve never played DND. I’ve only know it through memes. 😔 I tried to put the gist of what I understood.
Do you crit-fail your players on ANYTHING? I can't imagine the dm ideas for how one in twenty swings should send your sword flying into the ether.
I crit fail my players on skill checks if they have a negative with modifiers.
"Oh you rolled a -1 on your lockpicking roll? Sorry bucko, you broke your pick off deep in the lock because what you thought was a false set was your tensioner slipping"
Pathfinder's four degrees of success system is so good here. A crit is any time you beat the DC by 10. A crit fail is any time you get 10 less than the DC. The system itself then tells you on a bunch of different spells/actions/effects what happens on a crit/success/fail/crit fail. It's handy because often this means a regular fail can still mean something good happens for you. In the case of lockpicking:
And what action would you like to take?
Long lasting general strikes and boycots would be an effective tool. I realize they would be painful, or even impossible, for people to support themselves through in many cases, whuch is why things like mutual aid and strike funds need to be set up first.
If the film/tv industry did this alone everything would collapse pretty fast. Cut off everyone's entertainment and they'll get pissed real fast.
They're using 'Bread and circuses' to pacify, so remove the circuses and watch the anger boil up.
They're doing a job of removing the bread already - huge benefit cuts from the most vulnerable among us
You mean like when there was a writer's strike and basically nothing happened and basically nothing changed?
maybe more like when they took away social media in nepal and they burned that fucker down
You do have a point, media helps keep the cattle calm and distracted...
A couple of days ago someone brought the right tools to the debate😉
One of them dies and the rest of us are dealing with the consequences.
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Look up 'pyrrhic victory.'
So why would you stop at one?
Because the rest of you didn’t get up and continue the fight.
*Pyrrhic
edited. Thank you.
Oh no, don't give the nazi regime pretense for the things they already did and already were planning to do! That would be horrible!
Like bringing a sucker punch to a gun fight.
Protests, Marches, call for General Strike, Civil Disobedience, etc etc etc
Trumptard may not care about your opinion but he would have to care if the country stops working...
And yes, I know it's hard... but this is what you get after decades of apathy and "fuck you, got mine"... you don't like it? you are certainly going to hate living the rest of your life under fascism
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/the-key-issues-that-drove-gen-z-protests-that-toppled-nepals-government
Use the guns for what they were meant for
Ehh naw we just need to let it reset. The house of cards will crumble as soon as Trump croaks, then once ceaser is gone Rome will burn. Hopefully what comes after is better, but it probably won't.
Personally, my family came to this foreign land, that's not ours, to seek out a better economic life and freedom. 2024 was the first election that the youngest voting generation went more conservative in the last 100 years. The beliefs of this nation no longer align with my own, so I'm returning back to Europe where my family once came in search of those very values. I realize a lot isn't great there either, but I have more trust in the EU protecting my fundamental rights than I do the US Constitution.
Failing that, at least Europe has better wine and I'll just enjoy the view while the world ends.
^ this is the epitome of the "fuck you, got mine" mentality... you seem to think you have an out so every body else can go fuck themselves... you are not even going to try to spare most of the worst of it, you are happy to let everyone suffer because you think you have an out
Good luck EU if this is what they are getting from the USA
If you think europe is better you really haven't been paying attention. This is a worldwide concerted effort.
Great Man Theory is bunk.
The time to do something was back a few decades ago... back in November there was a good chance to buy some time... now it's all uphill but it will only get harder the more you guys keep on "waiting for it"
There's no waiting going on tbh. This is like a group project in college, there is no intent to do anything but hope others will resolve things for you.
Yeap... but nobody is coming to save anyone
And here is the problem... nothing that Trump is doing could possibly end in a better situation for the USA, so when the shit hits the fan and the inevitable depression hits, the USA will do the only thing it knows how to do (specially under Conservatives): they will blame some other country and go to war with it and this time, hitting Yemen won't do it
Right now I am basically only hoping WWIII is not fought with nukes... that's my best 10 year scenario
I voted for Jill Stein. I was part of the 0.5%.
Congrats, you fell for a Republican trap.