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Very cool, got a '75%'

You need empathy to moderate. What other reason is there to do it? You want to make the community a better place by keeping things civil and on-topic. You also need to be able to level with people about their criticisms and concerns.

Facts don't matter to that crowd anyway

Is this supposed to be an adult trick-or-treating or are we looking at a depiction of a child here....

Fucking christ what a sobering post

It's a spiritual successor to System Shock 2, which was a pleasant surprise. Definitely agree that Neuroshock would have been a more fitting title. Probably publisher or C suite meddling.

My party fought a purple worm recently. It devoured the cleric. Then the sorcerer used polymorph on it to turn it into a frog, which caused the cleric to get squeezed out of it like toothpaste in a tube and shot out of it and collided with the cavern ceiling, taking 'fall' damage. Then the cleric used divine intervention (successfully)... as a divine avatar they swooped down and crushed the frog between their hands, releasing a tidal wave of venemous worm viscera to wash over everyone causing them to take massive poison damage. Great fun :D

In terms of your plan, drilling a hole in the rod may cause it to lose function. Also a general rule about polymorph is that there needs to be room for the transformation, and a general rule for invalid creature placement is that creatures take a small amount of force damage and are moved to the closest available space. As your DM I'd probably say you couldn't end polymorph early while it's in the rod, and if you lost concentration or the duration expired, it would be shunted next to the rod and take 2d10 force damage.

Actually what I'd like to do is have the worm trapped in the rod, make you believe it died, and the next time you used it the worm would appear.

This implies the owl is a man, not a robot! It should be a strigiformoid!

Solutions to being too cold - put on more layers, get a hot beverage, do some light exercise

Solutions to being too hot - get to some AC, splash water on yourself, take off layers

The problem is that the first set of solutions is generally more accessible and work-friendly. I can't take off my shirt on a site visit for work (or even wear shorts, and being in damp sweaty clothes is miserable compared to being chilly and needing to warm up.

Your Walmart doesn't have self-checkout? Or other open lanes? It's one particular cashier? Regardless if she's harassing you like that you need to let her/management know.

I had no idea I even relied on them until they were down. My favorite podcast hosts through them and I had to find a workaround.

Well Nintendo is playtesting a Minecraft-style MMO so hopefully they've put resources towards better online play.