Unlike the totally european Christianity we have.

Quote from: Hydra009 on April 01, 2024, 12:40:13 PM

Unlike the totally european Christianity we have.

Maybe she is a mormon?
Jesus christ lived in the usa, didntchaknow?

Possible, but unlikely. Mormonism is not very popular in the UK.

My guess is that she tried to appeal to bigotry by noting that Islam has a foreign origin (and therefore "wrong" to celebrate in the UK, which doesn't really follow) while conveniently forgetting that Christianity started practically next door.

"I'm really good at stealth, I just..." *bumps into empty suit of metal armor that dominoes into other suits, crashing into the rope that holds up the chandelier, which plunges through three floors into the dungeon below where there's a nest of vampires who immediately wake up and fly up to eye level*

I'm going with Uwe Boll.  Now everything makes perfect sense.

Quote from: Hydra009 on April 02, 2024, 12:58:09 PM

This is part of the reason why I stopped playing. This stopped being funny. And when it stopped being funny, it stopped being fun. There were other reasons why it stopped being fun, but this was definitely part of it.

Quote from: drunkenshoe on April 03, 2024, 01:25:52 PM

There should be a "Last day at work at this fucking place" group or such.

Quote from: the_antithesis on April 03, 2024, 01:23:45 PMThis is part of the reason why I stopped playing. This stopped being funny. And when it stopped being funny, it stopped being fun. There were other reasons why it stopped being fun, but this was definitely part of it.

Sounds like you need Advantage(tm) and/or buffs and/or tone down the difficulty.  Also, a really good thing is for the DM to reduce the need for dice rolling in general.

You can literally play the game however you want.  As long as the group consents, the sky's the limit.  You can bolt on aspects of other game systems or homebrew if you want.  Hell, you can use a ouiji board instead of dice if the group's okay with that.

Personally, if it's something routine or something that you can reasonably be expected to do, I'd consider it an automatic success and not even bother rolling.  You don't need to roll to tie your shoes.  That way you can save the rolling for the actually important stuff.

Sometimes though, this isn't necessarily a mechanics problem, but a psychological fear of failure.  I've played enough XCOM to know that you absolutely will sometimes fail roll after roll.  Failure is just something that happens on occasion.  But failure doesn't necessarily mean losing.  For example, let's say the party tries to infiltrate the BBEG's liar to assassinate him.  There's a failure and now they're captured.  That's not game over.  Now, they can be thrown in the dungeon or forced to fight in an arena or be conscripted in his army (under close watch, of course) or serve as personal servants.  Let's say they're made servants.  Over the course of weeks, they could maybe steal a weapon or pry open a grate or slowly convince the BBEG's lieutenant to betray him.  Then, at just the right time, you could strike in a very dramatically satisfying way.  Imo, this is probably more interesting than the infiltration going off without a hitch.

3rd option: spidephant

I gotta admit, crocobear is pretty damn threatening, with paws of death and a jaw to match.  And with bear-like speed, those jaws are much more of a threat than they otherwise would be.  Hard question.