I have a hard time finding ones that will accept longer blocks of text. What are y'all using?

The planet, not the dog.

Name that song!
Or don't, I'm not a cop.

In one advanced culture, which has largely achieved pacifism through technological and cultural advancements, legal cases are heard by judges who have studied law and ethics extensively. Their maximum sentencing, though, is limited to temporary incarceration. For more severe sentences, such as permanent incarceration or death, the case is brought before the Matrial Seats.

The Matrial Seats is a group of seven volunteers who have physically borne and lost children. Only those who have brought life into the world, and felt the terrible loss of it, have sufficient authority to pass the most severe sentences. Unlike the General Courts, the Matrial Seats are not specially educated, and contain members from various social standings.

Update: at the recommendation of others, I logged out and back in again. Seems to be working!

Loving Eternity, thanks devs for all your work!

Lemmy.world updated today to 0.19.3, I think? Since then, I can load posts, but I can't vote, comment, or create new posts. When I attempt to do any of those, an empty toast bubble shows up, and that's it.

Anyone else experiencing the same?

Imagine looking for quality content on c/shitpost

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It's an open joncept space

Forgive me if this is well known already, but I don't think I've seen it posted here yet.

The lightning mage build is pretty well known, involving adding in two levels of Tempest Cleric for the channel divinity that maxes out lightning/thunder damage. And it's been noted that getting lightning vulnerability is easy with a bit of water. But what I haven't seen is trying to double things with a crit.

So why not mix in a few levels of Rogue? Here's the final split:

Assassin Rogue 3 / Tempest Cleric 2 / Blue Draconic Sorcerer 7

Assassin gives us access to easy crits on a surprise round. Taking Cleric to 2 and Sorcerer to 7 gets us a 5th level spell slot.

The crux of this setup is the Witch Bolt spell. The Assassin feature only works with an attack roll--most of your other lightning spells are saves. Witch Bolt also scales really well (1d12 per spell level).

So here's the math, assuming you're able to get a surprise round and throw some water:

• Base damage: 5d12 (using your 5th level slot)
• Double dice on auto-crit: 10d12
• Channel divinity: 120 (max damage)
• Draconic Sorcerer 6th level damage rider: +4 (assuming 18 CHA)
• Vulnerability: x2 for a total of 248 damage
• Two targets? Twinned Spell because why not

Note that my screenshot was using a 4th level slot and using a Wild Magic instead of Draconic Sorcerer. Mainly there to show that the math seems to work in game as I've proposed here.

Mixing in the Assassin makes sense for the lightning combo build as well: you can initiate combat by throwing water, then you instantly get your actions back to sling spells. And the other Rogue bonus action skills are helpful to get into position and land other attack-roll spells (by hiding first).

The build is viable at every level, too. Levels 1 to 3 are Rogue to Assassin, pretty straight forward. Next are two levels of Cleric, so now you're an Assassin with Sanctuary, Armor of Faith, and Bless. Then on level 6, you start adding in the lightning, and your nova builds from 100 damage (pretty respectable for level 6), going up by 48 every two levels after that.

You've got lots of flexibility here too. Want access to 2nd level Cleric spells instead of 4th level Sorcerer? Go with Assassin 3 / Tempest 3 / Draconic 6. Want more feats? Sacrifice a bit of damage and go with Assassin 4 / Tempest 4 / Draconic 4 to get three feats. Want to get two (slightly lesser) novas per short rest? Go Assassin 3 / Cleric 6 / Draconic 3.

Thoughts? Any other big nova builds that don't require an overly-specific setup?

They say to have big ambitions
Reach for the sky, chase your dreams
How bad can it be
With so many stars to land among?

But those goals are unwieldly
My arms short, my legs worn
The moon a bland dot behind
And the stars still so far

A small hand reaching
A warm smile on a sticky face
An invitation to share
In some juvenile pursuit

Let the cold stars sparkle
And the moon have its space
For me, these little dreams
Are enough

Every med student would learn my name, now.

Was our idea for a ska band name in the early 00's.