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This is a screenshot from the Morning Brew newsletter. They’re honestly pretty great, love these stock hot takes.

Also, gotta think about whether 5% mortality rate is acceptable.

For an airdrop number of pond fish? Sure!

For your hobbyist number of expensive fish? Absolutely not

I should have mentioned no numbers either

This is so mean, I can just imagine a card being written for this that is extremely long and only in the last sentence does it say “requires attunement”

Explain it to me, but don’t use any words

I gotta say, that’s a pretty good useless item

The dragon is barely a threat! Can’t be bigger than a hatchling!

There is really no accounting for style.

Plus it’s so much fun to appreciate the finer details and minutiae in D&D!

I like things that players would have fun with, but aren’t “useful” in the sense that it becomes a utility item they’re using every game. Something that can be a joke!

Not against items that have use either

I tried to cross post it here: https://lemmy.world/post/22093917

Not sure if I did it correctly, though

I know that… I was taking liberties to take hydroelectric power to its furthest logical extension by saying that the sun is evaporating (boiling) the water, it goes through the water cycle, it is deposited atop mountains or further upriver, and it then flows back down through the hydroelectric stations.