wizard … However, every DM I have played with seems to forget that spell scrolls, especially Cantrip spell scrolls, are a thing that exist and can be found as loot.

The DM has a tonne of crap to manage. Most modern modules don’t do a very good job of providing dungeons or other places to grind loot.

Talk to the DM and tell them your wizard goals. Hopefully they’ll help you down that path. I was playing an Evoker, and I wanted to up my Int, so my DM and I worked out some purchases and loot to make that happen.

Leave. Go for a walk, or a coffee, or go home. Nobody knows you aren’t in a meeting room.

If your co-workers are into it, have a LAN party. I used to work at a place that had a daily management-approved kill session. It was good.

Totally agree. I am not compatible with summer.

Winter! Winter sports are awesome. Snow is beautiful. Long dark nights are cozy.

just tabaxi things

Never having voted Conservative, I can’t get any real satisfaction from saying “that’s so stupid I’m never voting for them again.”

I guess I can say “That’s so stupid I’m still never voting for them.” But it isn’t the same.

Reading the old school D&D subreddit, I also came to realize that dungeons can be reskinned to pretty much any setting, so long as you keep the basic tenets:

1. something that the party is running out of, so that they need to go back home to resupply
2. an escalating reward for pushing on,
3. unforeseen risks that make travel risky

So the setting could be the old West, a spacecraft, dungeons, a wilderness, a post-apocalyptic wasteland, etc.

And not everybody likes sandboxes. I tried to get my group to play a sandbox adventure and about half of them lost interest. Sometimes people want a nice predictable plot to pull them along.

This. You want to run a certain type of game, and your players want to play a certain type of game. If you can pitch a dungeon crawl that also scratches their itches, then everyone might be happy.

Let me guess, the downside is infinite teeth.

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Yeah, it really seemed to sneak in there. I heard of it through a relative on Facebook.

Any word on delaying French immersion until grade 11 or whatever the latest OCDSB weirdness is? (Beyond what’s in the summary above)

I started programming as a teen. I didn’t realize I could do that as a job (weird, I know), so I looked into lucrative careers I could do so I could afford to have lots of free time to program. Then I discovered that programming was also a job.

eh. It feels like a good time to start talking about why they want that tax break. It’s because GPs run a business that sells services to each province.

Historically, that’s because docs didn’t trust the whole Tommy Douglas single payer thing. They wanted to stay their own bosses. But the current generation of GPs wants a decent work/life balance, which doesn’t work so well financially. So maybe it’s time to offer GPs the chance to be employees.

Of course, that’s a province-by-province thing, and it’s not our politicians’ style to actually fix shit.

So we’ll get that tax break.

I think the big issue is that doctors are complaining about it. Everyone likes doctors, so tAkINg MoNeY oUt Of ThEiR pOcKeTs in the middle of a healthcare crisis looks bad.

one in 1,000 individual tax filers will be affected by the change, and the average income of those tax filers is $1.4 million.

They’ll survive.

Politicians will literally bankrupt a generation before going to therapy building affordable housing.

The BoC is enforcing goals set with the federal government.

Although you’re correct, all three levels of government have basically outsourced housing policy to developers, and are relying on the BoC’s overnight rate to control affordability.

The original comment is right: all three levels of government are primarily looking out for wealthy Canadians who are invested in real estate.

With these changes, the housing market probably will go “brrrrrrrrrr.”

A big part of the problem is that the official opposition hasn’t presented a mature alternative. Organizations like the PBO would usually evaluate the top contenders, but there aren’t any. None of the Conservatives, NDP, or Bloc are pushing an alternative.

It isn’t the PBO’s role to make up straw man alternatives to test the effectiveness of government policy.

If you’re talking about that Pierre, the Conservatives have been silent on this one. For good reason.