And the obligatory response to the “tomato-based fruit salad” response: “found the bard!”

Don’t know, but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that transmog before.

Goodbye.

While endangering a string of orphan boys who you keep dressing up in tight green booty shorts… for reasons.

R’amen.

Personally a fan of the Sonic Screwdriver, because I like my drinks like I like my ladies: sweet, bubbly, geeky as hell, and able to knock my ass out.

2 parts Sprite

2 parts orange juice

1 part vanilla vodka

1 part Blue Curaçao

Combine and serve in a highball glass on the rocks.

Not quite, with age comes experience. Learning from that experience is wisdom.

That’s been your thing since 3e, ya damn whippersnappers! 👴-old Wizards

The Gamers (the original one) made the same joke. Also, available for free on YouTube.

You might be interested in “rolling with emphasis”, a house rule by Brandon Lee Mulligan. Rather than rolling twice and taking the best/worst result, you take the result furthest from 10. Designed for actions that can only end really well or really badly.

I’ve best heard it described as “a rogue and a bard who can only seem to roll Nat 20s and Nat 1s”.

You just described the original Jak trilogy.

I remember coming across a post of tumblr where someone said that if a guy says his favorite movie/tv show is Breaking Bad, Rick and Morty or Fight Club, you should run immediately.

The reason was that while these are good works exploring complex, broken and often violent men, a certain subset (the kind of people who would claim that one of those was their favorite of all time) doesn’t have the reasoning ability to understand that they’re the villains of their universe and should not be idolized.

Rorschach easily fits within the same mold as Tyler Durden, Rick Sanchez and Walter White, a complex and entertaining protagonist who’s also a terrible person who no one should want to be.

I had the idea for some Don Quixote style story where your average isekai fanboy gets summoned to another world, and it’s the job of a member of the royal guard to protect this guy. The fanboy is a delusional, socially inept, weak lech who is convinced he’s the main character of an eroge, and the knight (the actual protagonist) has to try and keep this idiot from getting himself killed (like explaining that peeping on the princess while she’s bathing would most likely result in execution, not a “meet-cute”). Hijinks ensue.

What I mean is that remembering stuff (like what someone casting a fireball looks like) is what 3rd edition would call a Free Action, like talking. You can do it as much as you like (that can reasonably fit into six seconds) at any time during the turn, and it doesn’t take up any resources (like your reaction). Even though you’re rolling a check, it isn’t using part of your turn.

If it did take a reaction to identify a spell as it’s being cast, that would mean that remembering something would take the same about of time and energy as an opportunity attack.

Recalling information never requires an action, the check is just there to determine if you know something or not.

If the spell is on a pc’s class’s spell list and it has components (verbal, somatic, or material), they know if the spell is being cast (e.g. if the wizard sees someone casting Fireball, they recognize it from the arm movements, magic words, and the smell of guano and sulfur). If it isn’t, giving the player a DC (10 + level of the spell) Intelligence (Arcana) check to identify it would also be fair.

From a post on the forums for Order of the Stick:

“Calling a wizard a sorcerer is like telling a college graduate that they only passed because they were naturally gifted.”

“Calling a wizard a warlock is like telling a college graduate that they only passed because they gave the dean a BJ behind the Arby’s.”

See: every slasher movie ever.

Must be cold out.