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    In the Team Fortress lore, Shakespearacles, the strongest writer to ever live, invented rocket jumping. A few centuries later, Abraham Lincoln invented stairs. He died while rocket jumping up them.

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    It’s well known that ancient dwarves enjoyed the practise of banging rocks together through the shins of the elves. One day, the rocks sparked against each other and set the elf ablaze, and that is how dwarves discovered fire. They loved fire, and used it to set many, many elves ablaze.

    From that day, it took 30 years to invent cooking.

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    Dwarfish folding chairs are studded with gemstones and weigh about 500lbs.

    They’re a very inventive people, but refuse to work with sheet metal.

    Elves build lightweight folding chairs out of wood.

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    In my setting I dropped darkvision for dwarves because I wanted to make it scarce, but even the dwarves that don’t study light or dancing lights use their many lighting inventions that were developed for underground exploration such as flairs and glow sticks, and gas lighting for their main settlements.

    I also gave them all spiderclimb just because I like the way that fucks up how they’d build those settlements as down is only a necessary direction to know when you drop something, even their tankards work at all orientations and are basically sippy cups.

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        Oh yeah of course, if it’s for personal use, always take everything you like from anywhere, and if it’s for professional, I still think it’s cool to take ideas.

        The only thing is that if this is for 5e, you may wanna drop something from their stats such as dwarven resilience as this trait is reasonably powerful as it’s effectively a hands free climbing speed which any marksman type character could cheese. One option is to make it the ability to cast spiderclimb at will, so it still has the limitations of requiring concentration (which is entertaining to imagine a dwarven bar brawl on the ceiling where everyone is knocking eachothers concentration out and falling to the floor, just to run back up) and it wouldn’t work in an antimagic field too.

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        They needed it, because the other half of their time is spent high, and they kept overcooking their eggs

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          They invented the 12 hour clock so they could have half a day without timekeeping so they didn’t need to work and could just wake and bake.

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    My setting has technology more-or-less equivalent to Earth’s 17th century, and a big chunk of my inspiration is Neal Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle. The books detail the steps that led to the industrial revolution so my setting also has similar early tech, aided by magic of course.

    (Airships, for example, use magic derived from Resilient Sphere to make their balloons supernaturally rigid and impermeable, then instead of filling it with a lifting gas they just evacuate all air from it. Their hulls look like solid wood but they are instead a honeycomb structure made of giant spider silk sandwiched between thin wooden veneers to keep the cold air out, and reinforced with the occasional mithral spar. The propulsion is purely magic though, the props are powered by aetherosiphon engines. There are some secret military projects aimed at creating a fully-pressurized heavier-than-air skyship that can actually fly over the taller mountain ranges; since their passenger compartment is not pressurized, a standard skyship’s maximal cruising altitude is 3-3.5 kilometers while a trained military crew can maybe get up to 4.5 km.)

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    Elves invented wooden folding chairs and then the dwarves made them from metal for better weapon usage.

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      “Oh tha’s nice. Good grip on the bottom, large top to hit with, large middle for deflection. Too bad ya made it out of this weak wood or it would be an excellent weapon!”

      “That is a chair you brute! Was a chair. Now it’s fire wood…”

      “Ya can sit on it too? Genius! Just needs a place to hold a drink and it could be perfect!”

      “… That’s a good idea, actually…”

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    I can just picture it now. A dwarven hell in a cell style match. Someone gets knocked back into an open chair in classic comedic WWE style and the whole crowd goes quiet. All you can hear is the collective thunk of thousands of chairs suddenly opening.

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    i’d like to see more settings where there is advanced tech, but non-humans just have a cultural aversion to them

    dwarves that refuse to miniaturize things, gnomes that are open source absolutists, amish elves, halflings who don’t give a shit so long as they can repair things themselves, goblins who don’t really understand complex technology but will merrily fuck about with it until something cool happens, etc…

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    OP is a transphobe and a lesbophobe who calls disabled people slurs when he doesn’t like them

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      Note: For anyone who cares, of course this person doesn’t have any evidence at all for this because none of it happen. They are however one of numerous alts of a known transphobe who has been banned from every major instance due to extreme hatred, bigotry, lying, and transphobia themselves.

      Carry on about your day.

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          The comment below demonstrates that /u/Exocrinous is the exact same user as /u/DroneRights. Exo has linked to a post from DR where DR is getting angry at things I did to “them”. Yet the things that I did I all did to Exocrinous. So they’re openly proving that I’m right in saying that they’re an alternate account. If you want to look at reasons for why they were banned, I’d recommend looking up DroneRights in any mod log or just going to their community. They’ve, in some bizarre fit of insanity, set up a whole community where they repeatedly demonstrate that banning them was the best thing any instance ever could have done.

          https://lemm.ee/c/dronerights

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            Oh my god I didn’t know DroneRights did their bit outside of Hexbear lmao.

            The only thing that drove me more crazy than the “I identify as an attack helicopter” level humor was the fact that the average Hexbearer was credulous enough to entertain it.

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              My gender identity is not humour. I was never joking when I said what gender I am. You think trans identities are nothing more than a joke because you’re a transphobe.

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        You called me a slur for my mental disorder to my face a couple hours ago. https://lemm.ee/post/20523475

        And in another recent post you admitted that you’re fully aware I have NPD, so it was 100% intentional.

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          you have no idea how much worse that comment you linked makes you look

          having a mental disorder doesn’t excuse you from being an asshole, stop wearing it like a badge of honour and get therapy

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            I’m not being an asshole. I’m saying slurs are bad. I don’t need an excuse to say slurs are bad.

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          That link directs to a post from DroneRights saying that I called them a narcissist to their face. But I said that to you. An account you’re insisting isnt an alternate of DroneRights.

          You can’t even keep your own story straight.

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            Show me a link to where I said I’m not DroneRights. It never happened. You’re just making stuff up because you hate disabled people.

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              Thats a fair point. You never insisted that you were a different person. That makes it insanely easy for me though. Thank you for openly admitting it so I can report this account to the admins of all those other instances and get this account also unilaterally banned for ban evasion.

              Also I’m disabled lol

              Byeeeeeeeeeeeee~

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                I’ve never been banned from ttrpg.network because I’ve never broken its rules. Nor the rules of any other instance.

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          FYI most people won’t even know that NPD is a thing (I didn’t until now), and will struggle to empathise with someone apparently being actively hostile. Everyone’s a dick on the internet, and that makes everyone think that everyone else is a dick too. Compiling a list of everyone that’s wronged you and pointing to it every time they say something will not make you happy and will turn people against you. Everyone (regardless of mental state) needs to realise that arguing on the internet just makes you more frustrated. Remember the old internet rule “don’t feed the trolls”; worry about real life people who matter, not faceless usernames who don’t.

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            Not using slurs is a basic precondition to being a good person. My aim is to give people the information needed to make basically ethical decisions, which means not supporting bigots who use slurs. If certain people are too much slaves to their base emotions, and too little capable of simple reasoning, then I am not responsible for the choices they make to fight for the side of hatred.

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              Even if the N word weren’t a slur, you still said I’d been banned from Lemmy instances for having a mental disorder, as if that were a good thing. You used my disorder as an insult.

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                No, I did not. I said you were banned for being a transphobic bigot. Also I’ve wasted more than enough time on you and your army of alts.

                I have far better things to do than listen to the same person whine in 15 different voices, across three different communities, about how they’re so victimized while also outright lying, slandering people and harassing them on top of it.

                Grow up.

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                  You have been permanently banned from every major instance for being a hateful bigot and blatant narcissist.

                  Liar liar pants on fire.