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If the American estimate of ~300,000 Russian casualties is accurate, it’s 1,000 killed or wounded every two days

There’s also armour of resistance and potion of resistance in the DMG, which can be force resistant. But that’s very few items, and in 5E the magic items you get are entirely dependent on your DM giving them to you. Note how they’re all in the DMG, after all. Compare this to, say, fire damage. Three player races have resistance, the 1st-level absorb elements spell gives most casters easy access to fire resistance, and two barbarian subclasses and two sorc subclasses can get it regularly. With force damage, I think the only option presented to the player is one of the aforementioned barb classes and a couple of abilities that give general resistance to all damage.

On the DM’s side, of the literally several thousand creatures published for 5E, there are 5 with immunity, 12 with resistance, and 2 with vulnerability. 19 total creatures out of over 3,000 have any unusual interaction with the damage type. Compare this to 90 for radiant, another very low one; 552 for fire; 671 for bludgeoning (including the ones that only interact with mundane bludgeoning). 19 creatures is so vanishingly rare that I don’t think my description is an unreasonable one.

We know what the damage type of a crushing force is in 5E, though. It’s bludgeoning. That’s why the grasping hand effect of Bigby’s hand does bludgeoning, as does any constricting attack from the likes of giant snakes.

High-pressure fluid jets can cut through things if sufficiently narrow and fast, but at that point you’re still just looking at piercing or slashing. The injury isn’t different to being poked with a sharp stick other than that you are also wet now. If it’s not enough to cut with… well that’s bludgeoning again

See, as an example, water jet cutting

Force damage in D&D 5E is too poorly-defined to be a good part of the game and exists solely for when the designers don’t want any characters or creatures to have access to resistance against the thing in question. Either we need an actual description of what happens to a thing that gets hit by it or it should be cut; the vast majority of the things that deal it could perfectly easily be magical bludgeoning / piercing / slashing. Spiritual weapon and Bigby’s hand are particularly egregious

I’m with you on this one. I will admit that there is also a degree of appeal in winding up two specific friends of mine that hate it

Whitesun Reef is almost 300mi from the waters of the Philippines, you can look on a map for yourself

You should check your map more carefully. The nearest major landmass is Palawan, which the article correctly states is 320 km away. Palawan has 900,000 inhabitants and is in the Philippines. EEZs are 200 nautical miles, which is approximately 370 km, so unless the Spratly Islands are used to define EEZs then this reef is comfortably within the Filipino one.

The one time I visited the Netherlands and there was not a hill in sight

It is pretty silly considering that Kim is the family name, so she does have the name. It’d be like calling Casey Affleck “Affleck’s brother”

Scotland! I’ve never visited the PNW but the impression I get as an outsider is that the landscape and climate are quite similar to Scotland’s. The mountains are a lot bigger, but the general shape of things seems to hold

I find that they do not store or travel well. Like a lot of fruit they’re enormously tastier when they’re in season and local

Blackberries and strawberries! Although my tastes are likely coloured by the fact that I live in a place where few fresh fruits grow other than those, similar berries (yes, I know strawberries aren’t technically berries), and apples. So I like what is tastiest here. But I do really like them

It’s a testament to how good pomegranates are that we’re willing to put up wth the hassle of eating them

Oh shit that was Battle Engine Aquila. I loved that game

The Kralovec thing is the only Czech thing I can think of that made a big splash on the English-speaking internet, but it was very funny

Fucking hell lol

The original link is a lot safer https://mstdn.social/@yurnidiot/111347902784776710

Oh wow, thanks for the reminder about this band. I had Age of the Understatement on CD and somehow just forgot about them when I switched over to streaming many years ago

We’re gonna have to call it a beef washington then

The guy is Pol Pot

Lions also lived in North Africa until the middle of the last century, a species called the Barbary lion. Whether or not that’s the same kind that use to live in Europe I do not know, but lions in general had definitely already crossed the Sahara. Interestingly enough the Sahara itself changes on a pretty short timescale; only five to ten thousand years ago, huge portions of it were humid enough to support plant life and even early pastoral agriculture. It has apparently alternated between this state and its current dryness hundreds of times in the past few million years. We’ve found evidence of human habitation - bones, tools, art depicting animals and so on - in a bunch of places in the desert that just cannot support human life any more.

As for the Mediterranean, six million years ago the strait of Gibraltar closed up for about half a million years, so they could have crossed then. They also could have just swum across the Bosporus, given it’s only 700m wide at the narrowest point today