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  • I really don’t like killing players, and when I am a player, I really don’t like having my pc killed. That being said, I like the idea of player killing, because then it ups the stakes (theoretically. I’ve never played in a permadeath campaign). Parties would have to think twice about taking on a more powerful foe, or consider running away as a very real option to avoid death, or reconsider doing absolutely stupid shit that will get them arrested and executed. It (again, theoretically) makes the game more realistic in a sense?

    But then you’re playing it, and your character you wrote a 3 page backstory for dies because of bad rolls or shitty combat balancing, and now you’re pissed because you really liked playing that character, but the dm isn’t going to rewind time and the party has no way to resurrect the character or at least preserve the body until they do have the means. Or you’re on the other side of this as a DM, and watching a good player get pissed off and quit the table because of it.






  • I checked the logs. I really don’t know how to use journalctl -e at all, so I’m just going to mention what I found on dmesg. It reported a number of errors, though they were mostly the same. This one came up pretty often:

    [drm:link_enc_cfg_validate [amdgpu]] *ERROR* link_enc_cfg_validate: Invalid link encoder assignments - 0x1c

    and these two come up a number of times, always together:

    [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* ring sdma0 timeout, signaled seq=13767, emitted seq=13769 [drm:amdgpu_job_timedout [amdgpu]] *ERROR* Process information: process pid 0 thread pid 0

    I got an error for the bluetooth a couple times too: Bluetooth: hci0: Failed to read codec capabilities (-22), and this other one only came up once iirc: hub 6-0:1.0: config failed, hub doesn't have any ports! (err -19)

    I don’t think the hub or the bluetooth errors have anything to do with the crashes, so I looked up the first error, the invalid encoder assignment one, and found this thread from a few days ago, though it doesn’t seem to have any solid answers other than rolling back to an older linux. Most recent post seems to be from 2 hours ago lol, I guess this is a really new issue?