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Hey all, the venerable old boy has fried and his corpse is out there frying other motherboards too. I have a no-graphics processor so I need a GPU and I'm used to a card that basically never had to try.

My options are (in £):

Used 1080ti, readily available under £200. Obviously no warranty.
7600XT, £350. Cheapest new card I think I'd be happy with.
7900GRE, £523. Came out today, as far as I'm aware.
4070ti-Super, £770. The realistic limit of sticking with Team Green.
7900XTX, £850. Just seen some price drops since the GRE dropped.
4090 open box, reliably around £1500. No warranty, double the price of the 4070tS, but I need some talking down.

High prices include our 20% VAT o

Hi all, got what appears to be a dead 1080ti from day 1, so it's 7 years old and kind of doesn't owe me anything. However!

Everything else in the PC has been replaced within the last year, though the mobo got cooked instantly. I have, in my estimation, 4 main options.

A used, like-for-like 1080ti on eBay. Most sub £200. It served me well, I never had any issues until it just didn't run.

7600XT, after living out of a Steam Deck I'm sure I'd be happy with this, £350.

4070Ti-S, recency bias, but still compelling. £770.

7900XTX, absolute limit of my budget unless I scrap everything and buy a discounted prebuild. £900.

I'm running all this off a 13600KF and still using DDR4 (orig

Hi folks, does anyone have any experience with a Chinese ROM flashed to English, I've heard some anecdotes that there are some idiosyncrasies with running things through Google Play etc. Anyone imported a phone for use in English, and anyone had any issues?

Asking since the majority of ROG 5S / 5S Pro on the market are flashed, prior to the official global launch.

I may be late to the party but the Mike Mearls Happy Fun Hour content has always been something I enjoy but don't keep on top of as much as I used to with UA. Anyway, his tweaks to Ranger might finally give us a really fun TWF build... thanks to Monk interactions.

The Hunter's Eye ability gives half your Ranger level of extra attacks once a turn. You don't need TWF for this (in fact it's great for a War Cleric GWM build) but it's another attack for when you have everything stacked.

Whirling Blades is a straight upgrade to TWF rules that... means you don't use your bonus action to make offhand attacks. It implies you only get one "free" offhand attack whether you use your bonus action or no

Be me, invited to fellow player's first time DMing 5e.

Party is me + 2 others well versed in 3.5
During creation, I mention a Tortle might be cool.

DM: "If you all pick Tortle, I'm giving you all the racial feat."

This would prove to be a mistake.

At that point it wasn't even a question.

Be me, Pablo Picasso, Kensai Monk.

Be not me, Vincent van Gogh, Celestial Warlock.

Be not me, Horace Snakehorn, Beastmaster Ranger, professional herpetologist. & Arbok, flying snake beast companion.

Be me, learning for the first time in my life that I should have picked 4 Elements Monk to mesh with our Pokémon Train

Warhammer Fantasy Roleplay 2nd Edition (D100 system)
General idea: roll under your stat to succeed at a task.

Party of 3:
Combat Pragmatist Archer Mercenary
Harlequin Swordsman Entertainer with delusions of grandeur (2nd character after first died like a champ and got a hero's burial)
Thickly accented No-Nonsense Phalanx Cleric-Initiate (me).

Encounter BBEG in person for the first time, he taunts us, sucking us into his lair.
Mindfucky extradimensional chaos realm dungeon.

Party is split to face scenes from their past, with differences.
Harlequin's home village is devoid of life.
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Got a funny one for you and I'm mostly spitballing to give myself something to refer back to. Our group is potentially moving from WFRP 2nd Edition D100 to D&D 5th at the end of the current story arc, and my head's all over the place with what to do with my guy. He's been great to roleplay as, so I don't want to retire him just to make a straighter, easier-to-model character.

Mechanically, currently, he's got the average stats for his race apart from a high Intelligence, which in this system is used for medical checks and perception, making it pretty much a god stat for things not related to straight combat and most closely related to Wisdom in 5th, and Fortune,

Hey folks, I'm currently in the market for what may end up being a complete unicorn. Here's what I want:

Budget: Irrelevant; this isn't going to be cheap. Cheaper the better, of course.
Prospective Resolution: 3840x2160 (or equivalent in ultrawide).
Size: Sub-50in; I'm considering TVs but only those that meet the criteria.
Aspect Ratio: 16:9 or equivalent.
Adaptive Sync: GSync if possible.
Other Features: DisplayPort 1.3 minimum, ideally DisplayPort 1.4 (This is the real kicker that invalidates a lot of otherwise promising 38-49in TVs)
Refresh Rate: 100Hz minimum, ideally 120Hz, anything higher is better still.
Usage Type: Gaming, Content Creation.

Biggest issue I'm finding i