Legit, I don't fudge rolls because it's not fun for me.
If a roll would fuck up the session/adventure/campaign, I just straight up tell the players I'm making a call and override the results. It doesn't happen often, and it's really only when rng just screws things, like when you get multiple nat 1s in a session, way out of line with what makes sense without some kind of gymnastics to explain things in game.
Because it takes longer to roll up a new one than a table really needs as an interruption.
Purely practical imo. You don't want things derailed that early. Later on, a death can be worked with, made part of a story. In the first three sessions? It's just a pain in the ass
But have you never run into the vegans that treat it like holy scriptures? That vegan is the one and only true way to be ethical and/or moral? I mean, I can believe that, it's not like you'd run into that if you aren't frequenting the places where the proselytize online (I've never had one dumb enough to do it in person).
It really is a thing that they treat being vegan as a command from on high than anyone who doesn't fall in line is not just wrong, but bad. Not all vegans for sure, just the most visible ones because the chill vegans and vegetarians are just living their best life and eating well.
But, because of that obnoxious branch, I get a cheap giggle out of riling them up because calling them zealots gets the worst ones to act like zealots. It really reminds me of my pet chicken. Doesn't take much to get her little wattles and comb bright red, and that tail twitching. And, since I have a very vivid imagery ability, that's what I see when I pull this childish troll. Just some random person with their arms bent, flapping them and squawking madly as they scratch the ground. I did mention it's childish, right? Me trolling them is childish, but I can't seem to help myself. It's almost as fun as going to to a group of fellow metalheads and asking them if they love that amazing metal band, nickelback.
Are you messing with me? Because I'm not in the mood to play games.
If you aren't, I'm afraid we're going to have issues unless we start from a different place.
What I wrote was: >...veganism, a system of belief...
Now, when written that way, the phrase "a system of belief" is being used to specify that that is what veganism is. And that's what it is.
If you don't know what veganism is, I would suggest you ask someone that doesn't troll vegans for a proper answer. Though, to be honest, veganism isn't a single, universally codified system. It's more like a general heading that includes a fairly wide range of what is and isn't "really vegan". So even asking vegans, you can get varied answers.
If you really want my quick and dirty synopsis of veganism, it comes down to two basic principles.
First, that animals must be treated in a way that would be completely without exploitation.
Second, that causing the death of an animal to serve the wants/needs of humans is a very specific and very "wrong" way of exploiting animals.
That's about the core of it. All the rest is essentially defining what is and isn't exploitation.
I'm sure a vegan would at least quibble over that over simplified explanation, but IDGAF, that's what it amounts to looking at it from the outside. A bunch of folks that have strong beliefs about how animals and humans should share the planet.
If you go digging into vegan writing on the ethics of a human/animal interactions, there are a lot of ways of expanding on that simplified version, but having read some of it when offered by vegans I know personally, in real life, I would say that my version is good enough for someone that's never seen the word before.
Now, veganism isn't exactly a unique thing in execution. Plenty of people around the world don't eat meat at all. And there's some of those that don't use animal products at all. But, they aren't necessarily Vegan. It isn't a central part of their identity. It comes down to cultural norms, poverty, availability, or some other factor than a specific belief about human/animal ethics.
Veganism as you'll see in English using forums is quite different from that because it has another central belief that you don't see in most of the writings about it. And that is why I use the specific troll that vegans are religious zealots. That other belief is that they're right and everyone else is wrong, period. And, much like zealots of other religions, the bad vegans will often treat other humans poorly when they don't agree with them.
There is only one TRUE BELIEF, and that is veganism.
That is a wee bit of hyperbole, of course. Not every vegan is an arrogant zealot. No more than any other belief based group. As I said, I have people in my life that are vegan, and I love them. I cherish them in my life. But they're not assholes :)
I cook vegan food for them. I even cook vegan for them when I'm already cooking "regular" food to feed a dozen or so people and they're the only vegan coming.
Anyway, that's not only what veganism is, but why the entire thread happened.
If that didn't answer your question, I'll try to do better.
If you were just trolling the troll, then I'll just let it go and hope you have a good day :)
Seriously. I've never needed a written outline for much of anything. Even my years long d&d campaigns, and the radical changes that interactive stories like that bring, I don't have trouble keeping things straight in my head.
The only thing I do keep like that is a timeline of past events as "canon" to keep exact dates in place. I think of it as the inverse of an outline.
If I skip ahead for a section as I'm writing, it's easy enough to just pop open a second file and make a note for bridging ideas.
I'm not saying outlines are a bad thing, they just don't work for me. Since they aren't a necessity, I don't bother with them. Even with my three ongoing projects, and my slow-ass writing pace, I haven't lost track of anything yet.
And not all social justice advocates treat it like a religion. But some do.
Also, trying to compare veganism, a system of belief, to genocide resistance and human rights is absurd to the point that it exactly makes my point.
There is no world in which fighting genocide is the same thing as avoiding animal products. None, no way, no how. The arrogance of your statement is so far beyond the usual responses my little troll statement gets that I'm outright flummoxed. I can't believe anyone would be that stupid, that arrogant, that ridiculous.
And that goes just as much for lgbt+ rights. You are outright absurd making that comparison.
And that absurdity is exactly why veganism is a religion to way too many vegans. Like, I'm not anti vegan, I know and love many, I just like getting online vegans riled up for entertainment. But you jumped the damn shark big time homie. That kind of thinking, that's why people that hate vegans hate them.
Man, I find it hard to not just start calling you names because damn, son.
It's one of those things where on paper, it's supposed to be as stringent as medical settings, but in reality it amounts to exactly what you said: they aren't washing their hands.
But, truth be told, there's some places where people don't change gloves between food stations, which is even worse than just switching gloves without washing. It all comes down to who is running the kitchen. A good manager/chef is on top of things, and the methed out, sleep deprived, half drunk crew are following procedure well. Otherwise, things fall through the cracks a lot because there's a degree of similarity between a kitchen during a rush and an ER on a busy night, without the extra training and entrenchment of germ theory to help the kitchen staff stay mindful.
I've done both, though I avoided any hospital work as much as I could, and also avoided any kitchen work I couldn't walk away from at a whim. It's honestly easier to remember to keep things right in an ER because the work flow is built around it more. Even with having done grunt level medical stuff, I would be more likely to not hand wash in a kitchen and just swap gloves because most kitchens aren't set up where you can do it without breaking your flow. Dedicated hand washing stations/sinks just don't exist. You have to walk away from the work to wash.
Now, even in bad kitchens, you'll be washing your hands throughout a shift, it just won't be between stations/jobs. It won't be every ten minutes like in a facility of one type or another lol.
But holy crap, do I get queasy watching someone eat with gloves on. I know damn good and well those gloves are nasty as hell. No way.
