Are you familiar with how hard it would be to set one of these up in a pocket watch? I really shouldn't be wearing real watches in the kitchen I work at.

I can say with some confidence that I have never, in any ttrpg, enjoyed water based fights or mechanics. I get that fighting underwater would be bad IRL that doesn't mean you need to make it practically the worst possible thing you could ever do in the game to.

Unrelated to that rant though I will say one of the early boss fights was absolutely miserable and I just really wish underwater combat wasn't terrible. There's been a lot of really close fights but that fight was as bad as it was not due to difficulty but because underwater mechanics are just...

Especially when, again, diplomacy is just the better option. Admittedly my PC wanted to try and eliminate one of the groups due to the potential problems with letting a warhawk go back to her nation and run her mouth, but we ended up talking her down instead. Having a jinn on your side does that

back and forth on that front. Hell there's a spot in the campaign where you could be evil and needlessly murder two different camps of quick illegally trespassing in Geb. However they're military organizations and both present fights that just don't seem worth the trouble.

with a view on the future because he's a vampire and a time cursed oracle. But realistically? Most of the time being evil just isn't smart even in an evil campaign. Betrayal doesn't often net any gains and because we haven't become a part of the political apparatus yet there's not a lot of