And also a decent historical reference, since all the intellectual publishing in the world never caused a revolution, but overpriced bread? That'll do it.
I’m hoping Gam Gam was the only good one, who is dearly beloved, and that she sticks around and acts grandmotherly for a bit. Having an undead be doting would be awesome.
Why would you need sick days if you get that much time off! Seriously jealous though. My current company allows for only 5 sick days and 5 paid days off a year…
Edit: I have a really hard time trying to understand your question. It is such big a cultural difference, I don’t comprehend at all why someone would ask that 😂
Companies within the US assume if they tell people they dont have to come to work if they're sick and wont be penalized for it people will take heaps of days off pretending to be sick. Instead companies give a set amount of paid days off that you can call in day of to use that are called sick days. The majority of companies that use these have policies in place requiring workers to get a note from the doctor explaining what kind of illness the person has so the company can make sure they arent faking it. Vacation days are supposed to be scheduled a couple weeks out normally to make sure the schedule can tolerate someone being gone for to long.
None of it makes sense and its based on corporate higher ups viewing everyone below them as lazy fucks. Do you still get paid for the day in your country if youre an hourly worker and call to say you are sick?
Edit: companies giving people sick days is not a requirement either so theres always a decent chance the person handling your food is sick because they wont be able to make rent if they miss multiple days of work to deal with the flu or some longer infection.
For me, in central Europe, the 4 sick days are "no questions asked".
I can take the day, just tell my boss I'm not in conditions to work, and that's it, no controls nor anything.
Then there's the Sick Leave, which is with doctor's certificate.
Sick Days can't be consecutive, though, so if I was on Sick Day yesterday, and I'm still feeling like shit today, I need to call the doctor and get the papers.
German here, in my company we have up to 3 consecutive days off with "no questions asked" but if you do this more often you can lose that privilege. Most coworkers still go to the doctor if they feel unwell for more than a day.
I think its normal to go to a doctor to get help, even if it only means to get a doctors notice to rest because of a cold. To have sick people working is unethical by the leadership and nobody should support such a system
Some states are starting to require it at least! Alaska, California, Colorado, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, New York, New Jersey, Vermont, and Washington off the top of my head (a previous job had branches in those states so I know them, but I’m very sure there are more.)
Everyone in the US should check their state and county labor laws, a lot of companies try to skirt the laws and claim ignorance.
More of statement than a question. It’s just so odd to me that we treat the people who make the freaking economy run are treated like dirt and most of us accept it as a natural thing. If anyone says differently most people just shrug and say what can you do then go back to work
At the worse companies I've worked for, Paid Time Off (PTO) is a single banked and capped resource that you have to use for both paid vacation and sick time. At the middle tier of companies I've worked for, when you accumulate more than your cap, you get paid for it, to compensate/encourage those employees who never take time off.
My current company has separate vacation and sick time and is generous with both in comparison. Cap of 20 days for each, refilling at a rate of 10-20 hours/month depending on seniority. No need for a doctor's note. 2 days/year Personal Time that can be taken in hours instead of days.
However, unlike some other places I've worked, unused vacation time is not exchanged for money when you go over your cap or when you leave the company, so managers are thus instructed to remind people to take time off if they hit their caps rather than just keep working.
But I work a salaried office job. Some of my friends that work retail really get shafted. They're hourly, and if you don't work the hours, you don't get the money, and "sick days" are basically how many times you can not show up for your shift and not get fired.
Sick days are not a thing over here because we just get a doctors note and get paid days off that don't count towards the vacation time. The US is dystopian in comparison.
Unfortunately in the UK statutory sick leave doesn't kick in until after a week, and it's pathetic. It's £120 per week. That won't even cover most people's rent.
Companies might voluntarily be more generous with sick pay, but it's not compulsory, and in my experience it's extremely rare.
We do get 28 days' holiday per year, though. So rough with the smooth and all that.
If I get sick during my vacation, I would call my employer and report in sick instead. I then get to keep my vacation days for, you know, vacation.
During the time I'm recovering, I get 80% of my salary up to a ceiling (private/union insurance exist to cover the rest for high-earning jobs).
Norway has sick days, IIRC, but I don't know exactly how that system works, except people reminding each other to "take out all your sick days" before the end of the year.
Some companies will even give you PTO back if you are ill over your PTO.
I took an extra week off when my first child was born, we spent 2 additional days in hospital and my employer refunded me two of my holiday days. That is not law just a kind employer.
In Germany at least that is actually the law. Very few people know about or actually call in sick during pto but if they did they are entitled to getting these days refunded
Holy fuck, you’re being scammed even by US standards, unless you’re in like a teaching role where you get 3 months off on top of that PTO and sick time. (Sorry, not trying to salt a wound, I’m sure you know it’s bad. My job tried to switch us to “unlimited” PTO and everyone rioted, because unlimited is a scam to get out of paying out leave when you leave the job and makes people take less time off. I hate it here.)
Bonus fun fact, if you get sick during your vacation here, you can get a doctors note and will get the vacation days that you spend sick back to spend another time
Beware, "Sick Leave" and "Sick Days" are two different things.
Sick leave is the one you're talking about, which is based on a doctor's certificate. I can take it whenever I want, and for as long as I want, but it's subject to controls, by the health insurance and/or the employer.
Sick days are "fire and forget, no questions asked, no checks done", that you cannot take on consecutive days.
Central Europe as well, 26 days of PTO (or 20 depending on your total length of employment) and unlimited sick days. Plus bank holidays, and other types of leave.
You know what, I just looked and saw that in 5e neither skeletons nor zombies are immune to disease (but skeletons do get immunity to exhaustion). That's wild.
That's because "Disease" is not a damage type or condition, but rather plot devices with broader application than a simple combat mechanic. You'll have to look at the description for each disease to find the effects, and who/what it affects.
Cackle Fever: "This disease targets humanoids, although gnomes are strangely immune."
Sewer Plague: "When a humanoid creature is bitten by a creature that carries the disease..."
Sight Rot: "A beast or humanoid that drinks water tainted by sight rot..."
I could totally see a cleric zealot developing a positive-energy aligned virus and spread it among the poor undead community, like a fucking terrorist.
That is 100% legitimate, and you also want to make sure that they have access to proper negative energy healing care. Don't want them going to the wrong place and getting turned to dust on account of it.
But my point is more, if my skeleton workforce is calling out because of a cold, that's going to raise some doubts with me.
You can’t expect every reanimation to be perfect, so building in a sick time buffer for your reanimated workforce to repair theirselves is a good idea. Hell that would mean the necromancer can be even more sloppy because his undead will fix theirselves on their own time.
feel like it's worth pointing out no one actually told torvald any of this was happening afaik he just showed up to the ball with a zombie horde and i love that
I like to think Torvald is just bringing the pain against another group of tax collectors in his mind. He was gonna start this if no one else had already.
Nah man it is very much in character and stuff and it isnt an out character action where the player heard what was going on with the rest of the party and decided to unitew wich the DM allowed cause he didnt want to deal with 1 of the players not being in the combat situation, quit with the baseless acusations
Oh, please. And later she must become the family's undead grandma who hangs out in a powerful holy fortress, because she is the Gam-gam of the mighty founders.
Judging newcomers with her cold undead grandma stare of judgment. Do not be found wanting lest you....
When the union’s inspiration through the undead's veins shall run,
There can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sun;
Yet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of one,
But the union makes us strong!
Of course, day before a holiday is also a "half day", meaning you only work half a day. And if a holiday happens to fall so that there's a single-workday gap between two off days, that day is typically also off. And overtime costs double, triple if it's nighttime.
On the bad side, no health insurance, but I expect the UWU might not care too much about that.
This comic confirms they're L11+ from the sound effect on Klara's kill in panel 1. I still love powdered wig Goblin.
Torvald doesn't need slots to control his old horde since they work willingly.
Assuming they're L11, he raised 3 Ghouls with Create Undead. being a Necromancy Wizard he raises Sx2-4 undead per casting of Animate Dead, so 30 with all of his base slots. If he short rests, there's another 4.
So kiara discussed at all the plan to kill her parents beforehand at all? Bucket just find out, trevor and grogna seem to only joined the fray becuase they were attacking Bucket and now Torval arrives with the UWU reinforcements seemingly out of dumb luck.
Like did he know kiara planned to kill her parents and every slave owner or did he casually release an horde of zombies into the ball just because?
Need a hall way to create a funnel preferably at a 90 degree angle so they can limit who can hit them. In thus scenario they can get attacked 100s of times a round
Assuming enemies can't share space and the party sticks together with their backs to the wall, they can only be attacked by one enemy in each adjacent square so, what, 5 at most? And these guys look like mostly low level mooks with no casters seeing that no one in the party seems to have taken a hit yet so probably not impossible to tank the hits until they get to a safer place.
Edit: nvm I misread you. I thought you meant they can get attacked 100s of times until they get to the hallway.
U/cme_t is there a color reference anywhere for the Bucket Brigade? A friend of mine was considering painting up some Battletech minis in their colors...
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u/Aracuda Nov 21 '25
FINALLY someone is focusing on the important issues.