TRPG General Chat

12:00 AM

I'm still kind of in search of a system myself -- want to try Microscope sometime as well

What kills you isn't the paralysis, it's the coup de grace when your wizard is behind a hard corner and couldn't cast anything but Create Pit to save you.

Also, the Ratfolk rogue was having a one-on-one with a giant octopus and was also mute, so he couldn't tell us why he wasn't helping.

Anaphory

12:48 AM

@Shalvenay Got caught up in preparing a presentation for some time soon, otherwise I'd have tried to organize something. But now I need to go to bed.

Shalvenay

1:50 AM

hey there @GuidingLight

Ahoy.

how're things going?

Bit restless.

@GuidingLight rather the same here. kinda quiet tonight :/

BESW

And some more #InternationalSlothDay #FossilFriday giant sloth fossil footprints https://t.co/ueblhjJtCz

Tweeted by DeepFriedDNA on October 21, 2016 at 11:51 AM

Shalvenay

1:53 AM

@GuidingLight -- what systems do you play btw?

Guiding Light

I am currently in some mixed 3.5/Pathfinder games. I don't have much experience with other games. A friend might be running Pokemon Tabletop United. Gareth's currently running a Changeling quest over on 4chan.

Shalvenay

@GuidingLight ah.

I could use another regular table myself, perhaps...

but I'm not sure what system it'd be

of course, it doesn't help that I tend to smash setting-pieces together in strange ways when I'm trying to come up with an idea for a game

BESW

2:17 AM

Speaking as someone who spent six or more years with single-system groups as the normal, I'm baffled at how that still seems to be the default assumption in this age of hundreds or thousands of easily-accessible systems with low sunk costs.

Guiding Light

9:01 AM

And then I learned that a bunch of anime and/or manga were canon to MLP, in a limited capacity.

BESW

You mean the IDW series?

Guiding Light

BESW

Oh, you mean the other way around.

Guiding Light

I'm trying to see what you were thinking and there's not enough coffee.

BESW

IDW produces a number of officially licensed MLP:FIM comics, which could be described as "manga" in a loose stylistic sense, which have a flexible relationship to the series' television canon.

Guiding Light

9:11 AM

And then I realized that there was a better room to discuss this, whoops.

BESW

9:28 AM

The new Thunderbirds episode synopsis has me thinking about Lovecraftesque scenarios.

BESW

9:43 AM

@G0BLiN Hi!

BESW

10:58 AM

Anybody here familiar with Psychedemia?

BESW

11:16 AM

...or any other Fate treatment of a boarding school?

trogdor

for a second I thought you were talking about Psychonauts

that's all I got

XD

BESW

11:36 AM

Psychedemia's a World of Adventure for Fate that's... basically Ender's Game by way of psychic alien UN.

But I'm looking for something a bit more along the lines of--actually, @doppelgreener's suggestion in the Spoil-Lair about Little Witch Academia was pretty close to it.

BESW

12:02 PM

Human-Steve! It is the anniversary of your hatching! https://tmblr.co/ZygV8x2DlQtPn

Tweeted by JillBearup on October 23, 2016 at 8:37 AM

doppelgreener

Aliens: an apology is great as well :D

BESW

1:15 PM

[pokes Codex]

Shalvenay

1:51 PM

hey there @RollingFeles

Shalvenay

3:18 PM

hey again @RollingFeles

RollingFeles

@Shalvenay hey! :) Sorry. I hoped in for a second here and then I left my office :)

Shalvenay

@RollingFeles ah. how've things been?

RollingFeles

Good. 7 days of work in a row. 5 more are coming. 10 hours today and maybe after 1-2 hour break I will sit and work few more hours at the night.(it's 10 PM here) : )

Shalvenay

@RollingFeles yeesh. that's a busy time of it. things are alright here, I'm starting to get the hang of DW I think

RollingFeles

And yours? Have wax eagle returned?

=)

I see.

Shalvenay

3:24 PM

@RollingFeles sadly no, @waxeagle is still MIA

RollingFeles

:0 I hope everything is ok.

Shalvenay

I hope so too

(although we may have to do a RP of rescuing him from a dragon sometime :o)

RollingFeles

Maybe he is a dragon himself?

That would be a twist!

Shalvenay

hahahaha :P

more like quite the bureaucratic nightmare :P

RollingFeles

3:42 PM

First words from campaign:

Welcome to the Dragon Affairs Department!

nitsua60

VTO system has been specified

(nvm)

RollingFeles

4:10 PM

@nitsua60 Hey! =) Thanks for edit!

nitsua60

@RollingFeles Hiya--no problem. I was surprised to see we don't already have something like that, so it's a good addition to the repository, I think.

Shalvenay

4:27 PM

so...may I ask what other systems you've played in @RollingFeles?

also hey there @nitsua60

RollingFeles

@Shalvenay warhammer fantasy rpg, but GM hide all mechanics from us and it was some kind of freeform. It was my first experience. And I tried to run RFS for an hour :) That's all.

Shalvenay

@RollingFeles ah :p I actually got my first full game of RFS in last week, and it went rather well actually

RollingFeles

@Shalvenay we tried it during lunch. My players made game very vulgar. They wield a very... exotic weapons. That was stupid(fiction, not system), but still very fun! I'm looking forward to play more later.

Shalvenay

@RollingFeles haha. we did a game where we were players trying to find an AWOL DM :P and then found him on a date at the local coffeeshop, then a recursive RFS game sprung up ;)

RollingFeles

@Shalvenay that's a neat idea!

Also, It looks like you have specialization at finding lost DMs ;)

Shalvenay

4:36 PM

haha :P

I don't believe I'd be so up for rescuing one from a dragon, though -- I mean, I'd certainly want to take a good course in Air Combat Maneuvering and find myself a suitable battlewagon before taking a dragon on xD

RollingFeles

And so you will leave poor wax eagle to his dragonic doom?

Shalvenay

@RollingFeles no, I'd have to see if I could get the Rhino Driver over to deal with said dragon :P

RollingFeles

:)

Shalvenay

aviation.stackexchange.com/users/4215/rhino-driver << is who I'm talking about btw

RollingFeles

I'm not sure, but I think you've told me about him earlier.

Shalvenay

4:42 PM

@RollingFeles may have

RollingFeles

aviation.se, huh.

Sometimes I really hate hot network question panel. Because sometimes when I google programming questions and read answers on SO I stumble upon awesome questions(and from aviation too) and I start to read it and then I see new hot questions and so on...

Shalvenay

haha

RollingFeles

Well, It's time to go to sleep. Good bye! :)

Shalvenay

5:38 PM

hey again @nitsua60

nitsua60

@Shalvenay hiya

Shalvenay

@nitsua60 how're things going?

nitsua60

ugh. working. don't wanna.

Shalvenay

@nitsua60 aw man

nitsua60

(weekend duty)

Spent seven hours in the hospital yesterday with a girl who somersaulted off her horse. Thankfully she's fine (though I'm sure she was very stiff and sore this morning!) and, despite being a half-day behind where I'd like to be on some things, I'm reminded that these un-planned-for events are the meat of our work.

Gotta run--be back this evening. Then I'll be less rude and ask how your weekend's going!

Shalvenay

8:04 PM

hey there @Anaphory

Anaphory

Hey

I have been staring at various representations of sign language all day, I think I can do with a chat!

Shalvenay

how're things been going otherwise?

I've been alright myself, albeit pondering whether to throw another fantasy-weaponry question at wb.se

Anaphory

8:24 PM

Otherwise things are alright

Shalvenay

good to hear. mind if I toss what I was considering asking on wb.se by you first?

Anaphory

I have no idea how wb.se ticks, but sure!

Shalvenay

basically, it's "how would you make a dagger designed to implant some small object into the unsuspecting victim?"

hey there @Seyres

doppelgreener

put a syringe in it

"how do you stab someone with a thing and put a thing in them" has been long answered by medical professionals (and biology)

though i think medical professionals were working in the other direction on that one

or have a small break-away barb component that will slide in beside the blade just fine, but when you draw it back out, the barb catches and snaps off.

Shalvenay

8:40 PM

true...

Anaphory

Break-away barbs sounds like the natural (including in the literal sense) way to do it.

doppelgreener

9:00 PM

the other one's more the mechanism of venom-injecting fangs or stingers

break-away stuff is things with spines (cacti, hedgehog, etc)

Anaphory

Yep – “small object” sounds more like barb than like syringe, though.

doppelgreener

@Anaphory that's true

BESW

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doppelgreener

10:39 PM

i am still stunned by the size of that thing

BESW

Heh, and I'm leaving out all the miniature-focused and map-focused campaigns.

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