TRPG General Chat

12:57 AM

@Zachiel Hmm, you're right. And it's crediting earlier games with many/all of the things I've seen people act like Trollbabe invented.

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nitsua60

1:21 AM

anyone in the room use DMsGuild much? Or DTRPG? Or RPGClassics? Basically, I'm vaguely aware that they're all sorta the same thing, but looking to wrap my head around what's what.

Shalvenay

oh hey again @nitsua60

nitsua60

hiya

Shalvenay

how're things going?

Miniman

@nitsua60 I've used DM's Guild a bit.

And RPG Classics, a bit, too.

nitsua60

@Shalvenay Excellent practice this afternoon with some of the world's best bell-ringers! (I am not one of the world's best bell-ringers... I was privileged enough to be able to host and participate in one of their practices.)

@Miniman So, it's all the same company, right?

Shalvenay

1:24 AM

@nitsua60 ah. cleaned up after some storms earlier this week, also muttering to myself about Linux Skype no longer being able to even be used for text chat

Miniman

@nitsua60 Essentially, DM's Guild is a reskin of RPG Classics with a different product offering. It's the same company, same software.

nitsua60

(And I think I conflated DnDClassics with RPGNow, possibly?)

BESW

Their About Us page may help a little.

(Scroll down to the "Family of Site" bit.)

I use DTRPG semi-regularly.

nitsua60

@BESW Is DTRPG a leveraging of the same back-end and UI to cover the non D&D market? (Or is that such a naive way to put it that it insults the 99% of products that are "non-D&D"?)

@Miniman By "different" you mean more? I.e. is that now the repository of all DnD stuff, old and current?

Miniman

@nitsua60 DnD Classics has past DnD content, DM's Guild has homebrew 5e content.

BESW

1:27 AM

@nitsua60 The same back-end and UI as what?

nitsua60

@BESW each other?

Miniman

@nitsua60 Drive Thru RPG predates DnD Classics and DM's Guild; they are minor variations of it.

nitsua60

okay. (The "about" page you linked, @BESW, is also helping)

Miniman

And yes, there is vastly more content on Drive Thru RPG itself than on DnD Classics or DM's Guild.

nitsua60

Thanks for being patient. Somehow it got to be 2015 before I realized that one of my favorite hobbies and the internet had ever made contact =)

Miniman

1:29 AM

@nitsua60 In fact, AFAIK DnD Classics and DM's Guild are WotC leveraging DTRPG as a way to sell their products digitally.

BESW

So far as I can tell, they're all currently "branches" of the same store with different product focuses.

Some of them used to be separate, but were merged/bought out.

eg, RPGNow.

Adeptus

I'm 99% sure that DnD Classics & DM's Guild are essentially filtered views of DTRPG. ie, you can see all that D&D content on the main DTRPG site as well

nitsua60

@Adeptus interesting

BESW

That seems to be the case. Like, RPGNow filters for indie games while DTRPG doesn't so much.

Miniman

@Adeptus You're probably right there - at the very least, I'm pretty sure you're right where DnD Classics are concerned.

BESW

1:31 AM

[pokes around more]

Merger announcement between RPGNow and DTRPG.

Miniman

@Adeptus Yeah, from a couple of quick searches it looks like DnD Classics stuff does appear on DriveThru, while DM's Guild stuff doesn't.

nitsua60

and Classics stuff shows on Guild.

BESW

@nitsua60 This would make for a great mainsite question.

nitsua60

But not as a sister site--just as a filtering category =\

Miniman

Which makes sense - it's not in their best interests to include the material of...uh, inconsistent quality that DM's Guild hosts.

nitsua60

1:34 AM

@BESW I think my current question is "Wt?"

Adeptus

@Miniman To be fair, some of the indie content is of similarly inconsistent quality

nitsua60

So it's like DT has all the stuff published by "real" publishers; Guild has all the stuff WotC wants me looking at (and contributing to), and Classics now lives in their intersection (and is no longer "standalone")

Miniman

@Adeptus Heh, yeah.

nitsua60

In 5e-world, if I produced OGL stuff might I try to sell it on DT? (I've no intention of doing so... just curious.)

BESW

I've seen plenty of tiny indie-pub stuff pop up on my DT searches.

nitsua60

1:38 AM

Actually, though... if I ever got around to finishing, then playtesting, then typesetting my 5e lifepath character creation supplement (tentatively titled "Zero to Hero"^{TM}), what would be the considerations in doing so OGL vs. Guild?

Miniman

@nitsua60 This would be the place to start.

@nitsua60 Well, if you do it on Guild, then TM is a non-starter.

nitsua60

@Miniman because of the Guild ToS including WotC getting the IP?

BESW

Like, straight down to "Here's the InDesign files I made based on old TSR books so you can make new content that looks like the old stuff."

Miniman

@nitsua60 Yeah. Once it's on Guild you don't own it anymore.

nitsua60

(And forgive me if I'm scrambling terms/ideas. I can just hear SSD's copyright law-stuffed head exploding!)

Miniman

1:41 AM

@nitsua60 On the other hand, if you're publishing on Guild you pretty much don't have to worry about copyright.

[lawyer citation needed]

nitsua60

@Miniman infringement you mean?

Miniman

@nitsua60 Yeah, you're not restricted to OGL (as far as I can tell).

nitsua60

Guild model basically being "go ahead, use our ideas and make cool stuff with it. If we like it we'll slap our name on it and do whatever we want with it." That about right?

Miniman

@nitsua60 I think so. But as always, [lawyer citation needed].

nitsua60

SRD is the codification of which subset is available to OGL?

Adeptus

1:44 AM

OGL vs DMsG comparison

Miniman

@nitsua60 Yessssss....tentatively.

@nitsua60 As in, I think what the OGL says you're allowed to use is "stuff that's in the SRD".

nitsua60

OKay... that gives me a lot to chew on. (I was just looking tonight for a template stat block to use, and ended up poking around a Guild membership I made back when it was announced.)

Adeptus

OGL lets you use what's in the SRD. DMsG lets you use all published 5e, and (only?) the FR setting.

I notice there's a newer version of the SRD than what I used for my index. I'll need to skim through it sometime & check for updates.

Miniman

@nitsua60 For what you're thinking about, I'd recommend the DM's Guild - as long as you're ok with WotC getting money for your product, it's much less restrictive, much easier, and much less chance of getting sued.

nitsua60

The "easier" component is pretty evident.

Miniman

1:51 AM

@nitsua60 Yeah, I almost put some stuff up there when I realised how simple it is.

nitsua60

I find the setting restriction interesting: Guild must be either FR or "no setting." I guess it's to prevent just total chaos from breaking out.

What I'm really interested in is figuring out how we're going to start sorting signal from noise....

BESW

This stuff about what you can and can't use for Guild/OGL would also make a great main-site question.

nitsua60

I think there's also a huge hole in that I believe you can't PWYW at $0, then go back and pay a non-zero amount (retroactively) for that title.

Miniman

@nitsua60 I suspect it's mostly so that no-one rewrites Eberron themselves and puts it up - WotC stands to make a lot of money from a 5e Eberoon sourcebook down the line, so if they can prevent competition easily then they might as well.

Adeptus

@nitsua60 I wonder if they'll change that as they release more settings? Eg, will they allow Ravenloft content soon? Will they allow Eberron content if/when they publish it as a 5e setting, etc?

Miniman

1:53 AM

(Eberron is just an example here.)

BESW

@nitsua60 In DTRPG you totally can.

nitsua60

@Miniman ahh... yes. That makes absolute sense.

@BESW that seems eminently reasonable.

of course that's just hearsay on my part--I haven't actually tried it yet.

Shalvenay

@nitsua60 -- the question about Fabricating ingots and how such destroys the crafting rules in 3.5e left me wondering just how wealthy my wealthiest character (out of any game/setting) is, measured in 3.5e gold pieces -- and the answer turns out to be oh, 8.5 quadrillion...somehow, I doubt even the most elder of wyrms sits on that many coins

Adeptus

@BESW I thought there had been a question about that, when DMsG (and the OGL/SRD) was announced

nitsua60

@Shalvenay It's nowhere near the eight octillion gigadollars that makes @BESW giggle so much =)

BESW

1:55 AM

@Adeptus Not that I can find.

Shalvenay

@nitsua60 hahaha

Adeptus

@BESW related and more

BESW

Ahah.

nitsua60

(just thought I'd share)

One last guild question: you always get 50% royalty on your item. But if WotC decides your thing--a monster you created, or a feat, or a character--is so awesome it's going in the next hardcover they produce, they can do so freely, yes?

Miniman

@nitsua60 Not sure.

@nitsua60 I think they at least have to get your permission.

@nitsua60 Incidentally, do you mind elucidating this a bit? It sounds interesting.

nitsua60

2:07 AM

[actually reading the legalese on the Agreement you must submit to when uploading]

Miniman

@nitsua60 That's a good if potentially frustrating call.

nitsua60

yeah, I'm not getting very far before getting bored into submission.

BESW

@nitsua60 Or, rather, bored into deciding not to submit?

nitsua60

Interestingly the characters, scenes, &c. you create are forfeited into what's called "Program IP." SPecifically not forfeited are artwork and maps you create, to which you retain IP rights. Haven't yet figured out what rights you may have wrt "Program IP."

@BESW yes, I clearly missed that one =)

@Miniman Someday, but not now. Someone's pulling up my driveway for GoT. I'm gaming tomorrow evening (now+21), but will likely be around a bunch Tuesday evening (now+47).

BESW

In addition to good names for bands, I will now be looking for phrases which make good titles for memoirs.

Miniman

2:15 AM

@nitsua60 So having also read the thing, with the longer attention span afforded to me by having a boring job, once you've published it in the DM's Guild, they own it in every way and can do whatever they want to it without asking or even telling you.

@nitsua60 Also, have fun!

BESW

@nitsua60 [makes calendar note for Wednesday noonish]

...M'rr. Running out room on the CRPGS pin.

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Shalvenay

3:02 AM

hey @Ben

Ben

Hey man

How's it been going

Shalvenay

alright here, as for you?

Ben

Ahh, could be better.

All work and no play atm

Shalvenay

ah. any sign of things letting up in the near future?

Ben

3:18 AM

There's the light at the end of the tunnel, sure. But it's still a 50/50 that it might be a train haha

Shalvenay

OK here, albeit bored these days

Ben

Oh, to be bored haha

What hobbies do you have?

BESW

@doppelgreener Ask me about "Scarlet Hero" Fray dice some time.

Shalvenay

@Ben I would have a hobby of EE tinkering if not for this school project of mine that has dragged on far too long.

Ben

3:33 AM

EEE tinkering?

Shalvenay

@Ben Electrical/Electronics Engineering

Ben

Ohhh right

That's pretty cool :)

Shalvenay

that, and pondering various sundry worldbuilding things

Ben

Pretty standard :P

What sort of stuff do you make?

Shalvenay

@Ben my school project's a microcontroller trainer board

Ben

3:39 AM

Forgive the ignorance, but what exactly is that?

Shalvenay

I have an on-hold personal project that's a board for making talking toys (like custom talking plushies)

ah -- it's a simple board with a microcontroller, a small keypad, a display, some lights, and perhaps a few other things

Ben

sooo, basically like a reeeally simple computer? Input/Ouput?

Shalvenay

@Ben yeah, basically

Ben

Cool :D

Shalvenay

I just have to...you know, write the firmware for the thing. and before that, I have to write the program that loads the firmware onto the thing.

Ben

4:01 AM

Do you have to write it yourself? cos there's likely a lot of packages that can do it for you

doppelgreener

4:20 AM

@BESW deryſt BESW, doſt thou haif the teime for this diſcuſsion?

Miniman

@doppelgreener You miſſed a few.

doppelgreener

saved

Asteria

@doppelgreener phew, close call.

BESW

@doppelgreener So, Fray dice. The mechanic itself is a bit more... chunky... than you'd probably like, but the concept seems like it might be interesting for your Avatar hack. Though adding it would move the whole thing closer to "new system" than "hack."

doppelgreener

(apparently i can do ss as ſſ, ſs is for the end of the word because you don't put an ſ at the end, that would just be ſilly)

@BESW Do tell!

BESW

4:24 AM

In Scarlet Hero, each hero can roll a Fray die at some point on their turn.

They automatically deal the Fray die's result, in damage, to every enemy within range that has equal or fewer hit dice than the hero has levels.

Ben

@doppelgreener Adding to my liſt of uſeleſſ tidbitſ for the day

Or is that meant to be tidbits?

BESW

The thing about Fray dice is that they can be used when you're not attacking.

Fray is just the casual "Oh, a minion. [smack]" that heroes do in combat.

Adeptus

@Ben "uſeleſs tidbits"

doppelgreener

@Ben just tidbits. and uſeleſs. i don't know all the rules, but apparently one of them is that the long s is only for the beginning and middle of a word, not the end. presumably there's still cases you'd use the short s.

BESW

So I was thinking, since your Avatar hack is focusing on physical conflict as an extension/expression/backdrop for social/political/logistical conflict (eg, physical conflcit alone rarely solves real problems), Fray might be a very cool way to back that up:

In a Fray-enabled version of Avatar, generally speaking PCs don't take attacks actions. They do other things, and roll Fray dice along the way.

Ben

4:30 AM

@doppelgreener thankſ for the clarification

doppelgreener

@Ben [appalled]

@BESW this sounds pretty cool. gives me some stuff to think about...

(I was already thinking: "is fate actually the right system for this, or just a good system for this?")

Ben

@doppelgreener I'm new. Don't hate

BESW

@doppelgreener I've been picking up a lot of weird little free and quickstart pdfs for things, and mining them for ideas.

Scarlet Heroes is an indie Sword-&-Sorcery twosies system that combines contemporary RPG ideas with an OSR feel.

(It's designed to be an easily applied overlay for original old-school modules--one player running dungeons originally designed for large parties.)

...Hmmm.

I may try out Scarlet Heroes if/when @trogdor and I ever become the only Geek Night folks again.

There are some old-school adventures that'd be pretty fun.

doppelgreener

4:51 AM

That does sound like a great idea actually.

D'you think it'll work for SG-1?

BESW

@doppelgreener Fray, or the whole Scarlet Heroes thing?

trogdor

@BESW why only with us?

BESW

@trogdor Because honestly who is going to wind up being the only other person at Geek Night?

trogdor

ah'

it's designed only for one player, interesting

sorry, I am a little busy and paying minimal attention to the conversation

but i did notice I was pinged and was confused as to why I would be the only person to test a particular system with you XD it is an unusual occurrence at the current time

@BESW anyway, you don't know that it could only possibly be me :P

doppelgreener

5:31 AM

@BESW Scarlet Heroes. If it's for adventures meant to be run by large parties, y'know. I don't know if it's made for one player character or is for a group of a few controlled by one player.

BESW

It's for a single PC, so not really SG-1 material.

doppelgreener

Draaaaaaaaaaat

trogdor

yeah

it was bad enough when my brother and I tried to each control 2 people

to be fair, it was a different system that I am not sure works well anyway, and it was still fun for most of that one session even though it was clear near the end that it wasn't working out

eimyr

9:06 AM

Hello

How's life?

BESW

I just spilled about a teaspoon of very expensive Pohnpeian pepper.

eimyr

How much did you lose in money?

BESW

About six month's worth, at minimum.

Honestly, I'm not sure how much it cost.

It was a gift.

eimyr

It seems to be indeed quite expensive.

well, that's a shame

As someone who appreciates pepper a lot I feel for your loss.

What's for dinner today?

BESW

9:22 AM

Split-pea-and-whatever's-nearby soup.

That's mostly potato and onion and a lot of spices.

I'm going for a bold pepper-curry-basil-ginger thing.

eimyr

nice

I have decided to make a lunch for myself for once, instead of buying one. I went for a salad.

I'm still awaiting lunchtime judgment.

BESW

I like mustard dressings for my salads. It's about the only time I like mustard.

eimyr

Conversely, I enjoy mustard mostly with meat, esp. grilled sausage.

Not quite as much in salad environment

Miniman

Not just for the sake of combinatorics, I enjoy mustard on both meat and salad.

BESW

@Miniman Combinatorics!

I use mustard in, eg, tuna-garbanzo sandwich fillings, but I'm also using lemon juice and ketchup and other stuff; the mustard kinda disappears into the mix.

eimyr

9:34 AM

Now we need someone who enjoys mustard iff it's on salad and sausage.

@BESW how do you feel about horseradish then?

BESW

@eimyr Haven't used it enough to form an opinion.

Maybe I'll pick some up next time I'm shopping.

eimyr

grated/mashed, perhaps with a tad of vinegar as a preservative

you know, the spicy one

BESW

That sounds exhausting. I've moved from freezing fresh ginger and grating it when I need some, to just using ginger salabat powder.

eimyr

No, you just buy it ready in a jar.

That's how we do it on Poland. No one grates horseradish, that would take forever.

tesco.com/groceries/product/details/?id=268614923

For superb kick you are supposed to put it on ham sandwiches, sausage or best on hardboiled egg

BESW

I'll have to look at what Pay-Less and Happy Mart have in stock.

eimyr

9:38 AM

It's a bit like wasabi, but the taste is less hot but sharper

BESW

Ooh, I haven't made wasabi mustard in ages. That was a mustard I could get behind.

Ordinary yellow mustard for a base, with wasabi, Tabasco, garlic, pepper, honey...

Miniman

@BESW This is amazing.

BESW

@Miniman Square One TV is awesome.

Here's "8% of My Love."

eimyr

@BESW when you say "mustard" what do you have in mind? Regular garden variety American stuff they put on hotdogs or the full-corns French mustard, or the Jewish kind, or maybe Dijon or Russian ones?

Miniman

@eimyr Don't forget English mustard.

eimyr

9:44 AM

@Miniman I'm trying, it won't let me.

Miniman

@eimyr Ouch...

eimyr

@miniman Too much vinegar

BESW

@eimyr I'm not sure I've had the Jewish or Russian kinds, and I can only have non-alcoholic Dijon.

Miniman

@eimyr Having accidentally gotten some in my eye as a kid, I can totally sympathise.

BESW

@eimyr Overly vinegary is definitely a turn-off.

Miniman

9:45 AM

@eimyr That, on the other hand, is totally mystifying to me.

eimyr

@Miniman Eimyr's attitude towards vinegar as presented on Stackexchange

Miniman

@eimyr Yikes. I love vinegar. Like a lot.

BESW

@eimyr I have similar feels, except for recently opening up to the idea that apple cider vinegar is acceptable in small quantities in certain recipes.

eimyr

@nitsua60 You might enjoy my link above ^^ re: amusing searches

@Miniman Italian varieties are OK. Wine vinegar is the least repulsive.

BESW

@eimyr Soup is finished, serving it with taro dinner rolls.

Miniman

9:50 AM

@eimyr I enjoy every kind equally :)

eimyr

@BESW youtube.com/watch?v=S3fTw_D3l10 How about a song about Taro to accompany dinner?

@Miniman that can't be true. You must have favourites.

Miniman

@eimyr Nah, they all have different uses.

It's like weather - some days you're gonna want it to rain, some days you're gonna want sunshine.

BESW

eimyr

Why is this so vividly coloured?

It doesn't look like food.

BESW

Because it's taro.

eimyr

9:52 AM

Is taro always like that?

Is it potatoey in texture? It looks more fluffy, like a steamed bun.

BESW

Taro is a corm, but yes, it's similar enough to a potato for our purposes. It comes in various shades, but purple is kinda the default.

The first picture is of dinner rolls made with wheat and taro flour.

The second picture is an actual taro corm.

The leaves and stalks are also edible.

It's a nearly universal staple food plant across the Pacific islands.

(The song you linked is about Gerda Taro.)

eimyr

(It's actually about Robert Capa, but I'll let it slide.)

(But I thought you'd recognise the pun for what it is.)

BESW

Since I didn't know either of them until I looked up what the song was about...

eimyr

oh]

I assumed everyone would know about the Capa-Taro couple.

BESW

Now, Eddie Adams, sure.

eimyr

10:02 AM

Either through photography, general knowledge, journalism, Indochina or Alt-J

BESW

I think I might've heard of Capra through the First Indochina War, but only vaguely.

And so far as I can tell, Taro never got very close to my side of the world.

Famous Europeans have to be really famous for an American-Pacific education to mention them.

eimyr

Well, he stepped on a mine there, which is what the song was about.

I'm not sure I was relying on education here. But oh well.

Thanks for advice with Great Ork Gods

BESW

How'd that go?

eimyr

Awesome.

I went with Orks vs a summer camp

main enemies were a hippie wizard, a motivational bard and totem of friendship

I introduced the vibe that for orks anything happy is blasphemous, smiling is and unknown and foreign grimace; and colours are forbidden.

BESW

"grimace"?

eimyr

10:12 AM

merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grimace

BESW

Then maybe one of your "ands" is misplaced.

eimyr

I missed a semicolon

oh wait, no, there is an "and unknown" instead of "an unknown"

well, that wasn't a very good sentence

BESW

Also, Orks must find Pinkie Pie terrifying.

eimyr

surely

I enjoyed orks succumbing to the Bard sneaking around and telling them motivational messages after they fail at stuff, which was a bit passive-aggressive too.

BESW

10:31 AM

> I’m making comfortable middle-class-lifestyle money on my writing alone. This has happened not because I am so overwhelmingly splendid a writer that I have achieved what most indie publishers only joke about, but because I shun sleep, solace, and the feel of sunlight on my face. There is work to be done. (source is an indie RPG writer)

eimyr

@BESW Good link. Now I'd like a similar one but "indie RPG writing as a side job".

BESW

From the podcasts I've listened to, I think you mean "soul-sucking hobby."

eimyr

indeed that sounds like it

BESW

1:05 PM

@nitsua60 [wave]

eimyr

eyyyy

nitsua60

1:41 PM

the "in this country..." one reminds me of an old "5 Questions" with John Cleese on The Daily Show back when Craig Kilborn was running it...
Q: Why does British food suck?
A: Well, we had an empire to run.
Q: CORRECT! [ding]

@BESW hiya

eimyr

@nitsua60 How's your digging going?

@nitsua60 a propos your "british food remark" I think that having an empire and virtually unlimited easy access to exotic spices made British chefs complacent. It's easier to just overwhelm the dish with spices rather than enjoy the taste of ingredients. I find overspicing a major issue in the British cuisine, along with love of some inexplicably bland dishes, usually drowning in gravy and with legumes on the side

BESW

1:59 PM

@nitsua60 Tonight, I am listening to Square One TV songs.

eimyr

4:05 PM

@Oxinabox I'm intrigued by your avatar. Looks like MATLAB.

Momonga-sama

5:08 PM

@BESW Those taros are some bad Xenos stuff. Emperror disapproves.

nitsua60

6:03 PM

hey @eimyr, @BESW--sorry I've been afk most of the day. (And will continue so.) Eimyr: I've actually got almost no experience of British cuisine, so I relate the anecdote out of appreciation for Cleese's ability to come up with the answer quickly and on the spot. Even in his seventies he's got to be one of the world's best improv artists =)

@BESW bring me my childhood, man. I'm going to pull these up for my kids. Mathnet was huge for me!

eimyr

6:33 PM

@nitsua60 Mainstay British dishes come from outside the British Isles or are completely tasteless or involve mint sauce/marmite/offal.

BESW

9:18 PM

ooh, golden badger.

Asteria

@BESW nice :D

William Mariager

9:47 PM

Anyone know of a game that works around Half-Life? I tried looking for some d20 modern rules, but I didn't see anything specific.

I'm toying with the idea of a Zombie Apocalypse campaign. I figured I could go the Half-Life way, so I basically just need some inspiration on what to include.

Obviously, it's near sci-future. The different variations of zombies come from the different alien parasites.

Going with Half-Life 2, the Combine would be another threat.

BESW

Sounds like the sort of thing there's gotta be a half-dozen Apocalypse World hacks for.

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Q: Fallout PnP RPG -- is it good, well balanced, long-term interesting?

Has anyone played the Fallout PnP RPG? (also available here.) I think the rulebook looks very exciting, but what experiences have you made? Are the rules sane? Are there pitfalls or shortcomings which are only apparent once you started playing? Also, on a sidenote, how do you think about playing ...

fallout-pnp-rpg

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Q: What game system is best for playing Fallout on the tabletop?

Give details - why is the game system a good fit? What matches the Fallout setting?

game-recommendation post-apocalyptic system-for-setting

And of course there's all-flesh-must-be-eaten, which has support for a TON of different settings.

trogdor

10:09 PM

@BESW cool

Asteria

[parties] yaay, hit 1k rep [parties]

trogdor

nice

BESW

@Asteria Grats!

trogdor

I am not likely to hit that milestone soon myself XD

William Mariager

10:28 PM

Thanks @BESW, I'll give them a look. :)

BESW

10:54 PM

I had not previously realised that D&D 3.5 considers minted currency and unworked metal equally valuable.

[tucks away for next D&D economy spasm]

I guess maybe if you go really deep down the rabbit-hole, minted currency is alloyed and thus its raw materials are worth less than the pure stuff, but the minting reinstates value?

But tell that to the penny.

Asteria

11:14 PM

@trogdor I cheated. I've only answered like, two questions. But my first question was a hot question, so I got a bunch of points from that

trogdor

lol

@Asteria how many upvotes did it get? XD

Miniman

@trogdor 147.

(Currently.)

trogdor

I think just about all my answers and questions are either fate or 4e

those are not the most popular tags,.. not the least either but still

Miniman

@trogdor 4e was, to be fair.

trogdor

@Miniman well yeah,... but not anymore XD

Miniman

11:19 PM

@trogdor True, true.

trogdor

I think my first answer was actually my best, personally, but it doesn't have the most upvotes of my answers XD

that being said, there is no reason my personal opinion should matter very much there, it is other people upvoting after all

Miniman

@trogdor Yeah, but it's still annoying how completely the voting fails to match expectations.

I mean, look at this garbage.

trogdor

if people as a whole like my Burn Everything feat answer better than my Climbing onto Giant things answer then so be it XD

@Miniman lol

well it is right

XD

Miniman

@trogdor 22 votes for an answer I literally put no effort whatsoever into. And then answers I've slaved over and put serious effort into are sitting on 2 votes.

trogdor

@Miniman yes, this is my point

Asteria

11:23 PM

@Miniman easy questions are the ones people will be googling though

Miniman

@trogdor @Asteria I know both of these things. It doesn't make me any happier about cosmic injustice :P

trogdor

I had done, I think, a little more work to put together my first answer than I did my most upvoted answer, and yet

I think it was my first answer anyway, and it is currently at least, my second most upvoted

it is a weird thing that I personally like a particular piece of my work here the best, but going by upvotes and acceptance of answer alone, some other almost random thing I did is just more popular

I mean, it isn't really random, but it feels random that people seemed to choose it

@Miniman I am saying pretty much the same thing XD,.. it's just easier to look past it when it happens to someone else, as hilariously unhelpful as that is

anyway, as for being 1k rep, I am perfectly content to stay this exact rep for quite some time, it's all about actually seeing a question that whispers to me to answer it, the rep is just a thing that tells me people liked the work I put in (even if it does seem like people like some of it in disproportionate amounts sometimes :P)

though I do think hitting 1k is worth celebrating, it's a decent milestone

Shalvenay

hey there @Oxinabox

Oxinabox

11:43 PM

Hey @Shalvenay

Shalvenay

@Oxinabox how're things going?

Oxinabox

alright.

You?

Shalvenay

@Oxinabox OK here

Asteria

@Shalvenay Just had a glance at chat, saw green icons, assumed you were talking to yourself...

Oxinabox

ahahaha

Shalvenay

11:51 PM

@Asteria :P

trogdor

@Asteria I made that mistake a couple days ago

the invasion of the green people

Oxinabox

Currently thinking about esoteric damage examples, I want to make 2 example for each damage rating.
Currently have:
- Soapbubble moving at 100km/hr : No Damage (Bruised on Crit)
- Waterpistol full of stomach acid: Beaten

- Dustmote of antimatter: Beaten

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