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BESW
BESW
12:29 AM
@ArtaSoral Hi!
 
Shalvenay
Shalvenay
@ArtaSoral hey there
 
BESW
BESW
12:52 AM
@Miniman Unless they want to play Katanas & Trenchcoats, I suppose.
...or that game with the great handfuls of dice where you fight gods while trying not to become one.
 
Miniman
Miniman
@BESW What's that?
 
BESW
BESW
@Miniman Mythender.
 
Miniman
Miniman
@BESW Looks interesting.
 
BESW
BESW
I don't have enough dice to play it.
 
Miniman
Miniman
@BESW Wow, what kind of handfuls are we talking about?
 
trogdor
trogdor
12:57 AM
@BESW which is weird, cause you certainly have a lot
 
Miniman
Miniman
More or less than Shadowrun?
 
BESW
BESW
They recommend about 150 d6s.
They say it's possible to play with about 125.
 
Miniman
Miniman
Wow, that's...wow. Time to use a software solution, I think.
 
BESW
BESW
And there's four different kinds of dice to differentiate.
Also about 170 tokens.
 
BESW
BESW
1:12 AM
Correction: at least 153 dice in order to probably not need to share.
30-40 white, at least 100 black (the more the better), twelve red, and at least one extra-big die (though they recommend everyone bring their own).
 
Miniman
Miniman
Yikes.
 
BESW
BESW
 
Pixie
Pixie
[squints] I think I have half that many d6s, but certainly not in that many colors.
 
Miniman
Miniman
I have precisely 6 of each standard die, in an assortment of blues and colours that don't clash with blue.
 
Pixie
Pixie
Most of mine are plain white Bicycle brand d6s I got on a clearance sale back when I worked at TRU, the rest a mismatched assortment.
I have like 6 or so standard 7 polyhedral sets. Then I have a few weird things I've amassed for no particular reason, like zodiac sign dice.
And a bunch of single d6s with various animals for the 1 pip.
 
Miniman
Miniman
1:26 AM
@Pixie I may have to try and find a d20 with a whale for the 1.
 
Pixie
Pixie
@Miniman I'd love some other animal pip dice, but alas, I've never seen any.
I have bat, cat, crab, unicorn, dragon, and beetle d6s. Maybe some others.
 
trogdor
trogdor
I have a large variety of colors, within the very very small number of dice I have XD
 
Pixie
Pixie
I have far too many dice for someone who pretty much exclusively plays online games.
 
BESW
BESW
 
Miniman
Miniman
@trogdor Let's see...I have translucent sky blue, translucent deep blue, marbled blue, black, clear, and green.
 
Pixie
Pixie
1:31 AM
I've seen them with the tail of a whale too, not sure if they're still available.
 
trogdor
trogdor
@Miniman you are very descriptive of them XD
in order to be that descriptive I would have to be looking at them right now XD
 
Miniman
Miniman
6 colours, and I was playing last night.
 
BESW
BESW
1:52 AM
...well, my thumb doesn't look like it's gonna fall off, so that's good.
 
Shalvenay
Shalvenay
hey there @Pixie
 
Pixie
Pixie
@BESW That is certainly a good thing... did something happen?
@Shalvenay Hey.
 
Shalvenay
Shalvenay
@Pixie how're things going?
 
nitsua60
nitsua60
Area 51 question: anyone know if discussions from proposal phase are still live when a site goes to beta? Do they get migrated to beta-meta?
 
Shalvenay
Shalvenay
hey again @nitsua60
 
BESW
BESW
1:55 AM
@Pixie I made a good first shot at trying to hack off the tip of my thumb while slicing onions last night.
 
nitsua60
nitsua60
@Shalvenay hiya
 
Shalvenay
Shalvenay
@nitsua60 how're things going?
 
Pixie
Pixie
@Shalvenay Alright. Not much going on. How are you?
@BESW Ow. D:
 
Shalvenay
Shalvenay
@Pixie better now that my package is in town
 
nitsua60
nitsua60
On dice: I've got a bunch of incomplete poly sets, then what's clearly got to be a full set of Axis & Allies' red and white d6s =)
@Shalvenay Actually, not feeling great =\ Nothing serious, just a tiny bummer. But it's the current worst thing in my life, so that's both annoying (to me) and pretty excellent (for me).
 
Shalvenay
Shalvenay
1:59 AM
@nitsua60 darn. guess I should check back later this week re: scheduling?
 
nitsua60
nitsua60
@Shalvenay Yup. I've started dealing with lectures and homeworks in my current course, but the first programming project hasn't rolled off the line. I really want to see one of those before opening the worm-can on scheduling DW.
 
Miniman
Miniman
I'd appreciate any and all feedback on this answer - it's way out of my comfort zone.
 
BESW
BESW
2:18 AM
@Miniman I'd issue a frame challenge re: CR, but that's a totally different kind of thing.
 
Miniman
Miniman
@BESW I've hinted at it in places, but it's essay material in itself.
 
nitsua60
nitsua60
@Miniman Think it's a really good way to look at it. I think you could front-load a little bit with "CR's meaningless because you've no way to evaluate what the fight'll be like because it's so dependent on player choices."
 
BESW
BESW
@Miniman Dr. Miniman or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Challenge Rating.
 
Miniman
Miniman
@nitsua60 So move the last section up to the top? Or is that not explicit enough, do you think?
 
nitsua60
nitsua60
I also think the best advice that OP could get would be "don't assign CR. Make this a mythical monster, off-stage for 90% of your campaign. Make learning about it a major point. Let them fail at dispatching it a few times. Make them strategize!"
@Miniman I think I would just flesh out a little bit of the "why" in your 1st sentence, then make the (current) 2nd sentence the start of para. 2.
"It's impossible..." Why?
You're immediately into the full (and good) reasoning, but a top-line "here's why" would be nice, IMO.
 
Miniman
Miniman
2:31 AM
Ah, I see what you mean. It'll have to wait until I get back to a computer, but yeah, that makes sense.
 
nitsua60
nitsua60
Something like "It's impossible to define a valid CR for such a creature because 2/3 of the relevant stats are based on the players' choices, which you cannot predict." as line 1.
 
BESW
BESW
@nitsua60 Impossible!
 
trogdor
trogdor
@BESW oh, you didn't specify it was that bad X(
 
BESW
BESW
@trogdor It's healing pretty well, I think. Took it very seriously.
 
trogdor
trogdor
good to hear
 
BESW
BESW
2:37 AM
Will probably have to keep it bandaged for a good while though. I cut into the nail too, and that's gonna be a hazard until it grows out.
 
trogdor
trogdor
one of my brother's fingers got so badly infected once that it looked like it would explode (it was taken care of properly and exhibits no differences from the others now)
 
BESW
BESW
Yeah, luckily the cut was with a sharp freshly-cleaned knife.
...unluckily I was chopping onions at the time.
Starting tonight I'll swap out the disinfectant for aloe to work on the scarring.
 
nitsua60
nitsua60
@BESW Misreading this as "cat" rather than "cut" did interesting things to how I picture life on Guam.
 
BESW
BESW
We do have a feral cat problem.
 
nitsua60
nitsua60
2:52 AM
@BESW Misreading this as "fecal" rather than "feral"... well that just means it's time for bed. Night, all!
 
BESW
BESW
Goodnight.
 
trogdor
trogdor
@nitsua60 lol
 
BESW
BESW
3:42 AM
Exactly what it says on the tin.
 
Joel Harmon
Joel Harmon
@kviiri Have you considered asking your DM to explain his thought process? Perhaps what you see as DnD style hooks is really his representation of fronts. (I don't have enough information to say, but you could certainly look into it)
 
BESW
BESW
4:39 AM
 
Miniman
Miniman
@BESW I didn't realise exported messages are inserted into the transcript like that. Very confusing.
 
BESW
BESW
Yeah.
 
trogdor
trogdor
@Miniman yeah, when I first noticed that it was very confusing
it still technically is, but it's usually not at the forefront of my mind XD
 
Adeptus
Adeptus
@doppelgreener I've had a swooping magpie actually peck my head. Didn't draw blood, but certainly got me moving out of its territory...
 
BESW
BESW
Leverage fans know Jessie from the work she did as our Parker double. Couldn't be more proud of her! https://www.facebook.com/colliderdotcom/videos/10153957241059366/?hc_ref=PAGES_TIMELINE @ColliderNews
Tweeted by Dean_Devlin on August 31, 2016 at 1:42 AM
 
user15026
5:06 AM
@BESW holy crap, that's impressive
 
BESW
BESW
I know, right.
 
Adeptus
Adeptus
5:55 AM
Mental picture of Dragonborn as Big Bad Wolf - "I'll huff and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house door down! (Then I'll take a nap before the next door.)"
 
Miniman
Miniman
@Adeptus I always assumed the huff and puff business was the verbal incantation for a Gust of Wind spell.
(Well, not always. In fact, only since I thought of it just now.)
 
kviiri
kviiri
6:06 AM
@JoelHarmon Doesn't feel that way. I mean, it feels like we lack initiative most of the time. We just react to what the GM throws in our way, instead of making our own trouble, working gigs and the like.
 
 
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kviiri
kviiri
7:32 AM
Trying to put that more clearly, I feel he has a lot of plot and we're playing that - not to find out what happens.
Then again, I did the exact same thing when I GM'd AW for the first time.
And it's not necessarily a bad way to kickstart a campaign.
 
 
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kviiri
kviiri
8:34 AM
Oh snap!
The AW2e handbook preview nerfed our Driver considerably.
He was a bit frustrated that his vehicle combat skills only kicked into play when attacking other vehicles (using Cool instead of Hard) so he took the Battlebabe move "Ice Cold" that allows rolling +Cool for all battle moves.
Now it has been nerfed to only apply to Go Aggro. Daym.
 
 
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BESW
BESW
10:08 AM
 
nitsua60
nitsua60
10:54 AM
@Miniman grr.... I'm sooooo close to having one of those shiny, gold dupe-hammers myself =)
 
Miniman
Miniman
@nitsua60 It's weird to me how much it rewards quantity over quality.
 
nitsua60
nitsua60
@Miniman Yes. To the extent that my demons were tempted to answer the dupe before close-voting it =|
(I don't know if that'd work, but just to find out....)
 
BESW
BESW
@Miniman The dupe-hammer? Yeah, I think the idea is that "this person offers good contributions to this tag" isn't necessary for that privilege: what's necessary is "this person has seen this tag in all its glory and shame."
 
Miniman
Miniman
@BESW I'm not sure - I wonder if it's another thing where numbers developed for SO seem weird here.
 
BESW
BESW
Could be.
 
nitsua60
nitsua60
11:18 AM
I feel like that's a lot of downvotes for a not-horrible question =\
(I mean, I'm not going to upvote it or anything, but at a certain point it just feels like piling-on)
 
kviiri
kviiri
Alas, human psychology is weird.
 
nitsua60
nitsua60
Ooh, @kviiri--do I recall correctly that either you're Finnish or you live in Finland?
 
kviiri
kviiri
I kinda dislike many ways the voting system goes wrong. "Corrective" voting, like "this question's not good but it's not downvote-bad so I'll upvote" and dogpiling are both pet peeves of mine.
@nitsua60 Yep!
 
nitsua60
nitsua60
Is "Helsingen Venns" Finnish?
(Or any language that anyone here knows?)
 
kviiri
kviiri
No, it's not. That looks a bit like Swedish (and it's an official language here in Finland).
 
nitsua60
nitsua60
11:22 AM
M'kay. Thanks =)
 
kviiri
kviiri
Did you see that in writing or hear it? "Venns" isn't Swedish as far as I know, but it would be the intuitive spelling for "väns" which mean's "a friend's".
I should up my Swedish game. Luckily here at work I have at least four friends who speak it as a native language. So I can always practice.
 
Joel Harmon
Joel Harmon
11:41 AM
@kviiri I'd say it's worth talking about, but in fairness all I know about this is based on and offhand comment. Technically if he's not using fronts to build encounters and such after the first session, he's not following the rules and is therefore cheating; that's all I've got.
 
kviiri
kviiri
@JoelHarmon Well not anymore, really. AW2e ditches the fronts, which is a shame - I had just grown to like them.
But yeah, I'll make a wish, depending on how the next session goes. He might just've wanted to start the campaign with an easier adventuring part to get us on the right track.
(We've got two sessions down so far)
 
nitsua60
nitsua60
@kviiri My GM for Storm King's Thunder sent it along as an example of Giantish.
 
kviiri
kviiri
Heh!
 
Joel Harmon
Joel Harmon
well I stand corrected, then; thanks!
 
kviiri
kviiri
Well, you're still essentially right :)
 
Joel Harmon
Joel Harmon
11:46 AM
well, I'm also running late, so I've gotta go. Bye.
 
kviiri
kviiri
AW2e uses a threat map in lieu of fronts. I'm a bit confused about it. It's basically a map divided into eight sectors with a circle in the middle. The middle circle is for the PCs and their resources, and the eight sectors are for threats that are in North, East, South, West, Up, Down, In or Out. Sounds too static if the players desire any degree of mobility.
But maybe it's enough as a rough location map.
Before you ask, "In" and "Out" refer to psychological and cosmic threats, if I understood correctly.
Oh, they're also divided between "close" and "far" threats. Close threats are immediately visible, further threats are looming and terrifying... and might require traveling to reach.
 
BESW
BESW
12:01 PM
It's always interesting to see how different RPGs suggest we structure our settings/stories/conflicts/characters/what-have-you.
I found fronts rather baffling.
And Bubblegumshoe has driven home just how awful I am at relationship maps.
 
Miniman
Miniman
@BESW --awful at--> relationship maps <--obviously amazing at-- @Miniman
2
 
BESW
BESW
@Miniman <--oh hush you-- BESW
 
kviiri
kviiri
The one thing that I still don't get about fronts is why one needs many. I understand the need for multiple threats and issues inside a single front though.
 
BESW
BESW
@kviiri Long-form campaigns, I assume.
 
kviiri
kviiri
Could be. Or set across a wiiiide area.
 
BESW
BESW
12:05 PM
Mmm, sandboxy.
 
kviiri
kviiri
Where some NPCs might be relevant for several sessions and then non-present for 10 sessions.
 
BESW
BESW
...my last D&D 3.5 campaign was deliberately designed to be a formal sandbox game after the West Marches style.
So I set it in a desert bounded on three sides by mountains and on the third by the sea.
 
kviiri
kviiri
I try to not overcomplicate stuff anymore. Always turned out less fun than I thought.
 
Miniman
Miniman
@BESW Heh.
 
kviiri
kviiri
Desert, so... a literal sandbox.
 
BESW
BESW
12:09 PM
 
kviiri
kviiri
I decided to subvert the usual "dusty Mad Max" post-apocalyptic setting and set a one-off in the frozen wastes during a nuclear winter instead. Instead of bikes and cars, the players had snowmobiles and tractors, and fought against nomadic tribes living on huge nuclear warships retrofitted to plow through the snow on massive augers.
 
eimyr
eimyr
 
kviiri
kviiri
@eimyr Yep, that was the main inspiration. The nomads were also vaguely Slavic in terms of naming, to honor the Soviet screw vehicles. The session ended with two of the four players moving West in search of better living, one staying in their starting town waiting for near-certain death after a skirmish destroyed their heat infra, and one dueling the leader of the nomads, actually winning and becoming their new leader.
 
 
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Riley
Riley
2:14 PM
Heya
 
kviiri
kviiri
Hey!
 
Riley
Riley
How's it going?
 
kviiri
kviiri
Pretty good. Swamped at work at the moment, but could be worse! (and there's beer in the near future)
Browsing AW2e handbook preview on coffee breaks. :)
How about you?
 
Riley
Riley
Kinda tired for some reason, pretty warm at work here, otherwise fine.
Gonna finish my character tonight for a Pathfinder session this friday. Although it's a pretty broken character,
 
kviiri
kviiri
I need to play DnD with some experienced people sometime. Maybe it feels better if everyone can roll their character in advance instead of devoting the first session to char creation like usual.
 
eimyr
eimyr
2:23 PM
@kviiri or you can turn it into a teambuilding exercise
 
Miniman
Miniman
@kviiri I've never built chars in advance, but it's never taken more than about half an hour, either.
 
kviiri
kviiri
@Miniman Maybe we just suck :P
But on the other hand, we had a party of six and only one in addition to the GM had any experience with DnD when I last created a DnD char. And the GM was a tad rusty too.
One PHB to go around with.
 
Miniman
Miniman
@kviiri That's the biggest sticking point.
 
kviiri
kviiri
@Miniman We also had digital copies (yarr harr), but it's slow to browse if one doesn't know exactly what they're looking for.
 
Riley
Riley
I'm planning to play the Lost Mine of Phandelver with a few people who've never played before. What are some pitfalls I should watch out for? I've been a DM only once before in an own made one-shot.
 
Miniman
Miniman
2:28 PM
@Riley It does a pretty good job of walking you through it.
 
kviiri
kviiri
My first DnD character was Eric the Cleric, who was an ordained minister of Avandra, the god of change. We decided to interpret "change" as in "the money one receives back after paying with large denominations", but I somehow managed to play that concept reasonably straight anyway.
 
Riley
Riley
@Miniman That's nice.
Is there a way I can add my DEX modifier to my bow dmg?
 
Miniman
Miniman
@Riley That happens automatically.
 
Riley
Riley
@Miniman It does? Seems like I overlooked something then, thanks!
 
Miniman
Miniman
@Riley Do you have the PHB, or just the rulebook from the box?
 
Riley
Riley
2:40 PM
@Miniman I have a .excel document for Pathfinder where I make my character. I don't have an actual player handbook unfortunately.
 
Miniman
Miniman
@Riley Wait wait wait. What system are you playing?
 
kviiri
kviiri
@Riley That's fun, I tend to do those magic sheets myself as well :)
 
Miniman
Miniman
Because Lost Mine of Phandelver is D&D 5e, not Pathfinder.
 
Riley
Riley
@Miniman The Pathfinder character and Mine of Phandelver are unrelated.
I'm planning to buy the box and be a DM for a bunch of friends who've never played before..
 
kviiri
kviiri
Pathfinder, or any RPG?
 
Miniman
Miniman
2:42 PM
@Riley Then, assuming you were talking about Pathfinder here, as far as I'm aware there's no way to add Dex to bow damage.
 
Riley
Riley
@Miniman Aww man
Well, considering I'm shooting this https://mlkshk-ada.kxcdn.com/r/O9N0
It may be better
I can't believe my DM allowed this.
 
Miniman
Miniman
They probably figured if you wanted to spend your entire WBL on a single shot, that was your choice.
 
Riley
Riley
@Miniman WBL?
 
Miniman
Miniman
@Riley Wealth by Level.
Essentially, the concept that you probably can't get a Portable Hole and a Bag of Holding at level 1, but by level 10 it shouldn't be an issue.
 
Riley
Riley
@Miniman Ah, yeah. We're at level 11 currently.
 
Miniman
Miniman
2:47 PM
@Riley Ah, so it's only 1/4 of your WBL for a single shot.
Still a tremendous waste, of course.
 
Riley
Riley
@Miniman Yes, but it will be glorious
 
Miniman
Miniman
@Riley [shrug] If you say so.
I feel compelled to point out that it doesn't actually kill anything, just dumps it on the Astral Plane. And at level 11, most major threats can probably get back from there without much difficulty.
 
Riley
Riley
Iirc in Pathfinder there are no written rules for it.
We rotate DM's every session. And another guy didn't something like this but with 2 large Bags of Holding
 
Miniman
Miniman
> If a bag of holding is placed within a portable hole, a rift to the Astral Plane is torn in that place. Both the bag and the cloth are sucked into the void and forever lost. If a portable hole is placed within a bag of holding, it opens a gate to the Astral Plane. The hole, the bag, and any creatures within a 10-foot radius are drawn there, the portable hole and bag of holding being destroyed in the process.
 
Riley
Riley
Aw dangit
But I did make it a house rule that it created a massive explosion based on the size of the Bags of Holding
So I'm kinda assuming the next DM do the same
 
Miniman
Miniman
2:54 PM
1 am here - I gotta go sleep and stuff. Cya!
 
Riley
Riley
Goodnight
@kviiri Totally missed this sorry, any RPG.
 
kviiri
kviiri
New role-players! Always exciting!
 
Riley
Riley
Yes! And I've DM'd only once so it's exiting for me as well.
Everyhting died when I was DM... Except for the players.
 
kviiri
kviiri
How do you like Pathfinder in general?
I've never tried it myself, but it sounds like a good take on the general concept of DnD.
 
Riley
Riley
It's pretty fun, I've had like 4 sessions now.
And I've had 3 sessions of DnD 3.5
But the group I'm doing Pathfinder with isn't really serious. So all our characters are Mix maxed and have dumb shit.
Like I'm playing a 2 headed orge with a friend of mine
It's amazing
 
kviiri
kviiri
3:00 PM
Most of my DnD experience comes from 4e, it was ok fun but I've never really wanted to go back to DnD after trying out other systems.
 
Riley
Riley
@kviiri What's your favourite system?
 
kviiri
kviiri
@Riley Apocalypse World
 
Riley
Riley
@kviiri Never heard of that one
 
kviiri
kviiri
@Riley It's a fairly simple rules-light, narrative-heavy game set in a world ruined by some undetermined cataclysmic event. The core mechanic is very simple: the player describes what their character is doing. If this matches a "move", the rules pertaining to that move are followed.
 
Riley
Riley
@kviiri Interesting
 
kviiri
kviiri
3:10 PM
Usually said rules involve a roll. All rolls use the same mechanic - 2d6 + bonus, with bonus usually ranging from -3 to +3. Ten or higher is a hard hit - a very successfully executed move. Seven to nine means the move is a "soft hit" - a reasonably successful move, with a possible drawback or only partial effect.
The real fun happens at six or less, which is a miss - a failure, or on occasion, a very costly success.
@Riley They're releasing a second edition soon, and they made the first edition (which isn't very different) free of charge to celebrate. If you're interested you can get it for free at apocalypse-world.com, but you need to sign up with your email. They haven't spammed me at all, but use some throwaway address if you like - there's no confirmation codes or anything.
 
Riley
Riley
@kviiri I'll have to take a look at that when I'm home, thanks for the info
 
nitsua60
nitsua60
@kviiri That's a good description of the mechanic--I never thought to put it that way. [Jots down inside front cover of DW.]
 
kviiri
kviiri
@nitsua60 Yeah, as the book puts it: "To do it, do it - and if you do it, you do it."
(that's a bit opaque out of context, though!)
 
nitsua60
nitsua60
@kviiri Sooth.
 
Riley
Riley
Costly Successes are really interesting for low rolls. Sounds like a fun mechanic.
 
nitsua60
nitsua60
3:17 PM
@kviiri Should have thought of this earlier, but Google Translate auto-detects is as Norweigan... and as translating to "sincerely friendly." Which, I suppose, is a rather nicer salutation than "hello" or its equivalents =)
 
kviiri
kviiri
@nitsua60 Heh :) I wasn't too far of when I thought of "vän" then
 
nitsua60
nitsua60
I feel badly that I have absolutely no idea how related Danish, Finnish, Swedish, Norweigan, Icelandic, &c. are. All one family? Some Germanic and some Slavic? Nowhere-near-that-simple...?
 
Riley
Riley
@nitsua60 The Germanic languages are all similar to each other, you can even add Dutch and German to that list
 
kviiri
kviiri
@nitsua60 Finnish is Fenno-Ugric, and not related at all (although loanwords from Swedish are very common, particularly in Helsinki Slang). Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and Icelandic are all Germanic in origin, and I think Icelandic has remained closest to their common ancestor.
 
nitsua60
nitsua60
Cool--thanks =)
 
kviiri
kviiri
3:23 PM
As an example of a move, there's Chopper's (a character role) move "Pack Alpha". Chopper's defining trait is that they are in charge of a biker gang of their own (you get to customize your gang, of course). Pack Alpha is used whenever the Chopper tries to impose their will on their gang - so gives an order that clearly contradicts the gang's nature or interests. Like trying to impose discipline on a particularly savage gang.
The Chopper rolls Hard (one of their stats, at +2 or +3 for most Choppers) when doing this. On 10 or more, their gang does what instructed, doesn't fight back over it, and the Chopper doesn't have to make an example out of them.
On seven to nine, the Chopper gets to choose one of those: they do what the Chopper wants, they don't fight back over it, or the Chopper doesn't have to make an example out of one of them. Serious!
Six or lower, one of the Chopper's underlings takes it at an opportunity to become the Alpha themselves. What happens? Up to the Chopper to see through!
 
Riley
Riley
That's a neat system
I'm going home, good night
 
kviiri
kviiri
Yeah, I absolutely fell in love with it at the first sight.
@Riley Good night o/
I'm absolutely pumped that someone asked me about AW. I feel like that LOOM guy in Secret of Monkey Island!
3
 
nitsua60
nitsua60
4:10 PM
Hi @NickolayPestsov--you'll need 20 reputation points to chat, but here's one thought I had on your question:
I think you should check out either Roll20 or Fantasy Grounds, two online "virtual tabletops" that each support 5e.
It wouldn't be quite the me-vs.-computer that I think you're going for, but I know in Roll20 it'd be easy to set up a game and ask for single-player short (half-hour?) sessions.
Something like "new DM looking to run a single encounter for a Warlock"
Then if you get a bite you can look over warlock rules, go through the player's spell list and refresh yourself on those spells, &c.
Anyway,I'm off to lunch--good luck!
And welcome!
@NickolayPestsov (Just saw your comment in mainsite--getting it all in your head is just a matter of practice and repetition, in my experience.)
 
kviiri
kviiri
5:02 PM
Reading some code I wrote during the last Summer. I wish I had a time machine so I could travel back in time and, uhm, set myself on fire or something.
It's 8PM here. I decided I wouldn't leave work until the feature was done. Finally starting to get somewhere.
 
user1673882
user1673882
Such is life
 
kviiri
kviiri
Yep.
The prospect of post-coding beer is still strong!
 
user1673882
user1673882
Oh, wow, I'm still showing up as user*? I need to change that
 
kviiri
kviiri
Yeah.
Oh yeah, muh feature works.
 
UrhoKarila
UrhoKarila
Woot!
 
kviiri
kviiri
5:06 PM
Oh hey, a fellow Finn?
 
UrhoKarila
UrhoKarila
Nah, just a Finn fan
American, but Finnish heritage
 
kviiri
kviiri
Cool. From the Great Lakes area?
 
UrhoKarila
UrhoKarila
speak a bit but years out of practice any only grazed 'conversational' anyways
Twin Cities, MN
so
sort of?
 
kviiri
kviiri
Yeah, there's a quite sizeable ethnic Finn population there, right?
 
UrhoKarila
UrhoKarila
Reasonable. I think most Finnish-Americans are a bit further north.
The metro area seems to favor Swedish-Americans a bit more
 
kviiri
kviiri
5:17 PM
I see :)
 
UrhoKarila
UrhoKarila
Whereabouts are you from?
 
Riley
Riley
5:31 PM
@kviiri What have you created?
 
kviiri
kviiri
@UrhoKarila Helsinki, Finland.
@Riley It's a boring work project - parses patient data for research. Just implemented a small fix/feature request.
 
Riley
Riley
5:48 PM
Ah
 
UrhoKarila
UrhoKarila
I've visited Helsinki, once
Seems like a nice city
 
Abraham Ray
Abraham Ray
6:35 PM
hello, it's my first time here.
 
kviiri
kviiri
@UrhoKarila It is, although I think the best parts are where one doesn't necessarily know to look. Like the nature preserve near Pitkäkoski.
@AbrahamRay hiya!
 
Abraham Ray
Abraham Ray
hiya @kviiri
has anyone ever used the pellet bow in dnd? probably not as not many have heard about it.
on a related note, has anyone ever used silk armor in dnd?
 
UrhoKarila
UrhoKarila
@kviiri That looks gorgeous! I wasn't there for too long, so only got the opportunity to wander about the city itself.
@AbrahamRay Which edition are you talking about?
 
Abraham Ray
Abraham Ray
3.5 or higher @UrhoKarila
 
UrhoKarila
UrhoKarila
@AbrahamRay I've mostly done 5e, and haven't come across (at least non-homebrewed) silk armor or pellet bows.
You going for official content or homebrew?
 
Abraham Ray
Abraham Ray
6:40 PM
if it helps I'm from auburn Washington myself
homebrew @UrhoKarila
 
UrhoKarila
UrhoKarila
@AbrahamRay Was about to link you to a question I remembered from a few days back about pellet bows
Then saw that you were the one to ask it
 
Abraham Ray
Abraham Ray
I've also come up with the double whip which is a 2 sided whip seperated by a 6-inch bar. I'm just not sure what the stats for that weapon would be, let alone wheither it should be a exotic weapon or not.
 
kviiri
kviiri
@UrhoKarila I used to live like 20 minutes' walk away :)
 
UrhoKarila
UrhoKarila
@AbrahamRay Is the double whip based on a historical weapon?
Sounds like it'd be exotic, though
@kviiri That's what I envy about you Finns -- so close to nature
My family's summer cabin is a 4-hour drive north
 
Abraham Ray
Abraham Ray
@UrhoKarila not, really. it's a weapon that I can up with just off the top of my head. I figure that it's about 1d6/1d6 though.
not sure what the price would be though.
 
UrhoKarila
UrhoKarila
6:47 PM
@AbrahamRay Sounds pretty strong -- I think the 5e whip is something like 1d4 non-lethal
 
Abraham Ray
Abraham Ray
oh, then 1d4/1d4 then, does that sound better as damage for a double whip?
 
UrhoKarila
UrhoKarila
1d4 slashing, reach, Finesse for the whip. Just checked
 
Abraham Ray
Abraham Ray
thanks @UrhoKarila
 
UrhoKarila
UrhoKarila
np
 
Abraham Ray
Abraham Ray
what sort's of food do the various races in dnd eat when on the trail/adventure?
 
UrhoKarila
UrhoKarila
6:49 PM
so d4/d4 - are you thinking of letting the user make 2 attacks/turn with it? or 2/action, whatever the wording is?
 
Abraham Ray
Abraham Ray
what sort of trail rations do they eat?
2 attacks/turn @UrhoKarila
 
UrhoKarila
UrhoKarila
History wouldn't be a bad place to compare against. Hardtack, jerky, nuts...
tailored to race
orcs/goblins/kobolds might go for a meat-heavier diet
Elves might lean more towards nuts & berries
 
Abraham Ray
Abraham Ray
yes, the trail rations would probably be tailored to race at that @UrhoKarila
 
UrhoKarila
UrhoKarila
Rangers would be more able to get some fresher food with mushrooms, veggies, and fresh meat added in
 
Abraham Ray
Abraham Ray
would evil rangers turn canablistic?
 
UrhoKarila
UrhoKarila
6:52 PM
I'd guess not.
There's not a lot of good reasons to turn cannibalisic
 
Abraham Ray
Abraham Ray
true dat
 
UrhoKarila
UrhoKarila
Not the most efficient food source, it'll fight back more than most, brings a lot of trouble if it gets noticed, greater chance of disease transmission...
 
Zachiel
Zachiel
7:31 PM
@AbrahamRay in 3.5, weapons are exotic if they're slightly better than martial - often not enough to encourage you to spend a feat on them, with some notable exceptions. If this was pathfinder, if would be exotic if not tied to european middle-ages culture, even if it was the worst weapon ever. Different design priorities.
 
nitsua60
nitsua60
8:02 PM
Btw @AbrahamRay, 5e has no concept of exotic weapons. Exotic languages are really the only mechanical use of the word. (There're exotic woods in some treasure tables, exotic saddles for flying mounts, the Sorcerer class's three-para. lead-in descriptions mention exotic bloodlines, but that's all "flavor" text.)
 
 
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BESW
BESW
9:16 PM
@nitsua60 Seriously, "exotic bloodlines"?
 
SirTechSpec
SirTechSpec
9:37 PM
@besw This question seems like a great opportunity for you to jump in with "or you could just tell them": rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/87402/…
 
BESW
BESW
9:48 PM
I'll let someone more familiar with the details of Pathfinder's GMing assumptions take on that task.
 
 
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Miniman
Miniman
11:36 PM
 

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