so...am I correct in my understanding that acid damage in D&D is meant to apply to damage inflicted by corrosive and/or oxidizing agents, no matter their precise chemical identity?
@Shalvenay [puts on D&D wizard hat] What's chemical identity? What's an oxidizing agent? What is the street address of the department of these agents? How come I haven't heard of this before? Are they the ones handing out chemical identity papers?
@Shalvenay No idea, but I'm sure a nearby alchemist would be able to supply you with an appropriate acid. What's H2O2? I haven't heard of the recipe for that thing.
In reality they're acids, in D&D it's "what are molecules and atoms? please stop talking nonsense, the list of acids we sell is right here on the counter and we don't sell any of this foreign junk you're jibbering about"
so i guess they'd be acids, but not ones that necessarily exist as yet in the game?
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The word "default" comes from a Reddit user, not from any Fate manual.
The Fate quotes in the question talk about "not very tough" and "nothing stands out."
That's what your answer is driving at, but I think it's stumbling over the need to utterly reject the "default" phrasing: it needs to be a strong challenge to the question's frame.
Anyway, I gotta go sign a contract and pick up a package. ttfn
[pops back in] Something just clicked.
The querent's central question is actually "Why does Fate say +1 and FAE says +0?"
However, just before he asks that, he acknowledges that this isn't what the rules are saying at all, and it's his own interpretation: I know that "[not] more than a +1" includes +0, but I think this rule tends to be read as, "+1 is the default"
And then he uses a third party Redditor to defend the interpretation which he acknowledges is inaccurate.
So your answer needs to focus less on telling him what he already knows, and more on deconstructing the justifications he's created to ignore what he already knows.
There is no difference between the FAE and Core advise on easy difficulties (they both say "Don't go over +1 or it won't be an easy difficulty anymore"), just a difference in how they say it, and a Redditor who's bringing D&Disms about difficulties to a Fate discussion.
@DavidWilkins It's more frustrating because this is part of an ongoing difficulty with Myx. Which I will let someone else illustrate because my current version will have lots of CAPITAL LETTERS FOR SHOUTING and BARELY AVOIDED PROFANITY.
@Lord_Gareth Today is not a day I feel inclined to indulge pointless chat re-hashing of things that should be on meta. Hereafter I shall I be redirecting these things to the NAB.
@doppelgreener I've been toying with various ways "magic resurgence" might manifest in the world, and the version I'm liking right now is that in many parts of the world supernatural powers took over the local infrastructure and/or government. Amaterasu, as a "keeping supernatural stuff from impacting the common person" organisation, would probably have to go off the grid.
Going off the grid against supernatural opposition means having a supernatural ally, and wouldn't it be cool if that ally were... Father James, King of the Crystal Skull, for whom the mind meld with Agent Baker initiated a change in attitude?
@KitFox I should drop by the writer's chat sometime. I'm starting up a novel type thing centering around a girl with stained glass hair and her role in a conflict between conventionally fey beings and post-mortal fey
@doppelgreener You play Pathfinder, yes? I just did a flurry of edits to the playtest doc for Lords of the Night, and would love to secure feedback from you/your group.
@BESW this is confusing but i like that. i guess at least it'll last that way until Amaterasu goes off the grid, at which point it'll go: The new management is no management.
Then don't multiclass unless there's something specific you have in mind to gain from it: a paragon path you need to qualify as cleric for, a healing enchant that can only be applied to an implement shamans can't use but paladins can, etc.
@Aaron Have a look at PCGen - they have several (most/all?) open-license RPG rules included. Some they have publisher permission for. But there should be a list of what's what.
Also gives you some ideas of that type of program - it's a character generator, and also has some (unstable) DM tools.
@BESW It would probably be easy enough to find, but the thing is that any of Dr Lights fears about himself, in a he is evil capacity, would probably be very subconscious
whereas just finding any fear would obviously be easier, or at least something he is more directly aware of
In pathfinder, when the stats of a creature says: "DR 10/cold iron or good", it means that the creature has damage resistance for every weapon that strikes it except for a weapon made of cold iron? what about adamantine weapons? and what about magical weapons? furthermore: "or good" does it mean the wielder of the weapon? so when a neutral good character hits the creature with a standard short sword, the creature has no damage resistance?
@mawimawi DR/10 cold iron or good means if the weapon is cold iron it bypasses the DR OR if the weapon has been given an alignment of good via a spell or class ability (Example being the align weapon spell) If the entry read DR/10 cold iron AND good. The weapon would need to be BOTH instead of one or the other to get through DR.
I am designing an application that, upon it's completion, should be able to used by many different systems. Out of all the systems you have used what would you like in an application that could apply to them all? Or are they all too different for a single template to be usable?
And often the index cards WERE the character sheets.
If I could have sizeable index cards that can be moved around on the "table" and edited by everyone, and I could pre-make various fillable forms for the cards, that'd be awesome.
...it's also @doppelgreener's Fate Looms browser-based Fate online tabletop project.
Customisable, form-able, and moveable cards; ditto tokens; ditto a sketchable surface; you get the picture. Reduce the tabletop to its component elements and don't worry too much--like R20 does--about building them back up into pre-made content.
Provide some common templates, and let users customise their experience beyond that.
@Aaron Yeah. R20 does the detailed map-and-minis experience pretty well. Don't try to compete: target the non-map-and-minis audience like me. I'm overwhelmed by detailed features I don't care about obscuring the features I do want, and I play a lot of games that require group-specific customisation of utilities--games that aren't common enough for templates to be available, but I'm too overwhelmed by features to make my own.
yeah, I've had the privilege this year of playing with both ends of the laptop spectrum. We just bought my wife a nice enough low tier laptop from Lenovo. She mostly plays FB games and we watch movies on it. Then this past fall we got laptops for work, my work machine is a beast. i7, 8gb of ram, 500gb ssd, extended battery, And to be honest, other than the battery life, I'm not sure I do enough on it to tell the difference between my wife's laptop and mine.
(startup is quicker, but that doesn't matter that much, and programs load fast...so the SSD is a factor)
My current laptop runs great, but apparently the headphone/mic jacks don't work, and the power cable falls out easily...Given how little I use the headset though, I don't know if I can justify splurging on a new laptop
Well, I don't mind occasionally attacking, especially if a side result is allowing other party members bonuses, but for the most part I plan to spectate
I accidentally triggered a compile from our application once a few weeks ago. Tried to let it finish, was still running 4hrs later :( (thankfully it has a command prompt compiler that is multithreaded and runs in about an hour)
@JoshuaAslanSmith - Then are you for banning critical hits as well? Because you can make the same argument in that direction, in that critical hits rob players of combat satisfaction, etc.
@Grubermensch Either way, you are potentially removing enjoyment, or enhancing it depending on your view/approach. I don't see how you can logically embrace critical hits and eschew critical fumbles.
Now you can make arguments on the degree of the fumble, which I entirely agree that some of the fumbles are ridiculous.
But, just like when I spar in tournaments, if I miss badly, I'm going to eat a foot. A fumble in combat should act the same. Not deadly, but you still pay for it.
