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Aw :)

I got lots of other great responses, but... yeah. That.

(I also appreciate this swing of topic into nicer stuff.)

I also got a prancing cat.

Baby Otter Fenway vs Stuffed Walrus

If you like baby animals vs things, have baby otter vs stuffed walrus (and fish toy, and other baby otter).

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12:18 AM

@Pixie Don't know if you saw it, but turns out great ork gods is a lot of fun. Your group may like to try it sometime.

@doppelgreener I saw! Seems pretty great. I think it's the sort of thing they might be into, especially my best friend.

Someone should unfreeze Aww!

Aww!

To clarify, spiders are not on-topic here. Ever

What? Spiders are totally aww! (Nah, I know they creep most people out.)

Also, GOG was super easy for me to GM.

Terrifying Nightmare Monsters

Because the meanies in the Aww! room hate spiders (chat.stacke...

Haha.

12:25 AM

GMing GOG was all about a) setting up an environment with lots of things for Orks to smash; b) thinking of amusing things for goblins to do in the background; and c) pointing out when something was particularly Orky or un-Orky.

The players are in charge of all the mechanics except handing out Oog.

At first I had to coach on the rules a little because I was the only one who'd read 'em, but they quickly picked it up and reminded each other to spend Spite and so forth.

By the end of the session they were figuring out rules for round-robin GMing per turn so I could play an Ork next time.

That does sound easy.

Also, the most aww spider (but definitely a spider).

I'll see your snuggly spider and raise you a spider in a waterdrop hat.

@BESW I have seen this spider! It is indeed very aww.

@BESW Also, point of order - I was reading the Great Ork Gods rules, and it turns out that using a goblin does one of two things: cancel out a point of spite, or set the difficulty to easy. That's only material in one case from how we were doing it - if a task's been set to difficult (3), it goes straight to easy (1), doesn't go to medium (2) in between.

@doppelgreener Aye, I mentioned it in passing and I'm pretty sure it never actually came up during play--I was trying to keep an eye out for it.

12:39 AM

@BESW I found out something else.

For performing actions:

> If the same player controls the Ork and the relevant God, the difficulty is automatically set to easy. In this case, instead of the player in question getting a point of Spite on a success all the other players gain a point of Spite on a success. The Gods do not like favouritism.

Ahah. That makes sense.

That also makes sense out of the example on page 8 where Gilli and Pete gained spite...

12:55 AM

I should play this sometime. It'll give me something to do with all those languishing d10s in my dice bags.

Holla folks :)

Hey!

@Pixie Sorry, semi-late shift today - Are we planning on playing today?

@Nyoze That was the plan, anyway. @Sandwich has been around, but I haven't seen @Althis yet.

I'm actually off for a few days in a row, so if we don't wind up playing tonight, maybe we can finish up tomorrow.

That could be better... On the phones a bit today, but we'll see how it goes :)

1:01 AM

I'm almost never off on a Monday evening, which is usually followed by a Tuesday morning, so that's usually not a great option. But it is this time. xD Going to wait a while and see, though.

@BESW I finally understand stunting. Took some reading and re-reading and failing to notice some words I had skipped.

Anything could happen, wait and see :P

It's just a matter of saying "actually this god should be controlling this". In a lot of cases that wouldn't even seem like a stunt - of course pushing a boulder to smash into a cart takes the God of Strength, why would it take the God of War?

But sometimes the stunt can be declined. In the above example, I'm stunting to push that boulder to slay the caravan of halflings. If the stunt were declined, I'd have to roll once (appealing to Strength) to push the boulder, and a second time (appealing to War) for it to actually hit the cart and kill the halflings inside.

I keep coming up with questions about this game, but rereading the rules a few times has me spot the answer that was staring me in the face all along.

1:18 AM

It's not written really well, but it's thorough.

Yarp

(And the font choices sometimes make me want to just rip out the layout and re-do it myself.)

@BESW Yes. The example text is a very poorly chosen font.

@doppelgreener That Great Ork Gods sounds... Awesome.

@Nyoze It is.

I'm not gonna talk it up lest I make it seem like the best thing since sliced bread, but I went in expecting a game about Orks being Orks, and about their gods that hate them and spite them, and I got exactly what I expected.

Iron Heart

1:23 AM

yo

@IronHeart Hi!

2:49 AM

hrrnrhngh

this question is doing a thing that is a faux pas for me and using brackets for every other statement.

is.... is that genuinely a poor writing pattern or is it just me?

@doppelgreener Even as someone who does overuse parentheses, yes, it is. xD

A genuinely poor writing pattern, I mean.

The thing I tend to overdo is explain a thing twice. <_<;

@Pixie it's not just meeeeee \o/

It's often better just to use another sentence than it is to use a parenthetical. When you use too many parentheses, it also becomes difficult to follow the sentence.

As a general rule, short sentences tend to get points across more clearly than long ones. You can go too far in the other direction, of course, but it's really easy to cram way too much into one when you get into things like parentheses. It is a thing I work on.

Parentheses can also actually increase readability, though. If you are writing longer sentences, you may want to make sure you're employing something in your grammatical arsenal to lead the eye. You just don't want to be stopping and starting the eye like a bumper car.

Absolutely, they are a tool to be used well and not overused.

I like concision.

I'm usually wordier than I need to be, and that is the thing I work on. :D

Yes. I am tooooo wordy, so I work on that. =w=

3:04 AM

There are so many times I write something, then look over it again to find I can just outright delete half or more of it.

I understand that feeling...

I used to have a tendency to write incredibly long, multipart sentences that were not, in fact, run-ons or actually confusing to interpret on face, but could become laborious simply for their extreme length.

Yes. It's possible to write very long, nigh-incomprehensible sentences which are still perfectly grammatical. xD

These weren't incomprehensible, just tedious.

Tedious is probably a better word for it, yeah.

3:09 AM

Also, I might have had a childhood infatuation with semicolons; they are delightful.

I like semicolons too! I also like dashes.

I feel like I understand how to use semicolons much better than how to use dashes.

I cannot ever dispose entirely of them. There is just a certain effect they have on the reading of sentences that meshes well with my voice when I write. I've tried to be much more judicious with them, though.

I like that we can actually produce em dashes here in answers with —.

I use them so much.

I don't have a favourite punctuation mark but it is satisfying to create something that's well executed.

@Grubermensch Here is a good article on how to dash.

3:16 AM

@Pixie to dash hold the SHIFT key

@Pixie Reading the end of that I was tickled at the thought of using an unmatched parenthesis at the end of a sentence, as is done with dashes.

@doppelgreener Useful information!

Press B to jump!

When I was a very young child, I didn't know what the shift key did. I simply could not figure out how to type quotation marks when I was writing my stories, so I used / instead.

Why I used / instead of ' or even '' is a mystery to me.

Quotation marks are actually a fairly modern invention. For a very long time, we just interpreted whether something was speech based on context.

3:25 AM

@Pixie because ' is that sigil you use in possessives, not quotes, of course [/not actually accurate]

@doppelgreener It probably would have made sense at the time. xD

yes

I'm actually a fan of corner brackets used in East Asian languages.

「like so」

I for one have many a time had something simply never occur to me, or I make some other goofy judgement call and it simply never occurs to me why.

Oh, yes. And French uses « ».

3:29 AM

@Pixie I have never gotten used to the existence of guillemets.

@Pixie

@doppelgreener They'll always mean breadcrumb navigation levels to me, because I am an American heathen.

Am I late?

@Althis A bit, yeah. That's alright though. I could potentially run it tonight, or we can just do it tomorrow if everyone is able to attend. I think @Nyoze said tomorrow might be better anyway.

Whatever is easier.

My game run a little late today.

3:31 AM

Actually.

I'm back on chat now, so I'm good whenever :)

Oof and Korean and Chinese apparently use the tall version for titles of published works 《Like this》

@Grubermensch Somehow I can deal with that much easier than European guillemets. Probably because they reach the top, come to think of it -- I also have trouble with languages that ,,do this'' for quotations.

I think at this point tomorrow may be better for Maid. We went kinda late last time even starting earlier, and some of us were getting sleepy then. @Althis @Nyoze @Sandwich

@doppelgreener What about corner brackets?

@Grubermensch Schwa?

Oh those!

Those are also a-ok.

Probably because they are not used in sentences using our alphabet, so the relevant parts of my brain don't attempt to chime in.

3:35 AM

@Pixie Works for me :)

@Pixie your choice.

@Pixie Quotation Dash

I don't anticipate this going too long, but my anticipation is fallible. :P I can stay up almost indefinitely, but I start failing at coherent thought at some point, and I need that for GMing. At least... ideally. xD

@Grubermensch I have seen this used.

@Pixie Are sure sure that coherent though isn't a handicap with Maid?

I feel like I need to read Joyce again.

3:40 AM

@Nyoze To an extent. However... I will eventually start doing things like saying something twice because I forgot I already said it. :P

@Pixie This is nothing I don't do on an ordinary day anyway.

@BESW A lamassu statue from Assyria.

@Grubermensch I'm trying to think... I know I read a short story recently that used them. It was pretty good. Maybe... blargh. Something by Laird Barron, I want to say.

I might just be thinking of him because he was common in the anthologies it came from, though.

(@BESW Also note the optical/artistic trick they were trying to perform.)

@Nyoze I have... levels. xD

3:48 AM

@Pixie I don't. I'm just a level 0 Commoner. Maybe with LA -2 for being insane :P

("Slightly tired but alert" is the baseline. They usually cap out at "hallucinating a bit.")

@Nyoze You don't get negative LAs for flaws, you get bonus feats.

@Pixie I would agree this latter state is not necessarily a good one to GM in :P

@doppelgreener That is a rather advanced step, but. :P

The point stands. I would not GM in said state. xD

4:01 AM

@BESW [strokes chin, pondering the grammatical applications of Rainbow Dash]

@BESW this is making me smile so much. That's really clever.

@Pixie Use rainbow dashes to indicate that a fragment is 20% cooler than the rest of the sentence.

@Grubermensch Yup, that's the one used in Russian. Learning to use quotation marks all the time took a while.

user15026

@BESW Oh my gosh I love this

@BESW Seems problematic at small font sizes.

4:05 AM

(source)

(Rainbow dashes can also replace asterisks when using the Baedeker style.)

@BESW fill me in on what the Baedeker style is?

@doppelgreener The Baedeker family wrote an extensive and definitive series of travel guidebooks, and institutionalised the "five-star" rating system.

Here's a fun aspect for a non-science character in a game like ARRPG: Science dudes don't hafta make sense.

@BESW so, five dash rating system?

@doppelgreener Yes!

Five Dashes, of course, meaning the subject is fully 100% cooler than the baseline.

4:26 AM

it seems like this system should also have nega-dashes for indicating relative uncoolness in extreme outlying cases.

@doppelgreener They would have to be....squares.

...eggheads.

Derps? (Unless Derpy is cool or something.)

Negadash?

(The original dub of Sailor Moon renamed the villains as the "Negaverse" and proceeded to add "nega" to as much as they possibly could.)

5:12 AM

@Pixie I would probably giggle if these were actually compiled.

and... and if they really did jam pack things with nega

"Take a nega-blast from my nega-wand! Nega-ultimate final nega-attack! Hyaaaaa!"

@doppelgreener I don't know if I can find much more, but here is Luna saying "The Negaverse!" dramatically a lot.

New Name Spelling of the Day: Krystle.

Negative, Negatron. Neganaga negotiations negated.

Am now disappointed there is no neganaga monster.

Naega jeil jal naga!

The Negaverse used an evil energy, the Negaforce. And did they have monsters? No, Negamonsters. The Black Moon Clan became Negamoon Clan, from the Negamoon, a rogue moon (instead of just Planet Nemesis). The Ayakashi/Specter Sisters? Negasisters. And then there was Sailor Moon's trashtalking. Negacreeps, negatwits, turning them into negadust...

5:22 AM

This is starting to sound like a Riddick/Lexx parody.

@BESW K-pop (J-pop?) meets MMO outfits, at least at the start.

@BESW Oh, I love this song. xD

I like the ice-cream-cone minimalist take on Rita Repulsa's headgear, around the 2-minute mark.

Hate You is better, though. Pretty neat little animation, too.

//goes back to listening to Dream Theater//

5:27 AM

@Magician Images and Words?

@Nyoze I tend to just load up the entire discography of a band at the start of a day. Train of Thought :)

@doppelgreener Alas, I can't find any negaclips, but this channel is the most wonderful collection of Sailor Moon dub clips out of context.

@Magician Well, the entire discography works. Definitely some highs and lows there though.

Can be said of any band. But Train of Thought is the first of their albums I'd heard, and it's still my favorite one.

@Magician I typically prefer their earlier works, except I have a soft spot for A Dramatic Turn of Events as well :)

5:33 AM

@Pixie These seem like a lot of very silly and unnecessary nega-renamings.

"They can't just be... nega... and sisters... and not be CALLED nega sisters! They're from the nega place!" "But what if there's other sisters?" "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it!"

@doppelgreener It is a thing a lot of 90s dubs did. Digimon did it with digi-, probably even more zealously. But with Sailor Moon, it was a way of cutting out some plot points, combining several distinct villain groups under one umbrella because... who knows?, and avoiding as many terms relating to death or darkness as possible.

:23177422 markdown doesn't work in multiline

@doppelgreener Ahh...

I just gave up lol. That thumbnail was terrifying though.

@Nyoze Sailor Moon monsters are... interesting!

@Nyoze except for an initial quote > or code indentation spaces

5:37 AM

@Pixie That they are!

@Pixie and someone other than 4kids was responsible for this?

@doppelgreener This was DiC. These were pretty early days in dubbing. Most companies did things like this.

Well, DiC and then Cloverway.

I seeeeee......

My favorite clips tend to be the Cloverway ones because a) they had some really bad voice direction and b) they censored Haruka and Michiru's relationship by making them "cousins" but often failed to cut or write out the actual subtext very well. Though DiC is great for horrible "hip" 90s slang that almost no one I knew actually used.

Wow XD

These sound pretty entertaining to watch.

5:44 AM

For example... "My sweet Brad. I wonder where he is today. [LOOKS DIRECTLY AND KNOWINGLY AT AMARA]"

@Pixie Hahaha!

THE KIDS WILL NEVER SUSPECT A THING.

@doppelgreener The most hilarious was the episode where Haruka and Michiru enter a couples' contest and almost win it. They kept this episode. They sort of try to spin it as a friendship contest part of the time, but they still have the characters point out how weird it is for "girls, and cousins too" to enter it.

@Pixie MAYBE THEY'VE DECIDED TO DUB IT THIS WAY AS A PRACTICAL JOKE

@Pixie Cousin. He's my cousin. Cousin. Totally my cousin. In conclusion: Cousin.

@BESW Hahaha! Yes.

5:52 AM

@doppelgreener I joined that Stack just to replace the question's [egyptian] tag with [classical-antiquity].

It kinda sucks a lot people would prefer obtuse plot redirection over actually having a same-sex couple on the show. <_<

They also go really out of their way to have everybody mention that they are cousins, including villains who should have no way of knowing.

@BESW Great work.

@Pixie Those are some impressive levels of Totally Cousins.

@Pixie Did... did the villains know or refer to their relationship in the original?

Aura of Cousinhood gives you +5 to defence checks using the Closet skill.

5:55 AM

@doppelgreener Why, it's so obvious that they're cousins. You can tell from the way they look at each other!

@Magician Not that I recall.

6:21 AM

yep, cousins

that is the only explanation

for anything in fact

it is all cousins

It's cousins all the way down.

...ew.

hey, I didn't start it

Heh. On a different note, this was indeed the world's lamest fight, no matter which version you're watching. This is the culmination of a long, equally pointless rivalry. This.

@Pixie that is pretty lame

6:26 AM

It skipped a few steps there.

On a somewhat related note, I once had an elf NPC who, I eventually realised, was basically Tuxedo Mask. Bad things happened to that elf, but not because of his Tuxedo-ness.

Heh.

it definitely looks like he received one punch to the shoulder and flew into the ocean there

@Pixie This chat has taught me that sudden cut is probably censoring either guns or kissing.

I dunno if that applies here

thet guy looked like he preferred lightning shocking to guns

and kissing doesn't catapult you into the water last I checked

@trogdor You're doing it wrong.

6:30 AM

@trogdor That's the sort of thing that's always confused me - someone gets stabbed or has an arm chopped off, but guns need to be censored?

eh

they also didn't look to be in a kissing kind of mood anyway

I'm trying to remember if they really made any cuts at all there. I... don't think they did.

@Pixie Is that cut!?

or was it that lame to begin with

Believe me when I say this is one of the most hilariously ineffectual rivalries I've ever seen, all the way through, even in the original.

It is funny every time they... "fight."

...no, autocorrect, I don't want to replace "merfolk" with "menfolk". That would somewhat change the narrative.

6:33 AM

are they both supposed to be good guys, or is one evil and one good?

@trogdor They're obviously just "cousins" who like to "fight" each other.

@trogdor The tuxedo guy is good. Blondie is evil.

ah

@BESW yes of course XD

But Tuxedo Mask lasts in fights for about 9 seconds on average. He throws a rose and gets out of dodge.

@Pixie Poor Sailor Moon.

6:34 AM

lol

premature fight ending

it is a common problem

Cool!

Alternately...

hee

6:40 AM

@BESW Now I'm wondering: are mertails superior in any respects to standard human swimming?

Would there be a use case for actual humans to don them for underwater activities?

@Grubermensch Well, we do use flippers.

Mermaiding

Mermaiding (also referred to as artistic mermaiding, mermaidry, or artistic mermaid performance) is the practice of swimming while wearing a costume mermaid tail. In the beginning of the twentieth century mermaiding was sometimes referred to as water ballet, but it is not currently a term that is used much. Mermaiding should not be confused with modern synchronized swimming, although there can be some overlap if a mermaid performance troupe is performing a synchronized routine. Mermaiding is both a profession and a hobby. Professional mermaids will often swim in live, filmed, or photographe...

@Grubermensch If you want science, try looking under monofin.

I think it has mostly to do with how it was designed

you would most likely have to work really hard to make it useful

rather than just a costume

Try searching "monofin efficiency."

@diablo8226 Hi!

@doppelgreener I checked... there is indeed not a cut. It was that lame to begin with.

6:49 AM

@Pixie .... That's pretty lame

Yes, it does seem that the monofin provides a signficant increase in speed (to 12kph).

@Pixie Wow...

Normal human swimming speed tops out at around 6kph.

Swordfish, on the other hand, can travel at around 100kph, so we're not impressing any of the natives even with our nifty fake tails.

Wow :\

@doppelgreener Then Jadeite's like, "Do you need a man to do everything?" They're like "Haha no we're going to kick your butt with GIRL POWER." And then they do. (Only then do they really care that Tuxedo Mask apparently just drowned. Tuxedo jumps out of the ocean to tell them about friendship and run away.)

6:57 AM

@Pixie Sailor Moon fights from what I remember really were just. "Super Power!" "Super Power!" "Super Moon Power!" /Victory

@Pixie so the first half of this is great but the second half is concerning XD

"Tuxedo jumps out of the ocean to tell them about friendship and run away" is an excellent sentence.

It is

@Nyoze There's also some kicking, and one time Usagi shoulder-checked a villain untransformed, which was pretty cool... but mostly yes. :P

But if Tuxedo Mask only shows up at opportune moments and disappears after a few seconds leaving a rose behind, what is he doing the rest of the time, and how can he just suddenly appear fully uniformed? Has the Sailor Moon community just decided he's busy following Sailor Moon around and fanboying over her (or other more creepy ways to describe it) or is there a less weird explanation?

7:01 AM

@doppelgreener No, as far as I'm aware, that's pretty much it.

@BESW "Tuxedo [insert action] and tells them about friendship [or love] and runs away" is an accurate depiction of almost everything that he does.

@doppelgreener Remember that Darius and Serena have massive crushes over the other super powered form without realising who it is. ...Somehow. Any time Sailor Moon transforms, Tuxedo Mask feels a disturbance in the force to find her.

@Pixie OK so just saying if I were sailor moon I'd be getting pretty annoyed at him doing this all the time and not doing more or communicating squarely

@doppelgreener But he's so dreamy.

"Get the hell down here and have a goddamn conversation with me you elusive jerk!"

7:03 AM

Tuxedo: "Friendship is based on good communication!" [flees]

"Why didn't you show up earlier if you're here basically all the time you stalking creeper!"

@doppelgreener You are clearly not a magical girl.

@BESW yes XD

@doppelgreener Because she's too busy pining away for him that she actually transforms just to make him show up and save her from trouble.

@doppelgreener No, yeah... that's about it. He actually dresses up in a tuxedo (most of the time he cannot transform) and runs around investigating things, including Sailor Moon. The anime removed the few supernatural powers he did have in favor of a rose.

7:05 AM

@Magician That remains to be seen!! But seriously I'd love to see a redub where Sailor Moon just loses her sh....shnozzle at him.

His speeches are gold.

> Turning a sacred place of learning into a battlefield is an unforgivable outrage. Now, Sailor Moon - teach them the ABCs of Justice.

Also - Worth noting I only know the Dub names of the characters - I have no idea of the original names :(

> A serenade fits a beautiful moonlit night. All noise that is painful to listen to should disappear immediately!

@doppelgreener Eh. Usagi (that's Sailor Moon's name, right?) is not a particularly well-adjusted individual, I remember that much.

@Pixie That's one for the ages

That should apply to my life.

7:06 AM

@Nyoze I reflexively use their sub names, sorry for any confusion. xD Usagi = Serena, Mamoru = Darien.

@doppelgreener Their relationship in the anime is actually a little bit infuriating sometimes. xD

Is Sailor Moon named Rabbit? << That's a cute reference.

Yes! Tsukino Usagi, in fact... the rabbit of the moon!

Speaking of cute.

3

Wow XD

WHO COULD SAILOR MOON POSSIBLY BE

@Magician Awwww.

@doppelgreener The girl whose last name has "moon" in it who looks, sounds, and acts exactly like her? Hmm... nah.

7:08 AM

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@Pixie It doesn't confuse me lol, just letting people know if they look and get confused since we're almost talking about 2 different people, but we aren't lol.

@Nyoze Makes sense!

Time to find out if I might be about to get KO'd by a sinus infection or something. Ttfn!

@doppelgreener Oh no, I hope not. D: Seeya!

@doppelgreener I could always see the rabbit in the moon easily, and to this day the man in the moon seems like really forced pareidolia by comparison.

7:12 AM

@doppelgreener /Sends 1 Full Resurrection Spell if required.

@doppelgreener Good luck!

> "Pure, innocent maidens who love sweet foods… I cannot forgive fake dentists who snare them into unfair traps!"
"The beach is a garden of beauties in swimsuits. It is not well-suited to bombs! Massive amounts of gunpowder should be for large fireworks to light up the night sky!"
"A supermarket is the people’s fountain of health. The fresh vegetables of the open country and the melt-in-your-mouth shabu shabu meat are angry!"

"... the melt-in-your-mouth shabu shabu meat are angry!" Wow. Beware the angry meat!

I also like how he describes the beach as "not well-suited to bombs," as if other things are.

hey guys... not sure if this question is appropriate for RPGStack: "What is the definition/meaning of Eldritch as pertaining to things like Eldritch Knight and spells like Eldritch Blast?"

7:28 AM

My comment would be, "Can you please clarify why you suspect the dictionary definition is not sufficiently applicable for these uses?"

So "weird and Ghostly" is what it means?

thats the 'dictionary' definition i get when googling eldritch definition

Also sinister, possibly connected to early connotations of 'elf' when that word was also basically a catch-all for "scary magic stuff."

But yeah. [wiggles fingers] Spoooooky.

hmmm, ok. I just assumed it was like devil magic or something since i mostly note its use in conjunction with Warlocks

Nah, our modern-day categorising of magics into multiple different unassociated disciplines is exactly that--modern.

Go back one or two hundred years and werewolves and vampires are interchangeable, demons and fairies are spoken of as similar beings if not the same, dwarves and elves are different only in their professions.

I was prompted to ask when it crossed my mind to make an order of Paladins based on the Green Lanterns. I was going to called the 'The Eldritch Knights of the Veridian Beacon" not sure if Eldritch is appropriate for that lol

7:33 AM

("Gandalf" was originally a Norse mythological name for a dwarf called "half-elf," where "half-elf" pretty much just meant that he was more lore-y and less crafter-y than his brethren.)

So yeah, "Eldritch" should be fine for your Viridian Parody.

sounds good... then to a related questions... the Green lanterns would be paladins right? or would they maybe be Eldritch Knights?

@MC_Hambone How does a Green Lantern work?

Is it arcane magic, divine magic, or something else?

(I'm guessing Clarke's Law magic based off what I know.)

They are space cops working for practically immortal races. they have power rings that can create constructs of hard light

I suppose it depends on what aspects, exactly, you're looking to translate.

so in D&D terms i figure the Guardians would be a pantheon the paladins revere and the ring/lantern would be the holy symbol?

7:37 AM

@MC_Hambone I'd suggest that you classify them purely on their ethos - the mechanism of the rings isn't really relevant to what they are as a concept.

I want them to be the portectors of a kingdom, infused with the same kinda powers that the ring would provide in the comics

Sounds like paladins to me.

@Miniman I guess the ring could be a magic item... and then the GL would just be a fighter.... but given their intense Lawful Good alignment (for the most part) and their dedication to fighting evil, i thought maybe paladin was closest

Any character can protect a kingdom if that's their goal, of course. Paladin sounds like it should work on the surface, but you'll just want to be sure that it does what you want power-wise.

@MC_Hambone Like I said, I think basing it off their ethos makes the most sense, hence paladin. You may want to refluff them to make the ring the source of powers, and maybe change the spell list to match the powers you want them to have.

7:42 AM

i was planning on giving them access to most if not all the "conjure" or "summon" spells since thats what the rings basically do in the comics, the conjure light that is then formed into a structure. Like conjure animals summons fey spirits that take the form of an animal(s)

but yea, so paladins it is!

SPArchaeologist

@Pixie Even if you usually skip the MLP comics, you may want to have a look at the last issues...

Hooray! I seem to not have a sinus infection, just.... a virus giving me a lot of the symptoms of one!!!

With the possibility I might actually really have one but we can't yet tell.

@SPArchaeologist Oh?

@doppelgreener Aww... hope you recover ASAP. :c

@doppelgreener tries to cast cure wounds

@Pixie Thanks. I'm feeling crummy and tired and out of it, like, a lot, so I'd very much like feeling OK @_@

SPArchaeologist

7:53 AM

@Pixie well, I suppose that you can't call the comic cover a spoiler...

@SPArchaeologist ... relevant to my interests yes.

@doppelgreener Yay! Hope you feel better soon.

I'm actually concerned I got myself misdiagnosed. ~_~ The GP asked me if my sinuses were feeling sore while she was busy poking my face, and it wasn't feeling sore while she was busy poking my face so I said no, but now that I'm busy paying any attention to that area it does feel sore and is stinging just a little bit.

@SPArchaeologist i rate this ★★★★★★ out of 5

@MC_Hambone i think that only works on fantasy universe people but i appreciate the thought :D

@doppelgreener If they continue to feel sore, definitely go back and let them know. P:

Last time I was sick, I think I went through about four diagnoses (I still don't know what it actually was, but...).

@Pixie Was it Lupus

8:04 AM

By the end of it, I was afraid it might be whooping cough, but thankfully it was not. It was just a very bad, very stubborn cough of some other kind.

I will definitely go back and check if it keeps up ~_~

Oh good! XD

Whooping cough sucks

It does. I might have had it before, but we'll never know. I was freaking out like "oh not this again I don't want to be sick for a year." Cass had it once too... that poor creature.

At any rate, you probably know these things, but lots of water and hot liquids, frequent steaming, etc. I also like to apply heat directly to my face when my sinuses are bad or when I have a headache of any kind. The easiest way is to just run a wash cloth under really hot water and ring it out, but you have to refresh it really often.

@Pixie I do not actually know these things, this whole "put steam in your face" technique is pretty new to me and was only just recommended.

By their lore, Green Lanterns are probably closest to clerics of the virtue of courage. By their actual power source, they're warlocks sworn to an extradimensional being with the portfolio of willpower.

@doppelgreener Ah! It can be very helpful.

8:11 AM

I have never ever ever had a sinus infection or anything like it.

Ooh, I see.

@doppelgreener Taking a whiff of camphor also really helped last time when I couldn't breathe. I just happened to have some of that, though. I know it is not a common household ingredient. >w>;; Menthol and eucalyptus have similar properties, and you can buy rubs (at least here) that I believe are synthetic versions of all three. Vicks is what we have here.

I had pneumonia twice as a kid and then basically never ever got sick except like, colds or flus and that was it. I suspect the pneumonia gave me superpowers, as that is how it works, I think, according to DC comics.

We have Vicks as well.

I never really know what I have as it seems the doctors never know either. I don't get sick often, but when I do, it tends to hang on.

I usually have to go in twice for infections--ear or sinus.

The first time I say, "I have an infection!" and they say, "Well, maaaaaybe but you don't have any symptoms yet."

I think I went in 4 or 5 times last time, and they just decided it was allergies the last time, but it wasn't.

8:15 AM

The second I say, "I have an infection!" and they say, "OMG why didn't you come in earlier?!"

Ouch.

Often I can catch it before it's fully latched on, and purge it with home remedies.

Sometimes I can tell it's coming on, but sometimes I can't. The first obvious thing for me is usually a sore throat. I get these frequently because I dehydrate very easily, though, and like I said, I don't get sick often. So I drink a lot of water and rest. If my throat is still sore the next day... I'm in for it.

Oh, I know I'm going to get a cold when I can hit higher notes without straining.

@BESW "Hooray! ... noooo!!"

8:26 AM

Exactly.

I know I'm going to get a cold when I am sneezing a whole lot.