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Cédric Antunes

12:24 AM

good day fellow people! ♥

12:56 AM

Ahoy, @CédricAntunes!

hey there @CédricAntunes and @GuidingLight -- how're things going?

also, may I ask who/what is depicted in your avatar @GuidingLight?

Cédric Antunes

=3 First time in the chat!

welcome welcome!

It's my MLP:FiM fancharacter, because I'm a gigantic dork like that.

Cédric Antunes

I thought that the profile was an OC of him~

12:57 AM

Welcome to chat!

Cédric Antunes

it's cute to have one :3 I have one myself (not pony tho~ but my 5e character xD)

@GuidingLight ah :p

Cédric Antunes

user image

my paladin aasimar! ♥ XD

Cool beans!

@CédricAntunes heheheh. I don't have any good art of my characters, sadly.

(which is a shame, because I have a D'born Palalock who I could use a good drawing of, among other things)

Cédric Antunes

1:01 AM

i took 2 days to make this, it was my first digital painting xD you should just try it, if you like doing it you will make it :3

palalock? paladin warlock?

@CédricAntunes yup

@CédricAntunes and I've done a bit of drawing before but drawing with a mouse is far too fiddly for my tastes. most of my background is in engineering sketching and diagramming anyway

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i also like my newest creation.. a stout halfling wizard, who is durable like a dwarf xD (high constitution, since he's tanky)

@CédricAntunes Stronghearts ;)

@CédricAntunes Oath of the Ancients Paladin/Pact of the Blade Feylock -- the net effect is kinda Summer Knight-ish best I can tell

(sadly, she is without campaign these days -- the campaign she's from had to be dropped because the DM no longer had time to run it)

@CédricAntunes -- so...who/what else do you play? (both characters and systems :)

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i only use D&D 5e o: And I used to have many characters, one I played with for a while was a human barbarian-sorcerer. xD We were 2 barbarians in the group.

@CédricAntunes ah. well, if you want to step out of the box, there are plenty of folks around here with experience with way different systems

Cédric Antunes

1:18 AM

Oh no I'm fine.. I really love D&D 5e and started a year ago. I got all the core books and I try to stick with this :3 I really like a lot of things about it and I'm even inspired enough to take out elements of it for rpg games

not that i copy it word for word, i just take ideas i get from the core rules ~

@CédricAntunes ah. I'm...still wandering the RPG wilderness looking for a suitable system

Cédric Antunes

I'm not complicated. xD First thing I had experience with was RPG Maker XP and Multimedia Fusion (now called Clickfusion) and I stick to the RPG Maker series, since they were really easy to use.

hey there @Emrakul

user61230

'ello, @Shalvenay!

[wave]

1:29 AM

btw -- what weapon does your aasimar pally wield? rapier? sure looks the part from the pic

@Emrakul how're things going?

user61230

@Shalvenay Pretty good! A little idle, but not for want of work.

user61230

How about you?

alright over here. hoping to get the family PC buttoned up and running soon

user61230

Oh, neat!

(it died an untimely death last weekend)

user61230

1:32 AM

That sucks. You know what failed?

@Emrakul SATA controller on the motherboard -- was due for an upgrade anyhow so I replaced MB/CPU/RAM rather than throw a SATA controller in and try to limp it by

user61230

Ohhh, huh. Hard drive still fine, though?

Cédric Antunes

@Shalvenay sorry! Yes, it's a rapier. :3 But she once used a whip fighting off a flying demon and critically smithed her with 50 damage! xD So careful. (it was around level 6 or 7)

@CédricAntunes xD

@Emrakul yes, no errors in the SMART logs

user61230

@Shalvenay Luuucky.

1:40 AM

@Emrakul the reason I know the controller's dead and not the drive is because it won't boot off of CD either :P

user61230

Maaakes sense. Still sucks, though.

Cédric Antunes

Everyone has gotten a golden badge, and I'm here with my 7 little bronzen badges. :'3

@CédricAntunes 7 badges in 2 days is nothing to sneeze at =)

Hell, positive rep in 2 days is a good start!

hey there @nitsua60 -- ~23 hours to game btw?

Cédric Antunes

2 days?~ O:

http://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/89534/how-long-does-a-hireling-work
this was my first post~

11 hours ago :3 But still I wonder if there's no interest in that question. o: I really wanna try out the bounty system; but the post needs to be 2 days of age. =3=

i take it back, i had another older question which was 13 hours ago. XD

1:54 AM

@CédricAntunes your profile page lists you at 2 days. That's because days are measured w.r.t UTC midnight, so about 2 hours ago your account hit its second day.

Cédric Antunes

I like this page, I wish I had known of this months ago. I was always coming across ideas or thoughts relating to the D&D rules/bases.. But I would go sageadvice for these things

@Shalvenay Hiya, and yes =)

@CédricAntunes sageadvice [shudders...]

RPG.SE is easily one of the best all-around resources out there for tabletop RP

Cédric Antunes

the things I saw there gave me often ideas for DMing or playing ~

@CédricAntunes I stumbled across it a while back because I've always used the Stack to help me suss out odd fixes in LaTeX. Then one day I noticed an icosohedron in the Hot Network Questions sidebar, and... now I've got a problem =)

Cédric Antunes

1:57 AM

@w@

@Shalvenay Dontcha know... we're "a healthy community of knowledgable, considerate people." =D

(emphasis mine)

@CédricAntunes I'd be surprised if at least an answer doesn't come in within the next day of its own accord. RPGSE can be a little quiet on the weekends. (We're busy playing.) Then it gets hopping on Monday. (When we all come in with the lists of questions we've made while playing.)

Cédric Antunes

Mmmh I see~ Good to know!

@CédricAntunes What sorts of ideas have you picked up?

Cédric Antunes

I would like to see more questions that I might be able to give an answer to (or my thought that could help the asker 3)

It was a half to one year ago. XD Back then I used to be all about D&D, I took a big break from it when I moved to another country~ (No people to play here with)

@CédricAntunes where's "here", if you don't mind my asking?

Cédric Antunes

2:02 AM

Portugal. xD

VTC system rec

Cédric Antunes

I used to live in Luxembourg back then, me and my brother would always play with 3 friends of his (every Friday)

?

@CédricAntunes What occasioned the move? Job? School? Fleeing the law? Romance? Treasure? Mix of the above?

Cédric Antunes

Rofl xDD Nah, we just felt like doing so. I moved there with my girlfriend and my mother, me and my mother were tired of Luxembourg and its citizens and my girlfriend came up with the idea of moving to Portugal

We are just like that

@CédricAntunes (I'm pointing others' eyes toward a question I believe deserves a (V)ote (T)o (C)lose, as it is asking for a recommendation of what game to play/use, which is off topic here.)

Cédric Antunes

2:06 AM

Oh, I see!

@nitsua60 sorry that I don't take your name while talking x

and... it's been closed with a nice comment from mxyzplk explaining why. =)

Cédric Antunes

@nitsua60 I believe I'm going to head to bed now :3 I'll make sure to come back on here for more questions and stuffs to read~

@CédricAntunes Not necessary--I tend to do that when conversational threads start to overlap, hoping it makes it clearer to the reader exactly the context of whatever I'm saying.

@CédricAntunes Have a nice night!

@Shalvenay So how's your weekend been? Any good reading/gaming/shows/experiences?

@nitsua60 quiet.

Quiet=good, restful or quiet=dull, long?

2:13 AM

kinda the latter

@Shalvenay Sorry to hear it.

spiked up with a ton of activity right now though

@Shalvenay gotcha

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7:43 AM

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9:36 AM

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Q: Closed question as unclear but has good answer

I posted this question Translation from classic systems to complete home-brew game rules for which I got a very good answer for which I'm happy I asked this question here. Now my question has been closed. I don't know how important that is I just wonder where I did wrong so I don't repeat the sam...

discussion closed-questions close-reasons

10:07 AM

Tonight's dinner is chunked pollock burgers fried in ginger wasabi teriyaki sauce with garlic, onions, bell peppers, and cayenne pepper, served on brown rice.

10:51 AM

@BESW Look out with your meal stackexchanging, I've been binging on Gordon Ramsay cooking shows.

Luckily I cook more like his daughter than his contestants.

It was mostly Kitchen Nightmares, not Hell's Kitchen.

Therefore, you won't have to cook your meal with 30 second accuracy, but rather scrub the kitchen clean while I yell "My God, what is that?! F**** Hell! Bland, bland, bland!"

I'm pretty sure tonight's dinner was not bland. Ginger wasabi teriyaki with cayenne can be many things, but bland is rarely among them. Although pollock's primary quality is its timidity.

11:43 AM

Then... overspiced?

Possibly.

Is it fresh or frozen?

Frozen, alas. Can't really do fresh on our schedules.

[goes bananas]

12:40 PM

@nitsua60 [wave]

@eimyr hiya

what's up?

Probably he's trying to figure out what to do about tomorrow's game.

what about it?

Last-minute attendance changes for the second session in a row.

12:55 PM

btw, @BESW, how did you like the weekend LVC?

@eimyr It was fun! I talked with Josh about a few of the hiccoughs and there's some stuff to focus on more going forward, but for a first game in a system where only one person had ever played it before and hardly anyone had even cracked the book, we did pretty well mechanically.

I've got an idea for another scenario already, and Raycia suggested the game's structure might be good inspiration for My Little Psyche.

@eimyr As the cypresses (cypress? cypresss?) like to say, "swamped."

@nitsua60 I always thought they prefer arid soils.

@BESW Yeah, I think it was good, even it wasn't precisely very "horror"

Mm. Horror is a mood our group doesn't get into very often.

When we're primed for it, we can do some pretty great stuff, but it doesn't happen often.

It all depends on the group, doesn't it?

1:07 PM

Geek Night is primarily a social story hour for having fun with friends.

if you advertise yourself as a Geek Night group with a flexible weekly gaming topic you're bound to be more about fun rather than experience

Yup. It's kinda necessary for the thing to work at all.

We took our Dog Eat Dog game to the middle of the week at someone else's house, because we recognised it couldn't really be a Geek Night thing.

do you play DED with any degree of recurrence?

We've only played two games, back to back in one session, so far.

There's some interest in playing it more, but only among some of the group.

It's... intense.

I'd be interested in something like that

but I'm not sure if the online factor is permissive for the experience

1:12 PM

Give it time.

More important than the online factor is the trust factor. It only worked for us because we knew each other and had had conversations on similar subjects in casual, unforced circumstances. That took a lot of time to build.

I'm not sure I said I demand this to be played with me right now.

Did it come out this way?

No, I know.

Just sayin', if you want to move in that direction it'll take time and socialising.

From what I've read of other folks play DED, it's a fundamentally different experience when players have experienced colonisation firsthand and downwind, than when they haven't.

@eimyr I dunno... I just googled "what trees grow in swamps". I think maybe there's a cypress subspecies here in North America that's a swamp-dweller?

Yeah, there's a whole subfamily of water-growing cypress.

Great Cypress Swamp

The Great Cypress Swamp (also known as Great Pocomoke Swamp, Cypress Swamp, or Big Cypress Swamp), is a forested freshwater swamp located on the Delmarva Peninsula in south Delaware and southeastern Maryland. As of 2000, it is the largest contiguous forest on the Delmarva Peninsula. Located at 38°29′N 75°18′W, it is one of the northernmost of the Bald Cypress swamps common in the southeastern United States (Battle Creek Cypress Swamp in Calvert County, Maryland is slightly further north, but much smaller). It covers about 50 square miles (130 km2), mostly in southern Sussex County, Delaware. It...

Mangroves?

1:20 PM

(cypress-essis)

The only famous cypress I know is the hill one.

=)

(I got that)

Mangroves are different, but occupy a similar niche--however, they're usually saltwater trees while cypress are usually freshwater.

(despite my membranic insanity)

isn't it the water brackish in both cases?

1:23 PM

It's not a hard-line distinction.

@nitsua60 There are only two people who would look for water on a hill. None of them are in the band.

jack and jill?

$Jill and Jack / began to frack. / The oil boosts their town. / But fractures make / the bedrock shake / and Jack came tumbling down.$

I love the alt-text

I'm reminded of an Uncited Moment in History from a couple years ago.

I think you forgot to use Noto.

2:09 PM

Okay: answer post that incorrectly answers question for the wrong system. VLQ, or NAA flag?

(this one)

What's VLQ?

Very Low Quality.

It's a review queue response type.

I'd give it an NAA flag.

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9:13 PM

I just posted the following to Movies, but I think some experts here could take a look, since it's cross-site relevant: movies.stackexchange.com/questions/62335/…

Regards "Mazes and Monsters"

Also, good riddance, Jack Chick.

@JoshDM [wave]

Let's try not revel in a person's death, eh?

→ 20 messages moved to Not a bar, but plays one on TV

Cédric Antunes

:3

So many people I don't know! Hi!

Cédric Antunes

Good day :3

I was here yesterday once c:

Hi again, @CédricAntunes.

9:25 PM

Hello, then!

Cédric Antunes

what's up, someone should tell me a short story of a dnd campaign D<!

The short story of all my D&D campaigns is very short. I think I've been in one…

Cédric Antunes

lemme read it out :3

Specifically D&D? Because most of my short stories aren't in that system:

Roll For Shoes liveblog: Employee Of The Month

Jan 3 '15 at 10:05, 2 hours 2 minutes total – 83 messages, 5 users, 4 stars

Bookmarked Jan 3 '15 at 13:24 by BESW

That's what I meant.

Cédric Antunes

9:28 PM

I've only played DnD~

Amaterasu / Masters of Umdaar: Light and Stellata fight in a swamp and then so does everyone else.

Dec 12 '15 at 14:34, 29 minutes total – 17 messages, 1 user, 0 stars

Bookmarked Dec 12 '15 at 15:05 by doppelgreener

I thought I had played DnD only in One-Shot sessions, but actually, I have played in a AD&D campaign at some point.

Oh, wait, and that DnD-based homebrew thing by the GM known for running politicsy backstabbing games, who said something about Dungeoneering so I went in with completely wrong expectations…

(Because most of it was still backstabby politics, except now in a dwarven city deep below the surface.)

What edition was that homebrew based on, do you know?

3.5

Ahah.

Cédric Antunes

9:34 PM

@_@

All I have is 5th edition

bought the books around a year ago~

and it was my first DnD experience xD i've done roleplaying before tho

@CédricAntunes My group plays a wide variety of games, many of them free and with very low sunk costs (quick to learn, little to no time spent on careful character generation before gameplay, no need for investment in props).

I used to play D&D pretty exclusively (3.5 and 4e), but have moved away from it almost entirely now because there are other games which better support my play goals.

Cédric Antunes

im really in love with 5e tho.. Ive read the books multiple times (not monster manuel tho)

I really can't imagine going back to a game with almost a thousand pages of "core" material plus splat.

I guess there is a good reason that many people start with big books. Because they give you lots of inspiration when you are not trained to play unsafe, maybe?

Don't get me wrong, there was a time when I really liked the private play aspects of D&D and I can appreciate the kind of system that takes weeks and months of effort to gain mastery over, but my gaming life has become a lot less stressful when I turned to systems I can learn in hours or days and start a game with new friends in fifteen minutes.

9:49 PM

I did start with the whole of Midgard, which is pretty hefty and I found it amazing then.

@Anaphory The only new-to-RPGs player I've ever personally played with who needed to be "trained" to play unsafe was myself.

Everyone else I've ever started with began by taking big risks and making wild innovations, which I'd have to say "no" to more than half the time if we were using the D&D system.

I don't think I wanted to gain system mastery in the beginning, but a world to delve into, similar to a novel, was fascinating – one of my favourite bits of the book (at least from the perspective of what I remember now) were the set-in flavour texts, for example written by the halfling merchant talking about food and that chameleon is the worst meat he ever ate.

Yeah, that stuff's a lot of fun. It's not the bulk of D&D's text, though. Dresden Files sprinkles its setting flavour throughout its rules text rather than in separate boxes; 13th Age makes the main NPCs of its setting and their agendas an intimate part of the mechanics for both GM and players; Freeport manages to spend about 250 pages on setting flavour without any mechanics at all.

Right now I've got my eye on Follow.

10:15 PM

@BESW i remember us talking about how one day, Tom and/or Stellata were going to head back there to retrieve that "staff" that is actually just a branch. so they'd bring a dumb branch back to Amaterasu HQ, and label it as some terrible powerful magical weapon. and then for as long as they can, Amaterasu HQ is just going to have this useless stick sealed away under maximum security.

@doppelgreener Heee, yes.

It's obviously unspeakably powerful, because it defies every test they can think to run on it.

@BESW how horrifying!

And of course, people will keep trying to steal the Stick of Power.

then some wizard comes in one day to inspect it.
wizard: what is this? this is just a useless stick. i can't feel any magic at all in it.
scientist: i know! that's what's so powerful about it! it's so magical it even has the power to defeat all attempts to read it!
wizard: my goodness! this is beyond my calibre, seal it away again quick!

@BESW of course!

10:32 PM

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Q: Why isn't it possible to delete an accepted answer?

I answered this question quite some time ago with a link that was useful to the asker at the time, but has since decayed (error 404). At the time, my answer was accepted, but it is now completely useless. Korvin's answer is still valid. I have flagged the answer. Should I be able to delete my (n...

10:46 PM

hey there @eimyr @DuckTapeAl @CédricAntunes

11:16 PM

On read-through I was not as impressed as I was by Microscope. I'm an official Follow playtester, but my RL weekly group disintegrated about three hours after the .pdf for Follow arrived =|
We have hopes that November may do better than August, September, and October have done.

11:28 PM

@nitsua60 Ooh. Maybe one of our Discord games?

@BESW what, I take big risks and make wild innovations?

@doppelgreener this is hilarious, I had almost forgotten this was a thing that happened

that was definitely one of my favorite sets of sessions, where I was playing Vultura and everyone was conspiring to keep characters out of the loop

11:59 PM

anyone has an SR2 core handy? I look for the site where barrier rules are... I only got the german paperback...

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