TRPG General Chat

12:00 AM

@Lord_Gareth [wave]

@BESW Taking a brain break from running Hunter right now. They just got some clues as to the nature of the Woman-With-Stars-In-Her-Stomach and discovered Patient Zero

They're about to go interrogate the summoner

BESW

Shiny.

Lord_Gareth

BESW

Oh, well, if we're posting demotivationals about underestimated fictional characters...

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Lord_Gareth

Ha!

KitFox

12:16 AM

Hullo!

BESW

Heyo.

KitFox

My friends, I have come to boldly ask a wee favor.

BESW

Fancy meeting you here.

KitFox

Will you please point your browsers to my question?

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Q: What does the fox say?

It is true that as a fox, I should know this, so consider this a spoilers warning. In a recent post, Geek Girl mentions that the mating call of the fox is a series of sharp, eerie barks and that this is called gekkering. This is supported by a citation in Wikipedia, but the reference is not one ...

I am trying to get the 42 hat, and I am close, but the time is almost up.

I will think of you kindly and fondly if you are so inclined.

I don't need votes, just eyeballs.

@BESW I saw you and Lord Gareth, so I thought it would be safe for me to stop by.

BESW

@KitFox [grin] We're usually docile.

trogdor

12:23 AM

@BESW lol

BESW

So, I was doing some Googling about the SE hat event, and found this:

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Q: How do I take a vacation when I'm wearing too many hats?

I've been at my current job for a little over two years, during which I've not taken a vacation or used much of my paid time off. I know that if I do, odds are I'll end up getting phone calls or emails for important issues that only I am able to resolve. I'm unfortunately involved in most operati...

vacation

Best out-of-context title of the week.

KitFox

rofl

BESW

"Well, you should probably avoid gondola rides in Venice; the low bridges would prove troublesome."

KitFox

Thanks for the help out guys.

BESW

What's the 42 hat for, anyway?

KitFox

12:35 AM

500 views in 2 days.

BESW

That... does not compute.

RedRiderX

@BESW If you've asked a question with that many views you've clearly asked "The Question"

Or something like that

BESW

@RedRiderX But... why not 400?

RedRiderX

@BESW Why not 420?

idk

ask on meta

BESW

Or 504, if we want to be closer to 500.

RedRiderX

12:43 AM

My best guess is that after a few dozen hats you lose track of some of the details. :P

KitFox

No, never. I know every detail. Every single one.

But it's not a problem. It's not really much affecting my work. I can stop with the hats any time I want to.

BESW

(Guys? I think we need an intervention.)

KitFox

looks surprised Are we going for a ride in the car? Are we going to the park? wags tail

OK, quick, everyone click on it again.

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Q: What does the fox say?

It is true that as a fox, I should know this, so consider this a spoilers warning. In a recent post, Geek Girl mentions that the mating call of the fox is a series of sharp, eerie barks and that this is called gekkering. This is supported by a citation in Wikipedia, but the reference is not one ...

etymology terminology fox-english spoilers

Only 14 more to go!

RedRiderX

@KitFox Hah

Alex P

No, we're going to an interven-- err, I mean, erm... Yes, yes! We are going to a very special kind of park, where you sit quietly while others berate you for your many shortcomings.

KitFox

12:58 AM

Oh! ... Will there be a ball? Will they throw the ball?

Alex P

(Help me out here, guys. I didn't think this story through.)

Umm. The ball is taking another car and will meet you there.

It is very busy, you know.

RedRiderX

@AlexP Lots of things it needs to do.

Alex P

The ball gave us this pamphlet about Hat Addiction.

Although, speaking of Hat Addiction. @RedRiderX is totally wearing a hat on top of another hat. (J'accuse!)

KitFox

No way.

But he looks so nice with his rose and his pipe.

Alex P

That is true. It is probably benign Hat Addiction.

KitFox

1:17 AM

I've got there now. Thank you all very much.

I hope to see you in Writers chat on Tuesdays! Otherwise, I'll be back to visit when I'm working on my next (first) D&D campaign.

BESW

See you around.

RedRiderX

@KitFox Aww thanks.

Your hat fits marvellously.

Zachiel

1:38 AM

610 gold today. Better than the fake coins I've found yesterday

RedRiderX

@Zachiel Real gold is usually preferable to fake gold.

BESW

2:19 AM

[flex] That feeling when you successfully fix someone's printer over the phone.

So, this "why don't they burn the bodies?" D&D question.

I'm imagining a world where necromancers work with ash and dust.

Incorporeal undead are more common, poltergeists and wraiths and possessing spirits.

This is an excellent reason not to burn bodies, actually: a peasant with a pitchfork, a torch, and good terrain advantage has a decent chance of repelling or even destroying a zombie; there's little the same peasant can do against even the weakest of incorporeal spirits.

If the dead are going to become restless, it's better for everyone if they use their bodies to do it.

trogdor

mmm so all I need to do to turn in my badguy card is Burninate all the bodies

then again, I guess I do that already

Alex P

2:46 AM

@trogdor I don't think it counts if you started Burninating them while they were still alive.

trogdor

I think it would

you die either way

an ash corpse is an ash corpse

Lord_Gareth

Well this ends in blood.

Pro tip: never get involved in a WoD edition war.

There is only sorrow and flame down that path, and the faint choked sob of Hope as her life's blood leaks from torn veins onto the innocents who have gathered to pray for her blessing.

Alex P

If you do get involved in a WoD edition war, just put your hands over your ears, stand on a stool, and yell "LAWN CHAIR! LAWN CHAIR! LAWN CHAIR!"

Alternatively, turn the whole thing into a fight over who has more Goth cred. (Wear your Siouxsie t-shirt.)

Lord_Gareth

I'm feeling pretty good about my attempt to wage peace in a PbP, though!

Alex P

@Lord_Gareth Are other people on in the PbP edition-warring?

Lord_Gareth

2:54 AM

@AlexP Well, the Play by Post is unrelated to edition war.

Alex P

Oh okay!

Lord_Gareth

giantitp.com/forums/showpost.php?p=16715675&postcount=207

Alex P

> I'm certain you didn't wake up this morning with a deep and abiding need to have violence done upon your person.

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I like that bit.

Lord_Gareth

^_^

RedRiderX

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2

Nice

Lord_Gareth

2:56 AM

Incidentally, the cigarette she's smoking is a glass tube packed with tobacco

Alex P

How does this particular PbP handle violent conflict?

Lord_Gareth

It's D&D 3.5, so...

Pretty much with combat :p

trogdor

@RedRiderX yes

DForck42

oh hai

Alex P

Like, in full detail? Or trimmed down to make it take fewer posts?

doppelgreener

5:35 AM

-2

A: The fastest Elf in the West (at initiative anyway)

Kensai Magus 7th level ability. Int to Init

I'm torn between editing this answer with more suitable info, and just leaving it be to let the guy do it himself.

BESW

Let him do it.

Alex P

I'll second that.

Editing stuff to improve it is good, but I kinda believe you should never put in more effort than the original poster.

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BESW

That's a decent rule of thumb.

doppelgreener

5:57 AM

That is indeed. Nicely put!

BESW

Hmm.

Captain Jack Sparrow has an extra: Voodoo Compass. For the price of always having an aspect in form of What I want most in the world is ____, he can always use his compass to know in which direction it lies.

Alex P

I spent all my time at work today using Microsoft Word. Not a great way to start the year. I will say this, though: Format Painter makes up for a ton of problems I have with the software.

BESW

@AlexP Format Painter is pretty nice. I'd be happier with it if Word didn't have a thing for randomly reformatting, though.

Alex P

We have this (awful, terrible, I-hate-it-so-much) software for making little design diagrams that supports including links to Word documents for some forms of documentation. And then you can export the whole thing to Word and it'll automatically stitch those little documents into your one big final document.

So of course I had to go through 50 pages and click "restart numbering" repeatedly, because apparently when it stitches them together it decides that every list should be continuous with the previous one.

BESW

6:14 AM

Uurrgh.

I think you can control that when you make the merge.

Alex P

(Then I spent two hours deleting extraneous diagrams to get a 1500-page document down to 700 pages. Because nobody needs 800 pages of diagrams that just look like "Diagram of A goes together with Description of A")

doppelgreener

@BESW you can, if you use the markup for it

Alex P

@BESW If you use the Word built-in merge thinger, yeah.

We have a fairly well-maintained user manual that's actually 20 documents that Word stitches together, and that works pretty well. (Especially since I almost never have to touch it.)

My impression of Word overall is that someone who really knows what they're doing can set up an excellent pile of templates and fields and styles and whatnot that will be easy to maintain and cross-reference and link everything correctly.

But most documents you get from anywhere aren't in that state when you get them. AT ALL.

doppelgreener

@AlexP i can do that, except that i've never had to deal with anything involving more than 1 file at a time

Lord_Gareth

@AlexP Normal combat

Alex P

6:18 AM

@Lord_Gareth Then extra kudos for saving time avoiding it. :)

doppelgreener

@AlexP this has been my experience. especially since versions prior to 2007 didn't provide very good support for consistent formatting (the default was to display ALL FORMATS USED, so if you used the same kind of heading several times but with a couple of small variations, you'd suddenly have three different heading-1 styles)

Lord_Gareth

Heh, negotiations may still break down

Don't celebrate until after we get the XP for talking our way out

BESW

@AlexP As someone who regularly gets Word documents from clients that need to be turned into InDesign publications, let me fix that for you.

Alex P

The generator tool is a great example of something that's just good enough to make you realize how much of a giant mess it is. Like, it'll take all these diagrams and put them in a document and scale the big ones to fit on a page. Buuut... the way it scales them, you have to manually rescale them all because it's just page after page of "Title of Diagram and nothing else. <page break> Diagram without context. <page break>"

BESW

> But ~~most~~ documents you get ~~from anywhere~~ aren't in that state when you get them. AT ALL.

Alex P

6:21 AM

So it was someone who almost solved a problem.

(That's not a Word gripe. It's a "seriously why is Word the de-facto standard that we have to export to?" gripe.)

BESW

I will happily entertain Word gripes.

doppelgreener

because the product that wins the format war is often not the best or most convenient product and in fact is more often than not probably selected for reasons entirely unrelated to its own individual merit

BESW

Word has the underpinnings of a fine program, band-aided and revised and lacquered over and embellished with useless baubles until it's an Ouroboros of incestuous self-contradiction and impossible interfaces.

Alex P

I spent half an hour trying to make Heading 1 be "1. Text" and Heading 2 be "1.1. Text" (and have that first "1" in "1.1" actually sync with the "1" in Heading 1, because that's not a given).

BESW

Seriously, what text editing program packaged with a spreadsheet application with elegant export options also needs its own miniature knock-off spreadsheet sub-application?

Alex P

6:29 AM

@JonathanHobbs What's vexing is when people use it in place of other widespread standards that are the format-war winners for the actual thing that they are for. Like distributing a spec that you're supposed to check an implementation against, byte-by-byte, as a bunch of tables in a Word document. Instead of something you can easily just let the machine process itself.

BESW

And don't get me started on contextual tabs on the ribbon: hiding your functionality so it's nigh-impossible to find out what you can do with the program unless you already know you can do it?

At least drop-down menus let you find the options you weren't already poised to use.

Alex P

@BESW I just google now. I have no idea how to insert a section break besides "type in word section break into your browser." It seems to be faster, actually.

BESW

@AlexP That is awful. And true.

doppelgreener

@AlexP I dunno dude. Poor education on what's available or insight into how formats are used? If your stuff uses word documents to pass around machine-readable info that shouldn't be read by people that's a bit depressing

BESW

Tabs on the Ribbon make the xkcd Tech Support Cheat Sheet useless.

@JonathanHobbs Partly that.

But part of it is misinformation.

Like D&D pretending to be all RPGs for everyone, MS Word attempts to be all text processing software for everyone.

doppelgreener

6:33 AM

@BESW but it's text processing software, not machine communication software

BESW

Like D&D it believes its own hype because it's the flagship of its medium.

Lord_Gareth

D&D believes its own hype because the people who write it are incompetent hacks who need to have their fingers broken once a morning, every morning, until they forswear all language forever.

doppelgreener

whoever decided that a machine-read spec should be transmitted as a word document was not a programmer

Lord_Gareth

Same with freakin' Paizo.

Alex P

@JonathanHobbs Well, it can be read by people. But it's just ridiculous not to distribute precise protocol specs in a format that can't be processed directly. (Although I just prepped a terrible document that my own company creates instead of putting good design information into the source code, so really I am living in the world's most delicate glass house, throwing stones.)

(Okay, I will RPG-chat now.)

My big gripe with D&D writers is that most of them seem to get their ideas about what should go in a game book from whatever was written in a game book five-ten years ago rather than what is useful for play.

So all the ancillary books manage to throw words and words and words at you while failing to really explore their ideas.

Lord_Gareth

6:39 AM

@AlexP As big a problem as this is, my issue is that they won't decide what kind of game D&D freaking is. Is it abstract? Simulationist? Black and white or gray? Rules-heavy or rules-light?

And they write material from every possible angle

And then say they've made a coherent game

At least 2e was up front; each campaign setting was practically a different game unto itself

Alex P

I thought the inability to figure out how game mechanics shape play was the result of designer living in the D&D/D20 bubble. Then I saw Mearls blogging about a bunch of other games. Now I think it's more like this.

Lord_Gareth

3.PF (but especially PF) is horrific about this crap.

Spells get to have abstract mechanics but everything else is "realistic" and fiddly

Monsters get summarized mechanics but PCs have to leap through hoops

Metool

... Well. G+ is now pushing YouTube subscriptions through its notification system.

My reaction can be summed up thusly:

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BESW

Really? We're good with that take? Not gonna try that line again?

Lord_Gareth

@BESW giantitp.com/forums/showthread.php?t=323026

BESW

6:54 AM

Izwut?

Lord_Gareth

New RPG system doing open alpha

Already got one review on GitP

Thought you might be interested

BESW

It... says it's a card game.

Metool

Roleplaying card game.

Lord_Gareth

it's an RPG with a card-based resolution system

Alex P

I saw a good one of those, once. It never got out of alpha, though.

John Craven

6:57 AM

Fate has cards as an option.

Alex P

It was a sword-fighting game inspired by Revolutionary Girl Utena. And you used playing cards for fencing moves.

BESW

8:04 AM

I don't know Savage Worlds well enough to know if this question needs work or if it's fine.

shatterspike1

*one

BESW

@shatterspike1 Ooh, I like Star One! Perfect Survivor is a great song, and I gotta give props to them for The Eye of Ra, too.

shatterspike1

Never heard of it; I was making a somewhat pedantic comment about the question's spelling that made it a little hard to read.

BESW

Star One

Star One (also referred to as Arjen Anthony Lucassen's Star One) is a Dutch progressive metal supergroup/side-project of Arjen Anthony Lucassen of Ayreon fame. Unlike Ayreon, albums don't follow one storyline; instead, each song is a different story with a sci-fi concept, most of the tracks based on existing movies and series. The band takes its name from the second season finale of Blake's 7. The band includes four singers alternating in all the songs, not including Lucassen, who sings occasionally, plays all guitars and keyboards and is writing and composing all the songs. History ...

shatterspike1

The name of that song sounds a bit familiar though...

BESW

8:13 AM

Which?

shatterspike1

The Eye of RA

But I might be confusing it with some other song by an entirely different band

BESW

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trogdor

that actually sounds like Metroid music

at least the opening

once the vocals start, obviously not

shatterspike1

Nah, I was thinking of a different band and a different song, I guess

trogdor

at least not any of the ones I played

BESW

8:16 AM

Obviously.

[has no idea what Metriod music sounds like]

And Perfect Survivor:

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trogdor

@BESW basically that opening almost all the way up until the vocals start

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bit like that

obviously not the exact same thing, but that is what it reminded me of

BESW

(It's about the Alien film from the point of view of Ash.)

trogdor

I would almost say the music made half the game for me by itself, but the game was honestly spectacular, in my opinion

I like the alien one better myself

BESW

Yeah, Perfect Survivor's my favorite.

Sandrider isn't bad, but it's a bit repetitive.

trogdor

besides the whole reminding me of metroid music in the opening, the Stargate one is a little less good sounding to me

BESW

8:33 AM

Star One as a whole is a band I appreciate more for their verve and panache than for their quality. I value unreserved, unembarrassed enthusiasm.

trogdor

lol

scarpster

9:02 AM

@ Brian Ballsun-Stanton, a +1 is applied on Ironwooded items that weigh less than 1/2 the spells allowed weight.

BESW

@scarpster Unfortunately, Brian is too busy to frequent chat these days, so he probably won't get that ping.

Metool

Also, was it applied correctly?

BESW

(As an aside, you need to take the spaces out of the name for the ping mechanic to kick in, so it'd be @BrianBallsun-Stanton.)

scarpster

Okay, thanks, good to know. He asked a question on my reply but I can't respond in the comments until I get a 50+ rep. (@BrianBallsun-Stanton) It was my first entry, now reedited.. it's sitting at -3. sigh.

BESW

Understood, and we appreciate your patience and dedication.

You've done a lot of work on your answer; when I have the time to give it proper attention I think it'll get my upvote.

scarpster

9:13 AM

Thanks! Probably too much attention :)
Good night!

BESW

Goodnight!

@scarpster I've left a comment about the ironwood +1. Hope to see you in chat again!

I've got somebody in sf.se chat who wants to talk about ST:TNG. Any takers?

BESW

11:05 AM

Hey, anybody here familiar with Betrayal at Krondor?

BESW

12:00 PM

@Tynam [wave]

Tynam

A little bit, back in the day. Why?

(And Hi there, welcome to the new year, etc.)

BESW

@Tynam Got somebody who, for medical reasons, is looking for a computer game that requires no reflex-based action at all. They liked Krondor, and hope to find something similar.

Tynam

Hmm... so we're looking for turn-based roleplay with minimal mouse precision and no time-dependant activity. (I can sympathise; intense carpal tunnel makes some action games difficult for me.)

Better avoid real-time-with-pause like Baldur's Gate or Dragon Age then; it'd be better to go entirely turn-based.

BESW

Baldur's Gate is the current frontrunner.

Tynam

Top of head: Heroes of Might and Magic (I believe 6 is just out), Shadowrun Returns, and Torment: Tides of Numenara... once they've finished writing it.

If Baldur's Gate is acceptable, then Dragon Age is probably OK too.

BESW

12:04 PM

I have no experience with games which lets me weigh in. I suggested Riven and anything by LucasArts, and that's where I run dry.

@Tynam Bonus points if they're available on GoG or another trustworthy download vendor.

Tynam

If "anything by LucasArts" turns out to work, then "anything by TellTale" is a strong modern alternative - they've picked up LucasArts old banner. Literally, in that they did Sam and Max and Monkey Island sequels.

Right, then. Categorised by genre:

Roleplay (entirely turn-based, no reflex required at all): Shadowrun Returns (available on GOG or Steam; expansion due once the kickstarter work completes. Steam version slightly recommended as it makes it easier to grab the many fan levels - there's an editor included so cool fan projects ensued.)

BESW

Requirements: No reflex-based action, medieval fantasy a plus but not too D&D-ish, downloadable from a reliable online vendor, strong story a must, should have high time-wasting potential.

Tynam

In that case, go to Roleplay (real-time but pause-on-demand-with-space-bar): Baldur's Gate or its much less D&Dish spiritual descendant Dragon Age. These are probably the hardest to control, however - in a busy fight pause-on-demand isn't always enough. Depends on the exact nature of the disability.

trogdor

what do we mean by not too D&D ish?

Tynam

Strong story and absurd time-consuming potential in both.

trogdor

12:11 PM

cause KotOR seems like it would be tossed out

BESW

I will ask.

trogdor

mechanics wise it is based on D&D

otherwise it would prolly work

Tynam

Yep, if SF rather than fantasy is an option then strongly consider Knights of the Old Republic (I and II). Basically, anything by Bioware (except Mass Effect) is a strong choice.

trogdor

yeah

BESW

> Hmmm I just looked at KOTOR, It's weird, I cant explain it exactly, but I like a Renaissance or Medieval atmosphere better. With dragons and witches and ancient magic stuff.

trogdor

12:13 PM

unfortunately Mass Effect requires snap choices, reflex aiming, and other such very time sensitive things

mk

BESW

This PDF made the person go "Ooh, too D&D."

Tynam

Baldur's Gate's sequel Neverwinter Nights (1 & 2) are also strong contender, although like Baldur's Gate they're expressly D&D. It's technically and in control terms inferior to Dragon Age, but thanks to the best editor tools ever released, has the most amazing library of fan content imaginable. There may be more good Neverwinter mods out there than there are D&D adventures in my local game store.

BESW

afk, must restart browser.

@Tynam The discussion is over in this chat:

The Frying Pan

Sometimes hot, always heavy. (cooking.stackexchange.com)

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Probably better if you weigh in directly.

BESW

12:31 PM

@Tynam I'm new to the room, so I'm not sure if the sass coming off some of the citizens is typical.

Tynam

Doesn't scare me; I have two sisters.

trogdor

lol

BESW

12:54 PM

@Tynam Thank you.

Aaron

Morning

BESW

Hey.

I'ma go to bed. Tomorrow I'm doing a house call to help a client unravel a printer-install problem. It's outside my usual baliwick, but they're friends and they pay well.

@trogdor If you want to hang out in the afternoon poke me on Skype.

Alex P

1:55 PM

@BESW Baldur's Gate 2 works alright if you set the autopause options up correctly. There's a "pause when turn is over," which'll make the whole game kinda crawl along. Or you can do "pause when spell is done casting" and "pause when current target dies," and you're not stuck constantly having to unpause it but the game still goes at a rather leisurely pace.

@BESW Age of Wonders is pretty good. Turn-based strategy in a fantasy world. It's a bit like Heroes of Might and Magic with more of a focus on small groups. AoW2 has great rival-wizards-with-magical-domains gameplay. AoW1 has a campaign mode I like better. It feels rather RPG-ish, since you carry a small number of troops and heroes and loot through each scenario and your leader is always leveling up.

Both games are pretty nice for the way they let you change the map. Like, there's a Snow Queen unit that turns everything to ice as she moves around the world map. Or you can cast a spell to flood the world. Should be available on GOG around the $10 price range. Also AoW1 had a good demo that might be floating around still.

Rob

2:15 PM

AoW2 is fantastic, plus killer penguin units!

AoW3 is in the pipeline; sometime 2014

Alex P

ooo!

Rob

And oooo, Betrayal at Krondor, great game that was - that takes me back.

Although now I'm trying to remember another turn based RPG; damn... hmm....

There's always Jagged Alliance 2 of course... but that's not what I'm thinking of...

Bah, trawled through PC games 1989-1995, can't find it (or remember it)

Cat

2:41 PM

Hey folks!

Rob

Hey Cat

Cat

Anyone know of good questions describing how to make a monster a PC in Pathfinder?

I want to be a dryad, but I don't know if there's a template for that

Rob

Ahahaha, I've found it Realms of Arkania! 1992! :)D

@Cat theres sections for adaptions in... paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/advancedRaceGuide/coreRaces.html

Cat

Thanks Rob!!

I appreciate your tolerance for my ignorance.

Rob

Otherwise you have to take the Dryad as being N levels and then work from that with a class (very basically)

paizo.com/PRD/monsters/monstersAsPCs.html <-- monsters as pcs

It's a bit faffy

I'd suggest just building a race with the race builder, probably much less hassle

Cat

2:47 PM

Great resources!

Happy New year, btw!

Hope you had some wonderful holidays! :)

Rob

Yep pretty good thanks; and happy new year to you too!

Cat

:)

Rob

Problem with a PC dryad, I'd mention, is that Dryads are linked to their trees and can't move more than 300 yards from it

Cat

Yeah, I'd have to get around that somehow.

It depends how strict the DM wants to be.

He didn't say no immediately, and I may only be playing as an NPC depending on when the campaign dates are set for, so it may work in any case.

We're giving roll20 a try

Rob

Probably could just make yourself a tree-spirit type race and base it off of one of the existing special races with a few tweaks

Cat

2:53 PM

It will be my first time with both new systems, so it's likely to be a bit of a fiasco

But it will let me learn both

Rob

:)

Cat

Yeah, I may make my own race, as that seems easier, drawing inspiration from the dryad

Perhaps I'll be half-dryad

Professor Loki Caprion

Dryad :D

Cat

I just like playing with the character concept when I get the chance, as I'm trying to write a campaign setting with dryads.

Anyway, I don't have a feeling that my play compatriots are rules-sticklers, so it may fly, even if not ideal.

I'm willing to be vastly underpowered to try out the idea.

You like Dryads, Loki?

Rob

There's stuff for building the races here: paizo.com/pathfinderRPG/prd/advancedRaceGuide/raceBuilder.html

Cat

2:55 PM

Got it :)

Professor Loki Caprion

@Cat I do, despite my Technophilia!

Cat

:)

Anyway, I have a pile of marking to do, so I shouldn't waste away the whole morning chatting - just got excited about the idea after receiving a gaming invitation :) Back to the drudgery for now!

ttyl!

RedRiderX

3:27 PM

in The Bridge, 24 mins ago, by Blem-ba Fett

Professor Loki Caprion

Haha! XD

Wait, is it really that warm on Mars?

wax eagle

@ProfessorLokiCaprion depends on where on mars you take the temperature?

Professor Loki Caprion

@waxeagle I have no idea! Where's a nice vacation spot on Mars?

wax eagle

@ProfessorLokiCaprion no idea, but I'd guess it's advisable to keep it moving, whereever it is

RedRiderX

in The Bridge, 28 mins ago, by RedRiderX

@Blem-baFett Meh, it's been colder

wax eagle

3:34 PM

(IIRC the sunny side is very hot and the dark side is very cold)

RedRiderX

@waxeagle Yeah it's fudging the numbers a little bit but it's still good for a laugh.

wax eagle

definitely

they don't call it the GWN for nothing

Lord_Gareth

4:58 PM

My wife has given birth to a healthy baby boy weighing nine pounds (20 inches long) \o/

wax eagle

@Lord_Gareth Rockin!

Lord_Gareth

His first action on Earth was to pee on the doctor, clearly indicating his erudite and tolerant nature.

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RedRiderX

Marijuana sales in Colorado top $1 million in the first day

So I guess that's a thing now.

wax eagle

@RedRiderX not surprised at all. The news reports had lines at opening time with a pretty legit pot tourism bit

the store they talked to was capping everyone at 1/8oz for the day

(legal limits are 1/4 for out of state folks and 1/2 or 1 for CO residents)

RedRiderX

@Lord_Gareth Congratulations!

Professor Loki Caprion

5:06 PM

@Lord_Gareth Congratulations! Also, when you said "pee on the doctor," I imagined a baby peeing on the Doctor. Particularly Capaldi. Hilarity ensues.

Lord_Gareth

...Welp, gotta load my musket now.

Cat

Congrats Gareth!

Professor Loki Caprion

5:33 PM

... wait, how are muskets related to babies?

This is why I can't have kids. I can't work black powder firearms.

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wax eagle

@ProfessorLokiCaprion trust me, it's not a requirement.

(there are amazingly few requirements for breeding)

Professor Loki Caprion

@waxeagle Which is troublesome, if you really think about it!

wax eagle

yes

LitheOhm

5:52 PM

@Phil re: this question, the comment should be an official answer as per this meta

Professor Loki Caprion

7:21 PM

:D Silver badge, at last!!!!

wax eagle

nice

Professor Loki Caprion

But now the hat won't work. :(

wax eagle

@ProfessorLokiCaprion why not?

(hats go away tomorrow btw)

Professor Loki Caprion

I dunno! I click "wear hat" and refresh all the pages, and no worky!

Ah, dammit! XD Finally got a silver badge and can't wear the hat I wanted it for.

MadMAxJr

7:40 PM

All the hats are going away soon, I think.

RedRiderX

> the hats get put back in their boxes on January 4th!

Professor Loki Caprion

This saddens me!

wax eagle

I'm sure they'll be back next year

Professor Loki Caprion

7:55 PM

They should be back for my birthday!

Lord_Gareth

9:21 PM

@ProfessorLokiCaprion - Black powder firearms have nothing to do with kids, I just hate Dr. Who and hunt his fans as the nobles of old did, chasing them through the forest on horseback with the thrill of terror in their veins. When I run them down I kill them as men once killed them.

Metool

9:36 PM

Spot the appearance bug!

Aaron

you mean a graphic glitch?

Metool

Sure.

BESW

Someone's mask is running off to start a life of crime on its own.

Aaron

glasses in top left

BESW