Back. A loose neighbour dog picked a fight with my friend's tied-up dog. She and a local kid beat the neighbour dog back, and her dog came out with a lot of bloody scratches and toothy puncture wound on his abdomen.
We helped examine and clean it, and he seemed shaken but not in shock or anything. He should be okay for the night and she'll take him to the vet in the morning.
Our friend has some mobility problems (she was beating on the dog with her cane), and needed us to help with the examination, and just to be there because it was kind of intense.
Once we got the dog cleaned and bandaged and it was clear he wasn't in shock, she felt like she could manage on her own for the hour before her husband gets back. She's a medical professional so it's not like she needed us to give her doggy vet advice.
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@JonathanHobbs Sometimes I start to complain about how gender stereotypes against men have hurt my life, and then I remember that Western society treats me like a real human being and I sorta stop and thank my Y chromosome.
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Two-Weapon Fighting does not help a Monk
Two-Weapon Fighting
Prerequisite: Dexterity 13
Benefit: While wielding a melee weapon in each hand, you gain a +1 bonus to the damage rolls of weapon attacks that you make with a melee weapon.
Two-weapon fighting only triggers on weapon attack...
Im just saying its very similar to horned helm in its wording
and the way headslot, armslot etc. properties work should also apply to weapon properties unless the property states when you make an attack with this weapon hit with this weapon etc. stuff like that
pulling the AV to look at the rules cite Andras is quoting
full cite:
> Many weapons have properties that provide a constant benefit. To gain the benefit of a weapon’s property, you must be wielding the weapon. Unless specified otherwise, a property affects only the weapon to which it’s attached. For example, a +2 cunning dagger, which bestows a –2 penalty to an enemy’s saving throws against your weapon powers, affects only powers that are delivered using that weapon. You couldn’t hold the weapon in your off-hand and gain the benefit of the property on powers delivered
except that power wording seems to swing the other direction. It seems to specify this weapon more often than not which is an exercise in frustration.
does the property on Lucklender work with any weapon?
There are four weapons in the AV that *don't specify* "this weapon" and have properties that apply to attacks. How does one rule in light of the fact that these are the *exception* but seem to fall prey to the rule I cited above.... Subtle Weapon, Thundergod Weapon, Vanguard Weapon, Lucklender
Checking AV2 to see if they're consistent
AV2 Battle Spirit Weapon
It seems to me that not specifying this weapon counts as "unless otherwise specified"? but that doesn't seem right
@JoshuaAslanSmith I don't doubt it, and a straight reading of the power would indicate that it's a valid ruling, but that AV section is concerning. Going to see if it's supported in the PHB
@JoshuaAslanSmith It would, unless you're like me and have decided that Wizards should never be given the benefit of the doubt ever about things which rely on them following simple patterns established by themselves.
@BESW -> plothook.net/RPG/showthread.php?t=19734 <-Some specifics (like the time it takes to refresh ACTS) won't be the same, but these are the general rules from which most of our god games then deviate
The concept of 'prayer' being the most commonly altered one
That world ended up as a lush, vibrant, life-filled hellhole where everything including the non-sapient minerals was maliciously attempting to murder everything else.
@JoshuaAslanSmith my answer is going to stand on the fact that the most recent publications don't contain it, it's only in one place when magic item property rules are detailed in several other locations and it's just an example of Wizards being fiddly
@waxeagle Ive got a all staff work meeting to go to (DREADING IT) but ill probably post the question about the exclusion case weapon properties when I get back. Ill ping you when I do
(Sometimes I forget how much being a graphic designer has influenced me, and then I realise that when looking up TV shows I also look up the fonts they use.)
Shes an interior designer and I went to undergrad for screen writing but we both have a solid aesthetics and design grounding as part of required core courses and we talk about typefaces all the time
and yes that is a serious pedigree
obviously the most notable entry is the buffy the vampire slayer boardgame
despite only getting 3 hours of sleep last night, the 11ish I had the night before seems to have corrected the funk I was in from last week so Im kind of hyper in general
@waxeagle I find it difficult to reconcile this with actually playing a game of The Prisoner. What with one of the main points being that none of it was solid.
locking is generally used for content disputes/edit wars to freeze things in place while decisions are hashed out on meta (it's a pause button of sorts). It prevents voting and editing and generally just freezes a question in place
A historical lock is similar, it's just permanent and freezes things with the message that "this isn't what we consider a good question, but it has value so we're keeping it"
@waxeagle historical lock though is for this, it has some value, but we wouldn't allow it now; also if it's linked to from the internet and we don't want to break links
It seems to me that it's borderline on historical lock. But mainly because I can't think of a better close reason. "too broad" doesn't fit. the answers are perfectly suited.
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but the war has raged on SO, and was largely won by @GraceNote on gaming, though some pockets of resistance remain, including our very specialized narrow game recs
Just read this (a story of 4 low level characters controlled by 1 player visiting a high level party in a chaotic evil game) and found it so hilarious that I thought I had to share it with someone. My facebook friends aren't really into D&D so I figured here's the best chance to get someone to see it who'll enjoy it as much as I did. So if that sounds like something you'd enjoy here y'all go: paperspencils.com/2011/11/26/goblins-redux
The issue I have is that because there are clearly differences of opinion on it and its application, when newish users post questions where there is an issue for this reason, the messages they get are really mixed
I don't think so because it's applied to the question itself, so it's a separate entity to the tag and the tag is really easy to add and remove to things, so we'd need equal measures to add and remove the notice each time the tag changed. And that could make for some really messy post histories since there is no 5 minute grace period on tags.
I'm working on a kind of primer RPG class for TBC that will expose players to the 3 basic kinds of games in 3 different settings if possible and otherwise give players as big a bite of the hobby as can be taken as quickly as possible.
I've pegged Fiasco as a fine example of Narativism that is pretty fast and there are so many obvious choices for Gamism that I can pick just about anything, but will probably chose 4e D&D just because everyone will be familiar with it conceptually as for most newbies D&D and Roleplaying are synonyms. But finding a Simulationist game that won't just take forever to demo is proving very hard for me.
@DampeS8N I think it's important to remember that "simulation" is about re-creating a reality, not our reality, and in that light it's possible to find a game which is simulating something that only needs quick-and-dirty rules. Maybe Don't Rest Your Head or Mouse Guard or My Life with Master?
(Also remember that the sim/nar/gam trifecta aren't mutually exclusive, so just because a game is heavily narrative doesn't mean it's not also simulationist.)
Getting ready to go take my dad to an appointment.
@DampeS8N The GNS approach to games is outmoded and replaced in all but the most casual gaming conversations not just because people seriously misunderstand it--the whole thing is also kinda silly. Any game that tries to simulate something other than a game is simulationist. EVERY franchise-based RPG, for example.
You can run them in GURPS The Prisoner or Cortex Leverage or Spycraft SG-1 or Unisystem Buffy, any Cthulhu system, either Doctor Who system, or any Dragonlance supplement for D&D.
With that in mind, I'd seriously reconsider whether GNS is really the appropriate way to introduce people to RPGs, especially if you're introducing the three elements as opposing options rather than dials that each system turns up and down independently.
There are, perhaps, more useful divisions to make in the RPG landscape.
For example, the role of the GM, from GMless (Flying Temple), to co-conspirator (Fate), to neutral arbiter (GURPS), to malicious trickster god (Paranoia).
Or the role of fictional positioning, from fiction-defines-mechanics (Fate, Lady Blackbird) to mechanics-define-fiction (D&D 4e).
@BESW Agreed. I don't plan to cover GNS itself but to spotlight 3 different systems that tend to lean in those directions simply because it will lead to diverse feeling systems. I agree about spotlighting a variety of GM roles or lacks thereof. While outmoded GNS is still pretty useful for describing the sort of game I need to fill this slot because it creates a trichotomy. I need 3 games.
@BESW (Playing GNS Cop for a sec here.) They are effectively mutually exclusive. Because those are "creative agendas." You're thinking of GDS categories.
@DampeS8N The "classic" answers would be GURPS (get someone who knows GURPS and how to tune it to a particular situation) or Traveller.
If you are modeling the trifecta of "game with tactical minis stuff / freeflowing narrate-stuff game / game with rules that model stuff."
I guess it really depends on the kind of coverage you want, though.
probably, its 7PM for me but my college forced me into night classes this semester so I get up around 3 and have class from 5-630 on some days and then 5-930 on others
Two-Weapon Fighting does not help a Monk
Two-Weapon Fighting
Prerequisite: Dexterity 13
Benefit: While wielding a melee weapon in each hand, you gain a +1 bonus to the damage rolls of weapon attacks that you make with a melee weapon.
Two-weapon fighting only triggers on weapon attack...
Thinking of something like the MMORPG games use for building characters ... is there anything like that available outside of a MMORPG game?
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I'm looking for a 2 player, 1gm-1player, high fantasy gane.
Sugestions?
