One of my players is a ranger and she is really, really into animals so every time I design an encounter with an animal as an enemy she automatically tries to tame it and make it a companion. As a result many of my encounters end up being far easier than they were meant to be and she now owns an ...
@BESW i can't screen cap my itunes (it's on a different computer) but my top 10 are: 1-6: 6 tracks off Frank Zappa's Absolutely Free (not surprising since it's the first album to play when i plug my ipod into my car, and my totals include ipod syncs) then 7&9 are songs from the Aquabats and 8&10 are songs from That Handsome Devil.
and it doesnt stop there! Frank Zappa, The Aquabats and That Handsome Devil are the three bands that make up my top 50 most listened to tracks in itunes (With the exception of 1 Beck song that comes in at #48)
I used to keep all my music players (phone, foobar2000 on 3 PCs, YouTube, Spotify) linked to Last.fm to keep track of my listening habits, but I've pretty much given up. Some of my players are counted, some aren't.
Still, my top artists haven't changed much in the last few years.
@Magician Reminds me of when Microsoft started released free Express versions of their development tools. Just because you're the 800lb gorilla doesn't mean you should let other players chip away at your base.
Microsoft learned that the hard way, and apparently so did WotC.
@Magician No, it seems we're cool, at least as far as tags are concerned
Ok. I have to admit that I am quite angered at the response gained to this question
Quite frankly it is my belief that this question was mistreated.
I shall go into the question in depth - recalling as accurately as possible the original format of the question.
This is not because I hold grea...
@JoshuaAslanSmith Exactly; the question "Why does there seem to be a dearth of women playing RPGs?" is solid. He simply presumed that the answer was one of system design rather of culture.
lots of women play boardgames and party games and an RPG is simply both together, I dont think theres a mechanical issue but the stigma of RPGs and the sort of people who play rpgs
Which, frankly, is symptomatic of the problem: so long as we approach the issue of women's participation in speculative fiction as one of "appealing to women" rather than "being inclusive of more varieties of people," we're starting from a faulty base which presumes women aren't like other people.
The links I gave in this comment deal with otherising in speculative fiction, whether it's based on gender or race, and whether it's about authors or actors or players.
It's got entries like the author who discovered that some people think it's irresponsible of her to depict a woman who has solo adventures but never gets sexually assaulted; or the very troublesome fact that the language used to justify goblin-killing is nearly identical to that used to justify real-life racial violence.
These are issues which come fundamentally attached to such conversations, and SE just isn't built to support that kind of topic in a nuanced enough way that it will be productive.
Here's the thing, while none of the questions linked are probably exactly duplicates, they all address more specific aspects of the general question you're asking.
I think the important thing here is to know the following:
Your question was evaluated objectively regardless of who asked it, ev...
Wizards just announced D&D 5e basic which will be a free pdf. Should this be a seperate tag?
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd%2F4ll%2F20140527
I thin the nature of our characters and our story led to a lot more narrator on player action though we probably shoulve interacted more in the coffee shop discussion
Do you remember the story of Splug the goblin NPC, rechristened Splat, who went on to father a clan of goblins known as "Friendlies"?
The clan did covert ops missions: they'd settle into an area that was going to be invaded and make friends with the locals so the troops would have local support.
Splug was a stock NPC in the Keep on the Shadowfell 4e module.
HASSAN, who felt that everyone was a friend he just hadn't met yet until proven otherwise (and who would unleash a can of butt-kicking if you were mean to his friends), defended Splug from the PCs who wanted to kill him (primarily Kamola, the half-orc bigot you probably do remember).
His actions taught the cynical Splug that friendship is a powerful force which he could control.
Urgg. Upcoming *Ars Magica* game on Saturday was logistically complicated, involving the party splitting into two parts, the main GM running for one group while I run a subplot to a second group, when the main complication is that one player has two characters, one in each group, so we figured we'll manage to synchronize around that. And now that player is sick.
So either we completely rework the session as planned, or postpone.
@BESW That sounds amazing. (Housewife to Valkyrie. I can understand why they might be confused.) HASSAN sounds fantastic. I am looking forward to this person's writing, and Major Major Major Major, a lot. I am already trying to decrypt what each of the Majors is for.
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Major Major Major Major (hereafter Maj. Major for short) is a fictional character in Joseph Heller's novel Catch-22, whose name and rank is the title of chapter 9. Philip D. Beidler opines that "one of the novel's great absurd jokes is that character's bewildering resemblance to Henry Fonda".
The other joke about the character is his name. The novel relates that Maj. Major was named "Major Major Major" by his father, as a joke. The addition of the rank of Major was the result of "an IBM machine with a sense of humor almost as keen as his father's". Heller echoes the eponymous c...
I was wondering if Major Major was an adjective for their rank, or if they were Major [ship] Major [rank] Major Major [name], being the Major of The Major.
Fritjof, not having access to any of this knowledge, is going to have an even harder time figuring this out.
except for the noodles that burned to the bottom after like one minute of being left alone
@Magician dnd-bx and dnd-becmi; it's still going to cause a little bit of a headache sometimes, but at least we can tell as long as people stick to D&D Basic for the original version and Basic D&D for the PDF
My old gaming site reopened. Character is still blocked. Still no ideas on new characters to do, in both sites. Mostly, hazy ideas on what kind of experience I do want (especially on the old site)
@JonathanHobbs The grief is not recurring. The inability to think of a new character I want to run is, however, and is possibly created by my past grief with some parts of that game. Also, me talking about the past grief is recurring.
if you keep complaining about a thing, it is a sure fire sign you should not do that thing, unless you are a fan of self sabotage and ensuring you spend a lot of your time miserable
Once a girl on that game told me that if I was so in need of making a powerful character I should have played a mmorpg instead, where no-one would have complained if my character was strong and not roleplayed well.
For unrelated reasons, I joined a mmorpg shortly thereafter
The f****** piece of **** would like me to spend all my free time farming, which I'm apparently very bad at. The same discrepancy between character advocacy and roleplaying expectations I found in the difference between glitching the game, gaining a better equip fast and not glitching for fear of being banned. It was no improvement at all.
I don't really know why this happens, but while I'm there fighting monsters I don't think about this. It's just when I stop and take a look at my inventory or monitor the auction house or other people tell me how fast they do things.
(just like in D&D when someone tells me "ding, I leveld up again")
and I'm all "can you please not tell me, please?"
So, what should I do in life to be happy about what I do? Because I have no idea
(By the way, I'm on said mmorpg, trying to complete my daily quests in the shortest possible time)
@BESW Oh I know, totally forgot about sam getting a baby gould in her in season 2, I mean how ridiculous to retread a plot they used in the pilot/episode 3
also totally forgot the nox were shown in s1 and that they basically never get shown again
@InbarRose bookmarked I was jsut thinking about that as I fell asleep last night that not having everything on the air meant I needed to figure out which parts were contiguous
so I'm sitting and waiting a half hour for my program to write a file, and then I see it didn't work, so I do it again... and then I realize I'm looking in the wrong folder.. ARG!
It's wierd that I thought sliders existed before stargate , I'm a bit dissapointed in that memory :(
> Every man on Earth named Dave knows of this massive conspiracy, aimed at world conquest, which includes ex-MIT student Dave Barker and, for much of the strip's run, Dave Davenport. Dave Davenport is expelled for a time due to breaking 'Dave Law', having revealed the conspiracy's existence to Helen and Mell; as a result, others instinctively take to referring to him as 'David.' Helen later discovers that the topmost leadership of the conspiracy, the Circle of Five, are the ones who had hired her mother to kill Dave.
Mmmmh so world domination would be quite easy to attain. I know someone working at the local General Register Office, changing my name to Dave should be easy.
The kind of cards played toward the challenge determine whether its outcome is Strong, Weak, or Uncertain. If it's Strong or Weak, the last player to play a card on it gets to narrate the outcome; if it's Uncertain, the narrator regains control of the outcome.
For example, here is Arasys playing a Strong card (Mysticism) toward the Hunter Sortie challenge. There are still five more cards to go before the challenge is complete, so she narrates just a small part of moving forward in meeting the challenge:
We're currently waiting to see which player goes next on that scene; I'm expecting fun things from @JoshuaAslanSmith's character, because he's got a stack of Avenge Fallen Comrades cards to dish out against the lizardfolk.
My group have been using the play test material for D&D Next. Our target play style for combat encounters would be to use battle boards roughly half the time (when there is enough of interest in play that the tactics are interesting), and to skip that with faster "cinematic" combat otherwise.
We...
The answer is "it depends on their prepared spells". Seeing as they both have a lot of spells to choose from, there's no possible answer to a question that broad.
Instead of "both level 20" how about they both have the same amount of experience? Because Wizards often use xp for spells/crafting.. so having it still be level 20 would be unbalanced.
Q: What constitutes as an "enemy"? Can for some reason a pc declare another pc an enemy at any point?
For example, we will take this first level Warden spell which puts spikes around an enemy that will only effect enemies:
Earth Spikes(4EPHB3)
The earth rises in concert with your attack, driv...
Yes. "Enemy" and "ally" are basically placeholder words for "the people you want it to work on." If a PC gets dominated and turns on you, you can just mentally move him to the "enemy" category and start spamming effects on him along with the rest of the opposing force - similarly, if you dominat...
commenting on an edition hes not a fan off and bringing D&Disms from other editions into it
@JoshuaAslanSmith well, his use case is defined enough to give an answer to the question (only if they trigger the power). But the conditions of ally/enemy are completely up to the DM
basically would need to get in the mind of the assumptions and cultural expectations of original oldschool wargamers and then move on from there as to how that influenced gygax
Are you basing this on my contortionist character?
I want my next character to be effective in combat, which is kinda non-particular, for D&D. Maybe a real murderhobo. Hey hey hey I caould ba e hobo that murders monster- no, wait, real hobo have no money and I need some equip.
Oh, don't worry. I understand where you are coming from but that character was an attempt to solve some problems I had with character creation and is an half-wasted attempt. It's basically an NPC, I like playing and displaying it but I don't feel ingrained in the game so I want it to keep being the exception.
this means I don't have a fixed party and part of why I made a character who was very individualist is tied to previous characters getting very involved with people who then disappeared.
Heck, my last character had a SO that suddenly disappeared and I didn't know if I could RP she was gone forever. I kept waiting, still no news of the player after 2 years. And the player had heart problems...
I got also suggested to find someone who wants their character to have a relative and play the relative
and to play something "more planar" - I'm not sure what that means, but I'm bad at tying characters to the setting.
yeah, planescape setting is about adventures far away from home, in unfamiliar lands where alignment is solid and metaphorical gets real. For instance, if you're on a palce called the Outlands and you travel away from the Spire (a infinite height mountain), after some distance no matter how much you walk you never get more far. Because nobody knows what's outside so you can't really even conceive to travel to something that's not there.
Also, all travel takes 3-18 days. Travel from one of the nine circles to the next? 3-18 days. Traveling from anywhere to a specific city moving between the circles? Still 3-18 days, regardless of which circle the city is in. I'm starting to envision a character that's used to live there. Like "what do you mean, one day of travel?" XD
I tried the mechanics first approach and it invariably leads to "why can't I get this on top of this unless I'm playing this story seed I'm not able to roleplay properly?"
I'm still bad at the fluff first approach but I fear it could lead to a new useless character
Ok. I have to admit that I am quite angered at the response gained to this question
Quite frankly it is my belief that this question was mistreated.
I shall go into the question in depth - recalling as accurately as possible the original format of the question.
This is not because I hold grea...
Here's the thing, while none of the questions linked are probably exactly duplicates, they all address more specific aspects of the general question you're asking.
I think the important thing here is to know the following:
Your question was evaluated objectively regardless of who asked it, ev...
Wizards just announced D&D 5e basic which will be a free pdf. Should this be a seperate tag?
http://www.wizards.com/dnd/Article.aspx?x=dnd%2F4ll%2F20140527
Q: What constitutes as an "enemy"? Can for some reason a pc declare another pc an enemy at any point?
For example, we will take this first level Warden spell which puts spikes around an enemy that will only effect enemies:
Earth Spikes(4EPHB3)
The earth rises in concert with your attack, driv...
