TRPG General Chat

12:07 AM

@BESW Why are the halves kept in separate places, and what terror will be unleashed if they are ever reunited?

@Adeptus well the other thing is that... theoretically... we have discovered Charles's brain in a brass-and-wood personality sphere. So if his brain is in there, and theoretically in two separate museums, what's going on exactly?

Adeptus

@doppelgreener The museum pieces are someone else's... or fakes... or clones... or the result of some time travel paradox... or...

BESW

Evil time-travelling alternate dimension clone impostor!

doppelgreener

I like this theory.

running with it... Rimmer / Ace Rimmer, Jessie / some kind of nega-Jessie, Babbage / that evil guy whose brain is in the museums.

BESW

Maybe it's the brain of some powerful undead telepath that Babbage and Lovelace defeated.

(Don't let it anywhere near the crystal skull!)

doppelgreener

12:22 AM

I like this one too!

doppelgreener

12:48 AM

[frowns] The stop-them-using-their-guns question is getting close votes as primarily opinion based... the question seems fine, but it's attracting a lot of varied answers.

It's definitely something that can be answered from experience, but there are just a lot of different suitable answers.

but we've accepted questions like this in the past.

[for now, takes no action at all]

Miniman

@doppelgreener I VTCed, because with no system it's looking for any and every idea of why a gun wouldn't work/wouldn't be used/ wouldn't be useful.

doppelgreener

1:09 AM

@Miniman right. in the real world, and in the context of a fight in an RPG.

Miniman

@doppelgreener Yeah, in hindsight, too broad might have been more appropriate.

David Wilkins

1:39 AM

Omg...I am having so much fun planning my run of HotDQ. Now I just have to figure out how to plan for my players ignoring all of my plot hooks

Miniman

@DavidWilkins I gave my players a bunch of options that I knew they wouldn't take.

"Obviously you can stay here and help build this road if you want."

David Wilkins

I wish my players were that predictable. I already have a plan for the first time the archer shoots a butterfly...

I have been toying with the idea of my Silver dragon being in halfling form to greet the group

Not unlike what Chris Perkins did in the Acquisitions Incorporated Tyranny of Dragons games

2 cr 3 critters actually get a higher cr than 1 cr 6, right?

Where are the rules for calculating encounter CR?

BESW

2:05 AM

@Miniman Rule One of Design Work applies to GMing too: "Never show them an option you wouldn't be happy if they took."

Miniman

@DavidWilkins DMG. Can't be more specific than that right now, although you'd probably find them more easily in DM Basic Rules.

@BESW I quite like a Non-Standard Game Over here and there.

David Wilkins

It's eluding me

Oohp...found it

BESW

Page 56 of Basic Rules v3.

David Wilkins

Or 82 DMG

Thanks though @BESW

Magician

3:52 AM

Morning!

Adeptus

4:07 AM

@Magician Nope. It isn't.

Magician

@Adeptus You've seen through my ruse! //vanishes in a cloud of pastries//

BESW

[Lex Luthor appears with a handcart]

Adeptus

mmm... pastries...

BESW

[pokes color jitter with a stick] Why have you forsaken me?

Magician

ah-ah-ah-ah-ah

Since we're having a meme-off.

doppelgreener

4:34 AM

@BESW you have it tuned to something other than pressure

jrodman

are table war stories appropriate here? I had a very strange pickup game today at my F L G S

doppelgreener

@jrodman sure, why not! our site doesn't deal in wargaming systems like Warhammer, but goodness knows the chat doesn't spend much time on topic.

Miniman

@doppelgreener How dare you.

doppelgreener

4:53 AM

@Miniman not very boldly at all, really :)

Iron Heart

5:48 AM

Hello!

Miniman

6:04 AM

That awkward moment when you realise one of your old answers contained something factually incorrect...

doppelgreener

@Miniman That's how I got my Disciplined badge! :D

Miniman

@doppelgreener Contained, not consisted of. An edit was sufficient in this case. (That aside, I already have the Disciplined badge. The one I can't get is Peer Pressure.)

doppelgreener

@Miniman [sees comment about dual wielding net and trident, sees edit removing suggestion about duel wielding net and trident] I understand now :)

Miniman

@doppelgreener The worrying part is that I should've known it was wrong at the time, I must have just spaced out or something.

doppelgreener

@BESW Oh! Oh! Hey! I think I witnessed the mycelial network in action in my parent's lawn yesterday while I was weeding!

The earth was soft and moist from all the rain the past few days, so it was great weeding conditions. We could pull most weeds out without tools. There was one distinct kind of weed which I could pull out at the beginning like that - a gentle pull near the base and the entire root system would come out with it.

I think I might have snapped one or two by accident from pulling too hard. Then things started to change.

Every single one of those in the garden could no longer be pulled like that. Even the gentlest pull, and the stem would snap off very cleanly at the root. For every single one, there was about an inch of white, below-the-ground stem, and a clean sever with a bit of a dome-shaped indent in the base.

When I was trying to dig up the roots of the weed, half the stems would just fall right off. If I was lucky, I could still figure out which root actually belonged to that plant.

... I eventually just gave up completely and left them all there to attempt some other day. :P

For those unaware of what I'm talking about: the mycelial network is the subterranean fungal network present in natural locations, also known as the Wood Wide Web. It's thought that plants connect to the network through their roots, then use it like one giant neural network to communicate with plants in their vicinity, share nutrients, and do other things - including send out alarm signals like "help! something's trying to eat me! put up your defenses!"

It's been observed in some types plants, for instance, where if one individual gets eaten, all its neighbours in the vicinity - possibly planted metres away - will appear to wither, so as to look unattractive to whoever might be considering eating them. They'll look fine again later.

So, yeah, that was pretty cool.

doppelgreener

6:39 AM

... what's lisardggY's chat name again? I can't bring him up in the ping autocomplete. Has he simply not been in here in a while?

Magician

@doppelgreener //protracted denial of lisardggY ever existing in attempt to make you doubt your sanity//

doppelgreener

@Magician [contemplates]

d6

Dice Service

•

doppelgreener

[fails spectacularly to hold in there, goes a little more insane, and promptly begins deleting all interactions ever had with lisardggY because it's not real it can't be real they're not real this never happened]

Magician

Soon, only BESW will remain. And then you'll realise you are BESW. And that he doesn't exist.

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doppelgreener

6:50 AM

d6

Dice Service

•

doppelgreener

[keeps it together. rocks on seat hugging knees.]

Magician

There's no Arbys in heaven because there is no heaven. However, there are Arbys in hell because this is hell. Arbys: welcome to hell.

Tweeted by nihilist_arbys on February 22, 2015 at 5:11 PM

The entirety of that account is appropriate to the topic at hand.

doppelgreener

@BESW @trogdor this twitter account may be relevant to our world.

Adeptus

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Q: How do I introduce Paranoia to a Junior High School Pathfinder RPG club?

My school started an RPG club around January this year, and it has been very fun. We learned Pathfinder, and rules have been learned, adventures have been taken, etc. As me and my friends are all new to tabletop rpgs we have been ignoring the complicated rules. Everyone is having a great time pla...

paranoia

Magician

7:01 AM

@Adeptus Even I'm not that evil.

Adeptus

@Magician Q: How do I introduce Paranoia? A: Make them doubt their sanity

jrodman

7:20 AM

by war story i meant -- today i played in a D&D 5e game (first time) where the game master kept trying to ignore what all the players were doing and move to the next boxed text

that's basically the whole situation in a nutshell

BESW

@doppelgreener His work station moved so he has to look busier.

doppelgreener

@BESW oh right.

@jrodman oh. yes, you can share that too.

venting can be helpful! (i'd just advise making a habit of doing it regularly :P)

BESW

Excessive venting may be re-routed to the Not A Bar.

jrodman

8:26 AM

@doppelgreener: that's pretty much it; though the part where we were very slow and elaborately told descriptions of people we hadn't met yet was sort of surreal

BESW

@jrodman That sounds like a particularly trippy session of A Penny For My Thoughts.

jrodman

the tell was that this was session 2 of the adventure

no one from session 1 was left ,but we were to pick up where they had left off

@besw

err

@besw I'm trying to figure out what that is

the emily short game?

oh wait, she wrote about it

BESW

This game.

jrodman

i found my way there eventually

but thanks!

i've never played something that freeform, but maybe i should try it

BESW

I've only played it once, and I feel like I didn't really get it until it was underway.

It's only freeform in that events aren't determined by a randomiser: in practice, its rules form a very rigid structure around the play.

It's actually kinda reminiscent of a super-immersive iteration of Microscope.

@Magician At first I read this as "And then he doesn't exist."

BESW

9:03 AM

Tonight's dinner is rather simple: potatoes, onions, and carrots baked alongside skillet corn bread, with spicy lemon sesame sauce to drizzle on the veggies and jam for the corn bread.

Iron Heart

Sounds good.

BESW

11:18 AM

@lisardggY Hail!

@lisardggY HAIL

Rain, actually.

HELLFIRE

@BESW And I thought I had problems with sweating too much.

lisardggY

11:29 AM

O HAI

We've been having a surprising amount of hail here recently.

Aaron

1:09 PM

Morning

mawimawi

1:53 PM

Pathfinder: In stat blocks of monsters I often read stuff like "... must make a DC 12 Fortitude save ... The save DC is Charisma-based" What is the relevance here whether it's "charisma-based" or something else? What are the consequences for the attacker / the defendant?