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@Ben, remind me again in which RPG were you playing around as a super sentai?
 
Ben
@@doppelgreener did that work?
@Althis ...Super Sentai?
 
@Ben he means power ranger,... basically
that is another word for them
 
Ben
@Althis OH. No. MMPR haha. I made this guy in 5e
@trogdor It's a different generation
 
well, they are another kind of it,...
 
Ben
12:14 AM
Yeah bascially
 
yeah, it is complicated at any rate
 
Also, I prefer Tommy as the Red Ranger.
 
@Ben That worked!
 
Ben
@trogdor 'Specially when Tommy decided to come back :P
@doppelgreener Awesome :D
 
oh the doc worked?
 
Ben
12:18 AM
@trogdor apparently so :)
 
cool
 
Those personality traits are splendid.
 
Ben
@doppelgreener Hahaha. I worked hard on those :D
 
Also.
You got Evil Tommy.
He still wants to destroy Zordon.
 
Ben
@Althis Yush
Start at the beginning... then any time he (for whatever reason) dies... I can make a new character... Maybe the White Ranger... who is Lawful Good and has a Vendetta against Lord Zedd...
 
12:23 AM
@Ben when he "dies" you mean, destined to come back as some other mysterious ranger as an NPC
 
Ben
@doppelgreener well... as a new character, yes. With all that that entails :)
 
(not necessarily but seems dramatically appropriate with a whimsical thing like this)
 
@Ben Wasn't the white ranger supposed to be Tommy's evil clone?
 
Ben
@Althis Other way around.
 
Or was that Jesus Tommy, and Tommy's evil clone just shows up in the green ranger suit because no one was using it anyway?
Oh, ok.
 
12:26 AM
@Ben One minor point - you have Unarmoured Defense and Martial Arts listed under Feats.
 
Ben
Effectively, Tommy turned good after being enchanted by Rita, became the White Ranger, then yeah... ^ that happened
@Miniman Yeah. Just a grouping thing
 
They just couldn't let that outfit go to waste, dude!
It cost like... 25 dollars!
 
Ben
@Althis It's a nice suit...
 
Not even american dollars, if I am not mistaken it were Australian dollars.
Which is worth slightly less.
 
Ben
I was also (possibly) thinking about giving him a Sabre or something similar (The Sword of Darkness), but I think that would be a highly situational thing
 
12:28 AM
You know who I would like to play as?
Billy.
In Zeo.
That would be awesome.
 
Ben
@Althis 25 AUD = 18 USD
roughly lol
@Althis Go for it! I'll tell ya I had so much fun making this guy :D
 
user20683
evening
 
Ben
Hello World!
2
[chuckles internally]
 
...
I won't lie and say that I didn't chuckle.
But damn...
 
echo "Hello World."

Look, I can Php! /fail
 
12:32 AM
@Ben, I was trying to make a joke, because Billy was actually a character that started a ranger, became increasingly irrelevant, then stopped being a ranger, almost became a relevant ranger again then they completely gave up on him.
 
Ben
In case, for any reason someone doesn't see what I see
 
How is that for a character arc?
 
Ben
@Althis Ohh right lol
 
Dude, stop explaining the jokes, some people are still trying to figure it out!
 
Ben
@Althis Sorry. Habit. I live (and work) with idiots. Harsh, I know. But just sometimes...
[shake my head]
 
12:38 AM
@Ben It happens.
 
Ben
This needs to be a thing
 
I don't know... Power rangers just confuse me :\
 
Why is the black ranger fat?
 
Ben
@Althis He's the Mammoth dude
Bulk
 
Ah.
I see the joke with the perspective of the red ranger now.
I keep forgetting how great this is.
"Alpha, quick, recruit a group of teenagers with attitude!"
I am not sure this elite force ever thought out it's entry criteria through.
 
Ben
12:45 AM
GO GO POWER RANGERS [NEER-NEER-NEER-NERR-NERR!!]
 
I tried getting a group together to play a super sentai scenario for Maid RPG.
But it never got out of the ground.
 
user20683
I kind of feel like Cypher System would be great for Sentai
 
Kinda, but not really, because they don't really relied so much on gadgets in the first incarnation.
@Ben That is some really solid rock for a kid's show.
 
Ben
@Althis And 100% awesome
 
12:47 AM
@WorldEngineer, if I am not mistaken they only ever got their main weapons and a couple of legendary weapons in the first one. They didn't even have alternate forms.
I am not sure, but I think either Zeo or Turbo started with this tradition of introducing power creep to the mixture.
 
user20683
Ron Wasserman did a remastered album a few years back
 
Ben
@WorldEngineer Sounds like it might be the same one I just posted (though probably slightly better quality)
But I will never turn down a reason to listen to this again
[hits replay]
Whoops... I slipped [cough]
GO GO POWER RANGERS
 
@BESW suddenly the raptor apocalypse session is going to get a little less arbitrary and a little more specific: the velociraptors came about as the result of catastrophic space-time experiments. (This is also why the raptor dimension can be reached from another dimension at all.)
(at least that is until the players decide it's because of something else because of a brainstorm)
(but it also opens up the doors for strange physics dinosaurs)
 
@doppelgreener, have you thought of having the raptors be responsible for the creation of their own species?
 
Ben
12:58 AM
@doppelgreener On the topic of dinosaurs, I need to come up with a way to allow Thomas to summon golems...
 
user20683
@Ben old Rabbinical scrolls?
 
Ben
@WorldEngineer Is that a 5e thing?
 
user20683
@Ben Faerun has humans from ancient Earth (very technically)
 
Ben
@WorldEngineer You have my attention
 
@Ben It's an "origin of the golem myth" thing. For 5e you'd be after a Manual of Golems.
 
1:01 AM
@Ben Is there a way to Craft Constructs in 5e?
 
@Nyoze Manual of Golems. Super expensive and not actually usable for a monk, now that I think about it, so...yeah.
 
Ben
@Nyoze No idea. My knowledge of the system is roughly 2 months old haha
Oh. My. God.
Custom campaign - they're constantly up against enemies that are WAY OP, but the PC's can summon golems (or something similar) to fight them haha
 
user20683
Elemental Monks have the ability to cast Wall of Stone
 
user20683
substitute conjure elemental and restrict to Earth
 
user20683
Instant Golem just add clay
 
Ben
1:05 AM
@WorldEngineer I like your style, sir
 
@Althis I was not sure whether to have them be that intelligent. The original plan was basically to have a zombie apocalypse, except with raptors. Something terrible happens and raptors begin appearing or appearing all of a sudden.
Now that's also looking like the could raptors also be inherently unstable and reminiscent of Slaads. (Should velociraptors be able to split into timeiraptors and distanciraptors..?)
 
You know, that brings the question. Our world is composed of not black and white, but different shades of gray in which no one is really good or evil.
But RAPTOR DIMENSION however, doesn't have to be.
 
Atomic Robo has a Vampire Dimension that gets visited a couple of times. It's an kind of apocalyptic world in which some kind of civilisation once existed but has since collapsed, and everyone there is a vampiric monster thing.
 
user20683
@Althis Food and not food
 
So the raptor apocalypse would occur in the Raptor Dimension.
 
1:08 AM
 
Oh, @trogdor, since you're running tomorrow's session: Raycia will be absent but Ben will come.
 
This might actually be a thing.
 
user20683
or om nom nom and nom nom om?
 
@WorldEngineer om nom nom, and non-nom nom
 
@BESW ok,... jeez this is going all over the place
 
@doppelgreener doppelnom om nom @Ben nom?
 
Ben
@Althis yo-nom
 
@trogdor Racyia's character will be busy filling out all the forms for her island leave.
 
@Ben I almost read something completely different there. lol.
 
The Raptor alignment axis is Crunch/Squishy and Tasty/Nasty.
 
1:10 AM
@doppelgreener and then the volcanoe will erupt before she can go,....
 
@trogdor beautiful
 
@trogdor Hahahaha!
 
it just seems so obvious
 
We will single-handedly see to the destruction of the entire island and come back when she's got all the forms finished.
 
Hahah!
 
1:11 AM
@doppelgreener I don't think you will necessarily have to work hard for that
 
One of us will make a pun that it was a blast, and Myka will snap and strangle them.
 
unless,... what you wanted was to be the cause of the eruption?
I just figured it would erupt at some point regardless
 
@trogdor I could take or leave that, but it's oh so fun when we unknowingly sow the seeds of our own imminent failure.
 
Ben
@doppelgreener You might say, Myka will blow their top?
 
Jessie will happily take Fate points to shoot a volcano with her time gun.
 
1:13 AM
@Ben Ho ho ho ho ho!
 
@BESW this could definitely do it
but we also don't need that
 
@trogdor !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! have a large crystal- and stone-powered tectonic engine. dwarf technology foreshadowing. makes the volcano erupt as well.
 
I have several ideas that could work, and any one, or any number, of you could easily do something
@doppelgreener hmm
 
(speaking of all this foreshadowing, y'all should let me know if I should be foreshadowing your future events in my own sessions)
 
we can certainly talk about that at some point
 
1:14 AM
@Ben, I just noticed that you forgot a really important aspect of Tommy.
 
@doppelgreener Just don't forget that there's all this EM stuff from solar flares, and people are worried about the Mayan apocalypse.
 
(this tectonic engine is also something I can take or leave. Jessie trying to shoot a volcano with a time gun also sounds great.)
 
He MUST use green clothes at all times.
 
Ben
@Althis ?
 
@BESW Ok! :D
Oh my god.
 
Ben
1:15 AM
@Althis Oh right. Yes. I'm not sure I did specify that. But yes. They clothes (or robes) he wears are green :)
 
Suddenly I have extra - and better, and substantial and urgent - reasons for the dwarf incursion.
 
The N1 Object --and concurrent Weird Stuff incursions-- makes their concern a little more reasonable than the 2012 doomsdayers in our real world.
What with, yanno, an unknowable moon careening toward the Sun and making the Sun's EM integrity freak out.
 
1:30 AM
@BESW @trogdor Solar activity, and EM interference, have been making a lot of things happen underground that are forcing the dwarves upwards, and they have longstanding frustrations and history with humans that are making them approach the whole "move upwards" thing differently to how they might otherwise.
 
ok
 
(previously I had none of this "they need to move upwards" pressure, now it's there in several fronts.)
 
That's what that setting pressure is there for.
 
\o/
@trogdor do not worry about foreshadowing dwarf tech, go with whatever
 
Ben
Question - how far outside the rules would it be to give Tommy an extra weapon as part of his starting gear?
 
1:42 AM
(Dwarf tech probably does not need foreshadowing)
 
I was thinking I could do it in a more low key way than you were thinking
it actually,.. fits somewhere
 
@Ben It's outside the rules, but weapons are so cheap that most GMs probably won't bat an eyelid.
 
@trogdor Sure! Go right ahead. :D
 
Ben
@Miniman Excellent. As he also needs a sabre or something similar...
 
@Ben Mind you, you haven't really got much equipment from your background, so you could just add it there.
 
1:44 AM
@doppelgreener I don't want to spoil where it does fit, but there is a place something made by dwarves can go
 
Ben
@Miniman truuuueee....
 
@Ben It looks like the only equipment your background is giving you right now is the panflute, right?
 
Ben
@Miniman Yeah I think so.
Maybe the clothes and the mask
well, no... definitely the clothes and the mask
 
Wait, the Monk equipment doesn't include clothes? That was more than I needed to know about Faerun monasteries.
6
 
Ben
@Miniman It's about getting in touch with your inner spirit. Material possessions only get in the way.
 
1:49 AM
@Ben And everyone around you being naked doesn't get in the way?
 
Ben
@Miniman Umm.. no? They generally walk around me?
:P
 
I guess things like this are why I will never achieve enlightenment. :(
 
I want to comment.
I will not, however, if only for the sake of decency.
 
I'm going to say that the clothes belong to the monastery, so they aren't yours.
 
Ben
@BESW Yes. Upon leaving the Monastery they gave me the clothes and mask, as there is a different code of "decency" outside these walls
 
1:53 AM
@BESW Phew!
 
I suspect BESW I meant that the monk package doesn't come with clothes because as a monk, you don't own any, the monastery does and supplies them to you, they're not your possessions.
Afterwards, you obtain your own clothes and those come from your background or buying them yourself.
But yes if classes are meant to give you clothing and the monk class doesn't, that is strange and this is just me making excuses for it.
 
Ben
2:12 AM
> You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:
• (a) a shortsword or (b) any simple weapon • (a) a dungeoneer’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack • 10 darts
cc @doppelgreener
 
i believe you that the monk class doesn't, i was not aware that other classes do.
(my group has yet to run our trial session of D&D 5e, given the lack of free adventures for our purposes.)
 
<[Gasps for air!]
What happened?!
Where am I?
Where did I go?
 
2:29 AM
There was a lot of controversy originally when Saban got it pulled with copyright claims, but eventually they came to an agreement. Saban leaves it alone so long as they have that disclaimer (unauthorized, etc.).
 
Dude...
This is...
Damn, this is good.
I would pay a netflix subscription to watch this.
+Daredevil of course.
 
2:48 AM
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3:50 AM
@Ben Ooooo. this looks compelling from the start, I'll have to check this out sometime later. :D
 
Ben
So - new challenge
D&D characters for an Autobot and a Decepticon.
I'm thinking Optimus, and Starscream
Optimus will be a challenge...
 
@Ben They just aren't characters that make any sense within D&D's mechanics.
Some kind of unbelievably pimped out Iron Golem could vaguely approximate it, I guess.
 
Ben
@Miniman Well, I'm not trying to make them Golems
Player Race variants
For example, I might make Optimus a (insert race) Fighter?
Starscream might be a (Teifling?) Rogue?
 
@Ben The point I'm trying to make is that even if you can manage to emulate a Transformer in D&D, it will be incredibly overpowered.
You can make a Tiefling Rogue and call it Starscream, but it won't have anything in common with the actual Starscream.
 
Ben
Explore the possibilities ;) the idea of Optimus as a whole is OP, but as a character... it's much more entertaining
 
4:00 AM
(Cos, yanno, he's a two-storey tall robot with enough inbult weaponry to level a city and the ability to turn into a plane.)
 
This will obviously be an AU Optimus. :P
 
Ben
Eg. An Orc Fighter; Lawful Neutral/Chaotic; Personality Traits: Always trying to negotiate... etc.
@Pixie Yeah mate. He'll be an absolute beaut!
 
@Ben An AU where all the Transformers are from AU. GENIUS.
 
Ben
Starscream: a Teilfing Rogue; Neutral/Chaotic Evil; Personality traits: It's never his fault
 
I'm now thinking of a ute transformer and all the transformers speaking in Australian accent and complaining about the heat.
 
Ben
4:03 AM
@doppelgreener Optimus is a Hilux
 
And they're all too tired because of how hot it is to do any serious fighting - not even the Decepticons do much. They mainly just engage in shouting matches from their respective barbecues in the park if they happen to be there on the same day.
 
Ben
@doppelgreener Then at the end of the day they're always trying to go swimming
 
But they sink.
 
Wading.
 
Ben
a surfing Transformer... that's an image
 
4:05 AM
Holla
 
@Ben a brief one, just before it falls over or its board sinks.
 
@doppelgreener Mad Max Transformers.
 
@Nyoze That implies about a hundred times more action than I'm suggesting XD
But mad max transformers would also be awesome.
For completely different reasons.
 
Ben
Indeed'
That would be amazing
 
Completely different, but still Aussie transformers :P
 
Ben
4:09 AM
The more I think about the more true that is haha
 
The decepticons and autobots would've become simply different small cities (with raiding parties) within the desert.
They harbor humans because they can do things the transformers can't do, and if your 'food' is a rare and expensive resource, better to conserve your energy and let other people share in the work.
(in the decepticon camp they're more exploited as slaves)
 
Ben
What race would you pick Optimus to be?
I'm thinking Orc, but I'm not sure
 
4:39 AM
I don't have a suggestion myself.
@Pixie The image of some large truck-people and car-people sitting around in a pond and drinking cold beers to cool off, while having radiators and batteries to worry about (maybe) is amusing to me.
 
@doppelgreener That is amusing. xD
 
And being all "she'll be right, mate" when they are taking on water and stuff.
 
Ben
"Nah 'sall good bud. I installed a new snorkel last week"
[Chugs down a drum of unleaded petrol]
 
4:58 AM
Bumblebee tells a terrible joke. Optimus splashes water on him. It hits his battery. He sparks and fizzles and everyone else swears and freaks out for a moment before Bumblebee regathers his senses. Bumblebee responds to Optimus with a profanity-laden sentence and gets comfortable again and takes another sip. Everyone laughs and returns to their beers & petrol.
 
Ben
^ This is what Australia is, ladies and Gents. 100%
 
5:25 AM
Sounds about right to me.
 
 
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7:30 AM
> Bag of Holding. Your ability to carry objects is unrestricted by size, weight, or number. Once per session you can have exactly the object you need regardless of how unlikely.
 
Ben
@BESW I need this
Which game is this?
 
Oh, I'm just messing around with Fate stunts.
 
@Ben Every game needs this :(
 
7:48 AM
@BESW I'm not that of-fey with fate terminology but isn't once per session a little bit arbitrary. Assuming session is a play session, wouldn't per scene be better or that be too overpowered?
 
If it were a specific object, once per scene would probably be good.
But because it's "whatever you need," that can get balanced by either limited frequency or spending a Fate point each time you do it.
The more open-endedly useful a feature, the more powerful it is.
 
Yeah. Anything once per scene does seem like it would be too much on its own. Scene can change a lot.
 
Is whatever you need limited to what you have actually put in there though?
Ah meh teach me not to read properly, yea if you can basically summon any item then yea that's powerful, just have to be careful.
 
@Tashio Nah. If you put it in, you can grab it out again. Anything else, once per session.
 
draws out the holy grail oh well guess we don't need to do that quest anymore
 
7:56 AM
Lol
 
Ben
@Nyoze Indeed
Question: Prime, or Primus? I'm trying to come up with a variation of the name "Optimus Prime", so they can't get me for copyright violation :P
 
Give him a thick upper crust British accent and call him Optimal Primary
 
Ben
@Nyoze I have a friend that's looking for a black frying pan in all of his RP's. It's an ongoing quest for all characters, across all universes.
Last known sighting:
 
DM: You search through all the loot you find 100 gold, 2 gems and a frying pan.
Player: Is it black.
DM: No!
Player: Damnit!
 
Ben
The bag of holding will be able to retrieve it... I just know it...
@Tashio Double dammit!
@Tashio I'm liking your style
 
8:07 AM
@Ben ...has he read The Enchanted Forest Chronicles?
 
hee
those are great
 
Enchanted Forest Chronicles?
 
@Tashio It's a series of novels by Patricia C. Wrede.
One of the associated short stories has a Frying Pan of Doom.
 
to be fair, I read like, one?
but it was great
 
It burns anyone but its rightful wielder (and thus anyone else must wear an oven mitt if using it), and in the hands of its rightful wielder the Frying Pan of Doom can turn enemies into cooked eggs.
(One giant, messy poached egg per enemy you bonk on the head with it.)
 
8:18 AM
that is pretty horrible
 
It was supposed to be a Sword of Doom, with other more sword-related powers.
But the magician tripped over his pet pig (he's allergic to cats) just as he was casting the spell, and his wife came in with her best frying pan.
After that, well, you can't just make pancakes in the Frying Pan of Doom, so they went to the King of the Enchanted Forest for help finding the Pan's rightful wielder.
 
that sounds like an awful lot of work for a mistake
 
It's one of those once-a-lifetime spells that magicians cast to make a legacy weapon which will be remembered for all time.
 
oh
so in other words, he messed that up and wanted some damage control on his legacy
 
You can't just crank out [Weapon] of Dooms.
 
8:24 AM
yes, that makes sense
though it sounds like even that safeguard is not enough to keep far too many of them from existing
over time there would still always be a new wizard or multiple new wizards to make one each in each generation or so
 
lol sounds good
 
Presumably there's also a fairly high turnover on the "Must cast this weapon into the Pits of Eternal Rust" quests.
 
but yes, that one guy lost his chance
 
You mean the Pit of Eternal Rust Monsters, or every adventurer's worse nightmare
 
Aaand we're back to the naked monks.
 
8:27 AM
lol
 
pretty sure not
they are one of the more likely classes not to wear metal clothes
 
I'm pretty sure D&D thinks monks have belt buckles.
 
but,.. robes
don't need belts,...
or at least they can use rope ones in any cases where they do
 
Yea, normally a rope or a cloth belt, otherwise they hang weird
 
9:02 AM
Taking my dad to the emergency room. Please say prayers and send happy thoughts, as is your wont.
 
oh man
I will
 
Ben
9:18 AM
Can any class have minions...?
@BESW My prayers go with you :)
 
Ben
9:57 AM
@trogdor I'm pretty sure that's druids...
 
true enough
but Monks are not going to be naked from rust monster attacks
because if they are the already most like likely were
 
'morning
 
Ben
Evenin'
 
Racist question: is the term Aussie considered derogatory?
 
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