TRPG General Chat

12:00 AM

@Miniman Oh right! Now I remember.

I did not know that wi-fi was invented in Australia. Neat.

I also loved that pennies weren't used. And that prices as-marked included all taxes. We've recently ditched the penny here, but we still only see the after-tax price at the till. :(

Miniman

@SevenSidedDie That seems...massively in the favour of the seller and unlikely to change.

SevenSidedDie

@Miniman Quite. I don't know how you managed to get it to happen. You'd think our government would be in favour enough to legislate it even, since hiding the tax inside the sticker price might get us to finally stop complaining about the federal Goods and Services Tax every election.

Adeptus

@SevenSidedDie It's pretty much always been that way, as far as I understand

and we did have 1c & 2c until... the 90s?

Miniman

@Adeptus Yeah, around then I think.

Ilmari Karonen

@Miniman <nitpick> I assume you mean dodecagons. A dodecahedron would be like a d12. </nitpick> :)

Miniman

12:07 AM

@IlmariKaronen Yep, my bad.

Ilmari Karonen

Although, come to think of it, dodecahedral coins would be pretty awesome. :)

Adeptus

Now that would be an awkward coin to carry!

Miniman

I had a twinge of "wait, isn't that the 3D one not the 2D one?" but I couldn't remember the 2D one and figured people would know what I meant.

Ilmari Karonen

@Adeptus I dunno... I have a tiny seven-die set I sometimes carry in my wallet. It's not really significantly more awkward that spare change in general.

Miniman

@IlmariKaronen shakes fist at the d10

BESW

12:10 AM

Dodeca-what?

nitsua60

12:26 AM

@Adeptus moment of brutal honesty: I carry more dice in my pocket every day than I do currency

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Miniman

@nitsua60 That doesn't seem that brutal.

nitsua60

(I throw a d20 and 2d6 in my pocket every morning for fidgeting, juggling when I've got to stall for time, determining students' grades, and as a reminder to do something with my games every day; I carry no currency)

Adeptus

"Determining students' grades"? O.o

Shalvenay

@nitsua60 heheh :P

back from the dungeon dice already eh?

Pixie

@Adeptus Oh nice! I think I have a lot of this already from the Humble Bundle a while back, but I'm pretty sure I don't have Battlemat, and that looks pretty nifty.

Adeptus

12:43 AM

@Pixie It does. I'm tempted to get tier 2, to get AGFPRO Premium. I have an idea for a game, which that would help with, if I ever get around to making it... :P

nitsua60

@Adeptus It's really nice, 'cause my school uses a 6-pt grading system.

@Shalvenay yup--just a quickie while we waited for a load of laundry to finish

Pixie

@Adeptus Oh, yeah. I won't be attempting anything 3D myself, but if you are, that's a good deal.

Aww man, every player will need a copy of Battlemat in order to use it. It sounded like only the GM would. In that case, not much use to me.

Pixie

1:15 AM

On that note, anyone ever used a paid online tabletop solution that let players connect free? OpenRPG and Maptool are just okayish, and I wonder whether paid ones are any better, but it's difficult to coordinate a whole group buying the same (sometime pricy) program.

And it's not in my budget to buy most things for 6+ people. :P This $2.99 bundle would be doable, but I can't look at it and convince myself I'd really use it that much.

BESW

1:30 AM

Who was talking about a political campaign in D&D 5e recently?

Because there's a new World of Adventure for Fate that is basically "political intrigue in D&D."

@Magician Eclipse Phase meets Fiasco.

doppelgreener

2:10 AM

@BESW Oh sweet.

@Miniman what if they're d4s

Miniman

@doppelgreener Mmm, with poisoned tips.

doppelgreener

Also along the lines of game making kits, there is the popular and for-free Twine: "an open-source tool for telling interactive, nonlinear stories." It's a visual novel game creator.

@Miniman to use on sleeping students, etc

WrongOnTheInternet

2:27 AM

At least with M&M, I'm pretty sure most of the stat writing I do will last a long time since it's so hard to permakill people.

nitsua60

@doppelgreener c'mon, all--I'm just trying to stop them from asking their grades as they hand in the quizzes. (Pulling out the d6 and asking if they really want their grade right now....) Not kill them.

That I can do in their sleep. (It's a boarding school.)

doppelgreener

@nitsua60 Ha! That sounds like a great response.

nitsua60

@doppelgreener The d4s go in the pocket when administering exams. [student whispers] Mr. A, I don't know what to do for this question. [straight-faced, Mr. A puts a d4 on their multiple-choice answer sheet]

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doppelgreener

Suddenly separately I'm remembering the Joker

"Watch, I'm gonna make this d4 disappear..."

Pixie

2:47 AM

@doppelgreener I've seen Twine around but haven't tried it out yet. There's also Inform7, which does what most people appear to do with Twine, but it's text-only. For Japanese-style visual novels, there's also Ren'Py and Novelty (revealing outfit warning for Novelty's mascot). All free, but only Ren'Py is open source.

Well, I think there is some limited ability to include images in Inform7, but mainly it's for text games.

Miniman

Although it's featured on the main site, I didn't notice it until just now, and I feel it's important:

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Q: Toward a philosophy of Chat

TL;DR: The Problem This keeps happening in chat: Surprise at flags on vulgar messages. Language that would invariably get your comments deleted on the main site occasionally gets flagged and deleted in chat. Confusion reigns. Controversial topics leading to bickering and name-calling. Folks b...

nitsua60

3:05 AM

@doppelgreener would you mind taking a look at this re-answer and seeing if you have any edit-tips? You did such a nice job on it's big sibling the other night, for which I thank you again.

doppelgreener

3:18 AM

@nitsua60 I can do that in a few hours. Thank you, I'm flattered.

nitsua60

no worries, no rush. You greatly improved the readability of the first, I felt, so I tried to pattern take 2 after your work. (And I'm slowly growing convinced by @Escoce in absentia.)

Miniman

@nitsua60 On the other hand, I realised on re-reading his answer that it's very vague and confused - it's an attack, modeled with an attack roll, but somehow also an AoE that gives a Dex save?

nitsua60

@Miniman yeah, I thought I saw some of the point and encouraged them (and made some specific suggestions) to work through the details. Later I told them I was considering posting a "sand-as-attack" answer, would he mind? No response.

Miniman

@nitsua60 I wasn't going to upvote, because...untested houserules, but the comparison to the net is really close (and actually slightly in the net's favour).

nitsua60

@Miniman Yeah, I think the only part of it that's blatantly untested is the part lifted wholesale from the other answer. (all the whatnot about getting sand out of one's eyes.)

to be honest, they're both untested, and possibly the attack-answer less so

Pixie

4:34 AM

... I misread that other chat as Flavored Soul and was briefly confused.

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