@nitsua60 In D&D 4e they'd also make a great 15' sphere.

I... assume that's a joke about how 4e handles geometry?

@nitsua60 Yes. :D All measurements are chebyshev distance. In an 8x8 square room, you could walk from one corner to any other corner in 8 "squares" of movement. An 8' diameter explosion would fill the room to every corner.

@doppelgreener Gotcha. 5e, on the other hand, claims to have spheres, but still you can walk from one corner of that room to another in 8 squares' movement.

Though they do present "every-other" diagonal counting as a variant. I can get behind 1.5 = sqrt{2}

@nitsua60 yes

My favourite part is that you only get chebyshev distances with distances greater than five feet.

Inside a single square, measurement is "real normal."

In other news, the Early Peek of Dresden Files Accelerated just got released for Fate Core backers.

...it's 256 pages.

Alright all, on my way out. AL ain't gonna play itself!

ttfn

@trogdor, @doppelgreener Do we want to continue with our DFAE playtest campaign now there's a new release?

I would certainly be fine with that

[sigh] They've done that cutesy "writing the rules in a person's voice" thing again, and it's just as distracting as in DFRPG proper.

That's why it's 256 pages: they take three lines to convey one line of useful information.

ah dang

that was fun the first time but,.....

that will get old

This time, it's the Archive writing the rules.

So we don't just get embellishments, she uses unusual syntax.

oh great

> Detail also whatever you wish to keep secret or avoid.

X(

hello

There IS a nice sidebox summary of the table-level process for taking actions. I'm gonna be using that a lot.

@Grant [wave]

What's new?

looking for a Dm

for my first campaign of DnD

and just relized i was using my name for a display name for some odd reason

@nitsua60 I did see that, but without meaningful constraints it's a bit of a pointless question.

@Grant Looking for a DM, or looking for a group?

@BESW ah cool, that seems like they had at least one good idea there

There are some very interesting ideas floating around in there.

looking for DM

@Miniman

Hmmm. There's a lot of good advice on the site about finding a group, but if you have a group and you're only looking for a DM, it's a very different situation.

yeah i think id be able to find one as there are community events in my area every week for DnD meet ups i just havnt gotin around to going there and posting flyer or asking around

Honestly, finding a DM who doesn't already have a group is pretty tough.

yeah

thats what i was worried about

You might just have to get someone in your group to step up.

everyone in my group are first timers

You can always be better at it, but as long as everyone's there to have fun it's hard to go too far wrong.

@Grant Nothing wrong with that. My first game had me as the GM, and nobody who'd played that system and some who'd never played an RPG at all.

Now that I think about, I technically never played D&D 5e before I started DMing either.

yea, we may have to resort to that but first we ganna try asking around a bit

The other thing worth keeping in mind is that there's a big difference between a group of friends playing an RPG and an RPG group some of whom are friends.

Personally, I'd prefer to be playing with people I know and like, even if it means that everyone's still learning.

Agreed.

Also, (sorry to keep going on) it's not a bad thing if everyone is at the same level of expertise. If one person in the group knows the rules backwards and forwards, and everyone else is just learning them, it's likely to be a little frustrating for that one guy.

everyone in my group ik. only person we wont know is the DM. which is another reason why it may be hard

half of my group do know a bit cuz we have whatched other campians

our group also doesn't want to play a campaign or DM thats ganna be super hard on the rules with a bit more focus on the RP aspect

Sounds to me like promoting someone from the ranks (as it were) is the way to go.

if we were to do that id probably end up being the Dm which im fine with but i dont think i could create a custom campaign

There are plenty of pre-made campaigns, many of them free, to choose from.

any u recomend?

As you get more comfortable with the game you may start customising them, or you might find you really enjoy the pre-made stories.

The only D&D edition I used pre-mades with was 4e, and I suspect that's not what you're looking at.

why not?

(I haven't played D&D in five or six years; moved on to other RPGs.)

You haven't said which edition of D&D your group is looking to use, but purely as a statistical thing it's probably either 5e or 3.5.

honestly idk what the different editions offer we were just ganna leave it up to the DM

why 3.5 or 5e?