We got the super-expensive "A Study in Emerald," which was totally worth the price. Also got "Shadows Over Camelot," which we haven't played yet. And "Rampage," which is a board game based on the old arcade game where monsters beat the crap out of buildings.
In Rampage, you actgually pick up your monster token (they're somewhat large and made of wood) and you drop them onto actual 3-d buildings built up from the game board.
To move, you flick your monster token and sometimes they'll crash into each other or knock over buildings... it's great fun, but you have to watch where the pieces fly.
Tried it out two days ago. I was pleasantly surprised. It's a story-driven short rpg. You're suffering from amnesia, were in a crash, you just escaped and you know something is chasing you. And you've got a psychic power. Every player chooses a power, a short description, and writes down several questions about his/her character (like "Why do I have this strange tatoo on my wrist ?"). When you roll dice, you choose where you put each of them on a resolution table. Like : you could fail and be hurt but it triggers a memory and the chasers don't come closer. Or you could choose to succede and…
The memory part is interesting : depending of how good the die was, you can choose to answer one question yourself on a 6, but the other players decide for you on 4-5. It leads to very interesting stories.
My rule of thumb is that an RPG can usually be played with (1/2)X + 1 players, where X is the minimum number of players recommended by the manual, and the sum is rounded down to the nearest whole number.
Because I need to say this somewhere: A Time Lord has twelve regenerations. Twelve. They usually get thirteen bodies, because they're counting the one they started with. A new regeneration cycle would most likely provide another twelve regenerations, not thirteen.
Personally I wouldn't be surprised if Moffat turns around and says "Oh, did you think a whole new regeneration cycle meant twelve more? Nope, just one life-cycle, now I get to rescue the franchise again!"
Eight had some pretty heavy-duty amnesia which lasted surprisingly long. But then, he actually died so we can cut him some slack.
@ProfessorLokiCaprion I feel like Ten's coma was a cheap knockoff of Five's.
"Oh, Davison had to spend two episodes in a Time Lord clean room! What a wuss. I just needed some tea."
It undermined the gravitas of Castrovalva's regeneration plot. And let's face it: when one of the main characters spends a whole story stuck like this, it's a pretty low blow to rob the story of what little dignity it had.
> "If you don't want to play one of D&D's stereotipical nine alignments, you should not play D&D. If you feel like you need to spoil a class of its original fluff, why are you playing D&D?"
Not a thread. Skype conversation. This friend of mine is bitching about a "I'm evil but not so much, in fact I'm more often good than not" character she doesn't like.
Also, "why should a really really beautiful drow be interested in a passable but not that handsome barbarian with no charisma? The DM shouldn't allow that"
If he has no Charisma, he's either comatose or non-sentient, either of which presents more pressing problems than whether or not he's comely.
(But in all seriousness, if this person doesn't think a pretty person could possibly be attracted to an unpretty person, that says some rather telling things about their own personality.)
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(Not that Charisma is just about being pretty, but it seems like that's where they're going with it.)
@BESW Oh, no. He has a 13 in appearance and maybe a 10 in charisma. We have appearance in that game because the master decided he was bored with every character being the most impossibly beautiful you could describe, so we need to pay points if we want it to be beautiful/handsome.
@Zachiel Yeeeah. I'm gonna call "unimaginative and media-saturated" on the idea that a pretty person can't fall for someone with an average ability to get along with others.
So I got this guy that wants to play with us on Roll20 for D&D night but the only problem is he hasn't had his weatherford yet. (That is, where I come from a weatherford is a rite of passage involving taking an AP English course where she gives you maybe a D+ if she's in a good mood. I don't think she's ever given anyone an A on anything.)
Do you think it's just a matter of taking the time to be more careful, or does he need some accompaniment to polish the skills before any amount of time will let him bring them up to your standards?
@BESW It might be a mix of both. The player in question seems to reply rather quickly, but also tends to ask "You guys still there?" after a minute of silence. (Usually I'm still writing.)
@Zachiel I could, but I don't want to be super blunt about it.
@BESW We're all relatively fast - posts don't have too much space inbetween unless its figuring up lots of dice-rolls, but we usually have all the possible rolls pre-written (as like [[d20+15+x]] ) in advance for copy pasting.
@Zachiel I believe it says "-yournamehere- is typing..."
I'm generally allergic to attempts at subtly encouraging someone to change their behavior through social engineering, rather than having an open conversation.
I think really though the thing that bugs me is that this player in question is very active and will type fast and dirty, but overall he's relatively quiet in terms of interaction with other PCs and whatnot.
Social engineering has its place, but open conversation about needs and expectations makes people feel like they're participants rather than trained animals.
> Why do you need 1-sided dice? Imagine this all too common scenario faced every day by D&D DMs around the world: your group is in a dungeon crawl. There’s a room with a pie in it, and the pie is guarded by an orc. If the characters open the door, one of these things happen:
1. The orc attacks
That’s it, there’s only the one option. So the characters do indeed open the door and the poor DM consults the chart. Unfortunately the smallest die type he has is a d4, so our DM has no choice but to roll the d4 over and over until he gets a 1 before he knows what the orc is going to do.
An I mean... "zero deviation from perfect randomness". Wow.
I always make my players weigh their dice because if there is a 1% greater chance they roll a 3 than a 4 then that really messes up the game in my book
I think instead of it being "roll until you get your own number or 21, in which case you lose", it's "roll until you get bored and walk away from the casino table"
I have a character with 4 arms. In three of those he will be wielding pistols. At 1st level can I make three attacks? (I know there are penalties I just need to know if I am right about 3 attacks.)
@C.Ross Yeeeah. It's a 1991 Mathnet storyline about a baseball player who gets replaced by an android, but one of the main characters keeps mishearing it as adenoid.
It's been on my mind since I got an Android-based tablet a couple weeks ago.
Speaking of TV shows, have you had any progress on the Grimm mod?
