Obsurus Lupa's latest review contains the phrase "are we in some post-apocalyptic world where Orlando is divided into kingdoms run by ninjas and rock bands?"
Oh, and the latest episode of TMNT 2012 has the brothers LARPing in the sewers.
I've kicked around the idea of starting some roleplaying games with my son (11) and his friends. I played AD&D when I was a kid (stopping around 1987, not sure what version that was). While I have all of my old AD&D books and a few campaigns, I recall it being strongly beholden to rules. I goog...
I'm not kidding or exaggerating--I literally got handed my diploma underneath advertisements for Hooters and McDonalds, two of the sponsors for the university's football stadium where the ceremony was held.
well arp laszlo saw my answer and read it so I dont care how many downvotes I get on that answer, he knows about it now and is looking at it as a potential system to fix his needs
@mxyzplk thanks, I wasn't trying to aggressively use that image, im just not sure how to resize images in markdown. Should've linked to it rather than embedding it since it was so big.
@JoshuaAslanSmith The speaker wasn't very interested in the students, really. It was more about all the faculty and local bigwig sponsors congratulating each other.
Apparently, D&D Next will ship with optional mass combat rules. Which is a requested feature, and their description of shifting the scale while maintaining core rules sounds reasonable enough. I'm sure it'll invite the obvious exploits of dragons hanging goblin "stands" onto themselves to gain the protection that grants, but that's only to be expected.
The fact that they more or less outright say 10 rounds of Next combat, simplified though they are, end up being equivalent to 10 rounds of standing in front of each other, whacking the enemy with the basic attack (or mechanical equivalent thereof), is, um...
Everytime I get an upvote on this answer I feel better and better about it. At first I was skeptical if people would approve of my crazy methods. But now I am satisfied! :)
Pretty much. Has been for a number of years. Mind you, for random stuff like usernames I usually have to register some derivative thereof, as it's always taken.
What's more annoying, and in fact mysterious, is the fact that the first part of my compound surname is taken everywhere as well. I don't know if it's a reserved word I'm unaware of, or if I have a distant relative that gets around...
@InbarRose My StackOverflow profile is linked to my full name, and Chat used that by default. I switched it to my RPG.SE profile, because using a nick feels more appropriate here.
And since this is the main chat room I hang out in.
When I was doing raiding and such, and the raid master would ask me something "kishara.. blah blah blah" and I would answer. people would be like "what, kishara is a guy?" that only happened a few times, but it was funny.
They started calling me kish, because it was too weird for them to say/hear kishara and then have a mans voice answer them.
There was this one guy, who had the DEEPEST voice I have ever heard who played with us, it was hilarious. Because he used to keep very very quiet. And when we played he would sometimes only say a few words. And most people in the guild didn't know this at first, and it was so strange to hear them react to the sudden very deep voice.
Well, not my guild. The guild I did pick-ups with post-BC, often enough that they put me in their guild loot rotations and made their own healers really mad.
I'm a fairly veteran DM, cut my teeth on 2nd edition DnD and have spent the bulk of my time with d20 and its derivatives. I have generally run campaigns for groups of 4-8 players and usually there are 3 core players and the others cycle in and out throughout the campaign.
In a few months I am be...
@C.Ross I think that's about a nice as you can say it. One of the things I try to do with those is be like, "hey, I'm gonna close your question for a minute and see if we can work out what your problem is so that you can get the best answers possible, could you clarify why exactly you think you need help with?"
But I just want people to look at 9https://docs.google.com/document/d/175R12cwXkC7FKT3lKfxzm91_4AZoDxdkzDv3lEdviHs/edita0n tell me if they think it is balanced or not. I adapted it from a book from 3.0(I think. It was either 3.0 or.5) It was Chaos Tech. I removed the drive you crazy part but upped the price of everything and added risks if you don't find a good doc.
@C.Ross Erm kinda? I did copy most everything from a published book. I don't want to take credit or anything if that's what you mean and I plan on putting a reference to the original book.
I have a 4e game planned for thru... thurs... maybeitwaswedn... the day before friday, and I need to ready it ALL, including helping some players create new level 4 characters
I think the best way to explain what I mean is to explain the situation.
I've been creating what will be my first serious fantastic campaign and I found myself creating a lot of content for one part of the game but I soon noticed that I left other aspects of the game completely blank. At the end...
I like the music, I just don't like the culture associated with gangsta rap.
One of the nice things about Welcome to Nightvale is that you get exposed to music, on the Weather report, that you probably wouldn't have sought out for yourself.
I like specific instances or rap/hip-hop songs/artists. But I do not like the genre. Those instances that I do like, are usually considered on the verge of not even being rap/hip-hop.
dear local MiLB team, if you're not going to let someone order 3/4 tickets open in a row, don't let them open another session and hold the one seat they don't want. /evilgrin
@InbarRose made me sort of wish we had had a 4th...I suppose I could have taken my 5yr old, but it's a school night and already a busy afternoon/evening
@JoshuaAslanSmith Okay, I actually know this song - it is often played in movies/tv-shows as background music or dance music... But I never heard the full song.. I will listen now.
@Lord_Gareth I think I have read something about you being a dev (Or something similar) to pathfinder. Am I remembering that correct or was it someone else?
@InbarRose kurtis blow is rapping its before rap and hip hop became 2 separate things. haha, ugh now thats music I can't stand. My rock roots lie strictly in orginal punk
But they have so much content, and it's already there... And yet when you think 60's and 70's classic/prog rock.. most people don't think of Jethro Tull..
Check out this crazy guy and his Flute solo: youtube.com/watch?v=wd6u3hQ9bkQ (Ian Anderson, lead singer of Jethro Tull) - Watching the visuals is awesome
@AlexP Indeed, in fact - Hotel California is not only a cover - it's also a gift from Jethro Tull, Ian Anderson (the main guy for Jethro Tull) wrote Hotel California for them when they asked if they could cover his song, mostly because he didn't want them slaughtering his original work - so he made a simpler version for them.. or so the myth goes... :P
Who likes randomly generated planets? I do. So I made this for a recent magical planet-hopper pathfinder game that was started at The Bronze Coin. Thoughts? Suggestions? Additions?
@DampeS8N Most obvious improvement: turn the types into clickable text. Like that "help info" popup style. So I can click on Coreless or Chthonian and get a brief description of what it means.
Also, the stuff I actually care about is more like inhabitants and anomalies. And you should combine humidity and temperature into some kind of more human-readable description of climate.
@AlexP The map link at the bottom takes into account both the humidity and temperature of the planet too. I can't take credit for the map tool, obviously.
It is also easy to overwhelm.
The planet name generator has a high failure rate, but comes up with some really awesome names. I wish it could do it without so much failure, though.
Oh, here's a thought: you can have a menu of what kinds of names to use.
Like, there are the obvious science-y names. But in 3:16, the names are generally painters and artists. "Planet Caravaggio" &c. Kinda like codenames, I guess. Or you could have more poetic names for colonized places.
Re: Jethro Tull. Panflute in rock music is cool and all, but it's not nearly as cool as accordion.
@AlexP Good idea. I'm shooting for the more made-up style names. Think Star Wars, classic sci-fi, Cthulhu Mythosy kind of things. Real science-y names and names based on poets or other figures are really best done on your own. It is hard to generate them with any kind of context.
Names that have no real meanings but sound planety are best for a generator I think.
I've kicked around the idea of starting some roleplaying games with my son (11) and his friends. I played AD&D when I was a kid (stopping around 1987, not sure what version that was). While I have all of my old AD&D books and a few campaigns, I recall it being strongly beholden to rules. I goog...
