@trogdor @Areadbhair PRecisely what happened.

I went from being a caucasian soldier to a strong, independant black woman hooker, to a planet, to a batter-fried Hercules, to the Earth, which ultimately meant nothing because my party went back in time without me to cripple me before this horred future took place

...unless you weren't talking about the story

-then the answer to that is I used a similar opening to the one I used here and got directed here by someone

Cthulhu Christmas Cards Kickstarter.

so...one of the problems on the NWN server I'm on is that the server makes you roll a DEX check for dumping poison down a well. This doesn't make any sense to me...but the only thing I can come up with for an analogy to express it is "dumping poison down a well is about as hard as putting antifreeze in your car IRL"

...and I'm not sure if that's a good analogy or not

@DCShannon It's a little tacky to post a question you don't know the answer to and then immediately post all the things you think might be the correct answer as separate answers.

@Shalvenay That's actually a D&D thing, not a NWN thing.

Unless you have Poison Use, using poison requires a Dex check, failure means you poison yourself.

@Miniman I know D&D wants you to make a DEX check for say putting a poison on a blade -- but the DEX check for dumping poison down a well should be utterly trivial

(like DC10 or perhaps less)

@Shalvenay Do you know what the DC is?

What kind of a poison is it?

For contact poisons, I'd be surprised if there wasn't a Dex check to do anything with it.

@ObliviousSage I feel like I've seen several meta posts suggesting that this is the correct way to do it, rather than add possible interpretations to the question itself, thereby allowing them to be voted on seperately. Not sure how it's tacky. Would you care to explain what you mean?

I would love to see links to those posts.

@ObliviousSage I'll see if I can find one

Self-answering is acceptable when you know the answer.

@Miniman I'm thinking from a task perspective here -- how hard is it to pour antifreeze into your car?

Regardless of whose question you're posting on, it's a good idea to avoid giving answers that you aren't confident in.

BESW just found a much more concise way of saying what I was trying to say.

@Shalvenay I think you're missing my point. You say that it should be trivial, but if you don't know the DC, how do you know it isn't?

@ObliviousSage I'm not sure actually -- but I'd be likely to assume it's something poisonous by ingestion consdering it's being dumped down a well

@ObliviousSage Here's one on multiple answers, but it doesn't address self-answering: meta.rpg.stackexchange.com/a/5677/12011

I think it's even less OK to do that for your own questions; it's basically saying, "Please help me by answering this question, but I want the rep for the answers as well."

@ObliviousSage I don't give a crap about the rep, if anything posting two answers will get one downvoted

@ObliviousSage I was pretty sure those would be the two interpretations, so I saved everybody the effort of writing them out

If you think there's two things it might be, the question is the place to list them out.

Your question then takes the form, "Which of these two interpretations is right, or am I totally crazy and it's some 3rd interpretation?"

@ObliviousSage Here's one about answering your own question when you're pretty sure you know the answer: meta.rpg.stackexchange.com/q/513/12011

And answers don't actually get downvoted as much as you might think, because it costs the person doing the voting rep as well; people tend to save their answer downvotes for really egregiously wrong answers.

So I combined those two. It was almost surely one of those two, so I posted them as seperate answers to be voted on

Not to mention you could always just delete the answer that got downvotes.

I now see how someone who was concerned about rep might interpret that action, but that's definitely not what I was thinking about

Maybe I'll put up a meta about it later, see if there's a consensus on handling it a different way

A meta question would probably be a good idea.

1) You generally shouldn't give answers you aren't fairly confident in. The first meta question linked, about giving multiple answers, is really more for problem solving questions, where there could be multiple valid approaches, rather than rules questions with a single correct answer.

2) Some people see all self-answered questions as rep-whoring (self-answering has never had unanimous support in any of the SE communities to my knowledge), and posting multiple answers will only reinforce that.

@BryantHanson Hi!

Is there a way to reduce the delay on typing new messages in the dice room?

Single worst ability score roll, three ones =\

@Sandwich Wait a while.

Tonight we played another session of Umdaar.

We discovered that our Sunsword could be used to indicate the location of other Sunswords--and that this involved casting a giant beam of light into the sky for everyone to see.

Why

That's not inconspicuous at all

Nope!

Then the shaft of light leans down until it's streaming from your swordtip to the other sword.

"HERE I AM! I'M GOING THAT WAY!"

This shining beacon was the "at cost" for success despite failing the difficulty by 10 when trying to remember the precise original name of a long-lost sword.

We followed the beacon to The Canyon of Teeth, a labyrinth of cracked metal chasms lined with splinters and spikes. After fighting off the robot vultures guarding the canyon, we found J'nanin, the Silversword. Wielding it made our cyborg lamia grow metal wings, which was handy as she used them to help everyone survive the collapse of the canyons after she drew the sword.

(Oh, and the sword-beacon thing only works when you raise your Sunsword in starlight and shout the name of the Sunsword you want to find. And apparently each Sunsword is only attuned to certain other ones, and we're not sure yet exactly how that works. We do know that we can't use the Fearsun to find the Blacksun, but the Fearsun DOES show the direction of the Silversun.)

I want to have Archive ask our cyborg lamia to test if her sword can beacon his

for science

And if the Silversun can beacon the Blacksun, too!

true

but he wants both

he wants all the data

Yes.

I am thinking he has like, this one lingering directive from the Demiurges to collect data because he, or one of his ancestors, was a robot built to collect data

not saying so much that this gives him much knowledge as it is the/a possible source of the drive he has to learn these things

but like everything else in Umdarr he doesn't remember them themselves anymore

so collecting data on their leftover artifacts is the best he can do anymore

because they are themselves gone now and have been for a while

The most dangerous item in a game for a character to have...is a clipboard

Nobody messes with the clipboard.

With Halloween coming up, I was wondering if anybody ever dresses up in costume when they play games like D&D? And if so what does the DM usually wear?

Does anyone know where my character sheet is?

o.O

found it :D

Making a new hunter for our game

Stating is hard without metagaming

@BESW So it's a sword Puzzle

You have to collect the other swords to find the other swords your swords cant find

@Sandwich Hmm I'm intrigued, but I'm not sure if involves enough swords

I don't think you can ever have enough swords, hence, swordchucks.

Also film night -> chat.stackexchange.com/rooms/info/198/mos-eisley?tab=schedule

@Sandwich It's a basic Rod of Seven Parts conceit, but we speculate (it's Fate, so we're making this up as we go) that each of the five Starblades can show the location of two others.

Maybe its like a rock paper scissors thing

Actually, I'm working on the assumption they're linked like Magic's "enemy colours."

Like, at the start of the last session we had the Black sword and our enemy had the Blue sword. We used the Black sword to find the White sword.

Once we know their names, the White sword can point us to the Red sword (and the Black sword which we already have), and the Black sword can also point us to the Green sword.

Our enemy's Blue sword can lead her to the Green and Red swords too.

But, if this particular colour setup were true, neither our Black nor White swords can lead to the enemy's Blue sword and she can't use her sword to find ours.

@BESW wait. can't the black sword lead to the green sword?

@BESW Yes, as I said here.

@BESW right. so it's a race to get the Green sword

The enemy has the Blue sword, which we can't find until we get our hands on the Green or Red.

(or the Red sword)

Yup.

And we don't even know if she already has one of them.

now if only the Drow hadn't given birth to Bobby Tables and thus destroyed the NWN server I play on...

I really like Green, just within this metaphor though

Green and red are the best

Fight me

Do you guys think two dots of athletics is enough for a serial killer?

Yeah you can poison people and be a serial killer

Doesn't really require fast movement

@Sandwich My guy is more stabby stabby

well, running fast still isn't too important depending

he could lure victims in with charm, for example

before the stabby

yeah

doesn't mean he has to

he just could

@trogdor true

@Pureferret Well if you have a really sharp knife strength doesnt matter at all

Does he have a really sharp knife or the means to acquire one

@Sandwich Yeah I thnk so

I might stat the attributes and skills, then the merits and then nudge towards something more optimized

So the type of knife he uses would probably be an obscenely sharp butchers knife

And he's probably have skills in maintaining that knife

Keeping the blade sharp, etc

Chefs knifes and Butchers knives are absurdly sharp

@Sandwich I was thinking machete

I'm pitching him as a disgraced surgeon, but I don't think a scalpel makes a great weapon

Sounds like Ferret is working with aggressively dramatic tropes and isn't quite so worried about efficiency or practicality.

Depends on if he has a sick fixation on dissecting his victims or not

@BESW I'm trying to balance them

@Sandwich Maybe he can do that afterwards

Butcher now, Scalpel later then

So...he's not an actual serial killer. He just has part of one surgically grafted to his brain.

@Pureferret That's the excuse they all use.

No serial killer thinks they're a serial killer no

They think they're doing the world a favor by cutting off the chaff

Or something to that effect

@Sandwich Like the operative from Serenity

Pretty much yeah

I've had issues statting this character before

anyhoos

I'm off

Check ya later @Pureferret

Never played NWOD myself

hows it going guys?

@Areadbhair would be better if the NWN server I play on hadn't developed a case of database failure

at least you hadn't killed an entire chat server like I did...

@Areadbhair I have killed a RSS feed :P

I killed the camp fire

:P what did you do to it?

oh, I see

I told the first chunk of the most disturbing and wild CoC campaigns ever

@Areadbhair ...yeah, that is a pretty bizarro campaign

@ObiRonMoldy I understand the 3.0 and 3.5 books were free; a trimmed-down version of the 5e ruleset is freely-available from dnd.wizards.com/articles/features/basicrules and I think if you're coming from AD&D or AD&D2e then you might find 5e more-accessible

i didn't even get to the part where I became a planet twice...

@Areadbhair LOL. and then you get bought, while being a planet.

the second time, I turned into the Earth shaped like a Mighty Ducks mask