there is nothing I can nit pick besides,.... only one person in this huge group of supposedly smart future scientists cared at all about workplace safety? which was weird but didn't ruin the movie or anything
it was very cool action, nice concepts, and hit the emotional buttons it wanted to hit very well
also, I feel like they could have introduced spoiler into the story earlier in a way that doesn't just blindside people that they exist
whoops forgot that part for a second
just a minor thing, but whenever you have a mystery element, even when you really just want people to believe one thing and then have it switched up on them later,... I feel like it is nice to actually include all the elements of the mystery early
they don't even have to run into spoiler, they could just see a picture on a certain desk
@BESW this is fair but,... just a little bit of extra work if they do this
adding a few frames with said picture would have made me drop the whole point
and it isn't a huuuge detraction from the movie or anything, I just want to point out how it could have been easily made just a little more awesome
at least in my opinion
my only issue with it is, that they way they did it basically makes it entirely impossible to use any clue to figure out what is actually going on in that subplot of figuring out who the bad guy is
it would have been fun to have any chance of guessing that
as is, no actual clues were given until the reveal actually happens
all red herrings
as far as I could tell
anyway, I still really liked it, I just have a habit of nit picking stuff like that
I do have a serious quandary: I have a naturally-occurring question I intend to ask. If I ask it on the hour I get a hat. But I can't un-see the clock that's just sitting there on my desktop. So do I roll a d60 and just post at that minute...?
I think the question is, will exerting no effort to get one hat cause you to want to exert more effect to get more hats, or will exerting more effort to get no hat help you resist exerting more effort to get more hats?
@trogdor I'm thinking about how to represent Ajani's werecat and hybrid forms in a Cthulhu Confidential game, and I think a lot of them would be easily modeled as "reduce the difficulty of tests by two."
As a hybrid you still don't have really good fine motor control and you're very conspicuous, but you're physically formidable... and you're clearly a high-ranking representative of Bast, which has its own ups and downs.
I am, however, and I say that without the intention to brag, an experienced Mage Ascension GM and worldbuilder, so if you have a desire to have wonders fitting a particular theme, I'd be happy to play a little generation game.
Well, my first instinct would be to make it a contest between the Warlock's Charisma (Deception) and the target's passive Insight, with the Warlock having an advantage if the target isn't aware their opponents have telepathy.
On a success, the attacks against the target are under advantage until one hits, or until the target's next turn, where they spend their action noticing they've been bamboozled.
It's about cantrip-level strength, appropriate for a bonus action class power.
Unfortunately, as with every other illusion-like ability and deception trick in DnD, it's pretty squarely the GM's responsibility to come up with something sensible.
@PeterCooperJr. you should look into a system that a friend of @eimyr is publishing any day now. I playtested it with my kids and they really liked it. A character that fits on an index card, only uses a few dice... it's lightweight enough that I can run a game while driving. But there's enough meat there to keep both my 5 y.o. engaged and my 9 y.o. interested.
@nitsua60 Thanks. I know there are some kid-targeted systems out there. We're having a lot of fun with what we're doing now, but it might be fun to try something new at some point
I was at company pikkujoulu at Tallinn last Friday. I had the poor luck of opening our games of eight-ball with some really lucky shots that looked like raw talent and then following up with my usual performance...
well, got what needed to print absolutely right printed absolutely right (or as close as my printer will come: the top of the Basic Moves sheet got cut off because my printer is a bit hit or miss about full-bleed printing it seems, but it'll do)
@ACuriousMind -- got some questions about weapon options btw
@Shalvenay Sure, shoot. If you want to use a different (but roughly equivalent) weapon than what's listed under possible starting gear, then that can certainly be arranged
@Shalvenay "Mechanically", I think you could literally just cross out "shield" and write cloak in its place, but of course you then are actually wielding a cloak. That is, where with a shield you might go "I block the greatsword with my shield", you'd have to do something else then - of course that opens up other options, too
@nitsua60 [starts an ingame religion advocating the concept of "level 20" which one can reach through sufficient adventuring, in the name of the Overdeity known only by D.M.]
@trogdor will never believe me, but I just had breakfast, folded laundry, sat down to write a question, placed the last peroid, and hit "submit" on the hour--all without ever looking at the clock.
@nitsua60 it probably has hairpins and/or a headband and/or a clip. Note the oval in the center of the ring is inclined toward her head, where it probably grips her hair.
tell you what though, as far as fascinators go, it was very true to its name
@ACuriousMind quoting my source: "You sort of flick the cloth over and around the blade, trying to entangle and knock it away", considering we're talking theater-curtain-weight for the cloak material here and maybe a kilo tops for a 1h blade and a couple kilos and change for a 2h...
Dear web designers: please don't put important information in a page footer that keeps getting displaced by "infinite scroll" when I try to look at it.
@Shalvenay I could easily set up one, but you can invite me, too, I don't really have a preference. My Discord nick is Dr. Earn#2830 (not an actual doctor ;) )
Okay this is dope https://www.facebook.com/CBCVancouverisland/photos/a.449402836496.234034.280550026496/10155141747081497
"Stormtrooper helmet designed by Andy Everson, a First Nations artist from Comox. The art is inspired by his Tlingit and wakwaka’wakw heritage."
I'm here to discuss further with @Rubiksmoose about the following confusing situation. Care to join the discussion ? https://rpg.stackexchange.com/q/111959/36796
Ahh, yes, as I'm mostly playing AL games (and building a character concept out of being authorized to do what's in the question, amongst other things), having an AL DM's opinion would be very nice.
So, I know that, in a fantasy world, trying to explain things with logic doesn't always work so well. But let's try here. First, let's start by trying to understand why of all thrown weapons, only nets prevent you from using further attacks. I'd say that a net is tedious to open, position and shoot properly compared to other thrown weapons, hence the required "time".
But how would you imagine, from a RP standpoint, the proceeding of a Commander Strike ? Does the Battle Master simply say "hey buddy, do your thing, I'm lazy", or is it more of a complicated gesture that also would require time (hence the spent attack & bonus action) which would not be possible due to the "time" required to throw a net ?
The other maneuvers are fairly straightforward to explain (disarming = hit the hand holding the weapon, for example). But Commander Strike ? I don't know.
I didn't include it in my reasoning, but my thinking was that the intent with the net was to make sure it took up all your attack time by using it. Then (no matter what kind of hijinks the commander's strike uses) it simply wouldn't be intended to use some of that time to do your.... commanding lol
And I also kind of take issue with the fact that it seems like a work around using vague wording. Ie I want to make additional attacks, but I can't while using a net so I'll just fudge this and give an attack to my buddy.
I feel like there is a good counterexample of a case where you could potentially have another attack but it wouldn't make sense to use it for commanding strike.
But I cannot put my finger on it.
How do you feel about this " the Loading property of crossbows means you can only shoot a crossbow once, even if you have extra attacks, but I would say you could still use the extra attacks you don't get to swing or shoot with to do other things, like a Companion attack, Commanders Strike maneuver, etc"
Well, by default, if you have Extra Attack, you can shoot with the crossbow & swing with a weapon. It's not the shooting that takes time, but the loading.
Oh yeah good point, so maybe not the best example for what @PhilBoncer was trying to say
(Is there any other ability that lets you spend extra attacks to do things) And yeah I have no problem with the strength of the combo or whatever. Strong combos exist in the game and it is fun and rewarding to fun and use them
Yeah, and to make it worthwhile to use a net, you kinda need either Sharpshooter or Crossbow Expert (to cancel a disadvantage), and Archery fighting style, and a good DEX.
And as someone playing a fighter that doesn't do any damage but enables his allies to do plenty (by proning, restraining enemies, etc.), such a combo would be just perfect for me if it does work.
Here's an interesting thing though. If you somehow used the net as a bonus action (is there a way to do this?), you couldn't even use the attack action additionally right?
OR is it saying that I can't make additional attacks WITH THAT ACTION?
Yes there are ways to use a net as a bonus action : War Cleric level 1 feature (WIS times per long rest), and Eldritch Knight 7/18 & Valor Bard 14 (if spell cast as action)
Posting it again just in case : if anyone has as opinion on the following tricky question, it would be much appreciated : rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/111959/…
Posting it again just in case : if anyone has as opinion on the following tricky question, it would be much appreciated : https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/111959/can-a-battle-master-with-extra-attack-do-a-commander-strike-when-he-throws-a-net
Is there some legit way of giving an Ooze an intelligence score in 3.5e? I mean, without resorting to GM handwaves, or creating custom statblocks.
