would be a whole lot better if my PC wasn't suffering from a bunch of post-reboot graphics squirreliness (had a 2 hour power outage overnight last night)
well, I think I found the problem at least -- just have to blow away Xorg and bring it back up though
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Considered "Take it to meta," but that seems like a sledgehammer. (If I were to do that, I would wait until I had half a dozen examples and make an ISSUE out of it.)
Comment was my first instinct, but I wasn't sure if comments were appropriate. Not sure what VtRO stands for.
And I should point out it's been edited (not by me) and is eligible for a re-open. I wasn't sure if a comment would be construed as pushing the vote, or if that's fair game.
@nitsua60 I hear you-- I don't really disagree, it comes down to style. If that were the only option I'd feel less hesitation. The question is the "Layers of Story" question, which I think is a great one, that has at least a semi-answer based in psychological studies.
ah. I was more asking towards ingame-controllable factors -- all of what you raise is true, but not nearly as feasible to control for in the typical context
@nitsua60 I think that's a big one, yeah -- one of the big things I've noticed about our AD&D table is we are getting XP basically as lump sums per-adventure, irrespective of how we solve it
Thing is, some players STILL won't get it, as evidenced by many popular questions.
And despite my comments on youth and all that, one of my players is... he must be fifty because he's older than me, he's happily married, a family man, good stand up guy and he STILL sometimes reverts to "Fireball in the Town Square" mode, so I dunno
yeah, some of my most memorable scenes have been with NPCs that most people would consider murdertargets
(coming to mind off-hand is one where my elf priestess of Corellon flips a gold coin over to the ogre guarding the bridge when the toll is 1 silver and is like "Toss the change in the bridge repair fund!"
(said ogre was guarding a bridge that kept getting wailed on by spider-cultists)
@nitsua60 fair enough. It might be a slow influence, but it is there. A number of players, myself included, were thoroughly disabused of our ideas of what were and were not murdertargets in a long-running Amber game. But it did take a while.
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@JuneShores Are you looking for RL victims playtesters, or will online ones do? I ask because if you wanted online ones you could certainly plst a "call for players" and ask BESW to pin it for a period.
@Mazura mithril chain shirt...depends on what world you're in xD
there are some worlds where mithril isn't a thing, others where it's worth more than the rarest metals on our planet, and others yet where it's relatively common
@Mazura there are many tabletop RPGs set in middle earth, and no reason to presume their pricing for a given item would be faithful and accurate to the source material.
@Shalvenay Well enough. Weather has taken a turn for the better, the missus and I will be taking the dogs on a long walk in about a half an hour. Pretty day.
Neat combo, but I am sadly too old school to play gnolls as PC's. Volos, for me, was a great disappointment. I do understand that folks like to stretch, and play from the PoV of one of the enemy races. It's just not for me.
@KorvinStarmast ah. yeah, I'm not sure what you'd do with some of the scenes I've cooked up in the past -- like the one time I had the party run into a Orc family who was driving their herd of sheep down the road
Most PC parties would leave them alone, or talk to the father if they though he had useful information, back when I was playing 1e. We were big on "mission focus" and "digging all intel out of the NPC's possible."
Of course, if there was a High Elf in the party, he might just slaughter the orcs out of hand. Racial antipathy is a thing.
yeah -- it turned out to be a case of two ships passing in the night more or less in play
I tend to model Orcs off real-life herdsfolk cultures/peoples (it makes them being short-fused make more sense than just making them all RAARGH GRUUMSH or pure "barbarians" for that matter)
(interestingly enough -- in the current iteration of the world I'm working on, it makes for a split between the elves too -- the Wood Elves get along with the Orcs fairly well as a fellow "live off the land" sort of people, while the High Elves can't stand the Orcs)