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Shalvenay

12:02 AM

@Asteria -- actually, mind fielding a bit of a reality-check on something from a session I did the other day?

Asteria

@Shalvenay sure

Shalvenay

@Asteria so...I grabbed two bandit-ladies off the shelf, so to speak (just the Bandit statblock from the 5e MM as my starting point) to serve as some competition for a fetch-quest the PC was on

Asteria

@Shalvenay okaaay

Shalvenay

had them dressed in dark-colored woman's clothing (think like a long dress or somesuch) + veils (to hide their faces/identites) although one of them had pointy ears poking out from behind her veil (silly elfbloods ;). weapon-wise, though, I had the elf-blooded one basically be armed with a naked longsword (no sheath) and the human one have some sort of shortsword hidden under her dress...I'm just not sure how well she could have pulled that off, and what size it'd have to be to do so :)

Sandwich

I like the NPC compendium that pathfinder put out

Its real nice

Theres something along the lines of 200 npcs in that book

Each with their own backstory

Asteria

12:07 AM

@Sandwich holy moly, thats awesome

Sandwich

Yeah each 20 levels of each of the 20 base classes has NPCs

So you have 1,2,3~18,19,20 for all the classes, paladins, fighters, you name it.

Asteria

@Shalvenay swords in dresses are hard, since it either needs to be hidden under the skirt (thus needing her to pull up her dress to grab the sword) or be pulled "through" the folds of the dress from a cut hole thats easily hidden in the fabric. Of course that leads to the issue of the sword getting caught, tearing the outfit (And creating movement issues) or being too awkward to pull out of the dress in a clean motion

Shalvenay

@Asteria I was thinking that it was hidden under the skirt, but drawn through a slit down the skirt more than drawn through a cut hole -- more of a light-concealment than a full concealment

Sandwich

It'd be more concealing to put the sword in an object a sword isn't normally known to be in

Like a swordbrella or a swordcane

Asteria

@Shalvenay I feel that would expose the weapon far to easily, personally. Dresses with slits are usually quite light, and sometimes tight (hence the need for a slit), so the weapon could be seen as a shape through the clothing. Alternatively, if the slit is too high the weapon could be seen through it (are the PC's interested in a pretty ladies legs? they notice it then!)

BESW

12:12 AM

@nitsua60 yeah, 4e wasn't necessarily slow, but it had a lot of opportunities to be slow.

Asteria

and it its too low, you still have to deal with the issue of the fabric being in the way of a smooth draw

trogdor

@Shalvenay like in Wonder Woman?

:P

Shalvenay

@Asteria hrm. I suppose hidden within the folds would be better then...what size/shape of sword would best lend itself to this btw?

trogdor

That sword was so visible it hurt

Asteria

@trogdor behave

trogdor

12:14 AM

Lol

Asteria

@Shalvenay flat, slim, and you couldn't have a bulky pommel, guard and hilt

Shalvenay

@Asteria aye, probably good enough for casual concealment though I suppose

Asteria

@Shalvenay it's usually why lady assassins go for daggers

Shalvenay

especially if this was a one-off sort of thing and not like, yanno, EDC, and/or we're talking about an inexperienced youngling here ;)

@Asteria aye, of course. assassins in general even ;)

trogdor

I think all assassins go for daggers for similar reasons

Asteria

12:16 AM

@Shalvenay you mean theres assassins that aren't pretty ladies? Media, how could you lie to me

trogdor

Lol

Shalvenay

@Asteria hahaha :P

trogdor

There have been non lady assassins in media

Just not quite as many

Asteria

@trogdor get your logic away from my hyperbolic assumptions

trogdor

Somehow killing people for money is equated with sexyness

Not sure how that works honestly

Sandwich

12:19 AM

Because women are catty and ruthless?

I mean seriously

have you seen her shoes?

Asteria

@trogdor Assassins clearly need to be attractive, whats the point of sneaking around all sexy like all the time if no ones going to se...oh

@Sandwich ouch

trogdor

Maybe it started as "this works because no one expects it" and just morphed into a trope

@Asteria yeah sorry

Shalvenay

@trogdor hahaha

Sandwich

If you want to go with hidden weapons you could go with a dagger in the boot

That's the Drow go-to place to hide your hidden weapons

in your shoes

Or you could go with Bayonetta's sexy high heel guns

Shalvenay

@Sandwich yeah, she'll be going with a dagger later on in the scenario

Sandwich

12:22 AM

Because why shouldn't your shoe be a gun?

In all seriousness though

Probably what I would do if I was a particularly sneaky sort

trogdor

Because swords are better of course

Sandwich

Is cut a slit into the back of a dress and disguise the opening and the waist with copius amounts of lace

So that you could belt a dagger to your back

The lace would hide the opening

Shalvenay

speaking of daggers...perhaps we could step aside to the NAB @Asteria and talk fantasy concealed carry options?

trogdor

But why work so hard to hide a dagger? You could just strap it to your leg or even your arm

Sandwich

Because if you're wearing a hoop skirt or a ballroom gown you don't have easy access to your legs

trogdor

12:25 AM

True

Sandwich

You have to put the weapon in a place where it wouldn't be discovered

trogdor

Still not sure why a dress is what people want to hide weapons in

Sandwich

When couples dance in ballrooms

The male places their left hand on the waist of the girl

trogdor

Doesn't seem the optimal choice

Sandwich

So the waist is out

Their left arm is also out as they are holding the hand of the person they're dancing with

Shalvenay

12:26 AM

@trogdor because it's what's called for by the occasion?

Sandwich

Both the legs are out because they are enclosed in about 2 cubic meters of gown

Which leaves feet, poisoned rings, and weapons concealed elsewhere

trogdor

@Shalvenay for bandits?

Shalvenay

@trogdor well, this batch was part-timers :P

trogdor

Banditry sort of implies outdoors

Magician

Amateurs.

Shalvenay

12:28 AM

@trogdor and some people probably place higher value on meeting standards of modesty, even when outside

trogdor

@Magician how silly

It twas a silly scene though

Magician

It... wasn't the most thought out thing:

trogdor

@Magician yeah I have no idea

That was possibly the worst scene in an otherwise fantastic movie

Other than arguably the final one

@Shalvenay that doesn't seem to jive with banditry either

But wtv

@Magician I will say that it was still amusing

Not smart but definitely fun

Magician

The movie itself? Sure, I enjoyed it.

trogdor

And in a way it makes some sense that she wasn't thinking too hard about what she was doing at that exact moment

@Magician no I mean that scene made me chuckle

The rest of the movie was good

And less outrageously silly

Mostly

Magician

12:35 AM

Mostly, yeah :P

trogdor

I mean, it was not supposed to be realistic

It's a superhero movie XD

SPavel

@Magician lol what is this from?

Magician

Wonder Woman

trogdor

Yeah that is about the reaction one would expect

Asteria

@Shalvenay Sure, if you'd like to. I'm only on and off while I'm at work though

Sandwich

12:51 AM

Is there a way to set it so you can award a bounty for "Damn that was a good answer", but immediately instead of having to wait 24 hours?

SPavel

@Sandwich No, you must wait - this is so that if a damner, gooder answer comes along you don't waste the points

Sandwich

Pff

I'd like to see the answer to a question get more than 160 points in 24 hours

nitsua60

@Sandwich On this stack? 160 pts or votes?

Sandwich

Yep

160 points

nitsua60

I've had dozens of answers get 200+ points in 24 hours.

Shalvenay

12:55 AM

hey there @SoraTamashii

nitsua60

I'd assume the same's true of most people who've rep-capped. (That some answers have picked up 200, if not dozens.)

Sora Tamashii

Oh, hey. Not entirely here right now. Don't mind me. lol

SPavel

Announcing your 2018 COACHELLA LINEUP, generated by a neural network trained on thousands of band names: http://j.mp/2n5gybx

Tweeted by botnikstudios on January 23, 2018 at 6:30 PM

Sandwich

I think I've only ref capped like 5 times

Miniman

@nitsua60 On that subject, how's Legendary going?

nitsua60

12:58 AM

@Miniman I dunno. I've barely even answered anything recently, never mind rep-capping.

@Miniman 117/150. Dec 20 was my last entry into that fray.

Crimey! You've got 17 gold badges!

Miniman

@nitsua60 Still, nice progress.

Sandwich

I'll probably be getting my 6th here somewhere

Miniman

@nitsua60 Weirdly, they're mostly Famous Question ones.

Sandwich

Yeah.. Famous question seems to be the easiest to get

Two of my badges are from completely innocuous questions

Miniman

I dunno about easiest. Most luck-based, maybe.

Sandwich

1:05 AM

Nah it has nothing to do with luck

Its more "A question everyone wants to know" kind of thing

For example two of mine are

4

Q: Where is the table for determining how many feats a character has based on level in the Pathfinder Core Rulebook?

I've paged through my entire book, looked in the index, checked the sections on feats and ability scores, and I've not been able to find the table that breaks down when you get ability score increases, and feats. I already know that you get an ability score increase every 4th level so that's no...

and
https://rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/49917/does-concealment-exist-in-dd-5th-edition

Which are just questions that ask about where something is or if there's a gameplay mechanic

Hmm.. Actually that raises another question

Sandwich

1:29 AM

Aaaand there it is

Rubiksmoose

1:47 AM

@nitsua60 I don't know about dozens but I've certainly had an annoying number of them.

Shalvenay

2:01 AM

hey there @Rubiksmoose

how're things going?

Rubiksmoose

2:17 AM

Eh. Not too bad. You?

Shalvenay

OK here

wb @Asteria

SPavel

2:40 AM

THINGS FANTASY WORLDS SHOULD HAVE, EVEN IF ONLY MENTIONED IN PASSING -sports. so few fantasy worlds have established sports but look how important sports are to our own world. it'd be remiss not to at least mention sports -newspapers or other forms of public communications

Tweeted by ellle_em on January 22, 2018 at 1:55 PM

Really good worldbuilding advice

Shalvenay

2:51 AM

hey there @LightningColin

welcome to the RPG.SE lair :)

hey @KorvinStarmast

KorvinStarmast

You about ready, @Shalvenay?

Shalvenay

@KorvinStarmast yep :)

KorvinStarmast

I need to nature break and I will be back in a couple of minutes. See you in back room.

LightningColin

3:13 AM

Uh, hi.

Shalvenay

@LightningColin how're things going?

Sora Tamashii

3:37 AM

@doppelgreener It's funny, because I called Microsoft immediately when I saw what happened. They told me "I'm sorry, but other than rolling back the upgrade, there's absolutely nothing that we can do." I lost over a month of completed work from it. I was not happy.

SmokeDetector

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Shalvenay

hey again @SoraTamashii

Sora Tamashii

Hey Sha

LightningColin

3:57 AM

Um, it won’t let me post something because it thinks I’m a robot. It says check the captcha box but it’s not showing. I’m on mobile, so maybe that’s why.

Shalvenay

4:20 AM

@LightningColin strange. what device are you using?

@SoraTamashii any update on how your schedule looks?

Sora Tamashii

No. As for a timeline, I may be stuck until March if you want anything consistent. If you don't mind an erratic schedule, starting in February, I should be able to on Monday nights.

Shalvenay

@SoraTamashii I can work with an erratic schedule

@SoraTamashii try next Mon. night for char creation?

Sora Tamashii

Is it just a 1-on-1 campaign you're wanting or will there be others.

And sure

Shalvenay

@SoraTamashii 1-on-1 is what I was thinking

Sora Tamashii

ok

LightningColin

5:20 AM

@Shalvenay Ipad

Shalvenay

@LightningColin ah. it looks like you were able to work around the captcha, is that correct?

Adeptus

6:17 AM

@SPavel See the movie A Knight's Tale. Tournaments (jousting etc) were the sport of the medieval time.

Sora Tamashii

Astolfo was best jouster.

But only because he was worst jouster. lol I loved that part of the Matter of France. :3

Also, I blame it being 130 am for me making stupid mistakes in answers. As such, I'm being responsible and cutting myself off from trying to help anybody. lol

Adeptus

Sandwich

Uhh

Thats a ball gown, there isn't a split in the fabric :thinking:

So how does step 5 take place

If there was a split in the middle of the dress up the front that might be possible

Adeptus

6:35 AM

Because in step 3 you already have a left-bundle and a right-bundle

from there you basically wrap them round your legs

(I don't know how feasible it would be... might be too bulky. But in theory it looks good)

Sora Tamashii

Totes too bulky. Guaranteed friction burn at best, fashion disaster at worse.

Sandwich

6:52 AM

Step 3 you have one bundle

You hike it up and pull it together, then pull it between your legs

But its still only one bundle

Unless you tear it

A dress is not a pair of pants

Or a sweater

LightningColin

@Shalvenay yeah, just put random letters at the end.

Sandwich

If you dont think I'm right pick up a blanket and try it yourself

Youd need the sword in the last step to cut the dress to even get anywhere close to the end of step 5

BESW

10:00 AM

It's called "girding your loins" and it's been a standard practice for men in tunic-wearing societies for... as long as the tunic has been around... whenever they're doing the sort of thing a tunic would get in the way of. The only reason it'd be impractical for a ball gown is that the gown's got too much fabric from fancy folds and drapes, not that there's any problem with the concept itself--or the length of the dress itself.

The picture above is derived from this one:

doppelgreener

10:11 AM

The idea is the fabric has sufficient length & breadth that one can part it into bundles. Think about bundling up a sheet -- you can definitely do this with two opposite corners, there's nothing restricting you to making only one bundle.\

trogdor

10:23 AM

nice

doppelgreener

15

Q: RIP Ursula le Guin

Ursula K. le Guin, one of the greatest science fiction and fantasy writers of all time, sadly passed away yesterday at the age of 88. Her writing career spans six decades, from 1959 right up until 2017, and her writings include speculative fiction, realistic fiction, non-fiction, screenplays, lib...

discussion in-memoriam

@SoraTamashii Yeah. There are more lawsuits than the one I linked, and some of them are from companies saying "We had business-critical software that does not work in Windows 10. By forcing this upgrade we can no longer do our business and/or have actually lost data irrecoverably. You have in no uncertain terms cost us thousands, or hundreds of thousands, of lost income and damage to our businesses."

Sandwich

10:46 AM

Can you link me a list of of Those books Doppel

I'd like to read them

doppelgreener

11:17 AM

@Sandwich Wikipedia has a Selected Works section on her page.

kviiri

Sadly, I've never gotten around to reading any le Guin. I've only ever heard good things about her works.

doppelgreener

@kviiri Same on both counts

kviiri

I've been rather miserable with reading lately in general. I read Kebra Nagast in November and Worm last Winter but that's about it.

BESW

I've tried several times to get into her work and haven't found it easy going, but I consider that more about me than her, and many of my favorite authors are directly inspired by her. I'm glad to live in a world she helped shape.

Every several years I try to find a new entry point into her work, so maybe someday I'll get to experience what everyone else has--until then, I feel her influence palpably in other ways.

doppelgreener

11:36 AM

I figure I'm very likely influenced by her indirectly without knowing it.

Sandwich

I havent read the most recent R.A.Salvatore book

I know I'm short on one

BESW

11:51 AM

finally kicking off this year of art with a portrait of janelle monáe as an elven queen because.. . yes

Tweeted by confusedLucifer on January 22, 2018 at 6:24 PM

Sandwich

Oh man

I just had the coolest idea for a poison

trogdor

@BESW XD

doppelgreener

@BESW that's beautiful

Sandwich

So get this

A powerful living poison, that is distilled very slowly.. Only one drop can be distilled per month, and the byproducts of the creation of the poison is the antidote.

When the poison is administered it attacks the vital organs in the body and kills the user in a very efficient fashion.. unless the person in question has consumed antidote

The antidote itself is also alive and remains in the body to protect it should the imbiber ever be poisoned

Its a poison/antidote combo with an EGO

doppelgreener

What's the "living" part of this?

Sandwich

11:55 AM

The Antidote is LG and sworn to protect, The poison is CE and seeks to dominate and kill

doppelgreener

What I'm picturing there is: "bunch of chemistry-set vials. patient chemist/alchemist waiting for the poison to distill, and collecting both that and the droplet." It also brings to mind toxic animals which are poisonous, but themselves are immune to the poison due to their biology.

Sandwich

The antidote and poison have intelligence, they are alive and can make decisions similar to how an NPC might act, in tune with their alignments

However their agency is limited by the fact that the only interaction they can have with a PC or an NPC is inside the body

doppelgreener

So I could feed someone the poison and it decides "nah I'm cool with this person, I'm not going to do anything to them"?

Sandwich

Well its a Chaotic evil poison so that's highly unlikely

What does the poison care who it kills

That brings up an alignment quandry

Would a good character use a chaotic evil poison to kill?

You could also base a campaign around it

Make the materials very hard to acquire

A king is poisoned and the antidote and poison are literally fighting inside the body against one another

kviiri

Wasn't that an actual thing in some earlier edition of DnD? Good and neutral characters had something "totally poison except not called poison because poison is inherently evil"?

Sandwich

12:01 PM

The alchemist goes further and explains that for every drop of antidote that is made, that a drop of poison must be made as well

doppelgreener

This doesn't sound functionally distinguishable from nonliving normal poison and normal antidote

or at least, it's not resonating with me the way it is for you

Sandwich

Maybe I'm describing it poorly

Indestructable living poison

doppelgreener

12:14 PM

Sounds like what you're describing isn't poison but a virus and a counter-virus.

Or at least, by our nomenclature.

Or otherwise a tiny invasive organism.

doppelgreener

12:27 PM

To me a poison is a chemical that goes into an organism somewhere and messes with its function, killing or incapacitating or detrimentally altering it. As an inherent part of this process, the poison gets used up, because its chemical makeup bonded with chemicals in the attacked organism. Exceptional situations are those like lead, which is poisonous but takes a long time to wear down, but any amount of it in the blood stream is bad.

This means if a thing is in my body and it's poisoning me but not itself getting worn down or used up, that thing isn't poison, it's something producing poison. Like a parasite, such as a tick, which injects poison as it feeds.

Sandwich

Ticks inject anticoagulants though not poison

They might carry diseases though

And I was under the impression that lead was carcinogenic because it was a compound that was very likely to create chemical bonds with organs in the body

Shalvenay

@kviiri yeah -- the alignment-of-poison thing is yet another reason alignment locking is bad

kviiri

@Shalvenay Can you remember which edition that was in?

I remember someone discussing it here ages ago.

Shalvenay

@kviiri 3.5e

doppelgreener

12:49 PM

@Sandwich right, which is what makes it a poison. a ball of lead will dissolve, and the dissolved lead bonds with our organs and creates problems.

doppelgreener

1:34 PM

My favorite Ursula K. Le Guin quote still calms my heart, even all these years after I first read it in A Wizard of Earthsea: “Go on and do your work. Do it well. It is all you can do.”

Tweeted by MykeCole on January 24, 2018 at 12:15 AM

NautArch

1:58 PM

Is this considered homebrew because of the use of Faction Agent?

Miniman

@NautArch Faction Agent is from SCAG.

NautArch

@Miniman ah. i don't remember that. cool.

Miniman

@NautArch Yeah, SCAG added a bunch of great options for Backgrounds.

Rubiksmoose

So I flagged several comments yesterday on one post for being not needed any more and they were all declined, but all the comments were deleted anyways. Is there a reason why that might have happened?

I was thinking about writing a meta post to ask, but didn't know if it was too specific a question

hows it going @EdAckerman?

Randomorph

2:17 PM

@Rubiksmoose I think that can happen if they just delete the comment for another reason

Eg, someone else flagged a downstream comment saying "Most of the comments up to this point can be removed now" instead of flagging each individually. (I've done that before)

So if that flag was first, they might go resolve it, and then all the individual flags are auto-closed. Not sure if that's a thing though. You'd have to get a mod to comment.

Also I don't think anything is too specific for Meta @Rubiksmoose .. It really seems to be the place to ask questions about moderation specific activities too.

kviiri

Meta should have a low barrier for entry, yup.

Rubiksmoose

@Randomorph Yeah that is what I'm thinking too. If I'm confused about it, other probably have been or will be as well.

Randomorph

I'd recommend you ask. If only for the reason, you're unsure, so I'm sure someone else will have the same problem

@Rubiksmoose exactly

NautArch

I'm clearly not in agreement with meta users recently :) Methinks I"ll take a break from contributing there.

kviiri

@NautArch The world needs dissenters, and just because people disagree doesn't mean your contribution isn't useful!

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Rubiksmoose

2:26 PM

@NautArch Hey your reopen answer on mine was received well it seems :) and not just by me.

Randomorph

@NautArch yeah Meta tends to be where the gloves come off a bit, but just remember that the Upvote / Downvote function on Meta is used a bit differently. I find it tends to be "I agree with this Proposal or Suggestion" and "I disagree with this Proposal or Suggestion"

It's not necessarily "You're bad and should feel bad for suggesting this"

It might still be a useful thing to discuss, and see how users feel about it. That type of feedback is actually really useful for moderators.

NautArch

But my fragile ego! :P

Rubiksmoose

@NautArch All you need to do is get some better-coverage chaps for yourself :P

Randomorph

@NautArch yep, you'll get butthurt too easily in your current pair :P

NautArch

@Rubiksmoose live free assless or die!

Rubiksmoose

2:34 PM

@NautArch's tombstone: "Live free assless or die!"

Randomorph

@NautArch I'd just treat Meta as either a) a discussion platform on specific site topics or issues, b) a vote on my proposal thing

It's not like regular Stack where the downvote usually means "You've said or written something wrong, and you should correct it" (although it can also mean "I disagree")

NautArch

I can be the dissenter, I'm cool with that role.

Rubiksmoose

@Randomorph Interesting since I've seen some recent discussion on that point

@NautArch is the hero we need.

NautArch

@Rubiksmoose but not the hero you want.

Randomorph

@Rubiksmoose yeah like I said it can also be "I disagree" which tends to come out more when you're going against established answers, or your answer is more opinionated

NautArch

2:44 PM

@Randomorph that would be an amazing, if not disturbing, avatar.

Randomorph

@NautArch you should get it commissioned lol

nitsua60

27

A: How is the community doing?

TL;DR I like seeing vocal (while respectful) disagreements on Meta; I believe it's a healthy sign. I feel like I'm seeing less of that this last year and it worries me. (A little.) I worry about a lack of diversity of opinion on Meta/in Meta discussions. It feels--and I'm sorry, but I just can...

NautArch

@Randomorph i nearly started googling, and then realized "no, i do not want to google assless chaps against darkened sky"

Randomorph

@NautArch lmao

Rubiksmoose

@NautArch you absolutely do.

Randomorph

2:51 PM

@NautArch or maybe I should use "lmcao" (laughing my chaps' asses off"

The Oracle

4

Q: Why were comment flags declined but comments deleted?

I'm not sure if this is too specific a question for meta, but I figured if it happened to me and I was confused it may be helpful to others to understand. Yesterday, I flagged a bunch of comments on this question for not being needed anymore since they were all talking about past edits and debat...

discussion comments flagging

NautArch

@Rubiksmoose ok, i did. Now I have to decide if I want to lose Orko. I love orko.

let's have some fun.

hmm, updated it, but not updating on chat

Rubiksmoose

@NautArch now I get what you mean by "lose Orko" thought it was some weird euphemism or reference I was missing XD

Randomorph

@Rubiksmoose looks like it is a bit of the "whoops" factor for the UI on flags. Also neat to see what I've been doing is mod recommended :D

NautArch

...and here we go.

Rubiksmoose

3:00 PM

@Randomorph I thought the same thing.

@NautArch beautiful! hahaha

Randomorph

@NautArch glorious

NautArch

and SFW!

Rubiksmoose

@NautArch How many pages did you have to go through before you found a SFW one?

nitsua60

@Randomorph Well, I don't know that's it in this case. It's likely that I'm the only sherson elected to office who can't figure out "where do I click!?" But, mindful of that, I like leaving a string of apologies all over meta discussions so that people I do accidentally decline may know that's a possibility.

Randomorph

@nitsua60 it's actually probably one of those very comments that I previously saw and gave me that impression that "it was probably just an accident"

nitsua60

3:13 PM

gotcha

Randomorph

@nitsua60 although it looks like the mod in question answered and said "I checked, thought it was fine to leave them, but oops I was wrong"

to paraphrase heavily

NautArch

@Rubiksmoose first page :) it was actually mostly cowboys. Only a few...not. Faith in humanity somewhat restored.

Randomorph

@NautArch could've also just searched with safe-search on ;)

NautArch

@Randomorph that's no fun

Randomorph

@nitsua60 random question for you, since you have a metric ton of questions answered and reputation.. Do you get a lot of random "filtering in" reputation from past answers?

nitsua60

3:20 PM

@Randomorph Yeah. I feel like it was around 30K rep that I started reliably getting 10 or 20 points every day. Then that picked up when I was elected (higher visibility, I'm assuming), to where I now reliably reap 20-50 points most days.

doppelgreener

@NautArch for me, being wrong on meta is a good learning opportunity for things I hadn't considered about the site. It hurts but it's helpful.

Randomorph

@doppelgreener I find that true of being wrong in general :)

nitsua60

Then there are the days it seems clear that someone's "discovered" me and I get a dozen single upvotes on different posts in an hour.

Randomorph

@nitsua60 guilty of that a few days ago I think

doppelgreener

The only wrong way to interact with meta is to be sure you're the only one who can be right and everyone else either agrees or is wrong. (And in light of what @Randomorph just said, this is probably true of things in general as well.)

nitsua60

3:22 PM

@Randomorph I still remember when I "discovered" @BESW and SSD--nothing wrong with that! (I might have been chasing "Electorate" at the time.)

SPavel

I haven't answered anything on RPG.se for a while and I still get points here and there

NautArch

@doppelgreener I'm not there is necessarily a 'wrong' on meta. Just a disagreement with other's opinions. Given my flip flop on the answer itself, I'm not surprised to find myself on the other side from some. But yes, everything is always a chance to learn :)

doppelgreener

Not from no experience either, I've come to meta a few times with that attitude and experienced the wound of "but... agreement...!! but... These people... Why are they... Can't they see how right I am????"

NautArch

@SPavel I feel like I only get about 20 organic rep from old answers a week.

SPavel

@NautArch Organic rep is overpriced, I prefer my rep heavily pesticided

NautArch

3:27 PM

@SPavel It ain't for me if it's GMO free.

SPavel

There's a common Russian expression - "made in a factory with electricity"

Randomorph

@doppelgreener I've felt that way a few times with rules abjudication answers (eg this one) thinking "But... Can't you see the other answer is wrooooong!?".. Just gotta let it go

Also GFDI, that damn Bee cantrip question is officially my highest upvoted answer.. This is what I shall be remembered for

NautArch

@Randomorph it's a good answer!

had to look up mine and it's a whopping 2 paragraphs.

nitsua60

@Randomorph One might think you should change your avatar to that of a bee... =)

NautArch

@nitsua60 is the sheep answer your highest?

nitsua60

3:35 PM

No, but it's sadly-high.

(I'm actually pretty happy with my top few.)

Randomorph

@nitsua60 Now you're just bugging me :P

@NautArch that's a solid answer, and how I play as well. Keep the initiative going, it keeps the stakes high. Bleeding out is a serious worry.

nitsua60

@Randomorph That bee pun really stings.

Randomorph

@nitsua60 I'm sorry, I'll buzz off.

NautArch

@nitsua60 I thought it was sweet!

Randomorph

@nitsua60 "Playing: nothing, currently =(" me either for the last two weeks, GM and his SO keep cancelling on us :(

nitsua60

3:44 PM

@Randomorph Yeah, I'm too busy running things. Just wrapped one thing last week, going to start running another instance of Tomb of Annihilation in the coming weeks.

But luckily I've got a full stable of student GMs, so I don't run anything at my AL site, just coordinate.

Randomorph

@nitsua60 also this answer let me discover medieval demographics

@nitsua60 I don't think I could run more than one game. Personally, I enjoy it, but it's exhausting

nitsua60

@Randomorph That one's my personal favorite. It was a lot of fun to write up.

@Randomorph If you sort the answers by time you'll see what happened: I wasn't too interested by the question, but the first few answers that came in struck me as uninspiring treatments so I cracked my knuckles and got to work =)

doppelgreener

@Randomorph Yeah. Myself I wouldn't know because I'm never wrong and have never given bad advice. [coughs loudly and pushes a few dozen zero-or-negative-scored now-deleted answers under the rug]

kviiri

I have a friend who runs two DnD games, it's hard work even if he uses premade adventures. I think I'm fine with multiple games as long as it's something easily improable.

doppelgreener

@Randomorph bees & sheep: popular topics, apparently.

I have an answer about a giant, elephant-sized spider. Can't imagine why that wouldn't be one of my highest voted...

Rubiksmoose

3:51 PM

@NautArch My highest rated answer is ridiculous. At the time it hit 28 rep the entirety of the answer was TWO SENTENCES. I added everything after the first two later

Not only two sentences, but two sentences of basicly defining a horse as a "creature"

Randomorph

@Rubiksmoose the internet is a fickle beast

NautArch

@Rubiksmoose you should clearly change your name or image to a goodberry.

kviiri

@Rubiksmoose I try not to think of rep that much but I think overall I get a lot of rep for answers any fool could give :)

Even me!

The answers I think I've actually done good with in general aren't that high on average.

Randomorph

@doppelgreener Well, maybe people were chuckling about this and this while reading and upvoting the question and answer

NautArch

@Randomorph ohmygod, that's amazing (the oprah bees)

Randomorph

3:57 PM

@kviiri most of my rep comes from answering easy to lookup rulebook questions, that I just happen to remember exist without having to reference the book immediately

kviiri

@Randomorph Heh, same. My top answer in votes does require a modestly higher understanding of rules, tho.

Rubiksmoose

@Randomorph Yup I answered the Goodberry one while 3/4 asleep and without looking at the rules in about 1.5 minutes. Fun stuff.

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