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trogdor

12:29 AM

@BESW I did really enjoy the evil party interludes we had, those were fun

Also, always a good exuse for making and playing a new character

nitsua60

@BESW Except you'd lose humans' (nearly) unique racial feature.

They cross-breed with anything.

BESW

Nah, it'd just make more sense.

trogdor

@nitsua60 good toss it

It's so dumb

nitsua60

(Horses and dragons being the other species that share the trait.)

trogdor

Although I don't necessarily hate half elves in every edition

So maybe I spoke too soon

nitsua60

12:34 AM

@Powerdork did you ever get the answer(s) you were looking for?

trogdor

@nitsua60 if you are counting horses you have to count owls and or bears too

nitsua60

@trogdor That wasn't breeding. [rummages]

trogdor

@nitsua60 I know, a wizard did it

nitsua60

@trogdor nope

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A: Does Cloak of Displacement hide your character's location or do others see two bodies?

In the Realms, at least, your true location is not visible. The cloak of displacement is at least patterned after, if not made from, the hide of a displacer beast. (See the illustration on DMG p.158.) Displacer beasts made their first appearance in Realms-lore in the book Darkwell, by Douglas N...

=D

trogdor

@nitsua60 oh this must be an edition thing

nitsua60

12:37 AM

So there's the lore-explanation for them. But, of course, we all know it was some mad 70s injection-molder who really created the first owlbear:

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A: What's the inspiration for the owlbear?

It's based on a toy. And that's all most sources will give you, because they're drawing from an article (Ed Greenwood's "Ecology of the Rust Monster" in Dragon #88, later quoted by another article of the same name in issue #346) which is actually about the rust monster, and only passingly mentio...

(I know you know that @trogdor, but I figure we're due for our yearly reminder to new chatizens that @BESW doesn't just contribute excellent chat, but excellent answers, too.)

BESW

oooh, that's getting close to a Great Answer Badger.

nitsua60

@BESW Yeah, it is!

You must have a bunch of those, no?

BESW

Only two.

nitsua60

Same here. But they're definitely ones I'm proud of/happy to see highly-voted, so there's that. (As opposed to so many of those "simple rules lookup" answers that get the +25 badge just because they're for a popular game.)

Shalvenay

@BESW 'tis one more than me

trogdor

12:49 AM

@nitsua60 how dare you imply that I know something, for shame upon you sir

BESW

1:42 AM

@nitsua60 I've only supplied two double-digit-upvoted answers in the last year, so.

Rubiksmoose

2:09 AM

@BESW I now certify this answer as Great.

Huh I guess that I have no gold bling related to answers at all. Not surprising really though. Just means I need to step up my answering game eh? :)

nitsua60

@Rubiksmoose Gold from answers is pretty tough. It's a numbers game. You need to not only write a really good answer, it needs to be on a question that gets enough traffic for the purpose.

Wow, though: I just learned I've got the most-viewed question on the whole site. And it's one I posted because I was annoyed =\

Rubiksmoose

@nitsua60 Guesses what it is before clicking...

Oh no I was wrong.

nitsua60

@Rubiksmoose "Who let the dogs out?"

It's an unreasonable number of views, frankly.

Rubiksmoose

@nitsua60 I thought it was going to be this one: rpg.stackexchange.com/questions/84836/…

oh wow that is crazy number of views. But hey, a very helpful post. Invlovling a not inisgnificant amount of legwork

nitsua60

@Rubiksmoose That's another one I posted while annoyed. Stack: not sure your social engineering is working, here....

Rubiksmoose

2:25 AM

@nitsua60 Yeah I remember you saying that. lol. Social engineer better SE.

BESW

I now have a magic number of golden badgers.

nitsua60

Dawn in Estonia, momma is making some noise. Wonder if breakfast/shift change is coming soon....

Rubiksmoose

So I'm not sure what SE is trying to tell me here...

BESW

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HellSaint

So, I have a question and an answer I don't know if it is correct - should I post my possible answer as an answer or part of the question?

(I don't even know how to search for this question in meta, thus I'm asking here)

Rubiksmoose

2:30 AM

@HellSaint If it is a complete answer you might as well post it as an answer. I've seen better success doing that than posting a potential answer in the question itself.

nitsua60

@HellSaint Separate answer, if you ask me.

BESW

But if you can't support the answer (it's just speculation), it's not going to be a very good answer regardless of its correctness.

Rubiksmoose

Yeah if it can make a good (but possibly incorrect answer) post it. Otherwise just let the community do the answering.

HellSaint

Thanks, I'll try to write it down and see if I have enough to support it.

nitsua60

Hmm... I'm not finding it on meta either, even though I feel like we've got something on it.

BESW

2:33 AM

I know we've got meta questions about self-answering, but I can't think of any specifically dealing with this case.

nitsua60

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Q: Edit the question or answer your own question?

As far as I know, it is okay to answer your own questions. It is also recommended to show your progress with a question, and this is easily accomplished by editing the question itself and incorporating the progress there. When should I answer my own question and when should I edit the outcome in...

@HellSaint related, but not quite your situation

Shalvenay

hey there @bruglesco, welcome to the RPG.SE lair :)

BESW

[wave] What's new?

bruglesco

@Shalvenay Hi and thanks for the welcome

Shalvenay

how're things going?

Rubiksmoose

2:42 AM

@Rubiksmoose WHY AM I STILL FALSE?! What's your beef with me SE huh?

bruglesco

@BESW ohh Hi to you too

Things are good

I'm surprised your chat lets me talk

I assumed they were all locked under 20 rep

BESW

Yes, but the chat is unlocked globally once you've hit 20 rep anywhere.

bruglesco

I'm still locked out of some

But I just found that some are not

weird - bug maybe

BESW

I'm gonna guess that the ones you're locked out of are Stack Overflow, and the ones you can get into are Stack Exchange?

bruglesco

yep - I just figured that out

BESW

2:46 AM

There's two separate chat infrastructures, one for each of those systems. Each chat infrastructure aggregates your user accounts for that particular system.

bruglesco

So only one site still blocks me

BESW

SO's just that special.

(I tend to forget it exists.)

So, what brings you to RPG chat?

Rubiksmoose

Everyone knows that Stack Overflow is just a cheap knockoff of Stack Exchange anyways.

bruglesco

curiosity

Rubiksmoose

@bruglesco We are a curious bunch in more ways than one.

BESW

2:48 AM

Excellent. You're welcome to lurk or chat as you like, of course. The General Chat's conversational topics can get pretty free-ranging, but if somebody wants to get back to talking about RPGs that's always the priority.

bruglesco

That sounds reasonable

Do you focus primarily on Table-top or do you delve into the digital as well.

Most of the Q&A stuff that pops onto my feed tends to be DnD so its hard to tell for sure. (because that's just a measure of popularity)

BESW

Computer games are dealt with over on Arqade; this site is specifically for tabletop games. However, we also cover the use of digital platforms to play "tabletop" RPGs over long distances.

D&D is definitely the elephant nobody can stop talking about, yeah. RPG.SE has introduced me to many other excellent games/systems, though. Been a real eye-opener.

bruglesco

gotcha Thanks

BESW

This site also occasionally delves into online platforms like storium and some things which are arguably more party games like microscope. We tend to run an "I know it when I see it" perspective on topicality re: what counts as an RPG.

nitsua60

@bruglesco and chat, specifically, often discusses crpgs quite a bit

trogdor

3:04 AM

We do sometimes bring up rpg video games here in reference to making or playing a tabletop version of it

And video games in general, while off topic, can be discussed a little if no one is looking for tabletop rpg type talking currently

Shalvenay

hey there by the way @nitsua60 and @goodguy5

trogdor

If there is any question or doubt about on or off topic discussion though, we have a Not a Bar to shunt stuff to for rampant off topicness

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