@BESW I'm fairly sure I have, though I don't have it installed right now and and can't recall my impressions, so it probably wouldn't hurt to try it again.
(Oh, I'm seeing some pings in the inbox from @MikeQ, @KorvinStarmast. I feel bad--that's the reason 7/14 wasn't even listed as an entry on the calendar thread: I've had this on the calendar for a year.)
@trogdor Low score wins. 1. 5K run (time in minutes is score); 2. 5000-lb bench press (choose your weight, reps to hit 5000 lb is score); 3. eat 5000 calories of 1 food in an hour (score is based off of how far short of 5000 you fall); 4. Round of golf (5000 yards! score is golf score); 5. obstacle course (score is (seconds/3)).
@trogdor So that's the modern pentathlon, which is modern analogue of the ancient pentathlon (javelin, sprint, distance run, long jump, and discus, IIRC?) which claims to be a set of skills that would be representative of a hoplite infantry soldier.
Woo! I solved my issue with Quoll Writer by following the instructions in the top-voted answer here (creating the variable and flagging it false). I was having similar issues with Hexographer, come to think of it, but not as bad -- bits of the program multiplying all over itself.
I finished the fic I initially wanted to organize in it last October, but hey, I'm sure I'll figure out something to do with it. :P Trying to set up an NPC widget now.
In our last game we came up against an enemy that managed a TPK. The DM was nice enough to bring us back (partially because it was session 3 - partially because the mechanic used to defeat us was statistically improbable).
So now I'm thinking of going in a direction that can assist in some kind of revenge against said NPC
We're using Mythic builds, and if possible, I'd like to go for something other than multi-classing, if possible.
@Ben There are some story feats in UC that relate to vengeance, like Vengeance (last one on the page here), but it's very underwhelming, because it never increases. Hopefully someone else knows of something better than this.
Yeah that was the reason why she got the better of us. We had a Cleric, a druid, and a Blood Rager. We were all swinging away, and simply because she had Blur active, she negated 8/10 hits
So the next part was "you wake up in a pit, chained up, 60 years later".
My immediate reaction was "That #*&<ing b*tch turned us into zombies didn't she??"
So now, we're effectively Golems. We've been artificially reanimated by another NPC, and my response was "Cheers. Tell me who you want dead, so that I can earn my wish to murder that witch"
@Ben I'm not very familiar with Pathfinder, but in 3.5, almost any mechanical choice that specialized you towards fighting a specific enemy was a terrible idea, because the choices that would make you better at fighting enemies in general would also do much more to help you fight that specific enemy than the specific choices.
Like, you're a Druid, so you could trade in your Wild Shape for Favoured Enemy. But Wild Shape will do far more to help you fight your favoured enemy than Favoured Enemy will, so it's a trade that makes you worse at fighting that specific enemy as well as worse at fighting enemies in general.
If the Favoured Enemy-type stuff made you better at fighting your favoured enemies than the general stuff, there'd be a tradeoff to consider, but as it is it's just an objectively terrible choice.
But I doubt it, because things like that tend to be small nunerical bonuses, where the things you could otherwise be getting are things like Natural Spell.
Oh, okay. Mm, I can't actually tell you how to deal with a hex off the top of my head as I've only ever had to worry about using them. :P It varies depending on the hex, too.
But for the spellcasting part, tanglefoot bags have good effects in general and will give entanglement even if they don't get stuck to the ground, requiring concentration checks on casting. Thunderstones can cause deafness which gives a chance to fail spells with verbal components. Any way you can prevent them from speaking is good.
@trogdor The hex is a witch-specific feature, and they're not spells but mostly supernatural effects or extraordinary abilities. Normal spellcasting can be thwarted in certain ways because spells often require somatic or verbal components -- you have to move or speak to cast them -- and because there are various effects that make you do a concentration check to cast them, too.
@Pixie Yeah, I think that did require an action to Hex the blade - but it obviously didn't require much in the way of normal spellcasting, in regards to the V/S/M components
I also need to recap on the abilities of Druids. Currently only level 2, but it's my first time playing PF, so I've been mainly focussing on the mechanics of the game. Got a handle on that now, so I think I'll need to re-focus on how Druids specifically work within the game
@trogdor I mean... it is, heh. There's enough changed that I feel a little lost when I try to do 3.5, but that's more because I don't know what's in which books and all that, I think.
Heh. I'd play Pathfinder again if someone in my group was like "hey I'm GMing a Pathfinder game again," but I think the ones that did got kind of burned out.
I also did some Pathfinder Society at a con last year, but it wasn't a great experience for me. It was a fresh character, and it's kinda hard for me to really get into a character on the first session, so I felt kind of deer in headlights when the GM fished for RP stuff. At least two of the party members were my friends, or else I'd have felt completely uncomfortable.
Also, to clarify - Druids don't have "spell slots", they have "spells per day"... right? Like, If I wanted to use Cure Light Wounds more than once per day, I'd need to take that spell twice
@trogdor Probably if I remade one of my seasoned characters to PFS specifications it wouldn't have been so bad, heh. Or even if I'd had more time to prep my character. But three of us were kind of like, "hey, we don't have anything to do tomorrow morning, so let's do PFS."
5e should really have called them something else, but they chose to use terms everyone knows. Which is the source of a bunch of confusion, because they use them very differently.
It specifically says that "Thorns, briars, and overgrown areas that have been magically manipulated to impede motion, however, still affect [the druid]." so I'd say not at all.
I think one of the biggest annoyances for playing online and generally without a map (only once in a while did we have R20 stuff) was always having to ask, "Do I have enough room to drop this and not hit the party?"
And that answer often being no, because of winding up in houses with small rooms or places with narrow tunnels. :P
Pff. I have the kind of job where there is absolutely never not something to do. This doesn't necessarily mean that I don't take a breather once in a while, but not if I'm not ahead of schedule and also alone. :P
When I'm on my phone, the only way I can write anything is to use the swipe feature, because I'm terrible at tapping words out letter by letter. But swipe sometimes... chooses some strange words.
Ahh. I trace a line over the letters and it picks the word it thinks I mean. One issue of late is that every time I try to swipe "and" it instead thinks I want to write "abs."
It's strange because my girlfriend has been educating me about endometriosis - and this conversation usually does lead to conversations about abs a lot
It's kinda funny... I'm a typical Aussie guy... I'll have a beer with dinner, maybe a few with lunch on the weekend, and according to the internet, I come across as a fairly alcoholic character.
For example the Redbubble ads suggest t-shirts like "I'm holding a beer, so yeah. I'm busy" or "Warning - May contain alcohol"
Actually yeah. I suppose from an outside view, seeing someone as "odd" or "uncharacteristic" for not drinking is a thing in Australia. It's not a bad thing, it's just unusual.
But in saying that, the difference between "drinking" and "not drinking" is just the basic act of consuming alcohol - not necessarily drinking excessively
I mean, I do think it's a strangely delicate balance that a lot of people subject themselves to, to drink at all and needing to police yourself with it when you do
Some people drink to just relax at the end of the day - like a beer with dinner, or while watching the evening news. It's just part of that "unwinding" ritual at the end of the day.
@trogdor That's fine :) in my experience of this, being drunk just lowers your inhibitions. If you have desires to do things that you don't like, then that doesn't mean you're going to lose control of that.
I'd just like to take a moment to clarify: I am in no way trying to suggest that drinking is something everyone should do. You do what you are comfortable with
People who can deal with that and never go over thier own limit are still welcome to do that
And personally I hate smoking a lot more than drinking
You can't really "smoke responsibly" as long as you are anywhere near other people
And the smell is bad enough without the health risks
X(
And they of course pack the things full of incredibly addictive substances and some,... Frankly really insanely unhealthy stuff
@Ben so yeah, the problem isn't everyone who does it, but there are clearly still plenty of people who die in some relation to consuming it irresponsibly every year
My issue is, what are we not doing to fix that that we could be doing without a second prohibition
The problem isn't the alcohol. It's the people making the bad choices. Yes, the alcohol doesn't necessarily help the decision making, but like you said, prohibition ain't gonna do a whole lot
@trogdor You still get people causing accidents on the road, because they can't make judgements or they make stupid decisions. That's how accidents happen.
@trogdor The problem is that if a guy is drinking at his house, then decides he needs to go for a drive (for whatever reason) how are you going to manage that?
