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Depends. Once you learn to forgive the author's lack of external consistency, you'll be much more bothered by themes, writing style, pacing, and social implications. Then you can get the pitchforks.
@Gwideon It's also possible that a fanfiction author may have differing perspectives on certain characters and events in the official lore. That doesn't make them a bad author, it's just a new viewpoint for the reader to consider.
ha, i think my initial questions to the answers on the antimagic field/detect magic interaction led them to change their answers. BUt in the meantime, I had put my own up. So we've all basically got the same answer. Yay consensus?
@Gwideon That's fair. If you dislike the typical pitfalls of fanfiction, maybe try reading more stories that aren't related to an existing body of canon. Pick up something completely unfamiliar and new.
@MikeQ I'm not talking about fan fiction. I'm talking about official canon material. As I have said I am completely fine with fan fiction even if it is bad as it has no affect on actual canon (in fact I am guilty of writing bad fan fiction). My problem is when official material that is canon reads like poorly written fanfiction. I also Have major problems with character assassination which often happens in poorly written canon material.
Haste description says:
When the spell ends, the target can’t move or take actions until after its next turn, as a wave of lethargy sweeps over it.
Can this lethargy effect be dispelled using dispel magic? Or maybe supressed inside an antimagic field? Is there any way to cheese out this neg...
> Meanwhile, Office of Naval Intelligence Director Admiral Margaret Parangosky assembles a black ops team known as Kilo-Five, which is assigned on a covert mission to sow discord between disparate Sangheili factions by any means necessary
ah good, love too elevate Henry Kissinger as an ideal of international diplomacy
I like mandos but what her worship of them is disgusting (and hypocritical as in the EU the mandos did all of the things she claims the jedi order is doing)
her hatred of the republic (a faction that was under the control of a really evil dude at the time) and the jedi (who had literally no choice in the matter) is completely and utterly unreasonable.
Overly harsh and (occasionally baseless) criticisms of a secretive warrior group with superhuman abilities that were recruited as children paired with glowing idolatry of a militaristic collective.
Actually, it's also kinda weird how the Jedi match up fairly well to Spartans.
Well, one thing I remember is that she characterized Jaina (Leia and Han's daughter from the EU books) as a spoiled princess who never fought a real battle in her life despite her having actually fought in a war while losing several relatives and friends because she's the daughter of two war heroes and enemies tend to try to assassinate you for that.
@vicky_molokh the mandos are genocidal conquers who have used slaves and the such. She claims that the jedi are evil for "enslaving" the clones when in fact the jedi where actually some of the biggest proponents for clone rights. She also says the jedi and the chancellor are in cahoots to make the clone wars (which she thinks is only a brush fire war for some reason) appear bigger than they are.
also what where the jedi supposed to do turn their back on the very government they had sworn to protect. they had no choice in taking on the clones. the clone army lies entirely at the feet of the senate and palpitine. while the jedi were indeed a very flawed organization her take on them is just not right.
@MikeQ Yeah, that whole thing about Sifo-Dyas literally made no sense.
Except to justify some throwaway line in the prequels.
Then again, the sole purpose of the Expanded Universe at times seemed to be to justify random throwaway lines in the films.
Like we're supposed to believe that some unknown Jedi Master commissioned a clone army because he foresaw the Sith and yet kept the whole thing a secret from literally everyone else. And he'd rather tell Count Dooku about this secret army instead of, I dunno, Yoda. But then it turns out that his visions were sent by Palpatine so that he could get a Jedi to commission the army for him.
but really I don't think those are the worst things she's done. I think here poor handling of a disabled character who before had been portrayed as a very capable bada** is probably her most egregious sin.
Character idea: Warlock who's a member of an apocalypse cult. Except their foretold apocalypse won't be happening for another 10,000 years and they'll be damned if they're going to let the world end before its appointed time.
> "Sir, I have a religious objection to your doomsday machine." > "Oh, you think killing everyone is wrong?" > "No, killing everyone is certainly morally right. Just not right now."
@Yuuki I honestly like learning lore and stuff though I tend to focus my studies. I realize that things can change. most of my knowledge is focused around ships, weapons, and battle tactics and less so on the fluid and enigmatic philosophy of the force. Basically I take the stance of a Millitary historian.
There's just something amusing about a character whose actions are almost definitely make them a paragon of good with the sole exception being that their central guiding belief is wholly evil.
@vicky_molokh actually surprisingly yes. We can analyze the general tactics of what we see on screen and page and figure out the strengths and weaknesses of certain factions. also we have fairly definitive descriptions of weaponry and their capabilities. For example one of the biggest flaws with the empire (and one of the main reasons the rebels where able to get an upper hand) was the inflexibility of it's fleet. the empire rarely deployed small ships such as corvettes.
which meant they had to rely on their subpar starfighter to deal with small craft. the rebellion had some of the best starfighters in the galaxy at the time and specialized in hit and run tactics which made them uniquely equipped to take advantage of this weakness.
I suspect that trying to view SW from a serious military/political perspective must be frustrating, due to the sheer number of bafflingly bad tactical decisions and the nonsense that ensues
the tarkin doctrine for example makes sense for a galaxy at peace (which dispite being oppressed it was for nearly two decades). It's a doctrine designed to deal instill fear and prevent uprisings by instilling fear into a populace which it was largely successful at doing. the tie fighter also makes sense in this context as it was only really used as patrol craft until the galactic civil war which it was effective at
@Gwideon I was generally worried that those various things depicted are depicted more based on the Rule of Cool than with any eye towards presenting a coherent faction/situation/etc.
also the empire did try to upgrade (as indicated by the tie interceptor and various other models of tie) but those upgrades where to expensive to fully equip a full starfighter core of millions with.
@vicky_molokh also yeah that is true and I know i'm probably being dumb but it's fun to me
Oh, I was referring moreso to decisions like a sith lord playing both sides of a galactic war against themself, so they can gain control over a senate that they already control. Or trusting a mercenary army with a shady background. Or entrusting the least competent guy in the swamp to be the legal representative of a whole planet.
I remember a fan rewrite of the prequel saga that had less mind games. The clones were just part of the galaxy being caught up in a war fervor and the Jedi were swept along for the ride, slowly become more and more militarized and distancing themselves from their peaceful origins. Until eventually, all the Jedi were wiped out near the end of the civil war from some cataclysmic battle and Palpatine just took over the Republic from the remains.
actually palpitine used the clone wars merely to cement his power. before the clone wars he didn't have full control over the senate. also he needed to get rid of the jedi while also making people long for security. also yeah the clone army is kinda a point of contention for me but I like to think about it like this. if you were the republic and you'd just been informed that millions of battle driods are being manufactured with the intention of wiping you out and you have no standing army
@Gwideon The clone army is fine. What doesn't make sense to me is the idea that Sidious/Palpatine engineers a galaxy-spanning conflict rather than simply taking advantage of one.
Yep. Personally I accept the interpretation that Palpatine was just bored. He's more powerful than everyone else, so the only opponent worthy of challenge is himself.
Or rather it was written like that so Lucas could "prove" that Palpatine was "smart" enough to do that.
@MikeQ I'm imagining a universe where Anakin is slightly late to aid the arrest of Palpatine because he tripped on those unnecessarily long and flowy Jedi robes or something. Windu then cuts off Palpatine's head and the last thought through his head is "hmm, good play, me, I never saw that coming"
But yeah, Palpy was sufficiently wealthy, influential, and magical that he could have just killed his primary Jedi opponents, and maybe hired some bounty hunters and apprentices for help. There's no good reason he had to contract two galactic-scale armies just to cover up some Jedi assassinations.
> "Oh, my venerable Sith Masters, I have finally accomplished the goal we have been working towards for centuries! The Jedi Order is no more! In unrelated news, there is this new group of Force-sensitives that call themselves the AFSJI, or the Association for Force-Sensitive Jedi-like Individuals."
@Xirema Oh, so I ended up going with 4d6dl down the line, got 16 15 15 11 12 10. Made a Githyanki Zealot Barbarian out of it. Backstory is that she got bored of being a footsoldier in the endless war between the Githyanki and the Githzerai, so she went AWOL to go be a pirate in Saltmarsh instead.
@Xirema Alternately, she joined an ever-growing group of those disillusioned with the endless war and lives in a city that they started together, known as Github.
I need to find a device that makes that really unsettling creaky-clicking noise associated with J-Horror, so that I can use that every time she needs to talk, to represent her twisting her neck to grin at whomever she's talking to.
@NautArch JK Rowling had that same impact on me. I wanted to pick up a blue pencil
@Rubiksmoose I have been seeing them on Christianity SE, and it's so nice to have these new and shiny things that have zero value added. I guess it's progress.
@KorvinStarmast It's been awhile since I read them. I remember the books progressively getting better and thinking that she was writing for younger kids and kept it simpler, but then improved as her audience aged.
A PC in our group was off on his own following a recurring villain of our groups. He was paralyzed where he could move, and the vampire bit his neck. The vampire said "now you get to remain 19 (years old) forever" before he left the cave. This was all done in RP.
We found him later, and healed u...
@Ludoss I've gotten a lot of my ideas from books/shows/movies and then tweaked them to fit the game. It really can go anywhere your imagination takes you. But you should first start with whether or not you are using an existing setting.
Consider having your players help you. Have them write backstories for their characters, and prompt them to include something unresolved in them. Also, try to listen when they talk about stuff, it might give you an insight into things the do, or will, enjoy
@kent Lol, yeah. It's a balance. Enemies can't polymorph you, but neither can allies. I've never seen an enemy actually use moonbeam on the party, and never seen players try to use it on shapechangers.
@SmokeDetector I've seen people do that in answers, "if you have any more questions email me here". Seems harmless enough but probably shouldn't be done on a public site.
@Ludoss 5 room dungeons. (roleplayingtips.com/5-room-dungeons) Sroll past all the times he tries to get you to sign up for his newsletter (if you want); the format's lower on the page.
@KorvinStarmast Shawn Merwin's "Let's Design an Adventure" series seems to be intended more for those writing an adventure for public consumption, rather than just at one table, but there are still probably valuable insights to be had there
Haste description says:
When the spell ends, the target can’t move or take actions until after its next turn, as a wave of lethargy sweeps over it.
Can this lethargy effect be dispelled using dispel magic? Or maybe supressed inside an antimagic field? Is there any way to cheese out this neg...
