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trogdor

12:07 AM

lol

ask questions wizard

I love that becoming such a mundane thing as to be in the paper and everyone ignores it

BESW

Dear Questions Wizard...

Carcer

12:21 AM

isn't that just a divination specialist?

Q: Dear Questions Wizard, is my boyfriend cheating on me? (I have enclosed a lock of his hair.)
A: You were right to be suspicious! I scried upon him and discovered he was "entertaining" your neighbour while you were at the market.

BESW

[scribbles campaign notes]

I've got a long-back-burnered campaign setting where that'd fit in perfectly.

(The one where everyone is elves.)

Hot RPG Questions

12:50 AM

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Q: How are Fiends, Celestials, dragons, etc. affected by the Antimagic Field spell?

How are Fiends, Celestials, dragons, etc affected by the antimagic field spell? I assume they can walk into them. Do they lose abilities, take damage, etc?

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1:23 AM

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Q: How does the math work for Perception checks?

Please forgive me, it's been over 40+ years since I've played D&D and just now trying to reboot the changes. Can someone briefly explain Perception check math? Assume I'm a 5 year old or an idiot, whichever comes first in your mind. If a character has a Wisdom of 10 and the DM says "roll a Pe...

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KorvinStarmast

2:36 AM

@Axoren gotcha, your call, get the mood/setting to fit.

Helwar

4:17 AM

hi

Shalvenay

hey thar @Helwar, how're things going?

Helwar

good-ish

and you?

Shalvenay

alright here

Helwar

i had to prepare tomorrow's game. It's almost 5:30 am and I've been playing Sekiro since 4 o'clock and I havent prepared a damn thing haha

4pm, I meant

kviiri

4:37 AM

@BESW Always happy to provide opportunities!

V2Blast

6:00 AM

just got back from watching Captain Marvel a little while ago. it was pretty good.
some twists I expected and some I didn't - overall a quite enjoyable movie.
(and a funny tie-in to another movie... not Endgame, a previous one :P)

Ben

6:57 AM

Afternoon all

@V2Blast I didn't dislike it.

BESW

I liked all the Captain Marvel bits, but the Marvel franchise kept getting in the way of the stand-alone movie it should have been and you can see the stress cracks in the franchise formula.

MikeQ

Quick TTRPG question

kviiri

Haven't seen it, but ^ that's my impression on how it tends to go

@MikeQ Swift answer

MikeQ

Yay or nay: Use a single d20 roll to determine whether to exclude a player from the remainder of a campaign, based on an in-game surprise event

kviiri

@MikeQ Definitely nay

I mean, I could theoretically accept that if it was the last session and people were fine with bloody endings to the campaign but... seriously :P

MikeQ

7:06 AM

Right. Assume not last session.

kviiri

(I've noticed my players practically looking for cliffs for their characters to jump off on the last session)

trogdor

@BESW yeah I have to agree with that

kviiri

@MikeQ Ok, definitely no. Care to elaborate what the surprise event was?

MikeQ

@kviiri My PC opened a nondescript closet after checking for traps. BBEG was hiding inside (despite in-game knowledge that BBEG should be elsewhere), immediately tries to disintegrate the PC.

We're late in the game, and before rolling, I ask what happens if I fail, because we don't have magic to undo disintegrate. GM doesn't want to bother with new characters, therefore a low roll means being kicked, basically.

kviiri

Ugh no no no x(

MikeQ

7:11 AM

Luckily I rolled high, but I got a bit annoyed by this scenario.

kviiri

Sorry, I need to get a bit of clarification: was making a new character somehow out of the question? (it's still in bad taste IMO)

MikeQ

Yes apparently, despite the campaign probably lasting another few months IRL

kviiri

My condolences for your bad time :(

BESW

10 hours ago, by BESW

@kviiri Ooh, I haven't had an opportunity to shout "GOBLIN DICE!" for a while.

trogdor

twice in one day

kviiri

7:17 AM

I would say "I'm happy it turned out fine", but unless you set out better expectations with your GM, this situation is going to recur.

@BESW :D

BESW

The friends at the table are more important than anything in or about the game.

kviiri

@BESW In all seriousness, I think the concept of Goblin dice is useful to know and since it hasn't been discussed here in an awfully long time, I think it's apt that the concept gets thrown around a bit so everyone can learn about it

BESW

kviiri

For myself, it took a bit of ruminating to understand what it really means

Mainly because I had such little experience back when I first heard about it.

MikeQ

@BESW TBH this particular group and DM have been frustrating me for a while, often with "game mechanics before fun" style of play. But it's a learning experience. The more I observe, the more I learn what to avoid.

BESW

7:20 AM

Like, in this context the goblin dice aren't even the problem.

The problem is using the randomization generator to determine who gets to play.

That is not a choice you should use a game system to decide.

MikeQ

Agreed. And I'm really concerned now. Maybe the DM wants me out, but isn't sure, or wants to shift responsibility onto random chance?

kviiri

Hm, I'm kinda feeling a desire to give online games another shot because I feel we have lots of people with fairly similar ideas on fun playing here

But I need to make some time first :)

Ben

@MikeQ yeah that whole situation is a bit dodge

BESW

7:36 AM

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MikeQ

@Ben Well that's the way the cookie crumbles

and by "cookie" I mean "one of my primary social outlets"

BESW

@kviiri Scheduling is hard.

MikeQ

Naw, scheduling is easy

First you spend 3 months trying to juggle everyone's schedules until they agree to a date and place, and then nobody shows up on time

kviiri

@BESW That's why I don't really do it. I'm going to go with the method I recall you mentioning once: decide a date and see who comes

BESW

That's what I did: every Saturday at 7. For the last year, pretty much the only IRL person to show up has been Troggy.

Ben

7:50 AM

Coordination is probably the hard part :P

MikeQ

@kviiri There are occasionally spontaneous one-shot games in the back room

kviiri

My project manager at my current customer has a delightful group of friends with whom she's been hanging out regularly since their school years. She also said they used to schedule their meetings, leading them to meeting about once every six months if they were lucky

When they started just deciding on the date, they've met each other far more regularly.

Ben

8:13 AM

Speaking of spontaneous games in tbr... Any word on the development of LLKoM? @BESW

vicky_molokh

8:35 AM

I made a tag for a game system, then I found that it has been referred to another, potentially very misleading tag, and I think should be replaced, and it's only present on two questions only, should I rise a meta, or just edit two questions with an edit comment explaining why I'm replacing it?

(There's a total of three questions, one where I added the tag, two that used another, misleading tag.)

(Please @ me if/when you answer, because I may go offline and/or AFK any moment today.)

MikeQ

8:51 AM

@vicky_molokh The meta is usually an ok place to ask about tag editing

Zachiel

11:39 AM

@MikeQ I don't know how long this campaign has been going but I suspect it might be a slow game like D&D, with a "we're approaching the finale" movie feeling, where it happens that someone gets taken out of the equation but the heroes keep pushing. The problem being this is not a movie.

The Oracle

12:26 PM

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Q: The problem with the [gurps-dungeon-fantasy-rpg] tag wording

Today I saw a Dungeon Fantasy Roleplaying Game question (or rather, question spanning both GURPS and DFRPG), and decided to add the latter tag to it, started typing dungeon-fantasy-roleplaying..., didn't see an autocomplete, realised it's too long, added dfrpg instead because that's how the commu...

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KorvinStarmast

1:23 PM

@MikeQ if you had been disentegrated, would the DM have had you play the monsters until the climax? Being tossed from the group on a die roll like that (with the "doesn't want to roll up new chars" bit) not even an old school feel. (We usually found a way for another PC to be rescued / found when stuff like that happened ... but I guess that varies by table).

Shalvenay

2:13 PM

hey there @kviiri

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Q: What was this official D&D 3.5e Lovecraft-flavored rulebook?

I faintly remember of a D&D 3.5 book, but I can not really remember its title. The book had a lovecraftian flavor, it was official and it was about old gods and monsters, that existed in the background, and the DM could create whole campaigns about them. It usually proposed events to happen in t...

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Helwar

may I ask a non-stackable D&D5e question? BUilding an overpowered item, I need a little peer review so it is not TOO overpowered... Ideally it won't fall into the player's hands but just in case :S

Shalvenay

@Helwar you're in the right place for that sort of thing :)

Helwar

oki :)

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