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12:40 AM

@Ash yeah it's weird regardless

the gremlins are being chastised

nitsua60

1:16 AM

@Shalvenay hiya

Shalvenay

@nitsua60 were you able to get to the video I linked you btw?

nitsua60

I haven't looked yet.

Thursday-into-Friday tends to be the busiest time of my week.

Shalvenay

@nitsua60 aah

nitsua60

Both are full school days. Then Thursday adds bell-ringing, chapel, formal dinner with advisees, and my study hall duty. And last night was also my kids' school concert.

Friday adds a department meeting and school club's RPG night.

So it's (basically) all good things, but boy is there barely time to catch a breath.

1:42 AM

4'33" The RPG. Just in time for May 3rd, or, because we're too good to let Pope Gregory XIII tell us how to refer to dates, April 33rd, it's a tabletop RPG that faithfully recreates the experience of listening to John Cage's classic 4'33".

One feature that I'm developing to be more detailed than the Classic Traveller inspirational material is a more complex cultural index for homeworlds and systems. Places with dominant cultural groups, subordinate ones, and locations that have hybrid cultures.

Tweeted by POCGamer on May 3, 2019 at 4:59 PM in reply to POCGamer

user15026

@BESW giggles

@BESW April is dead though, we established this

it must now die

user15026

1:59 AM

There is no April!

user15026

There is...oh no I forget what there is but it isn't April.

Ridvan?

anyway, we now commence the burial of April, until the time next year when it bursts forth from it's grave like the unwanted dead

wait with your shotguns and stakes people, garlic doesn't do much to April though so leave that at home

@Ash Jamál!

@trogdor Ridvan ended on Thursday evening.

ah

Shalvenay

@trogdor idly wonders if he could make stake-rounds for a cannon...

2:06 AM

I just thought it was that because Ridvan came up when we were discussing why April sucks

@Shalvenay lol

@trogdor Ridvan is kinda like... think the 12 days of Christmas, from 25 Dec to 6 Jan. And Jamál and Jalál are the equivalents of December and January.

@BESW ah

just at almost the opposite end of the year

3:30 AM

We had this downright awful idea for a BBEG; the lich learned a spell that let him create multiple phylactories but it's defective in that each phylactory contains a copy of him from that point. Once his lich body is destroyed, they all start trying to resurrect it. This results in a few hundred copies appearing about two weeks later. (You can't be too immortal or so he thought.)

Thankfully they battle each other as readily as anybody else.

@Joshua Is each copy a fully fledged copy? Or is each 1/200 of the power of the original lich?

@linksassin: Each a full copy.

Miniman

@Joshua Isn't that literally Voldemort?

@Joshua You're right, that is a downright awful idea. Liches are intelligent, they would figure out how to work together and destory the entire world. No party would ever be able to stop more than a couple of liches

@Miniman: Not exactly but pretty darn close. It's what Voldemort would have been if they all worked like the diary.

3:39 AM

@Miniman No. The horcruxes contain parts of a single soul. Not duplicates.

Yeah if they figured out how to work together it's time to get out the planet busters.

Miniman

@linksassin The diary was a copy of him at the time that he made it, that tried to resurrect on its own, separately from the primary Voldemort.

@Miniman True. but then again there are no rules to magic in HP. That completely breaks her explanation of horcruxes later in the series. Let's not try to make it make sense.

Miniman

@linksassin Hey, you're the one who acted like it was consistent :P

@Miniman Fair point.

3:58 AM

JK Rowling was bad at math and consistency; oh well

Q: Backing up answers to "Am I understanding this correctly" questions

@Joshua It's not that she was bad at it (not saying she wasn't) its more that she didn't care. A consistent magic system wasn't important to her story.

The Oracle

4:10 AM

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https://rpg.stackexchange.com/a/147423/40335 I found this question (and answer) when looking through the review queue, and there was already the standard "Don't give a one line answer" boilerplate on the given answer. I was about to comment saying "hey, welcome, can you elaborate on this answer?...

discussion

Good meta question

Ben

5:16 AM

Afternoon all

@Ben G'day

SmokeDetector

5:31 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, bad keyword in link text in answer, username similar to website in answer (222): As a GM, is it bad form to ask for a moment to think when improvising? by Reliable Maid Services on rpg.SE (@doppelgreener)

Ben

How's the weekend going?

5:47 AM

Eh, pretty lazy so far

Catching up on critical role

kviiri

6:11 AM

It's may

V2Blast

wow

kviiri

6:28 AM

A surprise, to be sure

And not a welcome one :D

"Exploring Our Stories & Decolonizing Games," by Cass Kay.

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6:48 AM

I can feel bits and pieces of RPG design philosophy starting to click together in my head, with the addition of Kay's particular phrasings about decolonizing cultures.

7:17 AM

Oh, and this is the folklore jam Kay's talking about.

Q: Does an attack redirected to an invisible target have disadvantage?

7:57 AM

@BESW this is an interesting read, I never thought of it in this particular way

Hot RPG Questions

11:26 AM

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An interesting combo came up in gameplay: An invisible party member chose to defend another party member using their non-spell, non-attack reaction (arrow catching shield.) In the description for the invisibility spell (PH pg. 254), it says: The spell ends for a target that attacks or casts ...

dnd-5e spells invisibility advantage-and-disadvantage

Zachiel

11:54 AM

I--- I don't understand my players.

They're battling a huge beast that they need to keep alive for story.related reasons. They proceed to deal damage to it in the most efficient way possible (including volnerabilities) and end up killing it in a single round.

Someone_Evil

Common problem

Zachiel

"If I had not known what it was vulnerable to I wouldn't have used that spell and it would still be alive!"

In a different game, different players: "My damage output this round is only 25%. Therefore, I'll be useless. I do nothing this round." Monster with a bunch of HP left proceeds to almost slay the other three PCs.

12:11 PM

Mar 9 '16 at 1:10, by BESW

Heh. I remember a simple "capture and bring him back" quest that went south really fast when the cleric overestimated how many HD a hound archon has, and then critted with enervation.

lol

I also remember this

It was a good example of the sort of thing D&D frames as players recovering from a failure on their part, but Fate would frame as players embracing dramatic plot twists.

(In D&D you have to wait for it to happen randomly, in Fate you can decide it happens.)

Genre

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Zachiel

12:32 PM

Of course. Luckily, they just have to work a bit harder now, it was nothing crucial.

Q: Would a "Permanence" spell in 5e be overpowered?

> Shiggoleth. You have +2 when using Rapport to create advantages as an insider of a pop culture community.

Ben

1:19 PM

Well I posted that in the wrong room.

I played the Firefly Adventures board game

I highly enjoyed it

Mark Wells

3:10 PM

@BESW In Fate you have to think of it and decide when and how it should happen and get the rest of the group to buy in; in D&D the Dice Gods sometimes just give it to you as a gift. :)

Hot RPG Questions

4:56 PM

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I know that other role playing games have a Permanence spell that has a sole purpose of giving other spells a permanent duration, but 5e seems to have no such spell. Is this because it would be overpowered or is it something that I have not noticed?

dnd-5e spells

Q: Where can I find official depictions of the written alphabets/scripts of the various languages of D&D?

6:53 PM

If you use Firefox with addons: "Update Regarding Add-ons in Firefox"

V2Blast

7:43 PM

@BESW thank goodness

this question seems to have issues - or at least most of the answers don't actually seem to answer it, or maybe the question's not clear:

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To add more flavor, I want to create documents written in the actual script. I remember awhile back seeing examples of the Common/Elven/Dwarven alphabets for instance, but can not recall where I can find those. Is there a place online where these alphabets are available, the ones that at one po...

dungeons-and-dragons languages

I just edited the title to clarify what it's asking in the body

The question itself seems mostly fine, but the answers seem very much like they're responding to a more general "shopping"-type question - suggesting unofficial fan-creations showing the written languages rather than the official ones

It's not like the question itself changed much either, so the answers aren't responding to an older version of the question

what to do?

(technically half the answers point out where in the books they're depicted; half just say "this is what I use to represent this language" - and the accepted answer seems to do the latter, in a way, by pointing to what seems like fanmade fonts for the various languages.)

8:34 PM

A Twitter thread about epistemology and standpoint theory, in response to someone saying A Silly Thing About Oriental Adventures.

Cass Kay did a Twitter thread about decolonizing video games which has several examples that are easily applicable to TTRPGs as well.

user15026

@BESW heyyyyy it mentions the Knowledge Integration program at my old university! That's cool. (It's one of the things I wish I had known was an option for me.)

8:50 PM

@Ash Oh I totally missed that was a local thing for you!

user15026

@BESW It was a neat little "oh heyyyy I know that thing!"

9:15 PM

@BESW oh god that Gygax comment, wtf

V2Blast

9:56 PM

@trogdor yeah...

it's bad enough the stuff he culturally appropriated and exploited for the purpose of his game,..... saying he knows more than people within a culture,..... than they do because he bothered to cite sources?