TRPG General Chat

12:00 AM

Is he/she/are/they supernatural? XP

12:32 AM

@Delioth Prop 48 was a formal attempt by the system to recognize that the system's momentum encouraged the wrong outcome after about a generation of people had been used by that system. Your comment seems to have been made in ignorance.

BESW

1:09 AM

Or it's a legit response to framing a systemic problem of shaming the uneducated into silence or they'll be left even further behind, as described in your linked article, as the choice of the uneducated individuals to not "take full advantage" of the systems that will be taken away from them if they're honest about their needs.

"Unified (QT)POC Standard Requirements," a document formulated to assist (QT)POC individuals in the TTRPG space in having a consistent and fair standard of payment and participation in their workspaces. And a short Twitter thread about its ongoing impact.

KorvinStarmast

No shaming involved. He reached a point in his life where he faced a hard choice and did an impressive thing. He swallowed his pride and did for himself what was a choice that wasn't exercised before (and as the article points out, no laurels to be handed out to OSU, since mentors and tutors were a thing in most Div I programs of long standing reaching back to the 70's (and before, depending on the institution)). There were football players where I went to university who used tutors extensively to keep their heads above water.

What has happened at the secondary school level is that a lot more scrutiny is placed on "can John the star player read" - which scrutiny was certainly not as common when Dex was in secondary school.

BESW

1:30 AM

Instead of focusing on celebrating his achievement, you chose to add the "there was a time when" framing device. That's what Del was responding to. Not the details, the choice of framing. Accusations of ignorance are uncalled for, since they aren't even responding to the thing you're saying they're ignorant of.

Maybe just take it as constructive criticism about how important presentation is when communicating information, and not something that needs to be riposted.

KorvinStarmast

2:05 AM

@BESW I responded to a riposte in the currency paid. The statement was made in ignorance. Maybe you should chide someone else.

@BESW The generational difference is significant, but not a matter of age. During that generation, the money that got pumpted into professional and collegiate sports ramped up by orders of magnitude. From the mid 60's to the 90's, the impact that had (on people, social systems, and even on public law) was non trivial. I am rather well educated on that era as I not only lived through it, I followed with great interest the changes.

There are tens of thousands of pages of Congressional testimony on this stuff, court cases a plenty, and as much printed material as anyone would ever wish to read.

BESW

I'm not arguing your facts, and neither was Del. That's all I'm saying.

KorvinStarmast

@BESW OK, then best we drop this, thanks.

KorvinStarmast

2:18 AM

On a more lighthearted note, if schadenfreude is to be used in a light-hearted sense ...

youtube.com/embed/0BLsYRfgHWI

BESW

2:51 AM

Good name for a band: "Juicy Gouache."

nitsua60

3:29 AM

@BESW Ooh, I like this. I'm stealing it for my "creating a setting? Ask these questions..." list.

linksassin

@nitsua60 That sounds like an interesting list. What else is on it?

Shalvenay

hey there @linksassin, how're things going?

linksassin

@Shalvenay G'day, not too bad. Yourself?

Shalvenay

@linksassin alright here, had a good time with the Fellowship demo and also made some more progress in DW :)

linksassin

@Shalvenay Did you guys end up finding enough players?

nitsua60

3:38 AM

@linksassin How big an area we going to talk about, what's the tech level, how saturated/rare is magic, what're gods (if any) like, what story style(s) are we trying to tell/play, how are the societies organized (incl. law, if any), what settlement "level" is there, densely/sparsely populated, resources abundant/scarce, geography/topography, how insular/open to others are groups/societies, are militaries a thing? (Sorry, had to rummage a bit.)

Shalvenay

@linksassin we did! we had to juggle some timeslots from the original plan to do so (and also basically reuse an existing player group :) but we basically fit it in as Glazius guest-DMing for nits's ToA group while nits was out dealing with RL (tending the flock? XD)

linksassin

3:49 AM

@nitsua60 Nice list. I would suggest adding a question about wealth distribution, and possibly education.

@Shalvenay That's good. It went well then?

Shalvenay

@linksassin yes, quite. party was me as a wood elf, Korvin as an Orc plainsman, and Mike as our woods-witch/druid Harbinger

with a swarmlord/verminlord type Overlord

we ran out of time though (of course), so will be picking back up next weekend hopefully

Hot RPG Questions

4:20 AM

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Q: As a DM of a 4-player group, would it be appropriate for me to run a private 1-on-1 session so that one PC can act secretly?

I'm currently running a campaign with a fairly typical group of 4 players. Everyone gets along pretty well, however one of my player's Rogue has been struggling to find his niche in the party. To remedy this I had an NPC secretly give him a thief/spy "quest" for him to complete with or without he...

linksassin

@Shalvenay What good session doesn't? I don't think I have a single memorable session that ended on time.

kviiri

5:45 AM

@linksassin I've had many, but I think it depends a bit on system

BESW

Yeah, I've been getting a lot better at pacing games so they fit their session times, and it's a combination of practice and choosing systems that fit the pacing.

kviiri

My usual comparison here is that the PbtA games I've played easily fit a two-hour movie into a three-hour session

linksassin

@kviiri I was perhaps over-generalizing. I have definitely had enjoyable sessions that ended on time. Just isn't the norm.

kviiri

6:01 AM

I'm bringing various home-bagged teas to work today

Trying to strenghten the bonds between myself and the rest of Tea-lovers' Bloc

V2Blast

@kviiri Haha, nice. I enjoy tea but I'm definitely not the kind to do the work myself :P

kviiri

6:19 AM

@V2Blast This is a first for me too :) but in all seriousness I've been thinking of leveling up my tea hobby a bit.

kviiri

6:33 AM

RPGs are kinda waning in my hobby life, while music, tea and board games are waxing

Hot RPG Questions

8:20 AM

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Derpy

morning

@kviiri tea?

kviiri

8:39 AM

@Derpy Matcha is okay but I am leaning more towards learning the gongfu infusion technique

Derpy

@kviiri and forego the wagashi? You monster. :P

kviiri

yes

Pierre Cathé

8:55 AM

my favorite tea ceremony is plopping a bag of earl grey in a mug of hot water

kviiri

Well it ain't a bad one

Pierre Cathé

So far it's worked for me every morning for 5 years ;)

kviiri

I've mostly been leveling up my tea selection, not as much my equipment or technique

BESW

@nitsua60 Like, a D&D-like setting based on any Indigenous cosmology I'm familiar with, but which retains multiple planes of existence? Just an aesthetic palette-swap.

If there are supernatural forces or beings that we can't see or interact with, it's usually because we're too ignorant to notice them or know how to deal with them, not because they're sequestered in another kind of reality.

SmokeDetector

10:28 AM

[ SmokeDetector | MS ] Bad keyword in answer, bad keyword with email in answer, email in answer, pattern-matching email in answer, potentially bad keyword in answer (347): How to handle not being able to attend as often as I'd like by Dr Sangare on rpg.SE

kviiri

Dr Sangare doesn't know that the number 1 trick to credibly praising the works of Dr Sangare is to not do it under the name "Dr Sangare".

Hot RPG Questions

11:40 AM

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Q: Can an attack of opportunity be made against a net if the restrained creature is being moved?

A creature, other than the one restrained by the net, can make an attack against the net (AC 10) which by dealing at least 5 slashing damage will free the restrained creature. If a player restrained by a net - who is adjacent to another player - is grappled by some creature and carried away, cou...

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Sirv

So turns out a Goristro critting on a charge attack is a good way to instantly kill a character

BESW

Anybody here read Improv for Gamers?

BESW

12:04 PM

Every time someone buys a copy of Dee Pennyway's The Unfolk at list price or higher (5$USD), they add another community copy that anyone can claim for free if needed with no questions asked.

BESW

12:20 PM

Short Twitter thread by K Lam about "Payment in Kindness" as a method to overcome stigma preventing those in need from feeling comfortable accepting free things.

"Rules themselves are about having a line of demarcation between player decision and outcome." A short reflection on the purpose of rules by ryan.i.guess Twitter.

KorvinStarmast

@BESW One of us was new to the PBTA schema (me) and a few of the resolution tools took "showing" for me to grasp. Only one of us (me) had already completed chargen, so that did set us back, as did my RL out of town visitors/wife taking some of my time during our alloted session. But for all that, I really liked this and am very glad Glazius offered to GM this for us. Goodness is a thing.

Yuuki

@BESW Ooooooooo

goodguy5

12:41 PM

@Sirv really? that's only 157 damage

kviiri

@goodguy5 I'm not sure what "instant death" means in this particular circumstance, but characters with lesser hit dice and who don't particularly invest in con won't have enough max HP to survive that if they're already injured

goodguy5

CR17?

What would a standard wizard have? usually 12 con. maybe character level 15.
7 + 70 = 77

oh wow yea. nevermind. that's a dead

even a level 20 wizard would only be sitting at 102 health.

kviiri

1:17 PM

In 4e one'd get to triple digits really soon

Not in damage, though.

goodguy5

I thought we had a highest hp question....

I mean, it's easy enough to calculate, but still.

kviiri

May 12 '18 at 18:47, by kviiri

The big guy Orcus himself has over 1500 hp. His attack deals something like 2d12+12 iirc.

4e Orcus :)

goodguy5

Hill Dwarf Barb 20, 24 con, tough feat.
22 for level 1
17 per level
22 + 17*19 = 345 hp

Wow. an HP "optimized" character has more than triple the hp of an average wizard.

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