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12:43 AM

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Q: Is the illusion created by Invoke Duplicity affected by difficult terrain?

Is the illusion created by the Trickery Domain Cleric affected by difficult terrain when moving? As a DM, I'm assuming that it is not affected by difficult terrain. Is that correct? I assume if a player does move the illusion at normal pace on difficult terrain you would give the NPC / monster ...

BESW

1:39 AM

DungeonCommandr has "a thread about what I think makes the most engaging combat in games."

The Library of Congress has shared the public domain images of the John Margolies Roadside America Photograph Archive, one of the most comprehensive documentary studies of vernacular commercial structures along main streets, byways, and highways throughout the United States in the twentieth century.

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Q: Discrepancy regarding AoE point of origin between English and German PHB

I own both the English and German version of the D&D 5e Player's Handbook. On pages 204 and 205 it talks about area of effect spells and whether or not the point of origin is included in it. The English PHB states: A [cone,cube,line]'s point of origin is not included in the [cone,cube,line]'...

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The Oracle

2:40 AM

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Q: Should homebrew review questions tagged as [homebrew] be re-tagged as [homebrew-review] instead?

There are a number of questions asking about whether some homebrew material is or isn't balanced. Some questions are tagged as homebrew, others are tagged as homebrew-review. According to the meta discussion "Do we want a [homebrew-review] tag separate from the [homebrew] tag?", this is intent...

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kviiri

5:13 AM

Kaiserreich runs several times faster than before

Now that I renovated my computer

It's like a whole new world

Ben

Oh it is a glorious feeling isn't it?

MikeQ

What sort of renovations did you do?

kviiri

@MikeQ Got a free GPU from a friend, had to upgrade PSU to support it, but I think RAM uogrades I threw in did this

I had like 4 GB of RAM before, now I'm at 16 which is enough for my gaming tastes

xkcd.com/606 this is me. With caveats

One being that I don't play "old" as much as I play "not very HW-intensive in the first place", although I just started Borderlands 2...

Ben

I helped a mate upgrade his PC the other day. And by "upgrade" I merely moved his hard drive and 4gb ram from his little old Acer into his ex's HP gaming PC. So now he has 4TB of space and 24GB RAM, and he uses it to develop his game notes for DnD night haha

kviiri

5:31 AM

:)

Hey, I have a little game id question for you. Pen and paper but not the RPG kind.

When I was a kid there was a game played on a grid. Each tile represents a land area, and can be one of three types: capital (one per player), normal or fortified. Each player attempts to control the other players' capitals.

The basic action on one's turn was choosing six tiles on one's land or orthogonally adjacent to one's fortified tile, then choosing one of the marked tiles at random (d6 was used) and placing a fort there, capturing the tile if it was the enemy's. Fortified tiles couldn't be marked. The player would then place a new mark placing them back at six

The process was repeated to a total of six times, so the player gets six forts at somewhat random.

There are two alternative actions: guerilla strike which only takes a single tile, but you can pick it at certainty and it can be diagonally adjacent to your fort. The third possible action is defending, which creates three forts on your territory, at desired placed, but cannot be used to occupy territory.

The game would continue until no player could advance because of all fronts being fortified. Then all forts were removed and the game started over with the new borders.

Ben

5:49 AM

I have no idea unfortunately haha

kviiri

The real strategic element is encirclement: players lose forts that cannot path to their capital without going through enemy forts (orthogonally)

V2Blast

@kviiri sounds interesting, but I've never heard of it

kviiri

6:10 AM

Okay, I guess it might've been a rather local one then

I've played a primitive computer version of it though

kviiri

7:28 AM

One of my DnD group contacted me and asked if I'd be interested in playing some Microscope <3

Pierre Cathé

Hi

kviiri

7:42 AM

Hello o/

kviiri

8:34 AM

@MarkWells A pleasant read this was, thanks!

BESW

Public Utility Mechs by Pamela Punzalan, a system-light, modular world and story building game that is all about playing the Drivers of transformable public transportation vehicles in a talyerpunk - more junkpunk, definitely Pinoy - version of the Philippines in the wake of invading alien forces who wish to subjugate mankind with "love".

Many of Pammu's games are currently on sale as part of the Hilagyo Jam Bundle, and some are part of her Pammu Goes to Big Bad Con 2019 Unsale fundraiser.

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9:05 AM

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Q: Can celestials serve evil deities?

From what I’ve read, evil-aligned celestials are an extreme rarity, but evil-aligned deities exist. I’ve even heard that if a celestial turns evil, they stop being a celestial. Celestials supposedly serve deities, but it’s never been specified what type of deity they serve as far as I know. Do...

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KorvinStarmast

12:28 PM

@kviiri Sounds interesting, but I don't recall that one.

kviiri

12:39 PM

@KorvinStarmast I actually found a new desktop implementation but haven't had the time to test it yet: gnu.org/software/motti

"Motti" is the Finnish name of the game and is military slang.

(pertaining to the game's major goal of encircling enemy forts)

I was never particularly good at the game but it did inspire me to start studying the basics of probabilities: in particular, using the standard "one out of six, six times" attack, what is the probability of fortifying a particular square you needed to have.

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