TRPG General Chat

12:01 AM

@NautArch One of my friends at highschool did. His brother made explosive arrowheads & blew up some junk at the dump.

@BardicWizard When I was in eighth grade, one of my classmates thought a really great lunch was Triscuits with enough Tabasco to make 'em a bit soggy. She liked it, and nobody stole her lunches, ever.

But I'm guessing your school trip was a bit short on the demographics whose mothers keep a bottle of hot sauce in their purses.

user15026

@BESW I like Tabasco, but not quite that much

trogdor

oh god yeah a lot of people here really really like Tobasco

I am not personally a fan

BESW

@Ash I still haven't tried that brand you were recommended in DREAMSEAS...

user15026

@BESW Cholula? I like it

Adeptus

12:16 AM

Is there a badge for a highly upvoted answer on a highly downvoted question, because I think I'm close to getting that...

BESW

Only if the question then gets upvoted.

Adeptus

Oh well. That's unlikely to happen.

Bardic Wizard

12:33 AM

@BESW i don’t like the dragon any more. It gave me a whole bunch of mailing lists I’ve been ignoring right to my email

@BESW you would not be wrong

trogdor

Lol

BESW

Sometimes I put a bit of Tabasco on Triscuits with cheddar cheese, but I prefer to use my own custom mustard.

(Yellow mustard with Worcestershire sauce, wasabi paste, sesame oil, garlic, ginger, honey, black pepper, and whatever else seems like a good idea at the time, including Tabasco or hot chili sesame oil.)

trogdor

12:57 AM

I'm not a huge fan of spicey so Tabasco isn't high onmy list to put on things XD

AncientSwordRage

@Ash the hot sauce?

it's very good stuff, goes well on mince pies

Adeptus

1:24 AM

@AncientSwordRage Do you mean fruit mince pies, or meat pies?

Bardic Wizard

1:50 AM

There are two kinds of spicy things: stuff like varying chiles and other spicy peppers that I’m able to handle because I grew up with them, and everything else, which are all too spicy for me.

GcL

@BardicWizard You're the capsaisin of your own spicy boat.

Thomas Markov

2:05 AM

@Adeptus I upvoted you.

AncientSwordRage

@Adeptus the fruit kind

Thomas Markov

2:33 AM

This question May look like a dupe, but it isn’t.

The words of the question are a dupe of another, but it’s actually an entirely different problem.

At least, I don’t think it is a dupe

KorvinStarmast

2:59 AM

Cholula - we discovered it in So Cal about 30 years ago. It's been in our cupboard ever since as a standard item. (Right next to the worchestershire sauce)

Bardic Wizard

3:46 AM

My homework brings up existential crises. And it’s not even philosophy-related, it’s chem stuff about quantum numbers

why...

nitsua60

To be fair, you're feeling the same existential dread that chemists and physicists were feeling a hundred years ago.... Probably means at least you're comprehending the gravity of the matter =)

BESW

The Schrödinger's cat thought experiment was originally intended to demonstrate how silly and wrong quantum theory is and why people should reject it.

trogdor

I've never understood on a basic level how any single quantum thing is supposed to work XD

BESW

trogdor

lol

Bardic Wizard

4:14 AM

The word quantum is a word which here means “too crazy to be understood”

BESW

The very notion of "observation causes change" is antithetical to a lot of popular notions of "scientific objectivity."

But very common-sense if you think about it from a social or spiritual perspective.

trogdor

4:38 AM

I mean like

I know observing something living changes it

I'm not so sure about random inanimate objects

I mean, literally making eye contact with another person is uncomfortable for me, that's literally just an act of observation XD

people will act differently if they know they are being watched, and so will animals

MikeQ

They're trying to change you with their eyes! Of course it's uncomfortable.

I mean, what if they change you into something weird. Like a cake. Or a yacht.

The mind has a natural resistance against becoming a yacht.

DR 5 vs yachtism

lol

4:53 AM

lol

why does one have clearance to go into space but not to know it's cake though

think about that

XD

MikeQ

Well at this point in the story, someone had already sliced open the earth with a giant chef knife, but they only had clearance to use a cake knife.

BESW

@Adeptus Hey, spoilers for Dead Space 3.

trogdor

lol

oh Dead Space

XD

why

MikeQ

5:10 AM

If the earth is a cake then wouldn't it be in Bread Space

Adeptus

5:21 AM

(source)

Bardic Wizard

5:51 AM

I wrote a 100 word RPG today

(Sort of today; it’s been an idea for a while but I actually wrote it out this evening)

I called it Fruit, since that’s what it’s about.

Writing on a word count is hard

trogdor

6:40 AM

that is pretty cool

BESW

@BardicWizard It's coherent, playable, and evocative. Success!

kviiri

7:07 AM

@BESW The prevailing understanding of quantum mechanics, anyway

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kviiri

8:14 AM

In other news I finally discovered the secret to how Star Fox Adventures is so pretty for a N64 game

The trick is to actually be a Gamecube game

trogdor

8:34 AM

lol

that will do it I guess XD

I think the only Starfox game I ever played was the original (and only a little of that)

Hot RPG Questions

9:38 AM

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Q: Can I get Combat Casting as a bonus feat in one level or less?

I need Combat Casting as a prerequisite for another feat. I really do not want to waste a precious feat slot on this terrible feat, particularly since I should have enormous Constitution. Therefore, I want to get it as a bonus feat. The best I can find for this is becoming a 2nd-level duskblade, ...

kviiri

10:00 AM

@trogdor I've never played any of them, but I know Star Fox for some of the memes

trogdor

I didn't own any of them, but I knew probably 3 or 4 people who had the first Star Fox game and played a little of it every once in a while

I never got past the first boss

XD

at least not on my own

kviiri

The new version of mobile firefox on my android is totally rubbish

Esp with the chat

Hot RPG Questions

10:28 AM

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Q: Can the Oath of Vengeance paladin cast Vow of Enmity on invisible target

I was reading the Channel Divinity abilities of the Oath of Vengeance of the paladin and under Vow of Enmity, it says As a bonus action, you can use your Channel Divinity to choose a creature within 10 ft. and gain advantage on attack rolls against it for 1 minute or until it drops to 0 HP or fa...

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trogdor

10:42 AM

I always hate it when I get a new device or update and it changes how I interface with stuff online :/

AncientSwordRage

11:15 AM

@BESW I used to think this, they have good reasons, which are 'sadly' less easy to make fun of

A Capella Science - Rolling in the Higgs (Adele Parody)

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Adeptus

I've just been reading a 5e RAW Facebook group... So apparently, by a strict reading, See Invisible doesn't remove the dis/advantage granted by the Invisible condition... 🤔

AncientSwordRage

that's how I learnt

@Adeptus yeah, things get weird when you ignore multiple sources

like the handbook is just one static part of the game

people have asked me in the past "Why don't you just follow the Quran and ignore the hadiths" (equivalent of ignoring various books in the bible).... "And I'm like, the quran only mentions 2-3 of my 5 daily prayers!

I know it's really tangentially related, but it was the first thing that came to mind

vicky_molokh- unsilence Monica

@trogdor Not a very close analogy/metaphor though. 'Observation' in quantum context doesn't mean the same thing as it does in casual interaction between thinking entities context. There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding coming out of equating the two (like people asking what happens if you remove the scientist from the room and then observe the recorded sensor data later).

trogdor

@vicky_molokh-unsilenceMonica well, I'm not trying to say that means I understand Quantum,... literally anything

I just mean there are principles in which I understand observation changes things just from personal experience

AncientSwordRage

its an ok analogy

Thomas Markov

11:47 AM

@Adeptus RAW? More like RAWNG

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AncientSwordRage

12:11 PM

@ThomasMarkov AMIRITE!>