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Ben

12:00 AM

Keke

BESW

Nich Pazelt shared on twitter art for the upcoming "Disability & The Witcher TRPG."

bobble

a wild ben appears!

BESW

@divibisan Hi!

BESW

1:25 AM

I'm confused as to why the rust-LARP question isn't getting anybody just dry-brushing the thing.

Ben

1:46 AM

[Ben used amnesia]
[It's Super Effective!

Anyone else played Sekiro?

Ben

3:07 AM

GNS theory

GNS theory is an informal field of study developed by Ron Edwards which attempts to create a unified theory of how role-playing games work. Focused on player behavior, in GNS theory participants in role-playing games organize their interactions around three categories of engagement: gamism, narrativism and simulation. The theory focuses on player interaction rather than statistics, encompassing game design beyond role-playing games. Analysis centers on how player behavior fits the above parameters of engagement and how these preferences shape the content and direction of a game. GNS theory is used...

Bardic Wizard

4:45 AM

Hiya!

How’s things here?

bobble

I am slightly panicking since it's just sunk in that I will be graduating high school

Bardic Wizard

@bobble Congratulations!

(I’ve still got two years to go)

bobble

but ahhhhhhhh graduating ahhhhhhhhhhhh

Ben

5:11 AM

@bobble That can be read in two ways. "Ahh" being fear/stress, or "Ahh" being relief/calm

For me it was the latter

In graduating, that is. I understand for you it's the former.

Bardic Wizard

On a semi-school-related note, today I learned that COVID distancing procedures don’t stop first graders passing on the stomach flu. I learned this when my little brother came home with the exposure notice and said “two kids in my class had to stay home today! They have stomach flu!”

Ben

To which I would have to congratulate you for having such a mature view haha

@BardicWizard I was expecting that to end with "I have stomach flu" with the same level of excitement lol

Bardic Wizard

@Ben I know, right? All hail the four early elementary horse people of the apocalypse: stomach flu, pinkeye, hand foot and mouth, and lice!

Hot RPG Questions

5:35 AM

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Q: Techniques for hiding dice rolls when an NPC/enemy has advantage/disadvantage

It's common to hide die rolls as a DM and there are some advantages to it. The problem is that they can still hear two dice or see when you're rolling twice. Although it's rarely useful to do so, you can't hide advantage and disadvantage. What techniques are there for rolling twice for advantage ...

BESW

@BardicWizard ....don't make me nostalgic for communicable diseases, please.

To avoid them, though, coming from generations of teachers? One of the simplest ways to reduce contamination vectors is to have your own pen/pencil. Never use anyone else's and never share yours.

Bardic Wizard

5:50 AM

@BESW COVID almost made me miss kindergarten, specifically one memorable week in which nearly all the kids in my class got the stomach flu at once. One day there were only three students in class (the next day there were two, bc I threw up that night).

Then again, we got almost a year with no exposure notices, so that’s pretty good

BESW

6:49 AM

I just got reminded of the pre-made PCs for the DFRPG adventure "Night Fears," and how they all have the shared aspect Not a kid anymore.

I may drift something like that into Traveling Librarians.

I hadn't settled yet on whether I'd define an age category for PCs but making them youths would definite fit some of the other themes and inspirations I'm working from.

kviiri

7:25 AM

@BardicWizard Back in my days of student association activities, we had this tradition of going to a lodge in the woods every January, in the deepest winter, with the old and the new board and other "officials" to bond and share knowledge

Only for one weekend, but this one time, that weekend was well-enough to kickstart a small epidemic that rendered a lion's share of our most active membership incapable of student org work.

Didn't exactly have many events that January :>

Not that January is peak activity season anyway: usually there's the lodge trip for the officials, and a January sauna, but that's about it. I think we pushed together the sauna although not that many people could make it...

Carcer

@kviiri that sounds like some real horror movie nonsense

kviiri

@Carcer yes :D

The lodge trip was one of my favorite things

I like rural surroundings, friends, and beer. And copious sauna biz

BESW

7:46 AM

If Copious Sauna Biz isn't already the name of a Star Wars alien somewhere in the expanded universe material, why not.

kviiri

8:21 AM

:D

Well there's already Teräs Käsi

A rare occasion of Finnish being the "just pick something exotic" language

vicky_molokh- unsilence Monica

10:02 AM

@Ben Yeah. Was a fun ride, but I couldn't figure out how to beat the (non-underwater!) headless creatures, and haven't tried the semi-secret boss near the end.

AncientSwordRage

10:28 AM

@kviiri Finnish get used as inspiration for the conlanging community quite a lot

from what little I've seen at least

kviiri

@AncientSwordRage I would reckon --- Tolkien used it quite a lot and I think he's quite a star in that community ;)

AncientSwordRage

It's an agglutinating language with vowel harmony, whats not to love?!

kviiri

aye ^^

AncientSwordRage

@kviiri that too

I'm quite enamored by the idea o trying to make a sino-swahili pidgin language

swahili class prefixes + chinese (not sure which variation) words sounds like an interesting way to start

kviiri

10:46 AM

Swahili prefix classes are neat, though I don't remember them by heart

AncientSwordRage

@kviiri me neither

it's probably in my top ten languages to learn somewhere after Arabic and Sylheti

and "Top ten languages to learn" is in my top ten "most ambitious lists" :D

kviiri

yes :D

I'm currently trying to learn Swedish, it's the native language of my partner

though she also speaks mostly-fluent Finnish, it feels nicer if we can communicate with each others' most expressive languages

Swedish isn't very hard for me. For one, it's Germanic so shares most of its grammar, and a lot of word roots, with English. Plus it's an official language here, and I've taken classes in it at school, so I know the very basics

But my vocabulary needs expansion, I sometimes mix up word orders, declension of some words doesn't come naturally to me and occasionally even spelling is a bit of an issue

AncientSwordRage

11:42 AM

@kviiri you probably speak more swedish than I speak Arabic and Sylheti combined

doppelgreener

12:05 PM

@TheOracle i've written out a big ol "system matters, actually" answer for this meta. that's the first time in a while i've written about that.

AncientSwordRage

I wondering what music plays when you enter Meta, @doppelgreener ?

doppelgreener

[brain starts sifting through the JoJo's Bizarre Adventure soundtrack]

KorvinStarmast

@kviiri To accompany that trifecta (rural setting, friends, beer) there's a song: Life is Good, Beer is Great, and People are Crazy

BESW

Later Alligator OST - Seedy Gator Games

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KorvinStarmast

@AncientSwordRage The overture to William Tell, Rossini ...

AncientSwordRage

12:23 PM

@KorvinStarmast I think mine might be 'Lets get ready to rumble'

@BESW I'll have to listen at home

KorvinStarmast

@AncientSwordRage Mine's the opening guitar riff to Honky Tonk Women

trogdor

@BESW aw yes the Later Aliigator soundtrack is extremely good

that's actually one of my favorite ones from it even

XD

who am I kidding I like all of them

seriously though if anyone is looking for an extremely wholesome game about Aligators where you play minigames and try to find hidden objects around the different areas this is literally that game

BESW

12:45 PM

Warning (having reached that part of the game myself recently): there's a completionist aspect to the ending such that if you complete most but not enough of a certain part of the game, you get an ending that's distressing in a way the rest of the story didn't really prepare you for. The other two endings (less complete and more complete) are great.

@trogdor I have added a few tracks to my Big Playlist of Randomized Excellence.

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Gabe Hicks is asking on Twitter "Without naming Pathfinder or DnD, what's a TTRPG system that you really enjoy the combat of? What makes you enjoy it? How quickly would you say combat flows?"

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Hot RPG Questions

1:17 PM

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Q: What class/racial abilities or spells cause vulnerability in other creatures?

I am looking for ways to cause my opponents to be vulnerable to the damage I deal in combat. I am not interested in ignoring resistance, I am only looking to cause the vulnerability condition. Ideally I would like it to apply to any damage type I am dealing in the moment, however at this point an...

dnd-5e spells class-feature vulnerability

AncientSwordRage

@BESW I made my obligatory tweet about mouse guard earlier

::looks:: or maybe I didn't?

Medix2

@ThomasMarkov Where is Debilitating Barrage from?

Not a bar, but plays one on TV

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