Powered by Apocalypse games, uhm... no example comes to my mind and... Do?
I think I'm more of an Anima Prime player
Whatever you do leads to success, except in combat, where you still don't die
I'd like games where yeah, you fail, but someone pats on your back and teaches you how not to fail, and in the end it works.
I guess that's why I want to learn to play the social part of my D&D game. I crave for someoone teaching me how to assess risks, take chances and win. I like my character's downfalls to be because I wasn't able to do something I can learn, and not because of something mechanical.
And neither I think it is the game for them, but that's what we're playing, because it's a site made by D&D players for D&D players, hoping to gather more D&D players for D&D is popular (and that's why it's not a PF game or a 4e game). But unavoidable and inevitable and inherent failure? With wizards and clerics?
@BESW that first point is basically why, next time, I'm not going to put an 8 in constitution and do 17 levels of wizard before 17 levels of cleric because "the important thing is to get things, doesn't matter how fast". Enemies scale faster than me was a problem
@Zachiel So, I'll be honest with you: if I were playing with you, I'd have no idea what to do with you. I'd try to show you a game or two I like, played in a way I like, maybe, but, beyond that, I have no way of interacting with "I don't want to fail and I don't want my character to change."
Because the only things I can think to do in play are to throw you super-far into a supporting role (i.e. not the protagonist at all) or passive-aggressively try to test the edges of that and see what I can threaten that'll force you to react differently (which would be me being a dick and not communicating about social contract issues in good faith).
@BESW Yeah, I get that. I don't know that I could play with them without passive-aggressively trolling the hell out of their little clique-ish freeform community.
My impression is that D&D character-building bits are things they hand out like candy for participating in effectively-systemless play-by-post. So basically nothing you do with those bits is gonna help you much. They're almost like a reward for not using those bits in the first place.
@AlexP quite the contrary. Being able to do something mechanically allows your character to do it fictionally. So if I got immunity to fire I could walk into the fireplace, which would be narratively cool. If I had some reason to do that, of course. One of my biggest problems is I want to showoff what my character is able to do. Right now Leilani ordered a iron-hot meal just because she has resist fire 10
@Lord_Gareth you can't gank alone, can you?
Ok, maybe she ordered it because she can and because she has a reason to, being a Sensate.
(in the planescape setting, Sensates are hedonists and experience-tryers)
There's kind of a ridiculous KFC / Taco Bell (no Pizza Hut) in D.C. Where all of the decorations are these, like, town scenes but various objects (like cars and houses and blimps) are food items.
And it has the name of the corporation that owns all these businesses. Which is called Tricon Global.
It's very, very strange for me that we're giving a system tag the tag that is not its actual name, because a smaller unit (a class, from only one series of games!) is supplanting it
but validly so - it's more frequently used that way
13 doctors encapsulated Gallifrey in The Day of the Doctor and in The Time of the Doctor it mentioned 13 prior to his regeneration. I count 12: #11 + the War Doctor. Where is the 13th Doctor?
Two major problems: first, if there's no Actual Problem To Be Solved, what keeps the site from getting choked with idle, frivolous questions about any and every possible kind of adventure in every possible system?
* there are few and rare exceptions, such as when an answer has just been edited so many times it clearly needs all hands on deck and becomes community editable.
"What is the best scifi underwater adventure for more than 6 players?" "Less than three?" "Fantasy underwater adventure for more than 6 players?" and so on.
@GMNoob that's a list question with no specific best answer, since 'best' would be entirely subjective.
Game recommendation questions and character build advice questions can be very prone to lists wherein each answer is equally valid, so just like those, we would enforce that the question must impose explicit requirements such that we can objectively determine what answer is 'best' or 'good'.
@JonathanHobbs You are missing something here. Normally on places like Stack overflow, somebody actually wants to know what is the "best" product. I.e. which product of all these products should I pick, and be commited to picking. With RPGs it's very different.
What I want to know, is out of the 239,582 adventures out there, which 3 or 4 should I bother looking at.
The ONLY way to know the answer to that question, is to find out which is the most popular.
A popularity contest is exactly what you need to find out the answer to the question.
@GMNoob So ask the question for yourself, in relation to your specific needs, and the site's normal answering system will provide for you a small selection to look into.
I'm looking for recommendations for a published (but not necessarily WotC), fun, single encounter to introduce some friends to D&D 4E. We'll be using a virtual tabletop (Roll20 specifically) for it, and are planning a relatively short session of 2 hours.
Since most of the folks are new to 4e, I'...
I have a game group of myself (DM + a support cleric (N)PC), my wife and 2 boys. The kids are very young for dnd (10 and 6) but they are getting right into it and we're having a really good time ... but we're running out of content, the Starter Pack is almost done!
I'm looking for a 4e essential...
At the Recess mini-convention this weekend, someone was telling me about a classic D&D module that involved seafaring and presented rules for falling overboard in armor, etc. I'm wondering if anyone can identify what this might have been and/or suggest other published adventures in which naval co...
My wife bought me the Dungeons & Dragons 4e Player's Handbook for my birthday, and we've been talking about playing it. She has experience with video games: we've always played video games, and even met on one. She also has some experience with RPGs: she has a level 85 on World of Warcraft, so sh...
@GMNoob That's why votes and accepting are different.
It models your "popularity" concept.
What's not allowed are generic, open-ended questions that aren't based on the desire of the OP to run an adventure within specific explicit parameters.
Ask for what you need in your actual, real-life gaming situation, and obviously the answers you get will be largely the adventures the answerers like, and then the answers get voted on by citizens based on how much they think you'll find each adventure useful--which naturally includes whether or not they like it!
You, as the asker of the question, get to indicate which adventure you actually wound up using by accepting that answer.
There are plenty of tools to help refine your question. Read other questions like it. Use your question space to describe your situation and circumstance.
And you do want certain things. You might not want an underwater campaign that is 100% politics or 100% combat, you might want one that doesn't involve the players being at constant risk of drowning, or maybe that's a sense of dread you actually want.
@BESW So this is a funny thing about D&D Next. I'm now open to modules and adventures that are not from the game system I'm using, since it's so easy to conver things
So unless someone builds a new website collecting all this data, it won't exist in one place. business idea!
I was looking through the [adventure] tags looking for some insights on modules to run. However I was getting a lot of questions that were just noise for me.
I would like to propose adding an [adventure-recommendation] tag to separate out those types of questions. This is different than [game...
I've left a comment on the question proper, asking for objective clarification re: the useful distinction between the tags.
That published-adventures contains "a lot of questions that were just noise for me" is the crux of the reason you're proposing a new tag, and "just noise for me" is pretty subjective.
I CANNOT BELIEVE that we MISSED. AGAIN. And AGAIN. ... And AGAIN.
@JonathanHobbs I don't understand why "sorcerer" is a tag at all. What would the tag really cover, given the sorcerers are just 98% the same mechanics as wizards?
@GMNoob A pretty useless tag, from the looks of it. It's a bunch of D&D3.5/PF questions and a bunch of D&D4 questions -- completely different mechanics, tactics, and group role. All of the questions include "fighter" in the question text anyway.
It's a topic people can ask about that people can be experienced in and it's describing the content of the question in the way that tags should. What isn't the point?
@GMNoob More or less isn't exactly an issue. Too many and there will be duplicates so it will be harder to find what you are looking for. Not enough and you can't properly describe your question
@AlexP Indeed. We need systems to constrain things in general. So all our questions have them. You, on B&CG, might get along splendidly with game tags alone. On RPG, we find value in having finer tags than that.
@AlexP Not really. the two tags do the exact same thing the single would. BUT they also allow users to easily search for general knowledge of either system or class
lets say the question is tagged 3.5 and fighter. I am a player who is new to 3.5 I want to search for anything 3.5 with two tags I will get that question with a single I wouldn't. same if I searched for fighter after finding I was interested in fighter. with a single tag I would miss that question with both of my searches.
@GMNoob Yes, for the same reason Stack Overflow does not say you must use c#-file-io for questions concerning file IO operations in C#. Because it's enormously cumbersome.
There are lots of people who can answer memory-management questions effectively across a broad range of language domains. And there are lots of people who know a language but can't really drill down into memory management questions about it.
And where I'm coming from is why "but it can't stand independent of a system tag!" is not a reason not to have a tag. That guideline works for other SE sites. It doesn't work for this one.
I think mostly I'm questioning whether D&D really has enough questions to justifying tags that drill down into individual bits of it. Like class names and "saving throw."
but when someone has a question about a class, do they ever want to ask about the class as a concept, or are they just asking about the detailed rules of that class within a system?
Currently if you do a search, you get roughly in the ballpark of what you're looking for. I'm not sure there's enough content in this stack to warrant to-the-letter, structured tagging.
It depends on the specific font, but generally speaking sans is easier to read in short bursts --titles and signs, for example-- while serif is better suited for sustained reading.
But I'm a print-media graphic designer. I know interlacing and other digital-display-specific concerns have influences on digital design choices, but I'm not as familiar with what they are.
13 doctors encapsulated Gallifrey in The Day of the Doctor and in The Time of the Doctor it mentioned 13 prior to his regeneration. I count 12: #11 + the War Doctor. Where is the 13th Doctor?
I was looking through the [adventure] tags looking for some insights on modules to run. However I was getting a lot of questions that were just noise for me.
I would like to propose adding an [adventure-recommendation] tag to separate out those types of questions. This is different than [game...
