I wonder if Capaldi is going to be a bit more like the First Doctor.
> That is the dematerializing control, and that, over yonder, is the horizontal hold. Up there is the scanner; those are the doors; that is a chair with a panda on it. Sheer poetry, dear boy! Now please stop bothering me.
The gist of my opinion is that creating a barrier to something in the setting doesn't necessarily change how people play, or how they're inclined to play. And it needs some kind of strong thematic resonance to get players to follow along rather than looking for loophopes.
@AlexP That's a good point. If the foundational rules create one kind of behavioural paradigm, adding a layer of punitive rules on top to discourage that behaviour is, at best, sending mixed signals.
I feel like if you just dropped this into the typical D&D environment, that's kinda what you'd get: people coming up with ways to hobble or bind dead guys so they don't come back as effective undead.
"So we can take the guy's stuff so long as we dump the body in a hallowed graveyard? Sweet."
@AlexP I suspect that the underlying thesis of your answer is "creating rules to punish behaviour doesn't teach players not to do things; it teaches them to find loopholes."
See also: 3.5's taint subsystem.
It's a logical extension of "if it has hit points, the players will try to kill it."
Which options are available for casting spells instantaneously or concurrently?
This old question is about a cleric who wants to speed up his casting of divine spells.
It's a classic case of a user having a very specific situation, but deciding to ask their question in much broader terms to be ...
Don't worry, there's plenty of other authors willing to fulfill their demand for smut until you radically re-write their expectations with regards to fantasy pornography.
If I ever wanted to go out in a hideous blaze of trolling I'd join or host a PbP game and open a question along the lines of, "What should I do in X situation?" at the start of every single one of my combat turns.
I'm writing an answer to the question about changing D&D's reward cycle by punishing you for not burying the dead. And I want to say that one thing to watch out for is that legalistic/mechanistic "physics"/"divine rules"/&c. tend to promote the same kind of thinking from players.
A player of mine is doing research for our Eclipse Phase game, and it's taking her to strange places, such as Octopus Wrestling. It was a thing, apparently.
Google "Thunderscreech". This was a USAF jet fighter modified with a turboshaft engine and a propeller designed to operate at supersonic blase speeds.
The result was a noise that was literally deafening. Whereas there may be some advantages of a supersonic propeller, the side effects (the ...
apparently there was an attempt to make a particular style of aircraft supersonic
it failed dramatically, not because it couldn't fly at supersonic speeds, but because merely engaging the engines and leaving the plane on idle would create a perpetual sonic boom that would leave ground crews feeling ill or getting outright incapacitated, and which could be heard 40 kilometres away
> On the ground "run ups", the prototypes could reportedly be heard 25 miles (40 km) away. Unlike standard propellers that turn at subsonic speeds, the outer 24–30 inches of the blades on the XF-84H's propeller traveled faster than the speed of sound even at idle thrust, producing a continuous visible sonic boom that radiated laterally from the propellers for hundreds of yards.
@lisardggY no cleverness just a foreign development team
in fact i mean no cleverness, 'cuz nobody thought maybe in this pure-english API they should just call it T_DOUBLE_COLON and save everyone the confusion
@JonathanHobbs I'm pretty sure they considered T_DOUBLE_COLON but then decided to be extra-clever and sneaky and call it T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAIM as an in-joke to any Hebrew speakers among the users.
I'm just glad UTF8 wasn't as universal when it was introduced, or someone would be tempted to call it T_פעמייםנקודתיים and be really obscure.
@JonathanHobbs Sneaking in a Hebrew expression into an API used by non-Hebrew speakers. It's just an obscure error code for most, but Hebrew speakers will suddenly go "Hey, I understand that!".
Having worked with that language a lot I don't disagree. I have never worked with a language that felt like I was tiptoeing through a minefield, just waiting for the next quirk to explode on me.
I've noticed that since the recent SuperBar replacement on StackExchange, I've lost track of how much rep I have in various sites.
Since each site showed its own rep change notifications, I would click them separately. Now I just see a summary in the first SE site I log into and that's it.
Some of the answers are interesting turning in to a vampire is not a thing that relates to science as nowadays we want to think.
Personally I am the one who loves undead Vampire with a real limitless love... I am the one who has watched Bram Stoker's Dracula more than 1000 times and I believe or ...
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"I am the one who has watched Bram Stoker's Dracula more than 1000 times and I believe or not I do not exaggerating about the number."
Maybe Tommy Wiseau can teach us a few things about Dracula!
@lisardggY My wife, roomate and I had it on the other day, and we were all pretty much performing all the lines along with the movie. We're pretty much party animals.
Nono, what first brought me here was looking for answers on the Fate system. The question I asked about the additional Stress Track for Torg, specifically. I just come back when I have more questions about other stuff.
Between the two answers I got from you and Ty, I came up with the system I'm still using, and now there's been quite a few Reality conflicts that have utilized it.
Hell, we had 5 different Reality Storms this past Sunday alone, though that is an anomaly and the narrative behind it was rather hilarious (which is the important thing).
I was using StackOverflow for quite a while before I figured I'd check out some other sites on the SE network. Now the procrastination here offsets all the time saved by StackOverflow answers.
Marvel have recently announced that a Sinister Six film is to be released in 2015. So does that mean the villains in the Amazing Spiderman sequels all survive?
Paladins seem to be consistently characterized as downers because so many adventuring parties have wandered far afield from good behavior. In a party of truly good characters, the Paladin won't stick out so much.
Regardless of whether a Paladin is surrounded by like-minded characters or not, his...
not sure what it is, but I can't help but feel that capital-g Good is a better term for that answer, as Good-aligned is not a requirement of good (quality) characters.
@Metool We should have some image macro or reaction gif we can easily link to, whenever a discussion seems to head towards the core issues of D&D and Alignment.
@lisardggY Just go to imgur and search alignment. You will get a lot of alignment pictures that explain different alignments very well using well known characters.
@Aaron What I mean is that every time a question touches upon alignment, the answers are never fully satisfactory. So you always find yourself trying to justify it further, and it always reaches the point where the whole alignment system collapses around its own inconsistencies. So Let's Not Go There.
Which options are available for casting spells instantaneously or concurrently?
This old question is about a cleric who wants to speed up his casting of divine spells.
It's a classic case of a user having a very specific situation, but deciding to ask their question in much broader terms to be ...
Google "Thunderscreech". This was a USAF jet fighter modified with a turboshaft engine and a propeller designed to operate at supersonic blase speeds.
The result was a noise that was literally deafening. Whereas there may be some advantages of a supersonic propeller, the side effects (the ...
Does anyone have a T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM?
Marvel have recently announced that a Sinister Six film is to be released in 2015. So does that mean the villains in the Amazing Spiderman sequels all survive?
