TRPG General Chat

Alex P

02:00

Heh, that reminds me of a thing.

"Is Polaris a roleplaying game even though it's GM-less and stuff?" "Yes, because I was partially inspired by Dungeons & Dragons."

KRyan

@AlexP being GM-less doesn't make it not a roleplaying game, but being inspired by D&D certainly doesn't make it a roleplaying game, either

SevenSidedDie

@AlexP Ahhh, my brain.

@KRyan Yeah, it's wrong in both directions!

Alex P

:P

KRyan

@SevenSidedDie a pair of non sequiturs

SevenSidedDie

@KRyan That's better-put than "wrong", yes.

KRyan

02:02

@SevenSidedDie useful here in that it's literally the case; this Polaris may or may not be an RPG, but neither of those facts leads to any conclusion of that question

SevenSidedDie

@KRyan Yes.

Speaking of, Polaris is probably my favourite RPG that I'm sure I'll never get my group to play a campaign of.

KRyan

@SevenSidedDie never heard of

right now I'm trying desperately to get my DM, who is extremely bitterly disappointed with D&D despite loving what he sees as its themes and settings (I imagine he'd get along very well in your group, actually), to give Fate a shot, because I think he could run a brilliant Fate game

but he refuses mostly just to spite someone who tried to push him too hard to use it

SevenSidedDie

@KRyan That's unfortunate. And Fate really, really needs you to like it for it to work well.

BESW

@KRyan Maybe try something like the Lady Blackbird engine instead, then?

Alex P

@KRyan It's sort of a fairy tale. You play a knight of the people, the very first people, who are dying now that the Sun has been born and demons and everywhere. Structurally it's a round-robin thing where each player adopts different roles serially to tell a bunch of interlocking but distinct stories (think knights of the Round Table).

KRyan

02:07

@SevenSidedDie mm, but I think he really would enjoy it if he just, ya know, would

Alex P

And the mechanics push you towards inevitable decline.

SevenSidedDie

@KRyan Polaris is tragic ice elves at the north pole before human history began, at the end of their own history. A bit Atlantis, except ice.

KRyan

@BESW not familiar with it, got a link?

BESW

@KRyan Right here.

SevenSidedDie

The mechanical selling point is that what you say you do, just happens. The risk and compromise and all the juicy stuff of game systems all happens right after, but you get what you say first.

KRyan

02:08

@SevenSidedDie that is pretty cool, if they can make it work

definitely a plus to never have to say no, without it always being you getting whatever you want

BESW

@KRyan Mechanically Lady Black Bird has a dice pool game where you have primary "aspects" with secondary specifics. For every thing on your character sheet that's relevant to what you're doing, add a die to your pool.

KRyan

though I do worry that it might turn into a game of carefully-worded-wishes

SevenSidedDie

@KRyan It works off a "well okay, but here's the price" kind of system. The negotiation is mediated by specific ritual phrases (basically conversational moves you're allowed to make), which chain until something complex and unexpected emerges.

BESW

Character progression in LB comes from doing things that are relevant to your character's concept, or from changing those things as part of the story.

KRyan

@BESW hmm, I see that being a tough sell on a number of levels

Alex P

02:10

You guys are interleaving Lady Blackbird and Polaris here. >.>

KRyan

@AlexP yes

@SevenSidedDie ok, I like the concept of negotiation on this

also, brilliant for a fey game

Metool

@KRyan Which is, sorry?

KRyan

@Metool the description of Polaris that's being given

SevenSidedDie

@KRyan So speaking of Fate, I'd solve that problem by yeah, getting him to try a short-form game that's in the neighbourhood, conceptually. So Lady Blackbird, yeah.

KRyan

negotiating and consequences and the like

Alex P

02:12

(FWIW, if you want a longer-form Lady Blackbird so you can see more bits and bobs to mess with, look at The Shadow of Yesterday — version 2 is much better than version 1 — or The Solar System.)

Those are the antecedent games.

SevenSidedDie

Polaris is a descendant of Archipelago II, which was published online right there, so people can check out a less-formally-structured version of the negotiation thing. Polaris really turns it up to 11 though.

KRyan

I feel like he'd be turned off by the airship, though I could be wrong on that front, and uh... most of the group has expressed distaste for dice pools

though that's probably me more than anyone else in the group

(bad experience with Exalted 2e)

I had to roll and tally up several hundred dice the first time a combat started

SevenSidedDie

I'm trying to think of some Fate relatives that would be worth trying, but I'm blocking on Houses of the Blooded and not getting farther. (That one is no good for a palate-cleanser game, too long.)

Alex P

@KRyan The Shadow of Yesterday uses Fudge dice for the same thing. 3dF + stat instead of Lady Blackbird's small-d6-pool system.

Default setting is post-apocalyptic-ish fantasy (like Tower of Babel stuff). With solipsistic elves and hedonistic goblins and rats who are... well, rats.

I recall a copy of the text online, but I can only find the version-1 text, which isn't nearly as good mechanically. :/

KRyan

@AlexP that sounds pretty solid

I'll keep all of these in mind

Alex P

02:18

@KRyan If you like Lady Blackbird's Keys, consider checking out TSOY. If you don't, then look elsewhere. ;)

KRyan

@SevenSidedDie more than likely, he'd prefer to run his own game, he needs to see a system that impresses him and he's probably not going to run it to determine that fact

Joshua Aslan Smith

@KRyan but but but, rolling dice is fun, rolling dice it the whole point to playing RPGs! MOAR DICE MOAR WINZ!!!!!!!

SevenSidedDie

@KRyan Hm. The alternative route might be to get him hooked on the Dresdenverse novels, then point out that there's an RPG. It's a good implementation of Fate, too.

KRyan

@SevenSidedDie heh, been trying to do that too, for reasons unrelated to RPGs

that one he just hasn't gotten around to; he agrees they sound good and up his alley

Joshua Aslan Smith

@SevenSidedDie problem with that is dresden hooked GMs tend to want to play heavilly canon despite the dresden books explicitly saying, this is the same world, but yeah, dont retread that stuff

SevenSidedDie

02:22

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Joshua Aslan Smith

@SevenSidedDie 4e charge optimized melee striker

though honestly that remind me far far more of Shadowrun sessions

Alex P

Omg, this is the best grognards.txt:

White Wolf Game Studio is Dead. Death To Storygaming Is Nigh.

Tweeted by grognardsTXT on May 7, 2014 at 5:27 AM

SevenSidedDie

@JoshuaAslanSmith They're all somewhat exaggerated. :)

Joshua Aslan Smith

@SevenSidedDie vimeo.com/channels/keypeele/39114507

SevenSidedDie

@JoshuaAslanSmith I probably have to wait to hit "play" on that. Young ears nearby.

Joshua Aslan Smith

02:25

oh yes most definitely

SevenSidedDie

@JoshuaAslanSmith I think that's partly solvable by insisting that the supernatural aspects of your city be inspired by the actual city's character and history.

Metool

Wait, is White Wolf actually dead?

Joshua Aslan Smith

@AlexP this is my new favorite twitter

white wolf game studio was assumed by CCP white-wolf.com

KRyan

@JoshuaAslanSmith which is a really weird combination if ever there was one

CCP is weird

Joshua Aslan Smith

merged is what they say but CCP games is definitely the controller

@kryan CCP Games was developing a WoD Vampire the Masquerade MMO for a few years until a montha go

SevenSidedDie

02:29

Like, here in Vancouver, we'd be remiss if we didn't have heavy doses of native American supernatural stuff, as well as influences from Hong Kong. (Though that specific thing does mean playing a decent DFRPG game here would be hard to pull of without involving offensive stereotyping :/ .)

Joshua Aslan Smith

when the axed the project

Alex P

Currently the way White Wolf stuff works is that they don't develop anything internally but farm it all out to Onyx Path or whoever.

Joshua Aslan Smith

I think CCP still controls white wolf but not sure how things will shake out with the game being cancelled

Alex P

So it's like an IP holding company.

KRyan

@SevenSidedDie I imagine you could avoid being offensive by being reasonably accurate

Joshua Aslan Smith

02:29

I know a lot of CCP staff that were working on it got the boot

KRyan

but perhaps not since so much of it is the symbolism and pulpy tradition

Alex P

So there were a bunch of "20th anniverasry" WoD games last year and this year there is a 3rd Edition Exalted. But these are all produced under license, basically.

SevenSidedDie

@KRyan That's the first step, yeah. It gets harder when you're making culturally-derived things actually magical though.

Joshua Aslan Smith

Oh I know the our city stuff, but I mean my DM was very beholden to not doing things outside the book, I was like so can I build a non-arcane weapons expert thats really good at using arcane knowledge to murder people

KRyan

@SevenSidedDie sure

Joshua Aslan Smith

02:30

like silver bullets for werewolves

KRyan

@JoshuaAslanSmith but like... that's totally in the books

multiple people fit that description in the books, for that matter

Joshua Aslan Smith

I think he got hung up on how I pitched it

SevenSidedDie

@JoshuaAslanSmith That seems like a reasonable character type that would fit the books...

KRyan

@JoshuaAslanSmith perhaps

Joshua Aslan Smith

basically my character would be Frank Castle meets John Constantine

KRyan

02:32

what I wanted to do, and was nixed on, having not read the books, was a wizard who, instead of fritzing technology, worked almost purely with technology

I think the books hint at enough that that's relatively plausible, but it probably wouldn't ever happen in the books

SevenSidedDie

@KRyan Hm, I can see that being a hard sell. The books and RPG pretty much straight-up say magic and tech are anathema. But I could see it, if it was pitched as a unique ability, special, unknown why it works. If it was pitched as just no big deal though, as if it's run-of-the-mill and normal, that would give me pause, for undermining a bunch of the how-magic-works stuff that is part of the shared understanding of the world.

KRyan

@SevenSidedDie yeah, it was pitched as a special thing, but ultimately I didn't have enough background in the books at that point in time to really do it justice in terms of placing it in the world

and even if I had, yeah, tough sell

SevenSidedDie

Gotta go set out dinner now. G'night eveyone! This has been a most interesting chat day...

BESW

@JoshuaAslanSmith We have psychic! I'm getting ready for lift-off.

Joshua Aslan Smith

@BESW I have zero Ideas of which you speak, never read the books, my only primer was to watch the lame, but passable syfy show that lasted 1 series

BESW

02:39

@JoshuaAslanSmith I'm talking about the Storium game, actually.

KRyan

@SevenSidedDie Agreed, and good night!

Joshua Aslan Smith

@BESW AWESOME!

BESW

I think I can have the first scene up within the hour.

Joshua Aslan Smith

@besw Im enjoying our flawed but driven characters

total raymond chandler vibe, you choice of image and name of the cafe proprietor reinforcing that in my mind.

BESW

It's kind of "Quatermain, as written by Chandler, meets HP Lovecraft."

Lots of D&D themes and ideas, but veering strongly away from D&D aesthetics and ethos.

Joshua Aslan Smith

02:53

yep

which I am 100 percent on board with

KRyan

this sounds pretty epic

I'm jealous

BESW

When I get more comfortable with the system we'll see if I want to continue and if I can handle more players in the game.

My ultimate goal is to design a Storium game that can handle a large number of erratic players, so I can run a game with friends who I can't play with normally because of distance, babies, work, etc.

This is a practice run.

KRyan

@BESW nice! I need to figure out something along those lines myself, because that describes uh... almost everyone I play with

as well as myself, heh

BESW

@KRyan I currently have one regular player.

Which makes it hard to keep momentum up; we often wind up watching Netflix on Saturday nights instead.

KRyan

heh, yeah

BESW

03:00

And a lot of my friends who I'd like to play with are scattered across the globe, including people in this chat.

KRyan

mm

Joshua Aslan Smith

BESW getting a STorium account became a dream come true

BESW

We'll see.

Okay, first scene is up.

@JoshuaAslanSmith By the way, Ricky is a double reference to two different fictional characters. One should be very obvious; the other may become clearer later but there are nods to him already.

Neither is important to know for the story we're telling, but I like throwing in little easter eggs.

Joshua Aslan Smith

allusions are the best kind of in-joke

must resist urge to talk like bogart in every noir movie ever

BESW

03:19

Anybody with a Storium account can watch our game if they like.

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BESW

04:17

@MC_Hambone [wave]

MC_Hambone

howdy!

that storium thing looks pretty neat

BESW

I'm cautiously hopeful.

MC_Hambone

are you live streaming it anywhere other than that site?

BESW

No, Storium is a text-based play-by-post engine.

MC_Hambone

uh ohhh.... I just noticed my chat room got frozen.... D:

BESW

04:22

If you want a room unfrozen, just ask Waxeagle.

MC_Hambone

like in here or someplace specific?

BESW

Just ping him here.

Any mod of any SE site can do it, and he's kindly offered his services.

MC_Hambone

cool

Hey @waxeagle can you unfreeze my chat room "MC Hambone's Rap Session"? Thanks!

Well while that get's sorted out... I'll ask about this here.... Do players that are changelings have to make a bluff check or something similar against the other players at the table?

specifically in a situation where the player has not told the rest of the players he is a changeling and wants to keep it a secret from everyone

BESW

04:40

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Q: Tips on playing a character whose goals run contrary to his outward actions (to the other PCs)

So, in one of the previous campaigns I played, I had a character whose own personal goals often ended up at odds with the rest of the party (who all agreed with each other). It was difficult to figure out how to try and complete those goals without everyone else wanting to beat my character sens...

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Q: How to use social skills versus player characters

If the game system in use supports a mechanical modelling of social knack (like D&D's Bluff, Intimidate and Diplomacy skills), and the player who is subject of the social attack doesn't play his character according to the outcome of the check, the game could put some players in a bad mood. Whi...

system-agnostic skills

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Q: Can a PC use his Charisma to influence other PCs in D&D 3.5?

Checking the D&D 3.5 Player's Handbook rules, the rules are explicit that the Diplomacy skill cannot be used to influence other PCs, only NPCs. But I see no such restrictions for Intimidate or Bluff. I can see an unscrupulous high Charisma PC using either skill to, for example, get his way when ...

dnd-3.5e skills rules-as-written social-contract

See if any of those help.

MC_Hambone

thanks! :D I searched "changeling" on the site and didnt find anything helpful.... i knew you guys would know of stuff I want XD

BESW

I searched terms like "secret," "player," and "bluff."

Metool

06:12

@agradine Hello!

agradine

Hello!

BESW

07:00

@InbarRose [wave] First scene is up.

Metool

Heyo.

SolidusVerum

hey

well it was fun chatting for a minute time to go study for finals. Good night/morning all!

Metool

Pfff, righto. Bye.

Inbar Rose

07:15

Good Morning.

@BESW Cool, I will get to it in a moment.,

BESW

No rush.

Inbar Rose

07:53

I had to do my scene in The Lightside Chronicles.

It's looking good! :)

Inbar Rose

08:10

Played.

BESW

It will be interesting to see how this turns out.

Inbar Rose

:)

Are you following my Lightside Chronicles story?

Jack Lesnie

What is 'Storium'

Inbar Rose

@JackLesnie Glad you asked. storium.com

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Jack Lesnie

08:26

I have music on and don't want to listen to someone talking. But from what I can gather, it's like a browser story game that a GM can write and edit and design as an adventure?

BESW

@JackLesnie Pretty much. It's a browser-based play-by-post engine.

Jack Lesnie

Well, it looked like it had built in mechanics and stuff. Play by post is usually a published system, but on a forum.

Inbar Rose

It has A system. But it's not really a system, it's just a way to progress the story and resolve conflict in a very simple narrative driven way. It has resemblance to some of the concepts in Fate.

I have seen some games that are using systems like WOD or D&D in addition to this system, but not many. It is more of a collaborative story than a game.

@BESW BTW - you still need to resubmit your character for the greece game,.

BESW

Mmm. I'm thinking about it.

Jack Lesnie

09:00

"The Next Round: Hundreds of the Guardians of Time show up and one of them screams out, "THIS IS AN UNSANCTIONED VIOLATION OF SPACE-TIME."

Pictured Above, Good GMing.

Metool

... wha?

Inbar Rose

@JackLesnie I don't know about that.

Jack Lesnie

In the context of; giantitp.com/forums/…

'I recently had a fight as a PC wizard against my personal nemesis, a necromancer of some power. Both of us were level 18 at the time, and I entered into the fight knowing that I'd be teleported within 30 feet of him by a god for whom I'd recently done a favor, so it went like this:

Pre-Battle: Multiple and in some cases redundant layers of buffs from spells, scrolls, activated items, and potions. Craft several Contingent spells.

Teleport: Multiple crafted Contingent Teleport Cages fire off. In all they cost me a level and a half (plus the other crafted Contingencies) but they make an imm…

It's seeing two shitty outcomes, either 'you kill him' or 'he pulls some bullshit and kills you' and pole-vaulting those two options to go for the awesome third one. That's what makes a good GM.

Inbar Rose

And that is one of the reasons I don't like D&D.

The mechanics take over the game.

Metool

yes, yes

Inbar Rose

09:04

Hey - there are many reasons why I like D&D. That is one reason I don't like it.

Metool

But regarding time stop, it's a transmutation spell that speeds up the user to the point where they perceive everything around them to be slowed to nothing.

Jack Lesnie

That's an illusion. The DM has the ability to create whatever mechanics he likes to support his monsters or NPCs, so the only thing stopping you taking the Time Guardian option is a lack of imagination.

@Metool; Yes, but it's quibbling detail and the GM immediately saw that it makes a better story if it doesn't. That's why it's good GMing. Changing a minor setting detail on the fly to allow a boring situation to suddenly become awesome.

Also he did suddenly disconnect a 1000' area from the astral plane, and well, maybe observing Time at too high a speed blows it up or something.

Suddenly having to run away from Time Cops in the middle of a trap you yourself made while maybe ending up running away alongside your nemesis-of-a-moment-ago and fighting or co-operating while also still running away is a much cooler scene than telefragging your nemesis.

You can go to a lot of places with RAW, but most of them are bad. The fact is that DnD without rule 0 is a completely terrible game no-one should ever play*.

* - except people I hate.

Metool

Er, telefragging is a totally different thing, wherein you teleport inside someone and they die, right?

Jack Lesnie

Teleganking, telefragging, potato, tomato

Metool

To prevent players being stuck inside each other or summat?

Jack Lesnie

09:11

In DnD, Telefragging is not a thing. You get shunted out of stuff you teleport into, by RAW. That includes creatures.

Metool

So instead of being a transmutation spell, it's now... universal? or what?

@JackLesnie I am well aware, and am referring to certain game engines.

Jack Lesnie

Kind of. I think they just thought it was cool in Quake or wherever did it first.

Or someone was standing on teleporters and shooting people who teleported in the back or something in beta.

Probably the latter, really.

Metool

No, that's a form of camping.

Jack Lesnie

I mean why they made it so if someone is standing on the teleport-to zone when someone steps on the teleport-from zone, they explode into giblets.

'telefragging'

Metool

Ah, I see.

You'd probably have to dig quite deep to find the origin, at this point.

(Or look at Wikipedia, I suppose.)

Jack Lesnie

09:14

Not so far as future Entertainment-Archeologists.

Data Archeologists?

Metool

[eats cold medicine, suffers PSYCHE drain]

Jack Lesnie

Yeah... i'd just suffer through that rather than take that 'cold and flu' shit.

I speak as someone who once sneezed so hard he smashed his face open on a wall

Inbar Rose

09:30

@BESW You might find this interesting, 11 different funeral traditions from around the world. Gave me a nice idea for a game.

BESW

09:58

I've used sky burials in a couple of my campaigns.

Around the World in Eighty Days describes the Balinese cremation.

Sky burials are described in the graphic novel World's End.

And describing the act of partying with the recently-deceased as "unique" is... kinda narrow-sighted, considering some of the very Western films on the subject which have come out in the last decade.

There are Western services which will press your beloved's ashes into a diamond and set it in jewellery.

Inbar Rose

I know that these things are not unheard of. It's just interesting to see them all in the same place, and I never thought to use them in stories. You seem unusually critical (but then again, with only your words to read, I can't know your true meaning)

BESW

I am a bit critical of an article which presents foreign funerary customs as spectacles for "ordinary people" to gawk about. I know that's not the deliberate intent, but it's kind of unavoidable--especially when things like dressing up the dead, which are totally common in America, get presented as "unique" for apparently no reason except that Other People do it.

BESW

10:19

However--yes, I have used unfamiliar funerary traditions in my games as part of my constant quest to find ways to snap players out of their complacent expectations about a setting and get them interested in exploring and learning and immersing themselves in the world.

I like using RPGs as a method of exploring other ways of looking at the world, and I like to think it's one reason my players enjoy my games.

trogdor

personally, I do think it is a bit silly to try to romanticize, or gawk at, funeral rites that some people do that others don't

DuckTapeal

Wow. That debate between SevenSidedDie and KRyan last night went on for a loooong time.

trogdor

even within the same country, some people are gonna want different things for their funerals, or are going to want to grieve differently.

BESW

I look at "dress the body in their best clothes, sit them on a chair and place a lit cigarette in their lips" and I'm thinking, "Has this person not seen the Irish wakes in popular media like The Wire?"

Or is it only weird when brown people do it?

trogdor

yeah

that is part of my issue with it too

wax eagle

10:35

@MC_Hambone if you still need this thawed, please link it up as a reply and I'll get it when I get into work (or whenever after that)

BESW

MC Hambone's Rap Session

This room is for anyone who wants to help Hambone discuss idea...

Inbar Rose

11:00

@waxeagle How does the auto-lock on chat rooms work? How long does it have to be inactive?

BESW

@InbarRose Two weeks.

Inbar Rose

So it's not based on anything else?

Can a room be "protected" from being locked?

Storium is addicting.

I already feel it.

I need my fix man! All my stories are waiting. I have made my move in all of them.... I just can't get enough....

I am narrating 2 stories, and am playing in 3... Maybe I should join another?

Inbar Rose

11:29

@BESW Feel me? [He said in his best gangster impression]

Someone is making a Firefly game on Storium (Woohoo)

Joshua Aslan Smith

11:48

good morning

BESW

[wave]

@InbarRose Meh. I usually just dig deeper into what I've got going on. Like making more objects for Scale Island.

I'm also considering what will be good for my massive game.

Inbar Rose

12:08

@BESW That's nice. I don't pre-make the cards in my games, I don't see the point too much... But anyway, I just submitted a character to the FireFly Game.

Aaron

Mornin

DuckTapeal

AH-HA!

BESW

@DuckTapeal You know where Baby Roo is?

lisardggY

@Aaron Y'all keep on using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

BESW

@InbarRose Mmm. That's one thing which is making it hard for me to feel your game.

DuckTapeal

12:12

I found an official WotC 3.5 source that says clearly that you can't use higher level bonus spells than you can normally cast!

Aaron

@lisardggY Good [Insert your time here]

Inbar Rose

@BESW hmmm?

Joshua Aslan Smith

lol

BESW

@Aaron The Reverse World Tree has transcended time!

DuckTapeal

"As with bonus weaves granted by high ability scores, these weaves can be used only when the channeler is of high enough level to cast them."

Inbar Rose

12:13

@BESW You don't see the cards anyway, what does it matter?

DuckTapeal

Whell of Time RPG, page 53.

lisardggY

Well, not "transcended" as such.

Maybe "wasted" is a better verb.

BESW

@InbarRose By not providing character cards, you make it harder for me to know what your game is like. Pre-made cards, whether players use them or not, set the tone and style of the game, give a sense of what kind of people live in the world and what kind of troubles they have.

Aaron

@BESW My statement would still stand. He just has his own unique time in that case.

lisardggY

Staring at the compiler.
Staring.

Staring.

Joshua Aslan Smith

12:15

When you stare into the compiler, the compiler stares back into you....

Inbar Rose

@BESW I suppose that's correct. But I did say clearly that players should create their own. And I set the tone with the description, and with the few cards I did provide (Although, indeed if I did include more cards it would be more expanded) I don't think my lack of cards hurts the game.

wax eagle

@InbarRose yes, if it is the last public room associated with a site that is open, it will never be frozen.

Inbar Rose

Okay.

So no site has an official chat room?

wax eagle

@InbarRose not really, no

that was put in place to try to preserve main chats from being frozen, but if you're on a site that is more likely to have people take comments to chat than have people talk in a main site, it breaks down

Elsa is sort of indiscriminate like that.

Joshua Aslan Smith

12:31

interesting

BESW

@waxeagle Elsa having more of a "let it go" philosophy?

Joshua Aslan Smith

@waxeagle I literally started giggling in bed when I got the SE update notification from @jonathonhobbs about the typo for fried, further laughing because despite having the privileges to edit it, he just commented on it to make fun off me.

wax eagle

@BESW aye

@JoshuaAslanSmith definitely, that's a type to point and laugh at :)

Joshua Aslan Smith

I recently realized there was a page 2 to my questions

and that my oldest questions had escaped my edits

so gdoing them soon

Inbar Rose

@JoshuaAslanSmith How is Reese doing?

Joshua Aslan Smith

12:46

hahaha

Im trying to resist going full batman

Inbar Rose

What do you mean?

Joshua Aslan Smith

not in response to anything

Im just saying future character development

Inbar Rose

Oh....

Rich guy + Powersuit + Gadgets?

Hmmm

I just had a wicked wonderful idea.

Best summed up in 2 3 words: Da Vinci Batman

BESW

@InbarRose AKA gearpunk Iron Man?

Inbar Rose

@BESW no

more like gearpupnk batman

Batman has a different flavor than Ironman

Joshua Aslan Smith

12:53

@InbarRose No quite this, but more physically trained and fit individual with a thirst for justice. the gadgets are very secondary to batman in my opinion

@InbarRose gotham by gaslight

Inbar Rose

Batman is dark and broody, haunting the nights and slinking around the rooftops, Ironman is in the spotlight, he is a hero, he fights in the daylight against big enemies, not the street criminals and thugs.

Also ... Ironman can fly....

I don't see that working in gearpunk Da Vinci world.

Joshua Aslan Smith

I feel like it is much more than that, but I dont know if I wanna derail chat with my Batman/BruceWayne Manifesto

Inbar Rose

Let's take it to the bar

Joshua Aslan Smith

@jonathanhobbs no I was laughing, sorry I actually enjoyed your lack of editing to fix it

doppelgreener

13:12

@JoshuaAslanSmith glad to hear it ;)

BESW

14:20

@JoshuaAslanSmith No rush or anything, but I do eagerly await your first "move."

Joshua Aslan Smith

14:42

@besw working on it raight now

picked up some things....

fyi, you need to generate multiple stakcs if you want multiple players to be able to pick them up

When I picked up the tin matchbox it took all 3 instances of it

BESW

I want each person to have different things.

In part, it's a kind of a character test.

If a player wants another stack of something someone else picked up, they can narrate it and I can grant it. But I want to encourage differentiation.

Joshua Aslan Smith

trying to figure out the best one liner to open with thats the perfect blend of sardonic wit, cynicism and confrontational attitude.

gotcha, makes sense

BESW

@JoshuaAslanSmith "That's what she said."

Joshua Aslan Smith

smh

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