@Zachiel: Do you think it is good to comment on a answer to a nonquestion? (I'm conflicted, is a wrong answer still wrong if it stops being an answer, do to the question not existing (This seems like a Magic The Gathering Situation, "In responce to you declaring blockers I sacrifice the attacker, so you miss because they are already dead")
The Magic Item Compendium says
Step 1: Roll on Table A-1: Treasure, using the monster's CR to determine which row you will use. (265)
Table A-1: Treasure only goes to Challenge Rating 20. The six level-17-plus PCs in my campaign have begun encountering CR 21+ creatures. How can I continue t...
I honestly don't know. It has been years since ip layed dnd and only random factoids remain from 3.5 rules. (Such as Epic Handbook never being released for 3.5) Not useful information about what that means.
--- Anyone online from when I had that discussion about making a tool for generating Angels in nWoD GMC?\
"As a D&D player, “you have to convince other players that your version of the story is interesting and valid,” said Jennifer Grouling, an assistant professor of English at Ball State University..."
@mpdc I picked it up, played it once, came to the conclusion that it is a very 80s boardgame, then sold it. The cut-down 4e games (Ravenloft et al) are good though.
Jennifer Grouling states "plotlines are decided as a group..." I suppose everyone has to agree on an adventure theme prior to playing, unless you're playing something like Microscope.
Last paragraph of the article is funny: As for Mr. Díaz, “Once girls entered the equation in a serious way,” he said, “gaming went right out the window.”
kind of interesting how different my experience is from those highlighted in the article. I came to table top gaming as an adult, after I was married and had kids...
it's characterized almost completely as a game for outcast adolescents
When I was growing up, there was a phase (right after red-box D&D was translated) that that was a big swell in elementary/secondary school gamers, though most didn't keep at it past a few months.
The thing that I learned the most from the salon article, was that things I took for granted, were actually collabrative efforts where you try to convince other players and the DM about the plot in general.
@RobertF at least slightly, RPGs is still a small market though. I think there is certainly way more cultural awareness of the themes and tropes though thanks to the movie and video game sectors who share the same roots
Movies like Zero Charisma do tend to portray rpg gamers as marginalized, although the film also featured a "hipster gamer" - you know, drinks PBR, eats kale, plays D&D to fill out his geek credentials. :)
@waxeagle I guess this is a problem with media portrayals of all kinds of gaming though. How often do we see anybody out of college playing computer games in mass media either?
@Grubermensch - Right, I know. Carroll's character is portrayed as a loser. Same with Vince Vaughn in The Breakup. Adults playing games are either man-childs or losers in mass media. But there may be a few positive examples.
But yeah, mass media, especially mainstream media like network TV or Hollywood films, will always go for a safe, wide common denominator, which usually means being several years out of date.
@RobertF Yup. Those are the evasive maneuvers I mentioned. All devils were renamed "baatezu", all demons renamed "tana'ari". Or the other way around. I forget.
@lisardggY I actually did have a player in my first campaign whose parents kinda believed that. Their (in my opinion very curious) strategy to evaluate was to require that we play the game in their house, and they ultimately saw no problem with the game.
@lisardggY But ya gotta marvel at the logic of saying "We'll I think you might be summoning demons, so you'd best do it at my house so I can keep my eye on ya."
I think the last sentence pretty much sums up why that hasn't taken off: "DragonRaid became a victim of some well-meaning but mistaken Christian organizations that condemned it as having evil content."
@Grubermensch !!! I've had a copy of a brilliant review of this game, in a text file, downloaded from god knows where over 10 years ago. But I lost it, and forgot the name of the game.
Basic attributes are described in the review: "In DragonRaid, the character's basic attributes are: Love, Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, and Self-Control. [A note explains that these are the fruit of the spirit, per Galatians 5:22-23.]"
What provokes an opportunity attack?
In 3.X moving out of a threatened square, standing up from prone, casting a spell (unless cast defensively), or making a ranged attack provoked, while in 4e moving out of a threatened square or making a ranged/area attack provoked.
It's also nice to see that moving around inside reach doesn't provoke, which means that the spirit of most five-foot-steps is still possible and you can still have a swordfight with constant moving around.
I think it would be really nice to see something that encourages that style of fighting, rather than everybody standing still during battles as is often the case.
@Grubermensch it would be, and moving around inside reach probably doesn't provoke in no small part because they were designing to be gridless and the difference between being in front and beside is irrelevant in the system they created (no flanking, rogue gets adjacent SA from being next to the same creature another ally is next to)
@Grubermensch too true, that and the cone powers are going to be a bit of a challenge to adjudicate. I'm probably going to use a grid at least informally
@Grubermensch yeah, I was just pondering what to do about cones on the grid. I'm thinking, 1 square in front, two squares in the next layer, and 3 in the third. Basically which of the 2 square get affected is a coin flip.
it's easier off a corner square
actually no. I've got it. Let me draw it.
shoot, can't upload here anyways. but I think I'll requier the cone to always go in a 1/2/3 square patter in a diagonal
@Grubermensch yeah, guestimating is probably what they want you to do...someone suggested rolling dice to see how many and which targets you get, seems reasonable if you're going fully gridless
Last year's film G.I. Joe: Retaliation has its macho military protagonists (portrayed by The Rock and Channing Tatum) playing video games with each other. The scene is meant to humanise them by showing their normal civilian lives.
@JoshuaAslanSmith not really, thanks for asking though.
Just ran my first 5e game with a group of semi-roleplayers. Forgot that they weren't familiar with the mechanics, tried to do chargen on the fly, didn't go very well.
Ah, yes. I almost always start players in a new system with premades (or at least half-premades) for the first session, unless chargen is really short-form.
grumble grumble After all my disappointment at there not being a D&D Live Game last week, I got drafted into a last minute real world obligation that prevents me from watching this one...
At least I can catch up on Youtube in a few days...
@besw so like I think that it only happens once in season 1, with the London bombing episode, but they hand a lantern on it by saying just this once it wall works out, and comparitively yeah, season 1 is really dark and there is a trail of bodies of all those he couldnt save (especially when alluding to the time war) which feels very real for the original who I grew up on
short sighted BBC execs, oh no, peter davidson's doctor took a ratings dip, lets just murder him (albeit in what is considered the best 4 parter of all doctor who)
@JoshuaAslanSmith The off-screen Who stuff is kind of a mixed bag, but most anything by Big Finish (the main audio-story studio for the franchise) is gold.
They got a lot of the original actors back to reprise their roles, they redeemed some parts of the show's history which were frankly embarrassing, and they delighted in exploring the holes and backstories and missing bits.
Heck, they re-did "Shada" as an Eighth Doctor story in continuity with the fact that "Shada" never got aired but footage from it was used in "The Five Doctors."
And I've used elements of the Zagreus storyline in several of my campaigns.
yeah I mean I live inside one of americas 10 biggest cities
power redirected immediately
basically I only worry about a large scale societal collapse, roads are good and plentiful, if the city somehow went to hell Id just drive to my family's house in the burbs
@JonathanHobbs Travers got blown up by the exploding monastery (things don't go as well when the Doctor isn't around), so he'll probably take on the Travers role for "Web of Fear."
But I'm looking for more material, partly for future games with that group and partly because @JonathanHobbs wants me to run a Cthulhu Dark game for him.
@JoshuaAslanSmith I'm not sure City of Death really has an entry point for non-Time-Lords.
I tried putting together something based on "Pyramids of Mars" but it would require too much tinkering--again--in order for the Investigators to get thrown into it rather than running into it.
But that's the other problem with converting Doctor Who stories to Mythos games: so often the progression or resolution of the story requires some knowledge or ability which Investigators just can't be expected to have.
"Pyramid of Mars" suffered from this; I'd've had to invent a brand-new set of resolution conditions in order to run it without Time Lords.
@JonathanHobbs Right, which I'm not assuming they use gold, but gold being a very common element compared to other conductors and very easy to purify Id imagine that as a cyborg race they just might value it. Also is gold dust that fine? I feel like its writers looking for a macguffin/Secret weakness that obviously didnt have real technical knowledge.
I can willfully suspend my disbelief when watching, hell i love that episode
@JoshuaAslanSmith So I'm looking for stories where the challenge is "puzzle out the simple solution in the confusion before we all go mad," rather than "invent a clever solution."
Adric's inability to solve the math problem with the spaceship to save himself, the doctor unable to save him because the ship is the big bang which starts the universe, the doctor killing the lead cyberman with adric's star for mathematics
hes a bit of a ponce who thinks hes all that etc., but at heart hes a good kid who just wants to impress the doctor
right ill need to think on this my old who knowledge all merges into one (with exception of character introductions and departures as well as quite obvious douglas adams episodes)
@JoshuaAslanSmith oh, wait, then again, we're made of iron and water and so on, but if i were immersed in... most things my body's made of, i probably wouldn't fare very well
The Magic Item Compendium says
Step 1: Roll on Table A-1: Treasure, using the monster's CR to determine which row you will use. (265)
Table A-1: Treasure only goes to Challenge Rating 20. The six level-17-plus PCs in my campaign have begun encountering CR 21+ creatures. How can I continue t...
What provokes an opportunity attack?
In 3.X moving out of a threatened square, standing up from prone, casting a spell (unless cast defensively), or making a ranged attack provoked, while in 4e moving out of a threatened square or making a ranged/area attack provoked.
