TRPG General Chat

Aaron

13:24

battleforthenet.com/?from=grooveshark

Joshua Aslan Smith

@besw great link

BESW

VTC unclear.

Phil

@BESW and then some

not sure how you can answer it in a system agnostic way either

because then it stops being about rpgs

Aaron

13:45

I think he put the system agnostic tag because he wants a good travel system from any system.

Joshua Aslan Smith

we dont do bespoke RPG design on demand

there have been plenty of problem questions along those lines in the past

Phil

@Aaron without a specific system, the question becomes ' how far do you travel in a day by different forms of transport' - not an rpg question

Aaron

I was just explaining what I thought his thinking was not defending his question

Phil

@Aaron I know - not attacking you, just explaining my opinion :o)

Aaron

I think his question boils down to "What is the most realistic RPG travel system"

Joshua Aslan Smith

13:50

@aaron you will be burned at the stake for your heresy

which is subjective without a lot of requirements

Aaron

@JoshuaAslanSmith Good thing I have DR 20 against fire

Mourdos

Did someone start talking about a BBQ? Medium for my stake :)

Phil

@Aaron a whole different can of worms - define realistic ;op

Joshua Aslan Smith

too bad its radiant fire

BESW

@JoshuaAslanSmith ....does that involve a giant magnifying glass?

Mourdos

13:51

Playing a tiefling game in a desert. Our witch gave their familiar Resistance 1 to fire and cold so that the DM couldn't it being too hot or cold against them.

Joshua Aslan Smith

yes, and censers

Aaron

@Phil How far can someone in peak physical condition walk in a day

Joshua Aslan Smith

@aaron still too manyv ariabels

are they wearing modern running shoes, and athletic geawr with their only weight being a camelback for hydration?

Phil

my point is that realism means different things in different systems, at different tables, with different genres

BESW

In what weather, at what altitude, over what terrain, with what load, on what diet....

Joshua Aslan Smith

13:53

what is their metabolism and previouis training experiences

BESW

And then how do you determine the elf's peak physical condition, and the halfling's, and the flying zombie elk's?

Aaron

Ok ok I get it lots of variables I didn't think of.

Phil

:op

BESW

[yawn] I needs me the sleeps.

G'nightery.

Mourdos

14:40

I need to find some appropriate (but short) things to use as a gnome skald, who uses oratory for his music.

War chants?

Or renditions of battle?

MadMAxJr

A gnome skald? I'm picturing a very small Viking warsong.

Mourdos

Hehe

My Summoner is now a Skald as well as a Summoner. (strange gestalt rules)

roscoe_casita

morning

Mourdos

He rides around on his flying Eidolon, who is a giant multicolored gecko with scaled wings.

And summons things.

MadMAxJr

Summoners tend to do that.

Mourdos

14:42

Now he has a whip of spiders which he will brandish

He is a master summoner, but with houseruled changes. As a result, I tend to cast one, maybe two summons and then go into buff/debuff mode

well, in this case one, since I have my eidolon out

My DM got scared of my ability to summon 1d3+1 earth elements every round for ten rounds at level 3 >.>

MadMAxJr

I have a summoner in my group with a eidolon that makes me grind my teeth...

Mourdos

As a DM or as a player?

MadMAxJr

The wording on the Reach evolution is a little loosely worded. It doesn't specify what kind of attack, merely one that the eidolon can make.

I'm the DM, this is one of my players.

Mourdos

It is one specific attack.

That the Eidolon can make

If it has 15 tentacles, it can make 1 of them gain reach

MadMAxJr

So the Eidolon has an exotic weapon feat and an exotic reach weapon. Then they attached reach to that.

Mourdos

14:45

Ah yes

Thats valid

My Eidolon: 3 HD, but summoner level 6

MadMAxJr

15 foot reach dominates certain combat scenarios

Mourdos

Lucky
19 hp
Speed 40 ft, Fly 40 ft (good)
AC 20, FF 18, Touch 12 (dex +2, natural+4, armor +4)

Str 15
Dex 15
Con 13
Int 07
Wis 10
Cha 11

+4(3) fort
+5(3) ref
+1(1) will

Bite: +5 for 1d6+3

Skills: Perc, Survival, Fly, Stealth(3 in each)

Equip:Chainmail Armor, Military Saddle

Free Evolutions: Bite, Limbs (legs) (2)
Evolutions: Mount, Fly(Dragon, Good), Skilled(Perception), Skilled(Fly)

+18 Fly: 3(class)+3(ranks)+2(dex)+4(maneuverability)-ACP(2)+8(racial)
+06 Survival: 3(class)+3(ranks)+0(wis)

I'm missing his feats. Hmm. Light Armor Proficiency and Wingover.

Yes it does.

Our group currently runs two front liners (barbarban/rogue and fighter) who make liberal use of reach weapons and enlarge person and have do so since level 1

MadMAxJr

The only way I can present challenges to a 15 foot reach with good damage is to provide varied terrain and/or tight quarters combat

Mourdos

Has combat reflexes?

MadMAxJr

Yes.

The summoner herself is squishy, but has never been exposed to a threat due to careful combat coordination.

Mourdos

14:50

My DM has the same problem.

Have you considered spells?

MadMAxJr

Good playing on her part, can't knock it.

Mourdos

Grease makes people drop weapons if you target their weapon

MadMAxJr

Well the next part of Rise of the Runelords has more threatening encoutners that should throw her for a loop.

Mourdos

Ah, you are using the adventure paths?

I've never played them

or PFS

MadMAxJr

The rewrite of Rise of the Runelords, yeah. I like off-the-shelf adventures, especially revised ones. They're well played, well known, and there's other DMs to ask for input on how to run the adventure.

I wanted to like PFS, but had a poor experience with organized play.

MadMAxJr

16:55

Well, that was fun! Tons of old, old gmail passwords compromised.

2-factor authenticate ALL THE THINGS.

user61230

Whoa. How'd that happen?

MadMAxJr

lifehacker.com/…

Article on the whole thing. Russian group drops 5 million gmail passwords.

user61230

Oh, phew. Okay. All of my passwords have been changed in the last six months, so I think I'm alright.

user61230

Huh. It also doesn't look like this came from a Google breach, but is just a compilation of other password leaks designed to look like a Google leak.

MadMAxJr

At least 60% of the list is still good.

lisardggY

17:28

Neither mine nor my wife's are on it. Score!

And I use 2FA anyway.

Aaron

17:40

So is 2FA like using a VPN where you use your password and then get a token emailed to you that you have to put in?

lisardggY

I have an app on my phone that generates the token.

But yes, the idea is similar.

Aaron

cool.

lisardggY

Generally speaking it adds a second factor in addition to the "what you know" factor.

Aaron

My gmail account has been hacked a few times but it is my junk account that I use when I sign up for free games

lisardggY

Usually a "what you have".

I use it for everything, but I almost never give it away - I have my own domain and give throwaway addresses @my domain, but they all just get to my gmail eventually.

Aaron

17:43

I change my password after each hack. Normally from china

user61230

I change my password when I think my current password no longer meets modern security standards, and only use my secure passwords on sites that are storing it securely.

user61230

(So I don't really need to change it if the hash is leaked.)

wax eagle

20:10

@Grubermensch are you available tomorrow night?

doppelgreener

23:49

Making a 2nd request for close votes for this question:

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Q: How to speed up 4e combat

I DM a group of four PC's and even "easy" battles take at least an hour to resolve. Normal encounters take even longer! I want to speed up combat so my players can do more in a session. I've been trying a lot to speed up combat, we are already using: Initiative cards that the players keep up 3...

Its major, core problem is that their combat reaches an absurdly high number of rounds, but we have absolutely no idea what causes that quantity of rounds.

All of their current techniques, and all the current suggestions, will naturally speed up each individual turn or round - but something is going horribly wrong, because their average combat should only be going for a bit over five rounds, meaning they're going for up to six times longer than they should. If we can resolve that issue, their combats will suddenly leap to 10-15 minutes tops, and all their time issues would be solved. But we don't have the info necessary to deal with that.

So I'd like to put it on hold as unclear, since there is information we badly need that is altogether missing: what happens such that they go that many rounds.

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