a shame that they're just purging all that content, but i'm not entirely shocked; it's not free to host it, and i suspect they've realized it's not really helping them sell products
@Magician I would like to say not me, but I'm pretty sure that's a lie. Unless this is the vampire magical girl timeline where I become stronger by defeating all other vampires and absorbing their power.
i'm not officially empowered to speak for the community as a whole (yet, mwahahahaha), but seeing as we're an RPG question & answer site i think that would be ok
what do you do when you have a RP going and the game...gets its own ideas about what should happen? for instance, randomly spawning a NPC into the midst of what you're doing, or your RP triggers a mechanics-bug which interferes with the course of the RP?
animal companion got stuck on the wrong side of what in effect is a teleporter from my druid, and as a result, my druid got splattered all over the ground by the NPCs
@ObliviousSage negative -- persistent world server
Your only real choices are to ignore it and work around it or incorporate it into the story. I'd just throw it out to whoever you're playing with and see what they want to do. When RPing in an MMO, I and the people I play with would normally just ignore that kind of thing. I don't play NWN so I dunno what kinda mechanics-vs-RP culture you have going on over there.
approach 1 is to indicate you're talking OOC and say oops, let me respawn and come back over and we'll resume
approach 2 is to invent a reasonable in-universe explanation for what happened and roll with it
approach 3 is to marvel about your inexplicable resurrection and the strange glitch in reality that kept your pet from joining you, and then proceed to investigate & shatter the dreaded Fourth Wall (not recommended for most RP groups)
@Pixie this case was a bit particularly persnickity, because it led to a char death, which is generally treated as having some sort of consequence (in the server I'm on, it's mostly XP and gold) -- what happened in the end is sort-of-1 and sort-of-2
@Shalvenay That sounds like a good idea. People need to know the bug exists, and if it's common, you're likely not the only one who's going to have this problem.
@BESW although, more seriously, I was more asking if the RAW even allowed for that sort of interbreeding, or if Elf x Drow was in the same territory as say Orc x Elf
@Shalvenay I would think it should be biologically possible - they're both types of elf. But AFAIK the only half-drow stats are drow x human, not drow x elf.
@Adeptus yeah, my intuition says go for it! (and in the 5e campaign 'verse I'm working on, it's NBD -- just a dice roll to see which color your kids pop out as)...but statting it would be an issue. although it did inspire me to think "pale skinned drow x human" as well -- that'd bend a few minds, especially one raised in human society.
@Shalvenay In 3.5, there are stats for Lesser Drow (which are Drow adjusted to LA+0). You could fluff them as drow x elf. In 5e... eh, new subrace (Drow are an elf subrace, from memory?) with bits of both parent races.
@Adeptus yeah. 5e is a lot easier in this regard -- tweaking subraces doesn't have nearly as much of a balance concern as trying to create a new race in 3.5e would be
@Shalvenay Although you'll need to be careful - drow are one of the only examples in 5e of balancing advantages with disadvantages, so you'll need to be careful mixing them with a race that doesn't follow that paradigm.
> (March 17) 2013 – The largest meteorite (since NASA started observing the Moon in 2005) hit the Moon.
> (March 17) 1992 – A referendum to end apartheid in South Africa is passed 68.7% to 31.2%.
> 1969 – Golda Meir becomes the first female Prime Minister of Israel.
> 1966 – Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
> 1959 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, flees Tibet for India.
> 1861 – The Kingdom of Italy is proclaimed. [It lasted until 1946, when WWII ended, a referendum dissolved the kingdom, and the Italian Republic became the present form of Italy.]
> 1805 – The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King. [So apparently they were a republic to begin with?]
@doppelgreener No. Just adding different unrelated stuff in the same list. For some reason our brains just start making connections where there shouldn't be, for quite interesting results.
It works specially well when it is historical stuff, because it just looks like one of those weird trailer conspiracy theories where you have a guy reading about weird stuff that culminates in a giant plot twist on how they were all actually connected.
Two and a half centuries later, his plan finally came to fruition, and with the meticulous manipulation of so many events (such as a nuclear bomb and placed just so, though any mass about that size would've done) an enormous meteor was set on course for the moon.
Only [the plan was halted by meddling and the wrong meteor was pulled in / Napoleon actually sucked at physics and didn't realise the enormous size of the moon and the amount of energy needed to actually destroy it] and our moon withstood the impact.
> Amaterasu Director of Field Action Amanda Parrish is a living legend. Very little about her past is known for certain: people will tell you she’s been in the field for up to eighty years and was involved in Weird Work from assassinating Elvis with his own guitar to negotiating the Bikini Atoll Incursion and presiding over the Mt. St. Helens Conference; they’ll also tell you she has a variety of unconfirmed supernatural talents. The unclassified records are unable to confirm or deny most of these claims.
@doppelgreener I've come up with a change to BEYOND TOP SECRET.
> BEYOND TOP SECRET. Director Parrish can always cause attempts to discover classified or personal information about her to fail, if she's willing to fill in Amaterasu's lowest available consequence slot.
@BESW I like this and have torn feelings over an improvement: that it should lead her to take action. ("... if she's willing to take action, and immediately fill in Amaterasu's lowest available consequence slot from it.")
Yeah, cool. Retroactive consequences ("I destroyed that database", etc) would be negated by this requirement, which is what gives me torn feelings over it.
And the hand device flaw! I never considered the thought of our team maybe taking advantage of weird and creepy artifacts with SERIOUS dangers in using them.
@BESW It is!! Clever work.
I have fun compels in mind for 2/3 of these things.
... I should make some dangerous artifacts the dwarves will use for bowling.
I keep forgetting to mention this: Ben and I were talking on Saturday, and two related things came up.
One, he's working next Saturday evening. No Ben at all, for sure.
Second and relatedly: it'd be kinda boring if the human side won.
And in Fate if something has a boring outcome and an exciting outcome, you go for the exciting outcome without introducing randomisation. Besides, the dwarves have a telekinetic on their side.
So, Ben and I were thinking, maybe the bowling game itself doesn't get rolled for (which helps accommodate Vogue being in the session without Ben playing him), but stuff AROUND the game gets rolled on to determine what it means for the dwarves to win.
So actually, there's two fun options: the dwarves win, or the humans win, but at such many and severe costs that in hindsight it might not have been worth it.
I think that assuring total, utter, and crushing victory for the dwarves is more fun than human victory and easier to engineer than human victory at great cost. They have an enormous amount of advantage on their side for reasons I haven't entirely gone into.
The session would be about what the humans might do in the face of likely defeat.
In pathfinder: according ro RAW are there some kind of doors, where the person goes through lands on a different fixed point on his plane, and he also can walk back? And Is there a name for that?
>"Enchanted by the original builders, a door might speak to explorers, warning them away. It might be protected from harm, increasing its hardness or giving it more hit points as well as an improved saving throw bonus against disintegrate and similar spells. A magic door might not lead into the space behind it, but instead might be a portal to a faraway place or even another plane of existence. Other magic doors might require passwords or special keys to open them."
Looking to see if I can find a specific example now.
I would bet the easiest way to emulate this would to have it be a permanent Dimension Door effect or a Teleport or something similar. The DC to break, the HP, hardness and such would be determined by the door material. Maybe with a bonus cause it is magical.
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@mawimawi I just searched "Door" on the pfsrd and did not find anything under magic items. Unless it is in an adventure module I don't think you are going to find a door. I think the question is narrow enough you can ask it on the main site though.
Hmm. Looks like my upcoming Pathfinder game may have a more regular schedule than the last one. I am thinking I maybe will have some less stressful windows for gaming outside of that, barring health stuff. What I will do with that I don't yet know.
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