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user15026

00:00

Hopefully it doesn't give me too much trouble.

doppelgreener

@Sandwich Joke images that are there because they're jokes make our site worse. (People will upvote your answer more because it included a funny, which undermines just about everything.) Include images if they're actually totally vital and genuinely improve the information & usefulness content of your post, or are otherwise absolutely necessary.

There's a line to tread there though. We have a giant spider question. That one's inherently funny.

But if you want people to like your answer, do that by making it an awesome answer.

2 hours later…

BESW

01:43

Robotoberfest in Florida and California this month.

doppelgreener

02:01

I just saw that Masks game described as Monsterhearts but with superheroes.

Pixie

02:20

@doppelgreener Are you talking about this one?

BESW

He probably means the Kickstarter linked in the RPG Stuff pin.

Pixie

Oh, didn't spot the addition. [checks out]

BESW

Check out the Furious Test Drivers too!

Pixie

02:42

Hmm. I'm looking over 'em, but it's not really a theme that draws me in.

BESW

Mostly I'm looking at them to see if there's any original systems they're hacking that I want to investigate.

Pixie

Fall of Magic interests me.

Magician

@Pixie I backed it, and will likely write about it once I played it :)

Pixie

02:58

Also kind of makes me want to watch The Last Unicorn.

@Magician Hearing about actual play would be nice!

doppelgreener

@Pixie The kickstarter that BESW mentioned.

Pixie

I've never actually played Monsterhearts, but I bought it recently, and I've heard a lot about it from friends. This Masks game looks neat, and also the art is amazing.

Oh man. I wonder if they're going to sell the Masks dice separately after the campaign is over. I don't really have $100 to drop right now for the sake of this, but I am filled with want.

Nyoze

03:34

Heya Folks :)

Pixie

Hmm. But the unrelated Masks game I linked above has a random generation character method. I may mess with it later. On that subject: anyone know of other games that have full random generation for characters? I love Maid RPG's and had a lot of fun with Eclipse Phase's.

Nyoze

Deadearth? /run

Pixie

I am googling, but you get a lot of character generators like this (language warning). Such things are great, but I'm looking for stuff within games. :P

BESW

Great Ork Gods has a randomisation option, but it's literally one option: randomise how much each god hates you. Because that's the Ork's only variable starting stat except for its name.

Pixie

Heh.

For my current purposes (I just want to roll a lot of things and see how they work together), the more stuff, the better.

BESW

03:42

I figured.

I assume you've seen deadEarth, as Nyoze mentioned above.

Pixie

I have. Maybe someday...

BESW

...The 1985 Doctor Who has randomisation!

It's got PC randomisation, solar system/planet randomisation, alien creature randomisation...

...I'm gonna roll up a planet and a monster.

Pixie

Ooh. I'm into Dr. Who, but that sounds fun.

The d3 Sandbox Companion has a rather thorough system for generating NPCs, among other things, which can easily be applied to any kind of character. Stuff like this is acceptable for me too. The d30 DM Companion has some fun stuff in it too (random mold!). It's obviously primed for OSR, but I have much fun with both of them.

Tritium21

04:21

wait...there is ANOTHER AWE powered supers game?

I JUST bought worlds in peril. Not gonna kickstart that one too

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Magician

05:56

A horror story in two screenshots (from GW2).

Tritium21

Iron Heart

06:44

6d10

Dice Service

Nyoze

Oh man

1d2

That failed lol

My motivation levels today are 1d1 out of 100 :\

1d6

Dice Service

•

Iron Heart

2d6

Dice Service

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Iron Heart

06:46

4d10

Dice Service

Iron Heart

okay

Nyoze

Dice roller & formatting tests playgr…

The roller supports: d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20. You can roll ...

In b4 BESW growling at us :P

SPArchaeologist

06:58

@Tritium21 Be grateful, it wasn't a Scroll of Icarian Flight...

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Tritium21

08:56

Q: Must contributor agreements be physically signed?

I've been developing an API internally with a few friends, and hope to expand it and make it open to the broader public. I've highlighted a lot of background in this question, but to recap, it's a smaller project that has mostly been intended for educational use. We're going fairly well, found a...

look at the last (-6) answer to that question... there is a banner on the answer. I have never seen that before... does that happen here?

Miniman

@Tritium21 Never seen it, but I'd love to - it'd be pretty useful.

Nyoze

I haven't seen anything like that before, but it makes sense.

Tritium21

If i remember I will ask on Meta Stack Exchange about it

anyways, bed

eimyr

09:12

Hello

SPArchaeologist

Nyoze

@eimyr Heya :)

BESW

Yo.

Sandwich

How's it goin

doppelgreener

10:10

Spame! Flag please

BESW

A robot is being taught how to assemble IKEA furniture.

Kickstarter for a laser razor.

Kickstarter for headphones that deliver sound straight into your skull.

BESW

10:37

Genesis

Creation! PCs, NPCs, worlds, etc. (This means more than just r...

SPArchaeologist

11:06

(one day I will understand why most of the best ElectroKaplosion songs are unlisted)

doppelgreener

11:26

@Tritium21 it's gone, but was that a citation banner?

BESW

Yes.

doppelgreener

11:42

I've seen that from time to time, but I have no idea what the trigger is.

Or whether some sites do it and some don't. I've never seen it here.

SPArchaeologist

12:04

Q: Support for banners?

It would be very useful and possibly necessary on our site to have support for banners to apply on questions and answers. This would help the questions and answer to get proper attention and editing love they deserve. It is in no way different from how Wikipedia handles the same problems. They c...

feature-request status-completed wikipedia post-notice

@doppelgreener ^ this ones?

seems a mod feature.

doppelgreener

oh sweet.

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Wibbs

13:21

What's the official site policy for untested houserules? Is it downvote or flag?

Aaron

13:39

@Wibbs Question in question?

Wibbs

@Aaron any where an answer gives untested homebrew

Aaron

I think it is allowed unless the question specifically stats RAW answers only.

Wibbs

Q: Is homebrew an acceptable answer to a question?

Perhaps it's just the game designer in me, but for many of the questions asked here I almost automatically start thinking of homebrew solutions to whatever problem the asker is having. Would providing a short bit of homebrew rules be an acceptable "answer" to a question? The clearest example is ...