@nitsua60 It's kind of a weird idea, having school so soon after christmas. But when you think about it, it does make sense to have summer as the long break. Both just happen at the same time here.
I have a situation. My group is heading towards an elven kingdom in pursuit of a plot coupon. Unbeknownst to them, the plot coupon is evil and corrupted and is turning the royal elven family paranoid, seeing plots in every corner. One of the players, unbeknownst to everyone (even her) is a member...
I am horrified by this plan. I think they might not have thought through the consequences of making one player think that everyone's plotting against them.
> Can you please edit this question to make it clear where you're referring to a player, or to a player's game character? I'm really hoping that you're talking more about the character and you're not trying to make someone at the table feel real-life paranoia about people they trust, for the sake of a game.
i left this one a few seconds beforehand (wasn't in the loop, was busy writing)
This normally isn't what comments are for, but I find this scenario exceptional: Are you sure you've thought through the ramifications of making one of your players think everyone in the group is plotting against her, in real life? (As in, have you considered that maybe this will mess her up, make the game un-fun and stressful for her, make her leave the group, and more?) — doppelgreener1 min ago
Yeah. If a GM's going to be making important decisions about a character's background without the player's knowledge, that really needs to be discussed with and approved by the group beforehand. They need to know that's going to be happening.
but not anything that someone else could decide ahead of time and force me to accept
so there is a difference there, but it can sometimes be cool if someone comes up for an idea about or for your character as long as it requires you to put your stamp of approval on it
And unless this is a group in which secret plots against characters are considered fun and an okay thing to do (by both the plotter and the plotted), I can only see that asker's plan ending badly.
@BESW in a D&D game I'd just say to my 5-year groups of player-friends, "hey, I'd like the next plot arc to include an artifact that's making you all paranoid. You wanna try playing that?"
@trogdor BTW, maybe I hadn't mentioned this before: Doctor Light is really an extra-dimensional being from the Land of Plant People, brainwashed by Amaterasu into thinking he used to be human as an experiment in population integration techniques.
@Shalvenay sorry it took so long--"bath and bed" turned into "bath and bed and undecorate the tree and I decided we're going to start working out at night..." =)
which leaves me wondering how one'd make sturdy clothing out of it -- because while silk is a sturdy fiber, the clothes made from it IRL are considered delicate, almost universally, which strikes me as odd.
Though in my mind, sturdy seems to go hand in hand with dragonborn, and also I am imagining light, delicate charmeuse getting snagged on your dance partner's primarily metal outfit. :P
@Pixie The description on Wikipedia doesn't discuss it's mechanical properties much. I was actually wondering if a true ripstop fabric could be developed...as those are known to be mechanically superb when woven from a strong fiber.
@Shalvenay Yeah, it's hard finding that kind of info, and I don't know a ton about textile production. As for ripstop, quite possibly -- though it likely wouldn't be as nice to the eye or touch.
@Shalvenay If there were an SE that textile production fell under the umbrella of, I'd suggest asking there, but I don't know that there is. Worldbuilding might be good though. Someone there might know.
@Pixie yeah. Worldbuilding I think will be my starting point once I do a bit of workshopping in chat or such...if it's too specific for them, then I suspect engineering.SE would be the place for it.
@DrunkCynic I'm talking about not just wet strength here, but the properties needed to make a fabric sturdy -- as in, capable of withstanding repeated snagging on metal things, being stepped on, etal. (In the WB.SE question, I might even ask what would be required to make a silk shirt that could survive a day in Ye Olde Railyard :p)
@Shalvenay Understood, just referencing humerous silk anecdotes. Unless your wedded to silk, do a google search on "department of defense uniform procurement." There is bound to be a mind numbing amount of details on the endurance and lifespan of fabric there.
Silk is certainly fine for fancy dress under normal standards, and also everyday wear depending. Having handled some silk, I can also say that I have worn much thinner (if stretchier) stuff without it tearing at the drop of a pin. I would just not treat it the way I treat my linen. xD
I had to wash my linen duvet cover 10+ times when I first got it because the packaging or treatment imparted a rather gross chemical smell that did not want to come out. It is just fine.
@Shalvenay It's not that uncommon, especially with bed stuff, due to either treatments used on the fabric to make them wrinkle-resistant or pesticides used to protect them during storage or else chemicals in the plastic packaging they're sold in.
Normally I'd just not buy something that had that much of a smell, but online shopping... :P
Alas, I am not rich enough to by $300 organic bedsheets, nor will I likely be in this lifetime, so I have resigned myself to some amount of offgassing. :P
> The GM describes the scene for the other players and adjudicates the results of their actions, often by throwing some dice(1). 1. Either on the table, to provide a random number as part of a non-deterministic way of determining the success or otherwise of a player’s action, or at the player if he suggested something stupid.
"It takes the nihilistic horror of the Cthulhu mythos and makes it into a joke, just so that it can then turn it back around into a nihilistic horror setting once more. God spare England, because Cthulhu won’t." - rpg.net review
random observation... you can make "chocolate" sound like a verb if you change the pronunciation slightly
@Adeptus potential thing: make that a horrifying crazy scientist's procedure which should absolutely not be mistaken for chocolate. (he didn't realise the coincidence at the time of naming the chocolisation process, and it's rather put him off chocolate.)
@Adeptus The ones in favour of extermination are shocked and think the Dalek population should at least have some decency. (The fact they even think this is part of the shock for them.)
@Shalvenay Babywearing slings can be another point of inspiration. My wife has several slings which are blends of silk & something else. When tied into a knot, they are surprisingly resistant to movement (which is good, since babies are very enthusiastic when seeing something shiny).
and actually, one of them seems to be slowly slimming down, time will tell if this continues
hopefully the new diet we have them on will get them both to lose some weight, because they are severely unhealthy, and one even got kitty arthritis early XD
Well my players have started the "Rise of Tiamat" campaign with new characters at level 8, so of course there are aspects to their characters that they are not completely familiar with
...I find myself struggling with voting on questions. I sometimes find myself wanting to vote based on if i think they should even be having the problem or not :
@DavidWilkins Interesting. I feel bad, then, that I'm not sure if my group signed over the project
the guy didn't really get much legal paperwork to us and then the class ended and he wanted us to sign it over, but at that point we were just two dozen random students rather than a complete group and I haven't heard anything since
then again, most of the class had never played a tabletop RPG
and most people couldn't be bothered to read the rules
so it turned out just OK because of the direction of the people that HAD played a tabletop RPG
There was talk after the class of taking out all of the ACKS stuff to just make it our own vageuly tabletop-like dungeon delver RPG, but once again, all those people that never played a tabletop...
They wanted me to rename every spell and no longer base damage, even internally, on dice and make it static
because they were afraid that "Fireball" was trademarked or at least too close to the product
and "8d6" would be something trademarked by somebody
so I quit because as the guy that programmed all of the spells and some of the items, there was no way that I was wasting my free time renaming "Fireball" to "Exploding Fire Sphere" that does a static amount of damage for no reason other than other people in the group didn't know what bits were trademarked or not
Seriously, they wouldn't even let me do "8 - 48" damage instead of "8d6" because they said "8 - 48 looks like Diablo or something, so we probably can't use it"
they also took my end-of-game Easter egg crazy powerful sword (because by the time you get it, you've beaten the game) and made it a reference to My Little Pony, made it available in the shop, and made it cost an amount that was easy to farm within a short amount of time without asking me before the game went up for final demo
So when the little kids came to the college to see what cool things you could do if you study computers and programming, they basically destroyed the game in half an hour
This is why I decided to not work in the game industry. I couldn't live with working on a project like that and have almost everyone not even know the property that we were making the game for (among a lot of other reasons). The gaming industry is full of that.
Of course, for all the assembly-line schlock using the same basic template to punch out two dozen franchise titles, there's also groups like Tigon Studios and the Starry Expanse Project that are founded on principles of dedication to source material.
Yeah, but in order to get my X number of published titles to move on to good companies, I'd probably have to work at a couple of places that weren't optimal for the enjoyment of my life
I'd rather write regular software that solves problems in the world and make games on my own time according to my own vision
@Tritium21 at least in my group, getting into Epic means that you've definitely made it. My friends probably wouldn't mind just working on Unreal Engine stuff
Micropayment games are popular over lump-sum-purchase games amongst lower-income people for the same reason they use phones instead of desktops as their primary Internet access points and why they don't buy bulk much: they can't afford the up-front expense even if it'd be cheaper in the long run.
My phone charges have only just reached the point where I'm considering actually getting a plan; I've always been pre-paid.
There are a myriad ways to live a life, some of which it's hard to imagine unprompted.
In many parts of the Philippines the communication infrastructure totally passed them by as telephone lines and fibre optics were laid elsewhere; they don't even have electricity yet.
So you buy a cell phone on a trip to the city.
Your local store sells pre-paid cards and somebody has a gas-powered generator that you can charge the phone on for a small fee.
In the middle of the night it's pitch black because there aren't any electric lights for dozens of miles, but when someone gets a text their phone pops up as a little island of red and blue and green light in the dark.
People who move their homes every few months--very wealthy people whose jobs require them to travel around the world--use mobile devices instead of desktop computers as their primary communication gateway too, because they can keep it with them.
I like playing my Doctor Who game in the line at the Post Office.
Mmmmh I think I need help. Can anybody find me out (I can ask this as a question if it turns out it works better) where WotC said that 3.5e was a great error and they apologized for it, while trying to market 4e?
@Tritium21 Everything is a sequel because of (corporate) risk aversion. Untested new franchises generally gather more polarized reviews and carry greater risk of a flop.
I was thinking... I would play tW2 way more, if only it didn't take ages to load every time I Alt+tab out when it's my turn to write in play by chat games
What really baffles me is... why isn't survival of the fittest granting that only those who like eating healthy things survive? Why do we like sugar so much? Or milk?
Well, there are two things that need to be said. First, it's okay to like spending time alone in a room. Second, it rarely results in romantic relationships with another human being.
@nitsua60 I like playing in D&D like environments but I don't like the GM cheating to keep me alive, I like building characters that auto-pass skill checks, I fear having to change character because of death, I don't like the idea of a character needing to be resurrected either. I basically want to be the lucky player who gets all the fun of being always right
@nitsua60 No, people-wise. I would assume folks who don't play with Stack friends for a variety of reasons would have some picks and preferences about who they would like to play with the most.
Because I started with D&D. It's tied to memories such as playing the franchise videogames, and because I want to prove myself that i can grok it and make a character that works, psychologically and mechanically
A morbidly obese cleric, who is mechanically overpowered (but acceptable by mods because their friends didn't like it) and never uses it.
I didn't jog for more than 3 second before complaining, insisted on walking instead. Casting spells was a drag and I preached about how the party should be thankful for Bless, because it's so much work. I used crafting - made beer, which was completely useless to everyone.
And when I had a rogue/chameleon that I was unsatisfied with because she couldn't do half the things a bard/chameleon could, I got told to change character and I proceeded to rolling a cleric because when a guy told me "do a tier 3" I was all "but I will envy tier 1s all the time!"
And finally he demanded money for the church, which he then spent publicly on booze and adultery.
I LOVED IT AND SO DID THE SERVER.
@Zachiel it seems that you want to skip a step where you are useful and nice to play with and go straight to dominating a session, but expect everyone to praise you for it.
