TRPG General Chat

StuperUser

14:00

Yes, I was surprised how hard it was to find

Especially given that I'm in London and there's a single place that runs it

I might have to man up and offer to DM some after getting plenty of experience with it

doppelgreener

D&D 5e has its own thing called... adventurer's league I think?

BESW

Your service will be appreciated, citizen.

doppelgreener

dnd-5e dnd-adventurers-league are the tags you're looking for at minimum

StuperUser

Aaaaaah

I thought it had become "AL", now I know why I was surprised the event at my FLGS was "Encounters"

Miniman

@StuperUser AL is divided into 3 sections - Encounters, Epics, and Expeditions.

BESW

14:04

That's not confusing at all.

Miniman

@BESW I think they might be dumping those.

StuperUser

Oh goody

:)

Miniman

@StuperUser Don't quote me on that, I just vaguely remember reading something.

Polyducks

How do you guys get involved with the storylines of DnD?

Are they written out as blog posts or something, or must you play through them?

Miniman

@Polyducks I'm not sure I understand the question.

StuperUser

14:08

@Polyducks they get sent to gaming stores and people run the games for them

BESW

I think he's asking how the consumer's experience of a 5e adventure path compares to, say, the consumer's experience of a White Wolf or Dragonlance story arc.

Miniman

@Miniman @BESW @StuperUser Ah, here it is.

@BESW @Polyducks I think I see. Personally, my involvement is limited to buying and running a campaign book with my group, I don't do any event-based or store-based stuff.

Polyducks

14:25

@Miniman @BESW No, it's more of a question of... how do you know what the writers are talking about on twitter, in other social media etc? Recently there was a release that involved Tiamat and another which involved demons and Chaos. These are fictional lore which, from what I can tell, "changes everything". How is this given to the public?

Like, is it released in official gaming modules or what?

Or written as official stories? I find it very hard to see where the Lore is coming from

Miniman

@Polyducks This is the first I've heard of it, although I'm trying to avoid spoilers atm.

Polyducks

@Miniman spoilers of what though?

Is there an official story that is written in books or what?

Miniman

@Polyducks I'm playing in the Out of the Abyss campaign under another DM.

Polyducks

OH

So it is a module

and that's where the story comes from?

Miniman

@Polyducks It's one place. The Neverwinter MMO has bits, Forgotten Realms novels have bits, the AL modules have bits, the main campaigns have bits.

Polyducks

14:29

So what is the official word of god in these situations? Is the only official thing the rules?

Miniman

@Polyducks Do you mean WRT story and lore?

Polyducks

What's WRT?

BESW

With Respect To.

Miniman

@Polyducks With respect to.

Polyducks

OH! Yes, sorry

Thanks

Yes, WRT story and lore

Miniman

14:40

@Polyducks Then...I have no idea.

StuperUser

@Polyducks That would form a good question "Who decides whether published works (story books, modules, Encounters/Adventurer's League, other source books, podcasts) become D&D canon?"

Miniman

@StuperUser WOTC decides :P

StuperUser

:D

Polyducks

Oh yes! Thanks @StuperUser

I'll make that post later. I'll also try to refine it so it doesn't get too broad

StuperUser

It'd be interesting to see if there's any non-canon published works too.

Polyducks

14:46

I had the thought because I was trawling through old recordings of convention panels for @Eimyr's questions and the writers were talking with a large amount of self-importance about various story arcs, and until that point I was sure you could only experience a story via a DM.

They had spoiler alerts and so forth and I was just thinking - what are you spoiling, really?

But I guess if they're in the form of written campaigns, that could be it - but I don't know anyone who has played through campaigns in any sort of order, let alone finished them

StuperUser

it's the difference between watching Breaking Bad and watching Talking Bad, I guess

Yeah, I got into it through Acq Inc, so there's a way of experiencing canon without participating (given that Omin is a masked Lord of Waterdeep) (spoiler)

And a nifty cameo from someone in the 2015 games

eimyr

@StuperUser please spoiler like that

well that's weird

right

BESW

http:// is necessary.

eimyr

I never use it in real addresses... do I?

Polyducks

@StuperUser what's talking bad, Acq Inc and Omin?

Joshua Aslan Smith

14:51

good morning

Polyducks

@eimyr you're just giving a title to a url. It's a hacky way of adding spoilers.

@JoshuaAslanSmith Ayy :)

BESW

@eimyr Most browsers tack it on when you copy-paste from an address bar.

StuperUser

Talking Bad is a TV programme where people chat about episodes of Breaking Bad

so they'd be spoiling Breaking Bad

Joshua Aslan Smith

heh

StuperUser

Acq Inc is the Acquisitions Incorporated podcast series that Chris Perkins runs

with the live games at various PAX events

"turning D&D into a spectator sport"

Joshua Aslan Smith

14:53

Im trying to find good sources of character art for a star wars game wookiepedia is actually pretty terrible for this which is surprising (Im avoiding big name characters from the movies and the wider EU)

BESW

DeviantArt?

Joshua Aslan Smith

@StuperUser I think those con shows are useful for getting people hyped about the experience of D&D, but a bad baseline for a usual game session or campaign

Polyducks

@StuperUser DnD can be a good spectator sport :)

Joshua Aslan Smith

@BESW i'm poking there, quality is as always on deviant art, a roulette

Polyducks

This makes sense. That's a great answer, thanks @StuperUser.

I'll probably post the question later for distribution of points. I'll give you a ping as it should go on record for future searchers.

Quentin

14:56

@Polyducks <shudder> nothing I like less than an audience when RPing

Polyducks

Same here, @Quentin. If someone is at the table (or virtual table) and without a character, they get cast out pretty quick.

It's very easy to feel judged in those situations

Like having someone listen in on a private conversation

Quentin

Yup

Joshua Aslan Smith

@besw hmm the fantasy flight games star wars LCG seems promising

Polyducks

15:11

Guyssss I bought Katamari Damacy for PS2 today

It should arrive at the end of the week

That's an RPG right?

Joshua Aslan Smith

haha

def not

though a very relaxing and enjoyable game

Polyducks

But...you're playing a role, right?

Of space-prince?

StuperUser

@JoshuaAslanSmith indeed, unless your DM is Chris Perkins.

@Polyducks did you read the game play description or did someone tell you about "an awesome roll playing game"?

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I asked my friend whether he thought I'd enjoy it and he said "Na. Na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-naaaaaaaa.."

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Katamari Damacy Soundtrack - 01 - Katamari on the Rocks

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The character is a prince, but the gameplay is action arcade where you roll a growing sphere around to pick stuff up and get bigger, so you can roll over bigger stuff and pick it up so you can get bigger and... etc.

Fun, but not an RPG

Polyducks

15:28

@stuperUser 'Roll Playing' I get what you did there

omg, you are now my favourite guy on this chat for your Katamari jokes. +10

Joshua Aslan Smith

@Polyducks in so far as any character you inhibit is "role playing" then yes but you arent making choices

Premier Bromanov

I forgot to check the stack this weekend....47 days down the drain!

wax eagle

bummer :(

eimyr

oops

That_Knight_Guy

ouch

Premier Bromanov

15:41

I didnt even do anything this weekend either lol

eimyr

well, you didn't exchange any stack for sure

Joshua Aslan Smith

yeah I got burned on that one just because of the time zones and when stack ticks over to the next day

eimyr

isn't it timezone agnostic, just like the rest of the stack?

wax eagle

@JoshuaAslanSmith yeah, depending on your TZ, it's pretty easy to miss a day even when you're on every day

@eimyr it uses GMT to determine login days

Premier Bromanov

I need a bot to log on for me...

eimyr

15:44

heh

I'm on day 92

I think I'm in a bit more precarious position... as next weekend is 98, 99 and 100

wax eagle

@eimyr set you a reminder in your phone :P

Premier Bromanov

get it!

eimyr

I think it works too if you check the site via app?

Joshua Aslan Smith

@waxeagle I flipped the proverbial table and then stopped caring about that one badge

wax eagle

@PremierBromanov I'm pretty sure some people have those (or did the last time I looked around). Honestly, the easiest thing to do would be to use the task scheduler to open the page once/day

@JoshuaAslanSmith lol :)

I think I got it a long time ago and stopped caring about consecutive day logins

eimyr

15:48

@JoshuaAslanSmith What is the proverb with flipping the table?

Joshua Aslan Smith

there are more important badges I should work on, specifically the ones that I didnt have that the site deemed important for the last mod election

Premier Bromanov

Guess ill just vote on 600 questions now lol

wax eagle

@PremierBromanov that's the easy one :)

Premier Bromanov

Sounds like it's encouraging me to vote on questions I know nothing about, like 3.5 stuff haha

you shall all feel my uneducated fury

wax eagle

@PremierBromanov totally fine. It's pretty rare that you want to downvote questions that have upvotes

hand out those upvotes like candy.

Premier Bromanov

15:49

I like that the badges also encourage me to dig up dead posts and edit them lmao

wax eagle

answers require a slightly larger amount of care to vote on, but really not much. The important thing to do is vote (says the one who doesn't vote like he should)

@PremierBromanov yes! it's one of those things that distinguish us from forums

eimyr

Erm... I just visited the bagdes page and I can't seem to find the one abotu voting on 600 questions?

Ooooh

Premier Bromanov

Electorate

eimyr

I got it.

wax eagle

(oops wrong one, Populist is the one about having a good non-accepted answer)

eimyr

15:57

Yeah... It's a shame that populist requires you to post your super cool answer after another one is accepted

I think it defeats the purpose...

Premier Bromanov

Or I guess I can go for silver dnd5e and make 52 more answers lol

Joshua Aslan Smith

@eimyr I think Ive gotten that a few times

@eimyr totally not at all, sometimes a person rushes to best answer and they dont use the site and you have a wholly better answer

also on more subjective posts best answer might be what works for that user specifically but the community shows they support a different answer

eimyr

hm

maybe

Joshua Aslan Smith

also mo rep dont hurt

wax eagle

@eimyr the order there doesn't matter, my populist was posted first.

Joshua Aslan Smith

15:58

dat privledge

eimyr

I had that recently with one question, but I didn't get the populist.

Premier Bromanov

almost there

eimyr

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A: Is there a subtle difference between increasing DC and adding detrimental modifiers?

Existing answers are already very good and this one does not mean to replace them. Wax Eagle and TuggyNE did a great job. I would like to offer an alternative, narrative point of view. In games like D&D mathematics are supposed to express certain things and provide a difference in the mechanics ...

this thing, it was 2x when the answer was accepted

wax eagle

@eimyr it has to be true when the script runs and because it's dependent on votes that can change fast

eimyr

mhm

oh well

Pixie

18:54

@BESW That's one of my favorite things about the show.

@doppelgreener I love this bird.

I wonder if it's the same as this bird.

Nope, they are different, looking at their markings. I want to put them in the same room.

Zachiel

19:31

> "You ruined it Yahoo. I don't even want to use Tumblr if it's going to be run by you," wrote one Tumblr blogger whose screen name can't be printed in a family newspaper.

Ah, the Internet. Such a wonderful, offensive, wonderfully offensive place.

eimyr

Anyone remembers soup.io ?

wax eagle

20:20

@Shalvenay @Grubermensch @JoshuaAslanSmith not looking good for our game night, looks like I'll be away on biz Wed/Thurs

Lord_Gareth

20:32

@BESW Thanks ^_^

Joshua Aslan Smith

20:46

@waxeagle I believe yo mean "Game night" vs game tonight

wax eagle

yes, that is what I mean :)

Joshua Aslan Smith

i was like WHOA WHOA WHOA IM GMING TONIGHT I CANT COME TO A GAME TONIGHT

speaking of which, I forgot how much work making a campaign from scratch ws

wax eagle

lol well no worries I was gonna cancel anyways :P

@JoshuaAslanSmith yeah, one of those days I'm gonna try my hand at that

Myn and I have a sea campaign kicking around in our head that we want to write together at some point

Joshua Aslan Smith

Ive been hung up on finding images but then I remembered the fan community for the Star Wars LCG puts out digital copies of the cards after 6 months of a release which FFG is okay with and I can crop those and use those for NPC portraits and scene setting handouts

BESW

21:47

Ask Lovecraft - Warhammer 40K

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Emperor Norton I gets a shout-out, which makes me happy.

trogdor

22:56

@BESW I could have sworn he did something on 40k before

Adeptus

23:49

I just learned that in Pathfinder, it's possible to mass Sneak Attack...

4

A: Why can I not sneak attack with Magic Missile?

It is because in order to apply Sneak Attack, the rogue must be able to precisely aim his attack at a vital body part (for example, creatures of type: elementals are immune -- they have no vital parts). Even though Pathfinder doesn't have specific body-part targeting by default, it is an abstrac...

> Surprise Spells:
At 10th level, an arcane trickster can add her sneak attack damage to any spell that deals damage, if the targets are flat-footed.

Step 1: cast multiple Grease spells to cover the floor under your enemies
Step 2: Enemies are counted as flat-footed
Step 3: cast Fireball on enemies, and add Sneak Attack

Shalvenay

talk about dirty tricks

(and a smoky grease fire to slowly burn up the evidence, too)

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