The jungle is hot as @BESW lays his rifle down on a fallen tree stump. A curious @Waxeagle weaves his snaky body over the tree stump, and a flower to his left blinks. That's no flower... it's @MaliceVidrine!
"Clever girl." @BESW mutters before he's pounced upon by the velociraptor @MaliceVidrine. "REEEEE" screeches Malice. @Eimyr watches from the bushes ahead - the prey becoming the hunter.
@Doomedmind and her brother @Doppelgreener crouch low inside kitchen cabinets as @nitsua60 and @wibbs jump about the room, clicking their killer raptor claws on the ground and snarling at reflections.
Completely SWAG-worthy question: in fantasy-adventure gaming (say, 5e if you must) where foraging is a thing... how long should we say the food thus-gleaned lasts?
@trogdor my son's really into the resource-game. So he goes hunting every once in a while, always checks in on how much food the party's got. But it occured to me today that we're on day 9 of the current trek....
@Shalvenay nothing in particular in terms of storage/preservation. I suppose a quick smoke over the evening's fire, if that's possible? Catch a deer, eat a good dinner while working on the rest?
So if there's nothing in particular done, perhaps a day or two? (Some sort of weighted-average on food types, as I imagine fresh game will get... gamey pretty fast, vs tubers &c. being alright on the third-fourth day?)
@trogdor certainly I know when we smoke fish up in Maine we spend many hours, but how much is necessary vs. just being the right amount to make it a delicacy....
@MaliceVidrine I assume that's literal "ever living shit" =D
@nitsua60 - Oh, yeah, I'm fine. Hopefully no one is made uncomfortable by my saying this, but he was kind of a bastard and we hadn't talked in almost eight years.
@MaliceVidrine do you mean the lack of a conclusion?
@Shalvenay luckily, for a family of five we're pretty easy: two incomes from the same corporation, tuition deduction, day-care expenditures, and lots of under-the-hood stuff that happens before the IRS ever gets involved (pre-tax stuff)
Yeah. I mean, I hadn't discounted the idea of reconciliation, even though it wasn't going to happen any time soon. And then one day he was just dead, and that was all the wrap-up there was.
BUT. He had helped hose my chances at grad school, and now the inheritance makes it possible to pursue a doctorate if somewhere will take me. So at least that makes some amends.
The roller supports: d4, d6, d8, d10, d12, d20. You can roll up to four sets of XdY using one of those dice, where X is up to 9. X defaults to 1, Y defaults to 6.
I finally remembered to get cake flour and a sifter the other day. Together with a kitchen scale, I now have everything I need to make Japanese cake recipes optimally.
I'd just rather have non-stick, and more calamansi so I can make a calamansi cake instead of an orange cake (the first bag of calamansi is going into the sparkling cranteade.)
And other things that call for cake flour, but I don't see that as much when looking at American recipes because it's not super common to have more than one kind of flour, in my experience.
@trogdor You mean the sifter? I got the kind that's like a can with a mesh lining and a crank to force things through it.
I am not eminently knowledgeable on all the different kinds, I just know a small type of Japanese cake exists that seems to have been prominently used in a lot of books I have read XD
I think my boyfriend enjoyed SPN at first and then got tired of it. I've always been on the fence about even starting it because I hear that a lot, and also, I'm bad at watching long things.
What I would really like to see is a paranormal/supernatural show that can pull off the gravitas that so much of BSG did. But for some reason writers have figured out how to do it with robots and space ships, but not demons and wizards.
The closest I've found recently is Attack on Titan :P
@trogdor - I can babble about it! :D But I recommend just checking it out on Netflix or something. It has a bit of a slow start, but it rapidly gets really good.
I'd honestly say the same. I can't think of anything new I've seen since has been that solid, other than AoT. But I spend so much time trying to catch up on the past 40 years, I never see much of the new stuff. :P
Hellsing is certainly not a romantic take on vampires, which I appreciate. Even Vampire Hunter D played on the sort of classic victorian romantic version of vampires.
I just need to remember these things when I have the time and inclination to watch. This is exactly why I need a MyAnimeList equivalent for regular TV and films.
(It certainly went out of its way to distance itself from the film by doing an off-screen pre-series re-set of the status quo the third film had changed, and it contained none of the characters from the third film except Blade himself, thankfully re-cast.)
Then there was the most recent one, which made no sense and seemed to exist just to have one in 3D, much like the second most recent Resident Evil film.
@WrongOnTheInternet i hope you consider the various values of 'fantastic' available - consider that, for instance, movie pacing is often helped by lulls in the action and scenes in which not all that much happens. adventures can benefit from similar breaks. might be best to think of it that every room must contribute to the adventure being very enjoyable, or otherwise not counteract that goal.
@WrongOnTheInternet Speaking of, in such a large dungeon, you might want to use a technique called Gating that's used in video games. You move forward, and the area behind you becomes cut off to you somehow. This helps assure people they're going in the right direction. Could be done at a few points in a few points: - have a trial and then the room begins to collapse, and the only way out of it is forward. - a troll shuts those big heavy doors and bars them from the other side, oh no! though this might be equally tempting to smash down.
depending on your system (whichever D&D edition, or Dungeon World, or something else like Masters of Umdaar) and the capabilities you imagine the player characters will have at the time, various "gates" will be more effective than others, and some will be outright ineffective (the party takes it as a challenge to backtrack).
a one hundred room dungeon would benefit from them at some points (like, maybe a gate after 20, 40, 60, and 80 rooms) so as to tell them "you know those other 40 rooms? they're not relevant now. don't worry about them anymore. there definitely isn't anything back there you need to concern yourself with. relax, and keep moving."
@doppelgreener The dungeon is already separated into wings and has suggested goals. It has some monsters and challenges that are appropriate for 1st level characters, and some that even 10th level characters will have trouble with. The ideal here is for low levels to pick their battles very carefully and get the high risk, high reward treasure when they're stronger.
Or you can replace the normal Euclidian space of the dungeon with some sort of directed topological space, so that only travel in one direction is physically possible.
Ok. Dividing it into wings could also be pretty good.
That's more or less the equivalent of giving people levels to choose. :)
Might be fun to have a wing that destroys itself, collapses, caves in, sinks into a bog, or so on at a certain point. (They destroy / remove something, the magic of which was holding it together.) And another that is only accessible after they tackle something in two other wings.
@doppelgreener If the players accomplish one of the dungeon's two "goals" (accomplishing said goals is bad for them) the dungeon changes in a massive way.
Basically, a smart group of players is going to be able to win without making a single die roll. An average group of players is going to trip over all the awful things and make an absolute mess of their party and the surrounding countryside.
My first Cthulhu Dark game, one player figured everything out. She immediately tried to hack someone's arm off while screaming "Hold still! I'm trying to save world! And maybe you!"
Minutes later she was using her bare hands to lower the dire artefact into a furnace and hold it still long enough to melt.
Heh. At the end of my first tremulus game, one of the characters invited a fire vampire into his body, put on an amulet binding it in place, dove deep into the ocean and handcuffed himself to a shipwreck there.
In other news, my Campaign Coins have arrived, they are absolutely amazing, and I have no clue as to what I'll actually do with them. But shiny!
When not in use, my dice and tokens are in four different bags; a Crown Royal bag for the d6s, a Fate Core bag for the fudge dice, a velvet jewellery bag for the Fate tokens, and an embroidered armbag for everything else. Between games they sit, with the chopstick bowls and the index cards, in the salad bowl.
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That reminds me, I've been thinking of running... something lately. I don't know what yet. I'm just down to only one active RP and getting bored. :P As usual, probably just a... several shot. Because oneshots always wind up taking like 3 sessions online.
