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Shalvenay

01:18

hey there @Adeptus

BESW

The paladin, on raising her Charisma score: "I wonder if this is what it's like being Chris Hemsworth."

Tweeted by lasrina on August 2, 2016 at 1:20 AM

Miniman

@BESW Nah, he has a class feature that lets him add his Strength mod to all Charisma checks.

Adeptus

@Shalvenay hey

trogdor

@Miniman I feel like a lot of people in real life have that, we just don't all have that strength score

Miniman

@trogdor You make a good point - maybe it's a racial ability rather than a class feature.

trogdor

01:33

as in Australians have it?

for me, they have a feat that says their accent adds to their cha

I do love an Australian accent, for some reason

Miniman

I actually just meant people - it wouldn't have occurred to me to classify Australian as a race.

trogdor

lol

I just thought you were being funny about it because he is Australian

I don't know if I would have said it is a racial ability,... but maybe it is

not all other creatures on this planet equate muscle as the big defining attractive feature that many of us do

Shalvenay

@Adeptus how're things going?

trogdor

some animals even seem to prefer fat

Shalvenay

@trogdor "fat bottom girls make the rockin' world go 'round"?

Miniman

01:37

@trogdor Well, it's true. It'd also be reasonable to say that D&D-style ability scores just don't hold up even within D&D-style games, let alone real life :P

trogdor

@Shalvenay no, that is just a preference, I mean how some animals, like certain kinds of seals, need to build up a certain amount because of the temperature of where they live

also whales and soforth

BESW

Historically, in many cultures a pale, body fat has been very attractive: it means you're rich enough to stay indoors and overeat.

Adeptus

@BESW not sure if this is one of your "tiles" entries in the KS list: kickstarter.com/projects/1084069684/… - they're working together with Reaper Minis, and have EU & AU hubs to reduce shipping costs

trogdor

@BESW yeah, but obviously that is a thing that has been capable of changing

and it differs between different cultures

BESW

Wasn't until recently that tanned skin and muscles became a sign of disposable income.

trogdor

01:41

yeah, the idea changed

Shalvenay

@trogdor well, I'm just saying that some humans prefer fat too

trogdor

(and I am sure is capable of changing again)

@Shalvenay yes, I am aware

and it varies in degrees and where they prefer it to be too

so there is that

but my point there was that some species don't seem to use muscle as a factor at all

in fact, I couldn't personally prove that most animals that typically do have a lot of muscle necessarily use that specific thing as a measure of attraction

though I would say it would at least probably factor in in some way, just not necessarily in a visual way, like most attraction elements do for us

Adeptus

02:14

> Inventions tend to be bulky, weighing 10 pounds per level of discovery. Held, carried or worn inventions typically take up two body slots, chosen from the list in Chapter Ten of d20 Modern...

> 1 headband, headset, hat, or helmet ; 1 pair of eyeglasses, contact lenses, sunglasses, or goggles ; 1 amulet, brooch, medallion, necklace, necktie, or scarab ; 1 suit of armor (archaic or modern) ; 1 robe, jacket, windbreaker, or coat ; 1 cloak, cape, poncho, sweater, or mantle ; 1 vest or shirt ; 1 pair of bracers or bracelets, or 1 watch ; 1 pair of gloves or gauntlets ; 1 pair of earrings ; 2 rings ; 1 belt ; 1 pair of boots, shoes, or sandals ; 6 tattoos

Heavy tattoos

Shalvenay

@Adeptus quite :o

BESW

03:00

trogdor

lol

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Miniman

05:40

Does anyone remember the Blog Overflow post about "questions" that just describe a situation without actually asking a question?

trogdor

05:50

I most certainly don't

but I wouldn't be the one to remember something like that anyway

Doomed Mind

06:37

Some weird questions pop up here

Which apparently get deleted before I can read the probably hilarious content.

BESW

Check out the "Awesome Ninja Action" section on this blog post. I'm really liking two-sided aspects.

trogdor

I am not even looking at questions as often as I used to

Doomed Mind

@trogdor I dont. But it popped into my feed, and the title looks funny, albeit weird.

trogdor

Doomed Mind

I usually cant answer any of the questions anyway, since most are about D&D, which I have only played in the form of Neverwinter Nights / Pool of Radiance

trogdor

06:54

yeah, I have only played 3.5 and 4E

and technically even if I saw a lot of 3.5 questions I couldn't answer most of em

but 4E questions pop up so rarely now that I have mostly stopped checking

BESW

Reminder that your tags can be filtered at the bottom of your preferences page.

Doomed Mind

Yeah, I know :)

trogdor

yep I know that

trogdor

07:26

I have a couple things turned off in it, like 5E and Pathfinder

cause I have no clue about those systems

and no interest in sorting through them since I can't really answer questions in them

eimyr

07:41

Adeptus

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Fibericon

17:41

Oh boy. The group I was playing Fate with just asked me to GM Shadowrun 3e for them. I can do it, but they're not going to like the shift in rule focus.

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nitsua60

19:14

Fine day, chatizens!

Anaphory

And the same to you!

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nitsua60

20:56

VtC dupe; skill checks are ability checks

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Shalvenay

22:24

@Fibericon -- yeah, SR is a messy system at best from what I've heard of it on this Stack

BESW

@Fibericon Oh my.

Anaphory

22:41

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Last time, it was very spontaneous and I had only too vague recollection of Aγων and of what I wanted the Run to be like, so there's room for improvement.

BESW

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KorvinStarmast

23:03

@nitsua60 Right back at you. I could not help myself, I had to try a second answer on how to one shot Demogorgon in 1e with a fireball. I blame @heyIcanChan for leaving me that juicy bait ....

Shalvenay

hey there @Anaphory and @KorvinStarmast

nitsua60

23:22

I never played a high-enough level spellcaster in 1e to ever worry about those things =)
(I was more of a martial-assemble-enough-followers-to-start-playing-the-kingdom-building-game 1e'er)

Just the other day I was thinking about you, @KorvinStarmast; even though we're both well on our ways to 5e gold about a year in, I feel like we rarely overlap on questions...

[tries writing SDSE query to pull questions on which two users specified by parameter have both answered]

Shalvenay

hey there @nitsua60

nitsua60

@Shalvenay hiya

Shalvenay

@nitsua60 how're things going?

nitsua60

R20 after my kids are down?

Shalvenay

@nitsua60 I think that works as a plan

nitsua60