@Miniman A bunch are interested in lurking/observing; once you start talking about what times people are available, we're looking at three players right now. That wouldn't be a bod number for DW, but it does mean that the moment one can't make it we'd cancel rather than play one-down. Four or five is a nice spot, I think.
Btw got your e-mail about TP. Good points in there. I've just not thought about it very much, because I just don't really get around to playing 17th-level and above =)
@nitsua60 Yeah, TP is one of those damned-if-you-do, damned-if-you-don't things. You can make it do what it says on the tin, but you open yourself up to abuses and shenanigans.
(I've never actually played with 9th-level spells either.)
I had a really interesting morning myself. Went to the opening lecture of a class (was 1/3 ok soft science stuff, 1/3 course organization, 1/3 of slightly overkill anti-plagiliarism message) and then hopped to <first bus heading downtown> to get to work.
On the way there, I noticed this bus took a rather lengthy detour very near a geocache I had meant to pick up since weeks ago. Hopped off, logged the cache, and took the scenic route to work by the seaside.
@kviiri Today I woke up and groaned that I don't want the school to start. My GF reminded me that I'm 28 and an idiot and that I should get up and go to work like a normal person. I obliged and only a while later I realised I was right all along - apparently every kid in this country gets a lift to school in their parents' huge black 4x4.
Yeah, especially when you're developing extension that would be used by DB :) Even though it's tiresome to work with, I find it very interesting to see internals and some solutions implemented there. Postgres devs are great, although there are several things that they decided they'll never change that creates pain in the neck.
We had practices at Uni with old oracle dbms. Too many issues. Those who managed to deploy it at home were considered a heroes. Everyone else just worked in the class.
Although using it wasn't that much of a problem. There was some old development/design kit. Which allowed to move design from ER scheme to deployment at real DB.
Just a casual question to the DnD guys here - hwo do you handle it when a party member dies and needs to be resurrected? I know it's a common procedure in DnD to raise your dead instead of creating new characters, but none of my DnD friends has done it and I wonder what the player of the dead PC does in the meantime.
@Riley Oh, this is just a thought I've had for ages that popped back. Not related to any particular death, but I assume it's more relevant in non-plot -important deaths like in routine combat.
@kviiri Well, it depends on the group, and the player. Sometimes players will be totally OK with it and keen to try a new character. Other times, you might want to get a resurrection as quickly as possible.
If you have NPCs lying around, that's one way to fill the gap. You can also let them control some of the enemies.
But generally, I try to (one way or another) minimize the time period where a player doesn't have control of their own character.
I sort of like how DW handles character death. Like, failing one's death save gets one "marked by death" which means they're about to die. The GM can withold the actual death until it's convenient.
In my group, it is a usual procedure to roll new characters, because they enter the game with the same amount of money the old one would have except they don't need to pay for the resurrection spell.
I need something for halflings to ride that on initial blush is goofy and hilarious but upon encountering becomes the most terrifying thing anyone has ever witnessed. Ideas?
@kviiri I've had this happen only 3 times in my campaigns (all other times were within easy access to ways to revive the dead such as spells other PCs had) and we handled it these ways. 1) The character temporarily inhabited another PC's sword and whispered to him. 2) The PC took over an NPC that was travelling with the party and got that NPC killed shortly after. 3) The PC got to play the monsters in all the combats until they got revived and was brutal.
@Shalvenay I agree, though I was hoping to set it up so that everyone thinks it is just a joke and then encounter it and only on dealing with it themselves do they really get it. Sort of how new players don't really take rust monsters or gelatinous cubes seriously until they have to cope with them.
Example of something I did in the same vein. I had them encounter a bunch of dwarf stonemasons armed only with mallets and chisels. They started tossing the chisels at them (the party being almost entirely in plate) and the chisels just sort of stuck to the armor dealing no damage. Then the dwarves rolled up on them and started pounding the chisels through the armor dealing huge amounts of damage.
They could just be called the Badger Brigade and the PC's assume it is a nickname. Then they get bowled over by an army of halflings riding dire badgers. That could work.
@DampeS8N I figured. (But were it me, I probably couldn't resist unleashing a large, dangerous serpent at the crux of the battle, no matter the risk of having dice thrown at me.)
A game I was running failed and ended because I had someone in the game who played his character quite literally retarded. He never took the game seriously so when I finally got around to telling him I was tired of his antics and kicked him out, three of the other four players left because they were friends of his
my problem is that one of my DMs got ate up by a mixture of school and worldbulding, another couldn't focus on DMing due to work reasons, a 3rd a while back had to give up due to RL health issues :/ and hasn't been really heard from since
and the 4th? he's completely, utterly MIA and might as well be chained up in some dragon's lair for all we know (if you're wondering, that'd be @waxeagle we suspect is chained up in some dragon's lair)
@Sandwich well...we had just started on Rise of Tiamat, hence the dragons
OTOH -- I do know of one or two folks on Aviation.SE who'd be able to make a righteous turkey shoot out of @waxeagle's captors if it was the dragons who kidnapped him
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@Ash so yeah -- probably even easier to drop by the linked channel if you're still interested in that chatizen DW game, btw (sorry for pointing you the wrong-ish way earlier)
because it's basically a fantasy-themed PbtA game -- somewhat OSR thematically, even, but with the light-weight, narrative-first approach that is characteristic of the PbtA engine
basically, you narrate what your character is doing, and your DM makes the calls on what mechanics that translates into, instead of you having to translate your character's actions into crunchy mechanical bits yourself
