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12:00 AM

@nitsua60 or that triple-pointed boomerang thing

That doesn't hold nearly as much beer. The capacity of a 175-g discraft is close enough to 40 oz. for most mathematicians =)

BESW

12:22 AM

Yes, but what if it's non-Euclidean?

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This is a problem my IRL group faces, because we sit on an L-shaped couch facing a TV with our Skyping members.

UrhoKarila

1:59 AM

NON EUCLIDIAN GEOMETRY, YOU SAY?

he shouts, an hour since the conversation has died

Ran my group a 'dungeon' that was built <s>in</s> on the surface of a tesseract once for the fun of it.

It was meant to be an interesting and engaging experience for my table of technically-minded engineers & CS majors.

Most of them chalked it up to 'well that's weird' and left at that.

Shalvenay

heh

UrhoKarila

It made my day to find one of my players in our CS club room between classes building a model out of a cut-up sponge and cannibalized ethernet cable, though.

Shalvenay

hey there @UrhoKarila btw

UrhoKarila

I've been here for a while, just lurking

Left the tab open while I went out for the evening

Ben

2:19 AM

OK, so: playing Dark Heresy, my Character is a Techpriest. Our group is standing "Bert and Enrie" style behind a platform, watching a group of Nurgle worshippers in a Summoning Circle. Next thing: --pop-- Nurgle Demon.

Shalvenay

hey there @Ben

also, hey there @nitsua60, kidlets to bed yet?

nitsua60

@Shalvenay yup--a while ago. Been working on event detection.... (Of the numerical simulations kind, not of the "listening for a kid coughing" kind.)

Ben

Everyone does Willpower checks. Arbite fails; throws up. Scum fails; passes out. Techpriest passes: "Ok... a Giant Demon just materialized out of thin air... Nah. Smoke and Mirrors."

@Shalvenay how's it going?

Shalvenay

@nitsua60 ah. you available to talk now?

@Ben alright here, in a DW game nowadays so there's that :D

Ben

\o/

nitsua60

2:22 AM

@Shalvenay yes, though it'll be my second-priority process.

Shalvenay

@Ben so, what else is up on your end?

@nitsua60 text only, or would voice be OK?

Ben

Got two new games to keep me occupied, so three in total. One is Numenera, one is Dark Heresy, and the third one (which I am yet to join) is another system I don't remember the name of haha

nitsua60

text, preferably--I'm not really good at timeplexing aural+textual (if you didn't notice last night!) Timeplexing text+text will work much better for me tonight.

Shalvenay

@nitsua60 right

@Ben xD I take it that takes up most of your free time these days?

Ben

Yeah, which is good, cos otherwise I'm just sitting around doing nothing. I would have contributed that time to trying to set up some more 1v1's with you, but unfortunately due to time differences that's a little tricky :(

Shalvenay

2:28 AM

@Ben yeah

Ben

Quick question to anyone lurking... is anyone familiar with the Dark Heresy system?

UrhoKarila

2:44 AM

Not me, sorry

Magician

2:58 AM

@Ben I ran a game in it, years ago.

Ben

@Magician I have a question about one of the Talents in the Lathe Worlds book

More of a clarification of the rule

Magician

Hah. I'm afraid I won't be of much use there. Didn't get around to that book. Not that I remember much of the system, either...

Ben

No worries

BESW

4:47 AM

Some of these earnest little Kickstarters give my sympathy pains.

> Arcana has a new system for working out ones equipment, rather than choosing, say, full plate Armour or Hide Armour, you instead gain the ability to decide what pieces of equipment your character is wearing. this means that your freedom over what types of equipment your character uses is much more in depth. there are 8 pieces of equipment, Head, Shoulders, Arms, Hands, Torso, Waist, Legs and Feet. You could decide to have Metal legs and feet, but cloth arms and torso with a leather hood and shoulders, and this would be your Armour.

trogdor

but is there any particular reason you would do that?

BESW

There's a link to a demo on the main page if you want to find out.

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Chemus

5:20 AM

@BESW I recall 2e having something akin to that; piecemeal armor from...Fighter's HB?

Miniman

5:31 AM

@BESW Reading their description, I can't hwlp but think that they've never looked beyond D&D.

"Very unique"...no.

BESW

@Miniman Exactly. I run across one of this sort of Kickstarter every month or so.

(I've yet to see one get funded.)

Miniman

@BESW In some ways, that seems like a good thing.

BESW

Yeah. I hope the designers figure out why, so they can explore the wider world of RPGs and not have to re-invent the wheel in their future designs.

Miniman

@BESW There's that, too, but not being nearly as nice as you are, I was just thinking about the market ~~potentially~~ already flooded with varying quality D&D derivatives.

BESW

That too.

Miniman

5:47 AM

Then, too, this is a specific instance of a broader phenomenon - wide-eyed hopefuls with rather naive Kickstarters crop up in every category.

BESW

Also I found this Kickstarter that looks like something which should go on the Timely RPG pin, but... not sure.

Miniman

I'm trying to remember if any chatizens know German, but I'm not sure it's ever come up before.

BESW

Well, I know some of them have played The Dark Eye.

SevenSidedDie

6:10 AM

@Miniman Very, very poorly. :)

@BESW That's sounds like a classic fantasy heartbreaker. I wonder what its (heartbreakingly) buried wonderful idea is?

kviiri

In general, people tend to overcomplicate stuff that'd work just well with just more focus on the actual idea behind it all.

I think that after implementing the core idea, every additional bit of complexity has to be justified - "how does includng X improve the product enough to warrant the added complexity".

That's one of the ways I see video games have gotten worse lately, they're too insistent on adding unfun extra content that gets in the way of the player.

Chemus

6:31 AM

@Miniman like @SevenSidedDie, meine deutsch sind ganz schlecht.

SevenSidedDie

@Chemus Meine Deutsch jest nicht gut. And my newer Polish keeps overwriting/interfering with it.

(Never mind my deeply-embedded French. It's like kudzu when it meets other languages.)

kviiri

Meide den kummer und maide den schmertz, dann is das leben - ein schertz (du lieber Augustin!) Kauf dir ein auto und fahr gegen Baum, dann is das Leben - ein traum, HUHHEI!

(that's about all the German I know)

I also could probably sing along at least a third of the words from Papst und Sultan.

I think it's "ist", not "is" though... not sure, I usually only sing these, not write.

Chemus

@SevenSidedDie Ja, Ich ...hatte Deutsche Klassen vor fast 20 jahren...

Uhh, it's kinda late to ask, but if I give a setting-specific answer, how is that viewed when the (new) questioner didn't give any setting clues?

BESW

6:47 AM

Make it clear it's setting-specific and explain why you've chosen to answer for that setting.

kviiri

@Chemus Does the system in question have a "default" setting? If yes, I'd just answer based on that and note that the answer might vary based on the choice of setting.

Chemus

@kviiri yep, ist = is, when using masculine, plural and neuter cases

(das is neuter, so "das ist")

@kviiri Sigh. I already did it. Well perhaps there's hope yet :)

kviiri

@Chemus It's nothing to lose hope for! ^^

Chemus

oops, I misremembered; "Ich bin, du bist, er sie und es ist", it's not for plural, but for fem, masc and neutral (formal)

kviiri

I know Swedish, English, some French (enough to get the gist of what people are saying) and tiny bits of Swahili.

In addition to Finnish of course.

Now that Duolingo and such are in I might pick up Italian and continue my French.

Chemus

6:58 AM

well then you're significantly better than this 'Murican.

kviiri

We have mandatory Swedish at schools, because Finland is an officially bilingual country (it's a recurring hot topic in political conversation if it's good or not). There's also a two foreign language minimum - Swedish + English is a common pick. I took French and English as "long" foreign languages (3rd and 4th grades up) and Swedish as "short" (7th grade up).

Chemus

Yeah, I took German two years in high school... not quite the saame effect.

*for 2 years...

kviiri

7:20 AM

What's your native language?

I worked a bit on the suggestions I got here, for my Cthulhu Dark scenario. I made the locals less open about the tales of sorcery and curses, because they're a stain on their families. Instead, the players can find the graves of those accused of witchcraft in the woods, should they look. With appropriate engravings of course.

Chemus

7:53 AM

Wow, sry. Native english speaker. Just get lazy when typing on a tablet.

kviiri

No prob :P I noticed you said you were an American but there's plenty of native Spanish speakers too ^^

And other languages aplenty, too.

Chemus

Yeah, but the vast majority of native-born speak [american] english pretty exclusively (often poorly). And legal immigrants are supposed to be able to speak english too, actually that's for citizenship.

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