TRPG General Chat

9:00 PM

@ThomasWard We have a really intro-level “D&D, what is??” question, a less D&D-specific intro-level “what is roleplaying gaming?” question, and, at the far other end of new-to-D&D documents, the publisher made the 5th/latest edition's basic rules free in PDF. A little light weekend reading. ;)

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Thomas Ward

@SevenSidedDie I have more important things to do this weekend, but thanks :)

SevenSidedDie

@ThomasWard I figure, hence the winkie. :) But if you want to do some independent research some time and surprise her with a show of interest, we've got you covered!

Thomas Ward

she's a newbie too, but i've already shown interest in learning.

she knows more than I do though :P

yawn I should get coffee, I'm tired

Anaphory

@GreySage In those days, I had no idea that D&D was a thing and I didn't care about the numbers generating the encounters. Which made some fights pretty damn hard.

Baskakov_Dmitriy

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Q: What is the problem with my question about ERP in online roleplaying?

I found a long forgotten question about avoiding unwanted ERP in online roleplaying by sandbox video game server. I have experience at such games since 2013, so I felt like I may share some important knowledge. The question was closed, though, for various reasons, one of them being "the asker lef...

Thomas Ward

9:06 PM

^ core problem, you don't ask a specific question

Anaphory

(And I have been avoiding D&D like – not like the plague, but like an overbearing elderly aunt or a particular old well-known board game – most of the time, playing purposefully written games instead. Only a recent frequent change of places means that I'm now playing some D&D and learning the ropes of how levelling works, what hit dice are, how swingy and binary D20+mod is etc.)

Thomas Ward

@Baskakov_Dmitriy as someone who had to mod a few online RPG servers at one point, before bringing a nuclear strike to the server to kill said servers (because people were getting out of hand with ERP), the answer form the "server" perspective is "You can't, technically, but if you make sure the rules are known, and routinely check what's been going on and what's been 'abuse reported', you can retroactively condemn such evil people".

This was a problem on some video games i've played that're RPGs as well, until the companies producing them went on a "GM Hiring Spree" and ended up with 25% of the gamers active at any time as GMs.

Thomas Ward

9:22 PM

@SevenSidedDie any of those touch upon character stats creation, etc.?

diego

@ThomasWard The basic rules have everything you need to create a character. However they don't have all the options that the books have, for example they only have one sub-race option for each race, and one class archetype for each class, and one background at all.

SevenSidedDie

@diego @ThomasWard Yep, the Basic Rules don't have all the options, but do have full coverage of the “how” and enough options to be able to make a variety of characters.

Baskakov_Dmitriy

I think I know how to handle this, I posted something like what you said.
But I don't understand why did I get 10 downvotes.

doppelgreener

@BlackVegetable BTW regarding earlier -- there's about a 2-minute window in which you can edit or delete a chat post. The system warns you if a post you're editing has less than 10 seconds until it's locked down.

Thomas Ward

9:38 PM

@Baskakov_Dmitriy Because people either downvoted because they thought the question had issues, or they thought it was unclear, or any of fifty million reasons

there's no real way to determine why someone downvotes a given post.

unless they post an explanation

(this is not just RPG.SE specific, it's SE-wide)

DForck42

@ThomasWard yup

Thomas Ward

(so sorry to @SevenSidedDie for answering for RPG.SE when i'm not an RPG.SE regular, yet.)

SevenSidedDie

@ThomasWard All perspectives are helpful! No sore toes here. :)

DForck42

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Q: Movie with several people finding crashed small plane in forest that is loaded with gold

I saw a movie on afternoon TV between 2001 and 2004. I thought it might be called Fool's Gold, but a couple years ago I checked every movie on IMDB with that title and none of them were it. Several people hiking in the forest come across a crashed small plane. They find it is loaded with gold bar...

identify-this-movie crime

I've never seen that before, someone with a gold badge in a tag closing a questing

BESW

Ah, yes, the coveted Dupehammer.

LegendaryDude

9:52 PM

Yep. It happens every now and then.

Thomas Ward

@Baskakov_Dmitriy I basically summarized what I said on your meta post, since I actually bothered to click the join link

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A: What is the problem with my question about erotic roleplay in online RP?

NOTE: I am not an RPG.stackexchange regular, but this question about "what are those problems" with regards to downvotes are generically able to be answered across all of any StackExchange site; as a moderator on Ask Ubuntu here on the StackExchange network, also, I am well versed in the evils...

LegendaryDude

I need about 80 more answers in DnD-5e before I get mine.

DForck42

oops, I posted that into the wrong chat, lol

doppelgreener

@ThomasWard Welcome! \o/

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A: Increase close vote weight for gold tag badge holders

Update: this is now enabled everywhere! The rules are: You can instantly close as a duplicate any question that was originally asked with a tag you have a gold badge for. You can instantly reopen any question closed as a duplicate that was originally asked with a tag you have a gold badge for....

Thomas Ward

@SevenSidedDie Hopefully I don't bring my 'dark chaos' into your site, i've been told I tend to be a little dark and chaotic sometimes :P

TSar

10:04 PM

@nitsua60 I managed to fix a lot of family-related stuff, even on love-related matters. Things are way better now :) It's nice to know you're going fine, too.

@nitsua60 Hey, do you know by any chance Shadowrun?

SevenSidedDie

10:24 PM

@ThomasWard I haven't seen any umbral hallucinations lurking beyond the edge of my screen or spontaneous Zalgo text yet. So I think we're safe.

Thomas Ward

@SevenSidedDie Let's make sure that's still the case in two hours

two hours to full moon and Dark Chaos Magic Rituals

doppelgreener

10:45 PM

Apropos of nothing: autocomplete for "romanc" is both "romance" and "necromancy".

BESW