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Shalvenay

23:01

hey there @Trish and @NautArch

trogdor

@Zachiel that answer is,.... ridiculous (note I am not saying it is wrong, but wtf rolling multiple times if it takes multiple turns? wtf is that? the answer is that it's ridiculous) XD

Trish

The constant goblin dissing was... SO fun!

Zachiel

I'm sorry, Trish :(

The world is not as good as I'd like it.

trogdor

@BESW it seems I mis-remembered when 4e powers are rolled to recharge

Trish

@Zachiel pourqui? I mean, sure, the world is a BAD place, but I warned the player "do you really want to play the Goblin archetype? Goblins are the bottom of the barrel, just a tad above orcs.

trogdor

23:06

possibly because of how ridiculous the rule is

GreySage

@Trish Carrot and Angua?

Trish

@Zachiel if you mean the question: if you want to self answer, answer your question in the same form :P

@GreySage YEP. or at least a cameo of them

NautArch

Howdy @Shalvenay

Shalvenay

@NautArch what's up?

and hey there @GreySage

NautArch

@Shalvenay slightly stresses. Son has to have surgery on his broken arm tomorrow.

Shalvenay

23:10

@NautArch aww

Zachiel

@Trish I think I failed to do that. I'm twice as sorry.

@trogdor I had three dargons recharge 3 breaths in their first round, and once again on the second (recharge 5-6). At least it was a challenging encounter.

trogdor

@Zachiel I think that would be one of my complaints with 4e, they didn't bother to tighten up stuff like that

like seriously, recharging your power every round on a die roll? you gotta make everything more random?

to be fair, there are other recharge modes,.... but that also shows that they knew how to design other recharge modes and didn't need such a weird one

but who knows, I may be the only person all that bothered by that

Zachiel

@trogdor I would at least have had "recharge 5-6 in the first round, if you fail to recharge it becomes recharge 3-4-5-6" and so on

trogdor

makes a certain amount of sense yeah

these are typically solo or boss creatures that recharge stuff anyway

these things are, usually, really strong to begin with

Zachiel

I have had problems with "recharge once bloodied" when I could not find a meaningful use of the power before the monster got bloodied.

trogdor

23:18

that is fair, but like

that seems like more of a criticism of the power itself than it's recharge mechanic

I have had that issue myself, to be clear

BESW

I was fond of "recharge on miss," myself.

trogdor

that one is pretty cool too

Nyoze

trogdor

make sure it has a chance to hit but don't just destroy the PC's by using it literally every round

Ben

Morning all

Lord_Gareth

23:22

And after that rant on PoW I end up answering a PoW question anyway

Exile me from this mortal coil

Ben

@Lord_Gareth [lays down a portable hole on the floor]

There you go

Zachiel

@Lord_Gareth Amen. And goodnight to me.

BESW

A few times I played with chained recharges.

Shalvenay

hey there @Nyoze

and @Ben too

BESW

Awesome Power X is recharged by using average Power Y which is recharged by using utility power Z.

With the right flavor it gave a good "charging up my lasers" feel.

Ben

23:30

@Lord_Gareth should point out I'm not trying to be a butthead. :)

Lord_Gareth

You're fine man

Relentless angry sarcasm is kinda my brand

Ben

It's nice to know I'm not alone haha

Anaphory

@BESW When you recommended me Edward Espe's “Tassajara Cooking” some time ago, did you mean “Complete Tassajara Cookbook”?

(And Hi everyone else!)

Shalvenay

hey there @Anaphory

@Ben how're things going btw?

Ben

Slowly. Ironically enough

Anaphory

23:37

@Shalvenay Hi! I did not see you in the list, otherwise I'd have pinged you personally.

Ben

My plate is overfull, yet I am getting nothing done.

Shalvenay

@Ben ah. would you be up for helping me playtest a 5e dungeon sometime in the near future?

Ben

Perhaps :) What's the theme?

Shalvenay

@Ben minotaur's labryinth with a twist ;) make a 5th and a 7th level char for this

Ben

Ohh interesting...

I'm working on a dungeon myself... apparently it's a "Mega-Dungeon"... multiple levels, played over multiple sessions

Adeptus

23:51

Speaking of angst re book publishing... my wife is currently having a mini meltdown over finding errors in the PDF proof of her 3rd book. She wants to have a box ordered before a local con on the 18th, and the window where we can use the not-ludicrous-priced shipping is becoming rather narrow

Ben

Urk

What's stopping you from ordering it now?

Adeptus

We don't want to print something with errors in it. We could skip the physical proof, but she wants to check the colour of the cover (first one was darker than expected)

step 1, approve pdf proof. step 2 (optional), approve physical proof. step 3, order proper books.

Ben

Ah right. So there's a bit of a process in fixing the errors first - which involves time; which you don't really have if you want to avoid ludicrous delivery costs.

I follow

Adeptus

yep. should be ok still, but time is getting tight

Ben

Don't forget to breathe! Hyperventilating is not breathing! Haha

Seriously though, I hope it works out :)

Adeptus

23:59

thanks :)

Ben

So, who wants to join me in a 5e monster-making challenge?