@NautArch Speaking as someone who just started using Shield of Faith, yes there is.

@NautArch Direwolf and Giant Octopus are my favourite animal forms

Hello Everyone!

there is a RPG Template Project AspNet MVC?

@NautArch Not technically, but yes. More... Forces of existence.

They have goals, but not personalities. The Parliaments are composed of individuals who act in line with the Forces' goals, but their personalities influence their implementations.

@RogerioAzevedo Hi! Are you looking for Arqade? Role-playing Games is specifically about tabletop role-playing games, the kind that usually use dice and paper and pencil, maybe moving around miniatures on a grid map on the table.

@NautArch Multiattack, though.

@Miniman yeah, offense is the best defense. That's 3 attacks with my bonus unarmed from monk.

At third level

New detective.

The original In the Heat of the Night novel was not super great; it was a white guy writing a "good" black detective, so Virgil Tibbs was boringly perfect with no complexity and little character. Sydney Poitier brought an actual black man's perspective to the role in the film, and insisted on significant script changes to make the character someone he felt he could actually live inside.

thank you @BESW

hey there @NautArch

someone mind linking the winterbash meta.se thread btw?

hey @miniman -- do you have the winterbash meta.se thread handy?

this?

or do you mean the one with the secret hats on it?

@trogdor I found the thread I was looking for

ah mk

@Shalvenay Hi! (didn't see you) :(

@Yuuki Talos?

@nitsua60 Eh, Talos is/was also a god of men.

Sorry--didn't see that it needed to be a non-human deity.

@nitsua60 Eh, not so much non-human as being the deity of men also implies that he's a god of civilization of sorts.

@doppelgreener *Deities & Demigods& was awesome, man. We set up ladder-tournaments as kids and had god-fights any time we wanted to blow off steam =)

@Yuuki Eh, the Northmen who worship him are much of the "come by sea to burn your village and take your stuff" stereotype....

@Yuuki I'm not sure we're talking about the same thing? I'm talking about the Northmen from Forgotten Realms, out in the northern parts of the Moonshaes.

Ah.

I'm talking about Nords from Elder Scrolls. Who also worship a god called Talos.

Oh, interesting. Gotcha.

Talos is also the only deity of the Eight/Nine Divines (one of the pantheons in the Elder Scrolls) who was once mortal.

His worship is controversial because he is very decidedly Man and some of the elves (or Mer) in the Elder Scrolls are... racist to say the least.

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17177 reputation. Satisfying.

hey there @nitsua60

@Shalvenay hiya

@nitsua60 how're things going?

Good. Went to The Last Jedi last night with my son, his godparents, and their brother and father. "Five Men and a Boy," effectively =)

@nitsua60 ah :P I was watching the Iridium-4 webcast instead

It's becoming a bit of a tradition--every December we all get together and go to a Star Wars movie. (Are you listening, Disney!? Keep releasing them!)

@Shalvenay Whazzat?

@nitsua60 SpaceX's last launch of the year :)

Gotcha.

hey there @BufferOverRead

As fast as a bot. Okay, not THAT fast, but, you know, whatever.

xD how're things going?

I'm good.

cool, cool :)

Came up with my own RPG now

@BufferOverRead heheh

It's a bit rudimentary, but

The way it works is this, there isn't any set story, nor really much rules, but basically, every player gets 2 "points" every 10 seconds.

And if the character dies, the same number of points is subtracted from all the others

Players can slow down the point generation if they unlock the ability, the first player to reach 12000 points wins

If a player reaches that, other players may continue playing to achieve 2nd and 3rd place rankings and so on, but the game speeds up to 2 points every 2 seconds

that sounds a bit more like a RPGish board game (think Gloomhaven) than a TTRPG, the latter being rather more open-ended

I dunno.

It's more of like an idea than an actual RPG of any sort to be honest

Like, there's not much more than what I described to you.

ah

I'd personally study some existing games as well as some of the existing RPG-design theory before embarking on making my own RPG

Design theory?

If that's a thing, I might as well write a book instead.

...why?

I mean, I used to think like I can make up stuff as I go.

But apparently you guys have theories and whatever.

Which is cool and all, but overkill for me if that's only like a side hobby.

To be clear, I have no problems with it, just that it sounds overkill.

the theory helps you get an idea of why certain games have certain mechanical elements, and how to use mechanics to reinforce/develop game themes

hey there @Rubiksmoose

I'm trying to imagine a chemical lab researching RPGs

And doing different chemical reactions

Or is that not accurate?

more like lots of time spent playtesting and throwing things at some guinea pigs friendly playtesters

I sometimes wonder where the division is between a game with rules and a guy making up an interesting story.

Like at some point it could be a few people acting out a story and literally nothing else, and at the other extreme a traditional table-top game that wouldn't fit what most RPGers consider an RPG to be.

@BufferOverRead there are people who RP without a system to back it up. it's...tricky, to say the least, though.

at the other end, some board games (such as Gloomhaven) incorporate RPG elements

I'm assuming it's not very common, or?

@BufferOverRead it depends on which circles you run in. freeform play is typically an online thing, either play-by-post or play-by-chat

Post?

@BufferOverRead as in, forum post

I thought like postage mail

Haha.

New detective. Gwen Dylan is the main character in the comic iZOMBIE, which inspired the loosely-related TV show iZombie starring Rose McIver as Liv Moore in a similar role.