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FreezePhoenix

00:10

Hello DavidCoffron, Magician, CTWind, Miniman, and goodguy5

The Oracle

00:38

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Q: Why is it a problem to ask what other people have done in their games?

When we get a question asking what others have done as GMs or players in their games, the question is almost always closed as “primarily opinion-based”. Sometimes they’re not put on hold, but they’re still edited to ask the same things but slightly differently. What’s wrong with asking what othe...

BESW

01:10

Tune in to this thread to catch Rob micro-blogging about Aspects: http://twitter.com/rdonoghue/status/1019624502928519168

Tweeted by EvilHatOfficial on July 18, 2018 at 4:55 PM

Pixie

01:23

So, I found out you can still get Gio Lasar constellation dice...

I may have splurged just a little bit.

The ones with the big stars are actually Fate dice, which is mostly what I bought because they're the prettiest (they also have 1-6 pips).

It's a bad month for me and my dice habit, really. First the Kraken Iconic Mythical collection, and the Heartbeat pride dice one is still going on...

trogdor

I have a minor dice weakness myself

I like really flashy ones

Those aren't half bad

Thankfully I only have a few more dice than I actually need

Pixie

I have... many... many dice now, and few opportunities to use them. But a friend is moving back here, along with his boyfriend, so that might change before too long.

trogdor

Cool

FreezePhoenix

@Pixie Shiny

trogdor

Oh and I see what you mean now, they have big stars that look like pluses

Pixie

01:34

Yep, and one arm of the star extends onto one side to be a minus.

trogdor

And then they extend an "arm" over to make a minus

Pixie

Yep!

trogdor

Yes

XD

FreezePhoenix

LOL

Pixie

I like that we phrased that in the exact same way at the exact same time.

FreezePhoenix

01:35

Why the pips scattered tho

trogdor

I don't know what else to call it

Pixie

To make it look more like stars in the sky.

trogdor

An arm seems like the right word

Pixie

I agree, hehe.

I also got a couple of the moon d10s in black and dark blue. I like them better than the constellation ones as they're a bit easier to read.

BESW

@Pixie Aaaaah pretty.

Pixie

01:37

trogdor

Yeah I see a small issue with illegibility

Pixie

@BESW I love sparkly, and I love space aesthetic. A huge weakness.

trogdor

On some of the dice

FreezePhoenix

@trogdor Nah... it's called a radial (spoils it) oops

trogdor

I like glowing dice

BESW

01:38

More like radical.

trogdor

Lol

Pixie

Hmm, that image isn't wanting to load, but it won't let me delete it either. Ah well.

FreezePhoenix

@Pixie Wat image

Pixie

@FreezePhoenix That last link I posted that keeps going "..." is supposed to be an image, but it didn't load like the first one. Ah well.

FreezePhoenix

@Pixie You never posted a link

trogdor

01:41

@Pixie that last die image?

I can see it on my computer but not my phone

FreezePhoenix

@Pixie Repost the link

trogdor

So any of us on our phones won't see it but it's there

I think

Pixie

@FreezePhoenix That may be why I can't delete it, then! It shows up for me, haha.

But I figure it'll just fail again. I see now that it's the type of image that prompts you to save when you try to view it.

trogdor

It definitely got posted

I just can't see it on my phone, even though I can see it on the computer, and I can see the other links on my phone

Pixie

That is strange.

trogdor

01:44

It is

I blame Google

FreezePhoenix

@trogdor I blame you back

trogdor

Lol

FreezePhoenix

What's so funny?

trogdor

Everything

FreezePhoenix

Hello Ben!

trogdor

01:48

I am the one who laughs in the night

Sorry about sleep schedule disruption it's just my thing

Haha

FreezePhoenix

@trogdor Shush that's my job. I burn in the sky also.

Pixie

Oh yeah, here's a link to the HeartDice Pride Dice kickstarter as well if anyone is into such things. I'd been wanting some bi dice forever, everything was always just one color off.

trogdor

As for in not the right color or the right number of colors?

Pixie

Either missing blue, or green instead of one of the purples, or something like that. There were a ton of layered dice that were clooose, but no cigar.

trogdor

Ah, I like green a lot

Any colors that go well enough with green are good

Pixie

01:57

Green is pretty great.

trogdor

I think I have some partly green glow in the dark Fate dice

I hardly use them though

I never know when I need to bring them

And bringing them every day got tiresome

Pixie

Yeah, I understand.

Whenever I go to cons I bring some dice just in case, but I usually don't wind up using them.

trogdor

Most of the time it's just me going to @BESW's place

And on top of not playing Fate every day, he already has enough Fate dice over there

Unless we somehow wind up with a lot of people showing up, without thier own dice no less, I don't technically need them

We are extremely lucky if 1 or 2 other people come any given day, week, or month

We do have a decent thing going online though so there is that

Pixie

Ah, I understand. Heh, I could probably equip 50 people with polyhedrals and extra d6s at this point, but I only play online...

trogdor

Isn't that just how it always works out? XD

Pixie

02:06

Which reminds me, I want to buy at least one of the Wiz Dice Fudge bags. If anybody wants a bunch of really pretty dice for a pretty reasonable price, go Wiz. :v

trogdor

This segment brought to you by,... The
Megadice Corp

Pixie

I wish I could say I was getting some kickbacks from this. I'd use them to buy more dice.

trogdor

Lol

I wish I got more money for spending money

It would be great right?

XD

Pixie

If only. :v

trogdor

02:30

Lol

It would be pretty bad after the big rush though

That economic system would not work in the long run

Trogdor for president of the world, I promise that everyone will be Happy for up to a week before civilization completely collapses

7

And this will be the complaint department

My brain is weird

Pixie

02:50

Belated star because that quite amused me when I came back to see it.

trogdor

Lol

I won't complain

I'm the only candidate and I got a vote, guess that means it's ridiculous apocalypse scenario are go

Zombies and nuclear war are played out anyway

Pixie

Infinite inflation is where it's at.

trogdor

03:05

I haven't seen any movies about it so why not

Pixie

It'll be like the Neopets economy but even worse.

trogdor

The neopets economy is super inflated huh?

Pixie

Same with Gaia Online (it was so bad that they made a new currency on Gaia a while back I think and converted the ridiculous amounts of gold to it, IIRC). It's a common issue on games where players can instantly create more currency but where there's nowhere near enough incentive to feed it back into the site and have it deleted (by purchasing things from game stores instead of other players).

trogdor

Ah I remember at one point WoW was like that

Heck it could still be I don't play it anymore

Pixie

Yeah, I'm sure a lot of MMORPGs have that issue too. Aside from illegal gold botting, the MMO model is kind of based on strings of limited goods, either by real world currency or frequent events where you can get the goods for free but only for a short period of time. Neither of which encourage gold to be spent on the game, but on other players who got the limited goods.

trogdor

03:13

Yeah

There was a lot of that

Pixie

And there are reasons for that, of course. Events keep people playing, and the subscription model doesn't work well anymore.

trogdor

It was fun temporarily but at some point all the treadmill stuff in the game was too much

Plus I had started playing to begin with because of friends

Pixie

Yeah. It takes really effective goldsinks to prevent it... I'm not sure I've ever seen a site that managed.

trogdor

They did have a lot of expensiv mounts and stuff

Pixie

Flight Rising is pretty stable right now because getting more space for dragons becomes extremely expensive after a while, but it's also a pretty new site.

trogdor

03:16

But then they also at some point made those cross character in your account sooo,

Pixie

It also kind of feeds into itself because if you have those extremely expensive things, in order for anybody to get anything who hasn't been playing for years, you have to increase the currency output... which means... even more currency.

Shalvenay

@Pixie yeah, EVE's about the only MMO I've heard of that's had anything resembling an economy that's worked well, but I'm not sure if it's really a...replicable model either

trogdor

@Pixie yeah also an issue there

Ben

So

My Spiderman character is based on the Huntsman Spider, which is a relative of the Tarantula.

As far as its abilities go, it's more inclined toward poison and strength rather than web slinging

So in Savage Worlds, I currently have an "Ensnare" ability, but nothing in the way of strength or poison.

trogdor

03:32

Huntsmen and Tarantula aren't really all that poisonous though are they?

Ben

Tarantulas are more so than the Huntsman... But they're more inclined toward paralysis, actually

So they don't have to use web to overpower their prey

But I'm not sure how I want to go with this. I could either go and upgrade my ensnare, and have the poison/paralysis as a secondary effect, or vice versa

trogdor

Mm we have a really close relative of the huntsman here and it has very weak venom

It just sorta overpowers stuff

And ambuses are a favorite tactic

Course the venom probably does some of the work too

Pixie

I'm not sure we have any huntsmen here, although they are spread throughout the US. They remind me of wolf spiders and fishing spiders in look and sometimes size; those are much more common here.

trogdor

03:50

Yeah ours are wolf spiders

I kinda hate them honestly, but not much I can do about it

And they probably kill a lot of roaches and rats and stuff

Small rats anyway

Ben

Yeah, huntsman aren't dangerous to humans at all. Their venom is too weak, but that doesn't mean the bits dont still hurt. (speaking from experience lol)

Miniman

@Ben Incidentally, I watched Castlevania like you suggested.

Ben

But to smaller prey it's a bit more effectove

@Miniman Ohh yeah?

trogdor

@Ben yeah that's what I meant

Ben

What'd you think of it?

Miniman

03:54

@Ben It was...weird. Definitely didn't come across as an adapted game, which given history can only be a good thing. But the pacing seemed really strange.

Ben

@trogdor so, I think in relative size (I.e. human) the poison effect would be a touch more potent haha

Miniman

I also, for some reason, never really get along well with the weird artstyle animes based on Western fantasy all seem to have.

trogdor

@Ben don't go there

I will enact the funpocalypse

With more burning edition

Ben

@Miniman I'll agree with the pacing. It was a bit here and there in that regard. But I liked the story and the characters enough to move past that

@trogdor "I" or "it"?

@Miniman Same. But I dunno. This one seems a bit better in that regard.

trogdor

@Ben everything pretty much

XD

Can't be too sure

Miniman

03:59

@Ben I think it also suffers a bit from having a protagonist who is already overpowered.

On the other hand, Matt Frewer voicing a villain is always a win.

trogdor

It will be meant for the "fun size arachnid monstrosity tm"

But every place they ever could possibly be will need some fire

@Miniman is this that Castlevania anime?

I saw commercials for that and thought it would be kinda bad based off of them

But people apparently like it mostly

Miniman

@trogdor Yeah, Ben suggested it the other day, and it's 4 20 minute episodes on Netflix, so it's possibly the lowest effort show I've ever watched XD

trogdor

Oh wow

They get to the point fast

Mine Is Aggretsuko

It's like 12 15 minute episodes

If I recall correctly

Ben

The next season promises 8 episodes

I think it might have been a "test the water" thing. But I dunno.

Either way, I liked it.

trogdor

Of which one?

Ben

04:12

Castlevania

trogdor

Mk

Apparently Aggretsuko has a second season coming too

It was up my alley in a unique way

Pixie

There's also an entire other Aggretsuko series, although it hasn't been officially subbed. It was a Japanese TV series of shorter episodes, like 3-4 minutes. I kind of preferred it, but again, not officially subbed.

The Netflix one is good, though.

trogdor

It had cute animal characters but with a relatively serious theme

And the main character is pretty relatable

Pixie

Yeah, I'm basically an office lady myself (with a much better department boss and coworkers, thank goodness :P).

trogdor

@Pixie I was a little annoyed that it is dubbed and subbed and I couldn't figure out which to follow

Pixie

04:15

I watched the sub of the Netflix one as well, though what I heard of the dub sounded good.

trogdor

@Pixie I definitely don't have the experience of harassment on a gender basis, but that's still a relatable problem and I have experienced some degree of her other problems

Not at the same level but still

Ben

@trogdor One or the other. Never both

Pixie

@trogdor Yeah, there was a lot generally relatable in there. Were there staple issues in the Netflix one? I can't recall...

trogdor

@Pixie to be clear, neither was bad but together they were distracting

Pixie

@trogdor Oh, you mean it was playing the dub voices but had the sub captions up?

Or just that it went back and forth?

That was one thing, like... I was watching it with some friends who don't work in an office, and when the staple thing came up, I was just like, "AUGHHHH." They were like, "What??"

trogdor

04:18

@Pixie she gets put down for quality of work, fir being female, she has an issue with a boyfriend,... Though the particular issue there is weird

He is boring and doesn't like the stuff she does

Pixie

@trogdor Yeah, I didn't feel like the romance plot was great there.

trogdor

She also makes freinds with superiors at work, but that's mostly a good thing

Pixie

But it would take a while to unpack the issues I had with it, heh.

Yeah, I love her friendship with Gori and Washimi.

trogdor

It's just that they push her to do healthy stuff she isn't accustomed to

Which is mostly an issue of comfort

@Pixie yeah those 2

Pixie

Yeah, she doesn't always know how to deal with it. But in the end it's good that she found some support.

trogdor

04:21

@Pixie yes

I couldn't find a setting to turn one off

Silver lining is I Know they mostly get to the same point, they just say what the characters are saying differently

Pixie

Ah, I can see how that would be annoying. I think mine might have defaulted to Japanese audio? But that might be because that's how I always watch anime.

trogdor

Yeah this is the only anime I have watched on Netflix at all

And it was on someone else's system/account

(I was house sitting and had permission to use it)

They may very well watch anime that way by default

I don't know why anyone would but,

.... That's just me

@Ben what does that mean exactly?

I'm just a little confused

@Pixie lol, that was painful to watch for sure

Anyway, it was exactly what I needed in terms of what it was

Pixie

Yeah, I'm glad it took off.

trogdor

It was equal parts actual problems people have in everyday life and some humor and catharsis thrown in

Pixie

The only thing that's odd to me is that Sanrio isn't releasing many Retsuko goods in the US as far as I've seen despite its popularity. Come on, if Gudetama is everywhere...

(I love Gudetama too, to be fair.)

trogdor

04:32

Gudetama?

Pixie

Hmm, they have things on their website right now though. In addition to dice, I'm addicted to mascot characters, so perhaps later I will have to get some of this.

Gudetama is a very lazy egg.

trogdor

Oh,.. I googled it and I am sure I've seen it somewhere

Pixie

trogdor

Yeah

Pixie

There we go. I'm not having luck with images today.

I relate to this egg.

trogdor

04:34

Maybe it was in Japan though

I was there the last 2 times I traveled anywhere

Once less than a year ago

So maybe I saw it then at some point

Pixie

Gudetama's been a pretty successful character in the US too, but yeah, it's entirely possible you saw it in Japan if it was a year ago.

trogdor

We also could have it here somewhere where tourists from Japan are/were in numbers

Japan was recently our largest tourist base

But yeah it looks familiar

Pixie

There's an anime up on Youtube on the official channel. It's not subbed, but I think you generally don't need them to understand Gudetama's suffering.

trogdor

Lol

I would hazard a guess that you are correct

Pixie

I can understand a good bit of it anyway, although there are enough complex sentences in there when the humans talk that I can't get everything, heh. I need to study more.

trogdor

05:05

I think I would have trouble with Japanese

I had some with Spanish, and some of those words were almost the same

Pixie

I could only take 101 and 102 at my college, that's all they offered. But I've picked up a certain amount of vocabulary from watching a lot of anime and listening to a lot of music, and I've been studying it on my own for a while too. I can translate and write simple things... a particularly handy sentence is "My Japanese isn't very good." :v

trogdor

Lol

It's the studying I would have trouble with

Pixie

Yeah, I need to do it more regularly.

trogdor

If all I had to do was watch a lot more anime an I would suddenly know the language

I would probably do that

I do think it's a cool language, but part of that may just be me liking Japanese stuff

Pixie

Hehe. It can't go quite that far (especially because people don't talk like they talk in anime), but it does help with the vocab.

trogdor

05:11

Yeah

I said it because it's not a thing you can do,

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trogdor

If it was something you could do to learn the language accurately I wouldn't need to talk about it

IN English anyway!

XD

@SmokeDetector blue supplement again?

Give me a new one man

Pixie

Pff, that's true.

That's not the kind of supplement we're into around here.

trogdor

I made a joke last time about green supplement

Or maybe I just said it was offensive to Greener's people

I think that was it

XD

The day is dragging on a little

It must be because I have tomorrow off

The universe must compensate

Still, god bless Liberation Day

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07:48

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doppelgreener

08:37

@trogdor and I went like trogdor on its countryside

Derpy

09:09

@doppelgreener you mean you ate all the dandelions in the field?

trogdor

@doppelgreener lol

oh my god more blue supplement

staaaaaahp

Derpy

@trogdor they know their targets. They know.

I expect we will soon see some offers for Red Health Potion supplement.

(BTW, yep, the flasks in the picture are a real energy drink. Not made up, Think Geeks used to sell them. I once even planed to get one as a collector item - to put on a shelf near my dragon egg statue

BESW

...my friends just made their own with Gatorade and bottles from Michael's.

Derpy

09:24

weird, no-script is detecting some xscript mess in that page. Luckily, it doesn't seem anything malicious... Much likely a "I don't know what I'm doing" programmer.

doppelgreener

@Derpy yesss.... let's go with that

Derpy

@doppelgreener sorry, probably a little obscure for a joke there. Was still meant to be a reference to @trogdor pony avatar.

doppelgreener

i imagined it was that :D

trogdor

lol

Ben

10:15

seems like the op is being as problematic as his problem

doppelgreener

@Ben i would choose that player over this gm

but they both have some learning they can do

The Masked Rebel

o/

doppelgreener

o/

The Masked Rebel

@Doppel how are you

doppelgreener

Doing fine. :) You?

The Masked Rebel

10:25

pretty well, thank you

I've just found a virus on my laptop

doppelgreener

ooer

Ben

@TheMaskedRebel that's always fun to deal with

The Masked Rebel

groans I dont even know where it is.

Ben

I got a second hand PC once. Decided to do a format once I got it home, just to be safe, but by that time it was late, I was getting tired, and I need to update some of my drivers. Go online to look for them, find some semi-legit looking site, and download

5 viruses later, I realise "oh wait, windows already does updates on its own. Duh."

The good thing about that was I didn't have anything g to lose, so I just ran another format

The Masked Rebel

@Ben LOL

Ben

10:36

Well, I wiped the disc completely... So all I needed to do was reinstall windows and I was good to go

The Masked Rebel

sighs in relief

@doppelgreener what kinda RPG's do you like

Ben

@TheMaskedRebel dumb question, but do you have any malware scanning software?

The Masked Rebel

yes, but the virus managed to slip past them

Ben

Or virus scan?

Ah

The Masked Rebel

@Ben ^

doppelgreener

10:40

@TheMaskedRebel these kinds (& the following conversation helps explain)

The Masked Rebel

OK, do you want to play one

doppelgreener

I don't, I already have a regular game group.

(I mean, I do, but I'm not here in this room to play those games, though I might play roll for shoes here sometimes.)

Ben

D20

Dice Service

20

trogdor

wow

The Masked Rebel

10:46

D10

Dice Service

8

Ben

[received spangly shoes]

trogdor

@Ben I clap for you sir

@Ben like the losers in Smash Bros, I clap for you

Ben

This has happened to me before

The Masked Rebel

D10

Dice Service

10:46

5

The Masked Rebel

D20

Dice Service

12

Ben

trogdor

@Ben oh, I think I remember that

Ben

Lol

kviiri

10:49

the dice don't lie

The Masked Rebel

Puts to waste the humans in the jungle

Ben

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The Oracle

12:30

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Q: Is it OK to bump an old question with minor edit?

Related Question "bumping" - is it ok? Let's say there is an answered and solved question that was asked back in 2016. It wasn't active for a couple of years. Now a community member edits one of its answer — let's say, fixes formatting, adds a tag or changes a typo. The question itself bumps int...

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FreezePhoenix

12:51

NO ^

user357094

@FreezePhoenix You should post in the actual question. Oracle is really only for bringing attention to the Meta posts.

FreezePhoenix

I don't feel like making an account just to answer a meta question... makes an account

I seems this question is very specific to RPG.SE

user357094

@FreezePhoenix What makes you say that?

FreezePhoenix

Well because it got a It's OK from a mod :P

user357094

Well, editing old posts got the okay, but editing old post just to boost visibility did not get the okay

Sir Cinnamon

13:35

Morning folks

user357094

Good afternoon ;)

kviiri

hiya

Sir Cinnamon

What feats would you guys recommend for a Druid 4/Barb 1?

I posed Charger and Sentinel and Savage Attacker as solid choices

Sdjz

@SirCinnamon VTC Unclear :) what's the game?

user357094

What are you trying to do?

Sir Cinnamon

13:39

5th Ed. and its not my character but he fits into a bit of a bruiser role

tank/damage hybrid. Wild shape giving some flexibility there obviously

Sdjz

Is this a Circle of the Moon druid combining rage with wild shape?

Sir Cinnamon

Yes

Rubiksmoose

IIRC Charger is supposed to be a very poor feat for most things.

Sir Cinnamon

Oh?

Rubiksmoose

What about that feat appealed to you?

Sir Cinnamon

13:42

A flat 5 damage after, what a 10 foot or more dash? seems solid depending on your animal form

kviiri

Note that it allows you to make only one attack though, and depending on what enemies you face you might be up for some nasty opportunity attacks if you try to use it regularly.

(and the +5 only applies if you actually hit)

Sir Cinnamon

True

kviiri

Savage attacker is ok but I'd probably choose an ASI over it

Depending on viable scores to increase ofc :)

Rubiksmoose

And you have to move 10 feet in a straight line. If you are in any kind of constrained environment this may not be possible.

(obstacles, enemies in the way, etc.)

user357094

@SirCinnamon how is your CON?

Sir Cinnamon

13:52

@AVeryLargeBear Not my guy, I think his con is... 14?

user357094

@SirCinnamon dang.

Sir Cinnamon

what are you thinking?

user357094

If they were at an odd number, Durable is decent if you are tanking and it isn't 15min adventuring day.

user357094

Tough is also decent as a tank

doppelgreener

@FreezePhoenix (yes)

like honestly there are badges

old questions getting edited is fine, and the bump happens as part of that

FreezePhoenix

13:56

But editing just to bump is a nono

Sir Cinnamon

^ Which is how i interpreted the question but I like doppels answer

doppelgreener

sort of

An accepted loophole here is that you can completely legitimately bump something by also performing edits. Hence the advice given in that meta Q: you want a bump, so why not make an edit which improves it which will just so happen to also produce a bump? We're fine with this because you improved stuff, good job. It's that mission accomplished thing where you wind up doing things that benefit the whole community. — doppelgreener ♦ 3 hours ago

it's a "don't ask don't tell" thing

Sir Cinnamon

An edit which only bumps i should say

doppelgreener

go ahead and edit to perform legitimate improvements for the ulterior motive of a bump, but don't tell us you're doing it for that reason

David Coffron

@kviiri True. Only time Charger is good is on a Swashbuckler Rogue or a Drunken Fist monk imo

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